SAINT ALEXANDRINE

2.1.7.8. ● SAINT ALEXANDRINE ● DALY PRAYERS ● 8.

SAINT ALEXANDRINE Daily Prayers - 8. Author: Cunha Simões www.cunhasimoes.net Translator: José Patrício E-mail: josepatriciojocame9@msn.com Photo-composition Setting-up und Impression Excels, Lda. Fax: 249 891 397 E-mail: primalda@mail.telepac.pt Apartado 128 2384-909 Alcanena www.cunhasimoes.net Legal Deposit no. 210549/04 ISBN no. 972-8832-20-6 Copyright: Fernando José Corte-Real Cunha Simões Saint is all that who practices of good in this life. SAINT ALEXANDRINE Saint Alexandrine is only case, all over the world, of somebody that passes 13 following years only feeding of the Sacred Sacrament. What is humanly impossible wasn't for Alexandrine because she was fed by the Body of the Christ in the consecrated Host. This fact, followed by the medical community of the time was reason of wonder and object of many studies. The truth is that God do what he wants, where he wants and with whom he wants. The explanation could not be in the scientific field, but in the mystic field. Already in 1942, in the year in that she stopped feeding, she asked the Pope Pious XII. to consecrate the world to Maria's Immaculate Heart, which this did on October 31, 1942. For all that happens with Alexandrine Maria da Costa and for all the miracles that are attributed to her was time of seeing her on the altars, what now happens that her visible face turns known of the millions of believers that seek in the faith the refuge for their anxieties and comfort. Alexandrine Maria da Costa was born on March 30, 1904 and she died on October 13, 1955. WHITE ROSE OF JESUS Your singular and natural purity, Alexandrine, did that God chose you As Jesus' white Rose And so to suffragate Him and in any way stimulate All their sufferings in the cross. During all the years you lived, By Jesus, everything you suffered For the world and sinners redemption. At this time and as gratitude Of how much we want and we love You Wanted Alexandrine, we're praying to You. PATIENCE Give me patience Alexandrine sacred To comprehend who I don't realize And a lot of times I don't recognize Because I hear and I stand Who doesn't say anything worthwhile. I waste excused time hearing What I don't want and I lose patience. Por Only You can understand this idea, And thus I ask you to tell me What should I do for not sinning When I lose the phlegm and menace And chase the idiot with the mace. PAIN SUPPORT My pains only are so big That I cannot compares them to Yours, My dear little saint of Balasar. Therefore I appeal to You that understand How a sinner's suffering Is a lot of times lasting Than suffering for God's love. Help me to support them, Alexandrine, So that I feel the power of the sky Travelling Your body That I give you today to help it out. NERVES My nerves are not going anything well My dear saint Alexandrine. And if it wasn't thinking so much in You Very worse of the nerves I would feel, But with your support and resignation I contain the nerves with firmness So that they don't lose my head And say gear without link or loveliness. The free words are as the stones That after they deflect the hand It is never known who will reach. Please help me to serene the nerves. HEALTH Please my dear saint Alexandrine Do that my body is fit And never a lot of sicknesses That don't let I live joyfully. You know very well, my darling: Without fine health, no breathing But Yours staunched to Christ. Yet I have kids to tame. Think on me and my family My tiny holy critter of Balasar. Act so my body picks up its health. I’ll be grateful my saint. FEVERS I am being hit by fevers, Alexandrine, And though I resort to the doctors They insist on not wanting to low down And I sense myself lack of forces and burning As if I was almost dying With no one to help out me. Excuse me, my beloved Alexandrine, I know that Your sufferings were immense, But I don't have Your blessedness Suffering for God and men’s sake. Please, Alexandrine, quiet this brazier. THE LIFE OF THE OTHERS My dear saint Alexandrine, I sometimes worry about the others’ life And I forget to take care of mine That so much turns has to bestow And is always very uneasy. I think that I waste too much time With subjects that aren’t concern of mine And it is for that reason, for that way, That I always attain the end of the day Since ever with nothing to be seen. Help me, my darling Alexandrine, To fret only with my life THE MOUTHFUL OF EARTH When we know that this life is transient, That we brought nothing and that nothing we carry, And sometimes much we worry And we are even very violent For a worthless earth scrap And that can serve the whole community. I am like this too, Alexandrine. You that tilled the fields as a lass Know that the earth is only valuable for the society That cohesive builds and lives a better world. Help me to understand life, Alexandrine And to take out the greed That dims my understanding. THE ENVY My prized saint Alexandrine You that so many miracles operate, Please move away every one that envies me The fruit of a lot of work and tiredness That during a full life Produced what have and it remains over. But I feel that the shadow of the jealousy Tries to do that I don't get to enjoy Whatever I got saying this labour ahoy. Help me my precious little blessed And do that who envies me, of envy rolls up And his thought turns in such a soft way That all the evil to attain me reaches him. INTRIGUES The intrigue is the reason of great angers And of the separation of a lot of families. Saint Alexandrine of Balasar When felt that somebody intrigued Immediately ordered him to pray To immaculate Virgin Mary That never in her life nor only one day Left that the intrigue in her home entered. Alexandrine exhorted all That the words should be measure And of our mouth our largest treasure. Help me, saint Alexandrine, to hold the language. THE LIE Alexandrine didn't support the lie Of who had to fake to be justified That the things had been like this. Alexandrine, with a lot of patience, And without never to want to hurt who tried to deceive The truth to defend a falsehood Gave the example of Jesus Christ Who never deceived his pursuers. Only lies who speaks too much. Who doesn't have a lot to say, invents. Help me, Alexandrine saint never to lie. DRUG Saint Alexandrine, the drug destroys me And I don't know how to defend me. Everything has I been doing to secure the family, But the fertile imagination of the addicted Leads to be sorry for the poor fellow And so let me destroy too. Please, Alexandrine saint help me. Give me a small hint As I can influencing that brains, That disturbed mind To make understand him That his fate is the death without fortune. Help me, please, Alexandrine saint. EXCESSES Life has a group of rules to carry on And are them that build the happiness. The excesses taken in speed Are the source of the disease and of the lameness That hinders the body of running. You, Alexandrine saint of Balasar, That advised moderation to all In the attitudes in each instant Carry out that all are conscious That, in this world, any carelessness Can call for a life of sadness. Help me, saint Alexandrine, to have moderation. THE EVIL FOR THE EVIL I know that who wants the evil of somebody And tries to imply committed clangers, Sooner or later will come to undergo Of the same evil that to another sought after. You, my wanted Alexandrine, Whose mouth never another indicted, You know that this bad understanding Is fruit of the afflict souls That for they are badly loved Mean that the others must come up to the same. Protect me, Alexandrine, from whom wants me badly And teach the wicked souls to love. THE ANIMALS When in the fields I labour with the cows And in the swamps I soak the boots I always think of You dear Alexandrine. You lived this bliss too Of talking with these sluggish “ siblings” That day after day, without a moan, Help us to fertilize the earth. It is for them that I ask for Your blessing, Your support and your aid So that they are always in the pink And in such pleasant moments of effort Where we feel the connection of the earth- Sky Live a Christ’s love equal to Yours. THE SCHOOL In spite of the tasks in the fields You knew how to benefit of the schoolwork As it is it that can give us The life and knowledge comprehension. The understanding of life and knowledge. You was well the example, saint Alexandrine, Of how we should proceed to realize Freely what the Lord determined us. Only who is going to the school gets free Of the ignorance that is much worse than the blindness. The ignoramus sees everything in the same way Because he doesn't know how to ratiocinate. Thank you Alexandrine saint for your care In sayings that the study is more important Than to work in the fields or to take care of the cattle. THE ESTABLISHMENT My precious saint Alexandrine Help me in my dealing. Give me only a little bit of your strength In order to find the way And how I should develop it with knowing. You, excuse me, honey, to do this request. But life is so knotty That sometimes for a petty thing Everything gets lost because we don't know how to operate. Excuse me, my love. But I believe You And I have faith that I will win with your help. TO THINK WELL For the life to run with no problems, My dear saint Alexandrine, We should not decide the things swiftly. I only realized that When you sank until me And locked me the desire to decide instantly Without meditating in the pros and cons Which that stern attitude could bring me. From this moment, Either important subjects or not, I sound out your sacred heart first And I’ll decide later on only. THE LOVE TO THE NEIGHBOUR The love to the neighbour was your aim, The way that always led Your faith, My darling saint Alexandrine. The life doesn't have another meaning If we don't love the other indifferently Of the colour of his skin, his race or his people. The love to the neighbour means help When help is wanted by the neighbour too. On that moments we take Christ's form According to your words and teachings And we help the other in his bad moments. Infuses in me, Alexandrine, this charity. THE RECOLLECTIONS My dear saint Alexandrine Now and then the reminiscences of the past Depressed me in such a way That I feel a great shame Of whatsoever I was able to do And without never take in That I was to wrong, that it was proceeding badly. Please, saint Alexandrine, Quench from my memory these recollections So that I don't live in torment. Help me my beloved little saint. HAPPINESS My dear saint Alexandrine Who thinks in your suffering Doesn't think as You lived it with gladness And to everyone that visited you you relieved With words of great love and empathy. You lived in eternalness with Christ And of him you irradiated all the energy That amazed those who encircled you. Still today all feel That the more we think of you More force and satisfaction engage us. Enter us, saint Alexandrine, And give us high spirits. IGNORANCE My dear saint Alexandrine You that had so much time to learn And to comprehend, not only in the sacred books, You Understand that unawareness Is the fruit of inexperience and reading lack. It is to find a needle in dark night. The ignorance is the mother of all mistakes. And Christ that taught doctors at seven years Comes with that example all to motivate To the reading and the study constant. Please, prized Alexandrine Give me understanding for everything to comprehend. ADVICES Do that I hear my parents' advices Dear saint Alexandrine. Do that I listen with attention Since they have the life experience And they know the difficulties they overtook. But, you see, I listen in preference my friends Who are as inexperienced as I am And that only say things for saying Without they never are sure of what will happen Because they are not who will suffer the consequences. Of all my improvidences. 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