Today is the feast day of Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher. She was born in 1811 at Quebec, Canada. She established the first Canadian parish sodality for young women. In 1843 she founded the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, a congregation of women dedicated to Christian education, which flourished in spite of great poverty and misunderstandings. Marie Rose is especially known for her concern for the poor.
**Feast/Saint of the day segment copied from the USCCB webpage.
This is like walking in on the very ending of a great argument. What had the Galatians done to tick off Paul so much? Okay, obviously they were reading an unauthorized gospel, but does anyone know which one? Can anyone give me the full background? Amy? Mom? Bill?
This is another example of Jesus' constant reminding that we need to love and help one another. In this example, he uses cultural enemies. Here in the US, it is hard for us to emotionally grasp cultural enemies because we're such a melting pot. Sure, we have our pockets of prejudice against certain races, but those are the minority. We don't have the phenomenon of one group completely hating the other. The only modern example I can think of is the Palestinians and the Israelis. This may be a little off the subject, but we hear a lot about how modern society is going down the tubes and that we have degenerated morally, blah blah blah. Just the pure fact that I had a lot of trouble coming up with a modern equivalent of people that hate each other, says to me that "We've come a long way, baby..." So, I guess it all just comes down to one thing that we've heard since we were kids: Love your enemies.
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