![]() ![]() One of which was in favour of a mother of a sick child who could not be healed through medical science. While in the convent, Rita realized many miracles through her prayerful intercession. – A prayerful Rita challenges/difficulties in the convent pilgrimage to Rome Saint Rita, so humble, so pure, so mortified, so patient and of compassionate love for thy Crucified Jesus that thou couldst obtain from him whatsoever thou askest, on account of which all confidently have recourse to thee, expecting, if not always relief, at least comfort be propitious to our petition, showing thy power with God on behalf of thy suppliant be lavish to us, as thou hast been in so many wonderful cases, for the greater glory of God, for the spreading of thine own devotion, and for the consolation of those who trust in thee. O Holy Patroness of those in need, Saint Rita, whose pleadings before thy Divine Lord are almost irresistible, who for thy lavishness in granting favours hast been called the Advocate of the hopeless and even of the Impossible. ![]() Through Rita’s prayer and life-long pain. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. On .uk you will find Saint Rita statues, of different sizes and price ranges.V. The countless miracles meant that in Saint Rita was also attributed the nickname “ Saint of the Impossible“. The rose became the symbol of Saint Rita, which flourished in the sunshine of Christ despite a life full of thorns, to melt the winter ice from the hearts of men. Although it was winter, the woman went to the garden and found a beautiful rose flowering, which she immediately brought to the nun. She is also known as the Saint of the “Rose”: shortly before her death, she asked a relative to bring her a rose from her father’s garden. Saint Rita brought that painful wound as a mark of love until death.įor that Saint Rita is also known as the Saint of the “Thorn”. Jesus listened and Saint Rita was pierced in the forehead from one of the thorns in the crown wore by Christ on the cross. Saint Rita of Cascia, animated by the infinite love for Jesus, asked him to share his Passion. They were years of suffering in which the nun imposed herself a hair shirt, isolation, and endless mortifications of the flesh. Left alone, Saint Rita entered the convent, where she lived 40 years in contemplation, penance and prayer. Put aside her grief and desire for revenge, Saint Rita of Cascia immersed herself in prayer, asking with assiduity and zeal to God’s forgiveness of the murderers of her husband. ![]() Widowed, Saint Rita devoted herself to a single purpose: to end the feud between families that had led to the murder of her husband. In fact, Saint Rita of Cascia was for many years an ordinary woman, a wife, a mother, and this makes it more akin to common people than many other men and women sanctified over the centuries. ![]() People have always felt very close to her, because of her life before taking monastic vows. Saint Rita is the subject of an extraordinary popular devotion, and is certainly one of the most loved saints. Born in Cascia (PG), was beatified 180 years after her death and proclaimed Saint after 453 years. Saint Rita of Cascia was an Augustinian nun who lived in 1400. ![]()
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