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The friendship of mothers is best realize as we pray for each other in the vocation we share. We are daughters of the New Eve. It is Mary who waits for us, journeys with us, cries with us, laughs with us, teaches us, and prays with us. As we retire in the evenings, may we find joy in knowing that, we may be someone's mother by day, but by night, we sleep in peace as her daughters, first.

Saturday, April 03, 2010

On September 24, 1955 Pietro and Gianna Beretta Molla married.
For the past 48 years, Pietro has lived without Saint Gianna, who died
April 28, 1962 after giving birth to their fourth child.
Today, April 3, Holy Saturday, 2010, Pietro passed away at 1:30 a.m.
Both passed away during the Octave of Easter.
May he be re-united with his bride, once again, in eternity.

The article of the passing of Pietro is beautifully written
and a link that I have posted below.
The cause for beatification and canonization
has already opened for Saint Gianna's brother
and it is rumored that one will soon open for Pietro.
This is a paragraph from the that article,
written by a close friend of the Molla family,
Father Rosica:

Father Thomas Rosica writes,
"Laura Molla shared with me this morning by phone
that the Molla family is somehow linked to the mystery of Holy Saturday.
It was on Holy Saturday 1962
that Gianna Beretta Molla gave birth to her daughter, Gianna Emanuela.
One week later, on Easter Saturday,
St. Gianna died from the serious medical condition
that resulted from bringing her child to term.
St. Gianna gave her life so that the child in her womb would live.
And now Pietro returns to the house of the Father
on Holy Saturday morning 2010.
Pietro shared with me one day
what he wrote in his diary on March 7, 1955:
' 'The more I know Gianna,
the more I am convinced that God could not have given me
a greater gift than her love and companionship'.
St. Gianna and her husband are now reunited in heaven
and celebrate the mystery of Christ’s dying and rising
in the company of the Lord and his saints.
I can only imagine the scene in heaven on Holy Saturday morning
as this wonderful couple was reunited after forty-eight years of being apart.
They would embrace their daughter Mariolina,
who died as a child,
and be welcomed by the Venerable Pope John Paul II
who enrolled Gianna in the book of the Saints.
May St. Gianna, Pietro and Mariolina
intercede for us now from heaven,
and watch over all married couples and families on earth".

http://catinfor.com/en/2010/04/03/a-holy-couple-reunited-in-heaven-%E2%80%94-death-of-mr-pietro-molla-husband-of-st-gianna-beretta-molla-on-holy-saturday-morning-in-mesero-milano-italy/

Saint Gianna, Pray for us!



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