I broke up with my boyfriend earlier in the week.
He treated me badly (even for a long distance relationship).
I couldn’t help but love him, regardless.
I feel so empty now.
Come Holy Spirit and will me up with love for you.
Holy Week Quote
I was reminded of this quote earlier tonight whilst watching a Google hangout.
“To choose the life of Jesus Crucified as the model for our lives so that His Resurrection may be a means for glory for us in eternity.
Offer yourself frequently to Him and ask Him what He wants you to do. Do not worry about your strength. Rest assured that you will receive all that is necessary from the goodness of God.” – St. Louise de Marillac
Papa Francis I
Viva il Papa!
Fierce Saint Study – Lenten Edition #5
Somehow I missed this awesome saint’s feast day a couple days ago.
Shame on me.
So, tonight, I bring you:
SAINT JOHN OF GOD
How many of the firefighters out there know who their personal patron saint is? It is St. John of God, who was extremely dedicated to the sick and dying. Once, when he heard that a hospital was going up in flames, he ran in and rescued the patients and much of the bedding, just before the roof fell in – and took John with it. Moments later, he walked out of the building, miraculously spared.
He was an awesome writer/thinker/doer. Here’s some awesomesauce:
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“If we kept before us the mercy of God, we would never be deficient in doing good, while strength was in us. For, when we make over to the poor, out of the love of God, what he himself has given us, his promise is that we shall receive a hundredfold in eternal happiness.” |
Keep in Mind
Fierce Saint Study – Lenten Edition #4
Tomorrow is the feast day of a couple bada** saints. My girls, Sts. Perpetua and Felicity.
SAINT PERPETUA AND SAINT FELICITY: BEST FRIENDS FOREVA-EVA
One of the proofs of a really close friendship is when you can’t say one person’s name without thinking of the other. This
shows up in history, with names like Lewis and Clark. It’s in story books, with names like Hansel and Gretel, or Jack and Jill. When it comes to saints, there are many examples, but one of the most prominent duos is Perpetua and Felicity. Perpetua was a young Christian noblewoman and Felicity was a young Christian slave. The two were arrested for their belief in Christ, during the persecution of Emperor Septimius Severus: at this time, Perpetua was a new mother, and Felicity was eight months pregnant. Together, the two women helped each other through the heat, darkness and brutality of the guards in the prison. Two days before their scheduled death, Felicity gave birth to her daughter in the prison, and the child was adopted by a Christian woman. Perpetua and Felicity were sent out to face the arena together, and after being exposed to the beasts, were killed by having their throats cut. These last days of the women were recorded by Perpetua, whose diary became one of the most famous accounts in the early church of the suffering of the martyrs.
Catholicism is like a pact. It doesn’t matter who you are, we’ve got each others backs. Which is a very awesome thing.
Everyone have a blessed rest of the week! It’s all downhill to the weekend now!
Lenten Fierce Saint Study #Something (3, I think)
Yes, I’m horrible at blogging what I say I’m going to blog. I deserve to be flogged.
But here’s your first Lenten Fierce Saint Study for the week!
Saint Katherine Drexel
St. Katherine Drexel, belle of the ball and heiress of millions. She left her life of privilege and founded a religious order, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.. . .She dedicated her life to becoming the servant of the poor, establishing schools for Native and African Americans children.
So what? She sounds like a goody-two-shoes and not a Paris Hilton.
That’s just the short version from the USCCB. Here’s the long version from catholic.org
Saint Katharine Drexel, Religious (Feast Day-March 3) Born in 1858, into a prominent Philadelphia family, Katharine became imbued with love for God and neighbor. She took an avid interest in the material and spiritual well-being of black and native Americans. She began by donating money but soon concluded that more was needed – the lacking ingredient was people. Katharine founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Black and Native American peoples, whose members would work for the betterment of those they were called to serve. From the age of 33 until her death in 1955, she dedicated her life and a fortune of 20 million dollars to this work. In 1894, Mother Drexel took part in opening the first mission school for Indians, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Other schools quickly followed – for Native Americans west of the Mississippi River, and for the blacks in the southern part of the United States. In 1915 she also founded Xavier University in New Orleans. At her death there were more than 500 Sisters teaching in 63 schools throughout the country. Katharine was beatified by Pope John Paul II on November 20, 1988.
Because of her lifelong dedication to her faith and her selfless service to the oppressed, Pope John Paul II canonized her on October 1, 2000 to become only the second recognized American-born saint.
