Writings of Blessed Angela of Foligno

[therese14]

Writings of Blessed Angela of Foligno
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"After this came pride. Then was I filled with wrath and vanity, with melancholy and bitterness, and all puffed up with pride. Thereto was added another bitterness concerning the benefits which God had bestowed upon me, because I remembered no more any good thing of them whatsoever, but only remembered injuries and dolorous grief, marvelling that there had been any virtue whatsoever in me and doubting whether in truth there had ever been any. Neither did I perceive any reason wherefore God should have permitted this, and for this cause was all goodness shut away from me and hidden. The temptation of this thought did make me to be filled with pride and anger, most bitter sadness and affliction and a grief greater than I can declare, so that if all the wise men of the world and all the saints of paradise had given me every assurance to comfort me and had pro mised me every blessing which could be named, not even they could have done aught for me or rendered me any help, if God had not changed my soul and worked differently within it. "

Cited from “The book of divine consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno”

 

[littlestsouls2]

Highly recommended!

Another excerpt:
The Crucified One spake further unto me and said: “When these My sons, who through sin have departed from My kingdom and made themselves sons of the devil, do return unto the Father, He hath great joy of them and showeth them His exceeding great delight in their return. So great is the Father’s joy at their conversion that He bestoweth upon them supernatural grace, the which He giveth not unto virgins who through sin have not departed from Him…"

 

[Vouthon]

Correction, she is actually Saint Angela of Foligno. Not Blessed. She was canonized on the 9 October 2013 by Pope Francis through equivalent canonization.

 

[littlestsouls2]

Awesome! Thanks for the info!

Perhaps her life and revelations have a particular relevance for our time, that God wants to make known?

Given that she lived on the Eucharist alone for 12 years, and received some stunning visions and revelations relating to the dignity of the Mass, it would appear God is drawing our attention to the need for a greater devotion to the Sacrament of Love.

“… by virtue of His divine power, the Body of Christ could be upon every altar, a thing not to be comprehended in this present life… “But those who feel something of Me,” said God, “do understand more of it; nevertheless, neither the former nor the latter do fully understand, but the time cometh when ye shall understand.”

• St. Angela of Foligno

 

[fred_conty]

Awesome! Thanks for the info!

Perhaps her life and revelations have a particular relevance for our time, that God wants to make known?

Given that she lived on the Eucharist alone for 12 years, and received some stunning visions and revelations relating to the dignity of the Mass, it would appear God is drawing our attention to the need for a greater devotion to the Sacrament of Love.

“… by virtue of His divine power, the Body of Christ could be upon every altar, a thing not to be comprehended in this present life… “But those who feel something of Me,” said God, “do understand more of it; nevertheless, neither the former nor the latter do fully understand, but the time cometh when ye shall understand.”

• St. Angela of Foligno

Quite good.

 

[Genesis315]

I can see her being named a Doctor of the Church at some point. St. Angela has been known as the “Mistress of Theolgians” and the “Angel of Great Counsel,” and the friar who gathered her words of wisdom when she was alive called her a “great doctor”, whose teachings and wisdom “are like nothing in all the earth.” Even back in the 1870s, the translator to the book I’ve read describes the “great authority of her doctrine.”