She is called Veronica, the compassionate woman who took pity on Christ when she saw him fall beneath the weight of the wooden cross, and who watched his bloody body racked from torture, his face covered with blood, sweat, and spittle as he carried that same cross up the hill to Calvary to die. Courageously, using her veil to wipe away the blood and muck, she was rewarded by the image of his face impressed upon the cloth, a sign of Jesus’ gratitude for her mercy. But who was she, and where did she come from? The Catholic Church says she is a Saint whose Feast Day is celebrated February 4th, and she is recognized as the woman in the sixth Station of the Cross.
Veronica’s Veil - Companion Prayer Book
Jesus to Sister Marie de Sainte Pierre, 1845,
“…I seek Veronica’s . . .”
Veronica’s Veil, the Companion Prayer Book to Donna Sue Berry’s Veronica’s Veil, Poems, Prayers, and Promises of the Holy Face Devotion is the perfect book for those moments in Eucharistic Adoration while you make Reparation through the Holy Face Devotion for the crimes of Communists, sins of blasphemies, the profanation of Sundays and the profanation of Holy Days of Obligation. Compact with only 49 pages, this book has many prayers attributed to Sister St. Pierre to whom our Lord revealed the Devotion to the Holy Face in the 1840’s.
The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Devotion to Our Lady’s Seven Sorrows has its roots deep in Sacred Scripture, Catholic tradition, and the revelations of Jesus and his Blessed Mother to St. Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373). The Blessed Mother not only suffered interiorly throughout her Son’s life on earth, but after he ascended into heaven, as well. The devotion to her Seven Sorrows is directed toward seven poignant moments in the lives of Jesus and Mary. Here are some of those moments in poetry.
Our Souls, they are not dead
They are called the Poor Souls in Purgatory for a reason. It is because they are the souls of people who have died in a state of grace, but who are not able to enter heaven yet because they owe a debt of temporal punishment due for their sins which have been forgiven. The Poor Souls cannot pray, offer sacrifice, or give suffrages for themselves. There is nothing that they can do to merit any relief from the pains that they experience in purgatory. They are called the Church Suffering, and they covet the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, our prayers, fasting, sacrifices, and almsgiving in atonement to help relieve their pain. Holy Mother Church exhorts us that when we offer our sufferings, united with the Passion of Christ, and apply it to the Poor Souls, that it may cause their relief or release and entrance into Heaven.
Catholic Poems from the Heart of a Red Dirt Oklahoma Girl
Catholic Poems from the Heart of a Red Dirt Oklahoma Girl has been a work in progress for many years. Donna's love for her for the Sacred Heart, for Jesus, resulted in her writing love poems to her Lord.
Donna Sue Berry
ABOUT
Born and raised in central Oklahoma, USA, Donna Sue Berry is a wife, mother of two, and grandmother of twelve. She and retired rancher husband, Joel Doc, share their time between the wheat fields of Oklahoma and the mountains of Montana. Donna Sue began writing poetry and song lyrics soon after she first read Romeo and Juliet during her junior year in high school. However, it wasn’t until she enrolled in her freshman year at the University of Central Oklahoma (at age 47) that her poetry began to deepen and truly express her great love for her Catholic faith. Her favorite poems are rhyming, story poems which weave around a person’s thoughts and emotions. She says she writes with an Oklahoman’s heart and accent.
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