SUNDAY June 4- 2023- YEAR 2- Episode# 66 Good Sunday Morning with Fr Andre on KNUS 710 am 

Holy Trinity Sunday: The Incorruptibility of the Saints is a reflection of the authority of Jesus over life and death. Special on the incorrupt body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster OSB

 

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Special guests: John and Irene Sheerin, husband and wife, mom and dad to 4 children, grandpa and grandma to 14 grandchildren a good and very well informed  catholic couple from Kansas city whom I have known for years now. John and Irene are faithful citizens of our country, and a good example of the love of God and the neighbor. They are occasional visitors of the Benedictine Abbey of the Benedictine sisters of Mary Queen of the Apostles in Gower, Missouri where recently on May 18, 2023 the body of sister Wilhelmina and foundress of the abbey  who died 4 yeas ago was found incorrupt. We will hear from them as eye witnesses of this unique phenomenon which in catholic tradition is interpreted as a sign of holiness.   

 

It was at the Benedictines Sisters Abbey of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, a blogger wrote “When the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles exhumed the body of their foundress Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, on May 18, they found the unexpected: Four years after her death and burial in a simple wooden coffin, her body appeared remarkably well preserved." Catholic News Agency reported in May 0f 2023. Thousands of people have descended on the abbey to pray by Sister Wilhelmina's incorrupt body.” This Sunday is called of the Most Holy Trinity. It comes as the first Sunday after Pentecost Sunday in which the Holy Spirit came down and dwelled in the form of tongues of fire on the 12 apostles and the Virgin Mary. Today we explain the authority of Jesus who said in the Gospel of Matthew 28, 18b-19: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”

 

It is clear from the history of Christianity that the power and authority of Jesus still shows in the creation in many different ways and on all levels of existence and even beyond life itself. Let us observe the fantastic Revelation of Jesus’s authority after His Resurrection for instance: He would appear and doors are locked. He would eat and is not a ghost. In fact the apostles touched him and at least one of them put his finger in his wounds. Jesus spent at least 40 days with his apostles and disciples and explained to them the knowledge of the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. Then Jesus asked the Father to send the Holy Spirit and when on the 50th day after Easter, the Holy Spirit came down and all of the apostles, “they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them” (Acts 2:4). Then when Peter and the apostles were talking to the crowds in Jerusalem, people from all over the world from at least 16 regions and continents such as Asia, Europe, and Africa heard and each understood what Peter was saying in their own native language. So it is a fact that people who believed in Jesus, have accomplished acts of extraordinary power that no one can do unless God is with them. Jesus ordered that faith in Him and his Teaching to be promoted in all of the earth. He also asks that the world will be baptized in the Name of the Holy Trinity. Jesus founded the church in all of the world, made of all nations and speaking in all languages of the world. Jesus was the inspiration according to which laws, constitutions, governments systems, kingdoms and nations were founded. As a result, we see that the miracle of the faith in Jesus can make people stand against all forms of atrocities and remove darkness. In the history of religions and politics, over 88 million people were killed and received martyrdom because of their faith in Christ. How can people endure so much suffering and keep going, keep growing and be more bountiful in acts of good works of charity and mercy. Since 2015, The Mission of Hope and Mercy has been one of the promoters who gave witness to the power and authority of Jesus in the midst of world tormented by hate, wars, captivity, hunger, divisions and persecution against christians. Our call in the Name of Jesus was always to invite the United States of America to join its spiritual destiny and to stand in support of family, faith, freedom, peace and life. If we look at work of Christians in the world, despite all human difficulties and errors, betrayals, and misrepresentations, we see that the legacy of true Christians is that they only remedied a power of good in the world because of their faith in christ. If we count how many hospitals, schools, charity places, institutions of good work, universities, influential projects in all walks of life, miracles including incorrupt bodies of saints whose body refuse to decay as witness to the authority of life that Jesus has over death itself, and how many saints christians left in the world, one could immediately deduce that Christians are not only a power for good on earth, but that they are the rock which protects the world from darkness all the way to the fact that even faced with global wars, the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church. On the Sunday of the Holy Trinity, we see the secret that makes Christianity indestructible. It is because it has the full power of the Most Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, the One and Only God forever. The authority of Jesus seems to also affect sickness and death. We see this in the phenomenon of the death of the saints amongst whom many their bodies remain incorruptible. In the history of the church there are at least 250 saints whose bodies were incorrupt. 

What is this incorruptibility of the saints? According to romancatholicsaints.com “the Incorruptibles are saints whose bodies are miraculously preserved after death, defying the normal process of decomposition. St. Cecilia is probably the first saint known to be incorrupt, but the bodies of these saints can be found in many places throughout the world.

They are not like mummies, for their skin is soft and their limbs pliable, nothing at all like the dry, skeletal remains of mummies. Under usual circumstances, nothing at all has been done to preserve the bodies of these saints. In fact, some of them have been covered in quicklime, which should have easily destroyed any human remains, yet it has no effect of these saints. Many of them also give off a sweet, unearthly odor, and others produce blood or oils that defy any scientific explanation.

Modern science relegates the incorruptibles to the status of mummies, pretending it understands and can comfortably categorize these saints. How then do the scientists explain the fact that a year and a half after the death of St. Francis Xavier, a medical examiner placed a finger into one of the saint’s wounds and found fresh blood on his finger when he withdrew it? Or that when a finger was amputated from St. John of the Cross several months after his death, it was immediately observed that blood began to flow from the wound? Or the case of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, whose arms have frequently bled over the last 400 years?”. 

 

Recently, in Missouri, the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster OSB, 1924-2019 (died at the age of 95 years old)

FOUNDRESS OF THE BENEDICTINES OF MARY,

QUEEN OF APOSTLES, was found incorrupt 4 years after her death. The abbey, (https://benedictinesofmary.org/srwilhelmina/) has posted a letter explaining the incident. A blogger has wrote “When the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles exhumed the body of their foundress Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, on May 18, they found the unexpected: Four years after her death and burial in a simple wooden coffin, her body appeared remarkably well preserved." Catholic News Agency reported in May 0f 2023. Thousands of people have descended on the abbey to pray by Sister Wilhelmina's incorrupt body.” It is obvious when a body of a saint is incorrupt, all christians and in fact all people of good will and people in need benefit from this miracle of Jesus through the life of the saints. Death has no power no more, and instead of being an obstacle to life, death becomes mystified and one could see the power and authority of Christ especially after careful investigation. 

According to CNA, (https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254444/sister-wilhelmina-body-place-in-glass-display-after-rosary-procession#:~:text=) in an article dating May 31, 2023 written by Joseph Bukuras, a journalist at the Catholic News Agency,    

“The local ordinary, Bishop Vann Johnston of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, has said that a “thorough investigation” is needed to answer “important questions” raised by the state of her body, but there has been no word on if or when such an analysis will take place.” 

 

In the death of the saints and as a unique sign known to God alone but seen by all men, God wills that through the incorruptibility of saints to manifest to all His Glory and the connection between the Holy Spirit and the renewal of the offsprings of mankind. Saints die on earth yet they become a sign for the eternal life and their bodies will not get corrupt. With this, Christ who has the authority over all creation will not allow the dust to consume nor to decay the bodies of the saints not even their clothing. This is the work of the Holy Spirit who renews the face of the earth. All christians receive the Holy Spirit at baptism and confirmation. Consequently all Christians have the antidote to death and the potential of eternal life in Jesus Christ. The United States seems now to have entered into the Mystery of God who through sister Wilhelmina seems to want to speak to the United States who is being occupied by materialism, socialistic ideologies, positivism, satanism, and even a culture of the flesh and death. What is the sign that God is trying to communicate with us? We wait and see how the Glory of God will unfold to chastise the evil doers, to give opportunity to people to repent, to console the hearts of the believers and to accomplish His Divine Will which is our salvation and peace. Sometimes the bodies of the saints are the most effective tool for evangelization that knows no limits and supersedes all forms of religions.

 

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