Life of St. Gianna <[link removed]>



Dear Friend,



Today, the 28th of April, we celebrate the feast day of St. Gianna Beretta Molla - a devoted wife, mother and physician - and one of our patron saints. Today is also the feast day of the greatest of Marian apostles, St. Louis De Montfort, and other great saints such as St. Peter Chanel, martyr and patron of Oceania.



A saint is a person who practiced virtue to a heroic degree. They are heroes of virtue! That is why the Holy Catholic Church canonizes saints and sets them as models for all of us. In a very special way, the saints are our sure guides along the path that leads to Heaven.



One of the hallmarks of the saints is that they show through their lives, their words and their actions, an aspect of the spirit of Our Lord Jesus Christ that is diametrically opposed to the spirit of the devil, the flesh and the world.



In our society and culture which have become so totally secularized, dulling our ears to Christ’s call to holiness and leading us to betray the gift of His life within us, the friendship, example and intercession of the saints is more important to us than ever.



The saints have known in their lives the struggle with the world and its allurements. They have all faced the choice between the comforts of the world and the consolations of the Cross. They have known the temptations to betray Christ’s life in them in order to win favor with the anti-Christian forces of the culture. Saints show us how to remain close to Christ; and in our trials and temptations, they come to our assistance with their prayers.



In the case of St. Gianna Beretta Molla, she lived in our modern world. What is the prevalent spirit of our modern world? And how did St. Gianna live and act according to the spirit of Jesus Christ in opposition to the spirit of the world?







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In contrast to the spirit of the world, St. Gianna put God’s will FIRST! “Whatever God wants!” was the fundamental principle that guided her journey on this earth.



Another aspect of the spirit of the world, the devil and the flesh is the abhorrence of the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the rejection of the value of suffering.



St. Gianna’s soul was filled with a great love of the Cross and a profound understanding of the value and necessity of suffering. As she put it “Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and the light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without loving.”



Unlike the spirit of the world that rejects the Cross and sees it as an evil, St. Gianna defined her entire life through the prism of the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ: “Let us love the Cross and let us remember that we are not alone in carrying it. God is helping us. And in God who is comforting us, as St. Paul says, we can do anything.”



Please take a moment to learn more about the beautiful life of a modern day saint of Divine Love <[link removed]>



May St. Gianna intercede for you and for your loved ones before the throne of God. And may she obtain for you and yours the graces of a greater love of God, a lively union with His will, a profound love of the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ and an ardent devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.



Sincerely yours in Christ,



Thomas J. McKenna

Founder and President



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