Jesus teaches a prayer

Tell souls who love me to live in union with me in their works.

And tell them that when they are alone in their rooms, often,

both during the day and at night, to kneel (in spirit), bow their heads and say:

Jesus

I adore You in every place where You dwell Sacramentally;

I keep You company to make up for those who despise You;

I love You on behalf of those who do not love You;

I make reparation on behalf of those who offend You.

Jesus, come into my heart.

These are moments of great joy and consolation for me.

What sins are committed against me in the Eucharist!

Make restoration, my daughter.

Live the life of Calvary and the Cross. Live the Eucharistic life.

The Everything came down to the nothing

(Alexandrina’s thanksgiving after the Holy Communion)

The Everything came down to the nothing, Greatness came down to poverty.

Love came down to coldness, to indifference, to misery, to indignity.

What a great love is Jesus!

You came down from the highest to the lowest.

Jesus, give me fire, give me love; love to burn me, love to kill me.

I want to live and to die of love.

Jesus, may Your divine love be my life. May it and only it be my death.

Jesus, I want to love You: to love You until insanity, to love You until dying of love.

Jesus, I want to be beloved one, the madness of your love... to be lost in the immensity of your love.

Jesus, I consecrate myself, wholly and forever, to You: I consecrate me wholly and forever to the Dear beloved Mother.

Love Her for me, speak to Her about me. 

Tell Her everything, but everything for me...

Dear Mother, come, come soon: give thanks to Jesus for me.

Tell Him everything, but everything for me...

O Dear Mother, I consecrate myself wholly and forever to You...

May You consecrate me wholly and forever to Jesus... 

Tell Him that I love Him... Tell Him that I belong to Him.

Tell Him that I only want to think of Him, that I only want to speak about Him, that I only want to live for Him. 

Tell Him that You will help Him to crucify me,

so that nothing may remain in my body and my soul to be crucified.

Dear Mother, thank Jesus for me for all the benefits I have received until this moment and for those I trust I shall receive. 

Thank Him for all the tribulations and grief... joys and sadness, tears and smiles, everything which makes me glad and makes me suffer. 

Tell Him that I welcome everything from His divine hands, as proof of His biggest love for me.

Give Him a great thank you, a continuous thank you, perpetual thanks!

O Dear Mother, thank Him for everything I have received and I may receive in the time being and on later in eternity.

The Heaven, the Heaven, Dear Mother, what a great love!

O, how great is my debt to Jesus!

In that night the bleeding stopped

My brother had an operation on his gall bladder with laser surgery. After the operation he was profoundly anaemic due to a large haemorrhage caused by a perforation of a blood vessel. He received five litres of blood in successive transfusions, but the anaemia didn't stop because the bleeding continued.

Because he has heart problems and had reacted badly to the operation, doctors avoided operating on him again. One evening, during visiting time, I was in the room, next to my brother, who was as white as chalk.  The surgeon entered, turning to him, and said gravely: "Your analysis is still very poorly; if during the night the bleeding does not stop, tomorrow you go for the operating room." We were terrified.

I tried to instill hope into him, and told him I'd pray, but came home with a sinking heart. Immediately, I looked for a prayer-card of Mother Clara, whom I was recommended to ask for graces.

I sought the prayer card, but I didn’t find it. But then I found a prayer-card of Blessed Alexandrina. As I didn’t have "great confidence" in her, I called a friend who I knew had devotion to her and asked him to commend the case to her.

I learned later that they, in turn, had telephoned another friend to ask the same thing.

The three of us, in union, asked the intercession of Blessed Alexandrina. Precisely that night the bleeding stopped, my brother did not need to be operated on, and the situation with his blood slowly returned to normal.

Since that day, I always pray to Blessed Alexandrina in times of trouble and she has already won other graces.

Thanks.

Laura Macedo

New Postulator of Blessed Alexandrina comes to Balasar with a group of Italian youngsters

On 20th November the new Postulator of the Causes of the Saints of the Salesian Family, Fr Pierluigi Cameroni, will come as a pilgrim to Balasar with a youth group from the Shalom Community of Palazzolo (Brescia, Italy), accompanied by Sister Rosalina Ravasio, founder and director of this community.

As announced in Bulletin No. 15, from July, Fr Pierluigi is the new Postulator for the Causes of Saints and, therefore, is the new Postulator for the cause of Blessed Alexandrina.

It is not the first time that Fr Pierluigi Cameroni has come to Balasar; a great devotee of Blessed Alexandrina, he has already participated in two pilgrimages, most recently in 2006 on the occasion of Fr Umberto Pasquale's birth centenary. We all remember the great enthusiasm with which the group of Italian pilgrims was hosted by the Community of Balasar and its parish priest Fr José Granja.

Fr Pierluigi arrives on Saturday, Dec. 20, in the evening and leaves Monday morning for S. Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on the last stage of the pilgrimage.

The Shalom Community has about 300 people taking a path of recovery from a life marked by evil, in expectancy of a free and happy life. The Community depends on the Bishop of Brescia.

In this group of pilgrims there are youngsters this year, in the way of the Community, who have acquired maturity and will make a commitment to the Lord in the service of young people, living the spirit of giving to others.

From the latest issue of the Bulletin of Graces

Caminhos de Balasar (Paths of Balasar)

Those who engage in studying and disseminating the Blessed Alexandrina can only welcome as a happy event the publication of Caminhos de Balasar (Paths of Balasar), "a biography of the Blessed Alexandrina", written by Fr M. Fernando Silva.

And it comes at a time when the disclosure of the Beata of Balasar lives a particularly productive moment: came out recently in England the DVD by Mary's Dowry Productions, is an ongoing successful advertising campaign on Facebook, are to be launched the issue in French of the excellent biography Solo per Amore! (“Seulement par Amour!” or in English “For Love Alone!”) and the second edition of the voluminous book Figlia del Dolore Madre di Amore, has been recently published a book in Brazil, is expected a booklet translated to Latvian and other translated to Maltese and is ready a historical monograph of Balasar.

Caminhos de Balasar offers a clear, reader-friendly story, accessible to the ordinary reader. As Pastorinhos de Fátima (“Little Shepherds of Fatima”) by the same author.

The warning that he will not deal with the "mystical experience" of Alexandrina does not seem to be taken too literally. Fr Fernando wanted to follow the Autobiography and did it. Of course, completed the picture, going further, until the death of his protagonist.

The book has 400 pages of text, but when it comes to an end, you want more, you feel it was necessary to advance to the “Letters to Fr Pinho” and to the “Sentiments of the Soul”.

About the merits of Fr M. Fernando Silva, the cover itself makes plain. He is a distinguished member of the clergy of Braga and becomes the first among the priests of his diocese to achieve a work with this extension on the subject.

We believe that publication of this book is a very important step in order to obtain an accurate account of the facts essential to the longed-critical edition of the Bld Alexandrina’s writings.

Bld Alexandrina’s New Biography

A priest of Braga, former professor at the College of Theology, published a new biography of the Bld Alexandrina that occupies more than 400 pages. Title: Caminhos de Balasar (Paths of Balasar). We are told that it will have translation into Spanish.

The campaign Friends of the Bld Alexandrina on Facebook surpasses already 1330 members.

Miracles

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I believe that one should speak of a miracle when we read certain Alexandrina's pages. The perfect, the original expression gives to them an undeniable and high literary value. How to explain this in a woman who did not study, who lived in rural areas, who spent so much time closed in her room?
And we must add the fact that she does not correct, never goes back to set a word, a phrase, to change a sentence.
Take one example.

O my God, my God, I run in a crazy career for Friday. How tremendous hours expect me!
Calvary is on top, is so high, nearly reaches the sky. I have to raise it faint and in the most tremendous desolation.
It seems to me that from its top Someone is shouting me:
- Walk with confidence! I've also climbed. Here I wait you.
But the road is so painful and I'm so tired; I fall, roll back a bit. I walk so charged! With all cost I lift with the weight.
My God, I don’t see, poor little and blind girl!
O my Jesus, come and give me a hand!
It is the love that compels me to walk, it is the love that wins sorrow, it is love that brings me to You ...

The number of countries from whence came the visits in October reached a new maximum, 115. The daily average rose to 313.

Just a word...

"Just a word to tell you that moments ago I registered the thousandth friend of Blessed Alexandrina on Facebook”. Alphonse Rocha
In Brazil was launched a book about the Beata, written by Sandra; I hope it quickly gets the bookstores.