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18/09/2022

HAPPY FEAST DAY OF ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO

18/09/2022

🌾🌾A GREAT SAINT 🌾🌾
FOR STUDENTS
ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO
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🙏🏻Dearly Beloved 💞, are you a Student? Here is the great saint for students, especially those who have difficulties for one reason or another.

🙏🏻Invoke him always and he will never disappoint you.

St. Joseph of Cupertino, pray for us!🌹🌹🌹

18/09/2022

🌾🌾A GREAT SAINT 🌾🌾
FOR STUDENTS
ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO
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🙏🏻Dearly Beloved 💞, are you a Student? Here is the great saint for students, especially those who have difficulties for one reason or another.

🙏🏻Invoke him always and he will never disappoint you.

St. Joseph of Cupertino, pray for us!🌹🌹🌹

18/09/2022

🔥🔥🔥GREAT🔥🔥🔥
QUOTE OF THE DAY
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🌹"For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine; and you say, `He has a demon.' The Son of man has come eating and drinking; and you say, `Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
Luke 7:33-34

🌹"Clearly, what God wants above all is our will which we received as a free gift from God in creation and possess as though our own. When a man trains himself to acts of virtue, it is with the help of grace from God from whom all good things come that he does this. The will is what man has as his unique possession."

- St. Joseph of Cupertino
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18/09/2022

SAINT +OF +THE+ DAY
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ST JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO
CONFESSOR
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17 JUNE 1603 -
18 SEPTEMBER 1663

THE FLYING SAINT
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🙏🏻🌹 Beloved Souls, Today the Holy Mother Church celebrates One of Her finest Saints of all Times, St. Joseph Desa of Cupertino. He was born in the little city of Cupertino, near the Gulf of Tarento, in 1600. It is said in the acts of the process of his canonization that at the age of five he already showed such signs of sanctity that if he had been an adult, he would have been venerated as a perfect man. Already in his youth he was ravished in ecstasies which literally tore him away from the earth; it has been calculated that perhaps half of his life for some sixty years was spent literally above the ground. But much remains to be said of Saint Joseph, apart from his visible divine favors.

🌹He almost died at the age of seven from an interior abscess, which only his prayer to Our Lady cured. He learned to be a shoemaker to earn his living, but was often absent in spirit from his work. He treated his flesh with singular rigor. The Cardinal de Lauria, who knew him well for long years, said he wore a very rude hair shirt and never ate meat, contenting himself with fruits and bread. He seasoned his soup, if he accepted any, with a dry and very bitter powder of wormwood. At the age of seventeen he desired to become a conventual Franciscan, but was refused because he had not studied. He entered the Capuchins as a lay brother, but the divine favors he received seemed everywhere to bring down contempt upon him. He was in continuous contemplation and dropped plates and cauldrons. He would often stop and kneel down, and his long halts in places of discomfort brought on a tumor of the knee which was very painful. It was decided that he lacked both aptitude and health, and he was sent home. He was then regarded everywhere as a vagabond and a fool, and his mother in particular was harsh, as had been her custom for long years. She did, however, obtain permission for him to take charge of the stable for the conventual Franciscans, wearing the habit of the Third Order.

🌹Saint Joseph proved himself many times to be perfectly obedient. His humility was heroic, and his mortification most exceptional. His words bore fruit and wakened the indifferent, warned against vice and in general were seen to come from a man who was very kind and very virtuous. He was finally granted the habit. He read with difficulty and wrote with still more difficulty, but the Mother of God was watching over him. When by the intervention of the bishop he had been admitted to minor Orders, he desired to be a priest but knew well only one text of the Gospel. By a special Providence of God, that was the text he was asked to expound during the canonical examination for the diaconate. The bishop who was in charge of hearing candidates for the priesthood found that the first ones answered exceptionally well, and he decided to ordain them all without any further hearings, thus passing Joseph with the others. He was ordained in 1628.

🌹He retired to a hermitage where he was apparently in nearly continuous ecstasy, or at least contemplation. He kept nothing for himself save the tunic he wore. Rejoicing to be totally poor, he felt entirely free also. He obeyed his Superiors and went wherever he was sent, wearing sandals and an old tunic which often came back with pieces missing; the people had begun to venerate him as a Saint, and had cut them off. When he did not notice what was happening, he was reproached as failing in poverty. The humble Brother wanted to pass for a sinner; he asked for the lowest employments, and transported the building materials for a church on his shoulders. He begged for the community. At the church he was a priest; elsewhere, a poor Brother.

🌹Toward the end of his life all divine consolations were denied the Saint, including his ecstasies. He fell victim to an aridity which was unceasing, and he could find no savor in any holy reading. Then the infernal spirits inspired terrible visions and dreams. He shed tears amid this darkness and prayed his Saviour to help him, but received no answer. When the General of the Order heard of this, he called him to Rome, and there he recovered from the fearful trial, and all his joy returned.

🌹He still had combats with the enemy of God to bear just the same, when the demons took human form to attempt to injure him physically. Other afflictions were not spared him, but his soul overcame all barriers between himself and God. He died on September 18, 1663, at the age of 63, in the Franciscan convent of Osino. He had celebrated Holy Mass up to and including the day before his death, as he had foretold he would do.

PATRON:
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Air travellers; astronauts; aviators; paratroopers; pilots; students; test takers.

PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO
FOR SUCCESS IN EXAMINATIONS

🙏🏻O humble St. Joseph of Cupertino, singularly favored by God in overcoming the difficulties of study and the worries of examinations, implore the Holy Spirit to enlighten my mind and strengthen my memory in the search of His truth and wisdom. Help me especially in the decisive moments of this examination, protecting me from that forgetfulness and disturbing anxiety which often affect me. May I succeed in offering God my finest work and may I grow in knowledge, understanding, humility and charity. May everything that I attempt to learn in life be offered in faithful service to God, from whom flows that wisdom which leads to eternal life. Amen.

MAKE US HOLY LORD
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17/09/2022

St. Joseph was born in 1603 at Cupertino, in the diocese of Nardo in the Kingdom of Naples. After spending his childhood and adolescence in simplicity and innocence, he finally joined the Franciscan Friars Minor Conventual. After his ordination to the holy priesthood, he gave himself up entirely to a life of devotion to the Lord and his church. His deep devotional life led him to the kind of holiness which is forged through humility, voluntary mortification, and obedience. He was consecrated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and promoted devotion to her among all classes of people as wonderful path to a deeper Christian life and love for Jesus Christ.

It is said that his mother often considered him a nuisance and treated him harshly. Joseph was purported to be slow to learn and absent-minded. He was said to frequently wander aimlessly, with his mouth gaping open. And, he had a bad temper, so, he was not at all popular. He tried to learn the trade of shoemaking, but failed. He asked to become a Franciscan, but they initially would not accept him. Finally he did join the Capuchins. However, for a very short period of time. Eight months later, they sent him away. Sources say it was because he could not seem to do anything right.

He dropped piles of dishes and kept forgetting to do what he was told. His mother was not at all pleased to have the eighteen-year-old Joseph back home again, so she finally got him accepted as a servant at the Franciscan monastery. He was given the friars habit and put to hard work taking care of the horses.

About this time, Joseph began to change. He grew in humility and gentleness, fruits of the Holy Spirit at work in a person. He became more careful and successful at his work. He also began to pray more do more voluntary acts of penance. Finally, he was able to enter the Franciscan order and, eventually, study for the priesthood. Although he was a good and holy friar, he had a very hard time with studies. During his seminary exams, the examiner happened to ask him to explain the only thing he knew well, and so he was ordained a deacon, and later a priest.

After this, the Holy Spirit began to work many amazing miracles through St. Joseph. Over seventy times, people say they saw him rise from the ground while offering mass or praying. Often he went into ecstasy and would be caught up in talking with God. He fell so deeply in love with God that everything he saw only drew him into a deeper union. He said that all the troubles of this world were nothing but the "play" battles children have with popguns. St. Joseph became so famous for the miracles that he was finally kept hidden from the public, but he was happy for the chance to be alone with his beloved Lord. On His part, Jesus never left him alone and one day came to bring him to Heaven. Pope Clement XIII canonized him in 1767. He is the patron saint of air travelers, pilots and learning disabled.

The life of this saint was marked by ecstasies and levitations. The mere mention of God or a spiritual matter was enough to take him out of his senses; at Mass he is said to have frequently floated in the air in rapture. Once as Christmas carols were being sung, he soared to the high altar and knelt in the air, in ecstatic prayer. The people flocked to him in droves seeking help and advice in the confessional, and he assisted many in living a truly devout Christian life. However, this humble man had to endure many severe trials and terrible temptations throughout his life. He died on September 18, 1663.

02/09/2022

SEPTEMBER IS THE MONTH OF SAINT JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO

*Patron of Students,
*Test takers,
*Air travelers,
*Mental handicaps
*And is invoked by children, adults and the elderly who are unloved, abandoned or neglected.

Please remember the novena of Saint Joseph of Cupertino start on 9th and end on 17th of September.

Feast day: September 18

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ONITSHA
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01/09/2022

In this month All who use this prayer book may your prayers be answered and also may all the students who use it in their exams, I pray you come out in all the flying colours of success. May your efforts in preparation not be wasted. No confusion will cloud your mind. A very sound mind shall be yours as you study for this exam. You will make it. I wish you the very best.

During the time of your tests and examinations, the young seminarians of the sanctuary of St. Joseph of Cupertino will unite with you and support your prayers at the alter in Osimo (ltaly), where the saint reposes and watches. Have faith!

FOUR PLACES YOU WILL GET ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO PRAYER BOOK:

ONITSHA
HOLY TRINITY BOOK CENTRE
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Onitsha Archdiocese, Anambra State, Nigeria.

ABATA NSUGBE
NO. 4 Riverline Street Abata Nsugbe, Opposite 2nd Gate, Nwafor Orizu College of Education Nsugbe, Anambra State, Nigeria. Call Or WhatsApp: +2347030855261.

NSUGBE
Cistercian Monastery Nsugbe Religious Shop, Anambra State, Nigeria.

AWKA
MADONNA RELIGIOUS SHOP
Address:
28 St. Mary's Lock-up Shops, Arthur Eze Avenue, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria.

NOTE:
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04/08/2022

FOUR PLACES YOU WILL GET ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO PRAYER BOOK:

ONITSHA
HOLY TRINITY BOOK CENTRE
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Onitsha Archdiocese, Anambra State, Nigeria.

ABATA NSUGBE
NO. 4 Riverline Street Abata Nsugbe, Opposite 2nd Gate, Nwafor Orizu College of Education Nsugbe, Anambra State, Nigeria. Call or WhatsApp: +2347030855261

NSUGBE
Cistercian Monastery Nsugbe Religious Shop, Anambra State, Nigeria.

AWKA
MADONNA RELIGIOUS SHOP
Address:
28 St. Mary's Lock-up Shops, Arthur Eze Avenue, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria.

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26/07/2022

TUESDAY DEVOTION TO ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO.

*Patron Saint of Students,
*Test takers,
*Air travelers,
*Mental handicaps
*And is invoked by children, adults and the elderly who are unloved, abandoned or neglected.

OPENING PRAYER.

O God, You ordained that Your only-begotten Son should be lifted up above the earth and draw all things to Himself; mercifully grant that, through the merits and example of Your seraphic confessor St. Joseph of Cupertino, we may be lifted up above all earthly desires and be found worthy to come to Him, who being God, lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, for ever and ever. Amen.

PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO.

O HOLY Saint Joseph of Cupertino, great in virtues and rich in miracles, near kinsmen of St. Francis, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of needs. To you l have recourse from the death of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present urgent petition (make your request). In return l promise to make your name know and cause you to be invoked. Amen.

NOVENA TO REQUEST A GRACE.

Oh St. Joseph of Cupertino, my kind protector and of those that go to you during their hardships. Intercede on my behalf to God so that my sorrows and pains that now burden me are alleviated
(make your request)
I request it with full confidence, obtain for us from God and His holy mother Mary, the special intention of this Novena..... and the divine mercy in all our needs both of soul and of body. Pray to God that we may learn of you to be humble, submissive and prayerful, and ever to practise the divine virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. Amen.

3 Our Father, 3 Hail Mary and 3 Glory be to the Father.

Saint Joseph of Cupertino pray for me and all who invoke your aid. Amen.

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FOUR PLACES YOU WILL GET ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO PRAYER BOOK:

ONITSHA
HOLY TRINITY BOOK CENTRE
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Onitsha Archdiocese, Anambra State, Nigeria.

ABATA NSUGBE
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NSUGBE
Cistercian Monastery Nsugbe Religious Shop.
Anambra State, Nigeria.

AWKA
MADONNA RELIGIOUS SHOP
Address:
28 St. Mary's Lock-up Shops, Arthur Eze Avenue, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria.

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09/07/2022

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01/06/2022

SAINT +OF+ THE+ DAY
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SAINT JUSTIN
MARTYR
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(100 - 165)

🙏🏻🌹Beloved Souls, Today the Holy Mother Church celebrates One of Her finest Saints of all Times, St. Justin. He was son of Priscus, was a Greek by race, and was born at Nablus in Palestine. He passed his youth in the study of letters. When he grew to manhood he was so taken with the love of philosophy and the desire of truth, that he became a student of philosphy and examined the teaching of all the philosophers. He found in them only deceitful wisdom and error. He received the light of heaven from a venerable old man, who was a stranger to him, and embraced the philosophy of the true Christian faith. Henceforth he had the books of Holy Scripture in his hands by day and night, and his soul was filled with the divine fire enkindled by his meditations. Having thus acquired the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, he devoted his learning to the composition of many books explaining and propagating the Christian faith.

🌹Among the most famous of the works of Justin are his two Apologies or Defenses of the Christian faith. These he offered in the Senate to the Emperor Antoninus Pius and his sons, together with Marcus Antoninus Verus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus, who were cruelly persecuting the followers of Christ. By these Apologies and his vigorous disputations in defense of the faith he obtained a public edict from the government to stay the slaughter of the Christians. But Justin himself did not escape. He had blamed the wicked life led by Crescens the Cynic, who caused him to be accused and arrested. He was brought before Rusticus, the Prefect of Rome, and questioned concerning the doctrine of the Christians. Whereupon he made this good confession in the presence of many witnesses: "The right doctrine which we Christian men do keep with godliness is this: that we believe that there is one God, the maker and creator of all things, both those which are seen and those which bodily eyes do not see; and that we confess the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was of old foretold by the Prophets, and who is to come to judge all mankind."

🌹In his first Apology Justin had given, in order to rebut the slanders of the heathen, an open account of the Christian assemblies and of the holy Mysteries there celebrated. The prefect asked him in what place he and Christ's other faithful servants in the city were accustomed to meet. But Justin, fearing to betray the holy mysteries and his brethren, mentioned only his own dwelling near the famous church in the house of Pudens, where he lived and taught his disciples. The prefect then bade him choose whether he would sacrifice to the gods or suffer a cruel scourging. The unconquered champion of the faith answered that he had always desired to suffer for the Lord Jesus Christ, from whom he hoped to receive a great reward in heaven. The prefect thereupon sentenced him to death, and thus this excellent philosopher, giving praise to God, suffered the pain of scourging, and then shed his blood for Christ, and was crowned with martyrdom. Some of the faithful stole away his body and buried it in a fitting place.

PATRON:
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Apologists; lecturers; orators; philosophers; speakers.

PRAYER:
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O God, who through the folly of the Cross wondrously taught Saint Justin the Martyr the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ, grant us, through his intercession, that, having rejected deception and error, we may become steadfast in the faith. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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29/05/2022

A POWERFUL PRAYER BOOK OF ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO By BRO. JOSEPH MARY NWANKWO
A BOOK YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS.

ABOUT THE BOOK
The novena and prayers to St. Joseph of Cupertino for success in examinations, is inspired by Bro. Joseph Mary Nwankwo. The purpose of praying this devotion is to help students learn from St. Joseph of Cupertino:
(1) How to be a better student,

(2) How to develop and maintain good habits in daily life,

(3) How to grow spiritually imitating Jesus Christ,

(4) How to recognize and overcome personal challenges,

(5) How to be the person God wants you to be,

(6) Finally buy this book for your success in Examinations and solution to other problems students are having in the school.

THREE PLACES YOU WILL GET ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO PRAYER BOOK:

ONITSHA
HOLY TRINITY BOOK CENTRE
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Onitsha Archdiocese, Anambra State, Nigeria.

NSUGBE
NO. 4 Riverline Street Abata Nsugbe, Opposite 2nd Gate, Nwafor Orizu College of Education Nsugbe, Anambra State, Nigeria.
CALL OR WHATSAPP: +2347030855261

AWKA
MADONNA RELIGIOUS SHOP
Address:
28 St. Mary's Lock-up Shops, Arthur Eze Avenue, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria.

11/04/2022

SAINT +OF +THE +DAY
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SAINT GEMMA GALGANI
VIRGIN, MYSTIC AND
STIGMATIST
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12 MARCH 1878 -
11 APRIL 1903

🙏🏻🌹Beloved Souls Today the Holy Mother Church celebrates One of Her finest Saints of all times, St. Gemma Galgani. She was born on March 12, 1878 in Camigliano, Italy, and soon after her birth her family moved to Lucca, Italy, where she remained the rest of her life. Her mother Aurelia, a holy woman, died when Gemma was only 8 years old. The loss of her mother at such a young age was a sword of suffering upon her little heart. Eleven years later, at age 19, she would lose also her father, leaving her and her brothers and sisters orphans. Not long after this, she became gravely ill with spinal meningitis, becoming bedridden and on the verge of death. It was at this point that began the extraordinary graces in her life.

MIRACULOUS CURE
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🌹The Passionist St. Gabriel Possenti began appearing to her in a series of visions, encouraging her and helping her to make a Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in hopes for a cure. It was at this time that the attending Doctors resigned her to die. On March 3, 1899, Jesus appeared to Gemma and cured her on the last day of the Novena, which coincided with the First Friday of the month (which is devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus). It was at this time also that Gemma began receiving inner locutions (interior words) from Jesus, and she begins to see her guardian Angel who inspires and instructs her in the practice of virtues.

ST. GEMMA IS GIVEN
THE STIGMATA
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🌹A few months later, on the morning of June 8, 1899, Gemma is enlightened during Holy Communion that she would soon be receiving a great grace from Jesus. That evening, the Blessed Mother appeared to her, along with her guardian Angel. The Blessed Virgin told her: "Jesus my Son loves you very much and He wishes to give you a grace. Do you know how to make yourself worthy of it?” In my misery I did not know what to answer. She continued “I will be your Mother. Will you be a true daughter?” She then spread her mantle and covered me with it. At that moment Jesus appeared with all His wounds open, but blood no longer came out of those wounds. Rather, flames of fire issued forth from them and in an instant these flames came to touch my hands, my feet and my heart. I felt as if I would die. I fell to the floor, but my Mother supported me, keeping me covered in her mantle. I had to remain several hours in that position. Finally she kissed me on my forehead, and all vanished, and I found myself kneeling on the floor. But I still felt an intense pain in my hands, feet and heart. I arose to go to bed, and I then noticed that blood was flowing from those parts where I felt pain. I covered them as well as I could, and then with the help of my angel, I was able to go to bed. These sufferings and pains, although they afflicted me, filled me with perfect peace. The next morning I was able to go to Communion only with great difficulty, and I put on a pair of gloves in order to hide my hands. I could hardly stand on my feet, and I thought I would die at any minute. The sufferings continued until 3pm on Friday afternoon, the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus."

VICTIM SOUL
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🌹It was at this point that Gemma began suffering as a victim soul for the conversion of sinners. She continued this extraordinary mission until the end of her life. At times accompanying the Stigmata were also the Crown of Thorns and also the Scourging which is well documented by her Spiritual Director, Venerable Father Germanus C.P.

ECSTASIES OF LOVE
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🌹Along with suffering in union with Jesus for the conversion of souls, she was also drawn into the most remarkable and sublime ecstasies where she conversed and often pleaded with Jesus for sinners, for the souls in Purgatory, for love and for mercy upon humanity, always telling Jesus of her love for Him, and offering herself as a holocaust and victim to obtain these graces.

THE HOLY DEATH
OF ST. GEMMA
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🌹In September 1902, Gemma became severely ill with Tuberculosis. By that time the fever of disease had begun to consume the innocent victim of divine Justice. Early in September she became very sick and vomited blood in quantities. One who watched by her bed wrote to her Director: "She is reduced to skin and bones; she suffers excruciating pains. One cannot bear the torment of not knowing what to do to relieve her. Gemma feels great need of you. Come quickly and tell us what to do."

🌹"On receiving other pressing requests," he wrote, "I determined to go and reached Lucca in the month of October. The poor child showed the greatest joy when she was told that I had come, and wished to get up to welcome me. Imagine my grief at finding her in such a state, added to my fear that God this time would act indeed. I blessed her and bade her go back to bed; then sitting by her side I said: 'Well Gemma, what are we to do?' 'Go to Jesus, Father,' she answered, in a tone of inexpressible joy. 'But really?' I added. 'Yes, Father, this time Jesus has told me clearly, so clearly. To Heaven, my Father, to Jesus, with Jesus in Heaven!' 'But,' I rejoined, 'our sins, how are we to atone for them? You would make it an easy matter!' And she answered, 'Jesus has thought of that. He will let me suffer so much in the short time I have to live, that, sanctifying my poor pains by the merits of His Passion, He will be satisfied and will take me with Him to Paradise.' 'But,' I said, 'I do not wish you to die yet.' And she, in her spirited way, replied- 'And should Jesus wish it, what then?'

🌹She then gave him all the particulars of her death and burial with the calmness of one discussing an ordinary affair. In the Confession she made that evening, she accused herself of the sins of her whole life with such compunction that he could not restrain his tears at seeing such lively sentiments of sorrow in one who had never stained the spotless robe of baptismal innocence by a deliberate sin. In the morning dressed as a bride with a white veil on her head she received Holy Viaticum, "looking," says Father Germano, "like an Angel in adoration before the Majesty of God." Afterwards she said to him: "If you wish, Father you can leave, as I shall not die now. This illness will certainly finish me, but not yet; at least, that is what Jesus has told me."

🌹Thus the months dragged on with Gemma living in the closest union of love and suffering with Jesus Crucified. Through the offering of her sufferings in union with Jesus, the Victim Soul was obtaining countless graces each day for the conversion of sinners. Holy Week arrived and now the victim of Jesus was to be made conformable to His Death. On Good Friday, April 10, 1903 she said to Cecilia Giannini who was attending her: "Don't leave me until I am nailed to the Cross. I must be crucified with Jesus. He has said to me that His children must be crucified." She then went into ecstasy and gradually extending her arms, she remained in that posture for about three hours - an image of Jesus dying on the Cross. All that day and night her agony continued.

🌹On the morning of Holy Saturday, April 11, 1903, at about 8:00am she received Viaticum and the Last Anointing. At around 1:30pm, with the crucifix in her hands she said: "Jesus, now it is indeed true that nothing remains for me. If it be Thy will, take me." Glancing at the picture of Mary, she added: "My Mother, I recommend myself to You. Ask Jesus to have mercy on me." Then, in a feeble voice: "Jesus, I commend to You this poor soul of mine. Jesus." These were her last words. She kissed the crucifix, placed it over her heart, folded her hands over it, and closed her eyes. Then, after a few moments, she turned her head on the pillow and ceased to breathe, and thus her holy soul took flight to be forever united with the God whom she loved with all the strength of her heart.

🌹The priest who was reading the last prayers of the Church never knew the moment of her passing. "I have assisted many sick people," he said, "but I never knew one to die in that way, without a tear or a sigh. She died with a smile and the smile remained on her lips so that I could hardly convince myself that she was really dead." And one of the Nursing Sisters from the order of St Camillis de Lellis who was caring for Gemma in her last days attested: "We have cared for a great many sick people, but we have never seen anything like this."

THE INSCRIPTION
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"Gemma Galgani of Lucca, a most innocent virgin, while in her 25th year, consumed rather by the fire of Divine Love than by the violence of disease, flew into the arms of her Heavenly Spouse on Holy Saturday, the eleventh of April, 1903. Peace be to Thee, O sweet soul, in company with the Angels"

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Pharmacists; students; people struggling with temptation; people seeking greater spiritual purity; people who are grieving the deaths of parents; and people suffering from headaches, tuberculosis, or back injuries.

PRAYER OF
ST. GEMMA GALGANI
TO OBTAIN
A DESIRED GRACE
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Behold me at Your most holy feet, O dear Jesus, to manifest to you my gratitude for the continual favors which You have bestowed upon me, and still wish to bestow upon me. As many times as I have invoked You, O Jesus, You have made me content; I have often had recourse to You and You have always consoled me. How shall I express myself to You, dear Jesus? I thank you! Yet one more grace I desire of you, O my God, if it would be pleasing to You (here mention your request). If you were not omnipotent, I would not make this request. O Jesus, have pity on me. May your most holy will be done in all things. Amen.

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