02-14-2021, 05:32 PM
WE MUST GET and REMAIN IN THE STATE OF GRACE NOW
For we never know the day nor the hour when God may call us. We must let none of these signs turn us from our Holy Mother Church, but we must cling to our Holy Faith and Trust in God's mercy. He has promised to protect the just. Do not offend Him by lack of trust.
''Those who believe my words and spread this message will have nothing to fear. Those who fight for My cause will receive Grace from My Divine Heart.''
There are always some who say they would rather not hear these things because they are frightening - these people are like a person who does not want to be told when their house is burning down! Surely it is better to make the endeavor to sanctify ourselves and be saved, than to scoff and risk our eternal happiness. God sent His Son to suffer and die for our salvation. He wants us all to behold His Holy Face for eternity.
We must be true Christians, fervent and zealous for souls. Respect and obey priests. Support our Holy Catholic Church, and not only with alms and occasional attendance, but with daily Mass and reception of Holy Communion; also with more faithful attendance at he various church devotions: Rosary, Novenas, Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Holy Hour and special devotions. We should particularly keep Our Lord company during days or nights of exposition, as prayers before the Blessed Sacrament are the most valuable of all and most beneficial to us.
We should pray wholeheartedly and steadily for our Holy Father, for priests, brothers, nuns, seminarians, postulants, and all those good people who work for our Holy Religion - to give them courage and strength to go on in these evil times.
Love poverty, abhor possessions, relieve the poor. Jesus gave us only two commandments: Love God and Love each other. We must live these commandments in our daily lives. No one can carry hatred, bitterness, unforgiveness, ill feeling, gossip, backbitting or any such malice into Heaven. The more we truly love God and love our Neighbor, the more we shall be protected and given special graces.
Our Lord pleads for generous souls to offer themselves as victims for the salvation of many. This victimhood can be accomplished in countless ordinary ways: little mortifications, sacrifices, and penances - to curb the tongue of a curt remark, to suffer a headache or pain without speaking of it, never to complain about anything, to be silent when accused justly or unjustly, to deny our senses and appetites, etc. We are asked to make more reparation, as ''Many Souls are lost because there is no one to pray and make sacrifices for them. The prayers and reparation of faithful souls will work miracles!''
Discouragement is the finest tool of the devil, his opening wedge. Do not give in to it. Persevere in prayer, to keep your adversary from taking dominion over you. Remember that NO one goes to hell unless he himself wills it. Think of that ! You cannot be dragged down to hell without your own consent - you yourself have to will to go to hell. Therefore, take courage and Will to go to Heaven where God wants you.
We must have very great devotion and recourse to Mary - especially to Her Immaculate Conception and to Her Immaculate Heart. Both Our Lord and Our Lady beg for many more Rosaries. ''Pray the Rosary, but pray it well, with meditation on the mysteries and with true devotion.'' Our Lord said, ''Tell the people not nearly enough of them are praying the daily Rosary. They must pray the Rosary for the conversion of Russia.'' Remember what the Blessed Virgin said at Fatima: ''In the end, Russia will be converted, and there will be an era of peace.'' Do not belittle the power of the Rosary. Gather together and pray in unison, in Christian charity. The Family Rosary, the Block Rosary, especially the Rosary in Church before the Blessed Sacrament. The Saintly Pope Pius XII said that ''Next to Mass, the Fatima Devotions are the most important.''
THREE DAYS OF DARKNESS, pages 12-16