St Augustine Feast Day: May 27th Patronage: England St Augustine of Canterbury was the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He is considered the “Apostle to the English” and a founder of the English Church. St Augustine was the prior of a monastery in Rome when Pope Gregory the Great chose him in 595 to lead a mission, usually known as the Gregorian […]
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Saint Rita of Cascia Feast Day: May 22nd Patronage: Impossible cases I have to admit, St Rita is one of my favourite saints. She is the patron saint of impossible cases! Some sources say she is the patron of grocers and salami vendors too. She was born in Cascia, in Italy. At an early age
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I went to dinner with some girlfriends a few weeks ago, and during the drive home one of them said to me, “Pray about what you want, Joy. I think you already know what you want, but you just need to take the steps to get there. Pray, and ask God to lead you and
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Saint Matthias Feast Day: May 14th Patronage: Alcoholism, carpenters, small pox, tailors, hope, perseverance Saint Matthias was known as the ‘new apostle’ as he was the one chosen to replace Judas after his betrayal and suicide. Matthias was chosen by the remaining eleven apostles. In the scripture this is the first and the last we
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My children were recently invited to become part of a sticker club which we accepted on the whole because it was a simple formula and required me to invite 6 other children to join and cost me a packet of stickers and six stamps. But then I thought, what about creating a ‘Holy Card Club’
As I write this post many of the blogs and pages I follow, as well as the catalogues in my letterbox, are all full of ideas for making mums feel special on Mother’s Day. For my part I have also been drafting up some simple yet unique Mother’s Day gift ideas to upload to
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We are often asked to pray for special intentions and I felt as sincerely as I promised to pray for these intentions I may have forgotten a few from time to time. In order to keep track of them I started pinning small pieces of coloured paper to a cork board/white board that I used
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Saint Isidore Patronage: Patron of Madrid, protector of farmers and day labourers. Feast Day: May 15th Isidore was born to very poor parents in Madrid. Isidore later married Maria Torribia, Isidore and Maria had one son.On one occasion, their son fell into a deep well and, at the prayers of his parents, the water of
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Bringing young child to mass is not easy. Children can be fidgety, bored, and restless. Sometimes they just don’t want to be there. If your children are anything like mine you may have experienced the arguing, toy dropping, tears and children running up and down the pews. So why persist with bringing your young child to
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Saint Zita Feast 27th April Patronage: Maids and Domestic Servants It was the name again which drew me to this saint. Zita. St Zita was born into a very poor family and at the young age of twelve was sent to work as a maid for the Fatinelli family. You would expect her story to
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