After such a wonderful day at our Catechetical Congress for our Diocese, I don't know where to begin (to journal and reflect). The day was full of wonderful graces and reminded me that I should never doubt God's great love for me. Today has also helped me to understand that I do have a vocation to the Church and with prayer, discernment, trust, and that I need to consult with prudent people (aka my spiritual director) I will fully be able to embrace that one day.
As a young woman, Blessed Josepha Naval Girbes consecrated herself to a personal perpetual vow of chastity. She was very active in her parish and she opened a school for girls in her home where she taught needlework, prayer, and evangelic virtues. She was a member of the Third Order Secular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Teresa of Jesus. She had a great devotion to our Blessed Mother. Her name means "whom the Lord adds."
Blessed Josepha was born on December 11, 1820 in Valencia, Spain and died on February 24, 1893. She is buried at her home parish of Saint James in Algemesi, Spain. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 25, 1988 and is awaiting canonization.
"Josefa Navel Girbes is an exceptional mistress of secular holiness: a model of Christian life in her heroic simplicity; a model of parish life. Her entire life proves how one can reach holiness in all states of life in a total consecration to God and in a selfless love for one’s brothers and sisters, even while living in the world. Without extraordinary gifts an exceptional woman in her genuine simplicity as a daughter of the people. She carried out her duties faithfully, in intense union with God, in the midst of the ordinary circumstances of her working day."
A quote from the General Promoter of the Faith, Monsignor Petti, at the conclusion of the Theological Consultors’ examination
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