I’m a Protestant/evangelical youth pastor, and I’m currently discerning the Catholic Church and its doctrines. I would appreciate any and all prayers for Christ’s wisdom and encouragement during this time. I have a wife and two children to lead to the best of my abilities in Jesus’ name and according to His Gospel. I just want the Truth.
It was because of this saint that I had my conversion. I was finally able to forgive people who wronged me, which led my heart to be free to encounter Jesus. To thank her, I took her on as my confirmation saint. She’s my favorite heavenly friend. St. Maria Goretti, pray for us!
St. Maria Goretti, such beautiful little of saint of purity. So much evil masquerading as 'freedom' on social media. Thank you for sharing the full story. St. Maria Goretti, pray for us.
I was avoiding this video in my feed and now I know why... I cried harder than I have in some time. All praise and glory to God for His Love and Divine Mercy. That we may be filled by Him and overflow such love and mercy to all. St. Maria Goretti, pray for us.
I feel like I was doing the same thing. I’ve not forgiven myself for lots of things that I did almost 30 years ago and I can’t hardly make myself speak of it. But after watching this I want to so badly to forgive myself. I pray you can too🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I read the book written by a Passionist priest Fr Godfrey Poage CP who was in the Parrish I was raised in. I feel so privileged to have known him that he was able to spread Maria ‘s saintly story. God bless Maria and thank you for this video to spread awareness of this saint and the forgiveness she gave her murderer. 🙏❤️
This was the Saint a year ago that made me pay attention to Saints DAILY. What a year it has been. I almost ran off with the Protestants. Saved by God’s grace! 😇🕊🤗✝️📿❤️🔥🙏🏽🩸🫀💒
St. Maria Goretti, pray for us to Our Lord especially my daughters. May He heal them from all their illness through your intercession and ou Blessed Mother Mary most holy!!!❤🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I am also 70 years old. And my middle name is Maria. My mother told me it was because of Maria Goretti. She was canonised only 3 years before my birth. Which was a miracle in itself as my mother and father could not conceive. I knew some of her story, but not all that was just told to me in this video. Thank you Lord that I was chosen to be born. and named Maria. I too cried. Thank you for this video and others in the series. I do know that God wants us to forgive ourselves and others, and to grow during life closer and closer to God. Peter Kreeft tell us we are all called to be saints. St Maria Goretti, pray for us.
Saint Maria Goretti, pray for our daughter, who was molested by her birth sister. (both adopted from Russia as toddlers), then raped by a stranger while walking to the gas station, then in a car accident which caused a TBI and seizures. Saint Maria, like you, she has much to forgive (as do I). Please Pray for her that she may forgive and find physical and spiritual healing. ❤
@@gabiafterhours Yes of course I will, I will offer up four rosaries a day for the next 9 days for you. After that I will restart my daily set of rosaries for catholic content creators 1 mystery per content creator of my choosing.
Thank you so much for this story of this Blessed Saint. I was recently diagnosed with a malignant tumor in my abdomen. It was removed on June 26 of this year. I pray and hope in Christ it doesn't return. When I was diagnosed I wept and could not forgive myself for my past sins. I thought my Sickness was my punishment. I finally realized my worst sin was not trusting in Christ grace and forgiveness. His suffering on the cross covers and gives mercy to us all. I needed to hear this message. Blessings please pray for my total healing in Christ. Blessings!
I am praying for your total healing of soul, mind, and body, especially for your present ailment! 🙏 May gracious little St. Maria Goretti intercede on your behalf before our Great and Merciful God! Amen.
I am also joining my prayers also, asking God for your healing and recovery, and to remove from your heart all your suffering. ✝ May St. Mari Goretti intercede for you.
I am a Passionist priest and missionary. We all love Maria Goretti. Thank you for telling the story and this excellent video. St. Maria, saint of purity pray for us.
11-yr-old¹ Maria Goretti was operated on-each of her wounds- withOUT anesthesia... and did Not even complain of pain!!! Mind-blowing-and that's on top of forgiving her murderer-for all 14(!!) of her stab wounds (as specially she revealed in the appearance to Alexandro in prison)! St. Maria Goretti pray for us, to forgive as we should. ¹ Even younger, St. Jacinta of Fatima was operated on withOUT anesthesia-and offered it up for saving souls from hell. (Our Lady asked her earlier If she'd be willing to endure more sufferings by dieing alone without family or friends.) St. Jacinta of Favłtima pray for us- especially for those in most need.
I’m not Christian or of any religion, I do learn and follow various aspects of many religions that I am called to. This is a new story that I’ve never heard before, it really hits my soul. I was recently diagnosed with cancer and I know I need to forgive (again) with St. Maria Goretti’s essence in mind. This has renewed my vow to forgive once again. Thank you. 🙏🏽
In Italy there is a Sanctuary to Saint Michael Archangel, in the Region of Apulia, on Mount Gargano, part of the commune of Monte Sant'Angelo. It is a UNESCO site. In the fifth century, Saint Michael the Archangel appeared saying: “I am the Archangel Michael and I am always in the presence of God. The cavern is sacred to me, I have chosen it; I myself am its watchful custodian… [...] WHAT IS ASKED HERE IN PRAYER WILL BE GRANTED. Therefore, go to the mountain and dedicate the grotto to the Christian religion”. If you want go there, enter the Sanctuary and ask the Lord to heal you. God bless
@Blueskies7775, I pray you are doing better. 🙏🏻 I just today saw your post from six months ago on the video of St Maria Goretti. Blessings to you friend. The Catholic Church is waiting for you! ❤🙏🏻 I too, will pray this very night and that St Maria will continue to intercede for you! 🙏🏻❤️
@@tamsintarshish3905 Good point. Growing up Catholic there was a Saint for everything...eyes, to find lost objects, etc. Why were we told to ask them to help us ? God wants us to go to him. You made me think...
My son's half-sister was murdered along with her mother at the hands of a domestic dispute. I find myself praying prayin for their souls but also praying for forgiveness for the soul of the man who killed them. Thank you so much for sharing this I was truly moved to tears.
They told me that I could come and vote for Maria here? For candidacy for sainthood. I vote for Maria, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
St. Maria Goretti, please intercede for my daughter, Juliana Marie. Please give her a forgiving heart to all those who hurt her in school and heal her anxieties, and fears, that she will be inspired to study again.. St. Maria Goretti, pray for us. 🙏❤️🌺
I started this video while in class & had to close it halfway because I started full-out crying. Forgiveness is a grace that’s truly so great and powerful, exactly like the Lord. I look up to Saint Maria for her unbelievable capacity to forgive despite every wrong done to her at such a young age. Truly worthy of being a saint.
I am nearly 54 years of age and until today I was one time in the House were Saint Maria Goretti was born ( Corinaldo ) and four times in the House of her Martyrdom. Saint Maria Goretti makes me think about it to become a Priest himself. Saint Maria Goretti pray for us.....and for me and others to which have the wish and feel God's calling for Priesthood !!!!!!!
@@hoponpop3330 I am from Austria and Saint Maria Goretti is my absolute favorite Saint. With her Intercession e il volere di Dio posso diventare anche Prete ....cari saluti !!!!!!!
How much more wonderful are God and His saints than I, that they could forgive Alessandro when I find myself struggling to do so just listening to the suffering he inflicted. True forgiveness really is divine, I can only pray I can be given a heart even a fraction as pure as St Maria Goretti's.
St. Maria Goretti, pray for our youth and their purity . I visited her home and church in Nettuno back in the summer of 1983. I feel so blessed having had that opportunity. My Nonna had a devotion and she wanted me to have the opportunity of visiting such a great saint. She is a great example of how God teaches us to be merciful and forgiving . I met Fr in a church in NY a few years back. He brought a lot of relics from the Vatican . That was such a blessing . Thank you so much Fr Martins.
This video was an answer to my prayer. Just yesterday I had been asking what forgiveness is. Now I know it is love. Unconditional love. “Charity covers a multitude of sins.”
I cried all the way through this .St Maria Goretti thank you for your gentle , forgiving heart and for helping us to forgive like you and Christ 🙏😭❤Amen
Requesting everyone to pray for everyone whom I have hurt knowingly or unknowingly.Let their lives be filled with Love, Joy and Peace now and in heaven.
I’ve never heard of her before and this video was recommended to me so randomly that I thought it must be meant to be, so I clicked. My goodness I’m crying so deeply. What a wonderful and powerful little girl. She is an inspiration to me. ❤
Gabriel and Fr. Martins, I’ve read and listened to this story several times in an effort to grow my devotion to this great saint. Even so, once again, I find myself crying at having listened to it again. Thank you for having shared this video with us, for having presented her story and Alessandro’s story in this way. God bless you both. You’re doing the Lord’s work.
Ive recently returned to the Catholic faith. Ive been feeling an unquenchable thirst for God that I could no longer ignore. Ive never adopted a payron Saint until two days ago. I choose St Maria Goretti as my patron saint because her feast day is on my birthday but more importantly I need to learn to forgive others but just as important learn to forgive myself. Seeing this video and the timing of its release leads me to believe and hope that others will become closer to God by becoming saints in there own lives. Your contagious faith and video content are always encouraging and thank you for being part of my ongoing return to a life in Christ.
Saint Maria Goretti, please pray for me, that I may truly forgive! I used to be able to forgive very easily until I experienced a very difficult pain. I see what the anger has done to me and I want to make the domino affect stop. I want true forgiveness and Christ to reign in my heart again. I really want to go to heaven and I also want the person who hurt me to go to heaven too. I don’t want God to lose a single soul! Amen!
Literal tears shed! I was confirmed with her as my Saint, and I've never felt so connected to a Saints story. Saint Maria Goretti, pray for us and for this broken down world that tells us not to forgive!
Our Lord Jesus Christ loves you ,loves us all and gave up his life for our salvation. In his words , he says "'come to me all you who labour with heavy loads and I will give you rest''
I am completely changed..I too forgive everyone doing bad to me..and thanking everyone coming to my way..thank you so much for telling and depicting St. Maria inspirtional courage and unmatched life.. Praise the Lord.. Jesus.. here I am..
As a woman living without a bowel, I pray St Maria to help me forgive who did wrong diagnosis and wrong surgeries. I pray her to help me to see a better way to live the rest of my life and offer all the things that I cannot eat to others that I have forgiven. Amen Thanks to anyone who prays with me. God bless you.
Since the day I watched this video in tears, I have been praying Saint Goretti day and night. My surgery scars, which used to make me so sad, almost disappeared. They were scars which doctors told me that they will not improve their looks further. Holy Spirit can do anything if it is God will! Doctor doesn't have the final saying, God has! AMEN 🙏
God would not deny her a thing in heaven. That poor bastard experienced a transformative conversion because God granted this special wish to his most holy and pure saint. I knew her story but your narrative brought me to tears.😢😢😢 Thank you for keeping the memory of the holy martyrs in our present. How can one not forgive after such a living example.
This video makes the other productions about St. Maria Goretti pale in comparison. Tears streaming down my face! Thank you for this. St Maria Goretti pray for us!
This is such an intense and important film of a saint! It takes you into the past and makes you feel like you are there…living the moments of St. Maria Goretti. The film contains actual shots of Italy where Maria lived and died. The camera angles, shots and audio immerse you into the story. There is a filming phrase called ‘Hitchcockian‘(from the famous filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock). The camera angels make the viewer feel the emotions of anxiety and sometimes fear. This film has that! (i.e., Slowly walking up the steps to Maria’s room; a floor level shot of the door opening, etc.). The addition of the super narration, which was clear and descriptive, keeps your attention from the start till finish. Thank you for showing us the significant life of St. Maria Goretti.
Thanks for this video describing the life of St. Maria Goretti. I had never heard all the details even if she is the patron saint of my hometown together with the Archangel Michael. I too was so touched that tears are still pouring down my cheeks. Saint Maria Goretti, teach us to be saints through your amazing example of forgiveness. Amen.
I have never felt so moved by the Lord to tears over any saints story. Thank you Gabi, your channel is revolutionary and truly changing hearts and minds to the truth! It is so clear you are striving to do it all in accord with Mary for the love of her son Jesus! ✝️🙏
Crazy story, right? And that the fact that it's more recent and actually verifiable just makes it that much more real and believable. I've seen the photos of her abuser dressed as a monk and the crowd at her canonisation.
I knew about St. Maria’s purness since my childhood and always wanted to be like her. Thank you for sharing this video and making me realize again how important it is for us to forgive others.
St Maria Goretti was one of the first saints introduced to us as 10 year olds, as part of our preparations for our First Holy Communion. Boy, has she been a big impact upon my life!! St Maria Goretti, patroness of young girls, pray for us!!❤
St Maria Goretti, please pray for conversion of our son Samuel who has drifted away from our Catholic faith for some years now. I beg God to forgive him and bring him back to our Catholic faith. St Maria Goretti, please also pray for Samuel who has been struggling with his OCD mental health conditions for several years. Please intercede on our behalf to ask God to heal Samuel’s mental health conditions. Through God, all things are possible. Praise and Thanks be to God. Amen 🙏
Awesome story. Awesome truth about forgiveness. To think the casted leg in this video was also healed with a miracle in the same way as the first construction worker. Along with the cancerous leg. When the video was made they needed to find someone with a crushed foot. They found someone, but not only someone, a devout believer and trusting young man, who also had his foot restored to perfection through Christ and the intercession of Maria. You just can't make it up.
I listen intent to this post. It was like the Lord led me to it. I now know that I desperately need to forgive myself for my sins I have committed and always trust God. Thank you. 🙏🏻
I was avoiding this video in my feed also for some reason. I finally thought I will watch it. I’m so glad I did. I remembered how my mom told me when I was young that she didn’t want to name me Anamarija but Marie Goretta. I thought “ Marie Goretta?” I’ve never heard of a name like that before. Now I know that she wanted to name me after St. Maria. She named my brother “Mario” which is a Italian name. I’m so glad I finally got to hear this story.
I cried so hard watching this, I'm still crying. Thank you. ❤ So true, forgiveness of oneself is most important. From that flows forgiveness of others. And forgiveness of others is actually for ourselves, we must eventually let go of all that is in our hearts and minds and souls that is not love. Only then can we be free to be our true selves. BTW, I was raised Roman Catholic, educated by nuns. I made my first Communion at age 8. In preparation, we were told to invite Jesus to dwell in our hearts. I did, and felt the undeniable and unmistakable presence of Jesus in my heart. He is still with me ever since and forever. That same year, we watched a movie about Maria Goretti. I was moved, but your video affected me so deeply. Several years ago, I also asked Archangel Michael to help me and be with me. I felt him do so, and he has appeared very vividly to me while I sleep and totally transformed me. He is also with me always. I am very fortunate that martyrdom is not required of me, the fortitude of Maria Goretti is unique. It makes me especially grateful for, and appreciate, the long and happy life I have, and strengthens my resolve to be worthy of it. ❤
I would have just passed on since I knew the story of this saint. But this message was so profound !! Thank you for bringing this to us and this priest explained it to us so beautiful 🙏
I have loved St. Maria Goretti since I was a teenager. I looked up to her for her purity. When I was seriously ill, someone loaned me a relic of St. Maria Goretti to help me. Now I am turning to her to help me forgive many difficult traumas. Thank you for this powerful video. It's the best and most comprehensive one I have seen. You told her story so brilliantly. St. Maria Goretti is such a special saint to emulate.
After watching this, I recalled the many times this channel has helped me along my faith walk. I am grateful to you and to God for this channel. It has allowed me to become closer to Mary and to see how the saints play a vital role in the economy of our salvation, hence why I really enjoyed this video on Saint Maria Goetti. One last note. I received a physical healing on my left knee during mass on 25 June 2023. Fr. Joseph. Presided over the mass. Thank you Gabby because through your channel. I became closer to Mary. You once responded to me, and said to get very close to Mary on this very channel. I did and thus believe that God,Mary and you were an important factor along with others who prayed for me. Thanks be to God for your obedience and passion and I hope someday to meet you in heaven and get your signed autograph .lol 🕯️👍🏼🕯️
Oh my gosh I am bawling!! I am both heartbroken and completely touched by this. Thank you for sharing this incredible saint and her story. God bless. 🙏🏻🕊️
St. Maria Goretti, pray for us.🙏❤️ I was SA by my grandfather for 10 years. I pray for my abu$er & hope to see him in heaven thanks to St. Maria Goretti.🙏❤️
This is well worth your time to watch. You certainly will be moved by this short video. My wife, Joy, and I have been blessed to see and to touch her casket/reliquary when it came to Tulsa. We went early in the evening to a packed mass celebrating St. Maria Goretti at Holy Family Cathedral in downtown Tulsa, and we prayed for her intercession for several hours, from midnight till after 2am at the Cathedral while it was open for 24 hours to venerate St. Maria. Joy and I were there alone praying with St. Maria for quite some time and have some 3rd Class relics we pressed against her reliquary that we greatly venerate.
St. Maria Goretti Pray for us.. Such a powerful message on FORGIVENESS..Thank you Fr.Carlos Martins and Gabi.. keep doing this amazing work and we will definitely keep you all in our prayers..
St Maria Goretti, you are my patron saint for my baptism in 1967. I pray that you help my family to have peace and understanding among ourselves. Praise to God.
When I was 7 years old it was the first time I heard the story of Maria Goretti. Of course it was not with many details. Now after 56 years I have heard the whole story. How magnificent! I am brought to tears. Maria Goretti, pray for us, our children and grandchildren that we may open our hearts for the love of God and live our lives being a holy life! Thank you for your intercession!
Watching this I realized I harbored a lifetime of unforgiveness in my heart. Promptly went to Confession this afternoon and plan on getting a prayer card of St. Maria Goretti so that I may do better from now on. 🙏
I've been looking for the Catholic definition of Charity and I've asked God to help me with it. I instantly got my answer when I got to the point in the video where Maria chose to forgive Alessandro and wanted him to be with her forever in heaven. Very powerful lesson.
This true stopped me in my tracks and has got me thinking deeply - simply incredible - what a wonderful little girl - to think of all the life-changing challenges & suffering she’d been through in her short life BEFORE she was brutally attacked and then what she was capable of doing during and after the attack… incomprehensible no matter how one thinks about it, it could be said she was a saint right from the beginning of her remarkable life. Wonderful to watch this video brought me to tears several times - thank you, will try to live life differently from now onwards.
Thank you for sharing this story. It is so touching. I have some people in my heart I cannot forgive. Now I learn to ask St Maria to intercede for me so I hope one day I can forgive these people. Amen 🙏🏼
Thank you for your comment, that and the nearly Incredible story of this loving Saint, I pray will help me forgive others and yes, myself. PRAISE GOD🙏 ❤🌹AVE MARIA🌹❤️
THANK YOU VERY MUCH for the production of this beautiful video. It has deeply touched me and I´m sure it will bring forward great fruits. VIVA Cristo Rei 🙏❤
I've heard a lot of the life stories of the Saints over the years but I could not stop crying listening to this. What a special and holy person, how blessed we are as Catholics to have a soul like hers to intercede for us sinners. Glory be to God in the Highest, for we may not understand his ways, but we can always know his plans for us are always for the good and for the best.
