I was captivated by a small detail I read in a news article about the late singer Sinead O’Connor this past week.
In her obituary it said that the was born Sinead Marie Bernadette O’Connor on December 8, 1966 (Feast of the Immaculate conception) in the Cascia House Nursing Home in Dublin.
It also listed the rather odd detail that the delivering doctor was the son of the Irish revolutionary leader and first Taoiseach (president) Eamon de Valera. She was named in honor of the doctor’s mother Sinead and St. Bernadette of Lourdes.
As you might have guessed, it was the location that caught my eye.
Perhaps St. Rita is poking her head out again and reminding us that, with God, nothing is impossible.
So pray for the dead and pray for your own impossible causes.
St. Rita, pray for us!
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