Yesterday I missed Holy Mass while on special assignment for the Lord. By late afternoon, I was so happy to have made it to church to be with Jesus and pray during a Holy Hour.
Since the church was being decorated for Christmas, I prayed in the chapel.
Tuesday afternoons in church are very special to me, not just for enjoying quite, private time in the Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, but also because Tuesday is reserved especially for meditating on Christ's Passion.
While praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary, I join Blessed Mother and together we join Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, and then together the three of us travel along the Way of Sacrificial Love all the way to man's Redemption.
Usually I pray in church, but yesterday praying in the chapel also placed me close to a large statue of Jesus scourged, which is positioned to the right of the chairs and kneelers, in the middle of the row confessionals.
It is always such a joy to pray close to the confessionals, because that is where God's mercy is continuously poured out upon all those who are willing to accept it.
God is so in love with us. He is so compassionate, and so merciful.
While praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet/Novena and the Holy Rosary yesterday in the chapel, I was mindful of our Lord's reminder that every time you or I meditate on Christ's Passion, He joins us on one side while Blessed Mother joins us on the other.
Although it seemed that the chapel was unoccupied, it was actually quite full! Angels, saints, and martyrs join us when we pray. In fact, we are absolutely surrounded by the history of the Catholic Church!
Yesterday, some very special friends joined Jesus, Blessed Mother, and me to pray the Holy Rosary. St. Margaret Mary, Sister Mary of St. Peter, St. Gemma Galgani, and St. Faustina were there for this very significant occasion.
Our Lord revealed and entrusted the mystery and teaching about the love of His Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary. To Sister Mary of St. Peter, Jesus revealed His "Golden Arrow" prayer to make reparation through the Sacred Heart for blasphemies and offenses against God. Jesus revealed and entrusted His Divine Mercy, and the Blood and Water flowing from His Sacred Heart to St. Faustina, and St. Gemma was an Italian mystic known for her profound imitation of the Passion of Christ. She received the Holy Stigmata on the eve of the Feast of the Sacred Heart.
Why was yesterday's time praying in the chapel so significant? Actually, every moment is special and significant. It's just that we don't always know it.
Yesterday the Lord and my friends taught me to become an expert markswoman so I can use the Golden Arrow prayer to shoot beautiful golden arrows at Jesus each time I meditate on His Passion, as He prays in the Garden of Gethsemane, as He is stripped of His garment, scourged at the pillar, crowned with thorns, travels along the Way of Sacrificial Love, is nailed to the Cross, and is crucified for all of humanity. You see, God is not limited to time and space and so love isn't, either, because God is love!
Those beautiful golden arrows consisting of love, admiration, thanksgiving, and adoration delightfully wound Jesus as He took our sins upon Himself and suffered and died to save us.
Once that became known to me, I kept launching those beautiful arrows of adoration like a sharpshooter!
The Lord, Blessed Mother, the angels, and the saints want you to become a sharpshooter of those Golden Arrows as well!
I am so fond of Jesus' Sacred Heart. We all should be. Are you, too? The five women who were there praying also find Jesus' Sacred Heart adorable, and they inspire me! Do they inspire you, too?
And so as we all prayed together to honor the Lord, and to ask that He make certain things known in His time, I asked the Lord to do something in particular for me, because I cannot fulfill my mission unless this is accomplished.
I asked the Lord to replace my heart with His Sacred Heart.
That will make all the difference in the life of this servant.
Early today, I launched plenty more Golden Arrows straight at the Sacred Heart of our Lord, Jesus Christ. The Lord then commissioned a special picture for His beloved.
Here it is!
Jesus has been saying all through "Advlent" that He wants us to meditate on His Passion every single day. The picture has to do with that request.
During Holy Mass this morning, as I was praying after having received our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, our Lord's Sacred Body had been placed in the monstrance on the altar for Eucharistic Exposition and Benediction.
At the Lord's inspiration, I mystically placed my heart on the altar, just below the monstrance, and using the sword I had selected from the usually unseen bins in front of the altar (Select Your Sword of the Spirit), thrust the sword through my heart in imitation of the lance piercing Christ's side on the Cross.
There below my Savior's Sacred Body lay my heart, pierced in imitation of His, as His Precious Blood mystically poured forth from the Sacred Host/Heart onto mine. Together, we offered our lives and our blood together upon the altar.
The sword also served to pin my heart to the altar. Why?
So my heart will remain with His forever, right where bread and wine are transubstantiated into the Sacred Body and Blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, by the power of God through the priest martyrs whom He entrusts with the Sacraments.
Having placed my heart for good upon the altar, I asked Jesus to permanently replace my heart with His.
Be sure to give Jesus your heart, and unify your mission with His.
Ask Him to replace your heart with His own.
And for God's sake, launch lots and lots of those Golden Arrows directly at His Sacred Heart, each and every day. God is at work in you!
Sweet and gentle Jesus, make our hearts like unto Thine.
