1808 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
Moravian missionaries say the #Labrador #Inuit "miserably manage" their children's education, "and harm must almost inevitably ensue from their very habits of living together"
https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/cns_permorv/id/871/rec/4
See also: Moravian Missions in Labrador - Moravian Missions Along the Labrador Coast
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/moravian-missions-in-labrador-emc
1808 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
Numbering only three, the #Anglican missionaries in #Newfoundland preach at St. John's, Harbour Grace and Carbonear, and Trinity
https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.64877/38
pgs. 33–4
See also: Anglicanism in Canada - Missions
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/anglicanism
American missionary abducted in Niger as security worsens, sources say http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TNrJ47 #Niger #Kidnapping #Missionary #SecurityCrisis #AfricaNews
Quote of the day, 23 October: St. Thérèse
O my Jesus! I thank you for having fulfilled one of my greatest desires, that of having a brother, a priest, an apostle…
I feel very unworthy of this favor. And yet, since you grant your little spouse the grace of working specially for the sanctification of a soul destined for the priesthood, I offer you joyfully all the prayers and sacrifices at my disposal. I ask you, O my God: not to look at what I am but what I should be and want to be, a religious wholly inflamed with your love.
You know, Lord, that my only ambition is to make you known and loved. Now my desire will be realized. I can only pray and suffer, but the soul to whom you unite me by the sweet bonds of charity will go and fight in the plain to win hearts for you, while on the mountain of Carmel, I will pray that you give him victory.
Divine Jesus, hear the prayer I offer you for him who wants to be your Missionary. Keep him safe amid the dangers of the world. Make him feel increasingly the nothingness and vanity of passing things and the happiness of being able to despise them for your love. May he carry out his sublime apostolate on those around him. May he be an apostle worthy of your Sacred Heart….
O Mary! gentle Queen of Carmel, it is to you that I entrust the soul of the future priest whose unworthy little sister I am. Teach him even now how lovingly you handled the Divine Child Jesus and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, so that one day he may go up to the Holy Altar and carry in his hands the King of Heaven.
I ask you also to keep him safe beneath the shadow of your virginal mantle until the happy day when he leaves this valley of tears and can contemplate your splendor and enjoy for all eternity the fruits of his glorious apostolate….
Thérèse of the Child Jesus
unworthy Carmelite religious
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Prayer 8 for Abbé Bellière
Note: Thérèse did not date her prayer. She composed it between October 17 and 21, 1895. In fact, it is on Thursday the 17th during the community wash that Mother Agnes read her the letter received from Abbé Bellière, a letter written on the evening of the 15th and mailed on the 16th. Mother Agnes herself answered the seminarian, at the latest on the 22nd, since he thanked her on the 23rd. With her response, she sent Thérèse’s prayer, which Abbé Bellière dated October 22, 1895 (or the 23rd, a date he scratched out). Abbé Bellière replied immediately on 23 October:
“I would also be happy to tell Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus how touched I was by her charity, her devotedness, drawn from the purest fountain of divine Love…. I read with deep feeling the inspired prayer which she composed and is saying each day for me…. I am under no illusions; the good I will do, I will owe to her. It’s the same way St. Francis Xavier assured us that most of the souls redeemed through his zeal owed their salvation to the prayers of Carmelite nuns.”
Thérèse of Lisieux, S & Clarke, J 1988, General Correspondence: Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux: Volume 2 1890-1897. Centenary ed., Institute of Carmelite Studies, Washington DC.
Thérèse, Gaucher, G & Kane, A 1997. The Prayers of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: The Act of Oblation, ICS Publications, Washington, DC.
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#AbbéMauriceBellière #missionary #prayer #sacrifice #StThereseOfLisieux
Great conversation with film maker Ari Ali about the documentary she made about her uncle and her family.
#FilmMaking #DocumentaryFilm #Ethiopia #MissionaryFamilies #Missionary Kids #MK
Son of missionaries accused of setting destructive Palisades fire
He’s the son of Baptist missionaries who loved soccer as a child. In the Hollywood neighborhood where he…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #complex #destructivefire #federalprosecutor #Florida #Hollywood #hollywoodapartmentbuilding #jonathanrinderknecht #missionary #neighbor #palisadesfire #peterchang #record #unit #UnitedStates #Us #USA #wednesdaymorning #year
https://www.newsbeep.com/172995/
started a #wikipedia article on American nurse Sada C. Tomlinson (1876-1953), worked in Anqing, China, from 1907 to 1936, as superintendent of a nursing school and as head nurse at an Episcopal missionary hospital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sada_Tomlinson @wikiwomeninred #nurse #Anqing #missionary #Episcopalian #Sewanee #Boston
