THE PING!Posted on 08/23/2002 6:08:13 PM PDT by Lady In Blue
Thanks for the reminder, Salvation, and the post, Lady. Just read a book about St. Rose of LIma in our homeschool recently, she is a beautiful saint.
A couple years late, but thank you also for the reminder of St. Rose of Lima.
Lol ... reading my posts from two years ago, it is remarkable just how much this forum has helped me grow in my faith.
Sorry, I thought that was one of the 2004 posts.
Can you share the name of the book?
THE PING!Sure!
"Angel of the Andes" by Mary Fabyan Windeatt, ours is published in 1943, but I do believe TAN book sells a lot of that author's books. My 9 yr old read it with me and we both enjoyed it.
Wanted to tell you also, Catherine Fournier, author of the article above has good books and a great website for families as well. I have two of her books, both very nice resources for Catholic homeschoolers or non homeschoolers with younger children. Lots of dedication and well put together resources on her website as well.
From the writings of Saint Rose of Lima, virgin
Our Lord and Savior lifted up his voice and said with incomparable majesty:"Let all men know that grace comes after tribulation. Let them know that without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. Let them know that the gifts of grace increase as the struggles increase. Let men take care not to stray and be deceived. This is the only true stairway to paradise, and without the cross they can find no road to climb to heaven."
That same force urged me to proclaim the beauty of divine grace. It pressed me so that my breath came slow and forced me to sweat and pant. I felt as if my soul could no longer be kept in the prison of the body, but that it had burst its chains and was free and alone and was going very swiftly through the whole world saying:"If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! Without doubt they would devote all their care and concern to winning for themselves pains and afflictions. All men throught the world would seek trouble, infirmities and torments, instead of good fortune, in order to attain the unfathomable treasure of grace. This is the reward and the final gain of patience. No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men."
St. Rose of Lima parish in Cleveland, Ohio.
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August 23, 2005
 St. Rose of Lima
(1586-1617)
The first canonized saint of the New World has one characteristic of all saints—the suffering of opposition—and another characteristic which is more for admiration than for imitation—excessive practice of mortification. She was born to parents of Spanish descent in Lima, Peru, at a time when South America was in its first century of evangelization. She seems to have taken Catherine of Siena as a model, in spite of the objections and ridicule of parents and friends. The saints have so great a love of God that what seems bizarre to us, and is indeed sometimes imprudent, is simply a logical carrying out of a conviction that anything that might endanger a loving relationship with God must be rooted out. So, because her beauty was so often admired, Rose used to rub her face with pepper to produce disfiguring blotches. Later, she wore a thick circlet of silver on her head, studded on the inside, like a crown of thorns. When her parents fell into financial trouble, she worked in the garden all day and sewed at night. Ten years of struggle against her parents began when they tried to make Rose marry. They refused to let her enter a convent, and out of obedience she continued her life of penance and solitude at home as a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic. So deep was her desire to live the life of Christ that she spent most of her time at home in solitude. During the last few years of her life, Rose set up a room in the house where she cared for homeless children, the elderly and the sick. This was a beginning of social services in Peru. Though secluded in life and activity, she was brought to the attention of Inquisition interrogators, who could only say that she was influenced by grace. What might have been a merely eccentric life was transfigured from the inside. If we remember some unusual penances, we should also remember the greatest thing about Rose: a love of God so ardent that it withstood ridicule from without, violent temptation and lengthy periods of sickness. When she died at 31, the city turned out for her funeral. Prominent men took turns carrying her coffin. Quote:
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![[Saint Rose stained glass window]](http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/str04008.jpg "17kb jpg Saint Rose of Lima stained glass window, Saint Joseph's Cathedral, Macon, Georgia, USA; artist unknown; photographed by the author summer 2003; if you have information on this image, please email me; please do not write to ask about the image")
Saint Rose pray for us.
Ignoring the concerns about self mortification, I was impressed with her literacy. She was born in Peru in the 1500s, for heaven’s sake! Her mother was Incan! Somebody taught her to read and write. We did not have reading and writing females in North America at that time. I am so impressed!
Then, think about how she made her living! She sold her home grown flowers in the market in the late 1500s! Somebody was buying them to enable her to live and support her family and her charities.
I never imagined Peru in the 1500s to be able to support such a lifestyle. I learned something new today and came away with new respect for St. Rose of Lima. Thank you for posting.
I wonder if I could find a statue of her for my garden...
That may be a challenge but you might want to consider making a Mary Garden
Perhaps next year. We are already past the end of our planting season. I’ll put it in the garden book to plan for spring.
Saint Rose of Lima, Virgin
Optional Memorial
August 23rd
St Rose of Lima
Paintings from 1661
by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Oil on canvas
Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid
History:
St. Rose of Lima, patroness of America was born at Lima, Peru April 20,1586. She had a great reverence, and pronounced love, for all things relating to God. She gave her life to prayer and mortification. She had an intense devotion to the Infant Jesus and His Blessed Mother, before whose altar she spent hours. She was scrupulously obedient and of untiring industry, making rapid progress by earnest attention to her parents' instruction, to her studies, and to her domestic work, especially with her needle. After reading of St. Catherine she determined to take that saint as her model. Many hours were spent before the Blessed Sacrament, which she received daily. She determined to take a vow of virginity. At the outset she had to combat the opposition of her parents, who wished her to marry. For ten years the struggle continued before she won, by patience and prayer, their consent to continue her mission. Her days were filled with acts of charity and industry, her exquisite lace and embroidery helping to support her home, while her nights were devoted to prayer and penance. When her work permitted, she retired to a little grotto which she had built, with her brother's aid, in their small garden, and there passed her nights in solitude and prayer. In her twentieth year she received the habit of St. Dominic. She offered to Him all her mortifications and penances in expiation for offenses against His Divine Majesty, for the idolatry of her country, for the conversion of sinners, and for the souls in Purgatory.
She died August 30, 1617. Many miracles followed her death. She was beatified by Clement IX, in 1667, and canonized in 1671 by Clement X, the first American to be so honoured. She is represented wearing a crown of roses.
(Principal source - Catholic Encyclopedia - 1913 edition)
Collect:
God our Father,
for love of you
St. Rose gave up everything
to devote herself to a life of penance.
By the help of her prayers
may we imitate her selfless way of life on earth
and enjoy the fullness of your blessings in heaven.
Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
First Reading: 2 Corinthians 10:17-11:2
"Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord." For it is not the man who commends himself that is accepted, but the man whom the Lord commends.
I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to Christ to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.
Gospel Reading: Matthew 13:44-46
"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.
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