Another very special lesson from the Love of your eternal life.
LORD, SATURATE MY HEART WITH YOUR PRECIOUS BLOOD
Today's lesson begins during a Holy Hour before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and then continues into the afternoon after you return to church to visit with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in honor of the time He spent suffering on the Cross on Good Friday.
HOLY HOUR ~ IT BEGINS
While praying a Holy Hour during Eucharistic Adoration, so happy to be in the Real Presence of Jesus, our Lord suddenly presents Himself to the right of you in the center isle before the altar. Our Savior is right next to where you are kneeling, which is close to the altar because our Lord requested that His beloved pupil be near.
You find yourself with Jesus at the pillar during His Passion. Jesus is on the ground next to you. He is being violently kicked as He attempts to move, already so catastrophically injured, in His own Sacred Flesh and Blood which had landed on the ground during the horrific scourging.
What a moment; what a powerful lesson that has only just begun.
LORD, SATURATE MY HEART WITH YOUR PRECIOUS BLOOD
Today's lesson begins during a Holy Hour before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and then continues into the afternoon after you return to church to visit with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in honor of the time He spent suffering on the Cross on Good Friday.
HOLY HOUR ~ IT BEGINS
While praying a Holy Hour during Eucharistic Adoration, so happy to be in the Real Presence of Jesus, our Lord suddenly presents Himself to the right of you in the center isle before the altar. Our Savior is right next to where you are kneeling, which is close to the altar because our Lord requested that His beloved pupil be near. You find yourself with Jesus at the pillar during His Passion. Jesus is on the ground next to you. He is being violently kicked as He attempts to move, already so catastrophically injured, in His own Sacred Flesh and Blood which had landed on the ground during the horrific scourging.
What a moment; what a powerful lesson that has only just begun.
DIVINE UNION AND CREATION WITH A TWIST
You are holding the souls of the people you are praying for in your hands, and in a loving action of thought that is another form of prayer, intercede for them before the King of our hearts.
Jesus then tells you to take the souls you are praying for, the more the better, and toss them into the air (in another action of thought) right there at the pillar, so they will cascade down and land on His Precious Body and Blood covering the ground before the altar.
Jesus then tells you to take the souls you are praying for, the more the better, and toss them into the air (in another action of thought) right there at the pillar, so they will cascade down and land on His Precious Body and Blood covering the ground before the altar.
You follow Jesus' instructions and as the precious, priceless, and immortal souls mystically meet with His Sacred Body and Blood, the souls combine with Christ's Flesh and Blood and every single one of them transform into keys!
CHANNELS OF GRACE
Jesus tells you that the keys symbolize His working through the devout faithful who are willing to submit to God's will and be used at His good pleasure as instruments of sanctification for countless souls through all time.
Our Lord then elaborates further and tells His fine pupil that nails work the same way. Remember from a previous lesson that it was man's defiance that nailed Jesus' hands and feet to the Cross.
When you accept God's will in good times and in bad, for poorer, in sickness and in good health, never to be parted, when you welcome trials, endure them patiently, and trust in the Lord with absolute confidence, these "nails" counteract mankind's defiance and function like keys.
Our good Shepherd makes every effort to seek out and return His lost sheep to His flock.
When you accept God's will in good times and in bad, for poorer, in sickness and in good health, never to be parted, when you welcome trials, endure them patiently, and trust in the Lord with absolute confidence, these "nails" counteract mankind's defiance and function like keys.
Our good Shepherd makes every effort to seek out and return His lost sheep to His flock.
HEARTS COMPLETELY SATURATED WITH HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD
The lesson continues during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Just prior to Holy Communion, the Lord inspires you to ask
Him to absolutely saturate your entire heart with His Precious Blood on this Saint Valentine's Day, which you had already emptied for Jesus so He can fill you completely with Himself.
When our priest Fathers and Deacons saturate the Sacred Hosts with Christ’s Precious Blood during intinction , this lesson is well represented visually and becomes a key as communicants are provided a clearer conceptualization of this reality as they receive and are unified with Christ’s Sacred Heart.
The Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ, which beats through the power of sacrificial love, pumps His eternal life-saving Precious Blood throughout the members of His Church, sustaining Her and all Her members.
When our priest Fathers and Deacons saturate the Sacred Hosts with Christ’s Precious Blood during intinction , this lesson is well represented visually and becomes a key as communicants are provided a clearer conceptualization of this reality as they receive and are unified with Christ’s Sacred Heart.
The Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ, which beats through the power of sacrificial love, pumps His eternal life-saving Precious Blood throughout the members of His Church, sustaining Her and all Her members.
Jesus has you place the hearts of all those He inspired you to pray for within your heart at that time, and as they all come into contact with Christ’s Precious Blood as the faithful are unified with Jesus in the Sacrament of Love, these souls transform into more
keys as had happened during Holy Hour This time, the transformation is taking place at the foot of the
Cross instead of at the pillar.This same action of thought can be accomplished throughout the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and while praying the Stations of the Cross, the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, your favorite devotion, or any time you pray.
Certainly, receiving the Sacrament of Confession at the foot of the Cross can and should be tied in with this lesson as well.
Perform this action of thought as a magnificent prayer as precious souls unite with Christ's Precious Blood in the Garden of Gethsemane, as Jesus is crowned with Thorns, as He carries the Cross, and even as His Sacred Body lies in repose in tomb awaiting His glorious and triumphant Resurrection.
God loves us so lavishly. Love Him, and others, extravagantly in return.
The pupil has a question for Jesus at the end of this part of the lesson.
"Jesus, how can we get the keys out of our hearts so we can use them?"
He replies that the keys are metaphors for the work we accomplish serving others with love in imitation of Christ and Blessed Mother.
"Jesus, how can we get the keys out of our hearts so we can use them?"
He replies that the keys are metaphors for the work we accomplish serving others with love in imitation of Christ and Blessed Mother.
FROM CHANNELS TO GATES
From time to time in the past, Jesus has shown you channels in the church. They extend from wherever you are seated to the altar. They are always perfectly symmetrical, and they vary in width. Sometimes they are wide, sometimes they are very narrow, but always they are symmetrical, and always they are lined with people.
Sometimes they lead to the tabernacle, sometimes to the lectern, sometimes to the Body and Blood of Jesus on the altar, and sometimes to the pulpit.
Today, you see something different. It is not the first time you are shown this, but it is the first time Jesus grants you an understanding of what you see.
Today there is a gate before you, and it is made up of people. This sight is very familiar to you, as if you are seeing an old and dear friend. It is a very joyful sight to you; how people perceive this sight depends upon how they choose to live.
Sometimes they lead to the tabernacle, sometimes to the lectern, sometimes to the Body and Blood of Jesus on the altar, and sometimes to the pulpit.
Today, you see something different. It is not the first time you are shown this, but it is the first time Jesus grants you an understanding of what you see.
Today there is a gate before you, and it is made up of people. This sight is very familiar to you, as if you are seeing an old and dear friend. It is a very joyful sight to you; how people perceive this sight depends upon how they choose to live.
Jesus reveals to you that when you serve other people they make up the gates of
heaven, the gates that will be before each one of us individually when
we enter into eternity.
Since this metaphorical gateway to heaven before you is made up of people, you must make every effort to help others get there. Our individual gates will be made up of the people we assisted throughout our lives.
Since this metaphorical gateway to heaven before you is made up of people, you must make every effort to help others get there. Our individual gates will be made up of the people we assisted throughout our lives.
"We beg You, give us the light for the mind to see Your will and strength for our free will to conform our own selfish wills to Your divine will so that through us, dear Jesus, we might bring others to heaven with us because none of us will reach heaven alone. We shall either bring others to heaven with us, or we shall not reach our eternal destiny ourselves." ~Father John A. Hardon, S.J., Sanctity Through the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
SEPARATION, DIVINE UNION, AND CREATION
Jesus continues the lesson after you return to church that afternoon to pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary while keeping Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament company for this precious time on Friday between the hours of noon and the Divine Mercy Hour.
DIVINE UNION AND CREATION
Jesus greatly desires that you spend some time each day with Him meditating on His Sacred Passion, Crucifixion, and on your Redemption. He is so in love with us all.
During previous lessons and also today, Jesus has presented Himself at the pillar, His Sacred Body ripped to shreds, as pieces of His Body and His Sacred Blood project through the air, land on the ground, sow the seeds of faith, and also mystically land on and cover everyone contemplating these sacred mysteries during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, while making an examination of conscience and/or sacramental confession, and/or while praying.
Jesus allowed His Precious Blood to pour out for us completely as He was kicked and beaten, scourged, crowned with thorns, mocked, hated, covered with malice, as He fell while carrying the Cross, His Holy Face completely disfigured.
As Jesus was raised upright on the Cross, the Precious Blood streamed from His Sacred Body which had been inexpressibly pulled apart then immobilized to the Cross with three nails.
As Jesus was raised upright on the Cross, the Precious Blood streamed from His Sacred Body which had been inexpressibly pulled apart then immobilized to the Cross with three nails.
Jesus defeated evil with sacrificial love when He allowed Himself to be ripped apart
(physically and mentally) and also pulled apart (physically and mentally).
SEPARATED UNION
During this part of the lesson, Jesus has you share in His Passion. You suddenly find yourself united with Him during the suffering He endured as His Sacred Body was pulled apart when He was nailed to the Cross.
You are briefly overcome with emotion by the powerful experience of being united with our suffering Savior and experiencing a very intimate glimpse of God's unfathomable and incomprehensible love for every single person collectively, and also you very personally.
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.
God's love changes everything, and there is an unlimited supply.
You are briefly overcome with emotion by the powerful experience of being united with our suffering Savior and experiencing a very intimate glimpse of God's unfathomable and incomprehensible love for every single person collectively, and also you very personally.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.
God's love changes everything, and there is an unlimited supply.
DIVINE DIVISION AND
UNITY
Jesus has prepared you well for the rest of today's lesson, which has to do with conquering evil and saving precious, priceless, and immortal souls through all time and for all eternity.
You are a very important part of the Lord's profoundly Catholic search and rescue special forces!
Jesus arms His gentle, peaceful, obedient, and humble special forces with many graces through the sacraments, and feeds and sustains them with Himself in the Holy Eucharist. He also provides them with the elite assistance of His Most Holy Mother, and also the angels, the martyrs, the saints, the Holy Innocents, and the Holy Souls in Purgatory.
The members of God's army are vast in number, and they know for certain that they fight for the winning side.
You are a very important part of the Lord's profoundly Catholic search and rescue special forces!
Jesus arms His gentle, peaceful, obedient, and humble special forces with many graces through the sacraments, and feeds and sustains them with Himself in the Holy Eucharist. He also provides them with the elite assistance of His Most Holy Mother, and also the angels, the martyrs, the saints, the Holy Innocents, and the Holy Souls in Purgatory.
The members of God's army are vast in number, and they know for certain that they fight for the winning side.
SPIRITUAL OPPOSITES
Jesus allowed Himself to be torn to pieces, and His Body separated, to save
us. He continues to allow Himself to be broken and divided so everyone has the opportunity to receive Him in Holy
Communion, be fortified, and made whole.
The devil seeks to divide in order to conquer. He even sought to divide and destroy God.
Our Lord unifies in order to save. He seeks to unite and save us all.
As you pray the Holy Rosary, Jesus tells you of the divisions and separations you have suffered in your life. He explains that these losses resulting from the assaults of the devil are metaphors for His Passion and
Death.
Jesus assures you that great good will be accomplished through you and much evil will be defeated. He desires to use you, you and your family, and you and your parish family as powerful channels of grace for unification and restoration.
WELCOME TO THE ERA OF PROFOUNDLY CATHOLIC RESTORATION AND EDUCATION
Jesus assures you that great good will be accomplished through you and much evil will be defeated. He desires to use you, you and your family, and you and your parish family as powerful channels of grace for unification and restoration.
WELCOME TO THE ERA OF PROFOUNDLY CATHOLIC RESTORATION AND EDUCATION
Sacrificially giving, projecting, and dividing what we have to serve as
Jesus did defeats the forces of darkness because these loving actions unify and restore.
God is at work in you!
God is at work in you!
Sweet and gentle Jesus, thank You for that very powerful lesson. Thank You for loving us all so much. Thank You for Your magnificent offers of salvation and sanctification. I accept! I renew my vows to you on this Saint Valentine's Day, give myself entirely to You for the accomplishment of Your will, and promise to love and honor You, all the days of my life."
© Joseph Karl Publishing /Michele Bondi Bottesi
_____________© Joseph Karl Publishing /Michele Bondi Bottesi
Source:
1. Father John A. Hardon, S.J., Sanctity Through the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, Assumption Grotto Church, Detroit, MI, U.S.A., March 16, 1996. Copyright © 1996 Inter Mirifica.
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He longs for your love in return.
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"By My Holy Face you
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~ Jesus to Sr. Mary of St. Peter
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~St. John Bosco
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