Friends, many of you know that I pray an ongoing (every nine days) novena to St. Rita of Cascia. She is the patron of the impossible and she’s sure helped me out many times in my life. I like to honor her in this way.
Many of you have kindly sent me prayer requests to bring to St. Rita as well as my own. My rule is that unless someone specifically tells me the prayer has been answered, it stays on the list.
Every now and then I asked Saint Rita in prayer to show me if any of these intentions have been delivered, but maybe I didn’t know it. So here’s the story. In April of 2022, I met a young man in the parish who told me he was hoping to join a monastery of traditional Benedictines (located in a state with a panhandle and not Texas but adjacent to it). What’s impossible about that? Said lad had some significant student loan debt that needed to go away first.
I added him to the list and told him I would pray for this intention.
Last night, almost three years later and on the feast of St. Benedict, I was at the parish for Adoration and came across a wall of pictures featuring parish vocations.
Look who I saw.
That’s our guy on the left!
The card underneath said he is now known as Brother and that he entered in 2023!
I’m sure those extra two years of prayers were not void but boy am I happy for him!
So send me your prayers and if you’ve already sent them and you’ve received your answer, please let me know.
St. Rita of Cascia, pray for us!
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