Post by Séamus on Nov 10, 2023 13:08:06 GMT
It happened that I pulled a lone prayer card from a box of old books a few days ago- a black-veiled, navy-blue-habited nun with a noticeably eastern or Mediterranean face.
It took me until today to look her up.
Turns out that she's perhaps the first modern Palestinian saint,so-called, Bl. Marie Alphonsine Gatthas, beatified in 2009.
The prayer is quite long but an edited version might be worth including in the light of events in that area?
"Our Father in heaven, You inspired Your servant Blessed Marie Alphonsine to found the Congregation of the Rosary... Transform us into persons that truly love Christ, so that our life might be good news for our contemporary world... Bestow on us through the mediation of Your servant the grace that we may render glory and adoration to You, God our Father, with Your Son and Your Holy Spirit for every and ever"
I'd been looking at images of the Apocalypse of Angers Tapestry (Robert Poinçon and Jean Bondol 1373-80) lately. Almost comical to see St John looking out at the warring angels and beasts from the safety of a small but stately building, symbolising either the Church or a grand place of incarceration, in one section covering his mouth with his hand in shock as the many-headed dragon gets belted.
Notwithstanding opinions in abundance and often violent protests world-wide, most of us as we see the Holy Land tearing itself up,like the pensive St John of the Angers tapestry, can only pray anyway.
It took me until today to look her up.
Turns out that she's perhaps the first modern Palestinian saint,so-called, Bl. Marie Alphonsine Gatthas, beatified in 2009.
The prayer is quite long but an edited version might be worth including in the light of events in that area?
"Our Father in heaven, You inspired Your servant Blessed Marie Alphonsine to found the Congregation of the Rosary... Transform us into persons that truly love Christ, so that our life might be good news for our contemporary world... Bestow on us through the mediation of Your servant the grace that we may render glory and adoration to You, God our Father, with Your Son and Your Holy Spirit for every and ever"
I'd been looking at images of the Apocalypse of Angers Tapestry (Robert Poinçon and Jean Bondol 1373-80) lately. Almost comical to see St John looking out at the warring angels and beasts from the safety of a small but stately building, symbolising either the Church or a grand place of incarceration, in one section covering his mouth with his hand in shock as the many-headed dragon gets belted.
Notwithstanding opinions in abundance and often violent protests world-wide, most of us as we see the Holy Land tearing itself up,like the pensive St John of the Angers tapestry, can only pray anyway.