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Saint Maria Boscardin Oct 20 breski1 on Oct 19, 2007 (1888-1922) If anyone knew rejection, ridicule and disappointment, it was today’s saint. But such trials only brought Maria Bertilla Boscardin closer …More
Saint Maria Boscardin Oct 20
breski1 on Oct 19, 2007 (1888-1922)
If anyone knew rejection, ridicule and disappointment, it was today’s saint. But such trials only brought Maria Bertilla Boscardin closer to God and more determined to serve him. Born in Italy in 1888, the young girl lived in fear of her father, a violent man prone to jealousy and drunkenness. Her schooling was limited so that she could spend more time helping at home and working in the fields. She showed few talents and was often the butt of jokes.
In 1904 she joined the Sisters of St. Dorothy and was assigned to work in the kitchen, bakery and laundry. After some time Maria received nurses’ training and began working in a hospital with children suffering from diphtheria. There the young nun seemed to find her true vocation: nursing very ill and disturbed children. Later, when the hospital was taken over by the military in World War I, Sister Maria Bertilla fearlessly cared for patients amidst the threat of constant air …More
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Thursday of the Twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time
Letter to the Romans 6:19-23.

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawless ness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
But …More
Thursday of the Twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time

Letter to the Romans 6:19-23.

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawless ness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification, and its end is eternal life.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalms 1:1-2.3.4.6.
Happy those who do not follow the counsel of the wicked, Nor go the way of sinners, nor sit in company with scoffers.
Rather, the law of the LORD is their joy; God's law they study day and night.
They are like a tree planted near streams of water, that yields its fruit in season; Its leaves never wither; whatever they do prospers.
But not the wicked! They are like chaff driven by the wind.

The LORD watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 12:49-53.
I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.
From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three;
a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

Commentary of the day : Saint Faustina Kowalska
“To light a fire on the earth”: the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:3)

www.dailygospel.org
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Saints for 20 October
Acca
Adelina
Aderald
Aidan of Mayo
Andrew of Crete
Artemius Megalomartyr
Barsabas
Bernard of Bagnorea
Bertilla Boscardin
Bradan
Caprasius
Francis Diaz
Francis Serrano
Gundisalvus of Silos
Irene
Martha
Mary-Teresa de Soubiran
Maximus of Aquila
Orora
Paul of the Cross
Saula
Sindulphus of Rheims
Ursula Benincasa
Usthazanes
Vitalis
William of Savigny
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Saints for 20 October

Acca
Adelina
Aderald
Aidan of Mayo
Andrew of Crete
Artemius Megalomartyr
Barsabas
Bernard of Bagnorea
Bertilla Boscardin
Bradan
Caprasius
Francis Diaz
Francis Serrano

Gundisalvus of Silos
Irene
Martha
Mary-Teresa de Soubiran
Maximus of Aquila
Orora
Paul of the Cross
Saula
Sindulphus of Rheims
Ursula Benincasa
Usthazanes
Vitalis
William of Savigny
saints.sqpn.com/20-october
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October 20 St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin
(1888-1922) If anyone knew rejection, ridicule and disappointment, it was today’s saint. But such trials only brought Maria Bertilla Boscardin closer to God and more determined to serve him.
Born in Italy in 1888, the young girl lived in fear of her father, a violent man prone to jealousy and drunkenness. Her schooling was limited so that she could spend more …More
October 20 St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin
(1888-1922) If anyone knew rejection, ridicule and disappointment, it was today’s saint. But such trials only brought Maria Bertilla Boscardin closer to God and more determined to serve him.
Born in Italy in 1888, the young girl lived in fear of her father, a violent man prone to jealousy and drunkenness. Her schooling was limited so that she could spend more time helping at home and working in the fields. She showed few talents and was often the butt of jokes.
In 1904 she joined the Sisters of St. Dorothy and was assigned to work in the kitchen, bakery and laundry. After some time Maria received nurses’ training and began working in a hospital with children suffering from diphtheria. There the young nun seemed to find her true vocation: nursing very ill and disturbed children. Later, when the hospital was taken over by the military in World War I, Sister Maria Bertilla fearlessly cared for patients amidst the threat of constant air raids and bombings.
She died in 1922 after suffering for many years from a painful tumor. Some of the patients she had nursed many years before were present at her canonization in 1961.
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