The Virgin Mary said: "Child of the Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart, I am
Mary, the Mother of Jesus and your Mother and Mother of all people.  Child,
give praise and thanks with me that we are able to visit once again. Let us
call upon the Holy Spirit, my dear Spouse, for gifts of openness and
attention to my words meant to encourage and comfort Our faithful people
everywhere in the world.

'My dear ones of the world, I Mary, the Mother of God and your Mother, call
out to you in love and gratitude for your fidelity and devotion to My
Beloved Son and to me. I bless you, children of my heart, with every grace
and blessing you will need for the living out of this holy Lenten Season.

 My precious ones, look through my eyes and see suffering people everywhere
in freezing cold and with little to eat. See the intensity of the pain in
their eyes, the swollen bellies of starving children, the victims of
terrible floods, epidemics of virulent diseases in areas of ongoing poverty
and extreme neglect. No one in the world should be living in these horrible
conditions, my beloved people. These conditions will continue to worsen
until entire nations die of disease so rampant, nothing can be done to save
them. These conditions, my precious ones, have existed for hundreds of years
because of the greed and terrible evil in the hearts of leaders of too many
powerful countries of the world. Only unimagined evil and hatred for others,
different and less fortunate, could allow such an inhuman environment to
exist. Only the lack of heart and soul, produced by Satan himself in his
followers, could allow the entire world to degenerate to this level of
cruelty and absence of any concern for God's people, the ones He created to
simply love and be loved by Him.

HEAR THE CRY OF THE POOR, MY PEOPLE. Hear children weep, and infants sob and
cry themselves to sleep in the exhaustion that results from chronic hunger.
My children, these are your brothers and sisters who belong to the same
world family as you do; who are loved by Our God in the same way you are;
who were created to live in peace and harmony on the earth as you were. They
are helpless to stop the invasion of greed that first creeps silently and
then roars destructively across their land, destroying everything in its
path.

Allow your eyes and hearts to be opened by these tragedies existing in many
places, most of which you know far too little about, by the designs of these
same governments who will present these situations and ongoing disasters and
killings as a reason for uniting the world under one government for the
'good and safety' of the world!

Allow yourselves to be touched in the deepest part of your soul, your entire
being, so much so, that you will act at once in defense and heartfelt
outrage by sending mighty prayers and aid to these helpless victims of
Satan's plans to destroy as many in the world as possible.

I speak stern words to you in order to present a picture of the reality in
which you live, My dearly loved ones. I beg you for the rest of these forty
days of prayer and fasting and penance to reach out to help to ease the
terrible plight of so many weakened, starving, suffering members of the
family of God, your family. There is no rational excuse for the money that
pours into sports arenas, sporting events and on and on for the
gratification of the privileged in the world of which there are so many.

You are called to love the Lord, your God, with your whole heart, your whole
soul, your whole mind and your whole strength, and your neighbor as
yourself! (Matt. 22: 37-39 ) Hear the echo of My Jesus' words in your
liturgy readings this first week of Lent...." As often as you did it to the
least of your brethern (feed the hungry, clothe the naked, etc.) you did it
unto Me." (Matt 25:40) Could anything be clearer, my people? Will you be
taken joyfully into Heaven one day, or sent away with the words, "Depart
from Me, you accursed, into eternal fire" (Matt.25: 41) on your day of
judgement?

If you are generous with your time and self and wealth, My dear little ones,
you will find an honest comfort in My words, for you are found faithful and
rich in good works. If you are selfish and mindless and unconcerned about
the poverty so prevalent in the world, and do nothing to help others, then
these words, I pray, will be a challenge to your comfort and the proper
encouragement to move you out of your complacency to become your brother's
keeper, to do what you can to overcome the evil plans of Satan and
soon-to-be- experienced Antichrist. You will begin sincere and loving prayer
now for the defeat of existing plans for world war, and the continued
injustices and inequities between the rich and powerful and the weak and
impoverished people, all created equal by God.

Oh my beloved ones, the darkness of evil descends and deepens. You reject
these words as 'doom and gloom', my dear ones? Indeed they are meant to
paint an honest picture of actual conditions in most of the rest of the
world and concrete  plans of evil men and women everywhere . It is the evil
one's doom and gloom of which I speak!

I plead with you, beloved of my Heart, use this time of Lent to pray and
fast and do penance to a greater degree than you ever thought possible, if
you have the good health and strength to do so. When Jesus invites you to be
united to Him through prayer and self discipline and generosity, He means
for you to give as He gave, to live as He lived, to minister to His people,
to share out of your abundance, to pray to the Father in order not to lose
any of those He has sent to you at home and in the entire world.

Feel my love for you, children. Feel my concern and sorrow for all who
suffer so terribly on the earth. Feel the urgency I hope to convey at the
shortness of time, the length of eternity and the need of so many RIGHT NOW!

I hold you in my Heart, precious children, and I call out with a mother's
heart and concern, 'Pour yourselves out for others, little dear ones, as My
Son has poured Himself out for you!'

My daughter, please pray this week that very many will respond to my words
with increased prayers and generosity and a greater focus on the Presence of
Jesus. Remain as focused as you can, and remember Our Presence with you at
every moment. I kiss your dear head and hug your weary shoulders. I am Mary,
your loving and grateful Mother."
 

 A new prayer was given by Our Lady on June 10, 1999 in Tulsa Okla.

 "We praise you, Father, and beg Your Mercy on a sinful world.  Without Your
Kindness and Mercy, the world will not survive. Have pity on us, Father, and
forgive us, we pray. Amen."

  PRAYER ASKED OF US FROM JESUS

via Carol Ameche, Scottsdale, Arizona, on January 20, 1998.

Father, we kneel before Your Majesty and ask Your action In our lives and in
the world. Enact Your plan now, Father, to bring all Your people back to You
In love and remorse and repentance. Allow Your Justice, guided by Your
Mercy, To pour forth upon the waiting world that knows not Your Love and
power. Bring us back to Your loving arms and scoop us up in Your Mercy and
forgiveness. You are Our God and Our Creator, Our Savior and Our Sanctifier.
We beg You, Father, receive our prayers and answer us. Amen.