Amazing Story of St. Rita! The Saint of Impossible Cases
Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
The Marian Fathers
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
We all know the top saints who can help us with specific needs. But how about impossible cases? That would be the job for St. Rita. Make her your patron saint and find out how she can help you now. Hear Fr. Chris Alar explain her amazing story!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good morning and welcome everybody to the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm Father Chris. It's a joy to have you with us here for a live talk on explaining the faith. |
| 0:10.0 | We have a nice full house today. |
| 0:12.0 | I want to say a big shout out, first of all, to a group that came up from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. |
| 0:19.0 | They are with us, and so I think your pastor is here too, right? Oh, |
| 0:23.6 | very good. Hi, Father. Thank you. Thank you for coming. And we also want to shout out to our |
| 0:29.0 | retreat group that's in Eden Hill this weekend, our benefactor retreat, because as you can see, |
| 0:36.3 | our monastery, and don't leave the grounds |
| 0:38.3 | so you see the monastery. |
| 0:39.6 | It's almost finished. |
| 0:40.9 | Praise the Lord. |
| 0:42.3 | Praise the Lord. |
| 0:43.4 | So thank you for coming. |
| 0:45.3 | And today we have a special talk, and I'm going to tell you why this is so special to |
| 0:49.1 | me, because next week is the feast of St. Rita on May 22nd. |
| 0:54.0 | And so we're going to be telling you why this is so |
| 0:57.8 | important and for me personally as well. So stay tuned because this story is amazing, is amazing. |
| 1:05.8 | So let us pray in the name of the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, |
| 1:11.6 | we ask you send the Holy Spirit down upon us and through the intercession of St. Rita, |
| 1:16.8 | through Mary and all the saints and through the passion, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, |
| 1:22.1 | may the example of the saints give us inspiration to live as disciples and find our way to heavenly glory. And we ask |
| 1:30.5 | this through Christ, our Lord. Amen. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, |
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