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Our Lord revealed to St. Mechtile and St. Gertrude the Great different ways of pleasingly offering up reparation for the great number of sins that occur on this day before Lent begins.
As revealed to St. Mechtilde:
At the time of the Carnival Mechtilde macerated her flesh till the blood flowed, offering this slight reparation to her Well-beloved for all the excesses and wickedness of the world. And our Lord, several times, said He loved to rest on Mechtilde’s heart, where He could forget the pain caused Him by other hearts.
It was the Sacred Heart just as Margaret Mary was to know it.
One day our Lord appeared to Mechtilde as though suspended, with hands and feet tied, and said to her:
*“Every time a man sins mortally he ties Me thus, and as long as he perseveres in his sin he keeps Me in this torture.”
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He had already complained of being so ill-treated in His Church. Three things particularly grieved Him: the clergy did not study the Holy Scriptures in the right way, but made to contribute to their vanity; Religious neglected interior things and gave all their attention to things exterior; the people took no care to hear the word of God nor to receive the Sacraments of Holy Church.
Mechtilde asked our Lord to teach her how she could offer satisfaction to Him for the many members of the Church who at this time (it was Quinquagesima Sunday) showered so many insults on Him. Our Lord replied:
“Say 350 times the anthem: Tibi laus, tibi gloria, tibi gratiarum actio, O beata Trinitas! – ‘To thee be praise, to thee glory, to thee thanksgiving, O blessed Trinity,’ in reparation for all the indignities offered Me by those who are My members.”
As revealed to St. Mechtilde:
At the time of the Carnival Mechtilde macerated her flesh till the blood flowed, offering this slight reparation to her Well-beloved for all the excesses and wickedness of the world. And our Lord, several times, said He loved to rest on Mechtilde’s heart, where He could forget the pain caused Him by other hearts.
It was the Sacred Heart just as Margaret Mary was to know it.
One day our Lord appeared to Mechtilde as though suspended, with hands and feet tied, and said to her:
*“Every time a man sins mortally he ties Me thus, and as long as he perseveres in his sin he keeps Me in this torture.”
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He had already complained of being so ill-treated in His Church. Three things particularly grieved Him: the clergy did not study the Holy Scriptures in the right way, but made to contribute to their vanity; Religious neglected interior things and gave all their attention to things exterior; the people took no care to hear the word of God nor to receive the Sacraments of Holy Church.
Mechtilde asked our Lord to teach her how she could offer satisfaction to Him for the many members of the Church who at this time (it was Quinquagesima Sunday) showered so many insults on Him. Our Lord replied:
“Say 350 times the anthem: Tibi laus, tibi gloria, tibi gratiarum actio, O beata Trinitas! – ‘To thee be praise, to thee glory, to thee thanksgiving, O blessed Trinity,’ in reparation for all the indignities offered Me by those who are My members.”