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September 8 Celebration

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA MARY!

A JOYFUL FOUNDATION DAY SVD!

 

One hundred forty-one years ago, on this very day – the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Arnold Janssen founded the Society of the Divine Word – an international religious missionary congregation of priests and brothers.  God gave him a vision and mission to proclaim the Word to all people through the Divine Word Missionaries.  The SVD arrived in the Philippines in the year 1909, They engaged in varied missionary apostolates, one of which is the administration of schools. For them the college is a place of evangelization, thus a place of mission.

As we thank the Lord for giving us the Blessed Virgin Mary as our Mother, let us also thank him for the SVDs, especially the many SVD missionaries who have gone back ahead of us.  They helped us mature in our faith. May this faith move us to action and make God’s love alive in our home, school and community.

 

 

GET READY DIVINIANS

ARE YOU READY DIVINIANS?

St. Teresa of Calcutta

SAINT TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Mother Teresa (1910-1997) was a Roman Catholic nun, who devoted her life to serving the poor and destitute around the world. She spent many years in Calcutta, India where shed founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation devoted to helping those in great need. In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and has become a symbol of charitable selfless work. She was beatified in 2003, the first step on the path to sainthood, within the Catholic church.

“It is not how much we do,
but how much love we put in the doing.
It is not how much we give,
but how much love we put in the giving.”

– Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was born, 1910, in Skopje, capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Little is known about her early life, but at a young age she felt a calling to be a nun and serve through helping the poor. At the age of 18 she was given permission to join a group of nuns in Ireland. After a few months of training, with the Sisters of Loreto, she was then given permission to travel to India. She took her formal religious vows in 1931, and chose to be named after St Therese of Lisieux – the patron saint of missionaries.

On her arrival in India, she began by working as a teacher, however the widespread poverty of Calcutta made a deep impression on her; and this led to her starting a new order called “The Missionaries of Charity”. The primary objective of this mission was to look after people, who nobody else was prepared to look after. Mother Teresa felt that serving others was a key principle of the teachings of Jesus Christ. She often mentioned the saying of Jesus,

“Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.”

As Mother Teresa said herself:

“Love cannot remain by itself — it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service .” – Mother Teresa