March 1999

Mary:

My dear little children, praise God and glorify Him, for He alone is holy. He is all goodness and all joy. It is He who sends me, that you might know His peace. Dear little ones, be filled with grace. Open your hearts to grace, that it might fill you and free you from sin. Accept the grace that God offers to you through the many gifts He has placed in your lives.

In this time, when you prepare to remember our Lord’s most precious gift of His passion, death, and resurrection, I urge you, find my Son and our Lord in the sacraments that He has given to you. Find Him as you reconcile with Him. Find Him as you commune with Him in the Holy Eucharist. Find Him in one another, as you are good stewards of His will. Practice the virtues you have been taught. Give with all of your heart to God, that He might give all in return.

Dear little ones, what a joyful task this is to give your hearts completely to our Lord, to give yourselves, the fullness of your heart and mind, the fullness of your body, for His work, that your hands might be His Own and your feet His Own, that you might speak His Word, that you might teach as He did, that you might be vessels for that mission which He calls you to. Our Lord has created you most marvelously! He has placed within your own hearts many gifts, many great gifts! Our Lord comes to you. He asks you to invite Him into your own life and into your heart, to pray, ‘Lord, free me! Let me do your will!’ He knocks, dear children. Will you answer Him? I tell you, what great joy you will know! Our God Who is love, Who loves you dearly, desires that you would do His will. Pray! Open your hearts to Him through prayer. Give of yourself completely in prayer. In this way, you will know the Lord’s will, as His Holy Spirit is with you and, in a small voice, a silent voice, He tells you that which He wills. Listen! This is something that is so often not done.

Dear children, how often my little ones will speak, and yet they do not open their ears to listen. They do not hear with their hearts. I ask you to hear with your heart. Open yourself to hear His Word in your church, in His gifts of the sacraments, in one another, in those whom you serve. Hear Him! See Him there, too, my little ones. See Him! He is with you. See with your heart and not your eyes, for they deceive you. Our Lord is alive, and He is with you. He walks ever beside you and ever before you. He leads you down the path of righteousness and goodness. He walks with you to holiness. See Him with your hearts in all that you do. Praise Him, for He is so good that He does not abandon His children, but as a gentle Father, leads them safely and joyfully to their eternal home, which He has prepared.

Dear ones, what a great Father our Lord is. How well He tends to our needs! What do we need that He has not given to us? What could we possibly desire that would not be ours, in God’s will? Dear children, our God loves us so. He is so merciful and so good. He desires that you place yourself before Him. Place your hearts before His cross. Truly, give yourself to Him there. Lay yourself completely before His cross, that through His loving gaze, you might be filled and freed, you might be renewed in spirit, as you meditate and remember His passion, death, and resurrection. Dear children, know that in life, many times you are called to die to yourself. You are called to die to your own desires, to your own will. As Christ died for the sins of man, only to be raised up by the Father in Heaven to glory, so too will you be raised in glory, if you die to yourselves.

Dear children, God wants for you to live joyfully. He has given you life that you might live it abundantly. Do so with gratitude, and do so in a way which is self-sacrificing, that you might give to those who have less than you, that you might teach those who are uneducated, heal the sick, help the injured, comfort the lonely. Dear little ones, there is so much you can do. God has given to you such gifts, such grace! Open your hearts to His grace. None of you has no gift to offer. There is not one of you who could not touch the hearts of many. There is not one of you who is not essential in our God’s plan of salvation for the world. He came into this world as a humble child. He taught. He learned. He laughed, and loved, and cried, and He showed us the way to eternal salvation through His cross, that resurrection into glory that our Lord has promised to those who are true to Him. In this same way, love your lives. Do love them, for they are a gift from God, but live them in a way in which they are a very gift to our Father in Heaven.

My dear little ones, when you reflect on our Lord’s passion and death, remember that He has done all of this for love of you. Each one of you, your faces He beheld, your hearts He knew. Our Lord has created you so very special, so very special! You are more precious to Him than all things. Each heart, each soul is His Own doing, His Own creation, carved on the palm of His hand with the love of a Father, true love, unconditional love. So few of my little ones know how loved they are. No one person would deny the requests of the mother or father that loved them, raised them, and cherished them. No person would turn a cold shoulder to their parents, who brought them into the world and gave them life. I tell you, our Father in Heaven, Who brought you into this world and breathed His Own life into you, Who gave you His earthly life upon a cross on Calvary, He beckons to you. He beckons to you, and calls to you. He asks for you to give your life in service to Him by serving one another.

This is a task which is not difficult. Should you open your heart, God will fill you with the graces that you need to accomplish His will. He will send His Holy Spirit, that you, like His first apostles, might have the words to preach, might have the ears to listen, might have the eyes to see with the heart. Go as they did and teach, and pray, and live, and love, for God has given you many graces and much joy. Thank Him always, for He has blessed you abundantly.

Know that you have been given all things. Do give all that you have in return. In your own little ways this will please God tremendously, for He desires that you serve one another and lead one another to His heavenly home. This is the way He has established His church, that one man might take the hand of another and guide him, that one man might lead another. Christ came as that man, that God-Made-Man, to lead, to guide. He now asks you to do the same, to turn to your own brothers and sisters, and lead them, and guide them on the way to freedom, love, and joy.

I have spoken much to you on such things, and I have taught you that you are not alone, that you are so loved, that God is a good and merciful Lord, and that all that He desires is your own hearts. This is the message I wish to give to you again this evening, for I will say it to you again and again. It is most important. Do pray. Do love the Lord through service and good works. Do see Him in all that He has given to you. Do not turn a blind eye, nor deaf ear to Him, but see and hear with the heart. See that He is with you. Know that He loves you. See His goodness in your lives and praise Him. Glorify Him for all that He is, for He alone is deserving of all praise, and He alone is deserving of all glory.

Dear children, be joyful. Your Father in Heaven holds you near to Him. He beckons to you. He desires your own hearts. Hear and answer Him. Dear ones, I do bless you in His name, and I pray that His peace and His glory will be with you always.