The Revelations
of St. Gertrude the Great
COMPILED BY THE RELIGIOUS OF HER MONASTERY
CATHOLIC TREASURES, NOVEMBER 1980
Our
Lord gives His Blessed Mother to St. Gertrude to be her mother in order
that she may have recourse to her in all her afflictions.
St. Gertrude, having learned by Divine revelation
that she was about to endure some trial for the increase of her merit,
began to fear through human weakness. The Lord had compassion on her
infirmity and gave her His most merciful Mother, the Empress of Heaven,
as her mother and as her dispenser. When the burden of her grief
appeared beyond her strength, she could always have recourse to this
Mother of mercy, and by her intervention obtain relief.
Some time after, as she was much grieved because a devout person
obliged her to reveal the singular favours with which God has honoured
her on the preceding feast, she had recourse to the Mother of the
afflicted, in order to learn from her what she ought to do on this
occasion. "Give freely what you possess," she replied; "for my Son is
rich enough to repay all that you expend for His Glory." But as the
Saint desired to conceal as much as possible the great favours granted
to her, even while she partly revealed them, she desired to know from
her heavenly Spouse how far her conduct was agreeable to Him.
Prostrating herself at his feet, she implored Him to make known His
will to her and to give her the desire of accomplishing it. Her
confidence merited for her this reply, which she received from the
Divine Mercy: "Give My money to the bank, that when I come I may
receive it with usury" (Luke xix 23). Thus she learned that the reasons
which she had considered good and even inspired by the Spirit of God
were merely human. Henceforth she imparted more freely what was
revealed to her and not without reason, for Solomon has declared: "It
is the glory of God to conceal the word and the glory of kings to
search out the speech" (Prov. xxv. 2).
|
E-MAIL
HOME-------------------------------SAINT
GERTRUDE
www.catholictradition.org/Gertrude/revelations1.htm
|