(c)Mary TV 2014
J.M.J
October 9, 2014
St. Denis, Bishop and companions, Martyrs
St. John Leonardi, Priest
Dear Family of Mary!
October 2, 2014"...My dear children, do you not recognize the signs of the times? Do you not recognize that all of this that is around you, all that is happening, is because there is no love? Comprehend that salvation is in true values. Accept the might of the Heavenly Father, love Him and honor Him. Walk in the footsteps of my Son...."
The
signs of the times...After the bloody 20th Century, we may have hoped
that sanity would return to our tired world. Haven't we had enough of
evil and violence? But now we see a rise in terrible violence,
especially in the Middle East. It is almost as if the Devil is declaring
victory over mankind, as he shows how completely he has overtaken some
groups and driven them to do terrible things to the innocent. His face
is clearly being unmasked in these days and his presence is surely felt.
How
could things have gotten to this state? Our Lady tells us in this
message. There is no love. Man has forgotten love. He has traded love
for selfishness and lust for power. True values have been lost. No
longer does every human being have intrinsic dignity. We use each other
without sensitivity and dehumanize whole groups of people to serve our
own ends (I think of the unborn here).
The
signs of the times...Fewer and fewer people recognize the Heavenly
Father, love Him and honor Him. He has been rejected for inferior gods,
like money, power, sex, and even demons.
We all feel it in our bones. The human race is in trouble.
The way out? "Walk in the footsteps of my Son..."
The road to recovery and peace, the road to hope and love lies in
following the footsteps of Jesus. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
Follow Jesus. That is the only way to bring sanity back to the human
race. This is a call to each of us who know Jesus, who are responding to
Our Lady's call.
We
have had an example of the way of following Jesus in our time. It is
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She lived love in an astonishing way.
Here is what she said about the way of love:
Love,
to be true, must first be for our neighbor. This love will bring us to
God. What our Sisters, our Brothers and our Co-Workers across the world
try to do is to show this love of God by deeds. To help the poor we must
get to know them. Some persons who came to help us with the problems of
the refugees of Bangladesh said that they had received more than they
gave to those whom they had served.
This
is exactly what each of us experiences when we are in contact with the
poorest of the poor. This contact is what our people need. They need our
hands to serve them and our hearts to love them. Think of the
loneliness of old people, without means, without love, with absolutely
no one to care about them. There are many places where we can see this
suffering, this hunger for love, which only you and I can satisfy.
Think
of forsaken children. One day I saw a little child that would not eat;
her mother had died. Then I found a Sister who looked like her mother
and I told her just to play with the child, and the child's appetite
returned....
What
is important to us is the individual. To get to love a person, there
must be close contact. If we wait for the numbers, we will be lost in
the numbers, and we will never be able to show that person the necessary
love and respect. Every person is for me the only person in the world
at that moment.
I
believe that people today think the poor are not humans like them. They
look down on them. But if they had respect for the poor, I am sure it
would be easy for them to come closer to them, and to see that they have
as much right to the things of life and to love as anybody has. In
these times of development, everybody is in a hurry and rushing about,
and on the way there are people falling down, people who do not have the
strength to run. It is these that we want to help and take care of.
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| Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
I
never take care of crowds, only of a person. If I stopped to look at
the crowds, I would never begin. Love is a fruit always in season.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta. "The Love of Christ - Spiritual Counsels" p 30, 36)
"Do you not recognize that all of this that is around you, all that is happening, is because there is no love?"
Let us tip the scale and change the times. Let us be love in this
difficult time. Let us follow the footsteps of Jesus and love each
other.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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