What awaits me now in the New Year?

I saw all the sufferings of the year, but they didn´t belong to me, neither did my prayers belong to me; if they belonged, they were stillborn, dead. I was finishing the year without anything to give Jesus. I began to see the depth of my misery, my nothingness!

I remembered my spiritual father, imprisoned, and suffering so much because of me! I thought of all the lights that had been taken from me, lights which I much needed to guide me and to take me closer to Jesus. I thought of my doctor and my loved ones who have given me so much care and affection and love. And here is me with nothing to give, and so miserable! I could not resist. I began to cry.

O my Jesus, oh, so much care and so many opportunities lost because of me! Oh, what I am and whom they think they do these things for? Recompense them, my God, fill them with Yourself, with your love.

It was a day full of bitterness. I received some gifts that gave me joy. When the soul was beginning to feel the joy, to taste it, Jesus came severed my senses from it. Let Thy will be done, O my love, for Your love.

At midnight I thanked Jesus for all the benefits received during the year and everything that had made me suffer. I asked them to pray a Te Deum with me in thanksgiving. When it finished, I added:

Thanks for everything, my Jesus, for all the pain and all the joy. Forgive my ingratitude toward You. What awaits me now in the New Year? Send me what you like, Jesus, because I accept everything, but don’t deprive me of the grace I need. And give me all Your love.

Sentiments of the Soul, 31.12.1944

“Richeldis de Faverches and Our Lady of Walsingham”

Mary’s Dowry Productions

“Richeldis de Faverches and Our Lady of Walsingham”

New DVD Release

Now available on DVD worldwide from our online shop at Mary’s Dowry Productions, through Amazon UK and Amazon US, is our program on Our Lady of Walsingham. 

Touching briefly but relevantly upon many aspects of British history including the Battle of Hastings, King Edward the Confessor, Lady Richeldis de Faverches, the Crusades, the Tudor and Elizabethan monarchies, the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 and devotion to Our Lady in England, this is an original approach that encompasses the English Martyrs and most importantly the spirituality of the Catholic Church in history. 

Presented from the Shrine of Saint Philip Howard, English Martyr, who is believed to have penned the Walsingham Lament after his visit to the ruins of Walsingham with his cousin Queen Elizabeth I, this DVD seeks to present in a simple and original way the history of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham from its very beginnings in 1061 through to the present day while tying in the many important connections of the Faith in England, Mary’s Dowry.

For more information and to purchase this new DVD please visit our website http://www.marysdowryproductions.org/.

The Bl. Alexandrina DVD has been cleared for broadcast on EWTN, so hopefully in the coming months will be shown on there and reach a lot more people.

B. Bevans