#divinewill #frianuzzi #dinabelanger Exemplar of the Divine Will

#divinewill #frianuzzi #dinabelanger What if God asked you to disappear — not into failure or despair, but into *Him*? That is the story of Blessed Dina Bélanger. She was born in Quebec City on April 30, 1897 — just five months before the death of her kindred spirit, St. Thérèse of Lisieux. Like Thérèse, she was a beloved only child, gifted with extraordinary musical talent, and burning from girlhood with a singular desire: to become a saint. She studied piano at the finest conservatories in New York. She gave concert performances that drew admiring crowds. And then, at the age of twenty-four, she walked away from all of it — and entered the Congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary, where she would teach music, suffer tuberculosis, and die at the age of thirty-two. But here is what makes Dina extraordinary. In the hidden interior of that short life, Jesus came to her — in visions, in voices, in a mystical exchange of hearts — and He said to her: *"You will not possess me more fully in Heaven, because I have completely absorbed you."* She called it substitution — Christ living in place of her, she becoming the vessel through which He could love, suffer, and redeem. Her motto, burned into every page of her autobiography, was simply this: To love and to suffer. In this series, Dr Lois Grande, Phd, LPCMH, OCDS and I, Larry Leopold, OCDS will sit at the feet of this hidden mystic of Canada — and let her show us what it looks like when a soul says yes all the way to the end. Welcome to the world of Blessed Dina Bélanger. How this was made Auto-dubbed Audio tracks for some languages were automatically generated.