tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45597913610463159582024-03-13T12:02:12.263-07:00Blessed Alexandrina's NewsJosé Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12998775423781902109noreply@blogger.comBlogger243125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559791361046315958.post-38304729868132842072018-05-06T03:01:00.001-07:002018-05-06T03:23:44.149-07:00NEWS BY FR LEOPOLDINO MATEUS ON BALASAR<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">A book with
the news Father Leopoldino Mateus weekly wrote on Balasar between 1933 and 1950
is ready. It will be a volume of about 220 pages (in Portuguese) very useful for anyone who
wants to study Balasar in this period and also very useful - we suppose
indispensable - for anyone who wants to study Blessed Alexandrina. It is not
expected to leave before the summer. These newsletters are already online (<a href="http://alexandrinadebalasar.free.fr/noticiarios_conteudo.htm">http://alexandrinadebalasar.free.fr/noticiarios_conteudo.htm</a>),
but the book edition will be a little more complete.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">One day, it
is possible that a new volume comes out with the news from 1950 to 1956, which
is more than the two previous decades.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />José Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12998775423781902109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559791361046315958.post-4664352756100629062018-03-21T13:18:00.000-07:002018-03-21T13:18:36.583-07:00TRASLADATION OF ALEXANDRINA'S MORTAL REMAINS TO THE TOMB CHAPEL IN THE BALASAR CEMETERY IN 1957<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1957 the
auxiliary bishop of Braga went to Balasar to bless the chapel built in the
cemetery and to exhume the body<i> (of Alexandrina)</i>, which had been buried in the
earth, and to transport it to the new grave. It was October 11; were present in
addition to the auxiliary bishop, the Mayor of Póvoa de Varzim, Dr. Manuel Melo
Adriano, professor of medicine at the University of Porto, the deputy doctor of
health of the region, Dr. Costa Azevedo, and Dr. Manuel Augusto Dias of
Azevedo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">To the mass
of the faithful people was forbidden to enter the cemetery; many of them
climbed up to the fence wall to see.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dr.
Adriano, at the request of auxiliary bishop Mons. Francisco Maria da Silva,
wrote a report on the exhumation of Alexandrina's body on the following 23
December. Among other things he wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">Proceeding to the removal of the earth,
appeared a niche in cement with about two meters of length by one of width and
one of height, open in one side until the bottom, and shown part of the
mortuary box. The cement plate, with two iron rings and crossed by iron wires
surrounding the structure, was removed and was removed also the earth covering
the mortuary box, which appeared in a discreet state of preservation, eroded
only in a small part of the cover, in the end, corresponding to the head of the
body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">You did not feel the slightest odor of corpse
putrefaction. I was invited by the auxiliary bishop to enter the mortuary
chapel. Once the cover of the mortuary box was removed, the body showed no sign
of putrefaction. By the examination I can say that I found myself facing a case
of corpse destruction without corruption. With all due respect, I take Jesus
Christ as my witness and before him I humbly swear that everything I write does
not depend in any way on external suggestion of whoever it is and that it is
the pure expression of the truth and that on my part there is not the least
preconceived idea.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dr. Azevedo
told me that the decomposition of Alexandrina's body without putrefaction is an </span>extraordinary fact that escapes the laws of nature.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>From Fr.
Humberto Pasquale’s autobiography.</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>The chapel
where Alexandrina’s mortal remains were buried in 1957.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />José Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12998775423781902109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559791361046315958.post-87789254423608594862018-03-17T14:09:00.000-07:002018-03-17T16:13:41.518-07:00A SMALL SIGNAL<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">One day Fr. Pinho, SJ,
well-known Spiritual Director of Alexandrina, also went to Balasar for a few
days of preaching. The parson confided to him that he had a patient with some
signs of something supernatural in her life, but he doubted it all. Fr. Pinho
soon offered to visit her and to do all in his power to discern the signs. He
was promptly invited to bring him Holy Communion at the end of Holy Mass. He
willingly accepted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Concentrated, taking the
Blessed Sacrament and remembering what the parson had confided to him, he
humbly whispered to the Lord:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">- If you are present and
acting the wonders of your grace in this soul, should give me a small signal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Arrived, goes up the stairs,
sees Alexandrina with her alive look as if waiting for Our Lord. When the
ritual prayers were done, it was time to show the Holy Host, saying,
"Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!", and,
without knowing how, the Sacred Host disappears from his hands to see it
immediately in Alexandrina’s mouth, who is surrounded by the grace of
Communion, the greatest and most striking moment of each of her days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />José Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12998775423781902109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559791361046315958.post-83031065349307366052018-03-17T04:27:00.000-07:002020-01-07T05:35:38.616-08:00HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH ON BALASAR<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">In recent years
we have been writing and publishing our historical monograph on Balasar. The
following small volumes are published:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Balasarenses</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (on remarkable people from Balasar, 2014).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Balasar Antiga</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (Ancient Balasar, 2014, 2nd edition in 2017).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Balasar no Século de D. Benta</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (Balasar in the Century of D. Benta,
2015).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A Santa Cruz de Balasar e o Cisma Liberal</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (The Holy Cross of Balasar and the
Liberal Schism, 2017).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Balasar no Caminho da Modernidade</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (Balasar on the Way to Modernity, 2017).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can
find the list of these and other our publications <a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=jos%C3%A9+ferreira&type=">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now we are
preparing the last volume that will have title <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Balasar da Alexandrina</i> (The Balasar of Alexandrina) and that is expected
to be launched next summer.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />José Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12998775423781902109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559791361046315958.post-14615331335004816592018-02-24T08:08:00.001-08:002018-02-24T08:10:57.720-08:00Meditation itineray<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">In one of
the small plots of land annexed to the House of the Blessed Alexandrina, an
original path for meditation on the message of her life and work was
inaugurated at the end of 2017. Remarkable thing!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">It begins
with a square column on whose top, on each face, is the portrait of the Beata.
In the soil, one reads the motto "To love, to suffer, to repair". The
second step consists of a statue of Our Lady in stone, the Heavenly Mother, who
always supported her in suffering. Then comes a stele with the copy of an icon
representing Jesus, the Master of the school where Alexandrina learned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Square
column that begins the meditation path on the life and work of Blessed
Alexandrina. In the last plane, other steps of this route and panels with
allusive phrases are pointed out.</b><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now begins
the walk of the Passion with the suggestion of the Garden of Gethsemane. Meanwhile,
one can read many of the Beata's phrases on the next walls. The following
moment is a stone square bench, in whose center is a stone table: it suggests
the Cenacle and a pause for reflection aided by the transcriptions read on the
neighboring wall. There is then a tank to which a spout of water flows; a panel
clarifies its meaning with the phrase of the Gospel "I thirst." The
column representing the Praetorium and the Flagellation is next seen. Further
on, a cross stands on a rounded stone block (quartz) that appears to represent
the globe. The walk concludes with a tall white ladder that symbolizes the
Resurrection. Everything always accompanied with Alexandrina's quotations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">This course
is dominated by the brilliant idea of visually entwining the steps of the
Passion of Christ with the experiences of Alexandrina. The fundamental of her life and work points to it and it does not make sense that the attention of the
people visiting her house is directed to facts more or less accessory,
secondary.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Blessed Alexandrina would complete today
112 years if she were alive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I put here a short text she once wrote.
It does not speak of her birthday, but of another birth, when she would go to Heaven:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When will my day arrive, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The day of my engagement? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Oh, happy day, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When I will be able to see my
God for ever, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And enjoy Him eternally, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Face to face!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
José Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12998775423781902109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559791361046315958.post-27288711480183843082016-03-23T12:39:00.002-07:002016-03-23T12:39:13.099-07:00Holy Easter!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">We wish all visitors to this page a Holy Easter, with Jesus dead and risen and with his soul-victim Blessed Alexandrina.</span></div>
José Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12998775423781902109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559791361046315958.post-82321639193957807692015-12-24T10:18:00.002-08:002016-03-23T12:39:54.201-07:00Merry Christmas<span style="font-size: large;">Merry Christmas to all people who usually come to visit this page. May Jesus come to your heart.</span>José Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12998775423781902109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559791361046315958.post-19511485530168571452015-12-13T13:42:00.001-08:002015-12-13T13:42:39.381-08:00BLESSED ALEXANDRINA (8a)<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Passion Visibly Relived <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Between 1938</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">and 1942</span>, Alexandrina
relived, during ecstasy, <span class="hps">the Passion of</span> <span class="hps">Jesus</span>
<span class="hps">with</span> <span class="hps">accompanying actions which enabled</span>
<span class="hps">the few people</span> <span class="hps">in her room</span> <span class="hps">to follow</span> <span class="hps">the order of events</span> during <span class="hps">that</span> <span class="hps">most painful</span> <span class="hps">way
of the cross</span> in its brutal cruelty; but it constituted a guarantee <span class="hps">that the</span> <span class="hps">request for the Consecration of the
World to the Immaculate</span> <span class="hps">Heart of Mary</span> <span class="hps">was</span> <span class="hps">of divine origin</span>. <span class="hps">On</span>
<span class="hps">March 27, 1942</span>, she <span class="hps">suffered</span> <span class="hps">the Passion</span> <span class="hps">in form</span> <span class="hps">of</span>
<span class="hps">physical participation</span> for<span class="hps"> the last
time.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: PT; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: PT; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The following</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">Friday,</span> <span class="hps">April
3</span>, <span class="hps">Good Friday</span>, she did <span class="hps">not</span>
<span class="hps">again suffer</span> <span class="hps">the Passion</span> <span class="hps">externally</span> <span class="hps">but relived</span> it <span class="hps">in her heart. <s><o:p></o:p></s></span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">On the same day</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, <span class="hps">Jesus</span> <span class="hps">told
her</span>: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">-</span></i></span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">Fear not</span>, my daughter, <span class="hps">you are</span> <span class="hps">no longer</span> <span class="hps">nailed
to a cross</span>. </span></i><span class="hps"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The</span></i></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span class="hps">crucifixion that</span> <span class="hps">you now
experience</span> <span class="hps">is the most painful</span> <span class="hps">that
can</span></span></i><span class="hps"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <i>be imagined</i></span></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span class="hps">in history</span></span></i><span class="hps"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">SoS</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4559791361046315958#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 13pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, <span class="hps">03/04/1942).</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b>Alexandrina reliving the Passion: contemporary painting.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4559791361046315958#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US">Sentiments of the Soul,
Alexandrina’s largest work, is a kind of diary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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José Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12998775423781902109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559791361046315958.post-22912160511564659922015-12-12T10:23:00.003-08:002015-12-12T10:24:21.109-08:00BLESSED ALEXANDRINA (7c)<b style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 13pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; text-align: justify;">The Consecration of the World to the Immaculate Heart of Mary</b><br />
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">When</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">Churchill</span> <span class="hps">said that</span> <span class="hps">before the Battle of</span> <span class="hps">Alamein</span> <span class="hps">(</span>Egypt in <span class="hps">1943)</span> <span class="hps">the
Allies</span> <span class="hps">had achieved no</span> <span class="hps">victory</span>,
<span class="hps">and after</span> <span class="hps">Alamein</span> <span class="hps">had suffered no</span> <span class="hps">defeat,</span> <span class="hps">it is not difficult to</span> <span class="hps">believe that</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">Consecration</span> <span class="hps">was</span>
<span class="hps">decisive in hastening the end</span> <span class="hps">of the</span>
<span class="hps">War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This suggests that</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">a memorial</span> should be built <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">Balasar</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">commemorate the Consecration</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Quotations</span></span><i style="font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><br />
</span></i><span class="hps" style="font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">-</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> <span class="hps"><i>I command you to</i></span><i> <span class="hps">tell your</span> <span class="hps">spiritual director</span>, in <span class="hps">proof of the love</span>
<span class="hps">that</span> <span class="hps">you dedicate</span> <span class="hps">to my</span> <span class="hps">Blessed Mother</span>, that <span class="hps">each year </span>I want <span class="hps">a</span> <span class="hps">Consecration</span>
<span class="hps">Act of</span> the entire w<span class="hps">orld made...</span> <span class="hps">just as</span> <span class="hps">I asked</span> <span class="hps">St.
Margaret Mary</span> <span class="hps">to consecrate the</span> <span class="hps">world</span>
<span class="hps">to my</span> <span class="hps">Divine Heart</span> </i><span class="hps">(</span>LtFP, <span class="hps">08/01/35</span>). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">-</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps"><i>My daughter,</i></span><i> <span class="hps">I</span> have chosen <span class="hps">you</span> <span class="hps">for more</span> <span class="hps">sublime</span>
<span class="hps">things</span>! <span class="hps">I</span> have chosen <span class="hps">you</span> to <span class="hps">inform the</span> <span class="hps">Pope</span>
of <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">desire I have</span> for <span class="hps">the world</span> to be <span class="hps">consecrated to my</span> <span class="hps">Blessed Mother</span></i> <span class="hps">(</span>LtFP<span class="hps">,</span> <span class="hps">11/01/37</span>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT;">Pope Pius XII proclaiming the World Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary on October 31, 1942.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"><b>The Consecration of the World to the Immaculate Heart of Mary</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In the life of</span></i></span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">Alexandrina<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In 1936</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, she started to <span class="hps">apply to the
hierarchy for</span> <span class="hps">the Consecration</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In 1938</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, <span class="hps">began</span> <span class="hps">the
experience of</span> living the <span class="hps">Passion</span> <span class="hps">externally.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In 1941</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, Padre Terças <span class="hps">published an account</span>
<span class="hps">of the Passion</span> <span class="hps">experience which</span> revealed
<span class="hps">Alexandrina’s</span> <span class="hps">name to the public, </span>a
disclosure altogether contrary to her wishes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In 1942</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, she <span class="hps">began</span> <span class="hps">the
fast</span> <span class="hps">and complete</span> <span class="hps">anuria</span>,
which <span class="hps">would last</span> <span class="hps">until death. The year
also saw the withdrawal of her beloved spiritual</span> <span class="hps">Director</span>,
<span class="hps">Fr</span>. <span class="hps">Mariano</span> <span class="hps">Pinho.</span></span></div>
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fragment of the newspaper edited by the Diocese of Braga on the eve of the Consecration
of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. At the top, right, it mentions
the Fatima Apparitions, at bottom and at the top left presents news of World
War.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Consecration of the World to
the Immaculate Heart of Mary<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In 1935</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, <span class="hps">Jesus</span> <span class="hps">asked
Alexandrina</span> for <span class="hps">the World</span> to be c<span class="hps">onsecrated</span>
<span class="hps">to the Immaculate</span> <span class="hps">Heart of Mary</span>,
which <span class="hps">didn’t take place until</span> <span class="hps">seven
years later,</span> <span class="hps">on 31 October</span> <span class="hps">1942,</span>
<span class="hps">in the midst of World War II.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">During these years</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">a lot had taken place</span> <span class="hps">in the world, and</span> <span class="hps">also</span> <span class="hps">in
the life of</span> <span class="hps">Alexandrina</span>.<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the World<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">Portugal</span>, <span class="hps">living</span> <span class="hps">under the</span> <span class="hps">authoritarian regime</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">Salazar was</span> <span class="hps">better
than under tyrannical regime</span> of <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">Republicans</span> <span class="hps">which</span> <span class="hps">remained
in force</span> <span class="hps">from 1910 to 1926</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In Spain,</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">the Republican</span> <span class="hps">carnage had been brewing</span> <span class="hps">for years</span>; <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">between 1936</span> <span class="hps">and
1939</span>, <span class="hps">the country saw</span> <span class="hps">the horrors
of</span> <span class="hps">civil</span> <span class="hps">war. Italy was</span> <span class="hps">dominated by the</span> <span class="hps">fascism</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">Mussolini. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In Germany, Hitler was preparing to plunge the
world into world war.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">At the head of</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">Russia was</span> <span class="hps">Stalin</span>,
<span class="hps">one of the grossest</span> <span class="hps">political</span> <span class="hps">aberrations</span> <span class="hps">of all time</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Alexandrina spend 30 years in bed. In
the beginning she nurtured the hope of being healed, asking Our Lady of Fatima
who appeared at the Cova de Iria ten years before; but what she received was a
love of suffering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the meantime Jesus called her to his
school and she found that the guiding motto of her life would be to suffer, to
love, to make reparation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus invited her to his crucifixion and
she accepted the offer boldly, without hesitation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus then led her to the highest
summits of the mystical life and made her the loftiest promises for her role in
the world and in the Church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was in September 1934 that I
understood it was the voice of our Lord and not a fantasy, as I had thought.
Then he asked me and said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">- Give me your hands, that I want to
crucify; give me your feet, that I want to nail with mine; give me your heart,
that want to pierce with a spear, as mine was pierced. Consecrate me your whole
body; offer yourself all to me! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Autobiography)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">- Give me your blood for the sins of the
world. Help me in my rescue mission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Without me you can do nothing; with me
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José Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12998775423781902109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559791361046315958.post-62382301710504365152015-12-07T08:38:00.002-08:002015-12-07T08:38:08.651-08:00HONOR AND GLORY TO THE LORD IN THE HIGH HEAVENS!<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At last the day of my joy dawned<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And the day of all those who are really devotees
of the dear heavenly Mother!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Oh Virgin of the Assumption, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">O Immaculate Heavenly Mother, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">More beautiful and pure than the Angels! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Lord created you so pure, so pure, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He created you so that you could be his Mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Oh Heavens, speak for me, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Acclaim the Lord’s Mother and our Mother for me,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Queen of Heaven and Earth!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Heavenly Mother, I am yours, make me pure!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Holy Saturday 1918, the day she was fourteen, Lino Ferreira, along with two
Brazilian emigrants visiting their families, forced entrance to the room where
she, Deolinda and another young woman were, intent on criminal purposes. To
escape them, Alexandrina jumped from a window. That heroic twelve foot leap
affected her spine and came to confine her in bed from 1925 till her death.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Alexandrina jumped from the window of her house.</span>José Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12998775423781902109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559791361046315958.post-88421771721185775922015-12-05T10:30:00.001-08:002015-12-05T10:30:34.557-08:00BLESSED ALEXANDRINA (4)<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">After returning to Balasar, Alexandrina was soon
living in an area called Calvary, in a small house that her mother had
inherited. At the age of twelve, she worked for a while at the house of a neighbour,
Lino Ferreira, who wished to seduce her, but she rejected his advances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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singer in the church. She was very active in the practice of charity, without
losing the qualities of playful girl and proud of her physical vigour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As in Balasar there was no school for girls,
Deolinda and Alexandrina were sent to study in Póvoa de Varzim. Alexandrina
confesses she learned little. But her schooldays in Póvoa showed her that the
urban life of a small town was very different from her rural parish. It allowed
her also to experience the sea and to see the Church was under Republican
persecution.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span>José Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12998775423781902109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559791361046315958.post-52494006367597619622015-12-03T11:35:00.004-08:002015-12-03T11:37:26.976-08:00BLESSED ALEXANDRINA (2)<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
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playful, with zest for work and with poetic sensibility. She spent her
childhood in the countryside, in the hamlet Gresufes, getting a deeply
Christian education.</span><br />
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<o:p></o:p>José Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12998775423781902109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559791361046315958.post-50339015194254928702015-12-02T03:04:00.003-08:002015-12-02T03:10:55.665-08:00BLESSED ALEXANDRINA (1)<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The parents of Blessed Alexandrina Maria da
Costa were Maria Ana da Costa and António Xavier. They were neighbours, but
unmarried. António Xavier was an emigrant in Brazil. Once he came back to
Balasar and Deolinda was conceived; later he went again to Brazil. In a second
coming, was conceived Alexandrina. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But even before her birth the unworthy father
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herself as a widow and started caring only for the maintenance and education of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">She suffered much, but Jesus promised
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">D. Ana, mother of Bld Alexandrina.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Although there are several biographies published in English on Blessed
Alexandrina, this brief biographical sketch was written to fill a specific
need. It is based mainly on the works of Signoriles, an Italian couple who
wrote extensively on Alexandrina.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I thank the collaboration Leo Madigan, who translated it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We were yesterday at Balasar where we saw some sisters
of the Congregation of the Holy Cross. Knowing the importance of the Holy Cross
appeared at Balasar and the continued martyrdom of Blessed Alexandrina it makes
perfect sense the interest of the community on this Beata. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Click <a href="http://www.avecrux.org/english/sisters_holy_cross_home.htm">here</a> to open the community website. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Read this quotation from it:</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The Canticle of the Cross can be sung with the Angels only by those
who truly love the Cross."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mother Gabriele</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We enjoy the message we put here on the 13th October: good
singer Alexandrina would soon sing hymns to the glory of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One of the prefaces of the Mass concludes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And so, with the company of Angels and Saints, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">we sing the hymn of your praise, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">as without end we acclaim:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts!<br /> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Heaven and earth are full of your glory!<br /> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hosanna in the highest!<br /> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!<br /> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hosanna in the highest!</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This way of conceiving eternal life, because it is
also it, is much more motivating than the "eternal rest among the
splendors of everlasting light."</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Our Earth tiredness does not need an eternity of
heavenly rest...</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">In
the beginning of October 1955, few days before her death, Alexandrina hears the announcement of her departure.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Today, 2nd October, the day of the Holy
Angels, I felt that someone had touched in my shoulder and I heard Angels
singing. I asked: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Who will sing with the Angels? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our Lord answered: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">- You, you, you, soon, soon, soon!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">If the last number of the Bulletin of Graces seemed to
be below its usual level, this improved frankly.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Beyond the Repair, major theme of the Beata message, we
highlight the news, by Maria Rita Scrimieri, of an eloquent testimony of a few Filipino
pilgrims. Charming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We liked also to see the illustrated news of the death
of D. Eugenia Signorile, the testimony of a former Alexandrina’s visitor and writing
on Fr. Leopoldino with the announcement of a lecture on this former parish
priest of Balasar.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In conclusion, comes one call for people to lend the responsible
for the Cause any writings by Alexandrina that they may have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
José Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12998775423781902109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559791361046315958.post-2579596498586634782015-08-30T05:12:00.007-07:002015-08-30T05:12:58.101-07:00Tribute to Eugénie Signorile and Leo Madigan (end)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>ALEXANDRINA, I WANT TO LEARN FROM YOU!</b></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A short synthesis of practical
passages from Alexandrina’s work<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">By C.E. SIGNORILE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Chapter V<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">LOVE-PAIN, PAIN-LOVE</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Pain transfigured </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">On this Earth, whoever loves suffers. </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Any sensitive soul that loves cannot allow
itself to laugh while participating in the tribulations of its dear ones and
contemplating the state in which poor humanity is found. Alexandrina affirms
this: </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">I loved and, because I loved, I suffered. S (16-02-51)
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">But those who suffer do not always knows how to
love! </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">And pain without love, at times
incomprehensible, leads to desperation. </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">The true Christian learns to put up with pain
for love’s sake. He has Faith in the saving power of his pain when it is
offered in union with the sufferings of Christ, who continues the Redemption
throughout the centuries by means of the sufferings of His members. </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Let us remember that in <st1:place w:st="on">Fatima</st1:place>
Our Lady invited the three little Shepherds to suffer for the salvation of the
souls. And with what an impetus of love the children corresponded! </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">The Pope John Paul II, in the encyclical letter
“Salvifici doloris” wrote, among other things: </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">As soon as a man takes up his cross, uniting himself
spiritually to the cross of Christ, the salvific sense of suffering is revealed
to him. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">The man does not discover this sense on a human level,
but on the level of the suffering of Christ. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">But at the same time, from this level of Christ, that
salvific sense of suffering descends to the level of the man and becomes, in
some way, his personal reply. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">And then the man finds in his suffering interior peace
and finally spiritual joy.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">We must understand that these words were not
written by one speaking abstractly of the Christian value of suffering, without
having experienced it! </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">This encyclical letter was written in 1984,
after John Paul II, having lived through the attempt on his life in 1981,
was beset by many other sufferings arising from his roll of Head of the
Catholic Church. </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus says: </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">“To love and to suffer, to suffer and to love: it is
the secret of perfection, it is the greatest means of salvation.” S (26-12-52) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Let us remember what Saint Padre Pio writes to
Anita of Jesus (</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Epistolary III<i>, 4<sup>th</sup> letter, p. 67): </i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">The love of the cross has been always a distinctive
sign of elect souls.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Our seraphic Father (St Francis) well understood that
without the love of the cross there can be little advance in the way of
Christian perfection. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"> <i>Our Alexandrina, a master of the ways of love
and pain, affirms: </i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">To stem pain You only have to staunch the flow of
love. S (26-08-55)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The love of Jesus </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus waits with opened arms to receive me: He waits
for me full of smiles and love. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">He wants to possess me, wants to burn my coldness in
the furnace of His divine Heart. S (26-07-45) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus asks for the love of all hearts with intense
ardour. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">What sadness: to love and not to be loved! To love and
to be offended! S (06-06-42) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus has His divine Heart in flames: it burns, burns
continuously for us. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">How great is the love of Jesus and how great is the
ingratitude of souls! </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh, if I could open my heart and show the world the
tenderness of divine love! </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">It is a love that makes the lover forget pain. S
(29-03-45) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">He loves when He consoles and loves when He wounds: it
is always love, love without equal. S (26-12-52) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">The more I ran away from Jesus <i>(Alexandrina
expresses the sentiments of the sinner)</i>, the more my soul saw His divine
Heart following me and the better I understood that love with which He loved
me. The more I ran away, the more He ran towards me to attract me to Himself,
and the more I made Him suffer. S (02-02-51) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">I experienced in myself a sense of love <i>(Alexandrina
relives the sentiments of Jesus and of humanity)</i> and of very strong ingratitude.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">The love was an immense love: it filled the heavens
and the earth; the ingratitude was so great and so deep-seated. It was opposed
to this love, a love that sailed over everything like a firm small and sure
boat. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">I received the ingratitude without ceasing to love. S
(13-07-45) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus says to Alexandrina: </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus infused in your heart the burning fire of His
divine Heart: it is a fire that loves, it is a fire that consumes. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">It is love that I want, that I insist you give to
souls. S (09-03-51) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">The
soul that loves radiates love and allows to be
transparent around itself the strength of its love.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Fire, when it ignites, always leaves evidence that it
has burnt. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Love Me, let me burn you, take my fire, my divine
love, to souls”. S (09-07-48) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus directs His message to all of us: </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Come to Me all you that suffer and enter into my
divine Heart. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Come to Me all you who yearn to love Me and drink from
this fountain that never runs dry! </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">I am love, love, infinite love and eternal love. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Come, come to Me all of you, console my divine Heart! </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Say me continuously that you love Me and ask Me
constantly for my love. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">My divine Heart wants to give Itself, to give Itself,
It wants to fly to all hearts. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">My daughter, my beloved daughter, make me loved! S
(14-03-52) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"> <i>Let’s see an exhortation of Alexandrina:</i> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">O world, o souls, how Jesus loves us! Let us love Him
in return! </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Our pain is nothing compared with his: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">His was an infinite pain, it was the pain of a God
become man. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Let us love Him without stopping, let us love Him
night and day! </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">My heart goes out like a little lost bird begging for
love, always begging love for Jesus. S (03-05-53) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Let us accept Alexandrina’s invitation! </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Let us undertake to repay the love of Jesus so
that He can say to us, just as he says to Alexandrina:</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">You
love me when you cry, <br />
when you smile: <br />
You love me in pain and in joy.<br />
You love me in silence or speaking.<br />
You love me in everything.<br />
Day and night, at each moment, <br />
your sufferings and your love<br />
rise up to Heaven.<br />
S (21-03-47)</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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