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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Bl Maria Gabriella
DESCRIPTION:From an article by Mother Martha Driscoll on \nBLESSED MARIA GABRIELLA \n◊◊◊ \nBorn in Sardinia on March 17\, 1914\, Maria Sagheddu grew up in a typical \nshepherd’s family. Life was not easy\, and the death of her father when she was \nonly four accustomed her to poverty and hard work from earliest childhood. A \nstubborn and willful child\, she had a passion to win\, both at school and at play\, \nand a strong determination to overcome any challenge. \nAt the age of eighteen\, Maria experienced some kind of conversion \nexperience. At the same time\, she voiced her desire to consecrate herself to God \nin religious life. She enrolled in Catholic Action and became active in teaching \ncatechism\, serving the poor\, the sick\, the unwanted. The most profound change\, \nhowever\, was in herself. “She became sweet and calm\,” was her mother’s brief \ncomment about a daughter who no longer lost her temper or became annoyed \nby the contradictions of life. \nAfter two and a half years of determined conversion\, her parish priest \nchose for her the hard and simple life of the Trappists. At the age of twenty-one\, \nshe entered the small\, poor Trappist monastery of Grottaferrata\, not far from \nRome. She received the habit on April 13\, 1936\, made her first vows on the Feast \nof Christ the King in October\, 1937\, contracted tuberculosis in the spring of \n1938\, and died on April 22\, 1939\, at the age of twenty-five. \nSr Maria Gabriella\, as she was called in the monastery\, became aware of \nprayer for Christian Unity through her Abbess\, Mother Pia Gullini. She \nencouraged the movement of prayer for the unity of Christians as promoted by \nAbbe Paul Couturier in his Octave of Prayer. Mother Pia began to direct the \nentire community to the special vocation of prayer… \nAlmost immediately an elderly Sister approached the Abbess and asked to \noffer her life for this cause. Exactly a month after the Novena\, the seventy-eight \nyear old Mother Immaculata died peacefully as a result of a stroke the week \nbefore. The community was informed of her offering\, and fervor for the cause of \nunity grew… During the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity…the next year\, it \nwas Sr Maria Gabriella who felt called to offer her life. The Abbess told her: “I \nwon’t say yes or no. Offer yourself to the will of God.” \nShortly afterward\, Sr Gabriella developed a cough and loss of energy. By \nEaster the abbess sent her for an x-ray. She spent forty days in a large public \nhospital in painful but futile attempts to cure the tuberculosis that had been \ndiagnosed. When she returned to the monastery\, she was taken to the infirmary\, \nwhere she spent the remaining ten months of her life in peace\, abandonment \nand growing joy as the definitive encounter with Christ grew near. \nSr Maria Gabriella went to the Lord on the evening of April 23\, 1939. It \nwas the fourth Sunday after Easter\, the Sunday of the Good Shepherd\, and the \nGospel proclaimed: “I have other sheep as well that are not of this fold. I must \nlead these also so that there will be but one Shepherd and one fold”. The \ncircumstance was seen as a confirmation that the offering of her life had been a \nresponse to a divine inspiration. On January 25\, 1983\, Maria Gabriella \nSagheddu was proclaimed Blessed by Pope John Paul II during the annual \necumenical celebration in the basilica of St Paul’s Outside the Walls at the end of \nthe Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
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