Came to know about a 20th century doctor saint - St. Guisseppe Moscati! Watched the movie 'Guiseppe Moscati: A Doctor to the Poor'. The life story of this great Saint, "the Holy Physician of Naples" is presented so beautifully in the movie. A must watch for all Christians, especially Christian doctors.It is said of him that he always carried a Rosary in his pocket as reminder throughout the day to be near the Bl. Virgin Mary, and it helped him to take important decisions.St. Moscati was the primary doctor to Blessed Borto Longo, the founder of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Pompeii
"Let us daily practice charity. God is love. He who loves is in God and God in him. Let us never forget to offer every day, nay,every moment, our actions to God, doing all things for love. ... Love truth; show yourself as you are, without pretense, without fears and cares. And if the truth means your persecution, accept it; if it means your torment, bear it. And if for thetruth's sake you should sacrifice yourself and your life, be strong in your sacrifice."
"Sick people are Jesus Christ's creatures. Many wicked people, criminals, swearers, find themselves in a hospital by God's mercy, he wants them to be saved! Nuns, doctors and nurses that work in a hospital have a mission: cooperating with this endless mercy, helping, forgiving and sacrificing themselves." [slip of paper written by Moscati, dated Jan. 17th, 1922.]
Love truth; show yourself as you are, without pretence, without fears and cares. And if the truth means your persecution, accept it; if it means your torment, bear it. And if for the truth's sake you should sacrifice yourself and your life, be strong in your sacrifice."[note written by G.Moscati on Oct. 17th, 1922.]
"I've got here, on my table, among the first flowers of Spring, one of your daughter's portrait and I rest, while writing, and meditate upon the frailty of human things. Beauty, every enchantment of life has an end…Only eternal Love lasts, the one that is the reason of every good action, that survives us, that is hope and religion, because Love is God. Satan tried to foul even earthly love, but God purified it through Death. A splendid Death which is not an end, but a beginning of the Sublime and Divine, in the presence of which these flowers and Beauty are nothing! Your Angel ravished in her young years, like her beloved friend, the Blessed Therese, discovered in her last years, assists you and her mother from Heaven…"[from a letter to the Notary De Magistris, whose daughter was dead. March 7th, 1924. G.Moscati was a devotee of the Blessed Therese of the Holy Child [St.Therese of Lisieux]. He speaks about Her in some letters and had a portrait of Her in his room. You can read an article by Giuseppe Samà s.j. about it: St Therese of Lisieux (The Little Flower) and St Joseph Moscati]
Prayer to Saint Joseph Moscati
O Saint Joseph Moscati,
doctor with a huge heart, in the exercise of your profession you cured the body and spirit of your patients, turn towards us too who now run to you with faith in your intercession.
Give us physical and spiritual health,
so that we can serve our brothers with generosity. Alleviate the pain of those that suffer, give comfort to the sick,consolation to the afflicted, and hope to the hopeless. Make that the sick might encounter doctors like you: human and Christian.
The youth find in you a model of life,
the workers, an example, the old, comfort, and the dying, hope in eternal salvation. Be for all of us a sure guide: teach us to work with serenity, honesty and charity, to be able to complete in a Christian way our everyday tasks.
Saint Joseph Moscati,
pray for us!
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"Remember that, following Medicine, you undertook upon yourself the responsibility of a teaching always in your memory, with love and pity for the abandoned, with faith and enthousiasm, deaf to praises and criticisms, to envry, inclined only to God."
[from a letter to Dr.Giuseppe Biondi, Sept. 4th, 1921.]
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