🙏 "Jezu, Ty się tym zajmij" 🙏 Akt zawierzenia ks. Dolindo Ruotolo

✝️ Leave your intention in the comments. ✝️ Peace be with you, Brother Ezra here. I have recorded for you the beautiful act of surrender by Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo, famously known as the prayer, "Jesus, You take over." Fr. Dolindo's life was one of immense suffering. From his earliest years, he endured 14 years of starvation and mistreatment by his own father. He suffered contempt from his superior at the seminary, was repeatedly investigated by the Holy Office, arrested, and suspended from his ministry at the altar for over 19 years. All this amounted to a physical Golgotha for him, which began a decade before his death. On November 1, 1969, Fr. Dolindo was paralyzed on one side of his body. Despite this, he continued his active pastoral ministry: he preached up to eight homilies a day, heard confessions, and visited hospitals and prisons. People on the street, though they would point him out, often did so with admiration, saying with bated breath: "There goes a holy priest!" Despite these adversities, he never expressed criticism of the Church, which he loved, stating, "The Church is Jesus." Walking down the street, he was a conspicuous figure: he leaned on a cane with his right hand, clutching a rosary, and in his left, he carried an artificial leather bag filled with stones. He called them "treasures for the salvation of souls, little angels," as he would explain to the children who approached him. On the winding via Salvator Rosa, in the heart of the city where this mystic lived, long lines would form. Crowds of penitents, sent there by Padre Pio, waited for a moment to speak with him. Father Dolindo would not turn anyone away. He also continued writing at night, finalizing his most important work, a book about Mary. During this time, like Padre Pio, he experienced satanic attacks and would be thrown against the walls. In his last letter to his spiritual daughters, Fr. Dolindo wrote a few sentences that became the priest's spiritual testament: "Comfort the poor, fill with hope those who are despairing from its lack, restore people's faith, do everything so that those who have strayed from God may be reconciled to Him, or even worse – those who have rebelled against Him in their pain and live in the darkness of their conscience, without any comfort, without hope!"