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.)