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Of a widow when all she had was gone, except her faith. Saccharine emotion of a plaster saint, but the lonely, if accepting, emptiness Seen, when it cost her the greatest pain and heartbreak. Possibly, this was the time when Rita’s holiness was most clearly The world with only her faith and her trust in God to keep her going. Rita, the widow now had no family she was alone in Her two sons diedĮpidemics so common at the time, rather than through the violence that had been Struck again, and a strange answer to her prayers. But vengeance was not in her heart, however normal it might have seemed at the time. Rita felt all the loss and loneliness of her bereavement. She worried particularly for her sons and both their With two young sons, in circumstances where vengeance and further bloodshed

One evening, as he returned to hisįamily in Roccaporena, he was stabbed and killed. Paul Mancini was involved in some way in the unrest, possibly as a

#ST RITA NOVENA FULL#

A Pope at a slightly laterĭate is quoted as saying “Cascia is a place full of factions and vendetta”

Ghibellines that then divided much of Italy. Political and civil unrest, particularly the constant rivalry between Guelphs and The Cascia area was frequently the scene of feuds and factionįights, vendettas between families that lasted years or even generations, While they enjoyed a reasonably happy, if hard, family life. Two sons were born to Paul and Rita and for a Patience with a wild and cruel husband may have grown in the telling without No doubt, Rita was aĭutiful and loving wife, though the accounts of her saintly forbearance and “Umbria, a region that has given many popular saints to theĬhurch, including Francis and Clare of Assisi, as well as Rita of Cascia, wasĪlso at the time a region of poverty, earthquakes and natural disasters it wasĪlso prone to constant violence and civil unrest where the law of the vendetta,Īs was normal at the time, Rita’s parents arranged her marriage toĪ young man of the locality named Paul Mancini. Her elderly parents, Antonio and Amata Lotti, christened their only child Margherita, Rita in its familiar form. Rita was born about 1381 in the village of Roccaporena, near Cascia, a significant city in the mountainous area of Umbria in central Italy. Widowhood, to the Religious Life of an enclosed Augustinian nun. Part of Rita’s attraction is probably the fact that, during a hardĪnd difficult life, she lived through just about all states of life anyĬhristian woman can experience – from girlhood, through married life and She hasīecome known as the Advocate of the Helpless, even the Saint of Hopeless Cases. Septenary to Saint Nicholas of Tolentineīy far, the best known and best loved of the Augustinian saints.Novena to Saint Monica and Saint Augustine.Tolentine's Septenary Mass for the Dead.Novena prayer to Our Lady of Consolation.VIDEO: Pilgrimage to Cascia (Mgr Daniel McHugh).Hymn to Saint Rita II: Glorious name our own Saint Rita.Hymn to Saint Rita I: Come Virgins chaste.Sean Flannery OAR (Golden Jubilee of Priesthood) Augustinian Recollect Secular Fraternity.

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