Children of Her Heart

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“And Mary kept all these things reflecting on them in her heart.” This is a special time. We’re just finishing this year 2024, which for a lot of us, for a lot of people, has been a rough year. And now we’re beginning 2025 and the signs that it’s going to be a very important year, in a lot of ways. But of course, the future is always mysterious. But the Lord has, in so many ways, a lot of visible ways, but also through, like through the prophetic messages that we and others have received, is helping us to be aware of how important these times that we’re living right now are. And that these are not, as the Lord said very clearly in at least one or several messages, He said, these are not normal times. These are extraordinary times, which means so often right now, extraordinarily difficult. And oftentimes the struggle against evil is harder, but also that’s a sign that they’re preparing special graces. And the great example for us is always that the Passion of Jesus, it looks so terrible, so discouraging, so much I thought was the end, and yet it was preparing the great victory of God. And I think the Church is living something like that today, a terrible crisis, a terrible passion, which has a lot of people losing faith, but which is actually preparing God’s triumph, and He’s chosen each of us for these times. It’s not by accident that we are living right now. And so God bless you all. It’s not easy to, on this night where a lot of people are going to parties and so forth, to come all the way out here to the mission and for our little Mass. And God bless you. And so in this critical time. So what this, what we’re celebrating today, the solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, is not just a coincidence that in this very challenging time in which oftentimes we feel confused, we don’t know what to do, and oftentimes we feel like, what can I do that will work? What can I do in that situation? And the Lord gives us such a very practical and powerful response tonight, in this solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God. It’s like the Lord is inviting us to follow the path of Jesus Himself, by entrusting ourselves, and entrusting ourselves, entrusting those we love, entrusting the Church, entrusting our country and entrusting our world, to our Blessed Mother, because she is the one who will crush the head of this serpent, of this of the evil one who is so powerful and so – what’s the word – so proud today, thinking that he is winning. And so I wanted to share with you a message that Sister received in 2020. It was December of 2020, the actual date was December 18, so a few days before Christmas. And so it’s a few days before Christmas, so at some point she’ll say, “live these next days with me,” speaking of the days leading up to Christmas. So it’s a Christmas message, and it’s a message from our Blessed Mother. And then there’s a part of it in which our Lord Jesus is speaking, and it’s about being sons and daughters of her heart. So it’s very providential for this feast of the motherhood of Mary, how to be sons and daughters of her heart. In other words, how to live the consecration that our Blessed Mother at Fatima and in so many other times has asked for the consecration to her Immaculate Heart. And the message will focus a lot on faith and how her heart, she says, “is the furnace of faith,” and how faith gives us life, spiritual life. But then she talks about the trials of faith. And we know that in our little mission, that that’s what our mission is called to live, particularly faith so that God can act. But she talks about how faith, faith gives us life, but as it’s growing and developing, and as she says, we often experience it. So faith is light and life, but we often experience it as it’s growing, as obscurity and suffering. Aand so helping us to understand this trial of faith that we’re living through right now. And so as usual, with these messages, there’s a lot to meditate on. You won’t remember it all, but maybe, maybe ther’s one little part that you’ll remember. And you can always go back and listen to this homily, but I remind you what the Lord has said, that in these messages, it’s not just, the value is not just in what we understand. Just like we have the example in the Gospel today of our Blessed Mother pondering things, that just by having an open heart and receiving the words with an open heart, the words can act in the depth of our soul, beyond what we understand, beyond what we remember. So just inviting us to receive this with an open heart. And if you want to, if you want to close your eyes, feel free to do so. “My children, sons and daughters of my heart, how much I love you. Sons and daughters of my heart, how much is enfolded in these words, so much more than their simplicity conveys. My heart is the furnace of faith. It is its holy abiding place. Why? Because my heart is completely immune to the attacks of the enemy and to the attacks of fallen human reason, both of which have, as a special aim to destroy simple childlike faith, true faith, everlasting faith, in order to protect the faith of my children, we have given my heart as a special refuge, the high tower to safeguard faith. This is why your consecration to me is so important, so essential, so powerful. My heart is the refuge of faith in these times when it is under such terrible attacks. Faith is what gives life to all things. And the same way that the breath of life animates the body, making it useful, living, capable of movement, of expression, of love, living Faith animates your soul, making it useful, beautiful, alive, capable of cooperating with me, of receiving my light.” And then Sister adds a little note saying Jesus is speaking now. “Yes, now I speak. Faith is what makes you live. However, while faith is being rooted in you, you experience it as death, a slow, agonizing death lived in obscurity and loneliness in your soul.” Excuse me. Let me just reread that passage. “However, while faith is being rooted in you, you experience it as death, a slow, agonizing death lived in obscurity and loneliness. In your soul. light is beginning to shine ever brighter, and I am not only present in you through the grace of baptism, but I am doubly truly present in you through this growing faith. Now I will let My mother continue. When she speaks, I am in her voice. When I speak, her voice accompanies mine. We are one.” Now, our Blessed Mother continues. “My little ones, I see you, so tired, worn out in your spirit, weighed down by so many trials, so much suffering that you share in order to save your brothers. I need your help my Beloved Ones. Until the hour comes. This is part of your mission to take upon yourself the pain of so many and united to the blood of my Jesus and to my tears and to be offered to the Father that the necessary atonement be completed, and the dark veil of satan’s sin may be crushed and crushed and crushed. My heel and the heel of my children shall crush the despicable head, the filthy head of the ancient serpent. My children, remember what Jesus said, and who is my mother, father, brother, sister, those who do the will of the Father. And I say, Who are my sons and daughters, those who believe, who receive, who accept, without understanding, without seeing or hearing. Those who accept the seed of true faith and have come to me to protect the seed. True sons and daughters of my Heart, true sons and daughters of true faith. This faith shall be your crown and my kiss and my smile its jewels. Thank you, my little ones, for entrusting yourselves to me. I love you. Live these next days with me. Do not agonize over it. Simply give me your love each day, and I will place my Jesus, my tiny little Jesus, in your heart. He happily rests there, as He did in the hearts of the shepherds, as He did for so many years in the heart of my Joseph, what grace surrounds him. He is near to and assist you in all that you do. My poor little ones that have to endure the terrible desert, night, storm of faith and you do not see yet what light surrounds you, how the angels assist you, how my smile is ever present for you, how much you help your brothers all around the world and through the centuries. Faith breaks all bounds of time and distance. I love you, my tiny ones, my beloved ones, sons and daughters of my heart. Your mother, your queen. Amen. 

KEYWORDS / PHRASES:
Luke 2:16-21