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Without God you do not have a future...
November 4, 2022
Dear Family of Mary!
Dear
children! The Most High permits me to be with you, and to be joy for
you and the way in hope, because mankind has decided for death. That is
why He sent me to keep instructing you that without God you do not have a
future. Little children, be instruments of love for all those who have
not come to know the God of love. Witness joyfully your faith and do not
lose hope in a change of the human heart. I am with you and am blessing
you with my motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my
call. (October 25, 2022)
"That is why He sent me to keep instructing you that without God you do not have a future."
Our
Lady has been given the job of instructing us! And she has done such a
wonderful job! She often tells us that we have a future, and by that she
means an eternal future. When she says that, it is with authority,
because she comes back from that future to instruct us about it!! Her
instructions are meant to prepare us for that future, and to keep us on
that road to Heaven.
Heaven!
It is our future. But without God there will be no Heaven. This all
makes sense only if we have faith, if God is real to us, and we believe
in His revelation, through Jesus Christ. Somehow we have a longing for
heaven, built into us deep down inside. But we run from that longing,
and try to cover it over with worldly things, so we don't have to think
about it.
Our Lady has come from Heaven to make it absolutely clear that Heaven exists and God is calling us there.
We just have to convert and live for God.
Here
is a section of the Catechism of the Catholic Church which teaches us
the plain facts about Heaven. Maybe these words will help us to grasp
the reality of Heaven and our destiny there. Our Lady wants us to
realize that "without God you do not have a future" (i.e. Heaven).
PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
CHAPTER THREE I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
Article 12 "I BELIEVE IN LIFE EVERLASTING"
II. Heaven
1023
Those who die in God's grace and friendship and are perfectly purified
live for ever with Christ. They are like God for ever, for they "see him
as he is," face to face: 596
By
virtue of our apostolic authority, we define the following: According
to the general disposition of God, the souls of all the saints . . . and
other faithful who died after receiving Christ's holy Baptism (provided
they were not in need of purification when they died, . . . or, if they
then did need or will need some purification, when they have been
purified after death, . . .) already before they take up their bodies
again and before the general judgment - and this since the Ascension of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ into heaven - have been, are and will
be in heaven, in the heavenly Kingdom and celestial paradise with
Christ, joined to the company of the holy angels. Since the Passion and
death of our Lord Jesus Christ, these souls have seen and do see the
divine essence with an intuitive vision, and even face to face, without
the mediation of any creature. 597
1024
This perfect life with the Most Holy Trinity - this communion of life
and love with the Trinity, with the Virgin Mary, the angels and all the
blessed - is called "heaven." Heaven is the ultimate end and fulfillment
of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive
happiness.
1025
To live in heaven is "to be with Christ." the elect live "in Christ,"
598 but they retain, or rather find, their true identity, their own
name. 599
For life is to be with Christ; where Christ is, there is life, there is the kingdom. 600
1026
By his death and Resurrection, Jesus Christ has "opened" heaven to us.
the life of the blessed consists in the full and perfect possession of
the fruits of the redemption accomplished by Christ. He makes partners
in his heavenly glorification those who have believed in him and
remained faithful to his will. Heaven is the blessed community of all
who are perfectly incorporated into Christ.
1027
This mystery of blessed communion with God and all who are in Christ is
beyond all understanding and description. Scripture speaks of it in
images: life, light, peace, wedding feast, wine of the kingdom, the
Father's house, the heavenly Jerusalem, paradise: "no eye has seen, nor
ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for
those who love him."601
1028
Because of his transcendence, God cannot be seen as he is, unless he
himself opens up his mystery to man's immediate contemplation and gives
him the capacity for it. The Church calls this contemplation of God in
his heavenly glory "the beatific vision":
How
great will your glory and happiness be, to be allowed to see God, to be
honored with sharing the joy of salvation and eternal light with Christ
your Lord and God, . . . to delight in the joy of immortality in the
Kingdom of heaven with the righteous and God's friends.602
1029
In the glory of heaven the blessed continue joyfully to fulfill God's
will in relation to other men and to all creation. Already they reign
with Christ; with him "they shall reign for ever and ever." 603
596 1 Jn 3:2; cf. 1 Cor 13:12; Rev 22:4.
597 Benedict XII, Benedictus Deus (1336): DS 1000; cf. LG 49.
598 Phil 1:23; cf. Jn 14:3; 1 Thess 4:17.
599 Cf. Rev 2:17.
600 St. Ambrose, In Luc., 10, 121: PL 15, 1834A.
601 1 Cor 2:9.
602 St. Cyprian, Ep. 58, 10, 1: CSEL 3/2, 665.
603 Rev 22:5; cf. Mt 25:21, 23.
This is our future!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
(c) Mary TV 2022
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