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April 4, 2011Dear Family of Mary! "Dear children! With motherly love I desire to open the heart of each of you and to teach you personal unity with the Father. To accept this, you must comprehend that you are important to God and that He is calling you individually. You must comprehend that your prayer is a conversation of a child with the Father; that love is the way by which you must set out - love for God and for your neighbor. That is, my children, the love that has no boundaries; that is the love that emanates from truth and goes to the end. Follow me, my children, so that also others, in recognizing the truth and love in you, may follow you. Thank you." (April 2, 2011) Our Lady wants to draw us into the loving presence of our Father in heaven. As I prayed about this message I had a picture of Our Lady holding me by the hand and walking me gently into the throne room in heaven. I was a little girl and she was coaxing me to approach the big chair on which the Father was sitting. I was shy. It seemed impossible to me that God, the Father, would want to see me. But she just kept encouraging me gently to approach Him. I believe this is the heart of what Our Lady has come to tell us all these years. Our Father in heaven is waiting for us to come to Him as His children. He longs for us to understand that He loves us, that He created us out of love and has a beautiful destiny for each of us. He looks on us with compassion and joy, and wants us to respond to His love with trust and love. On Saturday, I was able to go to confession. I went to my parish and was able to experience the sacrament with a wonderful priest whom I have known for many years. This priest is very "fatherly". He has a soothing masculine voice, he is plump and friendly, and he makes me feel very much like a child who is loved. I was very blessed by that confession. My penance was to say two "Our Fathers". As I left the confessional, I felt like I had encountered the Father. It was very comforting.
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It was a moment of comprehension for me. I realized that God the Father made me and loves me so much that He would send His Most beloved Son, Jesus, into danger to tell me that I am important to Him and that He is calling me individually to come to Him. And now the Father sends Our Lady to help me to understand this as well. It is incredible. We are all loved, called, meant, important, and blessed. The Father wants us and needs us! "With motherly love I desire to open the heart of each of you and to teach you personal unity with the Father. To accept this, you must comprehend that you are important to God and that He is calling you individually." How precious each of us is! We are beloved children of the Father. May we allow Our Lady to lead us into the throne room and walk us right up to the knees of the Father, where we can meet the One who loves us. We are being called.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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