Sunday, May 28 : Saint Gertrude of Helfta

When we red in the gospel that the Lord has given His disciples the Holy Spirit by breathing on them, Gertrude begged the Lord with fervent devotion to deign, in His goodness, to give her too the Spirit, source of all sweetness. The Lord responded to her ; “If you wish to receive the Holy Spirit, you must, like my disciples, touch my side and my hands. She understood in these words that if someone desires to receive the Holy Spirit, they must first touch His side, which is to consider with gratitude the love of the Divine Heart which has predestined us from all eternity to be His children and inherit the kingdom. Also consider how, through all these infinite benefits, He has always pursued us despite our ingratitude. One must also touch the hands of the Lord, thus remembering all the acts by which the Lord, for love of us, worked for our redemption during 33 years, particularly His passion and death. When one is inflamed with this gratitude, he offers to the Lord his whole heart, for the pleasure of the divine will. If one acts in this way, he will receive without fail the Holy Spirit, the paraclete, the breath of God, in the same way as the Holy Apostles.

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