SAINTS TO LIVE BY BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE ST. BONAVENTURE CWL #72 MAY 2014 May is for Mary! May is a very special month in our Church calendar. It is a month dedicated to Our Blessed Mother who is Mary, the mother of Jesus and heavenly mother to us all! Here at St. Bonaventure we honour Mary with a very special evening entitled ‘The Living Rosary’. People gather to pray the Rosary, an ancient prayer dedicated to Our Lady. We ask Mary to carry our prayers to Jesus, Her Son. May is also the month in which we honour our mothers here on earth on Mother’s Day. Where would we be When she was living at home with and arrows while they were without our precious mothers? her mother she would invite the teaching! This did not stop Rose Perhaps you could say a special neighbourhood women and girls to from carrying out God’s will in her prayer on Mother’s Day, thanking pray the Rosary. She soon life. Rose died in Rome on May Jesus for the gift of your Mom. discovered that many of these 7th, 1728 and in 1952 she was Also in this month we recognize St. women did not know very much beatified. Perhaps if you have a about their faith and began special teacher you would like to Rose Venerini, St. Brendan the instructing them. A priest by the pray for you could ask St. Rose for Navigator, St. Julia of Carthage and name of Father Ignatius Martinelli her help. Her feast day is May St. Bernard of Montjoux. told her that she should become a 7th. teacher. In 1685 Rose opened a St. Rose Venerini preschool for girls in Viterbo. The So in May we honour our Heavenly Mother as well as St. Rose was born in Viterbo, Italy in school blossomed! In 1692 those here on earth. We wish all 1656. Her father was a doctor. She Cardinal Barbarigo asked her to mothers in our parish a Happy had a male friend but he died and she help train teachers in the diocese Mother’s Day and a happy feast decided to enter the convent. After a of Montefisconi. It was there that day to all with the name of Rose, few months she was forced to return Rose established a number of Brendan, Julia and Bernard. home to look after her widowed schools sometimes in the face of mother. Rose was given the gift of danger in that some of the being a good teacher and organizer. teachers were attacked with bows SAINT BRENDAN THE century entitled, The Voyage of Brendan, he may have sailed as far as the Americas NAVIGATOR as early as the 8th century, before the St. Brendan was born in 484 in Tralee, Vikings. St. Brendan died in 577 in County Kerry, in the southwest of Enachduin. His feast day is May 16th.. Ireland. He was ordained a priest in 512. For the next 20 years Brendan sailed around the coast of Ireland preaching the Did you know... Gospel and establishing many monasteries. He must have been a very if you or someone you know is going to Many people think that St. Brendan brave and faith filled man because travel be traveling by boat you could pray to discovered America nearly 1,000 years St. Brendan for their safety. According by boat was very difficult in those days before Christopher Columbus. and there were many hardships. Perhaps to a Latin publication of the early ninth Saint Julia of Carthage Saint Julia of Carthage lived in KIDS CORNER the 5th.Century. When the city teacher of Carthage was captured she Ireland was sold in slavery to a merchant Saint Brendan named Eusebius. Despite her slavery position she remained cheerful Eusebius and patient, devoting her spare Living Rosary time to prayer. Eusebius was hanged charmed by her many virtues cheerfulness and took her with him on his Mothers Day voyages. When anchored in priest Corsica he went ashore for a skiers pagan festival. Knowing of her Alps faith he left Julia behind. This monastery angered the governor who Navigator offered to trade four of his best female slaves for her. Eusebius refused. The governor then offered Julia her freedom if she would worship his gods. Julia answered that she was as free as she wished to be as long as she Words to find: bow and arrows was allowed to serve Jesus Saint Julia of Carthage Saint Bernard of Montjoux Christ. In retaliation he ordered Saint Rose Venerini North America her hanged. In 1809 she was declared the patron Saint of Corsica. Julia gives us an example made Vicar General of Aosta, and regular and built a monastery. The of cheerfulness and happiness in spent more than four decades Order continued into the twentieth serving Jesus no matter the doing missionary work in the century. He was proclaimed the circumstances of our lives. Her Alps. He built schools and patron saint of Alpinists and feast day is May 22. churches but is especially mountain climbers by Pope Pius remembered for two Alpine XI in 1923. He is also considered Saint Bernard of hospices he built to aid lost patron and protector of skiers Montjoux travelers in the mountain passes because of his missionary work named Great and Little Bernard, throughout the Alps. His feast day Bernard was probably born in after him. The men who ran them is May 28. Italy. He became a priest, was became Augustinian canons Feast Days to Remember PRAYER TO ST. JULIA OF CARTHAGE St. Rose Venerini Jesus, owing to Your death on the May 7 cross and Your resurrection, the St. Brendan faithful have a hope for eternal life the Navigator that lets them boldly counter life May 16 hardships. St. Julia of Let the example of St. Julia be a Carthage May 22 motivation for us to stay by You for St. Bernard of ever. You live and reign for ages and ages. Montjoux May 28 Amen.