September 9, 2011
St. Peter Claver
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children! Today I desire to open my motherly heart to you and to call you all to pray for my intentions. I desire to renew prayer with you and to call you to fast which I desire to offer to my Son Jesus for the coming of a new time - a time of spring. In this Jubilee year many hearts have opened to me and the Church is being renewed in the Spirit. I rejoice with you and I thank God for this gift; and you, little children, I call to pray, pray, pray - until prayer becomes a joy for you. Thank you for having responded to my call." (October 25, 2000)
I want to share a little conversation I had with Our Lady in my journal yesterday. It is about praying for Our Lady's intentions and what that means. She has asked us so often to pray for her intentions, but I was given a little different perspective on it in this little conversation:
Me: When I asked you, Blessed Mother, what I could do for you yesterday, you asked me to pray for your intentions, especially for those who are far from your heart. I have always thought that praying for your intentions was done in blind faith, just praying for those intentions without knowing anything about them. And I think that is often the case, especially when you are cooking up something big! But it occurred to me that when you ask us to pray for your intentions, you are asking us to have a heart like yours. Is that true?
Our Lady: To pray for my intentions means to align yourself, your desire, your hopes and your loves with mine...to want what I want...to desire what I desire...and to intercede as I intercede. So yes, it is to align your heart to my heart, making it perfectly obedient to the Father, and praying for what He wants to have happen.
Me: How can I do that???
Our Lady: Study my life and my messages and you will discover my heart. Then you can pray accordingly. You don't really have to know my intentions, you just have to love me and you will have them in your heart of love, but you can get a good idea of what they are by knowing me. For instance, you know that I long for my children who are lost and far away. That is one of my biggest intentions. You will never go wrong praying for them.
Me: Yes, Mother, I would like to know you better. You know, I see Ivan's face when he talks about you. He knows you pretty well now, doesn't he? (I wish I could know you so well.) I see how much he has learned from you. Mirjana, Marija, Vicka, Ivanka, and Jakov all know you so well too. But it amazes me how much Ivan has changed over the years. He really knows you now, doesn't he! And knowing you has changed him into a holy man. Maybe praying for your intentions will have the same effect on me...if I persev
ere. I may know you well yet and maybe even align my heart to yours!
You see what a lovely thing it is to pray for Our Lady's intentions. It is an invitation into her heart!"Today I desire to open my motherly heart to you and call you all to pray for my intentions." Praying for her intentions is like entering into heaven, because heaven is in her heart and she desires and intercedes for heavenly blessings upon all men. "I desire to renew prayer with you and to call you to fast which I desire to offer to my Son Jesus for the coming of a new time - a time of spring." A time of spring! Our Lady's heart is bringing a new springtime to the earth. What heaven for us. What hope and joy!
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