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Tag: St Rose of Lima
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Rose
I read about a little girl, Rose her name. She was in her early teens. Her mother had died and Rose had taken her mother’s place in looking after the younger children, including the baby, Michael, just one year old. Her father desperately sought part-time work to try to earn enough for the family to…
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Mothers
Saint Rose, devout Virgin, fragrant rose in the garden of God, sweetly blooming amid the thorns of distressing tribulation and severe mortification, white as snow in the immaculate innocence of your heart, glowing in the love of God that consumed you…
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St Rose of Lima
Admirable Saint Rose, you were truly a sweet flower blooming on a rugged soil; you were indeed a rose among thorns, bearing, with meekness and patience, the stings of envious tongues, while preserving perfect purity and modesty amid the alluring blandishments of a deceitful world…
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St Rose of Lima
Featured Saint: St Rose of Lima (1586 – 1617) St Rose was born Isabel Flores in Lima, Peru; her country was then a Spanish colony. She chose the name Rose at her Confirmation. St Rose emulated the life of St Catherine of Siena. She fasted three times a week, abstained from meat, performed many physical…
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Prayer 23rd Aug – St Rose
Featured Saint: St Rose of Lima (1586 – 1617) St Rose was born Isabel Flores in Lima, Peru when her country was a Spanish colony. She chose the name Rose at the time of her Confirmation. St Rose emulated the life of St Catherine of Siena. She fasting three times a week, abstained from meat,…