A Bitter Marriage Contract
But they didn’t give up.
She picked up the book she had left on the desk. It was the biography of Saint Rita of Cascia. She had started reading it a few days ago.
As she immersed herself in the story of that woman marked by a difficult marriage, by humiliations, abandonment, and cruelty, she felt that every word was directed at her.
Saint Rita loved her husband deeply, even when he despised her, even when his actions were harsh and cruel. She endured it out of love, out of faith. And in the end, she saw the impossible happen.