Monday, April 29, 2013

Mary TV daily Reflection 4/30/2013


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"Keep praying until your heart opens in faith
as a flower opens to the warm rays of the sun!"
            

J.M.J.
April 30, 2013

Dear Family of Mary!

"Dear children! Pray, pray, keep praying until your heart opens in faith as a flower opens to the warm rays of the sun. This is a time of grace which God gives you through my presence but you are far from my heart, therefore, I call you to personal conversion and to family prayer. May Sacred Scripture always be an incentive for you. I bless you all with my motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call." (April 25, 2013)

"As the flower is eager for the sun, so my heart is for You." (St. Faustina, 1808 Diary) This is the kind of heart Our Lady is eager for us to have. She wants us to love her Son with every fiber of our being, to long for Him with every breath we take. That kind of love comes with time, as we get to know Him. Once we really know Him, we can't help but to love Him.

Our Lady has suggested that we spend time with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in order to get to know Him. She gave us excellent guidance in this process of getting to know Jesus in this message from 1995:

"Dear Children! Today I invite you to fall in love with the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Adore Him, little children, in your Parishes and in this way you will be united with the entire world. Jesus will become your friend and you will not talk of Him like someone whom you barely know. Unity with Him will be a joy for you and you will become witnesses to the love of Jesus that He has for every creature. Little children, when you adore Jesus you are also close to me. Thank you for having responded to my call." (September 25, 1995)

"Jesus will become your friend..." Can we call Jesus our friend? Do we know Him that well? Have we spent the kind of time with Him that it takes to become friends? Does He know us through and through, and do we know Him that way too? Is Jesus the first person we go to with our joys, our sorrows, our ideas, and our hopes? Do we converse with Him? Can He count on us when He needs us? Do we turn to Him in need as well?

Time in Adoration, quiet time of being present to Jesus as He is present to us, is the way to become His friend. Time in Adoration is the way to bond with Jesus, to make ties of love. "Unity with him will be a joy for you..." As we adore Jesus, we become identified with Him, one of His number, one of His family. We live the bond of love with Jesus. And that unity brings with it the Kingdom of the Father. We begin to live as Jesus would have us live, and that means we begin to love. Jesus just sinks into our souls, as we adore Him.

Our Lady also told us:

"Dear children! I call you to work on your personal conversion. You are still far from meeting with God in your heart. Therefore, spend all the more time in prayer and Adoration of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, for Him to change you and to put into your hearts a living faith and a desire for eternal life. Everything is passing, little children, only God is not passing. I am with you and I encourage you with love. Thank you for having responded to my call." (March 25, 2008)

In Adoration, Jesus can change us and put into our hearts all that we need to become holy. Like flowers, we need to open to the rays of His love, and allow Him to change us with the raw power of His glory, present though hidden in the Blessed Sacrament.

Let's pray for one another, that we can find more time to be with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament!  With His help we will find a way to become His friend! 

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2013



 
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