Monday, September 24, 2007



MY EVENING REFLECTION

Message 95 in the MMP Blue Book is titled, 'Your Light Will Shine Resplendently.'

Our Lady continues to speak to Her priest-sons and to us too! It's a First Saturday and She thanks them joyfully for their homage that they gave to Her Immaculate Heart. I always try to honor Our Lady on the First Saturday's by completing the Fatima devotions asked for during the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima.

Requirements For The First Saturday Devotions

“I promise to assist at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for salvation all those who, on the First Saturday of five consecutive months, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me.”

~ Our Lady of Fatima to Sister Lucia 10 December 1925

Mass, confession, Rosary, 15 minutes meditation on the Mysteries and the intention of offering it all in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, doesn't seem too hard! If you do this for five months straight, Our Lady promises that She will be at our side at our death to support us and save our souls! What a gift!

Now She speaks about the coldness of the world in its denial of God, of its hatred, egoism, impiety, and rebellion. The cup is almost full and God's justice demands atonement. Her priest-sons are being formed by Mother Mary into victims worthy to be offered to the divine justice. And so are many of the hidden victim's in the world, chosen by God as victim souls. Many are called to suffer in union with Christ's sacred Passion in reparation for sin.

Our Lady says that even in the Church errors are being spread more and more, and even the good are accepting them. Infidelity is rampart among the clergy and consecrated souls; even in the hierarchy! Many have attacked the Pope, the Vicar of Christ; he is criticized and calumniated, challenged and left more and more alone by his own sons.

Mother Mary wants her priests to share this suffering with the Holy Father: this is the hour of Gethsemane and we are to live it in the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady asks us for prayer, suffering and silence; and we will be a crown of love to comfort Jesus and His Vicar on earth. Can we do this? Only by the grace of God through Our Lady's loving guidance.

Yes, we must be the light shining ever more brightly in this world where darkness envelops everything. We must be the light reflecting Jesus and Mary during this time of trial. And Our Lady promises that Her motherly and merciful intervention will then be manifested to all the world. The time of Her triumph is near!
Roman Deacon

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