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SUMMARY:Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher
DESCRIPTION:Image: Blessed Marie Rose Durocher | Achona\, The Online Newspaper of Academy of the Holy Names\, Tampa | photo by Keri Kelly/Achona Online\nBlessed Marie-Rose Durocher\nSaint of the Day for October 13\n(October 6\, 1811 –  October 6\, 1849)\nClick to hear audio clip ► \nBlessed Marie-Rose Durocher’s Story\nCanada was one diocese from coast to coast during the first eight years of Marie-Rose Durocher’s life. Its half-million Catholics had received civil and religious liberty from the English only 44 years before. When Marie-Rose was 29\, Bishop Ignace Bourget became bishop of Montreal. He would be a decisive influence in her life. \nHe faced a shortage of priests and sisters and a rural population that had been largely deprived of education. Like his counterparts in the United States\, Bishop Bourget scoured Europe for help and himself founded four communities\, one of which was the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. Its first sister and reluctant co-foundress was Marie-Rose. \nShe was born in a little village near Montreal in 1811\, the 10th of 11 children. She had a good education\, was something of a tomboy\, rode a horse named Caesar and could have married well. At 16\, she felt the desire to become a religious but was forced to abandon the idea because of her weak constitution. At 18\, when her mother died\, her priest brother invited her and her father to come to his parish in Beloeil\, not far from Montreal. \nFor 13 years\, she served as housekeeper\, hostess\, and parish worker. She became well known for her graciousness\, courtesy\, leadership\, and tact; she was\, in fact\, called “the saint of Beloeil.” Perhaps she was too tactful during two years when her brother treated her coldly. \nAs a young woman\, she had hoped there would someday be a community of teaching sisters in every parish\, never thinking she would found one. But her spiritual director\, Fr. Pierre Telmon\, O.M.I.\, after thoroughly (and severely) leading her in the spiritual life\, urged her to found a community herself. Bishop Bourget concurred\, but Marie-Rose shrank from the prospect. She was in poor health and her father and her brother needed her. \nShe finally agreed and\, with two friends\, Melodie Dufresne and Henriette Cere\, entered a little home in Longueuil\, across the Saint Lawrence River from Montreal. With them were 13 young girls already assembled for boarding school. Longueuil became her Bethlehem\, Nazareth\, and Gethsemani. She was 32 and would live only six more years—years filled with poverty\, trials\, sickness\, and slander. The qualities she had nurtured in her “hidden” life came forward—a strong will\, intelligence and common sense\, great inner courage\, and\, yet\, a great deference to directors. Thus was born an international congregation of women religious dedicated to education in the faith. \nShe was severe with herself and by today’s standards quite strict with her sisters. Beneath it all\, of course\, was an unshakable love of her crucified Savior. \nOn her deathbed\, the prayers most frequently on her lips were “Jesus\, Mary\, Joseph! Sweet Jesus\, I love you. Jesus\, be to me Jesus!” Before she died\, she smiled and said to the sister with her\, “Your prayers are keeping me here—let me go.” \nShe was beatified in 1982. \n\nReflection\nWe have seen a great burst of charity\, a genuine interest in the poor. Countless Christians have experienced a deep form of prayer. But penance? We squirm when we read of terrible physical penance done by people like Marie-Rose. That is not for most people\, of course. But the pull of a materialistic culture oriented to pleasure and entertainment is impossible to resist without some form of deliberate and Christ-conscious abstinence. That is part of the way to answer Jesus’ call to repent and turn completely to God. \n\nThe Liturgical Feast of Saint Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher is October 6.
URL:https://www.thefranciscanfriars.org/event/blessed-marie-rose-durocher/2026-10-13/
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