So many Feast Days So Little Time
October 1 is not only the Feast Day of Saint Therese of Lisieux (for whom Mother Theresa was named)- and the birthday of my gorgeous niece, but it is the Feast Day of Saint Remi- who is considered the founder of Christianity in all of France for having converted the King of the Franks Clovis and his wife. Here he is in cone-headed attire baptising Clovis, the skinny king of the Franks. Clovis the Skinny. (kidding- i just made that up.) That is why the Cathedral of Saint Remi (in the Champaign region of France-so no excuse not going there soon)- is where the French Kings were coronated with special oils in a coronation Mass. (It was tragically bombed during WWI -ask me about the painting I have commemorating it with a nun praying in the corner of the cathedral that I picked up for a song at the French Flea market St. Louis de France Kermesse last Sunday.)
So how appropriate was it for Saint Therese's Feast day to be on the same day as the Founder of all French Christendom- the French, shall I remind one and all, were the main diplomatic force in Europe for centuries and the official diplomatic language for centuries was French (sorry
House of Windsor.) The French also, rumor has it and I believe it, harbored Mary Magdalene for whom the famous La Madeleine Cathedral in Paris is named (as well as that swell pastry shop in Bethesda and Georgetown-a good place to meet after Mass.)
October 4 is the Feast Day of Saint Francis, my father's birthday and that of another fine fellow. Blessing of animals takes place in various places, and I am thinking it no small coincidence one of my godkids is a veterinarian.
If you are from Peru October is a special month because apparently a vision/apparition of Jesus appeared on a building in October several hundred years ago prompting a national conversion of souls- surrounded by fire which did not destroy the building- so you can spot folks from Peru wearing special badges to commemorate it this month.
In Biloxi this month they found the blessed mother in French toast (kidding-sorry)
So far this month one cousin had a baby shower and another a wedding shower.
October is indeed a special month. A moving and shaking kind of month in political circles as well as we have one month to go to see where the country is headed.
I suggest that we all pray that God's will be done- (which I suspect is neither/nor/and strictly Republican nor Democrat) and that we all pray to Saint Remi.
Saint Remi pray for us. Saint Therese pray for us. Saint Francis pray for us. Sort of Saint Ed Pray for Us.
Everyone from Peru pray for us.
Fun Fact about Reims Cathedral:
There is a major stained glass window in the Cathedral done by a famous Russian Jewish artist- who is it?
Answer: CHAGALL.
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