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.
LESSONS FOR YOU DURING ADVENT
Lesson 1: "Ascend Higher!"
Lesson 2: The Light of the World
Lesson 3: A Present for You from Jesus.
Lesson 4: A Mother/Son Rescue and the Powerful Weapon in Your Hand.
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.
LESSON FIVE: LIVE ENTIRELY FOR JESUS AND ALLOW HIM TO GUIDE YOUR SOUL TO PERFECTION
"...if you want to live wholly for Him and attain that perfection He desires of you, you must make a complete sacrifice of yourself and of all that you have, without reserve, to His Sacred Heart. You must no longer will anything but with the will of this most loving Heart, love nothing except with His love, act only according to the lights He gives you, undertake nothing without first asking His counsel and help.
"All the glory must be His.
"You must thank Him for the ill as well as for the good success of your undertakings, always satisfied, never worrying about anything.
"As long as this divine Heart is satisfied, loved, and gloried, that must be enough for us. If you wish, then, to be numbered among His friends, you will offer Him this sacrifice of yourself some first Friday after Communion.
"This Communion you will offer for this intention and then consecrate yourself entirely to Him, in order that you may render Him and procure for Him all the love, honor, and glory you can.
"In all this you must follow His inspirations. After that you will not regard yourself in any other way than as belonging to and dependent upon the adorable Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ. You must have recourse to It in all your necessities and take up your abode there in so far as you can. He will make up for what is wanting in your imperfect actions and sanctify your good ones if only you conform yourself in everything to His holy will.
"He has great plans in store for you. He will procure much glory for Himself through you if you will only let Him do so." 1
~Saint Margaret Mary Alocoque
The beginning.
"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
Source:
Translated from the French of the revised Gauthey edition of 1920 by Fr. Clarence A. Herbst, S.J., The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Apostle of the Sacred Heart (Charlotte, N.C.: Tan Books, 2012), pp. 37-38.
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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,"
visit: Work of Reparation Through the Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus
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