Archive for April, 2020
Novena to St. Zita of Lucca
You toiled in the Fatinelli household. Help us to give value to housework and the routine tasks of life. Intercede for us so that we can look after other’s needs with serenity and joy. Beloved St Zita, you said, “A servant is not holy if she is not working. Work-shy piety in people of our […]
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Prayers to St. Zita of Lucca
Prayer to St. Zita of Lucca Dear follower of the Son of God, You desired to become a servantAnd died the death of a slave. You were not only a faithful maid-servant. But a practical lover of the poor. Like Mary You could have said: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord.” Prompt domestics to be […]
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St. Zita of Lucca
Born: 1218 at Bozzanello, Monte Sagrate, Tuscany, Italy Died: 27 April 1272 at Lucca, Italy of natural causes, buried in the church of San Frediano in Lucca• her tomb was re-discovered in 1580 Beatified: 1652 by Pope Innocent X, during the recognition proceedings, her remains were found to be incorrupt Canonized: the office in her […]
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Daily Reflection 27.04.2020
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Prayer of St. Paschasius Radbertus
Marian Prayer of St. Paschasius RadbertusDeign, O Immaculate Virgin, Mother most pure, to accept the loving cry of praise which we send up to you from the depths of our hearts. Though they can but add little to your glory, O Queen of Angels, you do not despise, in your love, the praises of the […]
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St. Paschasius Radbertus
Born: c.790 at Soissons, France Died: c.860 of natural causes, buried in the church of Saint John at Corbie Abbey, relics re-interred at Saint Peter’s church at Corbie on 12 July 1073 Feast: 26 April Benedictine theologian and abbot. Paschasius was left as an infant upon the door of Notre Dame convent in Soissons, France, […]
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St. Cletus
Born: Greek Papal Ascension: 76 Died: c.89, relics in Saint Linus Church, Vatican City Feast: 26 April St. Cletus was the third bishop of Rome, and succeeded St. Linus, which circumstance alone shows his eminent virtue among the first disciples of St. Peter in the West. He sat twelve years, from 76 to 89. The […]
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Daily Reflection 26.04.2020
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St. Pedro de San José Betancur
Born: March 21, 1626 Vilaflor, Tenerife, Spanish Empire Died: April 25, 1667 Antigua Guatemala, Captaincy General of Guatemala, Spanish Empire Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church (Canary Islands & Guatemala) Beatified: June 22, 1980, St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Canonized: July 30, 2002, Guatemala City, Guatemala by Pope John Paul II […]
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Bl. José Trinidad Rangel y Montaño
Born: 4 June 1887 in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Mexico Died: shot on 25 April 1927 in Rancho de San Joaquín, Jalisco, Mexico Venerated: 22 June 2004 by Pope John Paul II Beatified: 20 November 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI recognition celebrated by Cardinal Saraiva Martins in Guadalajara, Mexico Feast day: 25 April Parish priest in […]
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