BL. PAULINE-MARIE JARICOT - 9 JANUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY

Saints celebrated on the 9th of January

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BLESSED PAULINE-MARIE JARICOT

She was the foundress of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith and the Association of the Living Rosary, born at Lyons, July 22, 1799; died there, January 9, 1862.

SELF-SACRIFICE

At the age of seventeen she began to lead a life of unusual abnegation and self-sacrifice, and on Christmas Day, 1816, took a vow perpetual virginity. 

PRAYERS OF REPARATION

In order to repair the sins of neglect and ingratitude committed against the Sacred Heart of Jesus, she established a union of prayer among pious servant girls, the members of which were known as the 

"Reparatrices du Sacre-Coeur de Jesus-Christ". 

TRANSFORMATION 

During an extended visit to her married sister at Saint-Vallier (Drome), she succeeded in effecting a complete transformation in the licentious lives of the numerous girls employed by her brother-in-law. 

OFFERINGS FOR THE FOREIGN MISSIONS

It was among them and the "Reparatrices" that she first solicited offerings for the foreign missions. Her systematic organisation of such collections dates back to 1819 when she asked each of her intimate friends to act as a promoter by finding ten associates willing to contribute one cent of a week to the propagation of the Faith. One out of every ten promoters gathered the collections of their fellow-promoters ; through a logical extention of this system, all the offerings were ultimately remitted to one central treasurer. 

The Society for the Propagation of Faith at its official foundation (May 3, 1822) adopted this method, and easily triumphed over the opposition which had sought from the very start to thwart the realisation of Pauline Jaricot's plans. 

THE ASSOCIATION OF THE LIVING ROSARY

In 1826 she founded the Association of the Living Rosary. The fifteen decades of the Rosary were divided among fifteen associates, each of whom had to recite daily only one determined decade. 

THE SPREAD OF GOOD BOOKS

A second object of the new foundation was the spread of good books and articles of piety. 

An undertaking of Pauline's in the interest of social reform, though begun with prudence, involved her in considerable financial difficulties and ended in failure. 

From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Blessed Pauline may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.