To be One with Jesus
(c) Mary TV 2014
J.M.J. (c) Mary TV 2014
January 10, 2014
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children; For you to be able to be my apostles and to be able to help all those who are in darkness, to come to know the light of the love of my Son, you must have pure and humble hearts. You cannot help for my Son to be born in, and to reign in, the hearts of those who do not know Him, if He does not reign - if He is not the King - in your heart. I am with you. I am walking with you as a mother. I am knocking on your hearts. They cannot open because they are not humble. I am praying, and you my beloved children also pray, that you may be able to open pure and humble hearts to my Son and to receive the gifts which He has promised you. Then you will be led by the love and strength of my Son. Then, you will be my apostles who everywhere around them spread the fruits of God's love. My Son will act from within you and through you, because you will be "one". My motherly heart yearns for this - for unity of all of my children - through my Son. With great love I bless, and pray for those who are chosen by my Son - for your shepherds. Thank you."
At first Our Lady was sad and then decisive.
Our
Lady yearns for the day when we will be led by the love and strength of
her Son, the day when her Son will act from within us and through us
because we will be "one"! She knows that it is only when Jesus lives and
acts through us that we will be able to draw others to Him. Actually it
will be Jesus to draws them, loving through us as He wishes!!
St.
Therese of Lisieux experienced this reality, precisely because she was
so humble, so small, and so pure in her love for God. She once wrote:
Under
the Old Law, when God told His people that they must love their
neighbor as themselves, it was before he had come upon earth Himself:
knowing how much man loved himself, it was the best he could ask. But
when Jesus gives His apostles a new Commandment (John 13:34),
His own Commandment (John 15: 12), He asks them to love one another,
not only as they love themselves, but as he himself loves them, and will
love them even unto the consummation of the world!
Yet
I know, my Jesus, that You never command the impossible; You know
better than I do how frail and imperfect I am; You know perfectly well
that I can never hope to love my Sisters as you love them unless You
Yourself love them in me.
It
is only because You are willing to do this that You have given us a New
Commandment, and I love it because it is my assurance of Your desire to
love in me all those whom You command me to love.
I
know that whenever I am charitable, it is Jesus alone who is acting
through me, and that the more closely I unite myself to Him, the more I
will be able to love all my Sisters.
(The Story of a Soul, IX, 119)
St.
Therese was so practically humble. She applied this humility to every
facet of her life, and it made her an incredible apostle of the Lord,
just as Our Lady tells us. St. Therese knew that if Jesus commanded her
to love others as He loves them, then He would have to do it Himself
through her. Simple! And we can believe the same. If Jesus wants to live
in us, enter our hearts, and love others through us, He will have to do
it!! We have only to remain very small, very dependent upon Him, and
very pure in our intentions.
This
weekend, as we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord, may we dedicate
ourselves to our Lord and King as never before. May we choose to become
pure and humble, and to invite Him into our hearts to be King!!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2014
PS. We will have the Daily Rosary at 10:00 am EST, Silent Prayer with Medjugorje at 11:30 am EST, and Family Prayer at 3:00 pm EST, today, Friday, January 10! Join us!!
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