St. Isidore the Farmer “Pray for us”
You have to love the Catholic Faith. We take every part of our life very seriously. We bless candles on the Feast of the Presentation and throats on the Feast of St. Blase. We bless animals on the Feast of St. Francis. We literally bless you coming and going (baptism and death). On this feast of St. isidore the Farmer, we remember a 12th century man who lived in Spain who worked the land as a farmer. He cultivated the land for a landowner and had a great devotion to God and to the poor. When other workers complained that Isidore came to work late because he was first attending Mass, the landowner saw a vision of white oxen ploughing the land so that attendance at Mass never impeded his work.
Today at Mass, we blessed some soil and water after the prayers of the faithful. Then after Mass, parishoners were free to take some blessed soil and water home to bless their own gardens. These devotions tell me that we don’t need to make up new things to do to make the faith important to people. We simply do it by devotion to Christ, his Blessed Mother and the Saints who always remind us that God is a constant part of our lives, even in the dirt in our gardens.
You just gotta love the Tradition of the Church!!!
