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Fourth Sunday of Advent
Dear Family of Mary! "Dear children! Today again I am calling you to prayer to complete surrender to God. You know that I love you and am coming here out of love so I could show you the path to peace and salvation for your souls. I want you to obey me and not permit Satan to seduce you." (February 25, 1988) Obedience is one of the evangelical counsels. Obedience is actually love in action. When we obey God we are showing Him how much we love Him and even more how much we trust Him. "He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me;" (John 14: 21). Obedience is an act of complete surrender to God, complete love for Him. Jesus showed us this love during His Passion, when he willingly obeyed his torturers. He had discerned that the Father was allowing His passion, and so He obeyed them out of love for the Father. Our Lady showed a similar love for the Father when she accompanied Joseph to Bethlehem for the census. Such trust! May we learn to place ourselves in God's hands out of love for Him. It will bear such beautiful fruit!
FOURTH DAY: DECEMBER 19
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In Jesus and Mary!
Cathy Nolan
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