Saint
Saint Rita of Cascia
- Country / origin
- Italy
- Life
- 1381–1457
- Feast
- 22 May
Awaiting theological review
Who was this?
Wife, mother and widow who forgave her husband's murderers, and later became an Augustinian nun.
Patron of
- impossible causes
- difficult marriages
- family suffering
When to ask for intercession
- situations that seem to have no way out
- family crises
- long suffering
A short prayer
Saint Rita, intercede for me in this hard cause and teach me to hope in God when I can no longer see a way.
Written for Lumen as a simple personal prayer of intercession — not a liturgical text.
What are you living through today?
- An impossible cause
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