{"id":108591,"date":"2024-05-22T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=108591"},"modified":"2024-05-22T13:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:59:38","slug":"saint-rita-the-wounded-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/saint-rita-the-wounded-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Rita the Wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

S<\/span>aint Rita, whose feast is today, is sometimes known as the patron saint of lost and impossible causes. Married at a young age against her will to a terrible, abusive husband, by her prayers she gradually reformed him into a proper Christian husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After his murder, she entered the convent.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Saint<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This wounded saint<\/a> received the marks of Christ’s thorny wounds upon her forehead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years I have been personally associated with two institutions bearing her name. In those two places, I have experienced the best and the worst of people in the Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Saint Rita High School<\/a>, there were teachers who taught me how to think, who pointed me towards a life-long love of literature and history, who honed my curiosity and who helped build what strength of character I have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, there were others who drove me away from considering the Catholic Church or even taking her beliefs seriously. My freshman moral Theology teache<\/a>r sexually abused some of my classmates and was later thrown out of the Augustinian Order and (eventually) stripped of ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Devil prowls through Catholic Schools, because their mission is to form the men and women who will fight him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirty years later, having in the interim finally fallen in love with Christ and entered His Church, I landed at Saint Rita Parish with my beautiful bride Francine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pastor<\/a> was a truly holy man, and he challenged his people to holiness. He pulled no punches in his homilies. He taught the Catechism. There was a minimum of nonsense in the parish liturgy. He led his people by example in the works of mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the people of the parish were likewise good and faithful Catholics. There are many who I remember with love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That parish, as well as another parish<\/a> we joined later, was abolished and its territory joined to that of the new Saint John XXIII parish<\/a>. There are a multitude of lost and impossible causes. Pray for the intercession of Saint Rita.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Shrine of Saint Rita, Chicago<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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B<\/span>estow on us, we pray, O Lord,<\/em>
the wisdom and strength of the Cross,<\/em>
with which you were pleased to endow Saint Rita,<\/em>
so that, suffering in every tribulation with Christ,<\/em>
we may participate ever more deeply in His Paschal Mystery.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,<\/em>
God, for ever and ever.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saint Rita, whose feast is today, is sometimes known as the patron saint of lost and impossible causes. Married at a young age against her will to a terrible, abusive husband, by her prayers she gradually reformed him into a proper Christian husband. After his murder, she entered the convent. 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