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  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 ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 22 May WELCOME! SAINT RITA OF CASCIA, WIDOW ➡️ Saint Rita and the Sacred Heart of Jesus Rita Lotti was born to elderly parents near Cascia, in the Italian region of Umbria, around 1381. She wanted to join the convent and become a nun, but instead obeyed her parents and got married. Her marriage was a difficult one and her husband was eventually killed in a vendetta.  A PEACEMAKER When her sons planned to avenge their father, Rita prayed that they wouldn’t commit murder, even if it meant they die first. Both of them died from illness soon afterwards. Rita then tried to enter the convent, but the community was reluctant to take her. She did not give up, and waited for God to make it possible. In the meantime, she brokered peace between her husband’s family and that of his murderer, thus ending the vendetta. Finally, she was accepted into the convent. THE WOUND ON HER FOREHEAD One day, when she was praying for a share in Chr...