BLESSING OF JANUARY 1ST, 2005. 1ST SATURDAY OF MONTH.
AT PRADO NUEVO. EL ESCORIAL (MADRID)

 

Our Lady:

Raise all your objects; all will be blessed with special blessings for poor dying people.

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

 

COMMENTARY UPON MESSAGES
March 12th, 1982


Don’t be afraid, my daughter, here I am, don’t be afraid of anything, think about God’s divine Will" (Our Lord).

It was recently pointed out the importance of seeking God’s Will and fulfilling it to get to sanctification. This time Our Lord encourages Luz Amparo to think about that " divine Will" to set any fear aside and accept whatever He may give to her.

" What is sanctity?" Pope John Paul II once asked, and he answered, "It is exactly the joy of fulfilling God’s Will". In fact, The Saint Priest of Ars offers us a bright teaching related to temptations, "I don’t know if you get to understand what temptation is. Temptation is not only thoughts of impurity, hatred, revenge, but also every disturbance that may come such as an illness which lead us to complain, a slander said against us, an injustice made against us, the loss of goods or properties, the death of our father, mother, a child. If we gladly submit ourselves to God’s will, then we will not fall into temptation because the Lord wants us to suffer that for his love, whereas the Devil tries to make us mutter against God".

"I also tell you what I’ve already said to other souls: I’m thirsty, thirsty for souls who offer my Heart a comfort that is equal to the sufferings caused by so many sinners".

 The Blessed Theresa of Calcutta said, "Jesus is God; therefore, his love, his thirsty is infinite. Our aim is extinguishing that infinite thirst of a God made Man". The Missioners of Charity, which she founded, use to have the words "I’m thirsty" next to the face of Crucified Jesus in their chapels.

"I really need victims, but strong victims to calm the Eternal Father’s Fair and Divine Wrath. I need souls whose daily sufferings, afflictions, discomforts make up for men’s malice and wrath and ungratefulness".

 He refers again to victim souls; He needs them to make up for those who behaviour wickedly wrathfully and ungratefully when divine goods come.

How should we understand "the Eternal Father’s Fair and Divine Wrath"? It is not indeed one of the Deadly Sins because it is unbelievable there would be any defect or wish of revenge in Him. However, it could be a sign of his Justice or zeal for his glory, which appears in the Holy Scriptures, "You have been sold to the nations but not for your destruction; because you had aroused the anger of God, you were delivered to your enemies" the prophet Baruch said (4, 6). "Thus says your Lord Yahweh, your God, defender of your people’s cause: See I am taking out of your hand the cup of trembling; the cup of my anger- you will drink of it no more" (Is 51, 22). Let us remember that passage from Saint John’s Gospel where Jesus drives merchants out of the Temple court, "In the Temple court he found merchants selling oxen, sheep and doves, and money chargers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the Temple court, together with the oxen and sheep.He knocked over the tables of the money chargers, scattering the coins, and ordered the people selling doves, "Take all this away and stop turning my Father’s house into a market place!" His disciples recalled the words of Scripture: Zeal for your house devours me as fire" (Jn 2, 14-17).

Apart from this, Saint Anthony Mary Zachary preached, "Our enemies do bad to themselves, but they do us a good turn because they help us get the crown of the eternal glory, whereas they arouse God’s wrath upon them; For this, we should have pity on them and love them in spite of hating them and abhorring them".

"All those are spreading false doctrines; they aren’t my sheep! My sheep listen to my voice and I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life and they shall never perish. My Father keeps them, and if they are with my Father, they are with me because I and my Father are one".

In this great duty of salvation, beginning walking the path is not enough; it is necessary reaching the aim, which is Heaven. "Whoever stands firm to the end will be saved", Jesus Christ says in his Gospel (Mt 10, 22; Mt 24, 13; Mk 13, 13) Therefore, practicing the virtue of perseverance is an essential point; it helps men to fight to the end and it controls certain types of passions such as the fear of fatigue or weakness caused by the long lasting trial (cf. Theological Summa, Saint Thomas of Aquinas, II-II, q. 137, a.2, ad 2). We should distinguish perseverance from constancy; Saint Thomas relates them to the cardinal virtue of Strength and he explains, "Perseverance and constancy have the same aim because both want man to remain firm in the practice of any good work. They differ, however, in the obstacles that make persistence in good works difficult; They virtue of perseverance helps him going on in spite of and against any difficulty coming from the duration of the action, whereas constancy makes him being firm against any difficulty coming from all outer obstacles". (Theological Summa II- II, q.137, a.3).