RB: Ch 33 Personal Possessions in the Monastery
Mass: Lv 19:1-2, 11-18; Resp Ps 19; Mt 25:31-46
Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life.
St Gertrude the Great of Helfta lived from 1256-1301/2. In The Revelations of St Gertrude, Part IV, Ch XV, is the account of her revelation for the Monday after the First Sunday of Lent when she heard, as we do today, Matthew's version of what our final judgement is based upon. It was during the proclamation of the Gospel when Gertrude asked Jesus how she and her sisters could participate in the works of mercy since they were forbidden to have material possessions. Our Lord replied: By endeavoring to study some words of Scripture every day for the benefit of others, you feed Me to satisfy My hunger and give Me drink to satisfy My thirst. If you spend time meditating on the Word every day, you welcome Me in the stranger. If you strive every day to acquire some new virtue, you clothe Me. You visit Me when sick by striving to overcome temptation. And you visit Me in prison when you pray for sinners and for the souls in purgatory.
Those who perform these devotions daily for My love, especially during the holy season of Lent, will most certainly receive the tenderest and most bountiful reward which My incomprehensible omnipotence, My inscrutable wisdom, and My most loving benevolence can bestow.
'AMEN, I SAY TO YOU, WHAT YOU DID NOT DO FOR ONE OF THESE LEAST ONES, YOU DID NOT DO FOR ME.' AND THESE WILL GO OFF TO ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, BUT THE RIGHTEOUS TO ETERNAL LIFE.
St Gertrude the Great, pray for us.
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