{"product_id":"flos-passionis-the-passion-flower-of-lucca","title":"Flos Passionis: The Passion Flower of Lucca","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA fourteen-day retreat with St. Gemma Galgani, the Passion Flower of Lucca.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrder this book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=7EW8mDiIR9fEIWvA4MmtvT0HWIlksZfwwc9C5QcoAQO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePaperback →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=sCqAe40QWJi9w7pdBwU4E8E46jrQkCzWczE03XmFfDV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eHardcover →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe lived twenty-five years, most of them hidden, and loved the Crucified with a love that marked her body. St. Gemma Galgani, the Passion Flower of Lucca, spoke with Our Lord and His Mother as a child speaks with her own, conversed with her Guardian Angel, and bore in her flesh the weekly wounds of the Cross. She sought none of it, feared much of it, and hid all she could.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlos Passionis\u003c\/em\u003e sets her wonders gently aside and listens, over fourteen days, to her voice, drawn from her autobiography, letters, and ecstasies as preserved in the public-domain Life by Venerable Fr. Germanus, C.P. Each day opens with a line of Gemma's own, a setting, and her words at length, then turns to what they ask of us today, a word of Scripture, a question to carry, and a prayer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a guided retreat, not a reprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eInside\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFourteen meditations through her loves: the Crucified, the Eucharist, her Guardian Angel, Our Lady whom she called her Mamma, St. Gabriel Possenti, victimhood, abandonment, her zeal for sinners, the Thursday Hour, and her holy death on Holy Saturday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA foreword on Padre Pio, the great stigmatic of the next generation, who held Gemma in devotion, with an original portrait\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHer life, and the ecstasies of the Passion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA treasury of fourteen prayers: her own words, and the Church's, to the Crucified she loved\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull-color plates, including period photographs of the saint herself\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA journaling section, with a page for each day and pages kept for your own prayer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll doctrinal content follows the constant teaching of the Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVen. Fr. Germanus of St. Stanislaus, C.P., biographer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslated by A. M. O'Sullivan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScripture from the Douay-Rheims Bible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanctified Souls, The Devotional Series\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 100 pages, printed in full color\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHowever you keep it, keep it toward the Crucified, as she did.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sanctified Souls","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52927726879001,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/4616\/0921\/files\/flos-passionis-front.jpg?v=1785624334","url":"https:\/\/sanctifiedsouls.com\/products\/flos-passionis-the-passion-flower-of-lucca","provider":"Sanctified Souls","version":"1.0","type":"link"}