#the feast day of st Augustine is in 6 days…. this felt fitting

[catholicsapphic]

Crying because of course Rita became a notoriously active saint who listens to petitions and intercedes with all her might. Of course she did, because she was the one praying for something impossible, it's her knees that quite literally marked the rock on the spot she prayed at until she was heard. And it's her life that was changed because she was heard, because her own desperate cause turned into a reality by the intercession of the three saints she venerated, swooping in to take her to the convent, to do something so miraculous it would become a big part of why she's associated with impossible causes.

Of course she does all she can when we pray to her with a desperate situation, because she was desperate first. Of course she listens to each of our petitions with the care of a mother, because no one has ever understood the importance a patron saint more than her. I think that when she intercedes before God for us, she's still thinking about John the baptist, Augustine and Nicholas of Tolentino. I think that she's still thanking them. I think she is thrilled she gets to do the same for us