Shalom for the Day: Lord, may we learn how to give ourselves generously to You and others in love and service
Pierina Morosini is the patron saint of rape victims and a martyr to chastity. She was born into a poor family of eight children in 1931 in the Diocese of Bergamo, Italy. She was trained to be a seamstress and began to work in a factory at 15 years of age.
Pierina had made a private vow to God to live a life of chastity. She taught catechism and considered religious life, but continued to live at home to help her mother care for their family. One day, as the 26-year-old Pierina returned home from work, she was attacked by a would-be rapist, however she fought against him for the purpose of protecting her chastity, and he stoned her to death for refusing to comply with him. Pope John Paul II beatified Pierina on October 4, 1987.
Tonight is a holy night that looks back at the first Passover when the Israelites received instructions to smear the blood of the sacrificial animal on their doorposts and lintel so that they would be passed over from the death of the first-born and be released from their 400 years of Egyptian slavery . Likewise, on Good Friday, when the Lord Jesus, the Lamb of God, was sacrificed on the Cross, He became our Passover Lamb.
Tonight, as we receive the Body and the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, let us ponder and remember with deep and heartfelt thankfulness, the Lord’s sacrificial death – His sufferings , His broken Body, and His shed Blood on the Cross for us.
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