🍤"Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?" By St. Gerard Majella
🍵 “One person may seem to live in silence, but in his heart he is constantly condemning others. In reality, he never stops talking. But another who may talk from morning to night in reality has the gift of silence, because he never speaks except to profit his hearers.” By Abba Poemon
😱The chips may fall when, where, and how they may
😱But it is I who in everything have the final say.
😱Absolute is my reign and rule
😱My followers will in no way end up hoodwinked or succumbing like a “played fool”
😱I Am the definitive way
😱Every minute of each single, solitary day
😱Look high, look low, there is no other
😱 My child run to me, I’m a strong tower, I’ll be your cover
😱So it is not in weakness, but in power
😱That Divine Providence is on top of the happenings of every passing hour
😱There will be twists and you can count on there being turns
😱But lift up to me all of your concerns
😱By day and yes, by night
😱I’ve got your back, you’re always in my sight
😱Believe that and then you’ll be worry free
😱Give it a try, and you’ll most certainty see
😱The Lord thy God orders all things well and is in perfect and total control
😱What is allowed will be that which most benefit not the body but the soul
😱Everything will be considered, yes, never the less
😱Be assured you can count on the Lord your God to do what is best
😱Absolutely, emphatically
😱Graces will be poured out to assist mentally, physically, & of course benefit you spiritually
😱My child, my mercy, my Divine Mercy
😱Will be powerfully before, behind, above and with always with thee
😱There are no surprises for me, so feat not, no hurt, no harm or danger
😱Nothing evil shall come near, for thy Good Shepherd watches, and ever in action is the Spiritual Lone Ranger
😱Therefore live life in peace and trust, obedient unto the Lord thy God, be fearless
😱Then through it all you’ll be triumphant with a face ever radiant, that you do not have to second guess
tmm/TruGIG ™️
Info from this site:
https://clearcreekmonks.org/story-lady-happy-death-notre-dame-du-bien-mourir/
📖 Hebrews 9:27 “Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment”
📖 Revelation 14:13 &I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes, ” said the Spirit, “let them find rest from their labors, for their works accompany them.”
📖 1 Corinthians 15:54-55 “And when this which is corruptible clothes itself with incorruptibility and this which is mortal clothes itself with immortality, then the word that is written shall come about:c“Death is swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory?Where, O death, is your sting?”
"It has been said that there is a vocation for places just as there is a vocation for people, for souls. Fontgombault Abbey is just one of those places. During its history of over nine centuries, countless are the graces that have radiated from this hallowed ground, where so many generations of monks have come and gone. The story of Our Lady of a Happy Death is one of the most beautiful of these favors from Heaven.
Long had the statue of Our Lady, seated “in majesty” as they refer to this type of artistic representation (Mary seated on a throne, arrayed like a queen of France, with the Child Jesus on her lap), watched over the Abbey from her vantage point, high above the northern portal of the abbatial church, overlooking the gardens just inside the stone wall and the little cemetery of the monks. No one knows exactly when this particular limestone statue was set there, but she had probably been in place since the twelfth century, when the Faith was still young in France and the Abbey was overflowing with young men come to consecrate their lives to God. God only knows how many monks going about their laborious chores in the garden she contemplated, how many Brothers, having come to the end of their earthly pilgrimage, she saw entrusted to their final resting place beneath a simple wooden cross planted in the ground.
In the year of Our Lord 1791, harder times had come to France and to the Church. Countless were the Christians sacrificed on the altar of Revolution, especially in Paris, where the tireless work of the guillotine filled the street gutters with rivers of human blood. Trouble had come to the countryside as well. Already at the beginning of the century, the greed of the secular landlord of Fontgombault had chased away all but five monks. By this time, at the end of the century, not a single monk was left to sing the Divine praises. The mayor of the village of Fontgombault had begun to sell the very stones of the Abbey walls (July 2, 1791). But the work of destruction was not yet complete.
It was about this time that an impious hand sought to destroy the statue of Mary above the northern door of the church. He positioned a ladder and climbed up in order to carry out the practice, quite common with the revolutionaries, of breaking off the head and members of a piece of art that offended him and the new ideas of those who had no more need of God and His Saints. As he swung his hammer, however, he suddenly lost his balance and fell off the ladder, hurting himself mortally when he hit the ground far below.
As he lay dying, the poor man regretted in an instant the evil deed he had done and begged God, through the intercession of the Virgin Mother of God whom he had so gravely offended, to forgive him. Such was his change of heart, his conversion at the moment of death, that the witnesses recognized in the event a special grace from heaven. From that moment on the statue has been known as Our Lady of a Happy Death.
Less than a century later a new monastic community of Trappists took possession of Fontgombault Abbey and began to restore the buildings. By this time the miraculous statue had been moved inside the church and cement heads were made to replace those of the Virgin and of her Child destroyed by the revolutionaries. By the time the monks were ready to re-dedicate the church in 1899, however, the anticlerical government of France at that time forbade the ceremony.
It was not until the middle of the twentieth century that the church at Fontgombault was finally re-dedicated, after monks of the Solesmes Congregation, of the Order of Saint Benedict, had completed the restoration of the Abbey. During the jubilee year of 1950 Dom Edward Roux, the first Abbot of the Solesmes foundation, commissioned the well-known sculptor, Claude Gruer, to fashion two new heads of stone, following closely the canons of Romanesque art.
In 1991, Fontgombault Abbey celebrated her 900th birthday. In order to mark this historic occasion, Our Lady of a Good Death was solemnly crowned by the Archbishop of Czestochowa, His Excellency Monsignor Nowak (September 7, 1991). Our Lady and her Son no longer sit atop the northern portal exposed to the elements, but rather have a place of honor in the nave of the abbatial church, where, not only do the monks come to make their devotions day and night, but a great number of pilgrims from every part of the world arrive at all times of the year — particularly for the Abbey’s patronal feast on August 15th — to light a candle and implore much needed graces, especially that of a peaceful and happy death. As in the twelfth century, Our Lady of a Happy Death continues even now to show them the key that unlocks the enigmas and dark passages of our human existence: the baby Son she holds on her lap, the Prince of life.
May this story of Our Lady of a Happy Death, Notre-Dame du Bien Mourir, help us all to better understand the words we so often recite, “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.” Amen.”
Info from this site:
https://thecatholicsun.com/st-corona-pray-for-us/
“Some Catholics seeking spiritual solace during the coronavirus pandemic are turning to the 2nd century St. Corona (d. C. 170) as patron saint of plagues and epidemics.
St. Corona and St. Victor, a soldier who may have been her husband, were tortured and killed around 170 at the order of a Roman judge, according to an account that dates to the 4th century.
Their feast day is May 14, according to the Roman Martyrology, the Catholic Church’s official list of recognized saints and people who have been beatified. As Corona was dying, she “saw two crowns falling from Heaven, one for Victor, the other for herself,” the martyrology says.
Coronaviruses are named for the crown-like spikes on their surface, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Corona means “crown” in Latin.
While several Catholic publications in recent days have connected St. Corona to the coronavirus outbreak, sources including Catholic Online identify her as patron saint of gambling.
It’s unclear when people began associating St. Corona with plagues, given limited first-hand records of early saints. Sts. Victor and Corona were recognized as saints before the Catholic Church standardized its canonization process in the 10th century. But St. Corona’s name, the reference to crowns in the martyrology, and accounts of her suffering seem to provide reasonable justification to call on her intercession during today’s unprecedented global health crisis.
Other saints affiliated with illness or difficult times include:
• St. Jude: Patron of lost causes
• St. Anthony of Egypt: Patron of people affected by skin diseases or infectious diseases
• St. Edmund: Patron for victims of pandemics
• The Fourteen Holy Helpers: Includes St. Blaise, St. Christopher, and St. Margaret, patrons of plague and sudden death, beginning with the Black Death (bubonic plague) during the 14th century. The names of the Fourteen Holy Helpers:
St. Achatius: May 8th – Headaches
St. Barbara: Dec. 4th – Fever – Sudden death
St. Blaise (Blasé, Blasius): Feb. 3rd – Ills of the throat
St. Catherine of Alexandria: Nov. 25th – Sudden death
St. Christopher: July 25th – Plagues – Sudden death
St. Cyriacus (Cyriac): Aug. 8th – Temptations
St. Denis (Dionysius): Oct. 9th – Headaches
St. Erasmus (Elmo): June 2nd – Abdominal maladies
St. Eustachius (Eustace): Sep. 20th – Family trouble
St. George: Apr. 23rd – Protection of domestic animals
St. Giles (Aegidius): Sep.1st – Plagues – Good Confession
St. Margaret of Antioch: July 20th – Safe childbirth
St. Pantaleone: July 27th – Physicians
St. Vitus (St. Guy):June 15th – Epilepsy
St. Anthony the Great, patron of those affected by infectious diseases.
St. Edmund, patron for victims of pandemics.
St. Damien of Molokai, who put himself at risk to minister to those with leprosy.
St. Rocco, who is venerated for his prayers for those suffering from infectious diseases.
St. Joseph, patron of the dying.
St. Jude and St. Rita, patrons of impossible causes.
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, who founded hospitals dedicated to caring for the sick.
Mary, Undoer of Knots
And don’t forget St. Marianne Cope (1838-1918), the Franciscan leader who lived and ministered in the diocese and who was canonized in 2012, the 11th American named a Catholic saint. The patron saint of outcasts, she ministered to people with leprosy from 1883 to 1918 in Hawaii. Her constant mandate to patients and caregivers: Wash your hands.”