PRAYER: LISTEN AND LET THE LORD SPEAK TO US

LET THE LORD SPEAK TO US

"Pray not with the impression that you pray to emptiness, but pray to Me as the Being truly present at your side, the One who sees you, who touches you and loves you.

God created man and has impressed in the heart of men the Sign of His Love. God's love is greater than any love on earth. The love of God is a profound reality.

The love of God for His children is not different from the sensitive love of a father or mother for his children.

A human being is like a child to His eyes, is like a child who cannot understand the adult reasoning of his parents. Thus we are before God because the visible world is a state in which our soul should grow and sanctify itself.

Look at Me in the Blessed Sacrament and think that I am looking at you, that I live in a world which includes the visible world in which you are and I see you perfectly well, better than you see your neighbor.

Then speak to Me as to the person who is your Father in Heaven, who sees you as you are, perhaps in adoration, and if you are, I am aware of it.

I listen to your prayer, and the more it is personal, with your heart and soul, with the words of a child who truly entrusts himself to his Father, the more I, God, take your situation into My Hands, and if you trust in Me in everything, and fully cooperate with the Divine Providence, which is the expression of My Will to you, then I will be the happy Father of his child and the child will soon be aware that his Father loves him, truly guides him and helps him to grow in wisdom and grace, before Him and before men.

The difficulties and worries of earth are the consequence of human deficiency which originate in original sin.

They can only be solved with the attitudes and the behavior closest to sanctity, the state of being before sin.

My dear children, love Me, have trust in Me and become saints as Jesus Christ, the Holy of Holies and as the Mother of God, the Most Holy Virgin Mary.

I guarantee the solution to your difficulties along the way.

Holiness is the only way that solves everything, and when it is achieved, it controls weakness, deficiency and corruption.

I love you perfectly and I wish you all to be saints, because only My Saints share in My Glory.

I am the Father of My children, and I have created them, that they may live with Me in eternity. But My children should be holy to enter My Home. I am with you aiming at making you gain Heaven, and I remain at your side on the path that leads to My Kingdom.

I wait for you, and I desire you, then come, yes, My children, come!"

You see dear Brothers and Sisters, the consoling words the Lord addressed to you, personally and uniquely. I am happy to have been the means of transmission of such beautiful words, and I pray that you may not disappoint a Father so exceedingly good and so exceptionally powerful.

I pray for all your intentions, in a particular way for the relief and liberation from Purgatory of the dear deceased ones.

I entrust you to the custody of Mary and Joseph and I assure you, dear brothers and sisters of my religious devotion.


SISTER BEGHE
Translated by Fr. Adolf Faroni, SDB
A MILLENNIUM OF PEACE AND JOY
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APPARITIONS OF THE SACRED HEART

APPARITIONS OF THE SACRED HEART

TO SR. MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE

On 27 December 1673, Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque, while praying before the Blessed Sacrament, saw in a vision the Sacred Heart at Paray-le-Monial, in central France.

In that very first apparition, Jesus revealed to the young nun His immense and great merciful love for all mankind. Thereafter, two other apparitions followed: one at the beginning of 1674 and the other on July 2 of the same year, always while Sr. Margaret Mary was praying before the Blessed Sacrament.

According to Sister Mary, "He was in a flame of glory; His five wounds burning like suns, flames issuing from all parts of His human form, especially from His divine breast which was like a furnace and which He opened to disclose His utterly affectionate and lovable Heart, the source of all these flames. He revealed to me the indescribable wonders of His pure Heart for humankind. But His eager love had been met only with coldness and rebuffs."

Jesus asked her to "Do me the kindness of at least making up for all their ingratitude. First of all, you are to receive Me in the Holy Eucharist as often as obedience allows. Accept all mortification and humiliation that may result as a token of My Love. Besides this, you are to receive Holy Communion on the first Friday of each month. Then every Thursday night, you are to get up between eleven o'clock and midnight for an hour, lying face downwards not only to allay God's anger by asking mercy for sinners; but also to soothe in some way the heartaches, I felt when my Apostles deserted me, when I had to reproach them for being unable to watch with Me even for an hour."

A fourth apparition took place on 16 June 1675. It was during that apparition that Jesus requested that a feast honoring the Sacred Heart be established on the First Friday after Corpus Christi (in June). Jesus appeared to her and said. "I am asking you to have the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi set apart as a special feast in honor of my Heart, a day in which to receive Me in Holy Communion and make a solemn act of reparation for the indignities I have received while exposed on the altars of the world."

In those apparitions, Jesus showed to Sr. Margaret Mary His Heart afire with love for all human beings, crowned with thorns (which symbolized the sins of mankind) and pierced with the lance of human sinfulness and ingratitude.

"Behold the Heart that has loved mankind so much," said Jesus, "and which receives so much ingratitude in return."

Not only did Jesus reveal to Sr. Margaret Mary all the depth of His merciful love for all, but also asked the saintly nun to offer REPARATION for the ingratitude and the terrible offenses with which sinners respond to His immense Love. Of these grave offenses, Jesus specifically mentioned the indifference toward the Blessed Sacrament, its profanations, and the unfaithfulness of the persons consecrated to Him.

Among the ways to offer reparation for all these offenses, Jesus singled out the holding of a Holy Hour of Adoration in front of the Blessed Sacrament, the Consecration to Him, and the devout reception of Holy Communion on the First Friday of each month.

An integral part of Devotion to the Sacred Heart is thus inspired by the desire of our Lord to have Catholics make solemn reparation for the neglect, indifference and ingratitude of the majority that results in Jesus Christ being left alone, abandoned and forgotten in our altars; never visited to offer consolation for such neglect, though He has given us the miracle of His Divine Presence in the Most Holy Blessed Sacrament, as a supreme gift in His desire to be always with us.

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The Devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is THE FIRST CATHOLIC DEVOTION SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED AND ESTABLISHED BY JESUS CHRIST, HIMSELF through His explicit instructions with the now famous "12 PROMISES" in two years of revelations to the French Nun, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque.

These were compiled in a book written by Father John Croiset, S. J. which was published one year after her death in 1691. Their authenticity has been officially acknowledged by the Church, which strongly supports and encourages the practice of the Devotion.

Our Lord made the request, because of His ardent desire to be known, loved, honored and adored by all Catholics and to establish His reign in the hearts of all through our Consecration to the Devotion and love of His Sacred Heart.

A true love of Jesus Christ, special respect and the veneration for the Blessed Sacrament are the hallmarks of the Devotion and all its exercises. This Devotion is so pleasing to Jesus Christ that He can refuse nothing to those who practice it. He made this promise to St. Margaret Mary, whom He used to propagate it.