Posted on 04/11/2014 1:04:14 PM PDT by Pyro7480
"...I have...to believe that God...raised up this child of Heaven at a time of so much falling away in piety as an example and stimulus to Christians to venerate and love the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar..."
..."'Oh, what immense happiness and joy...my heart feels before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament! And if Jesus would allow me to enter sacred Tabernacle where He, Soul, Body, Blood, and Divinity is present, should I not be in Paradise?'..."
"...We read in the lives of different Saints that, as sometimes they were unable to go to church for Holy Communion, God made use of an angel...and took the consecrated species to them. It appears that Our Savior Himself willed to take this great gift to Gemma...:"
"On the morning of the Friday on which dear Gemma for the first time underwent the cruel punishment of the Scourging [St. Gemma not only received the five wounds of the stigmata regularly during the latter part of her life, but also received the marks of Jesus' Scourging and His Crown of Thorns]....She went into ecstasy, and...I saw her join her hands and...her eyes sparkled and her face suddenly lit up as usually happened when she had some extraordinary vision. [Emphasis mine]At the same moment she put out her tongue and soon withdrew it, returning into ecstasy to make her usual thanksgiving....I learned from Gemma herself, who quite candidly told me of it, that it was Jesus and not and Angel who came to communicate her."
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Catholic ping!
Thanks. It’s new information to me.
Reminds me of Frank Sheed’s definition of a catholic saint: An Italian virgin...
Thanks for sharing.
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