September 1998
Mary:
My dear little ones, praise God and thank Him, for He is good and gives all good things to you. Let us worship Him together in this way always. My dear little ones, I am most grateful for your prayers for my intentions. Through the prayers of many of my faithful ones, many graces are obtained from the Father Who wishes to bless the whole world with His love and mercy. I am most grateful for your prayers and ask you to continue to pray always, that your own soul might be strengthened, that your own heart might be strengthened, and that many graces might be obtained for your Christian brothers and sisters, for those whom you do not know, for your enemies, for the sick and ailing, and those who suffer in Purgatory; for those, my dear little ones there, who do desire with all their hearts to be with the Father, but rely on your prayers. Do pray also for my priests, and my young people, and for all married couples, for often in these days many of my little ones are tempted away from vows that they have made before God, are tempted away from the faith that God has placed in your hearts since your very conception.
My little ones, you have responded with such fervency and such desire to know our Lord, through myself, through the saints that I have brought to you, through the messages I have given to teach, to show you how to live the virtues of Christ, truly, how to emulate Him, how to be His disciple, how to live in holiness. Do follow these words and reflect on them often. Read them and meditate upon them. Read also, your Gospels, the Scripture, this Word of God, that you might always remain close to what God is calling you to do: to emulate Him, to be as He was, and to truly be His hands and feet on this earth.
In bringing these saints of Heaven to you, God has allowed me to give you such graces, such graces as the world has not known! I have brought many to you that they might tell you their stories, that they might speak of God’s love and His mercy, that they may speak of Christ as a human, with a human soul and a human mind, in a divine spirit, that you would come to know Him, truly, as God-Made-Man, that you would come to understand how He was very much like you on this earth, that He had a mother and a father, family and friends, those who followed Him, and that they, most especially, were just as you are: weak and fallen, needing God’s grace, God’s love, and God’s forgiveness, always being called to reconciliation on the journey of conversion.
My little ones, let this past year, the graces you have received, be a great joy to you, a great comfort, and a great source of encouragement and hope, for truly, as you have seen through the words of my children, my little ones who now enjoy the splendor of God’s kingdom, God, He works many miracles! He truly is present in your lives, ever present. He touches you and changes you. He has called you all here that you might know Him in this special way.
I ask you to continue to come together in a group to pray for my intentions, for the conversion of the world, and for peace, which is most sorely needed in this world. Pray for the family, this bedrock of faith, that is so often assaulted by modernism and materialism. My dear ones, pray for one another and console one another in your times of sorrow. God has created you, not as individual beings to be kept alone within yourselves, to hide away, to be far from Him, and far from each other, but truly, as a community that together, one with another, hand in hand, you might worship Him and glorify Him, and help each other find the road of salvation.
My dear ones, as I have been in many, many ways, the precursor of our Lord, as I was the maid who brought Him into this world, as I do speak His words to you now, as I have given to you His message and announced Him to the world, and as truly I shall bring the good news of His love for you into this world through such graces that God has allowed, I do now come before Him again. Oftentimes, my little ones, you have heard my words, and you have yearned to know our God in the most personal and the most intimate way, to hear His words, to know His mind. I tell you this is a feat unimaginable, one that is incomprehensible, but God who is merciful and good, God who desires for His children to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in all things, to truly be with Him, united always, this God Who loves you so much that He has made all this possible, does desire to speak to you. And so, I do, my little ones, bless you with my motherly blessing, and I ask you to bow your heads and to pray, and know that God, the God of love, is with you.
God in His Trinity:
My sheep, your Shepherd calls to you. Gather and hear My Word, that I might speak to your hearts and to your souls. Children, I, in My Trinity, Am with you. In your prayer you invite Me in. You call Me to your very soul, and I do dwell there. Do you not know that though you turn your face from Me, I seek you out? I will not let you go, but always, always will seek you to the ends of the earth. My children, I know you as you cannot know yourselves, and truly, it is My fatherly love for you, My great love for you, that commands all that I do. You are My people! You, you have been given My very life.
From your very creation, from the very creation of time, I beheld each one of you, and knew you before you had yet come into being. As I held in My hands the form to become the earth on which you dwell, as I shaped the stars in the heavens, as I created all that you know, all that you are, I beheld you. I knew you. You were mine. For you, I brought light from dark, life from death, everything from nothing, for I desired to love! I created you to be loved and to love, to love Me as your Father and one another as your family in My house. I gave to you your earth and your sun to guide your days and your nights, the rain to renew your world, warmth to keep you, and food that you might eat and be sustained, but of all these things none was so important, none was so great, as My love. I could have given you nothing, nothing more than My love, for I have given you all of My heart!
It is because of My great love for you that I call to each of you, that I beckon to you. Many, many of My sheep have wandered, and have been lost to Me by their own will, that will that I created within them, that will that is such a gift, and such a pain to My heart, for it has taken many from Me. My little ones, I truly love you and seek you! In your lives, I Am with you. You cannot see what truly is. You do not know what I have created for you. Look beyond the horizon. See beyond yourselves. I Who conceal myself in a host and wine, I Who move silently as the wind, I Who whisper to you, Who calls to you, I Who inspire you with My Spirit to do great things in My name, I call to you.
I came to teach you in humility. I came to serve you as I desire to be served. I taught you all that you must know. I have provided all that you need. Know, know in your hearts that I shall never abandon you, nor reject you. Know that you are not alone, that you cannot be alone, for truly, should you climb to the highest heavens or sink beneath the sea, I Am there, speaking as loudly to you as I spoke to your forefathers, to those who have written the Scriptures that you know, to those who witnessed Me in My body on this earth, to those who now witness Me in My churches on My altars and find Me in reconciliation, who experience Me in the sacraments and in the service of one another. I speak to you loudly. I call to you.
I have given you each day and every moment of your life that, truly, you might live! So many have such time, but do not live. Let the life that I breathed within you at your very conception, the life that I knew before your existence, the life that I beheld upon the creation of your earth, and the stars, and the sun that warms you, let that life be one worth living! Let it be one of service, as I have served you, and above all let it be one of love, for if there is one truth that I have given to you in your souls, in your hearts, in My body and blood, in My Word, in one another, it is this: there is nothing but love! Nothing endures but love.
I truly Am love and life. To live in Me is to live in joy, to live in peace, to live in humility and obedience, and to live in a profound love in your heart! This is where you find Me. This is where I dwell. I Am never far from you, you who are more precious to Me than all of creation, for each one of you, I have given everything: My life which I breathed forth from My body, My Spirit that came to descend upon you and dwell with you, My body and blood to nourish you. All things are for you. Live according to My will. Live with great trust in Me, for your God Who is love, remains with you. Your God Who is love, seeks you out. Your God Who is love, desires you. You who are most precious to My heart. Hear Me.
