Prayer.

As the page turned over I also saw the chapters and all their titles. I was urged to start writing. In just over two weeks I had finished writing the book. I wrote from morning to evening and the ideas just kept coming. I feel I received a special grace to be able to write this book.

Often Jesus comes back to contemplative prayer for it is His preferred prayer. Besides Holy Mass and the Eucharist, it has been the greatest gift that the Lord has given me. It is through contemplative prayer that I came to know Jesus as my brother and friend. The personal relationship with Him is my greatest treasure and I thank Him every day for helping me to discover this simple but deep prayer.

I believe it is the great gift that Jesus is giving the people of the world in this new millennium. If we practice this prayer, Jesus will become alive and we will build a close relationship with Him. It depends though on us to take the decision to pray in this way every day.

May the Lord give us all a great desire to live in close union with Him.

Father Melvin

Praying to Discern God's Will

PRAYER-HOW? Thought originates in the spirit, soul, or mind--that function of spirit and/or soul which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of recall or remembrance. We define it variously as an opinion formed by judging something. Your desire, intention, what you intend to do, that stimulating, experiential function of experiences: learning, which alters our brain structure at the cellular level; formal education [activities that imparts knowledge].

Sometimes you can feel thought in the pit of your stomach. We use emotions in making even minute decisions. Sometimes we decide, based on gut feelings. But we must push some desires or intentions from that area.

Jesus says desire should only be with Him, and to be like Him.( Satan's power can be removed, with just one thought of My [Jesus'Will).

Jesus purportedly said: Before every prayer let us take a minute or so to recollect ourselves. Let us reflect on what we are about to do and be aware that we are in the presence of Jesus.

Prayer is the elevation of our hearts and minds to God.

I ask you to call upon (The Holy Spirit)Me each time you pray. In a new way, ask Me to pour out Myself, My joy, My gift of gratitude for prayer, for this great vehicle: this vehicle that reaches every person in the world, My dear people. you cannot completely or totally appreciate the power of prayer; but you are learning! You are understanding more, and this shows you, My dear ones, how you can expand in your mind and your heart, in your spirit, in your whole being to embrace the world.

"We praise you, Father, and beg Your Mercy on a sinful world. Without Your Kindness and Mercy, the world will not survive. Have pity on us, Father, and forgive us, we pray. Amen." Live your life focused on me and cooperate with me daily. I have a plan for each one of you. It is in prayer that I will make it known to you and I will give you the strength to follow it. Never doubt my love for you but know that I live in your heart as your friend. I am always with you for I care for you. Come let us deepen our friendship especially through prayer and loving your neighbour. Pray for the world and pray for peace.

I>So many people today say that they are empty, bored or that their life is meaningless. Could it be that they are not following the plan Jesus has for them? Could it be the price they have to pay for being "independent" of God? Maybe they have rejected God's plan for them?

Others are not aware that God has a plan for them. Jesus reminds us today about the plan He has for us. We all have a special calling and we will not feel fulfilled unless we follow the plan of God. Jesus will reveal the plan He has for us if we are in close relationship with Him.

We have to go to Him in all sincerity and ask Him to reveal His plan for us. In time He will make it known. Some people do not want to know God's plan for them because they prefer to try to follow their own plan, even though it is not working. If we follow God's plan then we know we have the grace to accomplish it. Jesus loves us and He is always ready to help us. Let us be His friend and come to Him every day in contemplative prayer.

God wants all close to Him, in intimate relationship with Him. HE calls us all to prayer, especially contemplative prayer, every day. He give the grace of contemplative prayer to all who ask. Spend time in silence with Him every day and our love will grow.

Read the Scriptures especially the Gospels and you will come to know Him and be instructed by Him. Your heart was made forHim and you will not find peace until He dwellw in you. Pray for the peoples of the world that they may be converted and turn from their sins. He is calling them to repent and to walk with Him. He loves us, and every person on earth. His love for us is everlasting. He blesses us all."

Jesus said:

When you pray, offer Me your heart. When you pray, lift to Me your mind. When you pray, let Me enter your soul. Let words fall to this position, My lambs, for the words serve but to organize your thoughts. Then.....let the focus proceed beyond the punctuation, the manner of the speech.....let your focus be steeped in Me. I call you to My Side. To come follow Me. I give you Baptism to purify your hearts. See? The words used form the intent as part of the outward sign, as is the water.....Ah!

But the lasting, everlasting quality is imprinted because I have seen the intention of hearts gathered before Me. See? My Kingdom resides in hearts! And so, do not subject Me to your way, but cut your tethers to this world and become part of MY Way. See? You have learned that prayer is the lifting of heart, mind, soul, to Me.....So....let it be!

When I call you closer to Me, you shall see less need for words, My lambs. Everything serves its purpose along the way, but I do allow moments in Me of word-less contemplation! I DO allow moments in Me of Charismatic Praise! I enjoy it and I receive it as an air of fresh springtime! See? I am the Word. You are not. God is your God..... words are not. Being in Me means a willingness to relinquish your human form for the Perfection achieved in My Divinity.....for this is where I call you to.....in Me.....For you to be Here within My Own Self where I remain God, and you remain not, but where we are one.

And so, accept the Gifts I give to you. Allow Me.....or better still......allow YOURSELVES to snip the bonds from this earthly plain for a moment of heaven in Me.

So.....what is prayer? Will you proceed along this Road to Perfection in Me? Will you truly let Freedom in Me enter your soul? Do not let our moments escape you. Do not corral them as a horse in the pasture. For a moment, be willing to enter into Me. For I have awaited your moment of willingness. Be whole in Me. Be one in Me. Be all I have made you to be. One in Me. Come, follow Me. Amen. +

(Col. 2:6-15; Ps. 145:1-2, 8-11; Lk. 6:12-19) ______________________________________________________________________________ Learned knowledge, formally or through experience, includes psychic or spiritual instruction. These impressions on your soul, spirit, mind, and/or body cells, result from an action directive part of the soul and spirit. It uses that energy (or grace) we previously mentioned. That power, or energy flows up the neurons to the cerebral cortex.

A neuron is a special nerve cell, as we are nerve cells in the Creation of God and the Mystical Body of Christ. Combined nerve cells make up the central nervous system. Individually and collectively, we join that system in the Church. The totals comprise our world, our perception of the world, and the brain-world mind, circumstance, experience, or situation.

The function of a combination of such neurons, united with many persons create part of the power of prayer, which is augmented by God's power, through the Spirit already within us, and within creation, creating a magnificent amplifier is correctly directed and focused on a particular thing, situation, occurrence, or desire.

Neurons (us) may both receive and send out electrical signals to neighboring neurons. Again, this is done through a medium such as spirit, plasms, atmosphere, gas, and ferramones. These send such signals to others as one axon conveys electrical signals to other neurons(others). Many hair- like structures called dendrites (stimulus, cause(s), persons, situations, circumstances, things) receive incoming signals.

That power or energy enters the brain, where thought, or activity of the thinking body (soul, mind, spirit), gains the propensity (potential in physics theory) to cause or create action. (Again, this ripple effect is from the stimulus response, cause and effect system).

It proves a function of the mustard seed-faith power traditions. As Jesus said, As you think, so shall you be. For example, during lustful looking, He said, You have already done it. Through knowledge, we form attitudes (a complex mental organization involving, feelings, beliefs, and values, and a propensity to act in a certain way, with relation to that grouping); behavior(manner of behaving or conducting oneself); and thinking(use or exercise of the mind to arrive at a solution). In contrast, opinion remains a personal belief that is not founded on proof or certainty. Our memory expresses the analytic process by which we remember the past, the ability to recall experience.

You can receive signals from lower vibrations. These travel slowly: sin, temptations, things of the world upon which should not spend time. They enter you through experience, causing confusion, disturbing your peace, canceling your ease (that's dis-ease, or disease as the world knows it). This is one reason why God says have no strange Gods before him (money, power, sex). You waste His spirit, His power.

Jesus says, The men and women who have been seduced by the material goods have been gradually withdrawing from me. God says to Focus on Him, and Seek first the kingdom of God, all else needed will be added to you. This searching preoccupation gains the higher vibrations--grace. Our Blessed Mother says of grace, a subject she knows well, My dear little children, praise be Jesus! Little children, I am the Mother of God. I am full of grace. Ponder My words, My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord for He has looked with favor on His lowly servant. The divine favor is His grace. God desires to fill you, little children, with His grace. Without the grace of My Son your works would be fruitless.

Grace strengthens your faith, which is your salvation. Deliverance does not stem from your own works but through the immeasurable riches of His grace. Grace gives joy. It is also the main source of your courage. You are who you are through the grace of God. My son is faithful in bestowing His grace. He is merciful and gracious. He is abounding in steadfast love. Allow His grace to fill your soul as water fills an ocean.

In His merciful kindness, tremendous virtues will blossom and flourish through His grace. Be attentive little children. Receive His grace. Do not allow His grace to fall on deaf ears through a lack of cooperation. Nourish His grace so it will produce fruits. Responding to His grace will lead you to repentance.

You can attract the positive or negative, neural highway or circuitry. In the former, God's spirit will be talking with God. His light is in you. You direct that light or power to Him (or elsewhere) by your, actions, intention, or desire. Centered on Him, this links with His Spirit in all things. Alternatively, it connects with the pure circumstance He initially created, (even though life filters it through innumerable causes and effects).

Still, that focus induces the potential, actual power, or circumstance you wish to occur-- through God's Will. Your desire effects, or helps cause or stimulates your goal, as changed or controlled by God. As the Holy Mass prayer goes, Through Him, With Him, In Him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit.

PRAYING FROM THE HEART

God created human POWER AMPLIFIERS for this task the 100 billion cells in the brain. Some of these building blocks of thought, emotion, motor control(action), and the senses ( called, sense experience), we wish to maintain or strengthen. We must decrease others to avoid sin, or the occasion of sin.

Said Jesus, "My children fail to recognize or call their in, sins. Your sins are numerous before God. Ask Me for the grace to know your sins of darkness in your life, and for the grace that you will not desire to repeat those same sins. Then, have a true contrition for them. Ask and you will receive.

Mary says, Walk away from sin. Please children, many of you are in danger of losing Heaven forever. There is no greater suffering than the loss of God. Prepare yourselves for eternal happiness. Follow my Son's light. Banish all darkness from your souls. Keep the laws of God. You cannot love God without keeping His commandments. I pray for you to come to the light. As my Son went to the water for His Baptism, I ask you to return to the light of your Baptism. According to Jesus, by Baptism, every soul can reach the grace of experiencing God is their lives.

This decrease keeps the rust off. St. John the Baptist said, we must decrease and He must increase in our focus and our lives. It is why we should nightly examine our conscience, with and through our senses, confess to God or His representative our sorrow, or gladness for things we have seen, heard, or done.

Our efforts must reflect that Jesus said, I am the WAY (action), the Truth (being, thought), and the LIGHT (highest vibration, PERFECTION) or LIFE. (Remember, encrusted souls don't vibrate well).

Jesus says, Lukewarm souls pierce My heart through and through. These souls are withering. They are dying. Guard against the temptations of laziness, of worldliness. Still, My heart is rich in mercy and compassion. Be like a little child. Come to Me like one little who is sorry for hurting his parents.

Mary comments on HIS truth, For the many who have gone astray, please turn from your sinful ways and return to God. Do not be deceived by the lures of this world's kingdom. The kingdom of God and the kingdom of this world do not mix. Little ones, and as your Mother I call you to God. I desire all good things for you, to be happy and free spirited in the love of Jesus.

Pray little ones, pray, so you will be know the truth of God's way and follow Him. You need to be strong in your faith and spiritual exercises to prepare for the second coming of My Son and in order to persevere. Your relationship with God needs to be solid. Prepare the way for my Son. Prepare and make ready your hearts by opening your them.

Preparation is a time to get ready. Throughout your life, you are getting ready for work, for appointments, for leisure, for rest. Are you prepared and ready to meet and greet Him, the King? If your heart is closed, My Son remains on the outside, knocking. Be clean. Open your heart. He will come in an hour you do not know. Live a life of holiness. Walk in complete faith and trust. My Son is waiting to give you gifts."

You will weaken and become confused and frightened if you are indifferent to His calling. You cannot have a casual attitude in your spiritual development. Instead, prepare as an athlete does for an event. Or you will not have the stamina of endurance. You cannot become lax in your faith. Practice it and live as if today were your last. It takes time to grow in perfection. Utilize your time wisely. Draw close to Jesus, little children. Gather together and seek the intimacy of His love.

Jesus said, When you loose something and search, often you found what you were seeking. "My children look everywhere for Me. They look for a king, of this world. They look but they do not find Me. Look beyond your senses, not with your intellect. Look in the depths of your heart. See Me and walk with Me in the depths of your heart."

Jesus says, No one comes to the Father, but by Me. He stresses no one can truly come to Him but through His Blessed Mother, Mary. And Nothing unholy enters paradise.

As one minister said, God will not reside in a filthy temple. We are that temple. So the imperfection--encrustation-- must be burned. By example, for steel, to be made, He must smelt and process the impurities in iron. Through the intensity of suffering, this purgation, that is, purgatory is here, for us ( or God forbid, elsewhere, later).

Jesus proclaims, I know you [only] have miseries and weakness. But I am Purifying Fire. And I will set you ablaze in the fires of My Heart. Remain in My Love, completely surrendering to My will. Happy, the ones who listen to my voice. And as Mary says, There is no one who does not have some weakness which needs to be purged in order to prevent him from falling into sin. You are human, and weaknesses of the flesh from original sin exists.

However you can consciously and willingly cooperate with the grace of God to suppress the appetites of the flesh, So that you can attain a closer union with God. God knows there are necessities and pleasures necessary for you. He does not deny you these pleasures. He wants you to realize that He desires to share your thoughts, strengthen your character and personality. There are various passions which can be purified by an interior mortification, which through humility, will unite you to Jesus.

�These sufferings glorify you in His name and lead you to freedom and happiness. You will rise to a new level of dignity. This mortification is not meant to cause frustration or self-deprivation. It is a joyful union with God so that your words, thoughts and actions are those which Jesus can share. It corresponds to some attachment you may have, such as admiration, material pleasures, achievements, praises, or pointed attention to yourself. �

�Jesus does not desire you to take on a suffering which is not intended to purify your soul or which causes fear. Jesus is merciful and loving. His kingdom is designed so that you can share in His glory. He desires you to be consumed with His love and for you not to be afraid. A proper attitude is necessary for you to share in His cross.�

�You cannot deny yourself unless you love God with all of your heart, your whole soul, your mind and your whole strength. Jesus is not looking for you to love suffering but to love the one who suffered. With that proper attitude, interior mortification can be mastered with joy, for you will be doing it to live in perfect union with Him.�

�You will not need to rationalize your suffering because Jesus' suffering for you would suffice. With joy I encourage you to hope in Jesus. Do not blame Him for your short comings, failures or problems. Instead love Him, for He desires you to be happy. Every soul must be purified before it can see God. Whether it is done in this life or in the next depends on your cooperation. Peace to you.�

Jesus gives the example of leading a soul to heaven:

If a coachman whips his horse on an incline and with shouts spur his beast in order to reach the summit, it is to be expected that the faithful animal, amidst the fatigue, will not go backwards because the voice and the whippings of the owner pushes him up the hill and will take the coach and the coachman up the fatiguing path. But if the horse shows itself incapable to go forth, the intelligent guide will not force his beast too much and will try to lighten the fatigue, taking an oblique path up the slope. It will lengthen the way a bit but finally they will arrive to the top.

�To give oneself to Me is a sincere joy for the heart. I will not abandon you. You will be conducted by Me with total confidence because not only do I know what I am doing, but also that what I do is dictated by My Heart of a pure lover of mankind, to whom I wish to give enormous treasures, as long as they do not scorn Me, as long as they do not forget Me.�

�Souls that belongs to Me, hold the torch that I give you so that you can light up the way for your brothers and sisters. This light must not be put under a bushel. I want it on high, to light the house. You are to light the food that I have brought in for My beloved ones. Light the faces of those who look at Me and you will have accomplished your work. Away with those that turn away to look at darkness. I guide you and seek that you imitate Me. Do the same and it will please Me. Thank you for consoling Me.�

Jesus says, �I have a field that we must cultivate. I must collect its fruits. Souls have to be shaken. I have chosen you for this. But do not fear. I will not leave you orphaned�. More about this purpose in all our lives later.

No one or communication, word or prayer reaches home-Heaven AS EASILY, but through Jesus or His power. Now God answers all prayers in humility and faith. Still, Mary says that prayers mumbled or said quickly, without feeling, might not be considered by Heaven. Our note/analysis- the vibration may be too low, since they cannot recite such prayers with the requisite faith, thought, feeling, abandonment to God��s will, emotions or power. Like a weak television or radio signal, it can��t be �tuned in� well enough for effect.).

Still, God answers all true and humble prayers-- just not as one might expect. For God Almighty sees conditions now, AND the response to those conditions later. However, Mary says God answers true prayer, with faith from the heart, before you even stop praying. Though, YOU may not immediately recognize the efficacy of that answer.

Mary dictates we must continually, �Pray, pray, pray! There are so many people in need of your prayers. There are devastating diseases throughout the world and many people suffer. When a person is ill, it is difficult to pray. There are many people who have difficulty praying when they are well, but when a person is not well it is far more difficult. Your prayers can help a suffering victim receive tranquility and deep joy. �

�I know you would like diseases to be eradicated and for medical technology to develop cures. I am here to tell you that until prayer is placed at the center of the lives of science researchers, and genuine love the fruit of their motives, as well as the motives of the medical industries, many cures will remain puzzling and researchers will continue to walk in circles.�

�Self- righteousness, fame, power, and prestige are current obstacles to medical advancements. The stone which the builders rejected is the cornerstone. Jesus must be the foundation for any lasting effects of life to be sustained and bear good fruit. I ask you to pray for your countrymen who suffer.�

�Pray for all those involved with medical research and all people who have manipulated health care costs in the medical empire which has resulted in the suffering of innocent people. Pray also for the people in other countries and continents, for this medical problem exists world wide.�

So we are to unite ourselves with others, just as our cells unite through connections with physical (material) and psychic neurons (analogous to stellate neurons), which send messages to other cells. We send messages to other people and entities, like our Guardian Angel, or patron saint, The vibrations of they who are in heaven prove exceedingly higher than our own. They, in turn, intercede for us with God. Most importantly, they pray in His Will, as we should, communing thus more intensely and effectively."Thy Will be done".

SUFFERING SUFFERING (emotional and physical) is such intense communication. (Glomerular neurons which lack axons, for example, convey signals as small voltage changes in their membranes), Los Angeles Times, page F. B2 Feb. 25, 1999). Physical patterns of cells, neurons, synapses support the nature of thought and mental processes.

To be effective in prayer, we should unite that emotion with the passion and suffering of Jesus. Or you can unite your suffering to Mary, who spiritually agonized with Jesus on the cross. According to Jesus, � Remember that in one way or another you are going to suffer. Always united to My sufferings, to save so many souls which would be lost if there would not be generous souls, ready to expiate for them. Afterward they themselves will expiate for others, uniting themselves to the Communion of Saints. This is true divine charity; redeem, expiate in silence, ignoring why, for whom you suffer; moving solely in the circle of Divine Love without hesitation, confiding in the Divine Justice and in My Heart, fountain of strength.�

�The meaning of the image of the Lord of the Divine Mercy among green and purple lights. His face was transparent. Jesus said , �Do not fear. I want you to see Me, this way, because those are the two colors of hope and of suffering. The double light guided My footsteps on earth. I suffered without interruptions for the salvation of humanity, but that suffering was illuminated and tied to that other light of hope in My Father and the confidence that My sufferings would have infinite fruit.�

Mary says, �Little ones, the clouds of darkness are thickening and closing in around the world. If you are not solid in your commitment to follow the order of God at all costs, even if it be at risk of losing a beloved one, you will not be able to discern the confusion and chaos which lies around the corner. Your eyes must be lowered and head bowed in reverence to the Almighty.�

�Your first love must be God, and it is necessary for you to follow His way of truth. You may be sinners, but you are all called to sainthood, and it is your duty to strive to be loving and humble. If you do not temper your human inclinations and thoughts with love for neighbor, you only fight evil with evil and fall into the trap of the evil one's malice and slander.� (Note: Evil tries to engage you in conversation, do not do it. It tries to debilitate, immobilize you, where through fear, or anxiety, or worry, or doubt, you are unable to pray, to think of God, to focus on Him, so you cannot use God��s grace. It is blocked).

�You will be held accountable for any deliberate actions against your neighbor which defy the law of love. There are many people who are suffering in this world, and it is necessary that you be a catalyst for peace, not a catalyst for more suffering. You have been blessed by God to receive words from Heaven, and in His light you should be making every effort to change your deep- seated ways to be like Jesus.�

�You cannot compromise God's plan at any time, at your pleasing, or you will falter. What is God's plan? His plan is a way of love. You must genuinely love unconditionally your neighbors and those with whom you interact. You cannot be enlightened by the Holy Spirit unless you respond to the Holy Spirit's inspirations by making every effort to be like Jesus.�

�Inclinations of the flesh and human nature will attempt to fight the inspirations of the Spirit. You can control and temper all the sentiments of your flesh through silence, love, prayer and fasting. Use prudence in your counsel to others, because if it does not reflect genuine unconditional love for your neighbor, your directives can become the source of their sin. For peace to exist, harmony and unity are essential.�

�If the small scaled situations you are met with today can distract you and disrupt your peace, then what will happen when you are met with direct attacks from My adversary in times to come? Little children, you must silence scandals and gossiping infecting your communities now or you will not be able to be a genuine disciple of love.

�I pray you will rise above these present conditions in your world and allow Jesus to draw you to Himself, to imitate Him and conform to His way of truth. I love you, little ones, in My Motherly Heart and I pray you will all follow the saving power of the Gospel of Jesus.�

�But the time is coming, little ones, when Jesus will create a new heaven on earth. Pain and suffering will cease, and His people will live not only a mere few years but rejoice in the fullness of life. Yes, your merciful Lord is coming and shall renew the face of the earth. You, beloved children, will leap with joy. Your hardships will be forgotten and you will no longer grieve or go hungry. The Lord will be your delight.The time is approaching when the world will be renewed.�

�First, however, this world will be purged of its crimes against God. Jesus has waited to respond to those in need, but few have asked for His assistance. Many people have chosen to walk evil ways and follow their own thoughts instead of following the path of God's truth. Many have forsaken Him and have displeased Him. They are making their own destiny. But Jesus, your merciful God, will save and protect all those who desire to be with Him.�

�He will grant the necessities of life to sustain you. Do not fear, you who are devoted to Him and glorify Him. Jesus will defend you. Be at peace and know He is your merciful Savior. He will not forget you. He will save you from darkness.�

Mary continued, �Little children, dive into My Son's most merciful heart by pondering His love for you. You seem very active in proving your love for My Son, yet you have not been able to rest sufficiently in the abode of His heart. Stillness of the heart is necessary in order for Him to fill your emptiness and for you to grasp the meaning of His love. The intensity of His love for you goes beyond the breadth and depth of your conception of love.�

�He has given you the great gift of life and desires you to enjoy it to its fullest. However, He also desires you to realize that this life, as you know it to be, is not limited to this world. It only begins in this world. It is brought to its glorified completion with Jesus when you see Him face to face. Jesus loves you, little children, as you are. He desires you to contemplate His love for you.�

�He desires you to live His love, not by acting out His physical sacrifices, but by living His interior sacrifices of love. He desires you to be free in His love and to have peace of heart. Jesus desires you to know that the Divine law of love can prevail even in the midst of suffering, illness or misfortune which comes with the natural law. Please allow Him to penetrate your being.� �This is the meaning of Easter little children. It is not only the death and resurrection of My Son but the breadth and depth of His love which He embraced for each one of you in order that you could be free and live with Him for all eternity; free from the chains of pain, misfortune, poverty, illness and the sin of death; free, happy and unequivocally His for ever and ever.� �Try, little ones, to contemplate the depth and breadth of My Son's love for you, right now in this moment of your life. Take the time to rest in His love. Try to ponder His interior sacrificial love for you.I love you, little children, and present your needs to Jesus.�

So Jesus or Mary gives and increases POWER (the ability to do work) through that emotion or suffering. They do similarly with prayer. Indeed, an ancient devotion, the �Anima Christi� says: Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O Good Jesus, hear me. Within thy wounds, hide me. Suffer me not to be separated from thee. In God, �suffer� here means-- do not allow. Jesus says,�My power is revealed in powerlessness�.

Wounds in a human being reflect the tearing of tissue, or �any break in the skin or organ�. However, God is light. As the Nicene Creed prays, �God from God. Light from Light. True God from True God�. In Jesus�� humanity, any break in the skin or organ of Christ reveals blood(see below), water, (traditionally used for washing or blessing), and another phenomenon.

God places the ability to repair such breaks within each human. But in Christ Jesus, appears something more-- His presence (even now) of love outpours. The thorns, nails and lance piercing Jesus exposed LIGHT. It is in His light we are sheltered, hid from the harming darkness of evil. Like bright automobile headlights coming toward us in pitch, black night, we can see nothing but the brilliance. Or looking at the sun [which you shouldn��t do, except in Holy places], nothing can withstand its direct effulgence.

Jesus said, �Childrens�� happiest moment is that moment, which can be spent with their little friends, conversing, playing and having fun with them. The same is true for Me. I wear out. I grow consumed and languish with love for you because My delight is to be with My children. I am the Love, Who always desires to give of Itself . I have chosen you, My dove. You return My love. I have asked for your consent because I respect the gifts I grant to My creatures.�

�You have answered "Yes", and have placed yourself at My disposal. The "Yes" was also asked of My Mother. It will be a weave of joys and sorrows. I have power over all. Your love is sincere and that gives Me joy. It pleases Me so much! ... No desire in the world, regardless of how intense or vehement, can make Me as happy as this thirst for souls does. Every religious soul... should thirst for souls.

�Do you not think that the world would change if I found spirits who thirst for souls among My priests and religious? Who will ever be able to measure My love for the world? My Heart does not find rest. I want to remind mankind of My pact of brotherhood and love. I am Joseph, your brother, the One you sold to foreigners. My clothing is red with the Blood I shed for all of you, but come to Me, be not afraid!�

�It is all forgotten. I hold no grudge. Only love conquers. As long as you come back to Me, I desire nothing else. I need to have all of you with Me. I will make you governors and princes in My Kingdom. I will open all of Pharaoh's granaries, and there will no longer be hunger on the earth, but just remember to come back to My Heart. It is enough that a soul devote itself to ponder profoundly on My love, for Me to come forward to it with My chrisms. I desire nothing else than to reveal My Love to the world.

�I have manifested Myself in this nation in order to make to them an urgent call to conversion. I want to rescue and bring My little sheep together. My feet bleed from walking so long among thorny paths, through ditches and abysses. My hands are torn from breaking fences of perdition, the atrium doors behind which, My sheep are locked.�

�Some recognize Me and come to My arms, and I kiss them with Love and Mercy. Others avoid My gaze and deny knowing Me. They reject My pardoning embrace. Others, those who cause Me the most sorrow, have replaced Me with money, pleasure, and they have sold their soul to the worst and most perverse of buyers, Satan, the merchant of the dark.�

�Little children, seed for the new crop, come to My granary. Remain here. Very soon, My Father will send His Angels to rake the earth, which is the Lord's field. Next, He Himself will blow, and this wind will eliminate each bad seed and gravel. The good seed will be separated from the bad, and My Divine Will is that you be the good seed.�

� Allow that I, your Lord and Master, pick and select you with My Own hands. Let Me search and find you with My merciful gaze. You do not understand that many times the best seed is found hidden among the bramble and the thorns. The good sower knows how to recognize it. He sees that this seed did not die despite having been hurt and separated from the others. He, who wants to understand, let him understand, and he who wants to remain a fool, let him continue being one.�

�I am the Lamp of Eternal Light. My voice is the flame that will save you. Teach and show it to your brothers and sisters. Hide it not, but surrender it neither. You will be responsible for it. Deprive not your brothers and sisters of this flame. Spread it and you will save many souls. You will avert their fall into the abyss. To My children who have the grace of knowing My Word, I grant the grace of helping Me in the work of redemption.�

So Jesus says we are responsible for saving our brother and sisters. We must tell them His loving heart is a refuge of pardon, peace and love. We have to give an accounting. Each lent Jesus suffers and feels more alone, tired, and in constant agony.

Mary says, �My dear little children, praise be Jesus! Our Lord desires to fill you with peace and joy, little ones. He has great plans for those who persevere and remain faithful to His words of truth. All those who are weary and sick can rest in Him and be comforted and healed. He is the Almighty God is among you. He is the Emmanuel.�

�Look to Him to fill all your needs, to fill your emptiness with joy and to heal your suffering hearts. He is the Godhead who suffered for you. He bore the suffering of the flesh so that you would be comforted. He shed tears for you and endured bitter scoffing, abandonment and terrible agony for you.

He labored and died poor for your salvation. Do you understand the meaning of these words? Do you understand the meaning of salvation?�

�If you ponder the reality of His walk of life, and how He was despised for speaking the truth, and the consequences He endured for love of you, then perhaps you can look with tremendous joy to the celebration of His birth. I love you, little children, and I desire for you to have the joy I have in Jesus. He is your Counselor, your Healer, your Comfort. He is Eternal life. I bless you with His peace and pray you will remain faithful to His Truth.�

Jesus says we waste the treasures of His Heart with our reproach, pride, haughtiness, and arrogance. Nevertheless, He wants to exchange graces for that upon which we are fastening our hearts--running after idols created by our own interests. We deceive our hearts with doubts and selfishness. Jesus said be ready for great combat.

�Hurry, for the clock is about the strike the hour. My holy angels are watching over your work. They will bring in their hands, baskets filled with love and peace. These blessings I will send to My laborers, and My angels will carry back baskets filled with works of mercy, prayers and praises to the most Holy Trinity�, Jesus says.

As Mary says, �Immerse yourself into the most compassionate heart of your Savior Jesus who desires you to partake in His most Divine life. The most important virtue to participating in His life is love. Each Lenten day immersed in His precious life must consist of love. The meaning of Lent is love and joy. It is the fulfillment of the Scripture. The Lenten season should not be viewed as a time of hardship but as a time of joy to share in the love of Jesus.�

�This is why I say to you that [ during lent] another Lenten season has just begun. Each day is another opportunity for you to unite yourself to the heart of Jesus' mercy, suffering and love. He is your redeemer and your sins have been vindicated. I love you little ones and rejoice with you and for you in your risen Savior. Be strong and come embrace His merciful love.�

�Look beyond your hardships and needs and experience the love Jesus has for you, a love to die for. I take your petitions to My Son.

One purpose of Jesus�� passion was this exposure of light into the world. This is done to chase away the enveloping darkness of sin and evil, to re-consecrate and re-sanctify the earth. Yet sin re-crucifies Jesus every day. So the passion recurs throughout the world, through the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and the Eucharistic consecration in the Liturgy. �This is how I AM in your midst, living and real with perpetual sacrifice of the cross, and the glory of the Resurrection in each Eucharist�.

After looking across what we call time, Jesus established the Mass. He knows world evil would increase until the tribulation, and the ultimate victory. The Mass, sacraments, and prayers counteract these effects of evil. We should attend daily, to take part, and continue to, �focus on Jesus, and stay close.

For as Mary points out, �Little ones, in the mass Jesus offers Himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. As He offers Himself, you too should offer yourself with Jesus. My Son's entire life was one act of interior and exterior sacrifice. His interior love and obedience for God the Father was portrayed by His exterior sacrifice on the cross.�

�All of His suffering was consumed for your sins. You can make Jesus' sacrifice your own in the mass. Your interior sacrifice can be expressed by an exterior sacrifice. An external sacrifice of obedience, submission to God's will, love and praise during the mass. Jesus' exterior sacrifice was an expression of His interior sacrifice.�

�It was His obedience, His submission to the Father's will, His love and His adoration which satisfied the Father in reparation for the sins of the world. Your exterior sacrifice must also be an act of love and correspond to your interior state through obedience, adoration, submission to God's will and perfect praise to the Father.�

� Jesus gives Himself to you in the mass. He invites you to live as He lived and to join Him in His act of love. I bless you in His name and take your petitions to the Father, through Jesus. Little children, dive into My Son's most merciful heart by pondering His love for you. You seem very active in proving your love for My Son, yet you have not been able to rest sufficiently in the abode of His heart.�

�Stillness of the heart is necessary in order for Him to fill your emptiness and for you to grasp the meaning of His love. The intensity of His love for you goes beyond the breadth and depth of your conception of love. He has given you the great gift of life and desires you to enjoy it to its fullest. However, He also desires you to realize that this life, as you know it to be, is not limited to this world. It only begins in this world.� �It is brought to its glorified completion with Jesus when you see Him face to face. Jesus loves you, little children, as you are. He desires you to contemplate His love for you. He desires you to live His love, not by acting out His physical sacrifices, but by living His interior sacrifices of love. He desires you to be free in His love and to have peace of heart.� �Jesus desires you to know that the Divine law of love can prevail even in the midst of suffering, illness or misfortune which comes with the natural law. Please allow Him to penetrate your being. This is the meaning of Easter little children. It is not only the death and resurrection of My Son but the breadth and depth of His love which He embraced for each one of you in order that you could be free and live with Him for all eternity; free from the chains of pain, misfortune, poverty, illness and the sin of death; free, happy and unequivocally His for ever and ever. �Try, little ones, to contemplate the depth and breadth of My Son's love for you, right now in this moment of your life. Take the time to rest in His love. Try to ponder His interior sacrificial love for you. I love you, little children, and present your needs to Jesus.� For where Jesus is, there, too, is the Father and the Spirit. �I and the Father are one�. Through the exposure of His light, we are, �hidden� in and with it. (This is because of the promise, � Ask and you will receive. As you ask, believe that you have it�). Thus, we are repaired in the light of Christ. It is God��s laser surgery cutting away sin, if we let it. As Mary pointed out, �Little ones, this is a time when so many people are suffering. There are many confused, hurt, and demanding people looking for attention, comfort and respect. There are so many people who desire to receive love but who do not desire to give love in return. This is a time period during the liturgical season when the virtues of joy and hope should be the driving force for you to focus on Jesus, and in anticipation, await His coming.� �Instead, because of a fragmented world, this is a period of time when stress, despair, hopelessness and depression afflict so many people. The poor feel poorer. The rich feel richer. And the middle class struggles to survive and maintain their dignity. Why? Because there has been so much emphasis on money, success, wealth and power that many people have forgotten the true essence and value of Christmas.� �The spirit of Christmas is LOVE. And the spirit of giving is priceless when it stems from love. Jesus is love and He is giving Himself to you as a gift. To give a gift of love is to give without seeking anything in return. This means that you give all of your love without any expectations. Your giving may be met with ungratefulness, anger, uncharitable actions, lack of appreciation, unkind words or even indifference in response to your effort to love. But do not despair.� �Was not Jesus met with the same opposition? Love all people as Jesus, little children. He will fill you with His presence and give you the strength to continue on in your journey. You will feel His love and desire nothing else, nothing less. You can help heal this fragmented world, little children, through Jesus.� Mary said of discouragement and despair, � Do not be discouraged with defeats in your life but trust in Jesus and remain steadfast in your faith. I am here to bring you closer to Jesus and He will bring you to the Father. Do not become disheartened when people scorn you. This is part of the spiritual path to holiness and many times unavoidable.� �The more you become like Jesus the more the world will scorn you, humiliate you and persecute you. Do not fear; I am your Mother of Mercy and I will protect you. All who seek refuge in My Immaculate Heart will be safe and filled with a deep inner joy. Here at this valley of My beloved St. Joseph is the center which My Immaculate Heart invites all children to seek refuge.� �Look to Jesus, little ones, for strength in your sufferings and rejoice in Him that He has chosen you as one of His blessed. Trust in Jesus with all your heart and respond to Him if He calls you to do His works of mercy. He will not lead you astray. He will lead you to holiness. It is necessary for all to respond to His call if evil is to be combated. You cannot be afraid. A lack of response is a lack of trust. � �It is necessary to be disciplined and obedient to His call. You must make an effort if Jesus is to draw you closer to Him. So by His wounds and in His light, our selves, personality-- ego, consciousness, even super consciousness, and id are hidden, protected, LIGHTED, given sanctuary, re- sanctification in the earth��s cause and effect process established by God, in and by His Holy Spirit. Mary says in the case of coming evil attacks, � in these days where evil forces are trying to cause confusion and division, it is My desire to help you. I come to you to proclaim the truth of Jesus your Savior. Your focus and attention needs to be fully on God. You need to pray daily and be aware of His merciful love in all you do. God must be at the center of your life, in all your activities, in your plans, in your thought process and in your heart. � �Beware the evil subtleties currently in your midst. Your future is being molded to surround a monetary system. Be alert to a cash less society developing around the world and the forces of power which will manipulate and ultimately restrict your freedom. If you pray you will be able to discern what is of God with a clear mind.� �If you do not return to God now and allow Him to open the vessels of your heart clogged by deceit and self-righteousness you will not be able to avoid the traps of evil. Do not wait until God's warning strikes the souls of every person in this world, for it will be very difficult to respond and change. Please respond now to God's call. There will not be much time after God's warning for the fire of purification to befall you. � �Some events are inevitable. Pray with all your hearts that you will be able to persevere in your faith and not turn from God. Receive the sacraments while they are available. Pray. Pray. Pray, little children and ponder God's mercy.� God wills, wants us to be free from evil, according to Mary. So to be hidden in His wounds, we would also be repaired and hidden from the breaks or tears of sin. The function of His light does this ,which is His Word [Jesus, AND the Gospel], His way [example], which would be and lead to the Sacrament of Reconciliation, penance [conciliate, means repaired. Reconciliation, repaired again, rejuvenated, made right, invigorated--given new life]. It is why God asks us for reparation).� I want you to surrender not knowing that you are doing it! My Father, Who sees in the silence, will know how to reward you.� However, to be fully protected and hidden, it is necessary to give Jesus all your heart. Mary says it is the only way. You cannot give just a part. That which is neither protected by Mary��s mantle, nor Jesus�� wounds, is exposed, and thus can be attacked(see below). She says that in order to be filled with love, we must belong totally to Him. This is to allow Him to fill you with His goodness, freedom, peace and LIGHT. For According to The Blessed Virgin, �No man can boast of the good in him, nor the power of his mind. Because being creatures of God, it is to Him they owe what they have, and therefore, only to Him should be directed as the Supreme and only end.� So there exist two tracks of human existence, called �life�, being under the LIGHT, law of God, or the dark and heavy law of the world. We must choose, eventually. Thus, a �passion� can strengthen. Such suffering is extreme, and intense agony. This agony (Jesus�� and yours��) is impressed upon the ether of the earth and universe, creating a sort of spirit. You can feel this on special days, or in special situations. At Easter, Christmas, graduations-- a special feeling, �air� or something lingers about the �day�. So, too, there can exist a special depression in times of intense evil, lynching, or rioting in the US South, war in South Africa in the 50's and 60's. In all our sufferings, we must pray for patience. Jesus has said of suffering, �I want to speak about patience. I want you to work hard to bear your sufferings with patience. Tolerate offences against you for love of Me, for the love of your brethren and for the love towards yourself because all the good or bad you do is done for you or against yourself.� Per Jesus, �You are blessed. Do not expect rewards on earth. Blessed are those who do not look for consolation from man! Remember that saints do good and suffer evil. It is better to suffer and bear an offence with patience than to fast and mortify. What merit is there in fasting and later ask justice for an offence whether it be true or false?� �Have pity for those who hurt you. Have compassion for their sins. If they treat you well, offer it to Me. If they treat you badly, pray for them and try to help them. If someone tries to compete with you, lose if you want to win. To lose in this life, is the way to salvation. If you know someone has spoken ill of you, bear it with patience and help them by speaking good of them. If someone offends you, bear it with patience for My Love and for the forgiveness of your sins. Do not offend anybody else, but bear it patiently without complaint.� Similarly, according to Mary, � Please forgive one another. When you fail to forgive, you fail in love. Your sins are many. Please children, you must stop offending God who is grievously offended. When you remain in serious sin, you risk losing your soul. You allow Satan to guide you. Walk away from the darkness of sin. Come to the light of truth.� �Satan is deceiving you and you do not recognize him. Darkness is over America. And more darkness will come unless you return to my Son. Satan has infiltrated every aspect of your life. Recognize him and free yourself of him. Do not allow Satan to discourage you. Children, please heed and listen to these words with your heart. Follow my Son, His way is life. This message is for everyone in every walk of life. The darkness over this land will grow darker. You will have more suffering unless you return to God.� � The cup of salvation overflows upon the United States and over the whole world. Bathe, little children, in the love and mercy of God. Be clean. If you refuse the love and mercy of God and refuse to be clean, then greater sufferings will befall you. Prepare. Deny yourself. Carry your cross and follow in my Son's footsteps. He has set the path before you. Unless you are following in His footsteps, you are not following.� Mary says, � Live for God. Walk the passion in Love. Let me help you each step of the way. � �Those who bear their affliction with patience, always maintain their sins before their own eyes and therefore do not weaken. Know that it is a great virtue to overcome yourself. Look at yourselves and work continuously within you, above you and for you, looking for spiritual consolation. If you overcome all this, you will be able to conquer your enemies. Inasmuch as good can change to evil, also evil can change to something good. This is all in your hands. You have within you as much good as there is evil and you have free will.� �Therefore, do not look for justice or to be compensated when someone has committed an injustice or has offended you. They have sinned and have the right to be purified. As soon as they accept patience, they will suffer less and will be saved. Do not look for compensation or consolation from anyone under Heaven. The enemies of the Spirit try strongly to offend you when you support with patience or keep on struggling against insults with kindness. They are being saved and they wish that you live in their own sorrow. Anything that men do, they do to themselves, so be compassionate with those people.� �If they look at their own sins, they will observe their own misery instead of looking for justice or compensation. I love to teach you, you do not love unconditionally and do not understand the mystery of My Love. They wish to be blessed and saved without going through purification and mortification. You do not want to work but want to be venerated. My Father does not bestow His graces to the proud but to the humble! To be venerated, you will be culpable but you must first have humility which is what destroys evil and is the enemy of sin.� Our Holy Mother says,� Examine your relationship with God and with each other. Amend your life without delay. Please listen. You will suffer much more by living apart from God. At this time meditate upon the passion of my Son, Jesus, and in this way you will receive the strength for the passions of your life. America, awaken from your sleep and stand with my Son, � says Mary.� �Are you listening with your hearts? Look at the way you are living. Look within yourself and examine. Many of you have started on a spiritual journey and many of you have stopped. Believe with your whole heart in my Son. Allow my Son to lead you. My children, pray and offer sacrifices for peace, and the souls of your sisters and brothers. I implore you to walk away from the sins of the flesh. Stop murdering. There are grave consequences if you continue to ignore God and violate His laws. It is a great grace that God has permitted me to come. I love you and I desire each of you to be united to my Son. More disasters are coming." �I warned you about disasters. Again, I warn you about more disasters. Please, pray and sacrifice for peace. I love you my dear little children. I desire to shield you in my Immaculate Heart. Reform your heart and let the love of my Son grow in each of your hearts." �Patience, My children, is the virtue that controls the occasion of evil that may be a cause of sin for yourselves and appeases the offences of others. Pray, bear it, struggle against the vices; make a conscious effort to not look for answers that you would rather hear. Look to Heaven so that I may defend you through My humility. Prayer is the beginning and the fulfilment of goodness.� �My daughter, be grateful. I humble Myself permanently before My Father to teach you the truth. My words may sometimes seem rough to you, but remember that My Life is your way. I am your crown and it only through patience that you walk towards Me��� And as Mary said with respect to words with which we do not agree, �Please heed all of My requests, little ones, not only the ones you desire. It seems that you rejoice when you hear words which are pleasing to your personal wishes, desires and needs. �But when you hear words which challenge you to change, you question the meaning behind them or assume they do not apply to you. All of the messages granted to you from heaven are for one purpose, to bring you back to My Son. I have always pointed the way to My Son and have invited you to return to Him. There are many people who refuse to change and know God's truth. There are many people who insist on changing God's words to support their life style.� �There are even people who feel they will be exempt from the consequences to be afflicted on this world from the lack of love and mercy. No one will be exempt from suffering if they truly desire to be with Jesus, because this is the way of the cross. However, those who persevere in their suffering will be with Him forever. Even if they die in this world, My Son's angels will bring them to rest in the abode of His Sacred Heart. There they will be safe for all eternity.� � The battle with the enemy is never over until your last breath, so do not be presumptuous. The enemy awaits every opportunity to deceive and mislead you. I have spoken to you on numerous occasions about My Son's unconditional love and endless mercy, yet few are interested in applying My words in their lives. You must never cease in challenging yourselves to grow in love and mercy.� Jesus continues, �So my daughter, renew your consecration to our hearts. It is necessary that you remain united, so that evil does not destroy you. Do you think that I have abandoned you? Why do you not learn to find Me in another way? I am in you, you are Mine!� Jesus takes this offered passion and suffering( POWER) for His intentions on earth. Mary gives it to Jesus for His intention. NOW, THEY DON��T NEED IT, but they will never override man��s free will. (Evil takes the same power through fear, worry, doubts anxiety--to intensify its plans. This is why Jesus said fear nothing). Through your FREE WILL OFFERING (see, not just money) you recognize and effect God��s power. Offering it to the Triune God (Supreme Being, Holy Spirit, Jesus) is the essence of worship, adoration, recognizing, and praying in humility. Prayer and the ancillary intentions attune us to the psychic, neuron cortex or highway to God. Group prayer constitutes neural circuits to The Almighty (amplified energy). How can we offer what is not ours? First, as brothers and sisters of Christ, we are heirs of the Father (See below). Jesus has said in certain conditions, what is His, is ours. So we have an expectancy (if we follow His commandments) in the things of Jesus, a dwelling place, what we ask for. Secondly, your offer is like that of a priest, prophet, king, or lawyer in God��s court (or Kingdom). � My Lord, God, I offer you as an exhibit the suffering of Jesus dying on the cross�. It is a prayer for recognition of the passion, and the promises of God, with respect to that salvation. "Please tell My children there is victory and liberation in the Cross. You cannot understand the mystery of suffering until you begin to unite your suffering to Me. "In suffering I will set you free. I will free you from your selfish inclinations. "Do not begrudge the Cross but embrace the Cross in love and in surrender of your will. Then you will begin to understand the victory which I speak about in the Cross. This is the way to true happiness. The way of the Cross is the way of Life Eternal in Me."I asked Peter: Do you love Me? I ask you: Do you love Me? Love Me through the Cross." Nancy saw visions of many saints. Jesus said, "A saint is not a saint without the Cross. Be not children of this world. Be children of God. "Meditate on the Cross. "I did this for you. � We ask God for not only remembrance, but to release the benefits of His covenants He gave the prophets, David, Abraham, and others with respect to the Savior. Advocates before Almighty God, cannot put forward specious arguments. Jesus says, � come to the table of my new covenant (Eucharist) ready to receive me."Please partake of My Body and Blood in the state of grace and in total abandonment of your will to My Will. Separate not your state of grace and your surrender. Come before Me in this way." So our evidence is our belief, an offer of faith--the evidence of things unseen-- and sustenance of things to come. And according to Mary, �Little ones, look to Jesus for hope and enlightenment. He will answer your heartfelt questions. Jesus desires you to be stewards of His love and mercy. It is very important that you pray with all of your hearts and be spiritually bonded to His Most Sacred Heart.� �There is a tremendous amount of evil today. The evil one would like you to be unfaithful. He would like you to lose your graces and be filled with tears, suffering, bitterness and misery. Clouds of evil are thickening and closing in around the church. The actual word of God is publicized as a piece of literature. There is a movement to modernize the church.� �Those seeking religious life are being taught liberal theology in many places. There are many people being taught that the sacraments do not need to be valued and kept holy. This modernization places you in a very dangerous position. There are many financial and liberal groups and even clergy who would like to see My beloved pope voluntarily resign his authority in hopes to gain a false freedom, unity and a modernized world.� �The obstacles preventing this false unity are current moral issues held in high esteem by My beloved pope such as abortion, sexuality and euthanasia. My beloved pope is a very spiritual, compassionate, intelligent and alert leader. Yet there are many people who are attempting to paint his character as a weak leader. Support your pope, My children, who has strived to lead people of all faiths on a pilgrimage towards love, unity and an intimacy with God.� �I assure you, little children, God will not let humanity perish. Jesus is your Redeemer despite your grave offenses. In the midst of this confusion My Immaculate Heart will triumph and Jesus will reign. Just when satan believes he has corrupted the rock of Peter and will be crowned with victory, will God then reveal the truth, gather His people and expose the many myths and fallacies which are deceiving you. �I love you, little children, and ask you to pray for enlightenment and prudence. You can victoriously march through these clouds of evil if you are safely hidden in the Covenant of Our Two Hearts. Bless you, little ones, in the name of Jesus your Redeemer.� Powerful prayers and results have stemmed from such an offer, �Eternal Father, I offer thee the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, of Thy dearly beloved Son, Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins, and the sins of the whole world�. As the ultimate Neural modem, the mass remains a quick, highway or circuit for direct communication. This is why God has said petitions united with His Son��s suffering and offered at Transubstantiation, reach Heaven more quickly and makes the strongest prayer. Additionally effective prayer methods include the Eucharist, the sacraments, and the sacramentals, adoration, humility, and praise. Our Lord God responds to such with GRACE. By praying �thy will be done�, Providence usually takes that energy ( communication, grace, petition), and concentrates it to His Will. As a thought of the Almighty, through that will all creation came into being. He desired it. Your INTENTION is the anticipated outcome that guides your planned action. Hope-the sustenance of unseen things prayed for-- reflects the reason you do something. But the limitation or condition portends that �fasts, prayers, and Eucharists are good for naught if you have no love and charity among you.� Thus, Jesus says His preferred �fast is abstinence from wrath, murmuring, and from offending each other. Without this, your fasting will be in vain, and I will not listen to you. Often your lips are still wet with My Blood from communion, and yet you hurt me, you outrage Me. This is why your fasts and prayers [often] do not work. Pass no judgement on another. Place yourself in the other��s position. For as you judge, that is the measure that will judge you. Leave this function to the Almighty.� Remember, petitioning God as the Supreme/ultimate energy source is like plugging an appliance-our will--into the �grace� power outlet. Jesus says, �Ask and you will receive. Believe that you have it. Many do not receive because they do not ask!� So your DESIRE, how you FEEL or desire, or WANT strongly remains effective. You must EXPECT with desire (the something unsatisfied) which connects with Faith, Hope, and Love. Practicing these virtues comprises the consideration or value we give that God wills to receive FOR HIS PROMISES. (Even though we can never pay for our salvation by The Crucifixion). Still, in our desire to be like Jesus, we can make the reparations requested. In doing so, God would handle all our problems. So pray and petition the Will of God, through �Thy Will be done�. But be sure of why and for that which you pray. Learn your purpose in life. PRAYER AND LIFE Still, most people don��t seek the meaning of this existence. Some wander, stumbling aimlessly in this valley of tears. Few reflect on the �why� they are here. Many don��t think at all. The answer stems from what most universal, Catholic Christians learned early. The purpose of life is to know, love, and serve God on earth. Then we are to be happy with Him in Heaven. Simply and straight forward. Jesus�� mother, Mary, once added in explanation of that truth that, �God calls you to be a spiritual success, in union with Jesus, the Son of God�. So, much of what is done in a materialistic endeavor is not important to the Eternal Father. With respect to the material, the Mother of God has stressed that �some of you are still [focused] in the material world. How many hours do you spend thinking about finances? How many hours do you pray? Do you really believe that if you pray less, and work more, your financial problems would improve much?� She says, �I will never ask you to stop working. I know your afflictions. However, if you pray more often, the moment will arrive when prayer will be the most important part of your work. And in accord, Jesus, �"My children, you have many riches and yet you are very poor. Seek My heavenly gifts, then you are made rich. Reflect on the Beatitudes. Live by these guidelines. You may possess wealth but do not let wealth possess you.� Jesus said do not be deceived and let false riches possess you.� Jesus says, �The prayer which I accept and listen to can be made any time, in any place without conditions of external things, so long as it is truly felt and totally conforms to My wishes. Do not consider if with acts, I respond that My time has not yet come, as I said in Canna. Because I am accustomed to do so to he who asks of Me. But begin each day in your spiritual exercises by offering to Me all your sacrifices of the day. When you do this, you will not be taken by surprise when I call upon you to give the sacrifice to Me. You see, you will then be in the state of preparedness, ready to offer everything to Me that I will ask of you.� "Live each day in the state of preparedness, ready to give all to Me. Live every moment for Me. You do not know the hour, the time when I will call forth for your sacrifice. Love Me as I love you. "This call goes out to all mankind, to walk the way of the cross. The cross is your way to Heaven. The cross is your victory over the evil one.� � When you surrender your daily offerings to Me, you are surrendering your will to Me. My will for each of you [Jesus paused] is total obedience, humility and the greatest of all is to love Jesus says, � as I have loved you." � Being very desirous of what he asks and at the same time offers Me the worship, that is a necessary condition to obtain Paradise. Yes, condition necessary because at listening to them, also I have in mind primarily the future life which will be realized all their desires.� �I do not wish that at each step they search for a grace, because they must appreciate and much more than what they do, the graces that I give them without their asking Me. I do not want them to think that they are alone when I have already manifested to them, open or veiled, that I assist them always in all moments. But I approve that they, hurried by grave necessities, come to present their impotency to remedy them and with this to ask for My help and protection.� �How great it is to attend to those whom one loves! How savory it is to give a creature something that will be of help or comfort, even in reference to giving to a loved one, the pleasure of moving the air that surrounds them with a fan. It is wonderful to help one whom you love. I assure you that I experience greater joy in giving than you in receiving.� �This you must believe and not come to a conclusion, that if I make this known to you that My time has not yet come, be it because I do not want to listen to you. Do you understand now?� �For the rest, may it stay very firm in your mind that I go sleepless for you, infinitely more than what you think and that I miss nothing, absolutely nothing of what you say happens to you. Am I not the Good Shepherd that has known how to give His life for his sheep? And to give His life is immensely more that giving those comforts that you ask of Me, the minimum graces that you need.� � To he who does not understand the significance of these words, that is to say hearing and maybe believing, forgets that I, more than anything, have given My life for you. It can be said to him that he is a child that understand nothing more than his own comfort.� �I am a Father, that feeds small babies and I want one to grow a bit and come to be a son that joyfully goes about My house, to make festivities around Me. For this reason I speak of prayer, of the joy that I experiment at listening to them and of the greater joy that I have at denying them certain things, with the end of weaning them and making them grow beautiful and strong in front of Me.� � He, who is father or mother among you, reconsider and say what difference is there between listening to the lamentation of a baby that avidly seeks his food and the frank pleading of a child that, tired of running through the house comes to say to you: dad, mom, I am hungry. I tell you that to the baby you will give a bit of sweet milk and you will put him to rest. While the child, you will give a good plate, with much more substance than milk and you will be much happier to see this child eat than the baby.� �Children! I delight in giving all that I have. But I do not give without foreseeing the good that I must give you. Say, seek, always desire My wish, because she is just, she is holy, she is full of love and most providential. The more you do My Will, the more you will come to be more loved by Me and in consequence, you will find more acceptance in your prayers. Your will be that you will not stop talking with God, and with your mother�. Mary can help you grow in the Divine Will. But Jesus has said of the material �others who cause me the most sorrow have replaced me with money, pleasure. They have sold their souls to the worst and most perverse of buyers, Satan, the merchant of the dark. Relinquish everything that has been created. God wants to give you great graces. Still, you must renounce many material things as if they don��t exist. Or use them as if their only purpose were that of helping you unite yourselves even more to Me. Once we are united in Love, your lives and everything you need will be under my care, due to My love, to this union. What is Mine is also yours�.

So the �how� of spiritual success remains even more simple. �You shall love God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind, and love your neighbor as yourself�.

Mary says with respect to simplicity of God��s way, �Little ones as you strive to do God's will, I ask you not to focus on yourself but on God's love. When you give, give with simplicity.

Simplicity helps you keep the right attitude of freedom. It is the key to humility and allows you to be submissive to God's will. When you give, give generously. Do not seek to satisfy your own appetite for pleasure.�

�There are many souls in need of mercy and love. Material wealth is limited and brief in this world but interior wealth is everlasting. Being merciful is priceless. It is the foundation of all good works.�

�Simplicity, humility and mercy are good seeds which will yield hundredfold. I desire good fruits to unfold through your works. Give to Jesus what so many others refuse: your faith, your heart, your love.�

�Aspire with all of your hearts to more generosity, more simplicity, more love for Jesus and you will receive abundant graces for the salvation of humankind. He will not refuse you what you ask Him humbly and with faith. But before the throne of God. All people shall have to account for their actions and works of love.�

Undoubtedly, the abundance of graces should make us happy. Mary said of this happiness, �Little ones I love you and as your Mother I desire all good things for you. I desire you to be happy and free spirited in the love of Jesus. Pray little ones so you will be able to know the truth of God's way and follow Him. You need to be strong in your spiritual exercises in order to prepare for the second coming of My Son.� �You need to be strong in your faith in order to persevere. Your relationship with God needs to be solid. You will weaken and become confused and frightened if you are indifferent to His calling. You cannot have a casual attitude in your spiritual development but instead prepare as an athlete prepares for an event or you will not have the stamina of endurance. You cannot become lax in your faith.�

�Practice your faith continuously and live as if today were your last. It takes time to grow in perfection. You are invited to utilize your time wisely. Draw close to Jesus little children. Gather together and seek the intimacy of His love.�

Jesus says,�I want to show you the shortcuts which lead to the degree of love, which the Infinite Goodness has assigned to you, and to help you get there with promptness. Those shortcuts are

1. Abandonment to God. 2. Steady trust and full acceptance without exception to what is the will of God. You will have time, children of Mine, my chosen, if you make a permanent commitment, and persevere in these points. Men complicate, but this means as God writes simply:

Love God (that means, work for, help) Love YOU(that means, work for, help) Love your neighbor, as you do you(work for, help).

You must love you, so that you can love your neighbor. He didn��t say, hate your self. Love yourself. That love is neither worldly, nor sexual. Surprise: Spirits neither have, nor need a gender. It is not the love upon which mortals like to obsess. It includes, but is not limited to, helping God, working for God on this earth.

To serve God, we must know His wants. We have to discern His will to love, or work for Him, or know His wants (which is simply, your love, heart, trust, confidence, and your will). In this plane of existence, our understanding and affecting that will remains the crux of our salvation. To do so means our successful completion and directly going home.

Besides God��s intuition in us( the knowledge which accompanies His spark of light--the stuff that is �written on the heart�), the determination of a thing, circumstance, or condition can be from a human method of thought, called �induction�. Here, one studies facts and derives a rule or principle from them.

�Deduction� proves another method of determination. Through it, one distills the many rules or principles into learning what God wants from us. He gave us keys to a part of His Will: Love God (help, work for, adore, revere, fear, and be humble) with our whole hearts, minds and souls, and as above, love neighbor.

We must cherish God and neighbor more. Because God promised to care for our needs. �Look at the lilies in the fields, Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. The birds do not sow or reap. However, the Father feeds them...do not care what you are to wear, or eat...�.

When we care for neighbor in such a way, we extend God��s mercy, not our own. (Like an employee dispensing the food, or services of the boss). He planned it that way. For God��s plan, according to Mary, �1997

Mary says, �Little ones, see everything in the light of faith. See everything that happens as being part of God's plan and do not let anything disturb your peace. Keep close watch over your heart and who enters it. God will sustain you as you keep focused on Him.�

�See everything as the "coming of Jesus!" Do not focus on all of your enemies and how they plot to destroy you, but focus on God's love and how through His goodness one saintly person can change the course of history. Do not focus on all the evil in the world but how God, through His goodness and His divine will, will level the works of evil and balance everything with new growth.�

�Contemplate how your sinful actions can be changed into actions of saints.

Prayers Requested By Our Lady Oct. 13, 1998 PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH

Oh St. Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God. I place in you all my interest and desires. Oh, St. Joseph, do assist me by your powerful intercession, and obtain for me from your Divine Son all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. So that, having engaged here below your heavenly power, I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of Fathers.

Oh, St. Joseph, I never weary contemplating you, and Jesus asleep in your arms; I dare not approach while He reposes near your heart. Press Him in my name and kiss His fine head for me and ask Him to return the Kiss when I draw my dying breath. St. Joseph, Patron of departing souls, Pray for me.

CONSECRATION TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS

Merciful Jesus, I consecrate myself today and always to Your Most Sacred Heart. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. I implore that I may ever love You more and more. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in You. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us! Sacred Heart of Jesus, I believe in Your love for me. Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my Heart like your heart.

CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

I, (your name), a faithless sinner, renew and ratify today in thy hands, O Immaculate Mother, the vows of my Baptism; I renounce forever Satan, his pomps and works; and I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of my life, and to be more faithful to Him than I have ever been before.

In the presence of all the heavenly court I choose thee this day, for my Mother and Mistress. I deliver and consecrate to thee, as thy servant, my body and soul, my goods, both interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good actions, past, present, and future; leaving to thee the entire right of disposing of me, and all that belongs to me, without exception, according to the good pleasure, for the greater glory of God, in time and in eternity. Amen.

Prayers Jesus and Mary had previously asked we pray (after communion, for meditation):

Anima Christi: Soul of Christ, Sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, Inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within thy wounds, hide me. Suffer me not to be separated from Thee. From the malignant enemy, defend me. In the hour of my death, call me. And bid me come to thee. That with thy Saints, I may praise Thee, forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer Before A Crucifix

Look down upon me, good and gentle Jesus, while before Thy face I humbly kneel, and with burning soul, pray and beseech Thee to fix deep in my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope, and charity, true contrition for my sins, and a firm purpose of amendment: while I contemplate with great love and tender pity thy five wounds, pondering over them within me, having in mind the words which David Thy prophet said of Thee, my Jesus. �They pierced my hands and feet. They numbered all my bones.�

(Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father, etc. for the intention of the Holy Father).

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