Walk in Trust

I have come down from heaven to make of you, sons consecrated to my Heart, my heaven on earth. In you my light is reflected. Thus through you many souls will again be drawn by my candor, and they will spread the perfume of my virtue.

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It is up to us to form a community of love, a family. We do so by silently preaching the Gospel with our lives, without compromise. We do so through the childlikeness of Bethlehem; through the hidden life of Nazareth in “small things done well’ for love of God–and through the kenosis, or self-emptying, that leads us to Golgotha. We do all this so that Christ may live in us- and in our neighbors.

Grace in Every Season (April 30)

It can be horrifying to see what is happening around us, I live in a Boston suburb, and without going into too much detail so as to not give the enemy any more attention than he deserves, what he is attempting is on full display. But guess what.. so is what God is doing. What are we choosing to focus on?

My advice to others at times like these is always the same regardless of the methods the enemy uses. Stay in a state of grace via the Sacraments… and pray and obey! Live so fully in God’s will that He will fight the battles for you.

The follow up question that I often get is ‘how do you know what God’s will is?’ Well, it depends on our state in life… if we are married with children, then those are our first priority. Look to your commitments and responsibilities in life… do those with great attention and love. It doesn’t have to be perfect according to worldly standards. These aren’t Pinterest or Instagram approved moments mostly … just ordinary, grace-filled ones that break through from what you may deem as drudgery and often even heart break. Resurrection moments after carrying our crosses with Him.

When they attack your person or my Movement, answer with prayer, with silence and with forgiveness.

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When I faced the death-of-God movement in the 1960s, I felt both weak and strong at the same time. The strength was not mine. I prayed to St. Catherine of Siena often during those years because she fought for the church. I have a statue and a relic of St. Catherine. I carried the relic on my person as the death-of-God-issue was thrown at me. I knew that I was on guard for the church. To defend the church you have to be crucified, always crucified.

Grace in Every Season (April 29)

I live in the Boston area where another large group set on the attack of the church is gathering this weekend.

Our response needs to be a truly Christian one… first prayer and silence … do and say nothing without going there first.

We may be dealing with repercussions of this gathering for some time, but that’s not our concern. God is still in charge… let HIM!

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

By your life, which will be, purely and simply, a living Gospel. Today the Gospel of my Son Jesus is believed in less and less, and even in the Church there are some who tend to interpret it in a human and symbolic manner.

You will live out the Gospel to the letter: you will be poor, simple, pure, little and totally given over to the Father.

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No matter how much the men and women in office seem to wreck their part of the church’s fabric by their humanness- hence sinfulness and unpleasant personality traits- it does not happen. Christ in their office does not allow the church to be wrecked because of the weakness of the persons who represent him.

Grace in Every Season (April 28)

It’s easy to look outwards and point fingers, but not so easy to constantly live out the faith ourselves. Yet, this is how we will turn things around.

We are not blind, we know the horrible things going on and it breaks our hearts.

But we can from this moment on be part of the solution. Just be who God created us to be… a living Gospel…leave the rest to Him.

Satan is maneuvering more and more openly in my Church. He has now associated many of my priest-sons with himself, deluding them with the false mirage that Marxism proposes to all: exclusive interest in the poor, a Christianity engaged solely in the building up of a more equitable human society, a Church which would be more evangelical and therefore disengaged from its hierarchical institutions.

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God did not build his church on angels, but on human, sinful, weak, frightened men who loved him, and, slowly cooperating with his grace, became what they should have been. Therefore we who are still directed by weak men must understand that we need to look beyond the person to the office each holds. That office is Christ. Because Christ is in the church, he is in every office, from the pope down to the local parish priest. Otherwise, there would be no church.

Grace in Every Season (April 27)

We need to pray for our priests and entire hierarchy, they are fighting a battle that few can comprehend. The fight is intense because their potential power is intense… if Satan can somehow make you lose a sense of your gifts to the Kingdom of God, then he has handed a deep blow to humanity.

I just watched Nefarious this week. Stop reading right here, if you don’t want any details.

At one point a priest is called in, the demon starts to recoil at simply seeing him. Then this weak man in the office of the priesthood not knowing the power that he’s been entrusted with, denies that demons even exist. The demon enjoys that very much and goes on doing his thing. It’s truly heartbreaking for a faithful Catholic to watch… because we know the truth behind it.

We don’t need more psychiatrists, and sociologists in the priesthood, we just need priests who truly believe. Let’s pray!

The triumph of my Immaculate Heart will be realized through a new birth of Jesus in the hearts and the souls of my poor wandering children.

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It is important to pray that the Holy Spirit give you particular insights about individuals, for no two people are alike. To think about each person, to pray about each, to plan for each who is your responsibility (short-range and long-range), all this may be part of your job at home or at work.

Grace in Every Season (April 26)

I often get asked to pray for people and I happily do it, I feel that it’s part of my calling. My favorite time for this is during my 3 o’clock in the afternoon prayer time, It’s during this especially allocated time that I also like to offer up my daily pains and struggles for others, especially families.

But with that said, it saddens me that I’ve never thought to ask the Holy Spirit about how I can personally be used to reach each person I pray for. This gives me a new perspective on prayer.

Lord intervene in the lives of my family and friends and use me if You so desire! Amen!

If you live your consecration, your life will be truly transformed. I will accustom you to my way of seeing, of thinking, of praying, of loving.

I will communicate my spirit to you and will make you ever littler, more simple and more humble.

I will bring you to trust always and only in God. And the more that doubt and denial increase, the more you will find your certainty in Him, and you will bear witness to this.

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We must not forget the almost forgotten virtue of hope, which rises like a crocus in the spring. It comes forth full of joy, youth,laughter, and humor, with a yes to being. It consents to accept life as it comes from the hands of God. It has faith, not blind faith but intelligent faith, realistic faith, a faith that understands. It is a faith based on the grace of baptism, and it has its being and its joy in the immense mystery of love.

Grace in Every Season (April 23)

The end result of consecration to Mary, is always full Union with Jesus Christ her Son. That’s all she ever had, so that’s all she has and desires to give! The following is from the MMP, in the back of the Blue Book.

ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY (for Religious and Laity)

Virgin of Fatima, Mother of Mercy, Queen of Heaven and Earth, Refuge of Sinners, we who belong to the Marian Movement of Priests consecrate ourselves in a very special way to your Immaculate Heart.

By this act of consecration we intend to live, with you and through you, all the obligations assumed by our baptismal consecration. We further pledge to bring about in ourselves that interior conversion so urgently demanded by the Gospel, a conversion that will free us of every attachment to ourselves and to easy compromises with the world so that, like you, we may be available only to do always the Will of the Father.

And as we resolve to entrust to you, O Mother most sweet and merciful, our life and vocation as Christians, that you may dispose of it according to your designs of salvation in this hour of decision that weighs upon the world, we pledge to live it according to your desires, especially as it pertains to a renewed spirit of prayer and penance, the fervent participation in the celebration of the Eucharist and in the works of the apostolate, the daily recitation of the holy rosary, and an austere manner of life in keeping with the Gospel, that shall be to all a good example of the observance of the Law of God and the practice of the Christian virtues, especially that of purity.

We further promise you to be united with the Holy Father, with the hierarchy and with our priests, in order thus to set up a barrier to the growing confrontation directed against the Magisterium, that threatens the very foundation of the Church.

Under your protection, wé want moreover to be apostles of this sorely needed unity of prayer and love for the Pope, on whom we invoke your special protection.

And lastly, insofar as is possible, we promise to lead those souls with whom we come in contact to a renewed devotion to you.

Mindful that atheism has caused shipwreck in the faith to a great number of the faithful, that desecration has entered into the holy temple of God, and that evil and sin are spreading more and more throughout the world, we make so bold as to lift our eyes trustingly to you, O Mother of Jesus and our merciful and powerful Mother, and we invoke again today and await from you the salvation of all your children, O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

One can be very whole physically but very sick spiritually. Do we have recourse to God when this happens to us? What kind of sacrament do we use? There is the Sacrament of the Sick. There is the Sacrament of Reconciliation, in which two arms are open to embrace us; two lips are ready to kiss our lips, for the Russians believe confession is the kiss of Christ. There is the Sacrament of the Eucharist- the reception of the Body and Blood of Christ. But in order to enter into the mystery of the sacraments one has to be converted, one has to be changed, turned around to face God–instead of turning one’s back to God.

Grace in Every Season (April 22)

This complete offering of yours is the only thing I ask of you, my sons: the offering of yourselves with your limitations, your weaknesses and your inabilities.

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We have not been abandoned, our Heavenly Father has provided for our every need, in incredible ways through His Church!

But in order to receive what He is wanting to give us, we must humbly acknowledge our need and be willing to put ourselves at His disposal.

One crucial way to do this is through frequent Confession. Where venial sins can be addressed before they take root.

Conquer the temptation of fear, of discouragement, of sadness. Distrust paralyzes your activity and greatly benefits my Adversary.

Be serene; be joyful!

This is not the end of my Church; what is in preparation is the beginning of its total and marvelous renewal!

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You will do his will, and it will be beautiful. To do what God wants is to be truly happy. Sometimes his will may appear to bring pain, but it will also bring you joy. To give ourselves wholly to God, in prayer and in action, is the life of a Christian, and in it we discover joy so immense that our ordinary, everyday life is completely transformed. We find ourselves living in a new reality.

Grace in Every Season (April 21)

The entire Body of Christ must pass through this great renewal process, both collectively as well as each of us individually. There is no way around it.

“In your life, I have had you live, as if by anticipation, the experience of what I myself will do at the moment of my great triumph.” (BB #83b)

The cross may be our lot, but while non believers look at us with pity and even ridicule, God Himself is working it all out for us… bringing about a joyful resurrection that this world can’t even fathom.

True, silence is sometimes the absence of speech, but it is always the act of listening. The mere absence of noise (which is empty of our listening to the voice of God) is not silence. A day filled with noise and voices can be a day of silence if the noises become for us the echo of the presence of God, if the voices are, for us, messages and solicitations of God.

When we speak of ourselves and are filled with ourselves, we leave silence behind. When we repeat the intimate words of God that he has left within us, our silence remains intact.

Grace in Every Season (April 20)

And so I say to you, beloved sons, do not scrutinize the future, and thus, neither anxiety nor discouragement will take hold of you! Live only in the present instant, in complete abandonment, close to my Immaculate Heart, the present instant which the love of the Heavenly Father puts at your disposal, my little children..

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Worries, fears, anxieties… so much can try to keep us from living peacefully and joyfully in the present moment where God and His grace reside.

Sometimes an outright effort in our part needs to be made. The most anxiety producing vehicles may need to be cut off at least for a time… or blinders put on. But ultimately it’s what we choose to do with what the world and the enemy brings to our attention.

Do we bring it to the Immaculate Heart of Mary… and stay close, listening for God’s voice on what steps to take? Or do we just immediately start flapping our wings and concocting the next steps ourselves?

Be at peace once again in my Immaculate Heart. How much you have suffered these past days: the darkness, the obscurity, the doubt. In a certain sense, you have tasted even the bitterness of being abandoned!

At these moments it seems to you that you have lost your way; you call on me, and it seems to you that I am far away, that all is an illusion. On the contrary, never as in these moments, never as at this very moment, my son, am I so close to you and do I clasp you so close to my Immaculate Heart and gaze on you with such tenderness and love.

I need this suffering of yours: all I want of you is prayer and suffering. And then I will give you new light and new serenity; you will rejoice and be strengthened and thus made even more ready to be placed again upon your cross.

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Your life as a lay person in the world is hard; and the life around you will be grim, even sordid. But God will give you strength. Everything can be borne between two Masses. Every morning you will eat the bread of the saints, and you will be able to face any kind of day. Your mind and heart will be nourished by the Word of God. The voice of the psalmist and the warm tones of the voice of Christ will give you courage and new hope. Your faith will be renewed. You plunge into the sea of fire that is the Mass and come out burning, ready to go forth and light fires of love, even in the most wretched slums of the city.

Grace in Every Season (April 19)

The world would rather ‘party’ than ever acknowledge our tears, but it’s just at such times that we can turn to another human being that fully understands, and can bring us to the One who can truly transform our tears into joy.

Tears of Our Lady Chaplet