Fore & Aft Newsletter Vol. III No.7 - January - March 2001

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On Radio Veritas | Nov 2: Nationwide Remembrance | Testimonial | Excerpts | Outreach | Random Notes | St. Gertrude | Impressions | About the Green Scapular | Way of the Cross | Planning Session | Divine Savior Parish: Active Site | Birthdays | Other Newsletters | Editorial | Main

St. Gertrude the Great

 

 

  8 O’CLOCK EVENING PRAYER FOR THE HOLY SOULS

 Prayer of St. Gertrude The Great 

“Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my home and within my family, Amen.”

 

St. Gertrude, Virgin, Feast day - November 16.

St. Gertrude was born at Eisleben in Saxony. At the age of five, she was placed in the care of the Benedictine nuns at Rodalsdorf and later became a nun in the same monastery, of which she was elected Abbess in 1251. The following year she was obliged to take charge of the monastery at Helfta, to which she moved with her nuns.

St. Gertrude had enjoyed a good education. She wrote and composed in Latin, and was versed in Sacred Literature. The life of this saint, though not replete with stirring events and striking actions, was one of great mental activity. It was the mystic life of the cloister, a life hidden with Christ in God. She was characterized by great devotion to the Sacred Humanity of Our Lord in His Passion and in the Blessed Eucharist, and by a tender love for the Blessed Virgin. She died in 1302. From Catholic Online Saints  

On Radio Veritas | Nov 2: Nationwide Remembrance | Testimonial | Excerpts | Outreach | Random Notes | St. Gertrude | Impressions | About the Green Scapular | Way of the Cross | Planning Session | Divine Savior Parish: Active Site | Birthdays | Other Newsletters | Editorial | Main

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Fore & Aft Newsletter Vol. III No.7 - January - March 2001

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