Connections.

One never knows how our prayers and sufferings are connected.  

Connections.

One never knows how our prayers and sufferings are connected.  

Intentions

Prayer Intentions for Today

(1) Ukraine

(2) Middle East: Israel, Lebanon, Gaza, Iran, Yemen[

(3) Red China, Russia, North Korea

(4) Drought stricken areas, and areas under flooding

All of these places need prayer asking to restore peace, and the salvation of those who live
and who are not. 

That a Congress of moderate people will be elected, and that the people who hate our Democracy lose power. We need people to be able to sit down and talk to one another and cooperate on getting the business
of the people done. That does not include eliminating voting, failing to hold elections or peaceably getting to work.

With so much hate, violence and warfare being carried out, we cannot afford to deprive each other of our rights as citizens. It is not permitted to take away other people's rights by violence. Everyone should have the right to speak up, but violence is not permitted.

People convicted in a court of law of crimes against the government ought not to be allowed the privilege of governing the people they would disenfranchise.

God blesses those who follow His Will and His Law, and punishes those who rebel and refuse to surrender to His authority. By their fruits you will know them.

Intentions

Prayer Intentions for Today

(1) Ukraine

(2) Middle East: Israel, Lebanon, Gaza, Iran, Yemen[

(3) Red China, Russia, North Korea

(4) Drought stricken areas, and areas under flooding

All of these places need prayer asking to restore peace, and the salvation of those who live
and who are not. 

That a Congress of moderate people will be elected, and that the people who hate our Democracy lose power. We need people to be able to sit down and talk to one another and cooperate on getting the business
of the people done. That does not include eliminating voting, failing to hold elections or peaceably getting to work.

With so much hate, violence and warfare being carried out, we cannot afford to deprive each other of our rights as citizens. It is not permitted to take away other people's rights by violence. Everyone should have the right to speak up, but violence is not permitted.

People convicted in a court of law of crimes against the government ought not to be allowed the privilege of governing the people they would disenfranchise.

God blesses those who follow His Will and His Law, and punishes those who rebel and refuse to surrender to His authority. By their fruits you will know them.

Prayers

Importance of Forgiving

Predictions that Donald Trump will be president cause me no joy. Neither do predictions of apocalyptic catastrophes. My mind and heart are moved to implore the mercy of God and His Mother, and to urge everyone to concentrate of God and His Mother as little children, dependent on God to be led to Him in the midst of calamities.

Whilst predicting miseries, people drop the ball, because merely correctly predicting a disaster is only half a cup. The fullness is God's mercy, protecting His children. There can be no rejoicing in calamities and disasters, as if we think of ourselves as pristine in the midst of the most calamitous sinfulness that has ever been..

Since we are all equally guilty in our own way, we should concentrate on loving Jesus and His Mother. Jesus can dismiss the calamities and save the souls of those He loves, with a motion of His hand. With such power should come trembling and effusions of loving trust, not trembling, and not glee at anyone's punishment.

So I plead with people to keep their minds and hearts in the right place - near the Heart of Jesus and Mary. I plead also that people pray for holy priests whose delight is the sacraments and the Mass; the world should be in such a state that any invitation to hear Mass and celebrate the sacrament of penance ought to stir crowds of people happily anticipating a family gathering to praise and worship God, and not to be shivering in fear of any pain or misfortune that may occur, because there will be plenty to worry about when the time comes.

I am 77 years old, and recall a different universal attitude. The atomic bomb ended the second world war, but what that war lacked is being fulfilled in the cold war. The cold war strives to harden hearts against nations and seems to yearn for catastrophes to engulf the unwary in blind unconcern for those who are human beings in spite of their humanity and their errors. The fact is that errors can be corrected. If a man breaks his leg, a doctor need not cut it off necessarily without examining the man to determine what treatment is necessary. People can become fonts of merciful charity toward others, and let go of anger and wishing evil to fall on others. A Christianity based on hatred and anger is not of God, not of Jesus Christ who tells us He is love. Can we atom-bomb others with joy and love? I think not, and I doubt Jesus would approve of wishing it on anyone.

Remember that God is merciful. He has called saintly souls and has invited multitudes of holy people to join Him in the salvation of the human race. These people have suffered terribly, all for people to be saved and to become loving toward one another.

Do not trouble Jesus for signs and wonders which may only serve to confuse and lead the just astray. If there is any question in your heart, that is no better occasion to ask the Lord what is meant so that in your heart of hearts you understand, because the light that comes from asking for love and mercy and enlightenment is a delight shared with everyone.

I repeat what I have already  said many times; be at peace, and seek the Lord with all your heart, not stopping to inquire if anyone saw or heard anything. Will He not make His presence known? Has HIs Mother failed to give us hope and peace? Keep your hope alive at all times, and rest in the peace of the Virgin Mother as She asks you to. Do not wish calamity on anyone, and speak encouragement to those wavering and doubting.

O My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell and lead all souls to heaven.

Prayers

Importance of Forgiving

Predictions that Donald Trump will be president cause me no joy. Neither do predictions of apocalyptic catastrophes. My mind and heart are moved to implore the mercy of God and His Mother, and to urge everyone to concentrate of God and His Mother as little children, dependent on God to be led to Him in the midst of calamities.

Whilst predicting miseries, people drop the ball, because merely correctly predicting a disaster is only half a cup. The fullness is God's mercy, protecting His children. There can be no rejoicing in calamities and disasters, as if we think of ourselves as pristine in the midst of the most calamitous sinfulness that has ever been..

Since we are all equally guilty in our own way, we should concentrate on loving Jesus and His Mother. Jesus can dismiss the calamities and save the souls of those He loves, with a motion of His hand. With such power should come trembling and effusions of loving trust, not trembling, and not glee at anyone's punishment.

So I plead with people to keep their minds and hearts in the right place - near the Heart of Jesus and Mary. I plead also that people pray for holy priests whose delight is the sacraments and the Mass; the world should be in such a state that any invitation to hear Mass and celebrate the sacrament of penance ought to stir crowds of people happily anticipating a family gathering to praise and worship God, and not to be shivering in fear of any pain or misfortune that may occur, because there will be plenty to worry about when the time comes.

I am 77 years old, and recall a different universal attitude. The atomic bomb ended the second world war, but what that war lacked is being fulfilled in the cold war. The cold war strives to harden hearts against nations and seems to yearn for catastrophes to engulf the unwary in blind unconcern for those who are human beings in spite of their humanity and their errors. The fact is that errors can be corrected. If a man breaks his leg, a doctor need not cut it off necessarily without examining the man to determine what treatment is necessary. People can become fonts of merciful charity toward others, and let go of anger and wishing evil to fall on others. A Christianity based on hatred and anger is not of God, not of Jesus Christ who tells us He is love. Can we atom-bomb others with joy and love? I think not, and I doubt Jesus would approve of wishing it on anyone.

Remember that God is merciful. He has called saintly souls and has invited multitudes of holy people to join Him in the salvation of the human race. These people have suffered terribly, all for people to be saved and to become loving toward one another.

Do not trouble Jesus for signs and wonders which may only serve to confuse and lead the just astray. If there is any question in your heart, that is no better occasion to ask the Lord what is meant so that in your heart of hearts you understand, because the light that comes from asking for love and mercy and enlightenment is a delight shared with everyone.

I repeat what I have already  said many times; be at peace, and seek the Lord with all your heart, not stopping to inquire if anyone saw or heard anything. Will He not make His presence known? Has HIs Mother failed to give us hope and peace? Keep your hope alive at all times, and rest in the peace of the Virgin Mother as She asks you to. Do not wish calamity on anyone, and speak encouragement to those wavering and doubting.

O My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell and lead all souls to heaven.

What We Do Not Know

 

See, I have suffered for you; will you
be willing to suffer for me, some small thing?

Someone to emulate

Suffering as we know it, does not resemble anything in the spiritual realm. I have frequently been offered suffering, and endured much, but it is nothing compared with the suffering of souls in hell or purgatory, and I offer it all for the poor souls in purgatory, and for those most in need of the grace and the mercy of God.

Lately the Lord has pointed out His mercies to me so that I might have confidence in Him and love Him as I am unable otherwise.

If you open your heart to Jesus, He will open His to you, and you may suffer in life, but I assure you that you have not suffered as much as He, nor does He cease to suffer, since there is so great a torrent of sorrows in the world today.

If the world saw the sin, and the suffering endured to mitigate punishment,  it would be deeply silent before all the suffering in the world. Armies of souls are united in suffering, and in the sufferings of Christ in particular, and because of their love for God, He has forgiven much, and always will because of His perpetual love.

However, the world will suffer, above and beyond the sorrows of this world, because His justice is offended beyond bounds. All the more we should love Him, because He does not abandon us for our sins and transgressions against His justice. How could we imagine that we could be free to commit sin over and over again and suffer nothing? We know that nature compensates for a dearth of anything, whether that be rain or wind or heat or cold. Whatever changes in the world, many things are balanced out as a result of changes in nature. Nature mimics the divine, and for all excesses, there is s a compensating force to be experienced somewhere, especially in His Heart and our own. If we were given the lance that opened His Heart, could we have the courage to thrust it into His side? Yet, every sin is a thrust of that lance, and people wield it thoughtlessly, unaware of what we have done. Or do you think people like St. Padre Pio agreed to suffer the wounds of Christ in His body for a game?

It is time for the human race to regret their sins and ask for forgiveness and mercy because we love the Lord. Do not worry that you can not know of anything you could do to obtain forgiveness or  mercy; He has already assigned the penances we could do, and if we rest in His peace, when He gives it, we will grow to love Him accordingly. 

Often, our sins cause other people suffering just in the natural order of things; we should ask to be made aware of the suffering we have caused others by our sins, and ask to be forgiven and obtain mercy for those we injured. This is only just, since God has forgiven our sins, but we must also satisfy justice, and by accepting His Will without reservation, we can most effectively obtain what we ask.

Be at peace, and in your peace give thanks to God that He is merciful and forgiving. But, cease those habitual sins, as they continually add up to what cannot be forgiven, eventually. 

O my Jesus, forgive us our sins,  save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those who have most need of thy mercy.