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She loved much; spread joy; faced life

Joe Mannath SDB

Two men in the slum fought. The bitterness reached such a height, that one of them decided to kill the other. In front of others, in broad daylight, Santosh went at the other with a huge machete. People around shrank back, frightened. The enraged Santosh would have chopped up his enemy, had not a caring woman intervened.

She saw what was happening. She caught Santosh’s hand, telling him, “Don’t! You are not going to kill him. Stop!” The angry man could have turned on her and attacked her with the same knife. Instead, he listened to this caring woman. Then, others stepped in to help.

The next day, Santosh came to meet the woman who had prevented a murder, and fell at her feet. “Sister, I came to thank you. In my anger, I would have killed him. The rest of my life would have been in jail. What would have happened to my family, and to his family?”

The woman I am talking about is Sister Karuna SSpS, who died hardly a week ago, on August 22. Recalling this incident, she told me, “Father, God gave me courage. I don’t know how I got the strength to step in and catch Santosh’s arm.”

Karuna: those who knew her felt the name suited her. She was truly a deeply compassionate human being. One of the most helpful people I have met, who reached out and helped, and did it so cheerfully. Her laughter lit up our CRI House in Delhi. I crack jokes a lot, and Karuna would have the heartiest laughter. Whenever I needed to get something, e.g., a SIM card, Karuna would come with me to the shop. All the shopkeepers knew her, and would greet her, smiling, “Sister!” She knew especially the “little people” nearby—the small shopkeepers, the tailor on the street, the families with problems, the sick people in the neighbourhood.

I have heard how, on one of her transfers, people at the railway station wondered who this woman was, since hundreds of people, especially women from the slums, came to see her off, many of them in tears.

We were lucky to have a committed visionary to head the newly formed wing of our national CRI, called CRISEC (S-E-C standing for socio-economic concerns). Karuna was no arm-chair leader, but someone very close to the people who suffered. Thus, after the Kandhammal atrocities against Christians, she went there personally, living among the people, dressed like them.

It looks as if God prepared Karuna for her final journey. Her father, to whom she was very attached, passed away two months ago (his funeral was exactly two months before hers). After returning to Delhi, she went to Patna for her annual retreat. She told me: “I want to spend time with God and with my father.” She came back to Delhi happy and relaxed, strengthened by her retreat experience. When she travelled to Mumbai on August 7th to take part in a meeting organized by Streevani, no one ever imagined that would be her last earthly journey. Except for a cold and slight cough, Karuna was her usual self—cheerful, full of life, enthusiastic.

Karuna is a fine example of how to combine a larger vision and ideal—justice, service of the poor, commitment to religious goals—with tender, cheerful attention to the individual human beings around her. It is so easy to talk of big things and forget to care for the concrete persons around us, or to get lost in activity and lose the vision and the love that energizes.

Just yesterday, some one told me that her favourite Bible passage was Micah 6:8: “This is what Jahweh asks of you—that your act justly, that you love tenderly, that you walk humbly with your God.”

A happy religious, a woman of faith, ready to forgive and start again, eager to be of service. We at CRI will miss her radiant presence, her sisterly concern for each of us, her common sense and humour , her heartfelt religious convictions, her prayerful spirit. Our neighbours and visitors will miss her loving touch and cheer. How much more she will be missed by her religious congregation and by those for whom and with whom she worked for a much longer time!

Thank you, God, for the gift of Karuna to us and to the world for fifty-one years!

Thank you, Karuna, for your loving, radiant witness. We need many more human beings like you. We need more religious of your caliber, conviction and joy. You stood up for justice, you loved tenderly, you walked humbly and joyfully with your God.

Real story

Read the story below and we then understand how pathetic and superficial our world has become.   Remember this Lady? Irena Sendler Died: May 12, 2008 (aged 98) Warsaw , Poland During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.  She had an ulterior motive. Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of The tool box she carried.   She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids. Irena kept a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.  The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises. During her time of doing this, she managed to Smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. Ultimately, she was caught, however, and the Nazi's broke both of her legs and arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she had smuggled out,  in a glass jar that she buried under a tree in Her back yard.  After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and tried to reunite the family. Most had been gassed.   Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted. In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected.  Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.  Later another politician, Barack Obama, won for his work as a community organizer for ACORN. In MEMORIAM - 65 YEARS LATER  It is now more than 65 years since the Second World War in Europe ended. This  e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain,  In memory of the  20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, 6 million Jews, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated!      Now, more than ever, with Iran , and others, claiming the HOLOCAUST to be 'a myth', it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets,   because there are others who would like to do it again. This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people Worldwide! Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world.   Please send this e-mail to people you know and ask them to continue the memorial chain.

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R.I.P

Bro.Aloysius Macwan (GUJ) 78/53 expired this evening around 10.45p.m ( 22- 07-2013 ) in Pilar Hospital, Baroda.

The funeral will be held at 4.00 p.m at St.Joseph’s Church, Baroda  on  23-07-2013.

Please remember him in your prayers.

Fr.Lawrence Dharmaraj SJ

Socius

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Br Macwan Aloysius

Br Aloysius spent much of his life in the Society serving as Boarding-in charge in Zhagadia, Surat and Varsada. He also served as Minister and Kitchen-in charge of Premal Jyoti for about five years. He was placed in charge of the first hostel for tribal boys in the mission of Vyara in 1967. He was notable for his simplicity and constant availability to the boys. The boys used to wait for his company outside the study hours too. He had great love for them and their families. His influence over them lasted much beyond the years he spent in the hostel. He is still remembered by them even after thirty years.

He took great interest in what was happening in the villages during the famine years in 1967-1971 and famine relief work, and supported the Fathers in whatever was required of him in using the services of the boys for the work of the mission.

He was simple and unassuming.  In his simplicity he was blessed with a kind of earthy wisdom and sagacity that is given “to the unlearned but hidden from the wise and learned.” He was  a very pleasant companion.

He had a very charming personality to attract and to relate with people. He had been a source of inspiration in the Jesuit Community. He kept the community alive with his spontaneous jokes. He had an art of correcting others and giving feedback with out hurting them. As a Jesuit he never found anything impossible. He used to take up any work and do it to the best of his ability. His famous saying is: “Kai vandho nati, apne joilayea.” It means, “no problem, we will do it.” He was a man prayer and deep convictions. With his spiritual strength and deep convictions, he did his work with great sense of commitment and dedication. Till his death he served as a boarding-in-charge at Khambhat.

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At the age of 76 he became a household name and a magazine cover star.

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Since its installation two weeks ago believers visited the statue in the cathedral’s garden to pay homage to the pontiff, while tourists posed for photos alongside it.

But Francis, formerly Archbishop of the Argentine capital, was reportedly horrified at the news.

He got straight on the phone and had strong words with the priest responsible telling him: ‘Get that thing down, immediately’, the Argentinian newspaper Clarin reported.

Church sources told the newspaper that Francis is determined to avoid creating ‘a cult of personality’ like that enjoyed by John Paul II.

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