September 1999

Mary:

My dear little ones, glory be to God Who is and always shall be King of Kings, Lord of Lords. My dear ones, I bring to you my motherly blessing. I pray that you might be blessed with peace and joy without measure. I pray that you might be blessed by God in all things, that you might always walk in His light, and grow in faith each day.

Dear little ones, long have I come to you and spoken to you of many things. I have taught you that God is love, and that His love for you is unending. I have taught you that Christ is the Way. He is the Truth. He is the Life. I have taught you that to be as God desires you to be, you must follow Christ in carrying your crosses, in sharing your joys, in walking with one another to assist one another on your road to salvation. I have taught you that Christ was the teacher, that He was the Master, that He was all things good and continues to be all things good, as He reigns now in Heaven at the right hand of the Father Almighty. I have taught you that the Holy Spirit directs you and guides you, walks with you, speaks to you, whispers in the silence of your heart the will of God, that you might know it and love it. I have taught you to be charitable, to be obedient to God. Subject yourselves to God, to His will, to His most divine providence. Place yourselves entirely in His care. Turn your eyes trustingly toward Heaven and allow God to show you things unseen to all men.

My dear little ones, I have taught you of peace. I have asked you to bring peace to your hearts, peace to your homes, peace to your world. I have asked you to pray. I continue to ask you to pray. Prayer is essential. It is most, most necessary. Know that your prayers bring great grace to your life. Your prayers make light of the darkness. Your prayers, they are most precious.

My dear children, I have spoken to you of many things. Today, I come to you, and I ask you to dedicate yourselves to all that I have asked and to continue to pursue these things, these virtues that I have taught you. Learn to live all that you have been taught in a more full, in a deeper, in a more beautiful way. I invite you again to reflect on all you have been given, not only through my messages, but through the holy Scriptures, the Word of God, all that is necessary for your salvation. I invite you to reflect on your lives this day, to reflect on your life, your family, your home, your job, your needs, your graces, your blessings, all things given by God. I invite you, dear children, to strive to find new ways to serve Him, to go and to do all that has been asked of you with a fuller commitment, truly a deeper commitment.

I have asked many things of you, and I come, not with my own words and not by my own will but bearing the words of the Father in Heaven Who has sent me. It is by His will that I come. What a gift you have been given! What tremendous gifts you have. I come joyfully as your mother, as any earthly mother, to remind her children of what is right, of what is good, of what will help them to grow strong and sure. 

Dear ones, this is my hope and my wish for you, this is my desire and my prayer: that each day you would walk nearer to our Father in Heaven, that each day you might see Him in all who surround you, that you might serve Him in all that you do, and you might know Him in your own lives. And so, I invite you, dear children, commit yourselves completely to God. Fill your heart with His joy, with His love, with His mercy. All that I have asked of you, I ask again from you, and I ask you to pursue it with a tremendous fervency, a love, a desire, a burning desire, to serve. I ask you to recommit yourselves to God, to dedicate yourselves to Him, to give to Him your lives, your homes, your families, all things.

Dear little ones, how easy it is for us to seek to serve God. How easy it is for us to desire to serve Him. I ask you to do what is most difficult, truly what is most difficult. Go out into the world and be lambs among wolves. Do what I have asked you to do, that which God has asked you to do. It is one thing to ask you to give up all things for God. Your hearts are filled with desire. Your hearts are filled with love and a desire to serve. You desire to serve God and to give all things to Him, but still, you find it difficult.

Know that I come to encourage you in this, to assure you that with God all things are possible. Alone you can do nothing for His glory. Alone you will stumble, and you will fall. That is the nature of man. It has been that way since man departed from God and will be that way until you see God reunited with man. I tell you though that God, Who has sent His only Son to be your savior, to be your light, to be your joy, to be your life, He has made it possible for you to be perfected in Him, if you seek His will, if you desire to do all that He desires, if you desire to do nothing for yourself but give all things to Him. Truly, the greatest things that you can do in your lives are to give all things to God, to give to Him all that you have and that you are, as He has given to you all that He is.

Dear ones, you do not know the power you have. You do not know how much God can do in this world. You do not know how He can be glorified through your simple, “yes”. I invite you to say yes to God in your lives. I invite you to pray humbly, “Lord, may your will be done”. I invite you to give your hearts to Him, to give your dreams to Him, to give your souls to Him, to give your heart, mind, body, spirit, will, all things that are most uniquely you, to Him. Know He will purify you. He will build you up. He will strengthen you. He will bless you, and you will do great things in His name.

Dear ones, it is most beautiful that God has created you for this task. It is most beautiful! He desires for you to give up all things, that He might give you all things in return. Dear little ones, this is a very difficult thing. There are many things in this world that call your attention away. There are many things that are distractions. Some of these things that distract you from the work of God are good- your homes and your families, your pursuits of service. Others are not so good.

Dear little ones, I ask you to concentrate your efforts in your home. First and foremost, among all other things, the home is the bedrock of faith. It is the cradle of faith. It is the most beautiful and most perfect representation of the Trinity. In a home, in your families, you are bound together as one unit, not individuals, but as one. Serve one another as you would serve your own needs. Seek out all good things for one another. See God in the faces of your children, of your spouse, of your family, of your parents. See God there, and serve Him there. This world is in desperate need, my dear children, of family, of a loving family. Family is so tremendously important that God saw fit to send His Own Son, His Own divine Son, to an earthly mother and an earthly father, that He might be taught as you are taught, that He might grow as you grow, that He might learn to love in the family.

My dear children, in this way, this simple step will help you in your commitment to God, in your decision to dedicate all that you are to Him. If you can serve completely within your family, it will not be difficult to turn your efforts elsewhere, to your community, to your church, to those whom you come in contact with, in your work, in your friendships. It is the family that must be served as you serve God. You must serve selflessly. You must give all, that you might be given much in return. In this way, you will learn discipline. You will learn love. You will learn obedience. You will learn the beauty of humility. Dear children, serve your family members. Once you have completed these tasks, strive harder. Try harder, for never can you perfect yourself until the day that you stand in your Father’s kingdom. There is always more you can do. There is much that can be done.

Pray! Pray! Pray! Prayer is the way that you will learn what is right. Prayer is the way that you will be strengthened. It is the way that you will know the will of God. Prayer is a most valuable gift. It is without measure. Dear children, through prayer God speaks to each one of you, to your hearts, to your minds. In the silence within you, He speaks to you. He whispers to you all that He desires of you. Pray always! Pray when you are joyful. Pray when you are sorrowful. Pray when you do not feel like praying and pray that God will place a love for prayer in your heart at these times. Know that the more you pray, the easier you will find it to be.

Serve your family. Serve your church and your community. Serve all those who come into your life, for they are reflections of God. God has placed His children in your care. He has reached out to you and offered to you a role in the most beautiful salvation of the world. Jesus Christ came that all might be redeemed, that all might be saved, that all might exist in the most beautiful place that God has prepared for us. He invites you, through His messenger, to go and to be truly His shepherds leading His sheep. Our Lord is present and alive in this world. He is more real and more present than many, many things.

Dear ones, it is good for you to do all that you do in your life. It is good for you to live a life that is abundant and joyful, but do not fail to see our Lord Who exists with you, Who walks with you, Who assists you, Who comforts you, Who loves and sorrows with you. Dear ones, this is the way to live a life that is worth living, to live it with the full memory that God is with you, to live it with full obedience to that which He has called you to do, and to live it with full gratitude for all He has blessed you with.

Dear children, I invite you to say yes to what God has asked of you. Though it may seem difficult, insurmountable, I tell this is not so. God has given to you the assistance of all of the heavens. He has sent to you His Most Holy Spirit that you might be filled with the gifts of courage, of wisdom, of knowledge and truth, a desire to do that which is right, and a reverence for all that is holy. You have been given all that you need. You have your homes and your families to provide love for you, that you might see the love of God and desire to emulate it. You have been given the Church to be your leader, your teacher, to be your master while here, for the Church is as Christ is. Dear children, you have been given all things good, the gifts of prayer, of your sacraments- the gift without measure that God pours into your life each day in simple ways, gifts so often overlooked.

Above all else, my dear children, desire to serve and continue to persevere in service. Do not fear failure, for God does not punish those who fail, but He desires that those who fail would turn to Him, ask for forgiveness, and be received with open arms. No father rejects a child. No mother turns away her little ones. Our Father in Heaven will never reject you. Our Father in Heaven will never turn you away. No matter how many times you fall, He is with you. He sends to you all assistance and all aid, that you might walk closer to Him.

Even in His passion on the road to Golgotha, our Lord did fall. He fell and He did not remain fallen but stood again, and continued on His road. In this, He has shown you that to fall is not to err. To fall, and to stay without desire to repent, without love in your heart, filled with anger and bitterness, this is a grave, grave error. Rather I tell you, when you do fail in this, pray to God. Pray fully with your heart. Beg Him to give you all mercies, and all graces, and all compassion, and know that it will be poured forth upon you more fully, more beautifully, more perfectly than you can imagine. Dear ones, our Lord does not expect perfection from you. He desires your obedience. He desires your love. He desires your commitment to serve Him.

Dear children, I too come as a servant. I come with the words of the Father upon my lips, that you might be taught, that you might be led, that you might be shown the way. I come to you pointing to the Christ, as I have done many times, as I shall always do. I lead you before His cross. I place you there in my own prayers and I place you before our Father in Heaven. I desire to serve God and I desire that you would serve as well, for He alone should be glorified among all things. He alone is goodness.

Dear ones, be encouraged. I tell you this again and again, for this world is filled with that which would discourage you. Know that Christ is alive. Know that He is risen. What a joy this is! If you were to mediate upon this each day, what joy you would have in your life! He is risen. He waits for you. He calls to you. He reaches out to you and invites you to participate fully in the great mystery of His love, the mystery of redemption.

Dear ones, serve God. Serve God that all might know what He has done for them. God came to save all people. He desires that all would know Him, that all would call Him, ‘Lord’. Dear ones, with your commitment you make this possible, as you go, and you make ready the fields that He might sow the seeds of faith among the hearts of His people.

Dear children, know that I too, am with you. I am your mother, and I will continue to come to you so long as the Lord permits me to come. Know that this grace has made many, many, many blessings possible. Thank God for this grace you have received. I go before Him with all of your prayers, with all of your intentions, and I intercede on your behalf. I give to you the blessing of a mother who cares for you, who loves you as her own child, her own little ones. Dear children, united with our Lord, many, many great things are possible. Unite yourself to God. Bind yourself to His most beautiful Sacred Heart, that in all things and in all times, He might be glorified!

Dear children, I bless you and I pray that God will walk with you always, that you would know Him, love Him, and serve Him each day of your life. May His will become your will. May you lift all that you have to Him, and may you be grateful for the great blessings He has poured forth into your lives.