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Madre: The Nun Who Was Mother to the Orphans of Honduras
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About Madre: The Nun Who Was Mother To The Orphans Of
Product Description “Children have the right to be happy. So God sent me to help them.” —Sister Maria Rosa Leggol In Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras, in 1966, a short, plump, middle-aged Catholic nun was hot on the heels of the richest man in the country. Sister María Rosa Leggol, a hospital nurse with a fifth-grade education, had no money, no social standing, no clout. What she did have was the audacity to ask big favors of powerful men and the unwavering conviction that her dream—to rescue, house, and educate street children—was sanctioned by God. She also had the gall to think she could stop the man’s airplane from taking off. The help she received that day triggered a dramatic chain of events resulting in the rescue and education of tens of thousands of destitute children in the second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Through her network of children’s villages, schools, farms, clinics, vocational training centers, and microbusinesses, this indomitable nun empowered poor Hondurans to live, grow, and work with dignity. Madre is a celebration of a fearless woman’s great goodness, charisma, and chutzpah in challenging corruption and machismo to break generational cycles of poverty. Writer and mission trip leader Kathy Martin O’Neil sets the unlikely triumphs of this “Angel of the Poor” against the backdrop of Honduras’s deprivation, broken families, and gang violence that send desperate young migrants fleeing for their lives. Drawing from more than a decade of mission travel to SAN, she captures Sister Maria Rosa’s magnetic allure and Franciscan wisdom on how best to change hearts and stand with the marginalized people of the world. Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodriguez of Honduras, who is advancing her cause for sainthood, introduces his friend, Sister María Rosa Leggol, in a beautiful Foreword. Review "The elements of this book highlight the admirable work of a woman who worked to show the face of God in the midst of her every work." --Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodriguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., Archbishop of Tegucigalpa "As Kathy Martin O'Neil guides us through the extraordinary journey of Sister Maria Rosa, she also enlightens the way God meets us in the ordinary moments of our own journeys." --Father Daniel Groody, C.S.C., Vice President and Associate Provost at the University of Notre Dame and author of Globalization, Spirituality and Justice: Navigating a Path to Peace "Sister Maria Rosa Leggol was God's rebel, with an ability to turn the impossible into reality. She cared for more children than her board of directors told her she could cope with, she saved children of mothers suffering deep psychiatric problems, she nursed malnourished and unloved children back to health. No one could say 'no' to this extraordinary Honduran nun!" --Diana Negroponte "Sister Maria Rosa's mission to save at-risk children motivates us in the same way as Mother Teresa, who said, 'Holiness consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us.' This book will bring a smile to your face many times as it helps you accept and follow God's will for your life!" --Doctor Chuck Dietzen, founder of Timmy Global Foundation and author of Pint-sized Prophets: Inspirational Moments That Taught Me We Are All Born To Be Healers
