Welcome to the traditional Catholic daily devotional for Thursday, May 22, 2025.

It's a fairia, fourth class with a color of white.

In this episode, today's news from the church, a letter from the U.S. District Superior on the new Holy Father, a preview of the sermon,

contradictions of Vatican II, and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefev.

But first the collect of today's Mass.

O God, of whom it cometh that the minds of thy faithful people be all of one will,

grant unto the same thy people that they may love the thing which thou commandest,

and desire that which thou dost promise, that so amidst the sundry and manifold changes of the

world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found.

Today is also the feast of St. Rita, and her life wasn't a fairy tale. It was messy, painful,

and full of hard choices, but through it all she became one of the church's most beloved saints.

She was born in the 1300s in Roca Perena, a small village in central Italy. From a young

age, Rita wanted to become a nun, but her parents arranged

a marriage instead, at just 12 years old, to a man known for his temper and violence. For 18 long years,

she endured his cruelty, but raised two sons in the process. Eventually, her husband was murdered

in a feud, and soon after her sons

died as well. With her family now gone, Rita tried to enter a convent, but she was rejected at first

because she was a widow. But she persisted. Eventually, the Augustinian nuns in Cascaea welcomed her,

and it was there that her holiness blossomed. She lived a life of deep prayer and

charity, especially devoted to caring for the sick. She meditated constantly on the passion of Christ,

and one day she received a mysterious wound on her forehead, like a thorn from the crown of Jesus.

By the time of her death in 1457, people already believed that she was a saint,

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