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Place them in my maternal heart

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Gather these sons of mine together. This is the time for them to get to know each other, to meet each other, to love each other.

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959 In the one family of God. “For if we continue to love one another and to join in praising the Most Holy Trinity – all of us who are sons of God and form one family in Christ – we will be faithful to the deepest vocation of the Church.”^{501 (Catechism of the Catholic Church)}

These days as the secular culture drifts further and further away from the ways of God, we need now more than ever to come together. We need entire families; fathers, mothers and children interacting with other spirit minded families, priests and individuals in order to be strengthened in the faith. This is the time for the Cenacles to flourish.

I remember similar gatherings in my early childhood. I was born in the Azores, and in preparation for Pentecost, families would host the ‘Holy Spirit Crown’ in their home, all the neighbors in the village would gather each night to pray the rosary together and then have some socializing afterwards. In my day (back in the late 60’s), pretty much everyone we knew was Catholic…some may perhaps may have strayed a little, but everyone participated and helped each other out when needed. The world is much different these days, there is more pulling our children and even ourselves out into secular society than drawing us in. So much so that perhaps the majority of self proclaimed Catholics don’t even attend Mass regularly. They are missing out on life giving spiritual food. A sincere effort needs to be made here.

Only after we have fortified the troops can we then set out to bring more in to the fold. But right now as it stands we barely can even agree on the basics. We have a president who calls himself Catholic and yet supports the murder of innocent children right up to the hour of birth. That is atrocious. We’ve obviously have been doing something wrong. Many Catholics don’t even have a minimal idea of what the faith they profess even entails. It’s truly sad. We need to change this. It needs to start with us, strong Catholic families coming together in prayer and unity, and then supporting each other and drawing others back to the Sacraments.

This is the refuge needed for these times!

The Joy of the Cross and the Divine Will

42d: I Give You the Joy of the Cross

Indeed, you will know joy in your every sorrow; moreover, you will offer for my joy each of your sufferings, even the smallest, and I will accept it as a gift which the little child makes to its Mother, and I will change it immediately into joy for you. (Mary’s Messages to Fr. Gobbi)

This message reminds me of the story of the little girl holding tight to her fake pearls, and the joy she receives when she finally lets go. Read it here.—> Precious Jewels

There are two competing world views today, one embraces the ‘party’ lifestyle which encompasses aiming to get all that we want, when we want it and claims that ‘happiness’ is the highest goal…hedonism is the official term. The other is the ‘sacrificial’ life style, which states that sometimes we must go against our own will in order to achieve a greater good that goes beyond temporary happiness.

This way of sacrifice, doesn’t have to entail big things. It’s in seeking His will in the small ordinary steps of life that, that although can be painful when our disposition isn’t right, bring about the biggest rewards.

“Those who give themselves to prayer,” says St. Teresa, “should concentrate solely on this: the conformity of their wills with the divine will. They should be convinced that this constitutes their highest perfection. The more fully they practice this, the greater the gifts they will receive from God, and the greater the progress they will make in the interior life.“

In today’s Gospel of Luke we hear

³⁸Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

What have we to give Him other than our will?

Read from my previous posts…

Sacrifice(November 18, 2020)

Mortifiction(November 4, 2020)

suffering-and-gratitude-preparing-for-the-savior/ (November 19, 2018)

Embracing the Cross(July 9, 2014)

A Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving

And yet of all the sacrifices we can take part of, nothing is more beneficial for our soul than that of participating in the Eucharist. The word Eucharist literally means ‘Thanksgiving’ in Greek. But then offering our own thanksgiving and praise throughout our daily life, brings us into a greater awareness of what the Lord is continually doing for us.

This is where even seemingly benign distractions can cause immense harm, they keep us from the graces and joy that the Lord wants to give to us at each moment. Oh what immense pain when we realize this too late.

“Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with you. The lovely things kept me far from you, though if they did not have their existence in you, they had no existence at all. You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours.”

Gathering an Invincible Cohort

39. It is time that I myself gather them together

February 18, 1974

“Let yourself be led by Me, my son, and you will see marvels happening around you: one of these is that which you are living through today. (…) , N. is an example of all the Priests of my Movement. What love he has for Me and for my Son Jesus! How he lives for souls; how many he saves!

This is a humble place; a place of- little things, almost unnoticed by most. And yet it is here and no place else that today my presence is to be found. Even today I like to reveal myself to my children in places similar to those in which I lived with my Son Jesus: Bethlehem, Nazareth. Yes, even today I choose poverty, simplicity, littleness, and the ordinary in order to manifest myself. I know this can be a difficulty for many; and yet this is necessary for those who wish to encounter Me. It is necessary to be little, and that all feel themselves to be just what they are before Me: just little children. The little child never looks at himself, but gazes intently at his mother! And it is the mother who looks at her little child. She is the one who, looking at him, can say to him: ‘Oh, how beautiful you are, how precious you are, how good you are!’

(…) Today for you, here in this very place, something is really being born. It is like a small seed, but it will spread itself out, grow and become a great tree. For you, there has been a meeting here today: you have found a brother. But for a long time he has been made ready by Me! You see, from long ago I have been fashioning this Priest: through suffering, through misunderstandings, through solitude; oh, how I have accustomed him to that interior humility and to that childlikeness of spirit which is so pleasing to my Immaculate Heart. Now I look upon him with satisfaction; he is only a little child in my arms, and I can carry him and make use of him as I wish. Such is one of my Priests; such are all my Priests.

Called by Me long ago, long ago they have answered. Nourished by Me, fashioned and guided by Me, now they let themselves be led with docility. It is time that I myself gather these children of mine from all sides. With them I must form for myself an invincible cohort. They meet each other, they look at each other, and it seems as though they had always known each other: they feel themselves to be really brothers. I give you as gifts, one to the other.

Love one another, my beloved sons, be united, look after each other, help each other! Oh, how happy the Mother is when she sees you all gathered together as good brothers in her house…

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Catechism of the Catholic Church:

751 The word “Church” (Latin ecclesia, from the Greek ek-ka-lein, to “call out of”) means a convocation or an assembly. It designates the assemblies of the people, usually for a religious purpose.¹³⁹ Ekklesia is used frequently in the Greek Old Testament for the assembly of the Chosen People before God, above all for their assembly on Mount Sinai where Israel received the Law and was established by God as his holy people.¹⁴⁰ By calling itself “Church,” the first community of Christian believers recognized itself as heir to that assembly. In the Church, God is “calling together” his people from all the ends of the earth. The equivalent Greek term Kyriake, from which the English word Church and the German Kirche are derived, means “what belongs to the Lord.”

752 In Christian usage, the word “church” designates the liturgical assembly,¹⁴¹ but also the local community¹⁴² or the whole universal community of believers.¹⁴³ These three meanings are inseparable. “The Church” is the People that God gathers in the whole world. She exists in local communities and is made real as a liturgical, above all a Eucharistic, assembly. She draws her life from the word and the Body of Christ and so herself becomes Christ’s Body.

III. MARY – ESCHATOLOGICAL ICON OF THE CHURCH

972 After speaking of the Church, her origin, mission, and destiny, we can find no better way to conclude than by looking to Mary. In her we contemplate what the Church already is in her mystery on her own “pilgrimage of faith,” and what she will be in the homeland at the end of her journey. There, “in the glory of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity,” “in the communion of all the saints,”⁵¹⁸ the Church is awaited by the one she venerates as Mother of her Lord and as her own mother.

In the meantime the Mother of Jesus, in the glory which she possesses in body and soul in heaven, is the image and beginning of the Church as it is to be perfected in the world to come. Likewise she shines forth on earth until the day of the Lord shall come, a sign of certain hope and comfort to the pilgrim People of God.⁵¹⁹

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My Thoughts:

Mary, Mother of the Church and our Mother, is birthing a renewed, radiant church into being, by forming and gathering her children to bring to her Son “so that He might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.” Ephesians 5:27

Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven…

Pray, Obey and Trust

37. Rely on Me alone

February 10, 1974

“You must be more attentive, O my son, in order to remain always in my Immaculate Heart, and not let yourself be taken up or discouraged by things, especially when these are independent of your will. You are in a hurry: you would like my Movement to spread more rapidly, and that the Booklet would not encounter so many difficulties in its reprinting. How much of the human there is in your desires! It is necessary that I, as a mother, purify you, if you want Me to lead you to that perfection which is pleasing to my Heart.

Rely only on Me and not on human means; entrust yourself only to Me. There is one thing that you can always do, and which is the only thing that I want you to do at each moment, because it is so useful to Me for the Movement: your prayer, your suffering, your trust in Me. This is what I ask of you: that you let yourself instead be divested of all other preoccupations. This is not one of many movements, but it is My Movement, my son. So then let Me act! All my Priests must act this way: I will make them understand by causing every human means in which they had placed their trust to come tumbling down. They must entrust themselves to Me alone. I know that this asks much of human nature. But I want the Priests of my Movement to be mine alone!

If they do not accustom themselves now to seek Me alone, to listen to Me alone, and to entrust themselves to Me alone, how are they going to find Me at the moment of the great tempest when everything will be plunged in darkness? Let them accustom themselves as of now to see Me as the Light of their every action!”

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The Church – mystery of men’s union with God

(Catechism of the Catholic Church)

772 It is in the Church that Christ fulfills and reveals his own mystery as the purpose of God’s plan: “to unite all things in him.”¹⁸⁹ St. Paul calls the nuptial union of Christ and the Church “a great mystery.” Because she is united to Christ as to her bridegroom, she becomes a mystery in her turn.¹⁹⁰ Contemplating this mystery in her, Paul exclaims: “Christ in you, the hope of glory.“¹⁹¹

773 In the Church this communion of men with God, in the “love [that] never ends,” is the purpose which governs everything in her that is a sacramental means, tied to this passing world.¹⁹² “[The Church’s] structure is totally ordered to the holiness of Christ’s members. And holiness is measured according to the ‘great mystery’ in which the Bride responds with the gift of love to the gift of the Bridegroom.”¹⁹³ Mary goes before us all in the holiness that is the Church’s mystery as “the bride without spot or wrinkle.”¹⁹⁴ This is why the “Marian” dimension of the Church precedes the “Petrine.”¹⁹⁵

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Some Thoughts:

Just wanted to note down a few things that came to me during prayer this morning. “Don’t worry about controlling things, just pray.” This has been an ongoing lesson this week…this concept of ‘don’t worry’. It’s not about not having concern, but to not allow my mind to go to all kinds of potential results of a situation, and then trying to ‘fix’ it myself. The message being that I need to live every moment in the presence of God, that only as I take each step in faith will the the next steps be revealed. This is hard for me as someone who likes to have everything planned out. But instead I’m being shown that I am to go on with my daily schedule, and He’ll come to me as I step into these seemingly routine moments. That this alone brings calmness in the storms of life. That to look to anything else, is idolatry.

Mary’s words in today’s message “Prayer, suffering and trust”, really are key. Prayer…turn to God in every situation and our Blessed Mother will accompany us. Prayer ‘waters’ the soil of our work. (I’ve been hearing this message a lot lately too.), Suffering… obedience consists of suffering because we need to die to self to fulfill God’s will for every moment, it is our great response of love to Him who first loved us. Trust…this is the one that allays our worries. It is deeply connected with faith. We know that God loves us and all that He asks of us is for our own good.

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From “The Imitation of Mary” by Fr. Quan Tran

“Our Blessed Mother has a quiet, recollected disposition, and she is comfortable with solitude. This quiet disposition allows her to perceive God’s subtle presence and respond by uniting herself to Him. Her mind, heart, and soul are always connected to the Lord. Her love for God compels her to be one with Him. Truly, when we love someone, we want to be united to him or her always. Mary never leaves God’s presence but uses her faculties to be in communion with the Lord.”

Our Lady’s Chapel

36. What a Mother can do

January 28, 1974

“How happy I am, my son, with the gathering which took place here with the twelve Priests of my Movement! It is a little seed which soon will become a tree and from here, my beloved city, it will spread out its branches over the whole Church, throughout the whole world.

Have you not noticed how, through you, I myself spoke to the hearts of my Priests? They have received an extraordinary grace which will transform their whole life. They will now be apostles of my Movement. (…)

Oh, always let yourself be led by Me; then you will see what a Mother can do for her sons.”

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I’m on a mini self directed ‘retreat’ this weekend. I feel constantly called to this place, and the circumstances around this particular visit leave me with no doubt that Mother wanted me here. I may never know the reason on this side of heaven, and that is ok.

While in prayer last night, I heard her whisper into my soul ‘you are my special invited guest here’. 😀 How just like a mother to make her little one feel welcomed and loved. 🙂 ❤️🙏

Today’s homily by Fr. José Maria from Our Lady’s Chapel was about St. Joseph’s Seven Sunday’s. I had never heard about it before. 🙏🙏🙏 Have a listen.

Today’s Homily

Seven Sorrows of St. Joseph

Cenacles of Life

34. Cenacles of life with Me

January 17, 1974
“‘When two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in the midst of them‘; thus spoke my Son Jesus. When two or more Priests of my Movement are gathered together on my account, I also am in the midst of them. I manifest myself to them and through them, especially when these Priests are joined in prayer. It is therefore necessary that these Priests of my Movement begin to meet each other and to gather together. It is not necessary that they come together in great numbers: even two or three are enough. These gatherings must constitute real and true Cenacles.

Now that my Movement of Priests is spreading everywhere, these Cenacles must be multiplied.
There is no need of organisation: everything should be simple, spontaneous, quiet and fraternal. Where two or more Priests of my Movement come together because of Me, there is the Cenacle.
In the Cenacle, there were the Apostles with Mary, the Mother of Jesus. In these Cenacles, I want the Priests of my Movement to be gathered with Me, the Mother of Jesus, and a Mother most especially for them.

The purpose of the Cenacles: Why do I want them to come together in Cenacles with Me?

-To remain with Me: so that I myself can nourish and form them, and cause them to grow in perfect consecration to Me; so that they may truly be my Priests alone, and in them and through them I may once again manifest myself

-Above all to pray with Me: when my Priests pray, united with each other and with Me, how efficacious is their prayer! For it is then that I myself accomplish in them my maternal task of interceding before God for all my children.

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Let them be united among themselves and with Me in the celebration of Holy Mass, in the recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours, and in praying the Holy Rosary. This is my prayer! The Rosary is the weapon that I give to these children of mine to fight the great approaching battles which await them.

–To love each other and to live in true brotherhood in the company of their Mother. It is necessary today that my Priests know each other, that they help each other, that they truly love one another, that they be as brothers brought together by their Mother.

There is today too much loneliness, too much abandonment for my Priests!…. I do not want them to be alone: they must help each other, love each other, they must all feel as-and really be-brothers.

-To await the decisive moments which are drawing ever closer. The time is near when some of my poor Priest-sons, tricked and seduced by Satan, will come out in the open and set themselves against my Son, against Me, against the Church and the Gospel.

Then the cohort of my Priests, prepared and led by Me, are to come forth into the open to proclaim with courage and before everyone the Divinity of my Son, the reality of all my privileges, the necessity of the hierarchical Church united to, and under the leadership of, the Pope, and all the truths contained in the gospel! Many Priests, uncertain and, as it were, overwhelmed by the tempest, will follow your example and return along the road of salvation. For the present, prepare yourself with Me during this time of waiting.

Let your gatherings be true Cenacles of life with Me, of prayer, of brotherhood, and of waiting

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Catechism of the Catholic Church

949 In the primitive community of Jerusalem, the disciples “devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of the bread and the prayers.”⁴⁸²

Communion in the faith. The faith of the faithful is the faith of the Church, received from the apostles. Faith is a treasure of life which is enriched by being shared.

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The reflection in today’s The Good News Ministries goes so well with the above material that I needed to include it here. (There are no coincidences friends.)

There’s a calling from heaven to gather the saints, even as the world commands us not to. Find a way! 🙏🙏🙏

Our Refuge

33. My Heart will be your refuge

January 5, 1974

First Saturday of the month and of the year

“Today, I want to lead you by the hand like a mother: I want to lead you ever deeper into the depths of my Immaculate Heart. My Heart must be as a refuge for you, in which you ought to live and from which you ought to contemplate all the events of this world. If you live each moment in this refuge, you will always be kept warm by my love and that of my Son Jesus.

Every day that passes, this world will plummet deeper and deeper into the coldness of egoism, of sensuality, of hatred of violence, of unhappiness. Before the great darkness, the night of atheism which will envelop everything will descend upon the world. It is especially then that my Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and your brightness. Fear neither the cold nor the darkness, because you will be in the Heart of your Mother and from there you will point out the way to a great multitude of my poor wandering children.

But my Heart is still a refuge which protects you from all these events which are following one upon another. You will remain serene, you will not let yourself be troubled, you will have no fear. You will see all these things as from afar, without allowing yourself to be in the least affected by them.

‘But how?’ you ask me. You will live in time, and yet you will be, as it were, outside of time. My Immaculate Heart, O my son, is like a part of paradise in which I want to enclose my beloved sons in order that they may be preserved from the great events which await you; so that they may be consoled by Me, prepared by Me, directed by Me for the great and approaching moment of my triumph!

Remain therefore always in this refuge of mine!

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. .until all things are subjected to him (Catechism of the Catholic Church)

671 Though already present in his Church, Christ’s reign is nevertheless yet to be fulfilled “with power and great glory” by the King’s return to earth.⁵⁵⁷ This reign is still under attack by the evil powers, even though they have been defeated definitively by Christ’s Passover.⁵⁵⁷ Until everything is subject to him, “until there be realized new heavens and a new earth in which justice dwells, the pilgrim Church, in her sacraments and institutions, which belong to this present age, carries the mark of this world which will pass, and she herself takes her place among the creatures which groan and travail yet and await the revelation of the sons of God.”⁵⁵⁹That is why Christians pray, above all in the Eucharist, to hasten Christ’s return by saying to him:⁵⁶⁰Marana tha! “Our Lord, come!”⁵⁶¹

672 Before his Ascension Christ affirmed that the hour had not yet come for the glorious establishment of the messianic kingdom awaited by Israel⁵⁶² which, according to the prophets, was to bring all men the definitive order of justice, love and peace.⁵⁶³According to the Lord, the present time is the time of the Spirit and of witness, but also a time still marked by “distress” and the trial of evil which does not spare the Church⁵⁶⁴ and ushers in the struggles of the last days. It is a time of waiting and watching.

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Revelation 21:1-27 ESV

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

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Apocalypse (ἀποκάλυψις, apokálypsis) is a Greek word meaning “revelation”, “an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling”

Some Thoughts: The Kingdom of God is at hand, right here and right now we can have a share of it, even if not fully revealed yet. Only by staying within the refuge of the Immaculate heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, can we focus on the mission at hand (Do whatever He tells you.)

Truth, Beauty and Goodness

30. The caress of a Mother

December 26, 1973

Feast of Saint Stephen

“(…) How I love you, my son, and what love of predilection I have for you! You must accustom yourself to understand this in so many little things: in so many circumstances which are hardly noticed. Such as today: the splendid bright day which I have given you. The blue of the clear skies, the luminous brightness of the snow caressed by the sun. The colour of my heavenly mantle under which I ever protect you; the white of my most pure robe with which I wish to cover you.

These simple things are like the caress of a Mother for you… Entrust yourself more and more to Me; do you not see that now I alone am your life? Pray now for your brothers: for the Priests of my Movement. Today, whatever you ask for them I will grant you.

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Pray; profit from this time of rest to enter more deeply into my Heart. Transform every moment of your day into a colloquy with Me: I want to hear your voice, my son! Turn everything into a prayer.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

2500 The practice of goodness is accompanied by spontaneous spiritual joy and moral beauty. Likewise, truth carries with it the joy and splendor of spiritual beauty. Truth is beautiful in itself. Truth in words, the rational expression of the knowledge of created and uncreated reality, is necessary to man, who is endowed with intellect. But truth can also find other complementary forms of human expression, above all when it is a matter of evoking what is beyond words: the depths of the human heart, the exaltations of the soul, the mystery of God. Even before revealing himself to man in words of truth, God reveals himself to him through the universal language of creation, the work of his Word, of his wisdom: the order and harmony of the cosmos – which both the child and the scientist discover – “from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator,” “for the author of beauty created them.”²⁸

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things.

Some Thoughts: In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us that the Kingdom of God is at hand, it was true then when He walked the earth, and it is not any less true today that He abides in us. We need to put on new eyes though, we need to look beyond the darkness and see His Light. Look for it wherever it may be found. Gather with others that carry it, seek it by focusing on the good, the true and the beautiful wherever it may be found.

Complete Joy

29. The triumph of my Immaculate Heart

Dongo, December 1973

“This morning, my son, you came with your mother to my Sanctuary, before the image of Our Lady of the Tears. (… ) I have chosen you from your infancy and have always led you by the hand. Never have I ever abandoned you, even when my Adversary attacked you and snatched you from Me, and was then sure of having conquered once for all. Because of this you have had to suffer much; you have had to walk often in darkness and abandonment, almost despairing that I had heard your wails and your cries for help.

But all this was part of my great plan: you seem now to have some glimpse of it, and your heart is filled with joy. But that which is most beautiful, most important, my son, is yet to come. I have chosen you and prepared you for the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the world, and these are the years when I will bring my plan to completion.

It will be a cause of amazement even to the Angels of God; a joy to the Saints in Heaven; a consolation and great comfort for all the just on earth; mercy and salvation for a great number of my straying children; a severe and definitive condemnation of Satan and his many followers. In fact at the very moment when Satan will be enthroned as lord of the world and will think himself now the sure victor, I myself will snatch the prey from his hands. As if by magic he will find himself empty-handed and in the end the victory will be exclusively my Son’s and mine: this will be the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the world.

The wisdom of the heart

If all the Priests of my Movement only knew with what care they have been chosen and moulded by Me to prepare them for this great task! Every detail of their life-even the most insignificant-has a precise and profound meaning. Therefore let each one become accustomed to read with Me in the stupendous book of their own existence.

I will give them the gift of Wisdom of heart, and they will understand with Me the reason for all that concerns them. The reason for much of their lack of understanding; the reason for their sufferings, the reason for those times when they were abandoned, and even the reason for their falls. Oh, how many moments of darkness and of agony they must have had to experience in their lives, these beloved sons of mine!

But these have been for them necessary and fruitful moments: because I was thus able to take greater possession of them; because I could detach them from their way of seeing, from their way of feeling, from their easy attachment to things, to results, to goods, to success; so that they would learn to be mine, to live only for Me by carrying out my wishes. I have wanted them to have, as it were, the impression that they were good for nothing, to be considered of little value. I have given them the great gift of humility of heart, of childlikeness of spirit, so that they might feel themselves as mine alone and thus lose their dependence and reliance on everything else but Me alone. Yet it will be with these poor children of mine, mocked and trampled on, that I will realize my great plan. That is why each one must entrust himself totally to Me at every moment: I will speak to them and tell them my desires.

Do not be afraid of the difficulties and the misunderstandings you will encounter along the way. I will always be with you and you, in spite of everything, will always be joyous.

To win the battle which is approaching I want to give you a weapon: prayer. Forget everything else and form the habit of using nothing but this weapon. The crucial times have come and there is no longer any time for certain vain and superfluous things. There is no more time for useless discussions, there is no more time for chatter and projects: this is the time for prayer!

Priests of my Movement, offer yourselves to Me so that I myself, in you and with you, may always pray and intercede with my Son for the salvation of the world. I have need of you and of your prayer to realize the great plan of the triumph of my Immaculate Heart.

(Catechism of the Catholic Church)

736 By this power of the Spirit, God’s children can bear much fruit. He who has grafted us onto the true vine will make us bear “the fruit of the Spirit: . . . love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”¹²⁹ “We live by the Spirit”; the more we renounce ourselves, the more we “walk by the Spirit.”¹³⁰

Through the Holy Spirit we are restored to paradise, led back to the Kingdom of heaven, and adopted as children, given confidence to call God “Father” and to share in Christ’s grace, called children of light and given a share in eternal glory.¹³¹

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New International Version

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The Vine and the Branches

1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes ^a so that it will be even more fruitful. 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

5“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

9“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command. 15I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17This is my command: Love each other.

The World Hates the Disciples

18“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.20Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ ^b If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’ ^c

The Work of the Holy Spirit

26“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. 27And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.

Some Thoughts: We need to unite ourselves to Jesus, totally and completely, now more than ever…and through Him, we become united with all who are united with Him…His Blessed Mother, the Saints in Heaven, the Holy Angels, and all still in the struggle here on earth. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Refuge from the Great Reset

28. The spirit of rebellion against God

December 1, 1973

First Saturday of the Month

“Begin this new liturgical year with much prayer. In my Heart you will find the safe refuge from the many troubles of the life of today. Troubles, anguish and tribulation are bound to increase from day to day, because humanity, redeemed by my Son, is withdrawing ever more and more from God, and transgressing his laws.The Demon of lust has contaminated everything: my poor children, how sick and stricken you are!The Spirit of rebellion against God has seduced humanity; atheism has entered into so many souls and has completely extinguished the light of faith and Love.

This is the Red Dragon spoken of in the Bible. Read it, my sons, because the present times are those of its realization! How many of my children are already victims of this error of Satan! Even among my Priests how many there are who no longer believe; and yet they still remain in my Church, true wolves in sheep’s clothing, and they are bringing to ruin a countless number of souls!

Nothing can now hold back the hand of God’s justice, which will soon be roused against Satan and his followers, as a result of the love, the prayer and the suffering of the elect.Times of great indescribable tribulation are in preparation: if men only knew, perhaps they would repent!

But who has listened to my messages, who has understood the meaning of my tears, of my motherly requests? Almost no one, but a few unknown souls thanks to whom the chastisement has again been put off. But this year will not end before a great sign is accomplished.

Pray, pray, pray, O you souls chosen by Me and prepared so maternally by Me. Above all, you, my Priests: forsake vain and superfluous things. These are times of emergency: you must live only with Me, in Me, for Me.

Be vigilant, be ready: soon I will have need of you, because the time of my triumph has arrived.”

Atheism (Catechism of the Catholic Church)

2123 “Many . . . of our contemporaries either do not at all perceive, or explicitly reject, this intimate and vital bond of man to God. Atheism must therefore be regarded as one of the most serious problems of our time.”⁵⁸

2124 The name “atheism” covers many very different phenomena. One common form is the practical materialism which restricts its needs and aspirations to space and time. Atheistic humanism falsely considers man to be “an end to himself, and the sole maker, with supreme control, of his own history.”⁵⁹ Another form of contemporary atheism looks for the liberation of man through economic and social liberation. “It holds that religion, of its very nature, thwarts such emancipation by raising man’s hopes in a future life, thus both deceiving him and discouraging him from working for a better form of life on earth.”⁶⁰

2125 Since it rejects or denies the existence of God, atheism is a sin against the virtue of religion.⁶¹ The imputability of this offense can be significantly diminished in virtue of the intentions and the circumstances. “Believers can have more than a little to do with the rise of atheism. To the extent that they are careless about their instruction in the faith, or present its teaching falsely, or even fail in their religious, moral, or social life, they must be said to conceal rather than to reveal the true nature of God and of religion.“⁶²

2126 Atheism is often based on a false conception of human autonomy, exaggerated to the point of refusing any dependence on God.⁶³ Yet, “to acknowledge God is in no way to oppose the dignity of man, since such dignity is grounded and brought to perfection in God. . . . “⁶⁴ “For the Church knows full well that her message is in harmony with the most secret desires of the human heart.”⁶⁵

My Thoughts: We are in the beginning stages of the ‘great reset’, the attempt to purge God from the souls of man is well in the works. Pray and Obey!