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Date : Sat May 11 2019 09:11:42

From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

May 12th =E2=80=93 Bl. Imelda Lambertini, Visionary
(d. 1333)

Bl. Imelda was born at Bologna in Italy, in the early 14th century.
Still a child, she arranged a little oratory in her house, where she
often would pray. She resolved to enter a monastery and make the vows
of religion, and to give herself entirely to her Saviour. Her parents
permitted her entry into a Dominican convent at Valdipietra, near
Bologna. She practiced mortifications above her age, and manifested a
very tender love for the Queen of Angels and the Holy Eucharist,
though she could not yet receive Holy Communion. But God was soon to
manifest that it is not age which wins His favor, but virtue.

On the day of the Ascension in 1333, when Imelda was 12 years old, she
alone remained unable to advance to receive Holy Communion. She raised
her eyes to heaven and prayed to her Lord: "Come, for I am languishing
with love and dying with desire for Your adorable presence!" When He
did not come, she continued to pray and weep. Suddenly, a miraculous
Host came forth from the tabernacle, crossed the grill separating the
choir, and stopped in the air before her. The nuns, amazed, hardly
dared raise their eyes, but soon they realized there was no illusion:
the miracle continued, a sudden brightness and a sweet fragrance
filled the church, while an invisible hand continued to hold the
mystical Bread in the air before the young girl. She herself seemed an
Angel in adoration. Her confessor was told to come, and saw all that
the Sisters were seeing. He placed the Sacred Host on a paten, and
then gave it to the child. She seemed to lose consciousness. But soon
the Sisters grew anxious; they called her by name, told her to rise,
touched her, but Bl. Imelda was no longer of this world; she had
expired in an ecstasy of pure love.


Saint Quote:
The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven
to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply
the state of grace purified, illuminated, beautified by the most
perfect purity, exempt not only from mortal sin but also from the
smallest faults; purity will make saints of you! Everything lies in
this!
--St. Peter Eymard

Bible Quote
His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly, and
speakest no proverb. 30 Now we know that thou knowest all things, and
thou needest not that any man should ask thee. By this we believe that
thou camest forth from God.=C2  (John 16:29-30)


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PIOUS INVOCATIONS

Blessed is He Who cometh in the Name of the Lord:
=C2 Hosanna in the highest.

Jesu, bread of life, protect us;
Shepherd kind, do not reject us;
In Thy happy fold collect us,
And partakers of the bliss elect us,
Which shall never see an end.

Thou, the wisest and the mightiest,
Who us here with food delightest,
Seat us at Thy banquet brightest
With the blessed Thou invitest
An eternal feast to spend.
Amen.

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