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FATHER MELVIN DOUCETTE

 
Receiving the Eucharist kneeling and on the tongue
 

When I call answer me, O my just God,
You who relieve me when I am in distress;
Have pity on me, and hear my prayer! Psalm 4:2
 
 
 
Sunday, June 08, 2008


Dear Friends,

 

Receiving the Eucharist kneeling


It was reported that the four dozen people who received Holy Communion from Pope Benedict XVI on the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ last month received the Holy Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling.


Some Vatican officials said the gesture at the May 22 Mass outside the Basilica of St. John Lateran does not mark a permanent change in papal liturgies, but highlighted the solemnity of the feast and made a connection to the practices of the past.


As the Pope prepared to distribute Holy Communion, ushers placed a kneeler in front of the altar on the basilica steps. Those chosen to receive Communion from the Pope lay people, nuns, seminarians, priests and boys and girls who had received their first Communion in their parishes in May all knelt and received on the tongue.


It is general practice at papal Masses that those receiving Holy Communion from the Pope stand. At those Masses the majority choose to receive on the tongue, but some reverently extend their hands to receive the Holy Eucharist.


In a brief e-mail to Catholic News Service May 23, Msgr. Guido Marini, master of papal liturgical ceremonies, said the decision "was a solution adopted for (the feast of) Corpus Domini," but as for the future, "we'll see."

 There is talk at the Vatican whether the Catholics should return to receiving the Holy Eucharist on the tongue instead of in the hand. No decision has been taken yet on this subject.

 

Father Melvin

 

FATHER MELVIN DOUCETTE

 
Who can doubt the Real Presence?

 
“I love you, O Lord, my strength, O Lord, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer.

My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold!

Praised be the Lord, I exclaim, and I am safe from my enemies.”

Psalm 18:2-4

 

Saturday, June 07, 2008

 

Dear Friends,

 

Who can doubt the Real Presence?

 
In October 1995 during Pope John Paul II’s visit to St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore, USA, he was scheduled to greet the seminarians while they stood outside on the steps. But the Pope made his way through their ranks and into the building.

His plan was first to make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament. When his wishes were made known, security personnel quickly flew into action ahead of the Pope. They had to make a sweep of the building. For this purpose they used trained dogs to detect any persons who might be present.

 

These dogs went through their rounds quickly and were then sent into the chapel. They went up and down the aisles and finally into the side chapel where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved. Upon reaching the tabernacle, the dogs sniffed and whined and refused to leave.

They had discovered SOMEONE there. We Catholics know that they were right; they found a REAL LIVING PERSON in the tabernacle. Jesus is truly present in the Holy Eucharist and that is why we come to the Church to adore Him.

 This story touched me very profoundly that animals can detect a Living Person in the tabernacle and so many people do not believe in the Real Presence. Let us make an act of faith and truly believe that Jesus is present in the Holy Eucharist as He is in heaven.

Jesus is present there as the resurrected Lord who is Our Saviour who suffered and died for us to pay the price for our sins. Let us thank Him for giving us the wonderful gift of the Holy Eucharist.

 Father Melvin

 

P.S. I prayed for all of you last evening at the Healing Mass. The Holy Spirit was working in a powerful way. May the Lord bless you all.

 

FATHER MELVIN DOUCETTE

 

Argentina's 1992 Eucharistic Miracle

(continued)

 “It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praise to your name, Most High,to proclaim your kindness at dawn and your faithfulness throughout the night,with ten-stringed instrument and lyre, with melody upon the harp.” (Ps 92:2–4)


Sunday, May 25, 2008

Dear Friends,

 
I give thanks to the Lord for the beautiful sunny day we are having. There is hardly a cloud in the sky and the temperature is great. We will have very good weather for the next few days.

 
Here are some more details about the Eucharistic Miracle in Argentina. Father Eduardo has written many pages about this great event.

“On Saturday, 9th May, we took the container to the Parish house.  When we arrived at the back of the church we faced Our Lady of Lujan’s altar.  There, Father Juan presented the container to the statue and said: ‘Mother, behold Your Son.’  Then he kept silent and told us that he had felt the Virgin say, ‘Do as He tells you.’ I had a small office next to my bedroom. 

There we prepared everything putting the tabernacle, which is used during Holy Thursday, on a small table and a table lamp without lampshade, which would be kept with the light on as a votive lamp.

On Monday Monsignor Rubén Frassia, at that time Parish Priest of San Cayetano in Liniers and a very good friend of our Parish Priest, came to see us.  He prayed with great devotion and amazement before the sign.  On Saturday I celebrated the Holy Mass at 7:00 p.m. and the Parish Priest gave me the sample taken by Dr. Botto to hide it in my hand and give the blessing at the end.

 My Dear Jesus, it is already 1:30 a.m. on Monday.  This Sunday you kept on showing Yourself.  In the Masses of 7:00 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. the paten appeared to be sprinkled with drops of blood.  How great Your love is! How close is Your presence!

 Lord, I feel so close to Your Heart and that is why I ask You to transform mine and make it similar to Yours.  I am not asking to see any more.  I believe.

On Sunday, 10th May, Feast of the Good Shepherd, I was hearing confessions in the afternoon in the confessional of the church and at the end of the 7:00 p.m. Mass, which was celebrated by the Parish Priest, the Deacon came to see me and told me that the paten had been stained with blood during the Mass. 

At the end of the 8:15 p.m. Mass, celebrated by Fr. Graham, I was told that the paten had also been stained with blood.  Both patens were kept in the other tabernacle. 

One of them was made of brass and the other was made of tin with the shape of a fish.  On one of them the priest saw the stain during the Our Father and on the other at the time of Holy Communion. That night we again called Monsignor Mirás who came the following day.”

 

As the account of the Eucharistic Miracle shows, there were various happenings in that church for some time.

 Father Melvin

FATHER MELVIN DOUCETTE

 
Argentina's 1992 Eucharistic Miracle

(continued)

 “I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart in the company and assembly of the just.

Great are the works of the Lord, exquisite in all their delights.” Psalm 111:1–2


Monday, May 26, 2008

 Dear Friends,

 
There is still more about the Eucharistic Miracle in Argentina. I quote once more from Father Eduardo Perez’s essay on the subject.

 
“The Office in which the sign was kept was separated from my bedroom by a sliding door, which let the light of the votive lamp pass through the cracks.  It was hard for me to get used to the idea of being so close to the mystery.  At night I used to wake up several times and looked at that door knowing that behind it was the living presence of Jesus.

After I had washed and dressed in the morning, I would open the door and take out the container of the Eucharistic Miracle from the tabernacle and look at this Sacred Host for a long time. 

Its shape changed several times, but it always kept the shiny aspect such as liver flesh though of an intense red and not violet.  I also smelt it because a piece of meat could not be out of the fridge for such a long time without becoming rotten. 

But the sign continued always fresh and, after forty days, the water evaporated, the flesh dried and was stuck to the bottom of the vessel like a scab.  Then it started to come off and when I left the Parish it was half detached; if one looked at it with a bright light, the colour of dried blood could be seen.

 Carlos Domínguez, the Minister of the Eucharist who found the hosts on the altar came to visit me. He said that when Fr. Juan showed him the Blood he remembered the “nunc dimities” from old Simeon: “Now I can die in peace because my eyes have seen…” and he added, crying: “What else can I see?”  His faith, so clear, made me cry too.

 Carlos Domínguez, the Minister of the Eucharist, was a good, silent man, a man of God.  These words from Simeon were prophetic.  He has already died in peace, after a long and painful illness.

 1992 was the five hundredth anniversary of the Evangelization of America and in the previous year the Holy Father had started the year novena to prepare for the Great Jubilee of the year 2000.  I felt that this sign came to remind us of the source of our missionary action on this new dawn.”

 
Father Melvin

 
FATHER MELVIN DOUCETTE

 

The Argentinian Eucharistic Miracle

(continued)

 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger,

and whoever believes in me will never thirst. But I told you that

although you have seen me, you do not believe.” John 6:35–36

 

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

 Dear Friends,

 

Let me continue again today with the Argentinian Eucharistic Miracle. Father Eduardo gave a lot of details concerning this wonderful miracle.

 
A TESTIMONY:

 “From the very beginning we all felt we had the duty of giving testimony to Christ.  However, no one thought he was a key piece as regards the sign.  Not having seen the moment of the miracle kept the mystery of that instant as the sepulcher kept for itself the rising of Christ.  The sepulcher was the tabernacle.

 Cardinal Quarracino asked us several times if anyone had any doubts of faith in the Eucharistic Presence.  We said no.  And I believe so.  I understand this was not a sign to shatter our disbelief because it was not a message for the four of us.  It was a message for us, but as men of our times.

 

THE MESSAGE OF THE SIGN:

 Dear Jesus, this Sunday is the Feast of Your Body and Blood. I have spent this Feast in Toledo for the past two years. There, everything is splendor and solemnity. Here everything will be simpler but for me it will be full of deep meaning.

This Corpus miracle happened in our Parish little more than a month ago. All this time I have had You here, next to my room, to adore You, keep You company and feel your beneficial presence. In my humble opinion, the following is the message of this Eucharistic miracle: You are present among us.

Nothing new, nothing we don’t know, no news different from the one on the night when You said, “This is My Body…” Years have gone by and time makes us get used to everything and that is why, on the verge of this second evangelization of America and on the verge of the third millennium of the Church in the world, You renew again our spirit by saying, “This is My Body…

” What You said two thousand years ago in the Upper Room, what your disciples and ministers have repeated all this time, You repeat again today at this Church of Saint Mary.”

 

Father Melvin

FATHER MELVIN DOUCETTE

 

The Argentinian Eucharistic Miracle

(continued)

 

Jesus said, “This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die.

I am the living bread that comes down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever;

and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” John 6:50-51

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

 

Dear Friends,

 

I thank the Lord for the beautiful day we had yesterday. The temperature reached 20 degrees Celsius in the afternoon. We were supposed to have rain but we had mostly sunshine with clouds.

 

I was at the Eucharistic Adoration last evening at the Immaculate Conception Church, Palmer Road, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. I celebrated Holy Mass at 7:00 p.m. at the prayer room and a good number attended. Today I will celebrate Holy Mass at 9:30 a.m. as usual on Wednesday. I hope to go to the prayer meeting this evening at 8:00 p.m. at Palmer Road Church.

 

I continue again today with the report of Father Eduardo on the Eucharistic Miracle in Argentina. It touched the priests who witnessed this awesome miracle as Father tells us in the following words:

 

“Cardinal Qarracino asked us about the message.  We were also asking ourselves what the Lord wanted to say with this.

 

Every Friday, at siesta time, the four of us would get together in the little office transformed into a chapel and would celebrate the Holy Mass.  At the moment of the homily, each one would reflect out loud about the Word of God and refer it to the Eucharistic sign. 

But what I wrote down in my spiritual notebook only a month after this extraordinary event could not be improved on, after extensive thoughts.  The message is that Jesus is present among men.

 

This message—unique and universal—which does not need any foundation because it does not tell us anything new, has for each one of us a personal repercussion, a personal message which each of us would discover as a light for his own priesthood.

 

In my case the message referred to my young priesthood and meant that the great gift by which I could become holy did not lie in the quality of my sermons nor in the academic level of my teaching, nor in the hierarchy of the services entrusted to me, nor in the greatness of my undertakings, but in the capacity to repeat each day in His memory, “This is My Body…” In my hands was the whole consolation of the suffering world, all the food for the hungry people, all the light for those born blind, the only way for the pilgrim.”

 

Father Melvin

 

Reading: John 6:34-51

 

FATHER MELVIN DOUCETTE

 

The Argentinian Eucharistic Miracle

(conclusion)

 

“Jesus said, ‘The bread I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.’

…Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
…As a result of this, many of his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him.” John 6:51,60,66

 

Thursday, May 29, 2008

 

Dear Friends,

 

Yesterday we had another beautiful day with the temperature reaching 14 degrees Celsius. It was windy and the wind was from the north, so that is why the temperature was not as high as the day before.

 

I celebrated Holy Mass yesterday morning at 9:30 a.m. and a good crowd turned up. We even had a visitor from the Province of Quebec. Last evening I went to the prayer meeting at our church and a nice crowd attended. This prayer meeting has been going on for many years. Today I will celebrate Holy Mass at 7:30 p.m. in the prayer room.

 

I will now give the last part of the account of the Eucharistic Miracle in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which took place in 1992. Many people have never heard about this wonderful sign of Jesus’ present in the Holy Eucharist.

 

 

CONCLUSION:

 

You have shaped my fatherly heart, which can only be done by you, God’s Only Child, and that is why I will always remember you. And in remembrance of you I do take this chalice, which you have wanted to give me. In Egypt they symbolized with a covered cup the hieroglyphic of the heart and certainly in this cup, in the Heart of Christ, I will find you each day in the Eucharist. In China, the love of the spouses is sealed by drinking from the same cup and each time I take a drink from this cup I will renew my love for you.

And in the Bible we are presented with the cup as a plan, offered to us by God, for us to accept freely. And I accept this cup with the hope of participating with you of that other cup of happiness that God will offer us at his banquet in heaven.

 

During these ten years I have returned with great joy to Santa María Parish Church and I have been able to contemplate the sign on several occasions.  However, I must say it is not there where I meet the Sign but each day in the Holy Eucharist. 

When saying goodbye to the parishioners I told them I would find them in that chalice which they gave me and which, without them knowing, meant for me many secret things.  And so it was.  In the Holy Eucharist I have all what the Lord had showed me during my brief stay at Santa Maria.

 

Buenos Aires, 4th October, 2002
Fr. Eduardo Gabriel Pérez dal Lago

 

 

Father Melvin
John 6:67-71

 

Medjugorje Day By Day June 09 - ABANDON YOUR CONCERNS TO JESUS

 

St. Cristobal Magallenes and Companions, Mexican Martyrs—Feast, May 21 Between 1915 and 1937, 22 priests and 3 laymen gave their lives for the  Catholic faith in Mexico.  They drew their strength from receiving Jesus in the  Holy Eucharist, in Mass and Adoration, and their love and devotion to their  Blessed Mother Mary.

 

Mother Teresa 

Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. Love has to be put into action. You have to love without expectation, to do something for love itself, not for what you may receive. If you expect something in return, then it isn't love, because true love is loving without conditions and expectations.

 

Meditations by Padre Pio -

Let us love Jesus for His divine greatness, for His power in Heaven and on earth, for His infinite merits, but also and above all out of gratitude. Had He not been so good to us but more severe, how much less we would have sinned!. But when sin is followed with profound sorrow, with an honest resolution of never sinning again, an intense understanding of the great pain we have given to the mercy of God; when having rent the hardest fibers of our hearts we manage to shed scalding tears of repentance and love then, my son, the sin itself becomes a steppingstone which brings us closer, which raises us up, which leads us to Him more securely (GF,171)

 

 

Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Into everyone's life the Son shines, enlightening us as to the mysteries of life

"G. K. Chesterton once said that God has put a tremendous mystery in nature itself and that is the sun. In the light of that one thing, which we cannot see because of its brightness, everything else is made clear. Likewise, thought we cannot comprehend the nature of God completely in this life, nevertheless, in the light of the truths which He revealed, everything else is made clear, such as the mystery of pain, suffering, death, life and birth."

 

St. Faustina's diary  http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html  -

The Lord gave me knowledge of the graces which He has been constantly lavishing on me. This light pierced me through and through, and I came to understand the inconceivable favors that God has been bestowing on me. I stayed in my cell for a long act of thanksgiving, lying face down on the ground and shedding tears of gratitude.

I could not rise from the ground because, whenever I tried to do so, God's light gave me new knowledge of His grace. It was only at the third attempt that I was able to get up. As His child, I felt that everything the heavenly Father possessed was equally mine. He himself lifted me from the ground up to His Heart. I felt that everything that existed was exclusively mine, but I had no desire for it all, because God alone is enough for me.       (1279)

 

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.

 

JUNE 9 - ABANDON YOUR CONCERNS TO JESUS

Today the Blessed Mother asks us to abandon our worries to her Son:

Why do you not put your trust in me? I know that you have been praying for a long time, but truly, surrender yourself. Abandon your concerns to Jesus. Listen to what he says in the gospel:

"And who among you, through his anxiety, is able to add a single cubit to the length of his life?" (Locutionists Jelena & Mirijana November 30, 1983).

In Psalm 37, trust is seen as the remedy to anxiety:

Trust in the Lord, and do good;

So you will live in the land, and enjoy security.

Take delight in the Lord,

And he will give you the desires of your heart. Our steps are made firm by the Lord, And he will give you the desires of your heart. Our steps are made firm by the Lord, When he delights in our way, Through we stumble, we shall not fall headlong, For the Lord holds us by the hand.

---Psalm 37:3-4, 23-24

Reflection:

The confident trust that the psalmist and Our Lady speak of today is a sister virtue to acceptance. For some, such as members of Alcoholics Anonymous the spirit of acceptance can be a life and death matter, for it is indispensable tool in their recovery.

In chapter 17 of Alcoholics Anonymous' Big Book, a physician in the program writes:

At last, acceptance proved to be the key to my drinking problem to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it's because I find some person, place, thing, or situation---some fact of my life---unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.

Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy.

I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.

With hard-won insight, the doctor speaks of his peace, or serenity, as inversely proportional to his expectations. The higher his expectations of other people are, the lower his serenity. "I can watch my serenity level rise," he says, "when I discard my expectations."

Application:

First, as Our Lady asks, abandon your anxieties and fear to her today, trusting in her great power. Second, as they do in AA meetings around the world, offer the Serenity Prayer. Keep it in mind for troubling times.

O Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference

Medjugorje Day By Day June 08 - TESTIFY THROUGH YOUR LIVES

 

Pope Benedict: Marriage is Between a Man and a Woman "Admit No Alternatives"

VATICAN, June 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A letter from Pope Benedict XVI commits the Catholic Church to always proclaiming that marriage is between a man and a woman and that the Church can never admit alternatives.

In the letter released Saturday and addressed to Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Pope Benedict says, "The marriage bond, in which man and woman together constitute a life-long association, ordered by its very nature for the good of the spouses and the generation and education of children," is the basis of the family, the heritage and shared wealth of humanity.

"Thus the Church cannot cease to announce that, in accordance with God's plans, marriage and the family are irreplaceable and admit no alternatives."

The letter which renews the invitation made by John Paul II to attend the Fifth World Meeting of Families, due to be held in Valencia, Spain, in July 2006, notes that "today more than ever, the Christian family has a most noble and inexorable mission, that of transmitting the faith. ...

Parents are the first evangelizers of their children, precious gifts of the Creator, beginning with teaching them their first prayers. Thus a moral universe is created, one rooted in the will of God and in which children are raised in human and Christian values that give full meaning to life."

 

Pope:  Catholics may not support laws contrary to life

Vatican City—John Paul II reminded the faithful once more, as he has done regularly year after year, that a lawmaker who considers himself a Catholic cannot support laws that are against life or marriage.

"I think it is opportune to recall that the lawmaker, and the Catholic lawmaker in particular, cannot contribute to the formulation or approval of laws contrary to the first and essential norms that regulate moral life," the Pope said.

These principles, the Holy Father indicated, are an "expression of the highest values of the human person and proceed, ultimately, from God, the supreme lawmaker."

John Paul II called for respect for the "value of human life itself " from the moment of conception. "No one can claim for himself the power of violating the right to life," he said.

The "other pillar of society" that every lawmaker must defend "is marriage, as a union of a man and a woman, open to life, which gives place to the natural institution of the family," he added (Zenit, Feb.29, 2004 ) By Catholic Insight Staff, May Issue 

 

"Visit the Blessed Sacrament often; there is your true life" (St. Paul of the Cross).

 

Mother Teresa 

When you know how much God is in love with you the you can only live your life radiating that love.

 

Meditations by Padre Pio -

Valiantly fight temptations with strong souls, and fight along with the Supreme Chief. When you fall, do not stay there prostrated in body and spirit. Humble yourself greatly but without being discouraged. Lower yourself without degrading yourself.

Wash your imperfections and falls with sincere tears of contrition, without lacking trust in divine goodness, which will always be greater than your ingratitude.

Propose to make amends without being presumptuous, but your strength must be in God alone. Finally, confess sincerely that if God were not your beast-plate and shield, you would be imprudently pierced with every kind of sin (Letters III, p. 702).

When you know how much God is in love with you the you can only live your life radiating that love.

 

 

Archbishop Fulton Sheen -

A closer look can reveal wonders

"Mystery is like a telescope of the eye. The instrument does not destroy vision, but opens new worlds hitherto unrevealed. A proud person might ask why he or she should believe that there is anything else in the world to see or know, except that which one's natural powers can compass. Pride then precludes the knowledge of other worlds."

 

St. Faustina's diary  http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html  -

 

  God of great mercy, who deigned to send us Your only-begotten Son as the greatest proof of Your fathomless love and mercy, You do not reject sinners; but in Your boundless mercy You have opened for them also Your treasures, treasures from which they can draw abundantly, not only justification, but also all the sanctity that a soul can attain.

Father of great mercy, I desire that all hearts turn with confidence to Your infinite mercy. No one will be justified before You if he is not accompanied by Your unfathomable mercy. When You reveal the mystery of Your mercy to us, there will not be enough of eternity to properly thank You for it.       (1122)

 

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.

 

JUNE 8 - TESTIFY THROUGH YOUR LIVES

The Gospa speaks of living the messages of Medjugorje:

Dear children, today I invite you to live in humility all the messages which I have given you. Do not become arrogant in living the messages and boast that, "I am living the messages." If you live and bear my messages with your heart, everyone will sense it so that words, which serve only those who do not obey, will not be necessary. For you dear children, it is necessary to testify through your lives (Weekly Messages September 20, 1985).

Paul also expresses concern about those who merely speak of faith, but do not live it:

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power. For the kingdom of God depends not on talk but on power (1 Cor 4:19-20).

Reflection:

We have all met people who have talked a lot about faith, but that was all it was-talk. They may know all the right words to say, but their lives are not examples of Christian living. Today Paul says that the kingdom of God is to be lived, not just discussed. There is a big difference between knowing the right words and living them out.

This is the message of Our Lady as wee: "It is necessary to live and testify by your lives."

Application:

Today, pray simply for the grace to "live in humility all the messages which I have given you."

Message from God The Father to Lec June 6,2008

Message From the Father June 6, 2008
6:40 AM

Son, the days to count before the great changes in all aspects of earthly life are becoming fewer each passing day. The time of extended mercy is soon toexpire. Avail of every opportunity to earn graces for the soul. Use your time judiciously. Eliminate preoccupations that do not bring the best gains for your eternity.

The angels are coming to blow their trumpets and break the seal of judgments ,opening a flood of events that will unmistakably manifest that the time hascome.

The invasion from the North is coming to fulfill the words given to my prophetEzekiel. Watch therefore. You cannot afford to be caught sleeping unaware ofwhat is happening.

A loaf of bread for a day's wage has that not been told in scriptures?

But be not disturbed in mind and spirit. All these things must come to pass but I have not forgotten my children. They are in the palm of my hands. I look forthem wherever they are. I will take care of them. Banish worry from your mind.

Trust me!

Message Reception Ended: 6:50 AM Duration: 10 Minutes

Scripture Reference:

Ezekiel 38 (Today's New International Version)
Ezekiel 38 The LORD 's Great Victory Over the Nations
1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 "Son of man, set your face against Gog, ofthe land of Magog, the chief prince of [a] Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him

3 and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Gog,
chief prince of [b] Meshek and Tubal. 4 I will turn you around, put hooks in
your jaws and bring you out with your whole army your horses, your horsemenfully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of thembrandishing their swords.

5 Persia, Cush [c] and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets,

 

6 also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmahfrom the far north with all its troops the many nations with you.


7 " 'Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them. 8 After many days you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety.

9 You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up,  advancing like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.

10 " 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On that day thoughts will come intoyour mind and you will devise an evil scheme. 11 You will say, "I will invade aland of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people allof them living without walls and without gates and bars.

 

12 I will plunder andloot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered fromthe nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land  [d]"

 

13 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages [e] will say to you, "Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes toloot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and toseize much plunder?" '


14 "Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog: 'This is what the SovereignLORD says: In that day, when my people Israel are living in safety, will you not take notice of it?

 

15 You will come from your place in the far north, you and
many nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great horde, a mightyarmy.

 

16 You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land.In days to come, Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations mayknow me when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.

17 " 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You are the one I spoke of in formerdays by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied foryears that I would bring you against them.

 

18 This is what will happen in thatday: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declaresthe Sovereign LORD.

 

19 In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. 20 The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at mypresence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and everywall will fall to the ground. 21 I will summon a sword against Gog on all mymountains, declares the Sovereign LORD. Every man's sword will be against hisfellow.

 

22 I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed; I will
pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his
troops and on the many nations with him. 23 And so I will show my greatness andmy holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Thenthey will know that I am the LORD.'

 


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