October 24, 2022
(On this date, elementary students from the parish school and their families were present.)
Mary:
My children, It is good to be with you this day to speak words of hope and encouragement to you, to speak the message that the Father has given to the world through the person of His Son, through Jesus Christ, God made Flesh, the One Who came to the world, that He might become man and be as you are, that He might endure all of the things that you have endured and know your sufferings as you have suffered, that He might teach and heal, that He might show you the way to worship the Father, all these things that He might save and redeem you, that you might be in friendship with God and live a life of holiness in Him.
Dear ones, I come to speak a message of peace, and hope, and love to you. I come to encourage your families in these times of trial and desperation. The world struggles in darkness far from God because they do not acknowledge Him as Lord and Savior. They do not know the greatness of His love. How often my children feel oppressed, cast down. How often the enemy has done his work well and has sown seeds of division and strife, where God desires unity and peace. How often my little ones believe the lie that they are not valued, that they have no worth, and that they are identified with and defined by their sin. I tell you this is not so. God Who is love itself, Who is the essence of life, the beginning of all things and creator of everything that you know, sends me to tell you, sends me, a simple handmaiden, one who is unworthy of the gift of the Incarnate God growing within my womb, but who, for reasons known to the mind of God alone, was chosen, was blessed, was called, that I might reveal to you these words in this moment, and again reveal to you Love Itself, Who is the Christ! I was chosen, I was called, for love of you. And you too, my children, are chosen and you are called.
God has set you apart for Himself. God desires to love you as you have not been loved before. God desires to be with you, to intimately know you, to guide you and to love you, to encourage you, to build you up into something that you cannot even now imagine yourself to be. It is false that God desires to oppress you or inflict upon you rules and guidelines that separate you from Him. Do you know your worth, my children? Do you know your value? Truly, you are worth the life of God’s Own Son. You are worth the life of my Son, poured out for you on Calvary, that you might, through His blood, be saved and recreated. And as surely as He left the tomb on Easter morn resurrected and transfigured, so too are you resurrected in the baptismal waters of grace and made into a new creation, and every time you fall and return to Him and are reconciled to Him in the sacraments, then, dear children, you are born again, and you live anew. You are transfigured as surely as the Lord appeared bedazzled on the mountain in front of His apostles. You are transfigured when you receive His body and His blood, and His life shines within you. When you pray, when you turn to Him in your desperation, and in your pain, and in your suffering, He makes you new. He will make all things new.
I speak to my young ones, to those who are young in the eyes of the world but wise in the eyes of God, now. My children, littlest ones, know that you have a God in Heaven that loves you above all things. You cannot imagine how much you are loved, and there is nothing that you can do that can make your Father in Heaven stop loving you. As you grow in wisdom and in age, as you experience the trials of life and the love of your families, hold your faith. Hold on to your faith. It has been given to you as a gift, first and always, by God Who loves you, and by your families who have brought you to faith, who have committed themselves to teaching you that you are precious, and you are dear, and your value is without estimation. Hold that faith tightly, for everything in this world that is dominated by the powers of Hell will seek to destroy it with great severity, with ruthlessness unyielding.
And yet, God Who is Christ, Messiah, has won the victory! And He Who is now seated at the right hand of the Father, is no adversary of the Evil One. No. The Evil One goes to make war against His children because he has been crushed, for God took this humble servant, one who was chosen, myself, for reasons I cannot yet comprehend even in the sight of God, and has permitted me through my work in this world, in many places and at many times, to crush the head of the serpent, to place my heal upon his head, that his power might be restricted and that he might not act any longer against my children with such viciousness and such deceit. I come as a mother to point out the enemy, that you might recognize him as he is, but more so, to point out Christ. Do not take your eyes off Christ. He is victorious in all things, and He loves you with an unfathomable love!
Little children, as you hear and reflect on these words, pray simply. You do not need to be wise in the ways of the world. You do not need to be wise in faith to turn to God with simple trust. I tell you, in this room now there are simple ones, little children, whose faith is greater than those who have reached an esteemed age. Pray, my children. Speak to God plainly. Tell Him your joys and your sorrows and trust Him to love you where you are. He will not abandon you. He will not forsake you. He will guide you each day of your life until He brings you to Heaven to be with Him in eternity. That is His plan for you. That is His design for you. It is for that reason He sends me to speak this message to you, not to the world, not to the masses, to you, you who are present here in this room at this moment.
I speak this to you because God has known you. He has heard you. He sees the struggles of your family. He sees how you are parenting your children. He sees how you are attempting to obey your parents even when it is most difficult, little ones. He sees the families that are gathered here today, and He blesses you. For one He would have come, He would have come to Calvary to suffer and to die, and for one, He sends me today. That is the measure of His love. He will never stop seeking His children. You do not have to go far to find Him. Simply turn your heart to Him. Pray with simple words asking for His help and He will be present to you, and there is no power in Hell that will stand against it, because God’s love is greater than all things. My children, be at peace. Let peace reign in your marriages, in your families, in this parish, in this community, and in the world.
