I don’t care whether the team wins or loses, but I want my son to feel good about himself on the field. So, although I normally don’t turn to her for small requests, I have to admit that there are times I’ve turned to her while I’m sitting on the bleachers, hoping my son would make it through a difficult at-bat. Rita is also considered to be the patron saint of baseball. Now, to a lesser extent, and in a much less formal way, St. After all, nothing is impossible for God. That’s when you might think of asking St. But it’s at times like that when we can reach out to friends and ask them to pray. When we are struggling with an unfixable situation, we can feel overwhelmed and defeated.
I think of that often, especially around St. Rita had been asking Jesus to do his best. And bit by bit, the waves parted, doors opened, dots connected, and there was the answer. And she has been a faithful friend in precarious times.ĭuring some of the most difficult days of the pandemic, I asked her to intercede on a specific issue - one that seemed to have no solution. I feel like complicated messes are something St. What a difficult life and what a holy life. After they died and she was left alone, she entered religious life. She carried so much while on earth - she had a difficult marriage and two sons who wanted to avenge their father’s murder. Saints are our friends and intercessors, and we can ask for their assistance whenever we want. There are times when it feels like she might be just the right heavenly friend to ask for help. Rita happens to be a patron saint of the impossible. That’s when I know that it’s time to take it to prayer - and it might be time to ask my patron saint for help. I look at it from every angle and see no way through. But every now and then, I come up against a problem that simply can’t be solved. Rita to intercede for me on ordinary problems.
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