To be open for a blessing...
(c)Mary TV 2013
J.M.J
February 17, 2014
The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order
Dear Family of Mary!
"...My children, by means of a blessing, God's grace will descend upon you and you will be able to retain it through fasting, prayer, purification and reconciliation..." (February 2, 2014)
Our
Lady speaks here of a blessing that will descend upon us. This blessing
comes to us only if we are open to it. And our being open to it is
itself a grace from God, as Our Lady said earlier in this message: "I desire that, by the grace of God, you be open for a blessing."
According to Our Lady, God wants to pour out His blessing upon us, and
so He wants to give us the initial grace of openness to His blessing.
This
all makes me a little dizzy. But if we think about it long enough, it
makes sense. God wants to bless us. He knows that the blessing will be
like water off a duck's back, if we are not open to receive it. And so
He wants to bless us first with the desire to be blessed by Him. That
desire is our openness to His blessing. Through our desire to be blessed
by God we will look for that blessing. That is why many of us travel to
Medjugorje! Pilgrimages are expressions of our desire for a blessing
from God. We make the sacrifice of the pilgrimage in order to show to
God that we are open to His blessing and to show ourselves that we need
that blessing.
Anyway,
we still have to receive the grace to be open. And so that is why Our
Lady is coming, I think. She is among us to tell us that God exists, and
that He wants to bless us. He wants to open our hearts up and pour into
them His Holy Spirit, so that we will become united with Him, and carry
His Son, Jesus, into the world. The Father wants to bless us and Our
Lady is here to tell us so!
Our
Lady continues to say that when we receive this blessing, this
anointing of the Holy Spirit, we will have to work to retain it. We will
have to fast, pray, purify ourselves and especially make use of the
Sacrament of Reconciliation, so that this anointing remains in us and
grows. We can receive blessings and lose them. I think of King Solomon
in this regard. King Solomon received a mighty blessing from God, the
blessing of wisdom. But through his sin, his lust, his desire for power
and wealth, he lost that blessing and died the most unwise of men. It
takes a great deal of work to retain a blessing. We have to be vigilant,
examining our consciences and denying our fleshly desires so that the
blessing not only is retained, but grows!
This
is why Our Lady's main messages are so powerful. They present for us a
program for retaining the grace of God!! They safe-guard our souls and
keep us close to our original call. They give us a framework for
holiness that helps us to stay pure and open to God's blessing.
I
am so amazed at Our Lady! She is providing everything for us so that we
can be her apostles in these most decisive and difficult days. Let's
not lose our blessing from God. Let's stay close to the Gospa and allow
her to focus us upon the Lord, His blessings and His love.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2014
PS. Tonight, "Fruit of Medjugorje!" 8:00 PM EST!
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world!"
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