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Quote/s of the Day – 28 February – St Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin/Gabriel Possenti CP (1838-1862)

Quote/s of the Day – 28 February – Wednesday of the Second Week in Lent – St Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin/Gabriel Possenti CP (1838-1862)

His companion in the Novitiate, exckaimed:

“Tears come to my eyes and I am filled with shame
for having been so far from the virtues
which he attained, in such a short time.

Blessed Bernard Mary of Jesus (1831-1911)
speaking on the great holiness
of St Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother (1838-1862)

Oh, be assured, he whom God
calls to the religious life
receives a very great favour,
a favour which is impossible to estimate
at its real value.

Everything must be examined,
in the sight of God,
with the greatest care …

(From a letter to his Father, 21 September 1856)

My sole merit lies in Thy Wounds

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St Gabriel Francis Possenti
of the Sorrowful Virgin (1838-1862)