“I love to pick the saints apart, but I fear there’ll have to be a solitary confinement in heaven, just for me. She would often speak her mind on the saints, so often she knew that when she did get to Heaven they might have a special place for her. And although she had a great love for the Saints and wanted everyone she encountered to achieve sanctity as they did, she didn’t sugarcoat their lives, since many of their lives were just like ours – they suffered, they sinned, and they were just miserable at times. If you don’t know, Mother Angelica was pretty hard on the Saints, particularly the Apostles of Jesus. And, if she isn’t there by now, God help the rest of us.
I say could be since she might be there or still making her way there, but nevertheless, for today’s blog post and the humor that lies within some of these quotes from her, we will say that she is there. It is also the first All Saints’ Day when Mother Angelica could be a resident of the Heavenly Kingdom. Mother Angelica born into Eternal life, Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016.īorn on April 20, 1923, Rita Antoinette Rizzo had a tough road ahead of her.Today we celebrate one of the great days in the Catholic Church – the Solemnity of All Saints. Little Rita’s father had abandoned her family, forcing her mother and four brothers to move in with her grandparents, who owned a saloon. The neighborhood wasn’t exactly ideal for a child growing up mob figures and prostitutes were part of the landscape in Canton, Ohio, at that time. She suffered greatly not only from poverty but poor health. Rita’s parents hadn’t been particularly religious either. But the Italian community had faith, and by God’s grace, Jesus gradually drew Rita closer. Rita was what you would call “a tough cookie,” a hardheaded, hot tempered, wise-cracking kid. And to make a long story short no-one expected that wise-cracking kid to become a contemplative nun and the foundress of a Poor Clare Monastery in the mostly Protestant south, or that she would start a world-wide Catholic television network, or that she would build a “Temple,” the Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament at the request of the Child Jesus. “The Saints determined, at some point in their lives, to follow Jesus. A vacuum deep in their souls began to be filled, for they found the Pearl of great price.
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