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sábado, 6 de dezembro de 2014
Dom PRÓSPERO GUÉRANGER : PRÁCTICA DEL ADVIENTO # Dom Guéranger, DE L'ASSISTANCE A LA SAINTE MESSE A... # dom Guéranger, ON HEARING MASS DURING THE TIME OF ... # Dom Prosper Guéranger, PRATICA DELL'AVVENTO #
Dom PRÓSPERO GUÉRANGER : PRÁCTICA DEL ADVIENTO
Si nuestra Madre, la Santa Iglesia, pasa el tiempo del Adviento ocupada en esta solemne preparación al advenimiento de Jesucristo; si como las vírgenes prudentes, permanecen con la lámpara encendida para la llegada del Esposo; nosotros, que somos sus miembros e hijos, debemos participar de los sentimientos que la animan y hacer nuestra esta advertencia del Salvador: "Cíñase vuestra cintura como la de los peregrinos, brillen en vuestras manos antorchas encendidas, y vosotros sed semejantes a los criados que están a la espera de su amo" (San Lucas, 12, 35).
En efecto, la suerte de la Iglesia es también la nuestra; cada una de nuestras almas es objeto, por parte de Dios, de una misericordia y de una providencia semejantes a las que emplea con la misma Iglesia. Sí ella es el templo de Dios, es porque se compone, de piedras vivas; si es la Esposa, es porque está formada por todas las almas invitadas a la unión eterna con Él. Si es cierto que está escrito que el Salvador conquistó a la Iglesia con su Sangre (Hebreos, 20, 28), cada uno de nosotros hablando de sí mismo puede decir como San Pablo: Cristo me amó y se entregó por mí (Gálatas, 2, 20). Siendo pues idéntica nuestra suerte, debemos esforzarnos durante el Adviento en asimilar los sentimientos de preparación que vemos que embargan a la Iglesia.
En primer lugar, es un deber nuestro el unirnos a los Santos del Antiguo Testamento para pedir la venida del Mesías y pagar así la deuda que toda la humanidad tiene contraída con la misericordia divina. Para animarnos a cumplir con este deber, transportémonos con el pensamiento al curso de estos miles de años, representados por las cuatro semanas del Adviento y pensemos en aquellas tinieblas, en aquellos crímenes de toda clase en medio de los cuales se movía el mundo antiguo. Nuestro corazón debe sentir con la mayor viveza el agradecimiento que debe a Aquel qué salvó a su criatura de la muerte y que bajó hasta nosotros para ver más de cerca y compartir todas nuestras miserias, fuera del pecado. Debe clamar con acentos de angustia y confianza hacia Aquel que se dignó salvar la obra de sus manos, pero que quiere también que le hombre pida e implore su salvación. Que nuestros deseos y nuestra esperanza se dilaten con estas ardientes súplicas de los antiguos Profetas que la Iglesia pone en nuestros labios; abramos nuestros corazones hasta en sus últimos repliegues a los sentimientos que ellos expresan.
Cumplido este primer deber, pensaremos en el advenimiento que el Salvador quiere hacer en nuestro corazón. Advenimiento lleno de dulzura y de misterio y que es consecuencia del primero, puesto que el Buen Pastor no viene solamente a visitar a su rebaño en general, sino que extiende sus cuidados a cada una de sus ovejas, aún a la centésima que se había extraviado. Ahora bien, para captar todo este inefable misterio, es necesario tener presente que así como no podemos ser agradables a nuestro Padre Celestial sino en la medida que ve en nosotros a Jesucristo, su Hijo,este Divino Salvador tan bondadoso se digna venir a cada uno de nosotros para transformarnos en Él, si lo consentimos, de suerte que no vivamos ya nuestra vida sino la suya. Éste es el objetivo del Cristianismo: la divinización del hombre por Jesucristo. Tal es la tarea sublime impuesta a la Iglesia. Con San Pablo dice Ella a los fieles: "Vosotros sois mis hijitos, pues os doy un nuevo nacimiento para que Jesucristo se forme en vosotros" (Gálatas, 4. 19).
Pero lo mismo que al aparecer en este mundo, el Divino Salvador se mostró primeramente bajo la forma de un débil niño, antes de llegar a la plenitud de la edad perfecta necesaria para que nada faltase a su sacrificio, del mismo modo tratará de desarrollarse en nosotros. Ahora bien, es precisamente en la fiesta de Navidad cuando quiere nacer en las almas y cuando derrama sobre su Iglesia una gracia de Nacimiento, a la cual no todos son ciertamente fieles. Porque mirad la situación de las almas a la llegada de esta inefable fiesta. Las unas, el número más reducido, viven plenamente de la vida de Jesucristo que está en ellas y aspiran continuamente a crecer en esta vida. Las otras, en mayor número, están vivas ciertamente, por la presencia de Cristo, pero enfermas y endebles por no desear el aumento de esta vida divina; porque su amor se ha resfriado. Los demás hombres no gozan de esta vida, están muertos, porque Cristo dijo: "Yo soy la vida".
Durante los días del Adviento pasa llamando a la puerta de todas estas almas, bien sea de una manera sensible; o bien de una manera velada. Les pregunta si tienen sitio para Él, para que pueda nacer en ellas. Y aunque la posada que reclama sea suya, porque Él la construyó y la conserva, se queja de que "los suyos no lo quisieron recibir", al menos la mayoría de ellos.
"Por lo que toca a aquellos que lo recibieron, les dio poder para hacerse hijos de Dios y no hijos de la carne o de la sangre" (San Juan, 1, 11-13.)
Preparaos, por tanto, vosotras, almas fieles; que lo guardáis dentro de vosotras como un preciado tesoro y que desde tiempo atrás no tenéis otra vida que su vida, otro corazón que su corazón, otras obras que sus obras, preparaos a verlo nacer en vosotras más hermoso, más radiante, más poderoso que hasta ahora lo habíais conocido. Tratad de descubrir en las frases de la santa liturgia estas palabras misteriosas que hablan a vuestro corazón y encantan al Esposo.
Ensanchad vuestras puertas para recibirlo nuevamente, vosotras que lo tenéis ya dentro pero sin conocerlo; que lo poseéis pero sin gozarlo. Ahora vuelve a venir con renovada ternura; ha olvidado vuestros desdenes, quiere renovarlo todo. Haced sitio al Divino Infante porque querrá crecer en vosotras. Se aproxima el momento.. Las palabras de la liturgia son también para vosotras; hablan de tinieblas que sólo Dios puede deshacer, de heridas que sólo su bondad puede curar, de enfermedades que únicamente pueden sanar por su virtud.
Y vosotros, cristianos, para quienes la Buena Nueva es como si no existiera, porque vuestros corazones están muertos por el pecado, bien se trate de una muerte que os aprisiona en sus cadenas desde hace mucho tiempo, o bien de heridas recientes: he aquí que se acerca el que es la vida. "¿Por qué habréis de preferir la muerte? Él no quiere la muerte del pecador sino que viva" (Ezeq. 28, 31-32). La gran fiesta de su Nacimiento será un día de universal misericordia para todos los que quieran recibirlo. Éstos volverán con Él a la vida; desaparecerá toda su vida anterior, "y la gracia sobreabundará allí donde la iniquidad ha abundado" LEER...
Dom Guéranger, DE L'ASSISTANCE A LA SAINTE MESSE AU TEMPS DE L'AVENT
Ils sentiront aussi que le grand Sacrifice qui perpétue sur la terre, jusqu'à la consommation des siècles, l'oblation réelle, quoique non sanglante, du Corps et du Sang de Jésus-Christ, a pour but spécial de préparer, et même d'opérer, dans les cœurs des fidèles, l'Avènement mystérieux du Dieu qui n'est venu délivrer nos âmes que pour en prendre possession.
L'ANNÉE LITURGIQUEDom GuérangerCHAPITRE V. DE L'ASSISTANCE A LA SAINTE MESSE AU TEMPS DE L'AVENT.
Ce chapitre n’est pas numérisé
Dans toutes les saisons de l'Année Chrétienne, mais surtout au saint temps de l'Avent, il n'est point d'œuvre plus agréable à Dieu, plus méritoire et plus propre à nourrir la véritable piété, que l'assistance au saint Sacrifice de la Messe. Les fidèles doivent donc faire tous leurs efforts pour se procurer ce précieux avantage aux jours mêmes où la sainte Eglise ne leur en fait pas une obligation.
En assistant au divin Sacrifice dont l'oblation a été l'objet de l'attente du genre humain durant quarante siècles, ils devront éprouver une vive reconnaissance, s'ils réfléchissent que Dieu les a fait naître en ce monde depuis ce grand et miséricordieux événement, et n'a pas marqué leur place parmi ces générations qui se sont éteintes avant même d'en avoir pu saluer l'aurore. Ils ne s'en joindront pas moins avec instance à la sainte Eglise, pour demander, au nom de toute la création, la venue du Rédempteur, acquittant ainsi avec plénitude la grande dette imposée à tous les hommes, tant à ceux qui ont vécu avant l'accomplissement du mystère de l'Incarnation, qu'à ceux qui ont le bonheur de le voir accompli.
Ils sentiront aussi que le grand Sacrifice qui perpétue sur la terre, jusqu'à la consommation des siècles, l'oblation réelle, quoique non sanglante, du Corps et du Sang de Jésus-Christ, a pour but spécial de préparer, et même d'opérer, dans les cœurs des fidèles, l'Avènement mystérieux du Dieu qui n'est venu délivrer nos âmes que pour en prendre possession.
Enfin, ils aimeront à profiter de la présence et de la conversation du Fils de Dieu, dans ce mystère caché où il sauve le monde, afin qu'au jour où il viendra le juger dans sa majesté terrible, il les reconnaisse comme ses amis et les sauve encore, à cette heure où il n'y aura plus de miséricorde, mais seulement la justice.
Nous allons essayer de réduire à la pratique ces sentiments dans une explication des mystères de la sainte Messe, nous efforçant d'initier les fidèles à ces divins secrets, non par une stérile et téméraire traduction des formules sacrées, mais au moyen d'Actes destinés à mettre les assistants en rapport suffisant avec les actions et les sentiments de l'Eglise et du Prêtre.
La première chose qui doit occuper les fidèles lorsqu'ils assistent à la sainte Messe dans l'Avent, est de savoir si cette Messe va être célébrée suivant le rite de l'Avent, ou si elle est en l'honneur de la Sainte Vierge, ou de quelque Saint, ou enfin pour les défunts. Pour cela, il leur suffira déconsidérer la couleur des ornements du Prêtre. Ils seront violets, si la Messe est de l'Avent ; d'une autre couleur, blanche ou rouge, si elle est de la Sainte Vierge ou d'un Saint ; enfin noire, si elle est pour les défunts. Si le Prêtre est revêtu de violet, les fidèles s'efforceront d'entrer dans l'esprit de pénitence que l'Eglise veut exprimer par cette couleur. Ils le feront également dans le cas où le Prêtre serait revêtu d'une autre couleur ; car, quelle que soit la solennité qu'on célèbre en Avent, le célébrant est toujours obligé de faire mémoire de l'Avent en trois endroits, et en usant des mêmes paroles de supplication et de componction qu'il aurait à prononcer dans une Messe propre de l'Avent. Il n'y a d'exception que pour les Messes des défunts.
Le Dimanche, si la Messe à laquelle on assiste est paroissiale, deux rites solennels, l'Aspersion de l'Eau bénite, et, en beaucoup d'églises, la Procession, devront d'abord intéresser la piété.
Pendant l'Aspersion, on demandera la pureté de cœur nécessaire pour prendre part au double Avènement de Jésus-Christ ; et en recevant sur soi-même cette eau sainte, dont l'aspersion nous prépare à assister dignement au grand Sacrifice dans lequel est épanché, non plus une eau figurative, mais le Sang même de l'Agneau, on pensera au Baptême d'eau par lequel saint Jean-Baptiste préparait les Juifs à cet autre Baptême qui devait être l'effet de la puissance et de la miséricorde du Médiateur.
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dom Guéranger, ON HEARING MASS DURING THE TIME OF ADVENT
With what gratitude ought they to assist at that divine sacrifice, for which the world had been longing for four thousand years! God has granted them to be born after the fulfilment of that stupendous and merciful oblation, and would not put them in the generations of men who died before they could partake of its reality and its riches!

ADVENT
I. THE HISTORY OF ADVENTII. THE MYSTERY OF ADVENT
III. PRACTICE DURING ADVENT
IV. MORNING AND NIGHT PRAYERS FOR ADVENT
V. ON HEARING MASS DURING ADVENT
VI. ON HOLY COMMUNION DURING ADVENT
VII. ON THE OFFICE OF VESPERS DURING ADVENT
VIII. ON THE OFFICE OF COMPLINE DURING ADVENT
CHAPTER THE FIFTH
ON HEARING MASS DURING THE TIME OF ADVENT
There is no exercise which is more pleasing to God, or more meritorious, or which has greater influence in infusing solid piety into the soul, than the assisting at the holy sacrifice of the Mass. If this be true at all the various seasons of the Christian year, it is so, in a very special manner, during the holy time of Advent. The faithful, therefore, should make every effort in order to enjoy this precious blessing, even on those days when they are not obliged to it by the precept of the Church.
With what gratitude ought they to assist at that divine sacrifice, for which the world had been longing for four thousand years! God has granted them to be born after the fulfilment of that stupendous and merciful oblation, and would not put them in the generations of men who died before they could partake of its reality and its riches! This notwithstanding, they must earnestly unite with the Church in praying for the coming of the Redeemer, so to pay their share of that great debt which God has put upon all, whether living before or after the fulfilment of the mystery of the Incarnation. Let them think of this in assisting at the holy sacrifice.
Let them also remember that this great sacrifice, which perpetuates on this earth even to the end of time, though in an unbloody manner, the real oblation of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, has this for its express aim: to prepare the souls of the faithful for the mysterious coming of God, who redeemed our souls only that He might take possession of them. It not only prepares, it even effects this glorious advent.
Let them, in the third place, lovingly profit by the presence of, and intimacy with, Jesus, to which this hidden yet saving mystery admits them; that so, when He comes in that other way, whereby He will judge the world in terrible majesty, He may recognize them as His friends, and even then, when mercy shall give place to justice, again save them.
We shall now endeavour to embody these sentiments in our explanation of the mysteries of the holy Mass, and initiate the faithful into these divine secrets; not, indeed, by indiscreetly presuming to translate the sacred formulae, but by suggesting such acts, as will enable those who hear Mass to enter into the ceremonies and sentiments of the Church and of the priest.
The faithful, in assisting at Mass during Advent, should first know whether it is going to be said according to the Advent rite, or in honour of the blessed Virgin, or of a saint, or, finally, for the dead. The colour of the vestments worn by the priest will tell them all this. Purple is used, if the Mass be of Advent; white or red, if of our Lady or the saints; and black, if for the dead. If the priest be vested in purple, the faithful must excite within themselves the spirit of penance which the Church would signify by this colour. They should do the same, no matter what may be the colour of the vestments; for in every Mass during Advent, with the exception of Masses for the dead, the priest is obliged, even on the greatest feasts, to make a commemoration of Advent three separate times, and thus to make use of the same expressions of repentance and sorrow as he would in a Mass proper to the time of Advent.
On the Sundays, if the Mass at which they assist be the parochial, or, as it is often called, the public Mass, two solemn rites precede it, which are full of instruction and blessing: the Asperges, or sprinkling of the holy water, and the procession.
During the Asperges, let them ask for that purity of heart, which is necessary for having a share in the twofold coming of Jesus Christ; and in receiving the holy water, the sprinkling of which prepares us
assisting worthily at the great sacrifice, wherein is poured forth, not a figurative water, but the very Blood of the Lamb, they should think of that baptism of water, by means of which St. John the Baptist prepared the Jews for that other Baptism, which the power and mercy of the Redeemer were afterwards to give to mankind.
assisting worthily at the great sacrifice, wherein is poured forth, not a figurative water, but the very Blood of the Lamb, they should think of that baptism of water, by means of which St. John the Baptist prepared the Jews for that other Baptism, which the power and mercy of the Redeemer were afterwards to give to mankind.
Dom Prosper Guéranger, PRATICA DELL'AVVENTO
Infatti, i destini della Chiesa sono anche i nostri; ciascuna delle anime è, da parte di Dio, l'oggetto d'una misericordia e d'un'attenzione simili a quelle che egli usa nei riguardi della Chiesa stessa. Essa è il tempio di Dio perché composta di pietre vive; è la Sposa perché è formata da tutte le anime che sono chiamate all'eterna unione. Se è scritto che il Salvatore ha acquistato la Chiesa con il suo sangue (At 20,28), ognuno di noi può dire parlando di se stesso, come san Paolo: Cristo mi ha amato e si è sacrificato per me (Gal 2,20). Essendo dunque uguali i destini, dobbiamo sforzarci, durante l'Avvento, di entrare nei sentimenti di preparazione di cui abbiamo visto ripiena la Chiesa.

Capitolo TerzoPRATICA DELL'AVVENTOSe la santa Chiesa, madre nostra, passa il tempo dell'Avvento in questa solenne preparazione alla triplice Venuta di Gesù Cristo; se, sull'esempio delle vergini savie, tiene la lampada accesa per l'arrivo dello Sposo, noi che siamo le sue membra e i suoi figli, dobbiamo partecipare ai sentimenti che la animano, e prendere per noi quell'avvertimento del Salvatore: "Siano i vostri lombi precinti come quelli dei viandanti; nelle vostre mani brillino fiaccole accese; e siate simili a servi che aspettano il loro padrone" (Lc 12,35). Infatti, i destini della Chiesa sono anche i nostri; ciascuna delle anime è, da parte di Dio, l'oggetto d'una misericordia e d'un'attenzione simili a quelle che egli usa nei riguardi della Chiesa stessa. Essa è il tempio di Dio perché composta di pietre vive; è la Sposa perché è formata da tutte le anime che sono chiamate all'eterna unione. Se è scritto che il Salvatore ha acquistato la Chiesa con il suo sangue (At 20,28), ognuno di noi può dire parlando di se stesso, come san Paolo: Cristo mi ha amato e si è sacrificato per me (Gal 2,20). Essendo dunque uguali i destini, dobbiamo sforzarci, durante l'Avvento, di entrare nei sentimenti di preparazione di cui abbiamo visto ripiena la Chiesa.Vigilanza.
da: dom Prosper Guéranger, L'anno liturgico. - I. Avvento - Natale - Quaresima - Passione, trad. it. P. Graziani, Alba, 1959, p. 31-35
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terça-feira, 18 de novembro de 2014
Ven. Pio XII : O augusto sacrifício do altar é um verdadeiro e próprio sacrifício, no qual, imolando-se incruentamente, o sumo Sacerdote faz aquilo que fez uma vez sobre a cruz, oferecendo-se todo ao Pai, vítima agradabilíssima.
VEN. PIE XII : Il est un véritable renouvellement du sacrifice de la croix: Le saint sacrifice de l’autel dans lequel, par une immolation non sanglante, le Souverain Prêtre fait ce qu’il a fait sur la croix, en s’offrant lui-même au Père éternel comme une hostie très agréable.


de Sa Sainteté le Pape PIE XII
SUR LA SAINTE LITURGIE
II LE CULTE EUCHARISTIQUE
I. NATURE DU SACRIFICE EUCHARISTIQUE
Le point culminant et comme le centre de la religion chrétienne est le mystère de la très sainte Eucharistie que le Christ, Souverain Prêtre, a instituée, et qu’il veut voir perpétuellement renouvelé dans l’Église par ses ministres. Comme il s’agit de la matière principale de la liturgie, Nous estimons utile de Nous y attarder quelque peu et d’attirer votre attention, Vénérables Frères, sur ce sujet très important.
Le Christ, notre Seigneur, " prêtre éternel selon l’ordre de Melchisédech " (Ps CIX, 4), " ayant aimé les siens qui étaient dans le monde " (Jn XIII, 1), " durant la dernière Cène, la nuit où il fut trahi, voulut, comme l’exige la nature humaine, laisser à l’Église, son Épouse bien-aimée, un sacrifice visible, pour représenter le sacrifice sanglant qui devait s’accomplir une fois seulement sur la croix, afin donc que son souvenir demeurât jusqu’à la fin des siècles et que la vertu en fût appliquée à la rémission de nos péchés de chaque jour… Il offrit à Dieu son Père son corps et son sang sous les apparences du pain et du vin, symboles sous lesquels il les fit prendre aux apôtres, qu’il constitua alors prêtres du Nouveau Testament, et il ordonna, à eux et à leurs successeurs, de l’offrir " (Conc.Trid., Sess. XXII, cap. 1).
Il est un véritable renouvellement du sacrifice de la croix:
Le saint sacrifice de l’autel n’est donc pas une pure et simple commémoration des souffrances et de la mort de Jésus-Christ, mais un vrai sacrifice, au sens propre, dans lequel, par une immolation non sanglante, le Souverain Prêtre fait ce qu’il a fait sur la croix, en s’offrant lui-même au Père éternel comme une hostie très agréable. " La victime est la même ; celui qui maintenant offre par le ministère des prêtres est celui qui s’offrit alors sur la croix ; seule la manière d’offrir diffère ". (Ibid. cap. 2)
a. Prêtre identique
C’est donc le même prêtre, Jésus-Christ, mais dont la personne sacrée est représentée par son ministre, celui-ci, en effet, par la consécration sacerdotale qu’il a reçue, est assimilé au Souverain Prêtre et jouit du pouvoir d’agir avec la puissance et au nom du Christ lui-même (Cf. S. Thomas,Summa theol. IIIa, q. 22, a. 4.). C’est pourquoi par son action sacerdotale, d’une certaine manière, " il prête sa langue au Christ, il lui offre sa main ". (Jean Chrysostome, In Ioann. Hom., 86, 4.)
b. Victime identique
La victime est également la même, à savoir le divin Rédempteur, selon sa nature humaine et dans la vérité de son corps et de son sang. La manière dont le Christ est offert est cependant différente. Sur la croix, en effet, il offrit à Dieu tout lui-même et ses douleurs, et l’immolation de la victime fut réalisée par une mort sanglante subie librement. Sur l’autel, au contraire, à cause de l’état glorieux de sa nature humaine, " la mort n’a plus d’empire sur lui " (Rm VI, 9), et, par conséquent, l’effusion du sang n’est plus possible ; mais la divine sagesse a trouvé un moyen admirable de rendre manifeste le sacrifice de notre Rédempteur par des signes extérieurs, symboles de mort. En effet, par le moyen de la transsubstantiation du pain au corps et du vin au sang du Christ, son corps se trouve réellement présent, de même que son sang, et les espèces eucharistiques, sous lesquelles il se trouve, symbolisent la séparation violente du corps et du sang. Ainsi le souvenir de sa mort réelle sur le Calvaire est renouvelé dans tout sacrifice de l’autel, car la séparation des symboles indique clairement que Jésus-Christ est en état de victime.
Ven. PIO XII : El Augusto Sacrificio del Altar es un Sacrificio propio y verdadero, en el cual, inmolándose incruentamente el Sumo Sacerdote, hace lo que hizo una vez en la Cruz
PARTE SEGUNDA
EL CULTO EUCARÍSTICO.
I. Naturaleza del Sacrificio Eucarístico
A) MOTIVO DE TRATAR ESTE TEMA
84. El Misterio de la Santísima Eucaristía, instituida por el Sumo Sacerdote, Jesucristo, y renovada constantemente por sus ministros, por obra de su voluntad, es como el compendio y el centro de la religión cristiana. Tratándose de lo más alto de la Sagrada Liturgia, creemos oportuno, Venerables Hermanos, detenernos un poco y atraer Vuestra atención a este gravísimo argumento.
B) EL SACRIFICIO EUCARÍSTICO
1º. Institución.
85. Cristo, Nuestro Señor, «Sacerdote eterno según el orden de Melchisedec» (Sal. 109, 4)) que «habiendo amado a los suyos que estaban en el mundo» (Juan, 13, 1), «en la última cena, en la noche en que era traicionado, para dejar a la Iglesia, su Esposa amada, un sacrificio visible -como lo exige la naturaleza de los hombres-, que representase el sacrificio cruento que había de llevarse a efecto en la Cruz, y para que su recuerdo permaneciese hasta el fin de los siglos y fuese aplicada su virtud salvadora a la remisión de nuestros pecados cotidianos... ofreció a Dios Padre su Cuerpo y su Sangre, bajo las especies del pan y del vino, y las dio a los Apóstoles, entonces constituidos en Sacerdotes del Nuevo Testamento, a fin de que bajo estas mismas especies lo recibiesen, mientras les mandaba a ellos y a sus sucesores en el Sacerdocio, el ofrecerlo» (5).
2º. Naturaleza.
a) No es simple conmemoración.
86. El Augusto Sacrificio del Altar no es; pues, una pura y simple conmemoración de la Pasión y Muerte de Jesucristo, sino que es un Sacrificio propio y verdadero, en el cual, inmolándose incruentamente el Sumo Sacerdote, hace lo que hizo una vez en la Cruz, ofreciéndose todo El al Padre, Víctima gratísima. «Una... y la misma, es la Víctima; lo mismo que ahora se ofrece por ministerio de los Sacerdotes, se ofreció entonces en la Cruz; sólo es distinto el modo de hacer el ofrecimiento» (6).
b) Comparación con el de la Cruz.
1) Idéntico Sacerdote.
87. Idéntico, pues, es el Sacerdote, Jesucristo, cuya Sagrada Persona está representada por su ministro. Este, en virtud de la consagración sacerdotal recibida, se asimila al Sumo Sacerdote y tiene el poder de obrar en virtud y en la persona del mismo Cristo; por esto, con su acción sacerdotal, en cierto modo; «presta a Cristo su lengua; le ofrece su mano» (7).
2) Idéntica Víctima.
88. Igualmente idéntica es la Víctima; esto es, el Divino Redentor; según su humana Naturaleza y en la realidad de su Cuerpo y de su Sangre.
3) Distinto modo.
89. Diferente, en cambio, es el modo en que Cristo es ofrecido. En efecto, en la Cruz, El se ofreció a Dios todo entero, y le ofreció sus sufrimientos y la inmolación de la Víctima fue llevada a cabo por medio de una muerte cruenta voluntariamente sufrida; sobre el Altar, en cambio, a causa del estado glorioso de su humana Naturaleza, «la muerte no tiene ya dominio sobre El» (Rom. 6, 9) y, por tanto, no es posible la efusión de la sangre; pero la divina Sabiduría han encontrado el medio admirable de hacer manifiesto el Sacrificio de Nuestro Redentor con signos exteriores, que son símbolos de muerte. Ya que por medio de la Transubstanciación del pan en el Cuerpo y del vino en la Sangre de Cristo, como se tiene realmente presente su Cuerpo, así se tiene su Sangre; así, pues, las especies eucarísticas, bajo las cuales está presente, simbolizan la cruenta separación del Cuerpo y de la Sangre. De este modo, la conmemoración de su muerte, que realmente sucedió en el Calvario, se repite en cada uno de los sacrificios del altar, ya que por medio de señales diversas se significa y se muestra Jesucristo en estado de víctima.
Ven. PIUS XII : The august sacrifice of the altar is a true and proper act of sacrifice, whereby the High Priest by an unbloody immolation offers Himself a most acceptable victim to the Eternal Father, as He did upon the cross.
Ven. PIUS XII : The august sacrifice of the altar, then, is no mere empty commemoration of the passion and death of Jesus Christ, but a true and proper act of sacrifice, whereby the High Priest by an unbloody immolation offers Himself a most acceptable victim to the Eternal Father, as He did upon the cross. "It is one and the same victim; the same person now offers it by the ministry of His priests, who then offered Himself on the cross, the manner of offering alone being different.

MEDIATOR DEI
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XIION THE SACRED LITURGY
66. The mystery of the most Holy Eucharist which Christ, the High Priest instituted, and which He commands to be continually renewed in the Church by His ministers, is the culmination and center, as it were, of the Christian religion. We consider it opportune in speaking about the crowning act of the sacred liturgy, to delay for a little while and call your attention, Venerable Brethren, to this most important subject.
67. Christ the Lord, "Eternal Priest according to the order of Melchisedech,"[56] "loving His own who were of the world,"[57] "at the last supper, on the night He was betrayed, wishing to leave His beloved Spouse, the Church, a visible sacrifice such as the nature of men requires, that would re-present the bloody sacrifice offered once on the cross, and perpetuate its memory to the end of time, and whose salutary virtue might be applied in remitting those sins which we daily commit, . . . offered His body and blood under the species of bread and wine to God the Father, and under the same species allowed the apostles, whom he at that time constituted the priests of the New Testament, to partake thereof; commanding them and their successors in the priesthood to make the same offering."[58]
68. The august sacrifice of the altar, then, is no mere empty commemoration of the passion and death of Jesus Christ, but a true and proper act of sacrifice, whereby the High Priest by an unbloody immolation offers Himself a most acceptable victim to the Eternal Father, as He did upon the cross. "It is one and the same victim; the same person now offers it by the ministry of His priests, who then offered Himself on the cross, the manner of offering alone being different."[59]
69. The priest is the same, Jesus Christ, whose sacred Person His minister represents. Now the minister, by reason of the sacerdotal consecration which he has received, is made like to the High Priest and possesses the power of performing actions in virtue of Christ's very person.[60] Wherefore in his priestly activity he in a certain manner "lends his tongue, and gives his hand" to Christ.[61]
Ven. Pio XII : O augusto sacrifício do altar é um verdadeiro e próprio sacrifício, no qual, imolando-se incruentamente, o sumo Sacerdote faz aquilo que fez uma vez sobre a cruz, oferecendo-se todo ao Pai, vítima agradabilíssima.
Ven. Pio XII : O augusto sacrifício do altar não é, pois, uma pura e simples comemoração da paixão e morte de Jesus Cristo, mas é um verdadeiro e próprio sacrifício, no qual, imolando-se incruentamente, o sumo Sacerdote faz aquilo que fez uma vez sobre a cruz, oferecendo-se todo ao Pai, vítima agradabilíssima. "Uma... e idêntica é a vítima: aquele mesmo, que agora oferece pelo ministério dos sacerdotes, se ofereceu então sobre a cruz; é diferente apenas, o modo de fazer a oferta".

CARTA ENCÍCLICA DO PAPA PIO XII
MEDIATOR DEI
SOBRE A SAGRADA LITURGIA
SEGUNDA PARTE
O CULTO EUCARÍSTICO
I. Natureza do sacrifício eucarístico59. O mistério da santíssima eucaristia, instituída pelo sumo sacerdote Jesus Cristo e, por vontade sua, perpetuamente renovada pelos seus ministros, é como a súmula e o centro da religião cristã. Em se tratando do ápice da sagrada liturgia, julgamos oportuno, veneráveis irmãos, deter-nos um pouco, chamando a vossa atenção para esta importantíssima temática.
60. O Cristo Senhor, "sacerdote eterno segundo a ordem de Melquisedeque" (56) "tendo amado os seus que estavam no mundo",(57) "na última ceia, na noite em que foi traído, para deixar à Igreja, sua esposa dileta, um sacrifício visível, como exige a natureza dos homens, o qual representasse o sacrifício cruento que devia cumprir-se na cruz uma só vez, e para que a sua lembrança permanecesse até o fim dos séculos e nos fosse aplicada sua salutar virtude em remissão dos nossos pecados cotidianos... ofereceu a Deus Pai o seu corpo e o seu sangue sob as espécies de pão e de vinho e deu-os aos apóstolos então constituídos sacerdotes do Novo Testamento, para que sob essas mesmas espécies o recebessem, e ordenou a eles e aos seus sucessores no sacerdócio, que o oferecessem".(58)
61. O augusto sacrifício do altar não é, pois, uma pura e simples comemoração da paixão e morte de Jesus Cristo, mas é um verdadeiro e próprio sacrifício, no qual, imolando-se incruentamente, o sumo Sacerdote faz aquilo que fez uma vez sobre a cruz, oferecendo-se todo ao Pai, vítima agradabilíssima. "Uma... e idêntica é a vítima: aquele mesmo, que agora oferece pelo ministério dos sacerdotes, se ofereceu então sobre a cruz; é diferente apenas, o modo de fazer a oferta".(59)
62. Idêntico, pois, é o sacerdote, Jesus Cristo, cuja sagrada pessoa é representada pelo seu ministro. Este, pela consagração sacerdotal recebida, assemelha-se ao sumo Sacerdote e tem o poder de agir em virtude e na pessoa do próprio Cristo;(60) por isso, com sua ação sacerdotal, de certo modo, "empresta a Cristo a sua língua, e lhe oferece a sua mão".(61)
63. Também idêntica é a vítima, isto é, o divino Redentor, segundo a sua humana natureza e na realidade do seu corpo e do seu sangue. Diferente, porém, é o modo pelo qual Cristo é oferecido. Na cruz, com efeito, ele se ofereceu todo a Deus com os seus sofrimentos, e a imolação da vítima foi realizada por meio de morte cruenta livremente sofrida; no altar, ao invés, por causa do estado glorioso de sua natureza humana, "a morte não tem mais domínio sobre ele"(62) e, por conseguinte, não é possível a efusão do sangue; mas a divina sabedoria encontrou o modo admirável de tornar manifesto o sacrifício de nosso Redentor com sinais exteriores que são símbolos de morte. Já que, por meio da transubstanciação do pão no corpo e do vinho no sangue de Cristo, têm-se realmente presentes o seu corpo e o seu sangue; as espécies eucarísticas, sob as quais está presente, simbolizam a cruenta separação do corpo e do sangue. Assim o memorial da sua morte real sobre o Calvário repete-se sempre no sacrifício do altar, porque, por meio de símbolos distintos, se significa e demonstra que Jesus Cristo se encontra em estado de vítima.
quarta-feira, 6 de agosto de 2014
MARY: God has placed all the gifts of the kingdom of heaven, all the gifts that Jesus brought to this earth, in my Immaculate Heart. These gifts will do everything. They will protect, guide, purge sin, and lift to greatness. All of God’s treasures are present in the kingdom proclaimed by Jesus and all of these treasures are in my heart, waiting to be given away.
12. Being Set Aside By the Church
Aug 5th, 2014
Who can know the sorrows of my heart unless I speak openly and reveal what is hidden? I see the many difficulties of the Church. A Church that was strong and flourishing has now been set aside, and often is the object of ridicule. The young are no longer formed by its teachings and many of the older generation have abandoned its truths. The Church cries out in the marketplace but its voice is not heard. Its teachings have no impact upon the modern mind. How has all of this happened?
I must speak honestly. I have been set aside. The Church flourished when I was exalted. Many gave themselves to the priesthood and religious life when the Church rejoiced to be my child. Then, new waves of thought washed upon the shore. The new agenda erased the deeply ingrained devotions. My appearances, my visitations and my words no longer occupied the Catholic mind. How different would these decades have been if I had not been moved to the sidelines!
I must speak honestly. It is late. The weapons of war explode. Some roads of peace narrow and even end. The world’s resources turn to destruction not to life. At this point, no one can perceive the power of the coming darkness, nor how close it is at hand.
I will try again. I will send out greater invitations. I will use more messengers, in even higher places. They must be faithful to the message, “There is only one path to peace, the road that leads into the center of my Immaculate Heart”. There will be new movements, new beginnings, new fires. I have not abandoned my Church and I refuse to sit on the sidelines while Satan claims his victories.
Those who heed me, I will use. Those who believe they have a better plan will waste their time.
Comment: This is a very strong locution that sums up Our Lady’s feelings.
11. Special Surprising Lights
Aug 4th, 2014
Usually, I pour out my gifts in great order, the small ones first and later the greater ones. Now, however, a greater need exists to which I must respond. I must take people who are not fully prepared and give them gifts far greater than usual. Like children in an emergency, who are pressed into action and asked to do works usually reserved to adults.
What a special time this will be! Many will wonder. People of good will who have just begun to live devoutly will be given great powers, usually reserved for the perfect. Those who are spiritual children will lead many to great faith. Others, who have just begun themselves to love my Immaculate Heart, will be foundation stones of strong communities.
New movements, filled with the greatest lights will arise. Fresh spiritual leadership will emerge. These are the fruits of the new lights that will suddenly begin to push back the world’s darkness. As always, these secrets lie in my Immaculate Heart.
Comment: In these days of extraordinary darkness, Our Lady must take surprising actions.
10. Rain Clouds of Hope
Mary
I see the world in such anguish. Never before have I so desired to pour out my gifts. I must always repeat the message. The heavenly Father has placed all of his treasures for the world in my Immaculate Heart because he foresaw this moment in human history when the fires of hell would break forth from beneath the earth.
He placed them there because my heart is so easily broken open and his gifts can fall like raindrops upon the fires. When fires are burning out of control, are not rainclouds a joyous sight? Do they not hold out hope that soon the fires will be overcome?
The Church must see my heart in this way, filled with heavenly rain, waiting to quench these demonic forces that are evident everywhere and to everyone. Is there not a demonic source to all the wars, to all the diseases, to all the acts of terrorism, to all the hopelessness?
The Holy Father must consecrate Russia. The rain will fall there first. From Russia, peace will go out to the whole world.
Comment: For almost 100 years, Our Lady has said that for world peace Russia must be consecrated. Events are showing that Mary was right all along.
Mary
I will speak from my heart, bringing forth the deepest feelings. I weep abundantly. I see my children walk away from all that Jesus taught. I see them cast aside their baptismal gift and to think nothing of their loss of faith. I see them enter deeply into the immoral ways of modern culture and be swept up in its mighty current.
Those who have been called to a deep Catholic faith and to the highest of Catholic values are never even taught the basic truths. Their rich heritage has been stole from them. They were never shown the path to goodness. The darkness of the culture has obscured everything.
I must provide another light because the lights of the powerful Catholic culture have become too weak to light the way, and the road has become far too dark.
This is my message. I will provide extra lights which you must freely choose. Seek these lights. Look for my new lights. Do not be content with your current light. Seek for yourselves and your children. Write this on your heart, “Mary has told me that I need more light. She has promised to provide this light. I must search for this new light, like the Wise Men searched for Jesus, the light of the world”.
You will find. I promise that you will find the new light I have prepared for you.
Comment: Our Lady sorrows over the great darkness but promises to provide. We must search.
Mary
Let us stop for a moment and remember that getting to heaven is the purpose of earth. At the moment of death, the human person leaves this temporary human existence and enters into an eternal state. Jesus never exalted earth or human life but constantly reminded all that earthly life ends. “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?” “If anyone should save his life in this world, he will lose it in the next”. “Thou, fool, what good is it to have stored up all these treasures, when tonight you will die?”
Yet, Jesus was sensitive to earthly needs. He fed the hungry and healed the sick. He promised that if a person seeks first the kingdom of God, the heavenly Father would care for the necessities.
Do you not see Satan’s plan? He wants only sufferings so that people cannot find their way to heaven. Taken up in the trials of earth they lose faith in their heavenly home. So, I speak to every Catholic, to every believer, to every person of good will. You all have a Lazarus, a beggar, at your door, a needy person. Care for them and you will both arrive safely in heaven.
To the rich and the powerful, to those who control great amounts of earthly resources, I have placed all these in your hands so you can help many on their road to heaven.
Many voices of the poor cry out to me and I search for those who can answer their needs. I will come soon and ask for your help. Blessed are you if you hear my voice, open your heart, change your ways and give of yourself by helping the needy.
Comment: Man is made for heaven but his search takes place amid earthly needs. Helping others is the surest road to eternal life.
Mary
To lead the world is a matter of the heart and you leaders of the world have hearts that are too small. So, I offer you the gift of my heart. I have a plan for every person. I know what they need so their life can fulfill all that God intends.
I dream of a new world order, where weapons are put aside, and where nations cooperate. I dream of a new economic system where all share in the goods of society.
I must raise up new world leaders whose hearts are quite different, leaders who dream of blessing others. I need a veritable army, fashioned in a different mold, claiming a different vision, and refusing to set aside their firm beliefs that every person in the world must have the necessities of life.
Where are these people? I will go and look for them. When I find those who are committed to my dream, I will open doors for them. They shall rise quickly in every field of human endeavor. Only those formed in my heart can truly bring about a new world order.
Comment: Changing the world results only from leaders whose hearts are attuned to the heavenly Father.
Mary
I will speak gently to world leaders, because if I fully exposed all of your sins, you would cover your ears and shut your eyes. Instead, I will speak about what you are able to do. All I ask is good will.
First, look at your heart. Why have you sought this high position? What led you to public office? Only you can examine your own heart and be honest. Expose your own selfishness, your own pride and ego. I am not asking you to step down. I am only asking you to change.
You have made many decisions in darkness which you would never want to come to the light of publicity. You have two lives – your public life and your private life. One for the people to see and one which only you can see. Right now you are entangled. I do not say hopelessly entangled because I will help you.
I must ask you “Are you willing to walk a different path, one that is less-traveled?” If so, I will do two favors for you. I will free you from your entanglements and I will lift you up to a much higher position. If not, I can only leave you mired in your world that will inevitably destroy you. Such is the nature of worldly power.
Comment: Power corrupts unless God continually purifies the world leader.
Mary
I go now to the depth of my heart to find the most consoling words for my Church. Among your members, I find the little ones, those whose hearts are firmly set upon me. I find your missionaries who have left their native lands to preach the gospel in difficult circumstances. I find mothers and fathers who fulfill their sacred duties and I find ministers of the word who live out their commitment. At every level and in every situation I find these people of good will.
This is my promise. I am ready to take all of them into the most sacred fire that burns in my Immaculate Heart.They will be the first ones to whom I reveal the gift. I am not asking them to do more. I am asking them to receive more, to take this new flame into their hearts. I know their hearts and if they take the new flame it will burn brightly. That is why I invite them first.
However, they must accept the invitation or they will be left behind, not ready for the difficulties that lie ahead.
Comment: Whatever we have received from God, we must be open to greater gifts, this new flame on Mary’s heart.
Mary
Return to your first love. When you were a child and held no possessions, when you were small and had only your faith, when you were persecuted, and loved one another, I watched over you. I saw you spread to all the nations. I watched you cling to my Son and proclaim him even when this brought sufferings and death.
I saw your acts of charity. You were revered even among those who did not understand your beliefs. You were truly a light to the nations waiting to be put upon the lampstand.
Now, I have put you on that lampstand. You are known throughout the world, the largest of all the churches but your light has dimmed. It is now mixed with darkness. Many know you but they scorn you and reject you. Even your own sons and daughters, born into your bosom, walk away from you. You watch them leave with great sorrow. You are quite aware of your state. You know the reality, like a parent disappointed in the decisions of their children. I know your failures and how distraught you are.
I have a question for you. Are you ready? Are you willing to take my hand, to walk my road? Are you ready to trust your mother and to do what I tell you? Are you ready to inscribe me on your heart and to decide firmly, “I will walk the road of Mary?”I challenge you at this grave moment in human history, when the world will need the Church more than ever. Do you truly believe that this is the Age of Mary? If you do, I can make you the light of the nations. If not, your own resources will prove too little and too late.
Comment: The Age of Mary holds unbelievable gifts of the Father but the Church has never committed herself fully to that gift.
Mary
The Church must learn the wisdom of my heart. So often, the Church seeks wisdom from its learned men and women. It seeks wisdom from all the human sciences. It studies the wisdom that the world uses in its business enterprises. Why does the Church reject the wisdom of my heart? It chooses broken cisterns that cannot bring forth living water.
The Church has a great strength. It has openly proclaimed me as the Mother of the Church. Well, come back to your mother. The mother gathers the family and embraces all the children. The mother keeps the household together, always inviting her children to return.
Do not reject me. Do not set me aside. God’s plan began with me (I was with him in the beginning of his days) and God’s plan will end with me, the Woman Clothed With the Sun.
O Church, I will heal your divisions. I will bring back your children. I will purge you of your sins. I will make of you the new Jerusalem, the light on the mountain.
The heavenly Father has declared these times as the Age of Mary but you have not yet understood or even believed the words of your own prophets and saints.
Comment: The Church certainly needs help and Our Lady wants to be the Church’s mother.
2. A Place With Mary in the Desert
Mary
I speak first to my Church, born when the heart of Jesus was pierced by a sword and filled with the Spirit on the day of Pentecost. I was there at your beginnings and I will be present at the grand culmination when the angels gather all the elect.
What a history you have had, filled with sinners and saints, moments of divine greatness and moments of the most shameful behavior. Yet, you are mine, the child of my womb and I will always clasp you to my breasts and give you life.
Now, I must speak my mind in words only a mother could say, “You must repent and turn back to reclaim your former glory, the glory of serving the world by being its light. Once you were small, persecuted, trodden under foot by the power of the world but I loved you for your fervor and your fidelity.
I say to you what Jesus said to the Church of Ephesus, ‘I hold this against you. You have lost the love that you had at first’” (Rev.2:4). That is where we must begin. Like Israel, I must lead you back into the desert where you can again recover your first love.
“What about my worldly power?” you ask. I say, “What good is your worldly power? Soon, you will see all the power of the world collapse. Will you be caught up in that destruction or will you have escaped with me into the desert of your first love?”
God prepared a place for me in the desert (Rev.12:6). That is where I will take you. Do not delay in the city where you think you are so needed. If you come into the desert with me, I will prepare you. In the moment of the world’s great darkness, you will be its light. This is my message of hope?
Comment: Where else could Our Lady begin? She calls us back to our first fervor.
Mary
Many who read these locutions are surprised that I would think about and express my thoughts on so many issues. Am I just a heavenly figure? Did I not live on earth? Did I not conceive and give birth? Did I not share in all the sufferings? I am a mother, who takes everything into her heart and brings forth a wisdom. That is what I am doing and people should not be surprised.
I know that so many delight in my words and anxiously await the daily locution. Those who read them all are formed by my thinking and I bless them.
Now, I will embark on an even clearer road. Up to now, I have revealed my heart. Now, I will speak my mind. No one will have to read between the lines or conjecture what I mean. The words will be both pointed and true. They will cut through the darkness and give light. They will chastise but always offer the grace of conversion. When I finish, no doubts will remain about where I stand and what I think. Let no one interpret away the clarity of my words.
I will speak to a Church which has failed me, to world leaders who have deceived their people, to the rich whose gold has made them an abomination, to the powerful who have manipulated the structures of power, to the average Catholic who has been swept along by the world, to the little ones who need my encouragement and to you, the reader, who are so anxious to find your way. To the whole world, I will speak my mind.
Comment: Mary’s words have always been to the point. Now, the words will become more pointed.
Jesus
The world is not yet in total darkness. However, it is on a road that leads away from the heavenly Father. Inevitably, the future holds more and more darkness. Many see the problems but few see the road that lies ahead. In the Middle East there are many fires. These burn brightly but are still separate. Satan’s goal is to have one, unified conflagration, even though the terrorists groups are diverse. When there is one united fire, then the flames will jump to Europe.
The terrorists have their eyes upon Europe, especially those countries with a sizeable Muslim population. For centuries, Muslims have dreamed of controlling the European countries. Now, these populations see that the terrorists destabilize and bring about fear. This hastens the day when they will no longer be denied many rights. They dream of taking control of these countries. What happens within the heart of a person who sees their dream suddenly come much closer? They are ready to make any sacrifice.
Europe looks stable but this is fiction. They cannot defend themselves like Israel.
Comment: Sooner than expected, the Middle East fires will leap over to Europe and find a Muslim population that will see a new opportunity.
Mary
I bring forth these gifts for everyone. All are included. My arms embrace the whole world and my heart has gifts for everyone, a secret that I am constantly revealing.
The heavenly Father created a world in which man had gifts that precluded suffering. Suffering was brought into the world by sin which caused the first parents to lose God’s grace and these special gifts. Thus began the sinful and suffering-filled stage of human history.
The heavenly Father held on to his dream of the original creation. Jesus spoke of the kingdom of heaven and proclaimed that the kingdom was at hand. This is the secret which I proclaim. God has placed all the gifts of the kingdom of heaven, all the gifts that Jesus brought to this earth, in my Immaculate Heart. These gifts will do everything. They will protect, guide, purge sin, and lift to greatness. All of God’s treasures are present in the kingdom proclaimed by Jesus and all of these treasures are in my heart, waiting to be given away. Unfortunately, many of these gifts will not be claimed even by those who love me.
Comment: Jesus spoke about “as it was in the beginning” when man’s internal and external world were in order due to special gifts. These gifts can still be found in Mary’s heart.
http://www.locutions.org/2014/08/9-promising-a-new-light/
Aug 3rd, 2014
I see the world in such anguish. Never before have I so desired to pour out my gifts. I must always repeat the message. The heavenly Father has placed all of his treasures for the world in my Immaculate Heart because he foresaw this moment in human history when the fires of hell would break forth from beneath the earth.
He placed them there because my heart is so easily broken open and his gifts can fall like raindrops upon the fires. When fires are burning out of control, are not rainclouds a joyous sight? Do they not hold out hope that soon the fires will be overcome?
The Church must see my heart in this way, filled with heavenly rain, waiting to quench these demonic forces that are evident everywhere and to everyone. Is there not a demonic source to all the wars, to all the diseases, to all the acts of terrorism, to all the hopelessness?
The Holy Father must consecrate Russia. The rain will fall there first. From Russia, peace will go out to the whole world.
Comment: For almost 100 years, Our Lady has said that for world peace Russia must be consecrated. Events are showing that Mary was right all along.
9. Promising A New Light
Aug 2nd, 2014
I will speak from my heart, bringing forth the deepest feelings. I weep abundantly. I see my children walk away from all that Jesus taught. I see them cast aside their baptismal gift and to think nothing of their loss of faith. I see them enter deeply into the immoral ways of modern culture and be swept up in its mighty current.
Those who have been called to a deep Catholic faith and to the highest of Catholic values are never even taught the basic truths. Their rich heritage has been stole from them. They were never shown the path to goodness. The darkness of the culture has obscured everything.
I must provide another light because the lights of the powerful Catholic culture have become too weak to light the way, and the road has become far too dark.
This is my message. I will provide extra lights which you must freely choose. Seek these lights. Look for my new lights. Do not be content with your current light. Seek for yourselves and your children. Write this on your heart, “Mary has told me that I need more light. She has promised to provide this light. I must search for this new light, like the Wise Men searched for Jesus, the light of the world”.
You will find. I promise that you will find the new light I have prepared for you.
Comment: Our Lady sorrows over the great darkness but promises to provide. We must search.
8. Lazarus, the Beggar At Our Door
Aug 1st, 2014
Let us stop for a moment and remember that getting to heaven is the purpose of earth. At the moment of death, the human person leaves this temporary human existence and enters into an eternal state. Jesus never exalted earth or human life but constantly reminded all that earthly life ends. “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?” “If anyone should save his life in this world, he will lose it in the next”. “Thou, fool, what good is it to have stored up all these treasures, when tonight you will die?”
Yet, Jesus was sensitive to earthly needs. He fed the hungry and healed the sick. He promised that if a person seeks first the kingdom of God, the heavenly Father would care for the necessities.
Do you not see Satan’s plan? He wants only sufferings so that people cannot find their way to heaven. Taken up in the trials of earth they lose faith in their heavenly home. So, I speak to every Catholic, to every believer, to every person of good will. You all have a Lazarus, a beggar, at your door, a needy person. Care for them and you will both arrive safely in heaven.
To the rich and the powerful, to those who control great amounts of earthly resources, I have placed all these in your hands so you can help many on their road to heaven.
Many voices of the poor cry out to me and I search for those who can answer their needs. I will come soon and ask for your help. Blessed are you if you hear my voice, open your heart, change your ways and give of yourself by helping the needy.
Comment: Man is made for heaven but his search takes place amid earthly needs. Helping others is the surest road to eternal life.
7. A New World Order
Jul 31st, 2014
To lead the world is a matter of the heart and you leaders of the world have hearts that are too small. So, I offer you the gift of my heart. I have a plan for every person. I know what they need so their life can fulfill all that God intends.
I dream of a new world order, where weapons are put aside, and where nations cooperate. I dream of a new economic system where all share in the goods of society.
I must raise up new world leaders whose hearts are quite different, leaders who dream of blessing others. I need a veritable army, fashioned in a different mold, claiming a different vision, and refusing to set aside their firm beliefs that every person in the world must have the necessities of life.
Where are these people? I will go and look for them. When I find those who are committed to my dream, I will open doors for them. They shall rise quickly in every field of human endeavor. Only those formed in my heart can truly bring about a new world order.
Comment: Changing the world results only from leaders whose hearts are attuned to the heavenly Father.
6. The Less-Traveled Road
Jul 30th, 2014
I will speak gently to world leaders, because if I fully exposed all of your sins, you would cover your ears and shut your eyes. Instead, I will speak about what you are able to do. All I ask is good will.
First, look at your heart. Why have you sought this high position? What led you to public office? Only you can examine your own heart and be honest. Expose your own selfishness, your own pride and ego. I am not asking you to step down. I am only asking you to change.
You have made many decisions in darkness which you would never want to come to the light of publicity. You have two lives – your public life and your private life. One for the people to see and one which only you can see. Right now you are entangled. I do not say hopelessly entangled because I will help you.
I must ask you “Are you willing to walk a different path, one that is less-traveled?” If so, I will do two favors for you. I will free you from your entanglements and I will lift you up to a much higher position. If not, I can only leave you mired in your world that will inevitably destroy you. Such is the nature of worldly power.
Comment: Power corrupts unless God continually purifies the world leader.
5. The New Flame
Jul 29th, 2014
I go now to the depth of my heart to find the most consoling words for my Church. Among your members, I find the little ones, those whose hearts are firmly set upon me. I find your missionaries who have left their native lands to preach the gospel in difficult circumstances. I find mothers and fathers who fulfill their sacred duties and I find ministers of the word who live out their commitment. At every level and in every situation I find these people of good will.
This is my promise. I am ready to take all of them into the most sacred fire that burns in my Immaculate Heart.They will be the first ones to whom I reveal the gift. I am not asking them to do more. I am asking them to receive more, to take this new flame into their hearts. I know their hearts and if they take the new flame it will burn brightly. That is why I invite them first.
However, they must accept the invitation or they will be left behind, not ready for the difficulties that lie ahead.
Comment: Whatever we have received from God, we must be open to greater gifts, this new flame on Mary’s heart.
4. The Age of Mary
Jul 28th, 2014
Return to your first love. When you were a child and held no possessions, when you were small and had only your faith, when you were persecuted, and loved one another, I watched over you. I saw you spread to all the nations. I watched you cling to my Son and proclaim him even when this brought sufferings and death.
I saw your acts of charity. You were revered even among those who did not understand your beliefs. You were truly a light to the nations waiting to be put upon the lampstand.
Now, I have put you on that lampstand. You are known throughout the world, the largest of all the churches but your light has dimmed. It is now mixed with darkness. Many know you but they scorn you and reject you. Even your own sons and daughters, born into your bosom, walk away from you. You watch them leave with great sorrow. You are quite aware of your state. You know the reality, like a parent disappointed in the decisions of their children. I know your failures and how distraught you are.
I have a question for you. Are you ready? Are you willing to take my hand, to walk my road? Are you ready to trust your mother and to do what I tell you? Are you ready to inscribe me on your heart and to decide firmly, “I will walk the road of Mary?”I challenge you at this grave moment in human history, when the world will need the Church more than ever. Do you truly believe that this is the Age of Mary? If you do, I can make you the light of the nations. If not, your own resources will prove too little and too late.
Comment: The Age of Mary holds unbelievable gifts of the Father but the Church has never committed herself fully to that gift.
3. Mother of the Church
Jul 27th, 2014
The Church must learn the wisdom of my heart. So often, the Church seeks wisdom from its learned men and women. It seeks wisdom from all the human sciences. It studies the wisdom that the world uses in its business enterprises. Why does the Church reject the wisdom of my heart? It chooses broken cisterns that cannot bring forth living water.
The Church has a great strength. It has openly proclaimed me as the Mother of the Church. Well, come back to your mother. The mother gathers the family and embraces all the children. The mother keeps the household together, always inviting her children to return.
Do not reject me. Do not set me aside. God’s plan began with me (I was with him in the beginning of his days) and God’s plan will end with me, the Woman Clothed With the Sun.
O Church, I will heal your divisions. I will bring back your children. I will purge you of your sins. I will make of you the new Jerusalem, the light on the mountain.
The heavenly Father has declared these times as the Age of Mary but you have not yet understood or even believed the words of your own prophets and saints.
Comment: The Church certainly needs help and Our Lady wants to be the Church’s mother.
2. A Place With Mary in the Desert
Jul 26th, 2014
I speak first to my Church, born when the heart of Jesus was pierced by a sword and filled with the Spirit on the day of Pentecost. I was there at your beginnings and I will be present at the grand culmination when the angels gather all the elect.
What a history you have had, filled with sinners and saints, moments of divine greatness and moments of the most shameful behavior. Yet, you are mine, the child of my womb and I will always clasp you to my breasts and give you life.
Now, I must speak my mind in words only a mother could say, “You must repent and turn back to reclaim your former glory, the glory of serving the world by being its light. Once you were small, persecuted, trodden under foot by the power of the world but I loved you for your fervor and your fidelity.
I say to you what Jesus said to the Church of Ephesus, ‘I hold this against you. You have lost the love that you had at first’” (Rev.2:4). That is where we must begin. Like Israel, I must lead you back into the desert where you can again recover your first love.
“What about my worldly power?” you ask. I say, “What good is your worldly power? Soon, you will see all the power of the world collapse. Will you be caught up in that destruction or will you have escaped with me into the desert of your first love?”
God prepared a place for me in the desert (Rev.12:6). That is where I will take you. Do not delay in the city where you think you are so needed. If you come into the desert with me, I will prepare you. In the moment of the world’s great darkness, you will be its light. This is my message of hope?
Comment: Where else could Our Lady begin? She calls us back to our first fervor.
1. An Even Clearer Word
Jul 25th, 2014
Many who read these locutions are surprised that I would think about and express my thoughts on so many issues. Am I just a heavenly figure? Did I not live on earth? Did I not conceive and give birth? Did I not share in all the sufferings? I am a mother, who takes everything into her heart and brings forth a wisdom. That is what I am doing and people should not be surprised.
I know that so many delight in my words and anxiously await the daily locution. Those who read them all are formed by my thinking and I bless them.
Now, I will embark on an even clearer road. Up to now, I have revealed my heart. Now, I will speak my mind. No one will have to read between the lines or conjecture what I mean. The words will be both pointed and true. They will cut through the darkness and give light. They will chastise but always offer the grace of conversion. When I finish, no doubts will remain about where I stand and what I think. Let no one interpret away the clarity of my words.
I will speak to a Church which has failed me, to world leaders who have deceived their people, to the rich whose gold has made them an abomination, to the powerful who have manipulated the structures of power, to the average Catholic who has been swept along by the world, to the little ones who need my encouragement and to you, the reader, who are so anxious to find your way. To the whole world, I will speak my mind.
Comment: Mary’s words have always been to the point. Now, the words will become more pointed.
Special Locution – The Fire Leaps to Europe
Jul 25th, 2014
The world is not yet in total darkness. However, it is on a road that leads away from the heavenly Father. Inevitably, the future holds more and more darkness. Many see the problems but few see the road that lies ahead. In the Middle East there are many fires. These burn brightly but are still separate. Satan’s goal is to have one, unified conflagration, even though the terrorists groups are diverse. When there is one united fire, then the flames will jump to Europe.
The terrorists have their eyes upon Europe, especially those countries with a sizeable Muslim population. For centuries, Muslims have dreamed of controlling the European countries. Now, these populations see that the terrorists destabilize and bring about fear. This hastens the day when they will no longer be denied many rights. They dream of taking control of these countries. What happens within the heart of a person who sees their dream suddenly come much closer? They are ready to make any sacrifice.
Europe looks stable but this is fiction. They cannot defend themselves like Israel.
Comment: Sooner than expected, the Middle East fires will leap over to Europe and find a Muslim population that will see a new opportunity.
9. Treasures of the Kingdom
Jul 24th, 2014
I bring forth these gifts for everyone. All are included. My arms embrace the whole world and my heart has gifts for everyone, a secret that I am constantly revealing.
The heavenly Father created a world in which man had gifts that precluded suffering. Suffering was brought into the world by sin which caused the first parents to lose God’s grace and these special gifts. Thus began the sinful and suffering-filled stage of human history.
The heavenly Father held on to his dream of the original creation. Jesus spoke of the kingdom of heaven and proclaimed that the kingdom was at hand. This is the secret which I proclaim. God has placed all the gifts of the kingdom of heaven, all the gifts that Jesus brought to this earth, in my Immaculate Heart. These gifts will do everything. They will protect, guide, purge sin, and lift to greatness. All of God’s treasures are present in the kingdom proclaimed by Jesus and all of these treasures are in my heart, waiting to be given away. Unfortunately, many of these gifts will not be claimed even by those who love me.
Comment: Jesus spoke about “as it was in the beginning” when man’s internal and external world were in order due to special gifts. These gifts can still be found in Mary’s heart.
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