Come Jesus, Come

Posted on October 30, 2025 by veilofveronica
Father Louis Rojas gets illuminated while lifting the host for Consecration 2024

I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me, just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father, and I lay down My life for the sheep.  I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.…John 10:14-18

I have found myself alarmed at the amount of lies in the “shorts” on all these different platforms. From AI, to just plain ignorance and made up things, it is all there to rile you up into a rage or send you into fear. Rage and fear blind. When you are blind, you cannot see truth.

Long ago, back in 2020 I got off of almost all social media. Back then, I didn’t want to box in the digital foray of hatred, prejudgment and division. I wanted to be able to meet people in person, to dance with joy in the dance of life and relationship. I wanted reality. Heaven’s reality because the Kingdom of God is at hand. I still long for this and do my best to have face to face interaction because it doesn’t dehumanize people.

… “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:15

I wanted to stand in confidence of the Lord and not the number of likes and subscribers. I still try to make a concerted effort to guard what gets put into my mind. When I went on the silent retreat at Bethany House it became all the more clear, the need to turn off the noise as much as possible.

Turning off the distractions has not isolated me, rather, when I encounter a person, or when I teach class, I am more engaged. I am able to teach the hard things to my OCIA class with more clarity and less fear, even as there is more pushback. I have no courage on my own, but with Christ, all things are possible.

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26

This is not to say that everyone out there has to choose the path I have chosen. Know thyself. For me, this is the best way to keep God at the center of things as I see things falling apart around me.

I want to recognize my Master’s voice and not be fooled because of distractions that have me looking somewhere other than the Face of Jesus. Rage or feeling like I have secret knowledge or thinking I know a person’s deepest intentions distract me from the one who loves me. It serves to get me looking at outward issues that cause me to build walls around my heart. When I recess into the depths of my heart, and I hand everything there to my Jesus, then the walls come tumbling down. I become vulnerable – to the Lord – and it is there that I am in His will. I am naked and unashamed because He sees all of me and He chooses to save me and wash away my sin. I don’t have to worry because there is no ulterior motive in my heart except to love Him which enables me to better love others.

As I was pondering all these things, I set off to Mass yesterday, October 29, 2025, and for the first time in a long while, the Lord sent me consolation.

It was the third elevation. Our Priest held up the broken host and said, “Behold the Lamb of God“. I saw in my mind and prayer, Jesus’ broken body on the cross. I saw His blood pour into the chalice. I knew with a deep knowing that the chalice vessel represented the Church that His blood poured into. When the Priest consumed the Body and Blood, I knew that Jesus was glorified by that act. I knew that a Pentecost was happening inside the Priest. I knew that the Priest must protect the chalice, the church. And I knew when He came down off of the altar for us to receive that we were receiving the Glorified Christ and He would purify. I saw all this come through the action of the Priest. Heaven’s bridge. I understood why the Priest should face a crucifix during the consecration prayers and why the chalice needs protecting and to be treated with delicacy, like a bride.

The scene made me cry. Heaven really is colliding with earth on that altar through the Priest. These are things I already knew, but when God brings consolation through a deep and piercing way, it is humbling to witness and makes me want to pray more for the salvation of souls and for the strengthening of the Priesthood.

It makes me want to keep my oil lamp lit. To persevere until the end.

But the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. Matthew 25:4

As I laid down to sleep last night, I was awakened with the words of a song. Come, Jesus Come.

Until then, we wait and we pray. God Bless you all.

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How Is It That You Sought Me?

Posted on October 20, 2025 by veilofveronica
William Holman Hunt 1860 – The Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple

and And his mother kept all these things in her heart. Luke 2:19

This weekend I went to the Bethany Retreat House for a retreat on She said yes: Rediscovering God’s Loving Will, led by Father Arturo Merriman. It was a beautiful weekend and I finally felt like I was entering a new dawn where the aridity and silence of God didn’t seem so desolating. I don’t feel empty anymore.

The retreat weekend was based on Lectio Divina and Father Merriman had us focus on specific situations in the life of Mary from Mary’s perspective. So of course, for me, the reading that stuck out was the Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple. The reason this stuck out is because Mary, after having lost Jesus, scripture tells us she had great anxiety.

Son, why have you treated us so?Behold, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously. Luke 2:48

Have you ever experienced great anxiety? Especially when it comes to your children? Or perhaps you read the headlines and you lose sleep at night. Maybe a Bishop has taken away your worship and sent you into despair and anxiety over the banning of something good, true and beautiful in a world that has already lost so much of that.

What are we to do when these things happen? We should take a look at Mary and what Jesus taught her that day in the Temple. Can you relate to Mary’s anxiety?

In the translation I have (The Great Adventure Bible RSV), Jesus asks her a question this way;

How is it that you sought me? Luke 2:49

And if you look earlier in the passage it tells us;

they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances. Luke 2:44

It goes on further to state;

and when they did not find him they returned to Jerusalem. Luke 2:45

We know that Mary did not sin, so seeking him by going to the relatives and acquaintances is not a bad thing, but Jesus seems to be directing her elsewhere;

Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house? Luke 2:49

Mary’s response is to keep all these things in her heart.

As I was reading this I thought about my own life and the times I get anxious. I often run to friends or relatives to talk about my anxiety. Sometimes for me this can cross into gossip and sin. The anxiety ends up growing larger. And while Mary literally found Jesus in the Temple, there is an underlying message Jesus is giving here.

Do you not know that you are God’s Temple? 1 Corinthians 3:16

Have we taken our anxiety to prayer. Have we let the Lord into the deepest recesses of our hearts. I know I sometimes get off track. Prayer is the very first place we should go when we find ourselves anxious. We should let the Lord examine the deepest parts of the heart.

The Priest who led the retreat, Fr Merriman, told us we have to be real with everything we tell the Lord. He said Mary let Jesus know of her desire for her friends not to run out of wine at the wedding at Cana, and then left it to Him to figure out. She didn’t go fretting to her friends in this situation about the lack of wine.

I have often felt like I am not doing God’s will or felt conflicted as to what His will may be in certain situations. Father Merriman told me just to make a list of my desires. Not a list of what I think God desires, but a list of my desires. He said I was then to bring those desires before the Lord and work them out with Him one by one. He assured me that if a desire was bad, the Lord would let me know.

This exercise was very freeing. I wrote down a whopping 5 pages of desires. I realized that even though I have taught everyone to be so open with God, that many of my anxieties, even about my own children, come from a false idea of what I think God wants or how a good Christian should be. When I was able to speak my own desires and own them as my own, the Lord was able to do great work in me because the deepest parts of my soul and heart were laid bare. I could see more clearly how He wants to mold me in love and how best to love my children. I could even hand my children over to God so much more easily when I made myself more vulnerable.

God made Himself vulnerable to us and still does every day in the Eucharist. To be vulnerable is to be childlike. This is how we should seek Him. This is where we will find Him.

God Bless all of you.

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The level of the Woman

Posted on October 2, 2025 by veilofveronica
Our Lady of Sorrows  by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato,

“To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.” Venerable Fulton Sheen

In the early morning hours of September 18, 2025, I had a very vivid dream. In my dream I was in a big giant circular church that had stained glass windows but they were devoid of any pictures of Saints, it was like a mishmash of broken glass pieces with no story to tell. This church was huge and I was there for a Mass. Except it wasn’t a Mass. I could see Bishops and Cardinals of the Church and there was talk of sharing a meal with God’s people, but there was no Holy Sacrifice, no offering to the Father by the Son through the Holy Spirit. It was a fake Mass and fake worship. I could see and hear whispering serpents. Christ was not the center of this. In fact, He wasn’t mentioned at all. It was totally focused on people, not on Christ. There was no effort by Catholics to convert. And the world outside was chaos.

I could also see that there were these places, more private and more hidden, with Priests saying real Mass, sometimes alone in a secluded room. Their interior posture was one of intercession. They were interceding trying to make the bride of the church beautiful again, not because they thought themselves better, but because they saw themselves as so small next to the good and gracious God that they poured all that they had into loving Him.

This has been a recurring theme for me. That there will come a time when the Eucharist is removed in the name of Ecumenism. Ecumenism is a noble cause to pursue, but not to the detriment of leaving behind the great commission.

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20

As I went to prayer today, I pondered this, and I felt the Lord speaking to me.

“The era of the Holy Spirit will be the era of the Heart of Mary in My people. This is the triumph. Make reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and families will be healed and order will be restored.”

There is an urgency and a hope in looking to Mary. The level of the Woman, who is Mary, is the ushering in of the Divine Will, which lived in her from her conception to her natural death and beyond. When we honor Mary, we give glory to God. It isn’t as if when we honor holy people it takes something away from the being of God. God is ALL being, and honoring those who honor Him, brings greater glory to everyone.

Heaven has advised us many times to make reparation. I grow disappointed these days when I see no First Saturday Mass or promotion of it at our parishes. As devotion decreases, as the liturgy is abused, society has become violent. There is a direct connection between these things. The woman (the church) has become so secularized and casual she has lost her dignity. But the message of Fatima still resounds.

The first 5 Saturdays make reparation for the blasphemies against THE WOMAN, Mary, who is also the archetype of the church. She is a whole and healed human person, and this is what God wants for us. We need to honor her and make reparation for;

  1. Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception
  2. Blasphemies against her virginity
  3. Blasphemies against her divine maternity, at the same time the refusal to accept her as the Mother of all men
  4. Instilling indifference, scorn and even hatred towards this Immaculate Mother in the hearts of children
  5. Direct insults against Her sacred images

If we want the heart of Mary to triumph and an era of peace in the church, we must on the First Saturday during 5 Consecutive Months:

  1. Go to Confession,
  2. Receive the Sacrament of Holy Communion,
  3. Say five decades of the Rosary,
  4. Meditate for 15 minutes on the mysteries of the Rosary.

For those who cannot do this because it isn’t offered to you, remember what Our Lady asked in Medjugorje. She asked that we pray all the Mysteries of the Rosary each day. When the people grumbled, she said we don’t have a time problem, we have a love problem.

I often find that we, the People of God, often look at things backwards, and often make bad decisions. I used to think, how am I going to fit all this prayer into my day. Now I ask, how will I fit my day into my prayer. Make your life a liturgy and you will find a way, with the grace of God, to be a servant of the Lord while He ushers in the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.

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The Sifting

Posted on September 17, 2025 by veilofveronica

 “Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat.  But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” Luke 22:31-32

I was reading about how Maria Esperanza said back in December of 2003, that Jesus was going to come to us in a different way. She said, He is going to come in silence… People will realize He is among us little by little. His first presentation will be like this, because in those days an innocent person whom He loves a lot will die, an innocent person. This will shock the world, will move the world.”

I realized this is a prediction about Charlie Kirk. People have been mourning him all over the world. There aren’t just prayer vigils in America, but also the UK and South Korea. And I see a sifting happening. Evil has shown itself and people are taking sides. It is like we can see the separating of the sheep from the goats. And many call evil good and good evil. Charlie’s assassination has provoked an awakening. People are heading back to church. In my own hometown we had a vigil for him singing praise to God.

But of course, this has angered many, most especially Satan. We’re headed into more tumultuous times. We need more than ever to cling to Christ.

I sat in meditation over the 23rd Psalm yesterday. I closed my eyes and pictured myself laying in green pasture with Christ. He had his arms around me and I laid my head on his chest.

Suddenly it gets very dark. Pitch black. I cannot see. But I know His arms are around me. I hear growling like wolves all around. They are nipping at my heels. Jesus pulls me close. I can hear his heart beat. It is stronger than the growling. He tells me to be still, that He will fight for me. He doesn’t even let go of me to fight. He commands the angels. He whispers in my ear asking for just one thing. Yes, Lord, what do you want? Faith.

Though I can feel the beasts pressing in on all sides, I give Him my faith. I give Him my heart. No sooner do I do this and suddenly it is light, and I see we are surrounded by flowers. He tells me He has always been the keeper of the storm.

This meditation is what I feel represents the time we are now entering. When Jesus told me to be still, it was like a peace came over me. Be at peace, even in the darkest night.

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The Turning Point

Posted on September 10, 2025 by veilofveronica

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. John 10:11

I know it has been awhile since I posted anything. I have spent my time praying and pondering all the sufferings in the world. I haven’t sat down to write on any of them until today.

First, I wanted to say, I do not like to get political in as much as I try to keep my eyes on Christ and love the people I come in contact with regardless of where they are coming from, but I do watch some political commentators and figures. One of them was Charlie Kirk. I liked to watch Charlie because he was always respectful of the people he came in contact with. He always listened to other points of view even if he disagreed. That was his thing, “ask me anything”. He could agree to disagree without screaming or getting violent. And most of all he never shied away from speaking of Christ. For this, I admired the man. So, I want to explain a series of events that happened starting last night and through the day.

Last night our fire alarm started beeping. My husband tried to change the battery and reset it but it resulted in all the alarms in the house going off. For me, when I hear alarms of any kind I pray. I take the alarms as a warning, and I pray. I don’t usually know what I am praying for, but God does.

Then I went to lunch for Radio Maria, USA and sat next to my friend Leah who started telling me about this amazing and strange dream she had last night. I will come back to this and tell you about the dream in a minute, as now with the news of Charlie Kirk’s passing the dream made perfect sense. But before I tell you the dream, I wanted to relay that on the way home from the lunch my friend Debbie and I prayed a Rosary, like we often do when we ride together. This was around 1:00 p.m. CST. After we finished the Rosary, I was expecting to chat and Debbie said, “let’s pray a Divine Mercy Chaplet for our country.” I agreed, so we did. It was later that the news of Charlie being shot happened shortly after we prayed for mercy. But the more profound part was Leah’s dream.

Leah sat next to me at lunch and said, “I had a very vivid dream last night.” She went on to explain that in the dream she was at a University surrounded by beautiful mountains. She has a daughter college age, so she thought perhaps they were visiting a University for her. She said she went into a large auditorium like place but it was pitch black inside. She saw a light in front of the room and realized a dark haired man was kneeling with his head bowed in prayer very close to a tabernacle that housed the Eucharist. He did not seem aware that the tabernacle was there. He had a silhouette around him of light that was emanating from the tabernacle. The only actual light in the room was the red sanctuary lamp with one candle burning in it, but light itself emanated from the tabernacle onto the man. Leah said she woke up at this point and had the Whitney Houston song in her head, Greatest Love of All.

She and I had pondered what this meant at lunch. We no longer have to speculate. The man in front of the tabernacle was Charlie Kirk. And though he was not Catholic I do believe he had the light of Christ. And he did believe the children were the future which is why his mission was to talk to the young at universities. My prayer now is that Charlie is with the Greatest Love of All.

We are at a turning point. Violence is increasing. God is being mocked and hated. We must persevere in love and fortitude. Choose love. May God Bless you all tonight and May God bless America.

2 Peter 3

Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.  I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.

Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.  They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water.  By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.  By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.  The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.

 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.  But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.

 So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him.  Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.

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Empty

Posted on August 13, 2025 by veilofveronica
By Juan de Flandes

On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to me and to you? My hour has not yet come.”  His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the person in charge of the banquet.” So they took it. When the person in charge tasted the water that had become wine and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), that person called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.” Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him. John 2:1-11

I write in my journal as if the Lord is speaking to me. I write what pops into my head in words and images. If what I have written the church says is wrong, then the church is correct and I am wrong. Discern that as you read.

August 13, 2025

Beloved Lily of the Father (redacted);

You come before me asking about your suffering. Suffering after suffering. You lament that it feels like you cannot catch your breath before the next wave happens. You tell me you feel empty, as if you have nothing left to give.

Do you not realize that this must be so? I desire your vessel to be empty. I AM preparing to fill you in a way that will amaze you, but I need surrender. I need you empty of attachment to honor, pleasure, wealth, and power. I need you surrendered, dependent, empty of all that is not ME. I need you humbled.

Oh, you boastful hearts, if you only knew what true humility was you would not fight it so hard.

You have wondered about the days ahead, about the prophecies, about when I WILL act, as if you can know the mind of God.

Some things are not for you to know, but for you to TRUST, completely and totally.

I AM preparing you to be an oblation. I do not expect you to be perfect. I AM perfect. I expect you to enter fully into Divine Worship. Your life is to become a liturgy. Whether you live or die, live and die in worship of my Glory. I AM transfiguring love.

A time is coming when the Spirit will flood the earth. All with see with clarity. Partake in the heart of the Immaculate Conception. Her heart is the Ark of these times. The refuge of the flood. I give you a share of the Immaculate Conception because I Glory in your healing. I AM GLORY.

Yesterday you burned your right hand. As the pain seared through the night I put on your heart my Priests and their consecrated hands. My hands bore wounds for their hands to bring healing.

Woe to those Priests who abuse their power and authority with those anointed hands.

Come judgment the Priestly hands will either burn unconsumed in the fire of my Love and Glory or they will burn in agony for the sins committed against my Sacred Heart and against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Pray daily for Priests, when the outpouring flood comes, people will flock to them. Pray they cause no more Sorrow.

Do not wallow in dismay as you see catastrophe come, but persevere in prayer and trust with your entire being. You feel scattered now as the Apostles did during my Passion, but a time of unification is coming. True unity is union with ME.

Make up for what is lacking. Love is lacking in the human heart. Love with all that you are. It is love that makes you blameless and calls down my mercy and perfection.

My bride is to be Immaculate.

Rev. 3:05 –  If you conquer, you will be clothed like them in white robes, and I will not erase your name from the book of life; I will confess your name before my Father and before his angels.

  • The Most Holy Trinity

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The Living Water of Prayer: Susan Skinner Talk at St Rose of Lima

Posted on July 26, 2025 by veilofveronica

Then he showed me the river of the water of life, bright as Crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Revelation 22:1-2

Talk at Saint Rose of Lima, Murfreesboro, Tn for the Charismatic Renewal Retreat.

Unfortunately the very end was cut off early but I spoke about perseverance in prayer and not giving up.

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Posted on July 3, 2025 by veilofveronica
Our Lady of Light

Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel 1 Chronicles 21:1

A few years back I wrote and told you all about how I had seen a goat-headed demon and he had said to me, “I will wear you out”. I had another vision in prayer of a demon pummeling me in the old chapel at my parish. The other day I went to my friend and mentor, Jansen Bagwell, because he is an expert in deliverance. I relayed to him a lot of things I am going through, including these past interior experiences. Jansen told me it was God who revealed those interior visions to me and that the Lord was showing me the intentions of the demons. By letting me know their intentions I can fight more intelligently.

I came home to ponder all that Jansen said and I was also reading Deliverance Ministry by the International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services Doctrinal Commission. The book said that spiritual bondage doesn’t just happen to individuals, sometimes it can happen to entire nations, sometimes it can be through systems of operation. The book defined Spiritual Bondage as an inner demonic influence by which a person’s will is bound or constrained to some degree, such that the person is unable to freely choose the good in certain situations. Spiritual bondage involves some degree of consent to demonic influence, whereas oppression does not necessarily involve consent. 

And I thought of how I had become exhausted, but that it wasn’t just me. Person after person I spoke to were feeling the same effects. The intentions those demons had for me are the larger intentions the demons have for anyone who really wants to choose Christ. If Satan can’t convince you to mortally sin, he can manipulate the systems you use to get a back door of consent to influence your life and wear you out. I realized our systems have incited us to number the people who follow us, and even for those of us who don’t buy into that way of thinking, we are constantly bombarded with everything we turn on to “like and subscribe” so as to monetize even the holiest of things. And while we may genuinely not want to be influenced by this, the fruit shows us an electronic exhaustion and an attachment to reputation by numbers that has seeped into hearts.

God didn’t want David to number his people because by doing so David was relying on himself and his own military strength rather than on God’s Providence. Saint Augustine’s commentary on the psalms said, “when you begin to count your forces, you begin to trust in yourself, rather than Me.”

The result of David’s numbering was a choice of chastisement. He chose the 3-month plague. Does anyone see a parallel to COVID 19? And yet since then the world has gotten more frenzied not less. We turned toward technology to save, and our relationships suffered while we were locked out of God’s houses of prayer. At least David repented. That we should do the same. Lord have mercy on us.

Fast forward to today and it is plain to see that people don’t know who the real enemy is. The online world has further torn us apart, and even the “good” things out there, from the prophecy we see posted online, to the meditations, to the podcasts, there is an electronic exchange that seems to be stealing our souls. It’s a corruption that has seeped in, involving a level of consent. I sit here telling you this and knowing that I am typing this on a blog that wants to show me stats while at the same time my inbox gets bombarded by people who want me to use the platform to advertise. I have thus far refused because I really do want you to have one place to come to where an ad doesn’t pop up in your face. It’s exhausting. And please understand, I don’t begrudge anyone wanting to make money to care for their loved ones. That’s not why I am writing this. I think technology is a tool that is can be used for good, but what I see happening more often is a lack of real relationship and a distraction from what is actually Godly, even if the work we are doing appears Godly. The system is being usurped by demons, and we find ourselves in bondage.

My friend Rob Marco told me he bought a typewriter a little while back. He said he fell in love with the art of writing again. He said,

“There was something cathartic and real about the clackety-clack of the typeslugs hitting the page; the physical work involved in banging out paragraphs; the amazing fact that I could produce words without electricity anywhere, and didn’t have to worry about being hacked or remembering a login password or uploading it to the cloud. It does one thing and it does it well. There is no distraction, because if I don’t write, the machine just sits there like a boulder on the table waiting for me. I am not being sold something, reduced to that of a consumer. Rather, I can be a producer, should I choose to do the work. The page I pull off is real, inky, intentional but full of mistakes and typos – and real. It exists…..”

Rob wrote that in relation to a commentary on Latin Mass. But he hit on something that has affected everything, from the Liturgy to the minutia of the daily grind. Our identity is being stolen. Our worth is being questioned. With the advent of AI we need not even write anymore. We don’t even know if the videos we watch are real since AI can reproduce our images and our voices. And as the enemy trains our minds how to think, our bodies become consumers who don’t really produce. The humanity is gone. How many of you have a voice that tells you that you are worthless? It gets louder with each subscription to someone else’s fame. But that voice is a lie and so is the fame. There is only one who needs to see you and only one who is good.

“Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. Mark 10:18

Can we plant a garden without filming it? Does everything we produce need to be seen? Do we have prayer time that doesn’t involve headphones filled with someone else’s imagination? Is our reality real? or is it virtual? There is an electrical exchange that is happening, and it is hampering our ability to know God.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me John 10:27

This electronic exchange is purposeful and planned, and we have consented to the numbering. It is stealing our light. That is not to say that good and true Evangelization hasn’t also happened using these electronic tools, but I what I am issuing is a warning. It is an age old warning;

You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.  So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.  But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-8

Be children of the light. It is okay to use the systems we have but see them for what they are. Do not let them distract you from knowing Jesus is your Lord. Do not let pride creep in and check your interior motivation when using these tools. Do not think you can rely on yourself or these systems to save you. If you think you can then your mind has already been marked with a beast.

Keep heaven in mind always as your goal, your salvation should ever be at the forefront. Ponder what it would be like to be without all this stuff. If it was taken away, would you still love and seek God and know that He is good?

God is good, He loves you. Like and subscribe to that ideology and life will pour abundantly.

P.S. I am in the middle of reading a phenomenal book called Padre Pio and You by Mary O’Reagan. I hope to write a longer review when I am finished, but so far the spiritual wisdom held within the book has been a lifeline to me. I just wanted to mention that.

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Perseverance

Posted on June 23, 2025 by veilofveronica
Rebels cast out of Heaven – Gustave Dore – 1866

 So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9

I think we are entering into the time period which many of us has long thought would happen. The escalation in the Middle East and in the world shows that the storm is coming at us full speed. I am not here to comment on politics or give my opinion into the vast array of opinions. Over the years when I have asked the Lord what is it you want me to speak? I consistently heard the Lord tell me to direct all eyes to Him. He points me to a bigger view of salvation history which helps keep anxiety at bay if you can see from a God’s eye view instead of getting caught in the minutiae of the daily dominos that fall.

Today, I was struck by a passage from The Mystical City of God by Venerable Mary of Agreda. In chapter 7 she elaborates on the disposition of Lucifer that led him to fall. She states;

They (the angels)received a more explicit intelligence of the being of God. One in substance …and they were commanded to adore and reverence Him as their creator and highest Lord infinite in his essence and attributes. All subjected themselves to this command and obeyed but with a certain difference. The good angels obeyed through love on account of the justice of it, offering their love and goodwill, freely admitting and believing what was above their intelligence and obeying with joy.

Lucifer, on the other hand, submitted himself because the opposite seemed to him impossible. He did not do it with perfect charity, for he, as it were, was divided in his will between himself and the infallible truth of the Lord. In consequence, it happened that the precept appeared to him in a measure difficult and violent, and his fulfilling of it was wanting in love and in the desire to do justice. Thus, he exposed himself beforehand to the danger of not persevering.

Although grace did not leave him on account of his remissness and slowness in the accomplishment of these first acts, never the less, his bad disposition began with them, for they remained within him a certain weakness and laxity of virtue and spirit and the perfection of his nature did not shine forth as it should.

She goes on to say that this disposition put him in danger of falling. And we all know the story that He did fall.

You’ll remember that my Spiritual Director once told me that the Saints in heaven do God’s will joyfully, fully and immediately. This is what God is calls us to do. This is how He can elevate our nature, when we are docile to His will, especially when it’s hard. It is the path to perfection.

This is why it is so imperative for us in our Spiritual Life to be in constant communication with God through prayer and to check our interior disposition often. Are we split between our own will and God’s? Have we exposed ourselves to the danger of not persevering?

Recognizing these things within ourselves is key. Are we doing what we are doing for love of God? If we are, God will perfect our nature to shine forth. If we are not, we are in for great purification.

Though the world looks scary and the surrender of my will may appear to me difficult and violent, the bigger danger, the one that happens if I do not persevere in the belief of the goodness and love of God, is that my soul gets lost. I asked the Lord daily to increase charity within me. In this year of hope, I do not want to get lost in the swamp of darkness of other men’s hearts. I want to be tucked securely into the Sacred Heart.

I pray, help me Lord to love like you love. Give me your heart with which to love because mine is deficient. Create in me a clean heart, O God.

We have no idea what tomorrow holds but we can persevere. We can shine light in the darkness.

Psalm 27

The Lord is my light and my salvation;
    whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life;
    of whom shall I be afraid?

When evildoers assail me
    to devour my flesh—
my adversaries and foes—
    they shall stumble and fall.

Though an army encamp against me,
    my heart shall not fear;
though war rise up against me,
    yet I will be confident.

One thing I asked of the Lord,
    that will I seek after:
to live in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the Lord,
    and to inquire in his temple.

For he will hide me in his shelter
    in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;
    he will set me high on a rock.

Now my head is lifted up
    above my enemies all around me,
and I will offer in his tent
    sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make melody to the Lord.

 Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud,
    be gracious to me and answer me!
 “Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!”
    Your face, Lord, do I seek.
 Do not hide your face from me.

Do not turn your servant away in anger,
    you who have been my help.
Do not cast me off, do not forsake me,
    O God of my salvation!
 If my father and mother forsake me,
    the Lord will take me up.

Teach me your way, O Lord,
    and lead me on a level path
    because of my enemies.
 Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries,
    for false witnesses have risen against me,
    and they are breathing out violence.

I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord
    in the land of the living.
 Wait for the Lord;
    be strong, and let your heart take courage;
    wait for the Lord!

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Saving Jesus

Posted on June 2, 2025 by veilofveronica
Christ giving the keys to Saint Peter – Peter Paul Rubens 1614

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.  I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Matthew 16:18-19

With the election of our new Pope, I have found myself once again pondering Saint Peter and the fact that Jesus chose him to lead the church, when out of all the Apostles he is the one who seems to fall the most or who Jesus corrects the most in the scriptures.

Just a cursory glance at the scriptures and I can think of at least 4 and possibly 5 corrections or rebukes that Jesus hands out to Peter. I want to focus on two of those instances though all of them have this common thread. Peter was corrected in Matthew 16:21-23;

From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

And John 18:7-11;

Again he asked them, “Whom are you looking for?” And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. So if you are looking for me, let these people go.” This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken, “I did not lose a single one of those whom you gave me.” Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear. The slave’s name was Malchus. Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?”

In both of these instances Jesus is trying to do the will of the Father and Peter is a hinderance. But from Peter’s perspective he is trying to save Jesus from harm. His faith is so strong that Jesus is the Messiah, but his perspective is off about what the Messiah is coming to do. For Peter, he is saving Jesus. How can you not just love Him and His zeal for Christ? And isn’t this something we have all struggled with? It’s the delicate balance of knowing when God is telling you to act, and when God is asking you to stand down so he can act. The word I would use to describe Peter is tenacity. But unfortunately, his tenacity got the better of his discernment.

It takes a great listening to the Lord and even then, we see Peter, who listened directly and still didn’t get it. Yet his boldness is endearing, and the Lord knew his heart. Jesus just had to strip him completely of any ego that believed he could save Jesus. St. John Chrysostom tells us that the Lord’s rebukes weren’t to shame him, but to show him grace so he would grow into the Rock upon which the church was built.

It makes sense to me that Jesus chose Peter to be the leader of the church. Here is a man whose heart yearns to guard the truth. When Peter finally realizes, after falling hard, that Jesus saves, he did grow into the leader that Jesus saw all along and Pentecost brought all the gifts that heaven could bring upon Peter.

But there is a lesson in this for all of us. In our society today it is often confusing, especially on the ground in our parishes and in the world. When do we speak up and defend Jesus with everything we have, and when do we acquiesce to something that, for all intents and purposes, is evil so that God can purify us and bring something greater? It is a question I ponder often.

We see in the book of Jeremiah that the Lord sometimes does tell us not to act. Judah has become so steeped in idolatry that God tells Jeremiah to stop praying and interceding for them. God says;

As for you, do not pray for this people, do not raise a cry or prayer on their behalf, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you. Jeremiah 7:16

Judah experiences a tragic downfall because of their sin and idolatry. They had been repeatedly warned for over 400 years. Saint Augustine saw God’s long-suffering patience for Judah as a model of divine mercy. But justice finally had to come. It is the consequence of persistently breaking covenant. I see this in our world today, our persistence in sin. For now, the Lord has kept asking me to pray so I do. I wonder how much long-suffering the Lord will endure, how much Our Lady will weep?

But for Judah they fell. And yet we know that Jesus is the lion of Judah. He came from the line that fell. The hard fall produced good fruit. God’s ways are better than our ways if only we have the foresight to see.

Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals. Revelation 5:5

Though Peter wasn’t idolatrous in any way, he did need his idea that he was the savior of the Savior purged. And this purging for him also came through falling. The goal is always humility before the Lord. Peter was humbled and wept. And Jesus’ allowing him to fall broke open his heart so he could receive the Holy Spirit.

I have said before that I try to view life through the lens of the life of Christ, especially the Passion. It helps me to discern because God gave us the scriptures and a guidepost. Jesus’ life, passion, death, resurrection, ascension and sending of the Spirit, the story we know, helps us to discern what is happening now wisely. And by focusing especially on the Passion we have clearer eyes to see when we should act and when we should not. All of it gives us indication of when to speak, when to be silent, and when to be obedient even if things look dire. I check my intent and my ego often because I know from experience that falling hard can be difficult to get up from. But even if this happens, get up and believe. Pray without ceasing. Ask God daily if you are doing what He wants you to be doing and then just trust that because you love Him, he will work all for your good no matter how messy it is along the way. Just ask Saint Peter.

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