Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; abstain from every form of evil. 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22
I have told you that God has been relatively silent for awhile, but this day was different. I was praying a Rosary and I received a word in prayer. “Pray it will not be winter.”
That was it. That was all that was said to me in my prayer. I recognized it from scripture.
The whole passage states;
So when you see the desolating sacrilege, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains; the one on the housetop must not go down to take things from the house; the one in the field must not turn back to get a coat. Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days! Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. For at that time there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved, but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look! Here is the Messiah!’ or ‘There he is!’—do not believe it. For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. Take note, I have told you beforehand. So, if they say to you, ‘Look! He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look! He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Wherever the corpse is, there the eagles will gather. Matthew 24:15-28
I don’t really know exactly what all this means, except I feel we must do as Jesus commanded in scripture. And I felt it important enough to tell you.
I am not an eschatologist, nor do I proport to know timelines of events. I only know what I heard in prayer and that it matches something in scripture that Jesus told us to do. So for me, I will pray that our flight may not be in winter or on a sabbath. Prayer changes things.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in years and in divine and human favor. Luke 2:52
The other evening Father Augustine Mang taught my OCIA (Order of Christian Initiation of Adults) class. The topic was the Eucharist and Father Mang informed me that he was teaching what he learned from his Thomistic Classes at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He told me he would make it easy to understand for all the people in my class.
I have to say, I was fully expecting him to teach John 6 like we do almost every year when we teach on the Eucharist, and while he did mention that he taught some things I am not sure I was ever aware of. Thank God for the wisdom of the Saints like Aquinas. As Father Mang was teaching I started seeing connections I had never seen before and understanding things I had not previously understood well. I will do my best to relay what he taught, as well as what understanding I was seeing.
Father said that in the beginning, in the garden of Eden, God gave a command to Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. This part I knew, as do all of you. He said the Tree of knowledge was Divine knowledge, so that when the serpent said, “you will be like God”, there was a sliver of truth in that statement, but as always when it comes to the devil, it was twisted.
Father went on to say that this Divine knowledge from this tree would have eventually been given to Adam and Eve as a gift, but the test for them was obedience to the command. He said the idea that God would have eventually gifted the tree to them can be inferred in scripture by the nature of who God is, a giver of gifts. We all know that they failed the test. Father Mang explained, they grasped for what had not been given, rather than waiting for God to give it. They grasped at Divine knowledge before it was theirs to have and because of this they knew they were naked. It brought shame. They had gained knowledge that was not natural to what God had given them at that time. They had a moral awareness where they would know right from wrong independently from God.
“Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil….” Genesis 3:22
In doing this their human nature becomes fallen and death comes into the world because they grasped at this Divine knowledge that was not theirs to take. Obedience to God is that path to sharing in God’s life, something that through their disobedience made them become independent of God. Knowledge apart from submission to God brings fear and consequences. Obedience would have brought Divine knowledge and Divine nature. Instead, their human nature falls even as they hold on to this knowledge. God had to expel them from the garden because if they then ate from the Tree of Life at that point they would have eternally been fallen, and God did not want them to remain eternally fallen.
“and now, lest he put forth his hand and also take from the Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever – there for God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden” Genesis 3:22-23
It was out of love that God expelled them. He did not want them to live forever in a fallen state. This would have brought not just physical death, but a spiritual death devoid of Divine life. He wanted to give a pathway back to Divine knowledge with Divine life.
It is here I want to pause and relay what understanding came over me while Father Mang was teaching this. The scripture above speaks of Jesus growing in wisdom and knowledge (Luke 2:52) and it started to make more sense to me, along with another scripture;
Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated by God, a high Priest according to the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 5:8-10
It seems that by taking on our limited human nature Jesus walked a path of “being made perfect.” And this being made perfect, meant that he never grasped at what was not given. This would be true for the Blessed Virgin Mary as well. What do I mean by that? I mean that when Jesus was a 4 year old, he didn’t try to be a 10 year old. When he was 18, he didn’t try to be 21. He didn’t use the knowledge to gain what wasn’t given. He was in body, mind and spirit, being exactly what he was supposed to be at the time, and he was not grasping for the more that the Father had not yet given, the way that most of us do every day of our lives. My friend Amanda Bagwell, who is an educational expert on brain development, and wife of my friend Jansen Bagwell, pointed out that his brain development would have been exactly what it should have been. He would have been perfectly accepting of whatever state of life and circumstances he was in developmentally. In other words, he let his human nature suffer in the knowledge while waiting for the gift. He let his human nature suffer even unto death because the gift was worth waiting for; the resurrection and the restoration of man.
I should point out though, that He IS God, so we see glimmers, outside of time, of the gift before it was given.
And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became bright as light. Matthew 17:2
Though he could have remained that way, He didn’t. He was letting Peter, James and John see the gift, the gift they would receive if they waited for it to be given. If they suffered in their human nature like he had. By suffering in our human nature in obedience, God elevates us into his Divine nature. We can become like the Apostles at Pentecost, Divine knowledge and Divine nature poured into us.
Now back to what Father Mang was teaching. Obedience brings harmony with God. He said the disobedience came from eating, so the restoration would come also from eating. Which brings us to the Last Supper where Jesus stated, “this is my body and this is my blood” but in relation to bread and wine.
Jesus is God, whatever he says is accomplished.
And waking up, he rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they ceased, and there was a calm. Then he said to them, “Where is your faith?” They were terrified and amazed and said to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water and they obey him?” Luke 8:24-25
If the wind and the storm obey him why would we not think that the bread and the wine wouldn’t also obey him? What he says happens. What he says becomes reality. If he can tell a dead man, Lazurus, to come out of a tomb and he comes out, why in the world would we doubt that he can tell the bread and wine to turn into Himself?
But people will ask, why then does it look like regular bread and wine? This is where Father Mang went on to explain that it is in a Sacramental manner. The Sacrament is a sign that signifies the reality. Jesus Himself in his physical body was both a natural physical human body and sacrament.
He made present his sacrifice of the cross at the last supper outside of time by making the Sacrament of himself present in the bread and wine before the cross happened at the Last Supper. When he spoke the words, it happened. The manner was not that we eat human flesh off of a bone. The manner was that we eat Him in Sacrament in the form of bread and wine, otherwise we would not do it. He is God and He is so good to do this for us.
At the cross, he took on our sins and nailed them to a tree in obedience to the Father. And he rises and becomes the tree of life for us.
This ability for us to receive Jesus’ body, blood, soul and divinity, in sacrament, enables us to be purified. This purification enables us to suffer well. We move forward on a path to who we really are instead of grasping at what we think we should be. We become more human, more fully alive, and our nature is elevated. We share in God’s divine nature.
Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust and may become participants of the divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4
I know the devil did everything he could to get Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge so they could fall. I also know he is doing everything he can now to either get us to deny the real presence or to have us partake in a state of mortal sin. We partake in a state of grace because the church asks us to and obedience is key to divine life. By making obedience no big deal we can be in the same state of rebellion as Adam and Eve. The devil also has convinced so many people that Jesus is not present in the Eucharist. It is why the Protestant Reformation is such a travesty. A large portion of Christendom no longer believes or partakes in the real presence. Lord have mercy on us. They don’t believe that Jesus’ words do what they say.
We have used our divine knowledge to make ourselves god. The technology we have created gets more advanced, and we become less human. We dehumanize one another. But to that I say no. Saying no to the world means suffering. Suffering draws you closer to Christ whose promises are true. Let us suffer well as we trust in the Lord and await a new Pentecost.
Saint Anthony Holding the Christ Child – Bernardo Strozzi 1625
For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places: all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs. Matthew 24:7
For years now I have meditated on the Passion of Christ. I have pictured myself standing at the foot of the cross and handing all of my sin to Him. Meditating on the Passion gives me awe and wonder knowing that the Creator of the Universe atoned for me by dying this way, even before I had repented. Knowing that in time, I would be born into original sin and be cleansed in baptism and I would commit personal sin, and find my way to Him to have His merit applied so as to save me.
But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
You see, for me, meditating on the Passion, is meditating on what I know I deserve and what He took on for me. I see my sin in His wounds. I love Him ever more fiercely and I am grateful, which makes me turn from sin and desire to purify. I want to be immaculate, so as to never do that to His body again.
There is one human person who did not wound Jesus, but rather who walked with Him in His suffering. People often think by honoring Mary something is taken away from God, but nothing could be further from the truth. Mary, rather than taking away from God, shows us the immensity of God. She shows us that God is not one being among many with whom we compare power and status, rather He is All Being, and everything is in Him and her cooperation with Him is a recognition of His all being, His I AM WHO AM.
for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. Col. 1:16
And He chooses to share his glory, his mediation, his redemption, with her, and by extension with us.
I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. Col. 1:24
Because God is so great, he shares His greatness with Mary, and with us, whom she is Mother of. The church is now the place where people encounter Christ. We are His Mystical Body and we are participating in cooperation with His salvific work, which is complete in Him, who is everything.
Mary’s participation in this is singular, in that, she as the perfect human person, cooperated in such a way with the Divine Person, that He completed in her His plan for His creation. We can see Jesus’ work through her.
It was through the suffering of the Cross that the Church was birthed. It was through the suffering of the Cross that the Apostles had Pentecost pour down. The Mystical Incarnation for the Saints, which requires purity, requires suffering through many crucifixions. This crucifixion of the Saints takes many forms, for some, like Peter, it is an actual crucifixion for the sake of Christ. For others, like Mother Teresa, it is a complete dying to self so that you do nothing but serve the God who thirsts. But the path is the same, it is a path of suffering with love that births Christ alive in a soul.
For Mary, she was Immaculately conceived and her walk was as close of a walk with Christ as one could possibly be. In fact, Saint John Eudes in his work, The Admirable Heart of Mary, stated that Mary’s Fiat at the Annunciation extended to her entire life, including Jesus asking her consent to the sacrifice at Calvary. She was pure and in the will of the Father for the entire journey. Jesus wants to take us there, to the Divine Will of the Father.
For us, we are purified of original sin at baptism, but our journey out of concupiscence is one of suffering. Suffering by letting go of the world, the flesh and the devil, the things that keep us from purification. When we let go of these things we are led on a path to Mystical Incarnation. A birth of purity of heart.
In realizing this, I thought that it seems harder for me to meditate on the Nativity than on the Passion. I found myself in the position of wondering if I were good enough to be able to hold the infant Jesus. Was I purified enough to hold the small seemingly helpless God in my arms? Would I be struck dead like Uzzah?
I think this is the journey of the birth pains that Jesus speaks about in Matthew 24. Will we, will I, be able to endure the sufferings listed in that passage and still be able to love and will the good of another, especially one who hates me? Can I come out on the other side with the infant Jesus in my arms, with the incarnation in my heart?
I set out to meditate on the Nativity.
I found myself in a cave in Bethlehem and I was standing in front of the Blessed Virgin Mary who was holding the baby Jesus. She was so beautiful and he was glowing in her arms.
I asked her permission to hold him, bracing myself for an answer of no, but to my surprise she said yes. She gently handed me the baby and for a moment my eyes locked with his and I could see the whole earth and universe in his eyes, like translucent water.
Suddenly, in my periphery I could see demons trying to attack me as I held him, they were growling and pushing my head. Still looking at Jesus, I cried out for him to help me, even as he lay helpless in my arms. When I cried out for help Joseph appeared. He wrapped his cloak around me and Mary and the baby Jesus and I felt safe.
Joseph says we have to go and go quickly. In my head I thought, “are we going to Egypt?” And as if he could hear my thoughts he says, “we are going underground”. I wonder if I am hearing correctly, and again he says, “underground”. That is where my meditation ended.
Though I am not sure exactly what this meditation means, as I look around at the world, I can certainly see the signs of the times.
As I pondered all of this I thought of how Joseph is Patron and protector of the Universal Church. I know we live in precarious times. I also know none of us will come out unscathed. We will not be raptured, we will not be in a protective bubble somewhere untouched, we will be in battle against powers and principalities and our goal is perseverance. Perseverance in the belief that God is good. Perseverance in letting go of all that is not of Him. Perseverance in faith, hope and charity, so that charity will reign in our hearts.
Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. Romans 5:1-5
With all these things in mind, dear brothers and sisters, stand firm and keep a strong grip on the teaching we passed on to you both in person and by letter. 2 Thessalonians 2:15 (NLV)
Today I am posting a piece by my friend Rob Marco who has a knack for explaining what I often feel inside. I hope you’re able to read it as we wanted to show the authenticity of the type.
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.
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 youanxiously. 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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“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;
Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception
Blasphemies against her virginity
Blasphemies against her divine maternity, at the same time the refusal to accept her as the Mother of all men
Instilling indifference, scorn and even hatred towards this Immaculate Mother in the hearts of children
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:
Go to Confession,
Receive the Sacrament of Holy Communion,
Say five decades of the Rosary,
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.
“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 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.
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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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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