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Please, remember to fittingly thank her for any favor she obtains for you.
Novena Prayer
O Jesus, full of Grace and Charity, Victim for sinners, so impelled by Love for us that You willed to die on the Cross, I humbly beseech You to glorify in heaven and on earth the Servant of God and Victim Soul, Sister Josefa Menéndez, who faithfully participated in Your Passion and shared Your Sufferings, to prepare the way for devotion to Your Mercy, for the salvation of souls, and for the Glory of Your Heavenly Father.
I think this was because of the fire which burns, burns… not a finger nail escapes terrifying torments, and all the time one cannot move even a finger to gain some relief, not change posture, for the body seems flattened out and [yet] doubled in two.
There are too few victims…too few…”
PURGATORY
Josefa never went to Purgatory, but she saw and spoke with a number of souls who wanted her to pray for them, as well as some who told her they escaped Hell because of her prayers. Nevertheless, the Lord remembers the heroic sufferings she endured to make known His Message of Mercy.
In reality her Superiors had rarely met with a more obedient and docile subject, or one more deferential, more eager to submit to their authority, more ready to sacrifice herself.
In her devotions, as in everything else, there was no exaggeration; she was sincere, straightforward and simple. . While He constantly tried to thwart her, Josefa knew “he will not succeed, and to the end of time many souls will draw new life from them.”
APPARITIONS OF JESUS
“The love I bear for souls, especially for yours, is so great that I can no longer contain the flames of burning charity that consume Me…” – Jesus
Jesus would appear and “speak with the most burning love” as Josefa would write His words down in notebooks “as they fell from His sacred lips.”
Josefa recorded her reactions to each of the Lord’s visits
At first, she felt an intense desire to humble herself.
I want to make use of you as a tired man uses a stick to lean upon. . The diocese of Poitiers, France opened the diocesan process for the cause of canonization of Sister Josefa Menendez del Moral on November 30, 1948.
-Sister Josefa Menendez, pray for us!
"Gold is purified in fire. Josefa lived the novitiate with a very profound interior life.
She then received her religious habit on July 16, 1920 and made her religious profession on the same day, two years later.
From her arrival at the convent, she began to have, almost daily, visions of Jesus Christ, which lasted for four years. Christ has called her to bring the broken to His Sacred Heart.
But it suffers indescribably… All I have written is but a shadow of what the soul suffers, for no words can express such dire torment.”
Excerpts From The Way of Divine Love by Josefa Menéndez
“The world does not know the mercy of My Heart. I desire that they believe in my mercy, that they expect everything from my goodness, that they never doubt my pardon.
. All this was in reality the best guarantee to Superiors that her communications were divine in origin.
The Mystic who wore an apron
Her daily life within the Convent was very ordinary as she carried out her humble tasks and chores with grace and humility. . In the blinding light of divine revelations, she only crept deeper into her littleness, and the closer God drew to her the more she humbled herself.
. Josefa Menendez (1890-1923) -Jesus' Message to the World of His Mercy for All
Source for this information is from the excellent book “The Way of Divine Love”, by Sr. Josefa Menendez, available from St Benedict Press by clicking here.
“It is My intention also, to show souls that I never refuse grace, even to those who are guilty of grave sin; nor do I separate them from the good souls whom I love with predilection.
Within a few months the book had been translated from the original Spanish into French, then into Portuguese, Italian, English, Chinese, and Hungarian, thus helping to fulfill Our Lord’s wish that His call to the way of love and devotion to His Sacred Heart should be known everywhere.
The Fatima Message and the Mystic of Mercy
At the time of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, Sister Menéndez was receiving her own messages from Jesus.
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