Pilgrimage to Rhoda Wise’s Home is Fine

Making a pilgrimage to the home of the Servant of God Rhoda Wise is certainly fine. Wise is the spiritual guide who played a key part in the future Mother Angelica’s life, as a novena to St. Therese she gave young Ritz Rizzo resulted in a remarkable healing for the future nun.

Devotion to holy people is a constitutive part for the canonization causes of would-be saints to gain traction. While excluding invocation in the liturgy—something reserved for those beatified and especially canonized—the faithful can personally seek the prayerful intercession of and make pilgrimages regarding people like Wise, just as took place early on during the causes of other holy people, e.g., St. Padre Pio and St. Damien of Molokai.

Wise’s cause is in the early stages. For more on her cause and visiting her home, visit this website.