#mother cabrini

[eastvillagetripster]

Helper of Immigrants

Stained glass image of Mother Cabrini, patron Saint of Immigrants. St Francis Cabrini shrine, 701 Fort Washington Ave, Washington Heights, New York City.

#stained glass #religious art #mother cabrini #St Francis Cabrini Shrine #patron saint #immigrants #washington heights #new york city

[angeltreasure]

This one came out recently and it was interesting… a lot of focus on being a woman, not much prayer or God. (It’s not a documentary of course, it is based on the true story after all.)

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Now this one is finished last night which you can get for free on the EWTN app. So much prayer and reverence. Mom and I liked it much better…. Highly recommend!!!!!

#recommendations #Mother Cabrini #Cabrini

[ffcrazy15]

My thoughts upon walking out of the theater after seeing Cabrini:

"Wow, so it actually IS possible to make a good movie about a saint."

#It is truly sooooo good all of you go see it right now. #Honestly? See it even if you're not religious. #The pointed commentary on how America treats new immigrants (and especially people it considers brown/POC) is just *chef's kiss* #And Cabrini is so cool ughhhhh I want to be her. I need to be more like her. #No more tiptoeing around men's expectations. Just gonna walk into board rooms and start demanding help for my orphans. #cabrini #Mother Cabrini #movies #catholic #catholicism

[everydaycatholicism]

St Frances Xavier Cabrini

Mother Cabrini was born on July 15, 1850 in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Italy. Being enthralled by missionaries and their work she made up her mind to join a religious order. Because of her frail health Mother Cabrini was not able to join the Daughters of the Sacred Heart who had been her teachers and under whom she obtained a teaching certificate. However, in 1880 she along with seven young women founded  the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She was resourceful managing to find people to donate their time, labor, and money to cover the needs of her order and its charitable acts. Mother Cabrini and her fellow sisters wanted to go to China as Missionaries but in an audience with Pope Leo XIII she was told "Not to go East but to go West." Mother Cabrini was to go to New York. She and several sisters emigrated to the United States leaving Italy on March 23, 1889 and arriving in New York City on March 31st. Mother Cabrini was to serve the Italian immigrants in New York where she was met with poverty and chaos. Despite tremendous odds Mother Cabrini and her sisters provided for the many needs of the Italian immigrants establishing schools and orphanages. Mother Cabrini arrived in Seattle (my home town) on 1903 exclaiming upon her arrival in the Northwest, "Here we are, not far from the North Pole." While in Seattle she worshipped at St. James Cathedral and she founded Cabrini Medical Tower only but a block away from the cathedral. Mother Cabrini would go on to found hospitals and schools throughout the world. Mother Cabrini died on December 22, 1917, in Chicago. Before her death Mother Cabrini became a United States citizen. In 1946, she became the first American citizen to be canonized. She was elevated to sainthood by Pope Pius XII.

Saint Mother Cabrini is the patron saint of immigrants. Her feast day is November 13.

#Mother Cabrini #Cabrini #Saint #Catholicism #Catholic

[catholic-saint-tournament]

About St Gemma Galgani (left)

About St Frances Xavier Cabrini (right)

Modern Bracket Round 1

#st gemma galgani #st frances xavier cabrini #mother cabrini #catholic saint tournament #catholic #catholicism #catholic saints #christianity #tumblr bracket #polls #tumblr tournament #theology #tumblr polls

[momentsbeforemass]

What motivates you?

(by request, my homily from Sunday)

I’d like to talk with you today about what motivates you.

In today’s Gospel, Jesus warns His followers not to be terrified, to not live in fear. Why?

In Jesus’ time, Roman-occupied Judea was a bomb. Waiting to explode.

The Jewish people were looking for the next King David, the next Judah the Maccabee to lead a rebellion against Rome. All they needed was someone to rally them and the revolution would be on.

Jesus knows what’s coming their way. So does everyone else. It’s that obvious. And they have a lot of reasons to live in fear.

Because it’s going to get worse. A lot worse. They will get their rebellion against Rome. And it will end horribly – one hundred thousand people will die and the Temple itself will be destroyed – when Rome has finally had enough.

In the face of that, Jesus doesn’t tell them to stockpile weapons or pack a bug out bag. He doesn’t tell them to get a second passport. Instead, Jesus tells them – not to live in fear.

And you’re thinking, “Wasn’t the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD? The last time I checked, we were a few years past that. Thanks for the history lesson. But this doesn’t really apply to me.”

Actually, the Church Fathers like to point out that what Jesus is telling people to not be terrified by – is pretty normal stuff.

Jesus’ list of “wars, insurrections, earthquakes, famine, plagues?” As St. Augustine puts it, this is the “common condition of nations.”

And he’s right. Look at the news. There’s a war in Ukraine. There are insurrections in Hong Kong and Iran. In the last few weeks we’ve had major earthquakes in Indonesia, the Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala, and elsewhere.

Closer to home, the drought that’s drying up the Mississippi is already driving up food prices and will get even worse if we don’t have a really wet winter. And for plagues? We all know the answer to that one.

Which means that Jesus’ warning doesn’t have an expiration date. So what exactly is Jesus trying to tell us?

Jesus is trying to tell us to be careful about what we focus on, about what we let in. Because if we focus on the things that terrify us, if we let in things that fill us with fear, that’s what will motivate us. And we will be deceived.

As you know, there are people who are happy to deceive us. There are multi-billion-dollar businesses built on deceiving us. If you and I live in fear? We will be easy to deceive.

With so many people in the business of selling fear – and anger, which is just a secondary emotion that grows out of fear. With so many people mindlessly repeating that stuff on social media, it’s hard for us not to be afraid.

Is there anything you and I can do? How do we respond?

We respond by choosing what we let in. By being intentional about what gets into us – to motivate us.

And it starts by choosing to let in the simple, basic baptismal call of every Christian. To reflect the love of Christ poured out for us. The love that our hearts are filled with. The love that keeps our hearts beating.

To let that love motivate us, in everything that we do.

What does that even mean? It means to be intentional about what you let in. To recognize that what you let into you - will become what motivates you. And to choose only those things that will motivate you to be who God made you to be.

Starting with the love of Christ. And coming back to the love of Christ. Over and over. Day by day. Hour by hour.

Judging everything else you let in by the love of Christ, and your high calling to reflect the love of Christ. And intentionally rejecting anything that does not reflect the Love that made you.

What does that look like in practice?

One of the people it looks like is St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. Mother Cabrini.

And you’re thinking, “That’s an impossible standard. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. She started 67 different institutions – schools, hospitals, orphanages – only the great saints do stuff like that.”

Before she was a saint. Before she ever founded anything. Before she was Mother Cabrini. Before she was a nun.

She was Maria Francesca Cabrini. The youngest of 13 children on a small farm in northern Italy.

She was inspired by the sisters who taught her at the little school in her village. So she studied to become a grade school teacher and got her teaching certificate.

But she didn’t start out with the grand and the glorious. Actually, she didn’t even get to start out teaching third graders full-time.

She had to balance her career with her parents’ failing health. So she worked part-time as a substitute teacher, while she took care of her mom and dad.

The key to it all – and why Maria became who she became – is how she did it.

She didn’t do it resentfully, begrudging her parents for holding back, from keeping her from being a teacher. She didn’t do it in fear, wondering what would happen to her after her parents died.

She let herself be motivated by the love of Christ poured out for her, the same love that’s poured out for you and for me.

She let herself be motivated by the love that her heart was filled with, the same love that your heart and my heart is filled with.

What separates Maria from the rest of us, why she eventually became Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, is that she worked to keep her focus on the love of Christ.

This wasn’t a one and done for her. She kept coming back to the love of Christ in prayer. Over and over. Day by day. Hour by hour.

Hers was not a breakthrough followed by perfection but a lifetime of dogged persistence. Coming back to God again and again. Because of that, God moved in her and through her to do all of the things that we think of, when we think of her as a saint.

What separates Maria from the rest of us, is that she judged everything else that she let in by the love of Christ, and by her high calling to reflect the love of Christ. She intentionally rejected anything that did not reflect the Love that made her.

We see it in one of the prayers that she composed for herself, rejecting by name the things in her that did not reflect that Love. It goes like this:

Fortify me with the grace of Your Holy Spirit and give Your peace to my soul that I may be free from all needless anxiety, solicitude and worry. Help me to desire always that which is pleasing and acceptable to You so that Your will may be my will. Amen.

That is how you and I do it.

Take this prayer of Mother Cabrini. Go to the first sentence of her prayer, to the underlined words. Those are the things that Mother Cabrini saw in herself that did not reflect the love of Christ.

Replace hers with yours. Instead of anxiety and worry, maybe yours are anger or fear, maybe doubt or loneliness, maybe envy or pride.

You don’t have to tell anyone, this is between you and God. But do it.

Whatever they are, name the things in you that do not reflect the love of Christ. Name the things in you that do not reflect your high calling to reflect the love of Christ.

Then pray this prayer, your version of her prayer. Over and over. Day by day. Hour by hour.

And watch as God moves in you and through you in ways you would never imagine.

Sunday’s Readings

#What motivates you #What you let in #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #Fear #Love #Intentional #Mother Cabrini #Prayer #Love of God #Moments Before Mass

[cassipedia]

Review of Cabrini (2024)

Hey, Cassipedia, what're you watching?

My first viewing of Cabrini was during National Women's Day, as the story is a dramatic retelling of the Catholic missionary Francesca Cabrini as she travels from Italy to America in 1889 to help impoverished and suffering, Italian orphan children while living in the depths of a dangerous city of poor working conditions and cutthroat criminals, and an ambivalent upper class.

Do you recommend watching it?

It’s absolutely a recommended watch. It has beautiful visuals and immersing acting that handles this dark topic with respectful seriousness and dignity. It also stirred my heart in desiring to further bridging the gap between people.

What's the story like?

It is based on a real-life figure and series of events, but it is told as a story rather than a biography. It is 1889 and we are introduced to Mother Cabrini, a woman who suffered from a severe lung disease and was told as a young girl that she would be bedridden, only for her to grow up, very much able to walk and make a journey to the Vatican to have her proposal for orphanages in China to be turned down by a cardinal. But her persistence brings her an audience with the Pope, whom recognizes her zeal and provides a counter-offer; he approves her missionary work, but only if she starts in New York, where it’s apparent that Italian immigrants are suffering, ignored by the higher classes and those whom had not learned their language. She is faced with challenges of a grim reality of giving an abused orphan and taste of lovingly-made food, a safe place to sleep and hope only to hear news of that same child’s life being claimed due to the violent and unstable conditions of the surrounding community. It is a story of unrelenting love and determination under immense pressure. This movie does not shy away from showing the darkness and danger of the world, in all its intensities, and it’s all the more gratifying when a glimmer of hope begins to come through.

What does the movie look like?

It's gorgeous, even painting a masterful but tragic picture of poverty. I recall the way that rays of sunlight practically glowed like white gold when they filtered into rooms choked by dust as rats scattered across the floors. The nighttime was black oily, glinting with barely contained fire in metal barrels and the flashes of moonlight and pocket knives. The sewers below were dingy and people scurried like rodents yet it had a floor of water that created a mirror world of those passing through, with a surreal beauty despite the horrible situation. There was darkness in the quiet, early morning, easing into purple then broken open by a silent yet brilliant orange-golden sunrise. The nuns and their black habits and capes gave them an unmistakable silhouette in every scene, as if they were a mysterious ghost. It was beautiful and memorable from the cheery and hopeful scenes to even the tragic and uncertain times.

How are the actors and actresses?

It’s safe to say that the actors and actresses did exceedingly well. Cristiana Dell'Anna as Francesca Cabrini was very compelling in her strength and dignity, as well as displaying her caged anger. Yet she frightened me terribly when the movie went silent and all you see and hear were Cabrini’s wheezing, pained coughs of her lung disease, leaving me wondering if this burning fire of determination was going to snuff out, alone in her room. At the core of this story, it is not a battle against starvation or neglect, but a battle of the heart, to stir the residents of New York whose hearts have gone cold and blackened, ignoring the cries of orphans while their parents die of sickness in their arms. Federico Ielapi as Paolo and Rolando Villazón as DiSalvo were amazing as these children in need, not just there to be objects of suffering, but active individuals, as lost children desperately reaching out for comfort in their broken ways. But we see how the presence of Cabrini and her sisters starts to change hearts, especially in the case of Romana Maggiora Vergano as Vittoria, a prostitute who slowly finds herself hoping for better and wanting change while the oily hands of her old life reach out and threaten to drag her back. We see the hearts stirred of the Italian immigrants, whom had grown hopeless and complacent to their situation. And one of the many powerful scenes in the movie was when Jeremy Bobb as New York Times reporter Theodore Calloway narrated a chilling news story after Cabrini opened his eyes to the suffering of his neighbors, right beneath his feet. I enjoyed also clever touches, like how the characters switch between speaking Italian and English, and they generally switch to English as a sign of commitment to Cabrini and her sisters from her order choosing to stay, despite everyone else trying to repel them from making any changes. This movie is rife with thoughtful decisions.

Who would like this movie most?

Though I am no history buff nor anything close of an expert, I think it is a kind of movie that those whom are fascinated by the era of the early 1900’s and depiction of the trials of the Industrial Revolution era would be interested in. It is not a film for younger audiences with the heavy topics it tackles, but it is a good movie for young adults and up.

Where can I watch it?

Cabrini is still available in some theaters and it is definitely worth the watch on the big screen. It is likely set to be available for streaming afterwards on places like Roku.

Final thoughts?

It remains in my memory. It was released on National Women’s Day, but I don’t think it would be fair to limit it to simply women, as that I think would defeat the point of its message. It’s a homage to how a particular person in time changed history in a way we still feel. It is a movie that doesn’t shy away from darkness in order to shed light on it and reflect that onto ourselves and ask, “What will you do now?” It's a good movie for those looking for something that challenges you to examine your heart towards others, like it did for me.

#cabrini #cabrini film #historical drama #period drama #Francesca Cabrini #Mother Cabrini #Cristiana Dell'Anna #Federico Ielapi #Rolando Villazón #Romana Maggiora Vergano #Jeremy Bobb #cassipedia #film review #movie review #cinema #film #movies

[truthseeker-blogger]

Mother Cabrini inspired who?! 😮

#Mother Cabrini #Youtube #Mother Teresa

[kadampalife]

Lay down your burden

Talking of roles, our feelings of inadequacy can come from a pressure we put ourselves under to measure up to what we or others’ expect – but for one thing, everyone has their own version or projection of us and it’s not possible to know what this is, let alone live up to it. For another, in my observation, other people are not even really looking at what we’re doing or not doing most of the time…

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#Jesus #mom guilt #Mother Cabrini #Mother Tara #power of prayer #precious human life #rejoicing in self #taking others&039; suffering

[im-not-the-one-youre-looking-for]

So I saw Cabrini

#cabrini #mother cabrini movie

[fatherscurti]

ST CABRINI Homily

#youtube #FR LOUIS SCURTI SHARES STORIES OF ST. MOTHER FRANCESCA XAVIER CABRINI ON HER FEAST DAY

[nbadenverweeders]

why the fuck did Colorado decide to stop recognizing col*mbus day to instead celebrate the fuckin patron saint of immigrants (who was also an Italian lmfao) like what is that shit???

#don’t gaf about ‘mother cabrini’ at all #jared polis is such a dumbass sometimes #anyway happy indigenous peoples day

[moonmothmama]

i can hear ave maria playing from st francis cabrini a few corners down

#my nanny used to say 'mother cabrini!' as kind of. a non swear? #is that a thing or was it just my nan? #i'd believe either

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

1850 - 1917

Feast day: November 13 (New), December 22 (Trad)

Patronage: immigrants, hospital administrators

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, M.S.C., also called Mother Cabrini, was an Italian Religious Sister, who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic religious institute which was a major support to the Italian immigrants to the United States. She was the first citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Catholic Church.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

#Portraitsofsaints #Feastday #Saintoftheday #Saintquote #Saintquotes #StFrancesXavierCabrini #SaintFrancesXavierCabrini #MotherCabrini #saintportrait #StFrancesCabrini #SaintFrancesCabrini

[funeral]

Sisters Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Mother Cabrini Hospital, Seattle, WA

[catholic-saint-tournament]

StFrances Xavier Cabrini

St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

St Josephine Bakhita

St Katharine Drexel

St Gianna Molla

St Josemaria Escriva

oh ho ho another FABULOUS set of modern saints!

ALL OF THEM ARE NEW TO THE LIST!! Keep voting for your favorite ones if they'll make it to the modern bracket!

#st frances xavier cabrini #mother cabrini #st teresa benedicta of the cross #st josephine bakhita #st katharine drexel #st gianna molla #st josemaria escriva #opus dei #catholic saint tournament