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Sr. Benigna Consolata’s childlike confidence and humility attracted Jesus like a magnet. 

Her spirituality, and indeed the revelations given to her by Our Lord, are remarkably similar to the life and writings of St. Therese, through whom God has deigned to reveal 'The Tendernesses of the Love of Jesus for a Little Soul' - a title which He gave to Sr. Benigna for one of her two books of revelations (the other being ‘Vademecum Proposed to Religious Souls’). 

Compare, for example, the following words:

'The Fire of Love

is more sanctifying

than is the fire of Purgatory.'

-St. Therese-

'Thou shalt make thy Purgatory

in the flames of My pure love.' 

-Our Lord to Sr. Benigna Consolata-

(July 14, 1903)

Jesus was pleased to communicate very familiarly with his favoured child, calling her by the sweetest names, such as My Nigna, Nigna of Gold, My Joy, My Lily, My Queen, and the Apple of My Eye...

Jesus frequently conversed with her intimately, 

and revealed to her the secrets of His Sacred Heart, saying:

'Thy writings are destined to make God’s Mercy known. 

Every word thou writest, is a chanter [voorzanger] of My Mercy. Write as much as possible, since I wish to make use of thee, poor little nothing... Nigna, little secretary of My Love for My creatures, thou shalt write, others shall publish thy writings, for the glory of God. 

He who makes a book, does not keep the manuscript for himself. He has it printed that all the world may have it. So also, My Benigna, will thy writings be printed, and will do good to a multitude of souls, which will augment thy accidental glory in Paradise.'

At the end of 1945... 

after a life of charity and self-denial, Jesus spoke thus to His dear daughter: 

'This will be thy last Christmas, I am going to take thee to Paradise.'

On the day of Sr. Benigna’s passing into eternal life, July 18th 1946: 

'At three o’clock, while she rested peacefully in the arms of our Mother, Sister Benigna Consolata opened her eyes suddenly, appeared to fix them on a distant and luminous point, and expired sweetly. The confidant of Jesus had gone to be united to the Heart of her God!'  

Sr. Benigna Consolata passed from this life to her Heavenly reward in the odour of sanctity, and has since had an influence on Fr. Thomas de St. Laurent, Bl. Mother Teresa, Fr. Paul O’Sullivan, as well as countless other souls, who, through even a brief perusal of her writings, have been inflamed with a greater yearning for the things of God.

May Our Lord bless you through the reading of the following revelations... 

which proceed from His most tender Heart...

(with Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat).

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