The incorrupt body of Sister Wilhelmina

Mother Mary de Torres de Jesus of Quito is incorrupt.

 

What a beautiful holy day for all of you. Thank you so much for remembering our intentions. This was truly a pilgrimage. A sign to me that in spite of all the bad news the true Church is alive and well. Deo gratis.
PS your little Sophie is really something. A little saint in the making. Is her patron saint St Madeleine Sophie?

 

I feel as if I was there with you. I did get to Adoration for 50 minutes today and prayed for all. Thank you What a Blessing for you and all of us . I will never forget this!

 

She is named for Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom. Her middle name is Felicity. It was a neat little story...When I found out I was pregnant with a girl, I already knew I'd name her Sophia, but I didn't know what her middle name should be. I went for a walk and prayed the rosary, asking for a strong female saint to choose Sophie, to be her patroness. When I returned from my walk, I sat down with my husband and a list of female saint names, so we could say aloud if we liked certain ones. I read a whole bunch of them with neither of us saying a word, but when I came to Felicity, both of us at the same exact time, said, "That one." And so I knew St. Felicity had chosen her.

 

Thank you!

 

What a beautiful experience. Truly a great witness for your children and all of us here! Thank you for praying to her and for bringing all our intentions. Will be praying for Safe travels home for you.

 

I just read this and I’m so happy for you PF! Thank you for praying for all of us. What a great experience for you and your family.

 

Thank you PF for praying for all of our intentions while there. Such a beautiful, unforgettable experience for you and your family. While upon reading your post, my eyes welled up with joyful tears and goosebumps. Like few others have said, I felt like I was there right along with you. Sr. Wilhelmenia, pray for us!

 

Sister Wilhelmina’s body and a short report on her incorruption have just featured on the evening news here in New Zealand.

 

Thank you for your prayers and letting us know how things are going there. One for the history books.

I was reading this morning about an Italian missionary nun , Blessed Maria Assunta Palotta who died in China of Typhus in 1905, aged 27. At her death bed a strong smell of violets and incense swept the convent and lasted for several day s. This drew hundreds of local Chinese Catholics to see her body and at once there were reports of miracles. Her body too is incorrupt. The smell of violets too is one of Padre Pio's trademarks.

I wonder if Mother Wilhelmina smelt like this? But of course I have no idea what violets smell like.

The young girl doing the Sunday reading at mass yesterday had a bare midriff. I feel sorry for priests who have to correct things like this. People these days don't take correction too well at all.

 

If I had to make a wild guess who the next woman in the USA whose body will be found to be incorrupt, I would guess it will be Cora Evans.

 

Thanks Purple Flower for all your prayers and Padraig for your comments. I had a wonderful friend who was a Benedictine sister with the Tyburn nuns.

We Catholics are sometimes cautioned that although we should pray for the dead we should not pray to the dead. I cannot help but feel however that we Catholics often have a good instinct about the destination after death for those souls known to have led good Catholic lives.

My Benedictine friend once suggested to me that we should act in haste after their death when seeking the help of such souls before they “get lost in God”. I think that by this she meant before they are so completely taken up in the life of God that there is room for nothing else. I do not know how this sits with Church teaching.

I have know several good people like that and from what I read about Sister Wilhelmena she is among their number.

I found it moving that Sister Wilhelmina was given air in such a secular atheistic country as our own. I hope she prays that we are delivered from our culture of death to everlasting life in Christ.

 

I noticed in the past when I prayed to some good soul who had died and I was pretty sure must be in heaven that they very much do not liketo be addressed as a saint or blessed since that is a title only the Church can give. When the Church does give the soul such a title it really does raise them to the altars of the Church. A doorway of communication, of hel really does open. They have been given a special, specific vocation to help us down here on Earth.

I used to be found of praying to my mother who was a very holy woman indeed but I got warned that now she is in heaven she has other things to do and that I shouldn't be destructing her too much. God gave her special permission to keep coming back for a while as He does for most parents, just to keep an eye on things and help out. But then that time ends and it is time for them to move on.

For Church Saints it is different. They all have one foot in heaven and one foot on Earth.

 

Thank you Padraig. We are on the same page on this one. Strange but I have never felt inclined to address a friend or relative who had died as saint or blessed. It would not feel right and as you say it would not be right. I just call them by their name and also pray for the repose of their soul just in case they are not settled. BTW I smiled at all your typos. They just make me think harder about what you are saying ha.

 

I looked up Cora Evans and found this
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2017/07/27/a-close-friend-remembers-servant-of-god-cora-evans/

 

You picked a really strong one! Felicity and Perpetua are in the original Canon of the old Mass along with Agatha Lucy and Anastasia and other early martyrs. (If I am remembering correctly)

 

Excellent observations. Clearly certain souls die "in the odor of sanctity" and I don't hesitate to ask them for help if God permits it.

 

Thank you for this link. I remember Darryl Hickman as a child actor very well. He had some wonderful recollections of Cora Evans. I want to know more about her. I will look for some of her books.

 

I ask the souls in purgatory to pray for certain requests, and then I offer up my day, duties, prayers, or communion for them. I often get prayers answered. So if we are allowed to ask for their intercession, wouldn't we be allowed to ask the recently dead? I would think as long as we do not refer to them as saints or honor them as saints, it should be OK. Does that sound right? Or have I been wrong in this?