Lenten March Madness round 3

Saint Rita Of Cascia

Rita “sought wholeness” in the passion of Christ. In her meditations she preoccupied her imagination with his agony. On Good Friday, 1441, she prostrated herself before a crucifix and begged Christ for some small share of his suffering. As though punctured by a crown of thorns, a single wound opened on Rita’s forehead. For fifteen years it caused her daily pain and embarrassed her, as its putrid odor frequently offended her sisters. In 1450, when she was preparing to visit Rome for the jubilee year, the wound temporarily healed. But it reappeared when she returned to Cascia and remained until her death.

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Saint Benedict Of Aniane

Benedict possessed an unusual gift: as soon as anyone with disturbed thoughts in his mind approached him, the tumultuous crowd of thoughts dissipated at his wholesome counsel. Often indeed when bombarded by unsafe thoughts . . . a person would say to himself, “I will go and reveal you to Lord Benedict.” At that very moment the unsuitable confusion left him. If anyone was hindered by severe faults, he received soothing consolation when he opened up his heart to Benedict.

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