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The Revelations
of St. Gertrude the Great
COMPILED BY THE RELIGIOUS OF HER MONASTERY
CATHOLIC TREASURES, NOVEMBER 1980
Reparation
for the fall of a Host, which it was feared had been consecrated.
It happened one day that, in preparing for Mass, a Host fell from some
fold and all were in doubt whether it had been consecrated or not. The
Saint had recourse to God; and having learned that the host had not
been consecrated, she rejoiced much that no irreverence had been
committed. Yet, as all her care was to promote the glory of God, she
said to Him: "Although Thy infinite goodness has not permitted that
Thou shouldest receive so great an outrage in this place and in the
Sacrament of the Altar, nevertheless, O Lord of the Universe, because
Thou wert treated with a like indignity and irreverence, not only by
Thy enemies the heathen and the Jews but alas, even by Thy most
faithful friends whom
Thou has redeemed by the price of Thy most precious Blood and I weep to
say it, sometimes even by priests and religious, I will not make it
known that this host was not consecrated, in order that Thou mayest not
be deprived of the satisfaction that will be offered to Thee."
Then she added: "O Lord my God! make known to me what satisfaction
is
most agreeable to Thee for each offence which is committed against
Thee, because I will try to accomplish it for love of Thy honour and
glory, even if I consume my whole strength in doing it." Our Lord then
made known to her that He would accept the recital of the Lord's Prayer
two hundred and twenty-five times, in honour of His sacred Limbs and of
as many acts of charity towards her neighbour, in thanksgiving to Him
who has said: "So long as you did it to one of these My least brethren,
you did it to Me" (Matt. xxv.) and in union with that love which made
God become Man for us, and that she should deprive herself as many
times of the vain and useless pleasures of
earth and occupy herself only with the real and true pleasures of the
Divinity.
Oh, how great and ineffable is the mercy and kindness of our most
loving God which accepts and rewards as offerings what we should
deserve most just punishment for if we omitted! |
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