The Third Lesson of Advent: A Present for You from Jesus

Be surprised by Jesus during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with an eternal gift to adorn your soul as you prepare your heart to meaningfully and more intimately celebrate His birthday.
 

As we sing, "O come, let us adore Him!" Jesus sings to us, "O come, let Me adorn you!" 

Don't ever just be Catholic;  be PROFOUNDLY Catholic!  Especially this time of year when we prepare our hearts to celebrate the coming of our Lord.

There is always so much more of His love to discover and then keep rediscovering.

Our Savior longs for our love in return;  accept His love!  He loves us all so lavishly.  Love Jesus lavishly in return.

Find yourself blissfully lost in His Divine embrace; be enveloped within love so great we just cannot even fathom It.  Christ's waiting, welcoming, loving, compassionate, and merciful arms are open wide, for you!

Go to Him, discover Him, then discover Him ever more intimately, and as you do so guide other precious, immortal souls to Christ.

OTHER ADVENT LESSONS FOR YOU

Lesson 1: "Ascend Higher!"  

Lesson 2:  The Light of the World

Lesson 4:  A Mother/Son Rescue and the Powerful Weapon in Your Hand.

Lesson 5:  Living Entirely for Jesus as He Guides Your Soul to Perfection.

Lesson 6:  On Determination: The Only Spiritual Defeats are the Ones We are Willing to Accept.


More than thirty meditations on Christ's Passion  to help guide you during Advent and Christmas into some serious Divine intimacy with the Love of your eternal life:  Meditating on Christ's Passion.

Be sure to meditate on Christ's Passion every single day.   

"He who desires to go on advancing from virtue to virtue, from grace to grace, should meditate continually on the Passion of Jesus..There is no practice more profitable for the entire sanctification of the soul than the frequent meditation of the sufferings of Jesus Christ."  ~ Saint Bonaventure

A THIRD ADVENT LESSON FROM JESUS

Today's lesson is shared with you during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, just prior to your soul's daily wedding to Christ.

During the Consecration, Jesus surprises you with a sparkling mystical diamond in a ring.  

What a beautiful surprise, you say to Jesus without uttering a word.  What is it for?

Between the Consecration and Holy Communion, Jesus quietly  explains His beautiful surprise.

Our Lord compares Himself to a devoted husband who loves to adorn His beloved spouse with beautiful ornaments to honor her.

He loves to adorn us with beautiful ornaments just like we love to decorate at this time of year with ornaments to celebrate Him!
   

Jesus tells you that you will be wearing these ornaments, these diamonds, in heaven. 

The diamonds are merited throughout our lifetimes by our labor, and are given  for our efforts to bring honor and glory to God.

LABOR, LIFE, AND LOVE

Jesus uses the following true story to illustrate this to you.

There was a husband and father who owned a jewelry store.  Each time his wife delivered a new baby, he would upgrade the size of the diamond in her wedding ring and present the new, larger diamond to her in the  hand of their newborn child.

Eventually she had a very large diamond in the center of her ring.  That diamond symbolized how God's love grew through the couple's union and sacrificial love, and led to the creation of new precious, immortal souls to love and give love.       

God's love is never sterile. 

Did you know that every single time you are unified with Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, God creates something new through your union with Him?

God creates something wonderful with you, again and again and again and again.

That is why the devil works so hard to keep people away from going to church and receiving the two sacraments of Divine intimacy:  the Blessed Sacrament and the Sacrament of Reconciliation.    

God loves lavishly;  how lavish are you?   Love extravagantly, together with our Lord.
  

Jesus tells you that His mystical diamonds are presented to us for our labors, which includes patient suffering, sacrificing, the practice of heroic virtue, growing in self mastery and for so many things, mostly the small, simple, and hidden ways we love others extravagantly in imitation of Christ.   

Very special eternal diamonds are given to us by our Lord when we are wounded, that is to say, when we have consented to be transformed into Christ's likeness.

JESUS LOVES YOU LAVISHLY
 

Immediately after you return to your pew during Holy Communion, while unified with the Love of your eternal life, Jesus tells you that the diamonds He presents to us with love for our having loved represent precious, immortal souls.

Receiving that revelation by Jesus as you are unified with His Real Presence is one of the most beautiful moments of your life.   

Our Lord loves and values every single one of us beyond measure.

He loves us lavishly throughout the entire Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, every single moment and in so many different ways!  

LABOR FOR LOVE

Jesus has something else to show you;  He has another gift for you!

Our Savior is holding a diamond necklace in His Sacred Hands.  

The design of the necklace looks something like a grid.  The grid serves as the structure of the necklace, and it is adorned with many diamonds.

To conclude this lesson, Jesus shows you the  mystical necklace you will wear for all eternity in greater detail.

The grid is constructed of the same material used to make fishing nets.

The diamonds represent precious, immortal souls.

"Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch"(Luke 5:4).

LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP

Sacrificial love is the most powerful force in the universe.

Sacrificial love is so strong that the bonds formed by it cannot ever be broken and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it. 

Allow sacrificial love to bind your soul to God, forever. 

Allow the power of God's sacrificial love to transform you into a tremendous channel of grace for the massive conversion of sinners. 

God is at work in you!

“Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19). 

  
"Trust all things to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and to Mary, Help of Christians,

and you will see what miracles are."  

~ Saint John Bosco 

  

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THE POWERFUL DEVOTION TO THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS

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which our Lord, Jesus Christ called  "the most beautiful work under the sun,"    
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