8/31/2023 0 Comments Novena prayer to st rita of casciaUndeterred, Rita stormed Heaven and enlisted the saints to obtain the grace for her to be admitted to the religious life. Rita was now freed to enter the Augustinian convent in Cascia, but her application was at first denied, because some of the nuns there were members of the family that had killed her husband. Rita’s Second Vocation, to Religious Life A short time later, her sons died of dysentery, an answer to Rita’s prayers that they would not die in mortal sin. Rita’s sons went to live with Bernardo and began to imitate their father’s pre-conversion life of vice.įearing that her sons would follow their father and die a violent death, Rita beseeched God to prevent their taking revenge. But Bernardo, Paolo’s brother, instigated her two sons to join the feud and avenge their father. Rita publicly forgave her husband’s murderers and sought to end any revenge attacks from the Mancini family. He refused to participate any longer in the Mancini-Chiqui family feud, but in spite of this, he was ambushed and killed by a Chiqui family member. Through her prayers and witness, her husband Paolo repented of his evil life and embarked on changing himself. Rita responded to these evils with heroic endurance and kind patience. (This is the same political feud that Dante Alighieri wrote about.) He was physically and emotionally abusive, unfaithful, and had entangled himself in the ongoing feud between the Guelph and Ghibelline factions. Rita bore Paolo two sons, but Paolo treated her harshly. Paolo was wealthy, quick to anger, and viceful. Rita wished to enter religious life from an early age, but her parents arranged her marriage–common at the time–at age twelve to Paolo Mancini. Rita, whose birth name was Margherita Lotti, was born in 1381 in Roccaporena, near Cascia in Umbria, Italy. You can also learn more about novenas here. Read the full St Rita novena on the novena page. She endured abuse and the death of her husband and two sons but heroically remained faithful throughout it. St Rita of Cascia was a wife and mother, then later in life a nun.
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