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December 8, 1998 - FEAST OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Messenger: I see the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph and the Child Jesus. It is the Holy Family. I experience intimacy and love when I behold this image. In the crib scene we see this intimate setting. We experience the presence of the Father and the Holy Spirit. We see the Holy Family surrounded by myriads of angels. As I sit now before the tabernacle in a little chapel in the loving company of my beloved Jesus, I know that angels surround us here and I experience deeply within my heart the presence of the Father and my deep connection in my heart to the Holy Spirit. At every moment I can connect in a deep union with all the saints I love so much. All I have to do is think of them and in my heart, I know the connection ever present to them. I feel immensely connected to my husband and my children and all those I intimately love in the Movement. There is a connection in my heart whether I am with them or not with them. I am deeply connected.
I love to go to the Eucharist, for it is then that I am so one with Jesus and so existent in Him. It is then I am often consumed with such deep love for all He loves. In dwelling so deeply in His Heart in this intimate union after reception of the Eucharist and being so deeply existent in Him, I am given special graces to love in a deepened, heightened capacity. It is then I see people, all people, people I may have held grudges against or felt divided towards, and I am overwhelmed with deep love for them. I feel this way because of my heightened union with Him at this moment and the grace He gives. At this moment of greatest intimacy, His desires become my desires, His wants my wants. I am capable of loving to this heightened degree in Him. I do not experience this heightened experience every time I go to the Eucharist. It is only when I am in a certain state of purity in my heart and He gives me the grace. If I am divided or at odds with my brother, rarely does He gives me special, intimate, favors as these.
I know the center of attack for Satan on my soul is before Mass during which I receive Jesus in the Eucharist. In my whole heart and soul, I long to plead and beg to God for mercy for myself and the souls on this earth. I pray, too, for the souls in purgatory. My consuming desire is to have these heightened experiences in Mass and be most intimately united to Him. I feel as if I am waiting for the bus to take me deeply into the Heart of Jesus. There are so many devils that wish to block my journey. They use negative thoughts, conversations with others, dirty dishes, unpaid bills, stalled cars and adverse weather to disturb me. If you are consumed with love for God and wanting to worship Him and love Him deeply and pray for special graces for souls, you can be assured that the devils will be on your path to divert you.
I now see Eve in the garden of Eden by the tree, and I know she knew so much about God, for she was given special graces. I wonder how, given such special gifts, she could be tempted to the point of sinning. It makes it quite clear in Genesis how cunning the devil is. Because of great grace received, we are able to withstand the devil's attacks. As hard as I try to pray, the devil tries to divert me before Mass and cause division with those I love most. He knows to cause division in your heart, especially with those that you are intimately united with, will block special union with God at Mass. It may not block it entirely, but it will lessen the experience of uniting with Him in a pure, selfless love.
The devil's game is to get us focused on the self. Before rosary meetings, when Our Lord and Our Lady give special messages, it is most important for me to stay united with everyone as much as possible and stay in my heart. Jesus has told us writing helps to stay in our hearts.
I see Eve in the garden, she is tested, she falls. I see us. God has given us great gifts. He has revealed Himself most intimately. We stand as by that tree in the garden as did Eve. When we attend Mass, the holier our souls, the more focused we are, the more we can unite so deeply in the sacrifice.
There is the tree of life in the Mass. Christ hung from the tree on the hill of Calvary and merited the saving graces for mankind.
Now we stand at the base of the holy mountain, the altar of sacrifice is at the top. The priest mounts the altar. We unite with him and with Christ, Chief Priest and Victim. The connection is in our hearts. In our hearts we are united to God, the angels, the saints, the souls in purgatory, the priest, all in the Church and the world. Our hearts are impure, Mary's Heart is Immaculate, Christ's Heart is most pure.
We unite in the greatest purity in Their Hearts. Jesus is one with all. Mary is one with all. In His Heart, Jesus is consumed with love for all. We want the greatest oneness in the Mass.
We are the Father's holy family, united in our hearts at the altar of sacrifice, pleading for the graces He merited on Calvary to be released on the earth through His pierced Heart.
The more we connect to Jesus and Mary and all others in intimate union, the more pleasing and pure the sacrifice offered to the Father in the Holy Spirit.
As the devil tempted Eve in the garden, the devil stands by to steal our hearts from doing that which would help release great life-saving graces on the souls of the earth.
Christ offers the sacrifice through the priest. As Mary stood beneath the cross with a pure heart pleading, we, the children of the earth, stand beneath the altar pleading for forgiveness.
We see one picture: Eve under the tree in the garden. She sinned.
We see another picture, Lucia's vision: Our Lady of Fatima with her Immaculate Heart under the tree of life. She was conceived without sin.
He is the New Adam, she is the New Eve.
We see ourselves stand beneath the altar of sacrifice. We are the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve with a fallen human nature.
We are the children of the heavenly Father and our heavenly Mother.
We are the souls to be more and more transformed through the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus, the New Adam, and Mary, the New Eve.
We offer a most holy sacrifice to God. It is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
A garden in Eden, the children that sinned.
A garden on Calvary, the tree of life. The Sacrifice, the Victim, a God-made-Man.
2,000 years later we have the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present through the hands of the priest. Grace is proportionally released according to the disposition of those offering sacrifice and the favors of our God.
Hearts must be transformed. The sacrifice should be the purest and the holiest.
When we go to the altar, there are many devils that do not wish that sacrifice to be as the Father wishes.
We are tempted by distraction, by selfishness. Many have not been properly trained concerning the great value of the Mass.
Great fruit can be brought forth through the Mass.
The children stand as olive plants around the Father's holy table. He will feed the children with His grace. They share abundantly in His life. The meal is the Body and Blood of His Son, Jesus.
Jesus speaks: The Sacrifice of the Mass is offered continually around the world. I have given you this gift, My beloved priests, the gift of offering the Sacrifice of the Mass.
You are the children of Adam and Eve, transformed in the Hearts of the New Adam and the New Eve. You stand at the altar of sacrifice.
I give you Myself as the Sacrifice. Many are led astray from the true meaning of the Mass.
You are in the garden. You must make atonement to the Father for the sins of man.
Will you be weak as Eve? Has the devil blocked your vision, too?
Stand by the altar and plead and beg that the greatest grace is released on the earth. You are the sinful children of Eve. You will continue to walk as blind men unless you go through Our pure Hearts.
You will receive light and knowledge in dwelling in Our Hearts.
Men of the earth listen to Me. Instead of changing the stories in the Bible, study them, pray for wisdom and look to the Word with the minds of children.
You are children of the Father and your heavenly Mother.
I am the Son of God. I came to show you the way to be children of the Father. I served My Father, I obeyed His will to My death on the cross. I loved My brothers so much I gave My life for them. You must follow My way. You must love your God with your whole heart, your whole soul and your whole being and love your neighbor as yourself. You live to please the Father, to do His will. You lay down your lives for your brothers.
I am Jesus, will you have transformed hearts and offer a most pure sacrifice at the Mass?
The Mass is the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present. You must make reparation to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary at Mass and make atonement to God for your sins.
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HE SAID TO SATAN:
Genesis 3:15
I shall put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;....
Mary speaks: I wish the music to the song Our Lady of Clearwater to be on the Internet as soon as possible.
Please put here for this feast day.
I love you,
Mary
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