Comments on: Feastday of St. Gertrude the Great

By: gabrielle

gabrielle — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:16:07 +0000

Phyllis, I was just chatting recently with another blogger (Erin, of The Contemplative Calendar) about how we love walking through cemetaries. I must admit my mind often wanders when I do, to things other than praying for the souls in Purgatory, so I really think your idea of having a prayer-card handy is great. St. Gertrude’s prayer is a powerful one. Thanks for dropping by; hope to see you again.

By: Phyllis

Phyllis — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:21:35 +0000

My daughter, Cecilia, walks through a cemetary every day.
I am sending her a laminated card of St. Gertrudes prayer for the Holy Souls—thank you for this site

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20. Christ’s lily and beast of the waste wood « Catholic Ponderer — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:43:48 +0000

[...] St Gertrude died the 17 November 1302 (her feast day is the 16th though). Pope Benedict XIV gave her the title “the Great” to distinguish her from Abbess Gertrude of Hackeborn and to recognize the depth of her spiritual and theological insight. You can read more about her here. [...]

By: JustMe

JustMe — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:06:45 +0000

Thank you, G, for remembering us and our intentions at Mass.

Oh, I hope you’ll post St. Gertrude excerpts on special feast days. But don’t let that hope rope you into it. God knows, as I do, that you have enough on your plate without it. But what experiences!

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:48:04 +0000

“The Life and Revelations of St. Gertrude the Great” is a huge book, and the material therein is too much for me to absorb by reading it through entirely. I like to read her in bits and pieces, and I try to remember on special feast days to look them up first in her book, because quite often she had mystical experiences and revelations during the Liturgy on these special feast days.

Thanks for coming by, all – I’m sure you’re all very busy yourselves, so I appreciate you dropping in. Had a quiet day at home yesterday, with the grief in that video on my heart all day. Leaving for Mass now; will keep you in my prayers and intentions at Mass tonight.

By: aeternus

aeternus — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:51:33 +0000

Thank you so much Garielle for this post. The excruciating pain of love shines through this passage you have quoted. It is a mystical love so deep and eternal. Thank you!!

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:43:14 +0000

Mary was martyred that Day, an oblation of Love like no other. Her life drained out concurrently with His; and then, like He had done, she was filled up with us..?

The portrayal of her killing grief was the one reason I couldn’t watch this movie again. Maybe now I can. Maybe now I should.

Yes, I’d like to read St. Gertrude, also.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:56:02 +0000

Sounds like the company of Heaven assembled round that bed. Can you imagine it, Our Lord and Our lady and St John and angels and Saints…and dialogue going on…and witnesses able to record it all….another book is definitely on my list now, Gabrielle.