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St. Aloysius Gonzaga<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Note: The Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, the Little Daughter of the Divine Will\u00a0\u00a0baptismal name was after St. Aloysius (St. Luis). \u00a0“Luisa” means \u201cmighty in warfare.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Luisa was born on <\/strong><\/span>April 23rd,\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span>Feast of St. George\u00a0<\/span>th<\/span>e Martyr<\/span><\/strong><\/span>, in the province of Apulia, which is located on the heel of the Italian \u201cboot\u201d\u2014which points to Jerusalem. In Genesis 3:15 God promised to crush the serpent\u2019s head. In 1868, within 3 years after Luisa\u2019s birth, the Church of the \u201cPater Noster\u201d in Jerusalem was rebuilt for the third time, recalling the only prayer taught by Jesus: \u201cThy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth as It is in Heaven.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Also the feast day of St. Aloysius, June 21st, was the same day of the release of the Baltimore Catechism.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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St. Aloysius Gonzaga<\/strong>\u2014He is known for his purity and the performance of great austerities and religious practices. <\/strong>\u00a0St. Aloysius joined the Jesuits in Rome in 1585.\u00a0 He has been declared Protector of young students and Patron of Catholic Youth.<\/p>\n

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St. Aloysius Gonzaga is known for his purity and the performance of great austerities and religious practices. Aloysius is the Latin form of Gonzaga’s given name, Luigi. In English, the\u00a0equivalent form would be Louis. The Gonzaga name is well known in Italy. Aloysius Gonzaga was born at Castiglione near Mantua, Italy, in 1568 to a celebrated family of wealth and prestige. As the first born son of his father, Ferrante, and his mother, Marta, he was in line to inherit his father’s title of Marquis. He grew up amid the violence and brutality of the Renaissance Italy and witnessed the murder of two of his brothers. In 1576, Aloysius’ parents sent him to attend the court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Francesco de’Medici, in Florence. Later, accompanied by his parents, he traveled to Spain to join the court of Philip II in Madrid.<\/p>\n

In Spain, Aloysius decided he wanted to join the newly founded religious order, The Society of Jesus. His father resisted his decision and there followed a struggle of wills that continued after his return to Castiglione in 1584. But Aloysius eventually prevailed. Renouncing his right to the title of Marquis and to the vast wealth he was destined to inherit, he entered the Society of Jesus in Rome on November 25, 1585. During his early studies in Rome, he would regularly go out into the streets of the city to care for victims of the plague. He himself contracted the disease as a result of his efforts for the suffering and died on June 21, 1591, at the age of twenty-three, six years short of his ordination as a Jesuit priest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Even before his time as a Jesuit, Aloysius was known for his love of prayer and fasting. He received his First Communion from St. Charles Borromeo. As a Jesuit at the Roman College, he continued to devote his time to prayer and practices of austerity. \u00a0His spiritual director was Robert Bellarmine, who later was canonized and declared a doctor of the church. \u00a0When Robert was dying, he asked to be buried next to the grave of Aloysius. \u00a0Today, they rest next to each other in the church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Rome. \u00a0Pope Benedict XIII canonized Aloysius in 1726, and three years later declared him to be the patron of youth in the Catholic Church, an honor later confirmed by Pope Pius XI in 1926.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Volume 2 – June 20, 1899
\n\u2026Afterwards, Heaven opened; it seemed that a very great feast was being prepared.\u00a0 At that very moment a young man of lovely appearance came down from Heaven, all dazzling with fire and flames.\u00a0 Jesus told me:\u00a0 \u201cTomorrow is the feast of my dear Aloysius \u2013 I must go attend.\u201d\u00a0 And I:\u00a0 \u2018And so You leave me alone \u2013 what shall I do?\u2019\u00a0 And He:\u00a0 \u201cYou too will come.\u00a0 Look at how beautiful Aloysius is; but the greatest thing in him, which distinguished him on earth, was the love with which he operated.\u00a0 Everything was love in him – love occupied him interiorly, love surrounded him externally; so, one can say that even his breath was love.\u00a0 This is why it is said of him that he never suffered distraction \u2013 because love inundated him everywhere, and with this love he will be inundated eternally, as you see.\u201d
\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0And in fact it seemed that the love of Saint Aloysius was so very great, as to be able to burn the whole world to ashes.\u00a0 Then, Jesus added:\u00a0 \u201cI stroll over the highest mountains, and there I form my delight.\u201d\u00a0 Since I did not understand the meaning of it, He continued:\u00a0 \u201cThe highest mountains are the Saints who have loved Me the most, and in them I form my delight, both when they are on earth, and when they pass into Heaven.\u00a0 So, everything is in love.\u201d\u00a0 After this, I prayed Jesus to bless me and those whom I was seeing at that moment; and He, giving His blessing, disappeared.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Volume 2; June 21, 1899
\nAll of a sudden He (Jesus) came and told me (Luisa):\u00a0 \u201cI will not leave you, never will I abandon you.\u00a0You too \u2013 come, come to Me.\u201d\u00a0Immediately I ran to place myself in His arms, and while I was like this, Jesus continued, saying:\u00a0 \u201cNot only will I not leave you, but for love of you I will not leave Corato.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Volume 19 – June 21, 1926
\n<\/strong>This morning, having received Holy Communion, I received It as usual in the Most Holy Will of God, offering It to my dear Saint Aloysius \u2013 not only the Communion, but all the goods contained in the Most Holy Will of God, for his accidental glory.\u00a0 Now, while doing this, I saw that all the goods contained in the Supreme Volition, like many rays of light, rays of beauty and of multiple colors, inundated the dear Saint, giving him an infinite glory.\u00a0 And my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:\u00a0 \u201cMy daughter, Aloysius is a flower and a Saint bloomed from the earth of my Humanity and made bright by the reflections of the rays of the Sun of my Will.\u00a0 In fact, though, holy, pure, noble and united hypostatically to the Word, my Humanity was earth; and Aloysius, more than flower, bloomed from my Humanity – pure, holy, noble, possessing the root of pure love, in such a way that in each leaf of his flower one can see written, \u2018love\u2019.\u00a0 But what renders him more beautiful and brilliant are the rays of my Will, to which he was always submitted – rays which gave such development to this flower as to render it unique on earth and in Heaven.\u00a0 Now, my daughter, if Aloysius is so beautiful because he bloomed from my Humanity, what will be of you and of all those who will possess the Kingdom of my Will?\u00a0 These flowers will not bloom from my Humanity, but will have their roots within the Sun of my Will.\u00a0 In It is formed the flower of their life; they grow and bloom in the very Sun of my Volition which, jealous of these flowers, will keep them eclipsed within Its own light.\u00a0 In each petal of these flowers one will see, written, all the specialties of the divine qualities; they will be the enchantment of all Heaven, and all will recognize in them the complete work of their Creator.\u201d\u00a0 And while He was saying this, my sweet Jesus opened His breast and showed, inside it, an immense Sun, in which He was to plant all these flowers; and His love and jealousy toward them was so great, that He would not let them bloom outside His Humanity, but inside Himself.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Volume 26 – June 27, 1929
\nHaving received Holy Communion, I was offering It for the glory of Saint Aloysius, and I offered, as a present for him, everything that Our Lord had done in His Divine Will with His mind, with His words, works and steps, for the accidental glory of Saint Aloysius on his feast day.\u00a0 Now, while I was doing this, my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:\u00a0 \u201cMy daughter, a more beautiful present you could not give to dear Saint Aloysius on the day of his feast.\u00a0 As you were offering your Communion and all my acts done in my Divine Will, so many suns were formed for as many acts as I did in It while being on earth; and these suns invested Saint Aloysius, in such a way that he received so much accidental glory from the earth, that he could not receive more.\u00a0 Only the offerings of acts done in my Divine Will have the virtue of forming their suns, because, containing the fullness of light, it is no wonder that It converts into suns the human acts done in It.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Luisa was born and died in the Diocese of Trani-Nazareth, in the town of Corato<\/strong>, whose name in its original Latin, cor datum, means \u201ca heart given<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 This recalls the words of the Prophet Ezekiel:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.\u00a0 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.\u00a0 You shall dwell in the land which I gave your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.”<\/em> \u00a0(Ezekiel 36:27-28)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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