03/07/2021
TRUE LIFE IN GOD
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Theme: “SENT BY A GOD WHO EMPOWERS”
Today we are reminded that God continues to care for all human beings, including those who reject Him and wander far away in their moral life. Some of the clearest signs of His caring love are the prophets that He sends to His people to remind them of their duties and to make them understand the great harm they cause to others and to themselves through their misbehavior.
Jesus, the greatest of all prophets, experienced the bitter taste of rejection and warned his disciples that they, too, would be treated in the same way. Far from discouraging us, this should bring us to do our best to be faithful to our prophetic mission in the Church and in society, following the example of Jesus himself.
In this Eucharist, let us ask for the grace to do just this, no matter what the cost.
In our Gospel today, Jesus had been extremely successful at the beginning of his mission. But soon, he also met with misunderstanding and opposition. In today’s Gospel passage, we learn that he suffered his first setback in the very town where he had been raised and where he lived for about 30 years.
A proclamation from the holy Gospel according to St. Mark (Mk 6:1-6). Glory to you O Lord.
Jesus departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by his disciples. When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, “Where did this man get all this? What kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands! Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.” So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them. He was amazed at their lack of faith.
The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.
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Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC)
#2610. Just as Jesus prays to the Father and gives thanks before receiving his gifts, so he teaches us filial boldness: “Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you receive it, and you will.” Such is the power of prayer and of faith that does not doubt: “all things are possible to him who believes.” Jesus is as saddened by the “lack of faith” of his own neighbors and the “little faith” of his own disciples as he is struck with admiration at the great faith of the Roman centurion and the Canaanite woman.
#2087. Our moral life has its source in faith in God who reveals his love to us. St. Paul speaks of the “obedience of faith” as our first obligation. He shows that “ignorance of God” is the principle and explanation of all moral deviations. Our duty toward God is to believe in him and to bear witness to him.
#2088. The first commandment requires us to nourish and protect our faith with prudence and vigilance, and to reject everything that is opposed to it. There are various ways of sinning against faith:
Voluntary doubt about the faith disregards or refuses to hold as true what God has revealed and the Church proposes for belief. Involuntary doubt refers to hesitation in believing, difficulty in overcoming objections connected with the faith, or also anxiety aroused by its obscurity. If deliberately cultivated doubt can lead to spiritual blindness.
#2089. Incredulity is the neglect of revealed truth or the willful refusal to assent to it. “Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same; apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith; schism is the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.”
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TRUE LIFE IN GOD Messages
October 5, 1988
My Lord?
I am, it is I, the Lord, who loves you all with an everlasting love, I am ever so present among you all;
since the beginning of times, whenever My children fell into rebellion, I, the Lord, descended through very weak instruments to give them My warning, and bring them back to Me, I, God, always worked in the same way, I descended like a Hammer to break the rocks, breaking the hard crust which covers My creation’s heart, I always manifested Myself whenever My creation needed My help, or whenever they fell very low going as close as possible at Satan’s gates;
My children through My whole Message of Peace and Love, I call, I call and cry out with great agony to you all, to return to Me and repent, I cry out in this wilderness, but My Voice sounds like an echo, echoing into a void ... if only you would hear Me and open your hearts that I heal you!
I descend in this Great Wilderness in search of My remaining flowers, but I only stumble on rocks, rock after rock. I turn around with great hope, but I only find thorns and briars tearing on Me and on the few who love Me, I search for love, but I find hatred, I need to be consoled, but I find none, I thirst for compassion, but I find only mockery, I find no love, I find no hope, no faith among this generation, because they have stopped adoring Me; all My fears have come to reality! O era of no faith at all! of no hope! of no love! you have stopped adoring Me and My Holy Name means nothing to you now! yes, My Name is meaningless to you … had you followed My ways and had you listened to My cries, all this wilderness would not have been; I ask those who love Me, to pray for your brothers who do not; do not repeat the errors your ancestors made the day of the Rebellion, that day of Temptation in the wilderness;
My green pastures of long ago lie barren and desolate and My little flock has been struck by their own shepherds, scattering them … why provoke Me, why? every generation that repelled Me, has been punished; but your minds are wicked, since you do not stop deceiving yourselves, thinking you are doing better than the Pharisees, saying: “had we been living then, we would never have shared in their evil works, our faith would have saved us!” I am telling you today this: you are receiving Me not very differently from those days I was among you in flesh, many of you have condemned My Messages before even knowing what it is all about!!
daughter, I came to them in their wilderness to tell them I was the Messiah they were expecting, but they disbelieved Me, rejecting Me and they persecuted Me, crucifying Me, today My Holy Spirit reaches you in your obscurity, but you fail to reach Its Works through your disobedience and the lure of sin that has accumulated in you;
your era’s wilderness has by-passed all other wilderness, why are they surprised and even bored and annoyed at My Spirit which descends to illumine them? their lethargy has made desert after desert! rock after rock! how I stifle and suffocate to watch My few remaining flowers tread upon by these rebellious peoples! Vassula, had it not been for your Holy Mother holding away My Arm from striking them and had it not been for My Fathomless Mercy; I, who am a God of Justice too, would have stroke them long ago; for this generation has created a New S***m and Gomorrah among themselves;
they have gone as far as to believe, that the calamities that befall on them now come from Me, they have never understood how evil draws Evil and that they are paying now from their own coin;
I want all those who love Me to pray, pray, pray, for this Rebellion to come to Its end, I wish to encourage My friends to proceed with their good works, I bless all those who scatter My grains of Peace and Love, trust Me all the way to the end I also ask you solemnly, to pray for My Holy Spirit of Understanding to enlighten you all; for how long will they not understand Scriptures? for how long will they push aside My Mysteries? find My Fruits in the Proverbs, perceive, and if you have trouble in perceiving, ask My Holy Spirit of Perception to descend upon you; many of My Mysteries lie still hidden and are disclosed in My Wisdom Books;
I promise you that Love will return as Love and live among you all, I will restore My House, I will bring you a New Jerusalem; a City of Integrity, a Faithful City, for Justice will prevail, come, reap My Harvest friends, reap this Harvest I have prepared secretly; gather My Works and disperse them, they will refreshen the desert winds, they will irrigate the dry soil and bring back life again in this Wilderness, pray My Vassula for My Return,
“O God, Yes! COME! COME to us oh Lord return to us!!”
I will, very soon, My Return is not far now; tell all the others to pray for My Return, I, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, will restore all that has been damaged, and is to be damaged still, do not forget the Big Tribulation that My Church will undergo before I renew Her entirely …
so My child, allow Me to use you as My tablet, share My Cross of Peace, of Love, with Me your Lord, we, us, for eternity;
Yes Lord.
we, us?
Yes My Holy Mother, for eternity;
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Prayer for God’s Mercy
“Yahweh, my God, let my prayer reach you,
hear our cry of mercy and for help,
forgive those who have no faith in You, my God,
and no trust either in your power to save us;
do not blast the lights out of our days,
withering with it in a flash the earth;
but in Your Fatherly Compassion,
pity us, and forgive us;
do not allow the evil one to shed our blood like water;
forgive our guilt, repress Your anger,
remembering our weakness;
hold back Your angels of disaster,
giving us one more chance to prove ourselves
worthy of Your Kindness;
I put my trust in You; amen”
(13 February 2016)