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| June 1, 2012
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children! Today I wish to call you to pray, pray, pray! In prayer you shall perceive the greatest joy and the way out of every situation that has no exit. Thank you for starting up prayer. Each individual is dear to my heart. And I thank all who have urged prayer in their families. Thank you for having responded to my call." (March 28, 1985)
I pulled this message out of my message box today, for our online prayer group. We try to pray for a message from Our Lady, pulling a random one from our message box, every day at the end of our Rosary. Our Lady seems to speak through them to us. She certainly spoke to me through this message today.
"Pray, pray, pray!" Such persistence! Mother Mary will not let up. She wants us to pray, pray, pray! It seems we cannot pray "too much". No such thing! This has been her consistent desire for us from the beginning of the apparitions. Our lives need to be saturated with prayer. We might ask ourselves if our lives are saturated with prayer. Do we pray morning, noon, and night? Do we move into prayer before every task, during our work, when we finish our daily duties? Is prayer scheduled into our day so that we cannot forget it? Do we think with prayer? Is God the first person we talk to about everything? Pray, pray, pray!!
And why all this prayer? "In prayer you shall perceive the greatest joy and the way out of every situation that has no exit." This is a promise from Our Lady. She never overstates or lies. In prayer we will perceive the GREATEST JOY! She demonstrated this in her Magnificat. "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior!!!" She wouldn't say this if it wasn't completely true. God is our joy! And he is available to us through prayer.
And in prayer we perceive the WAY OUT OF EVERY SITUATION THAT HAS NO EXIT!! Again, Our Lady would not exaggerate. She is telling the truth. There is no situation that cannot be solved through the Rosary! Sister Lucia of Fatima said this in 1957 to Father Fuentes:
Look, Father, the Most Holy Virgin, in these last times in which we live, has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Holy Rosary. She has given this efficacy to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all, spiritual, in the private life of each one of us, of our families, of the families of the world, of the religious communities or even of the life of peoples and nations, that cannot be resolved through the prayer of the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve through the recitation of the Holy Rosary. (The Fourth Secret of Fatima, Antonio Socci, Loreto Publications, 2009, pp. 99 - 102).
Through prayer, every situation, no matter how hopeless it seems, can be solved. This is our confidence and hope. God is with us in prayer to save us. He cares about us and will act, if we ask him into the situation. In prayer we ask!
"Thank you for starting up prayer." We learn something from this simple "thank you". Our Lady wants us to know that she understands how hard it is to change. She understands how much it takes for us to choose to live differently, to make a move. And she wants us to know how indispensable it is that we make the move. Without our cooperation, without our choice to change, she can do nothing for us. We have to make the first move. Starting to pray will begin the process of transformation that she so desperately wants for us. We must choose!!
"Each individual is dear to my heart." We must take this statement to heart. Our Lady is talking to each one of us, individually. We are not a statistic to her. We are not nameless, unknown, part of a crowd. She knows each one of us, and loves each one of us with all her heart. We are known. And that should bring us great peace. We are not forgotten. She loves me, she loves you.
But finally, she tells us, "And I thank all who have urged prayer in their families."Though she loves each of us separately and uniquely, she understands that we humans live and breathe and die as members of families. We are totally connected to our families, even if we never speak to each other. Why? Because God made us that way. He designed family as the unit of survival for us. We need family. And so every time we bring prayer to our family, we are helping that unit of survival to become stronger, more healthy, more full of grace, more filled with joy and light. We can't escape being families. We can only embrace and love our families. Even if we don't live near each other, we can bring prayer into the family, by our own prayer. We only need to think as a family, and love our family for God's sake.
So, this message blows me away! It is full of such good news and good advice. Pray, receive joy! Pray, find the solution to every difficulty. Pray, begin to change. Pray, experience the unique love of Our Lady for you. Pray, change your family. Pray!!!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2012 |
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