The Revelations of St. Gertrude the Great COMPILED BY THE RELIGIOUS OF HER MONASTERY CATHOLIC TREASURES, NOVEMBER 1980 How our Lord authorised this work. After this work was finished, our Lord Jesus appeared to her who had completed it, holding it in His Hand. Pressing it to His Heart, He said to her: "I have placed this, book thus upon My Heart, that every word contained therein may be penetrated with Divine sweetness, even as honey penetrates bread. Therefore, whoever reads this book devoutly will receive great profit for his salvation." Then she besought our Lord to preserve this book from all error for His Own glory and He extended His adorable Hand, signing it with the sign of the Cross, saying: "I consecrate by My blessing all that is written in this book, that it may promote the  salvation of those who have written this book: is also most agreeable to Me, particularly in three things: first, I taste therein the sweetness of My Divine love, by which all that is related therein has been effected; second, I am exceedingly pleased with the good-will of those who wrote it; third, I contemplate with singular pleasure My gratuitous mercy, which appears in all that is written in this book. I desire, therefore, that this work should be fructified by My most holy Life and My Five Wounds. The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit shall be the seven seal of Divine mercy with which it shall be sealed, so that none may be able to take it out of My Hand." On another occasion, when the compiler of this book communicated, she had it hidden in the sleeve of her habit, under her mantle, to offer it to our Lord for His eternal praise and glory. As she prostrated before receiving the Body of our Lord, one of the religious saw our Lord approaching her with great manifestations of joy and tenderness. He addressed her thus: "I will penetrate with My Divine sweetness and enrich every word of this book which you have offered Me and which you have written by the direction of My Spirit. I will manifest to whoever reads this book with humble love what will be most useful for him and will take him into My bosom, breathing into his soul life and truth. But if anyone reads it through vain curiosity and a desire to pry into My secrets to censure and mock them, I will assuredly humble and cast him down shamefully." E-MAIL HOME-------------------------------SAINTS www.catholictradition.org/Gertrude/revelations15.htm