March 24, 2022
Driving Out Evil with Jesus and Mary
My dearest Mother of Sorrows came to pay me a little visit, as she is accustomed to. She looked as if she had been weeping. Then she smiled, saying to me: “Gemma, do you wish to repose on my breast?” I approached her and knelt; she raised me, kissed me on the forehead, and disappeared.
This evening I felt suddenly agitated and disturbed; it was a sign that the devil was near. Later, internally and also externally, I was all in a tempest; I should have preferred to go to bed and sleep rather than to pray, but no, I began to say three invocations, which I usually say every evening to the Sacred Heart of Mary. The enemy, who had been hidden for some hours, appeared in the form of a very small man, but so horrible that I was almost overcome with fear. Continuing to pray, all at once I began to feel many blows on the shoulder which continued for about half an hour. Then my guardian angel came and asked me what the matter was. I begged him to stay will me all night. I went to bed, after that he seemed to spread his wings and come over my head. In the morning, he was still there.
The devil, in the form of a great black dog, put his paws upon my shoulders, making every bone in my body ache. At times I believed that he would mangle me; then one time, when I was taking holy water, he twisted my arm so cruelly that I fell to the earth in great pain. After a while I remembered that I had around my neck the relic of the holy cross. Making the sign of the cross, I became calm. Jesus let me see himself, but only for a short time, and he strengthened me a new to suffer and struggle.
SAINT GEMMA GALGANI
Saint Gemma Galgani (+1903), from Lucca, Italy, had many mystical experiences, such as seeing her d is called guardian angel. She died of age twenty – five and is called “Flower of Lucca” and “Daughter of the Passion
