Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A.We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages rests with the Holy See of Rome. |
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I. A Child is Born - A Child is Laid to Rest
Jesus speaks: A birthday, a child is born, he is given a free will. The child begins to move, to choose, to act, to decide. He has a free will. He is created by the Father, he has a heavenly Mother. His is given an earthly mother and father. The earthly mother and father are to teach this child about the Father in heaven and the Mother in heaven and teach them about living according to the Father’s will.
I came into the world, the Son of God, the Son of Man to show them the way. Adam did his own will. See Me now in the arms of My Mother under the cross. See My dead Body, entirely lifeless. See the Child of Mary, God-made-Man. Mary the Mother was more perfectly conformed to God’s will than any human person. See Me, I showed you how to live to My death on the cross. I did the will of the Father.
See the baby move its arms and legs. See the child, the adult push his way through life. Does he do his own will or God’s will? There is the moment the soul is brought into the world in a little baby body. The child acts, he has a free will.
When he is laid to rest all that matters is how perfectly his will was conformed to God’s will.
At death not a finger is moved. The final curtain goes down.
Souls will go somewhere for all eternity. Where depends on whether they served their God and lived according to God's will, or seriously failed to do so.
A baby, a free will, a funeral procession, an end, but the soul lives on for all eternity.
My child, I tell you this. I am the New Adam, I showed you the way. Meditate on the mysteries of the rosary. A Baby, Son of God, Son of Man, a life lived according to God’s will.
A Son, God-made-Man, a lifeless Body held in the arms of the Woman under the cross.
A victory, the glory that follows for living according to the Father’s will, the resurrection, the life for all eternity, the glory.
The choice is yours.
One funeral will tell you of the reality of death. There is no return after the final curtain is drawn. You know not the day nor the hour. You are to willingly serve your God.
II. What is God’s Will For Me?
Messenger: What is God’s will for me? In dwelling in Their pure Hearts we are more perfectly conformed to His will. The Holy Spirit works in the Heart of Mary helping us to live more and more in the Father’s will.
The devil may confuse us. Loving our brother does not mean that we must serve ALL our brothers ALL the time. We must do as He wills. We cannot serve everybody, we are limited human beings. I know I must care for my children when they are a certain age. The devil will use instances of doing "good things" to block the real work God may be asking us to do. People who are in great need may come to us. What are we to do? If a person needs care because he has suffered from heart surgery, we must ask ourselves is it God’s will that we help? He needs care, but is it God’s will I do it? It may be God’s will that his son takes care of him. Because I am one who gives myself to God’s service does not mean that I can serve everybody. I must decide what is His will for me and pray for the grace to know certainly. Many times I may have to say no to others who want me to help them. We must pray and get our answers from Him. Doing a "good thing" may not be His will. I would still be teaching math in schools if He did not show me through certain ways He wanted me to do this. We must pray for grace to know His will. (Reference Blue Book III about teaching and losing my voice.)
February 22, is an important day.
III. Stations Of The Cross
Jesus speaks: I ask you to publish the Stations here and to circulate them to churches and schools. One set of Stations has the Imprimatur as indicated at the beginning of the Stations. One does not have the Imprimatur, but has been checked for theological accuracy. Both are identical in content. The one set was delivered February 22, 1995, and was demessagetized so that it could receive the Imprimatur. I ask you to PLEASE circulate these during Lent.
PDF files will be made available in the future.
I ask you to pray these Stations I have given you, especially in Lent, and meditate on My Way of the cross.
I love you.
The following Imprimatur applies to the Stations of the Cross, but not to the messages above or below.
Nihil Obstat:
Rev Daniel J. Mahan, S.T.L.
Censor Librorum
Archdiocese of Indianapolis
Imprimatur:
Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B.
Archbishop of Indianapolis
1998
The Stations of the Cross
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The First Station JESUS IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH With angry hearts and hatred on their faces, they poked at Jesus and condemned Jesus to death. He stood so silent, His hands tied, in perfect peace, because He knew the Father's love. He knew the Father's will. We too will stand our trials in peace, the more we realize the immense love the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have for us. We must pray to the Spirit to transform us more and more into His image and, through this transformation, we will be led ever closer to the Father. Oh, how Jesus loves us! |
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The Second Station THEY GIVE JESUS THE CROSS They gave Jesus a heavy cross, laden with the sins of the world. They placed it on His shoulder. It was so heavy He felt as if His shoulder would break. He asks us to carry little crosses, to experience little pains. He could not remove this cross from His shoulder. The weight was unbearable. It is through His suffering and death that we receive new life. It is through our sufferings this day that we will grow in our life with Jesus. Jesus loves us so much that He took up the cross of salvation. He loves us. To His death He loved us. Oh, how Jesus loves us! |
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The Third Station JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME The cross was so heavy Jesus could hardly walk. He held on to His cross for greatest love of us and in compliance with the will of His Father. It became so hard to walk! The cross was so heavy! He fell. He fell and the cross fell on Him. They poked at Him, they struck Him, they demanded He get up. The pain from the instruments they used to poke Him and strike Him was so great! He somehow managed to get up. When we fall under the weight of our cross, we go to Jesus' Eucharistic Heart. He is no less present in the tabernacle and in the Eucharist than on the day He carried His cross. He waits with the same love that He had for us when He carried His cross and suffered such agony. Oh, how Jesus loves us! |
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The Fourth Station JESUS AND MARY MEET Jesus saw the face of His beautiful Mother. She was weak, her face reddened and full of tears. He saw her tender heart, her love, her anguish, her pain. He saw His dear Mother Mary. His Heart was comforted by the sight of her, but torn by her suffering. As Mary looked into the eyes of her beloved Son, she saw His love. His head, bleeding and wounded. His body weak. His clothes covered with blood. She looked into His eyes and she saw His love for us. She wants to call us back to the love of her Son. See through her eyes, as she peers into His eyes, the love He has for us this day. He gave Himself for us. Oh, He loves us so much. We are Mary's little children. See through Mary's eyes the love of her Son. Oh, how Jesus loves us! |
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The Fifth Station SIMON OF CYRENE IS FORCED TO HELP JESUS CARRY HIS CROSS The cross was so heavy Jesus could not move. His persecutors became angry and forced a man to help Him. The cross was so heavy the two of them could barely move it. How is our cross today? Does it seem so heavy we cannot go on? He is forever watching us. When we are suffering the greatest, He is very close to us. It is in immense suffering that we realize His great love for us. Pray for grace to do always the Father's Will. Pray for grace to grow in our knowledge and love of Jesus. |
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The Sixth Station VERONICA WIPES THE FACE OF JESUS Jesus' face was covered with blood. From the crowd Veronica came forward with a cloth to wipe His face. On the cloth Jesus gave to us an imprint of His bloodied face. This remains with us this day as a sign of His immense love for us. But more than any cloth, look beyond the visible consecrated host. Jesus remains with us, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, in the Eucharist this day, waiting and longing to be with us. Oh, how Jesus loves us! |
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The Seventh Station JESUS FALLS THE SECOND TIME As Jesus went on the way to Calvary, it became harder and harder to walk. The cross was becoming heavier, His body weaker and weaker. His shoulders and arms hurt so much! His head throbbed as He walked. The blood came from His body, from His head to His feet. He was covered with open wounds. He could not go any farther. He stumbled and fell. Again they poked at Him, only harder, and with such hatred they kicked Him. Such vileness in the hearts of men! His greatest agony was not the agonies of His body, but the agonies of His heart for the love He has for all His precious souls. He loved them so dearly. He loved those who persecuted Him. Oh, how Jesus loves us! |
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The Eighth Station JESUS MEETS THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM The women came to Jesus with their children, their tender hearts crying and wanting to comfort Him. He saw their love, their care. He saw the coldness of men's hearts for all time, the hatred, the anger, the sins, all the souls that, despite all of His sufferings and death, would be condemned to eternal damnation. He told the women to weep not for Him, but for themselves and their children. His greatest agonies were the agonies of His Most Sacred Heart. Oh, how Jesus loves us! |
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The Ninth Station JESUS FALLS THE THIRD TIME Jesus fell hard the third time. He was so weakened He could not go on. His body collapsed under the cross from such exhaustion! Jesus' greatest agonies were not the wounds to His body. They were the wounds He experienced to His heart. Do we not realize how much Jesus loves us? It is in meditating on His Passion and death that we will realize His immense love for us. When we fall, when we struggle, Jesus gives us the grace to get up. Jesus never gives us more than we can handle. Our strength will come from Jesus. Come to Jesus' Eucharistic Heart. He is waiting for us this day. Oh, how Jesus loves us! |
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The Tenth Station JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS They took Jesus to the hill to crucify Him. They angrily stripped Jesus of His garments. They took off Jesus' clothes to whip Him. They had covered Jesus' bloody wounds with a dirty purple robe. Now, total surrender-they took off Jesus' clothes. He showed us the way to surrender, always complying with the will of the Father. It is in living in His will that we will have peace and joy, and life eternal some day. Oh, how Jesus loves us! |
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The Eleventh Station THEY NAIL JESUS TO THE CROSS See Mary as she holds the little Baby Jesus. See her as she washes His tender hands and feet. See her now as she watches as they pound into those same hands and feet the gigantic nails that fix Jesus to the cross. Mary's heart was torn in her chest as they nailed His hands and feet to the cross. She asks us this day to walk the Passion with Him. See through her eyes the love He has for us. He truly was nailed to the cross. They pounded the nails into Jesus' first hand, then they stretched His body and nailed His other hand. The blood poured from these wounds, that went totally through Jesus' hands. His pain was so immense, but then they nailed His feet! We do not know what pain He suffered. For each one of us He suffered this pain. |
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The Twelfth Station JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS (Silence.) Jesus hung for three agonizing hours on the cross against the darkened sky. His greatest agonies were not the agonies of His body, but those of His Heart for the great love He has for each and every soul. He gave Himself to us. He gave His all. He hung with His arms spread in total surrender. Jesus' head was punctured; His hands and feet were nailed to the cross. He gave Himself to us. He gives Himself to us this day in the Eucharist. Jesus gives us Himself! What more do we want? Song: I Love You Jesus... They pierced His Heart with a lance and what flowed forth was blood and water, the sacramental life of the Church, water for Baptism and blood for the Eucharist. |
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The Thirteenth Station JESUS IS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS AND PLACED IN THE ARMS OF HIS MOTHER They placed the lifeless body of Jesus in the arms of His most loving Mother. As she had held the little baby body in her arms, she now received His bloodied, bruised body. This is how He obeyed the Father's will. Jesus gave His life for us. The Father gave His only Son because He loves us so much. Mary, His Mother, our Mother and the Mother of the Church, is forever by His side. See Jesus in the arms of His loving Mother under the cross. This is love. Mary held His lifeless body in her arms. See through Mary's eyes the love He has for us this day. He gives Himself to us today in the Eucharist. Jesus loves us so much! |
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The Fourteenth Station JESUS IS LOCKED IN THE TOMB The enemies of Jesus rolled the stone up to the tomb and were pleased to have buried Him. Mary, outside the tomb, wept bitterly. The cold reality that He was dead! But death has no power over Jesus, for on the third day He rose, triumphant, from the tomb! We are partakers in His divine life. Death has no power over Jesus. He is with us this day. He comes to bring us life to the full. Jesus loves us so much! |
Jesus speaks: Also two rosaries were given on February 22.
A Glorious Mystery was given February 22, 1995.
Another rosary was given to children February 22, 1996.
Also the Seven Sorrows were given February 22, 1995.
I ask that you are able to click on these writings.
I love you, Jesus
Pray the Prayer for Union with Jesus
Messenger: Those moments at Mass are the dearest moments of being with Him in great oneness. I am His spouse. I am a member of the body of Christ. The Church is the spouse of Christ. Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Jesus speaks: Do not think of what others think of you. Pray the Prayer for Union with Jesus all through the day. You are My spouse. I love you.
Messenger: He is Chief Shepherd of the flock.
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