Immolation of motherhood

There are few contemporary women who can shed more light on the privilege of motherhood than Saint Gianna Beretta Molla, who died in 1962 rather than endanger her unborn child with treatment for her own cancer. In 1973, Paul VI referred to her gift of self as a "conscious immolation" in imitation of Jesus on Calvary and in the Eucharist. Her husband and the daughter for whom she gave her life attended her canonisation in 2004.

It was a way of life, rather than a singular decision, which is instructive:

Gianna Beretta Molla made a heroic choice, but it was something her family members and friends testified she prepared for every day of her life. Her heroic virtue, genuine holiness of life, selflessness, and quiet joy remind all of us that God entrusts us with a personal vocation. Each and every day presents us with choices that have the power to prepare us to take heroic action whenever it will be called for. We can do that, however, only if we surrender ourselves and what we desire to God and His will for us.

The website about her offers this prayer:

Jesus, I promise You to submit myself to all that You permit to befall me,
make me only know Your will.
My most sweet Jesus, infinitely merciful God, most tender Father of souls,
and in a particular way of the most weak, most miserable, most infirm
which You carry with special tenderness between Your divine arms,
I come to You to ask You, through the love and merits of Your Sacred Heart,
the grace to comprehend and to do always Your holy will,
the grace to confide in You,
the grace to rest securely through time and eternity in Your loving divine arms.

Saint Gianna, pray for us.

Comments

[Mrs Jackie Parkes]

My 10th child is Jacinta Helen Gianna Parkes.

St Gianna is so inspiring..my eldest daughter is training to be a doctor..

God bless