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The Autobiography of St. Margaret Mary
Translated by the Sisters of the Visitation, this is one of the Church's most famous classics. Written under obedience to her superiors, St. Margaret reveals the intimate spiritual life of a magnificent saint to whom Our Lord gave the famous revelations regarding the love of His Sacred Heart. Our Lord guided her from her earliest childhood and indicated to her how He canno
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January 1st 1995
by TAN Books & Publishers
(first published 1698)
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I'll just come right out and say it: this book is disturbing. I'm not sure how else to sum up the reaction I have to this autobiography, though it is "offensive to pious ears" (as the theological notes would put it). Allow me to qualify this assessment: "disturbing" can be said in many ways. It is certainly disturbing on the level of spectacle; the saint performs some outrageous penances to overcome her sensitive nature, one of which was struck from the reco ...more
I'll just come right out and say it: this book is disturbing. I'm not sure how else to sum up the reaction I have to this autobiography, though it is "offensive to pious ears" (as the theological notes would put it). Allow me to qualify this assessment: "disturbing" can be said in many ways. It is certainly disturbing on the level of spectacle; the saint performs some outrageous penances to overcome her sensitive nature, one of which was struck from the reco ...more
I've read the larger version of the story of her life, but this is the first time I've read the autobiography. I am SO inspired by reading and hearing of the lives of the Saints, but St. Margaret Mary Alacoque has SO impressed me and touched me by her humility, her DEEP love for the Lord and her profound thanksgiving and love FOR and understanding OF the Lords' Passion and of the great sacrifice He made for us. How cold and indifferent we are to it and Him, and how much we take our Lord for gran
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This is the most upsetting book that I have ever read. In a frustratingly unintentional manner, it highlights one of the most disgusting problems with Christianity: it’s a perverse and unnatural religion that values misery and suffering. Instead of inspiring pity or reverence, this book inspired repulsion and anger in me. The woman who wrote this book had severe mental health problems; if she were alive today she would undoubtedly be locked up in a mental instution. However, this mentally-distur
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A book that will leave you wondering, what do I do for God? I say this because, Saint M.Mary commits every minute to Our Lord, promoting the devotion to the sacred heart and devoting her life for the salvation of souls.
Some sections contain "extreme" penances, but we must always remember, that is why she is the Saint and we are miles behind!
Some sections contain "extreme" penances, but we must always remember, that is why she is the Saint and we are miles behind!
Sep 18, 2007
Keith Walker
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anybody gettibg closer to Jesus' heart
Not finished yet. Tell You later
What can I say? Words fail me for this beauty ... so I think I will leave it to my wife. For we have a website devoted to the Sacred Heart and what she writes of this book I cannot hope to match:
http://corjesusacratissimum.org/2010/...
http://corjesusacratissimum.org/2010/...
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Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, VHM.
Sister of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary (VHM).
Pronounced Venerable in 1824 by Leo XII, declared Blessed in 1864 by Pius IX, and canonized a Saint by Benedict XV in 1920.
Patron saint of people suffering with polio, devotees of the Sacred Heart, and of people who have lost their parents.
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Sister of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary (VHM).
Pronounced Venerable in 1824 by Leo XII, declared Blessed in 1864 by Pius IX, and canonized a Saint by Benedict XV in 1920.
Patron saint of people suffering with polio, devotees of the Sacred Heart, and of people who have lost their parents.
