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SUMMARY:Bl Maria Gabriella
DESCRIPTION:MY ONLY DESIRE IS TO LOVE\nFrom the final letter of Blessed Maria Gabriella to her mother 2\n◊◊◊\nI do not want you to get ideas and begin to pray for my recovery. Pray\ninstead that the Lord will do with me whatever is to his greater glory… I am\nalways content to do the will of God\, whatever it might be\, for that is my joy\, my\nhappiness\, my peace… Remain firm in your dispositions of abandonment to the\nwill of God and bless him always for whatever he chooses to do with me. Forget\nthat I am sick and think only about the Lord: thank him and bless him for the\ngraces and the gifts he has given me. \nI feel that I love my Spouse with all my heart\, but I would like to love him\neven more. I would like to love him for those who do not love him\, for those who\nscorn him\, for those who offend him. In short\, my only desire is to love. \nMy happiness is great and no one can take it from me. It is greater than\nthat enjoyed by rich people in their mansions who\, while they enjoy themselves\,\nperhaps have death in their hearts. There is no happiness greater than being\nable to suffer something for Jesus and for the salvation of souls… You must be\nhappy as well\, mother\, and thank the Lord for this grace which he has given to\nyou and to me… I want you all to be as happy as I am… Resign yourselves and\nrejoice\, all of you\, in the Lord. \nDo not think that I am not well cared for—on the contrary\, I am taken\ncare of hand and foot. The Reverend Mother is so good that she does not spare\nherself anything in order to give me every possible assistance… No mother’s\nheart could outdo her in the love and attention she demonstrates towards me.\nI thank the Lord\, and will thank and bless him always for all he has done for me\nand for you\, but I feel that I will never be able to thank him enough. \n2\nfrom Martha Driscoll\, OCSO\, The Silent Herald of Unity\, Kalamazoo\, MI: Cistercian Publications\, 1990\, pp. 99-\n100.
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