Award Given -
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Published on: 11/25/2005
Last Visited: 11/25/2005
Father Joe Cramer, the pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, where the shrine is located, announced the award following a 7 p.m. Mass on St. Rose Philippine,s feast day Nov. 18.
Father Cramer said the annual award will recognize a lay person who exemplifies the life of St. Rose Philippine and who promotes Catholic education and vocations to religious life.
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,This woman,, concluded Father Cramer, ,is an absolute saint reflecting the life of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne.,
Archbishop Naumann was on hand to celebrate the Mass and officially present the award to his mother.
In his homily, the archbishop said his mother was taught by the Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Heart, the saint,s order.
It was his mother, he said, who arranged the trip for the two of them to Rome in 1988 to witness the canonization of the saint.
And it was his mother, he said, who gave him the pectoral cross he was wearing at that very moment , a cross featuring a relic of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne that she had given him when he became a bishop.
The archbishop urged the attendees to model their lives after that of St. Rose, exemplifying her zeal and self-sacrifice, especially in three areas: pursuing a deep and meaningful prayer life, enduring hardship in life with the help of faith, and carrying out the missionary role of the church.
,St. Rose Philippine Duchesne is a great example of what love and devotion can do and what it can produce,, the archbishop said.
Concelebrating the Mass with the archbishop were Father Cramer; Father Aaron Peters, chaplain at the Ursuline motherhouse in Paola; and retired Father Tony Blaufuss, who lives in Garnett.