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As an Italian-American Catholic, I was raised on stories of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini<\/a>. The first U.S. citizen to be canonized, she is the patron saint of immigrants. My mother unknowingly implanted in my heart the desire to become a missioner when she read to me from Mother Cabrini\u2019s biography Too Small a World<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pope Leo XIII, reluctant to approve Sister Cabrini\u2019s desire to form a new worldwide missionary order, confronted the Italian nun with her physical handicap: three religious orders had rejected her because of \u201cweakness of constitution.\u201d She calmly but firmly replied, \u201cWe can serve our weakness or our purpose; not both.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mother Cabrini suffered from chronic endocarditis, inflammation of the inner lining of the heart. Yet she outlived her terminal prognosis by three decades. She also founded the worldwide Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. Her order opened hospitals, orphanages and schools from New York to Buenos Aires to Beijing, building \u201can empire of hope.\u201d Their inspiration? The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is shown crowned with thorns and pierced with a lance. Isaiah foretold the Messiah would be pierced and crushed, for \u201cby his wounds we were healed\u201d (53:5). After his resurrection, Jesus showed the incredulous apostles his wounds, not just to identify himself as the same one crucified three days earlier, but also to heal them of their doubts and fears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But why are people attracted to the seemingly absurd notion of a crucified savior?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are all wounded. One way or the other, by the time we reach adulthood everyone bears emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual \u2014 if not physical \u2014 scars, remnants of our personal battles. It\u2019s the price we pay for being human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After \u201cLord\u201d and \u201cChrist\u201d the title most ascribed to Jesus by Christians is \u201cSavior,\u201d from the Latin salus<\/em>. The term connotes not only salvation but also health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the translation of salus<\/em> into \u201csalvation\u201d conveys an otherworldly sense, its Hebrew counterpart in Judaism, best translated as \u201cdeliverance,\u201d has a tangible, down-to-earth dimension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Jesus\u2019 day, multitudes of people sought him out primarily as a healer. We know only some of their names and stories. The Gospels tell of 10 lepers on the road, a woman with a hemorrhage, Peter\u2019s mother-in-law and the blind man at Siloam pool. Friends tear a hole in the roof to let down their sick friend so Jesus might heal him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Gospels, deliverance includes \u2014 but goes beyond \u2014 physical healing. Curing lepers included taking away not just their disfigurement, but their social stigma and isolation. The same happened in the healing of the woman with a hemorrhage. The man possessed by a \u201cLegion\u201d of demons was delivered by Jesus\u2019 liberating power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet in his hometown of Nazareth, Jesus was unable to heal more than a few people \u201cbecause of their lack of faith\u201d (Matthew 13:58). This makes his curing of the Roman centurion\u2019s servant all the more scandalous. Imagine his countrymen\u2019s shock when Jesus declared of this foreign oppressor: \u201cIn no one in Israel have I found such faith\u201d (Matthew 8:10<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The connection between faith, salvation and healing is reinforced in the liturgy. Before receiving the Eucharist, we paraphrase the centurion\u2019s response by saying, \u201cbut only say the word and my soul shall be healed.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The greatest act of healing occurred at the Crucifixion \u2014 not for an individual or nation, but for all humanity in every age. Jesus is savior, healer and liberator of the wounded and broken human race for he, too, was wounded and broken. His pierced, bleeding heart draws to him people who feel wounded and beaten \u2014 that is, everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mother Cabrini\u2019s insight still rings true. God heals our injuries and frailties<\/a> by uniting them to Jesus\u2019 Sacred Heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Jesus\u2019 wounds heal us, so our wounds can help heal others. Once we give them over to Christ, he can transform them into fonts of healing and grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Featured Image: St. Frances Xavier Cabrini is depicted in a stained-glass window at the saint\u2019s shrine in the Washington Heights section of New York City. (OSV News photo\/Gregory A. Shemitz)<\/em>

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