Close your eyes and say to me with faith: ‘Thy will be done, You take care of it.’ I say to you that I will take care of it, and that I will intervene as does a doctor, and I will accomplish miracles when they are needed.” Ruotolo, “You see evil growing instead of weakening? Do not worry. Because He knew the struggle in the hearts of mankind to surrender completely to His will, He spoke to Don Delindo plainly and lovingly, as His apostle of surrender. ![]() Ruotolo that there was no novena more powerful than this. This novena of abandonment is a timeless prayer particularly relevant today, as we struggle with so many uncertainties and sufferings in our world. Ruotolo how souls should abandon themselves completely to His providence. ![]() Faustina how souls should abandon themselves to His mercy, he taught Fr. The novena was one gift in their extraordinary communication. The Lord taught Father to abandon himself completely to Him and trust in His power and love. Ruotolo received from Jesus is a treasured prayer well loved by those devoted to its power. My security over the uneven path is the heavenly mother Mary." Jesus Gives the Surrender Novena My strength is my prayer, my leader is the will of God which I let take me by the hand. With his self-offering to the Father, Don Delindo became more childlike and trusting, giving all things to the Lord. Ruotolo was completely paralyzed, but suffered his humiliations joyfully for the will and glory of God and salvation of souls. Hnilica, and the prophecy was later realized through the election of Pope St. That prophetic postcard was a consolation to Bp. "A new John will arise out of Poland to break the chains of communist tyranny." In in 1965, he wrote an extraordinary message to Bishop Pavol Hnilica of Slovakia, who lived through the terrors of World War I and II, and was secretly ordained during that time. This Servant of God also had the gift of prophecy. ![]() His life was hidden in suffering and pain, but his heart was hidden in Christ. In this state of profound humility, Don Dolindo was able to hear the words of God and be consoled by extraordinary communications with Jesus. Both were removed for a time from public ministry, prohibited from celebrating mass, and reduced to the recitation of scripture and Psalms, imploring and declaring the triumph of God from the depths of their holy souls. Like Padre Pio, he was exiled in solitude as Christ was alone on Calvary. It was said that his sufferings did not eliminate joy, but rather increased it. Because of his goodness and faith in God, he was able to heal those even far from him with his prayers. He would sit with sick people wracked with pain and when he placed his cloak around them, their pain would disappear. He received the sick, frail, and contagious with an open heart and open arms, caring for them and suffering for them. Ruotolo chose a life of such poverty and austerity that his own family abandoned him, embarrassed by the holy priest. His name, "Dolindo," means pain, and he embraced this constant companion too, for God for and souls. He offered his life, which entailed great suffering, as a victim soul. While some referred to him as a mouth-piece of the Holy Spirit for his remarkable communications with Jesus during his lifetime, he called himself the Madonna's little old man, and he kept her rosary as his constant companion. He was a fellow Franciscan and contemporary of St. Servant of God Don Dolindo Ruotolo was an Italian Franciscan priest and miracle worker who lived from 1882-1970. ![]() I had never seen the prayer or the prayer beads, but who doesn't love a good novena? I found this one so moving and compelling in its simplicity, intimacy, and trust. I had never heard of Don Delindo Ruotolo, the Neapolitan priest to whom Jesus gave the novena prayer. This simple and beautiful prayer spoke to me so powerfully the first time I saw the novena pamphlet here at The Catholic Company.
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