Today is the feast day of Saint Gertrude. She has given us "Our Lady of the Sacred Heart" and devotion to Our Lady under this beautiful title. We honor Our Lady when thank her by the Heart of Jesus; we ask her for graces and we ask God to pardon our sins through those titles dearest to her heart; by invoking her as Sovereign of the Heart of Jesus, we invoke her as the Queen of love and of mercy, who cannot resist being generous to us. What greater praise or bountiful thanks could we offer to Mary than those of the Heart of Jesus!
On one of Our Lady's feasts, Saint Gertrude chanted the office of our heavenly Queen, uniting herself to the Heart of Jesus. And while she did this, she saw Him draw to that Divine Heart, the praises expressed in the Psalms, and they flowed, unto the Blessed Virgin, His Mother.
At the antiphon, "Thou art all fair," Gertrude strove to "sing these sweet words by the very Heart of Jesus, in memory of the loving, childlike praises He must have bestowed upon her in similar terms, during His mortal life. At this, stars of great brilliancy, symbolizing these praises, issued from the Heart of Jesus, and shed their luster on Our Lady. Some fell here and there upon the ground, and were collected by the citizens of Heaven, who presented them to Jesus with signs of inexpressible joy and admiration, Gertrude understood from this that the praises given to Our Lady by the Heart of Jesus are a source of unutterable glory and happiness to the Saints."
Prayer of Saint Gertrude the Great
This prayer was dictated by Our Lord, to release 1000 souls from purgatory each time it is said.
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son Jesus Christ, in union with the most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, said throughout the world today, for all the holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the Universal Church, those in my own home, and within my family.
November 16, 2010
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment