"I entrust this charge to you Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophetic words once spoken about you. Through them may you fight a good fight by having faith and a good conscience. Some, by rejecting conscience, have made a shipwreck of their faith."
1 Timothy, 18-19
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Milan, Italy [January 1, 1995]
Mother of Mercy
"Beloved children, begin this new year by celebrating the liturgical solemnity of my divine motherhood. I am true Mother of God, because Jesus, who is born of me and is being placed in the manger, is true Son of God.
He is the Eternal Word, consubstantial with the Father, and He assumes His human nature in my virginal womb. He is the gift of love of the Father: 'God so loved the world that He has given it His only-begotten Son' (cf. John, 3:16). He is the manifestation of His divine mercy.
Jesus is born of me to be your Redeemer and to set humanity free from slavery to Satan and to lead it back to a full communion of life and of love with God.
--I am the Mother of Mercy. My motherly task has been that of giving you Jesus, who is the revelation of the merciful love of the Father. Thus, in order to come to you, divine mercy has passed through the way of my divine and immaculate motherhood.
But I am also your Mother. Beneath the Cross, through the Will of my Son Jesus, I have become true Mother of all humanity, redeemed and saved by Him. Thus the divine mercy of Jesus, in order to reach you, must pass through the motherly way of my Immaculate Heart. For this reason, the triumph of my Immaculate Heart coincides with the triumph of divine mercy upon the world.
--I am Mother of Mercy. To me was entrusted the task of preparing humanity to receive the heavenly dew of divine mercy .
You have now entered into the final years, which are preparing you for this new and second Advent. They are the most important and difficult years, the most painful and bloody, because during them their must take place the final events which have been foretold to you by me.
My motherly work of mercy is being made manifest during these years in this way:
...in leading you along the way of conversion and of return to the Lord. I desire to give you the grace of a change of heart and of life. I help you to free yourselves from sin, to fight against the passions, to conquer evil; and I lead you to full reconciliation with the Lord your God. It is necessary that this general reconciliation come about quickly, to prepare you thus for the great trial which awaits you, for the complete purification of all humanity.
...in bringing you to a strong experience of prayer. For this, I ask you to multiply and to spread everywhere the cenacles which I have asked of you: among priests, children, youth and families. My Immaculate Heart must now become the new and spiritual cenacle, in which you must all gather together, to obtain the gift of the second Pentecost. The purification of the world will come about through the work of the Spirit of Love, who will pour out from heaven his blazing fire to renew the face of the earth.
...in helping you to live through the hour of the great trial. Sufferings never before experienced are awaiting you, because the moment of a universal renewal is drawing close. Satan will be defeated; the power of evil will be destroyed; Jesus will restore His glorious reign among you, and in this way the new heavens and the new earth will be formed. Without an extraordinary intervention of my motherly love, you would not be able to support the pain of the great trial which has now come for all.
---I am Mother of Mercy. The motherly task of assisting the Church in the hour of her greatest suffering has been entrusted to me, because she must climb the Calvary of her immolation and her martyrdom. This merciful action of mine will be exercised in helping her to carry the cross of betrayal and abandonment, when the apostasy becomes general and the man of iniquity foretold by Sacred Scripture enters her, who will bring the abomination of desolation into her interior.
My merciful action will become still stronger when my children will be persecuted and imprisoned, tormented and led to martyrdom.
It is then that I will manifest myself to them in an extraordinary way, according to a mysterious design which my Immaculate Heart has, for a long time now, already outlined in all its particulars.
---I am Mother of Mercy. All my children, from this year on, will see fulfilled the prodigy of the Woman Clothed with the Sun, and I will pour out upon the world the light and the merciful power of my Immaculate Heart.
For this reason, at the beginning of the new year, I invite all to live in confidence and in prayer. Have no fear. I am with you, and I will manifest myself in an extraordinary way. The more you enter into the time of the purifying trial, the more you will feel, in a powerful way, my merciful and motherly presence.
I bless you all in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."--To the Priests-Our Lady's Beloved Sons, MMP (2009);Interior locutions to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, MMP (1973-97); #536, pp.842-44
Prayer
Blessed Virgin Mary, today we celebrate the oldest feast in your honor. We give thanks to God for choosing you to be the mother of Jesus. You are blessed, Virgin Mary, for the Lord is truly with you. Hear us as we call upon you, our mother. Amen
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Friday, December 31, 2010
Dives in Misericordia...
Pope John Paul II...on the mercy of God....
"Let us appeal to the love which has maternal characteristics and which, like a mother, follows each of her children, each lost sheep, even if they should number millions, even if in the world evil should prevail over goodness, even if contemporary humanity should deserve a new 'flood' on account of its sins...and if any of our contemporaries do not share the faith and hope which leads me, as servant of Christ and steward of the mysteries of God, to implore God's mercy for humanity in this hour of history, let them at least try to understand the reason for my concern. It is dictated by love for man, for all that is human and which, according to the intuitions of many of our contemporaries, is threatened by immense danger."
--Pope John Paul II, Dives in Misericordia (1980).
December 31, 1993 Milan, Italy [Last night of the year]
Great is My Concern
"Beloved children, spend with me, in recollection and prayer, the last hours of this year which is about to end. Do not let yourselves be taken up with dissipation, clamor, and amusements, in which the majority of my poor children spend these hours. Read, in silence, the signs of your time, and join in my great concern for what awaits you.
--Great is my concern because this humanity, so ailing, is continuing in its obstinate rejection of God and of His law of love. In many ways and with numerous signs and extraordinary interventions, I have intervened in the course of this year, to urge it to conversion, and to its return to the Lord.
But I have not been listened to. The name of the Lord is scorned, and His day is more and more profaned. Egoism is suffocating the hearts of men, become cold and closed due to a great incapacity to love. Life is considered of little value; violence and homicides are increasing; all kinds of means are being used to prevent the birth of more children; willful abortions, this terrible crime which day and night cries to your God for vengeance, are increasing everywhere; impurity is spreading like a great tide of filth which is sweeping everything before it.
The cup of divine justice is full to overflowing. I see the chastisements by which the mercy of God wishes to purify and save this poor sinful humanity. How numerous and great are the sufferings which await you, my poor children, so enticed and ensnared by Satan, the spirit of falsehood, who is seducing you and leading you to your death!
--Great is my concern because my Church is at the mercy of the forces of evil which are threatening it and attempting to destroy it from within. Masonry, with its diabolical power, has set up its center in the very heart of the Church, where the Vicar of my Son Jesus resides, and from there is spreading its evil influence to every part of the world. And now the Church will once again be betrayed by its own; it will be cruelly persecuted and led to the gibbet.
I see that the bloody persecution is now at the doors, and many of you will be scattered by the violent wind of this frightful hurricane.
During these hours, share in my great concern, and unite yourselves, each and all, to my prayer of intercession and reparation . Multiply everywhere the cenacles of prayer which I have asked of you, as safe places, as refuges in which you take shelter in the tremendous storm which awaits you.
In the cenacles, you will be aware of my extraordinary presence.
In the cenacles, you will experience the security and peace which your heavenly Mother gives you.
In the cenacles, you will be preserved from evil and defended from the great dangers which threaten you.
In the cenacles, you will be formed by me in confidence and in a great hope because the cenacle is the place of your salvation, which the heavenly Mother has prepared for you, in these last times in which the great trial has now come for all."
--To the Priests--Our Lady's Beloved Sons, MMP (2009); Interior locutions to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, MMP (1973-97); #509, pp.795-96
"Let us appeal to the love which has maternal characteristics and which, like a mother, follows each of her children, each lost sheep, even if they should number millions, even if in the world evil should prevail over goodness, even if contemporary humanity should deserve a new 'flood' on account of its sins...and if any of our contemporaries do not share the faith and hope which leads me, as servant of Christ and steward of the mysteries of God, to implore God's mercy for humanity in this hour of history, let them at least try to understand the reason for my concern. It is dictated by love for man, for all that is human and which, according to the intuitions of many of our contemporaries, is threatened by immense danger."
--Pope John Paul II, Dives in Misericordia (1980).
December 31, 1993 Milan, Italy [Last night of the year]
Great is My Concern
"Beloved children, spend with me, in recollection and prayer, the last hours of this year which is about to end. Do not let yourselves be taken up with dissipation, clamor, and amusements, in which the majority of my poor children spend these hours. Read, in silence, the signs of your time, and join in my great concern for what awaits you.
--Great is my concern because this humanity, so ailing, is continuing in its obstinate rejection of God and of His law of love. In many ways and with numerous signs and extraordinary interventions, I have intervened in the course of this year, to urge it to conversion, and to its return to the Lord.
But I have not been listened to. The name of the Lord is scorned, and His day is more and more profaned. Egoism is suffocating the hearts of men, become cold and closed due to a great incapacity to love. Life is considered of little value; violence and homicides are increasing; all kinds of means are being used to prevent the birth of more children; willful abortions, this terrible crime which day and night cries to your God for vengeance, are increasing everywhere; impurity is spreading like a great tide of filth which is sweeping everything before it.
The cup of divine justice is full to overflowing. I see the chastisements by which the mercy of God wishes to purify and save this poor sinful humanity. How numerous and great are the sufferings which await you, my poor children, so enticed and ensnared by Satan, the spirit of falsehood, who is seducing you and leading you to your death!
--Great is my concern because my Church is at the mercy of the forces of evil which are threatening it and attempting to destroy it from within. Masonry, with its diabolical power, has set up its center in the very heart of the Church, where the Vicar of my Son Jesus resides, and from there is spreading its evil influence to every part of the world. And now the Church will once again be betrayed by its own; it will be cruelly persecuted and led to the gibbet.
I see that the bloody persecution is now at the doors, and many of you will be scattered by the violent wind of this frightful hurricane.
During these hours, share in my great concern, and unite yourselves, each and all, to my prayer of intercession and reparation . Multiply everywhere the cenacles of prayer which I have asked of you, as safe places, as refuges in which you take shelter in the tremendous storm which awaits you.
In the cenacles, you will be aware of my extraordinary presence.
In the cenacles, you will experience the security and peace which your heavenly Mother gives you.
In the cenacles, you will be preserved from evil and defended from the great dangers which threaten you.
In the cenacles, you will be formed by me in confidence and in a great hope because the cenacle is the place of your salvation, which the heavenly Mother has prepared for you, in these last times in which the great trial has now come for all."
--To the Priests--Our Lady's Beloved Sons, MMP (2009); Interior locutions to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, MMP (1973-97); #509, pp.795-96
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Institutional abandonement of the faith...
To the faithful remnant--hold fast to the faith!
In his book AntiChrist, Fr. Miceli, S. J. wrote about the institutional abandonment of the faith by liberal leaders within the Church during the Modern and Post-Modern Eras--particularly the nearly wholesale retreat from orthodoxy. We are living in the aftermath of this destruction. I quote him below and then end with a few words from our Holy Mother in one of her interior locutions to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, MMP.
Of this apostasy, Fr. Miceli wrote, "In 1967-72 the leaders of the Catholic institutions and the Vatican held meetings in which the leaders rejected any institutional, statutory, academic allegiance to the teachings of Jesus Christ as transmitted to His Church through the Magisterium. This is institutional apostasy from Christ and His Church."
"The leaders, lusting after secular academic excellence, huge student bodies, expensive scientific complexes, publicity, political clout, and financial power somehow lost sight of the purpose and spirit of the Catholic university. In today's Catholic university, intellectualism is preferred to Catholicism, scientism to faith, and relativism to truth."
"In the name of total liberation, the public demands widespread use of contraception, the right to free and state-financed abortion, the right to trial marriages, the right to choose homosexuality, and the right to enter homosexual and lesbian marriages. These are not marginal demands but are essentially linked to the movement of the total liberation of man from God, from morality, from restrictive positive laws, and from the canons of reason. Progressively these demands deny the very nature of man; they are now moving to the denial or the cancellation of the marriage institution as such. These apostates have legislated these movements into existence and thus the law is now on their side. The Christian view is now outside the law."
"The first aim of the modernists is to convert the Church of Rome to modernism and then to convert the Universal Church. They seek to create a Church in their own image and likeness--a small, Gnostic, elite Church of worldly-wise intellectuals who will dominate the religious thinking and practice of the whole human race."
"Today, in the post-Christian era, neo-modernism [now neo-paganism, blog author] has regrouped its forces under such titles as 'Catholic Opposition' or 'Catholic Dissent' or 'Christian Critics.' This dissent and criticism is leveled against the 'institutional Church' not against the enemies of the Church."
--The AntiChrist, Vincent P. Miceli, S.J. (1981); Roman Catholic Books, P.O. Box 255, Harrison, NY. [Bold print is the emphasis of this Blog author].
Now our Holy Mother speaks....[May 13, 1990] Anniversary of the first Fatima Apparition.
"I am coming down from heaven, so that the final secrets may be revealed to you and that I may be able thus to prepare you for what, as of now, you must live through, for the purification of the earth.
My third secret, which I revealed here to three little children to whom I appeared and which up to the present has not yet been revealed to you, will be made manifest to all by the very occurrence of the events.
The Church will know the hour of its greatest apostasy. The man of iniquity will penetrate into its interior and will sit in the very temple of God, while the little remnant which will remain faithful will be subjected to the greatest trials and persecutions.
Humanity will live through the moment of its greatest chastisement and thus will remain ready to receive the Lord Jesus who will return to you in glory.
For this reason, especially today, I am coming down again from heaven: through my numerous apparitions; through the messages which I give; and through this extraordinary work of my Marian Movement of Priests, to prepare you to live through the events which are even now in the process of being fulfilled, in order to lead you by the hand to walk along the most difficult and painful segment of this, your second Advent, and to prepare the minds and the hearts of all to receive Jesus at the closely approaching moment of His glorious return."
--To the Priests-Our Lady's Beloved Sons, MMP (2009);Interior locutions to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, MMP (1973-97). #425, pp.644-45
Thus, have hope and be consoled little faithful remnant for our Mother is here to assist us in these hours of great sorrow and trial.
In his book AntiChrist, Fr. Miceli, S. J. wrote about the institutional abandonment of the faith by liberal leaders within the Church during the Modern and Post-Modern Eras--particularly the nearly wholesale retreat from orthodoxy. We are living in the aftermath of this destruction. I quote him below and then end with a few words from our Holy Mother in one of her interior locutions to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, MMP.
Of this apostasy, Fr. Miceli wrote, "In 1967-72 the leaders of the Catholic institutions and the Vatican held meetings in which the leaders rejected any institutional, statutory, academic allegiance to the teachings of Jesus Christ as transmitted to His Church through the Magisterium. This is institutional apostasy from Christ and His Church."
"The leaders, lusting after secular academic excellence, huge student bodies, expensive scientific complexes, publicity, political clout, and financial power somehow lost sight of the purpose and spirit of the Catholic university. In today's Catholic university, intellectualism is preferred to Catholicism, scientism to faith, and relativism to truth."
"In the name of total liberation, the public demands widespread use of contraception, the right to free and state-financed abortion, the right to trial marriages, the right to choose homosexuality, and the right to enter homosexual and lesbian marriages. These are not marginal demands but are essentially linked to the movement of the total liberation of man from God, from morality, from restrictive positive laws, and from the canons of reason. Progressively these demands deny the very nature of man; they are now moving to the denial or the cancellation of the marriage institution as such. These apostates have legislated these movements into existence and thus the law is now on their side. The Christian view is now outside the law."
"The first aim of the modernists is to convert the Church of Rome to modernism and then to convert the Universal Church. They seek to create a Church in their own image and likeness--a small, Gnostic, elite Church of worldly-wise intellectuals who will dominate the religious thinking and practice of the whole human race."
"Today, in the post-Christian era, neo-modernism [now neo-paganism, blog author] has regrouped its forces under such titles as 'Catholic Opposition' or 'Catholic Dissent' or 'Christian Critics.' This dissent and criticism is leveled against the 'institutional Church' not against the enemies of the Church."
--The AntiChrist, Vincent P. Miceli, S.J. (1981); Roman Catholic Books, P.O. Box 255, Harrison, NY. [Bold print is the emphasis of this Blog author].
Now our Holy Mother speaks....[May 13, 1990] Anniversary of the first Fatima Apparition.
"I am coming down from heaven, so that the final secrets may be revealed to you and that I may be able thus to prepare you for what, as of now, you must live through, for the purification of the earth.
My third secret, which I revealed here to three little children to whom I appeared and which up to the present has not yet been revealed to you, will be made manifest to all by the very occurrence of the events.
The Church will know the hour of its greatest apostasy. The man of iniquity will penetrate into its interior and will sit in the very temple of God, while the little remnant which will remain faithful will be subjected to the greatest trials and persecutions.
Humanity will live through the moment of its greatest chastisement and thus will remain ready to receive the Lord Jesus who will return to you in glory.
For this reason, especially today, I am coming down again from heaven: through my numerous apparitions; through the messages which I give; and through this extraordinary work of my Marian Movement of Priests, to prepare you to live through the events which are even now in the process of being fulfilled, in order to lead you by the hand to walk along the most difficult and painful segment of this, your second Advent, and to prepare the minds and the hearts of all to receive Jesus at the closely approaching moment of His glorious return."
--To the Priests-Our Lady's Beloved Sons, MMP (2009);Interior locutions to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, MMP (1973-97). #425, pp.644-45
Thus, have hope and be consoled little faithful remnant for our Mother is here to assist us in these hours of great sorrow and trial.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
On faith...
Spiritual Reflections
"It is an error to think that faith is so entirely a gift of God that it is not in our power to increase and strengthen it. Some admit that they have very little faith and excuse themselves on this account for their bad lives. Therefore when they are reproached for having so little faith, it makes no more impression upon them than if you told them they had not the gift of miracles. They admire faith in the saints as a purely gratuitous grace; they persuade themselves that they can do nothing to increase their own faith and that the only thing to do is to remain passive until God grants them that favor; they will make no effort to grow in faith, saying that to do so is quite useless. "I know my faith is weak," they say, "but it is no good me trying to rekindle it; I cannot do it. I wish I were like those saints who without any trouble were detached from everything but God. What is the good of me wishing for these things if God does not intend to give them to me?"
We must get rid of these ideas, see why it is our faith is so weak, and acknowledge that it is our own fault and that, whatever we may say, the truth is that we do not believe because we do not wish to believe.
Of all states to be in, the most wretched is that of a Christian who has but little faith. It would be better to have none because such a one suffers more even in his pleasures than a man of real faith does in the greatest trials: the little he possesses is enough to damn him but not enough to save him. To him faith is like a light which disturbs the rest one finds in darkness and not like the light which brings the joy of day."
--The Spiritual Direction of St. Claude De La Colombiere (1998, Ignatius Press); Translated and arranged by Mother M. Philip, I.B.V.M (1934), the Bar Convent, York, England
"My Immaculate Heart is the way which leads you to His reign. In fact, the triumph of my Immaculate Heart will coincide with the triumph of my Son, Jesus, in His glorious reign of holiness and of grace, of love and of justice, of mercy and of peace, which will be established in the whole world.
For this reason I am inviting you today to prayer and to trust; I am calling you to peace of heart and to joy because the glorious reign of the Lord Jesus is already at the gates..."
--To the Priests-Our Lady's Beloved Sons, MMP [2009]; Interior Locutions to Father Stefano Gobbi, MMp, [1973-97]. #339, pp.488-89.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
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