The poker game metaphor continues in Traditional Catholic Detroit in modern times through the spending of the self as Almighty God wills, in imitation of and in union with Christ. “We are each of us like a small mirror in which God searches for His reflection.” ~ Saint John Vianney
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SO INCREDIBLY HAPPY, CONTENT, AND AT PEACE BUT CANNOT FEEL IT AT ALL
“We do not have to talk very much in order to pray well. We know that God is there in His Holy Tabernacle; let us open our hearts to him; let us rejoice in His Presence. This is the best prayer.” ~ Saint John Vianney
You are so happy to be back to attending the daily Traditional Tridentine Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at St. Joseph's, so happy to be working at the properly caring clinic, so happy in the peace and quiet and holy hiddenness while at home, but could not feel this joy at all the past six months and still cannot feel it since conceding the brutal special mission that suddenly and unexpectedly began this past March.
Actually, the day you conceded was a very happy one because you understand that it is in losing that we win.
You now have what you have wanted most in the world at this time in your life: a return to the daily celebration of the Traditional Tridentine Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in Latin at the small, quiet, and hidden church of your dreams.
You work in the clinic of your dreams, with the team of your dreams, serving the patients of your dreams.
Your health has been restored by the doctor of your dreams, who together as One with Jesus Christ is responsible for your return to the church of your dreams and has made it possible for you to be able to work at the clinic of your dreams.
However, all you continue to feel is overwhelmed by a great and mysterious apostolic weight that has been recently manifested as a six-month poker game that was recently conceded after the spending of one's self had been placed into the pot with no strings attached and knowing all would be personally lost, and now ever more that is of eternal value through the spending of the self continues to be added to this pot by Almighty God in union with the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament - after all hope of winning it was willingly given up as He willed in imitation of the life of Christ on the Cross on Mount Calvary.
True love, sacrificial love, spends itself as Almighty God wills for each one, in imitation of and in union with Christ.
Such love is so strong that the bonds forged by it cannot ever be broken, and the very gates of hell cannot prevail against it.
"HE DOESN'T HAVE WHAT HE NEEDS YET": THE GREAT WEIGHT DURING THE TRADITIONAL TRIDENTINE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS ON THIS FINAL SATURDAY IN SEPTEMBER 2024
So many things have happened the past six months, brutal but also beautiful.
However, something about the past six months remains unconcluded after having suddenly been prompted from On High to fold your hand.
What wonders; the pot for it continues to grow as I AM continues to have you add to it.
The metaphor for what remains is I AM's Work of Reparation to the Holy Face of Jesus and its immeasurable value in Almighty God's Divine Economy of Salvation.
Your mood is very somber on this morning and while it hurts immensely, you are well aware that your mood does not matter.
The only thing that matters is wanting what God wants, as and when He wants it, with purity of intention and devoid of self interest.
You speak with God about what He experiences when souls redeemed by Christ through the sacrificing of Himself have strayed, and comparing that thought with your unfathomable suffering cannot imagine the longing our Creator and Savior has for just one stray soul let alone so many.
And right here, right now, you are unified with God in the Blessed Sacrament: One love and One apostolic mission.
What wonders!
There are so many questions for Jesus while awaiting His responses throughout the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass honoring God as He wills, particularly now while unified with the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
What a(nother) spectacular daily wedding to the Divine Bridegroom of every soul in God's House on Mount Calvary.
While so glad, so happy, so satisfied, and so grateful to be unified with Jesus during Holy Communion, all you feel is this great and overwhelming weight of whatever our Triune God still seeks to accomplish through His Work of Reparation to the Holy Face of Jesus in modern times.
Show us Your will and Your strength, O Lord.
How long will this go on, you wonder.
Then suddenly came Jesus' reply, which is a metaphor for what takes place in general every time we allow God to use us as channels of His lavish Divine supernatural graces for a world so lost and in such great need of Him, every time we are willing to pray and make reparation for ourselves and also for our fellow man:
"He does not have what he needs yet."
So the pot continues to grow for the one who Almighty God favors, through the spending of the self as He wills, in imitation of and in union with Christ.
"Do whatever He tells you" (John 2:5).
The Work of Reparation to the Holy Face of Jesus
Traditional Catholic Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.