Love Crucified

CCC 1323 “At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross.

CCC-1324 The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.

Has the Eucharist become the source and summit of your life? If not, why?

CCC-1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice…

Message 49: I Give Myself to the Good and the Bad, Diary of a MOC

The Eucharist is the power of God in the world. The love of God is the Eucharist and is transmitted through the Eucharist.

Altar of the cross

CCC 1366 - The Eucharist is thus a sacrifice because it re-presents (makes present) the sacrifice of the cross because it is its memorial and because it applies its fruit:

[Christ], our Lord and God, was once and for all to offer himself to God the Father by his death on the altar of the cross, to accomplish there an everlasting redemption.

Wherever our cross is, there is our altar of sacrifice. There is where our offering during the consecration of the Mass becomes real, our sacrifice as real flesh, the real pain of our suffering WITH Christ’s.

To come to the altar of sacrifice in the Mass without having lived my daily sacrifice in the altar of my home or work is a sterile sacrifice to the Father. The words of the Mass -through Him, with Him and in Him- must be lived daily in the ordinary and tediousness of my life, in the sacrament of the moment. It is only in this way that my sacrifice is truly pleasing to God and made perfect in Jesus’ sacrifice of perfect love.
We have been chosen, called, by God to enter the most hidden life of Christ. This hidden life is in the depth of His Most Sacred Heart. This hidden life of Christ IS the continuation of His agony for souls. The deep suffering of the Heart of God cannot be expressed with words, but only in groans. Just as the Lord taught us that we can enter His wounds through our wounds, we can enter His groans through our groans. The shattered and broken lives of those we love the most causes in our hearts a pain so deep that we too cannot express it in words, but only in groans. It is in these moments of our lives that God permits that the Holy Spirit comes to draw us into the groans of Christ. It is then that we can perceive the groans of Love, and we are given the opportunity to participate in His groans for the transformation of humanity into Love. This MUST become the work of the MC and MOC. This work of participating in God’s suffering of love is the work that produces a hundredfold because it is the work of Divine Love! (Cf. Mt 13:9)

Tears, Simple Path, 3-A-4

36. Be My Companion of Love — p.126

Be with your God and Savior as I enter My agony again. The time has come when the Father will turn His gaze from the world. My Mother and I will cry for you [humanity]. Who will remain faithful during the great and terrible persecution? Remain with me and collect My tears to present them to the Father. (2/15/13)

37. I Come to Console You and to Receive Your Consolation—p.127

I desire for you to collect in your pure hands my tears of blood and to unite your tears with mine and raise them to the Father as one with the Blood of my Son.

38. Tears Pierce Hardened Hearts —Diary of a MOC.

My daughter, a hardened heart is not able to receive the grace of God. It is not able to see the glory of God revealed before him. I, God Incarnate, was in their midst, yet they were blind. My Heart was grieved to see the condition of their hearts, for I knew that not even My crucifixion would touch their hearts.

My daughter, many are called; but it is few that respond. The act of Mary Magdalene and Peter, in which they come to Me with tears of sorrow, is necessary to pierce the hardness of the human heart steeped in sin.

My daughter, My Heart continues to be grieved at seeing such hardness of hearts within My Church. I desire that you awaken the hearts of My sons with tears and supplications as only a mother can. (1/14/11)

… Persevere, My little one, in leading the few who have responded. Be ready to suffer with Me in this decisive battle for the salvation of countless souls. Stand firm against the great deception of Satan; speak the truth as it is revealed to you with courage and be steadfast in your mission and identity as My spouse of My most precious Blood… 8/15/21

- “Bring to light the darkness that Satan wants to keep hidden.”

- As a mother, I speak the truth to my children….

Message of 3/21/2010

Only a mother’s heart can call My sons (priests) to repentance

Is 43:16-21 Ph 3:8-14 Jn 8:1-11 3/23/2010 Jeremiah 10:11

Jesus placed in my heart that I will call His sons (priests) to repentance. The flock is all scattered and confused because of the lack of holy shepherds. Satan is the prince of the world, and they have not waged war against him but have participated with him. There is no difference between His sons and all other men. Their eyes are not on the things of heaven but attached to all the world, full of sensuality. They are not obedient to Him; their hearts and intentions are not pure, and they desire the comforts of the world and do not seek poverty. “Tell them how much I love them and am seeking them out. I am ready to forgive them and transform them if they come to Me and repent. The time is short. They will each have to stand before My Father to be judged, and when they are shown all My sheep that have gone astray, they will not live. I am raising up My army of holy priests. Those that are not with Me, I will spit them out. I have chosen you as My prophet because it is only a mother’s heart that can call My sons to repentance. You must plead and supplicate to them as a mother to her son….”

Jeremiah 9:25-26, uncircumcised hearts

behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will punish all those who are circumcised but yet uncircumcised -- 26 …for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart. (9:25-26)

Mathew 23:27

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of filth.

Example:

2. Epoch news 8/30/2021:

Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who is also a Pfizer board member, noted that “natural immunity” gained from a prior COVID-19 infection needs to be included in discussions about virus-related policies and mandates.

Last week, researchers from Maccabi Healthcare and Tel Aviv University said that individuals who had recovered from COVID-19 had superior protection against the Delta variant of the CCP virus compared to those who received the Pfizer mRNA vaccine, the most commonly used shot in Israel.

Pope Benedict XVI, Simple Path p.414:

We see how evil wishes to dominate the world and that it is necessary to enter into battle with evil. We see how it does so in so many ways, bloody, with the different forms of violence, but also masked with goodness and precisely this way destroying the moral foundations of society.

3. Worldwide protests the vaccine passport- Canada, France, Germany- “clear violation of human rights and once we lose them, we will not be able to get them back.”

Card. Ratzinger, “The Church will become small,” p. 411:

The process will be long and wearisome as was the road from the false progressivism on the eve of the French Revolution—when a bishop might be thought smart if he made fun of dogmas and even insinuated that the existence of God was by no means certain… But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church.

7/25/21

Great sifting has begun

My little one, be attentive to the God who loves you and is guiding you through this tempest. My little one, encourage My little mustard seed to enter great silence and stillness of heart with Mary so that I can guide all my souls. Many will be lost because they failed to trust in Me and turned their gaze to the deception of Satan that speaks through the mighty of this world. The time of the great sifting has begun, do not be afraid, for I am with you, guiding you, but all will suffer greatly. Few will remain faithful in the time of the great sifting, but with My few, I will establish My Kingdom on earth.

-Dr. Zelenko highly qualified medical professionals (treated President Trump & Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of NYC ) death threats

-Dr. Michael Yeadon (former chief science and officer &VP of Pfizer 16years) “Im warning you that governments around the world are lying to you. You’ve been subject to propaganda and lies by people who are very well trained in how they do that… If you are less than 70, this virus is less of a risk to you than influenza… Multiple therapeutic drugs that are at least as effective as vaccines, Ivermectin is able to reduce symptoms at any stage of the virus. It’s illegal for governments to coerce us to get any vaccine, against Nordenberg Code…”

Numbers 21:4-9

The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.” 6 Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. 7 The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.” 9 So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.

This scene of Moses prefigures Jesus being lifted on the wood of the Cross. Priests and each of us need to GAZE AT THE CRUCIFIED to be protected. Yet, our shepherds have raised the vaccine on the stick and are proclaiming the vaccine as our savior. They were the first to close our churches and keep us away from the Eucharist, which is supposed to be the source and summit of our lives. The opposite of St Charles Borromeo.

Pope Benedict, Simple Path p.414:

The Lord is also crying out to our ears the words that in the Book of Revelation he addresses to the Church of Ephesus: “If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place” (2: 5). Light can also be taken away from us, and we do well to let this warning ring out with its full seriousness in our hearts.

Message of 7/6/11 P

Our Lord asked me to read Jeremiah 6. Then He said:

…The time is near, yet the world sleeps. My chosen sons called to shepherd My people to safety slumber in the sin of their sloth and arrogance. My daughter, the path to new life is very narrow. It is the wood of My Cross. I desire for you and Father to warn My people, especially My sons, of the destruction that is at hand and call them to awaken through repentance of their many sins. Call them to be My victims of love. Call them to martyrdom for love of Me. Call them to holiness. My daughter, few will listen, but you are called to be My voice in this wilderness…

Message of 3/11/2010 P1/2

Prophecy as Jeremiah to My priests

You are called to prophesy as Jeremiah. Tell My priests they have turned their backs from Me. I want their faces to be turned to My Love Crucified. As they gaze at Me, they must see themselves in Me. I want their love to be crucified like Mine. They do not preach with the power of My Word because their hearts are not transformed, nor do their hearts seek transformation in Me through the power of the Holy Spirit… If they do not transform their lives in Me, I will spit them out. They will have to account for every soul that has been lost because of their lack of shepherding before the Father... Tell them I am raising up My army of holy priests, My Green Berets: Men of fortitude, men of courage, holy men, men willing to lay down their lives for their God. It is these holy priests that will be My Light during the time of great darkness that is approaching. The time is at the horizon…

Jeremiah 8, 9, 23

for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish,

and has given us poisoned water to drink,

because we have sinned against the Lord. (8:14; 9:15; 23:15)

12 Who is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, so that they may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through? 13 And the Lord says: Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, or walked in accordance with it, 14 but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their ancestors taught them. 15 Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am feeding this people with wormwood, and giving them poisonous water to drink. (9:12-15)

6/25/14

PROPHECY FOR COLOMBIA #2

Jeremiah 16:5

My people have forsaken Me with the idols of adultery, the occult, lust, and impurities of all kinds… God in His infinite mercy is granting the people of Colombia a certain amount of time to repent… They need to turn their eyes toward My love crucified. The Holy Spirit, through the power of My love crucified, will grant them the gift of self-knowledge, to see with new eyes the darkness within them. Then, as they repent, I will come and raise them out of the pit of hell… It is the grace of my victim souls that God will use to bring many to this repentance of heart, mind, and soul. Love crucified is now to enter Colombia with the force of the Holy Spirit to help raise up my victims of love for the great battle has begun…

7/6/11 P

My daughter, desire to be only My insignificant vessel… Remain small, and I will reveal My power. Desire only the Cross, and My love will triumph through you. Believe in the power of My hidden force as ONE with the power of My Eucharistic life. This is the force that God is strengthening for the decisive battle. Perfect your family in the hidden life I have revealed to you.

The Mass –I– Battle the Beast in the Power of the Cross–Eucharist.

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 09:00:00 -0400

“Battle the Beast In the power of My Cross” part 1

Cenacle, 8/26/21

Lourdes Pinto

Message of 8/15/21

Feast of the Assumption, my consecration to Mary and the Holy Spirit

My little one, as one with the Mother of God, the Woman clothed with the sun given the power from on High to crush the head of Satan, the great battle for the salvation of the world has begun. My remnant victim souls united as one with Me, Victim, with all the past victim souls and those of the future will battle the Beast in and through the power of My Cross. Persevere, My little one, in leading the few who have responded. Be ready to suffer with Me in this decisive battle for the salvation of countless souls. Stand firm against the great deception of Satan; speak the truth as it is revealed to you with courage and be steadfast in your mission and identity… Be joyful, for you have come to believe in the victory which I have obtained through My death and resurrection. Be diligent in withstanding his lies and deception. Trust that I live in you as one with you and I am guiding you as My warrior in this decisive battle.

(My Lord, how do I guide this community? What do you want?)

... Do not be afraid, for God- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit- is truly with you guiding his remnant army in the great battle against the forces of evil. Continue to proclaim from the housetops the words I have spoken to you throughout the years, for they hold the wisdom of God for the salvation of the world. Your union now with Mary, as one with the Holy Spirit, prepares you to confront Satan and his principalities in her victory, for she is the Queen Mother that has defeated the dragon in her perfect union with Me, her beloved Son. It is through her power in the Holy Spirit that you will fight the great battle. Remain in prayer, and silent so that nothing disturbs your spirit as one with Me, your Beloved. Rejoice, my daughter, you are being counted among the remnant victim warriors of God's great army. Go in peace to love through Me, with Me, and in Me as one with Mary Most Holy. The battle has been won!

The Lord begins this message by letting us know that the “great battle for the salvation of the world has begun.” He wants us to be “steadfast in our mission and identity.” Our mission from the beginning has been a battle mission; warrior men and women. We have been formed through The Simple Path to Union with God as His victim souls for this great battle. And He lets us know that the victory has already been won.

The Lord is again reminding us how we battle the Beast in the victory of Jesus’ death and resurrection, united as one with Mary.

My remnant victim souls will battle the Beast in and through the power of My Cross

The preposition “In” is of the utmost importance. A preposition sits before a word (noun or pronoun) to show the words relationship to another word. Therefore, the Lord is revealing to us the relationship that He wants us to have with Him.

The Lord desires us to be “in” the Cross. That means in Jesus crucified. In His Sacred Heart, crucified on the Cross. He does not want us next to Him, nor to remain at the foot of the Cross outside of Him. The entire Simple Path is the work of the Holy Spirit with Mary to bring us to be one with Love crucified, no longer two. To live “in” the Cross is to be a living Host, a living chalice. Therefore, to live “in” Christ crucified is to live continuously in the power of the Mass.

Many people attend Mass at least once a week on Sundays, but few live the Mass continuously. It's the same as reading the Simple Path versus living and becoming the Simple Path.

"The prayer of Moses responds to the living God's initiative for the salvation of his people. It foreshadows the prayer of intercession of the unique mediator, Christ Jesus." (CCC 2593)

In the article, The Perfect Prayer is Holy Mass, http://forcatholicholymass.blogspot.com/2010/10/perfect-prayer-is-holy-mass.html, Fr Cusick writes:

Moses’ prayer in the battle against Amalek is a sign only of the greatest warrior and the most awful struggle. Jesus Christ upon His cross holds his hands aloft with the help of the nails; His feet are supported not by a stone, but by a piercing nail. His hands are held in place in the perfect prayer for the sake of victory over the most terrible enemy of death which entered the world through sin. Until the last drop of His blood is shed and until His last breath, His hands are held thus. There is no rest; the battle is total. All must be given to defeat the enemy of all.

The holy Mass is the experience here and now of this most glorious battle of God over the most fearsome enemy of death. But in order that His victory may be in us and that we may find life unending in Him, we must pray always this prayer of victory.

The Simple Path to Union with God teaches us to LIVE THE MASS. The Mass becomes our daily life, our continuous prayer; we become one with the Mass!

The Mass

1. Penitential Act – Foot of the Cross

We receive the gift of self-knowledge to know our sins:

“I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and what I have failed to do” and REPENT by asking forgiveness to God and those we have hurt.

“Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault;”

We do not blame nor justify ourselves but take ownership of the darkness that is within us. This requires the humility and docility to open our hearts to God and allow the Holy Spirit to take us deep to discover our wounds, brokenness, disordered tendencies, falsehood, lies, and so on.

Simple Path, #10, p. 40

…The soul that lives wrapped in the gift of knowledge grows in true humility and is then able to advance in My path on the wings of the Holy Spirit. At times, you fall and have setbacks; but do not get discouraged, for these falls are meant to help keep you wrapped in the gift of knowledge, the gift of knowing that you can do nothing without the grace of God…

Therefore, when we pray daily at Mass the penitential act, we’ve been living wrapped in the gift of self-knowledge attentive to our words, thoughts, acts, and have continuously asked pardon of God and others. Living in the state of knowing our misery, weakness, and nothingness is putting on humility as our armor and weapon. For without humility, we cannot battle Satan.

“Therefore, I ask Blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to our Lord our God.”

Genuine penance includes a continuous asking Mary, the Holy Spirit, Angels, and Saints for help specially to reveal to us what lies hidden and buried within each of us, what we don't want to see in ourselves, the evil we have covered up with falsehood, the masks… but also to ask of the people God has placed in our lives for the gift of self-knowledge.

Simple Path, Chapter 2, At the Foot of the Cross, #7, p.30

The planks of pride, self-love, vanity, and sins of all kinds are revealed to you by the Holy Spirit. It is here at My feet, through the gift of repentance, that you begin to see. Grace builds upon grace, but also, each grace removes a veil that keeps the eyes of your soul from seeing the glory of God before you and the darkness that keeps you from hearing the whisper of God within you.

How significant that the Mass begins with the penitential act, so that, through the gift of the gold of precious repentance, we can see the glory of God being revealed in the Mass and in our daily lives! This interior disposition of penance and humility prepares our hearts to enter praise!

2. Gloria

Glory to God in the highest. And on earth peace to men of good will. We praise You. We bless You. We adore you. We glorify You. We give You thanks for Your great glory. O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father almighty. O Lord Jesus Christ, the Only-begotten Son. O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father: you Who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. You Who take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. You, Who sit at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For you alone are holy. You alone are the Lord. You alone, O Jesus Christ, are most high. Together with the Holy Spirit in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

Simple Path, Mary, in Her Humility, Proclaims the Greatness of the Lord, #20, p.66

My Mother lived her life in praise of the Father. She lived in the constant awareness of who the Father is. Her soul was in a constant state of awe.

Simple Path, Your Life is a Prayer, #97, p.278

The prayer of gratitude and thanksgiving should be your every breath.

We must choose to discipline ourselves, to remind ourselves and others to continuously stop to praise and thank God including in the trials and sufferings of life because we have come to know and taste the goodness of the Lord.

Simple Path, #115, p.310

…you come to experience all, the good and what you perceive as bad, as a gift of My love for you.

The gift of knowing with your mind, heart, and soul that the love of God only desires to make of you the new creation…

The Gloria requires a constant remembering of God's presence in our personal lives. How He has led us, provided for us, protected us, and defended us. The miracles in our lives.

Praise is the 2nd weapon of the Mass that arms us to battle.

3. Liturgy of the Word

Living in a state of repentance and praise our hearts are open to RECEIVE the Word of God. The Holy Scriptures become our daily food. We take the time daily to ponder the Word of God with Mary and the Holy Spirit in silence.

As Mothers and Missionaries of the Cross, we also must ponder the words God has spoken to us to form us as His victim souls for these decisive times.

…Your faith is needed to live in the power of God. Encourage the few following My path to ponder in prayer My Words. They will set you free, they will reveal My Way which will set you free to be My light in this darkness… 6/23/21

…Continue to proclaim from the housetops the words I have spoken to you throughout the years, for they hold the wisdom of God for the salvation of the world…8/15/21

When Satan is attacking us with lies and deception, the Word from God that has taken root in our hearts comes forth to pierce his lies.

4. Profession of Faith

I believe in one God….

Your faith is needed to live in the power of God. 6/23/21

Pope Benedict XVI

Let us listen once again to Elizabeth's words fulfilled in Mary's Magnificat: “Blessed is she who believed.” The first and fundamental act in order to become a dwelling place of God and thus find definitive happiness is to believe: it is faith, faith in God, in that God who showed himself in Jesus Christ and makes himself heard in the divine Word of Holy Scripture. (Simple Path, p.311)

…You must not fear and believe with the innocence and zeal of David… (Simple Path, #148, p.437)

…Believe that I Am one with you, the Light in the world, My living hosts. Believe, so that My Light can shine through you to penetrate the darkness consuming the world. Believe in the Power of God working through His hidden force… (Simple Path, #151, p.439)

…Believe that the sword of this mission will conquer the dragon… (Simple Path, #152, p. 440)

Living the Mass provides for us the weapons and armor needed to battle Satan:

REPENTANCE / PRAISE / THE WORD / FAITH / ONE WITH VICTIM SACRIFICE

To prepare for part II of this teaching:

· Read Simple Path chapter 6—B, We Go to Mass to Become Victims with the Victim, pp.342-347

· Listen to the weekly cenacle teachings on our website:

· Most Precious Blood parts 1, 2, 3 from May-June 2019

· Eucharist parts 1,2,3,4 from June-July 2017

Other important teachings concerning the coming of the Eucharistic Reign are:

· Book of Revelation: Prepare for the Battle and the Eucharistic Reign, 11/27/18

· Eucharistic Reign, 9/10/20

Our Decisive Times –II: The Cross, The Eucharist and Covid-19

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:00:00 -0400

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Our Decisive Times–I: The Church VS. the Anti-Church

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 09:00:00 -0400

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Father Jordi Rivero, Aug. 12, 2021

Women of Courage Called to Battle

Mon, 09 Aug 2021 09:00:00 -0400

Women of Courage Called to Battle

MOC cenacle, 8/7/21

“I soon after saw Mary and Magdalen approach the pillar where Jesus had been scourged; the mob was at a distance, and they were partly concealed by other holy women; they knelt down on the ground near the pillar, and wiped up the sacred blood with the linen which Claudia Procles had sent. John was not at that time with the holy women, who were about 20 in number.” (The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Anne Catherine Emmerich, p. 225)

White Cloth, 6/22/06

As I was praying the rosary, I began to see Mary interiorly, on her knees, soaking up the Blood of Christ. I then saw myself kneeling next to her, imitating her. Suddenly, I was prostrated on the ground over the Blood. I felt like if my body became the white cloth, and my body was now soaking up the precious Blood. I then saw Jesus laying on the ground, the way He looked in the movie, The Passion of the Christ, right after He was scourged. My right hand was extended forward as I laid there. I could see Jesus, but I could not seem to move. Mary then knelt between the two of us and placed the hand of Jesus on top of my hand, and she remained kneeling between both of us.

White Cloth Soaking Up the Blood of Christ, 2/28/11

It was in the scourging that I lost the greatest amount of Blood. I was beaten by the hatred of the past, present, and future. I received the hatred of the world upon My Body. I, the perfect, pure Martyr of Love, took upon Myself all the hatred of humanity. The only antidote for hatred is love. My Mother soaked up My Precious Blood with towels representing her body as My living chalice. Mary Magdalene imitated her. You, My Mothers and Missionaries of the Cross, are also called to imitate My Mother. Allow your bodies to prostrate themselves on My Precious Blood, soaking up My Blood with your lives, thus becoming My living chalices.

How, my Lord, do we do this?

By loving when you are misunderstood, laughed at, judged, persecuted, condemned, ridiculed…. During your days, instead of talking so much, contemplate My Precious Blood on the ground and your bodies as My Mother’s living cloth soaking it up.

2/24/14

As I prayed before the Blessed Sacrament, I saw interiorly myself kneeling as I gazed at the face of Jesus crucified. Then Mary came next to me and placed a veil over my head, and she began to teach me about the meaning of the veil for women. I was not writing as she spoke; I was only listening. This is what I wrote of what I remember:

Veil – consecrated to God; pure, silent, consolers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

· We (MOC) receive the precious Blood that fell to the ground; the Blood discarded by hardened souls.

· Mary collected the Blood on the ground (as in the movie, The Passion of Christ), the Blood that was going to be trampled, forgotten...This white cloth that Mary used soaked in the Precious Blood of Jesus is the veil of the MOC.

· We wear over our heads the Blood that is being rejected by souls.

· We suffer hidden in our hearts the hardness of hearts of many souls.

· We are covered, anointed, by the precious Blood rejected by hardened souls.

· We live consumed in these hidden sorrows, which are the groans of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

· We gaze at Abba as He gazes at His daughters consecrated in the rejected Blood of His Son, and we supplicate in Christ’s groans for grace for the most hardened souls.

Holy Warriors

The MOC are women of great zeal and courage as God’s warriors of love fighting Satan as one with Mary and freeing many souls from his deception:

My daughters, you are My warriors of love fighting the Beast, and you will slay him…You possess the power of God to free many from Satan’s deception and bring them to life in Me. Rescue many souls in the net of Satan’s deception through your participation in My crucified love. The Cross IS the power of God to defeat Satan and bring all to new life. Unite as ONE to My Cross and believe in the power of your hidden sorrows of heart to free the world from Satan’s grasp. Be My warrior, fight with the zeal and the power of My Spirit. Go in peace and know that I am with you. —7/2/12.

Covid and the evil moving behind the scenes:

· Covid came from the Wuhan lab in China

· Censorship- doctors and scientist highly qualified with excellent credentials censored for sharing data on COVID and the mRNA vaccine.

· Children, the most innocent, being told to vaccinate with an experimental injection when the recovery rate for children is 99.999%

· Loss of freedom as vaccine passports are being mandated around the world

· Pfizer was sued in a U.S. federal court for using Nigerian children as human guinea pigs without the parents’ consent. Pfizer paid $75 Million to settle in Nigerian court for using an experimental antibiotic, Trovan, on the children. The company paid an additional undisclosed amount in the U.S. to settle charges here. Pfizer had violated international law, including the Nuremberg Convention established after WWII, due to Nazi experiments on unwilling prisoners.

9/10/11 PROPHECY

I want the LC website used to help form My martyrs of love for the decisive battle at hand. There will be wailing and grinding of teeth, massive confusion and desperation. This state of the world will open the doors for the new world order and then will begin the time of great darkness and persecution for all My followers. (During this time of great darkness, My MC will hold up My Cross as Moses held up his staff with the serpent and call My people to unite in My crucified love. It is My martyrs of love that will shine forth My light in this darkness. Believe in the hidden force, which is the power of God hidden in the Eucharist as My final outpouring of mercy upon the Earth). Do not doubt the MC as the vision I have placed in your heart but be diligent in calling forth and forming many victims of love for these decisive times.

Book of Numbers 13, 14

Mathew 17:19-21

“Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” 20 He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

6/23/21

Faith is needed to live in the power of God

…The deception of Satan has darkened the human heart and mind. My little one, trust in My goodness, trust in My mercy, trust that God is working to pierce the darkness of Satan consuming the minds and hearts of humanity. You, my little one, and the few following My simple path to union with God are God’s force to defeat Satan and pierce the darkness of his destruction in souls. Your faith is needed to live in the power of God… Remain in My peace and joy because you have come to believe in My Words spoken to you… Believe, my little one, believe.

The Pope and Remaining in the Bark –updated 7/2021

Sat, 31 Jul 2021 09:00:00 -0400

The Pope and Remaining in the Bark

Fr. Jordi Rivero, November 5, 2020 –updated 7/2021

Jesus gave Peter the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and, even though He had to severely rebuke him, He confirmed his call. We need to remain with the pope in bark, even if we are troubled by some of his statements.

The Lord has spoken to us many times about “remaining,” but not in the sense of remaining in the lazy comfort of a couch. St. Paul urges us to remain in the race to win, giving ourselves fully, even while facing what may appear to be impossible opposition. The tendency of the flesh, the temptation, is to give up or to despair.

Today, I want to focus on a particular doctrine of our faith that is under attack: the supreme authority of the pope in matters of faith. As the storm becomes more threatening, sometimes due to the confusion generated at the Vatican, we may be tempted to abandon the bark or to close our hearts to anything that comes from the Pope.

The devil is a brilliant strategist. St. Ignatius teaches that he studies our defenses to discover our weak points. The devil learns what doors are easiest to pry open to enter our hearts. If we are firmly pro-life, he is not going to attack us there. He knows where we hurt, what is disturbing us, and that is where his lies are most effective. He will then cause a problem and will try to make us react without trusting in God.

When the Israelites saw the Babylonian army advancing on Jerusalem, they were terrified, so they went to Jeremiah seeking guidance from the Lord. He told them: “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and you do go to settle there, then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow you into Egypt, and there you will die.” (Jer. 42:15-16). The Israelites did not listen. They saw a real danger and did not trust in the Lord. They did not remain in Jerusalem.

Today, many Catholics are troubled by some shepherds who seem to be asleep as the wolves ravage the flock. They feel abandoned, and the enemy seizes the opportunity to plant doubts in their hearts. The result is that Catholics who not long ago would say, “we are with Christ if we remain with the pope,” are now separating themselves from the pope. What happened? They are being shaken by the storm within the Church. They were ready to battle against the world, but now they are facing a storm within the Church. Many are troubled by some of the pope’s statements. Satan then comes to set the trap by offering false solutions.

I’m receiving messages of people who are aware of the spiritual battle going on and, finding no guidance from their shepherds, are seeking solace in messages that resonate with their concerns. But some of those messages are themselves problematic, and down the road incite anger and separation from the bark of Peter.

Archbishop Viganó, for example, says true things, but also claims that, at the Second Vatican Council, “hostile forces” caused “the abdication of the Catholic Church” through a “sensational deception.” He further claims that “The errors of the post-conciliar period were contained in nuce (in a nutshell) in the Conciliar Acts,” thus accusing the Council of overt error.[1] He also refers to Pope Francis as “Bergolio” to avoid referring to him as pope.

Let us be clear: If we only accept the popes we like we have become judges over the Church and do not believe that the Holy Spirit guides the Church. Even though the Second Vatican Council was pastoral and did not declare any new infallible doctrine, it is part of the Church’s magisterial teaching. The Catechism teaches:

Divine assistance is also given to the successors of the apostles, teaching in communion with the successor of Peter, and, in a particular way, to the bishop of Rome, pastor of the whole Church, when, without arriving at an infallible definition and without pronouncing in a “definitive manner,” they propose in the exercise of the ordinary Magisterium a teaching that leads to better understanding of Revelation in matters of faith and morals. To this ordinary teaching the faithful “are to adhere to it with religious assent” which, though distinct from the assent of faith, is nonetheless an extension of it. (CCC 892)

Schisms have been, at times, a reaction to something wrong in the Church. Luther protested against the abuses and corruption among the Church’s shepherds, but pride blinded him to become the judge of how reform should take place. The result was the great schism that remains to this day.

Schisms begin like cancer growing in the heart, planting contempt, pride, condemnation. They are often a false solution to a real problem. One begins to secretly find satisfaction when those bad shepherds are vilified. One is tempted to read those attacks with less and less concern for objectivity. We need to remember St. Teresa of Avila's advice: "Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true."[2]

The saints also see what is wrong in the Church, but they hold on to the faith that the Lord made Peter the visible head of the Church and promised that the gates of hell will not prevail. The saints know that Peter was wrong on many occasions. He was used by the devil to try to keep Jesus from going to the Cross, then denied Him three times. Yet, Jesus ratified His election as the first pope. St Paul confronted Peter, but Peter remained the head of the Church. The saints respond in faith and choose to remain faithful and trust in the promises of the Lord. This does not mean indifference. They remain focused on running the race, so God can use them to bring about true renewal beyond what would seem possible by the humble lives they lived.

What can we do?

When Mother Theresa was asked: “What would you do to improve the Church?” Her answer was: “I would change myself.” This is what Jesus taught: First, we must remove the beam from our eye, come to self-knowledge and knowledge of Him. Then God will work through us as He pleases. The saints prove that no crisis in the Church can stop us from becoming saints if we have faith.

The Lord has called us in our community to be victim souls for our shepherds. We believe in the power of suffering for them united with Christ.
We don’t try to justify them. Pope Francis has said things that seem to contradict what previous popes have said. But we choose to remain faithful to the magisterium, which is the criteria to discern any comments from a pope or a bishop.
We do not judge as if we were a superior authority. We try to understand and if we cannot reconcile the pope’s words with Catholic doctrine, we allow our hearts to be pierced, we choose to love the pope and suffer with Christ for him while we continue faithful to the truth that cannot change.
We know that not all that a pope says is magisterial teaching. Casual comments and interviews are not. His opinions on vaccines or the weather are not.
But we would be wrong to disregard the vast body of the pope’s teaching because we do not agree with a few of his comments.

St. Cyprian, Father of the Church, wrote: “If a man does not hold fast to this oneness of Peter, does he imagine that he still holds the faith? If he deserts the Chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, has he still confidence that he is in the Church?”[3]

There are times when saints had a prophetic message for a pope. We should learn from them since they fulfilled their mission according to God's will.

God the Father told St. Catherine of Siena regarding the shepherds of the Church:

You must not reverence them for themselves, but for the authority I have entrusted to them. Therefore, you must not sin against them because if you do, you are really sinning not against them but against me. This I have forbidden, and I have said that it is my will that no one should touch them.

For this reason, no one has an excuse to say, “I am doing no harm, nor am I rebelling against holy Church. I am simply acting against the sins of evil pastors.” Such persons are deluded, blinded as they are by their own selfishness… It is me they assault, just as it was me they reverenced. To me redounds every assault they make on my ministers: derision, slander, disgrace, abuse. Whatever is done to them, I count as done to me….

The virtuous must not lessen their reverence, even should these ministers fall short in virtue. And so far as the virtues of my ministers are concerned... [they are] stewards of…my Son’s body and blood and of the other sacraments. This dignity belongs to all who are appointed as such stewards, to the bad as well as to the good.

You should hold [these sinful ministers] out to me with tears and great desire, so that I in my goodness may clothe them with the garment of charity… Indeed, I have appointed them and given them to you to be angels on earth…as I have told you. When they are less than that, you ought to pray for them. But you are not to judge them. Leave the judging to me, and I, because of your prayers and my own desire, will be merciful to them.

The more you offer me sorrowful and loving desires for them, the more you will prove your love for me. For the service neither you nor my other servants can do for me, you ought to do for them instead. Then I will let myself be constrained by the longing and tears and prayers of my servants and will be merciful to my bride by reforming her with good and holy shepherds.

St. Catherine of Siena wrote:

I know very well that many defend themselves by boasting: “They are so corrupt, and work all manner of evil!” But God has commanded that, even if the priests, the pastors, and Christ-on-earth were incarnate devils, we be obedient and subject to them, not for their sakes, but for the sake of God, and out of obedience to Him[4]

Mark Mallet, in his article entitled “This is a Test,” argues that we are experiencing a difficult trial in which our Catholicity is being tested:

If you have lost your peace over anything happening in Church today, you are failing the test. Our peace comes from trust in Jesus, who is the Lord of history and is with us in all trials… Phil 4,6: “Have no anxiety at all.”
If you think that the Second Vatican Council, or the Novus Ordo Mass, or any of the magisterial teachings since St. Pope John XXIII are the cause of the upheaval, you are failing the test. Our Catholic faith teaches us that the Holy Spirit guides all the Councils of the Church. There may be many controversies in them, but the result is Christ’s teaching to His Bride. In addition, Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, and Pope John Paul II –the great defenders of the Council, are canonized saints, a further sign of God’s approval upon their magisterium.
If you say that the hierarchy is destroying the Church, you are forgetting the promise of Jesus: Mt 16:18: “I will build my Church and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.” Shepherds have an important mission, and they can do much harm if they are unfaithful, but the Lord will always prevail.
If you are judging the pope, you are failing the test. The pope can make mistakes, we may disagree in things that are not defined by the magisterium, but we owe him the respect of his office as the vicar of Christ. It would be our loss if we ignore the immense richness of his teachings because there are some that we struggle with.
If you have said that Pope Francis is a false pope and the real one is Benedict XVI, you are failing the test. The pope emeritus wrote:
“it’s actually a straightforward matter… no one has tried to blackmail me. If that had been attempted, I would not have gone, since you are not permitted to leave because you’re under pressure. It’s also not the case that I would have bartered or whatever. On the contrary, the moment had—thanks be to God—a sense of having overcome the difficulties and a mood of peace. A mood in which one really could confidently pass the reins over to the next person.”[5]

Cardinal Sarah: “The truth is that the Church is represented on earth by the Vicar of Christ, that is by the pope. And whoever is against the pope is, ipso facto, outside the Church.[6]”

We will have trials, but the Holy Spirit gives us light and strength in our weaknesses and tendencies, the areas where Satan attacks us. We need to see them and go deep. Are we falling into anger, hate, resentment, cynicism? St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross wrote, “We can turn evil into an opportunity for purification.”

Pope Francis: We need to take up the spiritual means that the Lord himself teaches us: humiliation, self-accusation, prayer, and penance. This is the only way to overcome the spirit of evil. It is how Jesus himself overcame it.

Message from Jesus to Love Crucified Community:

Your power of intercession lies in your willingness to suffer ALL that I permit in your lives as ONE in My sacrifice of love. Your prayers receive the full power of the Holy Spirit in your abandonment to suffer all with Me. As you trust in My love manifested in My great suffering for you, you enter into the mystery of suffering for Love. These are My little victim souls of love that God is raising up to defeat the forces of darkness. Pray with Mary for many more souls to respond to the trumpet-call from heaven. Pray for trust in my love for you to be solid, unshakable. Pray for perseverance for all My victim souls as they are being sent into the battlefield to wage this great battle for souls. Pray for purity of heart so that Satan cannot deceive you. Know that you are My Mother’s white army of victim souls for these decisive times. Pray with My Mother through the power of the oblation of your lives united in My perfect sacrifice of love. Your faith is your protection against the deception of Satan. 10/31/14

God has given us a mission, a way of life. It may appear insignificant, like a mustard seed, but if we believe, we will move mountains. For years the Lord has been telling us about the power of a victim soul united to Him, the power of our ordinary life, the little things that are done for love as ONE with Him.

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The Catechism on the pope

882. The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter’s successor, “is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful.” “For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered.”

937. The pope enjoys, by divine institution, “supreme, full, immediate, and universal power in the care of souls” (CD 2).

2034. The ordinary and universal Magisterium of the Pope and the bishops in communion with him teach the faithful the truth to believe, the charity to practice, the beatitude to hope for.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/07/01/analysis-as-archbishop-vigano-denounces-vatican-ii-the-vatican-is-not-speaking.

[2] Complete Works, Vol 3, 256.

[3] St. Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, "On the Unity of the Catholic Church", n. 4; The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 1, pp. 220-221

[4] SCS, p. 201-202, p. 222, (quoted in Apostolic Digest, by Michael Malone, Book 5: "The Book of Obedience", Chapter 1.

[5] Benedict XVI, Last Testament in His Own Words, with Peter Seewald; p. 24 (Bloomsbury Publishing)

[6] Corriere della Sera, October 7th, 2019; americamagazine.org

Living in the Comfort of the Sacred Heart

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 09:00:00 -0400

Living in the Comfort of the Sacred Heart, Lourdes Pinto, June 10, 2021.

The PATH teaches us how to unite our sufferings to the Cross, thus drawing us to share more intimately in the sufferings of the Sacred Heart. It is here where we receive the warmth of His comfort and come to know His love. Then our darkness is unveiled as we are purified through our sufferings and become the sweet aroma of Christ that comforts those around us.

Living These Decisive Times as One with Christ

Thu, 27 May 2021 09:00:00 -0400

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In the Unity of the Trinity

Thu, 20 May 2021 09:00:00 -0400

In the Unity of the Trinity, Jn 17

Lourdes Pinto, 5/20/21

John 17 is a unique opportunity to see the nature and heart of Jesus.

“Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you” (17:1)

It is the cross (see John 12:27-33, 13:30-33, 21:18-19) that will glorify the Son. The cross was utter humiliation to the world, but it was an instrument of glorification in God’s eyes. This is an aspect of the foolishness and weakness of the cross (1 Corinthians 1:18, 1:23-25).

“And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.” (17:19)

Jesus sanctifies (consecrates) Himself for us, meaning He sacrifices Himself to the Father for us. This perfect consecration of Jesus opened the curtain so that we can participate in the oneness of the Trinity. Yet, this entering into the unity of God is only possible if we, as the Body of Christ, voluntarily choose, for love of God, to participate in His consecration which is His sacrifice. Only through, with, and in Jesus crucified can we enter the inner chamber, which is the Heart of Christ, to live in the embrace of the Father with the Holy Spirit.
“To men, the cross appeared an instrument of shame. To Christ it was the means of true glory.” (Morris)
“But rejoice insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, so that you may also be glad and shout for joy when his glory is revealed.” (1 Peter 4:13)

“I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.” (Col.1:24)

“I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.” (17:26)

The prayer of Jesus in John 17 reveals Divine Love, the Trinity. It is the Holy Spirit, received from the pierced Heart of Jesus crucified, that brings us to KNOW the love of the Son and the Father. It is the Holy Spirit that brings me to PARTICIPATE in the deepest prayer and longing of the Son as I also pray:

“Father, glorify your daughter as one with your Son so that your daughter may glorify you.”
“And for their sakes I sanctify myself through Christ, with Christ and in Christ, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.”

I listen in SA at times to brothers and sisters complaining of their suffering, a tendency that I also see in myself. Yet the Spirit always moves me in spiritual accompaniment to see the glory of that suffering in Christ. If I am suffering great mental and physical exhaustion and this suffering in Christ is bringing graces to my LC family, is it not worth it to me? Is it not an opportunity to glorify the Father and Son? If someone is suffering physical ailments and that suffering saved their soul, is it not worth suffering in gratuitous love? If that physical suffering suffered through Christ, with Christ, and in Christ is saving the souls of their family, is it not an occasion to rejoice? Then why is it so difficult for us?

We are complicated because of sin, and God is SIMPLE. The way to unity is simple, but for us, it’s difficult because of our brokenness, woundedness, self-centeredness, etc.

Let’s journey the Simple Path from its beginning to the summit of unity in the Trinity to understand how God has been guiding us through His Spirit to union in Him—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

My Gaze Penetrates All Darkness, –Simple Path 16, p.59 (ch.2)
My desire for you, My thirst for each of you, is to make you My living icons. My little ones, suffer all with Me, gazing upon My crucified love so that your suffering can perfect your faith and you can become My living chalices poured upon the world, redeeming, restoring, and purifying with Me.
Love on Earth Must Be United to Suffering —#29, p.87
My daughter, the purest love on earth must be united to suffering. I came from heaven to earth to suffer in expiation for the sins of the world. This is love.
Pure love gives itself solely because of love. The love of the Trinity is pure love; therefore, the Father gives His life by giving to the world His only begotten Son. The Holy Spirit—this most pure love—flows, igniting the hearts to suffer with Me, so that they can enter in Love.
The Cross, without My Sacred Heart, is useless suffering brought about by sin. But suffering united to My Cross is new life; it is participation in the work of redemption, which is participation in the life of the Trinity.
These mysteries can be grasped only by a humble heart… Suffer all with perfect faith in My crucified love. (1/13/11)
Martyrdom of the Heart —# 39, p. 139
The martyrdom of the heart is the martyrdom of suffering with Love and for Love. My daughter, if you could only understand the fruit of the martyrdom of suffering, you would desire nothing else on earth. The hidden life of suffering with Love and for Love is of far greater worth than great and small works tainted with human recognition. Believe in the hidden force contained in the martyrdom of the heart. This is the purest fragrance of love that has the power to conquer the enemies of God. (11/9/12)
I Give Myself to the Good and the Bad —#49. Simple Path p. 162
The Eucharist is the power of God in the world. The love of God is the Eucharist and is transmitted through the Eucharist.
Learn about the hidden life by contemplating My Eucharistic life. I am hidden from your human eye but completely present. I am verbally silent, yet My soul speaks to your soul. I am humble, pure, simple, silent, generous, forgiving, merciful, patient, and tender. I give Myself fully to the good and the bad, to the deserving and the undeserving, to those who love Me and to those that persecute Me; for when one is not obedient to the precepts of My Church, I am persecuted. I continue to love those who do not love Me.I continue to love those who use Me. I continue to love the unfaithful. I continue to love those indifferent to My love. I am left alone in the Tabernacles of the world with few who come to be with Me, to adore Me, and to give Me thanks. I cry, but My tears are hidden. I intercede continuously before the throne of our Father for all. My hidden life in the Eucharist is seen by Abba and blessed by Him Who sees all.
Your ordinary and hidden life through the Cross becomes united to My Eucharistic life. Your hidden life takes on the same power as My hidden life because we are no longer two but ONE. These are My living hosts. In this union of love, you enter and live in the realm of God. Through Me, with Me, and in Me, your most ordinary life is the power of God. Your thoughts, words, deeds, but most especially your tears and sorrows of heart, possess the power of God to bless the world. Your hidden life not seen by anyone is seen by God and, through Me, with Me and in Me, He blesses many. Your life, as ONE with My Eucharistic life, moves beyond time and space.
Ponder My Eucharistic life with the Holy Spirit and Mary. I desire for you to help Me form many living hosts to shine the light of God and to pierce the darkness. You grow in holiness as your hidden life is lived to greater perfection in My hidden life. (7/5/12)

John 17:4 “I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do.”

Participate in My Body and Blood — p. 168
In order for you to become ONE BODY, ONE BLOOD in Me, you must respond to become My victim of love, a victim united as ONE to The Victim. What is required of My creature is her response, her “Fiat,” then the power of My Spirit, the Holy Spirit, brings about this perfect union.
The Ecstasy of the Love of God Transforms the Pain into the Sword of the Spirit —#72 p.217
Some saints received the stigmata with the physical pain of the nail wounds, but ALL My saints were crucified with Me mystically through My nails. The mystical crucifixion is no less real and painful than the physical one, just as the white martyrdom is no less real and painful than the red martyrdom.
Unity in the Holy Trinity is the fruit of becoming one with Me in My crucifixion, for this is perfect love. The ecstasy of the love of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit transforms the pain into the Sword of the Spirit that pierces the darkness of Satan. This union of Love is achieved by few because of a lack of perseverance and selfless love.
A saint who becomes one in My crucified love has the power to transform an entire society. I am raising up My saints for the decisive times at hand to fight My holy war and usher in the era of peace. (12/28/14)

The Fusion of Hearts Is the Kiss of Union —#79 p.230
The fusion of hearts takes place through the sword of suffering as ONE. It is through the union in suffering that you die more-and-more to self until it is no longer you who live but I Who live in you… The fusion of hearts is the kiss of union, the embrace of the Holy Spirit, the embrace of Love. (12/3/12)

Abandon Yourselves —#80 p.231
Abandon yourself simply by accepting all the way that it is given to you… Give yourself completely, serving all for love of Me. The mission will move forward according to My plan and Will. You are called to be love by sacrificing yourself completely for Love. This simple abandonment in each of the circumstances of your lives that I have placed you in will produce the hidden force needed to conquer the darkness covering the earth. Abandon yourselves to love the most difficult ones closest to you. Kiss My pierced feet each morning; and set yourselves out like warriors on a mission to serve with love, patience, tenderness—be slow to anger. (2/26/11)

Silence —#82, p. 233
In the fire of My Sacred Heart, you come to know personally the Holy Spirit. Now you have ascended into the silence of the Trinity. In the Holy Spirit, you possess Me and the Father as One. The Spirit now lives in you and you in Him. You are ONE.
This divine dimension is SILENCE. When you enter this divine union in silence, the soul must be careful to nurture it. Careless speech and careless activity can bring the soul out of this divine dimension of silence. (7/22/11)

Drawn into the Unity of the Trinity -- 85, 86, 87

What Is True Unity? #85 P.240
The Father and I are ONE; the Father in Me and I in Him with the Holy Spirit (cf. Jn 17). The union of the Trinity is pure love. I came upon the earth to draw you into union with the Most Holy Trinity through the Cross—no longer two but ONE.[1] It is in this union that love exists.
Only from this union of love with your Triune God can unity exist in My Body, the Church. It is through My life in the Eucharist that I become One with you, but it is only through your participation in My Eucharistic life that you become One in Me. This participation can take place only by entering the Cross of new life, My crucified love. (11/23/11)

How to Respond to Christ’s Desire for Unity —#87. p.241
I desire to draw you into true unity, the unity of the love of the Most Holy Trinity. The union of sorrows will bring you into the union of Love. The gaze of the Father is upon you. Be love. Live solely for Love, forgetting yourself.
My Lord, how do I live solely for Love, forgetting myself?
Live to please Me. To live in the unity of the Trinity is to live gazing at the Father, through the Son, to please Him in all things. (3/18/12)

Living Hosts, The Hidden Force Which is the Eucharist 8-2-12

During cenacle I saw a Host as if suspended in the sky. Then the Host was filled, consumed w the Light of Jesus. Then I felt the gaze of the Father upon His Son in the Eucharist, and the Light of the Father came as a beam of radiant Light to His Eucharistic Son. Then the Light of the Holy Spirit issued out of the Eucharist. Then I saw a human body. It was not any one person in particular, so I understood that this person represented all of us. The Light of the Eucharistic Jesus penetrated fully and was consumed in this person. I felt the gaze of the Father upon His Son fully one with this person. This human person was the living tabernacle containing the life and light of Jesus. Then the light and power of the HS issued forth from this person.

I understood that the Lord was giving me an interior vision of the spiritual reality of a living host. It is only the love of God that can penetrate the darkness. God was revealing to me the life and unity of the Trinity through their Light. The love of God is a continuous flow and unity of love between the Father, Son, and HS.

As our hidden life becomes one with Jesus’ hidden life in the Eucharist, He becomes one with us. The gaze of the Father is always on His Son. Therefore, His gaze is then set upon us, for we are one with Jesus. Then the love of the Father and the Son, which is the HS, can consume us and flow from us to the world.

As living hosts, our lives enter the realm of God and, therefore can affect the world according to the desire of God Himself. Our hidden and ordinary lives become the hidden force of the Light and love of the Trinity. This is the hidden force which is the Eucharist, and the hidden force which has the power to penetrate the darkness of Satan.

[1] Cf. Eph 2:15-16.

Holy Spirit Received Fully Through the Mystical Incarnation

Thu, 13 May 2021 09:00:00 -0400

Mystical Incarnation, Fullness of the Holy Spirit

Lourdes Pinto, 5/13/21

“Unless one is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.” (John 3:5)

Abba, our beloved Father, did not send us His only begotten Son only to forgive our sins; He did not send Him only to open our eyes to see the Kingdom of God, but also to take us, through Christ crucified, into the Kingdom of God.

It is not enough to want to see Jesus.

John 12:21 – “They came to Philip and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”

Jesus answers in a way that can seem odd to us: “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.” (Jn 12:33)

It is not enough to see Jesus. Many people saw Jesus; they saw Him perform great miracles, and yet they didn’t become “witnesses.” They didn’t follow Him. “Though he had done so many signs before them, yet did not believe in him.” (Jn 12:37).

To partake in the hour of Jesus is to ALLOW the Holy Spirit to unite us to His crucified love.

The Holy Spirit desires to purify us so that we can ENTER the Holy of Holies; enter the union of Love.

Jesus to Love Crucified: This mission is My thirst in the depth of My Sacred Heart for unity in Love. That is, unity in the love of the Most Holy Trinity. 6/12/12

A thick curtain separated the Holy of Holies from the Holy Place. This curtain was known as the “veil.” The word “veil” in Hebrew means a screen, divider, or separator that hides. What was this curtain hiding? Essentially, it was shielding a holy God from sinful man. The presence of God remained shielded from men behind a thick curtain during the history of Israel. However, Jesus’ sacrificial death on the Cross changed that. When He died, the curtain in the Jerusalem temple was torn from the top to the bottom.

We can now boldly enter God’s presence, “the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf.” (Hebrews 6:19-20)

“Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body …let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith.” (Hebrews 10:19-22)

The Catechism CC #1239 teaches us concerning baptism:

It (baptism) signifies and actually brings about death to sin and entry into the life of the Most Holy Trinity through configuration to the Paschal mystery of Christ.

It is the Holy Spirit that brings us into the Holy of Holies by uniting us to Jesus crucified. As we become one with The Crucified, which is becoming one with Love, through Him, with Him, and in Him, we enter the Holy of Holies into the Father’s loving embrace. We begin to possess the Trinity through Christ’s mystical incarnation in us. This is what it means to “enter the Kingdom of God.” This is “Thy Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.”

Jn 12:32 “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

The era of the Holy Spirit is approaching

Message of Jesus to LC:4/21/21

The Holy Spirit is not known yet, but the era of the Holy Spirit is approaching. He is one with the Incarnation of Jesus on earth. The incarnation takes place through the power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father and Son; they are inseparable. When Jesus is Incarnated in Mary’s womb, the Holy Spirit is present as one in Christ. It is through the incarnation that Mary receives the fullness of the Trinity. She is the first to live the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. The Incarnation of Jesus brings the mystical (indwelling) of the Trinity on earth. This reality of the Holy Spirit is still not known, yet it is the reality that God’s saints of the end times will live to usher into the world the Kingdom of God.

Jn 16:24 – “Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.”

This JOY is the fruit of the Spirit mentioned by St Paul to the Galatians (Gal. 5:22-23). In fact, joy comes 2^nd between love and peace. This supernatural joy comes from living in the unity of the Trinity. Experiencing the love of the three Persons of the Trinity and remaining in the embrace of the Spirit brings forth the joy that remains even amidst persecution, hardships, trials.

Mystical Incarnation –Blessed Conchita: Conchita a Mother’s Spiritual Diary,

Jesus tells Conchita: The mystical incarnation is a grace of transformation in view of an assimilation of the creature with its model Jesus, who I am. It is a transforming grace of union. (p.157)

Jesus goes on to tell her, The Word became flesh and becomes flesh again in souls only to be crucified. It is the purpose of all mystical incarnations. (p.159)

The Holy Spirit will reign (a new Pentecost) the day when My sacrifice of suffering will also reign: the Cross in hearts. In so far as the Cross will not reign in souls, the Holy Spirit, He too will not reign. (p.252)

In the mystical incarnations of the Word, do not believe that I am alone, rather all the Trinity of Divine Persons is present, but each person operating according to its properties: The Father, as Father, engendering, the Word as Son being born; and the Holy Spirit fertilizing this divine action in the soul. (Diary T. 49, p. 5-6, Sept. 22, 1927).

Ask for the MYSTICAL INCARNATION and receive, that your joy may be full!

The Holy Spirit at Work in the Shake-ups of Our Lives –II

Wed, 05 May 2021 09:00:00 -0400

The Spirit at Work in the Shake-Ups of Life- part II

Lourdes Pinto and Fr. Jordi Rivero 5/3/21

The Holy Spirit is God’s gift to us from His pierced Heart on the Cross where He hung as a total failure in the eyes of the world. The Holy Spirit is our closest divine Companion. He is our guide, teacher, spiritual director, friend, help, light … He is the Transformer. He is the one that consumes us in His fire of love bringing forth our death in Christ crucified so that we can then be raised with Christ as a new creation.

As long as we hold on to our expectations about what constitutes our success, our being useful, even our holiness, we are blocking the Spirit.

Think of your lives as a candle. Until the wick is lit, it is useless; its true purpose has not begun. When we “rekindle the gift of God that is within” (2 Timothy 1:6), we are set on fire with the Holy Spirit. He begins to consume us as a candle is consumed before the Blessed Sacrament. The Holy Spirit melts our pride, self-love, vanity, desires, plans, expectations, control, and attachments until our self has melted. We no longer live, it is Christ who lives through us, with us, and in us. The Holy Spirit transforms us into living hosts, and the Eucharistic Reign of Christ triumphs in us and through us. This is the great gift of the Holy Spirit.

Our shake-ups, crisis, trials, burnout, whatever we wish to call it, is a BLESSING.

A priest may be tempted to think that his greatness is measured by his abilities as a homilist, administrator, counselor, healer…. that, to be born again, to be a great priest, he must achieve the expectations of his superiors, or most often, his own disordered expectations. Yet God calls all of us to excel in a different way, by humbly embracing our misery, our brokenness, by accepting humbly our limitations.

St. Faustina believed she was offering Jesus everything when she said:

1318 O my Jesus, in thanksgiving for Your many graces, I offer You my body and soul, intellect and will, and all the sentiments of my heart. Through the vows, I have given myself entirely to You; I have then nothing more that I can offer You. Jesus said to me, My daughter, you have not offered Me that which is really yours. I probed deeply into myself and found that I love God with all the faculties of my soul and, unable to see what it was that I had not yet given to the Lord, I asked, “Jesus, tell me what it is, and I will give it to You at once with a generous heart.” Jesus said to me with kindness, Daughter, give Me your misery, because it is your exclusive property.

Perhaps that is the hardest to give the Lord. Yet the Lord loves us as we are. He knows our brokenness and will make us saints through our trusting surrender.

To receive the gift of the Holy Spirit is to allow Him to complete this work of redemption in us with no resistance as the candle allows itself to be consumed by the fire.

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit.” Acts 7:51

Holy Spirit, consumes all, transforms all, into Love, Message of 2/16/12

I Am the Light of God. The Fire in the burning bush that Moses saw was the Fire of the Spirit of God, the third Person of the Most Holy Trinity. It is My Fire of Love that consumes all and draws all into union with the Father through the Son. The gaze of Jesus is My Light penetrating your heart and being. The Words of Jesus are My Fire consuming you in Love and blessing you with wisdom, understanding, knowledge and fear of the Lord. I Am the breadth of the Son, that is why He breathed on His apostles My life. I Am the Fire of Love in the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I Am the Love of the Father and the Son. I, the Holy Spirit, consumes all, transforms all, into Love... It is I Who sets on fire every particle of your being in the Love of the Father and Son...

It is I, consumed in the Son as ONE with the Father and Son, who moves the Son to lay down His life for Love. It is I Who moves you to lay down your life as ONE with the Son. Remain in Me as I desire to remain in you. Allow Me, like Mary, to consume you. Do not give Me any resistance.

To live totally docile to the Holy Spirit with no resistance is to accept all, the good and what we perceive as bad, with complete abandonment and trust, believing in God’s love for us expressed in His passion and cross.

Faith Perfected —Diary of a MOC. The Simple Path p310 #115.

Your faith is perfected in suffering and trials. Perfect faith is complete abandonment to My Father’s Will in all things through your union in Me. Therefore, your growth in faith is dependent on the abandonment of your will to Me and also on your knowledge of My perfect love for you.

The shedding of layers of attachments to your will, which is self-love, takes place as you begin to trust in My love for you. This is why suffering all your sorrows with Me is so beneficial for your soul, because, in that process, you touch the open wounds of My love for you. This perfects a soul quickly in abandonment and trust until you come to experience all, the good and what you perceive as bad, as a gift of My love for you.

The gift of knowing with your mind, heart, and soul that the love of God only desires to make of you the new creation you were created to be from the beginning of time, a creation in the image and likeness of God as holy sons and daughters of the Most High. This is why I came upon the earth: to set you free from the bondage of sin, to make of you a new creation, and draw you into the ONENESS of the Most Holy Trinity to experience holy bliss for all eternity. What greater love is there than this? (12/14/11)

Lyrics for Song:

CRISTO ROTO

Broken Christ

Text and music: Maria Hickein

Soy el Cristo roto, mutilado por el pecado...

I am the broken Christ, maimed by sin...

¿Quién Me quiere consolar?

Who wants to comfort Me?

Todo flagelado, desfigurado, tan maltratado...

All flagellated, disfigured, so mistreated ...

¿Quién Me viene a acompañar?

Who comes to accompany Me?

Como un mendigo implorando compasión...

Like a beggar seeking compassion...

Soy ese amigo que te dio Su corazón...

I am that friend that gave you His heart...

Soy el Cristo roto, olvidado, tan despreciado...

I am the broken Christ, maimed by sin...

¿Quién Me quiere ir a buscar?

Who wants to go looking for Me?

Vivo encadenado, amordazado, encarcelado...

I live chained, gagged, imprisoned ...

¿Quién Me pone en libertad?

Who sets Me free?

Muero de frío por no hallar un corazón

I'm dying of cold for not finding a heart.

que busque al Mío y Me abrigue con su amor...

who looks for Mine and who shelters Me with his love...

Soy tu Cristo roto, rechazado,

I am your Christ - broken and rejected-

fui traicionado con un beso sin amor

I was betrayed with a kiss without love

Soy tu Cristo herido, humillado, abandonado,

I am your Christ - wounded, humiliated, abandoned-

¿Quién repara esta traición?

Who repairs this betrayal?

Busco al amigo con quien compartir Mi sed

I am looking for a friend to share My thirst with

y que Conmigo se crucifique también...

and that, with Me, also crucifies himself...

Otro Cristo roto...

Another broken Christ...

The Holy Spirit at Work in the Shake-ups of Our Lives. – I

Tue, 04 May 2021 09:00:00 -0400

The Spirit at Work in the Shake-Ups of Life- part I

Lourdes Pinto and Fr. Jordi Rivero, 5/3/21

John 3:1-15

“Unless one is born anew, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” (3:3)

“Unless one is born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.” (3:5)

To see and to enter the Kingdom of God is our greatest desire. We pray daily, “Thy Kingdom Come!” But, like Nicodemus, we are tempted to doubt that we can really see or enter the Kingdom, given our brokenness and our sins. We have tried for years only to find ourselves frustrated and disillusioned.

Jesus tells us that we enter the Kingdom by being born anew of water and Spirit. But we have been baptized, confirmed, ordained… and still do not seem to experience the promised new life. Those sacraments are essential, but something else is needed. We received the Holy Spirit through them, but we now need to allow a spark of His grace to release all that power.

We learn from the saints who also had their trials, struggled, and experienced defeat. It was when their human efforts were exhausted, including their well-intended hard work for the sake of the Kingdom, that they finally abandoned themselves to God in a way that they were previously unable to do. God permits the shake-ups for a powerful release of the Spirit.

You have suffered trials, and you may feel defeated. You are in good company. Look at Saint Ignatius of Loyola. He had lofty dreams, but his good plans were rooted in his ego, just like it happens to us. God blesses him with a great “shake up” and his life dreams are shattered. At first, he lived in anger, blaming, resentment and self-pity, but eventually, through the grace of God, he opens his heart for the Spirit of God to start a fire within him. A new vision, a new direction in life. The graces of his sacraments begin to be released in a new powerful way. He is “born anew.” His Spiritual Exercises, which you know well, are his experience of the process of dying to self y rising to a new life in the Holy Spirit which transforms him into a new creation in Christ. His Spiritual exercises are not a technique. St Ignatius believed that the Spirit guides the process and we need to learn to be attentive, listen and to let go of our expectations and control. It is a path of faith towards being born anew, to receive the first fruits of seeing and entering the Kingdom.

The key to holiness is to trust in the Lord as He allows our own crisis in life to shake us up. Another exemplar of this grace is St. Alfonso Rodriguez. He was inconsolable when his wife and three children died. Then he lost his business and saw himself as a failure. The widower spent sad and lonely years in prayer, not knowing what good could come from his life. But God used this crisis to draw Alfonso into an intimate relationship with Him. He then wanted to give himself to God as a Jesuit but was rejected due to his poor health and limited education. He spent two years seeking the education necessary to become a priest, but again the fathers who examined him came to a negative conclusion. Finally, the provincial recognized his holiness and permitted him to enter the Society of Jesus as a brother. Did he finally achieve recognition in an influential position? No. Instead, he spent the rest of his life as a humble doorkeeper at a school. As St Alfonso abandoned himself to accept God’s will for his life, his daily seemingly monotonous and tedious work gave glory to God. Alfonso saw everyone who knocked at the door as the Lord himself. By letting go of his expectations for his life, he allowed the Lord to transform him according to God’s desire for his life and not his own. He became a saint who influenced many, including St. Peter Claver. God allowed St. Alfonso to be recognized as a saint so that we could discover the value of trials and the hidden life that all of us live, yet many times we reject it because our egos desire greatness according to our standards. In the ways of God, the hidden life is the path to holiness and greatness.

Perseverance in the Ordinary. — Simple Path p.154

It is in the most ordinary and hidden life that a soul encounters the face of God. I disguise Myself in what the world sees as tedious. That is why all the Mothers of the Cross have begun to encounter Me in the laundry, cleaning, cooking, nursing…

You Always Resist the Holy Spirit

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:00:00 -0400

You Always Resist the Holy Spirit (Acts7:51)

Cenacle 4/22/21

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit.” Acts 7:51.

St. Stephen, like Moses (Ex Ch 33-34), calls the Israelites “stiff-necked people.” They think they are God’s people because they are circumcised in the flesh, but Stephen points out that they have uncircumcised hearts. That is why they resist the Holy Spirit. The same is true for us. To be able to receive the Holy Spirit, our hearts must first be circumcised.

God has given His mustard seed The Simple Path as the path for the circumcision of our hearts. This is the only way to become and grow as God’s people. A circumcised heart is open, exposed, and docile to the guidance of the Holy Spirit that can then take us into the Kingdom of God (JN 3:5), into the Holy of Holies, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to be consumed in the Trinity.

It is the heart within us, not the exterior flesh, that needs to be circumcised. That is why God has not formed us with many exterior practices, such as endless novenas, consecrations, 40-day fasts, etc. It does not mean that we do not benefit from those practices. In fact, to begin The Simple Path, we prepare for 33 days for our consecration to Mary. Many in our community are consecrating themselves to St. Joseph. All these are indeed beneficial but are not enough.

The Pharisees had many exterior practices, many prayers, cleansing rituals, fasts ... yet, Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, calls them “stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in the heart that resist the Holy Spirit.” In our broken humanity, we can perform many exterior pious practices and live opposing the Holy Spirit because, interiorly, our hearts remain hardened and in darkness. All of us, to some extent, resist the Holy Spirit because of our self-willfulness, even though we are not conscious of it.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.” Mt 23:25

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of filth.” Mt 23:27

“‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.” Mt 15:8-9

To live totally docile to the Holy Spirit with no resistance is to accept all, the good and the bad that comes to us, with complete abandonment and trust. This is to live in the will of God. We can only do this when we believe in God’s love for us, expressed in His passion and Cross.

“The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Jn 3:8

JN 6:35 “I am the bread of life, he who comes to me shall not hunger and he who believes in me shall never thirst.”

It is beautiful and significant that the Church united these two scripture passages, Acts 7:51 and Jn 6:35, in the liturgy of the Mass. What do they have in common? In order for us to believe that Christ IS the Bread of Life, we each must ALLOW the Holy Spirit to circumcise our hearts.

The Holy Spirit desires to prepare our hearts so that the “Bread of Life” can enter our hearts.

The Holy Spirit desires to empty our hearts so that the “Bread of Life” can fill our hearts.

The Holy Spirit, according to our docility, consumes us in Himself so that we can love and desire Jesus Eucharist with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength.

The Holy Spirit is the Person of the Trinity that performs the circumcision of our hearts, thus preparing our hearts to be transformed through Jesus Eucharist into His living hosts.

“He who believes” (Jn 6:35)

What is required? To BELIEVE with all our heart and mind in Christ fully present Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity in the Eucharist. A belief consumed in the fire of the Spirit so that we NEVER move out of God’s peace. Everything, the good and the perceived bad, the storms and trials of life, are lived in perfect peace and joy, for we possess the LIVING BREAD!

Belief opens the way to trust beyond our expectations. The Spirit takes us beyond the sphere of what we had considered God’s will and reveals the truth in a deeper way. The truth does not change, but the Spirit takes us deeper into it. If our hearts are not circumcised, they cannot grow. We reject any new understanding.

Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.

116. What it Means to Believe —Diary of a MOC. P.311

What does it mean to believe in the One sent by God to the world? In order to believe in the Word of God, your heart must be pure. It is only through the Spirit that you can believe My Word, not with your mind but with your heart. My Word is My life that must touch the depth of your heart. A hardened heart cannot feel the touch of My living Word. The intellect can receive My Word and manipulate it, but the Spirit penetrates a heart with My Word and transforms it.

To believe is to abandon yourself to Me so that I can make you a new creation through My Spirit. What is required to believe? Humility and simplicity. That is why I say you must be like a child to truly come to believe and follow Me. You believe with the heart as you encounter the living God before you, as you hear His voice and gaze into His eyes. That is why it is only the pure of heart who can see, hear and truly know God.

Therefore, My daughter, tell My sons to be humble as I am humble, to rely on My Spirit teaching them and not on their own understanding, for their understanding is very limited, but My understanding will bring them to encounter the living God and possess the life of the Most Holy Trinity. (4/25/11)

The condition of our hearts is directly related to our capacity to believe. The purer our hearts become, the greater our faith.

Jesus teaches us that to believe with our intellect is not enough. We need to believe with our hearts. Believing with our hearts draws us to ENCOUNTER the living God. It is in the heart that we can feel the touch of Christ and hear His voice.

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by reason but by the heart.” - Blaise Pascal.

It is the Holy Spirit that PENETRATES our hearts if we allow Him to transform us in Christ.

Holy Spirit consumes all, transforms all, into Love

Message of 2/16/12

I Am the Light of God. The Fire in the burning bush that Moses saw was the Fire of the Spirit of God, the third Person of the Most Holy Trinity. It is My Fire of Love that consumes all and draws all into union with the Father through the Son. The gaze of Jesus is My Light penetrating your heart and being. The Word of Jesus is My Fire consuming you in Love and blessing you with wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and fear of the Lord. I Am the breadth of the Son, that is why He breathed on His apostles My life. I Am the Fire of Love in the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I Am the Love of the Father and the Son. I, the Holy Spirit, consumes all, transforms all, into Love... It is I Who sets on fire every particle of your being in the Love of the Father and Son...

It is I, consumed in the Son as ONE with the Father and Son, Who moves the Son to lay down His life for Love. It is I Who moves you to lay down your life as ONE with the Son. Remain in Me as I desire to remain in you. Allow Me, like Mary, to consume you. Do not give Me any resistance.

Calm Dignity Amidst Great Adversity

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:00:00 -0400

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Virtue of Poverty – VI

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 09:00:00 -0400

The Virtue of Poverty VI

Poverty of Persecution

Holy Week 2021

Lourdes Pinto & Fr. Jordi Rivero

We have a Choice

The rich young man, we read, “went away sad.” He had good reason to be. He had been loved by Christ, sought out by Him. He had received from Christ a silent declaration of love, in a single glance: “looking at him, Jesus loved him” (Mk10:21). His wealth prevented him from receiving it. (Poverty p.52)

The choice is still open. The living, risen Christ is still walking by and calling people. It is up to us to choose between the two destinies: that of the rich young man or that of the apostles. (Poverty, p.53)

“You cannot serve God and wealth.”

In the account of Jesus’ birth, we see two starkly contrasting worlds: one symbolized by the inn, the other by the stable where He is born. The first world is all light, comfort, and activity; people are eating, drinking, enjoying themselves. Rich people dressed in lavish clothes, with heavy purses on their belts, dismount from their horses and come and go at will. In the Second World, on the other hand, all is poverty, darkness, cold, and discomfort. A young woman, silently accompanied by her husband, is about to give birth to her first child. They are forced to share bed and board with the animals. (p.59)

Christmas is a mystery. His presence alone reveals two different worlds. And we are called to take a stand, to decide which of the two worlds we wish to belong to. (p.60)

The Gospel never condemns earthly goods and riches in themselves. One of Jesus’s friends is Joseph of Arimathea, “a rich man” (Mt 27: 57). What Christ condemns is attachment to money and goods, trust in them as if “one’s life depended on them” (Lk 12: 15). Such wealth is variously called “deceptive” (Mt 13: 22), “foolishness” (Lk12: 20), an obstacle that brings the threat of “woe” (Lk6: 24). (p.62)

An English businessman wrote: “Money is a tainted thing, and the only way in which I will not be tainted by it is to use it honestly and generously. I must see it as a means to do good for others and not as the foundation of my own happiness and security. I am only a steward called by God to use the talents and wealth that he has loaned me to build his Kingdom here on earth. I shall be judged for my stewardship and not for my wealth. I cannot use money to pay for a better lawyer, nor to bribe the judge. I can only use it to lay up treasure for myself in heaven by every little act of love and unselfishness towards the least of Jesus’ brothers and sisters whom he sent to me for help.” (p.70)

We must live the virtue of poverty and let it challenge and judge us.

Spiritual Poverty of “First World”

“You say: ‘I am rich, I have prospered and I need nothing” (Rv 3:17) Today, behind that “you” lies an entire civilization glorying in its breathtaking technological achievements. It too is tempted to think of itself as rich, in need of nothing, not even God. This is why the risen Lord’s reply is for our world to: “you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind and naked” (Rv 3:17). This is exactly the spiritual poverty of our so-called “First World”! (Poverty, p.85)

· 5/31/2010 Memorial Day

Prophecy for USA/ Missionaries of the Cross

You, My nation of the USA, have forsaken Me, your God. You have made materialism your god. You have made yourselves your own God. You have slaughtered My innocent little ones and their precious blood cries out to Me. You have turned your face from Me. Now I will turn My face from you during the time of the great chastisement. My daughter, raise up My army of holy ones. You must speak My words of warning, for I, your Lord and your God, loves you. You must tell them to open their eyes to Love Crucified, to unite themselves to Love Crucified, for it is only in this way that the power of My Cross will triumph over the evil that prevails…

Persecution

Pope Francis, On the path of poverty, Thursday, October 18, 2018

The passage from the Gospel of Luke (10, 1-9), points out that, “when the Lord sends his seventy-two disciples, he sends them “in poverty”, he gives them advice on poverty». It is "the poverty of the disciple: the path of the disciple, the Lord wants him to be poor." If a disciple is attached to money, to wealth, he "is not a true disciple"

"There is another form of poverty" that we can recognize in Jesus' own words: "Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves." (v3) It is "the poverty of persecutions, the disciples of the Lord persecuted because of the Gospel: even today there are many slandered."

“Yesterday, in the Synod hall, a bishop of one of these countries where there is persecution, spoke of a Catholic boy kidnapped by a group of young people who hated the Church, fundamentalists; He was beaten and then thrown into a cistern and then they threw mud and at the end, when the mud had reached his neck, they asked him for the last time: "Do you renounce Jesus Christ?" And he said: "No!" So they "threw a stone and killed him."

"But there are other persecutions," the Pope continued. Beginning with the "persecution of slander, rumors and Christians are silent, they tolerate this" poverty "". Yes, he added, "sometimes you have to defend yourself so as not to cause a scandal." There are "small persecutions in the neighborhood, in the parish: small, but they are proof of poverty." And “it is the second mode of poverty that the Lord asks of us: humbly receive persecution, tolerate persecution. This is poverty.

· 1/30/18 –Diary of a MOC, “Mission of the 12”

All who are chosen by God to fulfill His plan on earth are hated by some, rejected by others, ill-treated, persecuted, for I came upon the earth to set one against another, for the ways of God will never be accepted nor appreciated by those who live for the things of this world.

Mathew 10

Verses 5-15 – Mission of the Twelve

Verses 16-25 – Coming Persecution:

–21 Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death; 22 and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

–34 Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; 36 and a man’s foes will be those of his own household.

• Will you continue to love and be faithful to My mission when you are persecuted and misunderstood, many times by those closest to you? (Simple Path, p37, #9)

• 42. Grace Through the Hidden Life of Suffering —Diary of a MOC.p145

My little ones, do not be discouraged, for I am doing something new. You are My little servants of love despised and misunderstood by the world. Remain in Me and I in you so that the power of God will flow as living water to My Church. Do not be afraid or discouraged for being rejected and not accepted. Do you not see that this is the way of love, the way of the Cross? It is precisely on this path of rejection and humiliations that you will purchase for the world many graces.

When we choose to live our lives as Christ’s disciples in purity lived out daily by chaste lives, listening to pure music, watching TV shows and movies that are pure, dressing in modesty, speaking words always that bring peace and never gossiping, etc., we will be misunderstood, criticized… When we live simply and poor, we will annoy those around us choosing and desiring the excess and riches of the world. As Jesus has taught in the Gospel, those living in His Light agitate and anger those choosing to remain in the darkness of the world.

This persecution is also lived in community when you encounter envy in the hearts of brothers and sisters when your good intentions are judged and criticized.

• V.24 A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master; 25 it is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household

• A victim soul must fix his eyes on Christ, must desire with all his being to become one with his Master. (1/30/18)

Verses 26-33 – Fear Not

Verses 34-39 – Take Up Your Cross

•V.37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38 and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

This is the poverty of surrendering all –– children, spouses, community, parents, apostolates…–– to follow Christ, to place all our hope in the God who loves us and sent us His only begotten Son.

—The Third Nail Brings Us to Perfect Unity—

The Nail of Persecution (Simple Path p. 215)

• 70. As They Persecuted Me… —Diary of a MOC.

As they persecuted Me, they will persecute you. As they hated Me, they will hate you. This last nail fuses your heart to My Sacred Heart: you love as one with Me all the enemies of God, and thus complete your crucifixion in Me, and the triumph of God’s love is manifested through you in the unity of My Body. Prepare yourself in silence and prayer to live the last stage of My Divine Path. (5/26/14)

• 71. All Will Be Called to Suffer Persecution —Diary of a MOC.

The time is at hand when all will be called to suffer persecution for My sake. This time of persecution will divide My followers into two camps: those with Me and those against Me. Few will remain with Me in the time of the great tribulation. You, My little ones, are being prepared for this time. Your lives lived in humility and purity of heart, united to Me, will be the light in this darkness. Your lives hidden and transformed in My crucified love will usher in the New Pentecost for the world. (2/25/14)

St. Paul writes to the Hebrews 10:32-36 regarding persecution:

But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. For you had compassion on the prisoners, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one. Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised.

3/29/11 Missionaries of the Cross (expose the darkness)

6/29/12

You have been chosen by the Father as My prophet of light. The light shines and pierces the darkness. As My prophet of light, you are called to expose the darkness in the hearts of My ministers. You are called to expose their impurity, their lack of holiness, for they seek places and titles of honor. How many seek poverty? How many seek exhaustion? How many seek Truth by spending hours daily with Me, Truth itself? How many seek to serve the poor?

My Missionaries of the Cross are My Apostles of Light during this time of great darkness. They will expose the darkness of sin in the hearts of My ministers and bring them to repentance at the foot of My Cross. They will lead them through the Cross to transformation in Me. Do not be afraid of rejection and persecution, for you each are called to be ONE with the Crucified...

11/3/19

My little one, much will have to take place on earth before the establishment of My Eucharistic Reign. You (plural) are My saints of the end times united as one with the holy saints in heaven. Because My saints on earth are united to My sacrifice of love in your abandonment to suffer with Me, your prayers are powerful before the throne of Abba. Know, My little one, that your prayers are continuously before the throne of our Father as pure incense. He delights in your prayers, and He hears the cry of the poor. The poor are not only the poor of body but also the poor of spirit – those who have died to themselves so that I can live in them and through them. Much affliction must take place on earth because of the rebelliousness of the human heart, but God, in His infinite mercy and goodness, will bless the prayers of His saints –past, present, and future -- and establish His Kingdom on earth. Be at peace with complete abandonment to the God who loves you and listens to the cry of the poor. Persevere in your own crucifixion for the glory of God and the establishment of His Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Go in peace to be My Light in the world.

Virtue of Poverty – V

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:00:00 -0400

The Virtue of Poverty V

“Follow the naked Christ in nakedness”

5^th week of Lent 2021

Lourdes Pinto & Fr. Jordi Rivero

1/30/18 Diary of a MOC, “Mission of the 12”: Mt 10:1-24

My disciples wear My yoke – the wood of the Cross, united to Me. I am their All.

Fr Raniero Cantalamessa, Poverty:

Poverty and the Cross

Poverty has followed Christ even unto the cross. It was here that He really “espoused” poverty. Henceforth one cannot choose the one without the other: neither Christ without poverty, nor poverty without Christ. (p49)

If we observe the lives of the greatest lovers of poverty in the history of the Church, we see at once that love for Christ- the desire to “follow the naked Christ in nakedness”- as The Imitation of Christ says- lies at the heart of everything. (p50)

In the light of all this, poverty appears not so much as a virtue or a council, or an aesthetical ideal, or even only as a charism, but as an intimate sharing in the mystery of the person of Christ, and by that very fact, in the mystery of His Bride, the Church. (p50)

96. As a Spouse, Your Life Must Be Lived to Console Him —Diary of a MOC. p.269

During the Consecration of the Mass, I felt God the Father speak in my soul. He said, “Are you now ready to become My Son’s sacrifice of love? …You can no longer be concerned about what others think of you nor your reputation; you can be concerned only with pleasing My Son. You are no longer His handmaid but His spouse. As His spouse, your life must be lived to console Him and to be faithful out of love to His desires.” (2/19/11)

Poverty, the treasured Pearl

· “the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field which someone has found … he goes off joyfully, sells everything he owns and buys the field” (Mt 13:44). Jesus says that the man sold everything, not in order to look for treasure, but because he had found it. Poverty is not the price we must pay in return for the Kingdom. It is the effect, not the cause, of the Kingdom’s arrival. (P.44, Poverty)

· I have found the Pearl of great value- poverty.

Jesus Christ, our God, becomes poor. The perfect expression of His poverty is his obedience unto the Cross. He is crucified naked. His nakedness is the ultimate expression of his poverty. He voluntarily allows Himself to be stripped of all his glory and power. The poverty of his nakedness reveals our pride, vanity, sensuality, self-love…

When the treasured pearl of poverty is found in Jesus crucified, the soul must be willing to sell everything in order to possess this pearl. I must allow and cooperate with the Holy Spirit to strip me of everything that is mine – material things as well as the more difficult interior things: desires, expectations, securities (worldly as well as talents…), opinions, plans, reputation, knowledge, a total abasement. This can only happen through the burning flame of the Holy Spirit.

– St John of the Cross calls spiritual poverty “nakedness,” which he defines as the renunciations of those goods which can remain in the soul, such as desires, appetites, and consolations. (p113, Poverty)

– 2^nd Nail of Purification: Simple Path To Union With God

* Now we no longer feel His consolations as we used to, and we must walk in the darkness of faith in perfect trust. We still have emotions, but now, having experienced profound intimacy with God, our union is no longer contingent on consolations (2^nd degree of poverty). (p.209)

* You now live in peace in the darkness of faith without My sweet consolations… (Simple Path # 67, p.209)

* 69. Desolation United to Me —Diary of a MOC.

In times of desolation, your life has the greatest power and is most fecund. In My desolation on the Cross, My life shone most brilliantly the love of God the Father. My desolation made My faith in My Father radiate its perfection.

–Through My desolation, I gave birth to My Church and all her sacraments.

–Through My desolation, I gave birth to all My sons, My priests.

Through My desolation, the Holy Spirit expanded the maternal Heart of My Mother to embrace all of humanity.

–It is in your times of desolation that the Holy Spirit and My Mother wish to unite you more intimately to Me.

–It is in your times of desolation that you are given the opportunity and grace to suffer with Me.

–It is through your desolation that you can come to know the pain, suffering, and love of My Heart.

–It is through your desolation united to Mine that your life will also be most fecund.

My desolation was so important for the salvation of the world that the Father willed for My Mother to continue suffering My desolation on earth. Her suffering of solitude was her continuation of My desolation, and it produced and continues to produce a shower of graces for the world.

I desire for the souls who love Me to live their times of desolation united to Me and completely abandoned to the Holy Spirit. In this way, My hidden force will acquire the power of God to overcome the darkness in the world. My Cross is not My Cross without the power of desolations lived with perfect faith. (3/2/11)

Why is poverty the most treasured Pearl? Through poverty, the soul’s nakedness becomes clothed in God, in His Light!

It is the Flame of Love, the Holy Spirit, that brings us to discover the pearl of great value, poverty, and exclaim: “I HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH POVERTY!!!!!”

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” (Mt 5:3)

110. Spirit of Poverty —Diary of a MOC. p303 (Simple Path)

I wish to teach you about poverty, the spirit of poverty. There is physical poverty, but the spirit of poverty is much more beneficial for your soul. It saddens Me greatly when My sons (priests) and religious live physical poverty but remain only there and do not allow the Holy Spirit to bring them to live the spirit of poverty… The spirit of poverty is lived when you allow the Holy Spirit, My Blessed Mother, and Myself to strip you of everything interiorly: your desires, expectations, plans, attachments, securities, consolations in friendships, even consolations from Me so that you are left completely empty. It is a soul that has been stripped of everything, that is empty and can be filled with My life…

My Lord and my God, what can I do to participate in this work?

Jesus answered, Allow yourself to be perfected through suffering. Suffer with greater trust in Me… Suffer with greater abandonment and love (7/8/2010).

Spiritual poverty and material poverty cannot be separated. Each requires the other. Christianity has never advocated a disembodied spiritual poverty that could dispense with real poverty altogether or even coexist with material excess. (p89, Poverty)

* “nor two tunics”– My disciples must live simply as I did, poor, never in excess. (1/30/18, Mission of the 12)

The poor “in spirit” are the poor who are “believers.” It is as if Jesus had said: blessed are you poor, “because you have believed.” (p98, Poverty)

116. What it Means to Believe —Diary of a MOC. p.311 (Simple Path)

…The intellect can receive My Word and manipulate it, but the Spirit penetrates a heart with My Word and transforms it. To believe is to abandon yourself to Me so that I can make you a new creation through My Spirit. What is required to believe? Humility and simplicity. That is why I say you must be like a child to truly come to believe and follow Me…

Connection of poverty in spirit with humility & simplicity

St Augustine: “The humble man is poor in spirit.”

The poor in spirit see themselves as totally dependent on God for everything and can only relate to God as a debtor, in a spirit of pure gratitude. (p101, Poverty)

Two essential elements of the poor in spirit: humility and trust in God (trusting abandonment)

These two elements are joined in what is known as the psalm of spiritual childhood: (p102, Poverty)

Lord, my heart is not proud ….

as a child has rest in its mother’s arms,

even so my soul.

O Israel, hope in the Lord

both now and forever

–(Ps 131: 2-3)

* 12/13/11, Simplicity

The spirit of poverty is far greater than physical poverty. It is detaching from your own ideas, desires, plans, dreams, goals... It is a complete abandonment to Me, your God and Savior. This requires great diligence and abandonment to My Spirit. I desire the simplicity of the innocence of a child with its mother... It is pleasing to the Father and to the Son to have you place your complete trust in Us.

Return to Unity

The 2^nd level of humility, desiring solely the Cross as one with Christ, and the 2^nd and 3^rd level of poverty walk hand-in-hand. They are the fruits of the nails of crucifixion from Chapter 4 of The Simple Path to Union With God.

Fr Raniero Cantalamessa, Poverty:

By giving humanity the commandment to “love God with all your strength” as the first commandment, God was inviting men and women to concentrate on one single love, thereby in a certain sense inviting them to renunciation and poverty. “To love God,” says St John of the Cross, “means divesting oneself of everything that is not Him.” (p112, Poverty)

To reach unity, we must take the opposite route and proceed by way of decrease, subtraction, and surrender… This is the way of poverty. (p112, Poverty)

Two movements in human beings:( p114)

1. Movement within –towards the depths of the soul. Movement towards unity.

2. Movement outward – towards action (willing, knowing, having). Movement towards multiplicity.

What happens at the conclusion of this journey back into interiority? A Nativity takes place, “the birth of God in the soul.” (p115)

And in what manner does all this take place? Precisely through spiritual poverty. A person cannot provide a more favorable environment in which God can act in this way than by detaching himself, not only from things but also from all his or her activities and ideas.

And what is the subsequent fruit of all of this? Not only does the Father beget His Son within you, but you yourself are begotten as a child of God and receive power.

St Augustine: (p119, Poverty): “Do not go outside. Go back inside yourself, for truth dwells in the inner man.”

Having reached the center of himself, in the starkness of his own being, man finds not only himself, or silence, or the absence of everything, or emptiness. He finds instead the Being, the Word, the Presence, the Fullness.

Therefore, the message from Eckhart and the Mystics, in general, is not that one should abandon one’s commitments and retire once more from the world, but that one should “reestablish the balance and the vital rhythm between exteriority and interiority, between unity and multiplicity. We need to rediscover the riches contained in the depths of the soul, so as to pour them into human relationships, which can only be saved through the inner renewal of individuals.” (p120)

* I desire to draw you into the depth of My Sacred Heart to immerse you in Love. (Simple Path #36, p 126)

St Francis of Assisi: (p121, Poverty)

“There are many people who spend all their time at their prayers and other religious exercises and mortify themselves by long fasts and so on. But if anyone says as much as a word that implies a reflection on their self-esteem or takes something from them, they are immediately up in arms and annoyed. These people are not really poor in spirit. A person is really poor in spirit when he hates himself and loves those who strike him in the face.”

Blessed Angela Foligno: (p122)

“True poverty of spirit is such that the soul can perform works without any intention and without concern for any merit.”

The beatitude of the poor in spirit leads to that of the pure in heart

87. How to Respond to Christ’s Desire for Unity —Diary of a MOC.

I desire to draw you into true unity, the unity of the love of the Most Holy Trinity. The union of sorrows will bring you into the union of Love. The gaze of the Father is upon you. Be love. Live solely for Love, forgetting yourself.

My Lord, how do I live solely for Love, forgetting myself?

Live to please Me. To live in the unity of the Trinity is to live gazing at the Father, through the Son, to please Him in all things. (3/18/12)

Virtue of Poverty – IV

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 09:00:00 -0400

The virtue of Poverty IV

Lourdes Pinto, 1/30/18

Diary of a MOC, “Mission of the 12” (Mathew 10:1-24)

My little one, I have chosen you to bear fruit for the Kingdom of God on earth. The mission is not easy, for the ways of God are never the ways of the world. All who are chosen by God to fulfill His plan on earth are hated by some, rejected by others, ill-treated, persecuted, for I came upon the earth to set one against another, for the ways of God will never be accepted nor appreciated by those who live for the things of this world. You have been asked by God to bring Him victim souls. A victim soul must fix his eyes on Christ, must desire with all his being to become one with his Master, must be willing to learn from Him and imitate Him. He must be willing to fight against all his disordered desires. This requires certain disciplines for my disciples:

1) “take no gold, nor silver, nor copper”- that means detached from the riches of this world, trusting that God will provide.

2) “no bag for your journey” –that means that My disciples must allow My spirit to detach them from all disordered attachments. (my Lord how do we know what a disordered attachment is?) Anything that weakens your desire for Me, distracts you from loving Me, takes your gaze from Me.

3) “nor two tunics”– My disciples must live simply as I did, poor, never in excess.

4) “nor sandals”– a life dedicated to sacrificial love, penance, renunciation.

5) “nor a staff”– My disciples lean on Me; I become their support; I lead the way.

My disciples wear My yoke-the wood of the Cross, united to Me. I am their All. My disciples are the men and women consumed in love and desire for Me. They choose to live this way of life for love of Me and the consuming desire to be made perfect- which is to become Love. Only in this way will My disciples reflect the face and light of God in the world. These are my victim souls that possess the power of God on earth.

Fr Raniero Cantalamessa, POVERTY

The Old Testament introduces us to a God who is open “for the poor,” while the New Testament shows us a God who Himself becomes poor. Only the gospel tells us About God who makes Himself one of them, choosing weakness and poverty for Himself: “Though he was rich, Jesus Christ became poor for your sake” (2 Cor.8:9).

The two essential components of the ideal of biblical poverty are now made clear: to be “for the poor” and “to be poor.” John Paul II combined both aspects in his catechesis on poverty: “The Church feels ever more strongly the impulse of the Spirit to be poor among the poor, to remind everyone of the need to conform to the ideal of poverty preached and practiced by Christ, and to imitate Him in His sincere and active love for the poor.” (p27)

Poverty in the Life of Christ (p36)

- “Although (Christ) was rich, yet for your sakes, He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich.” ( 2 Cor 8:9)

- St Thomas comments: “He endured material poverty in order to give us spiritual riches.”

Christ’s poverty is an aspect of His self-abasement in the Incarnation.

- “became a victim for sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor 5:21)

- Blessed Angela Foligno explains Christ’s three kinds of poverty:

“Christ’s poverty was of three kinds: Christ, the way, the guide of our souls, exemplified the first degree of the most perfect poverty by choosing to live poorly and to be poor, bereft of all earthly possessions. He kept nothing for Himself: no house, vineyard, coins, money, estate, dishware, or any other possessions. He neither accepted any earthly goods nor wanted to accept anything but a life of extreme bodily neediness, with scarcity, hunger, thirst, cold, hard labor, austerity, and hardship … The second degree of poverty, greater than the first, was that He wished to be poor with regard to relatives, friends, and all earthly affections … The 3rd and supreme degree of poverty was that Christ stripped Himself of His very self, became poor with regard to His own power, wisdom, and glory.”

- Therefore, Jesus was poor in things, poor in supports, and poor in prestige.

o Saint Angela of Foligno’s story:

Some saints show marks of holiness very early. Not Angela! Born of a leading family in Foligno, Italy, she became immersed in the quest for wealth and social position. As a wife and mother, she continued this life of distraction.

Around the age of 40, she recognized the emptiness of her life and sought God’s help in the Sacrament of Penance. Her Franciscan confessor helped Angela to seek God’s pardon for her previous life and to dedicate herself to prayer and the works of charity.

Shortly after her conversion, her husband and children died. Selling most of her possessions, she entered the Secular Franciscan Order. She was alternately absorbed by meditating on the crucified Christ and by serving the poor of Foligno as a nurse and beggar for their needs. Other women joined her in a religious community.

Diary of a MOC, “Mission of the 12” (Mathew 10:1-24)

A victim soul must fix his eyes on Christ, must desire with all his being to become one with his Master, must be willing to learn from Him and imitate Him. He must be willing to fight against all his disordered desires. This requires certain disciplines for my disciples:

· 63. The Purification of Your Desires —Diary of a MOC.

The purification of your desires is the first stage of purification in My Sacred Heart. You begin to move only according to My desires and not yours. You no longer do what you want to do, nor go where you want to go; but now, you go only where I take you. You choose to live each day according to what is most difficult, not what is easiest. This will require a greater discipline of your will, greater silence, and stillness of soul in Me.

· Hebrews 12:10-11 “For they (parents) disciplined us for a short time at their pleasure, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. For the moment, all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later, it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”

1) “take no gold, nor silver, nor copper”– that means detached from the riches of this world, trusting that God will provide.

2) “no bag for your journey” –that means that My disciples must allow My spirit to detach them from all disordered attachments. (My Lord how do we know what a disordered attachment is?) Anything that weakens your desire for Me, distracts you from loving Me, takes your gaze from Me.

3) “nor two tunics”- My disciples must live simply as I did, poor, never in excess.

· 12/13/11, Simplicity

The call to simplicity is the call to detachment from the attachments of the flesh, both exterior and interior. As you grow in simplicity, you are emptied of all the attachments that prevent you from being filled with My life, My Blood. As you detach from material things you grow in the virtue of poverty. As you become poor in the things of the world, you become rich in the things of heaven. The poor in spirit are rich spiritually, thus gaining true happiness on earth. Thus, you see that the tactic of Satan is to make you desire richness in the things of the world.

But the spirit of poverty is far greater than physical poverty. It is detaching from your own ideas, desires, plans, dreams, goals... It is complete abandonment to Me, your God and Savior. This requires great diligence and abandonment to My Spirit. I desire the simplicity of the innocence of a child with its mother... It is pleasing to the Father and to the Son to have you place your complete trust in Us.

4) “nor sandals”- a life dedicated to sacrificial love, penance, renunciation.

o Golden rose of Rosa Mystica – penance - acceptance of the little daily crosses - and also doing one’s work in the spirit of penitence.

5) “nor a staff”- My disciples lean on Me; I become their support; I lead the way.

Fr Raniero Cantalamessa, POVERTY

The third type of poverty is the most profound of all because it goes beyond the level of possessions and touches the sphere of being. (p37)

In Christ, poverty shines out in its most sublime form: not in the fact of being poor (which can be an imposed or inherited state), but of becoming poor and becoming so out of love, in order to enrich others. (p38)

o “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church” (Col 1:24)

o “Will you be My victim soul?” voluntary choice

Misunderstanding arises from attributing excessive value to the external, material manifestations of poverty. John the Baptist was much more rigid in terms of asceticism than He was. Jesus never fell into the trap some of his imitators later fell into of making material poverty absolute, using it as a measure of perfection and ending up being rich in the worst thing there is: in themselves and their own justice. (p39)

Reasons for Christ’s poverty, why He became poor: p.40-41

1. “Since in the wisdom of God the world was unable to recognize God through wisdom, God decided to save those who believe through the foolishness of our proclamation” (1 Cor 1:21)

In other words: since the world did not recognize and honor God when He revealed Himself through creation, in splendor, power, wisdom, and wealth, so He has now decided to save fallen humanity by the opposite means: through poverty, weakness, humility, and foolishness. He has decided to reveal Himself “in the guise of his opposite” in order to challenge human pride and wisdom.

o “For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” (1 Cor. 1:18)

o “but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness,” (1 Cor. 1:23)

o “He became poor for your sakes, so that by his poverty you might become rich” (2 Cor 8:9).

A gift is most precious when it is the result of self-denial when the giver deprives himself of what is given. And the Word, in some sense, deprived Himself of His divine wealth in order to share it with us. God’s poverty is an expression of His agape, of the fact that He is love. “Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us” (Eph 5:2).

2. The second motivation for poverty is mission or Apostolic

“Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money- not even an extra tunic” (Lk 9:3). Christ’s teaching contains two different levels or forms of poverty: one required of everyone in order to enter the Kingdom, the other required of a few in particular in order to announce the Kingdom.This second and more radical demand Jesus makes to those He calls to share in His work of proclaiming the Kingdom and being totally devoted to its cause: the apostles, that small group of disciples who followed Him. (P 47)

o My little one, I have chosen you to bear fruit for the Kingdom of God on earth. The mission is not easy, for the ways of God are never the ways of the world... You have been asked by God to bring Him victim souls. (1/30/18, Mission of the 12)

o Respond by suffering all with Me in My sacrifice of love. Respond with courage and zeal, believing that God has chosen you to participate in the triumph of My crucified love to save the world. 8/6/17

o 1/11/18

My little one, you are preparing the way for My Second Coming. It is My hidden martyrs of love, crucified through Me, with Me, and in Me, that will usher in the reign of My Kingdom on earth.

HOLY SPIRIT: Fr Raniero Cantalamessa, POVERTY pp30-31

Only in the Holy Spirit can we live this new law of becoming poor, which Jesus Christ presents to us. John Paul II wrote:

The whole work of renewing the Church, which Vatican II so providentially proposed and initiated, can only come about in the Holy Spirit, in other words, with the help of His light and His energy. –p.30

Wherein lies the difference between renewal “in law” and renewal “in the Spirit”? Positive law, being external to human beings, does not change the state of their hearts. In a word, it does not “give life”. It pushes a person to do or to avoid something by coercion, under threat of punishment or blame. It is based on fear.

The interior law, on the other hand, which is the Holy Spirit Himself (Rm.8:2), changes the heart. It not only commands you to do something, but it helps you to do it. The Holy Spirit creates that new heart which willingly does the things God commands because it loves God and trusts him. It is based on love and moves a person to act by attraction.

The Holy Spirit is able to renew the evangelical ideal of poverty in the Church, by infusing a love for poverty. More precisely: by infusing Christ’s love for poverty.

Virtue of Poverty III – Testimony of Lilian Giraldo

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0400

TESTIMONY of Lilian Giraldo

February 25, 2021

JESUS VISITS MY HEART

VIRTUE OF POVERTY

In the fourth week of our 2020 Lenten retreat, I had an enlightenment of sorts. I woke up one morning with great clarity about my wounds, took a notebook, and wrote sheets and sheets of them all. I was able to name each one and write down the lies and tendencies that stemmed from them. One wound, in particular, came to me with its disordered desires included.

Before going into it, I would like to comment that the Lord has healed me a lot in this wound because I no longer react from the flesh but in His Love. I react from compassion and charity, knowing that my parents were also wounded and their parents too, and so on. God desires to restore humanity wounded by sin, and through this process, He has not only healed me, but He has also healed them. The Lord is doing wonderful work in my parents, and my soul moves in love and much gratitude to our Lord for it.

This is the wound: It is called “I lost my voice.”

Description of the wound: I experienced abandonment, neglect, rejection, violence, fear of being unprotected, and insecurity. I grew up as a very quiet child, adolescent, and young woman who could not express my feelings, worries, frustrations, and fears. I learned to live my pains in silence and solitude.

The lies that stemmed from this wound are: No one listens to you, you have nothing important to say, no one cares about you, fend for yourself, be strong, don’t complain, don’t cry, you have to be someone in life, so you don’t depend on a man or anyone.

Tendencies from the wound: It bothers me that they don’t value what I do, that they ignore me, that they reject me, that they don’t recognize me, that they don’t listen to me, that they ignore my look when I talk to them.

Related disordered desires: I desire to be admired, recognized, seen, flattered, noticed, applauded.

In that same Lenten retreat in 2020, the Lord let me know that he was crucified for me. It was very painful and revealing. It was a very real and personal experience. The knowledge we have of this was really embodied in me.

During one of the retreat talks, Lourdes and Father Jordi spoke to us about Envy and Pride. I remember thinking “pride yes”; in fact, many times I have confessed it, but “envy no!” and when we were taught to all the unpleasant things that came out of it, I thought that I could suffer from it much less.

These are the things we were told that a person feels in whom envy dwells in his heart:

· Envy is a hidden reservoir of ingratitude and resentment that secretly applauds the downfall and sorrow of others.

· The envious person becomes resentful if he perceives that his peers receive preferential treatment.

· He attacks others through slander or gossip.

· Brings tension in families or communities.

· It pits the person against God’s will.

So, after hearing this, I said to myself: no, not envious! And here, the Lord was beginning to show me my false identity.

The Lord has taught us that we have all made ourselves into someone we are not and that “The Simple Path to Union with God” leads us to find the truth of who we are.

I was then receiving the gift of deep self-knowledge in this regard. And here I would like to share the following from pg. 45 of The Simple Path to Union with God - volume I:

“The soul that receives the gift of self-knowledge and sees the hardness of its heart comes to a decisive point: it accepts this gift, or it remains in darkness. Receiving the gift of self-knowledge hurts; it feels like a sting.”

Well, it took me almost a year more to accept this deep self-knowledge. The Lord continued to dig subtly in my heart, and in a recent accompaniment, he enlightened my companion so that we could deepen our understanding of Identity, and I heard from her this phrase: “The process of our sanctification consists in the process of the healing of our identity.” Then, I began to ask the Lord in every rosary, in every holy mass, in the daily routine of my daily life, and in the precincts of my heart, to restore my identity in Him, to heal me of my disordered desires and the fears that paralyze me. And it happened that the Lord showed me envy again and specifically with a person very close to my heart: my husband. Consequently, the rejection was stronger towards this feeling. The Lord was bringing it out, and I wanted to submerge it again in the depths of my heart. It could not be! Me, envious? And of my husband! No! I had built a false identity.

The Lord was showing me the hardness of my heart, and I began to recognize it.

At first, I said to myself: it is jealousy, but then I began to recognize that I was envious of my husband. And this truth was affirmed to me in an accompaniment. I had to take it to confession, and I began to experience a very strong spiritual and physical struggle.

God sent me to a good priest, determined and strong-willed, who helped me, confessed me, and freed me! So much so that a few days later, I had a dream of a rat running scared back and forth inside a sewer; many people around the sewer saw it; then it came out of there with its eyes sparkling with anger and ran through a green, sunny field full of beautiful trees with shiny leaves. It was envy, and it was looking for a way in. I was not afraid. In its attempt to return to the sewer, the rat jumped on me, but the jump was short; it collided with my chest and vanished. It no longer had a place in my heart, God had occupied it, and my heart after confession was like an impenetrable wall made of the purity and love of God.

The rat was big because it was fed, not only by my envy but by the envy of all of us who were in that field. It no longer dwelled in our hearts because God, with his light, uses this testimony to enlighten and give self-knowledge to many souls.

Why did it take me almost a year to accept this profound knowledge?

Here I must refer to the homily of Pope Francis on Ash Wednesday, February 17, 2021.

The first words of the homily moved me deeply:

“We hear an invitation that arises from the heart of God, who with open arms and longing eyes pleads with us: ‘Return to me with all your heart’ (Joel 2:12). Return to me.”

After feeling my heart tremble with these words, I felt the Lord’s call to continue living the Simple Path to Union with God with perseverance, transparency, constancy, and gratitude.

Although I have accepted this marvelous call to be His victim soul of love and to allow myself to be transformed in His very love, I recognize that I have lacked much more dedication. As the Holy Father tells us in his homily, I have lacked to silence the exterior and interior noises to enter into silence, contemplation, vigilance, and stillness of soul, and to spend hours and hours at the silent cathedra of our God on the Cross.

In his homily, the Holy Father speaks to us about wounds, vices, fears, hypocrisies, duplicities and confronts us with a series of questions. All this teaching of Ash Wednesday has been given to us by the Lord on our Path, in depth, week after week and month after month, in the silent, dedicated, and prayerful job of Father Jordi, Lourdes, Father Ron, and Mary through her songs made prayer and contemplation. The path that the Lord has given to our community is a true gift to the Church.

The purification of our disordered desires consists in recognizing that the Lord is taking us to a deeper level of purification, as He tells us in message 63 of the Simple Path of January 16, 2014 - Volume 1:

“The purification of your desires is the first stage of purification in My Sacred Heart ... You choose to live each day according to what is more difficult and not what is easiest. This will require a greater discipline of your will, a greater silence and stillness of soul in Me.”

When we are being purified at this deeper level, we need silence, contemplation, going before the Lord, and surrendering our misery to Him. All this takes time, work, discipline, will, and we must choose to praise, surrender our misery, thank and bless.

These words of the Lord through the homily of the Holy Father make great sense to me on this path of purification.

The Lord has taken me into the purifying fire of his heart. This process of circumcision takes time, it is difficult, but accepting it, I have accepted the call of the Lord, I have heard his voice, I have received his visit in my heart, I have decided not to stay in the darkness and see the hardness that is in it. And to the question, "What do you want from me, Lord?" He answers me, “Your misery.” It is the only thing I have to give him.

Through the circumcision that the Lord works in my heart, He frees me from sin (envy), crucifies my disordered desires (desire to be seen, recognized, applauded, flattered, etc. ...), and allows me to live in intimacy with Him, uniting my pure pain to His on the Cross, to Him, who is the great forgotten, ignored, rejected, disregarded, unloved.

As the same reading of the Path refers to us on pg. 44: “The soul needs courage to admit its sins and the wounds caused by them and to go to the root of both.”

Courage is one of the five little stones that the Lord has given us on our path, and with it, I must struggle, allowing the Lord to continue to unveil all the misery and darkness of my heart. To enter into my identity in Christ is to recognize this darkness, to surrender it to Him, to love myself this way, and to show myself before Him as I am.

The Lord desires that we accept ourselves in THE TRUTH because in my false identity, I had created a false image of what it was to be a saint, and if I recognized the feeling of envy in me, I ceased to be that false saint that I had made myself. God had mercy on me and, in his infinite goodness, visited me and showed me my darkness and my sin, stripped me of that false garment, tore out the root of envy, restored my identity, and pointed me to the path to true holiness. I recently heard from a great priest that the capital sins are the roots of every sin. Glory to God for this circumcision process that the Lord is working in my heart.

The most beautiful thing is that through this process, the Lord has introduced me to the virtue of poverty because my heart is no longer full of me but of Him. For this, I can only be grateful. To thank God for this Path made flesh in each one of us and for each of my brothers in the community who walk together with me, encouraging each other to let ourselves be found by the Lord to reach true holiness, which is the perfect union with Him.

I was thinking of ending my testimony here, but I cannot help but add the following:

It had been almost a month after I shared this testimony to my Love Crucified community in one of our weekly meetings when I heard an edifying homily on March 18, 2021, from the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa in which he said:

“The Apostle Peter would have preferred, perhaps, to forget his own betrayal; but the Lord seems to tell him that it is not his sin that is most important, but the relationship with Him, and that this relationship, if Peter accepts his own POVERTY, will never go away... There is no sin so great that it can hinder God’s desire to meet us. At that moment, here [Peter’s Primacy - Tabgha, Israel], Peter was born again and is reborn poor, humble, merciful because he no longer has to pretend before anyone. But only to be thankful.

Glory to God!

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Reflecting on the homily of the Holy Father for Ash Wednesday, Lilian read:

"There is an invitation that comes from the heart of God, who with open arms and eyes full of nostalgia pleads with us: « Turn to me with all your heart» (Jl 2,12). Come back to me."

Lilián tells us: I found the Holy Spirit telling the whole Church what The Lord has been teaching us through the Simple Path and the cenacles, week after week and month after month, for all these years.

This led me to ask myself a series of questions taken from the same text of the homily with which the Lord confronted my heart to start this Lent ... I am sure that each one can ask even many more questions and reflections. I share mine with much love.

1. How many times have I said tomorrow, Lord, tomorrow? Tomorrow I will begin to enter into my heart; Tomorrow, I will place myself before you in the Most Holy. Tomorrow I will contemplate you on the Cross.

2. Towards which direction is my heart oriented? Towards "You" or towards my "self"?

3. Lord, have I turned off the noises of the world and the noises of my heart to enter into silence and heed Your call?

4. What do I live for? To be praised, preferred, recognized, or held in the first place?

5. Am I struggling with, or am I complacent with my hypocrisies or duplicities?

6. Do I find it hard to leave my Egypt? Do I long for my past and temporary Glories?

7. Have I worked on my attachments, vices, false securities of money, and appearance? Have I unmasked all these illusions? Have I bared my soul before You?

8. Do I mourn and suffer to the point of paralysis? Or, do I suffer as ONE with You in Your Sacrifice of love?

9. How long is it since my last confession?

10. Have I come to You to be healed of my spiritual illnesses, of my ingrained vices, and of the fears that paralyze me?

11. Do I present my wounds to You? Do I ask You to heal me?

12. Have I returned like the leper whom You healed, to thank You for having healed me of my leprosy?

13. Do I implore Thee, Holy Spirit? Have I rediscovered the fire of praising Thee?

14. Do I understand that the Path is not based on my strength, my abilities, my merits, but in embracing Your Grace?

15. Have I understood that what makes us righteous is not the justice we practice before men but the sincere relationship with You?

16. Do I recognize that I need Your Mercy and Your Grace?

17. Do I understand that what You desire in this Lent (in the Path You have given us) is a humble abasement within ourselves and towards others? It is not an ascent to Glory but an abasement out of love.

18. Have I gone before the Cross? Do I spend hours before Your silent chair?

19. Do I look at your wounds? Do I recognize my emptiness in your wounds? Do I recognize my faults, the wounds of sin, the blows that have hurt me?

20. Do I kiss your wounds? Do I kiss your feet? Do I allow myself to enter into your Sacred Heart? Do I let myself be watched by You?

The Virtue of Poverty – II

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto

Growth in true poverty must involve both the works of mercy and the purification and emptying of our hearts. This reflection focuses, through the Gospel of Mathew 6:1-18, on the difficult process of the purification of our desires and the hypocrisy which lies hidden in all of us.

Virtue of Poverty II

2/18/21

Poverty brings forth chastity, and chastity brings forth obedience, which is the essence of Love. (Simple Path #66, p.204)

I. 63. THE PURIFICATION OF YOUR DESIRES —DIARY OF A MOC. P.187

The purification of your desires is the first stage of purification in My Sacred Heart. You begin to move only according to My desires and not yours. You no longer do what you want to do, nor go where you want to go, but now, you go only where I take you. You choose to live each day according to what is most difficult, not what is easiest. This will require a greater discipline of your will, greater silence, and stillness of soul in Me.

• Saint Augustin- Our heart longs for God:

- The entire life of a good Christian is, in fact, an exercise of holy desire.

- By desiring heaven, we exercise the powers of our soul. Now, this exercise will be effective only to the extent that we free ourselves from desires leading to infatuation with this world. Let me return to the example I have already used of filling an empty container. God means to fill each of you with what is good, so cast out what is bad! If he wishes to fill you with honey and you are full of sour wine, where is the honey to go? The vessel must be emptied of its contents and then be cleansed. Yes, it must be cleansed even if you have to work hard and scour it. It must be made fit for the new thing, whatever it may be.

•The virtue of poverty requires SACRIFICE because we must be willing to RENOUNCE to many things our flesh desires.

– Example: 1^st level of poverty - buying clothes and then returning them…

– “Poverty consists in large measure in sacrifice. It means knowing how to do without the superfluous. And we find out what is superfluous not so much by theoretical rules as by that interior voice which tells us we are being led by selfishness or undue love of comfort.” (Interview with Saint Josemaria Escriva on the virtue of poverty)

– “Detachment is the key. Are we attached to the material things we have, or do we entrust our riches totally to the Lord, knowing that He gives and He takes away? Practicing virtue requires hard work and sacrifice. Practicing poverty as a virtue does not necessarily mean ridding ourselves of everything we own of which we’re fond, but it does require a deep inward dive to ask an honest question: how would I respond if this phone, cherished book, painting from a child, picture of a deceased loved one, treasured necklace, workshop, car, house, etc. were taken away? We might think the Lord would only ask us to spare the things we have in surplus – clothes, books, toys, the extra-full pantry – but He often asks us to give or let go of that which is precious.” (Embracing the Virtue of Poverty in Your Own Life, By Kenzie Key)

• 110. SPIRIT OF POVERTY —DIARY OF A MOC. P. 303

The spirit of poverty is lived when you allow the Holy Spirit, My Blessed Mother, and Myself to strip you of everything interiorly: your desires, expectations, plans, attachments, securities, consolations in friendships, even consolations from Me so that you are left completely empty. It is a soul that has been stripped of everything, that is empty and can be filled with My life…

• “We have to learn to live every virtue, and perhaps this is especially true of poverty. We have to learn to live; otherwise, it will be reduced to an ideal about which much is written but which no one seriously puts into practice.” (Interview with Saint Josemaria Escriva on the virtue of poverty)

II. Desires and Attachments of our hearts

• Mathew 6:1-18 (Ash Wednesday Gospel)

Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them;…

2 “Thus, when you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by men…

3 But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. (Ex. the woman who gave a coin in the temple)

5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by men….(fake saint, falsehood, false piety) 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 7 “And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

9 Pray then like this: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread;

12 And forgive us our debts, As we also have forgiven our debtors;

13 And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil.

16 “And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men….18 that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you

– The desires to be seen, heard, and praised by others was the hidden intent in the hearts of the Pharisees, probably not consciously known to themselves – IMPURE INTENTIONS. The good works of almsgiving, prayer and fasting are not flowing from love and therefore are not pleasing to the Lord who sees the heart.

Again, growth in true poverty must involve BOTH, the works of mercy united with the interior work of the purification and emptying of our hearts.

• “In everything, the Christian life will be marked by a continually expanding rhythm that moves from ever-renewed discoveries to ever deeper renunciations.” Fr Louis Bouyan.

Self-knowledge is the gift of the Holy Spirit that obtains for us self-discovery, which leads to renunciation through repentance in order to love more and more solely in God and for God. We don’t renounce to anything just for the sake of renunciation but because we desire God. Whatever attachments we have to ourselves are places in our hearts that are full of ourselves and not God.

• Hypocrisy (HYPOCRISY IN ME; Growing in Purity of Intention Cenacle teaching 7/11/19)

Fr Cantalamessa’s 1^st lent Homily 2019:

–The opposite of purity of intentions is hypocrisy

– It is surprising that the sin of hypocrisy—the sin most denounced by Jesus in the Gospels—enters so little into our ordinary formulations of examinations of conscience. Not having found in any of them the question, “Have I been a hypocrite?” The greatest act of hypocrisy would be to hide one’s own hypocrisy—hiding it from ourselves and others since it is impossible to hide it from God. Hypocrisy is, in large part, overcome the moment it is recognized.

– The exterior words and attitudes do not correspond to the inner reality of the heart. What appears on one’s face is not what is in one’s heart.

• Purification of our Desires. –2020 Encounter 3^rd reflection –

– Wounds > unmet needs > disordered desires > disordered tendencies> 7 capital sins

– Pride / Envy

• “Mission of the 12” –1/30/18 Diary of a MOC, Mathew 10:1-24

A victim soul must fix his eyes on Christ, must desire with all his being to become one with his Master, must be willing to learn from Him and imitate Him. He must be willing to fight against all his disordered desires.

• HW-

1. Listen again to 3^rd reflection from 2020 Encounter and ponder the notes in prayer, continuing the work of the purification of your desires, expectations, judgments, comparisons, pride, envy, hypocrisy…

2. Listen to cenacle teaching on hypocrisy from 7/11/19. Beg for the grace of illumination to see your hypocrisy.

The Virtue of Poverty –I

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto

POVERTY I

2/11/21 Cenacle

Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes

Poverty brings forth chastity, and chastity brings forth obedience, which is the essence of Love. (Simple Path #66, p.204)

I. 1/14/21 Aspire to be Poor in the World

My ways are not the ways of the world. Meditate on My life and the life of the Holy Family. We were rich in the graces of ABBA, our Father but always poor in the things of this world. You cannot aspire in your hearts for both; that is why to follow Me, you must leave everything. You must aspire to be poor in the world and rich in virtue.

· Luke 12:13-21 Parable of the rich fool

• “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.” (12:21)

• Catechism of the Catholic Church

2547 The Lord grieves over the rich, because they find their consolation in the abundance of goods.340 “Let the proud seek and love earthly kingdoms, but blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.” 341 Abandonment to the providence of the Father in heaven frees us from anxiety about tomorrow. 342 Trust in God is a preparation for the blessedness of the poor. They shall see God.

• Luke 12:29-31

“Sell your possessions, and give alms; provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (12:33-34)

• Luke 8:3 “and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others who were contributing to their support out of their private means.”

• Luke 11:42 “But woe to you Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.”

• “True poverty should be an expression of faith in God and a sign that the heart is not satisfied with created things and aspires to the Creator; that it wants to be filled with the love of God so as to be able to give this same love to everyone.” (Interview with Saint Josemaria Escriva on the virtue of poverty)

II. DESIRES

• 1/30/18 Diary of a MOC, “Mission of the 12”, Mathew 10:1-24

Do I truly desire with all my being to become one with my Master, one with Love crucified? What other desires are in the way?

The mortification of the passions of our flesh is not enough in and of itself. This desire to mortify our disordered desires is the work of the Holy Spirit in our hearts, awakening in us the desire to grow in holiness, which is good and important, but our hearts still lack PURE LOVE.

Our desires must be purified in the fire of the Sacred Heart of Jesus until our desires are one with His—the burning desire for the Cross solely for love of God and the salvation of souls. This ONE DESIRE—The Cross—is the perfection of all the virtues because it is pure love.

Luke 12:49-50 “I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how I am constrained until it is accomplished!”

Example: MOC moving close to her parents….

63. THE PURIFICATION OF YOUR DESIRES —DIARY OF A MOC. P.187

The purification of your desires is the first stage of purification in My Sacred Heart. You begin to move only according to My desires and not yours. You no longer do what you want to do, nor go where you want to go, but now, you go only where I take you. You choose to live each day according to what is most difficult, not what is easiest. This will require a greater discipline of your will, greater silence, and stillness of soul in Me.

•HW- What are the desires of my heart?

Examination of Conscience – Love

1/30/18 Diary of a MOC, “Mission of the 12”, Mathew 10:1-24

My little one, I have chosen you to bear fruit for the Kingdom of God on earth. The mission is not easy, for the ways of God are never the ways of the world. All who are chosen by God to fulfill His plan on earth are hated by some, rejected by others, ill-treated, persecuted, for I came upon the earth to set one against another, for the ways of God will never be accepted nor appreciated by those who live for the things of this world. You have been asked by God to bring Him victim souls. A victim soul must fix his eyes on Christ, must desire with all his being to become one with his Master, must be willing to learn from Him and imitate Him. He must be willing to fight against all his disordered desires. This requires certain disciplines for my disciples:

1) “take no gold, nor silver, nor copper”- that means detached from the riches of this world, trusting that God will provide.

2)” no bag for your journey,” which means that My disciples must allow My spirit to detach them from all disordered attachments. (My Lord, how do we know what a disordered attachment is?) Anything that weakens your desire for Me distracts you from loving Me, takes your gaze from Me.

3) “nor two tunics”- My disciples must live simply as I did, poor, never in excess.

4) “nor sandals”- a life dedicated to sacrificial love, penance, renunciation.

5) “nor a staff”- My disciples lean on Me; I become their support; I lead the way.

Do I Really Want to Repent?

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0400

Do I really want to repent? –Fr. Jordi Rivero

v Repentance does not come naturally.

Ø Without grace we do not see how incapable we are of knowing God and ourselves.

Ø If we do not see we cannot repent.

v Jesus asked His disciples, “who do people say that I am?”.

Ø But not even the disciples knew.

Ø Finally Peter says, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Mt 16,16.

Ø But immediately, Peter reverted to his human thinking and objected when the Lord said He must go to Jerusalem, suffer and die.

§ Peter recognizes that Jesus is divine, but then argues with Him!

Ø Jesus then tells him: “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance^[ⁱ^] to me; for you are not on the side of God but of men.”

v At the Last Judgement many who called themselves Christians will be condemned.

Ø Mt 7:22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.’

Ø Mt 25, 44 They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

Ø They knew God, they performed activities in His name but they were not of one heart with God. They had come to their own interpretations.

v Today among practicing Catholics.

Ø How many interpretations of what is right and wrong! Relativism.

Ø What good is my opinion if it is a lie that keeps me from repenting and turning to God?

v To repent and turn to God we need:

Ø 1-knowledge of who God is.

§ God wants to show Himself to us.

§ The problem is that we think we already know Him.

§ We have our opinions set.

Ø 2-knowledge of who we are and our true condition.

§ Only Christ can reveal to us our identity.

§ Until He does, we have a very distorted understanding of ourselves.

§ But He cannot reveal it to us unless we are willing to accept a truth that will shatter our false identity.

§ The love of Christ must pierce our fears and self-justifications.

§ Allow JESUS to bring our sin to the light.

§ The more we do, the more that Christ can heal.

v Repentance is not complete until we choose to change.

Ø This can only be done with the power of the Cross

Ø This means to choose to enter battle as ONE with Christ.

Ø Christ conquered by persevering in love and obedience through suffering.

Ø No other way.

v Our tendency is to avoid the battle and instead of repenting and allowing God to change us, we justify ourselves with exterior practices of the law.

v Paul writes: Phi 2,12 “continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling”

Ø He knows the magnitude of the battle.

Ø He understood the price paid for His salvation: CROSS.

§ Ponder the Cross.

§ The Cross reveals the gravity of sin AND the love of Christ.

§ Do I believe that my fallen condition is such that Jesus had to die for me?

v We are in a battle

Ø Satan uses the world and the flesh against us

Ø World. Repeats the lies until they are seen as truth.

Ø Flesh seeks self-satisfaction:

§ We exploit persons and things. Fail to see how they are being hurt.

§ Obfuscation

§ We don’t see it as it is.

§ Impurity.

v LAW

Ø Paul: warns that we are not saved by observing the law; we are saved by Christ.

Ø It sounds obvious, but it is a common pitfall.

Ø “I'm a good person. I keep the Commandments, I don’t hurt anybody”

Ø We must keep the Commandments, but without Christ, we cannot do so for two reasons:

§ 1- We do not know what God commands and we interpret it wrong.

§ 2- We simply are incapable of the necessary love unless we have been transformed by the power of the HS

§ Example: Mt 5:27-28“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Ø Pharisees: boasted that they lived by the law, but in truth the law became a cover, a way of justifying themselves and not acknowledge their sin.

§ Justifying themselves = self-righteous.

§ They remained interiorly oppressed, driven by Satan to pride, hate, murder. .

§ Result: They used the law to condemn Christ.

· Ex: Sabbath. Pharisees accuse Jesus of violating it.

· In their self-righteousness, they were not open to receive understanding from God, so they failed to see that Christ indeed fulfilled the Sabbath: to live the covenant with God and neighbor. Day of restoration of human dignity, day of healing.

v Fake saints = Giving an impression of holiness while not allowing God to expose our sins.

Ø — Joseph Ratzinger (Hochland, October 1958)

“The appearance of the church in the modern era shows that in a completely new way it has become a church of heathens, and increasingly so: no longer, as it once was, a church made up of heathens who have become Christians, but a church of heathens, who still call themselves Christian, but have really become heathens. Heathenism is entrenched today in the church itself. That is the mark both of the church of our time and also of the new heathenism. This heathenism is actually in the church and a church in whose heart heathenism lives.”

Ø Many who pride themselves on their knowledge of the faith will not enter the kingdom.

v Then there is the politicization of morality and truth.

Ø Acts become good if they support my cause; bad if they don’t.

§ Examples

§ Condemning the Capitol riot while ignoring other riots

§ Condemning other riots while justifying the Capitol riot.

Ø The Media is constantly seeking to shape our minds through this kind of exploitation.

v Meaning of words is changed to serve ideologies:

Ø French revolution: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity = national motto of French Republic and most masons, dates from the French revolution, … guillotine, the genocide of Vendee.

Ø Today we do the same with the genocide of abortion. 1 child killed / 34 seconds.

§ It is called “Reproductive health”, “Women’s right”.

v It is not possible to repent and change our lives without a willingness to give it all for God. It is not enough “to be ‘sorry’” or to say “I’ll try”.

Ø There are demons that will not depart unless we are willing to unite prayer and fasting. (Mk 9:29) If necessary, we need to take recourse to more severe penances, such as cold showers, sleeping on the floor…. The body does not like to be punished. If we persist in prayer and penance each time we fall, the Lord will give us the strength to win. Temptations may still come, but the Lord in us will master them.

v Hebrews 12:3,

“Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation which addresses you as sons? -- "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose courage when you are punished by him. For the Lord disciplines him whom he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives." It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.”

What It Takes to Remain and Persevere

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:00:00 -0400

Jesus reveals the Kingdom of God by revealing His heart but only those who remain as disciples through trials and ultimately the cross and are willing to renounce their expectations can receive the radical novelty of the Kingdom.

What it takes to REMAIN and PERSEVERE

Cenacle 1-28-21

Mark 4:10-12 (at the end of the Parable of the Sower)

As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve disciples, began asking Him about the parables. And He was saying to them, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but for those who are outside, everything comes in parables, 12 so that “while seeing they may see, and not perceive, and while hearing, they may hear, and not understand, otherwise they might return and it would be forgiven them.”

His followers remain when the crowd leaves.

Ø They ask questions…

Ø To them, the mystery is granted: the heart of God & His plans.

§ Mystery cannot be grasped by natural human ability:

§ “hidden from the wise and the learned”

§ The mystery not only is beyond human expectations,

· But contrary to them.

· The Kingdom is established in a hidden, unexpected way- through suffering and the Cross.

v Is. 6:9. Context: God warns Isaiah that His message will be resisted.

v God will not block their eyes and ears… they will block themselves to avoid hearing what they do not like. The implications of Jesus’ words are painful.

There were only a few from the large crowd who were willing to REMAIN and GO DEEP with Jesus. It is to these who received the MYSTERY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

While Jesus was on earth, the multitudes followed Him out of curiosity or to receive something they wanted from Him, but few remained and persevered with Him allowing His teachings to penetrate their hearts and bring them to repentance and conversion.

Fear No Longer Had a Hold on Them – II

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 09:00:00 -0400

Who will remain faithful in the great and terrible persecution?"

Simple Path 4-B / topic – Fear vs. Trust

(This is the same text as the previous talk)

Message to the LC 9/30/19

The Mystery of the Cross is unveiled to the pure and innocent of heart. Its meaning with its power and glory is known and understood by My little ones that approach Me with sincerity and simplicity of heart. Those that allow the Holy Spirit to destroy their plans, expectations, perceptions, and desires to enter into the Mystery of Divine Love.

My apostles at first could not receive the mystery of God’s plan of salvation, which opens the passage to enter into God through His Son, because their desires and expectations kept their minds and hearts concealed to the knowledge of God’s love, but when their expectations and desires were shattered, and their hearts were humbled in grief, the Holy Spirit could begin to reveal to them the Mystery of Divine Love found and encountered in the Cross and through the Cross.

To this day, the Mystery of the Cross continues to be veiled to most people because they are not willing to allow the Spirit to pierce through their pride, control, stubbornness, plans, and self.

Continue to enter through the passage I have created for you with the innocence of My little ones, and receive the graces of Abba’s love, protection in maintaining perfect peace, and the joy of the saints who live with perfect faith and hope in the knowledge of Divine Love. Once My apostles received the knowledge of My death and resurrection, they lived in the power of the Holy Spirit amidst great tribulations and darkness. Fear no longer had a hold on them. It is the same for you during these times of tribulations and great darkness – My hidden martyrs of love living in the knowledge of Divine Love through the Mystery of the Cross will shine like bright stars during the darkness of the great persecution. Persevere living as My hidden martyrs of the end times.

“Fear no longer had a hold on them” doesn’t mean that we don’t fear, but that our fear no longer controls us. Divine Love moves us through our fear!

Review:

St John Paul II:

“We must be prepared to undergo great trials in the not-too-distant future; trials that will require us to be ready to give up even our lives, and a total gift of self to Christ and for Christ.” (Simple Path p.409)

- 2/15/13 BE MY COMPANION OF LOVE Path p.126 – “Who will remain faithful during the great and terrible persecution?”

- 4/10/12 A CRUSADE OF VICTIM SOULS – “My crusade of victim souls will have to suffer greatly and be formed to perfection in love to fight this fierce battle but know that My Cross has triumphed.”

Mathew 14:22-33 Jesus Walks on the Water

Mt 22 "Then he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. 23 And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, 24, but the boat by this time was many furlongs distant from the land, beaten by the waves; for the wind was against them. 25 And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. 26 But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, saying, "It is a ghost!" And they cried out for fear. 27 But immediately he spoke to them, saying, "Take heart, it is I; have no fear." 28 And Peter answered him, "Lord if it is you, bid me come to you on the water." 29 He said, "Come." So Peter got out of the boat and walked on water and came to Jesus; 30 but when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, "Lord, save me." 31 Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, "O man of little faith, why did you doubt?" 32 And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. 33 And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, 'Truly you are the Son of God.'"

A priest in his homily compared this Gospel to what a race car driver told him:

· Rule #1 – When you’re driving close to the wall, do not look at the wall, or chances are you will hit it. Keep your eyes on where you want to go.

· Rule #2. If there is a crash, don’t look at the crash but stay focused on where you want to go.

When Peter looked at the storm, and away from Jesus, he began to sink. We, too, can focus on Covid19, the many serious world problems--the storms—and lose our focus on Jesus and our goal, which is The Cross, to usher in the era of peace.

Message to LC 12/27/20

My little one, My passion has begun again for My Body the Church. It is a time of intense silence and suffering. My Body, too, will be stripped of all her earthly glory. She, too, will be made naked before the world. Her members living the passion as one with Me, her Head, will obtain my Body's sanctification. Her glory will shine like the radiance of the sun through the purity of its few victims of love, and these few, united as one in My sacrifice of love, will usher in the new dawn for My Church and world. Know that I have found favor with you and my little mustard seed of Love Crucified. Persevere in My Love crucified.

Luke 1:30 “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.”

The moment our gaze turns away from Jesus, like Peter, we doubt, and the darkness seems overwhelming.

“what is a disordered desire?” “Anything that takes your gaze from Me.”
When the race driver was asked, “Then why are there so many accidents?” He answered, “Because they succumb to the TEMPTATION to look at the wall or accident.”

We, too, must battle the temptation to focus on the evil of our times, which would bring us to doubt who we are in Christ and His promise of the power given to God’s hidden victim souls to battle this darkness and conquer it.

Temptation > fear > doubt

Example: Friend in room quarantined for Covid… Can't attend Mass nor receive Jesus sacramentally. Superior gave her the Ok to come out after the 12th day, but another doctor called her & said she should remain quarantined for 3 weeks….

The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ by Anne Catherine Emmerich p.108

When our Redeemer, on Mt Olivet, was pleased to experience and overcome that violent repugnance of human nature to suffering and death which constitutes a portion of all sufferings, the tempter was permitted to do to him what he does to all men who desire to sacrifice themselves in a holy cause….
Father, if you are willing, remove this chalice from me; nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done. Luke 22:42
….a succession of new and terrifying visions were presented before His eyes, and that feeling of doubt and anxiety which a man on the point of making some great sacrifice always experiences, arose in the soul of our Lord, as He asked Himself the tremendous question: ‘And what good will result from this sacrifice?’

Approach all fear with the 5 stones for battle:

Humility – knowing our nothingness, weakness, fears, wounds, limitations… and knowing who God is as ALL goodness, love, power and that He as our Spouse, Protector, Defender is with us.
Ex. Maria sick (Is. 41:13)
Purity – a heart purified of self—of all our desires, plans, intentions, to desire solely the Cross.
Simplicity – in BELIEVING that God conquered darkness and death through the Cross—suffering solely for Love.
Trust – abandoned to the will of God, which is the Mystery of the Cross
Ex. Juliana visiting her dad in Miami
Courage – to choose to do what is most difficult -Love

Romans 8:15

“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship.”

Ex. My fears with Covid kept me away from loving my family – I was enslaved

Why do we fear?

Because we believe the lies

For example:

“I have to be perfect to be loved.”
Fear of going to purgatory – “God is so demanding, and I will never be holy enough…”

We have not come to know the truth of who God is.

Example: Consecrated woman – feared that if she gave her yes to be God’s victim soul, God would ask something too difficult from her.

What is the lie? God doesn’t’ love me; I’m not enough; God is very demanding…. The lie is rooted in a falsehood of who Abba is. This lie's origin is the first lie Satan spoke to Eve about God (Genesis 3:1-5). When Eve believes the lie, she doubts the truth of who God is.

The truth is that ABBA loves us and created us to be happy with Him. He has given us rules and boundaries to protect and defend us from Satan’s darkness that only serves to enslave us. God desires our freedom to know and receive His love, to participate in the ecstasy of His Trinitarian love. He invites us to be one with Christ the Victim, not to squash us and make us miserable in suffering, but to set us free to experience pure divine Love and to participate in Love so that we can experience true fulfillment and joy in this life and its fullness in heaven.

Fear of suffering and death

This truth is the power of God to cast out fear: Isaiah 41:13-20.

“For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I will help you."

God speaks with tenderness;

Is 41:14. "Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you, says the LORD; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel."
The worm Jacob; so little, so weak, so despised and trampled on by everybody. Worms, but not vipers, not of the serpent's seed. Every part of God's word is calculated to humble man's pride and to make him appear little in his own eyes. The Lord will help them, for he is their Redeemer.

The Mystery of the Cross is unveiled to the pure and innocent of heart. Its meaning with its power and glory is known and understood by My little ones that approach Me with sincerity and simplicity of heart. Those that allow the Holy Spirit to destroy their plans, expectations, perceptions, and desires to enter into the Mystery of Divine Love.

Is 41:15. "Behold, I will make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff; 16 You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD; in the Holy One of Israel, you shall glory."

The Lord will make Jacob become a threshing instrument. This has fulfillment in the triumphs of the gospel of Christ, and of all faithful followers of Christ, over the power of darkness.

Message to LC. 4/10/12. "Satan is working to bring forth his new world order of destruction, but My crusade of victim souls will possess the power of God to crush the head of Satan."

1 John 4:18-21 – “There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. 19 We love, because He first loved us. 20 If someone says, “I love God,” and yet he hates his brother or sister, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.”

FEAR > PARALYSIS > SUFFOCATES FAITH, HOPE & LOVE

9/6/13 message to LC

I bring glad tidings to you. The Father has found favor with you (LC). You have listened to My voice, bringing you out of the desert into new life. Be diligent, My little ones, be diligent! For the God of heaven and earth will shake the earth. A new dawn is coming upon the earth. You, My holy remnant, if you remain faithful during the time of great darkness, will see the Light of the new dawn rising from the east. Persevere!

FAITH, HOPE > PEACE & JOY

Homework: Confront our fears. How have I lived these months with Covid? What are my fears? What lies are connected to my fears?

Fear No Longer Had a Hold on Them – I

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:00:00 -0400

"Who will remain faithful in the great and terrible persecution?"

Simple Path 4-B / topic – Fear vs. Trust

Christ’s Crusade of Victim Souls vs. Satan’s new World Order, “Be not Afraid” Part III.

Message to the LC 9/30/19

To this day, the Mystery of the Cross continues to be veiled to most people because they are not willing to allow the Spirit to pierce through their pride, control, stubbornness, plans, and self.

o “Fear no longer had a hold on them” doesn’t mean that we don’t fear, but that our fear no longer controls us. Divine Love moves us through our fear!

o Review:

- St John Paul II, Simple Path p.409:

“We must be prepared to undergo great trials in the not-too-distant future; trials that will require us to be ready to give up even our lives, and a total gift of self to Christ and for Christ.”

- 2/15/13 BE MY COMPANION OF LOVE Path p.126 – “Who will remain faithful during the great and terrible persecution?”

Mathew 14:22-33 Jesus Walks on the Water

Mt 22 "Then he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. 23 And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, 24, but the boat by this time was many furlongs distant from the land, beaten by the waves; for the wind was against them. 25 And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. 26 But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, saying, "It is a ghost!" And they cried out for fear. 27 But immediately he spoke to them, saying, "Take heart, it is I; have no fear." 28 And Peter answered him, "Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water." 29 He said, "Come." So Peter got out of the boat and walked on water and came to Jesus; 30 but when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, "Lord, save me." 31 Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, "O man of little faith, why did you doubt?" 32 And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. 33 And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, 'Truly you are the Son of God.'"

A priest in his homily compared this Gospel to what a race car driver told him:

· Rule #1 – When you’re driving close to the wall, do not look at the wall, or chances are you will hit it. Keep your eyes on where you want to go.

· Rule #2. If there is a crash, don’t look at the crash but stay focused on where you want to go.

Message to LC 12/27/20

- Luke 1:30 “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.”

The moment our gaze turns away from Jesus, like Peter, we doubt, and the darkness seems overwhelming.

· “what is a disordered desire?” “Anything that takes your gaze from Me.”

· When the race driver was asked, “Then why are there so many accidents?” He answered, “Because they succumb to the TEMPTATION to look at the wall or accident.”

· Temptation > fear > doubt

- Friend in room quarantined for Covid… Can't attend Mass nor receive Jesus sacramentally. Superior gave her the Ok to come out after the 12^th day, but another doctor called her & said she should remain quarantined for 3 weeks….

The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ by Anne Catherine Emmerich p.108

When our Redeemer, on Mt Olivet, was pleased to experience and overcome that violent repugnance of human nature to suffering and death which constitutes a portion of all sufferings, the tempter was permitted to do to him what he does to all men who desire to sacrifice themselves in a holy cause….

Father, if you are willing, remove this chalice from me; nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done. Luke 22:42

….a succession of new and terrifying visions were presented before His eyes, and that feeling of doubt and anxiety which a man on the point of making some great sacrifice always experiences, arose in the soul of our Lord, as He asked Himself the tremendous question: ‘And what good will result from this sacrifice?’

Approach all fear with the 5 stones for battle:

1. Humility – knowing our nothingness, weakness, fears, wounds, limitations… and knowing who God is as ALL goodness, love, power and that He as our Spouse, Protector, Defender is with us.

o Ex. Maria sick (Is. 41:13)

2. Purity – a heart purified of self—of all our desires, plans, intentions, to desire solely the Cross

3. Simplicity – in BELIEVING that God conquered darkness and death through the Cross—suffering solely for Love.

4. Trust – abandoned to the will of God, which is the Mystery of the Cross

o Ex. Juliana visiting her dad in Miami

5. Courage – to choose to do what is most difficult -Love

Romans 8:15

“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship.”

o Ex. My fears with Covid kept me away from loving my family – I was enslaved

Why do we fear?

- We believe the lies

For example:

“I have to be perfect to be loved.”

Fear of going to purgatory – “God is so demanding, and I will never be holy enough…”

- We have not come to know the truth of who God is.

Example: Consecrated woman – feared that if she gave her yes to be God’s victim soul, God would ask something too difficult from her.

Fear of suffering and death

This truth is the power of God to cast out fear.

- Isaiah 41:13-20

“For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I will help you."

o God speaks with tenderness;

Is 41:14

Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you, says the LORD; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

o It is the worm Jacob; so little, so weak, so despised and trampled on by everybody. Worms, but not vipers, not of the serpent's seed. Every part of God's word is calculated to humble man's pride and to make him appear little in his own eyes. The Lord will help them, for he is their Redeemer.

o The Mystery of the Cross is unveiled to the pure and innocent of heart. Its meaning with its power and glory is known and understood by My little ones that approach Me with sincerity and simplicity of heart. Those that allow the Holy Spirit to destroy their plans, expectations, perceptions, and desires to enter into the Mystery of Divine Love.

Is 41:15

Behold, I will make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff; 16 You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD; in the Holy One of Israel, you shall glory.

o The Lord will make Jacob become a threshing instrument. This has fulfillment in the triumphs of the gospel of Christ, and of all faithful followers of Christ, over the power of darkness.

Message to LC. 4/10/12.

Satan is working to bring forth his new world order of destruction, but My crusade of victim souls will possess the power of God to crush the head of Satan.

FEAR > PARALYSIS > SUFFOCATES FAITH, HOPE & LOVE

9/6/13 message to LC

I bring glad tidings to you. The Father has found favor with you (LC). You have listened to My voice, bringing you out of the desert into new life. Be diligent, My little ones, be diligent! For the God of heaven and earth will shake the earth. A new dawn is coming upon the earth. You, My holy remnant, if you remain faithful during the time of great darkness, will see the Light of the new dawn rising from the east. Persevere!

FAITH, HOPE > PEACE & JOY

HW: Confront our fears. How have I lived these months with Covid? What are my fears? What lies are connected to my fears?

Christ's Crusade of Victim Souls –II

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:00:00 -0400

Christ's Crusade of Victim Souls –I

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 09:00:00 -0400

The time has come. The principalities of darkness will consume the face of the earth. Jerusalem will weep, for she failed to recognize the time of her visitation. All will suffer; many will be lost. It is time for you to get up and walk with Me, for I have prepared you to enter this battle. You will hold tight the sword I have placed in your hands. This is the sword that Satan fears; My sword of righteousness.

(I asked the Lord how I am going to fight in this battle... I do not understand what these words mean...) In the same way I conquered this battle through the power of the Cross.

My Cross is the sword of righteousness and everyone that enters in it (conquers) with the power of God.

Mystery of the Cross: A Love Unknown by the World

Sat, 05 Dec 2020 09:00:00 -0400

In this reflection on “The Pieta” we discover our identity as women–Mothers of the Cross–to live the hidden martyrdom of the heart as Mary, our Mother of Sorrows. Like Mary, we must sacrifice our maternal hearts and participate as ONE in the sufferings... the pains...the tears and sorrows of Our Beloved— Love Crucified. We are called to enter and remain in the Mystery of the Cross, in the silence and hiddenness of our hearts.

The Blood of Christ, United with His Martyrs of Love, Will Save the World

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:00:00 -0400

Summary

Christ's Blood is the gift of Himself, which contains the power of His love. It saves, restores, heals, and gives new life, it is present at every Mass, yet it has not been received. It has been trampled on. The world offers Satan more innocent blood. We are called to unite the blood of the martyrs with the Lord's, to be ONE with Christ, our Spouse, to shed tears of pure love with Him. This is the power that casts out evil and propitiates a New Pentecost for the salvation of the world.

Message from the Lord:

You are My beloved spouse of My Most Precious Blood.

It is My Blood that refreshes the soul and brings forth new life in the Spirit. My little one, My Blood, poured out for mankind, has been trampled on. It has not been received as My gift of Myself to humanity. At every Mass, My Blood is present to you (pl.), to receive into your own hearts. This Blood is the power of My love for you (pl.). This Blood is sacred, for it is the Blood of the Lamb of God who voluntarily laid down His life for you (pl) so that you can be free. Yet My Blood has not been received. Your tears are one with My tears and Mary’s, for the wrath of God is upon the earth. My Blood saves, restores, heals, and brings forth new life. Yet the world has chosen to give their good God the blood of the most innocent, My little ones in the wombs of their mothers, and the blood of the slaughtered innocent ones on the streets of the world. This is the blood of Satan, the blood of evil. You have been chosen by the Father to bring to God the blood of My martyrs of love; the blood shed with tears of pure love as one with Me. This blood hidden to the world has the power to cast out evil and usher in the reign of peace. Continue to unite these pure martyrs of My Divine Love to save the world from utter destruction.

Warn and Awaken My People –II

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:00:00 -0400

United to Jesus in His groans we speak the truth in love.

Part II

Warn and Awaken My People in the Spirit of Love

At the “deepest recesses” of our hearts are our intentions. The Sword of the Spirit, Jesus Christ, desires to expose our true intention; to become naked to ourself and God; an intention that is no longer veiled with falsehood—lies, disordered desires, fears, malice, evil.

· “Remove from me the way of falsehood” –Psalm 119

This episode from the life of St Paul (1 Cor.5:1-8) reveals his intentions of heart and those of the Christians of Corinth. St Paul acting in Christ as the “sword of the Spirit” exposes the intentions of the people and at the same time witnesses pure love as a man transformed in Christ.

The spirit of love vs. the spirit of the world

Spirit of love

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23)

“Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another.” (Gal.5:26)

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ordered tendencies

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Sincerity & truth- transparency, open & fully exposed to Christ, tears of mourning(groans) for my personal misery & for that of others (“In the pure groans of Christ there is no criticism, murmuring, envy, resentment, but only love” Hector Ramos), silence

VS.

Spirit of the world

“Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness (promiscuous), idolatry, sorcery, enmity(state or feeling of hostility), strife(angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues), jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension(disagreement that leads to discord), party spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing” (Gal. 5:19-21)

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disordered tendencies

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malice &evil - murmuring, gossip, hiding, separating, complaining, criticism, control, talk too much, judgments without mourning

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The hypocrite has the spirit of the world but pretends to have the spirit of love. He keeps his intentions hidden even from himself, and of course from God. He lives in DENIAL, and therefore, stuck in his own darkness, chained in his own lie, he is unable to be set free.

Jesus taught us to “live wrapped in the gift of self-knowledge”, and in this way, in a PERMANENT STATE OF REPENTANCE! In order to live in the groans of Christ we must live in the groans of our misery. A litmus test to know if we are truly living The Simple Path led by the Holy Spirit is whether or not we find ourselves more and more in a permanent state of deep repentance. The sorrow of our hearts knowing and suffering our misery is expressed in continuous groans. When we sit before our Lord in adoration and the tears of our hearts swell to the surface because of our inability to love unconditionally with pure intentions, then we have come to know the groans of Christ for us and are able to live His Words, “RECEIVE MY TEARS.”

We can never separate ourselves from humanity. We cannot read Galatians 5 and see others in the category of the “spirit of the world” and ourselves in the category of the “fruit of the Spirit.” This is hypocrisy. We must live in the knowledge that the spirit of the world is in each of us and that even if we have grown greatly in the spirit of Love, we can easily fall back into the spirit of the world; this is our misery.

Questions that can expose the condition of our hearts:

· Is it difficult for me to confront others with truth, to be sincere and transparent? Specifically, with who? Why?

· When the sins and disorders in others wound me, do I feel intense sorrow for them or is my tendency to judge, condemn, get angry, resentful, frustrated, separate from them? Am I able to see that same sin in the other person that wounded me in myself?

This reveals the condition of my own heart—the darkness of evil or the light of love. It is ONLY when I am able to see my own darkness that the Light of Christ can then penetrate me and set me free. I have to be willing to expose myself to God and to myself.

FREEDOM

St. Paul says in Gal. 5:1, “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”

What is, therefore, true freedom? It is living more and more in the Spirit of Love. St Paul explains it to the Galatians this way: “For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Gal.5:13-14)

How then do we arrive to live in freedom? Only by crucifying our flesh with its passions and desires (Gal.5:24)!

The Lord has blessed us with many anointed teachings. We can receive them and understand them in our minds, but they don’t become flesh of our heart until we struggle to live them. The reason it is so difficult is that we must be willing to undergo the crucifixion of our flesh, which is the death of our disordered tendencies, desires, even good desires, expectations, and on-and-on.

PROPHETS TO WARN AND AWAKEN GOD’S PEOPLE

As Mothers and Missionaries of the Cross we have been entrusted a prophetic mission. Jesus has asked us not only to pray for others but also to warn them and to bring to light the darkness that Satan wants to keep hidden.

Ezekiel 33:7-9

"So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. 8 If I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. 9 But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.”

Prophecy, Memorial Day, 5/31/2010

You, My nation of the U.S.A have forsaken Me, your God. You have made materialism your god. You have made yourselves your own God. You have slaughtered My innocent little ones and their precious blood cries out to Me. You have turned your face from Me. Now I will turn My face from you during the time of the great chastisement. My daughter, raise up My army of holy ones. You must speak My words of warning, for I, your Lord and your God, loves you. You must tell them to open their eyes to Love Crucified; to unite themselves to Love Crucified, for it is only in this way that the power of My Cross will triumph over the evil that prevails.

…you will go out with Fr. Jordi to speak the truth of all that I tell you, warning My people and calling them to repentance before the time of My visitation. You will call them to enter the safety of My Cross, which is the only place they are safe from the darkness that surrounds them and wants to consume them. –2011

Our Lord asked me to read Jeremiah 6. (7/6/11)

Then He said:

My daughter, it is time for all My chosen prophets to come to the light. You have been chosen, hand-picked by the Father, for these decisive times. I lament the justice of God before you. The time of the great and horrible destruction is near, yet few are prepared. My chosen prophets will suffer greatly. Are you willing to speak My words, My daughter? Are you willing to be crucified as ONE with Me? The time is near, yet the world sleeps. My chosen sons called to shepherd My people to safety slumber in the sin of their sloth and arrogance. My daughter, the path to new life is very narrow. It is the wood of My Cross. I desire for you and Father to warn My people, especially My sons, of the destruction that is at hand, and call them to awaken through repentance of their many sins. Call them to be My victims of love. Call them to martyrdom for love of Me. Call them to holiness. My daughter, few will listen, but you are called to be My voice in this wilderness.

· They (Missionaries of the Cross) will bring to light the darkness hidden deep in the hearts of My chosen sons. They will preach My love and mercy while there is still time, calling each of them to repentance. 2010

Message for LC, Feast of St Paul of the Cross 10/20/12

I have formed you (LC), trained you, dressed you to be My prophets of light to warn and awaken My people before the horrible day of judgement comes down upon you. There will be wailing, groaning, and grinding of teeth in your streets. The darkness of evil will cover you. Be prepared when these things happen that I speak to you about. Do not let the thief catch you unprepared. Believe, you are My people, My little ones, held in the Father's palm. Believe that I am one with you, the light in the world, My living hosts. Believe, so that My Light can shine through you to penetrate the darkness consuming the world. Believe in the Power of God working through His hidden force. Love and continue to suffer ALL, as one with Me in My sacrifice of love, to enter prepared with God's armor the fiercest battle that is at hand. Do not be ashamed of My words (Mark 8: 38) and share the treasure of Heaven that has been entrusted to you (The Simple Path to Union With God) with many. Complete My Path and as My Heralds of Hope teach it from the housetops. This is your mission. Respond with great zeal and courage of heart, as My warriors of love, for these decisive times.

Warn and Awaken My People –I

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:00:00 -0400

Jesus: "Can you hear My groans that come forth from the depth of My Crucified Heart? The groans of My agony of love. Listen to My groans of love.

“WARN AND AWAKEN MY PEOPLE”

9/24/20

Part I – Groans with Christ

1 Corinthians 5:1-8

“It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father's wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. 3 For though absent in body I am present in spirit, and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment 4 in the name of the Lord Jesus on the man who has done such a thing. When you are assembled, and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

St. Paul admonishes the Christians of Corinth because they are acting from the spirit of criticism which St. Paul calls “arrogant” (5:2), “boasting” (5:6) and the “leaven of malice and evil” (5:8). St. Paul sees the impurity of their intentions. They are condemning and judging the sinner without profound mourning of heart for the death of the soul of their brother because they lack love— “Ought you not rather to mourn?” (5:2)

Listen to My Groans —Diary of a MOC. p.225

Can you hear My groans that come forth from the depth of My Crucified Heart? The groans of My agony of love. Listen to My groans of love. (3/11/12)

Living Tabernacle of God —#78 Diary of a MOC.[1]

To be one with Me means that you become the living tabernacle of God. My loving, pulsating Heart lives in you as one with you. You feel My sorrows and participate in My groans for the fulfillment of humanity's transformation into LOVE.

· Example: the episode of The Chosen in which a Pharisee listens to Jesus teach the crowd, but he is stuck in his own perceptions, understandings, hardness of heart and therefore calls the Roman officers to arrest Jesus. Yet Jesus gazes at him with “tenderness in mercy” which flows from the groans of His Sacred Heart.

· It is first and foremost from Jesus’ Heart suffering the intense groans of the condition of the hearts of the Pharisees that then He is able to speak the truth with sincerity and boldness:

In Mathew 23: 13-36 Jesus speaks the word “hypocrite” 6X confronting the darkness in the hearts of the Pharisees. He also calls them “blind guides”, “whitewashed tombs”, “dead men’s bones” directly to their faces. He speaks in LOVE the truth:

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. 28 So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."

St. Paul’s words, in the aforementioned letter to the Corinthians, reveal his restored manhood in Christ moved by the Spirit of Love. He admonishes both the community and the sinner severely, “you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh” (5:5). He excommunicates the man. This might seem very harsh to us, but the severe punishment was in order to humiliate the man, to bring about the taming and eradication of his lusts so that his spirit could be saved. It was a discipline to AWAKEN carried out in deep sorrow for one who has died. St Paul acts with the authority of the Holy Spirit knowing that this sin is rooted in the sexual disorders that were common among the pagans of that culture. If this “bad weed” spread through the new Christian community in Corinth, it would destroy them. St Paul desires the salvation of this man and the protection of the Christian community. St Paul acts in truth which is mentioned by William Barclay in his Bible commentary, “Discipline has to be exercised for the sake of the Church. To shut our eyes to the offense is not always a kind thing to do; it may be damaging. A weed must be plucked out before it damages the entire ground. Discipline should never be exercised for the satisfaction of the person who exercises it, but always for the mending of the person who has sinned and for the sake of the Church.” St Paul defends and protects the Church and also provides the guidance and formation they need through his “sincerity and truth”(5:8).

St. Paul was acting in the authority of God because he was being moved by the pure intention of love; love for the salvation of each Christian soul and for the new Church in Corinth. Love moved him to provide, defend and protect.

[1] Cf., Mk 8:31-38.

Eucharistic Reign

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:00:00 -0400

Our vocation is to adore the Eucharistic Jesus. Evil grows in the world due to indifference towards the Eucharist.

EUCHARISTIC REIGN

Lourdes Pinto, Cenacle 9/10/20

The sin of indifference to the Eucharist. 3/7/15

As I adored Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, He allowed me to see Him crying. I was moved to a profound sorrow of heart as I gazed at His tears. "Why, my Lord, are you crying?" I asked.

He cries for the sin of indifference to His presence in the Eucharist. He explained that there is an even greater darkness than the darkness of all the evil of the terrorist, and that is the darkness of the indifference to Jesus alive and present in the Eucharist. This darkness leads and opens the way for the darkness of evil to spread and grow. Because of this sin of indifference to His Eucharistic life, we will live a time when we will not have Jesus in the Eucharist.

Love Crucified has the mission from God to prepare ourselves and the world for the new Pentecost that will bring forth the Eucharistic Reign of Christ.

What is the Eucharistic Reign?

Jesus tells us in His message 11/27/18 to the Love Crucified community:

My Eucharistic Reign will be a time of peace in which My presence will be seen through My living hosts. These lights in the world will shine brightly, and many will come to know and love Me in the Eucharist, thus making My Eucharistic presence the center of their lives. I will be known, adored, and glorified in My Eucharist through the impulse of the Holy Spirit.

The Lord in that same message tells us that "The Path has been entrusted to us by God as a gift of His Divine Mercy to prepare us and the Church for what is to come." "This Path is the preparation of the saints, the victim souls who will endure these end times and usher in the Reign of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Christ's Eucharistic Reign."

The Path is the grace of Divine Mercy to awaken, illuminate, purify and transform us into the Light of God in the world, His living hosts. That is why the Lord encourages us to "recommit ourselves to live with greater faithfulness and zeal the Simple Path to Union With God."

The Eucharistic Reign is the reign of Love, and it is expressed in the radical Gospel of Luke 6:27-36 – Love for Enemies:

"But I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. 29 To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from him who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. 30 Give to every one who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again…32 "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them… (You have to choose to love those most difficult to love. You must always choose love, patience, and tenderness and never give in to anger and resentment. Path p.294) 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. 36 Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

I Give Myself to the Good and the Bad —Diary of a MOC. –49.p.162

The Eucharist is the power of God in the world. The love of God is the Eucharist and is transmitted through the Eucharist.

….I give Myself fully to the good and the bad, to the deserving and the undeserving, to those who love Me and to those that persecute Me… I continue to love those who do not love Me. I continue to love those who use Me. I continue to love the unfaithful. I continue to love those indifferent to My love.

The ONLY way that we can love our enemies and those who abuse us is through Christ, with Christ, and in Christ; by becoming one with the Living Host! This Gospel can only be lived by souls who have placed Jesus Eucharist at the center of their lives. Souls who have chosen to be with Jesus daily and for long periods of time, sacrificing their inordinate desires for Him. Therefore, to become God's MARTYRS OF LOVE, one with LOVE CRUCIFIED, Jesus Eucharist must be the CENTER OF OUR LIVES, our One and All!

The EUCHARISTIC REIGN is the reign of Love in souls.

How is it that the Most High is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish? Our behavior doesn't change who God is. God is who He is regardless of our sins. He is the great "I Am"!

The message of 11/27/18 ends with this sentence:

Prepare… by pondering who you are and the mission entrusted to you.

God always brings us to know who we are and the mission given to us. He taught us that each of us has become someone we are not, and the Path of transformation is coming to discover who we are in Christ.

If I remain stuck in my wound, believing all the lies Satan has planted in my wounds, acting in my disordered tendencies, it is IMPOSSIBLE to love those who hurt me, and this Bible passage from Luke becomes my green light to become the WRONG KIND OF VICTIM – the "doormat," the enabler, the people pleaser, the "nice" person that lives stuck in fears and the desires to be liked by everyone.

Only through LONG HOURS with Christ before the Eucharist can we learn from Him, encounter Love, and come to know who we are. Then, when someone insults us, for example, saying that "I am good for nothing" and on-and-on, I know that it is a LIE; I know that I am Abba's beloved daughter; I know that He sent His only begotten Son to set me free to be fully one in the Love of the Trinity; I know my dignity as God's daughter and spouse of Christ, and therefore, that insult doesn't penetrate nor change the TRUTH OF WHO I AM. That insult or abuse doesn't bring me to react from my wounds but moves me to acclaim the truth: "That is a lie, and I am worth a lot because I am the daughter of God…" When I act in TRUTH, in Christ, I do not take personally the evil in the other person, and I am then able to mourn the darkness in that soul and pray for their conversion.

The reason we cannot love, if we are living as "doormats", is that we believe the lie as truth. We have a distorted image of ourselves and therefore take the abuse personally and react from our wounds. This is the cycle of oppression, of a deep-rooted darkness in which Love cannot triumph.

Messages from the Lord on the Eucharistic Reign:

My saints on earth are united to My sacrifice of love in your abandonment to suffer with Me, –message of 11/3/19

As I began my Holy Hour, I heard Jesus tell me to open my Bible and read Revelations 8. After I read Rev. 8, He spoke these words:

Second coming –2/12/18

I have chosen you, My Little one, to proclaim My Love Crucified to the ends of the world. You, My prophet of these end times, will not be understood, received, accepted by the vast majority of My people, but your faithfulness to fulfill My Will will be accepted, honored, and blessed by The Father who sees all and knows all. The few, My little ones, who accept, receive, and honor this mission given to you, will be blessed by our Heavenly Father. He will multiply your lives given and broken through Me, with Me, and in Me. His power and His glory will fill your small sacrifices, united to My perfect sacrifice of love, to raise up a holy priesthood to usher in My Second Coming. My Second Coming will come through Mary, with Mary, and in Mary, for it is My Eucharistic Reign. My little one, the New Pentecost will be the reign of My Mother as one with My Eucharistic Reign united to the Father. This will be the new era of peace in the world – The Kingdom of Heaven on earth. This is the great mission given to you and the few that respond. Great will your glory be in heaven. Persevere, My little one, for you have found favor with the Father in the Son.

Message for LC for Advent –11/27/18

My little ones, prepare this Advent for My second coming. You have been chosen [as were John the Baptist, St Joseph, and Mary] to prepare yourselves and many for My Eucharistic Reign through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as in a new Pentecost. The Path has been entrusted to you as God's gift of His Divine Mercy to prepare yourselves and the Church for what is to come. Prepare this Advent united to My Mother and St Joseph as you recommit yourselves to live with greater faithfulness and zeal The Simple Path to Union with God. This Path is a gift for My Church before the justice of God touches the earth. This Path is the preparation of My saints who have allowed their hearts and minds to be washed with the Blood of the Lamb. This Path is the preparation of the 144,000 (Revelations 14:1-5) victim souls who will endure these end times and usher in the Reign of My Mother with My Eucharistic Reign. My Eucharistic Reign will be a time of peace in which My presence will be seen through My living hosts. These lights in the world will shine brightly, and many will come to know and love Me in the Eucharist, thus making My Eucharistic presence the center of their lives. I will be known, adored, and glorified in My Eucharist through the impulse of the Holy Spirit. Prepare this Advent by pondering who you are and the mission entrusted to you.

Your misery 10/16/19

Your misery is the essence of who you are. When you live in the awareness of your misery, then your gaze never leaves Me, for then you truly have come to know that you are nothing and capable of nothing good and pure. The essence of your misery is rooted in your ego—your I. It is your ego that must die like the grain of wheat in order for My life to take root in you. To come to know and live in your misery is the beginning of your death to self. It is the beginning of new life. A Life that begins to be centered in Me and My Will. The crucifixion of your desires is difficult and painful but not impossible for the soul who plunges its misery, with trust, in MY Mercy. Allow Me to crucify you for the glory of God and the salvation of the world. This force of God—His Hidden Martyrs of Divine Love—will set the world on fire with a new Pentecost that will usher in My Eucharistic Reign with the Immaculate Reign of My Most Holy Mother. Be at peace, My little one, for I am well pleased with you. Do not be afraid but be obedient to My every Word. Go in peace to love one another as I love you.

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Power of Intercession – 3

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 09:00:00 -0400

There is only ONE intercessor before the Father: Jesus. But He gave His life so that we be ONE with Him, thus intercessors in Him and with His power.

Power of Intercession – 2

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:00:00 -0400

Your power of intercession lies in your willingness to suffer ALL that I permit in your lives as ONE in My sacrifice of love

Power of Intercession – 1

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 09:00:00 -0400

The intercessory attitude is proper to the saints who, in imitation of Jesus, are ‘bridges’ between God and his people.

Preparation in the Spirit of John the Baptist–Illumination

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:00:00 -0400

The Lord wants to prepare us to be prophets and prepare others for the illumination, but we must be focused and allow Him to transform us.

Pray Unceasingly–The Battle Has Begun.

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:00:00 -0400

Prepare your hearts and souls in deep prayer, silence, and in the love of pure suffering, for the time of God’s justice is at hand.

PRAY UNCEASINGLY; FOR THE BATTLE HAS BEGUN

Lourdes Pinto, 6/25/20

Mathew 7:21-23

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?’ 23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers.’

Jesus' message, cenacle of the first Saturday of June MOC– 6/6/20

Jesus spoke these words in my heart to all the MOC:

The time has come in which the principalities of darkness will consume the earth; the terrible day of the Lord. The demons have no power over you (plural) and My followers. My mothers (MOC) must remember that during these dark times, your prayers lived with perfect trust in Me have the power to aid in the protection and salvation of many souls otherwise destined for hell. The battle is fierce, but My little one, you hold the Sword of the Spirit. Your hearts purified, emptied, and formed as My victims of pure love, one with My Mother of Sorrows, is the power of God to cast into hell the principalities of death. Give yourselves to prayer and silence as My warriors preparing and saving souls, for the moment of judgement is upon the world. Do not waste time with any frivolity for the decisive battle has begun. Pray, pray, pray, pray unceasingly, for your prayers, as one with My Mother’s, have great power before the throne of our Father. He hears the cry of the poor.

Your Life Is a Prayer —Diary of a MOC. #97 –Simple Path p.278

I say your life is a prayer, [I mean that] your life is an offering. To offer Me your life is the perfect prayer. Your thoughts directed to Me, directed to love, is a prayer. Your desire to know Me, love Me, and serve Me is a prayer. Your touch is a most beautiful prayer. Your words of encouragement and love to others are a prayer. Your efforts to bring peace and unity to your families are a prayer. Your smile is a prayer. But your most perfect prayer is your pure suffering united to Me and My Mother.

The prayer of pure suffering is the sweetest fragrance that reaches and delights the Heart of our Father. This is also the prayer that produces an abundance of fruit. This is the prayer that is most united to Mine as I intercede before the throne of My Father.

This is why My Mother’s suffering of solitude produced and continues to produce showers of graces upon the world. I wish the Mothers and Missionaries of the Cross to be perfected in the prayer of suffering.

But my Lord, what about contemplative prayer and the prayer of praise?

It is through contemplative prayer that you come to know Me and the prayer in which I fill, guide, and form you, but it is the prayer of suffering in which you honor, console and love Me, and participate in the redemption of souls. The prayer of gratitude and thanksgiving should be your every breath. (8/23/10)

PREPARE TO ENCOUNTER JUSTICE. –Message of 12/11/13

Prepare the way. Prepare for what? Prepare to encounter Justice (God). Love (God) is Justice. You have been encountering Mercy, but each soul must prepare to encounter Justice. On that day, will you remain standing or will you be swept away in His justice? My little one, very few are prepared to encounter Justice. The gaze of Justice will condemn you or embrace you in an instant. Few are prepared to encounter Justice, the gaze of Truth. You, Fr Jordi, and My community of LC are called to help many prepare the way through the Simple Path to Union I have entrusted to you. My hidden martyrs of love are a gift of Divine Mercy to help many be prepared to encounter the gaze of Justice. I desire that you work more diligently to finish the Path, My little one, for the time is short. My hidden victims of love are preparing the way through the power of their blood united to My precious Blood being poured upon many by the mercy of Abba. You, My family, are helping God prepare our people for the encounter with Justice. It will visit you like a thief in the night, and few are prepared. Bring Me victim souls for the time of justice is upon you, soon to be knocking at your door. Be attentive to the words I speak to your heart; be obedient. Share them immediately with Father. Respond, My little one, with all the passion of your life. Be pure and holy as I am Holy. Live who you are as MY martyrs of Divine Love preparing the multitudes for the great and terrible day. Prepare the way as the new men and women clothed in the white gown made clean in the Blood of the Lamb. You are My white army being sent out into the world to prepare the way for the encounter with Justice (God).

Message of 1/11/18

1– My Missionaries of the Cross must preach repentance again, as did John the Baptist.

2– They must preach My love crucified, bringing souls to know intimately My love.

3– They must be detached completely from their egos, knowing themselves as nothing and miserable.

4– They must be willing to speak the truth about the darkness within My priesthood.

5– They must be willing to live rejected, cast out, and even stoned to death.

(I conversed with Jesus, saying that I do not know how this will be. I see again the image of the red carpet-the women covered in the precious blood of Jesus. My Lord, how do the lay missionaries of the cross live this mission?) They are priests within their families, and they live in the world. They will need great courage to be My light in the midst of the darkness. My daughter, tell my daughters to persevere suffering all with Me solely for love of Me.

Cf. Mathew 10:1-24

Diary of a MOC, 1/30/18 “Mission of the 12.”

1) “Take no gold nor silver nor copper”– That means detached from the riches of this world, trusting that God will provide.

2) “No bag for your journey” –which means that My disciples must allow My spirit to detach them from all disordered attachments. (my Lord, how do we know what a disordered attachment is?) Anything that weakens your desire for Me distracts you from loving Me, takes your gaze from Me.

3) “Nor two tunics”– My disciples must live simply as I did, poor, never in excess.

4) “Nor sandals”– A life dedicated to sacrificial love, penance, renunciation.

5) “Nor a staff” – My disciples lean on Me; I become their support; I lead the way.

My disciples wear My yoke-the wood of the Cross, united to Me. I am their All. My disciples are the men and women consumed in love and desire for Me. They choose to live this way of life for love of Me, and the consuming desire to be made perfect-which is to become Love. Only in this way will My disciples reflect the face and light of God in the world. These are my victim souls that possess the power of God on earth.

Labor of Love

Thu, 28 May 2020 10:15:00 -0400

In this talk, we come to understand the importance of preparing ourselves to embrace, and even come to desire, the tribulations of our lives as opportunities to grow in deeper union with the love of the Most Holy Trinity. As Christ desolations on the Cross brought forth the great fruit of salvation; we too in our desolations, like a woman in labor pains, can bring forth the joy of new life. The union of sorrows draws us into the union of love!

LABOR OF LOVE

1^st Nail of Crucifixion

Purifying our Desires –Desiring Desolations

Lourdes Pinto, Cenacle 5/28/20

“Very truly, I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will have pain, but your pain will turn into joy. 21 When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.” (John 16:20-21)

Our human desires and expectations are:

· To live our life on earth without desolations, pains, sorrows, sufferings.

· To expect to live in consolations

· This is a LIE – a deception of Satan

God’s desire is to draw each of us to union with Him through our union of sorrows with Christ.

How to Respond to Christ’s Desire for Unity —#87. Diary of a MOC.

I desire to draw you into true unity, the unity of the love of the Most Holy Trinity. The union of sorrows will bring you into the union of Love…

Jesus compares the life of His followers to a woman in labor pains. The labor contractions are a wave of highs and lows.

The contractions peak =–pain. But then they come down = rest.

Our life on earth is meant to be lived in desolations and consolations. During labor, it is the painful contractions (desolations) that bring forth the child's birth. It is the mother’s love in her willingness to endure the pain that brings forth new life. This also applies to life; it is mainly in the times of desolations that we are purified, grow in virtue, come to know the goodness of God and to know ourselves, and grow in dependence and trust in God. It is in times of desolation that we are able to prove our love for God. The desolations lived in union with Christ, with trust and hope, bring forth a new creation in us, but also, it is the means to bring new life to others.

Desolation United to Me —#69. Diary of a MOC. p.210

-Through My desolation, I gave birth to My Church and all her sacraments.

-Through My desolation, I gave birth to all My sons, My priests.

-Through My desolation, the Holy Spirit expanded the maternal Heart of My Mother to embrace all of humanity.

-It is in your times of desolation that the Holy Spirit and My Mother wish to unite you more intimately to Me.

-It is in your times of desolation that you are given the opportunity and grace to suffer with Me.

-It is through your desolation that you can come to know the pain, suffering, and love of My Heart.

-It is through your desolation united to Mine that your life will also be most fecund.

7^th day of our Holy Spirit Novena:

“What matter betrayals and persecutions, even on the part of her own (the most painful), She will majestically sail on through the myriads of tempests which served, serve and will serve but to render her more wondrous and glorious.”(Bl. Conchita)

In labor, the contractions are not all the same intensity and duration. Sometimes the contractions last longer; other times, they are less intense and shorter.

This, too, is similar to life; sometimes, tribulations come unexpectantly and can last a long time. Other times they come and go fairly fast. Some of our trials are intense, and others are less intense.

The way women live the pains of childbirth also vary. Some women can become very angry, irritated, and aggressive towards their spouses. Others remain calm and focused. Much has to do with the preparation they receive. Peter and I participated in “Lamaze classes.” I entered labor expecting the pains and with the desire to suffer well with Christ for souls. My focal point was Jesus crucified. My sister was in the corner of the hospital room, continuously praying the rosary.

Therefore, to live in the Will of God is to live expecting trials, challenges, storms, and sufferings as part of life and as opportunities for growth in holiness. Our desire then becomes helping to bring forth new life, and because we are moved by love, we participate with Christ willingly in the labor pains necessary to bring forth new life in us and others.

“In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world.” John 16:33

The coach, usually the husband, is also crucial for his wife to endure the pains and stay focused, which for me was gazing at an image of Jesus crucified during each contraction. His emotional support, encouragement, love, patience, and much affection help sustain and strengthen her. He helps his wife REMEMBER all that they learned.

There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many tribulations that we must enter the kingdom of God.” Acts 14:22

This, too, is similar to life. When we are undergoing suffering, we need the support of others, especially with prayers, that hidden force, like my sister praying in the corner of the room. You can liken the coach in childbirth to the accompanier in our community. Through spiritual accompaniment, we walk hand-in-hand, helping each other live the labor pains of life. The accompanier helps us REMEMBER what we have learned, which is easy to forget when we are immersed in deep pain and to bring our focus back to Christ and away from ourselves.

Example of Fatima children: Lucy would come to visit Francisco and Jacinta, who had the Spanish Flu, and encouraged them. They actually encouraged each other constantly to suffer ALL and well for the intentions of our Blessed Mother.

The early Christians entered the Church expecting persecution, knowing that they would probably be martyred for their faith in Christ. They were moved by the fire of love of the Holy Spirit in their hearts, and they desired to die for Christ as one with Him.

“Suffer all with Me, no longer two but one in My sacrifice of love.”
“As servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger.” –2 Corinthians 6:4-5

The fruit of the Holy Spirit of desiring to follow Jesus in rejection, persecution, sufferings, trials, hardships…. is JOY!

“…she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.” John 16:21
“The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods. 23 After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely. 24 Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. 25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.” Acts 16:22-25

Jesus' message to LC –Lent 3/14/19.

I am making all things new. Do you think that My death and resurrection was useless and powerless? No, My little one, I am making all things new, yet few believe, they have not come to know Me, My Father, and the power of the Holy Spirit. They live in the deception of Satan’s lies and darkness. Their gods have become money, wealth, power, self, but the truth is that I am alive in the world, present with all My power and glory, and at the designated time, chosen by our Father, I, united to My faithful remnant of victim souls, will cease the dragon. Many will be lost because their pride kept them from believing in Me, the God of heaven and earth. Persevere in the mission I have entrusted to you.

(I stopped to ask Jesus how He wants me to persevere… So many times, I do not know what to do or say….)

Tell My family (LC) to pray for greater faith to believe in the words I have spoken (I understood His messages to us). If My words remain in your hearts, you will persevere through the many trials predestined for you to suffer for the glory of God and the salvation of countless souls. I desire to see each of you rejoicing ALWAYS, in good times and in bad, because you have come to believe that I am with you. You have come to taste the goodness of the Lord. Joy is the fruit of trust, and therefore, My followers live in the praise of God. My witnesses will be known in the world through the light of praise and joy that radiates from your lives. My little ones, believe that in the midst of this darkness, I am making all things new through you, with you, and in you. Proclaim what I have done in you (plural) through The Simple Path I have been leading you in. Go forth and be My disciples of Light, for the Light has already conquered the darkness.

Covenant in Love Crucified

Thu, 07 May 2020 09:00:00 -0400

A solemn (serious, sincerity) promise, fortified by an oath, concerning future action. The oath might be expressed in words or in symbolic action.

A covenant is more than a mere impersonal contract, in which two parties agree to an exchange of goods and services. A covenant binds persons together beyond the mere contractual agreement. Marriage obviously binds two persons in a unique way, but all covenants bind persons together in some way.

Receive My Tears

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto —

The Lord's message of 3/21/20

Receive My tears as one with Mary’s. The world continues to live detached from God. This state of humanity is what is empowering Satan and all his dominions. The darkness is Satan and all his lies. The darkness is his evil that only desires to destroy lives. I shed tears as I continue to watch humanity not turn their gaze towards Me. My little one, the world must be brought to its knees. When they lose everything, then some will turn to Me. This is the time of great mourning, but also of hope, for the God of Mercy will intervene and give humanity a last chance to repent. I desire My faithful mustard seed to cry with Me and suffer as one with Me to obtain the graces of repentance for many souls who otherwise will be lost for all eternity. Do not fear, for I am with you. You (LC) have found favor with God and He listens to the cry of your hearts.

Remain faithful to all I have taught you;

Remain faithful to how I have formed you, for the power to defeat Satan and all his principalities is only through Love.

Remain steadfast as I continue to guide you on the path of total transformation in Me, and you(LC), along with My faithful remnant, will defeat Satan and cast him into hell and usher in My era of peace.

Remain faithful in living and teaching My path to the few willing to be transformed into Love.

Remain to console My Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of My Mother as the Light of the world is hidden for a certain amount of time. It is now the time I have prepared you to be My light, for I live in you (plural).

Be at peace as the darkness grows darker, for God will save the world through His little remnant of victim souls. Tell My community to seek Me and find Me hidden in their hearts, for I will reveal, at the designated time, My light through My living hosts. Know that I am pleased with the few that have responded to My call for these end times. Know and rejoice that you are counted among the few, therefore, continue to persevere on the path of crucifixion so that the salvation of the world can be fulfilled through you, with you and in you—My apostles of the end times. I bless you (pl.) with My precious Blood and My Mother’s tears for the fulfillment of My mission.

His Living Tabernacles in the World – as St. Joseph

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:00:00 -0400

At a time where many churches throughout the world are being closed, the Lord is forming and preparing us to be His living hosts in the world. He desires our homes and families to become His sanctuaries, where He is adored and glorified so that His presence can be truly alive in our hearts and in the world. As St. Joseph and the Blessed Mother, let us live united to the Will of the Father, in hidden prayer and deep silence as God's pure victims of love to pierce the darkness that surrounds us with the Light of Christ!

Final Confrontation

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 09:00:00 -0400

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Humility in Silence

Sat, 07 Mar 2020 09:00:00 -0400

This talk leads us to ponder the depth of God’s humility in Christ's silence as He is stripped. We are called to be His Body, His Blood, One Sacrifice for love of Him and participate intimately in His suffering. Through the Path, we are challenged to come to know and understand our self-love, misery, and impure hearts so we can grow and be transformed into the image and likeness of Christ Crucified. Our growth in silence is connected to our growth in humility

Missionaries of the Cross of LC – Testimony

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 09:00:00 -0400

Father Jordi shares his struggles to respond every more deeply to what the Lord is teaching in the Love Crucified Community through Lourdes Pinto. Men of the community are called Missionaries of the Cross and The Path refer to the community's book, The Simple Path to Union with God

Stations of the Cross Lived with Jesus

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:00:00 -0400

Let us enter this season of Lent, a time of mourning, a time to delve into a deep purification of heart and sincere repentance before God. Only by coming to know our true misery, can we begin to be transformed more perfectly in Love. Let us not just pray the Stations of the Cross, but like Mary, live the Stations as ONE with Jesus, in His agony, His cry, His silence, and in His humility.

SUMMARY

We are invited to ponder each station of the cross during lent, living them with Jesus. The first station is used as an example.

Lourdes also touches upon:

What is pure love?
“Mortify yourself in silence.”
Examination of Conscience

Loving With Christ Restores Manhood and Womanhood

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:00:00 -0400

Based on her teaching, "Tenderness in Mercy" (Oct. 5, 2017). Our authentic manhood and womanhood are restored as we begin to live #88 from the Simple Path, in which Jesus teaches us to love as He loves.

Revelation 14 – First Fruits: The Saints, Part II

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Fr. Jordi Rivero & Lourdes Pinto

“FIRST FRUITS”

The Saints of the End Times

Revelations 14:1-5

Cenacle 11/21/19

11/1/19 All Saints Day

My little one, the holy saints of God – past, present, and future – are one in God. They are the firstfruits as one with Me, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. These souls at the designated time will rise up to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. These are the souls you are helping to form through The Simple Path to Union I have been leading you through. This formation for the saints of the end times will be blessed and protected by Abba, our Father who desires to be glorified and loved by all His creation… God Himself has come to earth through His little mustard seed to form and raise up His saints of the end times to fight the great battle…

• The Lamb and the 144,000 – Revelations 14:1-5

Then I looked, and there was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion! And with him were one hundred forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps, 3 and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the one hundred forty-four thousand who have been redeemed from the earth. 4 It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins; these follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from humankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb, 5 and in their mouth, no lie was found; they are blameless.

• “first fruits”

– Leviticus 2:14

If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, you shall bring as the grain offering of your first fruits coarse new grain from fresh ears, parched with fire.

– Leviticus 23:20

–The priest shall raise them with the bread of the firstfruits as an elevation offering before the Lord, together with the two lambs; they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.

– 1 Corinthians 15:20

– But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died.

– 2 Thessalonians 2:13

–But we must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters beloved by the Lord because God chose you as the firstfruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

– James 1:18

– In fulfillment of his own purpose, he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

– James 3:17

–But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

· This formation for the saints of the end times… … God Himself has come to earth through His little mustard seed to form and raise up His saints of the end times to fight the great battle

– St. Louis De Montfort” Toward the end of the world, Almighty God and His Holy Mother, will raise up great saints who will surpass in holiness most other saints as much as the cedars of Lebanon tower above little shrubs... Mary has produced, together with the Holy Ghost, the greatest thing which has been or ever will be a God-Man, and she will consequently produce the greatest saints that there will be at the end of time. The formation and education of the great saints who shall come at the end of the world are reserved for her. For it is only that singular and miraculous Virgin who can produce, in union with the Holy Ghost, singular and extraordinary things. They shall be great and exalted before God in sanctity, superior to all other creatures by their lovely zeal, and so well sustained with God’s assistance that, with the humility of their heel, in union with Mary, they shall crush the head of the devil and cause Jesus Christ to triumph”.

– “blameless” “virgins” - PURITY

28. My Mother’s Pierced Heart Was Fused to Mine —Diary of a MOC. P.84

The piercing with the lance created your passage into My Heart. My Heart was opened for all to enter with the piercing of the lance. My mother received this same piercing in her heart and suffered the pain and sorrow I could no longer suffer. This piercing fused our hearts together as ONE for all eternity. This is why Mary is the gate to enter My Love Crucified and My Heart. The Holy Spirit lifts you from My feet into the passage in My side. It is in this passage created by the spear that you are perfected in My virtues.

Your soul needs to be clothed in the virtues of true humility and purity before entering the furnace of My Heart. It is the work of the Holy Spirit, with My mother, that forms these virtues in your heart and soul.

Humility is acquired through constant knowledge of your misery and My mercy and love. You received the gift of knowledge at My feet, and you must always maintain yourself wrapped in this gift.

Purity of mind, heart, soul, and body is attained as you come in contact with Me, Who am all pure and holy. My mother is all purity, and it is she who will dress you in the white gown of purity.

She will cleanse you, little by little, of all the mud that remains on you after I pulled you out of the quicksand of your misery with the wood of My Cross. Through humility and purity, you will quickly attain perfection in all the other virtues if you persevere in prayer. (03/04/11).

Revelation 14 – First Fruits: The Saints, Part I

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:00:00 -0400

“FIRST FRUITS”

The Saints of the End Times

Revelations 14:1-5

Cenacle 11/21/19

11/1/19 All Saints Day

• The Lamb and the 144,000 – Revelations 14:1-5

• “first fruits”

– Leviticus 2:14

If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, you shall bring as the grain offering of your first fruits coarse new grain from fresh ears, parched with fire.

– Leviticus 23:20

–The priest shall raise them with the bread of the firstfruits as an elevation offering before the Lord, together with the two lambs; they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.

– 1 Corinthians 15:20

– But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died.

– 2 Thessalonians 2:13

– James 1:18

– In fulfillment of his own purpose, he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

– James 3:17

–But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

· This formation for the saints of the end times… … God Himself has come to earth through His little mustard seed to form and raise up His saints of the end times to fight the great battle

– “blameless” “virgins” - PURITY

28. My Mother’s Pierced Heart Was Fused to Mine —Diary of a MOC. P.84

Humility is acquired through constant knowledge of your misery and My mercy and love. You received the gift of knowledge at My feet, and you must always maintain yourself wrapped in this gift.

Purity of mind, heart, soul, and body is attained as you come in contact with Me, Who am all pure and holy. My mother is all purity, and it is she who will dress you in the white gown of purity.

Revelation 8 – Pure Incense: The Prayer of the Saints, –II

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:00:00 -0400

PURE INCENSE

The prayer of the saints

Revelation 8

• Only the Lamb (Jesus) is worthy to break the seven seals and open the scroll that contains the revelation of God’s rescue of His people and the establishment of His kingdom. It was the Lamb who accomplished it at the Cross.

• The response to the breaking of the seals and the revelation of the Lamb’s victory is to adore silence – as during the consecration at Mass.

• Seven angels prepare to blow trumpets: The trumpet blasts herald the events that will follow. (Think of Jericho’s wall coming down when the trumpets were blown)

• But before the angels blow the trumpets,

• The saints’ prayers are offered before God’s throne in a censer. The saints are participants in the victory of the Lamb because they gave their lives with Him.

Rev 7:14 “These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Now they are like pure incense pleasing to God.

• The prayer of the saints have a powerful effect upon the earth (thunder, rumblings, earthquake)

• We are called to be among those saints. While not all shedding blood, we can share in the interior martyrdom of the Lord.

39. Martyrdom of the Heart —Diary of a MOC.

The martyrdom of the heart is the martyrdom of suffering with Love and for Love. My daughter, if you could only understand the fruit of the martyrdom of suffering, you would desire nothing else on earth. The hidden life of suffering with Love and for Love is of far greater worth than great and small works tainted with human recognition. Believe in the hidden force contained in the martyrdom of the heart. This is the purest fragrance of love that has the power to conquer the enemies of God. (11/9/12)

• Like the prophet Ezekiel (2:9–3:3) and John (Rev 10:9)), we are called to “eat” the scroll: to assimilate the scroll (What Jesus has revealed, the power of the Cross) until we become one with Him and become witnesses to the truth it contains even though it may be bitter before it tastes like honey.

• Likewise, to live our covenant fully in Love Crucified, the Simple Path, pg. XVIII tells us: “You have to “eat” The Simple Path like Ezekiel ate the scroll in the presence of God.”

• Prayer is: Silence, praise, “eating” the Word.

— Prayer is not only words: our life must be a prayer.

— It is a new life in Christ, giving our lives to the Father as victims of love

— This is to be poor in Spirit.

— Faithful during trials

— Believe in the power of our prayer because Christ continues His work through us.

—The process of living the Path is to achieve this.

Revelation 8 – Pure Incense: The Prayer of the Saints, –I

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:00:00 -0400

“PURE INCENSE”

The Power of LC Hidden Sufferings

Revelations 8:3-5

Cenacle 11/14/19

Þ Revelations 8: 1-5

When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. 2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

3 Another angel with a golden censer came and stood at the altar; he was given a great quantity of incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that is before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. 5 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth; and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

· 11/3/19

After I read Rev. 8, Jesus spoke these words:

My little one, much will have to take place on earth before the establishment of My Eucharistic Reign. You (plural) are My saints of the end times united as one with the holy saints in heaven. Because My saints on earth are united to My sacrifice of love in your abandonment to suffer with Me, your prayers are powerful before the throne of Abba. Know, My little one, that your prayers are continuously before the throne of our Father as pure incense. He delights in your prayers, and He hears the cry of the poor. The poor are not only the poor of body but also the poor of spirit – those who have died to themselves so that I can live in them and through them. Much affliction must take place on earth because of the rebelliousness of the human heart, but God, in His infinite mercy and goodness, will bless the prayers of His saints –past, present, and future -- and establish His Kingdom on earth. Be at peace with complete abandonment to the God who loves you and listens to the cry of the poor. Persevere in your own crucifixion for the glory of God and the establishment of His Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Go in peace to be My Light in the world.

· Pope Benedict XVI: Simple Path p. 275

We see in this image that God is not indifferent to our prayers; He intervenes and makes his power felt, and His voice heard on the earth. He makes the systems of Evil tremble and disrupts them.

· Messages to Love Crucified

11/24/08

The prayers of the *Mothers of the Cross are heard by My Father in Heaven. They are a sweet fragrance that reaches heaven. These mothers are My Father’s white lilies. They have been purified in My blood... Believe, My daughter, believe.”

8/23/10 #97, p.278 The Simple Path

But your most perfect prayer is your pure suffering united to Me and My Mother. The prayer of pure suffering is the sweetest fragrance that reaches and delights the Heart of our Father. This is also the prayer that produces an abundance of fruit.

11/9/12 #39, p. 139 The Simple Path

2/25/13 Remain with Me — prayer of suffering, time of mourning.

My little one, we have become ONE. I live in you and you in Me. You feel My sorrows and participate in My tears. Remain with Me mourning the death of My Bride, the Church. Collect My tears as one with Mary and present them in the chalice of your heart to our Father. .. know that the Father hears you and blesses your every prayer, for you have found favor with Him. (Rev 8:3-5) This is a time of mourning.

(I asked the Lord what he wants me to do because there are still such few victim souls and no army of holy priests....)

Trust always in the triumph of My Cross. My little one, I am alone, as if again, in Gethsemane. I desire your constant companionship in My sorrows.

(I told the Lord that He has Mary and all the angels and saints with Him...)

Yes, but your pure prayer of suffering as ONE with Me is needed now for My Church. (Rev 8:3-5) This prayer is of greater fecundity than of any works ...Remain with Me to collect My tears of sorrow during this time of mourning. Be at peace; I am your God.

Testimony: Power of the Hidden Force

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Juan Carlos y Lilian

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Misery Draws Mercy

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:00:00 -0400

See note at our webpage

Long Suffering

Sat, 05 Oct 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Long-suffering received as a path to union with God.

Trust: Will Jesus be impressed with yours?

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Fr. Ron Sciera

MOC Serve in Awareness of Who God Is

Sat, 03 Aug 2019 09:00:00 -0400

The Spirit of God moves the pure and humble of heart to serve as handmaids of the Lord in the awareness of who God is and in the immensity of God’s love. Mary our mother, most perfectly manifested the tenderness of the Father through her silence. Her gaze reflects the gaze of the Father. God desires for us to come to this same intimate knowledge of Him and through silence become like Mary, His gaze of love in the world!

Hypocrisy in Me? —Purity of Intention –II

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto

Hypocrisy in Me? Purity of Intention —Part II

Cenacle teaching 7/18/19

Þ Today we shall focus on how to correct our hypocrisy

Þ Our victory over hypocrisy will never be a victory at the outset.

Unless we have reached a very high level of perfection, we cannot instinctively avoid feeling the desire to appear in a good light, to make a good impression, and to please others.
Our weapon is the correction of our intentions. Righteous intention is attained through constant, daily correction of our intentions.
The intention of the will, not an inner feeling, is what makes the difference in God’s eyes.

Þ Living the Simple Path brings us to an ATTENTIVENESS OF OUR HEARTS so that we can correct the intention of our hearts.

Notice that all our disordered tendencies flow from impure hearts.

Þ Ex: a MOC shared that her tendency is to enter resentment and revenge and act from those emotions when her expectations of people are not met.

Correcting her intentions means she:
1^st - must be attentive to her heart and docile to SEE this impurity;
2^nd – enter SILENCE to deny herself - “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” Luke 9:23
–CRUCIFY HER DESIRES -- those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. (Gal.5:24)

63. The Purification of Your Desires —Diary of a MOC. p.187

The purification of your desires is the first stage of purification in My Sacred Heart. You begin to move only according to My desires and not yours. You no longer do what you want to do, nor go where you want to go; but now, you go only where I take you. You choose to live each day according to what is most difficult, not what is easiest. This will require a greater discipline of your will, greater silence, and stillness of soul in Me.

What desires in me need to be crucified?
Can be disordered tendencies such as:
Desire to separate,
Desire to act on resentment,
Desire to “bite” -- If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another. (Gal.5:15)
Desire for comfort,
Can be good desires that God has not willed to grant us: Desire for intimacy of heart
3^rd – Third step: Repent before Christ – TRANSPARENT/ NAKED – Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Þ This is INTERIOR WORK that is REAL, and that authentic people do, and because of that it is very pleasing to God. It is what Fr Cantalmessa says in these words: “The intention of the will, not an inner feeling, is what makes the difference in God’s eyes.”

Þ If hypocrisy consists in making a show of the good that one does not really do, an effective remedy to counter this tendency is to conceal the good that one does, to favor the hidden gestures that will not be spoiled by any earthly gaze and will keep all their fragrance for God.

St. John of the Cross says, “God is more pleased by one work, however small, done secretly, without desire that it be known, than a thousand done with desire that men know of them.”
Jesus persistently recommends this practice: “Pray in secret, fast in secret, give alms in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you” (see Mt 6:4-18). Jesus also says, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven” (Mt 5:16). The issue is discerning when it is good for others to see and when it is better that they do not.

39. Martyrdom of the Heart —Diary of a MOC. p.139

Þ Our hidden sufferings of heart with Christ MUST be our most important work, our main work, because it IS our most fruitful work and that which is most pleasing to God because of its PURITY of INTENTION!

Þ Ask yourself:

Has my hidden life of suffering with Christ and for Christ become my joy?
Have I come to believe and treasure my interior hidden work? Do I prefer this hidden work above any other exterior work?
Jesus told us: “Live to please Me in all things.” But do I live to please myself, my good name, my reputation…?
Am I doing a visible work because it is God’s Will or to make myself important, look good, feel good, admired, wanted, affirmed….? (The work can also be God’s Will but, Is it tainted with my impure intentions.

Þ All glory be to God

Anything we do outside, including any ministry, is because our Lord has “sent us” as He did Moses.
Exodus 3:10-12 “So come, I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” He said, “I will be with you; and this shall be the sign for you that it is I who sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God on this mountain.”
We know the story – God‘s power and mercy brought the Israelite people out of Egypt, not Moses. Moses was simply OBEDIENT to the WILL OF GOD. He was God’s INSIGNIFICANT VESSEL so that ALL GLORY IS GOD’S! –
Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit because apart from me, you can do nothing. (John 15:5)

We are hypocrites when we desire to take the glory; when we think we did it; when we desire to make it about us. In this area, we need a constant daily correction.
I live authentically who I am when I live knowing that I am nothing and God is ALL. We might believe this in our minds, yet, as Fr Cantalamessa reminds us, we live the lie daily, most of the time subconscious of it, and this is hypocrisy.
Like Moses, God has chosen each of us and sent us to make all things new, especially a transformed priesthood. “Who am I?”, “Who are we?” The truth is that we are weak and nothing, like Moses, incapable of making anything new on our own, but only by living in His Will, obedient to all His desires, and not ours, He will make things and people new through us, with us, and in us and all the glory is His!

63. The Purification of your Desires p.187

You have come to recognize My voice and the promptings of My Divine Spirit. At times God requires immediate obedience; at others, your obedience is lived as you wait upon the Lord. The latter obedience requires greater abandonment and trust, and therefore, is more pleasing to Abba, Our Father. This is a complete dying to moving in your will. (1/16/14)

Þ The worst thing one can do after hearing or reading a description of hypocrisy is to use it to judge others and to denounce the hypocrisy around us. It is precisely these people to whom Jesus applies the name of hypocrites: “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye” (Mt 7:5).

Þ Who can say that they are completely immune from this form of hypocrisy? Of being not a bit like a whitewashed tomb, different on the inside from what appears on the outside? Our consolation is that, as soon as one says, “I have been a hypocrite,” one’s hypocrisy is overcome.

Hypocrisy in Me? Purity of Intention –I

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:00:00 -0400

HYPOCRISY IN ME; Growing in Purity of Intention

Cenacle teaching 7/11/19

I. Father Cantalamessa’s 1st Lent Homily 2019 - “BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD”

https://zenit.org/articles/father-cantalamessas-1st-lent-homily-2019/

https://misionmas.wordpress.com/2019/03/16/primera-predicacion-de-cuaresma-2019-p-raniero-cantalamessa/

Þ According to Jesus, the essential condition for “seeing” God is purity of heart: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Mt 5:8).

Þ Two areas concerning purity:

The righteousness of intentions
Purity in morals

Þ The opposite of purity of intentions is hypocrisy, and the opposite of purity in morals is the abuse of sexuality.

“When you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do. . . . When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. . . . And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites. “(Mt 6:1-18)

Þ It is surprising that the sin of hypocrisy—the sin most denounced by Jesus in the Gospels—enters so little into our ordinary formulations of examinations of conscience. Not having found in any of them the question, “Have I been a hypocrite?” I had to add it in there myself, and rarely have I been able to go past it to the next question without being convicted. The greatest act of hypocrisy would be to hide one’s own hypocrisy—hiding it from ourselves and others since it is impossible to hide it from God. Hypocrisy is, in large part, overcome the moment it is recognized.

Þ A person, wrote Blaise Pascal, has two lives: One is his true life, and the other is the imaginary one he lives in his own mind and the minds of other people. We work hard to embellish and conserve our imaginary being, and we neglect our true being. If we have some virtue or merit, we are careful to make it known somehow so as to attach it to that imaginary existence. We would rather separate a virtue from our true life and join it to the imaginary one: we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave, even to the point of giving up our life as long as people would talk about it.

This is who he has become, but it is not who he is. I see him as who he is and suffer who he has become. 1/14/18

Þ Origin and the meaning of the word “hypocrisy.”

It comes from the language of the theater.
The exterior words and attitudes do not correspond to the inner reality of the heart. What appears on one’s face is not what is in one’s heart.
The ancients gave it the meaning that it really has: pretense. What was negative in stage fiction was transferred to the word “hypocrisy.”

Þ The origin of the word puts us on track to discover the nature of hypocrisy. It turns life into a stage where we perform for the public; it means putting on a mask and ceasing to be a person in order to become a character. A fictive character is nothing but a corruption of an authentic person. A person has a face; a character wears a mask. A person is completely bare; a character is completely wrapped in clothes. A person loves authenticity and reality; a character lives a life of fiction and artifice. A person follows his or her own convictions; a character follows a script. A person is humble and gentle; a character is cumbersome and unwieldly.

Ex. –a priest who had envy because all the brothers go to for counsel to his friend. …. TRANSPARENCY

Þ Hypocrisy sets traps for pious and religious people in particular. Why?

Wherever spiritual values, piety, and virtues are most highly esteemed, the strongest temptation is to pretend to have them so as not to seem to be without them.
“fake saint” – Simple Path p. 199
Pope Francis warns us about the lie of being “fake saints”:
God “generously forgives”…, but what he doesn’t forgive is “hypocrisy and fake saints,”… God prefers “sanctified sinners”—people who, despite their past sins, learn how to do a greater good. “Fake saints” are people who are more concerned with appearing saintly than doing good. …. We are all clever and always find a path that is not right, to seem more virtuous than we are: it is the path of hypocrisy. They pretend to convert, but their heart is a lie: they are liars! It is a lie … Their heart does not belong to the Lord; their heart belongs to the father of all lies, Satan. And this is fake holiness. Jesus preferred sinners a thousand times to these. Why? Because sinners told the truth about themselves. “Get away from me, Lord, I am a sinner!” Peter once said.
Another danger comes from the multitude of rituals that pious people are supposed to perform and the rules they are supposed to observe. If these rituals are not accompanied by a continuous effort to establish them within one’s soul out of love for God and neighbor, they become empty shells.

Þ When hypocrisy becomes chronic, it creates, both in marriage in and in consecrated life, a “double life”: one that is public and well known while the other is hidden—often one during the day and another at night. It is the most dangerous spiritual state for a soul, and it becomes extremely difficult to exit from it unless something from outside intervenes and shatters the wall behind which a person is sealed off. It is the condition that Jesus describes with the image of whitewashed tombs:

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (Mt 23:27-28)

Þ Ask: why hypocrisy is such an abomination to God?

Hypocrisy is a lie. It obscures the truth. In addition, hypocrisy deposes God and puts him in second place while putting creatures—the public—in the first place. “Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart” (1 Sam 16:7): to cultivate outward appearance more than the heart automatically means giving more importance to human beings than to God.

Simple Path Ch. 2 – Humility – 2-F p.64
“we must be willing to pull out the entire root system of our sins, fears, and disordered tendencies to come to know who we are and live to please God. This is what the Path is meant to do. “(Simple Path p.70)
21. Allow Your Disorders to Come to the Light — p.71
Trust, and with patient endurance, allow all your disorders to come to the Light. It is only in this way that you can be made pure in the furnace of God’s love. (8/6/13)

Hypocrisy, then, is essentially a lack of faith. “How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?” (Jn 5:44).
Simple Path 4-B-1 The First Nail – Purification of our desires
To expose our lies and begin to trust: “Only when we have discovered and rejected those lies and accepted the truth about ourselves can we trust ourselves and the Lord who wants us to come home.” P.189

II. From the teaching, The Eucharist, Part I, 6/22/2017:

Þ CCC -1366: [Christ], our Lord and God, was once and for all to offer himself to God the Father by his death on the altar of the cross,…

Þ Wherever our cross is, there is our altar of sacrifice. There is where our offering during the consecration of the Mass becomes real, our sacrifice as real flesh, the real pain of our suffering WITH Christ’s.

To come to the altar of sacrifice in the Mass without having lived my daily sacrifice in the altar of my cross, whether at home or work, is a sterile sacrifice to the Father. The words of the Mass —through Him, with Him, and in Him— must be lived daily in the ordinary, tediousness & difficulties of my life, in the sacrament of the moment. It is only in this way that my sacrifice is truly pleasing to God and made perfect in Jesus’ sacrifice of perfect love.

Your lives will be a continuous prayer offering as you offer up your daily sacrifices and duties on the altar of your homes. Simple Path #98

Hypocrisy:

Do I live certain duplicity of life; one way with my family or those I live with and another way at work or outside in the world -- When in my home, I continue with a hardness of heart, and outside the home, I put on a different image (mask)?

(Continue from Fr Cantalamessa’s reflection:

Hypocrisy is also a lack of charity toward one’s neighbor because it tends to reduce others to being admirers. It does not recognize the dignity that is properly theirs because it sees others only in connection to one’s own image. What is important is the size of the audience
c) A Humble Person Lives to Please God Above All. Simple Path p.70. “the deep unconscious motive for being nice is fear…” p.71

Most Precious Blood –III

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto

Most Precious Blood –II

Thu, 06 Jun 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto

Most Precious Blood –I

Thu, 30 May 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Receiving the Blood of Christ as victims of love we become ONE with Him

MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD –Part I

Cenacle 5/30/19

· Chapel of Conchita’s Tomb during the Mass of the LC covenant, 5/3/19:

"The ways of God are never the ways of the world. The world will be saved through the Triumph of My Cross. Bring Me victim souls, for many continue to go astray from this one calling I desire. Remain faithful, so that the works of the Cross can be completed with My remnant of victim souls. Tell My little mustard seed that heaven rejoices today with your fiat as God’s hidden martyrs of the end times. (Elena, Lisa, Denise, and Micah made their LC covenant) I seal you today with My Blood, and the blood of Conchita united as ONE with My Mother and all God’s martyrs of love."

· Union of Blood so that it is no longer our blood but Christ’s Blood in us

Letter from Manuel to his mother Conchita upon becoming a Jesuit: (Conchita: A Mother’s Spiritual Diary)
“My dear little mama, you told me: ‘Remember, my son, when you hold in your hands the Holy Host, you will not say: ‘Behold the Body of Jesus and Behold His Blood’, but you will say: ‘This is My Body, This is My Blood,’ that is, there must be worked in you a total transformation, you must lose yourself in Him, to be “another Jesus.”

Conchita writes about her dying daughter, Teresa, who was a religious: (Conchita: A Mother’s Spiritual Diary, p.77)

“As for me, the main thing was that she receive Jesus! How fervently I asked this. She recognized me and said to me. ‘My dear little mama!’ Poor child! My soul burst, my heart was shattered on seeing her suffer so much! She repeated to Jesus: ‘Behold my body...’ ‘Behold my blood.’ I looked at her, and I wept, offering her to the eternal Father, begging him to take her if that was His will.”

These words from Conchita reveal how she lives the mystical incarnation. As the Father gives the world His only begotten Son to be sacrificed, we see the same Spirit in Conchita that moves her to offer her daughter through Christ, with Christ, and in Christ to the Father. Here we come to understand the motto of Love Crucified: “Suffer all with me, no longer two but one in My sacrifice of love.”

Jesus told me. ‘Just as I am your hope, I am equally your way. He who follows Me never walks in darkness, but the way I represent is the Cross. He who wishes to come after Me must deny himself, bear his cross and follow Me setting his feet on My bloodstained tracks…’ He assured me that the Cross is the dwelling place of perfection, that it contains all the mysteries, gifts and fruits of the Spirit” (Conchita: A Mother’s Spiritual Diary, p.116).
“Such is the end and essence of My Works of the Cross; a likeness of victims united to the great Victim, Myself, all pure, without the leaven of concupiscence. They will be marked by the reflection of My Passion, in order that there rise heavenward a unanimous cry: ‘This is My Body, This is My Blood.’ (Conchita…p.122)

•Third Secret of Fatima: (The Simple Path to Union with God p.144,

Beneath the arms of the cross, angels gather up the blood of the martyrs, and with it, they give life to the souls making their way to God. Here, the blood of Christ and the blood of the martyrs are considered as one: the blood of the martyrs runs down from the arms of the cross. The martyrs die in communion with the Passion of Christ, and their death becomes one with his…Their life has itself become a Eucharist, part of the mystery of the grain of wheat, which in dying yields abundant fruit.

•The Precious Blood and the Holy Spirit

The Theology of the Precious Blood by Edwin Kaiser https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6340
"Though the Blessed Humanity of Christ, body, blood, and soul are the work of all three divine persons, we ascribe the fruitfulness of the Redemption to the Holy Spirit. Wherefore we look upon Him as most intimately united with the Blood of Redemption, vivifying it, pouring it forth in Sacrifice, giving it to the souls of men… The theologian Scheeben writes: “By means of this Blood the Holy Spirit vivified the Blessed Humanity and adorned it with every grace and favor. He filled the Blood with His own loveableness, for He is the Spirit of love, the pledge of love between Father and Son, making it sweet with fragrance as it ascended to God in sacrifice. The Holy Spirit led the Blessed Victim to the altar of sacrifice….
The shedding of Blood becomes the sacrament (or visible sign) of the giving of the Holy Ghost. The sacraments are visible signs of grace, but the shedding of the Blood of the God-Man signifies and effects the giving to men of the Holy Spirit Himself… the blood is a purifying, warming, vivifying force. As such, it is a picture or sign of the working of the Holy Spirit. Wherefore we may call the shedding of the Blood the Sacrament of the Holy Spirit, signifying, representing, pledging, effecting the Spirit of the Father and the Son, the Spirit of Love given to men.”

127. Each Victim Soul Intensifies the Fire of Love —Diary of a MOC. p.340

I felt Jesus on the Cross. The flesh on His chest, like a curtain, seemed to open, and I could see His Heart as fire. This vision of His Heart as fire in the center of His chest was all in a circle; I felt as the living Eucharist. My Lord had me understand that each of His victim souls is in that fire. Each victim soul intensified the fire of love in Jesus’ Heart. Then the fire with all the victim souls consumed the entire Body of Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, as a massive dove, as I saw Him in 2008, flew out from the Cross upon the world. He was covering the earth with a mantle of Jesus’ Precious Blood. All of us, His victim souls, were one with the Holy Spirit participating in the fulfillment of the salvation of the world.

The Cross of LC

After I received Holy Communion, Jesus explained in my soul the words of the Our Father that I pray daily, “Thy Kingdom come on Earth as it is in Heaven.” The Father desires for us to possess the Kingdom of Heaven within us here on earth. The Father desires to deposit the treasures of Heaven in our hearts... (2/25/12)
I asked Jesus, “How can this be because the souls in heaven are completely pure, but I am always aware of my sins and impurity?”

Jesus brought my understanding to the words from Psalm 51:

Have mercy on me, O God,

according to your steadfast love;

according to your abundant mercy

blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,

and cleanse me from my sin.

Jesus explained that when a soul unites herself to The Crucified, ONE with His sacrifice of love, the Father blots out our iniquities, our transgressions. As He looks at us, He only sees the perfect sacrifice of His beloved Son...

"When a soul enters into the Sacred Heart of Jesus, he is consumed in the Fire of the Holy Spirit. It is here, in the Heart, that we are “no longer two but ONE”.
The Holy Spirit asked me, “Do you not believe JN 17?” “When you possess the Son, you possess the Father because they are ONE with Me. (Your Triune God is mystically incarnated in you) ... You possess heaven on earth in your being. This is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.”

Conchita: A Mother’s Spiritual Diary, p. 252

The Holy Spirit cannot descend to the world save by Christ’s Cross since both missions, that of the Son and that of the Spirit, are inseparable.
“The Holy Spirit will reign the day when My sacrifice of suffering will also reign: The Cross in hearts. In so far as the Cross will not reign in souls, the Holy Spirit, He too will not reign.”

Covenant:

Words given during Cenacle to the family of LC, 08/09/2012.
God the Father: “I the God of Heaven and Earth have received your covenant. I have placed you in the palm of My hand to guide you, to protect you, to bless you, to anoint you. I seal you on your foreheads with the sign of the cross with the precious Blood of My only-begotten Son. I am forming you to fight the decisive battle at hand. Do not be afraid, for I, the God of Heaven and Earth, am with you.
You must become ONE with the sacrifice of My Beloved Son so that you can possess the power of God to pierce the dragon and conquer him.
The world does not understand, but you understand, for you have listened to my Son. Be at peace, My Family, know that I am with you. I hold you in the palm of My hand, and I bless you.”

The Holy Spirit Reveals Jesus

Thu, 23 May 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Fr. Jordi Rivero

Joy

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto

JOY

Message of the Lord to the community for lent, 3/14/19

I am making all things new.

Do you think that My death and resurrection were useless and powerless?

No, My little one, I am making all things new, yet few believe, they have not come to know Me, My Father, and the power of the Holy Spirit. They live in the deception of Satan’s lies and darkness. Their gods have become, money, wealth, power, self, but the truth is that I am alive in the world, present with all My power and glory, and at the designated time, chosen by our Father, I, united to My faithful remnant of victim souls, will seize the dragon.

Many will be lost because their pride kept them from believing in Me, the God of heaven and earth. Persevere in the mission I have entrusted to you. (I stopped to ask Jesus how He wants me to persevere… So many times I do not know what to do or say….)

Tell My family (LC) to pray for greater faith to believe in the words I have spoken (I understood His messages to us). If My words remain in your hearts, you will persevere through the many trials predestined for you to suffer for the glory of God and the salvation of countless souls.

I desire to see each of you rejoicing ALWAYS, in good times and in bad, because you have come to believe that I am with you. You have come to taste the goodness of the Lord.

Joy is the fruit of trust, and therefore, My followers live in the praise of God. My witnesses will be known in the world through the light of praise and joy that radiates from your lives.

My little ones, believe that in the midst of this darkness, I am making all things new through you, with you, and in you.

Proclaim what I have done in you (plural) through The Simple Path I have been leading you in. Go forth and be My disciples of Light, for the Light has already conquered the darkness.

•Three times He tells us: “I am making all things new”

Isaiah 65: 17- 19

For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind.
But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight.
I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people

Revelations 21:5

And the one who was seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new.”

5 times He tells us “Believe”

What is Christ asking us to BELIEVE?

“I am making all things new”
I am alive in the world, present with all My power and glory, and at the designated time, chosen by our Father, I, united to My faithful remnant of victim souls, will seize the dragon.
To believe in the words I have spoken
If My words remain in your hearts, you will persevere through the many trials predestined for you to suffer for the glory of God and the salvation of countless souls.
Believe that I am with you.
Believe that in the midst of this darkness, I am making all things new through you, with you and in you.
The Light has already conquered the darkness.

The fruit of our BELIEVING -- our faith, hope, and love -- is JOY and the ability to live REJOICING ALWAYS even in bad times.

The Return of the Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen, P 113-116

God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found. What I am called to is to enter into that joy. It is God’s joy, not the joy that the world offers. It is the joy that comes from seeing a child walk home amid all the destruction, devastation, and anguish of the world. It is a hidden joy....

“I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.” John 15:11

"Be filled with My joy in believing that God has found favor with you and He delights in you". (Simple Path #119 p.320)

I am not accustomed to rejoicing in things that are small, hidden, and scarcely noticed by the people around me. I am generally ready and prepared to receive bad news, to read about wars, violence, and crimes, and to witness conflict and disarray. I always expect my visitors to talk about their problems and pain, their setbacks and disappointments, their depressions, and their anguish. Somehow I have become accustomed to living with sadness, and so have lost the eyes to see the joy and the ears to hear the gladness that belongs to God and which is to be found in the hidden corners of the world. I have a friend who is so deeply connected with God that he can see joy where I expect only sadness. He travels much and meets countless people. When he returns home, I always expect him to tell me about the difficult economic situation of the countries he visited, about the great injustices he heard about, and the pain he has seen. But even though he is very aware of the great upheaval of the world, he seldom speaks of it. When he shares his experiences, he tells about the hidden joys he has discovered. He tells about a man, a woman, or a child who brought him hope and peace. He tells about little groups of people who are faithful to each other in the midst of all the turmoil. He tells about the small wonders of God.

This is a real discipline. It requires choosing for the light even when there is much darkness to frighten me, choosing for life even when the forces of death are so visible, and choosing for the truth even when I am surrounded with lies.I am tempted to be so impressed by the obvious sadness of the human condition that I no longer claim the joy manifesting itself in many small but very real ways. The reward of choosing joy is joy itself. Living among people with mental disabilities has convinced me of that. There is so much rejection, pain, and woundedness among us, but once you choose to claim the joy hidden in the midst of all suffering, life becomes a celebration. Joy never denies the sadness but transforms it into fertile soil for more joy.

Surely, I will be called naive, unrealistic, and sentimental, and I will be accused of ignoring the “real” problems, the structural evils that underlie much of human misery. But God rejoices when one repentant sinner returns. Statistically, that is not very interesting. But for God, numbers never seem to matter. Who knows whether the world is kept from destruction because of one, two, or three people who have continued to pray when the rest of humanity has lost hope and dissipated itself? From God’s perspective, one hidden act of repentance, one little gesture of selfless love, one moment of true forgiveness is all that is needed to bring God from his throne to run to his returning son and to fill the heavens with sounds of divine joy.

Go forth and be My disciples of Light, for the Light has already conquered the darkness.

Not Without Sorrow, p117

People who have come to know the joy of God do not deny the darkness, but they choose not to live in it. They claim that the light that shines in the darkness can be trusted more than the darkness itself and that a little bit of light can dispel a lot of darkness.

There is seldom a minute in my life that I am not tempted by sadness, melancholy, cynicism, dark moods, somber thoughts, morbid speculations, and waves of depression. But when I truly believe that I have already returned and that my Father has already dressed me with a cloak, ring, and sandals, I can remove the mask of the sadness from my heart and dispel the lie it tells about my true self and claim the truth with the inner freedom of the child of God.

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength.”Mark 12:30

We can BELIEVE with our mind, but that is not enough. Jesus tells us we must believe also with our heart. When we believe with our mind and heart, the truth or experience is consumed in our soul, the core of our very being. Yet, that is not enough, we must believe with all our strength, this is our will. We must CHOOSE the Light and joy. This requires our discipline, “you must deny yourselves”; it requires an act of our will.

BELIEVING with all our heart, mind, soul and strength brings us to LOVE God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength!

Questions for reflection:

Is there anything in my life going on now that reflects a lack of faith in the continuing power of Christ’s death and resurrection?
How evident is the fruit of joy in my life to others? If it's missing, then what am I missing?
God tells our community that I must believe that He is making all things new through me, with me, and in me. If I reflect on Christ’s statement, on a scale from 1-10 (10 being the highest) what number would I circle to ascertain my belief?

God's Question

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:00:00 -0400

"Do you think that My death and resurrection was useless and powerless?"

The answer to this question must show in the way we live. Do we trust in God for everything? Do we believe that we are in his hands as children with their father?

Are we attentive for God to guide us?

Lent Mission –III Fr. Ron Sciera

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:00:00 -0400

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Lent Mission –II Fr.Ron Sciera

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:00:00 -0400

On our website

Lenten Mission –I – Fr. Ron Sciera

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:00:00 -0400

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Our Present Situation

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Fr. Jordi Rivero

Seminarians on the Life in the Holy Spirit

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:00:00 -0400

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Spiritual Motherhood for Priests

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto's conference for priests and consecrated women.

SPIRITUAL MOTHERHOOD

Lourdes Pinto, to priests and consecrated women, Germany

To understand the purest essence of spiritual motherhood, we must receive the gift of Mary’s suffering of “solitude.”

· Third Stage of Mystical Incarnation—Marian Dimension

Through the grace of mystical incarnation, Conchita reflects Mary’s life and becomes a faithful echo of her maternal heart. Mary, the co-redemptrix, will teach her to have a maternal heart that throbs in unison with Jesus’ Heart, with the redemptive and glorifying objective: the glory of the Father and the salvation of mankind.

· “The solitude” of Mary as given to Blessed Conchita

Conchita, A Mother’s Spiritual Diary edited by Fr. Philipon,O.P.

Mary's solitude is the most perfect association with the redemptive act of Christ. The drama of our salvation is decided at the very moment when Jesus was abandoned mysteriously by His Father, and when He Himself abandoned Himself, in response, with confidence and love, into His hands. It is the consent of a man in supreme agony. (p.132 pdf)

Jesus explains to Bl. Conchita the mystery of Mary’s “interior solitude” that obtains for her the grace to be the Spiritual Mother of Mankind:

"You had for long pondered the first solitude of Mary, that is, the exterior solitude, but you had not thought about the cruelest and the bitterest, the interior solitude which tore her to pieces and in which her spirit felt an agony on account of being abandoned. (p.132 pdf)

"The martyrdom of Mary after My Ascension was not caused solely by My material absence. She suffered terrible tests of abandonment like to that I Myself underwent on the Cross. My Father united her to Mine, which gained so many graces.”(p.132 pdf)

"As co-redemptrix, Mary heard in her soul so wholly pure the echo of all My agonies, humiliations, outrages and tortures, felt the weight of the sins of the world which made My Heart bleed, and the moving sorrow of the abandonment of heaven which obtains graces.”(p.132 pdf)

"The Heart of Mary obtained these graces in the martyrdom of solitude in which she was left, not by men (she had St. John and the Apostles and many souls who fervently loved her), not by Me in My Body (she consoled herself with the Eucharist and with her living and perfect faith), but by the Trinity, which hid itself from her, leaving her in a spiritual and divine abandonment. (p.132 pdf)

Solitude is participation in the inmost Passion of Christ's Cross and a consequence of the mystical incarnation. (p. 130 pdf)

· In the document of the Congregation for the Clergy, "Eucharistic Adoration for the Sanctification of Priests and Spiritual Maternity,” the Church tells us: (Simple Path p.360)

The VOCATION to be a spiritual mother for priests is LARGELY UNKNOWN, SCARCELY UNDERSTOOD and, consequently, RARELY LIVED, notwithstanding its FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE. It is a vocation that is FREQUENTLY HIDDEN, INVISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE but MEANT TO TRANSMIT SPIRITUAL LIFE.

· Birth of the “New Adams and Eves” at the Foot of the Cross (Simple Path p.364)

Jesus waited until He could share His Passion with them, until He was agonizing, to call them forth to become mother and son/disciple. They could not be mother and son to each other without first being victims of love, one with Christ’s Passion. Union with Christ at the Cross is at the center of Mary’s motherhood and at the center of St. John’s son/discipleship. At the Cross, they come together, and their relationship acquires a new meaning and a new fecundity because it has the fire of pure and perfect love. When it reaches maturity, it blossoms as Spiritual Motherhood. (Simple Path p.364)

"At the foot of the Cross, all her children were born. My death gave them life in the heart of My Mother. But before her death, She had to manifest this maternity on earth, gaining, by the sufferings of My absence, an infinitude of graces present and future for her children. Her title of Mother of mankind, Mary won by the martyrdom of her solitude after My death. Has the world been aware of this? Does it appreciate it, and is it grateful for it? The time has come when the children should show they are real children, showing their veneration for this heartbroken by this subtle and most painful martyrdom, lived through for the sake of their own happiness. There, Mary gained graces for each and every man. It is time for her to be thanked" (Diary, June 30, 1917). (Conchita, A Mother’s Spiritual Diary p.131 pdf)

Through her (Mary Magdalene) piercing of love at the foot of the Cross in union with Mary, she receives her full identity as a spiritual mother. For the one that is dying is her Beloved as well, the Lord and Master of her heart. She is also experiencing the helplessness of Christ on the Cross. Her Master is dying—her “Rabbouni” (Jn 20:16) is fading away, her Jesus, her Life, her ALL. She suffers WITH Jesus no longer two but one in His sacrifice of love. As one with Mary, her spiritual maternity is born. (Simple Path p. 366)

· Holy relationships between men and women that shine the Light of Christ

She is also his companion. The Lord said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him” (Gen 2:18). No one is more apt to accompany and help men than the woman Mary. The relationship of Mary and St. John shows that Jesus meant the complementarity between man and woman to find expression, not only in marital relationships oriented towards having children but also in spiritual relationships that bring spiritual life to many. (Simple Path p.365)

“An essential part of the Lord’s redemption is to restore the Father’s intention for women-men relationships. Pope Francis on June 15, 2018, condemned all forms of abuse of women, but he went further: He taught that they need each other to become fully who they are. He said: "a man without a woman beside him - whether as a mother, as a sister, as a bride, as a working companion, as a friend - that man by himself is not the image of God..."( https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope-francis/mass-casa-santa-marta/2018-06/pope-santa-marta-mass-women-exploitation.html.) A man is not a man until he is able to love and be loved by women in his life. Likewise, women need men. But the love we need to give and receive is God’s love, Christ’s crucified love, not as the world gives, which is selfishness and has led to our ruin.” – Fr. Jordi Rivero

Having united Mary and the beloved disciple, Jesus, “knowing that all was now finished,” said, “I thirst” (Jn. 19:28). His earthly mission was fulfilled. With Saint John and Mary Magdalene begins a new lineage of renewed men and women, cleansed in the Blood of the Lamb; new Adams and new Eves formed in the heart of the New Adam and the New Eve. It is the beginning of a covenant of love with Christ through Mary. (Simple Path p. 366-367)

The Church is discovering the urgent need for priests to have such spiritual mothers. As Christ purifies hearts in the fire of His Sacred Heart, He restores men and women’s ability to truly love and complement each other in the service of the Kingdom. In our brokenness, we may find it hard to believe that a mother-son relationship between women and priests is possible or even desirable. We tend to think only of the dangers that stem from our fallen nature, but we also need to believe that Christ at Calvary poured out His Spirit to make all things new. He established spiritual motherhood when he joined the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John as mother and son. The Lord continues to raise up relationships between spiritual mothers and priests, but this is possible only to the extent that they are truly victim souls, one with The Victim! (Simple Path p.368)

· 137. Mothers Are the Strength of Priests —Simple Path, p. 369

(IV Station of the Cross: Mary Meets Jesus)

· Walk with Me in My passion. Through Mary, My Mother, I received the strength and zeal I needed to continue to the Cross… She was not only My consolation but also My strength. My Mother knew and accepted My mission… In Her great and pure love of God, she encouraged Me and brought Me to the Cross.It was she that encouraged Me to begin My mission at the Wedding at Cana… Do you see the importance of holy mothers for My priests, who are living images of My Mother? My priests need these holy mothers to help strengthen and encourage them. (2/20/09)

· Spiritual Motherhood Lived in the Martyrdom of Mary

Spiritual Motherhood is not a program nor a new apostolate nor something that you do following a set of rules. We become spiritual mothers as we come to know intimately the passionate love of our Bridegroom, Jesus Christ, through the power of the Cross and choose to respond passionately. Spiritual motherhood is a GIFT of the Holy Spirit that grows as the Spirit heals our feminine hearts through the precious Blood of Jesus and transforms us to become a new creation. (Simple Path p. 367)

"She nourished Me to be a Victim attaining the supreme immolation of her soul when She delivered Me up to be crucified. It was one and the same sacrifice, Mine on the cross and the one which took place in her heart... (Conchita, A Mother’s Spiritual Diary p.127 pdf)

On June 29, 1917, she received a great illumination. Mary is in the heart of the Church, and she bears the entire Church in her maternal Heart. At the foot of the Cross, she was constituted the spiritual Mother of mankind, and the effusion of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost produced in her a new fullness of grace in view of the accomplishment of her maternal mission: in faith, in absolute self-surrender to the divine designs, in her ardent love, in her humble obedience, impelling her to continue on the work of her Son: "In her own flesh, it fills up what is lacking in the suffering of Christ" (Col. 1:24). Mary, Mother of the Church, engendered all her children for God, through the sorrows born out of her love. (p.130 pdf)

But this is a secret of Mary:

"Her Heart is presented with roses, but underneath are found thorns. The roses signify graces for her children, acquired with almost infinite sorrows, with tears, and with martyrdoms the weight of which I alone was capable of measuring. It is quite natural for a mother, and so much the more Mary, to keep for herself the thorns and the sorrows: it is the roses and the tenderness that she presents to her children, not the sacrifices" (Diary, June 30, 1917). (p.130pdf)

· "A new phase of your life has begun."

"And likewise, for you (Conchita), you have begun a new phase of life which will be a reflection of that of Mary. It will appertain to you to imitate her without losing any suffering, which united to Mine will be of worth. Under this form, supernaturalize all your sorrows of solitude that they may become fertile for the benefit of your other children" (Diary, March 21, 1917). (p.130 pdf)

Therefore, a spiritual mother must be a mother of the Cross, a victim soul who lays down her life for love of her spiritual children. The Ven. Archbishop Luis Martinez understood the power of spiritual mothers and encouraged Conchita to persevere in love: (Simple Path p.371)

You, too, like Jesus, must love the Father on behalf of all your children and for all the souls that God has linked with you through the outstanding grace of spiritual maternity…. Some of your children will love the Father with many limitations. You must supply for them. Perhaps some of them—may the Lord not permit it!—will never love. You must love for them. With what desire you must try to love for all in order that the Father may not lack even a spark of love from your spiritual family.

Jesus wants Conchita to give Him holy priests. United to Him, she will belong to priests in the sense that her life will be an oblation for them. Jesus tells her: (quoted, Simple Path p.375)

This will truly be a solace to My heart, giving Me holy priests. Tell Me you accept, that you will belong with Me to priests always since your mission on behalf of them will continue in heaven.

Yet here you have another Martyrdom. What priests will do against Me, you will feel, since it is in this that basically associating yourselves to My priesthood consists, in that you feel and you suffer because of their unfaithfulness and wretchedness. In this way, you glorify the Trinity. We will have the same reasons for suffering.

· Priests Need to Receive the Gift of Spiritual Motherhood

In light of the urgent need for renewal of the priesthood and of knowing that spiritual mothers for priest are “meant to transmit spiritual life” to them, we can see why Cardinal Hummes, as prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, wrote: (Simple Path p.379)

We cannot do without spiritual motherhood for our priestly life… It has always silently accompanied the chosen ranks of priests in the course of the Church's history. It is the concrete entrustment of our ministry to a specific face, to a consecrated soul who has been called by Christ and therefore chooses to offer herself, with the necessary suffering and the inevitable struggles of life, to intercede for our priestly existence, thereby dwelling in Christ's sweet presence…

This motherhood, which embodies Mary's loving face, should be prayed for because God alone can bring it into being and sustain it.

· Urgency for Spiritual Motherhood

141. Bring Life to My Priests —(Simple Path p. 385)

You, My little ones, are the consolation of My suffering Heart because you each have united yourselves to Mary, the Mother of God, and the Mother of all. As I gaze at each of you, I see her beauty radiating from you. Allow her to form each of you to perfection.

I need you, My faithful ones, to bring life to My Missionaries of the Cross (Legionaries of Christ). It is My hidden martyrs of love, in perfect union with the Queen of Martyrs, that will raise up My Apostles of Light. Know that I have taken My abode in each of your hearts; therefore, radiate the humility and purity of My Mother.

Do not grow weary in your hidden lives of suffering all with Me, for you are My holy remnant that God the Father will use to purify My Church and pierce the darkness penetrating Her. Therefore, go forth, My daughters, as My holy warriors with Mary to seize the dragon and cast him into hell.

I bless you with My Precious Blood and seal you with the power of My Cross.

· Mary's last years were the most fertile

"It is a great honor for souls when the Father calls them to associate them with Redemption; with the co-redemption uniting them with Me and Mary; with the apostolate of the Cross, that is, with that of innocent suffering, of sorrow full of love and pure, expiatory and salvific sorrow on behalf of the culpable world" (Diary, June 23, 1918). (p.133 pdf)

The solitude of the Mother of God is the supreme configuration to Christ Crucified. Her spiritual maternity is amplified therein by the salvific suffering, which springs from love and charity reaching their peak. Thence comes the perfect joy which flows from the Cross of Christ, and which is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. (p.133)

· Pastoral riches of this new devotion

The solitude of the Mother of God helps understand the value of human suffering for the salvation of the world when it is joined to Christ's suffering.

Sorrow of itself has no value. It is a consequence and a fruit of sin. But love has the prodigious power to convert it into the price of redemption. The most fertile apostolate is the apostolate of the Cross. (p.134 pdf)

Pure love is of far greater apostolic fecundity than the most outstanding works accomplished with less than love. It is at the eve of life, in silence and isolation, in prayer and in sacrifice, that God's Mother attains her maximum of love and her fullness of apostolic fecundity in the service of the Church of Christ, just as Christ Himself did not save the world in the luster of His Word and of His miracles, but on the Cross. (p.135)

United with all the holy women of God we pray this prayer written by a Mother of the Cross, inspired by Bl. Conchita: (Simple Path p.377)

My Lord and my God, give me a loving and humble heart, a courageous heart full of zeal and boldness, a tender heart, a meek and docile heart that will be willing to take, one by one, the thorns that pierce Your most tender Heart and pierce with them my heart with no other desire but to be Your consolation in every moment of my life.

My heart is wounded for love of you, My Lord; and moved with profound compassion, together with Mary, Blessed Conchita, and all the Holy Women that have walked on the path of Spiritual Motherhood from the beginning of time, I offer myself completely as a victim united with the Victim, for the sanctification of every priest and the salvation of every man in every walk of life! Jesus, my Savior, and my God! Save them! Save them!

Prayer of Pure Suffering

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Hector Ramos

Hector, a member of Love Crucified, has been paraplegic for 18 years —he tells us these are the most blessed years of his life as they have brought them to be one with Jesus. This talk is translated from Spanish to English.

Are you God's Masterpiece?

Thu, 17 Jan 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Fr Ron Sciera reminds us that God uses our suffering and difficult life experiences to heal us and draw us to Himself. He alludes to three movies that are the fruit of suffering:

Saving Mr. Banks

Goodbye Christopher Robin

The Man who invented Christmas

Docility to the Holy Spirit

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Fr. Jordi Rivero

Proximity, a Revolution of Tenderness

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto

Advent Preparation

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Book of Revelation: Prepare for the Battle and the Eucharistic Reign

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Lourde Pinto

Testimony to Men

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Hector Ramos —

Hector, while being quadriplegic, is a powerful inspiration of faith.

He explains how to live temptations against purity in Christ crucified as grace for the priesthood.

Poverty, the Rich Young Man

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 09:00:00 -0400

The Lord's words to "sell what you have and give to the poor" (Mc 10:17-31) must be discerned by each person with the Spirit of total transparency before God wanting to truly know the "one thing that I personally lack." The spirit of poverty is allowing God to strip us interiorly of our desires, expectations, plans, attachments, securities, and consolations in order to be emptied so that we can be filled with Christ.

Related to Chapter 5-D in the Simple Path

St. Paul: "We are Saved by Faith"

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Fr. Ron Sciera

Crisis of Faith, What Is It About?

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:00:00 -0400

We are all responsible for the crisis of faith in the Church. We need to examine ourselves, repent and seek renewal. We need to know the crucified Lord.

Storm in the Church - Part II

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto

Storm in the Church - Part I

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto

Identity and Mission of a Mother of the Cross

Sat, 01 Sep 2018 09:00:00 -0400

What is the difference between a woman called to be a MOC in the Community of Love Crucified and all Catholic women called to be victims of love?

Missionaries of the Cross — Bronce Wall

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Missionary of the Cross: Bronze wall

identity and Mission of the men of Love Crucified

8/30/18

Understanding the difference between the vocation to be a MC and the call to all to be victim souls. Clarity on what it means to be the “bronze wall.” Mission and identity of a MC.

Jeremiah 1:17-19

“But you, gird up your loins; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them. 18 And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its princes, its priests, and the people of the land. 19 They will fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.”

Mark 6:17-29 The Death of John the Baptist

For Herod had sent and seized John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife; because he had married her. 18 For John said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” 19 And Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not, 20 for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he was much perplexed, and yet he heard him gladly.

21 But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his courtiers and officers and the leading men of Galilee. 22 For when Herodias’ daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests; and the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will grant it.” 23 And he vowed to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, even half of my kingdom.” 24 And she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the baptizer.” 25 And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.” 26 And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests, he did not want to break his word to her. 27 And immediately the king sent a soldier of the guard and gave orders to bring his head. He went and beheaded him in the prison, 28 and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother. 29 When his disciples heard of it, they came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.

What would move John the Baptist to confront Herod with the truth, knowing that Herod is a pagan and would not receive his words, and would probably have him killed? What makes him God’s bronze wall?

- John the Baptist knows who he is and his mission in life – bring souls to repentance as the means to prepare for the coming of Christ.

- Courage rooted in the love of God and zeal to complete the mission of God given to him. Courage moves him through his fears to act.

Herod, on the other hand, is controlled by fear, his ego, pride, arrogance… He is the “people pleaser”, more concerned about looking good, powerful, and in control before his guests. Therefore, he acts like a coward.

We also have the mission of John the Baptist that requires great courage in a world that has become dark and pagan, but the qualities of Herod are also at work in us. The more we can see the traits of Herod in our hearts and come to the foot of the Cross in repentance, the more we will be able to grow in courage to do what is most difficult for us to fulfill our mission.

What part of me is still bound, like Herod, as a “people pleaser”, or arrogant & prideful to look good, successful, important, prestigious, intelligent, in control…?

The mission of a Missionary of the Cross requires great COURAGE and ZEAL.

What is the mission of a MC?

¨ Prophets that prepare the way for the coming of the Lord by preaching repentance through the power of the Cross.

¨ Be the “bronze wall”, which means that a MC must be “willing to say everything that I command you” (Jeremiah 1:17)

- “Bring to light the darkness of sin hidden in the hearts of My priests.”

- “preach what I desire” (myself and the Miss. of the Cross) “you will be condemned and persecuted by many”

- “bring to light the devastating darkness Satan continues to keep concealed.”

¨ Console the SHJ and IHM by being PURE and the hands of Jesus removing the thorns that pierce Mary’s Heart.

¨ Fight the battle as warriors of love.

¨ Bring Jesus victim souls by being living witnesses of victims of love in the world, in your homes, in the community. Propagate the resources of LC, especially the Simple Path, to bring to many the wisdom of the Cross, an understanding of the grace of a victim of love, and calling forth many to be Christ’s victim souls as warriors for these decisive times.

3/28/11

The time of the great and horrible devastation is drawing near. Prepare the way for My Son. My little ones, you must set out to preach with the fire of God. I am commissioning you as my prophets to prepare the way for the coming of the Lord. You must preach repentance as St. John the Baptist. But repentance through the power of the Cross of Jesus Christ. You must bring to light the darkness of sin hidden in the hearts of My priests. My fire will consume this darkness. My Missionaries of the Cross are my Son’s Green Berets. The Green Berets will face head-on the darkness that consumes the priesthood. They will fight with the sword of the Spirit. They will be clothed and possessed by the power of God because they are one with the Word of the Cross. You, my daughter, will raise up my Missionaries of the Cross along with the hidden force of the Mothers of the Cross.

Do not be afraid to speak with the fire of the Holy Spirit you possess. The time is at hand when all my priests will be separated into two camps, the goats from the sheep. You are My prophets for these decisive times, called to build the bronze wall of my Son’s army of holy priests around the Bride, the Church. During the great devastation, many will enter her safety through her holy ministers. The main responsibility of the Missionaries of the Cross is to bring to light the devastating darkness Satan continues to keep concealed. Bring to light the sin of My ministers and call them to repentance at the feet of Jesus crucified. They all must unite to the Word of the Cross so that they can possess the power of God to lead my Church to safety during the storm that is approaching.

What is the difference between a man called to be a victim soul and one called to the vocation of a MC?

¨ A MC has the mission to confront the darkness with love, tenderness, and respect because of love. The salvation and conversion of souls is the moving force in the heart of a MC. Therefore, they are willing to be persecuted, condemned, misunderstood, cast out

6/29/12

My Missionaries of the Cross are My Apostles of Light during this time of great darkness. They will expose the darkness of sin in the hearts of My ministers and bring them to repentance at the foot of My Cross. They will lead them through the Cross to transformation in Me. Do not be afraid of rejection and persecution, for you each are called to be ONE with the Crucified...

¨ They are chosen by God to be His “green berets”. This means that many men are called to the army of Christ, but FEW are called to be MC. The “green berets” training is more difficult, demanding, longer and few persevere. It is the same with the MC. They MUST be willing to do what very few men are willing to do—to enter the depth of their own hearts with the Light of the Holy Spirit and “work and sweat” through the Path to be purified by the fire of Divine Love to be fully transformed into the Man of Sorrows.

- “Through it all, God has been crushing me in the crucible of my own brokenness, revealing the areas of my life that need to be purified. While it feels like punishment, it is actually preparation—for deeper union with Him. How exciting is that? Yet, it has been extremely painful to enter into the depths of self-knowledge… but I see the loving discipline of the Father through it all.” Mark Mallett

- 3/29/11 *MISSIONARIES OF THE CROSS (expose the darkness)

You have learned to suffer with Me by allowing the Holy Spirit to use your own suffering to enter My suffering. Through the gold of precious repentance, your heart has been purified, thus allowing you to suffer the sick condition of your brothers and sisters’ hearts with Me. But there is still the deep suffering of My persecution that you must suffer with Me. I am preparing your hearts for this most difficult suffering. When you preach what I desire (myself and the Miss. of the Cross), you will be condemned and persecuted by many. Will you drink from My chalice to the last drop, My daughter? Fr. Jordi and Fr. Ron must be completely abandoned to Me, willing to be My prophets for these decisive times. They must be willing to expose with great courage and love the darkness that has blinded My ministers and is suffocating their souls. Satan will try to silence you, but you must persevere in humility, purity, and love as ONE with Love crucified. This armor that you will possess, as One victim with Me, will protect you and give you the power of God to fight the principalities of darkness and win. You must listen with faith to My voice being spoken through Lourdes, for she is the Father’s prophet chosen by Him for these decisive times. Be humble and submit to God’s plan. I bless you, love you, and protect you. Go, therefore, My humble ones, and raise up My army of holy priests needed to protect My Bride during these decisive times.

¨ They are WARRIORS that must acquire the weapons of HUMILITY, PURITY, SIMPLICITY, TRUST, and COURAGE to “fight the principalities of darkness.”

1/18/12 SAMUEL 17: 32-51 David and Goliath

My little one, the time draws near. You hold the sword of the Spirit in the mission given to you. My family of LC are My warriors of love that will defeat the dragon in the decisive battle that draws near. Be ready to approach this evil in the same way that David approached Goliath. You will conquer the dragon in your littleness and purity because it is God who is with you. You must not fear and believe with the innocence and zeal of David. My daughter, form My family well in the teachings I give to you. You each must approach the battle with five stones also.

First, the stone of humility, possessing the perfect knowledge of your nothingness and My power and majesty.

Second, the stone of purity, purity of mind, heart, intention, word, desire...

Third, simplicity, detached from all, most especially your ego.

Fourth, trust perfectly abandoned to My will.

Fifth, courage, courage rooted in love of Me to be perfectly obedient to My commands.

These stones are your weapons for battle, for the dragon will not be defeated according to the standards of the world but in the Light of Love

¨ They are the knights of our Blessed Mother and of all women, especially their wives and MOC. They remove each thorn of suffering in the Blessed Mother’s Heart through their determination & commitment to be pure by fighting through the power of the Cross every temptation to impurity through TV shows, music, books, magazines, pornography… They honor the Blessed Mother by restoring the dignity to all women by being tender gentlemen always.

CONSOLERS OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS AND THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

5/16/11

The little mustard seed of LC will be known, above all, as the consolers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and My Immaculate Heart. You (LC) are Our true contemplatives of the Cross and the oasis of Our suffering Hearts. I cry tears of blood because My Heart profusely bleeds with so many thorns. It is your hands, as you suffer all with Jesus, that removes so many thorns that cause Us to suffer. It is you (LC) that the Father is most pleased with. Tell Fr. Jordi that the hands of the priests are the hands of My Son who come to me to remove these thorns that cause me so much suffering. The hands of purity remove these thorns but purity in every act, purity in every thought, purity in every desire… It is not busyness with so much to do that consoles our Hearts but pure love in every act, thought, and desire. The Missionaries of the Cross, above all, must be PURE and the hands of Jesus removing the thorns that pierce my Heart. Teach this SIMPLE PATH OF HOLINESS Jesus, and I are leading you into all. Go in peace, my daughter. Remain steadfast in your mission and share the treasures you are receiving with all.

¨ They must be willing to love, respect, and honor the MOC as one with the Blessed Mother and protect and defend them through their PERSEVERANCE to pray and sacrifice for them daily.

¨ Tireless in propagating the Simple Path and bringing the understanding and importance of victims of love to the multitudes through the different gifts given to each—teaching, website, preaching, music, writing, multimedia…

What is the identity of a MC?

¨ The Man of Sorrows in Isaiah 53/ The Bridegroom that gives all

¨ 10/12/17 Isaiah 53 MAN OF SORROWS

Jesus placed in my heart to ponder Isaiah 53. I ponder my Beloved—The Man of Sorrows, “despised and rejected.” He voluntarily receives God’s Will to be “bruised for our transgressions,” “grieved” He accepts the Will of the Father for love, as one with Love. God promises that He will see the “fruit of the travail of his soul.”

Our Lord, God’s anointed Son, redeemed me as the Man of Sorrows through His pain and grief. He remains on earth in the Eucharist as the Man of Sorrows, fully present in silence. Only in silence can I encounter the Man of Sorrows. Only in the silence of Eucharistic Adoration can I choose to REMAIN with Him as His spouse—to adore, thank, bless, caress, embrace, console, and love Him.

The Man of Sorrows is the identity of the Missionaries of the Cross, as the Mother of Sorrows is the identity of the Mothers of the Cross. To become one with the Man of Sorrows, men must be willing to be stripped of all their human glory – prestige, good name, honor, power… They must be willing to live despised and rejected in the eyes of the world. This purification by fire is very difficult for all men, and very few will be willing to undergo it.

FEAR

4/27/11 BELIEVE ONLY IN THE TRIUMPH OF MY CROSS

2 Maccabees 7

The time is at hand when the justice of the Father will come upon the world. My little one, you must trust in Me, in all that I have taught you and all I have placed in your heart. You need to be the mother of 2 Maccabees. You need to raise up My victim priests with the fire of a mother’s heart. A fire ignited by the Spirit of God. It is fear that blinds you and keeps you from igniting the hearts of all I desire for you to touch. Tell Fr. Jordi he will have to suffer much persecution and condemnation for the sake of My Kingdom here on earth. The Missionaries of the Cross will rise by the blood of My martyrs of love. Suffer all with Me. Believe only in the Triumph of My Cross. Resurrection is the fruit of glory that comes from My Cross.

IN HUMILITY THERE IS NO FEAR

Simple Path, p.68-69

The Lord wants us to have the humble boldness to speak the truth as He did. In humility, there is no fear; there is confidence—not in self, but in God. He said to our community, do not fear to speak the truth of the sin in the hearts of My people with courage and love and call them to repentance at My crucified feet. Therefore, we need to know our fears and their root system so that they do not become a barrier that prevents us from living and speaking the truth:

· Fear rooted in shame, guilt. Adam and Eve hid from God after eating from the tree (cf. Gen 3:8).

· Fear rooted in low self-esteem, feeling incapable of fulfilling God’s will for our lives. In the Parable of the talents, the servant hid his talent in the ground (cf. Mt 25:25).

· Fear rooted in self-love, lack of trust. Peter follows Jesus at a distance, unable to defend him (cf. Mt 26:58).

Therese loved enough to challenge souls to face the truth. This is her advice:

We should never allow kindness to degenerate into weakness. When we have scolded someone with just reason, we must leave the matter there, without allowing ourselves to be touched to the point of tormenting ourselves for having caused pain or at seeing one suffer and cry. To run after the afflicted one to console her does more harm than good. Leaving her to herself forces her to have recourse to God in order to see her faults and humble herself. Otherwise, accustomed to receiving consolation after a merited

"Victim" According to the Spirituality of Love Crucified

Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:00:00 -0400

The vocation to be a victim soul is a total oblation to the Father in Christ. It is not based on having great sufferings. There are persons who suffer much and do not have the call to Love Crucified. This vocation is lived and confirmed by living the Simple Path to Union with God.

Crisis of Faith and Scandals

Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Fr. Jordi Rivero

The root cause of scandals is a crisis of faith

The Camino to Santiago that I just completed was a time of grace:

1. I realized, at a deeper level, that we are living a great apostasy.

-Everywhere we could see the roots of Christian Europe. Even the smallest towns have a church in their center. But today they are mostly closed, vestiges of another era.
-Relatively few on the Camino had a Christian motivation. What used to be a pilgrimage seeking repentance and conversion has become simply an adventure, a sport.
-Even the older persons in the towns, there seems to be only a remnant of the faithful left.
-I had the practice of, Instead of saying goodbye, I saying “see you in heaven” -the response often was “if there is one” or just a puzzled look.
-I had the sense that there is a radical loss of faith, profound indifference.
-The result is a huge apostasy and the resulting darkness in the hearts that still is being masked by a culture absorbed in entertainment and consumerism.
-To see this is grace because we need to know the battle at hand in order to respond.

2- The fruit of the Camino for me was a profound awareness of the grace we have received in Love Crucified through the Path, the constant teachings, and having each other to help us live it.

-This brought me to repentance for my lack of resolve and focus on the mission that the Lord has given me. I saw occasions even in my recent past where I acted as a good priest but not as the Missionary of the Cross, as if my identity and mission is something that can be put on and off.
-The physical demands of walking to the next goal each day became a sign of the spiritual discipline that the Lord is asking of me to allow Him to transform my heart.

St Paul: “where sin increased, grace abounded all the more” Rom 5:20

He did not minimize the devastation caused by sin, he suffered it daily, but he resolved the more to give His all, trusting and proclaiming that Christ’s grace working in Him is stronger than all evil and will bear great fruit.
Actually, he saw the suffering as a blessing.
Our confidence is not in the world, that things are not too bad, or that we humans are going to somehow fix the problems. Our faith is in the love of Jesus crucified who lives in us as victims of love.

Are you going through a hard time? Are you concerned about the future? Don’t minimize the problem, but know and proclaim this:

Rom 8:35 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Notice that these things DO separate most people from Christ… But Paul is proclaiming that Christ wants to give us the power to conquer and not be defeated. But we must be willing to embrace the cross.
St. Paul knew that remaining steadfast was only possible through the Cross.

Paul goes on to say: "For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

ST. CLAUDE DE LA COLOMBIÈRE who said:

Really humble people are never scandalized: they know their own weakness too well; they know that they themselves are so close to the edge of the precipice and they are so afraid of falling over that they are not at all astonished to see others do so.

St. Claude, like Paul, knew his weakness and relied on the Lord.

Regarding the scandals in the Church, the focus for the remedy seems to be on more and better regulations, better accountability, a process of handling accusations, more transparency…. All this is good, but the core of the problem is a lack of new life in Christ. Where is the fire of Pentecost, of St Paul and the saints??

We always feel that we can fix things, bring them into control. At the heart of the problem is a crisis of faith.

The sexual abuse scandal exploded at the same time as the sexual revolution. Dissent against Church teaching was widespread —particularly on issues of sexual morality.

We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae which defended sexual morality against the contraceptive mentality.

He prophesied a “general lowering of moral standards”. It was met with widespread dissent.

Also about 50 years ago the Lord gave us the Chasimatic Renewal…. a grace to renew the Church and make us aware that we need the Holy Spirit.

JOSEPH RATZINGER: This is the question that arises over and over again, particularly in our hour of a new paganism and also of a new longing for God: Is the light of God, the light of Jesus Christ, hidden under the bushel of our habits, our indifference, under the flood of our words, so that beneath them the word can no longer shine forth? Or can it emerge and once again become light for all who live in God’s house, in his creation?

In the XVIIIth century, there was the Albigensian heresy, it was a reaction against the corruption and abuses of the clergy.

The Lord raised St. Dominic…

In the XVI century again the abuses and corruption of the clergy was a major cause for the protestant revolt called the Reformation.

The Lord raised St Ignatius….

We must respond and I believe that this is why the Lord has raised Love Crucified as a faithful remnant for these decisive times.

For some, the clarion called sounds exaggerated, but the Lord has told us that we are entering a time of great trials, that the devastation will be great, that the securities we are used to will not be there, a time of great upheaval… It has begun.

Revisit Fatima, children 6,8,9 of age.

She called us in a special way to be victim soul to raise up a holy army of priests.

The Lord told us through Lourdes Pinto:

Believe, my daughter, that the Mothers of the Cross will help raise up many of my fallen priests.
Suffer all with me, no longer two but one.

Today is St. Benedicta of the Cross, on pg 226 of the Path

The world is in flames. The conflagration can also reach our house. But high above all the flames tower the cross. They cannot consume it. It is the path from earth to heaven. It will lift one who embraces it in faith, love and hope into the bosom of the Trinity.

The world is in flames. Are you impelled to put them out? Look at the cross. From the open heart gushes the blood of the Savior. This extinguishes the flames of hell. Make your heart free by the faithful fulfillment of your vows; then the flood of divine love will be poured into your heart until it overflows and becomes fruitful to all the ends of the earth.

Do you hear the groans of the wounded on the battlefields in the west and the east? You are not a physician and not a nurse and cannot bind up the wounds. You are enclosed in a cell and cannot get to them.

Do you hear the anguish of the dying and would like to be a priest and comfort them?

Does the lament of the widows and orphans distress you and you would like to be an angel of mercy and help them?

Look at the Crucified. If you are nuptially bound to Him by the faithful observance of your vows, it is your precious blood that is being shed. Bound to Him, you are omnipresent as He is. You cannot help here and there like the physician, the nurse, the priest; but in the power of the Cross, you can be at all fronts, wherever there is grief. Your compassionate love—the love of the Divine Heart—takes you to every place where the Precious Blood is being poured, everywhere soothing, healing, saving.

The eyes of the Crucified look down on you asking, probing. Will you make your covenant with the Crucified anew in all seriousness? What will you answer Him?

Lord, where shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.[1]

[1]Collected Works of Edith Stein. III.2, Meditation on the feast of the Elevation on the Cross, 14 Sept. 1939.

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Christ's Hands Tied

Sat, 04 Aug 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto — My Dear Sisters,

Saturday at our Mothers of the Cross Cenacle, the Lord wanted to come to us as Jesus bound by the hands and sentenced to die. Zilkia brought this statue to our Cenacle; it is a pilgrim statue from the Trinitarians used to pray for persecuted Christians. As you gaze at the image, remember the words from our Blessed Mother to the MOC concerning our mystical bridal gown: Around your waist is a rope. This represents the rope tied around Jesus' hands during His trial. You unbound Him with your love and the rope, now around you, symbolizes your union with Him in His agony and crucifixion. Through Him, with Him, and in Him, you will help unbound many souls, especially priests, from the bondage of sin.

Below are the words Jesus placed in my heart during adoration for the MOC:

I need you. I need each of you to bring My tenderness in mercy to the world. It is love, manifested through the tenderness of God, that has the power to touch the hardened hearts of many souls. My little ones, learn from Mary, the Mother of God, and your Mother. Her tenderness is manifested in Her silence as the love and mercy of God radiates from her gaze. Her gaze is the gaze of God, and her gaze has the power to penetrate the darkness of Satan. God the Father desires that each of you become the gaze of Mary upon the earth.

How, my Lord, do we become Mary’s gaze?

By learning to live My tenderness through silence.

My little ones, the eyes are the window of the heart, and it is I who dwells in your hearts. You must believe that through your fiats to be My victim souls, I have taken My abode in your hearts. Allow My merciful love to radiate through your gaze through the power of silence. The power of God radiated through Mary through the power of her silence. Remember what I taught you about silence.

May we REMAIN in SILENCE GAZING into the Heart of Jesus as we participate in His SILENT CRY for souls.

Faith, Do I Believe? Part III - A Teaching on Silence

Fri, 27 Jul 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto. 8/16/2018

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Faith, Do I Believe? Part II

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Faith, Do I Believe? Part II

Lourdes Pinto

Isaiah 7:2-4

When the house of David was told, "Syria is in league with Ephraim," his heart and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
And the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go forth to meet Ahaz… and say to him, `Take heed, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint.

I. TAKE HEED

– To be attentive to our hearts and to God

– During the storms of our lives we are also shaken, and our emotions can be so intense that we too become confused, scared, and react in those intense emotions.

1. We need to be attentive to what is happening in our hearts, so we need to BE QUIET

– PRAY, and ask the Holy Spirit & Mary to enter our hearts with us.

– Simple Pathpp.106-107, Being attentive and going deeper by asking, “Why?”

– What is the piercing I am feeling?

– What is the pain? Name it.

– Why am I feeling such intense sorrow?

We need to begin to dissect the pure pain from the emotions of resentment, anger, revenge, hatred, disappointment, frustration & discouragement by asking the questions in prayer and journaling the answers. This process will begin to quiet our hearts so that we can become attentive to the movements of the Holy Spirit guiding us through this process.

– What negative emotions am I feeling? Be transparent with God.

– Why do I feel so much resentment, anger…?

– How have I reacted? What did I say? How did I gaze?

Simple Path, #105, p.292

By being attentive to how you use your hands or fail to use your hands, how you gaze at others, and how the words flow from your lips, you will come to know the sin that remains in your hearts. My Mother is forming each of you to be My living chalices.

2. Give the negative emotions to Christ and REMAIN in the PURE PAIN.

If I reacted in anger, REPENT. First, to the person I hurt and then in confession.

3. Suffer the pure pain WITH Christ, NOT ALONE! See our sorrow in Him. Jesus cries in the Eucharist with us and for us.

- Allow the Holy Spirit to be our Spiritual Director through The Simple Path.

- Simple Path, 3-A-4, Tears, p. 124-129

- Simple Path, #34, p.104

Be attentive to each person you encounter in your life. I live in them. I suffer for them and with them. This is My Body (Mt 35:31-41). My little one, have the docility of heart to receive the brokenness of all people into your heart as ONE with Me. This is participation in the love of the Trinity: to receive the wounds of your brothers and sisters and to give the sacrifice of your life, as ONE with Me, for their salvation and sanctification. This is Love.

Simple Path, p.117, Fruit of Healing

One of the fruits of healing the core wound is that you find your heart freer. You can feel emotions that you had only read or heard about, and feel to a more profound depth the emotions you already knew. Another fruit of healing is that we come in touch with our interior life, with our hearts. We come to know ourselves and to be attentive to what is taking place within us. We no longer live disconnected from ourselves and others. When we lived in our wound we were unhappy, afraid, depressed, in bad moods, we lived according to our emotions but were not aware of what was taking place within us. A healed person is “tuned in.” This sensitivity becomes the means to live as victim souls receiving the wounds of others and participating with Christ in their redemption.

4. During the storm our hearts can feel wounded as if pierced, and at that moment when we are feeling wounded, hurt, vulnerable, scared, confused, angry, frustrated, discouraged, or resentful when we’ve been “shaken” like the Israelites, the blessing of the grace of that particular storm—the grace of the KNOWLEDGE of the condition of our hearts is available to us.

– What is the blessing (knowledge) God is revealing to me in this storm?

Simple Path, #148, David & Goliath, p.437

These stones are your weapons for battle, for the dragon will not be defeated according to the standards of the world but in the Light of Love. Therefore, My family, prepare for battle. Be attentive to Me.

5. The process of how we are living the storms in our lives should be taken to SPIRITUAL ACCOMPANIMENT. When we are living in the midst of the storm, we forget, and the intense emotions can easily take over. It’s similar to a woman who takes classes with her husband to prepare for childbirth, but when she is confronted with the intensity of the pains, she forgets much of what she learned and she needs her husband to help her remember as he coaches her through the different stages of childbirth. Our spiritual accompanier is our coach.

Special note to our men:

Pope Francis said of St Joseph: Simple Path, p.299

How does Joseph respond to his calling to be the protector of Mary, Jesus, and the Church? By being constantly attentive to God, open to the signs of God’s presence and receptive to God’s plans, and not simply to his own…. Joseph is a “protector” because he is able to hear God’s voice and be guided by His will; and for this reason, he is all the more sensitive to the persons entrusted to his safekeeping.

Men are protectors of their wives and families; they defend them if they are attacked physically, but sometimes they fail to realize that God has entrusted them with the protection of their hearts as well.

How to spiritually battle the “thorn in the flesh” of pornography?

– Pornographic addiction has serious consequences: it destroys relationships, destroys marriage…

– Be attentive to anything that triggered the temptation, such as, stress.

– Immerse yourself in the Immaculate Heart of Mary & chaste heart of St Joseph and pray to the Holy Spirit to help you. Illicit the protection and help also of St Michael.

– As any image comes into your mind, see your daughter, son, niece, nephew, mother, wife, sister, and see them being forced into human trafficking. See their pure faces in the horror of those sexual abuses.

– Enter the suffering of the torment knowing your weakness but TRUSTING in the strength and power of Christ Crucified as a warrior fighting to protect women and children. It is no longer about you, but about saving souls! This must be seen as war. As long as you remain entangled with Satan, you are his puppet spreading his darkness in the world. Instead of saving souls, you are cutting the graces that they could be receiving from you as a victim soul (think of the Image of a feeding tube).

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

And to keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I besought the Lord about this, that it should leave me; but he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

–Example of lies: This temptation is greater than I am; I am too weak; I’m not hurting anyone, I’m alone on the internet; Pornography is going to help my sexuality.

You must battle with the TRUTH!

– Call on the help of your wife, spiritual mother, or brother in Christ to unite with you in prayer, especially the prayer of the rosary. BAND TOGETHER. Do not hide, this is what Satan wants. Be transparent and do not be ashamed to share your struggle with the men & women of prayer that God has placed in your life.

– The work of entering the root system of this disorder MUST also take place because God wants to set you free. The infected wounds at the core of these disordered tendencies need to be purified so that you can become God’s warrior against these demons. You must understand that when the door of your heart was opened to impurity, demons entered into your heart. You are now at war with very strong demons that want to destroy you, your family, and Church.

– The hidden life of the Mothers of the Cross holds the power of God to help our men!

– What will you do if you find out your husband or son is in pornography?

– As a MOC, how is our Blessed Mother teaching us to fight at her side for the men in our lives?

– The woman must understand that his vice is not her doing, it has nothing to do with her. The tendency of the woman is to go into her wound of rejection. She needs to understand that it is his addiction, not that she did anything wrong. She must come out of her wound to FIGHT FOR HUSBAND, SON, FATHER.

– Here we become the Joan of Arcs battling for our men to the end, believing that suffering this wound of impurity with the Lord WILL set a husband, father, son, priest… free!!! That MUST BE OUR JOY, even if it is not our husband, son, nephew, or priest in our life. The grace of suffering this pain with Christ IS NEVER LOST!!!

II. BE QUIET – SILENCE

– Simple Path – Silence 5-B, pp. 281-288

– Simple Path, p.284:

Silence allows us to get in touch with our sorrows so that we can enter them and unite them to the sorrows of Jesus. Then our sufferings are no longer obstacles in our path to God but actually become the path to union with Him.

When Mary embraced her Son as in the Pieta, she embraced and received the brokenness of all of humanity. When we join her in this embrace of her Son, we too receive in our hearts the wounds of many souls, through Jesus, with Him and in Him. In this way, we live the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in our ordinary lives.

– Simple Path, #102 The Arms of Silence Embrace My Crucified Body, p.285

Silence allows you to embrace fully the sorrow of your heart. Silence allows you to enter fully the sorrow I am permitting in your heart. As you embrace this pain and suffering, you are embracing Me. (Our pain becomes the personal encounter with Christ) You are embracing My pain and suffering and thus entering My Heart, for My Heart is all pain and love. This is My Mercy.
To come to know the love of your Beloved is to come to experience My sorrow. This is why My Mother is the Queen of Sorrows, for it is she who lived most perfectly consumed in My Heart. My little one, this union of sorrow, must move your heart to love all, by suffering with silence, peace, and abandonment for all your brothers and sisters.
My sons and daughters, exteriorly smile and tend to the duties of your vocation with detail and love; but interiorly, through the arms of silence, live embracing your sorrows. In this way, you are embracing My crucified Body and soothing My wounds. This is the life of love.

III. DO NOT FEAR

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” 1 John 4:18

– Be attentive to the fear in your heart.

– What am I scared of? Why am I scared?

Simple Path, p450. Litany of Humility

Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being humiliated…
From the fear of being despised…
From the fear of suffering rebukes…
From the fear of being calumniated…
From the fear of being forgotten…
From the fear of being ridiculed…
From the fear of being wrong…
From the fear of being suspected…

– What are the lies Satan is speaking in my heart?

– We need to move through the fear with trust. If not, the fear controls us and paralyzes us.

You must not fear and believe with the innocence and zeal of David.

Simple Path, p.68

Do not fear to speak the truth of the sin in the hearts of My people with courage and love and call them to repentance at My crucified feet.

Catechism of the Catholic Church, 675

Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.

See: “The Church's Ultimate Trial”, Simple Path, p.406.

Prophetic word of Ralph Martin at St. Peter’s Basilica. Simple Path, p. 433

It is the truth of My Kingdom, My kingdom that will prevail… I want you to take that truth, to rest in that truth, to believe in that truth, not to compromise it, not to lose it in confusions, not to be timid about it, but to stand simply, in love, firmly rooted in the truth as foundation stones upon which My church can have new life and new power.

Faith, Do I Believe? Part I

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto

God loves us and His mission so much that He desires to make our faith PERFECT. For our mission to be ESTABLISHED firm, each of us MUST BELIEVE what the Lord has said to us.

Our FAITH must be witnessed in the way we live the storms, piercings, and thorns in our flesh. If any of us continue to believe with our minds, but not in the way we act in our daily lives, then our mission and community will not be firm.

Correlation between Faith and Repentance:

1. Faith: Isaiah 7:1-9

2. Repentance: Mathew 11:20-24

Isaiah (7:2): “Aram has allied itself with[a] Ephraim”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.”

God permits this storm to enter into the lives of His nation, Israel, SO THAT their faith can be strengthened. By the way, they acted, the condition of their hearts is revealed, so God tells Isaiah to tell His people four things to do: “Take heed, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint.”(Is 7:4) At the end of this Scripture passage, God speaks powerful words to us: “If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.” (7:9) (Another Scripture translation reads: “Unless your faith is firm, you shall not be firm.”)

During our trials, we are tempted to contradict Jesus. Our deepest thoughts come to light. The trial reveals the condition of our hearts to ourselves. How we respond will be our rise or fall. Simeon told Mary (Lk 2:34-35) that Jesus “is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted (and you yourself a sword will pierce) so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” Mary stood faithful as her heart was pierced at the Cross. We need, like St. John, to be with her in our trials.

Fr Ron asked us an important question: “Am I living my identity as a MOC and MC as God’s hidden victim of love?” He told us that the answer to that question is found in the way we ACT or react to the many daily challenges and trials God permits or wills in our lives.

Recently I suffered a piercing that wounded my heart. The Lord blessed me with that suffering so that I could honestly, without self–deception, be able to answer that question: “Im I living as a victim of love?” I was confronted with my pure pain, but I was also confronted with feelings of anger, resentment and discouragement. As Fr Ron said, these feelings are not from God, so I started to dig deep for days before the Blessed Sacrament asking the Lord where those feelings where coming from. Why, beyond the sorrow, was I angry? I was finally face to face with the condition of my heart. I was able to SEE the truth about myself that God, in His infinite mercy, wanted me to see SO THAT I could Repentand BELIEVE. I was confronted with my lack of believing what He has said to me for years:

You must believe in the power of your hidden ordinary lives united as ONE to My sacrifice of love as God's hidden force that will renew the face of the earth.

I found the truth, naked before God: the reason I was frustrated and angry is that I still lack faith in all that the Lord has spoken to me for so many years about victim souls. I still did not believe enough in the power of my suffering with Christ. I believe with my intellect but I do not yet live it perfectly because I have not believed fully with a pure heart. I still lack trust and abandonment to God’s Will.

The piercing I suffered affected me in a good way. It brought to self–knowledge and to profound repentance. Repentance brought me to greater faith. I cannot describe to you the freedom I then felt after the piercing, after receiving the gift of self–knowledge, after getting down on my knees, after I cried and asked God for forgiveness and asked the Lord for true faith. I felt that my faith was strengthened, I felt totally renewed, refreshed, free, happy, as when I came out of the healing waters of Lourdes.

The promises the Lord has made to us are contingent on our faith, on believing what He has told us. “Believe, My daughter, believe!”

I remembered Jesus’ words to His disciples when they were unable to cast out a demon, Mathew 17:20:

Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.

God loves me and His mission so much that He desires to make my faith and yours PERFECT.

For our mission to be ESTABLISHED, firm, it is going to depend on our CAPACITY TO BELIEVE what the Lord has said to us. The strength of our community is the strength of the faith of each member. Each of us has a great responsibility before God. The mission does not depend only on my faith as the head of the community, though that is a great responsibility.

Our FAITH must be witnessed in the way we live the storms, piercings, and thorns in our flesh. If any of us continue to believe with our minds, but not in the way we act in our daily lives, then our mission and community will not be firm. Every MOC and MC has a GREAT RESPONSIBILITY because Jesus has done “mighty works” with us (Mt 11:20,23). Jesus reproaches the cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum because He blessed them with so much and they did not REPENT.

Believe, so that My Light can shine through you to penetrate the darkness consuming the world. (Path #151, p. 439.)

The Lord is telling us that if we believe with all our hearts, mind, soul, and strengths, that each suffering that God permits, united to Him, is going to penetrate the darkness consuming the world, but only if we believe.

Here we must see the connection between FAITH and REPENTANCE. To grow in faith and reach the spiritual level of living in complete trust and abandonment to God’s Will, we MUST be willing to go through the process:

SUFFERING>KNOWLEDGE>REPENTANCE>FAITH

Faith Perfected, (Diary of a MOC #115)

Your faith is perfected in sufferings and trials. Perfect faith is complete abandonment to My Father's Will in all things through your union in Me. Therefore, your growth in faith is dependent on the abandonment of your will to Me and also on your knowledge of My perfect love for you.

This means that any time the Lord permits a trial in our life, our faith will depend on our ability to abandon ourselves to God’s will and on being firm in the knowledge of God’s immense love for us.

The shedding of layers of attachments to your will, which is self-love, takes place as you begin to trust in My love for you. This is why suffering all your sorrows with Me is so beneficial for your soul, because in that process you touch the open wounds of My love for you. This perfects a soul quickly in abandonment and trust until you come to experience all, the good and what you perceive as bad, as a gift of My love for you.

In every trial, we have the opportunity to shed another layer of attachment to disordered tendencies. Each layer shed brings us to greater purity of heart to love more perfectly. Perceiving our sufferings as gifts of the Lord shows growth in humility and faith. With this comes love, peace, and the power of God to move mountains.

The gift of knowing with your mind, heart, and soul that the love of God only desires to make of you the new creation you were created to be from the beginning of time, a creation in the image and likeness of God as holy sons and daughters of the Most High. This is why I came upon the earth: to set you free from the bondage of sin, to make of you a new creation, and draw you into the ONENESS of the Most Holy Trinity to experience holy bliss for all eternity. What greater love is there than this? (12/14/11)

It is not enough to believe intellectually. Our growth in faith is connected to the condition of our hearts. This is why, through trials, the Lord takes us to see the truth of our hearts. This is difficult specially for men.

Romans 10:10 “For one believes with the heart and so is justified.”

The Lord teaches us in The Path that “Faith is perfected in suffering and trials.” (#115, p.310) Why? “Because in order to believe our hearts must be pure.” (#116, 311)

To grow in faith, we need humility and simplicity. Otherwise, when we enter the trials, we will not receive the grace of knowledge, we remain obstinate and the grace of God will not penetrate the heart.

What it Means to Believe, Diary of a MOC #116.

What does it mean to believe in the One sent by God to the world? In order to believe in the Word of God, your heart must be pure. It is only through the Spirit that you can believe My Word, not with your mind but with your heart. My Word is My life that must touch the depth of your heart. A hardened heart cannot feel the touch of My living Word. The intellect can receive My Word and manipulate it, but the Spirit penetrates a heart with My Word and transforms it.
To believe is to abandon yourself to Me so that I can make you a new creation through My Spirit. What is required to believe? Humility and simplicity. That is why I say you must be like a child to truly come to believe and follow Me. You believe with the heart as you encounter the living God before you, as you hear His voice and gaze into His eyes. That is why it is only the pure of heart who can see, hear and truly know God.
Therefore, My daughter, tell My sons to be humble as I am humble, to rely on My Spirit teaching them and not on their own understanding, for their understanding is very limited, but My understanding will bring them to encounter the living God and possess the life of the Most Holy Trinity. (4/25/11)
Why was it that John the Baptist, Simeon, and Anna knew Jesus at a deeper level than others? The answer lies in hearts that seek with faith. A hardened heart is set in its ways. It reduces the work of God to make it fit in its natural logic and experience. It is not open to see beyond what it controls. A pure heart, on the other hand, believes that for God nothing is impossible. It is docile and malleable, willing to be pierced, pruned, and made new by God. (Path p. 43-44)

16. My Gaze Penetrates All Darkness, Diary of a MOC, p.59

My gaze is upon each of you. I see your struggles; I know your trials; I feel and suffer your sorrows; I collect your tears; I suffer with each of you.
Have perfect faith in the God that loves you… Believe in the power of your hidden ordinary lives lived through Me, with Me and in Me, ONE with Me, no longer two. Believe in My crucified love, in the power of My crucified gaze to penetrate all darkness. My gaze is upon you; allow Me to heal your wounds and purify all darkness.
My desire for you, My thirst for each of you, is to make you My living icons. My little ones, suffer all with Me, gazing upon My crucified love so that your suffering can perfect your faith and you can become My living chalices poured upon the world, redeeming, restoring, and purifying with Me. Learn to wait upon the Lord, for that proves your love and perfects your trust.

The Path is the SCHOOL OF THE HEART!

The Lord not only heals our wounds, He also purifies all darkness, through self–knowledge, and repentance.

The condition of our hearts is revealed through suffering.

God’s loving will permitted my heart to be pierced SO THAT I could discover a deeper darkness that remained in my heart. By allowing the sword to penetrate my heart, by opening my heart in prayer to ask God to reveal what is in my heart, I allow Him to give me a full knowledge of what He wants me to see.

God gives the GIFT OF KNOWLEDGE, and through knowledge, the GIFT OF THE GOLD OF PRECIOUS REPENTANCE.

As the Light of God revealed to me the condition of my heart, I was able to SEE myself through the eyes of God, through humility, docility, and simplicity, and not through the eyes of my self-deception. This is an immense grace for me, and all people, but I understood the importance of HUMILITY, SIMPLICITY, AND DOCILITY in order to receive this grace. (Re Path#116).

The condition of our hearts is revealed through two types of suffering:

1. The Storm– Mt 8:18-34.

2. A thorn in our flesh – 2 Corinthians 12:7-8 “Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment (harass) me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.”

The storms:

The storms are the myriad of daily struggles and challenges in our lives. Yet a storm only lasts for a certain amount of time, it passes by, and then the “calm” is restored. Many times the Lord is “asleep” during our storms, as He was with the disciples, but this too, is part of God’s loving Will for each of us so that the condition of our hearts can be revealed to us—our lack of faith: “Why are you afraid? O men of little faith.” (Mt8:26)

A storm can be a struggle, fight, argument between a couple, friends, family, coworkers…an illness, unemployment… It usually lasts a short amount of time and passes.

During the storm, our hearts can feel wounded as if pierced, and at that moment, when we are feeling wounded, hurt, vulnerable, scared, confused, angry, frustrated, discouraged, or resentful, when we’ve been “shaken” like the Israelites, the blessing of the grace of that particular storm—the grace of the KNOWLEDGE of the condition of our hearts is available to us. We are confronted with the question: are we living as a victim of love?

A thorn in our flesh:

A “thorn in our flesh” is also a suffering that God wills or permits, but unlike the storm which passes, it remains with us. St Paul asked three times for his thorn to be taken away, but God willed for him to live with it. A thorn can be a spouse, a child, as in the case of St Monica with St. Augustine, an illness, such as Lyme disease, migraines, a handicap, such as ADD, dyslexia, a mental illness….

A thorn in our flesh can also be a temptation that does not go away, such as an addiction: to pornography, masturbation, and other impurities, to alcohol, drugs, or any addiction. Notice that St Paul says that his thorn is from Satan and torments him. Many souls that suffer these temptations feel horrible torments, but when a soul receives the grace, like St Paul, to know that God is permitting that temptation for a greater good and sees that temptation as a thorn in his flesh as God’s Will, the soul is strengthened in faith.

It is important to note here that these temptations have a root system that comes from deep wounds and lies, therefore, the interior work of going deep to allow the Light of Christ to heal and restore our hearts is CRUCIAL. The temptation can only be understood as a thorn in the flesh after a soul has done the work of interior healing and transformation. Then we trust that the grace of God will be with us to resist the temptation and share in the work of Christ by suffering with Him.

When we know a suffering is God’s Will, even a temptation, and we abandon ourselves to His Will because we believe that we have a mission to help save souls with Christ, then we enter the power of God through faith!

What is the thorn in my flesh? How do I live with this thorn? Do I see it as God’s Will for my life or do I spend my energy trying to change, control, or reject this thorn?

What God has called us in L.C. to BELIEVE:

Path #25, p.78

Believe in the power of My Cross and the power of My Precious Blood, for it is only through the Triumph of My Cross that all darkness will be conquered. Live, love and suffer as ONE with Me; and you will become the sword that will pierce this darkness.

Martyrdom of the Heart, Diary of a MOC p.139

The martyrdom of the heart is the martyrdom of suffering with Love and for Love. My daughter, if you could only understand the fruit of the martyrdom of suffering, you would desire nothing else on earth. The hidden life of suffering with Love and for Love is of far greater worth than great and small works tainted with human recognition. Believe in the hidden force contained in the martyrdom of the heart. This is the purest fragrance of love that has the power to conquer the enemies of God. (11/9/12)

#56, p. 169

Believe in the power of My hidden force as ONE with the power of My Eucharistic life.

Flame of Love, Diary of a MOC p.209

My flame of love is the Holy Spirit. Through My Path, My flame of love has possessed your minds, hearts, and facultiesso that it is no longer you who live but I who live in you. In this way, I live in you as you live in Me and the Father lives in us. Do not be afraid to be sent out as My heralds of hope to usher in My era of peace. Do not be afraid to confront the forces of evil as My Light, for it is the light of My holy remnant that will conquer the forces of darkness. Believe that you are the Light of the world and hold the power of God. (5/26/14)

#119. Joy Through Sorrows, Diary of a MOC p.320

Be filled with My joy in believing that God has found favor with you and he delights in you…
I asked, “My Lord, how do I live this joy with so much sorrow?”
Because your sorrows are saving souls… Your tears, united to Mary's, are watering the face of the earth with God's grace. Your sorrows in Me bring forth new life… God the Father showers grace upon the earth through the sorrows of Mary, which are one in My sorrows. Your sorrows united as one to the Mother of Sorrows brings new life upon the earth. Your joy will be found in your perfect faith in this truth. Believe and continue to save souls through your sorrows. (6/3/14)

P.356

Believe in the power of your prayers as ONE with the perfect Victim of Love.

#143, p.386

Believe, my daughter, that the Mothers of the Cross will help raise up...

Mustard Seed

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Mathew 17:20 - He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Mark 4:30-32 - “What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade.”
Mark 4: 14-20 - “The farmer sows the word. Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”
A mustard seed is so small, looks so insignificant like a little grain of sand, that from its appearance you would never suspect a large plant with large branches could spring forth from it.
A host is also small, insignificant, and seems like nothing, yet, in the small insignificant piece of bread is contained God Almighty when consecrated. Because this Mystery is so great – Christ fully present- Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity in a small insignificant Host— our human mind cannot grasp such a miracle of God without His grace. God constantly shows us His ways are not our ways.
Jesus has been calling us His “mustard seed” for years. This is not just a nice expression from our Lord, but it contains a great mystery for us, and also, it contains the manner in which we will come to be transformed into God’s living hosts. Therefore, we need to go deeper into its meaning to discover what the Heart of God is truly telling us and desiring from us.
Two keywords:
NOTHINGNESS
INSIGNIFICANCE

“The Lord wants to reveal his glory by taking up our nothingness and our insignificance and turning it into something majestic by the pure force of his love.” (Magnificat 11th Sunday in Ordinary Times 6/17/18)
The Path of the Cross brings us to know our NOTHINGNESS. When we live in our infected wounds believing the lies of Satan and living in disorder, we live a fake identity – someone we are not. Our fallen nature wants to be important, seen, heard, powerful and significant. Yet, the Path of the Cross brings us to discover the truth about ourselves and God—we are nothing and God is ALL; we are insignificant and God is Significant.
Spirit of Poverty, Simple Path p. 303, #110
The spirit of poverty is lived when you allow the Holy Spirit, My Blessed Mother and Myself to strip you of everything interiorly: your desires, expectations, plans, attachments, securities, consolations in friendships, even consolations from Me, so that you are left completely empty. It is a soul that has been stripped of everything, that is empty and can be filled with My life…

We, Love Crucified, are God’s mustard seed – little, nothing, insignificant-- and in our nothingness is hidden the power of God. That is why God is constantly telling us that we are the “hidden force”. Just as the mustard seed contains the large tree and the Host contains God Almighty, the mustard seed of LC contains the Power of God, the “sword of the Spirit.”
The Lord told us:
The enemy will be conquered, and all things will be made new but never in the ways of the world. God has chosen to give the sword of righteousness to His little mustard seed. The sword of the mission is the power of God that will pierce and conquer the dragon.11/12/11
God's little mustard seed, His holy remnant, is the power of God for the great battle. 10/16/14

The mustard seed is our community as a whole and also each member individually. In order for our mission and identity to be protected from the snares of Satan, we MUST become, more-and-more each day, God’s “insignificant vessels”.
My daughter, desire to be only My insignificant vessel, for it is in your humility and poverty of spirit that I have found great joy. Remain small and I will reveal My power. Desire only the Cross and My love will triumph through you. Believe in the power of My hidden force as ONE with the power of My Eucharistic life. This is the force that God is strengthening for the decisive battle. Perfect your family in the hidden life I have revealed to you.
My daughter, you, Fr. Jordi, and My community of Love Crucified will undergo greater attacks now from Satan because he knows what will come forth from My little mustard seed. 1/8/11
Mary to MOC: I come to warn you, for Satan wants to devour God’s mustard seed before the seed begins to flourish and blossom. 4/14/11

This is why the work of our Path of dying to our old selves, the person who we have become that we are not, to become who we truly are – nothing and insignificant – is ESSENTIAL for every MOC and MC, for here lies the protection and fulfillment of God’s mission for the Church given to us—ushering in the reign of the Holy Spirit with the reign of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as one with the Eucharistic Reign.
He will multiply your lives given and broken through Me, with Me, and in Me. His power and His glory will fill your small sacrifices, united to My perfect sacrifice of love, to raise up a holy priesthood to usher in My Second Coming. My Second Coming will come through Mary, with Mary, and in Mary, for it is My Eucharistic Reign. My little one, the New Pentecost will be the reign of My Mother as one with My Eucharistic Reign united to the Father… This is the great mission given to you and the few that respond. 2/12/18

God has willed for our LC Community to not be recognized officially by the Church as of yet. He has wanted us to remain hidden, insignificant, unnoticed, unwanted, misunderstood and small, for it is God’s way of forming us according to His perfect plan. He is making sure that we ARE THE MUSTARD SEED. Individually, He also forms us in the same way—in the hidden insignificant ordinary martyrdom of the heart. The more hidden, small, insignificant, unnoticed we are, the greater our power because it is the Power of God.
How is the mustard seed of LC sprouting, growing, strengthening, and producing fruit?
The mustard seed of the LCF is still hidden but it is sprouting, and its roots are becoming anchored and strong. It will stand firm and not be uprooted, because it is being watered by My precious Blood and the blood of My martyrs. 8/29/10

The large tree might never be seen in our own community. We might never be a large and visible community in the Church. The Lord, so far, has scattered one seed in some cities and a few in others. How God sows the seeds of LC is up to Him, but we MUST desire to ALWAYS be His insignificant little mustard seeds.
Do not grow weary in living all that I have taught you, My little mustard seed. Believe in Me and My promises to you, My little mustard seed. You will grow in great power and strength, but not in the ways of the world, but in the ways of God.... Be prepared for great trials. Persevere in love. 3/30/12

The hidden power of God contained in the mustard seed of the LC Community has been sown... It is sprouting, taking root, and producing fruit there. They might grow in strength and numbers, a visible army in the world, while we remain their “hidden force” as God’s hidden victim souls. We remain the seed that is underground, buried, and our visible growth is actually in others.
From My mustard seed, the Love Crucified Family will come forth an abundance of choice rich fruit. April 2010
I now ask you, My blossoming mustard seed, to help guide many out of the path of destruction into the path of life, especially My beloved sons, whom I need to shepherd My people into the safety of My Cross. 3/1/11
Remain with me and pray the Stations of the Cross so that many hearts will be open, will see, and be converted. After this great grace from God, will come the final tribulation. God’s little mustard seed has been born upon the earth to prepare souls for these decisive times. Pray also for my shepherds, for their hearts to have become dry and brittle, unable to see the God who gave them life hanging from the Tree of Life. 11/3/17

Are we each willing to be the mustard seed that remains hidden, underground, unseen, unperceived, yet, bringing forth large branches and producing an abundance of choice fruit in others?
You will lead many through this simple path of holiness I am revealing to My little mustard seed (LC), but be assured that My little mustard seed will be the seed that produces a hundred-fold in My Church. 7/13/11

Our Path forms us, and all the souls that receive the Simple Path, to become “Living Hosts”—One with Christ Eucharist. Our Beloved Jesus Christ remains hidden, unseen, unperceived by many in the smallness and insignificance of the Host, yet, the seed of the Eucharist enters our hearts. He continues to remain hidden within us, and if the soil of our hearts has been plowed and prepared, the seed of Christ Eucharist grows until it is no longer we that live but Christ who lives through us, with us, and in us! (Parable of the Sower, Mark 4: 14-20)
How are we nothing and insignificant, yet, we’re sons and daughters of Abba in Christ restored in God’s image and likeness possessing gifts of the Holy Spirit?
John 15:5 - “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me, you can do nothing.
Being renewed in Christ and the ability to live our gifts that are given to us by God is completely dependent on God’s grace. We can never be restored in the image and likeness of God on our own, it is ALL God’s grace. Yet, what we do have to give, that ALLOWS God to do this work of transformation in us, is our will- my “fiat” to be His victim soul, and this fiat must be lived out daily as Mary did.
• Example: I have the gift of teaching, but I am completely dependent on God to give me the understanding, the inspirations, the wisdom, and to connect the dots for me, then I can deliver the teaching with the charism He has given me. The gift is completely dependent on Him—the branch attached to the vine—the gift comes from God and its expression flows from Him to me and then to you. Therefore, I remain nothing and insignificant & He is All.
• Examples: Maria H- singing & composing/ Jan H -teacher / scholar…

The problem is when we live our gifts and our vocations detached from the Vine, as if they’re our own. This is what our egos desire. This human tendency, that we all have, comes from our infected wounds and through our disordered attachments to want to be important, significant, applauded, affirmed, liked, accepted… IT’S ALL ABOUT ME. It also comes from a lack of TRUST and ABANDONMENT to Christ, truly believing with our entire being that God loves us and anything He permits in our lives, whether good or what we perceive as bad, is for a greater good.
Therefore, you can be a mother, father, priest, layperson living your vocation disconnected from the Vine. We do this many times subconsciously.
What are some signs that can alert us of this condition?
Feeling burnt out, wiped out, depressed, lack of joy
Anxiety, fears - because we, subconsciously, are concerned about our reputations, our image, being accepted, liked… fearing criticism, rejection, failure, humiliations…
A life of disharmony/ lack of balance- work and doing a lot of things, always active, with little time of prayer, silence, recollection, interior work, rest and fun.
Impurity of desire – we’re doing “good things,” but deep in our hearts they are not flowing necessarily from God, but from our own desires for ourselves.

When we live knowing our NOTHINGNESS and INSIGNIFICANCE, ITS ALL ABOUT CHRIST. He is ALL, our Vine, everything comes to us through Him—we are capable of nothing without Him. Life is not about me anymore, it’s all about Him, and therefore, I live only to please Him—this is HOLINESS.
Simple Path p. 241, #86:
My Lord, how do I live solely for Love, forgetting myself? Live to please Me. To live in the unity of the Trinity is to live gazing at the Father, through the Son, to please Him in all things.

Trust Inspired by the Annunciation

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:00:00 -0400

The Annunciation teaches us about how God relates with us and what trusting Him really means.
God, who is almighty and all-knowing, the creator of the universe, asks Mary to participate in His most important plan: the salvation of the world. Then He waits for her permission! We see God asking and waiting throughout the history of salvation. With the few who respond, He does great things. This is God’s way with us. He asks permission to come to us and to work through us.
Trust depends on our faith that God is asking us permission to work in and through us.
But it also means that we are attentive to give Him that permission when it goes against what we expected and desired.
God’s work in us often is often very different than what we expected.
It is not enough to want God just as a benefactor, to do our bidding, to give us all the good things we want. Then we pray that all goes as we expect and say we trust that God will come through. That means that if a loved one is sick, they will heal; if I’m looking for a job, a dream house, etc., it will come through as I expect it. Then we can say, “God is good, I trust He will give it to me”!!
But do I also pray giving God permission to contradicts my expectations, for the grace to embrace with confidence His will, trusting that it is the best? That is what Jesus did at Gethsemane. He showed us the price of trusting in the Father and why few do.
This means that It is not enough to obey the Commandments. That is to live by the law. Christ has given us His Holy Spirit so that we see, desire, and act as one with His heart. That means that God wants a personal relationship with us and wants to direct all the decisions we take, including those of our daily life.
The Lord wants to give us His plans, His desires, His love.
We are tempted with spiritual laziness
I may think that if God wants something from me, He can just tell me, and I will do it.
Trusting in God requires the hard work of discerning God’s will for us. We cannot presume we know it. It may be that at times the Lord will come to us in a striking way, as the angel speaking to Mary. But even Mary had to struggle. Lc 1, 26 “she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be.” The angel had to tell her, “do not be afraid”. Mary did not understand and asked questions: Lc 1, 34 “How shall this be, since I have no husband?” Then Luke tells us that “the angel departed from her.” To trust, Mary needed to continue to listen to God, now speaking in the silent movements of the Spirit in her heart. She heard from the angel that Elizabeth was with child but no further instructions in that regard. But in her heart, she listened to the Spirit moving her to do the most difficult, the most dangerous” to go serve. She trusted because her love consumed her, and she was attentive to the Lord, no attachments, no distractions could interfere.
The disciples sincerely trusted Jesus; they left everything to follow Him. But their trust had to grow. Jesus lamented that they were slow to understand the signs meant to teach them to trust in what seemed impossible or what went against their natural hopes. Only later they realized the power of the cross and that they had not yet abandoned everything as they thought. They were still thinking as natural men think and not as God thinks. We, too, need to have our minds opened to know the will of God.
If our priority is not to listen to God, if we do not expect Him to actually speak, if we do not keep at it in prayer, seeking and waiting upon the Lord, then we will be distracted and guided by other voices.
At the Last Judgement, the damned will ask, “when did we see you hungry…” They did not respond to God because they did not see Him in the way they expected.
When we die, I think that we will be dismayed to see how much God wanted to entrust to us, how much He wanted to draw us to His heart, but we just did not see it. We thought we were trusting, but we failed to seek with all our hearts His will. The result is that our understanding of the will of God was distorted; we justified our way of thinking and our lifestyle.
If our understanding of God’s will is distorted, then our trust is distorted.
In the gospel story of the rich man and Lazarus. The rich man goes to hell, not for doing something bad to Lazarus but simply for ignoring him in his great need.
We, too, can interpret the gospel blinded by our own mindset.
One sign that we are off track is when we justify our actions saying, “there is nothing wrong with this.”
Nothing wrong with my spending my money, my time, my thoughts this way. Instead, we need to ask the Lord, “What do YOU want?  Is this the BEST way you want me to spend it?” Then we will see that God’s way is giving.
Responding to God in trust requires a decision to enter into battle against our own tendencies, which are still driven by our flesh and our wounds. This often means to do what is most difficult because we love and trust God. We need to allow God to plow and pierce our hearts to make them new.
The Lord wants to give us a transformed mind that has authority over our flesh.
Rom 12:1-2. I appeal to you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
At times we are tempted to run from God’s will and pretend we are not covering up our scape with pious excuses. We can easily fool ourselves. That is why we need the Church’s teaching and someone who can help us see our blind areas. This is accompaniment and constant seeking of self-knowledge. To see our true motivation
Saint Ignatius desired to respond to God so much that God gave Him a process of discernment called the Spiritual Exercises. He had to seek God and engage in intense spiritual warfare against Satan and the flesh to come to clarity about the will of God.
This is the work of the Path. This calls for a disciplined way of life.
Another temptation is to overlook the power of our ordinary lives in the will of God.
We may excuse ourselves from the effort of listening to God, thinking that our vocation is not as important as Mary’s. The truth is that Jesus is asking us to respond like Mary, to partake of His love as co-redeemers, to save many through the power of our hidden lives united as ONE with His! That is why He pleads, “give me victim souls”. The creator of the universe begs each of us for help to bring His love and salvation to many!
Image: Annunciation by Emilio Falero, at Love Crucified Community.

In the World but not of the World

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:00:00 -0400

In the world but not of the world
Lourdes asked the Lord regarding our community’s relationship with the world. Are we to flee from the world or engage it. This was the answer:
1. My little one (to retreat) is not the way that I am seeking for these end times. Satan will be defeated by heroic acts of love united to My perfect sacrifice of love.
2. I need souls willing to live in the world but not of the world.
3. Souls who receive the brokenness of other souls and suffer for them as one with Me solely for love.
4. Souls immersed in the darkness of this world to fight as My soldiers of Light against the demons of hell.
5. These are My hidden victim souls in the world living through Me, with Me, and in Me.
6. My little one, Satan will try many tactics to move your heart from the desire of My Heart.
7. I am forming you (plural) as My warriors of the great battle.
Now I shall reflect on the above seven points:
1) How did Jesus defeat Satan?
It was a battle but not as we may imagine.
Most of His life was hidden, but living in the world, not isolated. He lived among the people of Nazareth who knew Him. -they thought.
Then He lived intimately close to His disciples.
Finally, death on the Cross.
Every step Jesus lived in heroic love in the ordinary things while being misunderstood, rejected, giving Himself when He had other plans. He takes His disciples to rest only to find a multitude. Even His plans are changed, and He continues loving unto the Cross.
Lourdes’s example of how we are to apply this: A husband that returning from work proceeds to be attentive to his wife and children instead of seeking his pleasure (tv, computer....)

2) Willing to live in the world but not of the world.
Jesus said: “Do not be conformed to this world” (Rom 12:2).
Fr. Cantalamessa comments: “After these words, we would expect to hear, “but transform it!” Instead, He tells us, “but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, “in other words: “Transform yourselves!” Transform the world, yes, but the world within you before thinking you can transform the world outside of you.
We are to participate in His mission, and so He goes on to say: “that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Jesus defeated Satan by becoming flesh and loving in the world with a human heart. He came to redeem all that is human, even the most ordinary, making it the locus for our growth in holiness.

3) Souls who receive the brokenness of others and suffer with them as one with Me solely for love
When others hurt us, we want to run away! The hurt eclipses our discernment, and we find a pious reason to break relationships. Had we given the Lord time, we could have seen our mistake; we could have seen how we are growing through the trials.
When we run from suffering and still want to feel pious, we become fake saints.
We want to love those we find lovable.

Mt 5:44 “Jesus said to his disciples: “I say to you, love your enemies... For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers and sisters only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.

How does the Father reveal His perfection? -By sending to us His only Son, while we were sinners.

Jesus reveals the Father’s perfection with His love, receiving the sin, the brokenness, the sorrows of all.
He asks us: “Will you be one with Me?” Will you receive My love so that you can love as I love?

4) Souls immersed in the darkness of the world to fight as my soldiers of Light and against demons.
Yes, the world is in darkness, but we have the mission to go into the darkness being light.
This brings us into the same battle Jesus fought unto the Cross.

5) These are My hidden victim souls in the world living through Me, with Me, and in Me.
Our lives are hidden in the sense that they are ordinary, unrecognized by most.

We don’t seem to have an impact on the world.

Our flesh would prefer to be admired heroes.
The essence of holiness is the love of Christ, hidden to the world even though He is in the world.
We must trust and allow the Spirit to lead us. Learn to wait for the Lord so that we live through, with, and in Him. How am I doing this in my present trials?
At the root of sin is our independence from God. A new letter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith warns of old heresies coming back: neo-Pelagianism refers to individuals who believe themselves to be “radically autonomous,” who presume to be able to save themselves and their own strength. Our fallen nature finds it hard “welcoming the newness of the Spirit of God.” He teaches us a way that we would not have considered.

6) My little one, Satan will try many tactics to move your heart from the desire of My Heart. I am forming you (plural) as My warriors of the great battle.
The Lord is forming us as warriors for the great battle.
To win a war, you need to know the enemy. We learn the enemy’s tactics from Scripture, the lives of the saints, our community’s teaching, and our own experience.
More importantly, we need to know and trust the Lord from Whom we receive power and direction.

He will expose the lies of the enemy. He will reveal the battle plan and implement it in our daily life.
He gives us self-knowledge (our sin, our weaknesses) and reveals what God wants us to be.

None of the above is possible unless we are open to the Holy Spirit to bring them to life.

7) I am forming you (plural) as My warriors of the great battle.
As warriors, we must be focused on the mission.
Victim souls are one with Christ in His self giving to the Father.
They are disciplined as warriors: time to get up, time to pray, Eucharist, share with family, work, accompaniment, and go to sleep on time.

See also:
First Lenten homily 2018- Father Raniero Cantalamessa.
“DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD”
“Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, what is good and acceptable and perfect” (Rom 12:2).

In a society where everyone feels called to transform the world or the Church, this word of God breaks in, inviting people to transform themselves: “Do not be conformed to this world.” After these words, we would expect to hear, “but transform it!” Instead, it tells us, “Transform yourselves!” Transform the world, yes, but the world within you before thinking you can transform the world outside of you.

This word of God, taken from the Letter to the Romans, introduces us to the spirit of Lent this year. As has been the case for some years now, we will dedicate this first meditation to a general introduction to Lent without entering into the special theme of this year because of the absence of part of the habitual audience who are committed elsewhere for the Spiritual Exercises.

1. Christians and the World
Let us first take a look at how the ideal of detachment from the world was understood and lived out from the beginning till our day. It is always useful to take into account the experiences of the past if we want to understand the requirements for the present.

In the Synoptic Gospels the word “world” (kosmos) is almost always understood in a morally neutral sense. In its spatial meaning, “world” indicates the earth and the universe (“Go into all the world”). In its temporal meaning, it indicates the present time or “age” (aion). It is with Paul, and even more with John, that the word “world” takes on a moral dimension and most often signifies the world as it became after sin and fell under the dominion of Satan, “the god of this world” (2 Cor 4:4). This is the meaning of “world” in Paul’s exhortation that we began with and in the almost identical exhortation of John in his

First Letter:
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. (1 Jn 2:15-16)

Christians never lost sight of the fact that the world in itself, despite everything, is and remains God’s good creation, a creation that he loves and came to save, not to judge: “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (Jn 3:16).

The attitude toward the world that Jesus proposes to his disciples is contained in two prepositions: to be in the world but not of the world. “Now I am no more in the world,” he says, addressing the Father, “but they are in the world. . . . They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world” (Jn 17:11, 16).
In the first three centuries, the disciples were quite conscious of their unique position. The “Epistle to Diognetus,” an anonymous writing at the end of the second century, describes the perception that Christians had of themselves in the world:

Christians are indistinguishable from other men either by nationality, language or customs. They do not inhabit separate cities of their own, or speak a strange dialect, or follow some outlandish way of life. . . . They follow the customs of whatever city they happen to be living in, whether it is Greek or foreign. And yet there is something extraordinary about their lives. They live in their own countries as though they were only passing through. They play their full role as citizens, but labor under all the disabilities of aliens. Any country can be their homeland, but for them their homeland, wherever it may be, is a foreign country. Like others, they marry and have children, but they do not expose them [to die]. They share their meals, but not their wives. They live in the flesh, but they are not governed by the desires of the flesh.[1]
Let us very briefly summarize what followed. When Christianity became a religion that was tolerated and soon after even protected and favored, the tension between Christianity and the world tended inevitably to subside since the world had become—or at least was considered to be—a “Christian world.” Then we witness a double phenomenon. On the one hand, groups of people, desiring to remain the salt of the earth that did not lose its savor, fled from the world, even physically, and withdrew to the desert.

Monasticism was born under the banner of a motto that goes back to the monk Arsenius: “Fuge, tace, quiesce,” “Flee, be silent, be still.” [2]

At the same time, the pastors of the Church and some of the more enlightened people sought to adapt the ideal of detachment from the world for all believers, proposing not a physical but a spiritual flight from the world. St. Basil in the East and St Augustine in the West were familiar with Plato’s thinking, especially in the ascetic form it had taken with his disciple Plotinus. In this cultural atmosphere, the ideal of flight from the world was alive. It was related, however, to a flight that was vertical rather than horizontal, so to speak, a flight upward and not toward the desert. It consisted in raising oneself above the multiplicity of material things and human passions to unite oneself with what is divine, incorruptible, and eternal.

The Fathers of the Church, with the Cappadocians in the lead, proposed a Christian asceticism that responded to this religious need and adopted its language without, however, ever sacrificing the values of the gospel. To start with, the flight from the world that they recommended is a work of grace more than it is human effort.The fundamental step is not at the end of the road but at its beginning, in baptism. It is therefore not reserved to a few educated people but is open to all. St. Ambrose wrote a short treatise called “Flight from the World,” addressed to all the neophytes.[3] The separation from the world that he proposes is above all affective: “Flight,” he says, “is not to depart from the earth but to remain on earth, to hold to justice and temperance, to renounce the vices in material goods, not their use.” [4]

This ideal of detachment and flight from the world will, in diverse forms, accompany the whole history of Christian spirituality. A prayer in the liturgy summarizes this in the saying, “terrena despicere et amarecaelestia”: “to despise earthly things and to love heavenly things.” (The same prayer in modern liturgy says: “to use with wisdom earthly things, always oriented to the heavenly goods”)

2. The Crisis of the Ideal of “fuga mundi”
Things changed in the period prior to ours. With regard to the ideal of the separation from the world, we went through, a period in which that ideal was “criticized” and looked at with suspicion. This crisis has distant roots. It begins—at least on the theoretical level—with Renaissance humanism that revived interest and enthusiasm for worldly values, at times with a pagan cast. But the decisive factor of the crisis is seen in the phenomenon of the so-called “secularization” that began in the Enlightenment and reached its peak in the twentieth century.

The most evident change concerns precisely the concepts of “world” and “age.” In all of the history of Christian spirituality, the word “saeculum” has had a connotation that tended to be negative, or at least ambiguous. It meant the present age that is subject to sin, as opposed to the future age or eternity. Within a few decades, its meaning underwent a transformation until it took on a decidedly positive significance in the 1960s and 1970s. Some titles themselves of the books that emerged during those years, like The Secular Meaning of the Gospel by Paul van Buren and The Secular City by Harvey Cox, highlighted this new optimistic meaning of “saeculum” and “secular.” A “theology of secularization” was born.

All of this contributed, however, to fuel an exaggerated optimism about the world for some people that does sufficiently not take into account its other face—the one which is “under the evil one” and is opposed to the spirit of Christ (see Jn 14:17). At a certain moment the traditional idea of flight “from” the world was substituted in the minds of many (including clergy and religious) with the ideal of a flight “toward” the world, that is, worldliness.

In this context some of the most absurd and delusional things that have ever come under the name of “theology” have been written. The first is the idea that God himself becomes secular and worldly when he lays aside his Godhead to become man. This is the so-called “Theology of the Death of God.” There also still exists a balanced theology of secularization in which secularization is not seen as something opposed to the gospel but rather as its product. However, that is not the theology we are talking about.

Someone has commented that the “theologies of secularization” referred to above were nothing but apologetic attempts meant “to furnish an ideological justification for the religious indifference in modern man”; they also fit with “the ideology that the Churches needed to justify their growing marginalization.” [5] It soon became clear that this was a blind alley. In a few years almost no one was talking about the theology of secularization, and some of its very promotors distanced themselves from it.

As always, to reach the bottom of a crisis becomes an occasion for going back to the “living and eternal” word of God. Let us listen to Paul’s exhortation again: “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

We already know from the New Testament which world not to be conformed to: it is not the world created and loved by God and not the people in the world whom we must always go out to meet, especially the poor, the downtrodden, and the suffering. “Blending in” with this suffering and marginalized world is, paradoxically, the best way of “separating” ourselves from the world because it means going in the direction from which the world flees as much as possible. It means separating ourselves from the very principle that rules the world, self-centeredness.

Let us focus for a bit on the significance of what follows: being transformed in the deep recesses of our minds. Everything in us begins in the mind, with thoughts. There is a wise maxim that says,
Watch over your thoughts because they become words.

Watch over your words because they become actions.
Watch over your actions because they become habits.
Watch over your habits because they become your character.
Watch over your character because it becomes your destiny.

Prior to our works, change must come, then, in our way of thinking, that is, in our faith. There are many causes at the origin of worldliness, but the principle one is the crisis of faith. In this sense the apostle’s exhortation is only repeating Christ’s exhortation at the beginning of his preaching: “Repent and believe”; repent, that is, believe! Change your way of thinking; stop thinking according to the “human way of thinking,” and start thinking according to “God’s way of thinking” (see Mt 16:23). St. Thomas Aquinas was right to say, “The first conversion consists in believing (prima conversio fit per fidem).” [6]

Faith is the primary battleground between the Christian and the world. It is through faith that the Christian is no longer “of” the world. When I read the conclusions that unbelieving scientists draw from their observations of the universe and I see the vision of the world that writers and filmmakers offer us—in which God is at best reduced to a vague and subjective sense of mystery and Jesus Christ is not even taken into consideration—I feel, thanks to faith, that I belong to another world. I experience the truth of these words from Jesus: “Blessed are the eyes which see what you see!” And I remain amazed in observing how Jesus foresaw this situation and gave us the explanation ahead of time: “You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes” (Lk 10:23, 21).

The “world,” understood in its moral sense, are by definition those who refuse to believe. The sin that Jesus says the Paraclete will “convince the world” of is the sin of not having believed in him (see Jn 16:8-9). John writes, “This is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith” (1 Jn 5:4).

In the Letter to the Ephesians we read,
You he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience (Eph 2:1-2).

The exegete Heinrich Schlier has done a penetrating analysis of this “spirit of the world” whom Paul considers the direct antagonist to...

Solomon's Unfaithfulness

Thu, 08 Feb 2018 09:00:00 -0400

“Solomon’s Unfaithfulness”
Lourdes Pinto, Cenacle 2/8/18
1 Kings 11:4-13 Solomon goes astray and worships strange gods
“When Solomon was old, his wives had turned his heart to strange gods, and his heart was not entirely with the Lord.” (11:4)

What happened? How could Solomon fall so horribly when he possessed the gift of wisdom and had received so many graces from the Lord?
Solomon begins with his heart entirely given to the Lord.
·      Monday- “And when the priests came out of the holy place, a cloud filled the house of the LORD, so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD. Then Solomon said, “The LORD has set the sun in the heavens, but has said that he would dwell in thick darkness. I have built thee an exalted house, a place for thee to dwell in forever.” (1 Kings 8:10-13)
·      Tuesday- “Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven; and said, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to thy servants who walk before thee with all their heart;” (I Kings 8:22-23)
·      Wednesday- Queen Sheba visits Solomon and is amazed at his wisdom:
“Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from the king which he could not explain to her.” (10:3)

How could his wives turn his heart to strange gods? Why didn’t Solomon see the truth of the darkness in the hearts of his wives and bring them to the light of the true God?
*The first message Cf. Luke 10:1-12
Diary of a MOC 1/11/18, Mission of MC and MOC
My little one, you are preparing the way for My Second Coming. It is My hidden martyrs of love, crucified through Me, with Me and in Me, that will usher in the reign of My Kingdom on earth.
the Gospel says:
“No purse” that means be Poor in spirit;
“No sandals” that means -detached from the things of this world; a life of sacrifice, hardships, difficulties, uncomfortable, penance (I had the image of people walking up the mountain in Medjugorje barefoot)
“no walking stick” -because I will sustain you, strengthen you, support you. I will lead you on this journey.
My Missionaries of the Cross must preach repentance again, as did John the Baptist. They must preach My love crucified, bringing souls to know intimately My love. They must be entirely detached from their egos, knowing themselves as nothing and miserable. They must be willing to speak the truth about the darkness within My priesthood. They must be willing to live rejected, cast out, and even stoned to death. (I conversed with Jesus, saying that I do not know how this will be. I see again the image of the red carpet-the women covered in the precious blood of Jesus. My Lord, how do the lay missionaries of the cross live this mission? ) They are priests within their families, and they live in the world. They will need great courage to be My light in the midst of the darkness. My daughter, tell my daughters to persevere suffering all with Me solely for love of Me.
Solomon’s heart, through the process of many years, becomes “drowsy”:
“But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life” (Luke 21:34)

Message 2 – “disordered desires” “disordered attachments”
*The second message Cf. Mathew 10:1-24
Diary of a MOC, 30/18 “Mission of the 12”
My little one, I have chosen you to bear fruit for the Kingdom of God on earth. The mission is not easy, for the ways of God are never the ways of the world. All who are chosen by God to fulfill His plan on earth are hated by some, rejected by others, ill-treated, persecuted, for I came upon the earth to set one against another, for the ways of God will never be accepted nor appreciated by those who live for the things of this world. You have been asked by God to bring Him victim souls. A victim soul must fix his eyes on Christ, must desire with all his being to become one with his Master, must be willing to learn from Him and imitate Him. He must be willing to fight against all his disordered desires. This requires certain disciplines for my disciples:
  1)” take no gold, nor silver, nor copper”- that means detached from the riches of this world, trusting that God will provide.
2)” no bag for your journey” which means that My disciples must allow My spirit to detach them from all disordered attachments. (my Lord, how do we know what is a disordered attachment?) Anything that weakens your desire for Me distracts you from loving Me, takes your gaze from Me.
3)” nor two tunics”- My disciples must live simply as I did, poor, never in excess.
4)” nor sandals”- a life dedicated to sacrificial love, penance, renunciation.
5)” nor a staff”- My disciples lean on Me; I become their support; I lead the way.
My disciples wear My yoke-the wood of the Cross, united to Me. I am their All. My disciples are the men and women consumed in love and desire for Me. They choose to live this way of life for love of Me and the consuming desire to be made perfect- which is to become Love. Only in this way will My disciples reflect the face and light of God in the world. These are my victim souls that possess the power of God on earth.

Hardened Heart/ Pure heart
Simple Path p. 43 ‘Why do some recognize Jesus while others don’t?”
Why did John the Baptist, Simeon, and Anna knew Jesus at a deeper level than others? The answer lies in hearts that seek with faith.
A hardened heart is set in its ways.
It reduces the work of God to make it fit in its natural logic and experience.
It is not open to see beyond what it controls.
A pure heart, on the other hand, believes that for God, nothing is impossible.
It is docile and malleable, willing to be pierced, pruned, and made new by God.
The soul which receives the gift of self-knowledge and sees the hardness of its own heart arrives at a moment of decision: It either accepts the gift or remains in darkness.
Hebrews 4:12-13
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And before Him no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we
have to do.
Simple Path p. 199-201 “Fake Saints”
Pope Francis warns us about the lie of being “fake saints”:
God “generously forgives”..., but what he doesn’t forgive is “hypocrisy and fake saints,”... God prefers “sanctified sinners”—people who, despite their past sins, learn how to do a greater good. “Fake saints” are people who are more concerned with appearing saintly than doing good. ...
We are all clever and always find a path that is not right, to seem more virtuous than we are: it is the path of hypocrisy. They pretend to convert, but their heart is a lie: they are liars! It is a lie ... Their heart does not belong to the Lord; their heart belongs to the father of all lies, Satan. And this is fake holiness. Jesus preferred sinners a thousand times to these. Why? Because sinners told the truth about themselves. “Get away from me, Lord, I am a sinner!” Peter once said.
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However, we are all masters; we are all experts when it comes to justifying ourselves...when I find envy in my heart, and I know this envy is capable of speaking ill of another and morally killing him, I have to ask myself: “Am I capable of it? Yes, I am capable!” This is precisely how this knowledge begins, this wisdom to blame oneself. ...
Love Crucified too has been given the GIFT OF WISDOM – the wisdom of the Cross, yet, this is not enough. This is why the last two teachings of the Lord to us are so important. Like Solomon, we are also capable of going astray and becoming “drowsy”, of being unfaithful to the Lord.
·      Today’s Gospel – Mark 7:24-30
“Lord even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.”

FAITH & HUMILITY
Humility – Living “wrapped in knowledge”, knowing I am nothing, miserable, capable of nothing without God. Knowing that I am capable of great sin, unfaithfulness, worldliness, betraying Christ…..
Knowing the IMMENSE MERCY and LOVE of Christ for me.
They must be detached completely from their egos, knowing themselves as nothing and miserable.
-       “The following text was composed by Walter Ciszek around 1978. (With God in America, p. 62-63) This was the experience he had after his 2^nd heart attack.
I just passed out, and during that time, I know I wanted to “go to God”. That was my whole disposition, because I came to the brink of this world where eternity began, and I had to pass over that. Yet, I felt that, though my spirit was outside the body, there was a certain kind of drawing of the body and the soul to each other. It was [. . .] the body that was not functioning. I went off and said, “Here I come, Lord, here I come.” I was trying to get over [to him], and I saw the Blessed Trinity—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 27 The Blessed Mother was [also there, but] turned sideways, so I didn’t see her face. I really wanted to get over to the other side, but nothing happened, [even though] I tried and tried. I was going into a deep depression when I saw I couldn’t get over, and my willful efforts were getting weaker and weaker. Then, when I became kind of frustrated, from nowhere it just happened that I felt infinite peace and, right after that, perfect reconciliation. The infinite peace I understood, but the perfect reconciliation I didn’t understand. Then, out of that [sensation], again I heard a voice speaking as if from eternity. It was a loud voice that filled the whole world with the splendorous light of eternity as it said, “I am going to cure you, and, at the same time, I am going to teach you how to live.” Then, when that voice disappeared, I heard within it a voice resounding like a thunder. I then saw Our Lord, appearing just as we visualize him in the New Testament. He was pointing at me and said, “I am going to teach you how to live”; then he began to tell me precisely what he meant. He said, “I am going to teach you how to be pure, how to be simple, how to be modest, how to be poor, obedient, prayerful, and believing. I am going to purify you, and, after that purification, I am going to enlighten and elevate you through compunction, sorrow, and repentance, by uniting you with me in my passion, in my suffering, sacrifice, reparation, and hope in the resurrection; all these together will be your act of love for me.”

Image: Sebastiano Ricci, Solomon Worshipping the Idols, 1724

Perseverance Through the Love of the Cross

Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Perseverance through the Love of the Cross
Fr. Jordi Rivero, Feb 2, 2018
"A scientia crucis [knowledge of the Cross] can be gained only when one comes to feel the Cross radically." — St. Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) from Edith Stein and Companions.

Dear brothers and sisters,
Through the years I have seen many persons who were led by the Lord to embrace a way of life that nurtured an intimate relationship with Him, but when a great trial came they abandoned that way of life. They may claim that their love for Christ has not changed, they may justify themselves to avoid the demands of love. If we examine our own life we will find occasions in which we have also fallen in this temptation. This is why St Ignatius warns us that, in time of tempest, we should not make any changes in our way of life and must persevere until we enter a time of calm and consolation.
Suffering may eclipse the blessings we are receiving so that we do not see that our cross is setting us free from many things so that we can direct our hearts to Christ. Our flesh desires to run away from what is causing pain. We are tempted to think that we can please God the same by choosing ways to live a devout life that appear to avoid the cross. We then act in haste, without an honest process of discernment, without dialogue with those with whom we have walked thus far.
The only way to holiness is perseverance through the love of the cross. This is the wisdom of the Church since the beginning as is testified in the following instruction to the Catechumens by St Cyril of Jerusalem, father of the Church:
MAY THE CROSS BE YOUR JOY ALSO IN TIME OF PERSECUTION
The Catholic Church glories in every deed of Christ. Her supreme glory, however, is the cross. Well aware of this, Paul says: God forbid that I glory in anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ!
At Siloam, there was a sense of wonder, and rightly so: a man born blind recovered his sight. But of what importance is this, when there are so many blind people in the world? Lazarus rose from the dead, but even this affected only Lazarus: what of those countless numbers who have died because of their sins? Those miraculous loaves fed five thousand people; yet this is a small number compared to those all over the world who were starved by ignorance. After eighteen years a woman was freed from the bondage of Satan; but are we not all shackled by the chains of our own sins?
For us all, however, the cross is the crown of victory. It has brought light to those blinded by ignorance. It has released those enslaved by sin. Indeed, it has redeemed the whole of mankind!
Do not, then, be ashamed of the cross of Christ; rather, glory in it. Although it is a stumbling block to the Jews and folly to the Gentiles, the message of the cross is our salvation. Of course it is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it was not a mere man who died for us, but the Son of God, God made man.... He was not forced to give up his life: his was a willing sacrifice. Listen to his own words: I have the power to lay down my life and take it up again. Yes, he willingly submitted to his own passion. He took joy in his achievement; in his crown of victory he was glad and in the salvation of man he rejoiced. He did not blush at the cross, for by it he was to save the world. No, it was not a lowly man who suffered, but God incarnate. He entered the contest for the reward he would win by his patient endurance.
Certainly in times of tranquility the cross should give you joy. But maintain the same faith in times of persecution. Otherwise you will be a friend of Jesus in times of peace and his enemy during war. Now you receive the forgiveness of your sins and the generous gift of grace from your king. When war comes, fight courageously for him.
Jesus never sinned; yet he was crucified for you. Will you refuse to be crucified for him, who for your sake was nailed to the cross?
– Office of Readings, February 1

Knowing Self and Others in Christ & Satan's Strategy

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto
Knowing Self and Others in Christ and Satan`s Strategy
Lourdes Pinto, Jan 18, 2018
By steadfast attentiveness to the Lord at all times and by remaining in trust and faith under trial, we allow the Holy Spirit to show us our weakness and sin, and we receive the power to be one with Christ and thus defeat the devil.
How to win the battle against demons, by St. John of Avila Doctor of the Church.
The demons envy our well-being so much that they try all sorts of ways to keep us from enjoying what they have lost. When, in a battle, they are overcome by us, or to put it better, by God in us, they stir up other battles to see if at some time they can find someone careless to devour. They change their weapons and strategies, thinking that those they cannot overcome in one way, they will overcome in another.
Christian doctrine teaches us to place ourselves within the most just will of the Lord and to suffer patiently what He (God) sends us, interior or exterior. When they (the demons) have seen that, because of this, they have been unable to ruin us by cunning, they try more open war, in which the one that was before a hidden dragon becomes a ferocious lion (cf. Pt.5:8). No longer does he tempt in one thing in order to end up in another, but rather, he clearly wants to make himself feared and plans to achieve by fear what he could not achieve by cunning. Here he will not be seen as a fox but as a fierce lion that wants to inspire fear by his roaring…
When a soul, by the love of God that is the life of faith, despises the prosperity and adversity of the world and believes and trusts God, whom he does not see, there is no way by which the demon may enter. Also, the light of faith teaches us to trust in God's mercy when there are dangers. If the one under attack wants to take advantage of this mercy, he may gain a lot of courage to struggle against the demon, a thing that is very necessary for this war.

Men Yoked With Christ

Thu, 11 Jan 2018 09:00:00 -0400

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Remain with Me, Learning from the Joyful Mysteries

Thu, 21 Dec 2017 09:00:00 -0400

Remain with Me, Learning from the Joyful Mysteries
Lourdes Pinto, Dec 21, 2017
Message of the Lord to LC at Gethsemane, at the rock where Jesus prayed. 11/2/17
Love Crucified has been called to REMAIN with Me as I continue to shed tears for Jerusalem, to remain with Me in My continuous agony for souls, to participate with Me in the salvation of the world, as you choose daily to receive the brokenness of the souls I have placed in your lives and to suffer with Me for them. The time of the great destruction draws near, many souls will be lost, you will hear the wailing of Jerusalem throughout the world. Bring Me victim souls to suffer with Me to obtain graces of conversion for many souls, who otherwise, will be lost. Believe in the power of your hidden lives of suffering with Me.
Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary
I – THE ANNUNCIATION
Mary gives her FIAT: “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Luke 1:38
Mary’s life becomes her fiat of the Annunciation. We too gave our “fiat” to be Christ’s victim souls at the moment of our Love Crucified Covenant before His presence in the Blessed Sacrament.
After Mary’s fiat, great trials, tribulations and sufferings fill her life, yet she remains faithful to her Covenant with God. MOC and MC, REMAIN with Christ as we are faithful daily to our LC Covenant. Therefore, on a regular basis, we must read, ponder and examine our lives according to what we said “yes” to.
We must remain with our Lord daily in good times and bad, in sickness and in health, as His victim souls suffering all with Him.
We must remain faithful to Christ in our covenant community by attending the cenacles and remaining in LC even when we don’t feel like it, when we’re tired, occupied with other projects, bored, etc.

II – THE VISITATION
Path #20, p.66.
“My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord.” My little one, these are the words from the mouth of My Mother as she enters the home of Elizabeth. Ponder these words with Me. My Mother lived her life in praise of the Father. She lived in the constant awareness of who the Father is. Her soul was in a constant state of awe.
In the knowledge of the greatness and majesty of God, Mary also had perfect knowledge of herself; therefore, she states that she is the handmaid of the Lord.
My daughter, I desire that you live more profoundly and perfectly in the knowledge of the grandeur, majesty and goodness of Abba, our Father. In this way, you will live more perfectly as My handmaid. The perfect and holy handmaid of the Lord, Mary Most Holy, is moved by the Holy Spirit to serve her cousin, Elizabeth.

How is it that Mary knew the promptings of the Spirit and could respond with courage and obedience even when she could not understand fully the Will of God?
She REMAINED in SILENCE, PRAYER and PRAISE.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 “Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.”
We must choose to REMAIN IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE of our lives – difficult job, difficult relationships, tribulations – PRAISING and THANKING GOD because we are men and women, like Mary, who have come to know personally the love of God, and therefore, we choose to live in perfect faith and abandonment to His Will, present in each circumstance of our lives.
Remain in LONG SUFFERING (gift of the Holy Spirit= constancy in trials), in righteousness, trusting God.
Long suffering (a fruit of the Holy Spirit –Gal.5,22-23) is perseverance, constancy under trials.
Samson - Judges 13:2-5 on the wife of Manoah: “(she) was barren and had no children. And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold, you are barren and have no children; but you shall conceive and bear a son. Therefore beware, and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for lo, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from birth; and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines."”
Zechariah & Elizabeth
– Luke 1:6-7 “And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.”
–Luke 1:13-17 “But the angel said to him, ‘Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer is heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth; for he will be great before the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb. And he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God, and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.’"
What long suffering are you enduring?
They responded to private revelations. Zechariah doubts and is punished by becoming mute till the birth of John.
Remain BELIEVING in God’s Word through the private revelations given to LC.
Our Blessed Mother, Joseph, Samson’s parents, Elizabeth & Zechariah all believed the message from God and responded. God used Samson to help deliver the Israelites from the Philistines. He used John to prepare many hardened hearts to receive the Messiah. We, too, must remain believing that God will continue to do the impossible through His insignificant vessels. We must remain in faith believing the promises that God has made us!

III – BIRTH OF CHRIST
Remain in PEACE in perfect self-abandonment
Pondering the Nativity of Christ, we see that nothing went as planned and expected. It was not the plan, desire nor expectation of St Joseph and Mary to have the Son of God born in a smelly, dirty, cold stable. They, too, must have been cold and very uncomfortable. They must have been perplexed with God’s plan – “How could God will for His Son to be born in such conditions?” Yet, they remained in peace and in perfect abandonment to the Will of God. They remained in joy and with a positive disposition.
Jesus remains with us fully present as He was in the stable at Bethlehem - in such humility, simplicity, poverty, silence, and hiddenness that the world is unaware. Only the humble, simple, and poor hearts, like the shepherds, and the attentive and docile hearts, like the Magi, are able to receive God’s grace to see, know, love and adore their Infant God. The world continues to be unaware of the presence of God in the Eucharist and among us.
Jesus continues to remain with us unperceivable, yet through grace, in prayer, our soul can hear His silent voice, and we too can come to know, love, and adore Him.
God continues to call us to REMAIN WITH HIM in His silent cry, to participate with Him in His HIDDEN LIFE of suffering with souls and for souls solely for love. This call of our Lord is REAL WORK, yet it is unperceivable and hidden from the world. Therefore, our humanity wants to reject it and find other “works” to serve the Lord that are perceivable, noticed, and admired in the eyes of the world.

We have been chosen by God to be His hidden martyrs of love – one with Him in the Eucharist – to REMAIN WITH HIM and participate in this hidden life of redeeming souls. In order to live our fiat as MOC and MC we need to choose daily to REMAIN WITH HIM IN EUCHARISTIC ADORATION— hours before the Blessed Sacrament, as our vocation permits, learning from the Victim of Love, thanking and adoring Him in His continued hidden martyrdom.

IV – PRESENTATION OF JESUS IN THE TEMPLE
“And you yourself a sword will pierce so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” Luke 2:35
Remain with Jesus as our hearts are pierced. How?
By REMAINING IN THE PAIN. We do this by entering SILENCE with our Lord. Our SILENT PRAYER before the Blessed Sacrament or in our manual duties at home, the garden or garage, must be to enter, through deep contemplation, the sorrows of the brokenness of the souls we live amongst. This deep and hidden pain must consume our hearts as hidden victim souls so that we live more and more consumed in the pain and love of the Sacred Heart, until that subtle transformation is accomplished in us – no longer I live but Christ’s pain and love lives in me.
Remaining in the sorrows of Christ becomes our means to “pray without ceasing”!
Path #97, p.278.
The prayer of pure suffering is the sweetest fragrance that reaches and delights the Heart of our Father. This is also the prayer that produces an abundance of fruit. This is the prayer that is most united to Mine as I intercede before the throne of My Father. This is why My Mother's suffering of solitude produced and continues to produce showers of graces upon the world. I wish the Mothers and Missionaries of the Cross to be perfected in the prayer of suffering.
This interior work can never be accomplished in a life of constant busyness, agitation, and distractions. In such a life, we are immediately DISCONNECTED FROM THE PAIN, and when we are disconnected from the pain, we are disconnected from Christ. The Lord has constantly told us that the hidden martyrdom of the heart, as one with Him and Mary, holds the power of God – a power that can penetrate the darkness of Satan and bring back to life dead hearts. God is preparing and raising up His army for the decisive battle. We have enlisted in His army with our “fiat”. This is who we are in Christ; this is our mission and work. ANY MINISTRY WE ARE INVOLVED IN MUST FLOW FROM OUR INTERIOR LIFE AS HIDDEN VICTIM SOULS IN JESUS’ EUCHARISTIC LIFE.
Chain of Pierced Hearts
Path 129, p. 346
The flow of My Blood intensifies through My Body, the Church. The triumph of My sacrifice of love will be fulfilled through My Body, the Church. My Mother is Bride and Church, imitate her. She, as ONE with My Body, united her tears to My Precious Blood and in this way redeemed souls with Me. You are called to do the same. The saving grace of My Precious Blood will enter all hearts that are open through you, My Body. Therefore, My little ones, suffer all with Me so that many can enter the fold of My Sacred Heart. You must become the chain of pierced hearts that will unbind the chain of darkness and bondage. Bring Me many victim souls.

V–FINDING JESUS IN THE TEMPLE
How could God allow His parents to suffer in agony for three days?
Many times, we too, do not understand why God is permitting certain sufferings in our lives – “Why did God open this job for me if it is such a disaster? Why is God allowing me to suffer cancer, Lyme disease, or other debilitating diseases? Why would God allow me to be constrained to a wheelchair and bed at such a young age? Why does my child have serious mental disorders that do not appear to be healing? …”
Yet, like Mary and Joseph, we are called to
Remain in peace
Remain trusting when we too do not understand the ways of God
Remain in hope that God is making all things work for a greater good
Remain in love as we choose to suffer all with Christ, embraced to Him.
In summary, we learn from the Holy Family, through the Joyful Mysteries, that TO REMAIN means that we:
Remain faithful to our LC Covenant
Remain in silence, prayer, and praise
Remain in every circumstance of our lives trusting & praising God
Remain with Jesus in His hidden life – humble, simple, silent, unperceivable, poor
Remain in joy and with a positive attitude
Remain in Eucharistic Adoration
Remain in the pain of our pierced hearts with Jesus’ pierced Heart
Remain in peace, trust, hope, and love when we don’t understand the ways of God.

Tenderness in Mercy

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 09:00:00 -0400

TENDERNESS IN MERCY
Lourdes Pinto, Cenacle 10/5/17
The Light of Jesus Christ is Love that Suffers All –Path –#88 p. 243
In this first paragraph, Jesus explains what is meant by the “light of Jesus Christ”. He describes how He loves us:

Only love radiates the light of God, for His light is Love. The light of Jesus Christ is love that suffers for all and with all: Love in pain and sorrow, Love that enters into the brokenness of humanity and receives her brokenness into Himself to heal and restore her in God. Love receives her wounds and bears them upon His Body to heal her with the balm of His tenderness in mercy. This is the Light of the world. This is Love, the Word Incarnate.
We can conclude that the Light of the world is Love, Jesus Christ. He loves us by suffering for each of us and with each of us. It’s a love that is willing to remain in pain and sorrow. It’s a love that enters each of us and receives our wounds and brokenness upon His flesh and heals us with His TENDERNESS IN MERCY.
In the 2nd part of this teaching, Jesus explains to us how we BECOME His Light in the world. We must love as He does, only in this way are we truly His followers, for He came to show us The Way – He is The Way!
Receive My wounds, the sin, brokenness, and oppression of your brothers and sisters, so that you can radiate My light in the darkness. This is love. The love of the world is self-seeking and self-centered, but the love of God is self-giving.
Philippians 2:1-11
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord, and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests but also to the interests of others.
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which was in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The only way we can have the same love and be of one mind is for each of us to acquire the same mind (attitude) of Christ Jesus. St Paul is very specific in telling us what the mind of Christ is:
He emptied Himself by becoming a servant – He comes to suffer for all and with all. As a servant, He receives our wounds upon His Body, and He gives us His tenderness in mercy.
He humbled Himself & became obedient to death on a cross – “Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered” (Hebrews 5:8). True humility brings us, like Jesus, to accept suffering, for it is ONLY in this way that we can accept the Will of God and follow Christ to the Cross.

Through the Simple Path, the Lord asks us one thing – “Suffer all with Me”, “Cry with Me”. He does not ask us to solve everyone’s problems nor to change anyone, but only to remain with Him suffering with Him. Yet, this one simple plea, this thirst of the Heart of God, becomes so difficult for us. Why? Because to be transformed into Love requires that we not only suffer with Jesus but that we for, and this is how the multitudes suffer, but Christ thirsts for VICTIMS OF LOVE!
What does it mean to love with God’s tenderness in mercy?
“If anyone wishes to come after me, he must and follow me.” (Luke 9:23)
1– First, I must deny myself and do what is most difficult.
Deny acting in resentment, anger, frustration, discouragement…
Deny my desires to escape, withdraw, indulge myself in TV, alcohol, work, electronics, social media, distractions…
Deny the passions of my flesh – gossip, promiscuity, impurities, talking, shopping, power, wealth, prestige,
Denying ourselves = being emptied (emptied of self)

2– I must, like Jesus, humble myself by becoming the servant of the people most difficult to love. I must choose to serve them with “tenderness in mercy”. Like Jesus, I receive into my heart their wounds & brokenness, and through the faculties of my hands, gaze, and words, I pour Christ’s love upon them.
Path, section 5-C, Tenderness, p.289
“When we were in darkness and in the shadow of death, the tender mercy of God dawned upon us. The Word came to us in human flesh. His touch and gaze reveal God’s tenderness, which He did not hold back because of our sins.”

I am a suffering for Christ because of my sin, yet with His tenderness in mercy. Jesus delights in our repentance but detests our pride and duplicity (hypocrisy). Yet, even in our pride, He still chooses to love us in tenderness as He waits with patient anticipation for our transformation into Love.

Path, p. 290
“Who continues to show tenderness while treated with offenses and rejection?”

Path, p. 292
“Tenderness has the power to melt the most hardened hearts steeped in pride... The tenderness of God heals. The caress of God disinfects and cleanses our wounds. The tenderness of God brings peace, serenity, and rest to the afflicted, to the tired and those thirsting for love.”

#106, Path p. 294
You have to. You must always choose love, patience, and tenderness and never give in to anger and resentment.

The Lord commands of His disciples: “Take up your cross DAILY”
These words from Jesus remain abstract in our lives until we choose to love those most difficult to love in our lives and in the most difficult situations of our lives.
The cross is lived daily through the continuous thorns and piercings we receive from the wounded, broken, & oppressed men, women, and children in our lives, including ourselves.
These difficult situations and people are GOD’S WILL in our lives. They are God’s grace to transform us into His living hosts – LOVE, and the means for us to participate in the redemption of souls.
Example: “I am not talking anymore; I’ve tried talking for years, and nothing has changed.”
Here lies a moment of AWAKENING, of TRUTH – I don’t have the capacity to change anyone, and all those years of trying, even with the best of intentions, was rooted in my control, my pride, my plans, my dreams, my expectations, all in the “I”. This moment of awareness can lead us to choose two ways:

Living with great resentment, bitterness, anger, hurt, fears… which all lead to isolation and separation – division.
Surrendering ourselves to GOD’S WILL and choosing to accept these souls as they are – my “Cristo Roto”. Choosing daily to carry my Cross WITH Christ in His tenderness in mercy, believing that this forces down the mercy of Abba upon humanity.

He Leadeth Me: An Extraordinary Testament of Faith” by Walter J. Ciszek Sj:
“Only by faith could I find God present in every circumstance; only by faith could I penetrate the mystery of his saving grace, not by questioning it in any way but by fully cooperating with it in exactly the way he asked. It was then, in differing measures and with varying degrees of success, that the glimpses of his providence ruling all things would work to dispel the doubts and the fears that were constantly on the edges of the mind. So I learned by trial and error that if I wanted to preserve my interior peace and joy, I had to have constant recourse to prayer, to the eyes of faith, to a humility that could make me aware of how little my own efforts meant and how dependent I was upon God’s grace even for prayer and faith itself. None of this came easily, for I was not a disembodied spirit. Hunger could distract me, the interrogators could confuse me, a body aching in every joint and worn down by a long arctic day of grueling work could leave me totally exhausted and very much discouraged. It is much easier to see the redemptive role of pain and suffering in God’s plan if you are not actually undergoing pain and suffering. It was only by struggling with such feelings, however, that growth occurred. Each victory over discouragement gave an increase in spiritual courage;” p 118

3. I, as one with Christ crucified, am OBEDIENT to REMAIN on the Cross as one with Jesus’ sacrifice of love.
I choose to live in Jesus’ SILENT CRY in the Eucharist.

The Lord Says to Us: “I Need You,” p. 301 # 109.
My soul cries without ceasing. My cup overflows with My tears. My beloved children are being lost for all eternity. As a mother laments for her dead child. I need you, My faithful remnant, to save them from Satan’s deception, My holy remnant.
You are My Body. My eyes must pierce the darkness through your eyes. My hands must heal the multitudes through your hands. My feet must travel to the ends of the world proclaiming My message of love and mercy through you. My Words of everlasting life must be spoken through your lips.
The fire of My Sacred Heart must spread through your hearts that are consumed in the passionate fire of love in Me.
Raise up, My little one, My victims of love for the New Evangelization to begin.

To overcome my pride, I must often remember how the Lord chose to continue loving me, waiting for me patiently to respond to His infinite acts of tender love. He suffered and continues to suffer my brokenness, for I have not been fully recreated into Love. He cries for me hidden and silent before the throne of Abba, obtaining graces of conversion and transformation for me, but only allows me to feel His tender smile, hear His encouraging words of love and support and feel His caresses. I have never felt Jesus repulsed by my brokenness. I have never felt Jesus turn away from me, nor give up on me.
This is how I must live as His spouse – His victim of love. Hidden and silent in the recesses of my heart, I live crying and suffering the brokenness of the souls given to me. Still, I must gaze upon them with the tender smile of Christ, caress them with the gentleness of Christ’s touch and speak to them words of encouragement, support, and truth and only give self-knowledge if their hearts are open to receiving it.
The DAILY WORK of every MOC and MC must be to REMAIN embracing our Love crucified in His SILENT CRY for souls and giving to all His tenderness in mercy!

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Canaanite Woman's Faith

Thu, 10 Aug 2017 09:00:00 -0400

The contrast between the Israelites in the desert and the Canaanite woman
–Lourdes Pinto, cenacle of 8/10/17
My little one, know that I am pleased with you because you have responded to the cry of My voice. My little one, this is a time of an outpouring of grace for My little mustard seed. You are each being given the grace to be transformed into My living hosts to bless, release from bondage, and set free countless souls. See yourselves as My warriors riding out into the horizon. This holy fleet is the Light of God’s love that has the power to cast into hell the spirits of darkness that are now covering the earth. My triumph will be a great triumph accomplished through the most hidden force of God – the hidden martyrdom of My Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of My Mother. –6/8/17

*Respond by suffering all with Me in My sacrifice of love.
*Respond with courage and zeal, believing that God has chosen you to participate in the triumph of My crucified love to save the world.
*Believe that as My warriors – the hidden anawims of God – you have mounted your horses and have begun to fight the great battle for the salvation of the world.
*Remain steadfast in living daily what I have taught you.
*Do not be afraid, for the triumph of My Sacred Heart, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is close at hand.
*Usher in the triumph of our Two Hearts.
Trust in the words I speak in your heart and share them with perfect faith and hope in the God who loves you. Go in peace.

Numbers 13 & 14
The Israelites, after having lived the parting of the Red Sea, being fed miraculously with the manna every morning and quails every evening, witnessing the face of Moses shining with the Light of God after having spoken to Him face-to-face, seeing the presence of God in a cloud over the tent, finally arrive at the land of Canaan. Upon arriving, the Lord sends Moses to “reconnoiter” (make a military observation of a region) the land of Canaan, and says, “which I am giving the Israelites.” (Numbers 13:1) But after observing the territory, they are frightened because the men of this land are too strong for them. (13:31) Some begin to doubt, and this leads them into Satan’s trap of discouragement, and they begin to grumble against Moses and Aaron:
“All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, the whole community saying to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt,” or “If only we would die here in the wilderness! Why is the Lord bringing us into this land only to have us fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones will be taken as spoil. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.” (Numbers 14:2-4)

They are not able to believe that God will do the impossible with the impossible. Fear becomes an obstacle to faith. The spirits of fear, doubt, and discouragement quickly spread among the entire community. It’s amazing how quickly fear, confusion, discouragement, and despair can spread throughout a group of people. The Lord also has warned us about this happening in the world:

Message of Jesus, 7/17/15
Soon and very soon, Justice as the illumination will be knocking at your doors. There will be great moaning and grinding of teeth. Many will despair. There will be confusion. But those who have been made clean by the blood of the Lamb will experience the glory of God... Know who you are...

Message of Jesus, 8/10/12
Soon the world as you know it will cease to exist. My followers will be persecuted. You will be hunted down as beasts are pursued in secret, hidden, and captured. There will be much wailing in the streets of Jerusalem. Be attentive for the justice of God is now approaching the world. It will visit you as a thief in the night. My messages must now be published, ‘It Is My Victim Souls That Will Conquer The Dragon; Bring Me Victim Souls!’
(Then Jesus asked me to go to His Word (the Bible) to confirm what He just said. I opened to 1 Samuel 20:24-42.)
The beast will pursue you as Saul pursued David... The beast shall die. He will be killed by the Word of the Cross, which is the Sword of the Spirit. Be My sword!

Because of Israel’s lack of faith and obstinacy, the Lord is forced to punish them.
Corresponding to the number of days you spent reconnoitering the land—forty days—you shall bear your punishment one year for each day: forty years. Thus, you will realize what it means to oppose me. (Numbers 14: 34)

We can very easily read these stories of the Israelite nation and judge them, and yet fail to see ourselves in the many difficult situations that God has permitted in our lives and our lack of faith also. We forget the many times that we, too, have grumbled against others and God in the storms of our lives. We, too, forget how God has been providing for us all our lives. We can have this same spirit even within our Love Crucified community.
Like with the Israelites, God has been leading us, His little mustard seed, by the hand. He has been speaking to us, warning us, forming us, showing great signs and wonders, and promising us truly amazing things.

Message of Jesus, 8/6/17
See yourselves as My warriors riding out into the horizon. This holy fleet is the Light of God’s love that has the power to cast into hell the spirits of darkness that are now covering the earth. My triumph will be a great triumph accomplished through the most hidden force of God – the hidden martyrdom of My Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of My Mother.

God has chosen you to participate in the triumph of My crucified love to save the world.
You have mounted your horses and have begun to fight the great battle for the salvation of the world.
Do we, too, forget these promises, like the Israelites, every time we are confronted with an impossible situation?
How do we grumble?
We must REPENT of our lack of trust. Pray PSALM 51 with the groans of your heart united to the groans of the Spirit!
MATHEW 15: 21-28 the Canaanite woman’s faith
Then Jesus went from that place and withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out, “Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a demon.” 23But he did not say a word in answer to her. His disciples came and asked him, “Send her away, for she keeps calling out after us.” 24 [j]He said in reply, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 25 But the woman came and did him homage, saying, “Lord, help me.” 26 He said in reply, “It is not right to take the food of the children[k] and throw it to the dogs.” 27 She said, “Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters.” 28 Then Jesus said to her in reply, “O woman, great is your faith![l] Let it be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.

We need to have the same spirit of the Canaanite woman and learn from her, for Jesus was using this pagan woman to teach us something of great wealth.
1. First, she makes herself VULNERABLE and is willing to look like a fool, “Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a demon.” Trust believes and always looks foolish to the eyes of the world. True trust is rooted in humility. What have we learned about humility? Humility requires that we know God and ourselves. The Canaanite woman knows that Jesus is Lord and that she is a “dog”, a pagan, unworthy of anything.
2. She PERSEVERES, even when Jesus “did not say a word in answer to her.” Even the disciples look at her with repulsion because they say to Jesus, “Send her away, for she keeps calling out after us.” Then Jesus finally answers her with the reply, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” This woman could have easily entered and reacted from the wound of rejection, but she perseveres in faith, knowing who Jesus is.
Through humility and purity, you will quickly attain perfection in all the other virtues if you persevere in prayer. (03/04/11) Path #28
Persevere in wearing the crown of many thorns. Path #41
Are you willing, My little ones, to allow your hearts to be pierced as ONE with My Mother’s for the cleansing of My priesthood and the salvation of many? Do not grow stubborn, but persevere in love by suffering all as ONE with My Pierced Sacred Heart and the pierced Immaculate Heart. Path #76

3. She approaches Jesus and does Him HOMAGE, “Lord help me.” She acknowledges her nothingness and begs for His help because she is convicted of who He is. This conviction of the truth that Jesus is God, all-powerful and mighty, able to do the impossible, keeps her in homage before the Lord.
The prayer of gratitude and thanksgiving should be your every breath. Path #97
This is why suffering all your sorrows with Me is so beneficial for your soul, because, in that process, you touch the open wounds of My love for you. This perfects a soul quickly in abandonment and trust until you come to experience all, the good and what you perceive as bad, as a gift of My love for you. The gift of knowing with your mind, heart, and soul that the love of God only desires to make of you the new creation you were created to be from the beginning of time, a creation in the image and likeness of God as holy sons and daughters of the Most High. Path #115
My Mother lived her life in praise of the Father. She lived in the constant awareness of who the Father is. Her soul was in a constant state of awe. Path #20

4. Her FAITH AGAIN IS TRIED by Jesus, “It is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.” These seemingly harsh words from the Lord do not seem to distress her in any way. Her faith in Christ is anchored in the knowledge of her nothingness and that Jesus is everything, and she proclaims from the depth of her humble heart: “Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters.” Our faith, too, must be tried in the furnace of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
What seemingly harsh words from others can set me off and bring me into anger, doubt and discouragement?
5. Jesus, through her faith, casts out the demon hurting her daughter.
These angels of death can only be fought through Me, with Me, and in Me, in the power of the Spirit, through the Cross. I am dressing My soldier of light in My humility, purity, and childlike innocence. He must live knowing his nothingness and weakness, for it is I who am everything, all power, and might. Pray for greater trust and abandonment so that the authority of My Spirit can be stirred into flame in him to cast out the demons of hell. The hidden force of My little mustard seed (LC Community) is the power of God’s force moving through him. – Message of Jesus, 8/3/17

The Lord has called us to fight against the demons of hell. For this, we must ponder the striking difference between the hearts of the Israelites and this pagan woman. The Lord in this message makes it very clear that we, too, like the Canaanite woman, must be humble, pure, and have a childlike innocence. We must know who we are – nothing – and who God is – everything, all power, and might. We must all pray for perfect TRUST and ABANDONMENT rooted in true humility so that we do not continue falling in Satan’s trap of responding through our wounded hearts, but rather, through hearts steadfast in FAITH, HOPE and LOVE!
To have the humility and faith of the Canaanite woman is rare. We too must be transparent before God to recognize, through self-knowledge, how our hardened hearts continue to be like the Israelite people. We must understand that we are in a process, from hearts like the Israelites to hearts of great faith and trust like the Canaanite woman. God is promising us transformation into living hosts, and we must be receptive and docile to this process.

Image: Carl Christian Constantin Hansen –Christ and the Canaanite Woman

Eucharist IV – Participation in Jesus' Groans

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto, 7/27/17
1.     Form My Hidden Martyrs, #52 Diary of a MOC (p. 165)
You must form My hidden martyrs of love, for God the Father is using them to fulfill His plan of salvation during these decisive times. Live your hidden life as ONE with Me in My hidden life in the Eucharist, and you will grow in the power of God, which is LOVE. This is the HIDDEN FORCE that will sweep through the face of the world to conquer Satan’s darkness. The Eucharist is the power of God in the world, and God desires to make you living Hosts.
a.     Live your hidden life as ONE with Me in My hidden life in the Eucharist.
           i.         We have learned that in each moment of our lives, through our situations, problems, places, and people, we can participate in Jesus’ hidden life in the Eucharist by trusting and abandoning ourselves to His Will.
         ii.         In section 4-D of The Path, Participation in the Groans of the Sacred Heart, Jesus invites us to enter the intimacy of His groans.
2.     Listen to My Groans, #77, Diary of a MOC (p. 225)
Can you hear My groans that come forth from the depth of My Crucified Heart?
The groans of My agony of love. Listen to My groans of love.

a.     This question is an invitation from the Lord to bring us deeper into His Sacred Heart. Jesus asks us to listen to His groans. What are those groans? How can we hear them? Are they audible?

3.     Mt 13:13 ‘they look but do not see and hear but do not listen or understand.
a.     Entering the groans of our Lord is a process. First, the Lord taught us in the Path to unite our wounds to His, our pain to His, our tears to His… to suffer ALL with Him as one in His sacrifice of love. This SIMPLE process brings us to know the pain of our Lord, and through His pain, to know His love personally. You can compare this process to the transformation of the caterpillar into a butterfly. The caterpillar is constrained to seeing life around him to just the tiny space it lives in. He can’t see very far nor hear much either. That is how we are when we live constrained in our wounds. Inside the dark pit of our wound, our sight is clouded and our hearing limited. We can’t seem to see beyond ourselves. Our world is all centered on self. When we enter Jesus’ wounds, it is as the caterpillar entering the cocoon. Through His wounds, we are immersed into the cocoon of His Sacred Heart, and just as the caterpillar is not conscious of the transformation taking place, we cannot fully perceive the subtle work of the Spirit transforming our minds, sight, hearing, and heart.
b.     This process of suffering with Christ gradually and unperceivably begins to transform our entire being. We start to hear and see our own hearts with the eyes of God through the gift of self-knowledge. We begin to perceive our own groans as we WAIT, like the caterpillar, with PATIENCE, TRUST, and HOPE, for our redemption—our transformation into Love. We see our weakness, woundedness, sins, misery… It’s the groans of our souls that desire to be holy —redeemed in the image and likeness of God to participate in the glory of God here on earth— no longer I who lives but Christ who lives in me. Yet, daily we are confronted with our pride, vanity, and lack of trust in God who has loved us to the extreme of the Cross.
These inner groans that express our deepest desire to know God and to know ourselves are a grace of God’s infinite love for us.

4.     Romans 18-23: “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us.  For creation awaits with eager expectation the revelation of the children of God; for creation was made subject to futility, not of its own accord but because of the one who subjected it, in hope that creation itself would be set free from slavery to corruption and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God.  We know that all creation is groaning in labor pains even until now;  and not only that, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, we also groan within ourselves as we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.”
a.     As we unite our groans with the groans of the Holy Spirit, a powerful prayer rises from our hearts. The Spirit groans as one with the Father & the Son. He, as our Advocate, helps us by interceding for us with the groans of God.

5.     Romans 8:26-27: “The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express”.
a.     How does the Spirit’s groan help us in our process of transformation?
           i.         He gives us the GIFT of self-knowledge by bringing to the light of our conscience our sin.
b.     From the book, The Holy Spirit Fire of Divine Love, Fr Wilfred Stinissen:
           i.         P.39 “The way the Spirit chooses when he wishes to lead us into all truth is through sin. He makes us conscious of our sin. “And when he comes, he will convince the world of sin and of righteousness and judgement: of sin, because they do not believe in me…” (Jn 16:8-9).
         ii.         P.40 “When the Spirit shows us our sin, it is a work of mercy. Jesus’ definition of sin is: not to believe in him. It is something completely different from what we usually mean by “sin.” One confesses things that one has done wrong… But for the most part, we do not think of the basic sin, which is not trusting in Jesus.”

6.     Example: Exodus 16:2-3 “The whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron” (because they had nothing to eat. They go as far as to say:) “If only we had died at the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, as we sat by our kettles of meat and ate our fill of bread! But you have led us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of famine!”
a.     We see their sin of complaining, but the root of their complaining is their lack of trust in God. In that difficult situation in the desert, which God was permitting, they forgot all the ways God had been taking care of them and didn’t trust that He would continue providing for them.
b.     We behave in the exact way as the Israelite community; when hardships and tribulations come, we too forget the many ways God has been with us and taking care of us, and we also complain because we too don’t fully trust in God’s love for us in EVERY situation.
c.     To acknowledge the sinful tendency of our fallen humanity leads to the groans of our hearts. These groans are pleasing to God because they reveal our repentance and our desire to love God. This deep inner groan due to the knowledge of our sin is a gift of the Spirit that ultimately brings us to become Love.
d.     Mt 13:15
Gross is the heart of this people, they will hardly hear with their ears, they have closed their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and be converted, and I heal them.’
e.     The story in Exodus also reveals the immensity of God’s mercy and His eternal waiting and groaning for us. God asked Moses to say to the people, “Approach the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.” (Ex16:9).
f.      Abba shows compassion even when we grumble!

7.     Can you hear My groans that come forth from the depth of My Crucified Heart?
a.     Mark 8:12 Jesus lamented for the hardened hearts, and “He sighed from the depth of his spirit.”
b.    His groans express the deepest desire of God’s Heart for the transformation of each of us into Love. His groans express God’s passionate love for us, a love so infinite that it can never be expressed in wordsbut only with tears; groans that pour forth compassion and mercy upon every soul; groans that express the martyrdom of Christ’s Heart. The groans are the depth of Jesus’ most hidden sufferings in the Eucharist.
c.     Mt 13:16-17 “But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. Amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”

8.     Jesus longs for each of us to hear His groans of love, yet that is not enough to quench the thirst of our Lord. He desires for us to enter the intimacy of participating in His groans by drinking from His chalice:

a.     Living Tabernacle of God, #78 Diary of a MOC (p.226)
To be one with Me means that you become the living tabernacle of God. My loving, pulsating Heart lives in you as one with you. You feel My sorrows and
participate in My groans for the fulfillment of humanity’s transformation into LOVE.
The martyrdom of the human heart is the intimate union of love in My Sacred Heart. You live
the sorrows of the Heart that is love in as much as you allow Me to share My chalice with you. It is usually only a sip of one drop until your being acquires the taste of My Blood, and it loses its bitterness in the Divine sweetness of My love.
My daughter, My Heart overflows with the sorrows of rejection. Share in My rejection as you share My words and are not ashamed (of it).

9.     We have been chosen, called, by God to enter the most hidden life of Christ. This hidden life is in the depth of His Most Sacred Heart. This hidden life of Christ IS the continuation of His agony for souls. The deep suffering of the Heart of God cannot be expressed with words but only in groans. Just as the Lord taught us that we can enter His wounds through our wounds, we can enter His groans through our groans. The shattered and broken lives of those we love the most causes in our hearts a pain so deep that we too cannot express it in words but only in groans. It is in these moments of our lives that God permits, that the Holy Spirit comes to draw us into the groans of Christ. It is then that we can perceive the groans of Love, and we are given the opportunity to participate in His groans for the transformation of humanity into Love. This MUST become the work of the MC and MOC. This work of participating in God’s suffering of love is the work that produces a hundredfold because it is the work of Divine Love! (Cf. Mt 13:9)

a.     Testimony:
           i.     Before the Blessed Sacrament today, I felt I had nothing but groans within me. What “seems” like the never-changing self-absorption of those I love this week was taking a toll on me. Do they think of anything else but worldly things? I had to beg the Lord to forgive me for bringing this stuff before Him. I felt as if I was wasting His valuable time, our valuable time, with this. But not only had I brought it with me in my heart, but I also was receiving a barrage of texts from a family group that seemed to confirm it.
   I open up to #78 in the Path, Living Tabernacle of God. It says, “My loving, pulsating Heart lives in you as one with you. You feel My sorrows and participate in My groans for the fulfillment of humanity’s transformation into Love.”
   So I thought, is this why I am feeling this discouragement, sadness, groaning in my heart? Is this Lord, Your chalice being shared with me? The Path further reads: “You live the sorrows of the Heart that is love in as much as you allow Me to share My chalice with you. It is usually only a sip of one drop until your being acquires the taste of My Blood and it loses its bitterness in the Divine sweetness of My Love” (p226).
   Perhaps this IS the work of the Lord.  It appears as my own groan to me, but it is a share of the groan in the heart of my Beloved AND a means of transforming their hearts into Love. How did I lose sight of this! Sometimes because we are so close to our families and their hearts are so well known by us, that we fail to see Jesus in our everyday, very familiar dealings with them. This is such blindness. Here I realize that I was in danger of being the wrong kind of victim. How easily I can forget all, we’ve learned if I am not attentive to my own heart at every moment.  It’s not that I wasn’t taking this to the Lord but that I had more hidden sorrow for myself than for the Lord. My emphasis became too much on me.

10.  “My daughter, My Heart overflows with the sorrows of rejection. Share in My rejection as you share My words and are not ashamed.”
a)     Rejection! This is the reason for the groans within me for those I love. If I were to put a name to what is making me so distraught this week, it would be that they are constantly making plans and yet have no room for God.  Yet, in this awareness about the condition of THEIR hearts, I allowed myself to lose the necessary gaze into the Heart of Jesus.
b)    (Here, if we are not careful, we will fall into criticism and judgment. We must pray for the grace to see souls through the groans of Jesus. If we have come to hear the groans of God’s love for us, we then can see others through God’s groans, and this allows us to see and hear with God’s eyes and His understanding, which ALWAYS moves us to compassion & love.)
c)     THIS is what brings me joy in the midst of these battles: The fact that the Lord reveals to me what is happening, that He takes the time simply because I am searching to clarify what is transpiring.  Unless I take my eyes off the world and gaze up at Him, I would remain frustrated with what I see. Why? Because I would see as the caterpillar, through my broken glasses, and in my very limited humanity.
d)    We must ask for the grace to SEE ALL SOULS, especially those that are most repulsive to us, through the groans of the Sacred Heart. The only way to live God’s compassion & mercy for every soul is to look at everyone through the groans of God’s Heart. The groans of God see our misery, woundedness, weakness, and He loves us in the depth of His groan. The groans of the Sacred Heart are not critical nor judgmental.
i)      When we see the disorders, brokenness, the sin of others, those we find repulsive, do we enter God’s groans, or do we criticize, judge vocally or in our hearts?

e)    “it is important to stay in the presence of the Lord so that He can find us available and introduce us into the great silence within that enables Him to become incarnate in us, to transform us into himself. And in this silence, which is not emptiness but is filled with the Holy Spirit, the soul will be able to hear rising from His heart, like a murmur: “Abba! Father!” (Rom 8:15). Prayer is successfully being quiet, listening to God, and being able to hear the ineffable moaning of the Holy Spirit, who dwells in us and cries out silently.” The Power of Silence,  Robert Cardinal Sarah.

11.  We have been called by God to become “Living Hosts” – one with the sufferings of Jesus’ Eucharistic life. Every Mother & Missionary of the Cross has given their “fiat”. Therefore, we voluntarily, for love of Christ, choose to participate in His hidden life of suffering with souls and for souls.
a)     This requires one thing:  TRUST – a trust rooted in BELIEVING God’s love for me, that He is walking with me through the desert of my life – providing, guiding, blessing, and protecting me. A trust that more and more moves me to COMPLETE ABANDONMENT. A trust that I can live the difficult storms of life REMEMBERING God’s providence for me in the past, and living the present difficult situation with hope and love, knowing that God is with me and working to glorify me in Him!
b)    “knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been granted to you, but to them, it has not been granted.  To anyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; from anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away.” (Mt 13: 12-12)

Eucharist III – Participation in the Life of Jesus – Living Hosts

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Eucharist II –The Love of God is the Eucharist

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Lourdes Pinto & Aimee DeGrange – cenacle 6/29/17
2 Corinthians 5: 14-15  For the love of Christ impels us, once we have come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died.  He indeed died for all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
Jesus in the Eucharist lives giving Himself to us, His beloved bride.

2 Corinthians 6:4-13 “but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger;  by purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love,  truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;  in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true;  as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed;  as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything. Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide.  You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections.  In return – I speak as to children – widen your hearts also.”
Ask yourself
1.     How am I specifically living my ordinary daily life more and more united to Jesus’ living sacrifice in the Eucharist?
2.     Do I see progress in the way I am suffering my hardships WITH Christ’s? How?
Message 49 continues
I intercede continuously before the throne of our Father for all.
My hidden life in the Eucharist is seen by Abba and blessed by Him Who sees all.
Mathew 6:4 - your Father who sees in secret will repay you.
Mathew 6:18 - your Father who sees what is hidden will repay you.

Message 49 continues
Your ordinary and hidden life through the Cross becomes united to My Eucharistic life. Your hidden life takes on the same power as My hidden life because we are no longer two but ONE. These are My living hosts. In this union of love, you enter and live in the realm of God. Through Me, with Me, and in Me, your most ordinary life is the power of God.
Your thoughts, words, deeds, but most especially your tears and sorrows of heart, possess the power of God to bless the world. Your hidden life not seen by anyone is seen by God; and through Me, with Me and in Me, He blesses many. Your life as ONE with My Eucharistic life moves beyond time and space.

Ponder My Eucharistic life with the Holy Spirit
and Mary. I desire for you to help Me form many living hosts to shine the light of God and to pierce the darkness. You grow in holiness as your hidden life is lived to greater perfection in My hidden life.

CCC 1374 - The mode of Christ’s presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as “the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend.

Eucharist 1: The Love of God is the Eucharist

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Cenacle teaching, Lourdes Pinto, 6/22/17
From The Simple Path; The Eucharist, 3-C-5
Messages #49, p.162 & #50, p.163 explain how Jesus continues to live His sacrifice, His martyrdom of love, in the Eucharist.
Message 49: I Give Myself to the Good and the Bad, Diary of a MOC
The Eucharist is the power of God in the world. The love of God is the Eucharist and is transmitted through the Eucharist.
Catechism
CCC 1323 “At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross…
CCC-1324 The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.
Has the Eucharist become the source and summit of your life? If not, why?
CCC-1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: “The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different.” “And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner. . . this sacrifice is truly propitiatory.”

Message 49 cont.
Learn about the hidden life by contemplating My Eucharistic life. I am hidden from your human eye but completely present. I am verbally silent, yet My soul speaks to your soul. I am humble, pure, simple, silent, generous, forgiving, merciful, patient, and tender.
Ask yourself
1.     How have I grown in humility? How am I still lacking humility?
2.     How have I grown in purity of body, mind, heart, intentions?
3.     Specifically, in what area of purity do I need further purification?
4.     How have I grown in simplicity? In what areas do I need to grow in further simplicity?
5.     Am I able to enter the silence of my heart to suffer in greater intensity and intimacy with Jesus?
6.     Am I generous with my time and attention to the souls the Lord has placed in my life?
7.     Am I also generous with those that are difficult for me to love and get along with?
8.     Have I entered my core wounds and forgiven FROM THE HEART those that inflicted those wounds?
9.     Have I come to recognize hidden resentment within my heart?
10.  In what situations and with what persons is my patience most tried?
11.  How have I grown in patience?
12.  Am I tender with the people I live closest to — spouse, children, family…?
13.  Do I now notice when the hardness of my heart reacts, and do I recognize it and strive to correct it by CHOOSING to be tender with my words, hands, and gaze?

Mathew 5:43-48:  You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same?  And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.

CCC 1327 In brief, the Eucharist is the sum and summary of our faith: “Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking.” St Irenaeus

Message 49, cont.
I give Myself fully to the good and the bad, to the deserving and the undeserving, to those who love Me and to those that persecute Me; I continue to love those who do not love Me. I continue to love those who use Me. I continue to love the unfaithful. I continue to love those indifferent to My love. I am left alone in the tabernacles of the world with few who come to be with Me, to adore Me, and to give Me thanks. I cry, but My tears are hidden.

Altar of the cross
CCC 1366 - The Eucharist is thus a sacrifice because it re-presents (makes present) the sacrifice of the cross, because it is its memorial and because it applies its fruit:
[Christ], our Lord and God, was once and for all to offer himself to God the Father by his death on the altar of the cross, to accomplish there an everlasting redemption.
Wherever our cross is, there is our altar of sacrifice. There is where our offering during the consecration of the Mass becomes real, our sacrifice as real flesh, the real pain of our suffering WITH Christ’s.

Message 98, MOC
Mary: The mothers of the cross are my maidens that united to me will renew the priesthood. Your “fiat” to be victim souls will be perfected in my “Fiat.” Your lives will be a holy cloth that soaks up the precious blood of Jesus. In this way, you will become pure living chalices filled with the Blood of Jesus. You will live your *hidden lives like me in prayer, sacrifice, and suffering. Your hidden lives lived in your domestic monasteries will be a source of grace for the sanctification of priests.
You will imitate to great perfection my virtues of humility, simplicity, gentleness, silence, and charity. You will be women of an intense prayer life centered in the Eucharist. Your lives will be a continuous prayer offering as you offer up your daily sacrifices and duties on the altar of your homes. As you love in suffering, imitating Jesus and I, you will be our joy and consolation. (June 13, 2009)

To come to the altar of sacrifice in the Mass without having lived my daily sacrifice in the altar of my home or work is a sterile sacrifice to the Father. The words of the Mass —through Him, with Him and in Him— must be lived daily in the ordinary and tediousness of my life, in the sacrament of the moment. It is only in this way that my sacrifice is truly pleasing to God and made perfect in Jesus’ sacrifice of perfect love.

Mensaje # 57, Becoming Living Hosts in our Relationships, p.171
Ponder every relationship and situation in your lives where you are not loving with Me, through Me and in Me. Ask yourselves, “Why is it so difficult to love this person or to love in these situations?” It is precisely in those situations and with those persons where you need to be purified. It is only in this way that you can become ONE with My Eucharistic life and be transformed into Love.

Holy Spirit Received by Victim Souls – become Living Hosts

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Holy Spirit Received in by Victim Souls – become Living Hosts
Lourdes Pinto, Cenacle teaching – 6/15/17
Pentecost Sunday – Bogota, Colombia, 6/4/17
As the LC community was praying the rosary, I had the memory of when I saw the Holy Spirit, in the form of a very large dove, fly out of the center of the Cross, where I saw the Heart of Jesus in the center of the Eucharist. I remembered the immensity of the Holy Spirit’s wings, as extending over the entire world, the sound of the wind, and the POWER of His flight. I then began praying with all my heart for the Holy Spirit to come over the entire world, a new Pentecost, on this Pentecost Sunday.
It was in this prayer that I again saw the Holy Spirit as if hovering over us as we prayed the rosary. I could feel His presence, His love, and protection. We were all sitting in a circle with a statue of Mary, Rosa Mystica, on a table in the center. Interiorly I then saw Mary standing in the center of our prayer circle. During the rosary, she said twice to BELIEVE that the HS has been stirred into flame within each of us. In one of the decades, I think the 4^th, as Maria Hickein gave a reflection, I saw her hand our Blessed Mother a crown of thorns. Mary then took off her crown of glory and placed it in the center of the crown of thorns. I then saw this crown of thorns with the crown of glory in its center become very large and rise over all of us sitting in the circle of prayer. At the end of the rosary, Mary asked us “to protect the graces we have received.”
Fatima Chapel, my baptism of the Holy Spirit –8/28/08
First appeared the Host, then appeared the Sacred Heart inside the Host. Third, the Cross, the Host with the Sacred Heart, was in the center. Then came the HS as a huge and powerful dove flying out from the Host within the Heart towards me. Jesus said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”
He then explained to me the vision: First, My people must come to me in the Eucharist. It is here that they will come to know My Sacred Heart… Then there are the few souls that will respond to My love and allow Me to bring them to union with Me in the Cross. These are the souls that receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
If only I could draw to depict what I saw! The HS was HUGE; the wings flopping were massive, and I could feel the power of the wings so strong that I actually felt that I was going to go through the wall behind me.
Pilgrimage of LC to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico –12/12/16
Words from our Blessed Mother:
My beloved, I have brought you before me to receive the fullness of the blessing God desires to give you and my family of LC. Receive my tears of joy; joy for your fiat united to mine; joy for your faithfulness to live united as One Body to the Holy Sacrifice of my Son. Receive the crown of glory reserved for the martyrs of Christ’s love. Do not be afraid during the time of the great trial that must come upon the world, for I am with you. You have followed me to the altar of sacrifice. It is here in the perfect sacrifice of the Mass that I am forming you as God’s holy warriors of love to fight the final battle. Remain with me in the perfect Sacrifice of my Son, and you will receive the crown of glory. I bless you, my little one, with the kiss of Abba as He seals your heart with the mission given to you for the glory of God and the salvation of many souls.
On 8/28/08, Jesus said, “The few souls that respond to My love and ALLOW Me to bring them to union with Me in the Cross receive the FULLNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.”
Then on 12/12/16, Our Lady of Guadalupe said that she brought us before her to the altar of sacrifice to receive the FULLNESS OF GOD’S BLESSING. She wants us to REMAIN with her in the perfect Sacrifice of her Son hidden in the Eucharist. It is ONLY in Love Crucified that we receive the FULLNESS OF THE Holy Spirit, which is the FULLNESS OF GOD’S BLESSING. To live in the fullness of the Holy Spirit is much more than receiving gifts; it is being possessed by God’s power, wisdom, zeal, courage, and inflamed in Divine Love. LIFE IN THE SPIRIT IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE IN UNION WITH CHRIST CRUCIFIED.
Our identity and mission are contained in the Eucharistic Jesus – ONE with Jesus’ sacrifice that is hidden, silent, unnoticed, unwanted, insignificant, misunderstood, and unappreciated, yet, IS the POWER OF GOD. Therefore, to become “living hosts,” we must ALLOW the Spirit to DIMINISH us so that Jesus as Victim can increase in us, until we, too, become THE HIDDEN FORCE. We, too, need to become nothing, simple, little, insignificant, hidden, misunderstood, and silent like Jesus in the Host. We have a human desire, and many times very distorted due to our woundedness, to be noticed, wanted, seen, important, and appreciated. We can have many desires to do wonderful apostolic works, preach, teach… but the Lord is desiring to make us ONE in His Hidden Force becoming like Him — ignored, unwanted, unseen, unnoticed, unappreciated but in perfect peace and joy accompanying Him in His solitude —His companions of pure love. This in no way means that doing good works is wrong, but for us, as MOC and MC, living the hidden life of the interior crucifixion must be the center of our lives and greatest desire, always knowing that this is where the greatest power lies.
This way of life is not known by the world and only by very few in the Church. Therefore, we need to journey through the long process of purification, pruning, and stripping because this way of life goes completely against our human tendency. We, too, need to be broken, stretched, and expanded in Christ Crucified. Then we need to be given to many as food to be chewed. Some will appreciate this food, delight in it, and receive it with gratitude and blessing. Others will receive us as living hosts and use us for their purposes. Others will spit us out in repulsion. Yet, more and more, through Him, with Him, and in Him, we give ourselves to all in union with Love Crucified as Eucharist.
Many Catholics believe through their intellects that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist, but very few souls believe with their entire being that the FULLNESS OF THE POWER OF GOD is present and working in the Eucharistic Jesus as THE HIDDEN FORCE. We, as LC, must pray to Mary, and through her, beg the Holy Spirit to grant us the grace to have perfect FAITH, HOPE and LOVE in The Hidden Force as the Eucharistic Jesus, so that, PARTICIPATING with Jesus as the Hidden Force in the Eucharist becomes our greatest desire and joy!
Mary reveals to us the way – wearing on earth the crown of thorns in our hearts as she did. She came to encourage us this Pentecost Sunday by reminding us that we have the Holy Spirit stirred into flame within us, for it is ONLY with the HS that we can recognize the treasure of heaven contained in each thorn and desire to wear this spousal crown on our hearts. But Mary does not come only to encourage us to persevere wearing the crown of thorns, but also to promise us the crown of glory. It is this promise that must move us forward with great zeal and courage to PERSEVERE!    (See: Path 4-C-2, Wearing the Crown of Thorns p. 221).

Living Chalices

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Gratitude

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Becoming One With the Father

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Abba Father's Embrace

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The Cross, New Life and the LC Mission

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Abba Father's Embrace

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Becoming One With the Father as Victim Souls

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Salted with Fire – Mk 9

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Pure Suffering

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La Soledad (Solitude)

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Missionaries of the Cross – Identity

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Consecrated to Live the Cross

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Identity: Know Who You Are

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Surrender to the Holy Spirit

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Mary – The Immaculate Conception

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John the Baptist

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Faith to become the Sword of the Spirit

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How to Enter God's Mercy

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Self Knowledge, Repentance and Mercy

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Tears

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Jesus' Wounds Radiate His Mercy

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Eucharist: Hidden Force

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Brides of Love Crucified

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Wedding Feast at Cana

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Cana; New Relationships Between Men and Women

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The Gospel story of the Wedding at Cana has a profound mystical meaning. In that sense, the spouses are Jesus and Mary, the New Adam and the New Eve. This is why Jesus calls her "Woman" (cf. Genesis 2) both at Cana and at Calvary. They reveal the redemption of men and women and the new relations now possible between them. Jesus is the God-Man, but He wanted to be helped by Mary. He depends on her as His mother and also as His companion in the work of redemption. More ...

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Identity of a Mother of the Cross –2

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Spiritual Motherhood for Priest

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Awaken – Our Present Situation

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Martyrdom of the Heart

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Eucharist: The Hidden Force

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Love Casts Out Fear

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Identity of a Mother of the Cross – 1

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Suffer With

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:00:00 -0400

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My Gaze is Upon You: The Power of the Ordinary Life

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:00:00 -0400

Lourdes Pinto
Jesus: "Believe, my daughter, believe."
We need the faith of a Mustard Seed, and Jesus will do the impossible through us. "Believe in the power of your ordinary hidden lives lived through Me, with Me, and in Me." The greater the tenderness of our hearts, like Jesus', the greater our sensitivity to love and suffer with Christ.

Entering the Heart of Jesus – Unity

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:00:00 -0400

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Hidden Ordinary Life

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:00:00 -0400

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Mary Takes us to the Foot of the Cross

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:00:00 -0400

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Suffer With

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0400

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Sword of the Sufferer – III. The Cross of Pure Love

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:00:00 -0400

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Sword of the Sufferer – I

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:00:00 -0400

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