St. Rose of Lima
Feast date: Aug 23
On August 23, the church celebrates the first saint of the New World, St. Rose of Lima. Isabel Flores de Oliva was born in Lima, Peru on April 30, 1586, daughter of Gaspar Flores and Maria de Oliva. She was baptized in the parish of San Sebastián in Lima by the priest, Fr. Antonio Polanco. She was confirmed in the village of Quives de Manos by the then Archbishop of Lima, St. Toribius de Mogrovejo.
At a very young age, she chose to consecrate her life to God. She practiced very intense prayer and penance daily, sometimes depriving herself of food and sleep.
She joined the Third Order of St. Dominic and lived in a little hut in her parents’ garden, working to help support them. She was ill for the last three years of her life, and was cared for by a government official and his wife. She diedat the age of 31 on August 24, 1617, feast of St. Bartholomew, as she herself prophesied.
She was canonized by Pope Clement X in 1671, and was the first saint of the Americas. Her shrine, alongside those of her friends, St. Martin de Porres and St. John Masias, is located inside the convent of St. Dominic in Lima.
Source: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-rose-of-lima-577
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Sainte Rose of Lima! Not much of the extraordinary is said about this saintly little girl, who commonly responded to the call from God, but with the difference that St. Rose became the very first saint of the Americas. This article by CNA gives entire justice, because she represents the plain “extraordinary within the ordinary” as well as “the very ordinary within the extraordinary” of the multitude of Catholics who all, more or less, live or aspire at living like this sincere, loving and with an untouched integrity, saintly life such as for the case of Isabel Flores de Oliva: as ” joining the Third Order of St. Dominic and living in a little hut in her parents’ garden, working to help support them.”
If I may enrich this just article…, this typing hand, can give you a testimonial about St. Rose of Lima’s intercession.
It was during a hot and dry Summer noon hour of year 2008. Friends told me to “check-out” this new church of the south-east “Mount Rose” suburb of Reno. I went. The church was packed because it was the end of the main Sunday’s prime-time service. The usual crowd of the upper middle-class of the State of Nevada was represented in its fullness in that assembly; that is well dressed people in chic “golf-outfits” and women in semi-modest dresses or elegant sports-wear for modern ladies, and many children of the type of filling-up all the rutilent luxury SUV’s parked outside on the tidy circular parking lot.
I walked up-stream of the…
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I walked up-stream of the crowd, while entering the building. The inside looks like that: the nave and the sanctuary are standard ‘modern churches’ design, that is semi-circular gradually stepping down towards the table in the middle which is being surrounded with rows of benches.
The inside is typical good taste of the architecture of the South-West, that is an evocation to the haciendas of the post “Guadalupe” Catholic glorious expansion. The light of the inside is soft, due to rows of little Spanish windows which supersede each one an other at each floor level. I counted three flights from ground level. In fine, it is a big church building, welcoming, and perfectly adapted to the rigors of the high-desert weather.
While the departing crowd noise was becoming fading away, leaving just a little group of porters chatting softly by the entrance, I began my prayer. A porter, after a little while came to me, to tell that they had to close the church. I so resumed my rosary prayer at the foot of the statue of St. Rose. I admit knowing nothing about this St. Rose of Lima, but that white statue standing alone in the deserted parking lot became my sole company. Once the prayer finished, I had no plan for the rest of the day, so I casually put on the riding gear and helmet and rode “south”. No! I do not ride Harley’s, but only fast Jap-bikes. Where to go? I became like guided, but not very far away! just a few miles, right at the limit of the…
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… and helmet and rode “south”. No! I do not ride Harley’s, but only fast Jap-bikes. Where to go? I became like guided, but not very far away! just a few miles, right at the limit of the Washoe county-line on the US Highway 395 S., until when my eyes caught a small indication; “Chapel of the Holy Spirit. Traditional Latin Mass”.
The chapel’s little parking lot was naturally empty, while nevertheless offering a pleasant freshness of pine tree shade’s. I made a date to return on the following Sunday for Mass. It turned-out that from that moment, began a dramatic stepping-up into my militantisme for the roman Catholic Church. I acknowledge that I owe this said stepping up (as a Church militant) to my informal visit to this ‘unknown’ Saint Rose of Lima’s brand new church of the Reno Diocese.
Saint Rose of Lima, the gentle little sainte of the Americas, pray for us.