Thought for the Day – 9 July
“She Interpreted Everything in a Key of Love – a courageous Witness of the beauty and power of Divine Love” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXclWG3ol3s)
“Saint Veronica, true to the name she took in religion, became a “true image” of Christ crucified; her configuration to the Lord was accompanied by profound mystical experiences such as her crowning with thorns and the stigmata. Veronica’s spirituality, as revealed above all in her Diary, is Christ-centred and spousal: she saw all things in the light of Christ’s love, manifested in His Passion and she united herself to His self-oblation to the Father for the salvation of souls. Her love of the Scriptures was deeply linked to her love of the Church and her strong sense of the communion of the saints.
St. Veronica Giuliani invites us to make our Christian life grow, our union with the Lord in being for others, abandoning ourselves to His will with complete and total trust and to union with the Church, Bride of Christ; she invites us to participate in the suffering love of Jesus Crucified for the salvation of all sinners; she invites us to fix our gaze on Paradise, the goal of our earthly journey, where we will live together with so many brothers and sisters the joy of full communion with God; she invites us to nourish ourselves daily from the Word of God to warm our hearts and give direction to our life. The last words of the saint can be considered the synthesis of her passionate mystical experience: “I have found Love, Love has let Himself be seen!” …. May the life and teaching of Saint Veronica Giuliani inspire us to grow in union with the Lord and His Church and to share in Christ’s loving concern for the salvation of sinners.”
Pope Benedict XVI 15 December 2010
“VERONICA” – Latin alteration of BERENICE, the spelling influenced by the ecclesiastical Latin phrase vera icon meaning “true image”. This was the name of a legendary saint who wiped Jesus’ face with a cloth and miraculously found His image imprinted upon it. It was borne by the 17th-century Italian saint and mystic Veronica Giuliani.
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