Our Lady's February 25, 2017 Medjugorje Message Given to Marija

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Our Lady's February 25, 2017 Medjugorje  Message Given to Marija

"Dear children! Today I am calling you to profoundly live your faith and to implore the Most High to strengthen it, so that winds and storms cannot break it. May the roots of your faith be prayer and hope in eternal life. Already now, little children, work on yourselves in this time of grace, wherein God is giving you the grace - through renunciation and the call to conversion - to be people of clear and persevering faith and hope. Thank you for having responded to my call."

Ash Wednesday March 1st

What does ashes in the shape of a Cross on the forehead on  Ash Wednesday represent?

Ash - we are sinners  (from dust to dust)
Cross - we can be saved

"Repent and believe in the Gospel."

Adoration and the Blessed Sacrament

I like to go before Jesus in the tabernacle to pray. I also like to go to Adoration.

I've been thinking about ways to explain to our youth the difference.

Both are ways to adore our Lord Jesus. Both are ways to be with Him closely and personally.

It seems to me that going before Jesus in the tabernacle is like being invited to go for lunch with your best friend to enjoy good conversation and be filled.

So, to me, going to Adoration with the Blessed Sacrament exposed, is like being invited to a formal dinner by your best friend - the finest! There we can have good conversation and be filled- yet on a higher level.

Jesus gives us the opportunity to have a conversation with Him through our heart and we are filled, fueling our soul.

Visit Jesus often.

Purgatory Question

Last night I had a ninth grader ask me if "you can go to hell after you're in purgatory". I explained to him that I am no expert on purgatory  but I told him that our teachings reveal to us that our soul would not go to hell after we've reach purgatory.

After I got home I was thinking about it more and I'm thinking that I should have explained it to him in a more visual manner.

I see Purgatory as a place of cleansing. God created us in His image and likeness. God, to me, is like a bright shining jewel. So our souls, when they first enter our bodies, would be bright and shiny like jewels - but over time they become coated with debris from being human.

We have Reconciliation that frees us from our sins and cleanses us. At the time of our death our souls are not as bright and shiny as they were at our conception - mainly because of our human nature. So I look at Purgatory as a place that our soul would go to be plolished, to take that debris away, so that we can be bright and shiny again. We can't go to be with God in heaven until we are bright and shiny again - until our humanness is cleansed.

We can all set our sights to stay free of as much debris as possible.

God grant us the Grace to stay away from temptations that add debris to our soul.  Lead all souls to heaven that are being polished in Purgatory.  Amen
Mother Mary, Pray for us.

Our Lady's February 2, 2017 Medjugorje Message Given to Mirjana

Our Lady's  February 2, 2017 Medjugorje Message Given to Marjana

"Dear children, you who are striving to offer every day of your life to my Son, you who are trying to live with Him, you who are praying and sacrificing - you are hope in this peaceless world. You are rays of the light of my Son, a living gospel, and you are my beloved apostles of love. My Son is with you. He is with those who think of Him - those who pray. But in the same way, He is patiently waiting for those who do not know Him. Therefore, you, apostles of my love, pray with the heart and with your works show the love of my Son. This is the only hope for you, and this is also the only way to eternal life. I, as a mother, I am here with you. Your prayers directed to me are the most beautiful roses of love for me. I cannot but be where I sense the scent of roses. There is hope. Thank you."

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