“Look, my child, at my heart surrounded with thorns, which ungrateful men continuously nail into me with their blasphemies and sins. You, at least, try to console me and tell everyone that those who go to confession on the first Saturday of the month for five months, receive holy communion, say the rosary and keep me company for a quarter of an hour – these I promise to assist at the time of their death with the necessary graces for their salvation.”

             -The Blessed Virgin Mary              (Fatima, August 13, 1917)

For Reflection:

To what extent am I willing to make reparation for sins against the name of Jesus?

The Eternal Woman: The Timeless Meaning of the Feminine Gertrud von le Fort Click Here For More Information Pb 128 pgs

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Gertrud von le Fort's message is drawn from the mainspring of Christian revelation.  Her basic theme is that strength which according to St. Paul "is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor 12:9).  Strength in weakness, in a power-drunk, secularized world bristling with arms and at the same time bleeding from a million wounds, because man, both physically and mentally, has run amuck!