MOTHER TERESA TO BE CANONIZED SEPTEMBER-2016

MOTHER TERESA TO BE CANONIZED SEPTEMBER-2016

മദര്‍തെരേസയുടെ വിശുദ്ധ പദവി

                            പ്രഖ്യാപനം സപ്തംബര്‍ നാലിന്

Pope Francis will declare Blessed Teresa of Kolkata a saint at the Vatican Sept. 4, the conclusion of the Year of Mercy jubilee for those engaged in works of mercy.The date was announced March 15 during an "ordinary public consistory," a meeting of the pope, cardinals and promoters of sainthood causes that formally ends the sainthood process.At the same consistory, the pope set June 5 as the date for the canonizations of Blessed Stanislaus Papczynski of Poland, founder of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, and Blessed Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad of Sweden, who re-founded the Bridgettine sisters.

In addition, Pope Francis declared that Oct. 16 he would celebrate Mass for the canonizations of Argentina's "gaucho priest," Blessed Jose Brochero, and Blessed Jose Sanchez del Rio, a 14-year-old Mexican boy martyred for refusing to renounce his faith during the Cristero War of the 1920s.Setting the dates concludes a long process of studying the lives and writings of the sainthood candidates:

-- Mother Teresa was widely known as a living saint as she ministered to the sick and the dying in some of the poorest neighborhoods in the world. Although some people criticized her for not also challenging the injustices that kept so many people so poor and abandoned, her simple service touched the hearts of millions of people of all faiths.

Born to an ethnic Albanian family in Skopje, in what is now part of Macedonia, she went to India in 1929 as a Sister of Loreto and became an Indian citizen in 1947. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950.

Shortly after she died in 1997, St. John Paul II waived the usual five-year waiting period and allowed the opening of the process to declare her sainthood. She was beatified in 2003.After her beatification, Missionary of Charity Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, the postulator of her sainthood cause, published a book of her letters, "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light." The letters illustrated how, for decades, she experienced what is described as a "dark night of the soul" in Christian spirituality; she felt that God had abandoned her. While the letters shocked some people, others saw them as proof of her steadfast faith in God, which was not based on feelings or signs that he was with her.-- Blessed Papczynski founded the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception in Poland in the 17th century. Today the Marians are special promoters of the Divine Mercy devotion of St. Faustina Kowalska.

Born in 1631, he was ordained as a Piarist priest, but left the order after 10 years. His new congregation was established officially in 1679 and he died in 1701. He was beatified in Poland in 2007.

-- Blessed Hesselblad was born in Faglavik, Sweden, in 1870 and went to the United States at the age of 18 in search of work to help support her family. She studied nursing in New York and, impressed by the faith of the Catholics she cared for, began the process of entering the Catholic Church. Coming from a Lutheran family, she was conditionally baptized by a Jesuit priest in Washington, D.C. On a pilgrimage to Rome, she visited the home of the 14th-century St. Brigid of Sweden and was welcomed by the Carmelite sisters who were then living there.She received permission from the pope to make religious vows under the rule of St. Brigid and re-found the Bridgettine order that had died out in Sweden after the Protestant Reformation. She was beatified in 2000.

-- Blessed Brochero, the "gaucho priest," was born in Argentina in 1840 and died in 1914. Ordained for the Archdiocese of Cordoba, he spent years traveling far and wide by mule to reach his flock. Pope Francis, in a message in 2013 for the priest's beatification -- a ceremony scheduled before the Argentine pope was elected -- said Father Brochero truly had "the smell of his sheep."

He gained particular fame for his work caring for the sick and dying during a cholera epidemic in 1867. With his own hands, he built churches and chapels and opened paths through the western mountains of Cordoba province. During his travels, he contracted Hansen's disease, more commonly known as leprosy; many people believe he was infected by sharing a cup of mate, an herbal tea, with someone who already had the disease.

-- Blessed Sanchez was martyred in Mexico in 1928, just weeks before his 15th birthday. In 1926 Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles had introduced tough anti-clerical laws and confiscated church property across the country. Some 90,000 people were killed in the ensuing Cristero war before the government and church reached an accord in 1929.Young Sanchez wanted to fight in the war alongside his brothers, but he was too young. Eventually, he was allowed to be the flag bearer of a unit. During an intense battle, he was captured by government troops, who ordered him to renounce his faith. He refused, even when tortured. The boy was executed about two weeks later. He was beatified in 2005.

പാവങ്ങളുടെ അമ്മ' മദര്‍ തെരേസയെ സപ്തംബര്‍ നാലിന് നടക്കുന്ന ചടങ്ങില്‍വെച്ച് വിശുദ്ധയായി പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കും. മദറിനെ വിശുദ്ധയായി പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കാനുള്ള നടപടികള്‍ക്ക് ഇന്ന് മാര്‍പാപ്പ ഔദ്യോഗികമായി അംഗീകാരം നല്‍കി. വത്തിക്കാനില്‍വെച്ചാകും പ്രഖ്യാപനം....... വിശുദ്ധ പദവി പ്രഖ്യാപനത്തിന് ആവശ്യമായ മദര്‍ തെരേസയുടെ പേരിലുള്ള രണ്ടാമത്തെ അത്ഭുതം കഴിഞ്ഞ ഡിസംബറില്‍ ഫ്രാന്‍സിസ് മാര്‍പാപ്പ സ്ഥിരീകരിച്ചിരുന്നു. .

.... വിശുദ്ധപദവിയിലേക്ക് ഉയര്‍ത്താന്‍ രണ്ട് അത്ഭുതങ്ങള്‍ ആവശ്യമാണ്. കൊല്‍ക്കത്തയില്‍ നടന്ന ആദ്യത്തെ അത്ഭുതം നേരത്തേ സ്ഥിരീകരിച്ചിരുന്നു. ബ്രസീല്‍ സ്വദേശിയുടെ തലച്ചോറിലെ ഒന്നിലേറെ മുഴകള്‍ 2008-ല്‍ മദര്‍ െതരേസയുടെ മാധ്യസ്ഥതയാല്‍ സുഖപ്പെട്ടു എന്ന അത്ഭുതമാണ് വത്തിക്കാന്റെ കോണ്‍ഗ്രിഗേഷന്‍ ഓഫ് ദ സെയ്ന്റ്സ് ഇത്തവണ സ്ഥിരീകരിച്ചത്. വിശുദ്ധരുടെ മധ്യസ്ഥത്താല്‍ സംഭവിച്ചുവെന്ന് പറയുന്ന അത്ഭുതങ്ങള്‍ വിശകലനംചെയ്യുന്ന വിദഗ്ധസമിതിയാണിത് സഭ കരുണയുടെ വര്‍ഷം ആചരിക്കുകയാണ്. ഇതിന്റെ ഭാഗമായി 2016 സപ്തംബര്‍ നാല് മദര്‍ തെരേസയുടെ സ്മരണയ്ക്കായി നീക്കിവെച്ചിരിക്കുകയാണ്. ആ ദിവസംതന്നെയാണ് മദറിനെ വിശുദ്ധയാക്കുന്ന ചടങ്ങും നടക്കുക.

.... 1997-ല്‍ അന്തരിച്ച മദര്‍ തെരേസയെ ജോണ്‍ പോള്‍ രണ്ടാമന്‍ മാര്‍പാപ്പ 2003-ല്‍ വാഴ്ത്തപ്പെട്ടവളായി പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചു. മദറിന്റെ പേരിലെ ആദ്യത്തെ അത്ഭുതത്തിന് അംഗീകാരം ലഭിച്ചതിനെത്തുടര്‍ന്നായിരുന്നു ഇത്. മദറിന്റെ മധ്യസ്ഥതയാല്‍ ബംഗാളി വനിത മോണിക്ക ബെസ്രയുടെ വയറ്റിലെ മുഴ മാറിയെന്നതായിരുന്നു ഈ അത്ഭുതം....... ഇന്ന് മാസിഡോണിയയില്‍ സ്ഥിതിചെയ്യുന്ന സ്‌കോപ്ജെയില്‍ 1910-ല്‍ ജനിച്ച ആഗ്‌നസാണ് പിന്നീട് മദര്‍ തെരേസയായത്. 1949-ല്‍ അവര്‍ 'മിഷനറീസ് ഓഫ് ചാരിറ്റി' സന്യാസസമൂഹം സ്ഥാപിച്ചു. ജീവിതം മുഴുവന്‍ കൊല്‍ക്കത്തയിലെ ദരിദ്രരുടെയും അനാഥരുടെയും രോഗികളുടെയും സേവനത്തിനായി നീക്കിവെച്ചു. സേവനങ്ങള്‍ മാനിച്ച് മദറിന് 1979-ല്‍ സമാധാനത്തിനുള്ള നൊബേല്‍സമ്മാനം ലഭിച്ചു

Prof. John Kurakar