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Based on the actual words of Our Lord to St. Gertrude as recorded in her famous Revelations. Shows little-known ways to gain great graces quickly and advance rapidly in divine love, especially by placing all of our own prayers in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, that they might be perfected and made more pleasing thereby. St. Gertrude is one of the greatest Saints in the Church, and here indeed are the secrets of a Saint! Impr. 224 pgs,

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	01 janvier 1984
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781618904355
Langue	English

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This is an engraving of the miraculous Spanish painting of St. Gertrude. In the late 1500’s, Bishop Diego Yepes of Tarragona asked an artist to produce a portrait of St. Gertrude by copying a painting of another nun of her order, distinguishing the portrait of Gertrude by adding the Infant Jesus in her heart, a scroll, and seven rings, representing some of Gertrude’s mystical graces. This the artist did. However, he found that except for the habit, he was mysteriously unable to make an accurate copy of the original portrait; what he painted far surpassed what he could have thought or imagined.
Bishop Yepes had this miraculous picture painted in many places. Its fame spread throughout Europe.

Nihil Obstat: Henricus S. Bowden Censor Deputatus
Imprimatur: Edm. Can Surmont Vicarius Generalis Westmonasterii, Die 7 Decembris, 1911
Originally published by R. & T. Washbourne, Ltd., London, under the title Love, Peace, and Joy: A Month of the Sacred Heart According to St. Gertrude. Published by TAN by arrangement with Burns & Oates. The first TAN edition (1984) was photographically reproduced from the Third Edition, with the addition of About St. Gertrude. Retypeset by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc. in 2007.
Cover design by Milo Persic.
ISBN: 978-0-89555-255-6
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 84-51822
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
TAN Books Charlotte, North Carolina 2012
PRAYER
O God, who in the heart of the holy virgin Gertude didst provide a dwelling well pleasing unto Thee; through her merits and intercession do Thou, in Thy mercy, wash away the stains from our hearts and grant that we may enjoy fellowship with her. Through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.
(Mass for the feast of St. Gertrude)
CONTENTS
About St. Gertrude
Preface
The Eve: Invitation of the Heart of Jesus
1st Day: Love of the Heart of Jesus
2nd Day: The Special Object of Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Is to Draw All Hearts to the Love of Our Lord
3rd Day: The Inward Life of the Heart of Jesus
4th Day: Desires of the Heart of Jesus
5th Day: Desires of the Heart of Jesus
6th Day: First-Fruit of Devotion to the Heart of Jesus: The Heart of Jesus Gives Life to All Our Actions
7th Day: Second Fruit of Devotion to the Sacred Heart: The Heart of Jesus Makes Atonement for Us
8th Day: The Easy Ways of Divine Love Through Devotion to the Sacred Heart, as Understood by St. Gertrude
9th Day: The Easy Ways of Divine Love Through Devotion to the Sacred Heart, as Understood by St. Gertrude
10th Day: Life of Friendship with the Heart of Jesus According to the Teaching of St. Gertrude
11th Day: Life of Trustful Abandonment to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
12th Day: Life of Trustful Abandonment to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
13th Day: The Life of Worship in the Sacred Heart of Jesus
14th Day: Life of Adoration
15th Day: Life of Thanksgiving
16th Day: Life of Reparation
17th Day: Life of Reparation
18th Day: The Consoler of the Heart of Jesus According to St. Gertrude
19th Day: The Consoler of the Heart of Jesus
20th Day: The Victim of the Heart of Jesus According to St. Gertrude
21st Day: The Victim of Desires
22nd Day: The Victim of Desires
23rd Day: The Victim of Praise of the Heart of Jesus
24th Day: The Universal and Perpetual Victim of the Heart of Jesus According to St. Gertrude
25th Day: The Life of Joy in the Heart of Jesus According to St. Gertrude
26th Day: Friendship with the Saints in the Heart of Jesus
27th Day: Friendship with the Saints in the Heart of Jesus
28th Day: My Yoke Is Sweet and My Burden Light
29th Day: Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
30th Day: Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Prayer to the Sacred Heart
Prayer of M. Olier
A Collection of Classic Artwork
Confession—Its Fruitful Practice
1. The Blessings of Confession
2. The Five Things Necessary for a Good Confession
Examination of Conscience
False Consciences and Their Remedies — The Lax Conscience — The Scrupulous Conscience — The Doubtful Conscience — How to Make a Good Examination of Conscience.
Contrition
The Qualities of Contrition — Interior Contrition — Supernatural Contrition — Perfect and Imperfect Contrition — Universal Contrition — Sovereign Contrition — Relapses into Former Sins.
Purpose of Amendment
Occasions of Sin — Purpose of Amendment Must Be Specific.
Confession and Absolution
The Confession of Sins — Qualities of a Good Confession — Confession of Venial Sins — Sacrilegious Confessions — General Confession — Frequent Confession — The Absolution of the Priest.
Satisfaction
The Sacramental Penance — Voluntary Penances — Indulgences.
3. How to Make a Good Confession
The Examination of Conscience
Beginning Prayer — Points for the Examination of Conscience — The Ten Commandments of God — The Six Precepts of the Church — The Seven Capital Sins — Duties of Particular States of Life — Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.
Considerations to Excite Contrition
The Enormity of Sin — God’s Benefits to Me — The Love of Jesus Christ.
Prayers Before Confession
Act of Contrition and Purpose of Amendment — Prayer before a Crucifix — Prayer of St. Gertrude — A Short and Efficacious Act of Contrition.
An Easy Method of Going to Confession
Prayers After Confession
Psalm 102 — Prayer of Thanksgiving — Prayer before Performing the Sacramental Penance.
About St. Gertrude
S T. Gertrude is one of the greatest saints in the Church. She is the only female saint honored with the title “the Great.” A woman of the Middle Ages, St. Gertrude the Great lived in the 13th century, the golden century of the medieval age, when the Church was rich in both scholars and mystics, including St. Albert the Great, St. Bonaventure, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Dominic, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Clare of Assisi. This was also the age of Dante Alighieri, whose masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, ranks him as the greatest Christian poet of all time. St. Gertrude herself spent her youth in scholarly studies, but then Our Lord Himself intervened to draw her away from all worldly forms of learning.
Gertrude was born in Germany on the Feast of Epiphany, January 6, in the year 1256. Records of her origins are very scanty; she may have been orphaned at an early age. At the age of five, she was placed with the Benedictine nuns at their abbey in Helfta to be raised and educated. The community was governed by the wise and devout abbess, Gertrude of Hackeborn (with whom St. Gertrude is often confused). In the abbey, St. Gertrude was confided to the care of St. Mechtilde of Hackeborn, the sister of the abbess; St. Mechtilde exerted a deep influence on St. Gertrude. The two became intimate friends and both were favored by God with revelations. (St. Mechtilde is not to be confused with Mechtilde of Magdeburg, another mystic who lived as a nun in the abbey of Helfta at this time.) Gertrude was a very intelligent child, and she progressed quickly in both sacred and “profane” learning. At an early age she learned to read and converse in Latin. When she reached the proper age, Gertrude joined the community as a Benedictine nun.
When Gertrude was in her 26th year, she received the first of the many visions of Our Lord which she experienced in her lifetime. This first vision came after a month-long period of affliction of soul which Gertrude had undergone; she states that this had been a preparation for Our Lord’s visit.
As she describes in her Revelations, the vision occurred in the evening. In accord with monastic custom, Gertrude had bowed to an elderly religious she passed. Upon arising, she beheld not the nun, but Our Lord, who appeared to her as a youth “more beautiful than all the children of men.” He spoke to her in words full of tenderness and sweetness: “Thy salvation is at hand; why art thou consumed with grief? Hast thou no counsellor, that thou art so changed by sadness?” Then Gertrude found herself transported in spirit to the choir, where the nuns were accustomed to offer their daily prayers, and Our Lord continued: “I will save thee, I will deliver thee; fear not.” He placed His hand in Gertrude’s as if to ratify the promise. Then He said, “You have licked the dust with My enemies, and you have sucked honey amidst thorns; but return now to Me—I will receive you, and inebriate you with the torrent of My celestial delights.”
Gertrude’s heart melted within her, and she desired to approach Our Lord, but she saw a great hedge, which she assumed to represent her “faults and crimes,” separating her from Him. But Our Lord in His great kindness reached her His hand, and Gertrude found herself instantly by His side.
By this and other “illuminations,” God enlightened and softened her mind, detaching her from her love of literature and all vanities, which no longer appealed to her. Henceforth God alone was pleasing to her soul, and the yoke of Our Lord became to her sweet, and His burden light, whereas before, Gertrude says she had found them hard, and almost unbearable. She praised God for bringing about this wonderful transformation in her soul, by “composing a beverage suitable to my temperament.”
During her life St. Gertrude received many other spiritual favors from Our Lord, who took great delight in dwelling in her soul. Our Lord granted Gertrude a most tender familiarity with His Sacred Heart. One of His gifts to her was a mysterious imprinting of His five wounds deep within her heart. On another occasion, St. Gertrude experienced the Infant Jesus reposing within her bosom. Our Lord told her to share His gifts, which she did through writing, and also through her wise and holy counsel—for which she had been given a special talent. St. Gertrude faithfully prayed for everyone. She exclaimed to Our Lord, “O my Savior, I wish to bring to Thee every soul, that Thou mightest take delight in each.”
This great saint died at Helfta, near Eisleben, on Nove