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Title: EXERCITIA Sanctae Gertrudis Magnae.
Description: A Monachis Benedictinis Abbatiae Prataleensis Edita, Padova, 1923. 115p. Cloth. Edges publisher's stained. Pencil annotations in Dutch in margins. Three pen incentives on inside title page. (Rare). St. Gertrude the Great of Helfta: 1256-1301/1302. (?) Her most popular surviving work is a collection of ?Spiritual Exercises? that include prayers and practical spiritual advice. (?). Principal Ideas of St. Gertude the Great of Helfta: (1) God?s love is revealed in the relationship of the three persons of the Trinity. The three work together in unity to draw us to God. (2) The marital union is the closest human experience to approximate the unity within the Trinity. (3) The Sacred Heart of Jesus is an inexhaustible fountain of redemption, drawing us in an sanctifying us. (4) The Sacred Heart supplies what humans lack for amendement of life, God?s love is the motive. (5) Suffering often accompanies the espousal of the soul with God. it is the instrument by which one?s will is made to become in harmony with that of God. (6) God is personally interested in us and desires for us to love Him. He will fo to the farthest extreme to gain our love. His wounds make us whole. Our response is love and obedience. (BARBARA WYMAN in The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, 2010, vol.2,pp.332-33). Gew/weight: up to 1 Kg.

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