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Carlosein:
hi lindiwe, thanks for your greetings. i receive am well well. trust all is okay with you.

actually there's more than a saint for each day since there are only 365(6) days in a year and thousands (at least) declared saints.

may God grant all our requests today through the unfailing intercession of St. Rita of Cascia. Amen.

oby, how u dey now, viee we no dey see your break light again o. tsup?

i just dey my bros, this your work dey take style small small dey steal u away 4rm us o!

bodi dey 4 cloth viee love wetin dey happen, u just disappear like Ebos, lawyer, pamperme and uzzyan

madam na u b this?

Oby no write up on a saint today, abi we no get any saint to celebrate today? i actually tot we had a saint for everyday.

Hello lovely, yesterday was somehow busy for me. How you dey now and job?

Today's Saint

St. Rita of Cascia (1381-1457)


Like Elizabeth Ann Seton, Rita of Cascia was a wife, mother, widow and member of a religious community. Her holiness was reflected in each phase of her life.

Born at Roccaporena in central Italy, Rita wanted to become a nun but was pressured at a young age into marrying a harsh and cruel man. During her 18-year marriage, she bore and raised two sons. After her husband was killed in a brawl and her sons had died, Rita tried to join the Augustinian nuns in Cascia. Unsuccessful at first because she was a widow, Rita eventually succeeded.

Over the years, her austerity, prayerfulness and charity became legendary. When she developed wounds on her forehead, people quickly associated them with the wounds from Christ's crown of thorns. She meditated frequently on Christ's passion. Her care for the sick nuns was especially loving. She also counseled lay people who came to her monastery.

Beatified in 1626, Rita was not canonized until 1900. She has acquired the reputation, together with St. Jude, as a saint of impossible cases. Many people visit her tomb each year.

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For the Baptism of adults and for all the baptized at the Easter Vigil, three questions are asked: “Do you reject sin so as to live in the freedom of God's children? Do you reject the glamour of evil, and refuse to be mastered by sin? Do you reject Satan, father of sin and prince of darkness?”

Lindiwe:
hey Oby,
how're u doin'
good to know u had a swell weekend,
mine could't have been better!
initially i wasn't looking forward to working this morning, but i guess i'm sort of energised now
have a great day!

Hi lindiwe.
Good to hear that you have gathered strength ready to use it for this week, thank God for the weekend rest.
Have a great day too!

Today's Saint

St. Theophilus of Corte (1676-1740)

If we expect saints to do marvelous things continually and to leave us many memorable quotes, we are bound to be disappointed with St. Theophilus. The mystery of God's grace in a person's life, however, has a beauty all its own.

Theophilus was born in Corsica of rich and noble parents. As a young man he entered the Franciscans and soon showed his love for solitude and prayer. After admirably completing his studies, he was ordained and assigned to a retreat house near Subiaco. Inspired by the austere life of the Franciscans there, he founded other such houses in Corsica and Tuscany. Over the years, he became famous for his preaching as well as his missionary efforts.

Though he was always somewhat sickly, Theophilus generously served the needs of God's people in the confessional, in the sickroom and at the graveside. Worn out by his labors, he died on June 17, 1740. He was canonized in 1930.

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Francis used to say, "Let us begin, brothers, to serve the Lord God, for up to now we have made little or no progress" (1 Celano, #193).

Hello folks it has being a wonderful weekend.
Greetings to all.

regret? at all


what about you

Yes o dear


Is a sweet experience, have u had it too?

rh

marriage

Chelsea or United

pipeline

Reali

understatement again - love to be with him forever

You?

salay

grateful to God for u

Own it to God?

who is who

understatement - very happy

You?

paste

Psalm 37:25

hey peeps,
where are y'all at!

I wonder o
Lindiwe so how are you? and work too, hope there is no more crisis in your place of work.

pam & carl hope you've resolved your differences!

If they don't resolve it, who will resolve it for them, abeg make una no play that kin play because we must hit spoon for teeth o

May devotion still continues!

Yes o, still remember

viee my dear how you dey?

imhotep:
Good morning, brothers and sisters. How is everyone doing?

I have seen plenty of posts tangentially referring to wedding arrangements.

Should we prepare our spoons and plates and be on the ready?

Yes o, plenty of things to eat on that day, you are right so get your cutleries ready, spoon go dey hit spoon that dey

Carlosein:
ehen, now you are talking. tell pam for me oh we need to be fertile and born at least twelve childrenses. that is how God wants it abi?. so make u sstop shakara and let blessing of God be your portion now, haba

i still dey wait for your apology to me and my own idichies o!

Pam i think Carlosein is trying to tell you that he is sorry, you know sey men to say sorry at times dey hard them, indirectly i think sey e dey sey sorry so make u come online o

Today's Saint
St. Margaret of Cortona (1247-1297)


Margaret was born of farming parents in Laviano, Tuscany. Her mother died when Margaret was seven; life with her stepmother was so difficult that Margaret moved out. For nine years she lived with Arsenio, though they were not married, and she bore him a son. In those years, she had doubts about her situation. Somewhat like St. Augustine she prayed for purity—but not just yet.

One day she was waiting for Arsenio and was instead met by his dog. The animal led Margaret into the forest where she found Arsenio murdered. This crime shocked Margaret into a life of penance. She and her son returned to Laviano, where she was not well received by her stepmother. They then went to Cortona, where her son eventually became a friar.

In 1277, three years after her conversion, Margaret became a Franciscan tertiary. Under the direction of her confessor, who sometimes had to order her to moderate her self-denial, she pursued a life of prayer and penance at Cortona. There she established a hospital and founded a congregation of tertiary sisters. The poor and humble Margaret was, like Francis, devoted to the Eucharist and to the passion of Jesus. These devotions fueled her great charity and drew sinners to her for advice and inspiration. She was canonized in 1728.

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"Let us raise ourselves from our fall and not give up hope as long as we free ourselves from sin. Jesus Christ came into this world to save sinners. ‘O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!’ (Psalm 95:6). The Word calls us to repentance, crying out: ‘Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens and I will give you rest’ (Matthew 11:28). There is, then, a way to salvation if we are willing to follow it" (Letter of Saint Basil the Great).

do what?

Today's Saint
St. Isidore the Farmer (1070-1130)

Isidore has become the patron of farmers and rural communities. In particular he is the patron of Madrid, Spain, and of the United States National Rural Life Conference.

When he was barely old enough to wield a hoe, Isidore entered the service of John de Vergas, a wealthy landowner from Madrid, and worked faithfully on his estate outside the city for the rest of his life. He married a young woman as simple and upright as himself who also became a saint—Maria de la Cabeza. They had one son, who died as a child.

Isidore had deep religious instincts. He rose early in the morning to go to church and spent many a holiday devoutly visiting the churches of Madrid and surrounding areas. All day long, as he walked behind the plow, he communed with God. His devotion, one might say, became a problem, for his fellow workers sometimes complained that he often showed up late because of lingering in church too long.

He was known for his love of the poor, and there are accounts of Isidore’s supplying them miraculously with food. He had a great concern for the proper treatment of animals.

He died May 15, 1130, and was declared a saint in 1622 with Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Avila and Philip Neri. Together, the group is known in Spain as “the five saints.”

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“God blessed them, saying: ‘Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it, See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food; and to all the animals of the land, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the ground, I give all the green plants for food’” (Genesis 1:28a, 29–30a).

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light, zeal without prudence is frenzy.

When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretful upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.