Living Without School: St Rita

Saturday, May 26, 2007

St Rita

It was the feast day of St Rita last week, May 22.

I have a special intention for this week wrt medical tests and surgery on Friday, and am asking St Rita for her intercession. Perhaps you'll join me in prayer? Thank you!

10 comments:

Anonymous said...: I will definatly keep you in my prayers Leonie, hope the tests come back ok.
Love
Kristine; 11:33 pm
Leonie said...: Thanks, Kristine!; 8:42 am
Mary G said...: I will be most happy to pray to St. Rita also ... I had a Sr. Rita in high school and always think of her when St. Rita comes up ...

Blessings, hugs and prayers ....; 8:47 am
Leonie said...: Thanks Mary - and interesting to hear about Sr. Rita. :-); 4:21 pm
Anne (aussieannie) said...: St Rita is such a great saint, if I can find some of the leaves from the tree such 'watered back to life' would you like me to post some for you? (they come from the monastery she lived in) and the miraculous tree is still alive and thriving today, supplying grapes for liturgical wine and leaves for the healing of the sick...; 8:42 pm
Leonie said...: That'd be great, Anne!Thank you...; 9:56 pm
Anonymous said...: St Rita is literally down the road from Assisi, so I'll give her a yell from here for your special intentions (which I have also prayed at the Tomb of St Francis for)... God bless; 5:16 am
Leonie said...: Very cool, thank you, Fr.

I have also been looking at the pics of the General Chapter - lovely!; 8:43 am
Ladybug Mommy Maria said...: You bet, Leonie!; 1:54 pm
Leonie said...: Thanks, Maria!; 2:27 pm

Prayer of Consecration of St. Maximilian Kolbe

O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our most loving Mother, God has willed to entrust the entire order of mercy to thee. I, N___, a repentant sinner, cast myself at thy feet humbly imploring thee to take me with all that I am and have, wholly to thyself as thy possession and property. Please make of me, of all my powers of soul and body, of my whole life, death and eternity, whatever most pleases thee. If it pleases thee, use all that I am and have without reserve, wholly to accomplish what was said of thee: "She will crush your head," and, "Thou alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole world."

Let me be a fit instrument in thine Immaculate and merciful hands for introducing and increasing the maximum in all the many strayed and indifferent souls, and thus help extend as far as possible the blessed Kingdom of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus. For wherever thou enters, one obtains the grace of conversion and growth in holiness, since it is through thy hands that all graces come to us from the most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

V. Allow me to praise thee O Sacred Virgin.
R. Give me strength against thy enemies.

Prayer of St Bonaventure

Pierce, O most Sweet Lord Jesus, my inmost soul with the most joyous and healthful wound of Thy love, with true, serene, and most holy apostolic charity, that my soul may ever languish and melt with love and longing for Thee, that it may yearn for Thee and faint for Thy courts, and long to be dissolved and to be with Thee.Grant that my soul may hunger after Thee, the bread of angels, the refreshment of holy souls, our daily and supersubstantial bread, having all sweetness and savor and every delight of taste; let my heart ever hunger after and feed upon Thee, upon whom the angels desire to look, and may my inmost soul be filled with the sweetness of Thy savor; may it ever thirst after Thee, the fountain of life, the fountain of wisdom and knowledge, the fountain of eternal light, the torrent of pleasure, the richness of the house of God.May it ever compass Thee, seek Thee, find Thee, run to Thee, attain Thee, meditate upon Thee, speak of Thee, and do all things to the praise and glory of Thy name, with humility and discretion, with love and delight, with ease and affection, and with perseverance unto the end.May Thou alone be ever my hope, my entire assurance, my riches, my delight, my pleasure, my joy, my rest and tranquility, my peace, my sweetness, my fragrance, my sweet savor, my food, my refreshment, my refuge, my help, my wisdom, my portion, my possession and my treasure, in whom may my mind and my heart be fixed and firmly rooted immovably henceforth and for ever. Amen.