on one occasion, the Lord Jesus appeared to Gertrude and asked for her heart: “My beloved, give Me your heart.”
She offered it joyfully and it seemed to her as if the Lord placed it against His own divine Heart, drawing it out like a channel reaching down to the earth. Through this channel He generously poured out the effusions of His irrepressible goodness and said to her: “Henceforth, it will be my good pleasure to use your heart as a channel through which I will pour from the well-spring of my mellifluous Heart, torrents of divine consolation upon those who dispose themselves to receive them abundantly, having recourse to you with confidence and humility.”
St. Gertrude of Helfta.
Legatus divinæ pietatis. L.III, c.66
In the featured photo: St. Gertrude of Helfta – Church of Our Lady of Glory, Juiz de Fora (Brazil)
