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J.M.J.
March 9, 2017
St. Frances of Rome
Dear Family of Mary!
Our
Lady loves God with her whole heart, completely. She is calling us to
also have a pure and total love for God. This is everything for her. She
told us:
"Dear
children, Today I look in your hearts and looking at them my heart
seizes with pain. My children! I desire from you unconditional, pure
love for God. You will know that you are on the right path when with
your body you are on the earth, and with your soul you are always with
God. Through this unconditional and pure love, you will see my Son in
every person. You will feel in union with God. As a Mother I will be
happy because I will have your holy and unified hearts. My children, I
will have your salvation. Thank you." (August 2, 2007)
In her Dairy, St. Faustina wrote about such love for God in this way:
Pure
love is capable of great deeds, and it is not broken by difficulty or
adversity. As it remains strong in the midst of great difficulties, so
too it perseveres in the toilsome and drab life of each day. It knows
that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest
things out of great love-love, and always love.
Pure
love never errs. Its light is strangely plentiful. It will not do
anything that might displease God. It is ingenious at doing what is more
pleasing to God, and no one will equal it. It is happy when it can
empty itself and burn like a pure offering. The more it gives of itself,
the happier it is. But also, no one can sense dangers from afar as can
love; it knows how to unmask and also knows with whom it has to deal.
(Diary, 140)
Perhaps this Lent we can pray for the
grace to love God completely, totally, purely, and unconditionally.
Such love is the right response to the Great Commandment as Jesus spoke
of it in Matthew:
And
one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, to test him. "Teacher,
which is the great commandment in the law?" And he said to him, "You
shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your
soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.
And a second is like it, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets." (Matthew 22: 35-40)
With all our heart, and with
all our soul, and with all our mind, let us love the Lord!! Then we will
be able to love our neighbor as our-self.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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