Eternally sweet and tender

        

"O God of love, my Savior,

eternally sweet and tender,

heart and soul
I thirst for You! 

You fill my soul;

and yet the more
I taste of You,

the more I hunger. 

The deeper I drink of You,

the more I thirst. 

Come, Jesus!  Come, Lord!" 

St Gertrude

Benedictine nun, mystic

Patroness of the West Indies

Germany ~ 1256 – 1302

FEAST DAY – November 16

"Lord, you have granted me your secret friendship by opening the sacred ark

of your divinity, your deified heart, to me in so many ways as to be the source

of all my happiness; sometimes imparting it freely, sometimes as a special mark of our

mutual friendship. You have so often melted my soul with your loving caresses..."

Adapted from The Life and Revelations of Saint Gertrude

Sta Gertrude, ora pro nobis!