NEWSLETTER

 

DINA

 

 

 

The Dina Newsletter: a means of communication. How can we remain silent about the wonders of grace of which we are witnesses almost every day? May this information be of interest to you and help you grow in trust.

 

This NEWSLETTER consists in:

03      Dina, a Eucharistic soul

05   Testimony of gratitude

06      Two new auxiliary bishops in the diocese of Quebec

07      Dina and the internet – Dina is thinking of you, no 41

09     Blessed Dina and the Eucharist

10     Dina Bélanger’s Eucharistic life

12     A 1st  anniversary

 Correspondence

13     a) A love story with Dina

14     b) The rainbow reappears

15     c) Gratitude toward Dina

16     d) Dina and the internet (continued)

17     A reminder – the Chaplet

18     150th Anniversary of the arrival of the R.J.M. Sisters in Canada

19     Dina Bélanger – Le Courage d’aimer (a CD)

 

With the collaboration of the staff of the Dina-Bélanger Center:

 

            Pauline Bussières, R.J.M.

`           Rita Bussières. R.J.M.

            Agathe Lagueux, R.J.M.

            Louise Richard, R.J.M.

            Carmelle St-Pierre R.J.M. (English)

 

These Sisters greet visitors, answer phone calls and open the mail, offering a prompt and kind reply to the requests that make their way to the Dina-Bélanger Centre.

 

Editor:                                      Réjane Veilleux, R.J.M.

Proofreader:                             Agathe Lagueux, R.J.M.

Typing and page setting:            Sylvie Bourget, N.J.M.

                                                               Agathe Lagueux, R.J.M.

                                                Réjane Veilleux, R.J.M.

Translator                                Florestine Audette, R.J.M.

Technical advisor             Madam Marjorie Lachance

 

 

 

 

 

Dina, A Eucharistic Soul

 

Praying with … Blessed Dina

 

Prayer of trust and surrender

 

Already enamoured of Jesus at a very early age, initiated very soon to prayer by her parents, Dina made of her life a canticle of thanksgiving. Her life and prayer were a hymn of love for the God she loved.

 

Her prayer was simple: in total trust, she let herself be filled by the love of the One who alone could fulfill her. Led by her motto: “Love and let Jesus and Mary have their way,” her life and prayer were a trusting surrender, a total one day by day, and a little more each day. Dina teaches us the faithful acceptance of Jesus, the serene trust in the merciful love, the joyous “YES” with and like Mary. In Dina’s life, “nothing is done without Mary.”

 

Praying with Dina, is “to discover the luminous testimony of the INTERIOR DIALOGUE WITH CHRIST that she pursued with all the delicate touch of her sensibility” (John Paul II). Her gifts in music disposed her to welcome the divine presence, to express her wonder in a praise that spoke far more than words.

 

Praying with Dina is to practice remaining humbly in intimate communion with the Heart of Jesus. When her heart was a little weary, she would beg Jesus and Mary to “cry out” in her place:

“Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come;

thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven!”

 

Dina had only one Master for her interior life, and he was Jesus. When she heard “his soft and melodious voice” the first time, she was filled with happiness. This was on 25 March 1908, a Holy Thursday, after receiving communion. She was only eleven years old. A Holy Thursday, after communion: this detail lifts the veil on a particular note of Dina’s spirituality: the Eucharist is like a SOURCE that enlightens and consumes everything.

 

A Eucharistic Prayer

 

Dina’s first communion left in her soul a hunger for the Eucharist that grew like a wonderful crescendo. “Jesus was mine and I was his.”

 

Jesus told her one day: “My Heart is overflowing with graces for souls, bring them to my Eucharistic Heart.” Dina had absolute trust in the riches of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus. This faith gave life to her prayer and gave her an absolutely special trait: she knew that she possessed Jesus and that she could “use” him to give him to souls. Where could we find an Offering that is more agreeable to the Father? Offering Jesus became for her an almost constant prayer: “Behold Jesus! The Infinite: I offer him to you through the Heart of the Immaculate Mary, through the flaming breath of your creative Spirit” (p. 232).

 

Praying with Dina is to understand that, through the Eucharist and grace, we possess the riches of the Infinite …; that we can offer the love of Jesus, his patience, kindness, prayer and mercy for the salvation of the world. It is to understand that if Dina Bélanger reached the summit of the Trinitarian spirituality, she entered there “through the open and glorious wound of the Heart of Jesus” in the Eucharist. At the end of her life, Dina lived days of great intimacy with the agonizing Christ.

 

 

 

An Apostolic Prayer

 

Dina, to whom illness came as early as the first days of her religious life, became an apostle through suffering in serene joy. Tuberculosis never managed to quench the “fire” that consumed her. “I would like ,” she said, “to travel throughout the world and consume it in the infinite flames of the Sacred Heart. Yet, I want to be an apostle according the Our Lord’s plans.” “… in heaven, I will be a little beggar for love: there is my mission and I am beginning it immediately.”

 

Lovingly, Dina worked with Jesus “to make souls happy.” Her apostolic dream merged with Jesus’ great desire: “I would like to consume the entire world in love. And according to Jesus’ plans, I will consume it.”

 

Praying with Dina is to meditate with her the words of Jesus: “You have there in my heart all you need to supplement abundantly all the failings and all the neglects.”

 

Dina prayed and offered Jesus for the entire world, for the priests, for the consecrated souls: “Eternal Father, through the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and your Spirit of love, I offer you the sacred Wounds of my Jesus … his precious Blood … his adorable Face … his Eucharistic Heart … his infinite Love … for the souls.”

 

Praying with Dina is “to love and let Jesus and Mary have their way.” It is to use the infinite riches of the Heart of Jesus in the Eucharist; it is to make his apostolic prayer our own.

Réjane Veilleux, R.J.M.

 

Testimony of Gratitude

 

On 1st February 2005, Madam Thérèse Richard was leaving us to meet her parents and friends in heaven. It was at her request that, on 19 April 1997, Blessed Dina was making her solemn entrance into the church Notre-Dame d’Hébertville. Since then, at Lac St-Jean, Dina has been multiplying favors and blessings to all the people who pray to her. Allow me to say a few words about the one who an element of distribution.

 

Madam Richard was always ready to help, to pass on her knowledge. It was a pleasure to work with her in the Movement of Christian Women (M.F.C.). We knew that we would always be well received, well listened to; moreover, her decision added weight to ours. Jovial, sociable and spiritual, she called us her “angels.”

 

Madam Richard, from now on, you will have a new mission in heaven. You will be our protecting angel and, with Dina, you will watch over your family and each of your friends.

 

And have no fear, my husband, Marcel, and myself, Raymonde, we will continue to make dear Blessed Dina known, loved and prayed.

Raymonde Fortin and Louise Richard, R.J.M.

 

Two New Auxiliary Bishops

in the Diocese of Quebec

 

Monsignor Pierre-André Fournier

 

Congratulations to Mgr. Pierre-André Fournier for the trust that has just been shown to him. This nomination in heart-warming to us. When Dina Bélanger was beatified, Monsignor was the pastor of the St-Roch parish of Quebec, Dina’s parish of birth. We are happy to consider him as a great friend of Blessed Dina.

 

In 1997, the year of the centenary of Dina’s death, this event was highlighted by a few activities. On 20 April, in our chapel, near Dina’s tomb, we had the joy of hearing Fr. Fournier in a conference entitled Les 4 A de Dina (The 4 A’s of Dina). He had chosen realities closely related to the spiritual life of our Blessed Dina.

 

You could easily identify Dina’s 4 A’s that had held his attention. Here they are:

 

Ardor, Annihilation, Abandonment, Act of thanksgiving

 

Monsignor Gilles Lemay

 

Congratulations as well to Mgr. Gilles Lemay, a bishop with a missionary heart, who has identified himself for at least 15 years with the diocesan mission of Paraguay, a most flourishing mission worthy of being mentioned.

 

He was particularly active in his pastoral work with the youth (14 - 25 years) and couples, notably through family movements. The direction of parishes is far from being alien to him.

 

Mgr. Lemay accompanied young seminarians, among whom some are already ordained and others are soon to be.

 

Cordial thanks to each of our new bishops.

 

Dina and the Internet

 

Since 29 November 2000, 41 issues of Dina is thinking of you as much in French as in English and Spanish, have been sent through the Internet.

 

People who have access to the Internet may receive, about once a month, a Dina is thinking of you. Words of love quoted from her Autobiography and words of comfort come to them regularly, all of them being linked with the liturgical season. They may be received very simply: use the address on the back of the Bulletin and express your wish. Here are a few reactions:

 

Greetings, Sister Réjane,

 

I appreciate your messages very much and I thank you for them. Today, I would like to ask you and your sisters to pray foe my cousin Danielle who had a serious car accident. She is in great pain, on a respirator. She is in danger of developing pneumonia. Please entrust her to Dina. Many thanks.

Sonya Poirier

 

Thank you for the Dina is thinking of you received at Christmas. I will read it again and share it, so true is its message for the holiday season. I am overjoyed at the thought that tomorrow, at the Eucharist, we will be part of your prayer intentions, and that this will be so every month … Indeed, Christmas is Love and that is what I wish you with all my heart.

Martine Therriault

 

 

Dina is thinking of you

41

 

Friends of Dina,

 

Are we not, at times, these disciples whom Jesus joined on the road to Emmaus, who are sad and morose because it is too difficult for us to recognize the Lord in events? Jesus then tells us:

“So you have not understood!”

 

It may also happen that Jesus makes us understand that he is closer to us than we thought. And the experience of a comforting word from Jesus makes us feel like saying, as the disciples did:

“Stay with us, Lord …” (Lk 24:29)

 

It was at the moment when Jesus took some bread, blessed and broke it and gave it to them that their eyes were opened … And they recognized him:

 

“Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road?”

(Lk 24:32)

 

Dina shared this secret of happiness with Jesus; she experienced it regularly:

 

“A soul cannot approach my Heart

without being happy,

because I am the Furnace of joy and happiness.”

(Jesus, 13 September 1928)

 

Indeed, we sometimes feel like Dina:

 

“One word from Jesus is light and joy!”

(Dina, 21 January 1928)

 

For Dina, as for the disciples of Emmaus, the moment of communion, of thanksgiving are often intense moments of loving intimacy, of light, consolations and often a beginning of conversion:

 

“This morning, during my thanksgiving,

after communion, my good Master enlightened me.

He has given me his Heart!”

(Dina, 29 March 1926)

 

“Ðuring my thanksgiving, he said to me, or rather his Sacred Heart said to me,

for when Jesus speaks,

it is always the voice of his Heart that I hear.”

(Dina, 22 April 1927)

 

In this year of the Eucharist, the sisters gather every day in prayer with greater fervor. For you and with you, they implore Dina.

 

Every first Saturday of the month, at the Eucharist, your intentions are presented on the altar, with Jesus’ perfect offering, who for all of us, asks for love and happiness.  What trust then!

 

Blessed Dina Bélanger and the Eucharist

 

 The Eucharist is the flame of her heart, her Sun, her inexhaustible Source, her daily Nourishment, the Spring of her joy and happiness, the Treasure of all the riches she “uses” for the happiness of all souls. Had not Jesus asked her:

 

“Work with me to make souls happy.”

 

 (Jesus, 15 September 1928)

 

“A single invocation of love draws down his favours.”

(Jesus, 6 August 1925)

 

“My Heart is overflowing with graces intended for souls.

Bring them to my Eucharistic Heart.”

(Jesus, 4 June 1928)

 

Her mission:

“In heaven, I shall be a little beggar for love:

that is my mission!”

(Dina, 4 August 1925)

 

Praying with Dina is to understand that in the Eucharist, we hold the riches of the Infinite.

 

The Eucharist is her treasure, her trust, her joy, her comfort, her unconditional means of exercising her apostolate:

                                               “Behold Jesus! The Infinite …”         (Dina, 21 June 1925)

 

Behold Jesus! Into his burning Heart, I plunge the universal world.”
(Dina, 21 June 1925)

Jesus had told her:

“Offer me to my Father …”

Is there a more beautiful gift?

 

“There in my Heart, you have always all you need

to make abundant amends for every failing

and every negligence.”

(Jesus to Dina, 16 March 1928)

“The Eucharist is heaven on earth, eternity …

“Jesus was mine and I was his.”

(Dina, 1907)

Dina Bélanger’s Eucharistic Life

 

Blessed Dina was always acknowledged as a Eucharistic soul, not only for her love of the Heart of Jesus in the Eucharist, but also for her spirit of praise, of self-giving, of sharing and thanksgiving that enlivened and filled her totally. This fundamental disposition dwelt in Dina from her earliest years. Her heart was predisposed to an exceptional intimacy with Christ in the Eucharist dwelling in our midst, the source and summit of all our life and that of the Church.

 

“On the following 25 March (1908), Holy Thursday,” she writes, “and also the feast of the Annunciation, Our Lord revealed himself to my soul by a new light during my thanksgiving after Communion. It was the first time that I had discerned his voice so clearly – interiorly, of course – a soft, melodious voice that filled me with happiness.”              

(From Ten to Twelve Years, p. 61).

 

“During my thanksgiving after Communion, a visit to the Blessed Sacrament or meditation, my divine Friend often enlightened me: ‘The Holy Eucharist brings heaven on earth …”                                                    (From Sixteen to Nineteen Years, pp. 76-77)

 

“It was usually in church that my sweet Mother chose to enlighten me. Friday, and especially the First Friday of the month when he was exposed in the monstrance, seemed to be his favourite days. Nevertheless, he did choose other times, too.”

(From Twenty-one to Twenty-four Years, p. 104)

 

“It was Jesus in the tabernacle who first taught me to meditate.”

(From Ten to Twelve Years, p. 58)

 

“Today … I am filled with his infinite tenderness, with his immense desire to give himself to souls as their food.”                                                         (13 April 1927, p. 292)

 

“How good Jesus is to give me, each morning, his adorable Host! I hunger for his Eucharistic Heart!”                                                                             (8 April 1926, p. 259)

 

“No invocation responds better to the immense desire of my Eucharistic Heart to reign in souls than:

“Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, may your kingdom come

through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”

 

And to my no less infinite desire to communicate my grace to souls than:

 

“Eucharistic heart of Jesus, burning with love for us,

inflame our hearts with love for you.”

(Jesus to Dina, July 1929)

 

“Jesus gave me as my guide and light: the Host and the Star. The Host was himself; the Star, his holy Mother.”                           (From Twenty-one to Twenty-four Years, p. 101)

 

“Each morning, during my thanksgiving after Communion, I would ask Jesus for my cross for that day.”                                                                           (The Noviciate, p. 121)

 

“Our Lord asked me to console his Heart desecrated in the Holy Eucharist […] Oh! How heart-rending are Jesus’ cries of pain!”                                  (The Noviciate, pp. 138, 139)

 

“My hunger for Holy Communion was increasing all the time. Is not a day without bread like a day without sunshine, like a day when evening is slow to come?”  

                                                (The Noviciate, p. 141)

 

“One day, again during my thanksgiving, Jesus asked me to remain continually in retreat in his Heart and accordingly to strive to be as recollected as possible …”

(The Noviciate, p. 141)

 

“So I abandoned myself completely to Our Lord’s plan. He began by depriving me of Holy Communion for ten days. Oh! Such an interminable fast!”   

 (October 1923, p. 154)

 

“On Thursday, I pay homage to the Eucharistic Heart of my Jesus, in particular.”

(2 September 1926)

 

“At the moment of my Communion, Our Lord let me share in ‘the intimate union of his Heart with his divine Father’.”                                                                 (20 January 1927)

 

“The Eucharistic Heart in the Host draws me more and more.”                    (11 June 1926)

 

A 1st Anniversary

 

On 19 April 2004, at 23:20, in a state of drowsiness, I heard, for the first time, a voice that would project me into the fullness of a love hitherto unknown, a sublime love, perhaps, a mystical one:

“Our Lord loves to call me: my little self.”

Perplexed, intrigued, I was filled with an indescribable wellbeing. In a short time, I was letting my whole person become fascinated by “Jesus’ little self.” I was captivated, conquered, projected into an inebriating loving sublimation. An intrinsic power took root and bore me to the total abandonment of all human distraction.

 

Alone, isolated, loving dispositions absorbed me. I was living only to feel love. I was benefiting from the grace akin to the “flight of the spirit”: my spirit had been detached from its human incarnation.

 

For six months already, the Father was molding me by the gift of his Son. I was under the hold of the loving redemption. For the first time, I had felt challenged and worthy of being loved. Love was becoming accessible to me. How many detours, how many moments of giddiness, to the extent of losing myself, to come to terms with the unforgettable: a violently inculcated dysfunction. I was moving from self-esteem to the esteem of  Self. I was taming my “shadow.”

 

Behold, God was deciding to polish my affective reconciliation through the mediation of the virtuoso Dina Bélanger. Learning to dispose myself only to live to please and feel my Beloved, I rose above our human condition to make her more approachable. From this state, Dina made me taste a few celestial delights …

 

God is love. I experienced this. I want to love from this, express it again and again to all those who would still ignore this: your Creator is waiting for you.

 

For 6 months, I have been living in a brotherhood. I have undertaken courses in theology. I am involved in several pastoral activities. With Dina, I try to work to make souls happy. I must deal with the unimaginable … of a short time ago.

 

Dina, “the little beggar for love” fulfills me. She is the “little self” of Christ. I cherish her with my whole being.

 

What fulfillment, I have been feeling for a year! How many graces received! Thank you, my God.

Yvon Bergeron

Correspondence

 

A Love Story with Dina in Beauce County

 

I am summing up this most beautiful testimony that I received in the beginning of

February 2005.

 

Johanne is in her thirties; she is the mother of two children. The physician has diagnosed her with a very rare disease that attacks the spinal cord and that has already affected her kidneys. During the Christmas holidays, Johanne was supposed to be hospitalized for chemotherapy and a marrow transplant.

 

By chance, I met Johanne in a grocery store and I felt challenged! After speaking with her I had a certitude, an idea that was most evident. For since you sent me a relic of Dina, I always have it with me. As for myself, in each of my treatments, I would hold it in the hollow of my right hand that I would close over it. I knew or rather I felt a warmth that overcame me. It gave me strength and courage! I had explained to her what Dina had given me and handed the relic to her in her hand, telling her to take it along in each of her treatments; that I would be with her and that Dina as well would be there with all her kindliness.

 

 

This week (beginning of February), Johanne’s father called me. He was most excited and happy … Johanne’s treatments were going well and, on the most crucial day, she saw the number of white corpuscles increasing. He told me that Johanne had been holding Dina’s relic preciously in her hand … and faced all trials with strength in Dina’s company.

 

I am very touched and happy with this transmission of energy that you were kind enough to transfer with Dina when I went through my own difficulties. I am grateful to you and to Blessed Dina for myself and for Johanne.

Lucie, St-Nicolas

The Rainbow Reappears

 

After a full year of being in and out of the hospital, of having undergone a major heart surgery and one in the spinal column with all kinds of complications from 3 November 2003 to 3 November 2004, here the rainbow is reappearing!

 

Thank you, Lord, for having preserved our lives to love and better serve the men and women around us.

 

To all of you who are registered in the club of human solidarity, kindly believe that our thanks addressed to you come from the bottom of our hearts. We want to tell you the extent to which we have appreciated the support you showed us through visits, telephone calls, wishes, messages of health recovery, encouragement in the struggle for life, prayers and souvenirs of all kinds that are testimonies of friendship and appreciation.

 

Yes, we have touched death and we went down to “the lowest ebb of the wave.” An act of thanksgiving to the Master of life and thanks to all the men and women who came to our help.

 

Thanks to the Lord, to Blessed Dina, to all those who took part in the generous crusade of prayer and support.

Thérèse and Jean-Marie Michaud, Ste-Foy

 

Blessed Dina protects us at all times. I always have her on me. I need her at every moment of my life. She is always by my side, she gives me the necessary strength. I owe her so many “little miracles” that she grants me. Thank you, Dina, for watching over us. She takes care of my brothers Georges and Alain, and of Marc, my husband. The trust I place in her is my support.                        Claire D., Beauport

 

Gratitude to Dina

 

Thanks to the many persons who took part in the spreading of Blessed Dina’s influence and made the “Dina Newsletter” possible.

 

How I find the “Dina Newsletter” interesting. And, I think, that the last one outdid all the others. Yes, a big thank you. I am sending a donation to help spreading Blessed Dina’s influence.

Sister Michaud

 

 

Dear Sisters,

Included is a donation to spread the love that this dear Dina can pour in the entire world. Be assured that I do not fail to invoke her, she who knows how to respond to my requests.

Madam Marguerite

 

Greetings to all the men and women friends of Dina,

 

Thank you for the last issue of the Dina Newsletter. It is always a pleasure for me to read the testimonies of Dina’s friends! It is like a family reunion! With undoubtedly much delay, I am learning the meaning of prayer. Dina helps me to pray, to journey in total trust, to face my problems. Dina’s thoughts urge me to entrust my worries to God. She is way ahead of us in her way of speaking to this good God whom she loved so much. I adopt her as a guide. Journeying with her is something worth doing. I bring her with me every day. She is my front-rank leader! Thank you for associating me with all of you and I ask you to place on her tomb my thanks and all my intentions! I am sending a small amount for Dina’s cause.

Robert Décary, St-Hyacinthe

 

Dina and the Internet (continued)

 

Many thanks for the faithful “Dina is thinking of you.” The last one will help me to live this year of the Eucharist more intensely. I entrust to Dina my brother-in-law who is hospitalized … with no hope of recovery.

Anita, Dina’s second cousin

 

Dear Sisters,

 

We appreciated our stay with you very much. Your hospitality was most warm-hearted. It is good to set aside our daily routine and refresh our ideas.

 

The mass brought peace to us, and your kind words and those of the chaplain comforted us. As for me, I feel that Sister Dina is helping us to deal with this event.

 

Thank you for your precious support and warm greetings to your companions.

Francine Leblanc-Simard

 

Greetings,

 

Thank you for this thought from Dina that inclines one to reflection. I printed it and I also sent it to a friend, Carole, who loves Dina. Last week, the words: “Behold Jesus!” arose in my heart. I thank Dina for this.

 

If you please, at the time of the Eucharist of the first Saturday of the month, could you present this intention at the altar with Jesus’ perfect offering? I trust that on Easter, the sun will shine. Alleluia!

 

May God bless you.

Colette

 

A big thank you for this beautiful Dina is thinking of you. I believe your prayers have borne fruit … I have now almost reached my time and our little Guillaume should be born soon. His weight, at this time, is estimated to be about 6lb. 2 oz., something that augurs well. He seems to be well. As soon as he is born, I will wend you a photo of this little angel.

Julie, Martin … and Guillaume soon.

 

A Reminder

 

With Dina on a Way of Trust

 

To help you pray to Dina, a booklet of prayers, of novenas and litanies to Blessed Dina is on sale at the Dina-Bélanger Centre for $3.50 per copy.

 

The Chaplet to Dina Bélanger

 

During an illness in November  2003, Madam Rachel M. Gosselin, a great friend of Dina, composed a chaplet to Blessed Dina in whom she was placing all her trust. Our sick lady recovered her health and a chaplet took shape. Several of Dina’s friends are using it already. This urged us to ask the diocese of Quebec for the Nihil Obstat that is, for the approval of the chaplet. This was done and signed by Fr. Jean Pelletier, priest, p.h. chancellor, and countersigned by Mgr. Jean-Pierre Blais, auxiliary bishop of Quebec.

 

This chaplet, beautifully mounted on a chain, with transparent beads, a medal of Blessed Dina and a pretty cross gives it a nice appearance.

 

This chaplet is available at the Dina-Bälanger Centre at the cost of $6.00.

 

The persons who will ask for it will, of course, receive the method of using it:

 

It is a sequence of

            Glory be to the Father,

            Ave Maria,

Our Father,

and invocations:

 

O wonderful Dina,

Pray for us,

hear us,

protect those we love, Thank you for having heard our prayer.

 

150th Anniversary of the Arrival of the

Religious of Jesus and Mary in Canada

 

Dina Bélanger, a well-known musician, was received in the Congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary, of French origin, on 11 August 1921.

 

Member of a teaching Congregation, Dina realized she was given a particular task by the Lord, an enigmatic one for her:

“You will do good through your writings.”

 

Her Autobiography, entitled Canticle of Thanksgiving or Song of Love, written out of obedience to her superiors, reveal all the quality of her spiritual life.

 

A mystical artist, passionately fond of the Eucharist, Dina died on 4 September 1929, after 6 years of illness, from tuberculosis. She was only 32 years old. The fidelity to her mission of “ a little beggar for love” led to her beatification by His Holiness John Paul II at Rome, on 20 March 1993. He then presented her as a model of love, abandonment, fidelity and joy even in suffering.

 

Dina Bélanger is a star for us, a gift from heaven,

an unconditional support for the ill,

an ideal for artists,

 a model of fidelity.

 

What a grace for the Congregation and for all of us!

 

Dina Bélanger – Le Courage d’aimer

 

A CD, the life of Dina in song

 

Le Courage d’aimer (The courage to Love), 20 magnificent songs,

in the most varied and attractive musical styles,

adapted to the life of Dina.

 

This CD, Le Courage d’aimer

will be launched on 21 March, on the day of the JMJ,

 under the honorable chairmanship of

His Eminence Cardinal Marc Ouellet.

 

On Sunday, 22 May, there will be another launching

at 19:30, in the Dina-Bélanger Hall,

 2047, chemin St-Louis, Sillery.

 

Is not Dina, the first Blessed born at Quebec,

a blessed soul of the Eucharist,

totally designated to greet

the participants at

the Eucharistic Congress of 2008?

 

Dina Bélanger, an unavoidable emissary

 for the Eucharistic Congress of 2008,

at Quebec, her native city.

 

On next 30 April,

Happy birthday, Dina! As a gift here is …

 

 

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