22. The light of the Gospel
October 20, 1973
“You see how everything wearies You and leaves you with a certain emptiness when you do not do everything with Me.
And you ask yourself ‘But why does this strange thing happen to me? Are not these perchance the very things that used to so captivate me and completely absorb me? What has now happened to me?’ What has happened to you, my son, is the great and decisive fact of your consecration to Me. This act has been taken seriously by Me and it has in itself the capacity of truly changing and transforming your whole life. With the act of consecration you have put your life in my hands: now it belongs to Me, it is mine. I have taken possession of it and now, bit by bit, I am transforming it according to my will.
Gently will I lead you to that perfection which is pleasing to my Heart and little by little I will transform you into a very faithful image of my Son Jesus. I will give you a new way of seeing things: you will see with my own eyes. Everything that is of the world will no longer be able to interest you; it will even leave within you a profound sadness. You will say of these things: ‘How vain they are, how useless!’
Yet how many of your brothers let themselves be led and dominated by them: they look on things as the world does, they live for the world, thereby uselessly wasting the gift of their life. I will also give you a new way of feeling: you will feel according to my Heart. Thus your capacity to love and to suffer will become extraordinarily more powerful, because you will feel, my son, as the Heart of your Mother feels! What grief you will feel for so many who today render vain the redemption of my Son. all those who, through no fault of their own, are straying because they are unsuspecting victims of these errors. What boundless apprehension you will have for so many of your brother-Priests who, abandoning Jesus and Me, are no longer faithful to the Gospel: they become propagators of many errors, they feel and judge as the world feels and judges. They have already apostatised in their hearts, but they can still be saved. They can still be saved by Me.
I will also give you a new way of thinking: you will think according to the Heart of Jesus and my motherly Heart, seeing everything in God and as God sees, according to the Spirit of Wisdom. I will give you Wisdom of heart. Well now: the Priests of my Movement must all be like this. Because they have consecrated themselves to Me, they must feel, see and think as I do, together with Me, because I want to take complete possession of their life, I want to transform it, and make of it an image of my Son Jesus, the First Born of so many other sons of mine.
They must let themselves be formed by Me, as little children, with much trust and abandonment! Then through them the light of the Gospel will shine anew in this world so filled with darkness. (…)
Some Thoughts:
We who are the Body of Christ are one in Him, so this consecration or uniting ourselves to Mary or any of the saints in heaven is merely a formality…to the true Christian it is already a reality. It is the Communion of Saints. The Saints Triumphant in union with the Militant Saints…those of us still in the struggle.
The thing that needs to be accomplished now is to bring others into ‘unity’ with us also. Our unity is not like the world’s unity. It is not Communism, It is a unity that comes from within not forced from the outside. We are given a new way of seeing, feeling and thinking. A new world view which is so at odds with today’s society. So an invitation into this unity is an invitation to the Cross, but it is truly the only way to true freedom.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
738 Thus the Church’s mission is not an addition to that of Christ and the Holy Spirit, but is its sacrament: in her whole being and in all her members, the Church is sent to announce, bear witness, make present, and spread the mystery of the communion of the Holy Trinity (the topic of the next article):
- All of us who have received one and the same Spirit, that is, the Holy Spirit, are in a sense blended together with one another and with God. For if Christ, together with the Father’s and his own Spirit, comes to dwell in each of us, though we are many, still the Spirit is one and undivided. He binds together the spirits of each and every one of us, . . . and makes all appear as one in him. For just as the power of Christ’s sacred flesh unites those in whom it dwells into one body, I think that in the same way the one and undivided Spirit of God, who dwells in all, leads all into spiritual unity.133
739 Because the Holy Spirit is the anointing of Christ, it is Christ who, as the head of the Body, pours out the Spirit among his members to nourish, heal, and organize them in their mutual functions, to give them life, send them to bear witness, and associate them to his self-offering to the Father and to his intercession for the whole world. Through the Church’s sacraments, Christ communicates his Holy and sanctifying Spirit to the members of his Body. (This will be the topic of Part Two of the Catechism.)