THERE APPEARED IN THE SKY A WOMAN, MARY

Written at 3:00 a.m. in Jackson, Michigan:

I was awakened. I thought, "How can I spread His love to others if I do not have a deep love relationship with Him?"

The Gospel is the Living Word of God. The Gospel messages live in us. What is within will come forth from the mouth of a man. Let our hearts be filled with His love that we may declare the Gospel. Let His Word live in us. Let it be alive in our souls, penetrated with His divine presence, that we sing of His love for all.

The interior life can be life or death, light or darkness, a place of peace or a place of fear. It depends on the heart of the person. We must stay rooted in Him, then we remain saturated with the life of God, the divine life of the Trinity.

Mary told us at Fatima what we must do. The more we totally surrender and give our hearts to Jesus and Mary, the more we grow in holiness. Consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary is the answer. When we give our hearts to Mary, the Holy Spirit works within her heart to make us more and more like Jesus.

Within the heart of Mary, we receive lights from the Holy Spirit to know God. We are formed, the children of light, in the womb of Mary. Christ the firstborn was formed in the womb of Mary. He is the Light of the World. We are formed in the womb of Mary and she brings us forth her children of light. She protects us against the devil. She crushed his head with her heel and we find shelter in her womb.

This is the message of Fatima: that the heart of Mary should be venerated with the Heart of Jesus. We unite more to God as we become one in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. God created us to communicate and share His love with us. The more we become one with Them the more we unite to God and others.

Life flows from His Heart through her heart. She is the Mediatrix of all graces. Under God, all grace flows through her.

God creates creatures in His own image and likeness because of His great love of man. The creatures sin against God. God sends His only begotten Son to make reparation for sin. Jesus is the New Adam. Mary is the New Eve.

"Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." (Rv. 12:1)

Eve was the physical mother of the human race. It is through Jesus that we relate to the Father. Jesus is our Mediator with the Father. The Father communicates to us through His Son.

Man, today, sins and treats God with such ingratitude and indifference. We are all members of the human race, all brothers in Him, all His creatures. Here is God. He is a Divine Being and He gives to creatures His love, His life, His goodness. Many men turn their backs on God. I want to make some recompense to God for my sins and the sins of my fellow human beings. God is so gravely offended by men.

Jesus gave us His Mother under the cross as our Mother. She is pure, she is immaculate, conceived without sin. When we give our hearts to Mary, we can unite to Jesus in the pure heart of Mary. We are sinners. Of ourselves, we cannot unite in great depth to Him unless we go through Mary's pure and sinless heart.

God has raised Mary to such heights. She is the closest human person to God.

Mary says at Fatima:

"…God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war will end. But if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the reign of Pius XI."³¹

Because not enough people responded to Our Lady of Fatima's request for conversion, the tragedy of World War II did occur.

Through many of her messages at Medjugorje, Our Lady is also calling us to conversion. It is emphatic, such as part of her message of January 25, 1988:

"Dear children, today, again I am calling you to complete conversion…I am inviting you, dear children, to convert fully to God…"^{32 33}

We must consecrate ourselves, our homes, and our businesses to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Mary showed the three children of Fatima a vision of hell.

You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish, in the world, devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.

The war [World War I, then raging] is going to end. But if people do not stop offending God, another and worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI.³⁴

We need to pray for souls to be converted. We are among the children of the light.

Oneness is being so united to Him, to be one in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, as we partake in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, as we live Their lives in the rosary, as we live the words in the Scriptures, the Living Word of God. There is a oneness in our every breath as our hearts burn for love of Him.

Mary is the Queen of Peace. She wishes to establish peace in the world, and she asks us to help her accomplish this great goal.

She calls us to conversion. "This peace will take place when the human family is at peace with God-when human hearts are united with God, in loving conformity to His will."³⁵

She calls us to conversion by consecrating our hearts to the Sacred Heart and her Immaculate Heart.

The Blessed Mother said to Jacinta:

Tell everybody that God gives graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask graces from her, and that the Heart of Jesus wishes to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Ask them to plead for peace from the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to her.³⁶

The message of Fatima centers in the act of consecration to the Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Say "yes" to consecration. Say "yes" to her grace. Read Scripture. We are children of the light. Conversion is based on consecration to the two Hearts. Fatima outlined what is needed to save mankind. Medjugorje confirmed it, and gives us the details. To consecrate means "to make holy". Only God can make us holy. Baptism seals us with the holiness of God - in Baptism we share in His divine life - our Christ-life.³⁷

Mary's promises for those who make the five first Saturdays: "…I promise to assist at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for salvation all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, go to Confession and receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the rosary and keep me company for a quarter of an hour while meditating on the mysteries of the rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me."³⁸

God is faithful to His promise. Mary is faithful to her promises. God listens to prayers through Mary.

Adam and Eve sinned against God. God sent His only begotten Son to save men from their sin.

Our Lady is pleading with the human race to return to God (in the 20th Century): "Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." (Rv. 12:1)

At Fatima, there occurred the great miracle of the sun. Mary is Our Lady of Light. We are among the children of the light fixed in Him. She is leading us to our final destination, which is heaven. She is the highest human person. She is the human person closest to God. She was given the role as our Mother under the cross. She is Queen of Heaven and Queen of Earth. She is given by her Son the title, 'Queen of Peace'. All graces flow through her Immaculate Heart.

All the power is in God. At Fatima, the sun came down to the people as if it would destroy them. I see the sun, its power is blinding. The sun is the light to this earth. Even if the sun ceases to shine, we will not fear for we know God is almighty and He lives in us when we are in the state of grace.

He gives us the Holy Eucharist. Its power is greater than the sun - it is the Almighty God. Man, in his blindness, ignores the signs given.

The devil tempted Eve, and she yielded. He tricked her. The devil, this day, is tricking men into alienating themselves from God. The devil tells us this day we do not need God.

God is a Supreme Being. He, in His goodness and love, gives us life. He gives us great gifts.

We have a fallen human nature. At times, we give in to the temptations of the evil one.

The Father sent His only begotten Son into this world to make reparation for the sin.

Eve is the physical mother of the human race.

She and Adam sinned. This sin is passed down to us from Adam and Eve.

It is in Baptism we receive a sharing in His divine life. Original sin, passed down from Adam and Eve, is taken away. We still have in part a fallen nature.

Man, this day, is greatly offending God. Mary, our spiritual Mother, the New Eve, is appearing and telling us to amend our life. "Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." (Rv. 12:1)

She is the Lady of Light. We are among the children of light. If we stay fixed to God and walk with our heavenly Mother, we will help light up this dark world. She is constantly bringing forth her children. If we stay within her spiritual womb or heart, she will protect us. The moon is beneath her feet. The darkness is beneath her. She crushes the head of the serpent. We are her apostles of light that she is sending into the world.

The great miracle at Fatima involved the sun. Jesus comes into this world and gives Himself for sinful men. He is all-powerful. He remains with us in the Holy Eucharist. I can see the sun and see the power and how blinding it is. In the miracle of the sun, the people were permitted to look at the sun and watch it spin for God can filter out the blinding light. He gives Himself to us in the consecrated Host. He has filtered out the blinding lights. If He showed us Himself, we would fall on our face, we could not stand the light, but He comes under the appearance of bread and wine.

At Fatima, the sun then came crashing at the earth and all feared, but it stopped. The Almighty God, the God of love and goodness, in His goodness and love, created man to share His love. His love was complete and perfect in Himself but He wanted to communicate this love to us and created us in His own image and likeness to share His love.

Adam and Eve, in their willfulness and greed, sinned against God. Jesus Christ comes to save men from their sins. He is the sacrifice given to the Father for sin.

It is through His pierced Heart, pierced with a lance, that all life and mercy flows.

The sacrifice of Calvary is sacramentally made present at every Mass. Man, this day, is offending God. God, the Supreme Being, gives to us His goodness and love, and we offend Him with our sins. We treat Him with indifference and neglect!

We are all brothers, all creatures of God, with offenses against God. Mary appears and tells us how offended God is by the sins of man. Mary is the New Eve. She is our spiritual Mother given to us under the cross of Christ.

From the prophesy of Simeon, we know her heart, too, was invisibly pierced by a sword. Life flows from the pierced Heart of our beloved Savior, that died on the cross, and flows through the heart of His beloved Mother, invisibly pierced with a sword. She is the Mediatrix of all graces. The Father chose her to be the way that His Son entered the world. He came in the womb of Mary. He received His life in her womb. It is in Mary, this day, that we receive His life. It is through Mary that we are drawn closer to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

God communicates His love to man through the person, Jesus Christ. It is through His pierced Heart that our life flows. It is through Mary, the Mediatrix of all graces that we receive this life. She appears to tell us to make reparation to her Immaculate Heart.

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