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<\/a><\/p>\nSt. Cecilia<\/strong><\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Selected Letters of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta to Mother Cecilia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 33.\u00a0 To Mother Cecilia<\/strong><\/p>\n J.M.J.<\/strong><\/p>\n Fiat – In Voluntate Dei!<\/strong><\/p>\n My good and reverend Mother,<\/p>\n I feel the certain hope of finding you in the Divine Volition, Which possesses the fullness of all goods; therefore there is no good which I cannot wish you on the beautiful day of your Saint Cecilia.\u00a0 So I wish you the peace of the Fiat, that may make full day arise in you, always serene, so that the darkness of the night, of disturbances and oppressions may have no place.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 Peace can be called daylight of God, in which the Divine Volition forms Its day of ever growing sanctity, and ever new graces.\u00a0 Dearest Mother, one single act we do in the Divine Will is so great as to surpass the greatness of Heaven and earth; it encloses immensity, power, and all goods.\u00a0 Therefore my wish for you is that all your life be a continuous act of Divine Will, and then you will have love for all, a sanctity that makes up for all and encloses God Himself.\u00a0 And when God is with us, what beautiful and good things can we not receive and accomplish?\u00a0 I could not wish anything more beautiful than the peace of the Divine Will.\u00a0 It will be your guide, It will sustain you and comfort you in the circumstances of life, and also the bitter ones, which are never lacking.<\/p>\n I leave you in the Divine Volition, so that the feast of Saint Cecilia may be more beautiful, and may be the echo of the feast of Heaven.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0My sister kisses your right hand and sends her affectionate and sincere wishes.\u00a0 And I, renewing my wishes, kiss your right hand.\u00a0 Most affectionately yours,<\/p>\n the little daughter of the Divine Will<\/p>\n Corato, November 20, 1937<\/p>\n \u00a0***<\/p>\n 64.\u00a0 To Mother Cecilia<\/strong><\/p>\n In Voluntate Dei!<\/strong><\/p>\n My good and reverend Mother,<\/p>\n I received your dear letter, that consoled me very much.\u00a0 Thank you from the heart. In these times my state is very painful, because of the books and other things; but in my poor heart I have the sure hope that these will be the last gems that my dear Jesus will place on my little crown.\u00a0 And when I feel my hear suffocating with sorrow, I hide in the Divine Will and in It I find the necessary strength.\u00a0 What a magic force, what powerful magnet does the Divine Will possess!\u00a0 In the hardest pains It knows how to give rest, placing Its balm on the most embittered wounds.\u00a0 So, my dearest Mother, let us never move from within the Fiat.\u00a0 It will form Its divine room in us, in which we will find Jesus, Who will take us in His arms\u2026 He will nourish us with the precious food of His Will.\u00a0 He will cover us with love, hiding all our sufferings in His own, in order to make us more like Him; and in His emphasis of love, He will say to us:\u00a0 \u201cMy daughter, do not fear, I Myself will be your life, your strength, your All.\u00a0 We will live together and form one single life.\u00a0 How happy we will be!\u201d<\/p>\n Now, this is my wish for Saint Cecilia:\u00a0 that the Fiat give you Its divine room, in which you will live one life with dear Jesus.\u00a0 I can tell you nothing but this:\u00a0 may the Divine Will cover you and hide you within Itself, but so much as to feel nothing but Will of God within you \u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Thank you, thank you for everything.\u00a0 May Heaven repay you with blessings, and hide you more in His Will, so that the earth may turn into Heaven for you, and all things may be bearers of Divine Will.<\/p>\n I renew my wishes together with my sister.\u00a0\u00a0I believe that this year I am the one opening the wishes for Saint Cecilia \u2013 wishes of peace and of union.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Pray for me.\u00a0 Leaving you in the Divine Will and kissing your right hand, united to my sister, I say,<\/p>\n most affectionately yours,<\/p>\n the little daughter of the Divine Will<\/p>\n Corato, November 10, 1938<\/p>\n \u00a0***<\/p>\n 105.\u00a0 To Mother Cecilia<\/strong><\/p>\n My good and reverend Mother,<\/p>\n I feel the duty to send you my wishes for your Name Day of Saint Cecilia.\u00a0 She was a martyr of blood, and I wish you a greater martyrdom, more noble and divine, more heroic and more accepted by God \u2013 that is, the martyrdom of the Divine Will.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0This martyrdom surpasses all other martyrdoms; even more, as many times as you do the Will of God instead of doing yours, so many times will you be able to say:\u00a0 \u201cI am martyr for You; the martyrdom I offer You is not of blood or of flesh, but with my will united to Yours, I offer You a divine martyrdom.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Goodness of God!\u00a0 If only our acts enter the Divine Volition, everything is changed into divine in us, and what is human has no longer life.<\/p>\n Here is my wish.\u00a0 I could not send you a more beautiful one; more so, since the opportunities are not lacking.\u00a0 In all circumstances, even painful, you will have a refuge in which to take shelter.\u00a0 Jesus is waiting for you open arms to receive you and to help you to form in you the noble martyrdom of the Divine Will.<\/p>\n Now let\u2019s come to us.\u00a0 The Lord has allowed that you go far away, without even seeing each other.\u00a0 Fiat, Fiat!\u00a0 And it also seems that you want to forget me:\u00a0 Fiat to this as well.\u00a0 But I beg you to never forget to pray for me, poor creature, and from the heart I will do it for you.\u00a0 It seems to me that I had in you a far away mother who had a thought for me.\u00a0 Now, Fiat.\u00a0 Let us remain always united in the Divine Will, from which we will draw the strength and the sanctity He wants from us.<\/p>\n My sister sends you her wishes and kisses your right hand, and I leave you in the Divine Volition to make yourself a saint.\u00a0 Pray for me.\u00a0 Kissing your hand, I say,<\/p>\n Most affectionately yours,<\/p>\n The little daughter of the Divine Will.<\/p>\n \u00a0***<\/p>\n 115.\u00a0 To Mother Cecilia<\/strong><\/p>\n My good and reverend Mother,<\/p>\n Here I am to you, after such a long silence.\u00a0\u00a0Dear Cecilia makes the thought arise in me of sending you my wishes.\u00a0 But what wishes could I send you?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>And here is the Holy Divine Will, which comes before me and says:\u00a0 \u201cMy Will never ends; I have always to give.\u00a0 Therefore,\u00a0send her, as wish, my Love which rises continuously, my sanctity which is ever new, my virtue which is always working.\u00a0\u00a0I never tire of speaking, but I also want to receive the little love of the creatures – their will into Mine, to be able to dispose them to receive into their will the prodigies which my Divine Will can do.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Here is my little wish:\u00a0 your will at the mercy of the Divine Will.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0In this way you will feel in you the Sanctity, the love and the works of the Supreme Fiat as your own.\u00a0 Your life will no longer be of the earth, but of Heaven.\u00a0 Your acts will be nothing but divine conquests, in which you will form as many Jesuses for as many acts as you do.\u00a0 So you will be able to bring Jesus to all.<\/p>\n My good Mother, I think you will appreciate my little wish; more so, since it comes from the heart of a daughter who wants to see her mother as though carried in the arms of the Divine Will, to become the saint It wants her to be.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n And more on St. Cecilia from the EWTN website (click\u00a0here<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n For over a thousand years St. Cecilia has been one of the most venerated martyrs of the early Church; she is among the seven martyrs named in the Canon of the Mass. According to a tradition current at the end of the fifth century, Cecilia was a Roman girl of patrician family, who had been brought up as a Christian. She fasted often, and wore a coarse garment beneath her rich clothing. Although she wished to remain a virgin, her father betrothed her to a young pagan named Valerian. When the wedding day came, Cecilia sat apart from the guests, repeating psalms and praying. After the ceremony, when the guests had departed and she was alone with her husband, Cecilia made known her great desire to remain as she was, saying that she already had a lover, an angel of God, who was very jealous. Valerian, shaken by suspicion, fear, and anger, said to her: “Show me this angel. If he is of God, I shall refrain, as you wish, but if he is a human lover, you both must die.” Cecilia answered: “If you believe in the one true and living God and receive the water of baptism, then you shall see the angel.” Valerian assented, and following his wife’s directions sought out a bishop named Urban, who was in hiding among the tombs of the martyrs, for this was a time of persecutions. Valerian made his profession of faith and the bishop baptized him. When the young husband returned, he found an angel with flaming wings standing beside Cecilia. The angel placed chaplets of roses and lilies on their heads. The brother of Valerian, Tiburtius, was also converted; and after being baptized he too experienced many marvels.\u00a0Valerian and Tiburtius devoted themselves to good works in behalf of the Christian community, and they made it their special duty to give proper burial to those Christians who were put to death by order of the prefect Almachius. The two brothers were themselves soon sentenced for refusing to sacrifice to Jupiter. Maximus, a Roman officer charged with their execution, was converted by a vision that came to him in the hour of their death. After professing Christianity, he too suffered martyrdom. The three were buried by the grieving Cecilia, and a little later she herself was sentenced. The prefect came and tried to reason with her, but when he found her firm in the faith and scornful of his threats, he gave an order that she was to be suffocated in her own bathroom. Surviving this attempt on her life, a soldier was sent to behead her. He struck at her neck three times, then left her lying, still alive, for it was against the law to strike a fourth time. She lingered on for three days, during which the Christians who remained in Rome flocked to her house. In dying she bequeathed all her goods to the poor, and her house to the bishop for a Christian place of worship. She was buried in the crypt of the Caecilii at the catacomb of St. Callistus.<\/p>\n The above legend of St. Cecilia dates back, as we have said, to the end of the fifth century. There is no mention of this saint in the Depositio Martyrum, but there is a record of an early Roman Christian church founded by a lady of this name. In the ninth century Pope Paschal I moved the remains of many martyrs from the catacombs to new churches within the city; the presumed relics of St. Cecilia, her husband, his brother, and the Roman officer Maximus, were all placed in the church of St. Cecilia. The origin of her veneration as a patron of music is unknown to us. She was not associated with music in the early period or in the account given in the medieval Golden Legend by Jacobus Voragine, but artists of later times have delighted in depicting her at the organ, singing God’s praise or listening to a choir of angels.<\/p>\n This was taken from “Lives of Saints”, Published by John J. Crawley & Co., Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Behold the body of the most holy virgin Cecilia, Born at Rome, of the illustrious family of the Coecilli, Cecilia as a child consecrated her virginity to God. \u00a0Forced to marry Valerian, a young pagan, she said to him: \u00a0“Valerian, I am placed under the guardianship of an angel … Continue reading In Voluntate Dei!<\/h1>\n
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\n SAINT CECILIA VIRGIN, MARTYR
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\n<\/a>\u00a0The photo above is a piece of art by Stefano Maderno (1576-1636). This is how her incorrupt body was found lying before it was moved. The axe marks were visible in her neck and her arm was outstretched with three fingers extended (which was, of course, explained as a testimony to her faith in the Triune God). While at first glance the statue is graceful and flowing, a longer examination reveals the awkwardness of her position. Carved into the floor in front of the altar is this statement:<\/p>\n\n
\nwhom I myself saw lying incorrupt in the tomb.
\nI have in this marble expressed for you the same saint
\nin the very same posture.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"