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

Come, my daughter, to receive further proof of my espousal with you

December 29

- My Jesus, give me the pain that I love so much, give me the purification I so much desire. Keep me in Your heart, and in the heart of your, and my, dear Heavenly Mother. Hear my soul crying in continual agony with the pain it feels and with longing to deliver the world to Thee. I wanted to see the world in my hands, to give unto You as the priest sees the Sacred Host in his hands and offers it to the Eternal Father.

Jesus, look at me, look at my agonizing cravings to love You, and humanity, and immolate me as you please. I wanted to tell You so many things, but as I know nothing, I can say nothing.

In the midst of these anxieties Jesus came:

- My daughter, Earth Angel, sweet flower, white flower of Paradise: come, my daughter, to receive further proof of my espousal with you, my marital union.

At this moment Jesus took my hand, kissed me and caressed me and hugged me gently to Him. It was as if I was swimming in a sea of ​​joy, in a sea of ​​love. Jesus continued:

- Receive the effusion of my divine love, embrace it because it's your life and you are the life of souls.

Courage my daughter, just a little while longer, your heaven is at hand, it is very near now. Soon your soul, detached from the earth, will fly to heaven as the pure, white dove flies to its nest. Your nest is heaven before the throne of the Divine Majesty, beside my blessed Mother.

Sentiments of the Soul, 1944

What happened to the website?

Frankly I do not know for sure, but, according to information sent to me by Paulette, it was a serious attack; it certainly did not work, because Beata didn’t allow. But I believe it was brave indeed, to finish it off. It seems to be a "hacker".
Alphonse Rocha

Blessed Alexandrina website (2)

The Bld Alexandrina website is accessible again. Hallelujah!

Blessed Alexandrina website

There is something strange about Blessed Alexandrina website, which is no longer accessible.

Two lovely stories on Blessed Alexandrina

A man released from drug addiction

Grace obtained through the intercession of Blessed Alexandrina.

Celle Ligure, 07/26/78

I had received as an employee a young man who was addicted to drugs, but animated by good will to get rid of the habit.

For two months, I realized that he continued to use drugs, so that he seemed beyond the point of recovery. I prayed for him. I held him very dear because he was a very young man, and because many wept on seeing him in this state.
One day, in the evening, knowing that he was about injecting heroin again, I turned in despair to the aid of Alexandrina. The next morning, I saw him coming towards me all serene. He fell into my arms sobbing that, without knowing how, had thrown away the syringe and the powder he had already prepared, and that thereafter he wanted to remain free of them.

Since then several months have passed and the boy is almost healed. The pastor, who had always supported me in this case, asked me, “How did you do it?”
“I had learned of a saint, Alexandrina Maria da Costa, and I entrusted this boy to her. It was she who saved him. I find no other explanation, because this is a great miracle.

Savona, Italy.  

M. P. Testa

The bull calf that knelt before Blessed Alexandrina

Fr Umberto tells:

When Alexandrina was alive, the family sold doctor Dr. Manuel Augusto Dias de Azevedo - a name we venerate - a bull calf to help subsidize the cost of their house in which, as we know, there were many difficulties. Alexandrina had not seen the herd since the death of her uncle. On the day of the sale she showed a desire to see the young bull before it left.

To accede to her wish they decided to take the animal into the patient’s room, but realized that precautions must be taken that it would not upset the bed and injure the patient.

So those present surrounded the bed to protect Alexandrina.

But what was the astonishment of all when the animal appeared and, once inside, went down on his knees in total calm and serenity!

“It seemed to have been taught,” the witnesses said.

After a good while Alexandria thanked the cowhand and said, “Now you can take it away.”

The bull stood up in all meekness and left.

And Fr Humberto, accustomed to the demands of historical criticism, authenticated the report, made ​​in August 1978, with the names of the witnesses:
Luciano Domingues de Azevedo, Jose Pereira da Silva Costa, Ana Domingues de Azevedo, Deolinda D. Azevedo, D. Joaquina Azevedo, Rita Domingues de Azevedo.

This detail is uplifting and inspiring and reminds us of that other renowned mystic, immortal in the history of the Church and Italy, the stigmatized S. Francis of Assisi.

Gabriel Bosco in Bulletin of Grace July-December 1978