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It's the Feast of V Sunday of Pentecost, 2nd Class, with the color of Green. In this episode: the meditation: "Pharisaism", today's news from the Church: "Declaration of Bishop Athanasius Schneider on the SSPX Consecrations", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org
Sources Used Today:
• "Pharisaism" — From Trinity Sunday to the Assumption
• angeluspress.org/products/from-trinity-sunday-to-the-assumption
• "Declaration of Bishop Athanasius Schneider on the SSPX Consecrations" (FSSPX.news)
• https://fsspx.news/en/news/declaration-bishop-athanasius-schneider-sspx-consecrations-59493
• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
• angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
Please support our new project, the Archbishop Lefebvre Biography Audiobook!
• Learn more:youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Wp4MQdK2o
• Donate:https://sspx.gifts/audiobook
Saint Vincenza Gerosa never expected to found a religious congregation or become known throughout the Church. By all appearances, she was simply a generous woman caring for the needs of her hometown. Yet God often builds great works from ordinary acts of charity faithfully repeated.
She was born in 1784 in Lovere, a small town on the shores of Lake Iseo in northern Italy. Raised in a devout Catholic family, Vincenza grew up with a practical faith. She was known for her kindness, her good judgment, and her willingness to help anyone in need. After the death of her father, she took on responsibility for the family's business, proving herself capable in both financial matters and caring for others.
Everything changed when she met Bartolomea Capitanio.
The two women could hardly have been more different. Bartolomea was energetic, visionary, and overflowing with ideas. Vincenza was quieter, steady, and practical. One dreamed big; the other knew how to turn those dreams into reality.
Together, they made a remarkable team.
The women of Lovere were surrounded by poverty, sickness, and children with little opportunity for education. Rather than waiting for someone else to solve those problems, Bartolomea and Vincenza opened a small house where they cared for the sick, taught girls, visited the poor, and shared the Catholic faith. What began as a simple local work gradually attracted other women who wanted to live the same life of service.
Then, only a few months after the community was founded, tragedy struck. Bartolomea died at just twenty-six years old.
At that moment, the entire work could easily have disappeared.
Instead, Vincenza quietly stepped forward.
She wasn't the founder everyone noticed. She wasn't the gifted visionary or the charismatic speaker. But she possessed something just as important: perseverance. She spent the next forty years guiding the young congregation with wisdom, humility, and remarkable stability. Under her leadership, the Sisters of Charity of Saints Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa spread throughout Italy and eventually to missions around the world, serving in schools, hospitals, orphanages, and homes for the poor.
Visitors to Lovere today can still pray at the motherhouse where the two saints began their work. Walking its halls, it's hard not to think about how many thousands of lives have been touched because two women simply decided to love the people God placed in front of them.
Vincenza's story reminds us that not every saint is called to begin something spectacular. Sometimes God asks us to faithfully continue the good work that someone else has started.
Saint Vincenza Gerosa, steadfast servant of charity and faithful friend, pray for us.
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• Visit the US District website:sspx.org
What is the SSPX Podcast?
The SSPX Podcast is produced by Angelus Press (angeluspress.org/pages/our-apostolate) , which has as its mission the fortification of traditional Catholics so that they can defend the Faith, and reaching out to those who have not yet found Tradition.
What is the SSPX?
The main goal of the Society of Saint Pius X is to preserve the Catholic Fa...
It's the Feast of V Sunday of Pentecost, 2nd Class, with the color of Green. In this episode: the meditation: "Pharisaism", today's news from the Church: "Declaration of Bishop Athanasius Schneider on the SSPX Consecrations", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org
Sources Used Today:
• "Pharisaism" — From Trinity Sunday to the Assumption
• angeluspress.org/products/from-trinity-sunday-to-the-assumption
• "Declaration of Bishop Athanasius Schneider on the SSPX Consecrations" (FSSPX.news)
• https://fsspx.news/en/news/declaration-bishop-athanasius-schneider-sspx-consecrations-59493
• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
• angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
Please support our new project, the Archbishop Lefebvre Biography Audiobook!
• Learn more:youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Wp4MQdK2o
• Donate:https://sspx.gifts/audiobook
Saint Vincenza Gerosa never expected to found a religious congregation or become known throughout the Church. By all appearances, she was simply a generous woman caring for the needs of her hometown. Yet God often builds great works from ordinary acts of charity faithfully repeated.
She was born in 1784 in Lovere, a small town on the shores of Lake Iseo in northern Italy. Raised in a devout Catholic family, Vincenza grew up with a practical faith. She was known for her kindness, her good judgment, and her willingness to help anyone in need. After the death of her father, she took on responsibility for the family's business, proving herself capable in both financial matters and caring for others.
Everything changed when she met Bartolomea Capitanio.
The two women could hardly have been more different. Bartolomea was energetic, visionary, and overflowing with ideas. Vincenza was quieter, steady, and practical. One dreamed big; the other knew how to turn those dreams into reality.
Together, they made a remarkable team.
The women of Lovere were surrounded by poverty, sickness, and children with little opportunity for education. Rather than waiting for someone else to solve those problems, Bartolomea and Vincenza opened a small house where they cared for the sick, taught girls, visited the poor, and shared the Catholic faith. What began as a simple local work gradually attracted other women who wanted to live the same life of service.
Then, only a few months after the community was founded, tragedy struck. Bartolomea died at just twenty-six years old.
At that moment, the entire work could easily have disappeared.
Instead, Vincenza quietly stepped forward.
She wasn't the founder everyone noticed. She wasn't the gifted visionary or the charismatic speaker. But she possessed something just as important: perseverance. She spent the next forty years guiding the young congregation with wisdom, humility, and remarkable stability. Under her leadership, the Sisters of Charity of Saints Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa spread throughout Italy and eventually to missions around the world, serving in schools, hospitals, orphanages, and homes for the poor.
Visitors to Lovere today can still pray at the motherhouse where the two saints began their work. Walking its halls, it's hard not to think about how many thousands of lives have been touched because two women simply decided to love the people God placed in front of them.
Vincenza's story reminds us that not every saint is called to begin something spectacular. Sometimes God asks us to faithfully continue the good work that someone else has started.
Saint Vincenza Gerosa, steadfast servant of charity and faithful friend, pray for us.
Please Support this Apostolate with 1-time or Monthly Donation ＞＞ (https://sspx.gifts/collections/frontpage/products/sspx-podcast)
- - - - - -
Explore more:
• Subscribe to the email version of this Devotional (us13.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=c98bae64255bbd7d863e838ec&id=7e99fe6b53) - it's a perfect companion!
• Subscribe to this Podcast (https://sspx-podcast.captivate.fm/listen) to receive this and all our audio episodes
• Subscribe to the SSPX YouTube channel (youtube.com/c/SSPXNewsEnglish?sub_confirmation=1) for video versions of our podcast series and Sermons
• FSSPX News Website:https://fsspx.news (https://fsspx.news/en)
• Visit the US District website:sspx.org
What is the SSPX Podcast?
The SSPX Podcast is produced by Angelus Press (angeluspress.org/pages/our-apostolate) , which has as its mission the fortification of traditional Catholics so that they can defend the Faith, and reaching out to those who have not yet found Tradition.
What is the SSPX?
The main goal of the Society of Saint Pius X is to preserve the Catholic Fa...
