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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.
Through the embracing arms of God’s mercy, we are lifted up to merit salvation by the power of His Most Precious Blood. Our hearts are softened, bad habits weakened, dispositions changed, new habits are infused and entanglements are untied. How powerful to restore peace to the troubled soul is the Sacrament of Penance!
In this special season of Holy Lent when the Catholic Church is reflecting on the suffering of Christ and His Redemption of mankind, I am writing to inform you that I have celebrated the Sacred Masses for your intentions, your health, protection from every evil, courage and perseverance in our Holy Faith. May God’s blessing be upon you!
I assure you, you have done your part; rest assured all that you have sent has been put to proper use! I will not be able to present your gorgeous gifts to the administrator of the diocese of Malakal because he has gone to Rome with other Sudanese bishops for the Ad Lamina! The Pope will have audience with them 11th April. You have equipped tens of thousands with the priceless protection shield of the Miraculous Medal and given hope to a population, ravaged by war. From April, we are to see chaos that will climax during January next year when a Referendum will decide whether the south will secede from the northern Islamists! Determination for this is underway but the poor Christian souls are the ones to bear the brunt!
I do accept, in principle, to go to Malakal, I will do it during the last week of my stay! I plan to even utilize that week of grace from 11th to 18th March when I will be in Malakal!
Then, Severio in N.E. DR Congo is also crying; these are the people who were battered by Kony rebels on Christmas day in 2008! We happened to send him two boxes in January 2009! He now expects more from us! I am ashamed; he wrote me a note in poor English telling me that all their eyes are looking at us for possible arrival of more help!
God has only one intention. He desires the salvation of all men. Through knowing Christ, man will come to know and love the Father. The modern world has a bitter need to see Christ in the streets. I am talking about the presence of Christ in Christians.
On the occasion of the Jubilee at Fatima, Pius XII consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. On December 8, he solemnly renewed the consecration in the Basilica of St. Peter, at Rome. The consecration is the prayer of the Pope to Mary Immaculate. In it, he asks that our Mother grant to us many things. He does not ask for them as an outright gift, something she might obtain for us with no effort on our part, as one might ask for a miracle. NO! The prayer is a dedication, a consecration! The peace for which the Father of Christendom asks is the victory to which the Vicar of Christ will lead his people after they have fought for it and merited the grace of it. The consecration is the knight’s vigil on the eve of battle. He comes to Mary’s altar because the morrow’s battle will be in her honor and for the Kingdom of her Son. The Son through the Mother, the Mediatrix of All Graces, will give strength to the warrior’s right arm. But the man will wield the sword, not some angel. When there are enough right arms, strong in grace, the Mystical Body will be an irresistible fighting unit, spiritually armed and operating as one, able to overcome all those forces in the world that the devil can muster against it.
Through our prayers, we are actively helping those who are suffering profoundly through disaster, broken families and the plague of disease. We become our brothers’ and sisters’ keeper through prayer, apostle-ship and our generous moral and financial support to the ULRA. Pauline knew so well that it takes all three to have united Catholic families, a strong Church, and to bring souls back to God. Each one of us must do his part and, no matter how small it is, when we are united with the Body of Christ on earth, each prayer, penny and sacrifice has infinite value. Each one of you can make a difference. No one else can do what you can do, the way you can do it, in the plans that God has for making this world His Kingdom. This is the great power of prayer. Together, we can hasten the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and obtain world peace and the Reign of Christ the King on earth. 
The entire life of Our Lady from her Immaculate Conception to her glorious Assumption is a symbol of the whole life of the Church and of our own spiritual lives. The history of the Church begins in the womb of the Virgin. Mary and the Church are two, yet one single mother, two virgins, yet one. Each is virgin, each is mother. Both conceived of the same Holy Spirit, without human seed. Both bore to God the Father a Child unblemished. Both are the Mother of Christ, but neither can bring Him to birth without the other. 
the Woman, and thy seed and her seed; she will crush thy head and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.” (Gen.3:15) The Lord hath spoken it. Satan is cast out of Heaven. The mystery of the Immaculate Conception is not only a personal privilege granted to Mary who was to become the Mother of God but also, through it, Mary becomes a figure of the Church. The Church is, therefore, the Woman fulfilling both Eve and Mary; She is at war throughout history, and Hers is the victory at the end. The Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God is, in the deepest sense, the consummation and the reality of our own personal salvation. The final battle is still to come, for the serpent lies in wait for the Woman’s heel. Look well at the Woman in the sky clothed with the sun, crowned with twelve stars, and with the moon spread underneath her feet; yes, it is indeed she, our Mother, it is indeed the Church. We can certainly say that the Woman of the Apocalypse is Mary, because she is the Mother of the Church, having given birth to the Head of the Church, and herself being the Daughter of the Church, and the holiest of its members.
Every time, we proclaim our belief in the Church, we are paying honor to Mary; and every witness of our love for Mary is a witness of our belief in the Church, for in Mary the Church became the Virgin Mother of God. What happened with Mary through the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost, is daily renewed mystically within the Church. The Church is in labor and travail, until Christ is formed in us and born of us. Whoever has childlike devotion to Mary, has found entrance to the deepest mystery of the Church. Mary is, indeed, the Mother of Christ’s members, that is, of ourselves. It is by her love that men have been born in the Church. It is through the mystery of the marriage, both human and divine at the incarnation, that our redemption began. 
On Calvary, the Church was given to Mary, “Woman, behold thy Son!”, and Mary was given to the Church, “Son, behold thy Mother!” Mary and the Church are one: The Woman at the foot of the Cross is the Woman of promise who would overcome Satan. Beneath the victorious Cross of the dying God stands the Woman who has won all of God’s battles, the holy Ecclesia! How lovable she is, this Mother of ours! Let us offer thanks to the Father and to Christ, Our Brother, that we have the privilege to be the Children of Mary, Our Mother, and of Holy Mother the Church. There can be no contradiction between a tender devotion to Mary and a deep love for the Church. 
Pentecost is the very pinnacle of our Redemption because the charity of God is poured into our hearts. Here, indeed, is fulfilled in all mankind what was begun in the heart of the Virgin at the Incarnation. The Heart of Mary is the beginning of the story; in her heart was performed in secret, what now at Pentecost, is open to the gaze of all mankind. The heart of Mary is the original upper room, where all redeemed mankind is gathered. Her heart is the vessel filled by the Holy Spirit. In her, we find all prophecies are fulfilled; in her begins the life of heavenly glory! Everything has its beginning in the Heart of Mary, and in her womb. The heart of the mystery of the Virgin Mary and the virgin Church, is the humble obedience of faith which opens itself in complete love and trust to the Holy Spirit Who overshadows her. In the midst of her heart, Eternity entered Time!
The final history of the body of the Woman who gave birth to God is the Assumption, the fulfilling in advance of what is promised to the whole Mystical Body of Christ. The prince of this world, the devil, was already defeated by the Woman, when the Word of God became the Fruit of her womb: “Behold, the handmaid of the Lord, be it done unto me according to Thy Word. THE ETERNAL FIAT!” The final glory of Mary is the final glory of the Church. When the Church celebrates the Assumption, She is celebrating her own final glory. Jesus and Mary are preparing for us a new paradise, which is the Church in all Her glory. Mary is always present within the Church in her express title, “Mother of Grace”. In her painful pilgrimage here on earth and through her painful history and purification by persecution, Holy Mother the Church must become like to Mary, who without blemish gave birth to her Son. Only then, will the Church wash away every blemish in those she brings to birth through Baptism.