St. Josaphat of
Polotsk, Nov. 12: Who?
He was born in Lithuania around
the year 1580. A mystical experience during
childhood inspired him to commit Church rituals and psalms to memory, and to
desire poverty and martyrdom for Jesus. As an archbishop, his work to reunite
the Eastern Church with Rome incited so much wrath that he was indeed martyred. St. Josaphat, patron of Christian unity, pray
that we grow in charity and end our divisions through love.
St. Frances
Xavier Cabrini, Nov. 13: My Italian grandmother, Frances, kept a
statue of Mother Cabrini on her dresser.
Unfortunately, I don’t know where she got it or what happened to it
after she passed. Like my grandmother,
Frances Cabrini was an immigrant who became a naturalized citizen. The first U.S. citizen to be canonized
(1946), she is the patroness of immigrants.
She founded nearly 70 institutions, including orphanages, hospitals and
schools. Mother Cabrini, pray that we
have a heart for the most vulnerable and serve them as we would Jesus.
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