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Swiss Saint: Maria Bernarda Bütler. swissinfovideos Oct 6, 2008 The villagers of Auw in central Switzerland are gearing up for an historic event. On October 12, the pope will officially declare one of …More
Swiss Saint: Maria Bernarda Bütler.

swissinfovideos Oct 6, 2008 The villagers of Auw in central Switzerland are gearing up for an historic event. On October 12, the pope will officially declare one of their former residents, the blessed Maria Bernarda Bütler, a saint. The last Swiss person to be made a saint was Niklaus von Flüe, who lived in the 15th century. He was canonised in 1947. Julie Hunt visited Auw to find out how Maria Bernarda Bütler earned her holy status. (swissinfo, Julie Hunt)
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MARCH 21, 2011
DAILY PRAYER WITH REGNUM CHRISTI
FORGIVENESS FROM THE HEART
March 21, 2011
Monday of the Second Week of Lent
Luke 6: 36-38
Jesus said to his disciples: "Be merciful, just as your Father is
merciful. Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning
and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.
Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, …More
MARCH 21, 2011
DAILY PRAYER WITH REGNUM CHRISTI
FORGIVENESS FROM THE HEART
March 21, 2011
Monday of the Second Week of Lent
Luke 6: 36-38
Jesus said to his disciples: "Be merciful, just as your Father is
merciful. Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning
and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.
Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together,
shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the
measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to
you."
Introductory Prayer: Dear Jesus, too often I compare myself with
others. It's easy for me to find or imagine my superiority to them.
I ignore you and your great goodness. I forget that everything I have
comes from you and that I can't claim the credit for any quality and
virtue, although I would like to. I wish to keep this truth in mind
and to have an attitude of genuine humility in my heart. Here I am,
Lord, to know and love you more through prayer.
Petition: Lord, help me to forgive from the heart.
1. The True Battlefield Although it is difficult, we can usually
bring ourselves around to excuse an injustice we have suffered. We
forget about what happened, and we try to move forward. However, it
is more difficult for us to forgive when we look into our offender's
heart and refuse to turn a blind eye to the goodness that is there.
Our hearts are a battleground for good and evil, and to forgive is to
be willing to help both the offender and ourselves overcome the logic
of evil. It is to wager on the side of good and to trust that
goodness is ultimately more attractive to the human heart than the
idol of evil. Christ always looked into the heart and wagered on the
side of good.
2. Turning the Other Cheek "For if you love those who love you,
what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them"
(Luke 6:32). Christian forgiveness involves waiving our claim to
damages. It means turning the other cheek. It means giving up our
cloak as well. Yet all this is relatively easy in comparison to
giving over our good name, to proceeding in charity even when we will
be misunderstood. Even here, we must waive our claim to damages,
willingly die in the furrow, and patiently await the Father to raise
us up again.
3. Going the Entire Distance The Christian ethic is positive. It
does not consist merely in not doing bad things but in doing good
things; building up positively. We change the world little by not
doing things. Christ was not satisfied with that. He gave up his
tunic, he gave up his good name, and he gave up everything—to
the last drop of his blood. So often we feel good about ourselves
because we measure up to our neighbor; but it is not our neighbor
with whom we must compare ourselves. It is God with whom we must
compare ourselves, and he has shown us how to be fruitful: by paying
our ransom with his own blood. In forgiveness and mercy, his
generosity is without measure.
Conversation with Christ: Dear Jesus, help me to seek perfection in
loving you and my neighbor constantly. I want to travel the path of
generous love because it is your path, and you are the source of all
my happiness.
Resolution: I will be the first to offer an apology or a solution
to build unity in my home and workplace.
meditation.regnumchristi.org
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Die Schweiz hat ihre erste Heilige:
Papst Bendikt XVI. hat am 12. Oktober 2008
Maria Bernarda Bütler (1848-1924)
heilig gesprochen
Die Schweiz hatte bisher nur einen Heiligen, Nikolaus von Flüe.
Das Wunder, das für die Heiligsprechung nötig ist, ist in einem vatikanischen Dekret vom Juli 2007 festgehalten. Auf die Fürbitte der Seligen Maria Bernarda hin wurde demnach eine Ärztin im ordenseigenen …
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Die Schweiz hat ihre erste Heilige:
Papst Bendikt XVI. hat am 12. Oktober 2008
Maria Bernarda Bütler (1848-1924)
heilig gesprochen

Die Schweiz hatte bisher nur einen Heiligen, Nikolaus von Flüe.

Das Wunder, das für die Heiligsprechung nötig ist, ist in einem vatikanischen Dekret vom Juli 2007 festgehalten. Auf die Fürbitte der Seligen Maria Bernarda hin wurde demnach eine Ärztin im ordenseigenen Spital von Cartagena (Kolumbien) von einer schweren Lungenkrankheit geheilt.

Papst Benedikt XVI. beriet bei einem Konsistorium mit Kardinälen im Vatikan abschliessend über die Heiligsprechung von Bernarda Bütler und drei weiteren Frauen aus Italien, Indien und Peru. Die Heiligsprechungsfeier vom 12. Oktober 2008 hat der Heilige Vater persönlich vorgenommen.

Maria Bernarda Bütler wurde 1848 als Verena Bütler in Auw AG geboren. 1867 trat sie ins Kapuzinerinnenkloster Maria Hilf in Altstätten bei St. Gallen ein und erhielt den Ordensnamen Maria Bernarda. 1880 wurde sie Oberin.

Ab 1888 war sie als Missionarin in Ecuador tätig. 1895 ging sie nach Cartagena in Kolumbien, wo sie die "Kongregation der Franziskaner-Missionsschwestern von Maria Hilf" gründete. Dort starb sie 1924. Der Seligsprechungsprozess wurde 1948 eingeleitet und 1995 durch Papst Johannes Paul II. abgeschlossen.

www.mariabernarda.ch
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TODAY: March 21, 2011
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BL. MARIA BERNARDA BUTLER (in the world, Verena) was born into a peasant family in Auw, Aargau, Switzerland, on 28 May 1848. She entered the Franciscan Convent of Maria Hilf in Altstatten, Switzerland, and made her religious profession as a contemplative in 1869. She later became novice mistress, then superior.
www.ewtn.com/library/mary/bios95.htm
Bishop Schumacher of Portoviejo, Ecuador, invited …More
BL. MARIA BERNARDA BUTLER (in the world, Verena) was born into a peasant family in Auw, Aargau, Switzerland, on 28 May 1848. She entered the Franciscan Convent of Maria Hilf in Altstatten, Switzerland, and made her religious profession as a contemplative in 1869. She later became novice mistress, then superior.
www.ewtn.com/library/mary/bios95.htm
Bishop Schumacher of Portoviejo, Ecuador, invited her to his Diocese. Overcoming resistance from the Bishop of Sankt Gallen, she obtained papal authorization and left with six sisters on 19 June 1888 to found the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Help of Christians in Chone, where her efforts among the local people were soon to bear fruit. She founded other communities in Santana and Canoa Ben.
But she had her trials. With heroic virtue and utter obedience. Maria Bernarda bore the stifling heat, health problems and uncertainty, not to mention misunderstandings on the part of the ecclesiastical authorities and the departure of some of her sisters to found a new order. She silently forgave and prayed for those who caused her suffering, which culminated in persecution in 1895 and forced her community to leave Ecuador.
Unsure of her destination, Maria Bernarda reached Bahia with 15 sisters and made her way to Colombia. During the voyage they received an invitation from Bishop Eugenio Biffi of Cartagena to work in his Diocese. He assigned them a wing of the women's hospital known as the Obra Pia, which became Maria Bernarda's home for the rest of her days. In addition, she founded houses in Colombia, Austria and Brazil.
A true Franciscan, she devoted herself to the spiritual and physical care of the poor and the sick who were ever her special favourites. Indeed, she instructed her sisters always to give them priority. She died at the age of 76, after 56 years of religious life and 36 as a missionary. She had been Superior for 30 years.
Maria Bernarda was proof of an unbounded apostolic zeal and charity, which continue in the Church today through her foundations, present in various countries on three continents, and she can be held up as an authentic model of inculturation. She found divine mercy in contemplation of the mysteries of the Holy Trinity and the Passion of Our Lord and bequeathed this legacy as a charism to her congregation, with her affection for Mary whom she chose as Mother and patroness. She teaches everyone how it is still possible today to combine prayer and work, contemplation and action, life with God and service to others, all the while bringing God to men and men to God.
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Saint of the Day, (also Swiss) March 21: Saint Nicholas of Flue was born in Switzerland of pious parents. One day, when he saw an arrow launched on a neighboring mountain, he was filled with a desire for Heaven and with love for solitude. He married, to obey the formal will of his parents; he and his wife Dorothy became the parents of ten children. His merit and virtue caused him to be chosen by …More
Saint of the Day, (also Swiss) March 21: Saint Nicholas of Flue was born in Switzerland of pious parents. One day, when he saw an arrow launched on a neighboring mountain, he was filled with a desire for Heaven and with love for solitude. He married, to obey the formal will of his parents; he and his wife Dorothy became the parents of ten children. His merit and virtue caused him to be chosen by his fellow citizens to exercise very honorable public functions. He was fifty years old when an interior voice said to him: “Leave everything you love, and God will take care of you.” He had to undergo a distressing combat, but decided finally to leave everything — wife, children, house, lands — to serve God. He left, barefooted, clothed in a long robe of coarse fabric, in his hand a rosary, without money or provisions, casting a final tender and prolonged gaze on his loved ones. His habitual prayer was this: “My Lord and my God, remove from me all that can prevent me from going to You. My Lord and my God, give me all that can draw me to You.” One night God penetrated the hermit with a brilliant light, and from that time on he never again experienced hunger, thirst or cold. Having found a wild and solitary place, he dwelt there for a time in a hut of leaves, later in a cabin built with stones. The news of his presence, when it spread, brought him a great influx of visitors. Distinguished persons came to him for counsel in matters of great importance. It may seem incredible that the holy hermit lived for nineteen years only by the Holy Eucharist; the civil and ecclesiastical authorities, startled by this fact, had his cabin surveyed and verified this fact as being beyond question. When Switzerland for a moment was divided and threatened with civil war in 1480, Saint Nicholas of Flue, venerated by all, was chosen as arbiter, to prevent the shedding of blood. He spoke so wisely that a union was reached, to the joy of all concerned, and the nation was saved. Bells were set ringing all over the country, and the concerted jubilation echoed across the lakes, mountains and valleys, from the most humble cottage to the largest cities. At the age of 70, Saint Nicholas fell ill with a very painful sickness which tormented him for eight days and nights without overcoming his patience. He was beatified in 1669 by Pope Clement IX, canonized in 1947, by Pope Pius XII. Source: Vie des Saints pour tous les jours de l’année, by Abbé L. Jaud (Mame: Tours, 1950). www.magnificat.ca/cal/engl/03-31.htm