11/8/2023 0 Comments St rita prayer book![]() ![]() This last section includes Morning and Evening Prayers, Devotions for Confession and Communion, the Way of the Cross, the Rosary, the Seven Penitential Psalms, Litanies of the Most Holy Name, the Blessed Virgin, the Saints, the Sacred Heart and St. Rita, and the third provides general prayers and devotions. Rita and her canonization, the second contains prayers and devotions to St. It is divided into three sections - the first treats the life of St. ![]() Following her sainting in 1900 there was a steady trickle of works about her that appeared in print.This prayer book in hardback in the first edition from Benziger Brothers in 1915 is a lovely example of these publications. Known as the Patroness of Impossible Causes, her feast day is 22 May. Rita of Cascia (1381-1457) was an Italian Augustinian Nun beatified by Pope Urban XIII in 1626 and canonized in 1900 by Pope Leo XIII. McGrathImprimi Potest + Remigius LaFort Librorum Censor Archdiocese of New York New York, NY: Benziger Brothers, Inc., 1915.302 pp.Measures 3.5'' x 5.25''Weight 7 oz.St. Prayers And Devotions With The Story Of Her Fr. And sometimes-more often than I would expect-I discover the impossible wasn’t impossible after all.Vintage Catholic Prayer BookLittle Manual Of St. Asking someone else to join me in prayer-whether on earth or in heaven-always helps me feel better about the road ahead. Rita the most is when life hands you a situation that seems to have no solution in sight. Maybe she enjoys the little league-related requests mixed in with the heavy, impossible life-changing ones.īut where I like to turn to St. I don’t care whether the team wins or loses, but I want my son to feel good about himself on the field. So, although I normally don’t turn to her for small requests, I have to admit that there are times I’ve turned to her while I’m sitting on the bleachers, hoping my son would make it through a difficult at bat. Rita is also considered to be the patron saint of baseball. Now, to a lesser extent, and in a much less formal way, St. After all, nothing is impossible for God. That’s when you might think of asking St. But it’s at times like that when we can reach out to friends and ask them to pray. When we are struggling with an unfixable situation, we can feel overwhelmed and defeated. I think of that often, especially this time of year, as we celebrate St. Rita had been asking Jesus to do his best. And bit by bit, the waves parted, doors opened, dots connected, and there was the answer. ![]() And she has been a faithful friend in precarious times.ĭuring some of the most difficult days of the pandemic, I asked her to intercede on a specific issue-one that seemed to have no solution. I feel like complicated messes are something St. After they died and she was left alone, she entered religious life. She had a difficult marriage and two sons who wanted to avenge their father’s murder. Saints are our friends and intercessors, and we can ask for their assistance whenever we want. There are times when it feels like she might be just the right heavenly friend to ask for help. Rita happens to be the patron saint of the impossible. That’s when I know that it’s time to take it to prayer-and it might be time to ask my patron saint for help. I look at it from every angle and see no way through. But every now and then, I come up against a problem that simply can’t be solved. Rita to intercede for me on ordinary problems. ![]()
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