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BLACK, AFRICAN DIASPORA CATHOLICS (INCL. OCEANIA, CARIBBEAN) PROPHECY MEDITATIONS BLACK SAINT OF THE DAY Claudianus with Saturinus, Primus, Flavianus, Asterius, Carus, and Satur. We were martyred in Africa, 25 Oct.; Faustinus with Catulinus with Salunus. Martyred in Africa, 23 April. (Probably the same Salunus, martyr in Africa, 24 April) Claudianus with Victor martyred in Hieropolis. 24 Oct. http://www.live365.com/stations/283424 BLACK CATHOLIC GOSPEL RADIO (Afrocentric Rosary, Stations of Cross, Chaplet of Divine Mercy) AFROCENTRIC CHAPLET OF DIVINE MERCY DEVOTION 
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Claudianus (I had my legs whacked off), martyred with Victorinus, Victor the Ninivite, Ninivita, Nicoforus, Diodorus (I was burned alive) Dioscorus, Serapion (I was beheaded). Martyred in Kemet. Some confusion exists to actually where we were martyred. 24 Feb. 27 April in some Menology, 25 Feb. in others, Roman Martyrology says we were martyred at Diospolis, Kemet, 284 A.D.
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WEDNESDAY-AFROCENTRIC GLORIOUS MYSTERIES OF ROSARY by St. Brigid Traditional Choir (Los Angeles)
Afrocentric Glorious Mysteries
Pray the Joyful mysteries on Monday and Saturday, the Luminous on Thursday, the Sorrowful on Tuesday and Friday, and the Glorious on Wednesday and Sunday (with this exception: Sundays of Christmas season - The Joyful; Sundays of Lent - Sorrowful)
See http://www.rosary-center.org/howto.htm
The Good book dictates:
TEST! DISCERN THE SPIRIT!
Accept what is good, rejecting the rest.
(For those in the African Diaspora who would not otherwise be exposed to such: Fair use 17 U.S.C. )
MEDITATIONS ON WORDS OF GOD THE FATHER
Words of God the Father for the World
The Words of God the Father
through Gianna Talone Sullivan
To the World
July 8, 2008
My Children of Humanity,
As a gracious God, I love you with a Love no parent or human being could endure. I see from afar; and yet, I see very closely. There you are. I am here with you, inviting you in a special way to pray with your heart and to be strong enough to move forward without fear.
So many are afraid of the Father. They have no idea how gracious a “father” is: his love, his perseverance, his patience, his endurance, his fortitude, his own fear of God, his piety and his righteousness. A father is one who gives at all times, at every moment, unconditionally and without exception.
Time is moving forward, and so few seem to pay attention to My great Love for all. When the time comes where there is chaos and hardships, how can you run to a Father looking for advice if you have not listened or put into practice the advice I have given before?
You would be filled with yourself; and if you are filled with “self” knowledge, and the distance from your mind to your heart is great, how will you hear the quiet words, the few I will give, of instruction to help you?
When you hear My words, you cry in fear and you are frightened; but have you ever thought to put into practice My words to truly be athletically fit to endure spiritually? If you haven’t, then do not cry; for the negligence is not on the part of your Father, but rather in your lack of response.
I love you. I am with you, but I will always invite you every day, more and more, to do more and to be more prepared.
There are two lives, a life in Me and a life as you live in the world. Choose one! You can live in the world and still belong to Me; and if you do that, you will still be prepared. But if you do not pay heed to Me, and you live your life without Me, then that is the graciousness of the reward of life you get. The payment due will be forthcoming. Your choice: one life!
Peace.
Meditations on final lessons of our Lord
Message to J.N.S.R. May 3,2008
The Omega Times
May 3, 2008 - St. Philip and St. James
MARY: God is speaking to you, listen carefully to Him.
JESUS: Today, God speaks to all His chosen children, the Messengers who listen to Him. You are now writing His Holy Will. My daughter, open your heart, listen to the Father speaking to the Son, through the Holy Spirit who is speaking to you. Listening in is general. Pay attention.
My child, these Times will end in a deluge of water and fire. Your Heavenly Father dwells in you as in each one who listens to Him. These Times will end, soon they will be fulfilled.
The evil one is as furious as he intended to be. As a raging lion, he abuses his strength by killing and destroying everything he can. He does not spare even one country on Earth. Many will be definitely wiped off the surface of the earth. They will no longer be on any geographical map.
When a country is targeted, he starts by attacking it and does not stop until it vanishes. Its informed people must flee and never return. Nothing more will exist in its place, all will be under water or burned. Only mud, or ashes and corpses will remain.
My little daughter, your JESUS of Love is asking you to listen to Him. As soon as the Lord calls you, write if He asks you to, because from this moment, it will be as if the world were cut in two, one part of the population will find itself in so much confusion, not yet knowing that God is the Only, Unique and True God, and still believes that My Holy Law of Love does not concern them.
And they will go towards illicit pleasures with no worry about the unfortunate who are seeking, on all the roads, their brothers' acceptance and the sharing of their bread. If they do not receive them, they may become the wretched ones of these Times, the true wanderers, in search for the Kingdom of God that gets farther and farther away from them.
I am requesting My Church on Earth to inform everyone of the Kingdom of God which is already upon us and can only be conquered in the Love of God and neighbor. That is what you must speak about.
Now is the time that the evil ones will be really evil and that good people will truly be good.
My Church must make everyone understand that this is no time to protect the rich countries from an invasion of the poor, for it is God who sends them. They come from everywhere. Do not reject them. I give them to you, these are God's poor people.
If you open your heart to them, I will grant you that same help. I will open My Door, the one to My Heart, and I assure you, all of you, I will come and spare you the final disaster, that will be accomplished before the eyes of the unbelievers, the assassins, the murderers, the desecrators.
The end of all ancient things is leaving so that the New World where I will settle My Elect, may be born in My Peace and My Joy.
Welcome My Flock, it arrives from another sheepfold that God bought with the blood of their Martyrs.
Every door that is closed shall be opened by My Enemy and the premises occupied by him, will become, with its occupants, his property.
Open the doors to those exiled people, they come with God, who chose them, as well as all those who will welcome them.
Behold, the Purification is here, and so is the Judgment.
You will hear Evil growling from all directions, children crying, footsteps resounding with fear on the roads, and they will be yours, water flooding houses, fires burning even the grass, and that will be your very own.
Every country shall receive its wages.
Each inhabitant will pay for the Wrong or that which he forgot to do.
Each inhabitant shall be rewarded for the Good he did or the thought of Love he had for his neighbor.
Each Cross that will be erected will only be elevated when I am with you, those will be Crosses of Glory. If you erect one now, it shall be accompanied by hundreds of Martyrs.
The time when I asked you to elevate My Cross was the time of your disobedience. I was saying to you: "Very well then, I shall elevate it in the sky, but there will be no more time. And so, I tell you again: "The Times are accomplished, you have no more time".
The last Cross in Naju was the one that was to complete the Thousands of Crosses in the World. It was the protection of all that part of the world and the warranty for Europe.
Asia is first to suffer the great punishment for disobedience. Dozul and Naju, chosen by God, have been the Alpha (Dozul) and the Omega (Naju).
To all those called to live in the New World,
JESUS and MARY bless you all
Vision to littlest of servants July 22, 2008
While in Church, after Mass, while I was praying the ROSARY before the BLESSED
SACRAMENT I was given the following vision.
I saw a huge wave, then I saw the state of Florida and the huge wave was washing
over almost the entire state except for a tiny portion in the northern part of
the state. I then saw another huge wave hitting the shoreline and I then saw
that it was in the state of California. It was hitting the shoreline from
Ventura all the way to San Diego and had completely destroyed everything, that
is all the houses, hotels, restaurants along the shoreline. I began to pray and
asked JESUS for HIS MERCY. HE then spoke and said, " their numerous
abominations call out for MY JUSTICE".
Our Lady of All Nations to littlest of servants July 23, 2008
My dear, dear children as the major events begin there will be a division among
humanity. Those who will choose to follow My SON and those who will choose to
continue to follow their false religions.
When this division is complete a person will emerge to claim that he is greater
than My SON. THOSE WHO HAVE FREELY REJECTED MY SON, TRUE GOD AND TRUE MAN, will follow this impostor.
This person will be the anti-christ spoken of in the BOOK OF REVELATIONS. He
will be the one they accept as their messiah, their god.
Once in power the anti-christ will firmly establish his ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT and ONE WORLD RELIGION with him as their leader.
HE WILL DEMAND THAT MAN WORSHIP him AS GOD!!!
Our Lady of All Nations
FROM THE CENTER OF THE IMMACULATE HEART
"THE DAY IS COMING WHEN THE SON OF MAN WILL GIVE YOU A WARNING OF THE BITTERNESS OF CHASTISEMENT, WHERE EACH MAN AND WOMAN
ACROSS THE WORLD WILL
SEE THE JUDGMENT OF THEMSELVES "
"....THEY WILL SEE THE TRUTH OF THE WORLD AS IT IS AND WHAT THEY HAVE MISSED FROM POSTPONING PRAYER AND SERVICE THROUGH LOVE, BY SEEKING SELF-GAIN IN THE WORLD. THEY WILL SEE WHAT THEY HAVE DEPLETED FROM THEIR SOULS THROUGH THE LOSS OF THE TREASURES OF HEAVEN."
Words From Our Lady of Emmitsburg
through Gianna Sullivan
FROM http://www.tfsih.com/Illumination/Post.aspx (Fair use)
"The time is coming when every man and woman
on this earth will know that God exists.
All will have a glimpse of the state of their soul.
Those seconds will seem like an eternity.
Your love of gold is about to become
glittering dust and be swept away."
(8/27/92)
"Do not wait until God's warning strikes the souls
of every person in this world, for it will be very
difficult to respond and change...
There will not be much time after God's warning
for the fire of purification to befall you.
Some events are inevitable."
(5/9/96)
Each person will have a glimpse of what his/her soul really looks like in the sight of God. All will know that God exists.
All deception will be pulled away. Everyone will know the condition of his/her soul. This will be a supernatural event that will occur to every living person at the same time, regardless of creed, age, philosophy, or religion. This illumination will be the forerunner to the Purification.
The Illumination of the Soul,
or The Warning, will be a Divine supernatural event, of historic proportions.
It will be an action, instituted by God, experienced in the soul of every living person on earth. During this experience, God will infuse each soul with His Truth; thereby, correcting the conscience of mankind.
Through this action, the grace of God's Truth will flow into the soul, penetrate it, illuminate it, and raise it to an enlightened state of understanding where the soul will know, without a doubt, that God exists.
The Most Important Thing To Remember When The Illumination of Your Soul Occurs
Be humble and accept that you are a sinner
and that you have flaws,
and weaknesses that you must address.
Then, you will be safe.
But on the other hand,
if you choose to block God's Mercy
with your pride or fear, or you give into self pity
and permit feelings of unworthiness
to overtake you,
after you have seen
a glimpse of your soul,
and do not accept God's Mercy,
You will encounter great difficulties.
Be confident in God's Mercy because the depth
of His love for you is unconditional
and beyond all human understanding.
Lesson from Our Lord
November 24, 1991
DEVOTION
My dear one, man places importance on spiritual things according to the standards of the world. My people believe that their wisdom comes from the length of time they have been practicing prayer.
They imagine that graces will beget to them because they impose a value on their prayer which they feel they deserve--immeasurable gifts depending on the length of time they have been praying. Do they not know that I can do in someone in a matter of a short time what would normally take another years of prayer to achieve?
I am asking for devotion and commitment to prayer through the love in your heart, not through spiritual vanity. Pray for spiritual emptiness so that true devotion to Me can exist. Many practice their devotion when they feel spiritually comforted. This is spiritual vanity, placing value on yourself imposed on you by you.
How few there are who are devoted to me in emptiness; because few people risk the trouble to themselves to follow Me and to grow through the aches and pains of darkness, where My Truth of purification and cleansing lies.
I come to My people in two ways: one, in the form of comfort; and the other, in trials. I deem fit what is merited for them. I rebuke their vanity and vices, or I exhort and comfort them with virtue.
Be devoted to Me in all times of blessings or inner turmoil. Do not weigh the importance of your own spirituality by the length of time you have practiced prayer, or what accomplishments you have achieved for others.
I tell you to be devoted to Me and seek My acceptance, not the acceptance created by the standards of mankind. I tell you this because the day is coming when the Son of Man will give you a warning of the bitterness of chastisement, where each man and woman across the world will see the judgment of themselves.
If you seek acceptance and weigh the importance of spirituality based on the standards of mankind and its vanity, your judgment will be hard because your judgment will be the one you make against yourself. If you seek the acceptance of Me and are devoted to Me with all the painstaking steps, I will now lead you through the purification.
You will see that My Path is not rocky or narrow, but is a royal thoroughfare of Love leading to eternal freedom. Your judgment can be peaceful because of your love for yourself and for others through, by, and because of Me.
The day is coming, and it is coming soon, when the chastisement set forth from My Father cannot be escaped, but can be mitigated through prayer and devotion to Me. Begin now. Love yourself now. Be free now. Do not wait or it will be too late.
Man needs time to change, to die to the self made shameful through the lack of dignity and a burdened society, and to be free. Place little expectations on yourself, so that your expectations of others shall diminish to extinction.
Write My Words on your heart and diligently contemplate them. Man is cheated of his hopes, but My words are words of Truth and Everlasting Life. They shall never deceive you. Have confidence in Me.
Remember your former ways and poverty when you were far from Me? Always fear God and love. Be devoted to Me. Do not imagine you can impose something on My Father because of your perception of what you think you deserve. Focus on Me and love yourselves and one another in My Name. I bless you, and My Peace I bring through My Divine Mercy. Ad Deum.
LESSONS, Feasts, Prayers, More...
LESSONS from Our Lord Revisited - Release 82
Links to the 82nd release of the revisited LESSONS from Our Lord from the I AM
your Jesus of Mercy series:
Volume V, Lesson 3 - The Seed of Love...
(http://www.centeroftheimmaculateheart.org/foundation/singlenews.asp?item_ID=514\
&comm=0&list_code_int=NEW02-INT)
Volume V, Lesson 4 - Love of God is Love of Neighbor...
(http://www.centeroftheimmaculateheart.org/foundation/singlenews.asp?item_ID=513\
&comm=0&list_code_int=NEW02-INT)
Apparition Video - July 13, 2008
Due to a camera technical malfunction, no video of the July 13, 2008 Public
Apparition of Our Lady of Emmitsburg is available. So here below is a link to
the full text of the message.
Read Full Text of Message with Reflection... (
http://www.centeroftheimmaculateheart.org/messages/messages_current_temp.asp )
The Illumination
Our Lord has stated:
"The time will come when I, the Lord of all lords and Master of all Masters,
shall come to examine the consciences of mankind, to bring to light the hidden
darkness and to silence all arguments."
The Prophecies: The Illumination...
(http://www.prourladyofemmitsburg.org/thepropheciesasummary/theillumination.html\
)
The Feast of St. Mary Magdalen - July 22, 2008
Litany of St. Mary Magdalen...
(http://www.catholictradition.org/Litanies/litany76.htm)
The Feast of St. Bridget of Sweden - July 23, 2008
Brief biographical sketch... (http://saints.sqpn.com/saintb07.htm)
The promises and 15 prayers revealed by Our Lord to St. Bridget...
(http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Marble/8229/english.htm?200811)
Pope Benedict XVI Prayer Intentions for July 2008
DAILY OFFERING PRAYER - O Jesus, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of
Mary, I offer You my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day in union
with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world. I offer them for all
the intentions of Your Sacred Heart: the salvation of souls, reparation for sin,
and the reunion of all Christians. I offer them for the intentions of our
bishops and of all Apostles of Prayer, and in particular for those recommended
by our Holy Father this month.
August
3
Sun
Our Lady of Emmitsburg Monthly Marian Prayer Service
Lynfield Event Complex, August 3, 2008
Come pray the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy at the Our Lady of Emmitsburg
Monthly Marian Prayer Service from 3PM-5PM. All are welcome. (Our Lady has been
giving her monthly message to the world at this service.)
More Info...
( http://www.centeroftheimmaculateheart.org/messages/messages_current_events.asp
)
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Emmitsburg Maryland - Center of the Immacualte Heart
LESSONS from Our Lord for the World
Final Lesson
Lesson #30 (Final Lesson)
In private chapel at home
November 11-12, 1995, midnight
RETURN TO GOD
My dear little one, if ever I wanted to stress upon My people the importance and significance of prayer, there would be no more opportune time than the present. I am not asking My people to give Me all of their undivided attention.
I am asking them to return back to God and to give even a little of their time in prayer and thanksgiving to My Father for all the wonders He gives to all people continuously and unconditionally.
If all My people would pray daily even for a small amount of time, there would be peace and unity. Some of My beloved ones are praying, yet many are not.
If ALL would pray, there would be peace through love and mercy. I desire to give to My people all good things from above. I have given My words of love and My teachings in hope that My people will return to the Way of truth. The future is contingent upon prayer. Much can be mitigated through prayer.
My Father is merciful and kind, especially to the repentant sinner. Just as Nineveh was spared, so too can the world in which you live be spared. Love and mercy are key elements and virtues of the truth. My Father is tender and kind. He seeks the humble hearts and He is a patient God. There is tremendous hope for the journey for all who desire to know and live the truth.
I would like to continue to give My lessons to My people, but I have given My Word through the Scriptures, and I am still waiting for My people to live My Word. My Word is THE Word. It is already written. It has been available to My people for 2000 years.
No new words will make any difference if My Word through Scripture is not practiced. My beloved priests, bishops, cardinals, deacons, religious, nuns, and even Christian evangelicals and ministers may have studied My Word, but I have invited ALL My people of the world to live My Word. There comes a time, little one, when no additional words from Me will make any difference or make a greater impact on people.
Those who desire My Word have it already. For those who do not desire to know My Word, then no other words from Me will change their hearts.
Pray for all people. Pray and love all people, even those who seem to be farthest away. Do not be afraid to pray for those who are your enemies. Do not harden your hearts, but walk through clouds of anger and bitterness and meet them with love, strength and mercy on the other side. There is no need to take justice into your own hands. There is no need to take prosecution to the full extent of the law.
What are needed are contrite hearts, merciful hearts, patient hearts, and hearts of compassion. Those who live My Word have hearts of love, mercy, patience and compassion. Those who do not live My Word have hearts of stone and live not in My world but in their own. You cannot serve two masters.
Those who live by My Word of truth and love know that justice will be fulfilled at the hand of My Father. You cannot say you are a child of God, a chosen people, and then through words and actions contradict the law of love as I have given it to you. If you pray, you will know the truth, for the least contradiction to loving would cause inner division, for love and hate are not able to be mixed.
I await My people to return to Love. This does not mean that man is perfect or will not fail. If that were the case, My death for love of you would have been in vain. It means that through prayer and humility in accepting yourself in failure, you are able to grow in holiness and reach the Kingdom through patience and the virtues dispensed from God.
It does not mean that you are not to live by the law established by mankind for structure and organizational standards in society. What is needed to return to God is to live in a world by the virtues of love and dignity, not revenge, resentment, or hatred.
It is so necessary, little one, that My people return to Me soon, before it becomes any more difficult to change. The longer My people delay, the colder the heart becomes, more and more like stone. But prayer, love and mercy chip away at the stony heart, and soon enough purity radiates beneath all layers.
I am here, little one, for all people. I love all people. I died for all people, and I would die again if I could because of My love for all people. Listen to the teachings of My Church. Listen to My Word and live it. Just take a few minutes to be with Me, to ponder My love in your life. I want to call all My people to Me. Return to God, My loved ones.
Please return. Change the current path towards human destruction to one of love, peace, unity and life. Live in freedom through living the truth of My Word. I shall not give any new words until My people begin to live My current words, for all is written. My Word will not change. It stands as is for I am the living Word.
Those who live in Me live My Word. So many have chosen to walk away. Come, return to My love. Live My Word of truth. I love you, My beloved people. I am your Jesus of Mercy. I am Love, and I have so much to give you, more than you could ever imagine. Come, come to Me. Return back to Me. Return to God. All I can ask of you and all I can invite you to is to RETURN TO GOD!
End of Lesson 30.
From Center of Peace http://www.centeroftheimmaculateheart.org/foundation/gtf_current.asp
FATHER MELVIN DOUCETTE
"I am the light of the world"
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Dear Friends,
"Jesus spoke to them (the Pharisees) again saying, 'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.'" John 8: 12
We had a mostly sunny day yesterday, although in the evening the clouds moved in. These clouds come from the storm that hit Nova Scotia from the Atlantic Ocean and dropped a lot of rain on Halifax and the surrounding area. Today it is cloudy and we should have rain for part of the day.
Yesterday there were visitors who came to pray in the little shrine of Our Lady of Prince Edward Island. I went to the Immaculate Conception Church, Palmer Road, for one hour of adoration from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m., and celebrated Holy Mass at 7:00 p.m. at the little shrine in honour of St. Mary Magdalene.
Today I will celebrate Holy Mass at 9:30 a.m. at Our Lady's little shrine. I will be back at the Immaculate Conception Church, Palmer Road, this evening for the prayer meeting at 8:00 p.m.
Here once more are the words of Jesus addressed to Joseph. Jesus said, "Before My coming into the world, there was only darkness in the hearts of the people. They were under the sway of the evil one and heaven was closed to every person.
This was due to the sin of Adam and Eve, who brought this calamity upon all their offspring. Only the Saviour promised by Our Heavenly Father (see Genesis 3: 15) could chase away this darkness and fill them with light.
I am the light of the world. I came to bring them the truth that makes them free. With My teaching, I showed them the path that all who believe in Me are to follow. In My love for every person on earth, I gave My life so that I could bring you all out of the slavery of Satan to the freedom of the children of God. I came to open heaven for each one of you if you follow Me. I am the Son of God and your Saviour.
In order to bring you into the Kingdom of God, I agreed to suffer the Passion and to die a cruel death on the cross, but after three days I rose from the dead never to die again. I am now your everlasting Saviour who is always there ready to help you if you call upon Me.
Open your eyes, My people, and see what I have prepared for you. Come out of this hole that the evil one has put you in and rejoice to have known Me. Do not delay in taking the first step because time is getting short. I want you all with Me and I will guide you along the right path to a much fuller life with Me.
Let the new morn dawn upon you with My bright light on you and rejoice that you have found Me. Sing your praises to Me, your Saviour, and never look back. I am the only one who can bring you salvation, so do not look elsewhere. Wake up for the day of salvation has arrived."
Father Melvin
Medjugorje Day By Day July 23 - CONSECRATE YOURSELVES TO ME
"The sacred host exposed on the altar gives my soul food for 'admiration.' I admire my Divine Spouse in His humility but above all His love which has placed Him to be there at the words of the priest at consecration. I admire the love which puts Him at the word of every priest in every century . . . . I know that I am a sinner and a big sinner. I have crucified You many times.
I praise You for a love beyond my comprehension and yet You have given me the gift of infinite love. I glorify You in union with Mary and beg You to make me imitate this love of Yours . . . . Give me the grace to follow Your will in every detail . . . . I must be all His as He is mine" (St. Katharine Drexel).
Mother Teresa -
You won't be able to give what you don't have.
Meditations by Padre Pio -
I am suffering and suffering very much, but thanks to our good Jesus I still feel a little strength, and when aided by Jesus what is the creature not capable of doing? (Letters I p 342).
Archbishop Fulton Sheen -
Without the Face of Love you have the mask of evil
"If there is not one great Face of Love that bends over mankind, its troubled mind will fill it with a thousand horrible masks."
St. Faustina's diary http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html -
am reliving these moments with Our Lady. With great longing, I am waiting for the Lord's coming. Great are my desires. I desire that all humankind come to know the Lord. I would like to prepare all nations for the coming of the Word Incarnate.
O Jesus, make the fount of Your mercy gush forth more abundantly, for humankind is seriously ill and thus has more need than ever of Your compassion. You are a bottomless sea of mercy for us sinners; and the greater the misery, the more right we have to Your mercy. You are a fount which makes all creatures happy by Your infinite mercy. (793)
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.
July 23 - CONSECRATE YOURSELVES TO ME
In this message to Jelena, the Blessed Mother speaks of consecration to her heart:
Dear children, at this time it is especially necessary for you to consecrate yourselves to me and to my heart. Love, pray, and fast.
Consecration is an act of deep love, of which Paul speaks in this passage from Ephesians:
I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love (Eph 3 :16-17).
Reflection:
Our readings today speak eloquently of love, which motivates Our Lady to ask that we consecrate ourselves to her Immaculate Heart, the source of great love and peace. Let us do just that, using a prayer written by St. Louis de Montfort:
This day, with the whole court of heaven as witness, I choose you, Mary, as my Mother and Queen. I surrender and consecrate myself to you, body and soul, with all that I possess, both spiritual and material, even including the spiritual value of all my actions, past, present, and yet to come.
I give you the full right to utilize me and all that belongs to me, without any reservations, in whatever way you please, for the greater glory of God in time and throughout eternity.
Accept, gracious Virgin, this offering of my life and service, to honor and imitate that obedience which the child Jesus chose to have towards you, his Mother.
I wish to acknowledge the authority which both of you have over this poor sinner, and by my life and service, to also thank God for the privileges bestowed on you by the Blessed Trinity. I solemnly declare that for the future I will strive to honor and obey you, my Lady, in all things as your humble servant. Amen.
Application:
Begin to offer this prayer, or another like it, on Saturdays, the special day of the week given by the church to honor the Blessed Virgin.
Updated: Wednesday, 23 July 2008 11:43 AM PDT
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