+ J.M.J. October 19, 2012 Saints John de Brebeuf and Isaac Jogues and Companions Dear Family of Mary! "Dear children: I am calling you and I am coming among you because I need you. I need apostles with a pure heart. I am praying, and you should also pray, that the Holy Spirit may enable and lead you, that He may illuminate you and fill you with love and humility. Pray that He may fill you with grace and mercy. Only then will you understand me, my children. Only then will you understand my pain because of those who have not come to know the love of God. Then you will be able to help me. You will be my light-bearers of God's love. You will illuminate the way for those who have been given eyes but do not want to see. I desire for all of my children to see my Son. I desire for all of my children to experience His Kingdom. Again I call you and implore you to pray for those whom my Son has called. Thank you." (October 2, 2012) I received a beautiful response to yesterday's reflection (October 18) from Olga, our good friend in Russia. She sent the picture you see above. Here is her email: Dear Cathy, Thank you for your reflection and to Gloria for sharing her experience with all of us! I've also been thinking a lot about that part of the message from October 2 that you quoted in your reflection today: "Pray that He [the Holy Spirit] may fill you with Grace and Mercy". The picture that I have in my mind is the one that you see below [it is in the box above!] - the apparition to Sister Lucia in Tui, Spain, on June 13, 1929. You can see these very words, "Grace and Mercy", pouring down from the Cross... This is when Our Lady said it was time to consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart. It strikes me that if Our Lady asks to pray for Russia so much, it is probably because we are sinning more than any other country, maybe we are far more stubborn than many of those who "have eyes but refuse to see" (even the priests who are in error, some of them you know...), maybe they were enticed by our mistakes... But Our Mother does not come to judge us and condemn us. She comes to reveal the Father to us and call us back into His embrace. And what also strikes me... She says, "I desire for ALL of my children to see My Son." So unlike us! We pick and choose... we have our hearts open for some and closed for others... but she wants EVERYONE safe with her in heaven. Do we deserve it? No! All this is pure Grace and Mercy.... Always sailing with you on the digital sea...
with Love and Gratitude,
Olga
in Moscow Thank you, Olga for sending this picture and drawing the connection for us! Grace and Mercy! Yes, this is the powerful message Our Lady gave to Sr. Lucia in 1929. The vision given to Sr. Lucia speaks volumes to us, really explains this era in Salvation history. Our Lady comes to us to reintroduce this unbelieving age to the Trinity, so well depicted in the vision. She comes to reveal Jesus, her Son, crucified for us, completely given up for our sins. She shows us the Father who hovers over Jesus, sacrificed, waiting to receive back into His loving arms all His lost children who will find Him again through Jesus' redemptive act. And she introduces us to the Holy Spirit emanating from them both, sent to secure us in the love of the Father and the Son. She calls us to receive the Eucharist which is pouring out of the Heart of Jesus for our sanctification and nourishment. And she calls us to receive Grace and Mercy flowing from Jesus' bleeding hand, the great gift of God, His intention for all of us. In her hand is the Rosary, the powerful gift to all of us to help us on the way, and protect us from the enemy. And she is standing in the same position in this vision as she is in her apparitions in Medjugorje, with her hand outstretched, calling us. I know that Russia is very important to Our Lady. She asked the three Fatima children to pray for Russia and for the Holy Father to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart. I don't think Russia is more guilty than the rest of the world, maybe just more central to her plan. She speaks of that plan in this message: "Dear Children! Today also I invite you to prayer, now as never before when my plan has begun to be realized. Satan is strong and wants to sweep away my plans of peace and joy and make you think that my Son is not strong in His decisions. Therefore, I call all of you, dear children, to pray and fast still more firmly. I invite you to self-renunciation for nine days so that, with your help, everything that I desire to realize through the secrets I began in Fatima, may be fulfilled. I call you, dear children, to now grasp the importance of my coming and the seriousness of the situation. I want to save all souls and present them to God. Therefore, let us pray that everything I have begun be fully realized. Thank you for having responded to my call." (August 25, 1991) Notice that she says: "I want to save all souls and present them to God." We are all being given the grace to pray for each other and together to find God and cling to Him! Olga is right, no picking and choosing. Our Lady wants all of us to be with her in heaven. Grace and Mercy!! Come Holy Spirit! Pray, pray, pray!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2012 |
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