Rosa Mystica Health Mission: June 2012

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Rev. Fr. Couture Visits Rosa Mystica Health Mission GSC Office

June 16-17, 2012: What a happy surprise!

No less than the Asian District Superior came on the 5th Anniversary

of the mission office in General Santos City!

O gee, and we did not even know he was coming! And we did not prepare any program! O la la...

Father, you didn't hear me sing the Kyrie Eleison and the Soul of My Savior!
When you come back, I will sing for you.

Thank you for the blessing, thank you for the medicines, thank you for the food, and thank you for the gifts! We pray for you, Father. God bless you!
Thank you for coming, Father!

Monday, June 18, 2012

Special Plea to the Sacred Heart

Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

O Lord, I pray that in my home, peace, quiet, and well being may

prevail under the shadow of Thy holy mantle.

Bless and protect, O Lord, my endeavors, my enterprises,

and all those who depend on me, and everything that I

 long for and desire.

Banish from my mind and my heart false ideas and evil sentiments.

Infuse in me a love of my neighbor and grant me the means to help him.

Give me resignation and fortitude of spirit in time of adversity

so that I may rise above the contradictions of life.

Guide and protect, O Lord, my own

who are exposed to the dangers and contingencies of the world.

Do not forget, O my Jesus, our loved ones

with whom we were united in life and whose departure

from this earth caused us sorrow,

at the same time consoled by the thought that,

because they remained faithful to Thee,

Thou didst not abandon them at the hour of death.

Have pity on them, O Lord, and bring them to their eternal glory

in heaven.  Amen.

Dear Reader:
The above photo features a mission patient from Western Mindanao. She is scheduled for dental surgery and facial reconstruction with generous help from Noordhoff Foundation, PAL Foundation, and the St. Joseph Transient Home. Rosa Mystica Mission provides the food and personal hygiene supplies of the patient. May we humbly beg your prayers for her intention? We pray fervently that she may see and love God in her suffering. May she find consolation from the most Sacred Heart of our loving Savior.

May we also recommend to your prayers a desperate family in dire straits from the Southern Mindanao mission? May they learn to offer their cares to the Sacred Heart that they may find rest and comfort in His Providence.

Thank you very much for your spiritual support.
May the Sacred Heart be our constant inspiration.

Care of the Sick on the Missions

.... We [...] wish at this point to pay the highest tribute of praise to the care taken of the sick, the infirm and afflicted of every kind; We mean hospitals, leprosaries, dispensaries and homes for the aged and for maternity cases, and orphanages. These are to Our eyes the fairest flowers of missionary endeavors; they give us as it were a vision of the Divine Redeemer Himself, Who "went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed." (Acts 10:38)

Such outstanding works of charity are undoubtedly of the highest efficacy in preparing the souls of non-Christians and in drawing them to the faith and to the practice of Christianity; besides, Our Lord said to His Apostles: "Into what city soever you enter, and they receive you... heal the sick that are therein and say to them: the Kingdom of God is come nigh upon you." Luke 10:8-9.

However, the brothers and nuns who feel that they are called to undertake such work must, before leaving their own country, acquire the professional training and knowledge which are today required in these matters. We know that there are nuns with full professional qualifications who have earned well-merited recognition by the special study of loathsome diseases, such as leprosy, and by discovering remedies for them. These and all other missionaries who are giving their service so generously in leper hospitals have Our paternal blessing, and their exalted charity compels Our admiration and praise.

With regard to medicine and surgery, however, it will certainly be advisable to enlist the services of laymen, provided not only that they have taken the necessary degrees for this work, and are willing to leave their homeland in order to help the missionaries, but also that in the matter of faith and morals they leave nothing to be desired.

Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Evangelii praecones, June 2, 1951.

The Social Mission of the Country Doctor

“The Christian doctor, any doctor whose honesty is worthy of this trust, can do much to raise the moral level of the people...”

“Your virtues, your goodness, will not be denied the noblest recompense. God will reveal Himself more fully to you if in the loyalty of your heart you correspond faithfully to His invitations.”
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Accustomed as he is to a life of exhausting effort, the country dweller who cultivates the soil can usually bear discomfort and illness much longer than the city dweller, so that when he calls the doctor, the sickness is, generally speaking, serious, and the pain well-nigh intolerable. Sometimes, too, the elementary and inept remedy which he has ignorantly tried before summoning you has simply aggravated the evil.

And then to your science and ability, your heart must add the balm of delicate understanding, for the very person who in health seemed coarse and hard, perhaps, often becomes in sickness as sensitive as a child, and like a child, feels the need for moral comfort. After the priest, no one better than the doctor can provide this. And thus he earns the confidence of the sick person and of the family, and by that very fact acquires over them and over the whole population a deep influence, and one which is eagerly accepted.

The Christian doctor, any doctor whose honesty is worthy of this trust, can do much to raise the moral level of the people, in restraining or repressing abuses, vices and habits which conscience reproves. The delicate task of preparing the way for the ministrations of the priest, of dissipating prejudices and unreasonable and disastrous apprehensions, not rarely falls to him.

And yet this task, so beautiful for the good it does to your neighbor, is very hard on you. It offers not only a frequent but a continual occasion for self-denial, for troubles and discomforts, often devoid of due appreciation, without gratitude, without equitable recompense. Not rarely, too, the country doctor while dedicating himself wholeheartedly to the sick, feels a sense of loneliness, especially if he cannot have his family with him, if he cannot ensure, in the little out-of-the-way town to which he is perhaps bound, suitable instruction and formation for his children. We therefore express the wish that your just aspirations in the moral and economic orders may receive due satisfaction, to your greater advantage, and that of all to whom you so assiduously lend your service.
And now, beloved sons, look up to heaven, and you will feel the comfort and the light of the divine Doctor of humanity. Your virtues, your goodness, will not be denied the noblest recompense. God will reveal Himself more fully to you if in the loyalty of your heart you correspond faithfully to His invitations.

Allocution to country doctors, September 18, 1950, Pope Pius XII.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Rev. Fr. Couture Visits Rosa Mystica Health Mission GSC Office

Monday, June 18, 2012

Special Plea to the Sacred Heart

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