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 St.
RITA
- Feastday: May 22
- Patroness of
Impossible Cases
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St. Rita
was born at Spoleto, Italy in 1381. At an early age, she
begged her parents to allow her to enter a convent. Instead, they
arranged a marriage for her. Rita became a good wife and mother,
but her husband was a man of violent temper. In anger, he often
mistreated his wife. He taught their children his own evil ways.
Rita tried to perform her duties faithfully and to pray and
receive the sacraments frequently. After nearly twenty years of
marriage, her husband was stabbed by an enemy but before he died,
he repented because Rita prayed for him. Shortly afterwards, her
two sons died, and Rita was alone in the world. Prayer, fasting,
penances of many kinds, and good works filled her days. She was
admitted to the convent of the Augustinian nuns at Cascia in
Umbria, and began a life of perfect obedience and great charity.
Sister Rita had a great devotion to the Passion of Christ.
"Please let me suffer like you, Divine Saviour," she said one day,
and suddenly one of the thorns from the crucifix struck her on the
forehead. It left a deep wound which did not heal and which caused
her much suffering for the rest of her life. She died on May 22,
1457. She is the patroness of impossible cases. Her feast day is
May 22.
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- Church in
Italy Urges Pilgrimages to the Holy Land
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ROME, MAY 1, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The
Italian bishops' conference appealed to ecclesial communities to
renew pilgrimages to the Holy Places, and urged businessmen,
artisans and labor unions to initiate programs of cooperation with
Christians there. Bishop Giuseppe Betori, secretary-general of
the Episcopal conference, made the appeals at the conclusion of
the Italian prelates' pilgrimage of solidarity to the Holy Land, from April 22-25.
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Over the past five years, the
Italian bishops' conference has allocated almost 5 million euros
($5.5 million) to fund programs of assistance, education and
formation in the Holy Land. The money came from a 0.8% income tax that Italians may allocate to
the Catholic Church. The prelates extended an invitation "to
pilgrims, whom the war has kept away, to return to the
land of Jesus" and "in this way
support the local Christians, who are faced with a thousand
difficulties," Bishop Betori said.
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At the end of the closing Mass in
the Basilica of Gethsemane, concelebrated by Latin-rite Patriarch
Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem and the Italian bishops, the conference
secretary-general said that the situation in the Holy Land has
been normalized. He suggested: "It would be desirable that all
dioceses organize a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the forthcoming months. ... Christians of the
Holy Land represent all of us; we cannot leave them alone." "Thank you for coming
to pray with us for
Jerusalem," said Patriarch Sabbah during his homily. "We support
you with our prayer, because the mother Church of Jerusalem prays for all the
Churches of the world."
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