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September 10: VEN. IGNACIA DEL ESPÍRITU SANTO: A Needle and a Pair of Scissors
Turned away from every convent in Manila for being Filipina, Venerable Ignacia del Espíritu Santo built one herself with a needle and scissors. When Spanish colonial convents refused to accept native Filipina women, Ignacia left home with almost nothing and began a quiet life of prayer and honest work near Manila's Jesuits. Other women joined her, and the community she never sought official credit for became the first religious congregation for native Filipino women. "She just had her love for Jesus and her willingness to live it out in the open." Want t...
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Welcome back to the Catholic Sproust podcast, where we know that every day is a feast day. It's September 10th, so join us for Venerable Ignatius del Espiritu Santu and a needle and a pair of scissors. Ignatius stood outside the convent doors in Manila, asking for the one thing she wanted
more than anything else, to give her whole life to God as a religious sister. The answer she got wasn't about her faith or her prayer or her love for Christ. It was about her race. The convents in the Philippines only accepted women of pure Spanish ancestry, and Ignatia
was a Filipina. The door stayed shut to her. So Ignatia went home. She took only with her a needle and a pair of scissors, and walked out to build the
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