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All that is of this world...will disappear...
May 22, 2024
Dear Family of Mary!
The first reading for Mass today is a challenging one. St. James talks about the sin of arrogance, in which one can presume that he can do whatever he wishes, without first placing it before the Lord for discernment. Leaving God out the the equation of our lives is a disaster!! Listen to the reading:
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain"; whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall do this or that." As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. (James 4:13-17, RSV-CE)
Our Lady gave us a message in which she warned of the very same mistake, boasting and arrogance are sins before God. We are fools to live outside of God's protection and love:
November 2, 2015
"Dear children, anew I desire to speak to you about love. I have gathered you around me in the name of my Son according to His will. I desire that your faith be firm, flowing forth from love. Because, those of my children who understand the love of my Son and follow it, live in love and hope. They have come to know the love of God.
Therefore, my children, pray, pray so as to be able to love all the more and to do works of love. Because, faith alone without love and works of love is not what I am asking of you: my children, this is an illusion of faith. It is a boasting of self.
My Son seeks faith and works, love and goodness. I am praying, and I am also asking you to pray, and to live love; because I desire that my Son, when He looks at the hearts of all of my children, can see love and goodness in them and not hatred and indifference.
My children, apostles of my love, do not lose hope, do not lose strength. You can do this. I am encouraging and blessing you. Because all that is of this world, which many of my children, unfortunately, put in the first place, will disappear; and only love and works of love will remain and open the door of the Kingdom of Heaven.
I will wait for you at this door. At this door, I desire to welcome and embrace all of my children. Thank you!"
Our Lady is such a good mother. She does not want to lose any of her children. Like St. James, she understands the temptations that lure her children away, the boasting in arrogance that blinds them.
"Because all that is of this world, which many of my children, unfortunately, put in the first place, will disappear; and only love and works of love will remain and open the door of the Kingdom of Heaven."
Thank you, dearest Mother, for calling us back to the way of love, the way of humility and trust in God. May we pray for all those trapped in the ways of the world, that they will find their way back to God!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
(c) Mary TV 2024
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