Pope St Celestine V: His Holy Death
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…Chapter Summary
After a long life of Penance St Celestine passes to his eternal reward. An apparition of a mysterious Golden Cross appears in front of the Room of St Celestine from the day before his death until the hour of his passing that is seen by numerous witnesses.
…The Dying Sinner
“Help!— help me!”‘ What was that?
Oh! whence came that cry?
From yonder death bed : From
A man, doomed to die—
A sinner — and one who
Repents of his crime
But not with true sorrow
“O time -give me time!”
List— Let us listen
Ah what does he say —
He calls upon God
But it is not
To pray.
Her Happiness is in the Cross
Saint Kateri’s illness and holy death and apparitions of her after her death.
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Reflection on the Chapter : What earthly pleasure could make Saint Kateri want to remain here on earth.
20th Week after Pentecost
THE VALUE OF TIME.…
Redeeming the time. — Ephesians 5:16
There is a precious treasure, my dear brethren, which is always partly, but only partly, in our possession. Now and then we wake up to the conviction how valuable it is.
We have no time to waste!
“Brethren, some day we shall want all this time that we are now wasting. Then it will stand out before us in its true value; we shall see that it should have been redeemed, and that it is now irredeemable.” Transcript…
Being “busy” and redeeming the time can be two separate things.