ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY
Saints celebrated on the 9th of February
BLESSED MARIA THERESIA BONZEL, FOUNDRESS
Blessed Maria Theresia was born in September 1830, in Olpe, Germany. She founded the Sisters of St Francis of Perpetual Adoration in 1863. She sought to combine the contemplative and active religious life through an unfailing commitment to perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and the works of mercy in the spirit of Saint Francis of Assisi. She died in February 1905.
AN UNFAILING COMMITMENT TO PERPETUAL ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
The first members of the order to come to the US landed in New York in 1875. They founded hospitals, schools and other institutions, including St Francis Hospital in Colorado Springs. In 1875, Mother Maria Theresia also sent a group of sisters to Lafayette, Indiana, to establish a hospital there. Today the sisters operate 14 hospitals in the US Midwest.
PRAYER:
Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Blessed Maria Theresia may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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