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St. Zita wasn't the biggest fan of cleaning, but she'll pray to God for extra help to get through those times when your energy is at an all-time low.
St. Zita was a 13th-century saint most best known for her connection to domestic service.
Even a brief Google search will find a number of “St. Zita Cleaning Services,” showing how her patronage has endured through to modern times.
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, “At the age of 12 she entered the service of the Fatinelli family of Lucca. Her piety and the exactitude with which she discharged her domestic duties, in which she regarded herself as serving God rather than man, even supplying the deficiencies of her fellow servants, far from gaining for her their love and esteem and that of her employers rather brought upon her every manner of ill-treatment of both the former and, through their accusations, of the latter.”
An article on EWTN further expands on this part of her life, “She considered her work as an employment assigned her by God, and as part of her penance; and obeyed her master and mistress in all things as being placed over her by God. She always rose several hours before the rest of the family and employed in prayer a considerable part of the time which others gave to sleep.”
Furthermore, “Notwithstanding her extreme attention to her exterior employments, she acquired a wonderful facility of joining with them almost continual mental prayer and of keeping her soul constantly attentive to the divine presence.”
Continued below.
aleteia.org
St. Zita was a 13th-century saint most best known for her connection to domestic service.
Even a brief Google search will find a number of “St. Zita Cleaning Services,” showing how her patronage has endured through to modern times.
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, “At the age of 12 she entered the service of the Fatinelli family of Lucca. Her piety and the exactitude with which she discharged her domestic duties, in which she regarded herself as serving God rather than man, even supplying the deficiencies of her fellow servants, far from gaining for her their love and esteem and that of her employers rather brought upon her every manner of ill-treatment of both the former and, through their accusations, of the latter.”
An article on EWTN further expands on this part of her life, “She considered her work as an employment assigned her by God, and as part of her penance; and obeyed her master and mistress in all things as being placed over her by God. She always rose several hours before the rest of the family and employed in prayer a considerable part of the time which others gave to sleep.”
Furthermore, “Notwithstanding her extreme attention to her exterior employments, she acquired a wonderful facility of joining with them almost continual mental prayer and of keeping her soul constantly attentive to the divine presence.”
Imagining she was cleaning the house for God
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Struggle with keeping your house clean? St. Zita can help!
St. Zita wasn't the biggest fan of cleaning, but she'll pray to God for extra help to get through those times when your energy is at an all-time low.
aleteia.org
