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I went to see the body of Sr Wilhelmina, the founder of a Benedictine congregation of religious sisters in Gower, Missouri.
Sister Wilhelmina’s story has become a minor sensation, worldwide. Sr Wilhelmina was born Mary Elizabeth Lancaster in 1924 St. Louis. She heard God’s voice when she received her First Communion at age 9. Jesus asked her to be his. She answered “Yes” with her life. She took vows with the Oblate Sisters of Providence in 1944. In 1995, in her 70s, she left the Oblates to found her own Benedictine order that settled in Gower, Missouri — 45 minutes from my home in Kansas.
“It is understandable that many would be driven by faith and devotion to see the mortal remains of Sr Wilhelmina given the remarkable condition of her body, but visitors should not touch or venerate her body, or treat them as relics,” said Bishop James Johnston. “Incorruptibility has been verified in the past, but it is very rare. There is a well-established process to pursue the cause for sainthood, but that has not been initiated in this case yet.
But the more I thought of it afterwards, the more natural it felt. People lined up to see Queen Elizabeth’s body. They didn’t do so because they wanted to see a corpse; they did so because we all know somewhere deep inside that we are our bodies and vice versa; that even though spirit and body were separated, the body of the queen still had a meaning. One of the fundamental insights that Christianity has given to the world is this understanding of our humanity.
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