Resend Message to Louise of August 2006
URGENT!
Message via L., V+J
August 15, 2006- - -9 A.M.
Feast of Assumption!
L. began to receive words from God and said, "Jesus, please cover me with Your
Most Precious Blood."
Then your Jesus spoke, "Today, I call each of you to join the 'White Army of Our
Lady'. In doing so you must pledge all your love, adoration and devotion to the
Holy Eucharist. If ONLY My words are used in the Consecration 'The Little White
Host IS TRULY MY SACRED BODY.'
Receive Me with true, loving reverence- -on your tongue! NEVER touch IT
with your hands! I am Jesus with you!
Pledge your love to Me today for the dark hours ARE upon you. Soon, very
soon, My tiny, true remnant will be forced underground. There will be few TRUE
Masses, few true priests and an almost minute remnant.
Protect the 'True' Host with your life for in doing so you are protecting
your Jesus thus saving your eternal soul.
Join mother's 'White Army', 'the Eucharistic Army of the 'last times'."
Note: 'White Army' is Our Lady's Cohort or Apostles of the End Times.
(confirmed from reliable source)
Padre Pio's Words of Faith
I have often raised my hand in the silence of the night and in my solitary cell,
blessing you all and presenting you to Jesus and to our father, St. Francis of
Assisi.
In all the events of life, you must recognize the Divine will. Adore and bless
it, especially in the things which are the hardest for you.
In my greatest sufferings, it seems to me that I no longer have a mother on this
earth, but a very compassionate one in Heaven.
Remember that God is within us when we are in a state of grace and outside of us
when we are in a state of sin; but His angel never abandons us. . . He is our
most sincere and faithful friend even when we sadden him with our bad behavior.
Prayer is the best weapon we possess. It is the key that opens the heart of God.
You must always humble yourself lovingly before God and before men, because God
speaks only to those who are truly humble and He enriches them with His gifts.
Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost
divine.
Hold on tightly to the Rosary. Be very grateful to the Madonna because it was
she who gave us Jesus.
Love our Lady and make her loved; always recite the Rosary and recite it as
often as possible.
Imagine Jesus crucified in your arms and on your chest, and say a hundred times
as you kiss His chest, "This is my hope, the living source of my happiness; this
is the heart of my soul; nothing will ever separate me from His love."
Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of
consolation for You. .
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Love Jesus, love Him very much, but to do this, be ready to love sacrifice more.
Our Lord sends the crosses; we do not have to invent them.
Charity is the measure by which Our Lord judges all things.
Don't allow any sadness to dwell in your soul, for sadness prevents the Holy
Spirit from acting freely.
Our present life is given only to gain the eternal one and if we don't think
about it, we build our affections on what belongs to this world, where our life
is transitory. When we have to leave it we are afraid and become agitated.
Believe me, to live happily in this pilgrimage, we have to aim at the hope of
arriving at our Homeland, where we will stay eternally.
Meanwhile we have to believe firmly that God calls us to Himself and follows us
along the path towards Him. He will never permit anything to happen to us that
is not for our greater good. He knows who we are and He will hold out His
paternal hand to us during difficulties, so that nothing prevents us from
running to Him swiftly. But to enjoy this grace we must have complete trust in
Him.
The more you are afflicted, the more you ought to rejoice, because in the fire
of tribulation the soul will become pure gold, worthy to be placed and to shine
in the heavenly palace.
In the spiritual life you must take one step forward each day in a vertical
line, from the bottom up.
Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the
help of the Blessed Mother.
Our Lord sometimes makes you feel the weight of the cross. This weight seems
unbearable but you carry it because in His love and mercy, the Lord helps you
and gives you strength.
You must not be discouraged or let yourself become dejected if your actions have
not succeeded as perfectly as you intended.
What do you expect? We are made of clay and not every soil yields the fruits
expected by the one who tills it. But let us always humble ourselves and
acknowledge that we are nothing if we lack the Divine assistance.
When Jesus wants to make me happy, He fills my heart with that spirit which is
all fire, and speaks to me about His delights; but when He wants to be consoled,
He speaks to me about His pains, and invites me in a manner that is both a
request and a command, to offer my body to alleviate His sufferings.
I have worked and I want to work. I have prayed and I want to pray. I have been
attentive and I want to be attentive. I have cried and I want to cry - always
for all of my brothers who are in exile. I know and understand that this is very
little but this is what I know how to do; this is what I am able to do; and this
is all that I can do.
As gifts increase in you, let your humility grow, for you must consider that
everything is given to you on loan.
Keep your eyes fixed on Him who is your guide to the heavenly country, where He
is leading you. What does it matter to you whether Jesus wishes to guide you to
Heaven by way of the desert or by the meadow, so long as He is always with you
and you arrive at the possession of a blessed eternity?
You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be
pleased.
In the first place, I want you to know that Jesus needs someone to mourn with
Him for human wickedness. This is why he leads me along the sorrowful paths. But
blessed be His charity forever. He knows how to combine the bitter with the
sweet and convert the fleeting pains of this life into eternal happiness.
If God wills to prolong our trials, do not let us lament or try to find out the
reason. . .We have to see God through the fire of thorns, and to do this we must
go barefoot and renounce our own will and affection and accept the will of God
wholeheartedly.
The earth could exist more easily without the sun than without the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass.
If we only knew how God regards this Sacrifice, we would risk our lives to be
present at a single Mass.
I beg You, O my God, to be my life, my ship, my haven. You have made me ascend
the cross of Your Son and I struggle to accept it as best I can. I am sure that
I shall never come down from it.
Recommend me to the Lord and to the Virgin Mother because I am in extreme need
of their help.
As regards mortification of the flesh, St. Paul warns us that those who belong
to "Christ Jesus, have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires" -
Galatians 5:24. From this holy apostle's teaching it is apparent that anyone who
wants to be a true Christian, that is to say, who lives according to the true
spirit of Jesus Christ, must mortify his flesh for no other reason than devotion
to Jesus, who for love of us, mortified His entire body on the cross.
The mortification must be constant and steady, not intermittent, and it must
last for one's whole life.
As the days pass, I see ever more clearly the greatness of God, and in this
light, which grows brighter and brighter, my soul burns with the desire to be
united to Him by indissoluble bonds.
Let us continue to trust, for the God who humiliates us and makes us suffer at
present is the God who is still speaking to us, and the God who still speaks to
us. . . even if He thunders so unpleasantly and severely, is still the God who
loves us.
As long as you receive Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament every morning, you must
consider yourself extremely fortunate.
Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by
holy books and read them as much as you can. This spiritual reading is as
necessary to you as the air you breathe.
Lord God of my heart, You alone know and see all my troubles. You alone are
aware that all my distress springs from my fear of losing You, of offending You,
from my fear of not loving You as much as I should love and desire to love You.
If You, to whom everything is present and who alone can see the future, know
that it is for Your greater glory and for my salvation that I should remain in
this state, then let it be so. I don't want to escape from it. Give me the
strength to fight and to obtain the prize given to strong souls.
In order that we may willingly accept the tribulations lavished on us by the
Divine mercy, let us keep our gaze fixed on the heavenly home reserved for us. .
. Let us withdraw our gaze, moreover, from those good things which are visible
to our eyes, by which I mean worldly goods, the sight of which fascinates the
heart.
Worldly goods prevent us from keeping our eyes fixed on our heavenly home.
Let us keep before our minds that which makes up real holiness. Holiness means
getting above ourselves; it means perfect mastery of all our passions. It means
having real and continual contempt for ourselves and for the things of the world
to the point of preferring poverty rather than wealth, humiliation rather than
glory, suffering rather than pleasure.
Holiness means loving our neighbor as ourself for love of God. In this
connection holiness means loving those who curse us, who hate and persecute us
and even doing good to them. Holiness means living humbly, being disinterested,
prudent, just, patient, kind, chaste, meek, diligent, carrying out one's duties
for no other reason than that of pleasing God and receiving from Him alone the
reward one deserves.
Take care of your spirit, flee idleness and all immoral conversation. . .always
remembering the words of the apostle, that our virtue is preserved in very
fragile vessels.
The Mother of Sorrows is my confidante, my teacher, my counselor, and my
powerful advocate.
Jesus will assist you and give you the grace to live a heavenly life and nothing
whatever will be able to separate you from His love.
I remind you that I belong with great ardor to everyone and for this reason I am
suffering immensely for all.
Bless Him in all that He makes you suffer on this earth and rejoice in it, for
each victory gained has a corresponding crown in paradise.
Do not let the persecution of worldlings and of all those who live without the
Spirit of Jesus Christ deter you from following the road trodden by the saints.
Continue to love Jesus and make an effort to love Him more and more, without
desiring to know anything else.
Especially during Mass I continually ask many graces for your soul, which I love
as my own. Especially do I ask divine love for you.
This is everything for you.
Jesus permits the spiritual combat as a purification, not as a punishment. The
trial is not unto death but unto salvation.
Renew your faith by attending Holy Mass. Keep your mind focused on the mystery
that is unfolding before your eyes. In your mind's eye transport yourself to
Calvary and meditate on the Victim who offers Himself to Divine Justice, paying
the price of your redemption.
There are moments when I think of the severity of Jesus and I start to worry;
then I begin to think of His tenderness and I am consoled. It would be
impossible for me not to abandon myself to this sweetness, this happiness.
Raise your heart always to those heavenly heights, and do all you can to attain
that eternal beatitude which awaits us. The children of the world usually only
confess their sins on their deathbeds, even though this present life should be
lived in the light of eternal life. The children of God, however, touch this
truth with their very hands their whole lives.
God commands us to love Him, not as much as He deserves, because He knows our
capabilities and therefore He does not ask us to do what we cannot do. But He
asks us to love Him according to our strength, with all our soul, all our mind,
and all our heart.
One day when we are able to see the full midday light, we will know what value
and what treasures our earthly sufferings have been that have made us gain our
everlasting Homeland.
I feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater trust to the Divine Mercy
and to place my hope in God alone.
Let us always bear in mind that if the Lord were to judge us according to strict
justice, none of us, perhaps, would be saved. So let us make righteousness and
peace exchange a kiss, which we shall obtain if we always tend towards mercy
rather than justice, in imitation of our Heavenly Father.
Give yourself up into the arms of your Heavenly Mother. She will take good care
of your soul.
But let us take heart. . .Let us glance at the Divine Master who prayed in the
Garden and we will discover the true ladder which unites the earth to Heaven. We
will discover that humility, contrition and prayer make the distance between man
and God disappear, and act in such a way that God descends to man, and man
ascends to God, so that they end up understanding, loving and possessing one
another.
It is now God Himself who acts and operates directly in the depths of my soul,
without the ministry of the senses, either interior or exterior. . .All I can
say of this present state is that my soul has no concern for anything but God.
I do not wish to have my cross made lighter because suffering with Jesus is very
dear to me; the sight of the cross on Jesus' shoulder never fails to fortify me,
and I exult in holy joy.
In darkness, at times of tribulation and distress of the spirit, Jesus is with
you. In such a state you see nothing but darkness, but I can assure you on God's
behalf that the light of the Lord is all around you and pervades your spirit. .
.You see yourself forsaken and I assure you that Jesus is holding you tighter
than ever to His divine Heart.
Pray for the reestablishment of the kingdom of God, for the spread of faith, for
the praise and triumph of our holy mother Church. . . Pray for the unfaithful
and for heretics and for the conversion of sinners.
Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects,
abundant spiritual and material graces which we ourselves, do not know.
If we are imitators of Jesus Christ and face up to all life's battles, we too
will share in His victories.
Jesus himself wants my sufferings; He needs them for souls.
Jesus, our dear Mother, my little angel, St. Joseph, and our father, St.
Francis, are almost always with me.
Live in such a way that your Heavenly Father may be proud of you, as he is proud
of so many other chosen souls.
O Jesus, how many generous souls. . .have kept Thee company in the Garden,
sharing Thy bitterness and Thy mortal anguish. . .How many hearts in the course
of the centuries have responded generously to Thy invitation. . .May this
multitude of souls, then, in this supreme hour, be a comfort to Thee, who,
better than the disciples, share with Thee the distress of Thy heart, and
cooperate with Thee for their own salvation and that of others. And grant that I
also may be of their number, that I also may offer Thee some relief.
This is my only comfort, that of being associated with Jesus in the Divine
Sacrifice and in the redemption of souls.
Don't lose heart if it is your lot to work alot and gather little. If you
considered what one soul alone costs Jesus, you would never complain.
Let us remember that the Heart of Jesus has called us not only for our own
sanctification, but also for that of other souls. He wants to be helped in the
salvation of souls.
When disturbed by passions and misfortunes, may the sweet hope of His
inexhaustible mercy sustain us. Let us hasten confidently to the tribunal of
penance where He awaits us at every instant with the anxiety of a father; and
even though we are aware of our inability to repay Him, let us have no doubts
about the solemn pardon pronounced over our errors. Let us place a tombstone
over them, just as the Lord has done.
We are the administrators of our money. We will have to give God an account of
the use we make of it up to the last cent.
Don't worry about tomorrow because the very same Heavenly Father who takes care
of you today will have the same thought tomorrow and always. . . What does a
child in the arms of such a Father have to fear? Be as children, who hardly ever
think about their future as they have someone to think for them. They are
sufficiently strong just by being with their father.
My only regret is that I have no adequate means with which to thank the Blessed
Virgin Mary, through whose intercession I have undoubtedly received so much
strength from the Lord, to bear with sincere resignation the many humiliations
to which I am subjected day after day. . . And I do not believe this strength
comes to me from the world.
Jesus wants to make us holy at all costs. . .He offers you continual proof of
this.
We must hide our tears from the One who sends them, from the One who has shed
tears Himself and continues to shed them every day because of mans' ingratitude.
Contrary to our every merit, we are on the steps of Tabor, by having a firm
determination to love and serve His divine goodness well. Therefore we must have
great hope. . .Let us, step by step, draw away from earthly affections; let us
strip ourselves of the old man and put on the new man, aspiring to the happiness
that awaits us.
I know that your spirit is always wrapped in the darkness of trials, but it is
enough for you to know that Jesus is with you and in you.
Never fall back on yourself alone, but place all your trust in God and don't be
too eager to be set free from your present state. Let the Holy Spirit act within
you. Give yourself up to all His transports and have no fear. He is so wise and
gentle and discreet that He never brings about anything but good. How good this
Holy Spirit, this Comforter, is to all, but how supremely good He is to those
who seek Him.
Isn't our good God far above anything we can conceive? Isn't He more interested
than we are in our salvation? How many times has He not given us proof of this?
How many victories have you not gained over your very powerful enemies and over
yourself, through the Divine assistance without which you would inevitably have
been crushed?. . .If it was left to ourselves, my dear, to remain on our feet,
we should never be able to do it.
The Lord is a Father, the most tender and best of fathers. He cannot fail to be
moved when His children appeal to Him.
At Jesus' school I have learned that silence and hope are the fortress of the
soul.
You ought to ask our Lord for just one thing, to love Him. All the rest should
be thanksgiving.
Jesus is well aware that my entire life, my whole heart is consecrated to Him
and to His sufferings.
Don't worry about anything.
It is enough for you to know that you are doing God's will, therefore I exhort
you to approach God with filial trust. . .He loves you and you must correspond
to the best of your ability to His love. He desires nothing more and you must
trust, pray, hope, and love always.
I confess in the first place that for me it is a great misfortune to be unable
to express and pour out this ever-active volcano which burns me up and which
Jesus has placed in this very small heart of mine. It can all be summed up as
follows - I am consumed by love for God and love for my neighbor.
Do you know what religion is? It is a school in which every soul must be
trained, smoothed and polished by the Holy Spirit, who acts as a physician to
our souls until, well smoothed and polished, they can be united and joined to
the will of God. . .Religion is an infirmary for the spiritually sick, who wish
to be cured and must therefore undergo the pains of surgery.
We must humble ourselves on seeing how little self-control we have and how much
we love comfort and rest.
Always keep Jesus before your gaze; He did not come to rest nor to be
comfortable either in spiritual or temporal matters, but to fight, to mortify
Himself and to die.
My daughters, in Latin, abjection is called humility, and humility - abjection.
. .Nevertheless there is some difference between the virtue of humility and that
of abjection, because humility is the recognition of one's abjection. Now the
highest degree of humility is not only to recognize one's abjection, but to love
it.
This is what I have urged you to do.
Remain calm, because your illness was a little present given to you by Jesus.
The pain caused by this wound which He inflicts on me and the sweetness which
accompanies it are so intense that I cannot even begin to describe it.
However. . . this pain and this sweetness are completely spiritual, although it
is also true that they are shared by the body to a high degree.
I have never trusted in myself; I can state before my conscience that I never
took a step without the advice of another, and as for the steps already taken
I always reconsidered, always asked for new insight from as many people as I
happened upon.
We must keep the eye of faith fixed on Jesus Christ who climbs the hill of
Calvary loaded with his Cross, and as he toils painfully up the steep slope of
Golgotha we should see him followed by an immense throng of souls carrying their
own crosses and treading the same path. Oh, what a beautiful sight this is.
Let us fix our mental gaze firmly on it. We see close behind Jesus our most
holy Mother, who follows him perfectly, loaded with her own cross. Then comes
the Apostles, Martyrs, Doctors, Virgins and Confessors. . .Jesus himself,
despite all our unworthiness, has associated us with this beautiful company. We
must make every effort to merge ourselves increasingly in these ranks and hasten
with them along the road to Calvary.
We should look to the end of the journey and not separate ourselves from this
fine company; we must refuse to follow any other way than the one they tread.
My usual manner of praying is this: I no sooner begin to pray than my soul
becomes enveloped in a peace and tranquility that words cannot describe. . .All
I can say about this prayer is that my soul seems to be completely lost in God
and that in those moments it gains more than it could in many years of intensive
spiritual exercises.
Serene in our faith and tranquil in our soul, let us pray and continue to pray,
because intense and fervent prayer pierces the heavens and is backed up by a
Divine guarantee.
The Lord only allows me to recall those persons and things He wants me to
remember. On several occasions, our merciful Lord has suggested to me people
whom I have never known or even heard of, for the sole purpose of having me
present them to Him and intercede for them, whereupon He never fails to answer
my poor, feeble prayers.
On the other hand, when Jesus doesn't want to answer me, he makes me actually
forget to pray for those persons for whom I had firmly decided and intended to
pray.
My daughter, we should never forget that our self love is the last to die. While
we remain in this base world we will always be affected by its sensitive
assaults and hidden operations; but God's grace is sufficient for us not to
willingly succumb.
This virtue of detachment is so excellent that the old man in us, the man of
sin, nor the senses, nor human nature with its natural faculties were ever
capable of possessing it. Not even the Son of God, who as a Son of Adam,
although without any stain of sin, was completely free. He too confessed to His
apostles that His soul was full of sadness; He too sought consolation; He too
did not wish to die. However, He preserved His detachment, and we too must try
to preserve it in imitation of Him, in times of trial and suffering, in the
faculties possessed by grace.
We must never separate the cross from Jesus; otherwise, it would become a weight
which in our weakness, we could not carry.
Yes, my dear Father, even in the midst of great sufferings I feel happy, for I
seem to feel my heart throbbing in union with the heart of Jesus.
I do not know what will happen to me; I only know one thing for certain, that
the Lord will never fall short of His promises. "Do not fear, I will make you
suffer, but I will also give you the strength to suffer," Jesus tells me
continually. "I want your soul to be purified and tried by a daily hidden
martyrdom". . ."How many times," Jesus said to me a little while ago, "would you
have abandoned me, my son, if I had not crucified you."
In order to attract us the Lord gives us many graces and we imagine we are
almost in Heaven. We do not know, however, that to grow we need hard bread -
crosses, humiliations, trials and contradictions.
You are mistaken, greatly mistaken, when you want to measure the soul's love for
its Creator by the delightful feelings it experiences in loving God.
This kind of love belongs to those who are still spiritually immature. . .On
the other hand, the love of those who have left this spiritual infancy behind
them is a love which experiences neither taste nor delight in what is called the
sensitive part of the soul. We have a sure sign that these people really love
God when we observe their readiness to keep God's holy law; their constant
watchfulness so that they may not fall into sin; their habitual desire to see
the heavenly Father glorified, while losing no chance to spread the kingdom of
God as far as lies in their power; when we see them praying continually to God
the Father in the same words of our divine Master, Our Father. . .Thy kingdom
come.
In the first place, let our prayers be directed towards disarming Divine wrath
with regard to our own country.
This land also has many accounts to settle with God. May she learn at least from
the misfortunes of others, especially from those of her sister country, France,
how harmful it is for the nation to draw away from God, and let her intone in
due course the Miserere.
Protected, or rather covered and defended by the uniform of this most dear Lord,
let us come into His presence and pray to Him with the humility of creatures and
the freedom of sons. And because He finds His delight with the children of men,
let nothing in the world prevent us from delighting in Him, contemplating His
greatness and His infinite titles, for which He has the right to our praise and
love.
Place your heart gently in Our Lord's wounds. Have great confidence in His mercy
for He will never abandon you.
Abandon yourself fully to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, like a child in the arms of
its mother.
Reflect upon and keep before your mental gaze the great humility of the Mother
of God, our Mother.
In this life Jesus does not ask you to carry the heavy cross with Him, but a
small piece of His cross, a piece that consists of human suffering.
You are never without my prayers which you ask for, because you have cost me
such sacrifices that I can never forget you. I gave birth to you in the extreme
pain of my heart.
Jesus did not measure his blood for the salvation of men, and is He likely to
measure my sins to allow me to be lost? I do not think so. . .Tell Jesus too
that I will keep my promise not to offend Him anymore and that I will in fact
make every effort to love Him always.
If there wasn't anything else in a soul but the desire to love God, this would
be sufficient because God Himself is there. He is not present where there is no
desire to love Him.
If nature suffers and demands its rights, this is a condition of mans' life as a
wayfarer. . .As long as we remain in this world we shall always feel a natural
aversion for suffering. This is a chain that will accompany us everywhere.
Pray, pray to the Lord with me, because the whole world needs prayer. And every
day, when your heart especially feels the loneliness of life, pray. Pray to the
Lord because even God needs our prayers.
All our life, all our actions and all our aspirations must be directed in
reparation for the offences that our ungrateful brothers continually commit.
I feel crushed beneath the weight of the long exile which still remains before
me. It is true that just one more step. . .and the cross will be set up on
Golgotha, but you must agree that the step to be taken to set up the cross will
require further time and then, to agonize there with Jesus will take time.
We must believe that Jesus will invariably sustain us by His grace. We must
fight like strong men, with strength of soul, and the prize will not be far off.
The Mass is infinite like Jesus. . .Ask an angel what the Mass is, and he will
reply to you in truth,"I understand what it is and why it is offered, but I do
not, however, understand how much value it has." One angel, a thousand angels,
all of Heaven know this and think like this.
Unfortunately, I am in need of courage, but Jesus will not refuse anything. I
can testify to this from long experience, so we should not stop asking Him for
what we need.
The Heavenly Child suffers and cries in the crib so as to make His suffering for
us loveable, meritorious and sought after. He lacked everything so that we might
learn from Him to renounce earthly goods. He was pleased with humble and poor
adorers so that we might love poverty and prefer the company of the little and
simple ones to those of the great of the world. . .With His birth, He indicated
our mission, namely to dispise what the world loves and seeks.
Where there is no obedience, there is no virtue; there is neither goodness nor
love. And where there is no love, there is no God. Without God, we cannot reach
Heaven. These virtues form a ladder; if a step is missing, we fall down.
Believe that Jesus, Sun of justice, is with you, loves you and always will,
although He would like your consent to operate freely in you.
Our imperfections will accompany us to the grave; we cannot walk without
touching the ground. It is true that we must not lie on the ground nor turn our
face to it, but neither should we attempt to fly, for in the ways of the spirit,
we are like young birds that have not yet grown wings.
In our thoughts and in confession, we must not dwell on sins that were
previously confessed.
Because of our contrition, Jesus forgave them at the tribunal of penitence. It
was there that He faced us and our destitution, like a creditor standing before
an insolvent debtor. With a gesture of infinite generosity, He tore up and
destroyed the promissory notes which we signed with our sins, and which we would
certainly not have been able to pay without the help of His Divine clemency.
Remember, our suffering is brief but our reward is eternal. You must remain
calm, or at least resigned, but always convinced in the voice of authority. You
must confide in it, without fearing the rages of the storm, because the vessel
of your soul will never be submerged. Heaven and earth may pass away, but the
Word of God, that assures the one who obeys it will find victory, will never
pass away and will always remain fixed in indelible script in the Book of Life:
I will exist forever.
The thought of God's mercy is the only thing that sustains me.
Souls are not given as a gift; they are bought. Don't you know what they cost
Jesus? They must be paid for with the same coin.
Jesus will never abandon you. I ask you to pray hard for the efficacy of my
ministry. I am afraid of displeasing the Lord in the exercise of my priestly
activity. May Jesus arrange all things for His glory and our salvation.
In Heaven, everything will be spring as far as beauty is concerned, autumn as
far as enjoyment is concerned, summer as far as love is concerned. There will be
no winter; but here winter is necessary to exercise self-denial and a thousand
other little but beautiful virtues which are exercised at times of sterility.
I can only say one thing, that the one who stands at my right side is Our Lord
and no one else; and even before He told me so I was firmly convinced that it
was He.
Jesus, who is infinitely merciful, will not fail to give you now and then a
respite from the trial He has sent you. He is so good that He will never allow
you to give in. The trial is a very hard one, but the Lord who is so very, very
good will not fail to lighten the Cross from time to time.
Remember that our soul is the temple of God, and as such, we must keep it pure
and spotless before God and His angels.
Divine help will not be lacking. Don't desire this state to be removed but say
to Jesus, "Lord, act in the way and to the extent You wish. If You are happy, I
am happy."
Let us always bear in mind that at our baptism we became temples of the living
God and that every time we turn our minds to worldly things, to the devil and
the flesh which we renounced at baptism, we are profaning this sacred temple of
God.
Keep in good spirits, abandon yourself to the Divine Heart of Jesus, leaving all
your anxieties to Him.
Consider yourself always last among our Lord's lovers. . .clothe yourself with
humility toward others, because He resists the proud and gives grace to the
humble. The more the graces and favors of Jesus increase in your soul the more
you must humble yourself, always keeping in mind the humility of our celestial
Mother, who the instant she became the Mother of God, declared herself servant
and handmaid of God.
The grain of wheat does not yield anything unless it suffers and decomposes; it
is the same for the soul and for nations who need trials and sufferings so as to
rise up purified and renewed.
There is one thing I desire from you above everything else: that your normal
meditation be, if possible, around the Life, Passion and Death, and also the
Resurrection and Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ.
You can then meditate on His birth, His flight into Egypt and His life there,
His return and His hidden life in the workshop of Nazareth up to the age of
thirty, His humility in His desire to be baptized by His precursor St. John. You
can meditate on His public life, His most painful Passion and Death, the
institution of the most Holy Sacrament, the very evening men were preparing the
most atrocious sufferings.
You can meditate again on Jesus praying in the Garden of Olives, sweating blood
knowing what sufferings men were preparing for Him and the ingratitude of men
who would not make use of His merits.
You can meditate also on Jesus being dragged and led to the tribunal,
flagellated and crowned with thorns, the course He climbed to Calvary laden with
the cross, His crucifixion and finally His death on the cross with all the
suffering of seeing His most sorrowful mother.
Listen carefully. There is a mother who is embroidering. Her son sitting on a
low stool sees her work, but upside down. He sees the knots of the embroidery,
the tangled threads and says, "Mother, what are you doing? Your work is not at
all clear." Then the mother lowers the embroidery frame and shows the good part
of her work. Each color is in its place and the variety of threads form a
harmonious design. We are seeing the reverse side of the embroidery; we are
sitting on the low stool.
Anxiety is one of the greatest traitors that real virtue and solid devotion can
ever have. . .One must be careful of this on all occasions, particularly at
prayer. And to better succeed it would be well to remember that the graces and
consolations of prayer are not waters of this earth, but of Heaven. Therefore
all our efforts are not sufficient to make them fall, even though it is
necessary to prepare oneself with great diligence but always humbly and
tranquilly.
Always keep close to God. In Him I am with you more than you can know.
Consider Jesus' act of acceptance in the Garden and how much it cost Him, making
Him sweat blood. Make this act yourself when things are going well and also when
they go against you. . .We know that nature shrinks from the cross when things
are hard, but we cannot say the soul is not submissive to God's will when we see
it carrying out that will, in spite of the strong pull it feels in the opposite
direction.
Those souls who throw themselves into the whirlpool of worldly preoccupations
are poor as well as unfortunate. . .they are affected by the shock that breaks
their heart.
The Christian's motto is the cross. You will recognize God's love by this sign,
by the sufferings He sends you.
I no sooner began to pray than my heart is filled with a fire of love. This fire
does not resemble any fire of this lowly earth. It is a delicate and very gentle
flame which consumes without causing any pain. . .This is a wonderful thing for
me, something I will perhaps never understand until I get to Heaven.
I will always seek the company of all those who are lovers of Jesus,
particularly those who are united to us in one and the same spirit.
Science, my son, for all its greatness is nevertheless a small thing and less
than nothing compared to the formidable mystery of the Divinity. You must take
another road. Cleanse your heart of every earthly passion, humble yourself in
the dust and pray. Like this you will certainly find God, who will give you
peace and serenity in this life and eternal beatitude in the next.
The field of battle between God and Satan is the human soul. This is where it
takes place every moment of our lives. The soul must give free access to our
Lord and be completely fortified by Him with every kind of weapon. His light
must illuminate it to fight the darkness of error. He must put on Jesus Christ,
His truth and justice, the shield of faith, the word of God to overcome such
powerful enemies. To put on Jesus Christ we must die to ourselves.
Do not wish greatly to be freed from tests; a soldier needs to have achieved a
great deal in war before he desires its end. We shall never gain perfect
sweetness or charity unless we exercise it amidst repugnance, aversion and
disgust.
The Lord is willing to do great things, but on condition that we are truly
humble.
Let us now consider what the soul must do to be certain of the indwelling of the
Holy Spirit. It is all a question of mortification of the flesh with its vices
and concupiscence. . . . .
On this subject the Apostle warns, "If we live for the Spirit we will walk in
the Spirit," as if he wanted to tell us for our edification: Do we want to live
spiritually, that is to say, to be moved and guided by the Holy Spirit? Then let
us take care to mortify our spirit, which, when it is satisfied, makes us
impetuous and weary. Let us take care to repress vainglory, wrath and envy.
These are three evil spirits that enslave the majority of mankind. These three
evil spirits are extremely opposed to the Spirit of the Lord.
The good we endeavor to do to others will always result in the sanctification of
our own souls.
Let us look at ourselves in Jesus, my dear, as our mirror, in Jesus who led a
hidden life. All His infinite majesty was hidden in the shadows and silence of
that modest little workshop in Nazareth. So let us, too, make every effort to
lead a completely interior life, hidden in God.
We have a double life; one is natural, that which we have from Adam through
human generation and therefore an earthly life - corruptible, self-centered and
full of passions. The other which we have from Jesus in baptism is supernatural
and therefore a spiritual life - heavenly and with a capacity for virtue.
Through baptism, a real transformation is made in us. We are brought to die to
sin; we are grafted onto Jesus Christ in such a manner that we live His very
same life.
When you are exposed to any trial, be it physical or moral, bodily or spiritual,
the best remedy is the thought of Him who is our life, and not to think of the
one without joining to it the thought of the other.
Jesus continues to love me and to draw me closer to Himself. He has forgotten my
sins, and I would say that He remembers only His own mercy. . .Each morning He
comes into my heart and pours out all the effusions of His goodness.
The Spirit of God is a spirit of peace. Even in the most serious faults He makes
us feel a sorrow that is tranquil, humble, and confident. This is precisely
because of His mercy. The spirit of the devil, instead, excites, exasperates,
and makes us feel, in that very sorrow, anger against ourselves. We should, on
the contrary, be charitable with ourselves first and foremost.
Therefore if any thought agitates you, this agitation never comes from God, who
gives you peace, being the Spirit of Peace, but from the devil.
Endure tribulations, illness, and pain, for the love of God and for the
conversion of poor sinners.
May the Mother of Jesus, and our Mother, obtain for us from her Son the grace to
live a life according to the heart of God, a life that is entirely interior and
hidden in Him.
Humility and charity are the main supports of the whole vast building and all
the other virtues depend on them. One makes up the foundation; the other, the
roof of the building, the sturdiness of which depends on both. If the heart
constantly dedicates itself to the practice of these two virtues, it will have
no difficulty with all the others.
I feel all your troubles as if they were my own.
Endeavor to walk in the presence of God, in the ways I taught you and which you
know. Guard yourselves against anxiety and worries, because there is nothing
worse in the way of perfection than agitations, worries and anxieties of soul.
I send you this fervent aspiration from my heart. . .'O Lord, for the
incomparable sadness and great desolation Your heart felt on the Mount of Olives
and on the cross; and for the great affliction Your dear Mother felt when
deprived of Your presence, may You be the joy or at least the strength of this
daughter, when the passion and cross are perfectly joined to your soul.'
The heavenly beings continue to visit me and to give me a foretaste of the
rapture of the blessed. And while the mission of the guardian angels is a great
one, my own angel's mission is certainly greater, since he has the additional
task of teaching me other languages.
Keep always before your eyes as archetype and example, the modesty of our Divine
Master, who according to the expression of the apostle to the Corinthians,
considers the modesty of Jesus Christ equal to His meekness, which was His
proper and almost characteristic virtue.
Our body is like a donkey that we must take a stick to, so as to subdue it, but
not so much that it throws us to the ground and refuses to carry us.
Many times a day I present your heart to the Eternal Father. ..and I present it
to Him without fail at Holy Mass.
I feel powerfully the need for a true, sincere and intimate conversion to God,
and I do not know where and how to start. This is what I assiduously ask of
Jesus: my conversion.
When it pleases Him to place us on the Cross by confining us to a bed of
sickness, let us thank Him and consider ourselves lucky to be honored in this
way.
Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the
sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own
eyes.
I am alone in bearing the weight of everyone. And the thought of not being able
to give some spiritual relief to those that Jesus sends to me, the thought of
seeing so many souls who want to justify their sins and thus spite their highest
good - afflicts me, tortures me, makes me a martyr. It wears me out, wracks my
brain, and breaks my heart.
Let us humble ourselves and confess that if God were not our armor and shield,
we would be pierced by all kinds of sins. That is why we must live in God by
persevering in our practices, and learn to serve Him at our own expense.
Holy Father, give us today our daily bread. Give us Jesus always during our
brief stay in this land of exile. Give Him to us and grant that we may be
increasingly worthy to welcome Him into our hearts.
God has never refused me anything and indeed I must say He has given me more
than I asked.
I suffer greatly, Father, when I see how people ignore Jesus, and what is worse,
how they insult Him, especially by those dreadful blasphemies.
We must rise up and value every instant of time that passes and is in our power.
We must not waste a single moment. By divine grace we find ourselves at the
beginning of a new year.
This year, which only God knows if we shall see its end, must be used in
reparation for the past and in preparation for the future.
Oh my daughter, how beautiful is His face, how sweet His eyes and what a good
thing it is to stay close to Him on the mount of His glory. We must place all
our desires and affections there.
Place all your trust in the heart of sweet Jesus, who is not only mine but is
also your Jesus. Never abandon your faith and renew it always. Faith has never
abandoned any man, and far less so will it forsake a soul that yearns to love
God.
Consider that we are always in the presence of God to whom we have to give
account for our every action, both good and bad.
You think you know my love for you but you don't know that it is much greater
than you can imagine. I follow you with my prayers, with my suffering and with
my tears.
I am ready for anything as long as Jesus is happy and will save the souls of my
brethren, especially those He has entrusted to my care.
Let us pray to our most merciful Jesus to come to the aid of His Church, for her
needs have become extreme.
May the Most Holy Virgin, who was the first to practice the gospel perfectly and
in all its severity, even before it was proclaimed, spur us on to follow closely
in her footsteps.
We shall invariably advance cautiously, but with holy freedom. We shall feel
that the Lord who has chained us to Him by love, is leading us to beware of sin
as of a poisonous viper. And while we take the greatest care never to commit a
deliberate sin, we have a greater fear of mortal sin than of fire.
Be of good cheer; abandon yourselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and let Him
take care of everything.
The years have gone by, one after the other, without our reflecting on how we
have spent them, and whether there was anything in our conduct to improve, add
or remove. We have lived thoughtlessly and unmindful that one day the eternal
Judge shall call each of us and ask us to give an account of our deeds and how
we made use of our time. And yet we shall have to give a most strict account of
every minute, every grace, every holy inspiration and every occasion offered to
us to do good.
Living these brief passing moments should matter little to the children of God,
so long as they will live eternally with God in glory.
My daughter, consider that you are already on the way to eternity. You have
already placed one foot there. Provided that it is a happy one for you, what
does it matter if these passing moments are unhappy?
What God wants from you is always right and good. May He be blessed forever. Let
us get to work; in Heaven we'll have no other duty than the fulfillment of God's
will. Let us strive to bless the Lord when we are the object of humiliations and
contempt. Let us bless Him in our spiritual trials and our heartbreaks, for all
is ordained by God with great wisdom.
He who attaches himself to the earth remains attached to it. It is by violence
that we must leave it. It is better to detach oneself a little at a time, rather
than all at once. Let us always think of Heaven.
As the years go by and eternity draws near, we must be twice as courageous and
lift our spirit to God, serving Him with even greater diligence in everything
that our Christian vocation and profession requires from us. Only this can make
us agreeable to God, make us free to leave this great world that is not of God,
free from all other enemies; only this can make us reach the port of eternal
salvation.
Every Christian soul ought to be familiar with this saying of the holy apostle
[St. Paul], "To me to live is Christ" - Philippians 1:2. I live for Jesus
Christ, I live for His glory, I live to serve Him, I live to love Him. And when
God wants to take our life from us, our sentiment and our feeling should be
those of a person who at the end of his toil goes to collect his wages, who, at
the end of the fight, goes to receive the prize.
By justice, Jesus Christ once risen should have ascended at once to the glory of
the right hand of the Father. . .And yet we know very well that for 40 days He
wanted to be seen as risen. And why? To affirm, as St. Leo says, by such an
excellent mystery, the good news of our faith. . .These 40 days before our
ascent to Heaven will pass for us too. Perhaps they will not be days, but months
and years.
I wish you, my brothers and sisters, a long and prosperous life full of
heavenly and material blessings. But finally this life will come to an end. And
then we will be happy, if we have assured for ourselves the joy of a happy
transit to eternity. Then our resurrection will be complete. There will be no
more danger of losing the grace of God. There will no longer be any suffering,
no more death, but instead everlasting life with our Savior Jesus Christ in
Heaven.
May our Lord bless these wishes of mine which I am happy to have demonstrated
to show how much I have your happiness at heart, how much I worry and
unceasingly pray for it.
Let us therefore, love to quench our thirst at this fountain of living water and
go forward all the time along the way of divine love. But let us also be
convinced that our souls will never be satisfied here below. In fact it would be
disasterous for us if, at a certain stage of our journey, we were to feel
satisfied, for it would be a sign that we thought we had reached our goal and in
this we would be deceived.
He wants you entirely for Himself. He wants you to place all your trust and all
your affection in Him alone.
Let us ask the Lord to send us death when His grace is with us, when we are
surrounded by Him, His Mother and Saint Joseph, after having completed our
purgatory here on earth.
May Jesus be always with you and may He be pleased to make all redeemed souls
worthy to be received one day into the kingdom of glory. May He include us in
the great number of those who have known how to make continual progress at the
school of His love.
Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a
battlefield and that in paradise we shall receive the crown of victory; that
this is a testing-ground and the prize will be awarded up above; that we are now
in a land of exile while our true homeland is Heaven to which we must
continually aspire.
And if our weakness brings us down, if our ingratitude towards God terrifies us,
if the memory of our sins prevents us from presenting ourselves to God, our
Father, in who we have provoked contempt towards us, let us turn to Mary, our
Mother. She is all sweetness, all merciful, all goodness, and full of tenderness
for us, for she is our Mother.
My daughter, we have to live in this vale of tears whatever length of time God
wishes, totally resigned to His most holy will.
Life is one long struggle. Let's always keep the thought of eternity, redemption
and the preciousness of the soul in mind.
Isn't it wonderful to know that in Paradise there are people dear to us who have
increased their love for us and who intercede for us at the throne of God and
wait for us to come there one day.
May your whole life be spent in giving thanks to the Divine Spouse. . .Live for
Him and let your entire life be spent for Him. Hand over to Him your departure
and the departure of others from this earth, when, where and as He wills. In all
things show yourself ever more worthy of your Christian vocation.
The souls that suffer the most are the favorites of the Sacred Heart; and you
may rest assured that Jesus has chosen your soul to be the favorite of His
adorable Heart. You must hide yourself in this Heart; in this Heart you must
give vent to your ardent desires, in this Heart you must live out the days that
Providence will grant you; in this Heart you must die when the Lord so wishes.
We shall not see each other again in this world; but when I am no longer here,
do not forget me in your prayers before the Almighty and I shall continue as
your guide from Heaven.
Perfect happiness can only be found in Heaven.
I will stand at the gates of Heaven and I will not enter until all of my
spiritual children are with me.
Fr Doucette Eucharistic Miracle - Fri, May 23, 2008