The Devil once said to St Gemma Galgani "You can pray for yourself, but if you pray for others, I will make you pay dearly for it".
And on another occasion the devil said to this great Saint, "While acting for yourself, do as you please, but listen well, do nothing for the conversion of sinners; if you attempt it, I shall make you pay dearly for it."
The devil appeared to affirm for St Gemma Galgani that our Prayers for other are seemingly more fruitful then when we Pray for our wants when he tried a new tactic to get St. Gemma to consider her own soul rather than only others when he exclaimed "How and where comes such presumption?
You are laden with sins, and all the years of thy life would not suffice to bewail and expiate them, and yet you lose time about the sins of others?
Do you not see that your own soul is in danger?
A strange gain, that of thinking for others and neglecting thyself." Through all this she was brutally beaten and never stopped praying for others letting herself …More