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KLOTZ, Sister Mary Francisca went to her eternal reward on Thursday, January 28, 2010. Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana on September 2, 1948, Janice entered the Religious Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen in 1972, after graduating from Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California and becoming a certified medical assistant. Within the Congregation, she spent many years as a teacher, infirmarian and secretary. She completed her education in the nursing field, receiving her degree in Master of Nursing from Eastern Washington University in 1991. Since then, she has been medical coordinator and counselor for St. Michael’s Convent and Academy, as well as a tireless coordinator for the Singing Nuns. In addition to her Sisters in religion, her mother Dorothy Klotz, her sister Patti Melvin, her three brothers: Fr. David, Chris and Kevin, and her students, many in Spokane will miss her cheerful spirit, generous heart, outgoing and caring ways.
Eternal rest grant unto Sister Mary Francisca Klotz, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May she rest in peace! Amen.
LOVE ALONE MATTERS!
(by Sister Mary Francisca, RIP)
The blessed Cross has but one purpose and that is to empty our hearts of worldliness and self, that they may be filled to overflow with the Love of Jesus Christ!
Nothing else in life will have mattered, neither what we had nor what we became nor what we accomplished. If love is lacking, everything is for naught. Hell is hell because it contains no love. The devil is keenly aware that if he can seed hate in the hearts of men, LOVE will be driven out, and his victory is assured.
Suffering on a natural and human level causes narrowness, bitterness, self-centeredness and discontent; whereas suffering, elevated by grace to the supernatural level, unites us intimately with the sufferings in the Heart of our Crucified Savior, empties our own hearts of self, and fills us to overflowing with the pure substance of the Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ. This abundance of the Love of Christ will then overflow from our hearts to all souls.
We must beg Our Lady for the courage and grace to be transformed by these crosses and pains – to make us Better Not Bitter! We must have a living faith that realizes the Word of Christ applies to us now and forever: Christ loves me! Ponder often the Altar of Love, study your Crucifix. How very much we are loved! The devil gains a victory each time he can plant in our hearts and soul a doubt that the Love of God for us is unconditional and constant. He will then devour that soul. Even when we are sinful and unworthy, GOD LOVES US!
The only cure for doubt and hate is an intense awareness of being loved, both by God and Our Blessed Mother. Love is the only cure for HATE! Those who are most unlovable and the most filled with self, need this divine remedy more than all others. The Divine Physician sought out those who were most sick in mind, body and soul, and went out to them and poured upon them the medicine of His LOVE; that medicine which cures both the body and soul. And to the sickest, to the most unlovable, He poured out His healing remedy ever more abundantly and freely.
Therefore, let us give to each other all that we have, not counting the cost. Pray for one another without ceasing and beg from Jesus Crucified and the Immaculata, all the graces needed that our many trials, crosses and pains here below, will make of us “God- Bearers”. Like Mary, we will go forth and carry the adorable presence of Jesus Christ into the whole world.
