Day 2: Sr. Dorothy Stang Novena

Wednesday, February 12, 2020, marks the 15th anniversary of the murder of Sr. Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur and graduate of Julienne High School (1949).  To celebrate the anniversary of her martyrdom and to carry on her legacy, the Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School community will be praying a novena in her honor.  The daily text is below.  To learn more about Sr. Dorothy, click this link.

February 5

From the Gospel of Matthew we hear: “Blessed are the sorrowing; they shall be consoled.”

Sr. Dorothy said: "I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of the farmers who live without any protection in the forest."

Sr. Dorothy heard the cry of the sorrowful: those who were downcast; those who were persecuted; those who were rejected by others.  She also heard the cry coming from the earth that was being exploited in her beloved Amazon forest.  But this didn’t get her down.  She practiced simple kindness everyday, and in doing so she offered consolation to those who needed it the most. 


Today’s suggested action: 
Look around your part of the world. Where is someone crying out in sorrow?  Today offer a small kindness or consolation in a place where it is needed, just as Sr. Dorothy did every day.


Prayer:

Jesus –

a man the children loved,

a kind man

who healed 

and freed the lame to walk again

and the blind to see,

who consoled the sorrowing.

He was a quiet man

enraged by money changers 

in his Father’s temple,

by their arrogance and grabbing asperity,

by the stink of sickened animals.

Dare I be like him –

loved

kind

a consoler –

and enraged?

May the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit be glorified in all places through the Immaculate Virgin Mary.  Amen.

[The text of this Novena is adapted from https://www.sndohio.org/sister-dorothy/dorothy-stang-novena]