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Curia OCD
Roma (15-11-2008).- On August 17 the Carmelite sisters from New Caney received a promised and long-awaited visit from our astronaut friend, Colonel Ron Garan. Ron was on the crew of the latest Space Shuttle Discovery voyage, which took place last May 31-June 14 to deliver and attach the Japanese laboratory module Kibo (Hope) to the International Space Station. His mission was to go out into space, attached only by a foot strap, on a robotic arm guided from inside the station by another crew member to move the Japanese module into position and secure it, as well as make some repairs to the exterior of the Space Station. NASA had produced a short video of the mission, so the sisters were able to hear and see some of what goes on inside the shuttle and station. It was an exciting and enlightening afternoon for the community, and they were so grateful to Colonel Garan for sharing this experience of a lifetime with them.
Last spring Colonel Garan had called to the community to ask for prayers for the voyage, and offered to take a small item into space for the community... Some words of St. Thérèse immediately came to mind: I have the vocation of an Apostle. I would like to travel over the whole earth to preach Your Name and to plant your glorious Cross on infidel soil. But 0 my Beloved, one mission would not be enough for me, I would want to preach the Gospel on all five continents simultaneously and even to the most remote isles. I would be a missionary, not for a few years but from the beginning of creation until the consummation of the ages. (Story of a Soul) We gave him a relic of St. Thérèse to take, so now she has traveled 5,735,643 miles around the earth for 14 days at 17,057 miles an hour! And while she did the sisters commended the world to her intercession.
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