Patron Saint Meme

Anne, the lovely blogger of Imprisoned in my Bones tagged me for this new meme.

The rules are as follows:

"Assuming you are a saint, and your cause has been executed, your miracles confirmed, your date on the calendar established, all that is required is to select that of which Holy Mother Church will name you Patron (ess) of.

For this meme, you must name your patronage
and then tag 5 other people who would like to play along.

Linking your answer to your nominator's post would make it easier to get your answers."

Anne actually informed me of this tag a few days ago. At first I thought I could not possibly play along because my canonization is far beyond the stretch of the imagination! But this morning right before Mass I started thinking about it. I am not sure why. It occurred to me that the choice was fairly obvious...I would be the patroness of animals!! I think everyone pretty much is aware of my love of all animals. So that is what I would like to be.

I would like to tag my Hawaii friends for this one:

1. Father Daren.

2. Sarah

3. Easter

4. Melissa

5. Cy

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Priests and Blogging

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Good post! Does a Parish Priest have time to blog?

Feasts of Sts. Clare and Philomena

St. Clare of Assisi

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Friend of a very popular saint, St. Francis of Assisi.

Prayer to St. Clare of Assisi - Patroness of Television Workers

Dear St. Clare,
inspired by St. Francis,
you became a poor nun for the sake of Jesus,
and established the "Poor Clares."

We are told how greatly you cherished Christ
present in the sacrament of the Altar.
Is the Mass not a kind of television
of Christ's sacrifice on the Cross?

Help all television workers to broadcast the truth
and draw away from falsehood and evil.

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St. Philomena

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St. John Marie Vianney and St. Damien of Molokai both had big devotion to this little saint.

Novena Prayer to St. Philomena

Illustrious Virgin and Martyr, St. Philomena,
behold me prostrate before the throne whereon it has pleased
the Most Holy Trinity to set thee.
Full of confidence in thy protection,
I entreat thee to intercede for me with God.

Ah! From the heights of Heaven deign to cast a glance
upon thy humble client.
Spouse of Christ, sustain me in suffering, fortify me in the
temptation , protect me in the dangers surrounding me,
obtain for me the graces necessary to me, and in particular...
Above all, assist me at the hour of my death. Amen.
St. Philomena, powerful with God- Pray for us.

Saint Philomena - Powerful with God by Sister Marie Helen Mohr, S.C.

San Lorenzo

The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence by Agnolo Bronzino

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It seems that everyone is familiar with the grim humor shown by our saint while he was on the grill.  According to a book I am reading, that was not the rest of the story.

Saint Lawrence by Fra Angelico

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According to Robert Eimer, O.M.I. author of Tilted Haloes, St. Lawrence also continued with the following: 

Martyrdom of St. Lawrency by Valentine De Boulogne

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"It seems that the Roman deacon Lawrence, gleefully, as we hear today, was being roasted alive on a spit over blazing coals.  Turning to his executioners, he remarked: 

The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence by Jacopo Vignali

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'Let my body now be turned; one side is broiled enough.'  Then he added the phrase we seldom hear:  'Eat now, for it is well done.'"

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From World Apostolate of Fatima: Honolulu Division

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The Death of Two Saints

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Today is the feast of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, formerly Edith Stein, a Jewish convert. This Sunday  is the feast of another martyr who died at the hands of the Nazis, St. Maximilian Kolbe, formerly Raymond Kolbe.

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One saint's search for the truth led her from the life of a secular Jew, to atheist to Catholic nun and finally to being canonized a saint.

The other saint knew the truth from a very early age. In fact in a vision, when the Immaculata presented him with the choice of either virgin or martyr, chose both.

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These two saints loved God and His most holy mother with their whole hearts, especially St. Maximilian Kolbe. His love for the Immaculata is still evident today with the many members of the Militia Immaculata.

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Edith Stein was an intellectual. She was a philosopher who could call many famous intellectuals in Germany, friends. It was her love of philosophy that ultimately lead her home to the true Church.

It is very tragic that this nun and priest had to have their lives taken so cruelly and maliciously and so prematurely by evil men.

The following document is from the Netherlands Red Cross.

BUREAU OF INFORMATION OF THE NETHERLANDS RED CROSS
9 Jan Everts Street, 's-Gravenhage, 2 June 1958
Settlement Bureaur for Jewish Affairs
Dossier Nol 108796
Your Letter of May 16, 1958

Certification

The undersigned, Chief of the Settlement Bureau for Jewish Affairs of the Netherlands Red Cross Bureau of Information confirms hereby that according to the papers kept in our archives

Edith Teresa Hedwig Stein

Born on: October 12, 1891 in: Breslau
Last Residence: Monastery of the Carmelite Nuns,
Bovenstrestraat 48, Echt (Holland)
For Reasons of Race, and specifically because of Jewish Descent
on 2 August, 1942, arrested in Echt, via K.L. (Concentration Camp)
Amersfoort (Holland)
On 5 August, 1942, handed over in KI.L. Westerbork and
on 7 August, 1942 deported from K.L. Westerbork to K.L. Auschwitz,
The, above named person is to be considered as having died on 9 August, 1942* in Auschwitz.

Notice to this effect is given on 15 February, 1950 in Echt
...(conditions are given regarding legal procedures)...
(Signed, official seal applied by Chief of the Bureau)

*For official purposes this date of death was established as deduced from various available facts. Individual statements regarding the exact time of death are not available.

Source: Edith Stein: Life in a Jewish Family 1891-1916, An Autobiography

"Thus two weeks passed..." (fellow Pole Bruno Borgowiec's personal testimony.)..."Meanwhile, the prisoners died one after the other, so much so that at the end of the third week only four remained, among whom was Father Kolbe. To the authorities it seemed that they lived on too long. The cell was needed for other victims.

For this reason, on August 14, the criminal Bloch, a German and the director of the hall of the sick, was brought in. He gave everyone an injection of poisonous acid in the left arm. With a prayer on his lips, Father Kolbe held out his arm to the killer. Being unable to stand what my eyes beheld, under the pretext of having to work in the office, I went away.

After the guard and the executioner left, I returned to the cell, where I found Father Maximilian Kolbe sitting down, leaning against the wall, with eyes opened and his head bent to the left side. (It was his usual position.) His serene face was beautifully radiant.

Together with the barber of the block, Mr. Chelbik from Karwina, I took the body of the hero to the bath. Here it was placed in a box and taken to the mortuary cell of the prison.

Thus died the priest, the hero of the camp of Auschwitz, offering himself voluntarily for the father of a family, quiet and tranquil, praying until the last moment.

Source: Saint Maximilian Kolbe: Apostle of Our Difficutl Age, Antonio Ricciardi, OFM Conv.

Father Kolbe died on the vigil of the Feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven. How appropriate!

St. Dominic - Patron Saint of Astronomers

"Death of St. Dominic" by Fra Angelico

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Wonderful Saintly Founder
of the eloquent Order of Preachers
and friend of St. Francis of Assisi,
you were a fiery defender of the Faith
and a fighter against the darkness of heresy.

You resembled a great star that shone close to the world
and pointed to the Light which was Christ.
Help astronomers to study the stars
and admire their wonderful Maker,
proclaiming: "Give glory to God in the highest."

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