“The Lord challenges our faith to do something new..."

Prayer O God, who through blessed Arnold brought peoples without faith from darkness to the light of truth, grant us, through his intercession, that we may stand firm in faith and remain constant in the hope of Founder of the Divine Word Missionaries – (1837-1909) the Gospel he preached. His life Through our Lord Jesus + Arnold was born in Goch, , and felt called to the priesthood at an early age. Christ, your Son, who Ordained in 1861, he taught science and served as a chaplain for more than a lives and reigns with you decade. in the unity of the Holy + His interest in the missionary work of the Church began to evolve and he became Spirit, one God, for ever editor of a journal about missionary life in 1873. and ever. Amen. + Two years later, he established the Society of the Divine Word (the “Divine Word (from The Roman Missionaries”) in 1875. The community soon had houses in a number of European Missal: Common of countries and missions in Tonga, New Guinea, Japan, Paraguay, and throughout Pastors—For a North America. Missionary) + In 1889, Arnold founded the Missionary Sisters, Servants of the Holy Ghost to help the priests and brothers in their missions. With Blessed Maria Virgo (Helena To learn more about the Society of the Divine Stollenwerk), he also established a contemplative branch of this congregation—the Word, visit: Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters—devoted to and prayer for the www.svdmissions.org missions. To learn more about the Holy Spirit Missionary + Saint Arnold Janssen died on January 15, 1909, in , , and was Sisters, visit: canonized in 2003. www.ssps-usa.org/ Quote To learn more about the Sister Servants of the “The Lord challenges our faith to do something new, precisely when so many things Holy Spirit of Perpetual are collapsing in the Church.”—Saint Arnold Janssen Adoration (the “Pink Sisters”), visit: Spiritual bonus adorationsisters.org/ (Philadelphia, PA) and Canonized in the same ceremony as Saint Arnold was one of the first members of the mountgraceconvent.org/ Society of the Divine Word: Saint . In 1879, he began service as (St. Louis, Missouri) a missionary in and after nearly thirty years, he died in Taikia from typhus, which he had contracted while serving plague-victims. Public Domain Saint profiles prepared by Brother Silas Henderson, S.D.S.

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