Saints/Feasts/Fasts to be commemmorated/celebrated:
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Feastday: November 13
Patron of immigrants
1917
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin (Feast day November 13) St. Frances was born in Lombardi, Italy in 1850, one of thirteen children. At eighteen, she desired to become a Nun, but poor health stood in her way. She helped her parents until their death, and then worked on a farm with her brothers and sisters.
One day a priest asked her to teach in a girls' school and she stayed for six years. At the request of her Bishop, she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart to care for poor children in schools and hospitals. Then at the urging of Pope Leo XIII she came to the United States with six nuns in 1889 to work among the Italian immigrants.
Filled with a deep trust in God and endowed with a wonderful administrative ability, this remarkable woman soon founded schools, hospitals, and orphanages in this strange land and saw them flourish in the aid of Italian immigrants and children. At the time of her death, at Chicago, Illinois on December 22, 1917, her institute numbered houses in England, France, Spain, the United States, and South America. In 1946, she became the first American citizen to be canonized when she was elevated to sainthood by Pope Pius XII. St. Frances is the patroness of immigrants.
More Saints of the Day
•St. Homobonus
•St. Brice
•St. Didacus
•St. Abbo
•St. Arcadius and Companions
•St. Caillin
•St. Chillien
•St. Columba
•St. Columba
•St. Dalmatius
•St. Devinicus
•St. Gredifael
•St. Quintian
•St. Maxellendis
•St. Mitrius
Daily Readings for Saturday November 13, 2010
Nov 12, 2010 (23 hours ago)
Psalm - Ps 112:1-6
1 Alleluia. Of the return of Haggai and Zachariah. Blessed is the man who fears the Lord. He will prefer his commandments exceedingly.2 His offspring will be powerful on the earth. The generation of the upright will be blessed.3 Glory and wealth will be in his house, and his justice shall remain from age to age.4 For the upright, a light has risen up in the darkness. He is merciful and compassionate and just.5 Pleasing is the man who shows mercy and lends. He will order his words with judgment.6 For he will not be disturbed in eternity
Reading 1, 3 Jn 5-8
5 My dear friend, you have done loyal work in helping these brothers, even though they were strangers to you.
6 They are a proof to the whole Church of your love and it would be a kindness if you could help them on their journey as God would approve.
7 It was entirely for the sake of the name that they set out, without depending on the non-believers for anything:
8 it is our duty to welcome people of this sort and contribute our share to their work for the truth.
Gospel, Lk 18:1-8
1 Then he told them a parable about the need to pray continually and never lose heart.
2 'There was a judge in a certain town,' he said, 'who had neither fear of God nor respect for anyone.
3 In the same town there was also a widow who kept on coming to him and saying, "I want justice from you against my enemy!"
4 For a long time he refused, but at last he said to himself, "Even though I have neither fear of God nor respect for any human person,
5 I must give this widow her just rights since she keeps pestering me, or she will come and slap me in the face." '
6 And the Lord said, 'You notice what the unjust judge has to say?
7 Now, will not God see justice done to his elect if they keep calling to him day and night even though he still delays to help them?
8 I promise you, he will see justice done to them, and done speedily. But when the Son of man comes, will he find any faith on earth?'
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