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Prayer opens hearts...
November 29, 2022
Dear Family of Mary!
November 25, 2022
"Dear children!
The Most High has sent me to you to teach you prayer.
Prayer opens hearts and gives hope,
and faith is born and strengthened.
Little children,
with love I am calling you:
return to God,
because God is love and your hope.
You do not have a future
if you do not decide for God;
and that is why I am with you
to guide you
to decide for conversion and life,
and not for death.
Thank you for having responded to my call."
This
message is so very powerful. Our Lady calls us to prayer, the kind of
prayer that opens our hearts, and gives us hope, and gives us faith and
strength. This kind of prayer penetrates our being and lifts us up to
the Lord! It sustains us in trials and shows us the wonders of God!
St.
Faustina must have had this kind of prayer, because she was given
incredible insights into God! She was not educated. And she spent most
of her time working in the convent, washing and cooking and cleaning.
But her heart was open, full of hope and faith, and was strong!!
Here
is an entry from her diary in which she shares one of her experiences
in prayer. It is a good example of the kind of prayer Our Lady wants to
teach us:
From St. Faustina's Diary:
180.
+ During Advent, a great yearning for God arose in my soul. My spirit
rushed toward God with all its might. During that time, the Lord gave me
much light to know His attributes.
The
first attribute which the Lord gave me to know is His holiness. His
holiness is so great that all the Powers and Virtues tremble before Him.
The pure spirits veil their faces and lose themselves in unending
adoration, and with one single word they express the highest form of
adoration; that is - Holy. The holiness of God is poured out upon the
Church of God and upon every living soul in it, but not in the same
degree. There are souls who are completely penetrated by God, and there
are those who are barely alive.
The
second kind of knowledge which the Lord granted me concerns His
justice. His justice is so great and penetrating that it reaches deep
into the heart of things, and all things stand before Him in naked
truth, and nothing can withstand Him.
The
third attribute is love and mercy. And I understood that the greatest
attribute is love and mercy. It unites the creature with the Creator.
This immense love and abyss of mercy are made known in the Incarnation
of the Word and in the Redemption [of humanity], and it is here that I
saw this as the greatest of all God’s attributes. (Diary entry 180)
Well,
St. Faustina's spirit "rushed toward God with all its might!" This is
the kind of prayer that strengthens one's faith and hope and leads us to
God, who is our life!
May we all open our hearts to our Mother in these Advent days, and let our prayer grow strong!!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
(c) Mary TV 2022
P.S. Here, again, is the link to the discussion between Marija and Fr. Livio on Mary TV:
https://marytv.tv/november-25-2022-marija-speaks-with-fr-livio-about-our-ladys-message/
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