Image: Painting of Saint Gianna Beretta Molla with her children | Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe | flickrImage: Painting of Saint Gianna Beretta Molla with her children | Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe | flickrPosted on 04/20/2017 8:58:21 PM PDT by Salvation
Image: Painting of Saint Gianna Beretta Molla with her children | Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe | flickr
In less than 40 years, Gianna Beretta Molla became a pediatric physician, a wife, a mother and a saint!
She was born in Magenta near Milano, the 10th of Alberto and Maria Beretta’s 13 children. An active member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and a leader in the Catholic Action movement, Gianna also enjoyed skiing and mountain climbing. She earned degrees in medicine and surgery from the University of Pavia, eventually specializing in pediatrics. In 1952, Gianna opened a clinic in the small town of Mesero, where she met engineer Pietro Molla.
Shortly before their 1955 marriage, Gianna wrote to Pietro: “Love is the most beautiful sentiment that the Lord has put into the soul of men and women.” In the next four years the Mollas had three children: Pierluigi, Mariolina, and Laura. Two pregnancies following ended in miscarriage.
Early in her sixth pregnancy, doctors discovered that Gianna had both a child and a tumor in her uterus. She allowed the surgeons to remove the tumor but not to perform the complete hysterectomy that they recommended, which would have killed the child. Seven months later in April 1962, Gianna Emanuela Molla was born at the hospital in Monza, but post-operative complications resulted in an infection for her mother. The following week, Gianna Molla died at home in Mesero, where she was buried.
Gianna Emanuela went on to become a physician herself. Gianna Beretta Molla was beatified in 1994 and canonized 10 years later.
With great faith and courage, Gianna Molla made the choice that enabled her daughter to be born. We can often wish that we were in different circumstances, but holiness frequently comes from making difficult choices in bad situations.
Saint of the Day Ping!
>The following week, Gianna Molla died at home in Mesero
I suspect her husband was unable to convince her to live and to try again with a less dangerous birth. I see nothing but sadness.
Are you looking at it as we humans might or as God might?
Miracles have happened through her intercession.
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>Are you looking at it as we humans might or as God might?
As a human since I can’t think like God.
No way would I quietly allow a loved one to commit suicide with a high risk pregnancy rather than try again later for one less risky.
She already had three good ones, no need to push your fate and harm those that love you.
She died so that her baby could live. She didn’t choose suicide.
>She died so that her baby could live. She didn’t choose suicide.
The loss of an unborn human is less than the combined love between the loving couple that can try to have another if needed. To sacrifice yourself and the love of your companion
is selfish and unnecessary. She passes and he is left with an empty heart.
A forlorn mate leaves a bigger depression than an unborn of fate.
From one of the links above:
I would put to you several points to consider, any of which might serve as a starting point for comments below:
Saints are presented to us by Holy Mother Church for “the two I’s”: imitation and intercession.
As all Christians are called to imitate Christ, we also must experience self-emptying and the Cross, abandonment to providence and self-donation. We must be willing to lose everything.
We are not alone: the Church Militant and the Church Triumphant are closely knit, interwoven in charity. We on earth must intercede for each other and believe and ask for the intercession of the saints.
God makes use of the weak to demonstrate His might and love.
If we do not believe in miracles, we do not ask for them. If we do not ask for them, they will not be granted.
Our life of faith is noticed by non-believers and they are not unaffected.
What a difference a bishop can make.
How often do you invoke the help of the saints and holy angels?
God’s ways are not our ways.
No one is too small to be an occasion of grace for others.
>How often do you invoke the help of the saints and holy angels?
Daily.
>God’s ways are not our ways.
God accepts my ways as they are mine.
>No one is too small to be an occasion of grace for others.
Agree. Staying alive is the first step to enjoying life that involves others that love you.
I believe in miracles for others but not for me. No way.
Brother, please consider the following:
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
And also:
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.
And also:
Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
We should recall that this saint of God IS alive. She is a saint in the presence of Christ. She is more alive than we can understand.
Saint Gianna Beretta Molla, pray for us. May we all enter into eternal life.
Every day multiple times.
BTTT fo Saint Gianna Beretta Molla!
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