at the outset of lent

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One can say: "I will, but my body does not obey me"; but not: "My will does not obey me."
-- St. Augustine

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Thu22 May
Easter

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Rita of Cascia, Religious

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Rita Cascia (1386-1457). After eighteen years of married life, St. Rita lost, by death, her husband and her two sons. Called afterwards to the religious state, she professed the Rule of St. Augustine at Cascia her native town, in central Italy. In a life-long and…

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