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.
My body was violated at the age of 4 by my father and cousin. My purity was taken btwn the ages of 8-11 by my stepdad. But I always felt like I forgave them. But maybe never really myself. Thank you for giving me a new and oh so special Saint to learn and know! May she aid me in my continued pursuit for forgiveness and purity of mind, body, and intentions, and especially for my 11 yro girl and 14 yro boy. Working at 4 rosaries a day Gabi! Love and prayers to your family and your film apostolate crew 🙏
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. ❤
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. 🙏❤️
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!
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 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.
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 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.
@@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.
Hi Gabi and everyone! My husband and I after 3 weeks of being married decided to take a mini honeymoon to the adirondacks, 20min into our first hike of our 4 day vacation he slipped, fell and broke his ankle. It is exactly a week today since the accident, his pain has continue to get worse and worse. He will be having surgery tomorrow. 2 days after the accident in the middle of the night, he woke up in pain and I started to pray a hail Mary for him when I remembered St Maria Goretti and the miracles performed on broken feet through her intercession. I have not been able to find her relic or prayer card, so I am here writing a comment on youtube asking for everyone's prayer. Asking for St Maria Goretti's intercession in such difficult times for my husband and I. Through this difficult situation the Lord has def shown me that my vocation is indeed marriage, I have truly loved serving my husband in everything I am able to do for him. Every time I am able to care for him it feels like the most beautiful prayer I can offer the Lord. God bless you and keep you all! 🙏✝
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 !!!!!!!
@@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...
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’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! 🙏🏻❤️
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 🙏
Gabi, this might probably be the most touching documentary you made in your channel. Everything is top-notch and Fr. Carlos Martins absolutely delivered a wonderful narration of everything. I thank you so much for this beautiful work. Praise God. St. Maria Goretti, ora pro nobis.
I've been meaning to watch this video, especially after hearing you talk about it with Matt Fradd. I reverted to my faith a few years ago, and my husband has had great difficulty in trying to find it for himself. It's plain as day that needing to forgive not only those who have hurt him, but especially needing to forgive himself is one of the greatest stumblingly blocks. Please pray for him if you have a spare prayer. Please also pray that his family may be freed of its generational sins and return to communion with the Church.
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.
Our Sister, Nun in 1950. Told our class About St. Maria Goretti and Pope Pius X11 I re member so well being now 85 years young…our SISTER, ST. Mary Ellen pray for us…. Blessings to all Watching.
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!!❤
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 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.
Oh..Holy Saint Maria Goretti...pray for Me and for all my dear loved ones to our Lord Jesus Christ to receive his divine forgiveness as we forgive all those who have hurt us in many ways in Jesus mighty name. Amen 🙏
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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..
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.”
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.
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.
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''
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.
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.
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 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 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 remember reading about St. Maria many years ago and frequently think of her. I believe she is in my life to remind me that saying yes to God is the way to God. Thank you. ❤
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.
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!
Gabi, waw! I was moved to tears and brought down to my knees after hearing this beautiful story. I am struggling at the moment with the thought of forgiveness and i am hung up. But hearing this...after everything that happened to this family, and forgiveness lead them to sanctity. I really needed to hear thia🥹 Thank you🙏 God bless you!
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, 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 🙏
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.
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. ❤
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. 🙏🏻🕊️
May God bless each person who reads this miraculous story🙏✝️🙏 St. Maria Goretti please pray for me and my family, for healing mind, body, soul, and spirit. Amen
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.🙏❤️
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!
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..
I’m coming here from the Pints With Aquinas episode and I am nearly moved to tears! What a beautiful testament to faith! Well done! You are in our prayers daily! ❤️
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 telling her story. I struggle so hard with forgiveness. Even listening to her story, I feel so much anger for Maria, for the situation she was in, for the weight of the responsibilities she had at her young age, and the horrible suffering she endured at the hand of an awful, depraved man. I struggle with the idea that this man deserves any good whatsoever, let alone canonization. I know that this is a problem with me, something is broken inside of me, and I don’t know how to fix it. I wish I had the strength and grace and mercy of this 11-year-old girl.
I can help... your anger for Maria having endured something terrible is right and just, but you need to recognize... that you are Alessandro. If it wasn't for God's grace you would be worse than Alessandro. If you lived in Alessandros house under his conditions... it could have been you. This is the root of forgiving others... that you could easily be the one in need of mercy. Say often... but for the grace of God... that is me.
Never give up, brother. You feel in yourself the brokenness that so many of us fail to see in ourselves, so you are a step ahead. God is already reaching out to you.
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 🙏❤
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’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.
Praying for you. Check out my friend Keith Nester.
@@gabiafterhours Thank you for the prayers and recommendation!
Praying for you as well. St. Maria, pray for us and especially Andrew during this time.
@@bluecomb5376 Thank you for the prayers!
Praying for you! I too am a convert from Protestantism! Scott Hahn’s book Rome Sweet Home really helped me! Check it out! 😇✝️❤️🙏🏻
My body was violated at the age of 4 by my father and cousin. My purity was taken btwn the ages of 8-11 by my stepdad. But I always felt like I forgave them. But maybe never really myself. Thank you for giving me a new and oh so special Saint to learn and know! May she aid me in my continued pursuit for forgiveness and purity of mind, body, and intentions, and especially for my 11 yro girl and 14 yro boy. Working at 4 rosaries a day Gabi! Love and prayers to your family and your film apostolate crew 🙏
@@humilityisthinkofyourself-less "by His stripes we are healed..."
I'm sorry friend but give yourself upto the Lord
@@humilityisthinkofyourself-less amazing testimony. The world is a warmer place with people like you in it.
God bless and sanctify you and your family through our holy mother❤
It's so heartbreaking to hear your story. Jesus and Mother Mary love u and heal you. I love you too 🥹🥰
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. ❤
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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.
Thank you Lord Jesus Amen
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. 🙏❤️
Same here. Was not expecting to cry this hard.
Me too, brother.
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!
BEAUTIFUL!
Me too 🙏🏽✝️💜
I chose this Saint too as my Confirmation Saints name, bless you too for the grace of forgiveness!
I too, had my conversion through Saint Maria Goretti. Every night near the end of prayer we say "We love you St Maria Goretti".
Thank you. God bless.
Never underestimate the power of forgiveness. 😢❤
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! 😇🕊🤗✝️📿❤️🔥🙏🏽🩸🫀💒
Thanks be to God!
Praise the Lord!!!!
Praise God that you stayed! Praised be Jesus Christ!
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!!!❤🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Are the protestants sinners? Asking Just to get enlightened .
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.
father, please pray for the conversion of my husband. His name is Rec. Saint Maria Goretti pray for us.🙏
St.Maria Goretti Saint of purity pls.guide and protect my chidren and 2granddaughter.Thank you.Help us to holy like you.
Father Carlos Martins, the narrator of this video is an exorcist.
St. Maria , pray for my children , to be open in giving their Yes to God, Amen ❤
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.
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!
Praying for you!
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.
@@Summer1in3Amen. I join my prayers with your prayers and intentions for Patrick. Thank you Lord for your merciful love.
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.
Have just prayed to little Saint Maria Goretti for your complete healing Patrick.God bless you.
I am 70 years old & I can honestly say I have never heard of Saint Maria Goretti. I am in amazemrnt & thank God for telling me about her❤❤❤
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.
I found my self in tears the heroic life of the saints is so moving.
Beautiful. My brother. I know you are a prayer warrior. Please include me in your prayers. Thank you!
@@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.
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Me too. I couldn't help but cry
Maria, an 11 year old girl, had more strength and restraint than the vast majority of modern adults
St. Maria Goretti, pray for us
Hi Gabi and everyone! My husband and I after 3 weeks of being married decided to take a mini honeymoon to the adirondacks, 20min into our first hike of our 4 day vacation he slipped, fell and broke his ankle. It is exactly a week today since the accident, his pain has continue to get worse and worse. He will be having surgery tomorrow. 2 days after the accident in the middle of the night, he woke up in pain and I started to pray a hail Mary for him when I remembered St Maria Goretti and the miracles performed on broken feet through her intercession. I have not been able to find her relic or prayer card, so I am here writing a comment on youtube asking for everyone's prayer. Asking for St Maria Goretti's intercession in such difficult times for my husband and I. Through this difficult situation the Lord has def shown me that my vocation is indeed marriage, I have truly loved serving my husband in everything I am able to do for him. Every time I am able to care for him it feels like the most beautiful prayer I can offer the Lord. God bless you and keep you all! 🙏✝
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 !!!!!!!
My family was from Coranoldo also
@@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 !!!!!!!
Maybe If you want to become a priest and your confirmation name if you haven't got it yet maybe maria goretti.
I have a devotion to St. Maria Goretti, and her intercession has been evident. St. Maria Goretti, continue to pray for us🙏🏾
It’s 4:30am .. I’m getting ready for work and I’m listening to this… 😭. Praise Jesus! Absolutely beautiful…
St. Maria Goretti, Pray for Us and for all our youth throughout the world.🙏🏽❤️😇🕊
AMEN!
This wonderful story of St Maria gave me greater insight of how to forgive those that offend us & forgive ourselves for sins of the past!
I thank God for his grace bestored upon St. Maria Gorette. Grant me this grace of forgiveness
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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...
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. 🙏❤️🌺
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Amen🙏🏻
St Maria Goretti please come to Juliana's aid, we pray to you. So that Jesus may be glorified through her healing. Amen.
I will pray for you and daughter
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! 🙏🏻❤️
Your comment is beautiful. How are you doing? God bless you.
God Bless You! I hope you are doing well!
I am 63 and my mum gave my twin sister and I the book of her life...
I have NEVER FORGOTTEN..
The story of St. Maria Goretti has deeply touched my heart; she is my most cherished friend in heaven.
She helped to save my life while living in Pittsburgh, her Church was always open, to the addicted, homeless, and others. Amen 👍 🙏
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 🙏
I am so happy for you and so inspired by uour strong faith
Why was your whole bowel taken out?
@@temesgen440 because its peristaltic activity completely stopped (parallelized) due to nerve damage. Thank you for praying with me 🙏
Gabi, this might probably be the most touching documentary you made in your channel. Everything is top-notch and Fr. Carlos Martins absolutely delivered a wonderful narration of everything. I thank you so much for this beautiful work. Praise God. St. Maria Goretti, ora pro nobis.
I've been meaning to watch this video, especially after hearing you talk about it with Matt Fradd. I reverted to my faith a few years ago, and my husband has had great difficulty in trying to find it for himself. It's plain as day that needing to forgive not only those who have hurt him, but especially needing to forgive himself is one of the greatest stumblingly blocks. Please pray for him if you have a spare prayer. Please also pray that his family may be freed of its generational sins and return to communion with the Church.
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.
You have a beautiful heart, to be capable of wanting to help the murderer too. God must adore you x
Blessed be you oh my.lord what a terrible thing to go through
Pls accept my deepest condolances ..❤❤
May you feel God's grace and love abundantly.
Our Sister, Nun in 1950. Told our class About St. Maria Goretti and Pope Pius X11 I re member so well being now 85 years young…our SISTER, ST. Mary Ellen pray for us…. Blessings to all Watching.
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!!❤
My grade school Priest explained this story in the early 60's. Made a lasting impression. Thank you Father Chizadlo, (rip).
I'm born on Maria Goreti's birthday. Delighted to get this story. Thank you
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.
Praying for you...and for them 🙏
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.
Beautiful.
St. Maria Goretti, pray for us!
St. Maria Goretti, show me the way of forgiveness and mercy. Amen!
Amen.
I knew of St. Maria Goretti, but I am in tears over the fullness of this story!!
God bless you brother!
Man that mother forgiving everything...... incredible.
Had a blessing today with a St Maria Goretti 1st relic by a special priest. Thank you for everything
Imagine a little 11 y/o girl going through that......incredible
Imagine and 11 year old girl being stronger and more faithful then a full grown adult.
Oh..Holy Saint Maria Goretti...pray for Me and for all my dear loved ones to our Lord Jesus Christ to receive his divine forgiveness as we forgive all those who have hurt us in many ways in Jesus mighty name. Amen 🙏
This story is powerful. One if my favorite verses is Matthew 5| 44
44 But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,
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!
'She chose to be a saint!' Powerful!
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.
I finished my first ever Saint Maria Goretti Novena yesterday ❤ Thank you Saint Maria Goretti for all that you do ✝️🙌
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.
Amen.
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
same 😭😭
St Maria Goretti pray for us 🙏🏽❤️
@@michele1511 🙏Amen
St Maria Goretti be with my Family and make us worthy Servants of God. Make us your Humble and wordy Disciples forever.
I cannot stop crying, either.
@@tessapriem2981 god bless you
I can watch this a million times and still awestruck! Saint Maria Goretti pray for us🙏
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.
St Maria Goreti help my two sons Vincely Caleb and Junior Mark Caleb to become your followers of Christ 🙏🙏🙏
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..
This story of St. Maria Goretti is a miracle in itself!! Forgiveness is such a powerful miracle!!
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, u did not agree with me that we found a Bible in his name, where is Jesus speaking about the Trinity...;
Yes forgive
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.”
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.
Father! Your a great story teller! I love this Saint! Thank you! Christ Have Mercy On Us! From Michigan!
Really...
Greetings from Fr. Nirmal, Nepal
Yep
Probably one of the most beautiful true stories I’ve ever heard. And was all because our Lord Jesus Christ 🙏AMEN 🙏
The Catholic faith is the only true Christian faith there is!!!since 33AD...Acts 5:38-39 .
Powerful story of forgiveness. Love it.
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.
A truly great saint. She lived out Jesus command to forgive all, including our enemies. Great video to remind us of that great teaching.
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!
Man I cried so much watching this video what a beautiful story
Glory to God
I am not a Christian but I love Christianity. I love how u worship and today I learned to forgive
God is calling you friend
May God Bless You.
Seek Jesus my friend. For he is the way, the truth and the light.
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''
Would you consider coming to know Jesus ??
God grant us more Priest like Fr Martins. Amen.
What's that priest full name.
@@Bill-df9wp Fr Carlos Martins
Thank you for presenting this story in the most beautiful way of showing st. Maria goretti power of forgiveness. What a wonderful person she was.
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.
Powerful testimony. Profound. She chose to forgive and chose to be a Saint❤ this touched 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.
Thank you for this beautiful testimony. I like your user name and thumbnail.
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. 🙏🏻
Her story helps me grow my devotion to my lord and savior Jesus Christ. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ he deserves all the praise and glory.
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 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 remember reading about St. Maria many years ago and frequently think of her. I believe she is in my life to remind me that saying yes to God is the way to God. Thank you. ❤
Thank you. Through Divine Choreography I found this story, and it has helped me with an incredible weight I was carrying.
This story litterally made me cry.
Wow. I’m lost for words. Thanks be to God! 🙏🏼
This was so sad, but beautiful in the end. St. Maria Goretti please pray for my knee. Amen!
I have cried so much, with pain and joy, thank you Lord Jesus for your sacrifice ❤
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.
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!
Gabi, waw! I was moved to tears and brought down to my knees after hearing this beautiful story. I am struggling at the moment with the thought of forgiveness and i am hung up. But hearing this...after everything that happened to this family, and forgiveness lead them to sanctity. I really needed to hear thia🥹 Thank you🙏 God bless you!
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, 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 🙏
Please help Samuel Saint Goretti. Amen
Father Carlos is an amazing storyteller! As always brother, great work 🙏🏻 This is gonna reach thousands. It is palpable. God Bless you!
Ohhh my sister. Thank you so much. I appreciate you!
This is amazing the purity of one's heart for loving God.
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.
A truly inspiring story of FAITH and FORGIVENESS, brought me to tears. We can only pray and seek to be as courageous in our lives. ❤🙏🙏🙏
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. ❤
Very good presentation! Also having Fr. Carlos telling the story is awesome too!
Glad you enjoyed it!
What an adorable child saint. Saint Maria Goretti pray for us
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. 🙏🏻🕊️
, u did not agree with me that we found a Bible in his name, where is Jesus speaking about the Trinity...;
It is so many years since I heard of St Maria Goretti. She was one of the Saints of my childhood.
What an absolutely stunning production and story ✝️
Thank you so much! Please share it with your friends!
“All because Maria chose to forgive…” Fr. Martins is such a phenomenal blessing to us.
Sir! your videos are "must-see" to our Protestant brothes and sisters. Mary and the Saints are very much alive in Christ
May God bless each person who reads this miraculous story🙏✝️🙏 St. Maria Goretti please pray for me and my family, for healing mind, body, soul, and spirit. Amen
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.🙏❤️
Praise God for your forgiveness. Thank you for choosing love and choosing to forgive.
Beautiful telling of the life of such a young child🥰. Faith and good works is the answer.🙏🏻🙏🏻
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!
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..
So powerful that made me cry...
Indeed, me too.
I’m coming here from the Pints With Aquinas episode and I am nearly moved to tears! What a beautiful testament to faith! Well done! You are in our prayers daily! ❤️
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 telling her story. I struggle so hard with forgiveness. Even listening to her story, I feel so much anger for Maria, for the situation she was in, for the weight of the responsibilities she had at her young age, and the horrible suffering she endured at the hand of an awful, depraved man. I struggle with the idea that this man deserves any good whatsoever, let alone canonization. I know that this is a problem with me, something is broken inside of me, and I don’t know how to fix it. I wish I had the strength and grace and mercy of this 11-year-old girl.
I can help... your anger for Maria having endured something terrible is right and just, but you need to recognize... that you are Alessandro. If it wasn't for God's grace you would be worse than Alessandro. If you lived in Alessandros house under his conditions... it could have been you. This is the root of forgiving others... that you could easily be the one in need of mercy. Say often... but for the grace of God... that is me.
Never give up, brother. You feel in yourself the brokenness that so many of us fail to see in ourselves, so you are a step ahead. God is already reaching out to you.
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 🙏❤
God bless you!
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.