{"id":14519,"date":"2024-04-01T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=14519"},"modified":"2024-02-09T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T21:31:51","slug":"42-feast-of-st-francis-of-paola-hermit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=14519","title":{"rendered":"4\/2  Feast of St. Francis of Paola, Hermit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/S_Francis-of-Paola.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14520\" src=\"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/S_Francis-of-Paola-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"S_Francis of Paola\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/S_Francis-of-Paola-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/S_Francis-of-Paola-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/S_Francis-of-Paola.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>St. Francis of Paola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">St. Francis was born at Paola, Italy and was educated there at the Franciscan friary of San Marco, and when fifteen became a hermit near Paola. In 1436, he and two companions began a community that is considered the foundation of the Minim Friars. He built a monastery where he had led his eremitical life some fifteen years later and set a Rule for his followers emphasizing\u00a0<b>penance, charity, and humility, and added to the three monastic vows, one of fasting and abstinence from meat<\/b>; he also wrote a rule for tertiaries and nuns. He was credited with many miracles and had the gifts of prophesy and insight into men&#8217;s hearts. St. Francis died on April 2nd and was canonized in 1519.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Letter #2 <strong><em>to Sister Giovannina\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by the Servant of God, the Little Daughter of the Divine Will Luisa Piccarreta :<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Fiat<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To my dear Sister M. Giovannina, in memory of her vows, always with Jesus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The mind toward Heaven, the gaze to the Cross, the heart loving Him, the arms always in the act of hugging Him, the steps calling Him, the words saying always \u201cFiat\u201d.\u00a0 In each thing never escape from acquiring a degree of sanctity.\u00a0 Make yourself a saint; Jesus wants it, make Him content.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The little daughter of the Divine Will<\/p>\n<p>Corato, May 14, 1932<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Francis of Paola St. Francis was born at Paola, Italy and was educated there at the Franciscan friary of San Marco, and when fifteen became a hermit near Paola. In 1436, he and two companions began a community that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=14519\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7779,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divine-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21458,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14519\/revisions\/21458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}