Paperback: The Children of Mary Sisters published this book after reading Jesus' messages to Sister Consolata Betrone, which pierced their hearts!
Jesus gave the messages for the world, such as, "I will think of everything, you think only of loving Me." "The more that you love Me, the happier you will be." "Every act of love will save a soul."
They practiced what Jesus taught, then wrote the book, I Will Think of Everything, You Think Only of Loving Me, about the life-changing and peace-bringing messages. This biography of Sister Consolata gives more insight about living a ceaseless act of love.
Vocation To Love (2020) is edited by the Sisters of Children of Mary and translated from the Italian by Robin Lees.
About Venerable Consolata Betrone: Venerable Maria Consolata Betrone (1903-1946), baptised as Pierina Maria Betrone, commonly known as Consolata Betrone, was a Catholic mystic and nun of the Franciscan Capuchine order. Betrone was born in Saluzzo, Piedmont, Italy, in a middle-class family. She died at the convent of Moriondo, Testona, Italy.
Pierina Betrone was the daughter of Pietro Betrone and Giuseppina Nirino, the owners of a bakery in Saluzzo (Cuneo) and then managers of a restaurant in Airasco (Turin). Pierina was the second of six daughters born of her father's second marriage. She joined the association of the Company of the Daughters of Mary in parish of San Massimo in Turin. She also became involved in the local Catholic Action group. After a visit to the tomb of Don Bosco in Valsalice, Pierina decided it was time to embark on a religious vocation. Her reading of The Story of a Soul attracts her to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux's "little way".
On 26 January 1925, she joined the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, but after a little over a year, she became convinced that this was not her calling. She the tried a community founded by Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, but returned to her family in August 1928 and continues her work with the Catholic Action. The superior of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd of Angers suggested that she might join the Franciscans.
On 28 February 1930, Betrone joined the Capuchins in Turin, taking the name Maria Consolata. (The Blessed Virgin Mary is venerated in Turin under the name of Consolata, ie, Consoler of the Afflicted.) There, she served, among other duties, as cook and concierge. She purportedly experienced interior locutions with Christ.
In 1938, Sister Consolata was assigned to the new monastery of Moriondo (Testona-Turin) not far from the Turin-Genoa railway, which the Capuchins have just opened. In November 1945, Sister Consolata was hospitalized in a sanatorium; her condition being diagnosed as terminal, she returned to the monastery of Moriondo on 3 July 1946.
Consolata Betrone died at the age of forty-three on 18 July 1946. After her death, Father Lorenzo Sales wrote the book Jesus Appeals to the World based on her reported messages. Betrone is known for her prayer: "Jesus, Mary, I love you: Save souls". Betrone spent her life attempting to bring to perfection this Tiny Way of Love. She used to fight every thought, every word, every emotion, to keep unceasing her "Jesus, Mary, save souls" all day long.
In 1995, Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini started the canonical process of beatification for Sister Maria Consolata Betrone. On 6 April 2019, Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the decree recognising the heroic virtues of Sister Consolata giving her the title Venerable. Significantly, 6 April is also the date of her birth.
Consolata Betrone was known for the intense propagation of the rosary, along with reputed apparitions by the Sacred Heart of Jesus and her guardian angel in 1916 during the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. The reputed messages asked for the recitation of: "Jesus, Mary, I love you! Save Souls!", a prayer which Betrone said to release souls from Purgatory and to pardon 1000 blasphemies against the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The pious devotion is very popular among Filipino and Portuguese Catholics, who include invocations in their recitation of the rosary along with the Fatima Prayer. (Wikipedia)
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