Author: Essy Dias

You are here in this place where my Son Jesus resides, and where I also am present…

Why have I wanted you up here?

To help you climb your cross, my little one. I will give you great gifts of love and of pain.

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The Mass is the food that will keep us on the treadmill of those gray days, chained without chains to the duty of the moment, for love is not a chain.

Infinite is the grace and strength of participation in the Mass. Daily at the dismissal-_ “Go in peace, the Mass is ended”_ we are reminded that the mandate of the Lord is to live his Mass, ours, in the marketplaces of the world! How could we implement this mandate unless he himself was our strength? Has Christ not said, “Without me you can do nothing”? How lavishly he gives us this strength in the Mass giving us himself–the bread of the saints.

Grace in Every Season (April 18)

Great gifts for the journey… but wait… of love and of PAIN? How is pain a gift you might ask. Well, one way is in how it illuminates us to our own sins, errors and attachments.

Sometimes we can drift off so slowly and calmly that it’s barely noticeable until our awareness is brought to it. It’s painful to realize what has happened… but no one can deny that awareness even if painful, is a good thing.

So also the different pain points in our lives. It brings attention to areas that we might have allowed to just drift.

This is where frequent Mass participation comes in, we offer up, and unite these sufferings to His on the Cross and we partake of the Sacraments that bestow grace for true healing and strength to now do as we should… live in love and obedience! It helps us to stop drifting.

Do not think about yourselves any longer; do not be worried about anything; let yourselves be carried by me, one and all. I need only your trust; I want only your complete abandonment to me.

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Charity serves and denies itself constantly, and makes the road smooth for others, while shouldering the hardships oneself, as much as possible.

Charity also knows when to say no.

Grace in Every Season (April 17)

Novena of Abandonment

When we abandon ourselves completely to Jesus, Mary and Joseph, it always leads us to a greater fullness of love for others. They show us how to love like them!

O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything!

In times of anguish, how comforting for the Heart of my Son was this nature, prostrate, as it were, at his feet: the sun with its light, the charming countryside of Galilee with its flowers, with its songs with its warm and golden harvest and the lovely mirror of the great lake.

Everything spoke in harmony, as it were, with the great prayer of my Son Jesus, with his ardent thirst for solitude, with his natural desire of living in the company of his Father.

How many today, on these same shores, live forgetful of God, submerged in a new paganism, and offend Him, ungrateful for this great gift of his.

But here, in these same places, many of my little children love and console Him.

Your presence, my son, should be like an act of reparation. It must therefore be a presence of love and of prayer, a presence of life with me.

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We must be Christians who “work out” day by day, hour by hour, the life of Christ from Bethlehem to Gethsemane and the resurrection. All this adds up simply to one little word. We must love.

We must love with our burden of emotions, of miseries, of doubts, confusions, and temptations, because they are the door through which we are going to the Parousia. The door is cruciform, true, but it is bearable if we have the faith that is necessary to accept it as lived this very moment, this very day, in the resurrected Christ.

He is the Christ who is with us at our computers, our laundry, our meals, our darknesses and lights, our little hurts and our big days. It is “with him, in him, and through him” that we are going to know the elusive happiness which escapes all those who do not believe in him.

Grace in Every Season (April 16)

Today is Divine Mercy Sunday, a day set aside for us to receive all that Jesus died to give to us. What He did, He did for all … but we need to be willing to accept it. That’s our part in this great cooperation with Heaven!

In order to receive the great promises of Divine Mercy, we merely need to Confess our sins and receive Holy Communion. Such simple steps for such a life giving gift.

Your presence, my son, should be like an act of reparation. It must therefore be a presence of love and of prayer, a presence of life with me.

Once we have a clean slate and Jesus abiding within us, we are invited to live this great harmony of heaven and earth, very similar to what our first parents experienced living in God’s presence.

Be only and ever my little child, in need of everything, rejoicing to receive everything from me in all simplicity…

The sun, the sea, nature: all is a gift to you from the Heavenly Father; all is made holy by the presence and the joy of my Son Jesus.

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Let us take holy simplicity for a guide. Let us rest on her breast even as a child. Let her guide our steps, our lives, our prayers. Like the blade of grass, let us pierce the dark, wet earth of our fears, and lose fear, secure in simple faith. Like the snow melting under the spring sun, let our thousand imaginary needs melt away, leaving us free from all the gadgets we think we need and yet need not.

Like the spring, let us dance on the golden days of our newfound freedom in God, and go about doing his will in our smallness and joyousness, loving the world and him with a love that asks nothing but to love more.

Grace in Every Season (April 14)

Down the scented country road, the bells of the little white church rang out the thousand alleluias of an Easter morning, like a choir of children unexpectedly released from school. There was joy in the world, for love had risen from the dead.

Are we part of that joy? Do we remember how to be joyous? Or have we lost joy, along with so much else? Perhaps it is because we have lost simplicity.

The virtue needed above all others today is simplicity, that holy, childlike, joyous simplicity that walks in humble, strong faith, that sees clearly, acts resolutely, and lives in love. We have become too complex to live with ourselves, or our neighbors or even with God.

Grace in Every Season (April 13)

Therefore, no longer fix your attention on time; do not be even reckoning on the time of my triumph. Live simply in surrender and trust, like my little children, in my Immaculate Heart.”

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Never, even for an instant, feel yourselves alone and without me. Sons consecrated to my Heart, I am your Mother who today gives you the gift of her habitual presence at the side of each one of you.

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How clearly the early Christians understood that each Sunday was a “little Easter,” that each was a Parousia, which means the Second Coming of Christ, for in each Sunday Mass Christ comes again in the Eucharist.

Grace in Every Season (April 12)

It’s so easy for some of us to slip into feeling alone, rejected, despised. That’s not from God and we need to do everything in our power to fight it according to God’s Will, or it will drag us into a pit.

Jesus knowing full well that the enemy would tempt us in this manner, left us Himself in the Eucharist, and the entire Body of Christ to keep us company and to see us through this vale of tears.

Our part? We need to reach out when we can, or merely accept the invitation when it’s being extended to us.

After a great upheaval and the purification of the earth, my Immaculate Heart will sing of its victory in the greatest triumph of God.

It is for this moment, my beloved priests, that I have called you one by one from all parts of the world and have made you ready.

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Now the world lives in the resurrected Christ. Whether men and women know it or not, the world has changed; it and the cosmos are now living, existing in the Lord of history, of eternity, of time, and of love. And not only the church is on pilgrimage toward the Parousia, the Second Coming, but so are all men and women and all the world, and all that surrounds God’s world.

Grace in Every Season (April 11)

I often hear people getting hanged up on when this will all happen. That this smells of Millennialism, which the Catholic Church rejects.

Personally, I choose to see it as my own journey. That when I opt to unite myself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and allow her to help me unite more intensely with her Son… then I’m living and breathing the Triumph. That even though I most likely won’t fully experience it on this side of heaven, I can have a taste of it right now! It’s called, living in Grace! This is why Jesus left us His church and Sacraments.

‘Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven’. Is not just a longing prayer for some unknown future time. We can make it happen right this minute. By constantly uniting ourselves with His Divine Will.

There are some among you who are still caught up in the temptation of doubt and criticism. After all I have done for you. Do not grieve my Heart by your doubt, by your incredulity. Have you not yet learned to let yourselves be guided by me? Overcome this temptation by prayer.

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When we are absolutely down, we cry, “Father, Father, why have you forsaken me?” The echo of our voice is in our ears. This echo is something that moves us up the mountain of the Lord very quickly. The Lord stands on the mountain and says, “Friend, come higher,” and we are crying to his Father, “Why have you forsaken me?” But if, in total trust and utter faith, hope and love, we really bend close to the ground, and continue to appeal to the Father, our voice becomes lower and lower until it becomes a whisper, until we are silent. As we move up the mountain of the Lord we suddenly understand what is happening to us: we are entering into the resurrection of Christ.

Grace in Every Season (April 10)

We give to Him our doubts, our hurts, our feelings of rejection and abandonment. We keep uttering prayers that are filled with faith, hope and love. Fully confident that what He has done for us before, He will do so again.

This then is your hour, and this is why I am calling you to nothing but prayer, suffering and a total immolation of yourselves. Forget every other preoccupation, and entrust yourselves to me; and by your great love, second this plan of my Immaculate Heart.

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A person who is a gossip is a frustrated personality, often a mousy creature who passes unnoticed, but actually craves to be the center of attention, at the price of anybody’s reputation. It is a pathological state. It is the only sin for which the church demands public restitution. The only way to restore a reputation is to publicly announce that the gossip is untrue. It is interesting to note that in civil law, one can sue a person for defamation of character, that is for gossip. Listening to gossip is participating in it. If there were no listeners, there would be no gossip.

Grace in Every Season (April 7)

I’ve mentioned in previous blog posts, the need to shut our eyes to the world. Well, apparently we need to shut our ears and mouth too. This gossip mentality that is so pervasive, is no longer just coming from the neighborhood busybodies of old, but has infiltrated all types of media and thereby has easy access to all of us.

We may be thinking that it’s ok because the ones being talked about are public figures, either political, religious or from the entertainment industry. But how much are we our selves contributing to the ugliness by bringing evil and vulgarity to light and rehashing it over and over? We keep supplying those necessary ‘clicks’ that keep these gossip mongers in business.

We need to try to promote what we love instead of bashing what we hate. It’s not always easy… the temptation is there and I for one fall often. But we have to keep trying to not get enmeshed with the swamp. If you keep stirring poop, you’re going to start to stink. 😉

Even if this hour is one of darkness, you are called by me to reflect the light of the Will and the plan of the Father. You will be called to bear witness to the fatherhood and the merciful love of God.

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This is the moment of joy. It doesn’t matter that it might be also the moment of pain. Joy overcomes pain, because now we suddenly know that all the while we were in darkness, knocking at all kinds of doors, Christ was there. So we stopped knocking and fell prostrate before his face.

Grace in Every Season (April 6)

We are Good News people, so we need to start acting like it. Satan wants us to look deep into his eyes, Jesus says don’t … you belong to ME!

Yes, there’s darkness all around us… we aren’t being called to pretend otherwise… or to suddenly go blind, deaf and dumb. We see it, we feel it… and it’s tempting to draw us in at every opportunity. Jesus wants to show us a brighter more attractive way, but we do need to shut our eyes to the ways of the world and see only Him.

By focusing on current events it makes us want to run for the hills. By focusing on Jesus, we are able to hear His call clearly, and see where we are needed. There in service to others is where we will find grace flowing in abundance.