May 1999

Mary:

My dear little ones, know that I am pleased to be among you, to worship our Lord with you. Thank Him and praise Him and know that you do please Him and give Him much glory when you honor His mother. Dear little ones, He Who is all goodness, is with you. He Who is all mercy and all compassion, is with you. Praise Him, for you are most blessed.

Dear little ones, today I invite you to a renewed sense of prayer within your homes, within your families, within your own hearts. I urge you to discover the peace and the beauty of prayer. God has given to you prayer as a most precious gift, a gift that is so often left by the wayside, gone unused, not multiplied, but hidden away. I tell you that prayer, it is so beautiful that all of the heavens rejoice when you lift your voices up to our Father in Heaven. You cannot know the power of your prayer, nor how one prayer multiplies into many, as you join your voices and your hearts together to pray for all of your needs, and to pray in thanksgiving for all you have been given.

I invite you to pray with the fullness of your hearts. In doing this, you must not concern yourself with those things that distract you. This is difficult, for there are many distractions in this world, but I invite you to find a place of quiet peace and rest to focus completely on your Lord, your God, to empty your heart of all that you do not wish to bring to Him. Thank Him. Praise Him. Give to Him your sorrows and also your joys. Remember the sick, the dying, the suffering to Him, for He Who is all mercy and compassion wishes to bestow such graces upon them. Bring your children before Him in prayer. Bring your spouse, your parents, your friends, and your enemies. All people who are remembered in prayer are blessed, for God does not let a prayer go unanswered, but He hears and answers with that which is in His will.

When you pray, do not be concerned if you are distracted. Instead, continue to pray and persevere in prayer. Do not become frustrated. Do not be anxious. Let peace fill your heart. The greatest fruit of prayer is peace- peace in your life, in your heart, in all that you do. Those who pray with the fullness of their heart and desire to find God there in prayer, know a peace that others cannot comprehend. God truly comes to you when you are with Him in prayer. He takes your heart, all of its cares, all of its sorrows, and blesses it and multiplies those graces, and carries those pains which you must bear.

Peace! Peace is so necessary in your lives, in your world today. Your world is so lacking peace, and it is so easy to attain. I urge you, find the peace that only Christ can bring, through prayer and a love for prayer. If you find prayer difficult, continue on, persevere, for God will give to you those graces necessary that you might love, truly cherish, those moments, hours, days spent in prayer. Each day, make it your true goal to spend more time with your Lord than you did the last. In this way, you will come to find such peace.

Prayer is not only spoken with the heart or recited with the mouth, but it is lived. Prayer is the Christian walk. It is the way which you are called to follow. When Jesus prayed, when He came before His people and He prayed to His Father in Heaven, He did so that they might know the words to speak to God, that they might know that He is their Father as He was our Lord’s Father, that they might know that He is so grand that He has created each of you to call Him by that most precious and intimate name, for indeed you are His children. When Jesus prayed and taught His followers to pray, He did not worry about what others would think of Him. He did not consider the words He used, for words are so inadequate. Rather, He spoke that which was in His heart: “Father, you Who are glorious…”. Do address our Father with such love, for He does love you tremendously, and deserves all of your worship and praise. Jesus asked the Father to send all that He needed, to supply each day the needs for Himself. In the same way, never fear to ask God to fulfill your needs- your health, your home, shelter, and food. He will provide for you, as He has provided for all of creation. “Preserve me from evil”. Christ, even our Lord, did ask our Father to preserve Him from evil. In the same way, do pray this prayer, for it is powerful. Would you know the Angels that God sends to you when you pray these words, you would marvel! “Amen”. A most precious word. Believe in God! Praise Him. Express your love and belief in Him.

Faith is something that is lived each day. It is a road and a conversion. It is a journey. Each day, you walk your trip of faith. Each day, you move closer to our Lord. He has planted within your hearts the seed of faith, that you might know Him and see Him as your Lord, your Master, and your Redeemer. He has given each one of you that grace, that tremendous grace, that is of the most beautiful and most wondrous man can receive. It is up to you to decide whether that faith that has been given to you will be nurtured and tenderly cared for, and grown until strong, stronger than the cornerstone, or if that faith shall be left unused, hidden away.

Our Lord invites you to pray. He invites you to a growing faith, a faith that changes each day as you become more and more in love with Him. He invites you to a life of prayer, to living your prayer through your actions, through your words, through your thoughts, through all that you are and all that you hope to be. Abandon yourself to God. I cannot tell you how wondrous this is, for there are no better hands in which to place yourself, no better care than the care of our Father in Heaven. Continue to pray. I am most grateful for your prayers said for my intentions and know that I do lift up you and all of your intentions to our Father, before the cross of the Almighty Son, and the Holy Spirit, where He reigns in Heaven.

Dear little children, know that you are most loved. Know that God desires an intimate walk with you. He desires to know your hearts, to love you, to serve you, His people, as He served you when He came upon this earth to teach you to pray. Do thank Him. Do praise Him. Do give Him all that He is deserving of: all that you have, all that you are, and all that you ever shall be through a life of building faith and a strong prayer from the heart.

My dear little ones, may you be blessed in the name of Christ who is and always shall be. Know that I am with you in a special way, that I do give to you my motherly blessing, that I lift you up before the Father and pray that you might know His peace. May the peace of Christ be with all of you each day. Each day, may you know God’s grace, may you feel His presence, and may blessings abound in your life.