From The Blue Book
3. Your mission is taking shape
July 9, 1973
“Today I am really happy with you: you have remained close to my Heart.
You see now how all the things of this world appear remote and hazy to you; how everything wearies and bores you* everything else that is not I, your Mother, who wants you whole and entire at every moment with Her.
Learn to let yourself be possessed by Me, so that in everything you do, it will be I who am doing it through you. It is so necessary now that it be the Mother who acts: and I want to act through you…
You will have to suffer more: but, courage! I will always be with you: and you will delight as no one else in the sweetness of my Mother’s Heart.“
Yesterday
I spent the day yesterday close to Mary. This may seem a very strange endeavor for those who are non-Catholic or just lapsed Catholics who never learned about Our Mother’s Love and her proper role in our salvation.
As Jesus’ Mother she is the Mother of the Church ,which is His Body, and our Mother. She truly and totally united to Him already in the way that we are still working towards. He has entrusted us to her care. It’s not we either have her or Him…no…when we have her, we have Him more fully.
Imagine in a marriage where a young woman is very close to her mother in law and is under her wing to teach her the ways of her son. Maybe not so acceptable in today’s world where we all want independence and to be free of each other, but in the heavenly dimension, Divine Union is the goal.
I will share my days with you, because I believe that this is part of what we were created for… to share with each other and thereby grow in holiness together. I’m lacking an in person community at the moment and I pray that I will belong to one again someday soon, but for now, He’s asking this of me. My notes that I will share, and what I feel the Lord asking of me is deeply personal. I never want to suggest that this is what you should pray for. Instead, be attentive to your own needs and your own relationship. I will also be posting links (check the underlined words) to things I’ve found helpful. I am not getting paid for this. The only products that I get a commission on if you buy directly from me are Amazon and Young Living.
My most notable moment yesterday, was when I consecrated my health to Mary. I had to postpone a couple of doctor appointments for various reasons and it came to me to have her guide me until then. My prayer went something like this “I’m totally dependent on you Mary for my health, be my mother, my nurse, my teacher, show me how a life of sacrifice can be life giving, help me guide my family.’
She immediately started showing me the special ways I needed to learn, more specifically on taking better charge of my household duties and better care of our health.
- Get back to cooking more at home… Home-cooked Portuguese food is highly influenced by Mediterranean style which can be very healthy too.
- Just consume a little less of the “white stuff”…flour, rice, sugar, potatoes.
- Stop eating before becoming full…have a little appetite remain as a ‘sacrifice’.
- Use the app ‘Recipe Keeper‘ to keep track fo all of our favorite foods.
- To do my duties of the day before pursuing ‘leisure’.
- To embrace the small crosses that come to me regularly, and small ones that I can pursue by being more attentive and not always wanting things just so.
- Keep thermostat at 65, wear warm clothes.
- Drink Thieves Tea +1 TB honey, +2 drops Thieves,+ 3 drops lemon (on honey),+ add to hot water and enjoy.
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
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Steps for the Day
- Liturgy of the Hours morning prayer
- The Holy Rosary
- Praise and Worship
- Ask for the necessary graces to do what is being requested
- Smile and be joyful!
