Eternal Father, I offer Thee the most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus Christ, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the Universal Church, for those in my own home and within my family. Amen.
~St. Gertrude
"God and the salvation of souls - this was the one object of her life, the one
end of every action. From her humility, she had fully persuaded herself that the
marvelous graces bestowed on her were given her for others. This holy delusion
served two important ends - it saved her from every temptation to spiritual
complacence, and it induced her to impart freely to others a knowledge if the
revelations and other favors bestowed in her. She was simply according to her
own idea, a channel of divine grace to others; and believing this to be her end,
she neither spared time nor labor for its accomplishment. Often her rest was
shortened and her food forgotten when souls demanded tome or anxious thought.
"Not satisfied with even this, she often deprived herself of the sweetness of
contemplation when it was necessary to succor the tempted, to console the
afflicted, or, what she desired above all else, to enkindle and increase the
fire of divine love in any soul. For as iron, when placed in the fire, becomes
itself like fire, thus this virgin, burning with love, seemed to be all love,
such zeal had she for the salvation of all." "
The life and Revelations of St. Gertrude
The life and Revelations of St. Gertrude
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