Topic: Prophecy Meditation
Messages to Fr. Melvin Doucette and Patsy Soto & Wayne Weible's newsletter
Dear Joyce here are all the messages given to Fr. Melvin and patsy soto during the December 4 thru 12 Las Vegas Novena For World Peace. Kathy and Joyce can you please get them out
Messages from Our Lord and Our Blessed Mother to
Reverend Fr. Melvin Doucette
Given December 5, 7, 8, 9th, 2007 Las Vegas Novena For World Peace/Retreat with Art, Patsy Soto and His Teachings
Ministry
1. Jesus spoke to me saying, Melvin, My brother, I love you. I called you to Las Vegas to take part in the Novena for World Peace. I am blessing every person who takes part in this Novena and they will receive a special gift from Me. I wish to show you that I love you all with all My Heart.
2. During a time of contemplative prayer with the group, Jesus spoke to me saying, My Heart is full of joy that you all come to Me in prayer. You wish to have a deep personal relationship with Me and you have to practice this prayer
every day for our relationship to grow.
I give you all the gift of contemplative prayer and I call you all to come to Me in contemplative prayer every day. If you do, I will shower you with My graces. I love you all, My dear brothers and sisters.
3. On December 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Our Blessed Mother, Our Mother spoke to me saying, Many millions of My children throughout the world are celebrating this great feast of mine with great devotion. You who are taking part in the Novena for World Peace, are also filled with joy as you celebrate My Feast. You delight My Heart with your great devotion and I embrace you all for you are My dear children.
I call on all of you to pray the rosary every day and you will bring great joy to your Mother. Remain close to Me and I will bring you all to My Son Jesus, Your Savior and Lord. I love you, My sons and daughters, and I intercede for you always.
4. On December 9th, the 2nd Sunday of Advent, Jesus spoke to me saying, Melvin, My brother, I love you. I am bringing you now to My tomb in Jerusalem, which you visited many times when you lived there for three months.
Look at the slab on the floor of the tomb and realize that My Body was placed there after it was taken down from the cross. My Body laid there Friday, all day Saturday until early Sunday morning.
Early on that Sunday morning, My resurrection took place. My Body was changed into a Glorious Body and I was totally alive never to die again. Every Sunday you celebrate this Glorious Resurrection of mine. My Resurrection placed an very important role for the Apostles and for the
establishment of My Church on earth.
If I had not been raised from the dead, the Apostles would have lost their faith in Me and the Church would not have been born. It is important that you keep My Resurrection as one of the greatest events of My Life.
I ask you all to work together with Me to bring at least one person a year to Me so that person can become a member of My Church. Speak to people about My Resurrection and that I am alive and calling them all to come to Me. I want the salvation of every person in the world and I need your cooperation. I love you all.
5. On December 10th, Our Lord spoke this message: Melvin, My brother, I love you. I bless you again together with all those who are continuing the Novena for World Peace. You do not know the people who are touched by these prayers and let Me tell you that there are many who receive graces because of this Novena.
Let everyone know that prayer is essential for those who believe in Me. As food is essential for the health of your body, prayer is absolutely necessary for the health of your spiritual life. I especially call you to contemplative prayer,
the prayer of My Heart.
Ask and I will give you the gift of this prayer. Through this prayer I will become number one in your heart. You will have a loving relationship with Me and you will live in My Heart and I will live in yours.
Come, My friends, and spend time with Me every day. I bless you all.
6 Message for December 11th, 2007
Early this morning I spent time in contemplative prayer with Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and He spoke to me saying:
Melvin, My brother, I bless you with My peace. I am the resurrected One who lives at the right hand of the Father and who leads the Church on earth.
When I appeared to My Apostles after My Resurrection, I greeted them with these words, Peace be with you. I gave them My peace, this great gift which no one can give but Myself. I do not give My peace as the world does. The world tries to give peace through material things but these cannot satisfy the heart of man.
Unfortunately, many are looking for this peace but they are looking in the wrong places. They think they will find it by buying of a beautiful car but these things do not satisfy the human heart. Others are looking this peace and joy in
drugs, alcohol or by following the desires of the flesh.
All these things leaves you at the end completely empty. I am the only one who can give you what you heart desires. Come to Me, My brothers and sisters, and I will fill you
completely and you will have great peace. Stop looking in the wrong places and come to Me, your friend and Savior, and you will have the peace you crave.
Accept Me as your Savior and give yourself totally to Me and you will be renewed. I give you all My peace.
7. Message for December 12, 2007 (Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe)
While in contemplative prayer this morning, Our Blessed Mother spoke to me saying, Melvin, My son, I bless you and I bless all those present for the Novena for World Peace. I especially bless today the people of the country of Mexico on
My great Feast Day.
I am dispensing the graces won by My Son Jesus on the cross to all My children in Mexico who celebrate My Feast. I also distribute these graces to all those who live in Central America. I send special blessings and graces to all My children who live in South America and to all those who live in North America.
I call on My Son Jesus to help you all to enlarge your hearts so that you love with greater intensity. Many of you need to grow every day in loving My Son who is your Redeemer. That is why I ask that your hearts be enlarged so that you
will love more. You must love as Jesus loves you with all your heart. Do not put any limit to your love but in loving Him offer yourselves completely to Him. I am calling you all today on My Feast day to come to Me in prayer and I will
bring you all to Jesus, My Son, that He may bless you and heal you. Pray daily My children and do not forget to pray the rosary every day. I bless you all.
This is only a short excerpt from the message below of November 27, 2007.
The Children's Meditations From Jesus to His Holy Mother's Rosary given from Jesus to Patsy Soto will be made available through Wayne Weible's Monthly Newsletter beginning in January 2008. If you would like copies of Wayne Weible's Medjugorje Newsletter please see information below.
November 27, 2007 – Tuesday 9:00 pm Message from Jesus to Patsy Soto Approved for release by Reverend Fr. Melvin Doucette, Spiritual Director for Art & Patsy Soto
December 4, 2007
Praise be to Jesus for Jesus is Lord, Savior, Redeemer, Reconciler of all nations My little ones there are some special Persons that I want to teach you about so that you may understand Who I am speaking about in the prayers I would like to teach you.
God the Father loved so much that He wanted to share this love so He Made Man and Woman to share this love with.
He also chose a special man to be My earthly Father and his name was Joseph. You celebrate My birth on Christmas.
It is important that you continue to celebrate and remember My birth as a special day where I came into this world so that all of you could have Eternal Life which means you will live with me in heaven forever. I love you my little children and this is something I ask you to think of daily.
The words IN RED are for your parents to read and help you to understand and share with each other My Holy Mother's Rosary.
THE THIRD JOYFUL MYSTERY
THE BIRTH OF YOUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST
(Luke 2:1-20) Angelic ministrants herald the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem
Praise be to Jesus for Jesus is Lord, Saviour, Redeemer, Reconciler of all nations. My precious little children, as you go throughout your town, look at the manger scenes. Some you see in front of churches, some you see in front of
homes or at stores.
And they all show a Gentle Man named Joseph, a very loving and holy woman named Mary and a baby named Jesus. I
Message from Jesus to Patsy Soto
Friday, November 30, 2007
6:53 am
Approved for Release by Reverend Fr. William Lauriola, November 30, 2007 @ 8:57
Am Approved for Release by Reverend Fr. Melvin Doucette Spiritual Director for Art & Patsy Soto, December 4, 2005
Praise be to Jesus for Jesus is Lord, Savior, Redeemer, Reconciler of all nations, thank you my beloved little one for opening your heart to My Words. I desire to thank each one of you my beloved ones for coming to spend this time in
prayer with me and My Holy Mother.
In these days that you are here whether it be for one day or every day of My Novena For World Peace I desire that you
realize the importance of prayer in your daily lives. For you see my beloved children each one of you are not here by chance. You are here because you accepted my invitation to come here to My Houses of Prayer to go forward in your
prayer life With Me, Through Me, For Me.
You may not have realized this when you accepted My Invitation in your heart. You may think you are here just to see what His Teaching's Ministry is or what My House of Prayer is, or just because you wanted to hear the words of My beloved son with the Consecrated Hands, My Beloved Fr. Melvin Doucette, who speaks daily with Us.
But make no mistake you are here because I Have brought you here and by the time you leave here You will know in your heart that this is My Ministry, this is My Work, My Novena For World Peace Plan, which I have taken and will take to many areas of your United States and throughout the world.
And each one of you my children are My Instruments and will be My Instruments to reach all those that I desire to reach, through your prayers, your examples, your love, your mercy and your dedication to Me your Jesus of Mercy.
This My Ministry has been going on for over twenty years, some of you began your walk in this my ministry and have seen it grow for almost that long, some of you are just in the beginning stages of your walk with Me and are just beginning to realize the importance of My Ministry in your lives, but you will all leave here with a better understanding
and a more ardent desire to keep your commitment to Me, as well as your spiritual journey with Me, an important part of your life. You will only receive in this world what you are willing to strive for and this includes your
Spiritual Life for you cannot reap what you do not sow. This world cannot promise you Eternal Life but I can.
The worldly ways can give fleeting moments of pleasure and untruths, which can only lead to deadening the soul and a thirst that cannot be quenched, but I can give you Love Eternal that will never die and when you live life With Me, Through Me, For Me you will know Truth and have Life Eternal.
It is through a surrender of your will to My Holy Will that will bring Peace, Love and Mercy from Me your Jesus of Mercy and their will be times that you may want to stop your journey because the roads seems to difficult and
even painful but it is at these times that I ask only that you try, that you call out to Me your Jesus of Mercy and know that I will lift you into My Arms and carry you through those difficult times for I will never leave you, I have never left you and I will always love you even when you are not able to do what I ask of you.
I and My Holy Mother are always with you and when you feel that no one is there for you, no one is listening to you, no one cares about you that you are all alone, know that is a trick of evil to disrupt your journey with
Me. Again I say to you call out to Me for I am always with you, I never leave you I have always loved you and will always love you, your Jesus of Mercy
"If between Feb. 2, 2008, [...] and Feb. 11, 2008, feast of the Blessed Virgin
Mary of Lourdes and 150th anniversary of the apparition, they visit, in any
church, grotto or decorous place, the blessed image of that same Virgin of
Lourdes, solemnly exposed for public veneration, and before the image
participate in a pious exercise of Marian devotion, or at least pause for an
appropriate space of time in prayer and with pious meditations, concluding with
the recital of the Our Father, the Profession of Faith, [...] and the invocation
of the Blessed Virgin Mary."
The decree concludes by recalling that faithful who "through sickness, old age
or other legitimate reason are unable to leave their homes, may still obtain the
plenary indulgence [...] if, with the soul completely removed from attachment to
any form of sin and with the intention of observing, as soon as they can, the
usual three conditions, on the days Feb. 2-11, 2008, in their hearts they
spiritually visit the above-mentioned places and recite those prayers,
trustingly offering to God, through Mary, the sickness and discomforts of their
lives."
December 6, 2007 - Message from Jesus to Patsy Soto
8:30 am
Approved by Reverend Fr. Melvin Doucette Spiritual Director for Art & Patsy Soto
9:30 am
Beloved Little one of My Most Wounded Sacred Heart, Praise be to Jesus for Jesus
is Lord, Saviour, Redeemer, Reconciler of all nations. As you have opened your
heart to hear My Words My beloved Little one, I thank you for your answer to My
Call. I come this day to give you special words for all My Children.
But first I desire to say to My Beloved son with the consecrated hands, My
Beloved Fr. Melvin Doucette, these words.
I will give you words My son regarding
My Ministry His Teachings Ministry and the importance of bringing My Novena For
World Peace into many areas throughout the world. It will be an important and
urgent message for the world, for I desire to reach many of my children through
My Novena For World Peace.
Again the promise of a Roman Catholic Priest to be
present with family members before the time of their death is a promise given a
grace given for any one who will bring My Novena For World Peace into their
area.
I am your Jesus of Mercy, My children open your hearts to My Call. As
you have realized through My Holy Mothers last visit to My Beloved Mirjana,
these are and have been very urgent times and soon if My Holy Mothers pleas are
not reaching and opening hearts for change to return to God the Father, God the
Son, God the Holy Spirit, My Father's Hand of Justice will not be held back.
These words are given not to give fear but to plead again for all my children to
be made aware and to remind each person, that your souls will live eternally!
It is your choice where your souls will live forever.
If a soul is in the error
of sin than do not make the mistake of refusing to change to receive the Holy
Sacrament of Reconciliation.
I have given you My Children, the Holy Sacrament
of Reconciliation, A Holy Sacrament that should be one of your weekly if not
monthly soul saving exercise's. So many children seek and utilize their time to
exercise for the physical strength, Health and protection of the body but so
few seek to exercise their time for the protection of their souls!
The body
does not live forever and mankind fails to realize that their souls will live
for all eternity!
It is entirely up to each individual where their soul will
live, this is why it is so important to recieve the Holy Sacrament of
Reconciliation and the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist regularly in order to
always be prepared not only to receive Me your Jesus of Mercy but also that your
soul always be prepared for noone knows the hour they will be called home!
Are
each one of you prepared My Children to stand before me, for you will make the
choice where your soul will live eternally. Once again I invite My children to
open their hearts to My Call for My Novena For World Peace to be brought into
your areas for through My Novena For World Peace many hearts are being and will
be opened with many graces being given to open the hearts of the harden hearts
so that they may also be touched in order to prepare their souls.
Will you not
listen to My Pleas, to My Holy Mothers's Pleas, for what Mirjana has seen and
spoken of I beg you My children do not take our words, our love, My Holy
Mothers's Tears lightly.
My beloved one's your Most Holy Father Pope Benedict is giving a very special
decree for the anniversary of the apparition of My Holy Mother of Lourdes,
during this time there is a Novena For World Peace I have requested take place,
it My desire that you open your hearts to see that My Novena is taking place.
(The Novena For World Peace Jesus is speaking of is the NFWP Feb. 2 - Feb 8,
2007) I will give many special Blessings, for all who attend My Novena For World
Peace or say the prayers during this Novena on their own during the time of My
Novena, many graces of conversions of faith will be given to all their family
members who have fallen away from My Holy Church, they will also be given a
desire to seek the Holy Sacrament of Reconciliation in order that their souls
are prepared.
Please my children in how many ways can I show you My Love, return
this love to Me your Jesus of Mercy, open your hearts to My Pleas, to My Holy
Mother's Pleas. I love you each My children, your Jesus of Mercy
Open my little one to Isaiah 5 Vs1-7
I love you My children, I bless you each My children, your Jesus of Mercy
(As of this date December 13, 2007, the Novena For World Peace is not confirmed
once confirmed, The Prayers for the Novena will be made available through His
Teachings's Ministry Website at histeachingsministry.com and Joyce Lang)
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Message From the Father Thru Lec - December 11, 2007
Prepare for What is To Come Shortly « on:
December 11th, 2007, 2:25am »
December 11, 2007
6:30 AM The Father
Son, let me say this through you.
My children of the world, wherever you may be, listen and take heed.
Your Father, the I AM is calling on you to prepare. Get ready for what is to come shortly to the world. To those whose contrition is yet to be perfect, search your heart now and tell me that you are very sorry and promise me that from now on until the very day of my purification, your heart and mind will remain focused on my Holy will only. Otherwise, you have already sought your own destiny in which you cannot blame me no more for I have warned you.
Listen to me now before it is too late!
Message reception Ended : 6:40 AM Duration : 10 minutes
Message to Sharon Fitzpatrick Dec 12,2007
PRAYER GROUP ROSARY / WEDNESDAYS - 7:00P.M. / SUNDAYS - 3:00 P.M
LADY OF LOURDES GROTTO (BEHIND HOSPITAL) PANA, IL
MESSAGE FROM HEAVEN
SHARON FITZPATRICK LOCUTIONIST
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2007
MY DEAR DEAR PRECIOUS LITTLE CHILDREN,
IT IS ADVENT AND ONCE MORE YOU MAKE THAT JOURNEY THAT BRINGS YOU TO THE CRIB. OH
MY LOVES, THIS IS NOT A JOURNEY TO MAKE IN HASTE, BUT YOU SHOULD MAKE EACH DAY A
GIFT TO THE KING, THAT YOU SO LOVE AND HOLD IN YOUR HEARTS. EACH DAY IS
OPPORTUNITY TO RENEW THE SOUL, REFRESH YOUR HEART, AND MAKE READY FOR THE
SAVIOR. THIS SHOULD BE FOR YOU A JOURNEY OF LOVE. MAKE THIS ADVENT PLEASING TO
HIM, THE ONE CALLED JESUS.
DEAR CHILDREN, I DESIRE THAT YU BE JOYFUL IN YOUR LOVE FOR GOD. WITH JOYFUL
HEARTS YOU TOUCH OTHERS AND BRING TO THEM A SENSE OF HOPE. WHAT A GIFT THAT IS
IN A WORLD SO LOST. BE GOOD EXAMPLE, BE CARING , BE FOR EACH OTHER.
PERHAPS THIS
ADVENT WILL EVEN BRING THOSE WHO WERE OF THE UNITY BUT CHOSE ANOTHER PATH, TO
RECONSIDER WHAT WAS THEIRS, AND BRING THEM BACK TO THEIR COMMITMENT.
I HAVE
OPENED MY HEART THAT THOSE WHO ONCE GAVE THEIR ALL, WILL COME QUICKLY INTO THIS
PLACE OF REFUGE - MY IMMACULATE HEART. IT IS ADVENT - PRAY, PRAY, PRAY.
WITH TENDERNESS DO I GIVE MY BLESSING. I GIVE IT IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE
SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. THE BLESSING OF CHRIST COMES FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE
HEARTS OF MY PRIEST-SONS, ACCEPT IT AND THEN PRAISE AND THANK GOD OVER AND OVER
AGAIN, AND DO THIS NOW AND FOREVER.
Message From The Father Thru Lec - December 13, 2007
December 13, 2007
6:25 AM
Message From the Father
Subject : Inform of What is Soon To Come!
Son, reserve your time, energy and knowledge in informing others of what is soon to come to the earth. A catastrophe is in the offing, the magnitude of which exceeds what has happened so far in your era.
It is a wake up call and event that people all over the world cannot help but finally recognize that the prophesied time has indeed arrived.
Make this known so that people can prepare.
Message reception Ended:6:30 AM Duration :5 minutes
Medjugorje Day By Day Dec 14 - LEARNING TO LOVE
These are words of Fr. Slavko from 5/18/85:
"Why fast? You can find a lot of reading on fasting, but I am telling you: just start. Fasting is like prayer, it is a duty for us as Christians because both Jesus, Mary and all the saints fasted. And St. Francis, do you know how many days he fasted?
This fasting means: living on bread alone for a whole day. This is very important, because one then gradually learns to live a simple life, one begins to realize that we have sufficient, that we do not have to worry, and to be anxious, and besides this, it is also a help to resist our continual longing always to have more.
But the best thing to do is: start fasting, and then you will see. But in order to fast more easily, it is necessary also to pray. "
"We look forward to celebrating the first coming of Jesus at Christmas. We look forward with hope to the second coming of Jesus in his glory. We seek out Jesus here and now in the Mass, when he comes to us in the Eucharist" (Fr. Richard Veras).
"We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors.... but they all have to learn to live in the same box."
BEYOND THE GRAVE
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At her father's wake, a woman told her priest that ever since she was a
child she and her father had discussed life after death. They had agreed
that whomever went first would contact the other. They had discussed this
again just two weeks before his death.
He died in her home and a few days after his death the smoke alarm in
her garage went off. She had lived there 28 years and it had never gone off
before. She couldn't turn it off so she call the security company that
installed it.
The next morning the smoke alarm sounded again----and the reason finally
dawned on her...she said aloud "Ok dad, I missed the signal yesterday, but I
got it now! Thanks for letting me know you are safe on the other side. Now
turn the darn thing off so I don't have to call the security company again".
And it went off.
She immediately called her priest to tell him the good news. His response:
"Dear lady, if every time your father sends you a message, he sets off the
smoke alarm, just where do you think he's calling from?"
Mother Teresa -
May we all have hearts overflowing with love as a reflection of God's love. God's love is what can save our families, our country, and the world.
Padre Pio - He who attaches himself to the earth remains attached to it. It is better to detach oneself little by little instead of all at once. Let us always think of Heaven.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen - True tolerance extends love and patience
"There can be another form of tolerance which is right, such as one inspired by true charity or love of God. Even though the virtuous may hold absolutely to their philosophy of life, they do so, not because they look down on the views of others as not as good as their own, but because their own beliefs are so real to them that they would not have anyone else hold them with less reason, less love and less devotion."
St. Faustina's diary
http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html -Once, the Lord said to me, My daughter, take the graces that others spurn; take as many as you can carry. At that moment, my soul was inundated with the love of God. I feel that I am united with the Lord so closely that I cannot find words to express that union; in this state I suddenly feel that all the things God has, all the goods and treasures, are mine, although I set little store by them, for He alone is enough for me. In Him I see my everything; without Him-nothing.
I look for no happiness beyond my own interior where God dwells. I rejoice that God dwells within me; here I abide with Him unendingly; it is here that my greatest intimacy with Him exists; here I dwell with Him in safety; here is a place not probed by the human eye. The Blessed Virgin encourages me to commune with God in this way. (454)
The day of the renewal of vows. At the beginning of Holy Mass, I saw Jesus in the usual way. He blessed us and then entered the tabernacle.
Then I saw the Mother of God in a white garment and blue mantle, with her head uncovered. She approached me from the altar, touched me with her hands and covered me with her mantle, saying, Offer these vows for Poland. Pray for her. (468)
Dailys - http://www.catholic-forum.com/e-pistle.html -
Quote of the Day Just as we can never separate asceticism from mysticism, so in St. John of the Cross we find darkness and light, suffering and joy, sacrifice and love united together so closely that they seem at times to be identified. -Thomas Merton
Today in History
867 Adrian II begins his reign as Pope 872 John VIII begins his reign as Pope
Today's Tidbit Discalced is derived from Latin roots and means without shoes. It is used to designate religious orders that have rules to wear sandals or to go barefoot. Intention of the Day Please pray for the safety of all people who will be traveling during the approaching holiday season.
MEDJUGORJE DAY BY DAY
These thoughts for a day are taken from a daily meditation book based on the Messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje by Father Richard J. Beyer, Ave Maria Press.
Dec 14 - LEARNING TO LOVE
During Advent of 1984 Our Lady gave the following message:
Dear children, you know that the day of joy is approaching but without love you will receive little. First, then, start loving your family and everyone in the parish; then you will be able to love and accept all those who come here. Let these seven days be a week of learning to love.
This Christmas will be unforgettable if you follow me. Disconnect your television sets and radios, and begin God's program: meditation, prayer, reading the Gospels. Prepare yourselves with faith; then, having understood love, your life will be filled with happiness (Weekly Message Dec 13, 1984).
Reflection:
The Blessed Virgin says, not surpassingly, that love is the whole context of Christmas, "the season of Joy", and it is prepared for simply by loving first or own family, and then our neighbor. "Learn to love", she urges us. But how? Today's reading from John's gospel is telling: "They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them."
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, how is that you will reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?" Jesus answered him, "Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them." (Jn 14:21-23).
How then "to learn to love"? Christ first speaks to us of keeping his commandments, of being fair and decent with all people. Second, his appeal to "love one another as I loved you" (Jn 15:12) means that Jesus' own life is our primary example for learning to live. Like him, loving means to help, to heal, to enlighten, and above all, to love even sacrificially, as his own life testifies.
The Gospels, then, which relate the life of Christ, are a canvas on which is painted the many hues and shades of his love. Our Lady asks that we carefully examine that portrait, and with her messages to help us, to live out her Son's love in our own lives.
Application:
Spend some time today reflecting on how you see Jesus loving in the Gospels. What were his actions of love? His words of love? How can I imitate his love in my own life? What action or word of love can I give to another today?
Medjugorje Day By Day Dec 13 - PREPARE YOUR HEARTS
Mother Teresa -
Every human being comes from the hand of God, and we all know something of God's love for us.
Meditations by Padre Pio - It is by means of trials that God binds to Him the souls He loves.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen -
"
Tolerance can take its toll
"Tolerance is not right when its basic principle is a denial of truth and goodness and when it asserts that it makes no difference whether murder is a blessing or a crime, or whether a child should be taught to steal or to respect the rights of others."
St. Faustina's diary
http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html -
Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God. From early morning, I felt the nearness of the Blessed Mother. During Holy Mass, I saw her, so lovely and so beautiful that I have no words to express even a small part of this beauty.
She was all [in] white, with a blue sash around her waist. Her cloak was also blue, and there was a crown on her head. Marvelous light streamed forth from Her whole figure. I am the Queen of heaven and earth, but especially the Mother of your [Congregation].
She pressed me to her heart and said, I feel constant compassion for you. I felt the force of her Immaculate Heart which was communicated to my soul. Now I understand why I have been preparing for this feast for two months and have been looking forward to it with such yearning.
From today onwards, I am going to strive for the greatest purity of soul, that the rays of God's grace may be reflected in all their brilliance. I long to be a crystal in order to find favor in His eyes. (805)
Dailys - http://www.catholic-forum.com/e-pistle.html -
Quote of the Day Those whose hearts are pure are temples of the Holy Spirit. -St. Lucy
Today in History
Intention of the Day Please pray, through the intercession of St. Lucy, for all who are blind.
MEDJUGORJE DAY BY DAY
These thoughts for a day are taken from a daily meditation book based on the Messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje by Father Richard J. Beyer, Ave Maria Press.
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Dec 13 - PREPARE YOUR HEARTS
During Advent of 1986, the Blessed Virgin spoke of purifying our hearts:
Dear children, today I invite you to prepare your hearts, for in these days the Lord wants above all to purify you from all the sins of your past. You cannot do it alone, dear children, and for that reason I am here to help you.
Pray, dear children, for this is the only way in which you can know all the evil that dwells in you, and can then abandon it to the Lord.
Then he can purify your hearts completely. So, dear children, pray constantly and prepare your hearts through penance and fasting (Weekly Message Dec 4, 1986).
The Gospa's message of purification and repentance is echoed in the Book of Daniel:
I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, "O Lord, great and awesome God, keeping covenant and steadfast love with those who love you and keep your commandments and ordinances" (Dn 9:4-5).
Reflection:
Both of our readings today speak of sin and repentance, appropriate topics for Advent, when we seek to prepare ourselves in a special way for the birth of Christ. However, Our Lady makes a distinction between what we can do and what we cannot.
It is our responsibility to prepare our hearts for purification through prayer, fasting, and penance; but it is in the work of Christ to actually purify the hearts that have opened to him.
The process is similar to the sacrament of penance; we are the ones who acknowledge our sins, express sorrow and atone for them through penance. However, Jesus Christ is the one who actually forgives the sins.
We can only dispose ourselves to receive his gift. As we prepare our hearts for God's purification, we can be assured of the help of Our Lady, who promises to do just that in today's message.
Application:
Simply put into practice the Madonna's message today on how to prepare your heart for Christ's purifying touch.
Mark Mallett Two More Days
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THE DAY OF THE LORD — PART II
AS we draw closer to the "Day of the Lord," I want to further explain what this means. This can be considered a supplement to A Heavenly Map.
NOT LITERAL
The phrase "day of the Lord" should not be understood as a literal "day" in length. Rather,
With the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day. (2 Pt 3:8)
The tradition of the Church Fathers is that there are "two more days" remaining for humanity; one within the boundaries of time and history, the other, an everlasting and eternal day. The next day, or "seventh day" is the one I have been referring to in these writings as an "Era of Peace."
SEVENTH DAY
The Fathers called this age of peace the "seventh day," a period in which the righteous are granted a period of "rest" which still remains for the people of God (see Heb 4:9).
…we understand that a period of one thousand years is indicated in symbolic language… A man among us named John, one of Christ’s Apostles, received and foretold that the followers of Christ would dwell in Jerusalem for a thousand years, and that afterwards the universal and, in short, everlasting resurrection and judgment would take place. —St. Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, The Fathers of the Church, Christian Heritage
This is a period preceded by a time of great travail on earth.
Scripture says: ‘And God rested upon the seventh day from all His works’… And in six days created things were completed; it is evident, therefore, that they will come to an end at the sixth thousand year…
But when The Antichrist shall have devastated all things in this world, he will reign for three years and six months, and sit in the temple at Jerusalem; and then the Lord will come from Heaven in the clouds… sending this man and those who follow him into the lake of fire; but bringing in for the righteous the times of the kingdom, that is, the rest, the hallowed seventh day…
These are to take place in the times of the kingdom, that is, upon the seventh day… the true Sabbath of the righteous. —St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Church Father (140–202 A.D.); Adversus Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons, V.33.3.4, The Fathers of the Church, CIMA Publishing Co.;
(St. Irenaeus was a student of St. Polycarp, who knew and learned from the Apostle John and was later consecrated bishop of Smyrna by John.)
Like a solar day, the Day of the Lord is comprised of a dawn, a midday, and an evening.
MIDNIGHT
Just as night and dawn intermingle in nature, so too does the Day of the Lord begin in darkness, just as each day begins at midnight. Or, a more liturgical understanding is that the vigil of the Day of the Lord begins in twilight.
The darkest part of the night is the times of Antichrist which precede the "thousand year" reign.
Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition. (2 Thess 2:3)
‘And He rested on the seventh day.’ This means: when His Son will come and destroy the time of the lawless one and judge the godless, and change the sun and the moon and the stars—then He shall indeed rest on the Seventh day… —Letter of Barnabas, written by a second century Apostolic Father
The Letter of Barnabas points toward a judgment of the living before the Era of Peace, the Seventh Day. That tribulation involves cosmic upheaval as well, which as I’ve written, may be the Breaking of the Seals in Revelation.
But the new heavens and new earth do not come until the end of time, when Jesus returns in glory, after the Era of Peace.
DAWN
Just as we see signs emerging today which signal the possibility of a global totalitarian state hostile to Christianity, so too do we also see the "first streaks of dawn" beginning to glow in that remnant of the Church, shining with the light of the Morning Star.
The Antichrist, operating through and identified with "the beast and the false prophet," will be destroyed by the coming of Christ who will purge wickedness from the earth, and establish a global reign of peace and justice.
It is not a coming of Christ in the flesh, nor is it His Final Coming in glory, but an intervention of the power of the Lord to establish justice and extend the Gospel over the whole earth.
He shall strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. Justice shall be the band around his waist, and faithfulness a belt upon his hips.
Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid… There shall be no harm or ruin on all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the LORD, as water covers the sea…
On that day, The Lord shall again take it in hand to reclaim the remnant of his people (Isaiah 11:4-11.)
As the Letter of Barnabas (an early writing of a Church Father) indicates, it is a "judgment of the living," of the godless. Jesus will come like a thief in the night, while the world, following after the spirit of Antichrist, will be oblivious to His sudden appearance.
For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night.…as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building. (1 Thess 5:2; Luke 17:28)
Lo, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me; and suddenly there will come to the temple the LORD whom you seek, and the messenger of the covenant whom you desire. Yes, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts. But who will endure the day of his coming? (Mal 3:1-2)
The Blessed Virgin Mary in many ways is the chief messenger of our times—the "morning star"—preceding the Lord, the Sun of Justice. She is a new Elijah preparing the way for the global reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Eucharist. Note Malachi’s last words:
Lo, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the day of the LORD comes, the great and terrible day. (Mal 3:24)
It is worth noting that on June 24th, the Feast of John the Baptist, the alleged apparitions of Medjugorje began. Jesus referred to John the Baptist as Elijah (see Matt 17:9-13).
MIDDAY
Midday is when the sun is brightest and all things glow and bask in the warmth of its light. This is the period during which the saints, both those who survive the preceding tribulation and those who experience the "First Resurrection", will reign with Christ in His Sacramental presence.
Then the kingship and dominion and majesty of all the kingdoms under the heavens shall be given to the holy people of the Most High… (Dan 7:27)
Then I saw thrones; those who sat on them were entrusted with judgment. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image nor had accepted its mark on their foreheads or hands.
They came to life and they reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were over. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection.
The second death has no power over these; they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for (the) thousand years. (Rev 20:4-6)
That will be the time prophesied by the prophets (which we are hearing in the readings of Advent) in which the Church will be centered in Jerusalem, and the Gospel will subdue all the nations.
For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord form Jerusalem… On that day, The branch of the LORD will be luster and glory, and the fruit of the earth will be honor and splendor for the survivors of Israel. He who remains in Zion and he that is left in Jerusalem will be called holy: every one marked down for life in Jerusalem. (Is 2:2; 4:2-3)
EVENING
As Pope Benedict wrote in his recent encyclical, free will remains until the conclusion of human history:
Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will never be definitively established in this world. —Spe Salvi, Encyclical Letter of POPE BENEDICT XVI, n. 24b
That is, the fullness of the Kingdom of God and perfection will not be achieved until we are in Heaven:
At the end of time, the Kingdom of God will come in its fullness… The Church… will receive her perfection only in the glory of heaven. —Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 1042
The Seventh Day will reach its twilight when the radical freedom of human will chooses evil one last time through the temptation of Satan and a "final antichrist," Gog and Magog. Why there is this final upheaval lies within the mysterious plans of the Divine Will.
When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison. He will go out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. (Rev 20:7-8)
Scripture tells us that this final Antichrist does not succeed. Rather, fire falls from heaven and consumes the enemies of God, while the Devil is cast into the pool of fire and sulphur "where the beast and the false prophet were" (Rev 20:9-10). Just as the Seventh Day began in darkness, so too does the final and everlasting Day.
THE EIGHTH DAY
The Sun of Justice appears in the flesh in His final glorious coming to judge the dead and inaugurate the dawn of the "eighth" and everlasting day.
The resurrection of all the dead, "of both the just and the unjust," will precede the Last Judgment. —CCC, 1038
The Fathers refer to this day as the "Eighth Day," the "Great Feast of Tabernacles" (with "tabernacles" implying our resurrected bodies…) —Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi, The Triumph of God’s Kingdom in The New Millennium and End Times; p. 138
Next I saw a large white throne and the one who was sitting on it. The earth and the sky fled from his presence and there was no place for them. I saw the dead, the great and the lowly, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. Then another scroll was opened, the book of life.
The dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the scrolls. The sea gave up its dead; then Death and Hades gave up their dead. All the dead were judged according to their deeds. (Rev 20:11-14)
After the Final Judgment, the Day bursts into an everlasting brightness, a day which never ends:
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. I also saw the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband…
The city had no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gave it light, and its lamp was the Lamb… During the day its gates will never be shut, and there will be no night there. (Rev 21:1-2, 23-25)
This Eighth Day is already anticipated in the celebration of the Eucharist—an everlasting "communion" with God:
The Church celebrates the day of Christ’s Resurrection on the "eighth day," Sunday, which is rightly called the Lord’s Day… the day of Christ’s Resurrection recalls the first creation. Because it is the "eighth day" following the sabbath, it symbolizes the new creation ushered in by Christ’s Resurrection… for us a new day has dawned: the day of Christ’s Resurrection.
The seventh day completes the first creation. The eighth day begins the new creation. Thus, the work of creation culminates in the greater work of redemption. The first creation finds its meaning and its summit in the new creation in Christ, the splendor of which surpasses that of the first creation. —Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 2191; 2174; 349
WHAT TIME IS IT?
What time is it? The dark night of the purification of the Church seems inevitable. And yet, the Morning Star has arisen signaling the coming dawn.
How long? How long before the Sun of Justice rises to bring about an Era of peace?
Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" The watchman says: "Morning comes, and also the night…" (Isa 21:11-12)
But the Light will prevail.
Published in: DAILY JOURNAL, A HEAVENLY MAP | on December 11th, 2007 |
Mark Mallett The Woman About To Give Birth
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—Spiritual Food For Thought— The Woman About To Give Birth
FEAST OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
POPE John Paul II called her the Star of the New Evangelization. Indeed, Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Morning Star of the New Evangelization which precedes the Day of the Lord.
A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth. (Rev 12:1-2)
I hear the words,
There is coming a powerful release of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is the agent of evangelization. And so, she is praying for this coming. She is laboring for it. She is crying for it—a release of the Holy Spirit from Heaven to illuminate the hearts and minds of every soul on earth.
It is coming! It is coming soon!
But why then is Mary crying? She is crying because, when the Spirit comes, she needs her remnant, the heel which she is forming, to be ready to gather souls into the Ark of her heart, those who have been released from the clutches of Satan.
We need to be ready to slay the serpent with the Word of God dwelling within. Because, as I have written elsewhere, the false prophets of Satan who themselves refuse the grace of "the warning," will gather their strength again to steal these sheep away, aligning themselves with the Dragon.
So she needs our help; she needs our hearts to be open to the formation of her Son within us. This is her great work. Just as the Holy Spirit and Mary formed Jesus together within her womb, she is laboring with the Spirit to form Jesus in us.
She needs us to be docile to this work so that we will be prepared to be the voice of truth after the great confusion which will result from the Illumination.
Jesus is the Word of God, which is the Sword that will pierce the hearts of souls with Truth and set them free. If this Sword is not formed in us, then we cannot be used to defeat the serpent.
Listen to what the Holy Father said:
I see the dawning of a new missionary age, which will become a radiant day bearing an abundant harvest, if all Christians, and missionaries and young churches in particular, respond with generosity and holiness to the calls and challenges of our time. —POPE JOHN PAUL II, December 7, 1990: Encyclical, Redemptoris Missio "The Mission of Christ the Redeemer" (emphasis on "if" is mine)
"If"—that is the key word in this text: if we respond.
ARE WE RESPONDING?
In a recent alleged apparition to visionary Mirjana of Medjugorje, the seer said, "Our Lady was very sad. All the time her eyes were filled with tears. She gave the message:"
Dear children! Today, while I am looking at your hearts, my heart is filled with pain and trepidation. My children, stop for a moment and look into your hearts. Is my Son, your God, truly in the first place?
Are His commandments truly the measure of your life? I am warning you again: without faith there is neither nearness of God nor the word of God which is the light of salvation and the light of common sense.
Mirjana added: "I painfully asked Our Lady not to leave us and not to take her hands away from us. She painfully smiled at my request and left. This time Our Lady did not say: ‘Thank you.‘" (Usually she says "Thank you for having responded to my call.")
Listen carefully to what Our Mother is saying here: without faith, the Word of God is not dwelling within us, and therefore, the light of common sense, the light of truth and salvation to help those, now, and after the Illumination will not be there. And that means many souls could be lost forever to the deceptions of Satan.
AM I NOT YOUR MOTHER?
Yesterday, I was plagued all day with great doubts about my apostolate. Fr. Paul Gousse, who is hosting me for a parish mission in New Hampshire, prayed with me before the Blessed Sacrament. Immediately, the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe came to his mind, and these words:
Virgin, most powerful.
and the words she spoke to St. Juan Diego:
Am I not your mother?
I was faced with a choice. Either I am going to trust in Jesus and Mary, or continue to question whether God is really in control. I believe many of us are in tremendous trials right now.
But either we trust in God, trust that He is Lord of all, or we don’t. Either we trust that Mary our Mother is full of grace, and as such, most powerful, or we don’t.
And often, we don’t believe that Our Mother is going to help us. And so, we make her cry—for us, and those whom we can’t reach because we have no faith.
DO NOT DOUBT
"There are two kinds of questioning," Fr. Paul went on to say to me. "That of Mary and that of Zechariah."
Both of them were troubled when the Angel Gabriel appeared. But when the angel told Zechariah that his wife would bear a son (John the Baptist), he said, "How shall I know this? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years."
Zechariah doubted, and therefore, was made speechless and unable to talk.
Mary, on the other hand, when faced with the seeming impossibility of bearing God, said, "How can this be since I have no husband?" She did not doubt, she just wondered in what manner God would do this.
The point is, if we doubt like Zechariah, then our hearts will be "without faith… nor the word of God which is the light of salvation and the light of common sense." We will be unable to give because we do not possess.
And so, I asked forgiveness for my doubt, and made an act of faith that I would trust Jesus and Mary. And I was suddenly filled with a great peace and boldness.
It is never too late, until it’s too late. And it’s not too late. Put faith in Christ! And trust your Mother.
There is much work for us to do, very, very soon.
[a] new springtime of Christian life… will be revealed by the Great Jubilee, if Christians are docile to the action of the Holy Spirit. —POPE JOHN PAUL II, Tertio Millennio Adveniente, n. 18
Published in: DAILY JOURNAL, MARY | on December 11th, 2007 |
Mark Mallett Of Fear of Chastisements
Mark Mallett
—Spiritual Food For Thought— Of Fear of Chastisements
I receive letters from time to time from readers who are very upset about the possibility of chastisements coming to the earth.
One gentleman recently commented that his girlfriend thought they shouldn’t marry because of the possibility of having a child during coming tribulations.
The answer to this is one word: faith.
THE SORROW OF KNOWING
THE visionaries of Medjugorje have been given knowledge of coming chastisements known as part of the "secrets" that have been allegedly disclosed by the Blessed Mother.
They have admitted in interviews that they are deeply troubled by them. But not for their own sakes.
Taken from an interview with the seer Mirjana Dragicevic:
The Blessed Mother comes to me now when I especially need her. And it is always concerning the secrets. Sometimes I hardly can stand the pressure of knowing them. During those moments the Blessed Mother comforts me and encourages me.
(Interviewer) Are they that awful?
Yes, it is so hard for me. But as bad as they are, at the same time she told me we should not be afraid. God is our Father, Mary is our Mother.
Then why are you so upset now, that the Blessed Mother must come to comfort and encourage you?
Because there are many who do not believe… I feel such sorrow for them that I can hardly bear it! My suffering is so great for them that I really must have the Blessed Mother’s help to survive.
Your suffering is really compassion for unbelievers?
Yes. They do not realize what awaits them!
How does the Blessed Mother console you?
She and I pray together for those who do not believe. —excerpt from Queen of the Cosmos—Interviews with the Visionaries of Medjugorje, by Jan Connell; p. 31-32; Paraclete Press
When the visionaries were asked if they were afraid of the secrets, they all answered "No." But like Mirjana, they suffer immensely for unrepentant souls.
The point is this: if you are in the Ark of Mary’s Immaculate Heart, you have nothing to fear, just as Noah had nothing to fear of the coming storm!
But this is also not a place of passivity! Rather, Mary is asking us—begging us—to pray and fast for these souls for whom her own heart is pierced with a sword.
FAITH
So let us refuse to give a voice to the serpent of fear whispering in our ears, and instead, use our energy to pray for and love those who have closed their hearts to God. Jesus said that faith can move mountains.
Prayer is faith in action. So let us move the mountains of disbelief that overshadow so many hearts by beginning to fast and pray with renewed fervor.
I hear again the words of our Mother to St. Juan Diego:
Am I not your mother?
and
Let nothing trouble or afflict you.
Throw yourself into her arms, and trust once and for all that Jesus and Mary are going to care for you during those tribulations, should they arrive in your lifetime (apparently, Mirjana will be a witness to these events within her lifetime.)
Worse case scenario? You die and go to heaven. But that could happen tonight in your sleep. Be prepared to meet Jesus any moment. Never worry.
There was a saint who also spoke of coming chastisements after a time of grace on the earth. But neither did she say we should be afraid. Rather, St. Faustina made it her mission to teach us a simple prayer of faith: Jesus, I trust in you.
Jesus, I trust in you!
Published in: DAILY JOURNAL, PARALYZED BY FEAR | on December 13th, 2007 |