St Damien Of Molokai

Author : Margaret Bunson
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN 13 : 1612781713
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Damien of Molokai written by Margaret Bunson and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Damien of Molokai is the riveting account of how a humble Congregation of the Sacred Hearts priest found a vocation in caring for lepers that led him to his canonization in October 2009. Hawaii normally brings idyllic scenes of blue skies and white beaches to mind. But Hell invaded Paradise when the incurable disease leprosy was discovered there. An 1865 law segregated lepers by forcibly exiling individuals--even children--to the island of Molokai. It was onto these forlorn shores that Father Damien de Veuster stepped in the spring of 1873. In an age in which an increasing number of people suffer their own personal exile on account of illness, handicap, or emotional distress, the shining example of Father Damien shows the true power of one person and how, when anchored in God's love, one person can impact the world--even among the horrors of decay and slow death. In so doing, he brought hope to the hopeless, ironically losing his own life for serving theirs.

Author : Gavan Daws
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Man, Father Damien of Molokai written by Gavan Daws and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jan De Volder
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681495570
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Father Damien written by Jan De Volder and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by John Allen Father Damien, famous for his missionary work with exiled lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, is finally Saint Damien. His sanctity took 120 years to become officially recognized, but between his death in 1889 and his canonization in 2009 amid creeping secularization and suspicion of the missionary spirit he so much embodied Fr. Damien De Veuster never faded from the world's memory. What kept him there? What keeps him there now? To find an answer, Belgian historian and journalist Jan De Volder sifted through Father Damien's personal correspondence as well as the Vatican archives. With careful and even-handed expertise, De Volder follows Father Damien's transformation from the stout, somewhat haughty missionary of his youth, bounding from Europe to Hawaii and straight into seemingly tireless priestly work, to the humble and loving shepherd of souls who eventually succumbed to the same disease that ravaged his flock. De Volder finds that-as spiritual father, caretaker, teacher, and advocate-Father Damien accomplished many heroic feats for these poor outcasts. Yet the greatest gift he gave them was their transformation from a disordered, lawless throng exiled in desperate anarchy into a living community built on Jesus Christ, a community in which they learned to care for one another. Every generation seems to have its own image of this world-famous priest. Already during his life on Molokai and at his death in 1889, many considered him a holy man. Even today, in the highly secularized Western world, he is widely admired. In 2005 his native Belgium honored him with the title "the greatest Belgian" in polling conducted by their public broadcasting service. Statues honor his memory in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and at the entrance to the Hawaiian State Capitol in Honolulu. In 1995, in the presence of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Pope John Paul II beatified him in Brussels, Belgium; and in 2009 Pope Benedict XVI canonized him in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Today Father Damien is the unofficial patron of outcasts and those afflicted with HIV/AIDS. De Volder contends that the common thread running through the saint's life, the spirit of Father Damien that so speaks to the world, is at once uniquely Christian, fully human, and as important today as ever before.

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Father Damien written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Ellsberg
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814647456
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blessed Among Us written by Robert Ellsberg and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early centuries, Christians have held up the saints as models of living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. While the church officially recognizes a relatively small number of saints, the actual roster is infinitely wider. Blessed Among Us explores this eclectic “cloud of witnesses”—lay and religious, single and married, canonized and not, and even non-Christians whose faith and wisdom may illuminate our path. Brought to life in the evocative storytelling of Robert Ellsberg, they inspire the moral imagination and give witness to the myriad ways of holiness. In two stories per day for a full calendar year, Ellsberg sketches figures from biblical times to the present age and from all corners of this world—ordinary figures whose extraordinary lives point to the new age in the world to come. Blessed Among Us is drawn from Ellsberg’s acclaimed column of the same name in Give Us This Day, a monthly resource for daily prayer published by Liturgical Press.

Author : Charles Warren Stoddard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lepers of Molokai written by Charles Warren Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the leper colony on Molokai and the work of Father Damien.

Author : Hilde Eynikel
Publisher : Saint Pauls/Alba House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Molokai written by Hilde Eynikel and published by Saint Pauls/Alba House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Story of a Belgian priest ... who single-handedly changed the lives and fates of the lepers of a Hawaiian leper colony in the nineteenth century."--Cover.

Author : Arthur Shehan
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 9781586170332
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Father Damien and the Bells written by Arthur Shehan and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of the saintly Father Damien, who journeyed to the island of Molokai in 1872 to care for the exiled lepers.

Author : Greg Friedman
Publisher : St Anthony Messenger Press
ISBN 13 : 1616361328
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advent with the Saints written by Greg Friedman and published by St Anthony Messenger Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians know that St. John the Baptist prepares the way of the Lord. Which other saints can accompany us during the four weeks of waiting for the birth of Jesus? Through insightful reflections, Franciscan Father Greg Friedman, a pastor and radio personality, connects us to the lives of saints and holy ones suggested by the Scriptural readings of Advent. Father Greg draws on his love for the saints to offer us daily inspiration during this season of preparation. For each day of Advent until Christmas Day, we find a brief reflection on an Advent lectionary reading, with a saintly connection, a suggested action for the day, and a prayer to help us slow down and savor this season of waiting and hope. This perennial Advent resource will become part of your preparation for Christmas year after year.

Author : Aldyth Morris
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824813239
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damien written by Aldyth Morris and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1990-04-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monoloog over de Belgische pater (1840-1889) die melaatsen verzorgde op het Hawaiiaanse eiland Molokai.