Wednesday, January 30, Third Week in Ordinary Time
ST. GIACINTA (Hyacinth) MARISCOTTI (Italy, 1585-1640)
Virgin, Third Order Franciscan, Founder, Oblates of Mary
Daughter of a noble family in Viterbo, Clarice Mariscotti decided to join the Franciscan
Third Order for laywomen, taking the name Giacinta, after a nobleman she hoped to
marry chose her sister instead. However, she spent the next 15 years living comfortably
amid colleagues who strictly observed the Franciscan rule. During a severe illness,
her confessor counselled her to change her ways, and she did - divesting herself of
every comfort and thereafter living penitentially, doing humble work in the convent.
She later established confraternities devoted to helping the poor, the aged and
prisoners, and to promote Eucharistic adoration. She became so renowned for her
holiness that when she died, people who came to venerate her took away pieces of
her clothing so that her garments had to be replaced three times while she lay in
state. She is buried in the Poor Clares convent in Viterbo and was canonized in 1807.
Readings for today's Mass: www.usccb.org/bible/readings/013013.cfm
AT THE VATICAN TODAY
General Audience - Continuing with his presentation of the articles of faith that we profess in the Credo.
the Holy Father focused on the second phrase in the first article, "I believe in God the Father almighty",
as the first fundamental definition of God that we are given, a God who shows us what it truly means
to be a father.
@Pontifex 1/30/13
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