Ironic, how many things not visible to most can be seen quite clearly by only a few, while many things visible to all cannot even be seen by so many.
Mankind has become so incredibly defiant. Our defiance has become so colossal that humanity is self destructing.
Mankind is absolutely gutting itself, and its weapon of choice is defiance.
The following events are a continuation of what happened seven days ago: "A Confession, a Confrontation, Defiance, and a Request from Our Crucified Lord."
Don't ever just be Catholic; be PROFOUNDLY Catholic! There is so much more of God's love to discover and keep rediscovering.
ASSIST AT THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS WITH HUMILITY, INTEGRITY, GRATITUDE, SINCERITY, AND COURAGE
Be there to assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass; the Lord has so much to show us, and so much to teach us, as we witness the re-presentation of His Passion and Death by Crucifixion.
We are present at the moment of our redemption. We are there to love God on His most perfect terms and not our own. We are there because He wants us there, every day if at all possible, and it is God's will that we unite ourselves with Jesus and with Blessed Mother and offer everything to God.
We stand on Calvary, face to Face with our Lord on the Cross. He calls each one of us by name, and not only does He tell us that we are loved and valued beyond measure, He shows us.How can we serve Him best? We serve God best by living, loving, serving, suffering, and sowing in imitation of Christ and Blessed Mother.
Ask God what He wants, and ask Him often.
"COME TO ME WITH WHAT YOU NEED"
How important it is for us to ask the Lord as we face Him during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to help us see ourselves as God sees us, so that we are completely aware of what we are doing right and what it is we need to change. It is important for us to plead with Him to help us; this shows an understanding on our part of how important it is.
It also shows humility, trust, and great courage, qualities that must be acquired in order to grow in sanctity.
"My children, we are in reality only what we are in the eyes of God, and nothing more. ~ Saint John Vianney
Shouting out to Jesus from our place among the crowd there on Calvary (just imagine the scene) and pleading to Him for mercy for ourselves and for others is no small thing. IT'S BIG!! God hears us, and He is always faithful.
"No prayer is ever lost." ~ Saint John Vianney
The Wounds all over our Savior's Sacred Body are powerful channels of mercy and grace for us, and through Him, we can obtain all that we need to fulfill God's will.
STRIPPING OURSELVES IN IMITATION OF CHRIST
As the Lord is before us stripped of everything, wounded, and nailed to the Cross, suffering beyond our comprehension yet always thinking of us, we are to mirror His likeness.
We must strip ourselves of everything and present ourselves to Christ on Calvary as we really are. We must expose OUR wounds to HIM, always loving Him (and others) in return.
MIRROR HIM
How easy it is to ignore our Lord, even during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and while making sacramental confessions! How easy it is to focus on ourselves and on other people.
Our most merciful and loving Lord wants to give us so much, and instead we demand so much, focus on things that are meaningless, and plead for so many things that we do not need, things which only lead to our ruin!
When we stand face to face with Jesus during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at the most important moment in the history of the human race, we must mirror His actions. This bears a striking resemblance to what takes place during another Sacrament of Divine Intimacy. Do you know what it is?
When we receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation, we face our Crucified Lord on Calvary, strip ourselves of everything, and our wounds mirror His Sacred Wounds. We humbly ask the Lord to help us see ourselves as we really are, and beg Him to help us overcome our faults.
We are loved and valued beyond measure; may we always be thankful. May we always be willing to share God's love and mercy with everyone in imitation of Christ.
Jesus wants to help us change for the better and He wants to heal our wounds. He wants to work through us as tremendous channels of grace for the massive conversion of sinners, but many people disobediently do not go to Holy Mass and do not make sacramental confessions.
This has absolutely catastrophic consequences for humanity.
IT IS VITAL FOR OUR ETERNAL WELFARE THAT WE RECEIVE BOTH SACRAMENTS OF DIVINE INTIMACY OFTEN
Why are so many people so gravely defying the will of God by not receiving the sacraments and thereby denying themselves and others through them such riches of eternal value?
THE TREMENDOUS LACK OF PROFOUNDLY CATHOLIC TEACHING
Tragically, many Catholics have never been taught much about their Faith. It begins in childhood, with horrible Catechism programs that encourage young people to leave the Church the first chance they get.
Far too many Catholics practice their Faith superficially, if at all, and are not asking Jesus to teach them, repair them, strengthen them, and help them heal. They don't know to ask for graces for themselves, and they don't know to ask for graces for others, either.
So many people have not been taught that it is God's will for each one of us to be channels of grace for other people, and so we learn instead from the devil, who teaches us to serve ourselves and use other people. The devil teaches all the wrong things, but he is a very skilled educator.
Jesus is the model of obedience and the devil is the model of disobedience. Who have you chosen to be your teacher? Are we leaving the responsibility of teaching others to the devil.
NO KNOWLEDGE OF CATHOLICISM WHATSOEVER
Some people don't know anything at all about Catholicism, and cannot defy the God they don't know. These brothers and sisters of ours need us to ask for graces for them.
SELF WORSHIP
Still other people know better, but don't go to Holy Mass because they are defiant. Some in this group choose to worship themselves instead of God, and they are very, very good at it!
LEAVING TO SEEK HAPPINESS ELSEWHERE
Some defy God by leaving the Catholic Church all together, even when the reasons for doing something so catastrophic seem justifiable.
We defy God when we choose to not go to Holy Mass, when we choose to abstain from receiving Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and when we choose not to make sacramental confessions.
We defy God when we stop receiving the Sacraments all together, and when we encourage even one person to join us anywhere else.
We defy God when we abandon our faith, when we encourage others to leave the One True Faith, or when we target devout Catholics and insult them with all sorts of falsehoods about Catholicism that come straight from the mouth of the devil. The genesis of such acts of defiance are deep, open wounds that are not healing (they need the sacraments), and a profound realization on some level of Who and what the soul has given up.
DEFIANT CATHOLICS
Catholics also defy God. We do it all the time, and we assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass! This is very, very serious indeed. More effort needs to be expended to stop it; we must absolutely shout at the top of our lungs on Calvary, as if our eternal lives depended upon it because they do, that the veils of arrogance, ignorance, and selfishness are lifted from our eyes!
Catholics defy God when we help the devil disfigure the face of the Church instituted by Jesus Christ by choosing to serve ourselves in God's name (that's blasphemy and it's a serious offense). We defy God when we receive the Lord in the Eucharist and are not in a state of grace. We defy God when we keep demanding other people give us money for our various causes, oh so many causes that must have our money, instead of just serving people, in imitation of Christ and Blessed Mother. We defy God when we treat others like garbage unless they have money or power. We defy God by not being obedient to our confessors. We defy God when we are kind to people only because we want something from them.
We defy God when we are not pro-life. So much behavior in the Catholic world contributes to the abortion mentality (while we adamantly claim to be pro-life) because it is self serving and disregards the dignity of the human person. Catholics will be held especially accountable for this behavior, and we must include it in our examinations of conscience and in our confessions.
Catholics defy God when we treat others like they are worthless unless we can use them in some way, or when we ask them to get out of our way. We defy God when we refuse His generosity, and when we don't wait for Him to provide for us and choose to solicit people endlessly instead.
We defy God when we don't smile and say hello to people, even if we already just did so a thousand times in a row. We defy God when we always promote our own causes and never offer to reciprocate a kindness, or when we promote our own causes and offer to reciprocate but really only care about our own work. So many Catholics use people so they can help others of their choosing. We defy God when we use social networking sites and personal information to solicit people we could care less about, just to sell things to them and/or acquire more money.
This behavior is absolutely rampant in the Catholic Church in the United States, it is disgraceful, it has been largely tolerated (sometimes even reinforced and celebrated), and it has been causing Christ's Church to hemorrhage worldwide from within.
Disobedient Catholics are very mean people, because instead of mirroring Jesus they choose to mirror the devil.
DEFIANCE IS VERY COSTLY TO HUMANITY
Defiance comes with a very heavy price tag. Choosing to fulfill our own wills instead of accepting the will of God costs us, and also other people, much.
We must beg God on Calvary every day and also in the confessional, often, to heal humanity's often self-inflicted wounds and help us overcome our defiant natures!
TWO INSEPARABLE SACRAMENTS OF DIVINE INTIMACY
We see here the inseparable nature of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, where we are unified with Jesus in both His Divinity and in His Humanity, and the Sacrament of Reconciliation, commonly referred to as confession.
During both, we are at the foot of the Cross of Jesus, ask for grace, forgiveness, and healing and then receive them all through the redeeming power of His Precious Blood.
Christ instituted these Sacraments for our benefit, it is His will that we receive them often, and all we need can be obtained by our obedience.
DISCOVER OR REDISCOVER THE POWER OF HOLY HOUR
Consider making a Holy Hour before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (what a great way to prepare one's heart to enter into a Mystery), or after Holy Mass (while unified with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament following Holy Communion), or return to church later to give Christ the pleasure of your company. He is so in love with you!! Remain with Him, speak to Him openly and honestly, and listen to Him. Don't forget to ask the Lord what it is you can do for HIM.
We just cannot measure the value of these loving actions. Their delightful effects on humanity are absolutely colossal, because GOD IS SO GENEROUS! (great big smile)
Pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary while traveling along the Way of Sacrificial Love, from the Garden to Calvary, and then pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Perhaps while praying the last Sorrowful Mystery, the Lord will show you one of His Sacred Hands up close, nailed to the Cross.
He says to you, "I hold mankind's defiance in My Hand."
And there in His Hand you see a nail, running right through It.
You see that our defiance nailed Jesus to the Cross.
Profoundly Catholic Spiritual Warfare: Know God, Know Your Enemy, and Know How to Fight for the Right Side
Mankind has become so incredibly defiant. Our defiance has become so colossal that humanity is self destructing. We are absolutely gutting ourselves, and our weapon of choice is our defiance.
The Devil's Great Weapon Against Humanity
In the Presence of our Savior, we must ask the Lord to pour forth graces upon defiant humanity, and we must ask for the grace to overcome our defiant natures.
We must take the most important work of our time seriously, the Work of Reparation through the Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus. We must spread information about this vital work.
Our Lord wants to help us; if only we would let Him!
If only every human heart and soul would open itself up to all He wants to give it, and all He wants to accomplish for others through it!
Blessed Mother's Profoundly Catholic System of "Filing" Precious and Immortal Souls
OPERATION SEARCH AND RESCUE: COMBATING HUMANITY'S DEFIANCE
Perhaps the Lord will have you request that tiny particles of the Sacred Host that still repose on your tongue as you pray be collected by the angels, placed in monstrances, and positioned on the altars within every single human heart through all time.
Perhaps the Lord will show you one of those monstrances up close; you see that the Sacred Host is impaled with a nail.
God is so in love with us all.
Pray every single day for the conversion of sinners, that the devout faithful are strengthened on the battlefield, for the souls of the dying, and for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. God is at work in you!!
"Trust all things to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and to Mary,
Help of Christians, and you will see what miracles are."
~St. John
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Images taken at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Slovak Catholic Church,
Sterling Heights, Michigan, U.S.A.
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