For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
Gospel Jn 6:51-58 Jesus said to the Jewish crowds: "I am the living bread that came down from heaven whoever eats this bread will live forever and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world." The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. You who all things can and know, Who on earth such food bestow, Grant us with your saints, though lowest, Where the heav'nly feast you show, Fellow heirs and guests to be. Very bread, good shepherd, tend us, Jesu, of your love befriend us, You refresh us, you defend us, Your eternal goodness send us In the land of life to see. Truth the ancient types fulfilling, Isaac bound, a victim willing, Paschal lamb, its lifeblood spilling, manna to the fathers sent.
On .uk you will find Saint Rita statues, of different sizes and price ranges.Sequence Lo! the angel's food is given To the pilgrim who has striven see the children's bread from heaven, which on dogs may not be spent. The countless miracles meant that in Saint Rita was also attributed the nickname “ Saint of the Impossible“.
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The rose became the symbol of Saint Rita, which flourished in the sunshine of Christ despite a life full of thorns, to melt the winter ice from the hearts of men. Although it was winter, the woman went to the garden and found a beautiful rose flowering, which she immediately brought to the nun. She is also known as the Saint of the “Rose”: shortly before her death, she asked a relative to bring her a rose from her father’s garden. Saint Rita brought that painful wound as a mark of love until death.įor that Saint Rita is also known as the Saint of the “Thorn”. Jesus listened and Saint Rita was pierced in the forehead from one of the thorns in the crown wore by Christ on the cross. Saint Rita of Cascia, animated by the infinite love for Jesus, asked him to share his Passion. They were years of suffering in which the nun imposed herself a hair shirt, isolation, and endless mortifications of the flesh. Left alone, Saint Rita entered the convent, where she lived 40 years in contemplation, penance and prayer. Put aside her grief and desire for revenge, Saint Rita of Cascia immersed herself in prayer, asking with assiduity and zeal to God’s forgiveness of the murderers of her husband. Widowed, Saint Rita devoted herself to a single purpose: to end the feud between families that had led to the murder of her husband.
In fact, Saint Rita of Cascia was for many years an ordinary woman, a wife, a mother, and this makes it more akin to common people than many other men and women sanctified over the centuries. People have always felt very close to her, because of her life before taking monastic vows. Saint Rita is the subject of an extraordinary popular devotion, and is certainly one of the most loved saints. Born in Cascia (PG), was beatified 180 years after her death and proclaimed Saint after 453 years. Saint Rita of Cascia was an Augustinian nun who lived in 1400.
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