25th January 2013
Our
Lady has called us many times to prayer, especially to help her Immaculate Heart
to triumph in our sinful world, as she told us on 25th September
1991:
Dear
Children, today, in a special way, I invite you all to prayer and renunciation.
For now, as never before, Satan wants to show the world his shameful face, by
which he wants to seduce as many people as possible onto the way of death and
sin. Therefore, dear children, help my Immaculate Heart to triumph in the sinful
world. I beseech all of you to offer prayers and sacrifices for my intentions so
I can present them to God for what is most necessary. Forget your desires, dear
children, and pray for what God desires and not for what you desire. Thank you
for having responded to my call.
Our
Lady is calling us to a life of prayer, daily prayer, especially in our
families, in order to be in her embrace, as she told us on 25th
August 1995:
- Dear
Children, today I invite you to prayer. Let prayer be life for you. A family
cannot say that it is in peace if it does not pray. Therefore, let your morning
begin with morning prayer and the evening end with thanksgiving. Little children
I am with you and I love you and I bless you, and I wish for every one of you to
be in my embrace. You cannot be in my embrace if you are not ready to pray every
day. Thank you for having responded to my call.
Our
Lady wants us to become witnesses by our love to the love of Jesus, especially
through our adoration of the Blessed Sacrament which brings us very close also
to Our Lady, as she told us on 25th September
1995:
- Dear
Children, today I invite you to set your hearts on the most Holy Sacrament of
the Altar. Adore Him, little children, in your parishes, and in this way you
will be united with the entire world. Jesus will become your Friend, and you
will not talk of Him like someone whom you barely know. Unity with Him will be a
joy for you, and you will become witnesses to Jesus' love, which He has for
every creature. Little children, when you adore Jesus, you are also close to me.
Thank you for having responded to my call.
Through
our life of prayer we become witnesses to God’s love, enabling Our Lady to lead
us, as she told us so beautifully in her message through Mirjana on
2nd January this year (see News page).
Some
further scriptural connections
Jesus
was the cornerstone, ‘whoever believes in him will not be disappointed’ (Is
28:16), the ‘living stone rejected by people but chosen by God’... On drawing
close to him, you also become living stones built into a spiritual temple, a
holy community of priests offering spiritual sacrifices which please God through
Jesus Christ. (1Pet 2:4) This ‘stone, which the builders rejected, has become
the cornerstone, and it is a stone to stumble over, a rock which lays people
low. (1 Pet 2:7-8; Ps 118:22; Is 8:14)
What
this message and the scriptural links imply is that a stone is very solid. You
have to take account of it, or it will take account of you and you will stumble.
Our solidity as living stones is to be a spiritual one; it comes from our
identification with Christ, our faithfulness to his truth and our union with him
through prayer.
To
give witness to the beauty of our faith is not to exalt ourselves in pride or
complacency, but to exalt God’s glory, truth, goodness and beauty, and the
beauty of the Gospel, through our trust, surrender, humility, obedience and
reverent love.
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