Gemma Galgani

Some saints have also experienced a mark on their head which might correspond to the crowning with thorns.

And you may have heard of other saints, like Saint Padre Pio or Saint Gemma, having received the stigmata.

Many, many different men and women experiencing this over the centuries.

Saint Francis was the first that we know about.

I think the best way to take advantage of all they can do for us is by developing an intimate friendship with your guardian angel, and we do that by good conversation, by talking to them friend to friend.

St. Gemma Galgani saw her guardian angel with her eyes and even touched him with her hand as if he were a physical being, and she spoke with him as one friend to another.

I want to share with you the kinds of conversations she had with her angel to motivate you to foster the same type of deep friendship with your own.

She spoke to him in this way, Tell me, my angel, what was the matter this morning with the confessor who was so very serious that he wouldn't listen to me? And will the father write to me from Rome? And when, in answer to the letter I wrote him, asking him how I should act in a certain case? And that sinner for whom I have been praying, tell me, dear angel, when will Jesus convert him for me? And what answer should I give that person who's come to ask my advice? And what do you think of me? Is Jesus content with me? Or what must I do to please him? See, she made known to him everything, and in her sufferings she always asked him for help.

Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of thy mercy.

Our third mystery, something that I wish I would have considered when I was a young man, but I didn't, unfortunately, was that our guardian angel is a witness to all our words and actions.

Listen to what St. Gemma Galgani told her spiritual director, Father Germano.

My angel is a little severe, but I'm glad of it.

Absolutely.

Uh, Saint Gemma Galgani talks about the brutal claws of her demonic encounter.

Um, Saint G-

I don't know her, but I'm gonna be studying her now

that didn't fit the book, such as grandpas that had stigmatas, such as visions of Simone Weil.

Let's talk about the postal service, the angelic postal service of St. Gemma Galgani.

Let's talk about all of it.

So hang out, pull up a chair, and let's chat.

It claimed that they saw this statue blink.

So I include that in issue six because it played a part in my childhood.

And then another thing I talk about, which is kind of a quasi-weird thing, was the relic of St. Gemma Galgani that moved, but it really didn't.

This is a solved mystery.

He says, I just prefer a victim mystic because of my desire to be like the amazing sisters, Gemma Galgani and Catherine Emmerich.

Yeah.

And when we think of them, you're thinking of Gemma, St. Gemma Galgani, an incredible Italian mystic, by the way, at times called the daughter of the passion.

She had an incredible devotion to the passion.

The way you do, brother.

We love them dearly.

Love all the holy ones in heaven, right? I love that.

By the way, I keep getting reminded, we've got to do a whole show in St. Gemma Galgani.

You can say, Holy Mary and Saint blank.

So I have a first class relic of Saint Gemma Galgani over here.

So I might say, Holy Mary and St. Gemma Galgani, intercede for us with the Lord our God, so we may merit his help and salvation, so on and so forth.

So I really like that.

And that is what I say when I make people third-class relics of St. Gemma Galgani's relic.

I do that often on my Patreon.

There's a gift tier where members get a monthly gift.

And every now and then, I will make a third-class relic out of Blessed Francis Silos, who I have a first-class relic of, or St. Gemma Galgani.

Then we've got St. Veronica Giuliani who has it in her hands, her feet, and on her side.

Then we've got St. Gemma Galgani.

William, you never talk about her.

We're going to be talking about her today.

I've never done a full show in St. Gemma Galgani.

That is one figure who, I don't know, the Lord is telling me that I need to do a show in the future.

I always get signs that I need to do a show.

But one of these days, I've got to do that.

It becomes a prayer for those who have gone before us, those who are in purgatory, those who are living and suffering deeply, and so many people, of course, they suffer here on Earth, and it is...

It is, and of course, some people will say it is not true, but we have, especially in the body of saints, we have so many examples of mystical experiences of how God, Jesus, is real, how Jesus has suffered and died for us, and we just have to look at some of the mystics, like Sister Faustina, the Divine Mercy, Padre Pio, Catherine of Siena, Gemma Galgani, St. Francis of Assisi, who also, several of these, had stigmatas, the wounds of Jesus on the cross, to show us the way, to show us that this is real, to show us that there is life after death.

And it invites us to suffer with Jesus, to suffer with Jesus on the cross, and especially when life is not good.

Amen.