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J.M.J
May 14, 2014
St. Matthias, Apostle
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children! Open your hearts to the grace which God is giving you through me, as a flower that opens to the warm rays of the sun. Be prayer and love for all those who are far from God and His love. I am with you and I intercede for all of you before my Son Jesus, and I love you with immeasurable love. Thank you for having responded to my call." (April 25, 2014)
Our Lady calls us to: "Be prayer and love for all those who are far from God and His love."
She has come to help this broken world turn back to God, to help the
wounded and suffering souls of this world to turn their faces towards
the shining face of the Loving God who created them and who wants to
heal them. Spiritual blindness prevents many souls from seeing the
Father as love, understanding the Son as love, and recognizing the
Spirit as love. These souls cannot see love. But maybe they can feel
love, if we pray for them and love them here on earth. Maybe we can be
the warm sun that touches their frozen cold souls and helps them to
welcome the love of God coming to them through us.
But
to be prayer and love, we must also receive love from God. We too are
wounded, suffering and weak. Prayer is the answer for us. We must pray.
In the Office of Readings for Tuesday,
the Fourth Week of Easter, Saint Peter Chrysologus writes beautifully
about how we can recognize the love of Jesus. If we are to be prayer and
love, these words may help us:
I
appeal to you by the mercy of God. This appeal is made by Paul, or
rather, it is made by God through Paul, because of God's desire to be
loved rather than feared, to be a father rather than a Lord. God appeals
to us in his mercy to avoid having to punish us in his severity.
Listen
to the Lord's appeal: In me, I want you to see your own body, your
members, your heart, your bones, your blood. You may fear what is
divine, but why not love what is human? You may run away from me as the
lord, but why not run to me as your father? Perhaps you are filled with
shame for causing my bitter passion. Do not be afraid. This cross
inflicts a mortal injury, not on me, but on death. These nails no longer
pain me, but only deepen your love for me. I do not cry out because of
these wounds, but through tem I draw you into my heart. My body was
stretched on the cross as a symbol, not of how much I suffered, but of
my all-embracing love. I count it no loss to shed my blood: it is the
price I have paid for your ransom. Come, then, return to me and learn to
know me as your father, who repays good for evil, love for injury, and
boundless charity for piercing wounds. (St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermo
108: PL 52, 499-500)
Can't
we feel Jesus' love like rays of warm sunshine ever so gently caressing
our upturned faces! Are we not healed, deep within our hearts, by these
words of mercy and unquenchable love for us? As we let this love sink
deeply into our minds, our hearts, our memories, we can begin to be
prayer and love for others, because we will want to share this treasure
with everyone.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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