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Sunday, January 16, 2005

A Mother's Love

Re: Vancouver Woman Chooses Life for Her Baby just before Dying of Breast Cancer

Réquiem aéternam dona ei, Dómine.
Et lux perpétua lúceat ei.
Requiéscat in pace.
Amen.


The story of Gabriele Helms, may God grant His eternal rest to her noble soul, is strikingly similar to that of Saint Gianna Beretta Molla, whose image and prayer are presented below:


    O Jesus, I promise You to submit myself to all that You permit to befall me, make me only know Your Will. My most sweet Jesus, infinitely merciful God, most tender Father of souls, and in a particular way of the most weak, most miserable, most infirm which You carry with special tenderness between Your divine arms, I come to You to ask You, through the love and merits of Your Sacred Heart, the grace to comprehend and to do always Your holy Will, the grace to confide in You, the grace to rest securely through time and eternity in Your loving divine arms.

[link to article via Seattle Catholic, image from Saints proclaimed during the Pontificate of John Paul II]