{"id":12191,"date":"2025-05-24T11:27:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T09:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/feast-of-saint-rita\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T11:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T09:31:43","slug":"feast-of-saint-rita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/en\/feast-of-saint-rita\/","title":{"rendered":"Feast of Saint Rita"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-810a4cd0c256977870d5bb3571584321\"><em>A saint for today<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-123688fb58036f3a86a3e85f6caac802\" style=\"color:#00578a\">  The feast of the saint of desperate causes continues to attract as many people as ever. It&#8217;s true that Saint Rita&#8217;s life has taken her through every possible state: poor then financially well-off, married then widowed, mother and finally nun. Her many sufferings and, despite them, her perseverance in following Christ make her a credible witness for our times. Not to mention her relentless struggle to convert her husband to the non-violence of Christ, and her many successful attempts to bring peace between rival families. Here&#8217;s a look back at the festivities that took place in our chapel-sanctuary of Saint Rita.    <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_195703-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_195703-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_195703-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_195703-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_195703-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_195703-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<div 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1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_182640-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_182640-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_182640-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_182640-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_182640-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_182640-2-2048x1153.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-478b6e6b wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0097-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0097-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0097-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0097-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0097-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0097-2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0095-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0095-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0095-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0095-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0095-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0095-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_182814-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_182814-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_182814-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_182814-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_182814-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522_182814-1-2048x1153.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-976e07bcd5c177a11767f44cca7e23eb\" style=\"color:#045d90\">  For those who don&#8217;t know, the Oblates of the Virgin Mary (o.m.v.) who run this chapel-sanctuary are responsible for the pastoral care of two other churches around the world, also dedicated to Saint Rita. In Nice, first of all, in Vieux-Nice, where devotion to Saint Rita began, and then moved on to Fontenay-aux-Roses. But also in Buenos Aires, with the parish-sanctuary of Saint Rita.    <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250521-WA0009-1-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250521-WA0009-1-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250521-WA0009-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250521-WA0009-1-768x615.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250521-WA0009-1.jpg 1407w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0080-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0080-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0080-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0080-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0080-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250522-WA0080.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>  May Saint Rita continue to intercede for each and every one of us before God. Amen.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A saint for today. The feast of the saint of desperate causes continues to attract as many people as ever. It&#8217;s true that Saint Rita&#8217;s life has taken her through every possible state: poor then financially well-off, married then widowed, mother and finally nun. Her many sufferings and, despite them, her perseverance in following Christ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12203,"href":"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions\/12203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chapelle-sainte-rita.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}