Saint Mary Margaret Alacoque Feast: 17th October Patronage: against polio, against the death of parents, devotees of the Sacred Heart, polio patients I personally love the Feast of the Sacred Heart as we were married on this Solemnity, yet at the time I did not know its origins.. St Margaret Mary Alacoque was the […]
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Saint Therese of Lisieux Patronage: Foreign missions Feast: 1st October Saint Therese of Lisieux, commonly referred to as ‘The Little Flower’, was born in France. She was the youngest of nine children and was so called spoilt and ‘babied’ by her family as her mother died when she was four years of age and four
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Saint Raphael Feast: 29th September Patronage: the blind, young people, mental illness, against nightmares, doctors, of happy meetings, of nurses, of physicians and of travelers. Saint Raphael is one of my all time favourite Saints. I often prayer for his intercession, he has helped me in the past especially with keeping my husband to be
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When I received this book for review my initial response was, ‘not another book on Mary MacKillop’, but I found this biography a fresh approach on the life of Mary and the Josephite order. Perhaps the reason I found this book so interesting was that Fr Moodystack deals only with the facts, he uses
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Saint of the Week St Vincent De Paul Feast: 27th September Patronage: Charities, Volunteers In last weeks homily (listen here) Father Murphy of Lavington spoke of St Vincent and how he was too busy caring and thinking of others to think selfishly of himself. He spent his time of others which lead him closer
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Saint Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510) Patronage: Brides, Childless Couples, Difficult Marriages, and Widows St Catherine was a woman of prayer. Her life shows a great example of how one can stray from the will of God and return through repentance and God’s continual forgiveness. St Catherine was married at the young age of sixteen,
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The Holy Name Of Mary Feast: 12th September This weeks “Saint Of The Week” is not like the others. As on the 12th September we celebrate the significance of Our Lady; “the bearer of light, light that illuminated her soul and that has become the light for many other soul”s (Giorgi, 2005). This feast
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Saint Rosalia Feast: 4th September Patronage: Palermo/Invoked against the plague. Saint Rosalia, commonly known as ‘the little saint’, was the daughter of the Duke Sinibald and born in the 12th Century. She fled her family, to a cave on Mount Pellegrino (Sicily), to escape an imposed marriage. She began to live a life of
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Saint Monica Feast: 27 August Patronage: Mothers, difficult marriages and children Catholic Saints are ordinary people living extraordinary lives. This week’s Saint of the Week is Saint Monica. I chose her this week, as today is my own mothers birthday and I feel that Saint Monica has strengthened my own mother through her prayerful intercession.
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Pregnancy is often a time of emotional upheaval, anxiety and nervous anticipation. It can also be a time of physical discomfort sickness. But what if you discovered that along with your pregnancy you had another health issue – a tumour on your uterus. That’s exactly the scenario that faced Gianna Molla when she was
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