Another Sacred Gift Arrives

The Blessings being bestowed are of the highest. Yesterday, I decorated my condo  for Christmas and finally got around to collecting my mail from Saturday. I actually had a real letter instead of junk mail. Perhaps a Christmas Card? No, it was a small card from Sister Frances from Kalaupapa, Molokai Hawaii. In it was a small zip lock bag of dirt from the sacred grave of Mother Marianne Cope.

She has just been canonized as a Saint at the Vatican. Sister Frances was able to attend the ceremonies, and also got to go to Lourdes and Assisi. Saint Marianne had healed people who had prayed to her and had used the soil from her grave-site.

Father Damien also became a Saint for his work at Kalaupapa.
The Leper--Hanson's disease--Colony, as it has always been called, is now home to 2 Saints.

There are only 10 patients remaining on the peninsula and after 20 years Sister Frances will be retiring soon and she is a saint, in my eyes. Blessings for all those who have served out their lives there; as a patient and a care provider.

Rainbow over Kalaupapa Peninsula
Taken from Topside Molokai

Sister Frances had invited Jean and her Reiki team to come and clear the land and grave sites of thousands. Every summer for 7 years, Jean and her Reiki students would fly to Molokai and perform clearings, teach Reiki and support the nuns who lived and served there.

Jean teaching Molokai

I am blessed.