October 24, 2011
Mary:
My dear little ones, praise and thank God, for it is because of His great goodness that He permits me to speak to you in this way. Dear children, it is with a mother’s heart that I approach you this day. Little ones, do you know how great our God is? Do you know the heights and the depths of His love? Can you see, my little children, how desperately He wants His little ones to come to Him, to place their trust in Him in all of their cares, to rely on Him alone.
My little ones, it is a time when many say, “destruction,” and yet I say to you, “peace!” It is a time when many say, “despair,” and yet I say to you, “Hope!” It is a time when many say, “All is lost,” and yet I say to you, “There is all to be gained in Christ Jesus the Lord,” for just as the darkness is greatest, the indomitable light of God shines forth. Just as His justice is most deserved, His mercy breaks through and penetrates the darkness that my children have chosen. I speak to you today of mercy. Our God who is love, desires to grant mercy to this world. My children must choose mercy!
Little ones, you who come and gather here have heard my voice these long years. You have read the words that I have been permitted to grant to you. You have put into practice the same message that I bring, which is no new message, but the message of Scripture, the message of the Church, the Bride of Christ, the message that God has spoken to you through the prophets for all time: “Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand!” These words were spoken in the desert before the coming of the Christ, cried out by the Baptizer to those who would heed them, fulfilled in the person of Christ, truly God made man. What a thing! What an impossible thing, and yet in the mercy of God, part of His plan from the first moments of creation.
You do not see as God sees. You experience this life as a chain of successive events. You cannot see how everything is in the Present Now before our creator. In this Present Now, He sees the first act of creation and the last triumph of His Son. In this Present Now, He sees every soul He has ever brought into this world and every soul that ever shall be. In this Present Now, He sees your every action, your every choice, your every “yes,” your every “no,” and He desires still to grant mercy. How, my little ones, can my children say, “no”?
You who gather here know that I have called these many years with this same message: Come, the Father waits, His arms are open, He desires you. He wants to free you from the slavery which you have entered into by your own accord. You have bound yourself in chains. He desires to free you. You have closed your hearts and blinded your eyes. He desires to free you. It is through the grace of the sacraments that you will see Him clearly, that you can toss off the chains that bind you, that you will no longer be blind and deaf and mute, but you will see, and hear, and speak, and witness, and prophesy. All of creation waits in eager anticipation for the revelation of the sons of God. When my people, when my children, will you come to be the sons of God?
It is a mother who pleads with you who comes today, a mother who asks this out of great love, and because I can see that which you cannot see. I see the face of Christ always, in all things, at all times! Can you imagine? Can you imagine the grace, the gift? This is a gift not reserved for me, most blessed and favored by God, but to you, most precious to the Father, dearest creation, joy of His heart. For if there was but one, one, He would have come, and died, and sacrificed, and rose, and ascended, and begun this most beautiful and glorious church for one, and there are many! How great and abundant is the love of our God, that it pours forth into life in this world without measure! The souls, the innumerable souls He has created, each unique, each distinct, each eternal, and designed to be with Him forever in the most intimate union, a bond that is indestructible, except for your choice to sin! Nothing can separate you from the love of Christ, but you.
My little ones, you who have embraced the message I have given to you, who have attempted to live it in your daily life, you who have- through the messages I have given and, more so, through the Scripture, through the Mass, through the sacraments- enriched your marriages, and your homes, and your families, and your lives, and grown in faith and holiness, and become a person set apart for God; you must witness this joy! The world says, “All is destruction,” and I say, “It is time for my people to reclaim their place as children of the Father.” The world says, “There will be no peace,” and I say, “Peace is possible if you choose peace.” The world says, “God is dead,” and I say to you that He lives more so than you live, than anything lives, in a life that you cannot comprehend! You do not know what life is! You cannot see as I see, and I desire to give to you a glimpse of the joy that I experience in the Present Now.
My dear children, do not think that I come to you severely, or to admonish you, or to condemn. Rather, I come to exhort you to embrace and renew your commitment to holiness, because it is holiness that will win the world for Christ. You are not alone. We would certainly fail without the grace of God. No man without His grace, without the sanctification He offers to us, no man could do His will, so great and so unfathomable is the mind of God. And yet, He gives to you all that you need to accomplish what He asks, not great acts, not tremendous martyrdoms, but simply to give, to serve, to love, to die to self, and to be a witness in your life where He has placed you, each day.
My children, renew your commitment to prayer. In your families, in your homes, make prayer the center of your family life. Let my Son be seen and known by your children. Come, partake of the gift of the sacraments. Receive the body He freely offers you. Reconcile yourselves to God. Then you will see holy families and, in the family where holiness is, there will be tremendous love, and where there is love, there is God. You see, my little ones, that is the mystery. God has the power to come with flashing lights and peels of thunder, with fires roaring, and yet, He comes in a whisper. He comes in each home, in each marriage, and by lighting each family on fire with love, each heart on fire with love, He will set the world ablaze. My little ones, be merciful as your God is merciful, and love one another as He loves you.
