a picture hung in the
Convent choir as Sister Maria
Consolata Betrone wanted
In November 1944 she notes : "For many days my soul has halted on this divine phrase - 'Sacrificial victim for sacrificial victim'". It is in this way that, for the peace of the world, for the dying and for all souls she many times repeats the offer of herself as the sacrifice of expiation, as true contemplative who intercedes for the whole humanity. In particular, that redeeming love which rendered her crucified with the Crucifix was for those who, also called to it in the special way of following Christ, lacked faithfulness because overcome by sin.
On November 9 1934 Consolata wrote: " Jesus revealed to me the intimate sufferings of His Heart caused by the faithlessness of souls consecrated to Him". We thus enter into the deepest throbbing of her interior world, that which would bring her with generosity to the "summit of pain" and to a boundless maternity of souls to bring to salvation. Jesus and Consolata: together in love, together in pain, together to deliver back millions of souls to the Father rich in Compassion.
On September 24 1945 Sister Consolata asked for half a day of rest and she laid down. The Mother Abbess took her temperature - nearly 39°! How long has she been carrying on like this? In June 1939 she let drop a phrase from her pen: "It costs me to die in little pieces".