October 24, 2006
Mary:
Dear ones, great and merciful is God the Father Almighty, Who allows me to come to you again this day, to speak to you, to bless you, to pray with you, to bring to you every grace that you might be filled with Him and His Holy Spirit. Praise His name and glorify Him, for He alone is the source of all good things. He gives to you your life, the breath that you breathe to live in His love, the food that sustains you: His eucharistic body. He alone is goodness and provides for all things. He fills you up. He is your light. He is your health, your wellness, your home, your family, your true father. He is all things. Though concealed from your sight, He is with you. He is here at this present moment. He sends His mother to bless you, to comfort you, to console you, to show to you a glimpse of Heaven that you might be filled with light that is unquenchable, light that is within you always that no darkness might frighten you, that your soul might rejoice in all things both sorrowful and joyful. God is with you!
My dear ones, as your mother, I rejoice this day, for I have been allowed to come to you again, and to truly admonish you, and ask you to pray, to pray, to pray! My little ones, you do not know how important it is to pray! It is as a mother with love that I come to my children, that I beg my children, to make their lives a living prayer. Never has it been more important. Never, dear ones, have I asked you for anything less than the fullness of your being. Again, I ask you to lift your whole heart, to lift your soul, to lift the fullness of your being to the Father in prayer. Pray with your words. Pray with your songs. Pray with your thoughts. Pray with your actions. Pray in serving one another. Pray in receiving His body and blood. Pray in ministering, in participating in the beautiful sacrament that He has given to you to be, truly, a gateway to salvation, for no man can live if he does not have the body and blood, soul, and divinity of Christ within him.
No one, dear ones, can understand the depth of God’s love until they see His face upon their death. No one can understand the truth that He desires to reveal to you until they are with Him in the heavenly home He has prepared. No one can understand how He calls to you, beckons to you, begs you, dear children, to love Him, to serve Him, to be one with Him, intimately connected, creator and creature, one being. Dear ones, He created you a part of Him. He breathed into you His own life that you might live as He lives, with an immortal soul, created like the One who had no beginning and no end.
Dear ones, I beg you then, to make your lives an example and a witness to your faith. It is prayer that will give to you the strength and the grace that you need to be living witnesses, to be a testament to truth, to be a testament to the good news that Jesus is Lord, that He has ransomed you from death and lifted you to the Father, upon the cross. Dear ones, pray then. Pray always in your families. Gather together and pray. Teach little ones the Scripture. Teach them to pray, that from the moment they are able to speak, the name of Christ might be on their lips. Pray! Pray for those who are in Purgatory, who are being cleansed, awaiting the time when they will be united with the Father in the perfect kingdom He has created. Pray! Pray for those who do not yet know my Son, who are so dark, who are so desolate, who cannot see that the light of Christ is before them would they but lift their eyes, lift their hearts, and reach out their hands to Him. Pray for the sick, for those who suffer under bodily weakness, for those whose illness drains upon their heart, and their mind, and their soul, that they might be strengthened with the knowledge that Jesus Christ is teacher, and healer, and the giver of every grace, that He brings healing to the hearts of those who seek Him, and that they might know peace. Pray for my young ones, those who have no one to instruct them in the faith. Pray for those who have no one to pray for them at all, especially those who have died.
My little ones, prayer is the first step to a relationship with God and so I call you, again today, for a renewed love of prayer. Also, my dear ones, I call you to serve. Prayer and service! It is the message I have given you again and again, month after month, year after year, for it is essential. Jesus, in His divine love upon the cross, saved all men, ransomed you from darkness and death. Truly, little ones, His salvation, His love, the redemption, is complete and it is perfect; but, little ones, you still are human with human nature, and given to falling into temptation and sin. Even with the redemptive love of Christ, even with the sacraments He has given you to sustain you, even with the Mass, the greatest prayer, still you are tempted, still you will fall.
And so, dear ones, I ask you to serve one another by ministering to one another. Reach out to those who are hard-hearted. Reach out to those who are suffering. Reach out to those who live without Christ and show them, through your works, through your words, that Jesus loves them and desires to bring them home. Serve your community. Let all who see you know that you love Him by the actions, by the words, by the look upon your face when you mention His name. Dear ones, serve in your homes, serve in your workplaces, serve in your parishes, serve your country. Serve God always, for everything can be lifted up and made into a prayer, if done for the love of God! Prayer and service! Prayer and service! I cannot tell you, dear ones, how much joy you will know if you truly learn to pray with your heart and serve with love.
Before, dear ones, you heard me speak about sacrificial love. Again, I bring you to that word: sacrificial. For Jesus, the Great Sacrifice, the one who breaks Himself upon the altar, Who pours out His blood that you might be saved, calls you to sacrifice with Him. Join your sacrifices to His, His most perfect sacrifice, that little ones all the world over might truly merit such grace as the world has never known. Yes, little ones, it is possible! The world is at a time where grace, and peace, and love, and service, and prayer is most sorely needed. It is to you- dear ones, I commission you- it is to you that I give this task, to all those who would hear my voice and heed my call, the call of the Father in Heaven. Pray! Serve! Love! Live in faith, for truly, where one heart is faithful, there God is! Where there are two, there He rejoices! Where there are three, all of Heaven rejoices and, where there are many, the world can be changed. The course of human events can be changed.
The future, the past, it is all one in God, and God desires for you to love. That is why He sent His Son. That is why He created you, to love you, to love each of you individually, for He has known you since He created your soul. Since He placed it upon you and burned an image of His face into your heart, He has known you. He knows you now and will know you always until you are united with Him in glory. Dear ones, then, how can you resist Him? How could you turn your faces from Him? How could you ever forget that He is God? Let your hearts rejoice. May they be filled with peace, always. Never shed a tear, for God is great and He shall overcome all things: sickness, death, desperation, desolation, and all evil. Truly, place your faith in Him; it is well-founded. Place your trust in Him. You will not be abandoned. Place your lives in His care and He will lead you, for He has known you always, and desires only for you to know Him, and to love Him as He loves you.
My little ones, as always, I am your mother and I offer myself to you as protectress and intercessor. Do not fear to bring to God all things. Know that I pray for you, that I pray with you, that I worship with you, that I partake in God’s goodness with you and, with you, rejoice in the salvation that was earned for us by Jesus Christ the Lord, now and forever. Amen.
