2006 Winter

Enrollment in the League of Saint Gerard
Each enrollment is $10.00 and includes a certificate, an aluminum
Saint Gerard medal, a wallet-size picture of Saint Gerard, a prayer
leaflet, and the booklet, Gerard Majella: The Mothers’ Saint.
Send your prayer requests and letters to
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Please pray for my husband and me. We have been
trying to conceive a child for over five years. Some days are
very difficult to cope, but I turn to Saint Gerard daily. My
husband and I wish to have a child with all of our heart, so
your prayers would be greatly appreciated.
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participate as a member. Saint Gerard has been good to us.
I am currently ten weeks pregnant. We are very
excited but we are also apprehensive because I suffered
a miscarriage with an earlier pregnancy. Please pray that
my baby’s little heart will continue to beat strong and
that our baby continues to develop in a healthy manner
and remains healthy and strong throughout the entire
pregnancy. Lastly, please pray that our baby is born healthy
and developmentally perfect.
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Prayer for
Respect of Life
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I ask that you help me pray for Saint Gerard’s
intervention for my sister and brother-in-law’s new baby.
They discovered that she has a growth forming on her eye.
We are so grateful to Saint Gerard for the healthy birth
of our son. I prayed to him during my pregnancy years ago
and overcame the difficult birth with his help. I named my
son after Saint Gerard.
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Blessing the
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Saint Gerard, women all over the
world have adopted you as their
patron in the joys and fears of
childbearing. Today we invoke
your intercession for the pro-life
movement. Pray that all will look
upon human life as a gift from
God, not as an unwanted burden to
be destroyed. Assist the efforts of
those on earth who are enlightened
in the crusade of promoting
the dignity of all human life,
particularly the unborn. Amen.
Gerard and the Trinity
as heir to his Father’s kingdom. Thus,
MOST BIOGRAPHERS of Saint Gerard
he interpreted the crucifi xion as a son
look at the sufferings he endured
obeying his father’s demands.
throughout his life and recognize a
But Gerard had no preconceptions
similarity to the sufferings of Christ.
about fatherhood or authority and so
Thus, they point out how Brother
he looked upon the cross as a gift of
Gerard’s life imitated our divine Savior.
love from the Holy Trinity. Gerard’s
But Gerard most likely experienced his
approach was that throughout the ordeal
personal sufferings with much deeper
of Christ’s agony and crucifi xion, God
meaning.
the Father sustained his Son in love. In
More than once Gerard was
other words, Gerard believed
overheard sharing
that Jesus was able to endure
sophisticated answers
his passion only because of
to somewhat complex
the overwhelming love he
theological questions.
received from his Father in
Now, Gerard had very little
heaven.
education, and the reading
he was able to do would not
have been well organized like
God’s Love for Us
a college course might be. Yet
Gerard understood,
he meditated on what he read
as well, that each of us
and was able to understand
receives unconditional and
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One biographer wrote, “He
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expressed himself with ease
willingness to come to earth
and clarity on matters which the best
and suffer what he did is a sign of
theologians treat with caution.”
God’s incredible love for us. Gerard
The Redemptorist superior, Saint
also recognized that as Jesus gave up
Alphonsus Liguori, came from a noble
his spirit at the moment he died on the
family and, as the oldest, would have
cross, he gave it up to us. “He said, ‘It is
inherited his father’s estate had he not
finished.’ Then he bowed his head and
renounced it by his vow of poverty.
gave up his spirit” (John 19:30).
Because of his family background, he
That Spirit of Christ (the Holy Spirit)
tended to identify with Jesus primarily
is with us always, sustaining us in our
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come from, and where we are
going.
Suffering pushes us to see
clearly and to remember.
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Dear God, open my eyes
and ears. Let the lessons of
my suffering today enrich and
enliven every aspect of the
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to the Father, and to the Son, and to the
trials just as it did for Jesus when he was
Holy Spirit…
on earth. Sharing in that Spirit allows
us to be alive with Christ and to do
God’s will. This belief was so intense
Our Love for God and Others
for Gerard that he wrote in his personal
As it was with Christ, so it was with
Rule: “To do what God wills it is
Gerard. He experienced the depths
necessary only that I should will, yes, I,
of God’s love. From his reading and
meditating Saint Gerard
I, I, should will only God.”
He repeated the “I” three
came to appreciate that
times to indicate that all
Christians share the inner
of him was in on this, not
life of the Trinity. In his
very last letter he wrote
just his spiritual side, and
to a friend, “You cannot
that it was truly himself
imagine how much I love
who was desiring to follow
you in God.”
God’s will—he wasn’t
We know that God’s
being duped into this.
love is unconditional.
Gerard also wrote, “It is
God asks us to love
by God’s will…that I will
others in the same way—
only what God wills.” We
unconditionally. We
know that what God wills
can do that only if we
is love. Love is sustaining.
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of the Trinity through
pain and anxiety have
prayer and regular use of
become too much to
the sacraments. Then we begin to look
bear, we can rely on God’s love to get us
upon others with the eyes of God. We
through.
begin to consider each person we meet
Once Gerard realized this he was
as another child of God. Understanding
able to endure all the struggles of his
and compassion toward them grow in
life. He imagined the Father holding his
our hearts and we become an image of
Son in his loving arms as he hung on
God for those we love.
the cross under the loving hover of the
That’s a challenge and we may
Holy Spirit. Thus, Gerard looked at the
wonder if it is possible because we feel so
cross as the ultimate expression of the
unworthy to represent God. But it comes
loving Triune God and he confessed that
naturally when we open our lives to the
whenever he saw a crucifi x he wanted to
Lord and cooperate with his Spirit.
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