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Date Posted: 00:36:59 05/05/09 Tue
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SAINT FOR THE DAY
MAY 5
ST. JUTTA (JUDITH), Widow
A NATIVE of Thuringia, St. Jutta was born at Sangerhausen and emulated the life of another great Saint of that area, and contemporary of hers, St. Elizabeth of Hungary. She was married at the age of fifteen to a nobleman and became an admirable wife and mother, winning her husband over her kind of spiritually-motivated life. The untimely death of her kind of her husband on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land left St. Jutta desolate and obligated to bring up her children by herself.
Influenced by their mother’s splendid example, each of the children entered the religious life at maturity and left her free to follow the vocation to which she had long aspired. Divesting herself of her property, she spent the few remaining years of her life in religious retirement and care for the sick. She settled down in a dilapidated building about half a mile from Kulmsee in the territory of the military order of the Teutonic Knights, whose Grand Master was a relative of hers. Here she received and dispensed wonderful graces, gaining widespread renown as a Saint.
St. Jutta maintained the three things can bring one close to God-painful sickness, exile from home in some remote corner of a foreign country, and poverty voluntarily accepted for God. After an entire life exemplifying this way of approach to God, St. Jutta died in 1260.
PRAYER
God, You inspired St. Jutta to strive for perfect charity and so attain Your Kingdom at the end of her pilgrimage on earth. Strengthen us through her intercession that we may advance rejoicing in the way of love. Amen
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