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O, Blessed Saint Rita,
So humble, So patient, So pure,
You intercede in the most hopeless and impossible cases.
Bring us to your aid, from the Heart of Jesus,
Whom have recourse to thee,
O, Blessed Saint Rita, Pray for us, Always!
Amen.
A Chaplet To Blessed St. Rita of Cascia
Saint Rita of Cascia Italy is a most powerful Intercessor to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. St. Rita is best known for interceding in the most Hopeless and Impossible Case. I wrote this Chaplet for Her a few years ago and now I feel that I have been prompted to share it with all who are in distress, fear or temptation or at a hopeless end. I pray this Chaplet in my daily prayer: Simply state your Intentions to Her and The Lord, then say the Prayer to St Rita. Read the Meditation and dwell upon it for moment. Then say the Prayer to St Rita again. Read the second Meditation, say the prayer again and so on through the fifth Meditation. Then finish by saying the Glory Be and the Our Father and ending with the Closing Prayer. For a stronger connection to St. Rita you can also pray this Chaplet on your Daily Rosary. Beginning with The Sign of the Cross, the Apostles Creed, Our Father and the Prayer to St.Rita Three times then read the Meditations before each decade and saying the Glory Be, The Fatima Prayer and The Our Father before each decade just like your Daily Rosary, saying the Prayer to St. Rita on the ten beads, and finishing with the closing prayers from the Chaplet to St. Rita.
Respectfully, A Friend In Jesus
My Prayer to Saint Rita
O, Blessed Saint Rita,
So humble, So patient, So pure,
You intercede in the most hopeless and
impossible cases.
Bring to us your aid, from the Heart of Jesus,
Whom have recourse to thee,
O, Blessed Saint Rita, Pray for us, Always!
Amen.
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Nihil Obsmp; Ryan B. Browning, S.T.L.
Censor Librorum
Imprimayur; + David J. Malloy, D.D., J .C.L., S.T.D.
Bishop of Rockford
Meditations for the Rosary of St. Rita of Cascia
1. St. Rita endured her abusive husband and obtained from the Heart of Jesus his conversion before he was murdered.
2. When St. Rita's sons called out the Vendetta to avenge their fathers death, she gave them up to Jesus in death rather than let them committ this soul destroying sin.
3. After the death of her sons, St. Rita miraculously entered the Convent through the intercession of St. John the Baptist, St. Augustine and St. Nicholas of Tolentino.
4. St. Rita's life of charity, pennance, and mortification in the Convent brought her closer to the Heart of Jesus, for which He granted remarkable cures, deliverence from evil and many special favors for those for whom she prayed.
5. Suffering a painful thorn wound in her forehead that she endured until her death, St Rita survived on only the Blessed Sacrament for the last four years of her life.
Closing Prayers: Glory Be... Fatima Prayer... Our Father... Let us pray: 0 Almighty and Merciful Father, we know You look with favor upon the Sacred Heart of Your Divine Son, Jesus. Your Holy Saint, Blessed Rita of Cascia was endlessly devoted to His Sacred Heart and His Holy Cross. By Her intercession, may we aspire to these devotions and a life of humility, patience and purity. We pray all these things, Father, in the Holy Name of Your Son, Jesus, for the intercession of Blessed St. Rita. 0, Blessed St. Rita, Pray for us Always. Amen
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