OUR LADY:

Raise all your objects; all will be blessed especial blessings for your homes.

I bless you, my children, as the Father blesses you, through the Son and with the Holy Spirit.

First of all, Our Lord consoles Luz Amparo, who has expressed regret for her deep sorrow, searching – Our God! - being comforted too.

‘Yes, my daughter, here I am, I come to keep you company. Both you and Me are carrying the cross; lay on my chest (…) so that I can defend you against the enemy, but you also defend me against all the injuries and insults I had to suffer in Herod’s court. Look at the shame and confusion I felt when hearing the laughs and mockeries this man threw at me. Unceasingly offer acts of worship and amends and love for the salvation of souls. Today you are going to comfort me.’

It is not the first time Our Lord talks in such a way; Indeed, He and his Mother – the Blessed Virgin- have done so somehow through the years in the messages. Let us remember some of them:

• ‘I want you to make sacrifice, come to the Sacrament of Confession, and visit The Blessed Sacrament; my Son is sad and alone, with open arms waiting for all of you, my children; give him half an hour of your time, children of mine, He is so sad and so alone!’ ( Our Lady, July 30^th, 1983).

• ‘ Visit The Blessed Sacrament, my children; my Son is waiting for you. He is sad and alone; comfort him, my children, comfort him’ (Our Lady, August 15^th, 1983).

• ‘ Come to me – I shout to them- those who carry heavy loads because I will unload you. Come to me those who are hungry because I will give you food’. I also shout: ‘ come to me those who are thirsty because I will give you water. Come to me those who are sad because I will comfort you’. But you shut your ears, my children, to my calls. My heart is grief-stricken’ (Our Lord, February 1^st, 1986).

• How sad My Heart is! My daughter! I also want you to take part in this sadness, my daughter. I was innocent and I have told you many times that I paid for the guilty. Men say they love God, but what little comfort I receive from them! My daughter! (Our Lord, July 1^st, 2004)

Such heartfelt regrets should make us think how we – simple creatures- can console God.

An eucharistic poem, composed by Luz Amparo, talks to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament this way: ‘ Shouting you are to souls, / that they come to comfort/ this poor Prisoner, / who for love is dying (…)/ " Do you not feel pity for me? / - The Prisoner told me-. / Give me a little of your love, / for here I am thirsty". / Who of you can deny him that little of your love?’

The Holy Scripture shows like expressions of sadness and sorrow. Jesus Christ’s Passion fulfilled the prophetic psalm 68 (69)(1) whose verses clearly refer to Jesus who was hated for no reason (v.5), consumed by the zeal of his Father’s house (v. 10a), insulted by those who insulted God (v. 10b), given poison for food (v.22a) and vinegar for drink (v. 22b), and upon his enemies this psalm’s imprecations will be poured out (from v.23 on). He says in the 21st verse as an expression of great sorrow " Dishonour has driven me to despair; I look for sympathy and there was none, for comforters and there were no one". These regrets reflect such an abyss of humbleness and confusion that they seem a weak man’s complaints, but they were uttered by the One for whom everything was made.

In this message, Christ, speaking words that are able to move any sensitive soul, shows ways of comforting his Heart. They are written below and we can be put some of them into practice to comfort him:

• Keeping him company. He is especially pleased with our visits to his temples, where He remains alive and real in the Blessed Sacrament: ‘Do not leave me alone, be aware that many souls have forgotten me’

• Making good use of our time. We should not waste it in banalities: ‘There are so many (souls) that only think of having fun and not of their souls’

• Detaching ourselves from temporary possessions: ‘ They do not want to listen to me because their hearts are too much attached to earthly matters’.
  
  
• Sincere repentance and confession of our sins in the Sacrament of Penance: ‘ How much joy I feel when those souls confess their sins! How my sufferings are relieved when I see that they repent!’

• Acceptance of the cross as a sign of true love: ‘ There are souls who have been great sinners but they repent, and they really carry my cross. Those souls who have sinned so much! Many of them are the ones who really love me! Yes, my daughter, how much sorrow I feel when I see that many souls do not want to accept my cross!’

Besides, Our Lord teaches Luz Amparo a prayer of offering in sorrowful moments: ‘Oh, My Father, I offer you these sorrows and sufferings and this loneliness so that you may forgive and hold those souls when they pass from time into eternity’. Afterwards, during some minutes Amparo describes lively some passages from Our Lord’s Passion related to the moment when Christ made his journey to the Calvary with the Cross on his shoulders. This part of the message is actually relevant because this ecstasy takes place in the day of the Nativity of Our Lord, and the vision does not lead to any Joyful mystery of Jesus’ life. He answers this question saying that ‘Today I want you to comfort me because many souls condemn themselves these days; I want you not to separate from me. Beg My Father to forgive so many ungrateful souls who are offending him’. Here in these words we find the key: Christmas, a feast of joy and happiness, is often spent sinning and injuring God; therefore, it is not strange that Our Lord regrets about it. Sinful Humankind do not respect either religious festivals or sacred days when breaking divine laws.

Pope John Paul II preached with beautiful words on 25^th, December, 2002: "Christmas is a mystery of love. Love of the Father, who sent his only Son into this world that we might have life through him. ( 1 Jn 4,8-9). Love of "God with us", Emmanuel, who came to this world to die on the Cross. In the coldness ofthe cave where He was born, in the middle of silence, Our Mother the Virgin felt in her heart the drama of Calvary. It was an anguished fight between darkness and light, between death and life, between hate and love"

1 - Cf. J. Straubinger, Biblia Coment.