Skip to main content

ST RITA OF CASCIA AND THE SACRED HEART

 

WELCOME!

SAINT RITA OF CASCIA AND THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS


⬅️ More information about Saint Rita

WHEN SHE WAS A BABY, BEES WERE CIRCLING HER COT – ST RITA WAS NO ORDINARY CHILD!

A holy child was born Cascia, a small town in Umbria. When she was in her cradle bees circled her cot, showing that she was no ordinary child. She soon heard in her heart the voice of the loving Heart of Jesus that called her to Him, to solitude and to prayer.

As an innocent young girl of twelve she felt abhorrence for the world, and she offered to the Heart of Jesus her perpetual virginity, but she had to obey the will of her parents and they married her to a man that turned out to be brutal. She became the mother of two children and gave them a pious Christian upbringing.

FORGIVENESS

Her husband meanwhile, ferocious and uncontrollable, treated her badly in a thousand different ways, making her patient as a martyr. After eighteen years of marriage, her husband was treacherously slain, and her sons swore to avenge their murdered father. She not only prayed for the murderer, but tried to bring her children round to forgiving him.

Seeing they would not listen to her, she told the Lord she would rather see them dead than guilty of such a crime. And so, they fell ill, and with her company and help, died a holy death.

SHE JOINED THE AUGUSTINIAN ORDER

She was then free, and joined the Augustinian Order, living a life of austere penitence and high contemplation. She often contemplated the passion of Christ, with floods of tears, and once a thorn from the head of the crucified One wounded her head, giving her a painful hurt that she carried all her life. She was the perfect imitator of the divine Heart and she received many celestial graces from it. She died a holy death and after four centuries, her body was still found to be incorrupt. She is St Rita of Cascia, called the saint of the impossible because of the prodigious things she did.

Mons. Nicola Tafuri, Month of the Sacred Heart




Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

WELCOME

  Please pick your saints: January - Saints by date  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17   18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29    30    31   February - Saints by date  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17 18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29 ...
Post a Comment
Read more

BL. LUKE KIRBY, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 30 MAY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! BLESSED LUKE KIRBY, PRIEST AND MARTYR 16th century houses, painted by Auguste Mayer He was born in the bishopric of Durham, according to Raissius ; others say at Richmond, in Yorkshire. He was master of arts in one of our universities; but going abroad to Douay, in Flanders, was received into the English college there, 1576, and made priest in 1577; and the year following sent upon the mission. Where he had not been long before he again went abroad, and travelled to Rome, partly for devotion, and partly for further improvement in learning. Here he remained in the English college till 1580, when he returned into England, and was not long after apprehended: for I find by a printed diary of things transacted in the Tower of London from 1580 till 1585, that on the 5th of December, 1580, Luke Kirby, Thomas Cottam , and other priests, were brought to the Tower from other prisons; and that these two, on the 10th...
Post a Comment
Read more

BL. RICHARD NEWPORT, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 30 MAY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! BLESSED RICHARD NEWPORT, PRIEST AND MARTYR Richard Newport, alias Smith , was born in Northamptonshire and performed his studies abroad, partly in the college of Rheims (if he be the Richard Smith whom I find in the Douay diary sent to Rome in 1586) and partly in that of Rome, where he was made priest. From thence he was sent upon the English mission, and behaved himself in such a manner as justly to acquire the character of a laborious missionary; being withal remarkably successful in bringing home many strayed sheep to the fold of Christ, to which his apostolical way of living did not a little contribute.  He was several times apprehended and cast into prison, and twice banished. His name occurs amongst those who were transported in 1606; at which time, we are told, he took that opportunity of making a pilgrimage to Rome, there to pour forth his prayers at the tombs of the apostles, in behalf of thi...
Post a Comment
Read more