Saint Elizabeth Feast 5th November Patronage: Pregnant mothers and mothers A personal favourite of mine is dear Saint Elizabeth, cousin to Our Lady. How blessed was Saint Elizabeth to be one of the first to know that Mary was the Mother of God. What an honour. The event of ‘The Visitation’ is remembered and reflected […]
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All Saints day Feast: 1st November This week’s Saint of the week is extremely special because we celebrate All Saints! All Saints day is a sacred solemnity celebrating each and every Saint, known and unknown alike. Each Saint is celebrated and recognised. The day significantly commemorates all who have left this world and attained the beatific
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Saint John Capistrano Feast: 23rd October Patronage: Judges Saint John, born 1386. He was well educated and practiced as a Lawyer in Naples. He was made governor of Perugia by the time he was twenty six years of age. He had great talent, full education and fought many battles in the army. He was
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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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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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