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“Jesus is Peace,and Mary desires the Peace of the whole world.

We who are her missionaries must continue her action to give peace,to give Jesus every where,always.”

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Fr. Gagne, was one of our faithful chaplains from the retired priests Residence.Charles Paradis, Madeleine Paradis’ brother.Estelle Couture , Cecile Couture’s sister.

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Eear Sisters,

Many, many thanks for your greetings, prayers, gifts and cards on the occasion of my Final Vowsceremony. Thank you above all for your presence that day to praise and thank God for the manygraces in my FMM journey.

Thank you, too, for the lovely decorations and all your hard works in helping to get things ready; and your con-tribution to the entertainment.

My prayers for you is that you may experience how good and how present the Lord is in our lives.With my gratitude and prayers,

Yen Nguyen, FMM

Bs we celebrate this Holy Season of Christmas, I would like to express my gratitude to each one

for your prayers and good health wishes. I am feeling better each day and I am grateful to be alive.

May 2006 be filled with many blessings; good health, joy and lasting peace.

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Conchy Zunzarren is sent to Trinity Community and will be working with Rosalie McNaughton.Virginia Falk began her term as coordinator - Incarnation community - Tampa on December 31st.Pat Barrett is preparing a Vocation Exhibit in Tampa and along with the Sisters in Tampa, Philo Yappwill help with the Exhibit. Our Sisters in Brighton are preparing an evening prayer during the time ofPrayer for Christian Unity and will invite some neighboring students to join them for the prayer followed byrefreshments. Nzenzili Mboma is in Gemelli Hospital in Rome for thyroid...so asks our prayers.

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Uhanks to all who have responded by returning missing items listed in December Sharings. More itemsfrom the "Missing List" will be printed in this month's issue. Anyone may borrow anything from ourLibrary. All that is asked is that items be signed-out when taken, and signed-in when returned.

If you do not sign-in the item on returning, you are responsible for it. Several newly purchased itemsfrom the 2005 Library budget have "disappeared."

In case some do not understand our Library system, it is explained below:

1. If you wish to take a book, just sign it out in the Book Catalog. Sign it in when you return it.

2. if you wish to take a Video or DVD, sign these out in the Video Catalog. Sign them in when returning.

3. If you wish to take a cassette or CD, sign these out in the Cassette Catalog. Sign them in when you return them.

There is no time limit that you may keep materials, just so long as they are signed for, and we can keep trackof our materials. However, some have kept items for 2, 3, even 5 years, so we have to track them down!Hoping that these few words clarify things, and that, with your help, all will now run smoothly and easily.

Lois Houlihan, F.M.M. Librarian

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Jhave just returned to Lahore after visiting St. Raphael's hospital in Faisalabad where we have oneJapanese FMM young doctor + a retired Belgium FMM surgeon who has been in Pakistan more than40 years and my dear FMM friend, Eufemia, a midwife nurse from Peru who has been here 8 years (I

met her in Mexico in 1993 at a FMM Continental meeting and later at the Canonization of our 7 Martyrs inRome). I never thought we would be in the same province to serve God's people. What a nice surprise to seeeach other again. Right after I returned from St. Raphael's, I moved to our Mariam FMM formation House inLahore. Tomorrow, a Pakistani Teacher will come to teach me Urdu (the national language of Pakistan) everymorning from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. Hopefully after one year I will be able to work as a

teacher in a Pakistani school. Without knowing Urdu, I cannot communicate with the people here!But my memory is not very good at my age now, so please pray for me to be a good student sothat I will be able to serve God in serving the people to whom God sent me. Thanks a lot!

Here I see a lot of donkey carts in big cities and the motorcycles, cars, vans, trucks and"Rechart" mingle with horse & donkey carts in busy intersections and streets, so I dare

not to cross the streets! But maybe later, I will have to learn how to drive a minivan as 4


we may need a driver, but here I think I must learn how to drive again, because they drive on the left side (asin England) and without automatic power for the steering wheel (there is a stick to control the speed)! Wow,we have to live just in the present and entrust our future for the loving God, as Sr. Rita M. (the former FMMNovice Directress in USA) said," Entrust the unknown future in our known God" who loves and cares for all ofus much more than we can care for ourselves.

Eear Mary and Sisters,

Greetings of the season of Waiting!

Sr. Carol's Retreat on the Eucharist at Bethany was a fitting finale to my 5 years' mission in the US Province.During this retreat Sr. Alma shared one other favorite quotes,

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This rings in my ears as I return to continue our FMM mission in India. My deepest gratitude to EACH OF YOUfor having been a source of inspiration and a challenge in my passion for mission. I'm also grateful to all of youand more importantly to the sisters of Fruit Hill for your promise of prayers for my aged and frail mother. Onmy departure to Chennai, I draw inspiration from the thought that “What looks like an ending is only the begin-ning” for as T.S. Eliot describes so succinctly in one of his poems, "In the beginning is the end."

I hope and pray, dear sisters, that you have a Blessed and joyous Christmas and a Grace-filled New Year. FelizNavidad!

If you wish to stay in touch, here's my e-mail address in [email protected]

Mailing address: St. Thomas Convent

Mylapore

Chennai 600004

S. INDIA

S'Long - Au Revoir - Adios! In Christ

Flavia Mariapragasa, fmm

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WATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While the Catholic Church has a rich array of teachings and traditions to helpChristians live holy lives, it is not so good at bringing people to Christ in the first place, a Capuchin toldPope Benedict XVI.

"Our past has prepared us better to be pastors rather than fishers of men," Capuchin Father RanieroCantalamessa told the pope and top Vatican officials Dec. 2.

Father Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household, leads meditations for the pope and his closest advis-ers on Fridays in Advent and Lent.

Father Cantalamessa said almost everyone in the world has heard of Jesus, and "writers manipulate"5


his life and message in popular books and films, adding that "'The DaVinci Code' is the latest and most aggres-sive episode in a long series."

But having heard the name Jesus and having heard his message in a way that brings a person to faith are twoentirely different things, the preacher said.

The Catholic Church has built "an immense doctrinal edifice" around its faith, but the basic message -- "Jesusis Lord" -- has never changed, he said.

As Christianity spread around the world, faith in Jesus was almost an assumption, and the church focused oneducating believers in doctrine, dogma, prayer, spirituality and morals, he said.

Presenting the whole array of doctrine to modern men and women who do not know Christ as lord "is like put-ting one of those old heavy brocade capes on the shoulders of a child," he said.

"This is one of the reasons why in some parts of the world many Catholics abandon the Catholic Church forother Christian realities; they are attracted by a simple and effective proclamation that puts them in direct con-tact with Christ and allows them to experience the power of his Spirit," he told the pope.

While it is important to nourish and guide believers, Father Cantalamessa said, the church must recognize thatit needs to bring people to the point of faith first.

"We must proclaim the basic message neat and tidy, at least once, not only to catechumens, but to all," he said.

Unlike the sects that focus repeatedly and almost exclusively on being born again, the Catholic Church followsthe faithful with teaching and guidance to help them mature in their faith and pass through moments of suffer-ing with their faith intact, he said.

Father Cantalamessa told the pope and Vatican officials they have one question more important to ask them-selves than what place Christ has in modern society: "What place does Christ occupy in my life?"

The preacher said one can proclaim "Jesus is Lord" only after saying, "Jesus is my Lord. He has every right overme. I hand him the reins of my life. I no longer want to live for myself, but for him who died and rose for me."

The act of faith means allowing Jesus, his teaching and his example to enlighten and cleanse every dark oruntidy space in one's life, he said.

"That is the best way this Advent to prepare a welcoming manger for Christ who comes at Christmas," he said.

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WATICAN CITY, DEC. 12, 2005 (Zenit.org).- To present God to a world overwhelmed by hedonism,materialism and individualism, the Church needs the testimony of chastity, poverty and obedienceof consecrated persons, says Benedict XVI.

The Pope expressed this conviction Saturday when meeting in Paul VI Hall with 8,000 religious and membersof secular institutes and societies of apostolic life of the Rome Diocese.

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courage and creativity the challenges of the present time," the Holy Father told his listeners, after they were intro-duced by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, his vicar for Rome.

"In the face of the advance of hedonism, you are asked for the courageous testimony of chastity as expres-sion of a heart that knows the beauty and the price of the love of God," Benedict XVI told the men and womenpresent.

"In the face of the thirst for money, your sober and available life at the service of the neediest is a reminderthat God is the authentic wealth that does not perish," he continued.

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Finally, "in the face of individualism and relativism, which lead persons to become the sole norm of them-selves," the fraternal life of the consecrated allows them to be coordinated and therefore to obey, said theBishop of Rome.

Such a life, he said, "confirms that you place your fulfillment in God."

So, the consecrated person "lives in time, but his heart is projected beyond time and witnesses to contempo-rary man -- often absorbed by the things of this world -- that his true destiny is God himself."

According to the Pope, the secret for the life of the consecrated to become a "prophetic sign" of the Kingdomof heaven, is to love God with one's whole heart, with one's whole soul, and with one's whole strength, ratherthan any other person or thing.

"Do not be afraid to presents yourselves, even visibly, as consecrated persons, and try with all means to man-ifest your belonging to Christ, the hidden treasure for which you left everything," the Pontiff exhorted.

He suggested that the consecrated take up a motto of St. Benedict: "Prefer nothing, absolutely nothing to the

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QHOENIX (CNS) -- Noting that their communities are increasingly divided as a result of immigration-related issues, the bishops of Arizona issued a pastoral letter calling for immigration reform and ask-ing Catholics to respond to the mounting crisis with compassion, education, hospitality and prayer.

"We ... are deeply saddened by the death and suffering we see on our border," said the letter, issued Dec. 12."We are aware that our communities have become increasingly divided as a result of the immigration in ourstate. We have seen mounting expressions of hostility and opposition to undocumented immigrants. We areconcerned about the image that some may have of Arizona as a state which is hostile to immigrants. We donot believe this to be true." The 4,000-word document, "You Welcomed Me," is an assessment of current pub-lic discourse, federal immigration policy, and immigration's cultural and economic impact on the state. In addi-tion, it offers a history of the church's position on the right to migrate, explaining how it affects Arizona'sCatholics today.

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WATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Even in the midst of war, basic human rights must be respected andall parties involved must work to end hostilities, Pope Benedict XVI said in his message forWorld Peace Day 2006.

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International humanitarian law is "binding on all peoples" even in times of war, he said in his message for theJan. 1 day of prayer.

Pope Benedict's message, "In Truth, Peace," was released Dec. 13 at the Vatican.

The pope began his message, which is distributed to heads of state around the world, by offering his best wish-es to all people of good will, "especially those who are suffering as a result of violence and armed conflict."

"My greeting is one filled with hope for a more serene world, a world in which more and more individuals and com-munities are committed to the paths of justice and peace," Pope Benedict wrote.

The message focused on truth as the foundation for peace -- the truth that all people are created in the imageand likeness of God with equal dignity, that God has a plan for humanity, and that good and evil exist and canbe recognized by all people.

Pope Benedict quoted the Second Vatican Council, which said, "Not everything automatically becomespermissible between hostile parties once war has regrettably commenced."

The body of international humanitarian law was developed to limit the devastating consequences of war, andits precepts are binding on all nations, the pope said.

In fact, humanitarian law must be brought up to date to respond to "the changing scenarios of today's armedconflicts and the use of ever newer and more sophisticated weapons," he said.

Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, presented the pope's mes-sage at a Dec. 13 Vatican press conference.

He said the Catholic Church absolutely condemns the use of torture in all circumstances, including interroga-tions aimed at preventing further violence.

"Torture is a humiliation of the human person" and there is no excuse for using it, he said. Other methods existfor gaining information, assessing threats and stopping potential terrorists.

Asked specifically if Pope Benedict was condemning the United States for its prisons at Guantanamo Bay,Cuba, and allegedly in Eastern Europe for suspected terrorists, Cardinal Martino said the pope "is not con-demning anybody, but is inviting them to follow the Geneva Conventions. All those states that are parties to theconvention have an obligation to observe it."

The pope thanked international organizations committed to negotiations and peacemaking, but also "the manysoldiers engaged in the delicate work of resolving conflicts and restoring the necessary conditions for peace."

Peace is the result of "an order planned and willed by God," he said. It is a gift that must be sought throughprayer, but also through a commitment to justice. Falsehood is the enemy of peace, he said.

Nazism and communism demonstrated that ideological and political systems can twist the truth, bringing about"the exploitation and murder of an appalling number of men and women, wiping out entire families and commu-nities," the German-born pope wrote.

"After experiences like these, how can we fail to be seriously concerned about lies in our own time, lieswhich are the framework for menacing scenarios of death in many parts of the world," he said.

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Truth is attacked both by those who deny it exists and by those who think they can impose their conception oftruth on others, Pope Benedict said.

"The nihilist denies the very existence of truth, while the fundamentalist claims to be able to impose it by force,"he said. "Both show a dangerous contempt for human beings and human life and ultimately for God himself."

"Fanatical fundamentalism," the pope said, “does not contribute to spreading the truth about God, but disfigureshis loving and merciful countenance, replacing him with idols made in its own image."

Pope Benedict said, "God is love which saves, a loving father who wants to see his children look upon oneanother as brothers and sisters, working responsibly to place their various talents at the service of the com-mon good of the human family."

In the message, released three days after Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agencywere awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Pope Benedict also pleaded for a renewed international effort for nucleardisarmament.

"The truth of peace requires that all -- whether those governments which openly or secretly possess nucleararms or those planning to acquire them -- agree to change their course by clear and firm decisions and strivefor a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament," he said.

Pope Benedict decried the increasing amount of money governments spend on their military and on arma-ments while the process "for disarmament is bogged down in indifference."

Cardinal Martino told reporters, "In 2004 the military spending of nations surpassed the sum of $1 trillion, about$160 for every inhabitant on the planet."

Addressing Catholics specifically, Pope Benedict said, "When we hear the Gospel, dear brothers and sisters, welearn to build peace on the truth of a daily life inspired by the commandment of love."

"If peace is to be authentic and lasting," he said, "it must be built on the bedrock of the truth about God andthe truth about man."

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Jt is Sunday, October 17, 2005, and I have landed at the Baton Rouge airport where I ampicked up by the Department of Health and Human Services. I am driven to a huge building housing allthe administrative offices for the Katrina relief efforts in Louisiana, to be “federalized” (sworn in), immu-

nized, photographed and FEMA-badged. I spend the night with three other women in Camp Arizona, amakeshift barracks in the Louisiana School for the Deaf .By mid-morning the next day I am on my way to NewOrleans in a shuttle owned by two professional women drivers from Texas, a mother and daughter team hiredby FEMA. The two are almost like children; everything they see amazes them. They have never been toLouisiana before. They mistake the bayou for Lake Ponchartrain and the swamps for the flood waters.

We arrive in New Orleans and drive through a part of the downtown area which seems to have been sparedby Katrina and Rita to a great extent. Finally I reach the Sensation, an immense cruise ship where chaplainsare housed with hundreds of other FEMA workers, military, police, etc.. The lead chaplain brings me throughmultiple checkpoints to a little cabin where I will stay with a roommate, Evangeline. The cabin is absolute-ly filled with her things: all kinds of clothes, hats, purses, shoes, books, etc. Every space in the closet,on the shelves, and in the drawers, even on top of the desk and chairs is occupied. I resign myself to 9


living two weeks out of a suitcase, feeling a little bit annoyed at first. Then it dawns on me: Evangeline is fromNew Orleans; she has lost her home; all that she owns is here. I never get to meet her, for she doesn’t come tosleep in the cabin.

On the ship we have wonderful meals, free access to exercise machines, telephones, television, laundrymachines, and even movies in the evenings. I take advantage of the telephones to have a long conversationwith my cousin. We chaplains are treated very well, but all of us agree that it would be much better to be withthe rest of the recovery team workers housed in the barracks. That would be more congruent with who we are,and would enable us to bond with the team.

The next morning I am with the other team members including forensic workers and coroner, around outsidetables near a fleet of specially equipped vehicles that are dispatched when a call comes in. My first call is tothe Ninth Ward. A police officer went there to check on his brother’s home and discovered the body at the door.The man apparently drowned in an effort to get out of the house. The lead chaplain is with me this first time.We stay with the brother as the team breaks down the door and recovers the remains, placing them face upin a black body bag, and then into the back of a van which will head for a makeshift morgue in Baton Rouge.We are not allowed in the house during the recovery, but I am told that it is very difficult to differentiate thehuman remains from the rest of the debris—by now all is a sickly grey color. When everyone is cleaned up andthe equipment returned to the vehicles, we gather with the brother and workers around the body in the van,extending our arm, blessing the body, and praying for the victim and his family. We then return to our postaround the outside tables to read, play card games, play harmonica, or just chat until the next call comes.Some days there are no calls.

My time in New Orleans is actually cut short. Because there are so few bodies being found now, the chaplain-cy services are closed one week after my arrival. From the government’s point of view, the services are nolonger warranted. I am disappointed, but soon I realize what a wonderful thing it is to have been there even fora short time. It is healing for me to see New Orleans with my own eyes—even the Ninth Ward, which resem-bles a war zone, with unbelievable devastation and stench, and military checkpoints everywhere. It is a graceto have all that time to sit and wait with the rest of the team members who have been doing this work from thebeginning, recovering hundreds of bodies. These men and women come from all over the USA and fromCanada. It is an honor to get to know them and hear their stories, and to have a role, however small, in afford-ing some measure of dignity to those who lost their lives so tragically and were abandoned for so many weeks.One of the workers, full of compassion for the hundreds whose remains he recovered, releases his feelings ina very moving poem that he gives me with permission to use. Here is the poem exactly as he wrote it:

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Sr. Mary Motte, visiting us in Tampa when I left for Louisiana, conducted a sending ritual at evening Officewhich meant a lot to me. From the time I learned of the deployment, I felt once more the excitement and joyof long ago when I was a thirty-year old being sent to the foreign missions for the first time. The days that fol-lowed were truly a spiritual renewal. I am very grateful for all the FMM prayers and messages of encourage-ment that went with me. There may still be another deployment, this time to Baton Rouge to work with the fam-ily members identifying bodies in the morgue. Negotiations with the government are underway, and I am onthe list.

New Orleans, that very special city, died by water. I feel certain that it will rise again, for its spirit is still alivewherever its people are today. Twenty-one of our twenty-five cousins (spanning three generations) have beenfound, and they are there struggling to rebuild their lives. I would have loved to visit all of them, the cemeter-ies where our father and grandparents are buried, and the home where Frances and I grew up in JeffersonParish. There wasn’t time for that. Maybe it is better that way.

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Sr. Modesta Byrne was delighted to receive and hear this memoir of St. Anthony's School in Cincinnati, a mis-sion in which so many of our sisters worked and can recall happy memories as well. It was written by a formerstudent there who wished to share it with Modesta and other FMM.

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Btrue story by Josh and Karen Zarandona. Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rockclimbing. Although she was very scared, she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spiteof her fear, she put on the gear, took a hold on the rope, and started up the face of that rock.

Well, she got to a ledge where she could take a breather. As she was hanging on there, the safety ropesnapped against Brenda’s eye and knocked out her contact lens.

Well, here she is, on a rock ledge, with hundreds of feet below her and hundreds of feet above her. Ofcourse, she looked and looked and looked, hoping it had landed on the ledge but it just wasn’t there. Hereshe was, far from home, her sight now blurry. She was desperate and began to get upset, so she prayed tothe Lord to help her to find it.

When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye and her clothing for the lens, but there was no contactlens to be found. She sat down, despondent, with the rest of the party, waiting for the rest of them to make itup the face of the cliff.

She looked out across range after range of mountains, thinking of that Bible verse that says, “The eyes ofthe Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth.” She thought, “Lord, You can see all these mountains.You know every stone and leaf, and You know exactly where my contact lens is. Please help me.”

Finally, they walked down the trail to the bottom. At the bottom there was a new party of climbers just startingup the face of the cliff. One of them shouted out, “Hey, you guys! Anybody lose a contact lens?”

Well, that would be startling enough, but you know why the climber saw it? An ant was moving slowly acrossthe face of the rock, carrying it on its back.

Brenda told me that her father is a cartoonist. When she told him the incredible story of the ant, the prayer,and the contact lens, he drew a picture of an ant lugging that contact lens with the words, “Lord, I don’t knowwhy You want me to carry this thing. I can’t eat it, and it’s awfully heavy. But if this is what You want me todo, I’ll carry it for You.”

I think it would probably do some of us good to occasionally say, “God, I don’t know why you want me tocarry this load. I can see no good in it and it’s awfully heavy. But, if you want me to carry it, I will.”

God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called. Yes, I do love GOD. He is my source of existence andmy savior. He keeps me functioning each and every day. Without Him, I am nothing, but with Him I can do allthings through Christ who strengthens me. (Phil. 4:13)

This is a simple test. If you love GOD and are not ashamed of all the marvelousthings he has done for you.

With Christ, you can go anywhere from nowhere.

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“It is human community that tests the spiritual grist of the human being.”

(Joan Chitt i s ter)

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We gather for a custom that goes back to former days

It almost seems quite out of sync with our post-modern ways!

A little King! What is his place in a democratic state?

And what weight does a mere child carry in capitalist debate?

But look beyond the symbol to the reality for which it stands:

The envoy of the Godhead, source of life and love so grand.

He came to dwell among us to guide us in the way

to be true children of our maker in love and service day by day

So we trust that he is guiding the destiny of the bean;

that the one who will receive it, he is especially choosing for his queen.

That queen's royal mission is a simple one yet grand.

She must plead with him who chose her to bless those in every land.

A spouse of Christ already, this year he calls her nearer still

to show her love and gratitude with greater union with his will.

And now I pray that she you'll choose, may welcome you and then,

may be a queen close to your heart in love and joy! Amen

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