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A Donegal Gaeltacht school has become the first in Ireland to be named after Saint Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, who was also known as 'God's Influencer'.

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St. Rosalia was born in 1130 into a noble family at Palmero, Italy. She was a direct descendent of Charles the Great, whose thirteen-year rule brought most of Europe together. St. Rosalia was a devoted Christian who abandoned her family's wealth and home to live a solitary, austere life of penance and prayer. She lived alone in a cave on Mount Pellegrino until she died in 1166, completely hidden from the outside world.

St. Rosalia wrote on the cave wall, "I, Rosalia, daughter of Sinibald, Lord of Roses and Quisquina, have taken the resolution to live in this cave for the love of my Lord, Jesus Christ." With St. Rosalia, numerous apparitions and miracles were connected. In 1624, when Palmero was experiencing a plague outbreak, her body was unearthed, and her relics were carried in a procession across the city; as a result, the disease subsided. She is the patron saint of Palermo as well as El Hatillo, Zuata, and Anzoátegui in Venezuela.

O God, our Father, mercifully look upon Your people who come to You and grant through the intercession of St. Rosalia, who turned away from earthly delights to the joys of contemplation, that we may be delivered from all harm here on earth and one day be welcomed into the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen

04/09/2026

Gospel
Luke 5:33-39
‘When the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast.’

At that time: The Pharisees and scribes said to him, ‘The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.’ And Jesus said to them, ‘Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.’ He also told them a parable: ‘No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, “The old is good.” ’

04/09/2026

Action: Do one act kindness today humbly and quietly to remind you of the character of water.