Mother katharine drexel

Mother katharine drexel

Mother Katharine Drexel was one of the most caring and unselfish people in the world. She was born in Philadelphia in 1858 into an affluent family. Her father was a wealthy banker named Francis Drexel. Mother Katharine Drexel had the desire to give her services completely to God by taking care of the poor. Mother Drexel had started out by giving direct service to fulfill the immediate needs of the less fortunate. She later began to see that donating money alone was not enough to help the poor. Giving money to the poor didn't go to the root of the problem. Mother Drexel had begun giving more of herself. In 1891, she started the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Mother Drexel founded a religious order for women, which was dedicated to helping the poor Native Americans and African Americans. Along with setting up a religious order, she founded schools and missions in the South and West of the United States. The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament have grown and have missions in eleven states as well as in Haiti.
Mother Drexel had continued to be an active worker until she reached her seventies. Because of serious health problems, Mother Drexel could no longer go out and work. Instead she lived in the SBS motherhouse where she spent time praying and reflecting. In 1988, Pope John Paul II gave Katharine Drexel the title of "Blessed" after Robert Gutherman had been cured of hearing loss after his family prayed to Mother Drexel. Also in January of 2000, the Pope John Paul II had reported that Amy Wall, a young girl had been cured of her deafness after prayers were made to Mother Drexel. Mother Katharine Drexel's feast day is on March 3./ On October 1, 2000 Mother Katharine had been canonized. Her body was laid at the Saint Katharine Drexel Shrine in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.

Love One Another

Love One Another


Well, I sure hope I was not the only one who caught the main message of
today's gospel. If you accidently missed the gospel, the main message from
Jesus was that he commanded us to "love one another." I gave the message some
thought thinking of "how can I love everybody?" How could I love my enemies?
How can I love someone when they already have a lover? How can I love someone
that I do not know? It is all these "how's."
So how can I love my enemy? After giving it more thought, I found a
little solution. It might not be the best solution, but it will suit my needs.
If this enemy offends me, I tell the enemy with my heart that I truly did not
appreciate that comment. What does that relate to love your enemy? I was
trying to show my love to my enemy by expressing my feelings.
What about how can I love someone when they already have a lover? We
can still love someone and still be friends or maybe even best friends. There
is nothing wrong in being friendly with someone that already has a lover.
Well, what about how can I love someone that I do not know? An easy
solution is to get to know society. Just do not have doubt and end up using
assumption. Be critical, be open, ask questions, and get to know how peers.
Okay, but what if I am a shy person? There is wrong being shy. Everybody is
shy of something, but shyness can always be reverse. I used to be shy of
something, but then I gave it some thought when I was thinking when life was
getting boring. I thought that if I were more open and sought friendship, my
life would be much happier.
So loving one another. Is it possible? In my words it is possible, but
it is a long process that cannot happen overnight. It takes a period of time.
I never accomplished the full meaning of loving one another, but just because I
never completed in loving everybody, it does not mean I do not have to try.