A Reflection on St. Maria Goretti and Ven. Alessandro Serenelli

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Christine Niles | 14 Jan. 2024
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I have a devotion to Venerable Penitent Alessandro Serenelli.

Like Padre Pio, he died a little after I was born.

0:53 And the execution of the election of the elect is sometimes aided by the prayers of the saints.

Like Jacob was elect, and in order to get to Heaven, he needed to be born, but his birth was aided by the prayers of, I think Rebecca, his mother, and again, in order for Alessandro Serenelli to be in Heaven, he needed to convert, he did so as the obvious fruit of 24 hours his murder victim spent offering every wound and pain and tear for his salvation. Dear St. Maria Goretti, pray for us!

9:30 Would any of this have happened, whether extreme poverty or Alessandro getting porn in train stations, if Nettuno had still been under the Papal States, as 33 years earlier?

20:13 When Maria said "yes, I want him to be with me in Heaven forever" her purity was already saved.

She actually fought him first.

There are people that as late as yesterday I don't think I was saved from ...