by SrDeniseSickinger | Mar 17, 2022 | a current event, Accompaniment, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Saints, St. Patrick
SEAN FITZPATRICK “Go, Patrick,” a voice echoed through his sleep, “thy ship is prepared! Arise and go!” Patrick arose and went with a prayer on his lips. He slipped unseen from his master’s house and fled down the western shore where he saw a ship disembarking. “Thy ship departs, Patrick,” the voice cried again in his ears. Patrick plunged into the sea and caught a rope tossed to him by one of the sailors. After being kidnapped from his coastal home in Scotland to serve as a slave of a Druid priest in Ireland for six years, Patrick, the son of a Roman deacon, was free again. It was not the first time that Patrick would spurn pagan tyranny in his life. In years to come, he would end their oppression not by fleeing, but by bringing them freedom, arising armed and protected by a great, bright Breastplate bound to his soul. After escaping from Ireland, the young Saint Patrick traveled to a monastery in France where he met with his uncle, St. Martin of Tours. He began studying for the priesthood and was ordained under the patronage of St. Germain. After years of missionary work, Patrick was chosen...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Mar 17, 2022 | a current event, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Saints, St. Patrick
Apostle of Ireland, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, 17 March, 493. Some sources say 460 or 461. —Ed. He had for his parents Calphurnius and Conchessa. The former belonged to a Roman family of high rank and held the office of decurio in Gaul or Britain. Conchessa was a near relative of the great patron of Gaul, St. Martin of Tours. Kilpatrick still retains many memorials of Saint Patrick, and frequent pilgrimages continued far into the Middle Ages to perpetuate there the fame of his sanctity and miracles. In his sixteenth year, Patrick was carried off into captivity by Irish marauders and was sold as a slave to a chieftan named Milchu in Dalriada, a territory of the present county of Antrim in Ireland, where for six years he tended his master’s flocks in the valley of the Braid and on the slopes of Slemish, near the modern town of Ballymena. He relates in his “Confessio” that during his captivity while tending the flocks he prayed many times in the day: “the love of God“, he added, and His fear increased in me more and more, and the faith grew in me, and the spirit was roused, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers, and in the night nearly the same, so that whilst in the woods and on the...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Oct 14, 2021 | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Saints, Teens and Young Adults
http://www.carloacutis.com | Antoine Mekary/ALETEIA Gelsomino Del Guercio – published on 10/13/21 Ever since he died, people have turned to him with confidence “Ithink his life, and the harmony he achieved, can be of help to many on the path to holiness,” said Antonia Salzano, the mother of Blessed Carlo Acutis, in an interview with Italian news agency SIR in February of last year. The young blessed was beatified on October 10, 2020, in Assisi. The story of the miracle Blessed Carlo’s mother described the miracle that made the beatification possible. “The miracle concerns the deformed pancreas of a child whose life was consequently in danger. After prayers to Carlo, the pancreas returned to normal without surgery, which would have been very risky for the little boy’s survival.” Prayers of intercession It’s no coincidence that Carlo’s reputation for holiness spread quickly. “Ever since he died, people have turned to him with confidence. A woman who came to the funeral had a tumor and immediately prayed to him and was cured; another 44-year-old woman was unable to have children, but she prayed to Carlo and after a month she became pregnant.” “Immediately,” Antonia continues, “the people who had met him entrusted themselves to him,...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Sep 9, 2021 | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Saints, Salesian Past Pupils, Salesian Saints, Salesian Sisters
Maria Cristina Cella Mocellin, whose heroic virtue has been recognised by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints Young mother of three advances along path to sainthood Pope Francis authorizes sthe promulgation of Decrees concerning the heroic virtues of the Servants of God Enrica Beltrame Quattrocchi, the daughter of a couple beatified in 2001; Placido Cortese, a Franciscan friar who died under torture by the Gestapo; and a young Italian mother, Maria Cristina Cella Mocellin, who delayed chemotherapy treatments in order to save her unborn child. By Benedetta Capelli Three figures whose lives were characterised by surrender to God’s love, trust in His mercy, and hope in His forgiveness. These are the traits that distinguish the new Venerable Servants of God. After Monday’s audience with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Pope Francis authorised the Dicastery to promulgate the Decrees concerning the heroic virtues of Enrichetta Beltrame Quattrocchi, Fra Placido Cortese, and Maria Cristina Cella Mocellin. “Riccardo, you are a gift for us” The story of Maria Cristina Cella Mocellin recalls those of St Gianna Beretta Molla, and more recently of Chiara Corbella Petrillo. Maria Cristina Cella Mocellin was born on 18 August...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Jul 12, 2021 | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Holy Matrimony, Love, Saints
The World’s Thy Ship “The world’s thy ship, and not thy home.” I remember reading that phrase for the first time in St. Therese’s Story of a Soul. In her early twenties, at the time of writing this, she would be considered wise beyond her years. Her wisdom came at no small cost, though – […] Source: Saints Louis & Zélie Martin: Suffering in Love &...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Jul 8, 2021 | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Saints, Salvation, Sanctity, Witness to Christ
Two summers ago, we took a trip to Italy, and after emerging from the Catacombs, we stumbled onto the Quo Vadis church. “Quo Vadis?” (“Where are you going?”) refers to a story about St. Peter, passed down through pious tradition. In this story, Peter is fleeing Rome, where persecution is rampant. As he walks down […] Source: “Quo Vadis?” St. Peter’s Call to Martyrdom in...
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