{"id":33361,"date":"2016-04-22T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33361"},"modified":"2016-04-22T15:51:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:51:57","slug":"blessed-maria-gabriella-sagheddu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/04\/blessed-maria-gabriella-sagheddu\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Maria Gabriella Sagheddu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SrMariaGabriella.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33362\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33362 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SrMariaGabriella-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"SrMariaGabriella\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SrMariaGabriella-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SrMariaGabriella.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a>Today, the Church honors a member of the Cistercian Order a <em>blessed<\/em> of the Church, an Italian nun, Blessed Maria Gabriella. A native of \u00a0Sardinia, Italy born in 1914. Blessed Maria Gabriella\u00a0was known to be given to willfulness, stubbornness and anger as a child and adolescent, but a conversion at 18 turned her will toward virtue and the love of Jesus Christ. Then, at\u00a021,\u00a0she entered a Cistercian monas<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">tery near Rome where she lived the contemplative, hidden life of a Trappistine nun. In her era, she \u00a0likely knew nothing of the \u2018ecumenical movement,\u2019 at least not in any\u00a0official way.\u00a0In purity\u00a0of heart &#8211;in a singular gesture&#8211; Sister Maria Gabriella\u00a0offered her life for the Unity of the Church for all Christians. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">In 1938, shortly after the offering of herself to the Lord, the symptoms of tuberculosis were diagnosed, and she\u00a0died of this disease on April 23, 1939 (Good Shepherd Sunday), Her 15\u00a0months of suffering was an oblation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">On January 25, 1983, Pope John Paul II beatified her and named her patroness \u2018of Unity\u2019. She is a 20th century\u00a0witness to our world that we have a\u00a0responsibility for the restoration of the unity of Christians is the Love of Christ, personal conversion, sacrifice and prayer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Let us pray,<\/p>\n<p>O God, eternal shepherd, who inspired Blessed Maria Gabriella, virgin, to offer her life for the unity of all Christians, grant that through her intercession, the day may be hastened in which all believers in Christ, gathered around the table of your Word and of your Bread, may praise you with one heart and one voice. Through Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Church honors a member of the Cistercian Order a blessed of the Church, an Italian nun, Blessed Maria Gabriella. A native of \u00a0Sardinia, Italy born in 1914. 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