Blessed dina belanger autobiography
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BÉLANGER, DINA (baptized Marie-Marguerite-Dina-Adélaïde), named Marie Sainte-Cécile-de-Rome, Religious of Jesus and Mary, musician, author, and mystic; b. 30 April at Quebec, only daughter of Octave Bélanger, a bookkeeper, and Séraphia Matte; d. 4 Sept. at the Couvent Jésus-Marie in Sillery, Que.; since May her tomb has been in the chapel of the provincial house of the Religious of Jesus and Mary in Sillery.
Dina Bélanger grew up in the parish of Notre-Dame-de-Jacques-Cartier, in Saint-Roch ward in the city of Quebec. She received her elementary and secondary schooling at the convents of Saint-Roch and Jacques-Cartier and at the Pensionnat Bellevue, all of which were run by the Congregation of Notre-Dame. At the age of eight she began music lessons with the nuns, who until remained her teachers. That year she began studying with Joseph-Arthur Bernier, the organist for the parish of Notre-Dame-de-Jacques-Cartier. Finding that Dina was very gifted musically, he spoke to Abbé Omer Cloutier, the parish priest, who advised her parents to enrol her at the Institute of Musical Art in New York. Thus she attended this conservatory from to , living at Our Lady of Peace residence with the Religious of Jesus and Mary. She achieved remarkable success in music, particularly with harm
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, a soul chosen by God so loved perfection as to become one with Him Who, in being one with the Father, is perfect as He is perfect.
After the Incarnation of the Son of God, many generous souls have sought the sublime form of union with Jesus Christ that consists of seeking to live in Him so as to be inhabited by Him (cf. Jn ). St. Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, who lived for three years in the company of Our Lord, brought this devotion to such a perfect degree that he could affirm: “It is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me” (Gal ).
In the nineteenth century, a lawyer returning to Lyon from Ars, in France, after hearing just one sermon of Saint John Marie Vianney, testified to the union of the humble parish priest with Christ in words of wonderment, “I saw God in a man!”
At the dawn of the last century, a chosen soul, Marie Marguerite Dina Adelaide Bélanger – the first native of Quebec City to be proclaimed blessed by the Church – sought to define her inner disposition with these words: “We are no longer two, Jesus and I; we are one, Jesus alone. He makes use of my faculties, of my senses, of my limbs. It is He who thinks, acts prayers, looks, speaks, walks, writes, teaches: in a word, who lives&#;”1