  © Children of Medjugorje 2021Permission is given to use the text of these reports under two conditions:1) No words are changed, 2) "Children of Medjugorje" is cited along with our website:www.sremmanuel.orgMedjDear friends, praised be Jesus and Mary!  2. Love of my love? The high mysticism contained in these words proffered by the Mother of God in this message is an invaluable gift for every one of us! How can we not think of the Song of Songs and our magnificent destiny, which is none other than this: To be the love of Her Love for all eternity! Wasn’t Mary the "love of Love" her whole life long? Wasn’t she the loving response to the One who is pure love, pure divine love, with no beginning or end? God is love, and he created Mary’s heart to be the most beautiful tabernacle of His love on earth. This little girl of Galilee, so humble and so hidden, was chosen to be the "echo" of His love, the tabernacle of His divine Heart in a perfect communion with Him. This Communion is the joy of the whole Heavenly Court and the delight to all the elected ones. Let us imagine for a second the arrival of Mary in Heaven, on the day of her Assumption, when she left this earth with her body and soul! Imagine the loving embrace she experienced with her Son, after many long and painful years of longing! She was able to say to Him in truth: Son, here I am, I have done all that You have asked me do! I have loved You with all my heart, with all my soul and with all my strength, I have fulfilled the entire plan of the Father for me.... Who among us will ever be able to say this in truth on the last day? One cannot acquire such merit, but one can open oneself to receive it, as is taught to us by the Little Flower, St Thérèse of the Child Jesus. She knew so well how to seize the graces offered by God in prayer: "The treasure of the mother belongs to the child" she would say. In other words, our Mother in Heaven dreams only of sharing all her treasures with us, her children! And one of the most beautiful treasures she has for us to obtain is the grace to live in intense communion with her Son, and to dwell within their union of love. This is magnificent! Of course, it depends on us and the choices we make on this earth. Let us ask for the grace to desire this communion of love that the Holy Spirit may work in us especially through the sacraments. God cannot give someone a drink who is not thirsty... This thirst is born and grows in prayer, especially in the adoration of the Eucharistic Face of Jesus. "Those who look to him are radiant” (Ps 34) In order to celebrate Mary’s immense joy of being forever in the glory of the Living God on the day of her Assumption, let me quote here an excerpt from the book "In Sinu Jesu" where Jesus speaks to Father Mark, an Irish Benedictine monk, the founder of a prayer center for priests. Here Jesus expresses to him how much He and Mary are united in the same mission for the eternal salvation of all of us, sinners so lost and at the same time so loved: Jesus: “I offered myself to the Father from the altar of My Mother’s Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. She accepted, consenting to bear the full weight of My sacrifice, to be the very place from which My holocaust of love blazed up. She, in turn, offered herself with Me to the Father from the altar of My Sacred Heart. There she immolated herself, becoming one victim with Me for the redemption of the world. Her offering was set ablaze in My holocaust by the descent of the Holy Spirit. Thus, from our two hearts become two altars, there rose the sweet fragrance of one single offering: My oblation upon the altar of her heart, and her oblation upon the altar of Mine. Thus, in effect, is what is meant when, using another language, you speak of My Mother as Co-Redemptrix. Our two hearts formed but a single holocaust of love in the Holy Spirit.”(In Sinu Jesu, Tuesday, June 1, 2010) (See PS3)  3. An irresistible prayer!Doubt is a very subtle virus that directly opposes our confident surrender into the hands of God. This virus not only eats away at us from within, but also prevents the waves of grace from flowing over us. These beneficent waves are as if blocked by a heavy dam. Then, we complain of being empty and without help from above. Not to mention that sad little phrase that we hear too often: "God does not listen to my prayers!"Could God, who says “Listen, Israel!” not listen to us?Saint Padre Pio de Pietrelcina, so well-known for attracting the miracles of God into the lives of his spiritual children and the many pilgrims flocking to him in San Giovanni Rotondo, left us a great gift. I suggest you use it and discover its power.This is his famous irresistible novena. Why is it irresistible? Because in a surge of filial trust, Jesus is reminded of the promises he made to us in the Gospel. How could he go back on what He said?  Let us approach this in the proper order...Let us begin by renouncing sin through a sincere confession that will allow us to make our peace with God in truth. We will do our best to fully live His commandments (see PS 1), thereby going to the very wellspring of mercy. In a word, we will live in a state of grace. For nothing good will happen if we persist in sin.Jesus, our Savior, is delighted when we take this step, and so we can approach Him with confidence and share with Him our intentions, problems, sufferings and difficulties of all kinds.Here, then, is the complete Irresistible Novena that Padre Pio left us.I. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and it will be given you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of [insert your intention.]Our Father…Hail Mary…Glory be to the Father…Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you. II. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask any thing of the Father in my name, He will give it to you.” Behold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of [insert your intention.]Our Father…Hail Mary…Glory be to the Father…Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you. III. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away.” Encouraged by your infallible words I now ask for the grace of [insert your intention.]Our Father…Hail Mary…Glory be to the Father…Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you. End with this prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Hail, Holy Queen. Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus- O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender mother and ours. "Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears! Turn, then, O most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.” |
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