OUR LADY:

"Today my blessing is for all mothers; especially those who educate their children in dread of God.

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

COMMENTARY UPON MESSAGES

May 7th 1983 (Continuation)

"We need, my children, instruments for your salvation and you laugh at these instruments. If you laugh at them, you laugh at my Son, and if you laugh at my Son, you laugh at the Father, because the Father and the Son are the same; for this reason, He left everything in his Son's hands; He wanted his Son to show it to those he wished, my children. Don't be afraid, my child, I've told you before. My Son chose you, not you. So many would have wanted to see and hear what you've seen and heard! Blessed are your eyes, for they have seen all these things" (Our Lady).

As last month we commented this message, this month we will reflect upon other aspects.

There are lots of parallelisms between this paragraph and the Word, which we are going to show by writing the quotation in the message and its Bible concordances. This will prove again the close relationship between the messages and the Catholic doctrine:

· "We need, my children, instruments for your salvation" / "Go! This man is my chosen instrument to bring my name to the pagan nations and their kings, and the people of Israel as well" ( Acts 9, 15)

· "If you laugh at them, you laugh at my Son, and if you laugh at my Son, you laugh at the Father" / " Whoever listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me; and who rejects me, rejects the one who sends me" ( Lk 10, 16)

· "…because the Father And the Son are the same…" / " I and the Father are one" ( Jn 10, 30), " May they all be one as you Father are in me and I am in you. May they be one in us" ( Jn 17, 21)

· "He wanted his Son to show it to those he wished, my children." / "Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him" ( Mt 11, 27; Lk 10, 22)

· "Don't be afraid, my child, I've told you before" / "There nothing covered that will not be uncovered, and nothing hidden that will not be made known" ( MT 10, 26) " But Jesus came, touched them and said, " Stand up, do not be afraid" (Mt 17, 7)

· "My Son chose you, not you" / " You did not choose me; it was I who chose you" ( Jn 15, 16)

· "So many would have wanted to see and listen what you've seen and heard!" / " Go back and tell John what you have seen and heard" ( Lk 7, 22) " We cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard" ( Acts 4, 20)

"I'm going to ask all of you, my children, to go everywhere and preach the Holy Gospel, set and written by my Son" (Our Lady).

God is the author and the main reason of these inspired books; and therefore, Jesus Christ, who is God. We can say Jesus Christ set and wrote them because they contain his word and doctrine; the evangelists are the instruments; they wrote them under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. Another explanation would be that the expression "… and written by my Son…" could mean "be asserted"; in other words, God wanted to put the truth into sacred writings for the sake of salvation[1]

"Don't be afraid, my children, of those who can kill your body; you should fear the one who can send you to the bottom of Hell"

This clearly reminds us of Saint Matthew's Gospel: "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but have no power to kill the soul. Rather be afraid of him who can destroy both body and soul in Hell" (Mt 10, 28). Indeed, Christians should never be afraid because we are God's children; on the contrary, we should worry about the salvation of our souls and the possibility of losing them forever. The apostle Saint John says, "There is no fear in love. Perfect love drives away fear, for fear has to do with punishment; those who fear do not know perfect love. So let us love one another, since he loved us first" (1 John 4, 18-19). The Scriptures often talk about the dread of God, a wich is quite different from fear, for this last is opposed to love; if we don't love, we will be afraid. In those hard moments let us listen to Jesus words encouraging us, "It's Me; don't be afraid" (Mt 14, 27; Mk 6, 50; Jn 6, 20) "Do not be troubled; trust in God and trust in me" (Jn 14, 1).

Likewise, today's blessing should be understood in this sense, "Today my blessing is for all mothers; especially those who educate their children in dread of God" (Our Lady)

Those divinely revealed realities which are contained and presented in Sacred Scripture have been committed to writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. For holy mother Church, relying on the belief of the Apostles (see John 20:31; 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1:19-20, 3:15-16), holds that the books of both the Old and New Testaments in their entirety, with all their parts, are sacred and canonical because written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author and have been handed on as such to the Church herself.(1) In composing the sacred books, God chose men and while employed by Him (2) they made use of their powers and abilities, so that with Him acting in them and through them, (3) they, as true authors, consigned to writing everything and only those things which He wanted. (4)

Therefore, since everything asserted by the inspired authors or sacred writers must be held to be asserted by the Holy Spirit, it follows that the books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings (5) for the sake of salvation. Therefore "all Scripture is divinely inspired and has its use for teaching the truth and refuting error, for reformation of manners and discipline in right living, so that the man who belongs to God may be efficient and equipped for good work of every kind".