Nowadays, it is good to emphasize, for the edification of everyone,
on generous souls who mark our lives and deserve to be known better,
so as to be more emulated.
This is the case
for our little Sister Marie Chantal of the Holy Family of Nazareth,
a Tertiary in Fraternite Notre Dame´s Third Order.
She was especially
fond of Fraternite Notre Dame and filled with admiration for its Founder,
the Most Reverend Bishop Jean Marie R. Kozik, and she gave with generosity
and happiness her consent for the vocation of her three daughters
in the religious life, and for her son, the priesthood.
She lost her husband,
and her one desire became to really serve the Immaculate Mother of
God in the Third Order, before considering religious life.
Unfortunately, cancer
broke out and she had to undergo a long way of the cross from one
hospital to another, trying many treatments and then chimio, experiencing
terrible fatigue and exhaustion.
She came to Chicago.
What a happiness for her to dwell close to the church.
She never missed
the morning mass, until the very day she died. Her strong character
and will to fight: she drew it in the Holy Family of Nazareth.
She is a renounced
soul, filled with courage in her illness; every day we could admire
the efforts she made not to remain lying down.
Each day counts
its number of sacrifices just to move in the house, walk, and she
never hesitated to help the Sisters.
Her health dwindled
but she never lost anything of her smile and her good-natured features,
accompanied by a mischievous little look, which caused her every conversation
to be quite vivid and colorful.
