“A Transport of Love” is a string of words that drifted into my heart this past week after receiving the Eucharist.
Pondering the word “transport” – I thought quickly it was to move something from one place to another.
I wasn’t too far off but was amazed at what I found below.
“The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language” gave the following definition:
to move or carry (goods, for example) from one place to another.
To cause to feel strong emotion, especially joy; carry away; enrapture.
That second definition blew me away because it seemed to express just what happens when we receive Jesus in the Most Holy Eucharist….His True Body and Blood…..and how could we not be enraptured…..and carried away?
And we can apply it to the Coming of the Holy Spirit as well – can we not?
In John’s Gospel – Chapter 14 – 23-26 – we hear about the “Advocate” who will teach us everything…..
“If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make our home with him. Those who do not love me do not keep my words. And my word is not my own. It is the word of the One who sent me. I have said these things to you while still with you; but the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you.”
On Pentecost Sunday, we shall be receiving a “fresh anointing” of the Holy Spirit! Praise God! And we will be as giddy as that First Pentecost when the apostles ran out from the Upper Room into the crowds drunk with JOY.
Jesus tells us in John 14:18 that “I will not leave you orphans; I will come back to you.” That’s a promise that I certainly can attest to in my own life! I felt like an orphan when my mother died so young! I understood not too long afterwards that the “Divine Third” was always present along with the Blessed Virgin Mary. We are never alone!
“But the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name will teach you everything!”
How precious are those words if we abide by them and listen to see!
Last weekend, I welcomed an overnight guest once again who frequently comes to visit our home. When she arrives here – there is always a never ending conversation, meals to share together and just a wonderful feeling of friendship.
We got on the subject of “dresses” as we ate our lunch! Wedding dresses, prom dresses – all sorts of dresses and how styles have changed. What is appropriate and what is not since she is a young adult. The conversation didn’t last that long and we moved on to our next subject.
But Jesus had more to say….at 3:00 am…..when I couldn’t sleep! And so I went with it….while my friend slept – I poured thru a book entitled “The Poem of the Man God.” I didn’t know truly where I was going with it – but I followed obediently because He wanted me to see something – and so I saw….with “His Eyes.”
As I opened up one of the last pages of Volume 5 – my eyes glanced down at the bottom of the page and I read the following:
“Do not reject Me. I am anxious to give Myself to you, because I love you. And My anxiety is inextinguishable. I ardently wish to communicate Myself to you to make you ready for the banquet of the celestial nuptials. And you need Me in order not to languish,
to dress yourselves with dresses
adorned for the Wedding of the Lamb!”
I realized very clearly as I read the sentence above – Jesus was having lunch with us the day before. He was present at that table and listening. Jesus was telling us what “dresses” we should be concerned about with great clarity! The Holy Spirit was teaching and it was to flow into the following days with another friend – Gabrielle Bossis whom I would call upon in prayer.
I felt the Spirit hovering the next couple of days and I needed help. Who to go to? My dear friend – Gabrielle Bossis whom I feel has been a cheerleader for me from Heaven.
Asking for her help – she came through with flying colors and pointed the way through Her journal of jewels.
Holy Spirit colors, too, for sure…..flashing red flames…..
This particular passage is just months before Gabrielle would pass into eternity. However, they are words for us for the “now” from the Spirit of Truth.
For those of you who may not be familiar with Gabrielle Bossis – she obtained a degree for nursing, helped out in various parish projects, and then wrote plays and actually acted in them. She travelled extensively on trains and on ocean liners…. But her greatest accomplishment was to record the words of Jesus spoken to her soul in the book, “He and I” from 1936 to 1950.
Jesus speaks to Gabrielle on March 16, 1950:
“You remember when the last siren sounded on the great liners, you used to think, “to leave! to leave is to live.”
Have this same thought as you leave the earth. You are going away to live and to live in the real New World. It is waiting for you. It’s people are waiting for you too. In New York the people were on the pier – a cheering crowd of them. That was only the world’s poor welcome.
But the ecstatic cries from the heavenly city, the love – the radiant joys – who could ever express it in the language of men?
So be filled with joy at the thought of approaching it, as you were in the airplane when you asked,
“shall we be arriving soon?”
And someone said, “Keep on looking at the horizon and you’ll be able to to tell when the plane is about to land.” And if some of your dear ones were waiting for you, your heart leapt with joy!
My child, the One who is waiting for you is your Creator and Savior.
Go gaily to meet Him as if you were going to a festival.
Lovingly prepare your “going away” costume,
the one ornamented with the jewels you have received from Him.
And besides this, borrow the radiant colors – your Heavenly Mother’s and your Beloved’s raiment.
You must take the habit of adorning yourself in them every day.
They are holding them out to you because they want to see their own beauty in you.
Give them your humble smile, the smile of a child happy to be going home.”
I included the above passage from “He and I” not because I thought I was leaving earth right now or possibly, you, my readers! Yes, Gabrielle was! She gave me that reading to help prepare me and possibly you for when our time comes.
To dress appropriately as Jesus described to her….with “jewels” that He adorned her soul with. Think of the “radiant colors” of the raiment of Jesus and the Blessed Mother wrapped around your soul. That sounds like a ticket to Heaven for me!
We can also ask for the gifts and the fruits of the Holy Spirit tomorrow and all days. . .adorning ourselves with:
LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS
GENTLENESS AND SELF CONTROL
PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT
ST. AUGUSTINE
Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit,
That my thoughts may all be holy.
Act in me, O Holy Spirit,
That my work, too, may be holy.
Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit,
That I may love what is holy.
Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit,
To defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit,
That I always may be holy.
©2026 Anita Guariglia
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He and I – Gabrielle Bossis
Quotes from the Jerusalem Bible
One Response
This is a beautiful blog surely prompted by the Holy Spirit in you, Anita.
How clearly Jesus speaks to us when we open our eyes to see, our ears to listen and our hearts to love Him. Thank you for seeing, listening and sharing His love.
May we all be renewed with the gifts of the Holy Spirit and adorned with the Fruits at Pentecost and always.