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CP003 Community Podcast – Saints
Listen to CP003 Community Podcast – Saints recorded live on January 15, 2010. Sponsored by aNunsLife.org ministry. In this show, the sisters and listeners tell stories about the saints include favorite prayers, Catholic practices, and recipes related to their saint.
Here’s a bit of what we discussed:
- Who are the saints?
- saint trivia (do you know who the patron saint of drug addicts is?)
- Saint Thérèse of Lisieux by Jeannie
- Saint Patrick video by Clare Leigh
- Saint Syncletica by Julia
- Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque by Kathleen
- Saint Teresa of Avila by Suze
- Saint Thecla by Beege
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Strawberry Chocolate Turnovers
Ingredients
5 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate
2 teaspoons butter
1 cup fresh strawberries stem, sliced.
2 tablespoons freshly grated orange zest
1 large egg
1 thawed puff pastry sheet
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
Recipe
Serve the turnovers warm, with vanilla ice cream and/or whipped cream.
This is a recipe from France that I got from a french recipes website. I hope you all enjoy
From Julia … This is a recipe for Hummus which is one of the oldest foods, dating back to ancient Egypt, 7000 years ago. Hummus is the Arabic word for chickpea. Chickpeas are also called garbanzo beans (Spanish) or cece beans (Italian). It is a dip or spread served with vegetables or pita bread cut into suitable size for dipping.
Chickpea dip (Hummus)
200 gr chickpeas
2 garlic cloves
3 T olive oil
3 tsp tahine ( sesame paste dip)
1tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
parsley, finely chopped
3 T water
5 T fresh lemon juice
paprika (optional)
Soak the chickpeas in water for at least 12 hours. Boil them until they become tender and then drain them. Let them cool. Use a bowl to dissolve the tahine in the 3 T water. Place the chickpeas in a blender and while mixing add the salt, pepper, and the lemon juice. Continue mixing until mixture becomes creamy in texture. Serve cold and garnish with parsley. Add paprika optionally.
Tahine (or sesame paste) can be found in Greek deli’s, or get the recipe at http://www.greek-recipe.com
This may have been one of the foods our Jesus ate. It’s nice to think so anyway.
My Saint tonight is Saint Syncletica of Alexandria, also called Amma Syncletica of Alexandria.
from Kathleen who had Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque who was born in Burgundy, France … so she sent us a recipe from the area!
Yummy Recipe for Beef Bourguignon in Burgundy Wine http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-beef-bourguignon
It’s a traditional French recipe for beef stewed in Burgundy.
From Suze … St. Teresa’s Candied Egg Yolks (Yemas De Santa Teresa)
These yemas or candied egg yolks are very popular dessert in Avila Spain.
DIRECTIONS
Mix the sugar, lemon zest, cinnamon and water together in a saucepan and allow to come to a boil. Boil to soft ball stage. Beat egg yolks pour through a sieve into separate saucepan. Pour syrup on the yolks, while stirring constantly. Place saucepan over low heat, allowing it to thicken slightly (may take 10 minutes). Turn off heat and stir until mixture is thick and no longer sticks to the sides of the pan. Pour mixture into a greased 18 x 13 jelly roll pan and let cool until warm to touch. While warm, form into small balls and roll in sugar.
Some more information about Thecla …
Who was she ? She was honored as the FIRST female martyr and listed as the ONLY female Apostolic martyr with John, Peter, Paul, James, Stephen, Luke and Andrew. I like to think of her as the first Ancient feminist and I’ll explain why.
Her story first appears in the late 2nd century Acts of Paul and Thecla. The protagonist of the story is not Paul but Thecla, a young woman of Iconium in Asia Minor. She is betrothed to a man named Thamyris when apostle Paul comes along teaching a message of chastity. (Ah-oh !!) Enamoured by his teaching, Thecla leaves her fiance and follows Paul.
Thecla’s desire for freedom manifested in her decision for a celebate life, thereby removing herself from the domination of a husband. As a result of her decision, she is brought before the governor by her own MOTHER and her jilted fiance. In that time as a woman you could actually be criminaly charged with abandoning marriage and was condemned to death !! Imagine !!
First they tried to burn her at the stake, but a rainstorm and hail was interpreted as a miracle and saved her. Then they threw her in the Colosseum with wild animals (Hollywood had/claims the female tigresses stood between her and the male lions and stared them down saving her in an amazing scene I saw several weeks ago on TV. How they filmed that I’ll never know. How’s that for a modern slant on the feminist cause ?….:o)
After those “exhausting” (whew !!) incidents, she rejoined Paul, it is said dressed as a boy cutting her hair short, and was commissioned by him to preach gospel. She lived as a hermitess for the next 72 years. She died in Iconium or Rome.
Why am I not surprised that Catholic online says “this tale had tremendous popularity in the early Church, but it’s undoubedly pious FICTION”, labeled apocryphal by St. Jerome ?
Her feast day is September 23.
I also read (but must look back up the source) that her sainthood was rescinded in 1969. Hmmm, what was that about ?
Well, just wanted you all to know a bit more about her. She deserves it…..
I just listened to your wonerful podcast (I’m always a day late and a dollar short, it seems…) You all had such fun! If I had remembered to tune in and call in, I would have spoke about our foundress, Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska. Alas, the only food I can share that has a connection to her is not food at all but is essential for life.
It’s water.
Story goes that sometimes things were so difficult for those early sisters that, after a long day of caring for orphans and the eldery sick poor, catechizing and what have you, all the sisters had waiting for them on the dinner table were pitchers of water.
One time when I was hosting my class of Lay Associates, I forgot to ask for a coffee set up. Thank God I had this story on which to fall back as I served them water. I told them that they were experiencing what Mother Angela and the sisters had to go through at times. What a poor hostess! Like I said earlier, a day late and a dollar short.
here is something more about st tecla…
did you know that she is the patron saint of a place called Tarragona in Spain, wouldnt this suggest that she is still a saint….