Author: Essy Dias

27. Only for my Son Jesus

November 27, 1973

Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Catherine Laboure

“I want all the Priests of my Movement to rely on Me as little children. They must no longer think of themselves; I want to take care of them myself I will grant all their requests and satisfy their deepest desires. They must no longer live for themselves; not even as regards their priestly activity, which absorbs them so much, tires them, and consumes them, but leaves them empty and far from Me.

On the contrary, they must live only for my Son Jesus, carrying out the Gospel to the letter. For this, they must live only for Me, with Me. I alone will be able to form them to an ever greater unity of mind and of heart with my Son Jesus; I will have them act solely for Him, as though led by the hand by Me and under the sweet influence of my inspiration. They will then be still doing the same things, but in how different a manner! And because these same things will be done by them in union with Me, I will manifest myself in them, and through them I will be able to carry out my great plan of salvation.

But it is necessary for Me that these Priests become ever increasingly mine: in silence, in prayer, in humility, in equanimity. How beautiful it is when they speak of Me, but it is even more pleasing to my Heart when they live Me. I want to live again in them so as to be once again as a Mother in the midst of my children. Let them be docile, humble, and kind toward all, especially toward those who are furthest away, who are lost, who are despairing.

I want to give them my Heart; for this they must accustom themselves to live always in my motherly Heart. Let them worry about nothing: for the rest, for all the rest, I myself will provide so that my great and loving plan may be realized.”2599

“2599: The Son of God who became Son of the Virgin also learned to pray according to his human heart. He learns the formulas of prayer from his mother, who kept in her heart and meditated upon all the “great things” done by the Almighty.⁴¹ He learns to pray in the words and rhythms of the prayer of his people, in the synagogue at Nazareth and the Temple at Jerusalem. But his prayer springs from an otherwise secret source, as he intimates at the age of twelve: “I must be in my Father’s house.”⁴² Here the newness of prayer in the fullness of time begins to be revealed: his filial prayer, which the Father awaits from his children, is finally going to be lived out by the only Son in his humanity, with and for men.”  __Catechism of the Catholic Church

Prayer as communion

2565 In the New Covenant, prayer is the living relationship of the children of God with their Father who is good beyond measure, with his Son Jesus Christ and with the Holy Spirit. The grace of the Kingdom is “the union of the entire holy and royal Trinity . . . with the whole human spirit.”¹² Thus, the life of prayer is the habit of being in the presence of the thrice-holy God and in communion with him. This communion of life is always possible because, through Baptism, we have already been united with Christ.¹³ Prayer is Christian insofar as it is communion with Christ and extends throughout the Church, which is his Body. Its dimensions are those of Christ’s love.^{14  Catechism of the Catholic Church}

26. The Demon fears and hates them

November 14, 1973

“(…) I am for you a Mother, kind and jealous, vigilant and terrible against the Evil One who wants to do you harm. I will send my Angels to guard and protect you from every danger and from every snare which the Evil One sets for you (…).

Let all the Priests of my Movement know how much the Devil dreads them and hates them, and how much they will have to suffer because of his plots. Now the Evil One is beginning to suspect something. And he will rage about with ever increasing fury. But I will be with my Priests to protect and defend them.

They will not be touched,,-, -not even a hair of their head, because they are my beloved sons and I am now forming them and bringing them up; I am preparing them so that they will be strong), and invincible at the hour of the decisive battle.I love them, I keep them in my Heart, one by one; I protect them, I bless them.

Prayer of Our Lady Acheropita:

Blessed Virgin, Mother of God and our Mother –
Acheropita,
Turn your gaze upon ourselves and our families.

Throughout the centuries, your miracles and apparitions,
Have shown you are always the Mediatrix.

Have compassion upon us and relieve the difficulties
in which we currently find ourselves
and mitigate the sadness and bitterness of our lives.

Thou, crowned Queen, at the right hand of your Son,
Full of immortal glory, you can assist us in our need.

May all that is in us and around us,
Receive your maternal blessing.
Queen Acheropita!

Oh! Let us dedicate our whole lives to you
and give honor to you for your service to our brothers.

We request your maternal goodness
and the grace that we may live under your constant protection,
comforted in our trials and freed from these present troubles.

With confidence we can repeat,
That none turn to thee in vain that have called upon you
with the title “Acheropita.”

Amen.

II. THE FALL OF THE ANGELS

391 Behind the disobedient choice of our first parents lurks a seductive voice, opposed to God, which makes them fall into death out of envy.²⁶⁶ Scripture and the Church’s Tradition see in this being a fallen angel, called “Satan” or the “devil”.²⁶⁷ The Church teaches that Satan was at first a good angel, made by God: “The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing.”²⁶⁸

392 Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels.²⁶⁹ This “fall” consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. We find a reflection of that rebellion in the tempter’s words to our first parents: “You will be like God.”²⁷⁰ The devil “has sinned from the beginning”; he is “a liar and the father of lies”.²⁷¹

393 It is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect in the infinite divine mercy, that makes the angels’ sin unforgivable. “There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death.“²⁷²

394 Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls “a murderer from the beginning”, who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his Father.²⁷³ “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.”²⁷⁴ In its consequences the gravest of these works was the mendacious seduction that led man to disobey God.

395 The power of Satan is, nonetheless, not infinite. He is only a creature, powerful from the fact that he is pure spirit, but still a creature. He cannot prevent the building up of God’s reign. Although Satan may act in the world out of hatred for God and his kingdom in Christ Jesus, and although his action may cause grave injuries – of a spiritual nature and, indirectly, even of a physical nature- to each man and to society, the action is permitted by divine providence which with strength and gentleness guides human and cosmic history. It is a great mystery that providence should permit diabolical activity, but “we know that in everything God works for good with those who love him.”²⁷⁵

25. My faithful cohort

November 1, 1973

Feast of All Saints

“I want every Priest of my Movement and every Priest who has consecrated himself to Me to pray, suffer and work in order to bring Me back once again into the midst of my faithful.

Today more than ever, he who finds Me will have found life and will receive salvation from the Lord. My Adversary fears only this. He will make every effort to remove Me even further from the hearts of my faithful, in order to keep Me even more Obscured in the Church. He is now engaging in his greatest battle against Me, the decisive one, in which one of us will be defeated forever.

At the moment, from many indications, it seems as though my Adversary is the victor; but the time of my greatest return and of my total victory is at hand. In the decisive battle, I want my Priest-sons to be with Me. They will be led by Me, they will be docile to my orders, obedient to my wishes, responsive to my requests. (…) I will manifest myself in them and through them I will act to strike at the heart of my enemy and to crush his head with my heel.

But these Priests must now begin to act; through them I want to return to the midst of my faithful , because it is with them, gathered about my Priests, that I want to form my invincible cohort.

Of the faithful, who are supporters of my Movement, I ask:

–That they consecrate themselves in a special way to my Immaculate Heart, without being concerned for external or juridical bonds, but only for giving themselves completely to Me, so that I may dispose freely of their whole being and arrange their whole life according to my plans.

They must let themselves be led by Me, like little children. They must begin again to pray more, to love Jesus more, to adore Him more in the Mystery of the Eucharist, so that He become the Sun which illuminates their whole life. What JOY and what a gift of love will Jesus in the Eucharist communicate to these faithful who are consecrated to Me! Let them recite the Holy Rosary every day so as to hasten my great return.

–That they be faithful to the Pope and to the Church united with him, by a total obedience to his commands, anticipating and seconding his desires, spreading his teachings, defending him from every attack, ready to fight even to the shedding of their blood in order to remain united to him and faithful to the Gospel.There will soon come a time when only those who are with the Pope will succeed in keeping the faith of my Son and being preserved from the great apostasy that will be spread everywhere.

–That they must observe the Commandments of God and carry out everything that my Son Jesus has taught so that they may be his true disciples. Thus they will be a good example to all. Let them be just that especially by an austere manner of life, by repudiating styles which are ever increasingly provocative and indecent, by opposing in every way possible the spread of immoral literature and entertainment and this continual flooding from a sea of filth that is submerging everything. Let them be a good example to all by their purity, their sobriety and their modesty. Let them flee all those places where the sacred character of their person is defiled.

Let them form about the Priests myfaithful cohort, my great ‘White Army.’ Through them my light Will once again shine in the midst of the great darkness, and my immaculate whiteness in the midst of so much corruption of death.

These faithful children of mine will be called by Me and formed for this great task: to prepare this world for the great purification which awaits it, so that at last a new world may be born, completely renewed by the light and the love of my Son Jesus, who will reign over all.

The vocation of lay people

898 “By reason of their special vocation it belongs to the laity to seek the kingdom of God by engaging in temporal affairs and directing them according to God’s will. . . . It pertains to them in a special way so to illuminate and order all temporal things with which they are closely associated that these may always be effected and grow according to Christ and maybe to the glory of the Creator and Redeemer.”⁴³¹

899 The initiative of lay Christians is necessary especially when the matter involves discovering or inventing the means for permeating social, political, and economic realities with the demands of Christian doctrine and life. This initiative is a normal element of the life of the Church:

Lay believers are in the front line of Church life; for them the Church is the animating principle of human society. Therefore, they in particular ought to have an ever-clearer consciousness not only of belonging to the Church, but of being the Church, that is to say, the community of the faithful on earth under the leadership of the Pope, the common Head, and of the bishops in communion with him. They are the Church.⁴³²

900 Since, like all the faithful, lay Christians are entrusted by God with the apostolate by virtue of their Baptism and Confirmation, they have the right and duty, individually or grouped in associations, to work so that the divine message of salvation may be known and accepted by all men throughout the earth. This duty is the more pressing when it is only through them that men can hear the Gospel and know Christ. Their activity in ecclesial communities is so necessary that, for the most part, the apostolate of the pastors cannot be fully effective without it.⁴³³

22. The light of the Gospel

October 20, 1973

“You see how everything wearies You and leaves you with a certain emptiness when you do not do everything with Me.

And you ask yourself ‘But why does this strange thing happen to me? Are not these perchance the very things that used to so captivate me and completely absorb me? What has now happened to me?’ What has happened to you, my son, is the great and decisive fact of your consecration to Me. This act has been taken seriously by Me and it has in itself the capacity of truly changing and transforming your whole life. With the act of consecration you have put your life in my hands: now it belongs to Me, it is mine. I have taken possession of it and now, bit by bit, I am transforming it according to my will.

Gently will I lead you to that perfection which is pleasing to my Heart and little by little I will transform you into a very faithful image of my Son Jesus. I will give you a new way of seeing things: you will see with my own eyes. Everything that is of the world will no longer be able to interest you; it will even leave within you a profound sadness. You will say of these things: ‘How vain they are, how useless!’

Yet how many of your brothers let themselves be led and dominated by them: they look on things as the world does, they live for the world, thereby uselessly wasting the gift of their life. I will also give you a new way of feeling: you will feel according to my Heart. Thus your capacity to love and to suffer will become extraordinarily more powerful, because you will feel, my son, as the Heart of your Mother feels! What grief you will feel for so many who today render vain the redemption of my Son. all those who, through no fault of their own, are straying because they are unsuspecting victims of these errors. What boundless apprehension you will have for so many of your brother-Priests who, abandoning Jesus and Me, are no longer faithful to the Gospel: they become propagators of many errors, they feel and judge as the world feels and judges. They have already apostatised in their hearts, but they can still be saved. They can still be saved by Me.

I will also give you a new way of thinking: you will think according to the Heart of Jesus and my motherly Heart, seeing everything in God and as God sees, according to the Spirit of Wisdom. I will give you Wisdom of heart. Well now: the Priests of my Movement must all be like this. Because they have consecrated themselves to Me, they must feel, see and think as I do, together with Me, because I want to take complete possession of their life, I want to transform it, and make of it an image of my Son Jesus, the First Born of so many other sons of mine.

They must let themselves be formed by Me, as little children, with much trust and abandonment! Then through them the light of the Gospel will shine anew in this world so filled with darkness. (…)

Some Thoughts:

We who are the Body of Christ are one in Him, so this consecration or uniting ourselves to Mary or any of the saints in heaven is merely a formality…to the true Christian it is already a reality. It is the Communion of Saints. The Saints Triumphant in union with the Militant Saints…those of us still in the struggle.

The thing that needs to be accomplished now is to bring others into ‘unity’ with us also. Our unity is not like the world’s unity. It is not Communism, It is a unity that comes from within not forced from the outside. We are given a new way of seeing, feeling and thinking. A new world view which is so at odds with today’s society. So an invitation into this unity is an invitation to the Cross, but it is truly the only way to true freedom.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

738 Thus the Church’s mission is not an addition to that of Christ and the Holy Spirit, but is its sacrament: in her whole being and in all her members, the Church is sent to announce, bear witness, make present, and spread the mystery of the communion of the Holy Trinity (the topic of the next article):

All of us who have received one and the same Spirit, that is, the Holy Spirit, are in a sense blended together with one another and with God. For if Christ, together with the Father’s and his own Spirit, comes to dwell in each of us, though we are many, still the Spirit is one and undivided. He binds together the spirits of each and every one of us, . . . and makes all appear as one in him. For just as the power of Christ’s sacred flesh unites those in whom it dwells into one body, I think that in the same way the one and undivided Spirit of God, who dwells in all, leads all into spiritual unity.¹³³

739 Because the Holy Spirit is the anointing of Christ, it is Christ who, as the head of the Body, pours out the Spirit among his members to nourish, heal, and organize them in their mutual functions, to give them life, send them to bear witness, and associate them to his self-offering to the Father and to his intercession for the whole world. Through the Church’s sacraments, Christ communicates his Holy and sanctifying Spirit to the members of his Body. (This will be the topic of Part Two of the Catechism.)

21 (cont.) I will give them a new purity 

But mine is also an Immaculate Heart, that is to say, a motherly Heart that has never been tarnished by any shadow, by any sin, limpid as a spring, clear as light. And now, it is itself, as it were, submerged in all the mire that has submerged the hearts and the souls of so many of my children.

Truly the Demon of corruption, the Spirit of lust has seduced all the nations of the World! Not one of them is any longer preserved. This veil of death is spread out over the world and souls are being defiled, even before they awaken to the knowledge of life.  The Priests of my Movement must restore purity in souls and fight firmly against the Demon of lust in all its manifestations.

They must combat styles that are more and more indecent and provocative; they must combat the press that publicises evil and entertainment which ruins morals. They must struggle against the prevalent mentality that legitimizes and justifies everything, and against current morality that permits everything.

Above all, my Priests will have to be pure, very pure! I myself will cover them with my immaculate mantle and I will make them new men, Priests who are upright and spotless. To those who have fallen I will give a new purity; I will call them to a second and more beautiful innocence of repentance and love.

I want it to be the Movement of my Priests which will bring back the fragrance of purity to the world: for it is only on the billow of this perfume that my Son Jesus will once again become the King of hearts and of souls.

This, my beloved Priests, is what it means to be consecrated to Me: it means to Live for Me, it means to perceive things as I do, to love and to suffer with Me in preparation for the great moments that are awaiting you.”

CHAPTER TWO (Catechism of the Catholic Church)
“YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF”

ARTICLE 9
THE NINTH COMMANDMENT

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor’s.²⁹⁹Every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.³⁰⁰

2514 St. John distinguishes three kinds of covetousness or concupiscence: lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life.³⁰¹ In the Catholic catechetical tradition, the ninth commandment forbids carnal concupiscence; the tenth forbids coveting another’s goods.

2515 Etymologically, “concupiscence” can refer to any intense form of human desire. Christian theology has given it a particular meaning: the movement of the sensitive appetite contrary to the operation of the human reason. The apostle St. Paul identifies it with the rebellion of the “flesh” against the “spirit.”³⁰² Concupiscence stems from the disobedience of the first sin. It unsettles man’s moral faculties and, without being in itself an offense, inclines man to commit sins.³⁰³

2516 Because man is a composite being, spirit and body, there already exists a certain tension in him; a certain struggle of tendencies between “spirit” and “flesh” develops. But in fact this struggle belongs to the heritage of sin. It is a consequence of sin and at the same time a confirmation of it. It is part of the daily experience of the spiritual battle:

For the Apostle it is not a matter of despising and condemning the body which with the spiritual soul constitutes man’s nature and personal subjectivity. Rather, he is concerned with the morally good or badworks, or better, the permanent dispositions – virtues and vices – which are the fruit of submission (in the first case) or of resistance (in the second case) to the saving action of the Holy Spirit. For this reason the Apostle writes: “If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.”³⁰⁴

I. PURIFICATION OF THE HEART

2517 The heart is the seat of moral personality: “Out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication. . . . “³⁰⁵ The struggle against carnal covetousness entails purifying the heart and practicing temperance:

Remain simple and innocent, and you will be like little children who do not know the evil that destroys man’s life.³⁰⁶

2518 The sixth beatitude proclaims, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”³⁰⁷ “Pure in heart” refers to those who have attuned their intellects and wills to the demands of God’s holiness, chiefly in three areas: charity;³⁰⁸ chastity or sexual rectitude;³⁰⁹ love of truth and orthodoxy of faith.³¹⁰ There is a connection between purity of heart, of body, and of faith:

The faithful must believe the articles of the Creed “so that by believing they may obey God, by obeying may live well, by living well may purify their hearts, and with pure hearts may understand what they believe.”³¹¹

2519 The “pure in heart” are promised that they will see God face to face and be like him.³¹² Purity of heart is the precondition of the vision of God. Even now it enables us to see according to God, to accept others as “neighbors”; it lets us perceive the human body – ours and our neighbor’s – as a temple of the Holy Spirit, a manifestation of divine beauty.

II. THE BATTLE FOR PURITY

2520 Baptism confers on its recipient the grace of purification from all sins. But the baptized must continue to struggle against concupiscence of the flesh and disordered desires. With God’s grace he will prevail

– by the virtue and gift of chastity, for chastity lets us love with upright and undivided heart;

– by purity of intention which consists in seeking the true end of man: with simplicity of vision, the baptized person seeks to find and to fulfill God’s will in everything;³¹³

– by purity of vision, external and internal; by discipline of feelings and imagination; by refusing all complicity in impure thoughts that incline us to turn aside from the path of God’s commandments: “Appearance arouses yearning in fools”;³¹⁴

– by prayer:

I thought that continence arose from one’s own powers, which I did not recognize in myself. I was foolish enough not to know . . . that no one can be continent unless you grant it. For you would surely have granted it if my inner groaning had reached your ears and I with firm faith had cast my cares on you.³¹⁵

2521 Purity requires modesty, an integral part of temperance. Modesty protects the intimate center of the person. It means refusing to unveil what should remain hidden. It is ordered to chastity to whose sensitivity it bears witness. It guides how one looks at others and behaves toward them in conformity with the dignity of persons and their solidarity.

2522 Modesty protects the mystery of persons and their love. It encourages patience and moderation in loving relationships; it requires that the conditions for the definitive giving and commitment of man and woman to one another be fulfilled. Modesty is decency. It inspires one’s choice of clothing. It keeps silence or reserve where there is evident risk of unhealthy curiosity. It is discreet.

2523 There is a modesty of the feelings as well as of the body. It protests, for example, against the voyeuristic explorations of the human body in certain advertisements, or against the solicitations of certain media that go too far in the exhibition of intimate things. Modesty inspires a way of life which makes it possible to resist the allurements of fashion and the pressures of prevailing ideologies.

2524 The forms taken by modesty vary from one culture to another. Everywhere, however, modesty exists as an intuition of the spiritual dignity proper to man. It is born with the awakening consciousness of being a subject. Teaching modesty to children and adolescents means awakening in them respect for the human person.

2525 Christian purity requires a purification of the social climate. It requires of the communications media that their presentations show concern for respect and restraint. Purity of heart brings freedom from widespread eroticism and avoids entertainment inclined to voyeurism and illusion.

2526 So called moral permissiveness rests on an erroneous conception of human freedom; the necessary precondition for the development of true freedom is to let oneself be educated in the moral law. Those in charge of education can reasonably be expected to give young people instruction respectful of the truth, the qualities of the heart, and the moral and spiritual dignity of man.

2527 “The Good News of Christ continually renews the life and culture of fallen man; it combats and removes the error and evil which flow from the ever-present attraction of sin. It never ceases to purify and elevate the morality of peoples. It takes the spiritual qualities and endowments of every age and nation, and with supernatural riches it causes them to blossom, as it were, from within; it fortifies, completes, and restores them in Christ.”³¹⁶

IN BRIEF

2528 “Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (Mt 5:28).

2529 The ninth commandment warns against lust or carnal concupiscence.

2530 The struggle against carnal lust involves purifying the heart and practicing temperance.

2531 Purity of heart will enable us to see God: it enables us even now to see things according to God.

2532 Purification of the heart demands prayer, the practice of chastity, purity of intention and of vision.

2533 Purity of heart requires the modesty which is patience, decency, and discretion. Modesty protects the intimate center of the person.

299 Ex 20:17.
300 Mt 5:28.

21. I want to save them

October 16, 1973

“You are now having a time of quiet and I invite You to enter into the intimacy of my immaculate Heart to see what an abyss of love and of sorrow it contains. 

My Heart is the heart of a Mother, a real living heart of a Mother who is real and living for all her children. All men redeemed by my Son are also my children: they are my children in the fullest sense of the word.Even those who are far away, even the sinners, even the atheists, even those who reject God, those who fight against Him and hate Him: they are all my children. And I am a Mother to them. For many of them I am the only Mother they have, the only person who is taking care of them, who truly loves them. And so my Heart is continually consumed with sorrow and with a greater love for these children of mine.

I want to help them, I want to save them because I am their Mother. Because of this I suffer for them, I suffer for their sins, I suffer because they are so far from God, I suffer because they do wrong, I suffer because of all the harm they are doing to themselves. But how to help them? How to save them? I have need of much prayer, I have need of much suffering. Only through the prayer and the suffering of others, of the good and the generous, will I be able to save these children of mine.

And so there is then the Movement of my Priests: it is desired by Me to make reparation for the immense harm caused in souls by atheism, to restore in so many desecrated hearts the image of God, the merciful countenance of my Son Jesus. My Priests are my restorers: they will restore in so many souls the face of God, and thus they will bring back many of my children from death to life. And in this way they will be the true consolers of my Sorrowful Heart.”

Some Thoughts:

Today we are celebrating the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and it was under her patronage that I did my consecration this year…over and over and over since Lent. I apparently needed it. Then it clicked like never before. She IS my mother. My union with Jesus is more intense than ever before.

It saddens me (as it does her) that many not only can’t see her appropriate role in Salvation but actually go about belittling those who do. It is a great sorrow indeed, but it doesn’t detract from the truth of who she is and what assignment God has given to her. That in the Incarnation exists a marriage between heaven and earth…the Divine and the “merely human”. That though Christ, humanity gets elevated and that Mary is the most perfect example of it and a glimpse of what is to come for the church.

As I approached the top of the hill, I saw that I was in paradise, where there was a great variety of exquisite rosas de Castilla, in brilliant dew, which I immediately cut. She had told me that I should bring them to you, and so I do it, so that you may see in them the sign which you asked of me and comply with her wish; also, to make clear the veracity of my word and my message. Behold. Receive them.”

He unfolded his white cloth, where he had the flowers; and when they scattered on the floor, all the different varieties of rosas de Castilla, suddenly there appeared the drawing of the precious Image of the ever-virgin Holy Mary, Mother of God, in the manner as she is today kept in the temple at Tepeyacac, which is named Guadalupe.

969 “This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation . . . . Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.”⁵¹²

970 “Mary’s function as mother of men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. But the Blessed Virgin’s salutary influence on men . . . flows forth from the superabundance of the merits of Christ, rests on his mediation, depends entirely on it, and draws all its power from it.”⁵¹³ “No creature could ever be counted along with the Incarnate Word and Redeemer; but just as the priesthood of Christ is shared in various ways both by his ministers and the faithful, and as the one goodness of God is radiated in different ways among his creatures, so also the unique mediation of the Redeemer does not exclude but rather gives rise to a manifold cooperation which is but a sharing in this one source.”⁵¹⁴

20. A way of acting different from yours

October 13, 1973

Anniversary of the final apparition at Fatima

“Do not be concerned about the spread of the Marian Movement of Priests. Let Me act; trust in Me. Offer Me your prayers and sufferings for this intention. Do not look at the results: my way of acting and of evaluating is so different from yours.

You do not have to be numerous, but you must be holy.
And I will lead you all to great holiness, if you all truly entrust yourselves completely to Me.”

2015 The way of perfection passes by way of the Cross. There is no holiness without renunciation and spiritual battle.⁶⁸ Spiritual progress entails the ascesis and mortification that gradually lead to living in the peace and joy of the Beatitudes:

He who climbs never stops going from beginning to beginning, through beginnings that have no end. He never stops desiring what he already knows.

^{691368 The Eucharist is also the sacrifice of the Church. the Church which is the Body of Christ participates in the offering of her Head. With him, she herself is offered whole and entire. She unites herself to his intercessionwith the Father for all men. In the Eucharist the sacrifice of Christ becomes also the sacrifice of the members of his Body. the lives of the faithful, their praise, sufferings, prayer, and work, are united with those of Christ and with his total offering, and so acquire a new value. Christ’s sacrifice present on the altar makes it possible for all generations of Christians to be united with his offering.}