I have received several requests for St. Rita prayers. Know that I have added them into the list. I am honored to pray for and with you.
St. Rita; pray for us!
I have received several requests for St. Rita prayers. Know that I have added them into the list. I am honored to pray for and with you.
St. Rita; pray for us!
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!
From the recent travel…
Here’s another image to meditate upon.

I’m not in the socials and so cannot read the comments but I find this interesting…
That’s the same Robert Malone of exposing Covid fame.
FWIW
Peep this from our old friend and not-at-all-interested-in-actual-reporting Colm Flynn:
In fairness, the Vatican press office did release this. Why should anybody bother to check anything?
But for the image one can conclude one of several things.
We might just have the first true pope of the 21st century – an AI pontiff!
If that is him in the picture, someone’s got a lot of ‘splaining to do. What’s with the skin tone? Where is the nasal cannula (remember he’s still supposedly on oxygen)? Why the weight gain? For a man who already looked like an orca when he entered the hospital, he’s really packed on some lbs.
But perhaps the biggest question of all?
Where is his face?
I believe he’s a narcissist through and through but even the jokers surrounding him have to know that proof of life at this late stage requires a bit more than a picture taken from behind.
Folks, they’re playing us. and I have to assume they’re doing so on purpose. How many more fake documents can they fart out of that hospital before they finally say, “His Holiness took a turn overnight and passed peacefully”?
This whole thing has become a joke. And it never had to be this way. It only would have taken one cardinal, one brave man not afraid of losing his privileged life to stand up and demand an investigation.
God help us all.