聖瑪加利大‧亞拉高 (貞女)

聖瑪加利大1647年生於法國奧頓教區。24歲時，加入聖母往見修會修道，在全德途徑上進步神速。相傳從1673年12月到1675年7月期間，她獲得耶穌聖心的私人啟示。聖人積極推動耶穌聖心敬禮，糾正了當時的揚森邪說，給終日惶恐自疚的人，揭示了天主的無限仁慈。1690年10月17日安逝。

集禱經

上主，你曾恩賜聖瑪加利大熱誠的愛德；我們求你將同樣的愛德傾注我們心中，使我們也像聖瑪加利大一樣，認識基督的無限慈愛，並能圓滿地分享你的生命。因你的聖子、我們的主耶穌基督，他和你及聖神，是唯一天主，永生永王。亞孟。

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin 

St.Margaret (1647-1690) was born in France and entered the Visitation convent at Paray-le-Monial. She had many mystical revelations concerning devotion to the Sacred Heart ofJesus. She propagated this devotion to the whole Church. 

Margaret Mary was chosen by Christ to arouse the Church to a realization of the love of God symbolized by the heart of Jesus.

Her early years were marked by sickness and a painful home situation. “The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering.” After considering marriage for sometime, Margaret Mary entered the Order of the Visitation nuns at the age of 24.

On December 21, 1674, three years a nun, she received the first of her revelations. She felt “invested” with the presence of God, though always afraid of deceiving herself in such matters. The request of Christ was that his love for humankind be made evident through her.

After serving as novice mistress and assistant superior, Margaret Mary died at the age of 43, while being anointed. She said: “I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of Jesus.”

Collect

Pour out on us, we pray, O Lord, the spirit with which you so remarkably endowed Saint Margaret Mary, so that we may come to know that love of Christ which surpasses all understanding and be utterly filled with your fullness. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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中文內容：《平日彌撒經文》香港教區禮儀委員會

English text: Daily Roman Missal, 2011

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