While they terrify me, I am always fascinated by mystics, especially in our modern times. When one delves deep into their lives, it can be said that basically “there is nothing new under the sun”!
Read St. Faustina’s journal and then go back 800+ years and read the writings of St. Gertrude- it is all there. It is as though Jesus or His Mother sends the same message over and over to each generation, especially when the world is in some state of turmoil – when is it not?
And that message is love God and love one another.
A woman so little known in our day, that there is only one translation into English about her (thanks to the monks of Silverspring in Ireland
MARIA SIELER led a retired life yet all who knew her, whether in her youth or in her last years of life in Rome
She was born on 3 February 1899 in Winterdorf in the parish of St. Ruprecht an der Raab (Styria / Austria
At the age of 20, the Lord asked her to offer sacrifice for the renewal of the priesthood and for the salvation of the Church. It was intended to remind the faithful, especially the priests, that there could be no fruitful apostolate without personal devotion to Christ and without constant struggle for selflessness. Maria wanted to enter religious life but was rejected again and again, because of ill health. She not only knew physical suffering but also inner darkness and desolation.
Maria wanted to enter religious life but was rejected again and again, because of ill health. She not only knew physical suffering but also inner darkness and desolation.
Maria did not experience the sufferings of Christ in visions, nor did she have the stigmatized wounds of the Lord. Rather she suffered the inner sufferings of Jesus.
She died on 29 July 1952 in Rome