I thank You for the life that began for so short a time to enjoy so long an Eternity. I breathed a soul into a seed, made it grow and called it forth
He was created for My joy and his parents’ merits. I create for My Kingdom and each creature fills a place in that Kingdom that could not be filled by another. He laughs with a special joy that only the innocent possess. He knows secrets of heaven unknown to men on earth. He was created and lived a short time so the image of his parents imprinted on his face may stand before Me as their personal intercessor. Instead of the beauty that passes he sees everlasting Beauty-he sees My face. Instead of the wind he hears the sound of angels singing before My throne. “Why, My child-do you ask ‘why’? Well, I will tell you why. 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.Why, my Lord-dare I ask why? It will not hear the whisper of the wind or see the beauty of its parents’ face-it will not see the beauty of Your creation or the flame of a sunrise. 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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