One
of the most surprising aspects of Venerable Alexandrina is the universal
dimension insistently attributed to her message. Everything in her has a
worldwide reach. If it happens in Balasar, it is to be projected into the world.
You all can come to
the garden that I have cultivated,
To gather flowers of
virtue,
Flowers of purity,
Flowers of grace,
Flowers of charity,
Flowers of heroism,
Flowers of all kinds.
Come all, gather,
they are celestial flowers!
My daughter, garden
of the
To you the world
comes to gather flowers of virtues, flowers of love.
My daughter, hidden
treasure,
In you is the divine
wealth locked up.
Words
of Jesus to the Venerable Alexandrina
One
of the most surprising aspects of Venerable Alexandrina is the universal
dimension insistently attributed to her message. Everything in her has a
worldwide reach. If it happens in Balasar, it is to be projected into the world.
Already
on
«Immediately
after your death, I want your life to be known, and so it will be; I will make
it be so. It will reach the whole world».
One
day, during an ecstasy of the Passion, she was lying on the floor under the
weight of the cross, two men were trying to raise her, but they couldn't do it.
She weighed not more than 34 kilos. To the question of the spiritual leader on
how much did the cross weigh, Alexandrina explained it had the "weight of
the world ".
The
consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, whose messenger she was, was not
the one of
«Hail Mary, Mother
of Jesus!
Honour, glory and
triumph to her Immaculate Heart!
Hail Mary, Mother of
Jesus, and Mother of the entire universe!
Who wouldn’t wish
to belong to the Mother of Jesus, to the Lady of Victory?
The whole world is
going to be consecrated to her maternal Heart!
Keep, pure Virgin,
keep, Virgin Mother, in your most holy Heart, all your children! »
Let’s
see the universal reach attributed to the life of Alexandrina and to her
redeeming suffering on these astonishing sentences – where redeemer must of
course be understood as co-redeemer:
«Write everything,
write, my daughter.
If what I say
remained occult, it would have no value to the world.
Mother of the sinners,
new redeemer, save them, save them.
You are the new
redeemer chosen by Christ.» (
Or
in this other quotation:
«The divine Gardener
comes to his garden to see the wonders that He created there and the fruit of so
much work.
The King comes to his
wife's palace, the divine Redeemer to his redeemer, the new rescuer of the
mankind.
My wonders in you are
not occult; I do not allow them to remain hidden!
They will shine! They
are my glory; they are salvation for the souls.
Everything will be
known, my master of divine sciences, everything will be known in the book of
your life!
You are the heroine
of love, the heroine of pain, the heroine of atonement, the heroine of
quarrels, the queen of heroisms!» (
There
are plenty of statements like these, and they are always highly poetical. But
the following one has even an outstanding character. On Immaculate Conception's
Day, when the world was being destroyed in a war that didn't seem to have an
end, it was handed to the care of Alexandrina. Furthermore, she was declared its
queen, "queen of the world":
«You are the second
Noah´s
In you I keep the
sinners;
In you, as in that
ark, I keep everything for the new life of the world.
Your pain, your
immolation is pain and humiliation of life more for the soul rather than for the
body.
Courage, little
daughter! Don’t be afraid!
The rain that is
falling on the new ark is not of condemnation, it is of salvation:
It is rain of
humiliation, disdain and sacrifice.
The ark is not in
danger: it sails in the heights.
As soon as the waters
of persecution lower, the world will see the wealth that it contained, a wealth
of salvation.
Little daughter, dear
beloved, I am not alone, my Blessed Mother stands by me; listen to what she
tells you».
Jesus
was on the left, His Mother on the right. She took me on her lap, pressed me
strongly against her most holy Heart, covered me with caresses and told me:
«My daughter, I am
coming with my divine Son to deliver to you the whole mankind and close it in
your heart.
The keys are in the
hands of your Jesus and your beloved Mother.
I have given to you
my most holy mantle and my crown of queen: you have been crowned by me. You are
queen of the sinners; you are queen of the world, chosen by Jesus and Mary.»
(
In the
following little "poetical anthology", the worldwide dimension that we
have been stressing is always clear. Let’s see:
The
flames of the building are burning underneath and around
My
breast burns, and so does my heart: what a burning hot fire!
The
building is always inside me: it is in flames and it burns violently.
I feel
again that on this building a worldwide rock was placed
I beat
it, I turn around it, and I must shake it.
The
flames of the building are burning underneath and around.
The fire
is not over; the rock, all around, is broken in bits, as firewood.
I feel
the bits of the rock sliding.
But, my
God, with what a heavy fatigue! There is so much to do!
This
fire cannot stop: the whole rock has to be transformed, melt in the divine fire.
I would
like to see fire alone: fire in the bodies, in the hearts, and in the souls.
(
I
would like to swallow the world
I feel
in me a burning hot fire; it burns me thoroughly:
My whole
body is a furnace.
I have
thirst of Jesus; I am hungry, very hungry of souls.
I would
like to swallow the world.
I feel
more and more as its mother.
What
madness for a world that is only deceit, mud and filthiness!
I am a
mother who cries the loss of her children;
I am a
mother who cannot see them in such a clutter, in so much misery and atrocity.
I am a
mother who cries blood tears that bathe the whole mankind.
I cannot
resist to such a great pain, I cannot rest.
I want
to save the world, I want to suffer everything, I want to give it life …
Mother
of mankind
Since
Sunday I feel I am the mother of mankind, a tender mother.
At the
same time, pain also comes against this love: pain caused by the clutters of
these brothers whom I feel to be my children.
I would
like to introduce myself to the rulers of all nations to ask them to reconcile
with one another but I want a reconciliation of everlasting pardon,
So that
the same disorders never come again.
Such a
desire is some times so great that I seem to be flying towards them.
To get
this peace, I would submit my body to the biggest punishments and sacrifices,
Even if
I had to be dragged from nation to nation and do the most painful things.
I would
like to take Jesus' Heart in my hands and tell them:
Look how
badly It is wounded! Our sins do wound It so...
(
SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
The
Venerable Alexandrina Maria da Costa was born in Balasar (
A
jump from a window to the road (12 feet), to escape being molested by a lustful
man, who had entered her house for the purpose, later confined her to bed for 30
years. In the solitude of her room, in the midst of great sufferings, she
dedicated herself to devotion to the Blessed Eucharist. In order to make
reparations for the profanations and the neglect Our Lord suffers from His
creatures. It was in His school that she learnt to offer herself as a victim for
sinners.
In
1935, and on several other occasions, Our Lord, giving her to understand that
war was a punishment for the grave sins of mankind, said:
«It is the lovers of
the Holy Eucharist who will hold back the arm of divine justice, that the world
may not be destroyed, that greater punishments may not befall».
In
the same year Jesus ordered her to ask the Pope to have the world consecrated to
the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to have a liturgical feast in Mary’s honour
as a means of inviting men to lead a good life.
«The same way I
asked Margaret Mary for the devotion to My Sacred Heart, so now I ask you for
the Consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of My Most Holy Mother,
with a solemn feast in Her honour». (
During
the war, as a devoted child of the Holy Father, she offered herself as a victim
on his behalf and wrote him letters to console him in the midst of perils of
international disasters.
Soon
after the election of Pope Pius XII, Jesus, on
«This is the Pope
who will consecrate the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, My Mother»
Three
years after these words of Our Lord come to pass. Already on
«Peace will come,
but at the cost of much bloodshed. The Holy Father will be spared. The proud and
furious dragon which the world is, will dare not touch his person, but his soul
will be the victim of this dragon».
Alexandrina
lived from the 27th of March1942 till her death in 1955 solely of daily Holy
Communion without taking any other food. A little before her death, Jesus said
to her:
«Find
other persons to love me in the Sacrament of My Love, who will replace you when
you are gone to Heaven. Invite men to pray and penance and to be inflamed with
My Love. I pity the world! What will become of it if it does not listen to this
divine appeal».
And
that same month the Blessed Virgin, as a loving Mother of Mercy, showed her a
means of appeasing the divine justice, saying:
«Speak to people,
speak to them about the Holy Eucharist, tell them about the Rosary».
She composed this
prayer: «O my Jesus, I adore Thee in all the places where Thou dwellest, in the
Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. I keep Thee company in place of those who
despise Thee; I love Thee in place of those who do not love Thee. I make
reparation for those who offend Thee. Come into my heart».
Overcome
by suffering and offering herself as a loving victim, she died on the 13th of
October1955.
Her
mission of leading people to God still continues in a visible manner, as can be
gathered from the pilgrimages to her tomb and to the room where she lived and
died and also from the favours attributed to her.
The Pope
John Paul II declared her Venerable on the 12th of January1996.
NOVENA
PRAYER
(For
private use only)
O
Jesus, Who art pleased with simple and humble persons, who are so often ignored,
forgotten and despised by men, raise to the glory of Thy altars Thy humble
Servant Alexandrina, who always desired to live hidden from the world and aloof
from its vanities and praises. Thou well knowest, Lord Jesus, how in our times
there is need of lessons in holiness, which is the true fulfilment of every
human and Christian vocation and, consequently, the elevation of a creature to
the supreme height of moral beauty. Invest then, o Jesus, Thy Servant with the
immortal halo of glory and hear our prayers, which we through her intercession
offer to Thee; especially grant us the favour which we ask (... here
mention your petition) if it be for the honour of Thy Blessed Name, the
glory of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the salvation of sinners, on whose
behalf the pious Alexandrina so wholly and generously offered herself as a
victim. Amen.
Hymn
to the Tabernacles
(Excerpt)
Oh Jesus,
I want each little drop of rain that falls from the sky to the land, all the
water contained in the world, offered drop by drop, all the sands of the sea and
everything the sea contains, to be
Acts of
love for your Tabernacles.
Oh Jesus,
I offer You the leaves of the trees, all the fruits that they may have, the
little flowers offered petal by petal, all the little grains of seeds and
cereals in the world, and everything contained
in the gardens, fields and mountains,
I offer everything as
Acts of
love for your Tabernacles.
Oh Jesus,
I offer You the feathers of the small birds, their own warbling the coats and
the voices of all the animals, as
Acts of
love for your Tabernacles.
Oh Jesus,
I offer You the day and the night, the heat and the cold, the wind, the snow,
the moon, the moonlight, the sun, the sunset, the stars of the sky, my sleep, my
dream, as
Acts of
love for your Tabernacles.
Oh Jesus,
I offer You everything the world contains, all greatnesses, wealth and treasures
of the world, everything which happens to myself, everything I use to offer to
You, everything I can imagine, as
Acts of
love for your Tabernacles.
Oh Jesus,
accept the sky, the land, the sea, everything, everything they have, as if
everything was mine and of everything I could make use and offer You as
Acts of
love for your Tabernacles.