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"What is a vocation? It is a gift from God--it comes from God Himself! Our concern then should be to know the will of God. We should enter onto the path that God wills for us, not 'forcing the door' but when God wills and as God wills." St. Gianna Beretta Molla
I love this saint. Can't get enough of St. Gianna. She appeals to my feminine heart for so many reasons: she was a professional, wife and mother. She believed in service and was very involved with Catholic Action for women and girls. She loved fashion, culture and the arts. According to her son, Pierluigi, she also liked to drive fast 😀. She went to daily mass, loved God and lived her faith! People who know her said she wasn't preachy--she simply lived what she believed. In generosity, she made the choice to delay the definitive treatment for a benign tumor of her uterus to give life to her 4th child. She was a hero. What drew me to her is that in my own vocational discernment, I read that she actually thought about being a missionary with her brother. She prayed to Our Lady at Lourdes in faith and formally met her beloved Pietro on the feast of the Immaculate Conception. If that's not a grace from Our Lady, I don't know what is!
As I wait in faith for God to reveal His will for me, I beg Gianna's intercession as well as Our Lady of Lourdes. Give me the faith to be open to God's will, whatever it is. Amen.
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