April 1999

Mary:

My dear little ones, know that it is good for me to be here to speak among you. Do praise God and thank Him for all His goodness, for He is love, and has given to you such blessings, such tremendous blessings, you cannot imagine. He Who loves you like little children, is with you. He sends to you His angels and saints, His messengers and mother, that you might be pulled close to His heart, drawn ever nearer to Him, that each day you might walk closer, nearer, more beautifully and perfectly, in His light.

Dear ones, do all that you do for Him. Dedicate yourselves completely to God, for when God, Who is all powerful, is the center of your hearts and minds, spirit, soul, world, truly you will know great things. God has designed you for this, that you would give all that you have to Him. He has created you. He has given to you such gifts, such talents. He has made you masters over one another in that you are to truly lift up, support, and teach each other.

He sent His Son. You have celebrated this joyful season of His resurrection when you remember that it was the Son Who is the Redeemer and the Salvation. He sent His Son to teach you that to be a human being, to be a creation of God, is to live with compassion and mercy. There is nothing more than the Christ, Who is and always shall be compassion and mercy. 

Emulate Him in all that you do. Live a compassionate life. It is one thing, my dear children, to give from your hearts. It is one thing to give freely all that you have, and then some. When you give, do not do it that you might be rewarded here. That is troubling, for God, He seeks to see that which no other sees, that which is hidden away, that which is contained in your own heart and in your own soul. In this way, you keep these treasures in your heart to present them to God when you stand before Him. Live a compassionate life. You have been charged with each other’s care. Truly, it is your job to lead, and to guide, and to teach, and to learn, no matter who you are and what you do with your life.

There are so many, so many gifts given by the Father. To one, He gives the gift of prophecy and to another, the gift to hear and understand, to another the gift of wisdom, another right judgment and the discernment of all things good. Some are able to teach, others to speak, some but to listen. All are important and necessary, vital, truly essential! Jesus has set His church apart to be the Way, and the Truth, and the Life, as He was. He has made you the body, truly the hands and feet, of His church. The body has many parts but one mission, just as you all have been created in your individuality with one mission. Use those gifts that God has given to you to be an example of the compassion and mercy of Christ, for this is what motivated all that He did: love for His fellow human beings.

God has created you separate, distinct from all of creation, in that He has given to you the incredible gift of will. This is something that was given to no other creation. You retain will, a freedom, the ability to choose to reason, to think, to know, and to experience God in a way that no other creation from the beginning of time ever has, or ever will. You experience Him as Abba, as the Father, the One Who loves you tremendously and has sent His Own Son to be the Sacrificial Lamb. You experience Him as a teacher, as guidance in your life, in the quiet whisperings of the Holy Spirit, in the friends and comforters He sends to you. Rejoice, for you have known God in a way that no other creation has known Him!

He has created you in this way because He desires that you choose Him and choose His road. He desires that you choose to help one another. You know that there are many in the world who do not yet know that my Son is Lord, who do not yet know that they are loved by God. What a horrible thing this is! How terrible, for God has created you to be loved. He has created you to love. He has created you all as His children, more precious to Him than the stars of the night, than the oceans of the world. For each one of you, He would give His Own life. For each one of you, He gave His life, that you might receive life as well. Know this: if Christ had come but to save but one soul, He would have come. If there was only one who would have listened, He would have spoken. If only one would have been healed, He would have touched and reached out to His children. If there was but one who would open their eyes and see God, He would have come in all of His glory. Christ came to this earth for each one of you, uniquely, individually, for no other reason except that He loves you and desires that you choose Him.

Dear ones, you have been given such power of prayer! You do not know how beautiful your prayers are. You cannot imagine the joy in Heaven when my little ones pray. It is for this reason that I continue to tell you to pray. Pray always! Live your life as a prayer, for if you knew the joy of the heavens you would never cease to pray. Continue to build a life of holiness through compassion and mercy, through prayer and a love for the sacraments. Love my Jesus as you find Him in your churches, in your gifts, in that which you have to give to the world, and in those whom He has sent to you. Truly, I tell you, when God, He Who is all things, is in your presence, when God, Who loves you tremendously is with you, you will know that you have all strength, that you have all courage, that you have all things, because you are His. He does not abandon His children. Should you choose to walk with Him, He will be with you ever vigilant, ever protecting, as a father to a child.

Know this as well my little ones: when you stand before your God, there is nothing more important, no greater gift that you could give to Him, than to treat, each day of your life, your brothers and sisters in Christ, as you would treat our Lord, for truly they are the greatest creation of God. They are His children. God has placed His Own children in your care. He has asked you to be their teacher, their mentor, their friend, and their comforter. His Own dear little ones, would you not reach out with all of your heart to comfort those whom He loves so dearly? In all of the world there is no gift greater than to give yourself to another human being in friendship, in love, and in faith. It is in this way, and through strong prayer spoken with the true knowledge that God is with you, that you will come so very close to our Father’s kingdom.

This was the life of Jesus, the life of He Who came to redeem, and to teach us how to find our own way home to our Father. He was compassion and mercy. He was prayer and obedience. He spent much time with those who were hurting, and He offered what He could, whether it was bread and fish, a healing touch, or words of great love and encouragement. Do the same in your lives. Reach out to those who are in need. Reach out to those who you can give much to, for know that you have been truly blessed. God will not forget you. He will not abandon you. How He seeks to serve the world through His people! How He desires those who give themselves to Him to be servants, that He might touch His Own children through them.

Dear ones, be encouraged and be filled with hope, for God is with you, and you are His children. He loves you as a father. He loves you in a way you will never be loved again. He knows you. He has created you all special, individual, and perfect in His eyes. When you have cause to fall from Him, when you walk a tempting road, lift up all that you are to God. Ask Him to see that which is most beautiful within you, your perfect shining soul, and ask Him through His mercy and compassion to help you, each day, to walk closer to Him. Find Him in your sacraments. Find Him in one another. My dear children, never cease to look, for He is there waiting for you.

Dear ones, be joyful and know that God is with you, as I your mother am with you. I offer to you my motherly blessing, and I pray that God might grant you peace, mercy, and compassion, all the days of your life. May He be with you, and may the Holy Spirit inspire you to go and to do that which you have been told to do: to teach, to assist, to comfort, to be Christ on earth. 

My dear ones, may you be blessed in the name of He Who is holy, the Most Holy Trinity, Who is and ever shall be, forever. Amen.