Florida Retreat
February 2nd - 5th
1:30pm & 6:20pm
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Pray for special intentions.
   

Prayer for Grace for our Country

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.  

February 4, 2022

Wisdom 3: 1-12

But the souls of the upright are in the hands of God, 
and no torment can touch them. 
To the unenlightened, they appeared to die, 
their departure was regarded as disaster, 
their leaving us like annihilation; 
but they are at peace. 
If, as it seemed to us, they suffered punishment, 
their hope was rich with immortality; 
slight was their correction, great will their blessings be. 
God was putting them to the test 
and has proved them worthy to be with him; 
he has tested them like gold in a furnace, 
and accepted them as a perfect burnt offering. 
At their time of visitation, they will shine out; 
as sparks run through the stubble, so will they. 
They will judge nations, rule over peoples, 
and the Lord will be their king for ever. 
Those who trust in him will understand the truth, 
those who are faithful will live with him in love; 
for grace and mercy await his holy ones, 
and he intervenes on behalf of his chosen.

But the godless will be duly punished for their reasoning,
for having neglected the upright and deserted the Lord.
Yes, wretched are they who scorn wisdom and discipline:
their hope is void,
their toil unavailing,
their achievements unprofitable;
their wives are reckless,
their children depraved,
their descendants accursed.
 

R. To know the Persons of the Holy Trinity:
creation is attributed to the Father, to the Son -
redemption, to the Holy Spirit the sanctification of
souls.

    Jesus told Fr. Carter to put this prayer in the
Prayer Manual.
 

Holy Spirit Prayer

Come, Holy Spirit, almighty Sanctifier, God of love, who filled the Virgin Mary with grace, who wonderfully changed the hearts of the apostles, who endowed all Your martyrs with miraculous courage, come and sanctify us. Enlighten our minds, strengthen our wills, purify our consciences, rectify our judgment, set our hearts on fire, and preserve us from the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations. Amen.

 

Romans 5:5

and a hope which will not let us down, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.

 

R. We receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit at baptism.
We have a capacity to develop these gifts
with the brush of the Holy Spirit working in
our graced, baptized soul. In baptism
our knowing and loving capacity is elevated.
We open ourselves and allow the Holy Spirit
to possess our souls.

    We need the Holy Spirit to work in the sanctification
of our soul. God has given us these
gifts in our graced, baptized soul
in baptism. Grace is God's life
in our soul and it is so beautiful!

Come Holy Spirit, come and move as a gentle
brush in our soul that we are
made holy and more and more in
the image of Jesus.

Like precious seeds, knowledge and loving
is an elevated capacity because of
baptism -- the seeds of the gifts
of the Holy Spirit present in the graced
baptized soul - must be cultivated.

    In order for them to grow we
must act in love. God is love
and the source of love, we need
charity for the gifts to grow.
Love is a mystery. When God dwells
in the heart and soul deeply - the acts
of love, of charity come from the heart of
that man. The Holy Spirit can fill our hearts
so deeply with the love of God and
our actions that come forth in this
world are actions from God operating
and dwelling in the holy soul, likened to
Jesus.

    In baptism we receive the supernatural
virtues of faith, hope and love. The Holy Spirit
can come and infuse ever more these
gifts in our graced, baptized soul, when
our lives are lived to cultivate
and live by these
supernatural virtues. This makes the
soul right for the action of the Holy Spirit
to work in our soul with His gifts.

    In the prayer Jesus told Fr. Carter to
put in the prayer manual it says -
not to resist the inspirations of
the Holy Spirit. We must be open and ready
to respond to the invitation of the
Holy Spirit on our soul. We have a
readiness to be acted upon and
a docility in our heart, we listen
to the prompting of the Holy Spirit and
do not resist His inspiration --
Our minds are active to discern
and listen and respond, our
hearts are ready and docile and
filled with love! We are docile
to His touch. We allow the Holy Spirit
to fill us, to permeate our soul,
to be responsive to His touch -
to be one with God in our
intellect and will and heart
and soul.

Come Holy Spirit Come, enlighten the minds
    of your faithful and fill
    our soul!

 

Isaiah 11: 1-3

A shoot will spring
    from the stock of Jesse,
a new shoot will grow from his roots.
On him will rest the spirit of Yahweh,
the spirit of wisdom and insight,
the spirit of counsel and power,
the spirit of knowledge
    and fear of Yahweh:
his inspiration will lie in fearing Yahweh.
His judgement will not be
    by appearances.
his verdict not given on hearsay.

 

R. We see the lightening flash at night
and it lights up a dark sky, but
only for an instant - one can see
what lies below the dark shades
of the night.

    When we receive that inspiration in
our minds and hearts, it can come
like a powerful stroke of lightening
that we recognize as God working
in inspiration in our heart and
soul.

    In the Mass Book I received such
an experience of the presence of God:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit on December 15, 1995.
I was, as I felt, deeply one in Him, but
Fr. Carter said - no matter how deep
it was, I could not experience
completeness in Him on earth -
These experiences are in the
Mass book December 17, & 18, 1995.

Inspiration from the Holy Spirit comes as lights.
It can be fleeting and I plunge into
it as soon as He chooses to
work in inspiration, in my soul.
The Holy Spirit can reveal to us insight
into the Divine Mysteries and
its realities embedded in our
soul deeply, not forgotten or
erased.

    The Holy Spirit can infuse in our
souls the gifts of wisdom, understanding,
counsel and knowledge which gives
us gifts to know this insight
into the Divine mysteries more
deeply.

The gift of piety helps us in our
respect and admiration of God
and our deep desire to not
offend God, our beloved!

    When we respond in actions of the
deadly sins, these are disordered
habits that offend God, hurt our
relationship with God and others and leave
us feeling separated and divided or even
'dead' or numb in our hearts.

The gifts of the Holy Spirit
    infused in our intellect
    and soul help us to be courageous
    in wanting to please and love God
    and realize more the tender
    relationship God wants with us.

We have a free will to obey and serve God
    and His Law, His Plan or to
    reject God for the selfishness
    of the deadly sins.

The gift of piety helps us in seeking in our will
to want to please and honor Him
and not offend Him by sin.
The gift of piety helps us not to
offend God with sin and hope
for our salvation and that of
our neighbor as we love
both God and others.

 

John 12: 23-28

Jesus replied to them:

    Now the hour has come
    for the Son of man to be glorified.
    In all truth I tell you,
    unless a wheat grain falls into the earth
       and dies,
    it remains only a single grain;
    but if it dies
    it yields a rich harvest.
    Anyone who loves his life loses it;
    anyone who hates his life in this world
    will keep it for eternal life.
    Whoever serves me, must follow me,
    and my servant will be with me
       wherever I am.
    If anyone serves me,
       my Father will honour him.
    Now my soul is troubled.
    What shall I say:
    Father, save me from this hour?
    But it is for this very reason
       that I have come to this hour.
    Father, glorify your name!

 

Prayer for Union with Jesus

    Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

   

 

A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

     Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

 

 
 

Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

    ... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

    The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

    At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).

 

  John 17: 24-26

Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may always see my glory which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. Father, Upright One, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me. I have made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.

 

John 3: 16

For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him 
    may not perish
but may have eternal life.

 

 

February 3, 2022

Glorious Mysteries in petition

The Resurrection

1. Jesus died and Jesus appeared after 3 days in His glorified body.

2. Jesus shows us there is life after death.

3. Jesus is the resurrection and the life, life is in Him.

4. Jesus is the 2nd Person of the Blessed Trinity.

5. Death/Resurrection is the Pascal Mystery.

6. The angel Gabriel told Mary to not be afraid.

7. God the Father created us in the image and likeness of Jesus, God has a plan for our lives. We are to show God how we will love and obey Him. We are to die to our selfish ways and grow in holiness. When we die, we are to go home to God in heaven having lived a life of loving and serving and obeying God.

8. Death/Resurrection is the Pascal Mystery.

9. The empty tomb is one of the proofs of the Resurrection.

10. Many of the Apostles put their lives on the line for the story of Jesus.

    The Apostles were witnesses to the Resurrection of Jesus.

 

The Ascension of Jesus into Heaven

1. Jesus took the Apostles out near a town called Bethany, He raised His arms and ascended into heaven.

2. Jesus was going back to the Father. Jesus shows us this dramatically and one day, hopefully, we will return back to the Father, too.

3. The Father created us for this, so we would come to earth to live, to grow in the image and likeness of Jesus, to promote the Kingdom of God and to go to our true home in heaven, someday

4. In Mathew's Gospel Jesus says:
    "I am with you always even to the end of time."

5. Jesus went to prepare a place for us.

6. We are here to live life in Him. Jesus says: I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive.

7. We are here to grow in the Christ-life, and Life in the Holy Spirit.

8. God is love and when God is in our hearts we are loving, He is the source of love.

9. We receive a sharing in Divine life in Baptism. Our knowing and loving capacity is elevated.

10. We receive the supernatural virtues of faith, hope, and love in Baptism. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost dwell in our graced, baptized soul.

 

The Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles and the Virgin Mary

1. Pentecost is one of the three most important Feasts in the Church year.

    Christmas is one of them, and Easter (the Feast of the Resurrection) is the most important of all, because without the resurrection we would not have hope, or faith Fr. Joe says.

2. Pentecost is 50 days after Easter. The Holy Spirit came upon Jesus' followers.

3. We need the Holy Spirit in our lives. The sacrament of Confirmation makes us soldiers of Christ, it strengthens our lives.

4. The Holy Spirit wants to come and possess our soul, to fill us with Himself, to permeate our being to direct and fill us with love.

5. We need a relationship with the Holy Spirit. We need to work toward this, ask the Holy Spirit to fill us with love.

6. The Holy Spirit gives us gifts. The Holy Spirit infuses the gifts of wisdom, understanding, and counsel and knowledge into our intellect.

7. The gift of piety helps us, so we don't ever want to offend God.

8. The gift and virtue of fortitude helps us to have courage in doing what is right and what God wants of us.

9. From these gifts of the Holy Spirit comes fruits of the Holy Spirit - joy, peace, kindness, charity, patience, goodness, long-suffering, mildness, faith, modesty, continency, and chastity.

10. Sing: Come Holy Ghost

 

The Assumption

1. Mary lived her whole life, and she did so much in her life, Mary is our spiritual Mother, Mary is Mother of the Church, Mary is Spouse of the Holy Spirit.

2. Mary lived from the Annunciation deeply one with Jesus in these mysteries, in Their lives.

3. Jesus' little Sacred Heart was beating in Mary's womb; His little Heart was formed in her body. Mary knew His presence as He grew inside of her, she was deeply united to Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit. This is Divine love!!!!!!

    Mary suffered the 7 sorrows to her heart, the presentation in the temple, the flight into Egypt, the loss of the child Jesus in the temple. She saw Him and gazed into His eyes on the bitter Passion, Mary watched her Son crucified and taken down from the cross. Mary held His lifeless body. Mary saw Jesus locked in the tomb for 3 days. Mary saw the resurrected Lord and she saw the descent of the Holy Spirit in the forms of tongue and saw their courage.

    Mary was so involved in these mysteries, now, Mary was taken body and soul up to heaven.

4. Mary always loved the Father's will. Mary saw Jesus locked in the tomb - for 3 days.

    Jesus ascended into heaven, and she knew that separation.

5. Imagine Mary's joy to be taken up into heaven. Mary had many joys and sorrows being the Mother of Jesus.

6. Mary is Mother of the Eucharist. Mary received Jesus in the Eucharist after He ascended into heaven.

7. Sing: Immaculate Mary

8. So we see that Jesus ascended into heaven, Mary was taken body and soul into heaven - when we die it is the Father's Plan if we loved and served the Lord we will go to heaven and be with Mary and Jesus and God the Father and the Holy Spirit and all the angels and saints -- forever!!!!!

9. In baptism we receive a sharing in His life, and the Father and Son and Holy Spirit dwell in our graced baptized soul.

    We spend our life forming a deeper and deeper relationship with God here below.

10. Fr. Carter called dwelling in the Hearts our Jesus and Mary our little heaven on earth.

 

 

   

Mary is Queen of Heaven and Earth

1. Sing: Hail Holy Queen

2. Sing: See the Eyes that Look at Mary

 

3. Sing: Ave Maria

4.  A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

     Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

 

 

5. From the Priestly Newsletter Book III by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

The Holy Spirit And Mary

The late Archbishop Luis M. Martinez of Mexico strikingly speaks of the ongoing cooperation of Mary with the Holy Spirit regarding the reproduction of Jesus within us: "Christian life is the reproduction of Jesus in souls…

"Now, how will this mystical reproduction be brought about in souls? In the same way in which Jesus was brought into the world, for God gives a wonderful mark of unity to all His works. Divine acts have a wealth of variety because they are the work of omnipotence; nevertheless, a most perfect unity always shines forth from them because they are the fruit of wisdom; and this divine contrast of unity and variety stamps the works of God with sublime and unutterable beauty.

"In His miraculous birth, Jesus was the fruit of heaven and earth…The Holy Spirit conveyed the divine fruitfulness of the Father to Mary, and the virginal soil brought forth in an ineffable manner our most loving Savior, the divine Seed, as the prophets called Him…

"That is the way He is reproduced in souls. He is always the fruit of heaven and earth.

"Two artisans must concur in the work that is at once God’s masterpiece and humanity’s supreme product: the Holy Spirit and the most holy Virgin Mary. Two sanctifiers are necessary to souls, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, for they are the only ones who can reproduce Christ.

"Undoubtedly, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary sanctify us in different ways. The first is the Sanctifier by essence; because He is God, who is infinite sanctity; because He is the personal Love that completes, so to speak, the sanctity of God, consummating His life and His unity, and it belongs to Him to communicate to souls the mystery of that sanctity. The Virgin Mary, for her part, is the co-operator, the indispensable instrument in and by God’s design. From Mary’s maternal relation to the human body of Christ is derived her relation to His Mystical Body which is being formed through all the centuries until the end of time, when it will be lifted up to the heavens, beautiful, splendid, complete, and glorious.

"These two, then, the Holy Spirit and Mary, are the indispensable artificers of Jesus, the indispensable sanctifiers of souls. Any saint in heaven can co-operate in the sanctification of a soul, but his co-operation is not necessary, not profound, not constant: while the co-operation of these two artisans of Jesus of whom we have just been speaking is so necessary that without it souls are not sanctified (and this by the actual design of Providence), and so intimate that it reaches to the very depths of our soul. For the Holy Spirit pours charity into our heart, makes a habitation of our soul, and directs our spiritual life by means of His gifts. The Virgin Mary has the efficacious influence of Mediatrix in the most profound and delicate operations of grace in our souls. And, finally, the action of the Holy Spirit and the co-operation of the most holy Virgin Mary are constant; without them, not one single character of Jesus would be traced on our souls, no virtue grow, no gift be developed, no grace increased, no bond of union with God be strengthened in the rich flowering of the spiritual life.

"Such is the place that the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary have in the order of sanctification. Therefore, Christian piety should put these two artisans of Christ in their true place, making devotion to them something necessary, profound, and constant." ¹⁸

18. Archbishop Luis M. Martinez, The Sanctifier, op. cit. pp. 5-7.

 

6. From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

The Holy Spirit

Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My people!"

Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us.

Prayer: Come, Holy Spirit, fill us with your gifts of wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, piety and fear of the Lord. As we dwell in the Heart of Mary, Your spouse, fashion us more and more according to the Heart of Jesus.

 

7. From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

Mary Our Mother

Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to come to My Mother. From the cross, as I was suffering indescribable agony, I gave Mary as spiritual Mother to the world. My great love for My people prompted Me to do this. I am Lord and Master, and I want My people to come to My Mother and their Mother. If you wish to be close to Me, come to Mary. Consecrate yourselves to her. In this way you will grow into the closest union with Me. Through her Immaculate Heart, you will be drawn more and more into My own Heart. It is My desire that you allow My Mother to place you within My Heart which loves you with an unfathomable love! This is My wish—that you come to Me enfolded by Mary's mantle, cradled in her arms, pressed against her Heart."

Reflection: It is God's will that we approach Jesus in union with Mary. Enough said!

Prayer: Heavenly Father, give us an increased understanding of what it means to have Mary as our spiritual Mother. Allow us to see how much it is against Your will to neglect our relationship with her. We make this petition in union with Mary, through Christ, and in the Holy Spirit.

 

8. From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

The Riches of the Immaculate Heart

Mary: "My beloved priest-son, how often I have pressed you to my maternal and Immaculate Heart in the greatest love! How often I allow you to taste the sweetness of this Heart. How often I make you aware that my Heart is your refuge where you feel so much loved, where you feel so secure, where you feel bathed in peace! I desire that you tell all the people about the riches contained in my Immaculate Heart. Tell my people to come to my Heart each day. I will caress them with my maternal love. I will lead them ever closer to the Sacred Heart of my Son. I will tell them to listen to Jesus. I will remind them that He is their Lord and Master. I will remind them to do whatever He tells them to do.

"Yes, my dearly beloved son, tell my people all these things. Keep reminding them of my great love for them. Keep reminding them how I love to draw them to my maternal and Immaculate Heart!"

Reflection: Is there anyone who, listening to these words of Mary, does not long for a closer union with the loving Heart of our Mother?

Prayer: Mary, draw me each day more deeply within your Heart, so that each day you can place me more deeply within Jesus’ Heart!

 

9. From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

The Tears and Sorrows of Mary

Mary: "My beloved priest-son, I have given you a great devotion to my sorrows and tears. Tell my people about this devotion. Tell them I promise great blessings to all who say seven Hail Marys each day in honor of my tears and seven sorrows. Included in my promise is that of granting special assistance at the hour of death. At this moment, all who practice this devotion will see my face."

Reflection: Listed below are the seven sorrows of Mary. Let us each day recall these sorrows as we pray the seven Hail Marys as Our Lady requests.

1. The prophecy of Simeon.

2. The Flight into Egypt.

3. The loss of Jesus in the Temple.

4. Jesus and Mary meet during the way of the cross.

5. Mary witnesses the crucifixion of her Son.

6. Jesus is taken down from the cross and laid in Mary's arms.

7. The burial of Jesus.

Prayer: Sorrowful Mother, obtain for us the grace to enter deeply into your sorrows. Let us realize that the more we are united with you in the carrying of the cross, the more we are united with you in sharing the joy of Christ’s resurrection.

 

10. From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

Children of Mary

Mary: "My beloved priest-son, how often I have embraced you! How often I have told you how much I love you! How often, at your request, I have held you in my arms as my child. You have told me you realize how helpless you are of yourself, but how strong and secure you feel dwelling in my heart and Jesus' Heart. Your sense of your littleness and helplessness endears you to me all the more. I take you ever more securely to my maternal and Immaculate Heart. Tell all my people of the riches you have found within my heart. Tell them how I place you within my Son's Heart. Tell them that, because of my motherly action, you are now more closely united with Jesus than ever before. Tell my people to come to my heart and draw forth similar riches. Tell all my little ones that Jesus, Who is Lord and Master, bids me to lead all to His Sacred Heart. The more my little ones dwell within my Immaculate Heart, the more I place them within Jesus' Heart. Oh, how I love all my little ones! How I love to bring them to the Heart of Jesus!"

Reflection: Again, let us remind ourselves that we live in the Age of the Two Hearts. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are inseparable. The more we dwell in Mary's heart, the more she places us within Jesus' Heart. Within these Two Hearts, the Holy Spirit fashions us more and more in the likeness of Christ, and the more we become like Christ, the more closely He unites us to the Father.

Prayer: Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us! Sacred Heart of Jesus, we place our trust in You.

      

Mary, Model and Teacher of Love

Mary: "My beloved priest-son, I have led you to greatly increase your prayers and sacrifices for others. I have often reminded you of my teaching at Fatima—that many souls go to Hell because they have no one to pray and make sacrifices for them. My Immaculate Heart longs that all my little ones be saved. Tell my little ones that they must love their neighbor through prayer, sacrifices, and other ways, too. All should learn from me. My Heart is symbol, not only of my great love for God, but also of my tender love for all my little ones. Imitate my love for God and all my children. If you love Jesus and me, this means you also love all of God's children. Jesus died for all. You cannot exclude anyone from your love.

"My Heart is the perfect imitator of the Heart of my Son. I will teach you how to love the Father and all mankind after the example of Jesus. All my little ones, I long for you to come to my Heart so I can teach you the ways of love! I love you so much! Come to my Immaculate Heart. Pressed against my Heart, I will hold you in my arms. I will clothe you with my motherly and protective mantle. As I hold you close to my Heart, I will teach you the ways of love!"

Reflection: In the above message, our dear mother tenderly reminds us that the following of Jesus is summed up in love of God and neighbor.

Prayer: Mary, in your great love for us, teach us the ways of love. Help us to surrender more and more to your Immaculate Heart, so that you can lead us to an ever closer union with the Heart of Jesus, the source of our being able to love.