ST.
GERTRUDE THE GREAT (1256
– c. 1302) was a German Benedictine nun, mystic, and theologian,
although there are sources that say she was a Cistercian
.
One
of the most esteemed woman saints of the Christian West, she was a
notable early devotee of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Book Two of her
work the Herald of Divine
Love reveals vivid
descriptions of her visions and shows greater elaboration on the
long-standing but yet then ill-defined veneration of Christ's Heart,
eventhough this veneration was already present at the time in the
belief that Christ's Heart poured forth a redemptive fountain through
the wound in His side, culminating in its most famous articulation by
St Bernard in his commentary on the 'Song of Songs'.
St.
Gertrude experienced a vision on the feast of St. John the Evangelist
where both she and the Beloved Apostle rested their heads on the
Heart of Christ and were completely taken into an ecstasy of delight
by hearing the beating of the Divine Heart. She asked St. John if he
had felt these pulsations on the night of the Last Supper when he
rested his head on the Heart of Our Lord, and, why he had never
written of the fact in his Gospel.
St.
John replied:
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“Yes,
I heard them, and my soul was penetrated with their sweetness even to
its very centre. (…) My ministry in those early times of the
Church was confined to speaking of the Divine Word, the Eternal Son
of the Father, some words of deep meaning upon which human
intelligence might meditate forever, without ever exhausting their
riches; but to these
latter times was reserved the grace of hearing the eloquent Voice of
the Heart of Jesus. At
this Voice the time-worn world will renew its youth, be roused from
its lethargy, and again be inflamed with the warmth of Divine Love.”
Our
Lord also revealed to her that the revelations made to her were also
meant for the Latter Times.
St.
Gertrude: “The love of the Incarnate Word as exemplified by His
Divine Heart is
reserved for the last ages to be made known;
so that the world
carried away by its follies may regain a little of the warmth of
early Christian Charity by learning of the love of the Sacred Heart…
.”
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I
have included St. Gertrude's prophecy with the Great Monarch and
Angelic Pontiff prophecies as it corresponds with the revelations
given to approved mystics such as 1) St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
(1647–1690),
who was was chosen by Christ to spread a greater devotion to His
Sacred Heart beginning in France and establish It's Reign in the
hearts of men, and 2) to Marie-Julie
Jahenny (1850 -1941) who revealed that the Reign of the Sacred Heart
foretold to St. Margaret Mary will at last be established in France
and the world by the Great Monarch during the Age of Peace, which
will be the last
and greatest age of the Church.
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