9. The heart of my Priests
July 29, 1973
“Be ever in my Heart and, at each moment, you will find peace. Do not be worried about what you are to do!
One who has consecrated himself to Me belongs totally to Me. He cannot, at any moment of the day, decide freely what he is to do with himself. If you remain with Me, I myself will tell you at every moment what I would like you to do, and then whatever you do will always be according to my will. I myself will take you by the hand and together we shall do everything. With you, I am like a mother who is teaching its child to take its first steps.
Now that I have snatched you definitively away from my Enemy, you are now taking the first steps along the road of love: how necessary it is that I stay with you! I am so very much a Mother for you; I am also very jealous of you, just as I am a good but jealous Mother for all the Priests of my Movement.
They must understand that to belong to the Movement nothing external nor any juridical act is necessary: what is indispensable however is an interior consecration of one’s whole self, and the total offering of their Priesthood to my Immaculate Heart.
Tell them that this is all I ask of them, this is what I want of them. Tell them that this is the first and most important thing they must do to belong to my Priestly Movement. Tell them to entrust themselves to Me like children, giving everything to Me and renouncing all attachment to anything,-however beautiful, honourable or virtuous-that is not my very self. (…)
I will make them understand how they must be detached from everything and live only for my Jesus; how they must defend Him from every attack, love Him unconditionally, in living out the Gospel to the letter.
I will cause them to experience a great love for the Church and for the Pope, whom I love so dearly and who will be comforted, defended and saved by the cohort of my Priests.
I will prepare them for great things and I will make them invincible in the decisive battles.
Let them entrust themselves completely to Me: they will receive sure signs of my motherly tenderness for them!”
In the school of Mary we learn perfect obedience to the will of God, it was by her Fiat at the Annunciation that Salvation entered the world. She cooperated with God not only then, but continued to do so throughout both her earthly life, as she cared for, taught and guided her Son, and her life now in total Union with Him. She now does the same for us, and leads us into this same total Union that she herself has acquired.
Our simpler yeses, can still be pretty intensely productive. God can use all of it. Even us little folks with hidden lives. You don’t have to be a ‘professional Catholic’ with a major in theology, or be a popular social media influencer. Just study the simplicity of Mary, a young girl from a small village. He wants our smallness, so that HE can do great things through us. So that we then become ‘Mary’ to others and ‘birth’ Christ anew into this darkened world.
Mary – “Blessed is she who believed” (Catechism of the Catholic Church)
148 The Virgin Mary most perfectly embodies the obedience of faith. By faith Mary welcomes the tidings and promise brought by the angel Gabriel, believing that “with God nothing will be impossible” and so giving her assent: “Behold I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be [done] to me according to your word.”12 Elizabeth greeted her: “Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”13 It is for this faith that all generations have called Mary blessed.14
149 Throughout her life and until her last ordeal15 when Jesus her son died on the cross, Mary’s faith never wavered. She never ceased to believe in the fulfillment of God’s word. And so the Church venerates in Mary the purest realization of faith.