Society built on Lies – Transcript of the Talk on the Sanctity of Human Life

Posted on August 6, 2019 by veilofveronica

Mary Fire

Picture of Church of the Visitation in Westphalia, TX that was totally lost to fire.  I find this picture to be very prophetic.  Our Lady has warned us time and again to turn back to God and of what will happen if we don’t.

I gave a talk at the Carmel Center on the Sanctity of Human Life.  This is a transcript (with a few tweaks) of the talk I gave.  Many of you have heard parts of my story before, but I hope you will still read it as it pertains to the Sanctity of Human Life.  As we live in a world of shootings and murder, now more than ever, we need to recognize that we are the walking wounded, who have believed the accuser, and don’t know how much we are loved by God. God Himself has left us a path to true happiness and joy and we have tossed it aside and now we are clearly seeing the consequences.

Good Afternoon, it’s wonderful to be here today.  I am sure you all are thinking, wow, Father Andrew Bulso looks so strange…. Unfortunately he was unable to make it today so I am here in his place to talk to you about the Sanctity of Human Life.  Please pray for our Priests.  

My name is Susan Skinner and I am a wife to my husband Jason and a Mother to 3 children, two teens and one tween and one child lost to miscarriage.  I am also a Catholic blogger at Veil of Veronica, I have written for the National Catholic Register and I am a columnist at Catholic Stand. I am the RCIA and Adult Faith Formation Coordinator, I give Spiritual Direction and I am member of the Deliverance Ministry at my parish.  

I want to begin my talk on the Sanctity of Human Life with a quote from Saint Teresa of Calcutta;

“We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, of killings, of wars, of hatred. If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other.”

I begin with this statement because it is so profound and speaks to the devastation we see across our society today.  And to how we as a society got where we are, where life can be tossed aside easily. And I want to share with you a personal story that may seem out of context, but I assure you it is not.  I tell this story because it impacted profoundly my view of Catholic Church teachings on the Sanctity of Human Life.

I will begin by telling you a little bit of my background.  I am a cradle Catholic. I grew up in a home that prayed to Rosary together.  I went to 16 years of Catholic school. I was well catechized by my parents. But I also grew up in the  80’s and 90’s, a tumultuous time, a wild time.  Though my parents taught me well and I valued what they taught me, I also had adopted a worldly view when it came to certain aspects of the faith. By the time I got married, I was a grocery store Catholic, picking and choosing which teachings I would follow.  I was always ardently against abortion, so this made me conclude I was very pro-life, and that I very much valued the sanctity of life.  

I had my first child about 18 months after my wedding, on the Feast of Saint Stanislaus of Krakow, patron of moral order,  though I didn’t realize it was his feast at the time. I suffered very severe post-partum depression and anxiety. In fact, the voices in my head barraged me so badly with images that I could not control that there was a point I didn’t value my own life.  I remember clearly one day sitting in the bathtub thinking I couldn’t make the voices stop so I will just put my head under the water and never come up. At that moment in time I got a very clear image in my head of my sister. I knew that she would be sad, so I instead of sticking my head under the water I looked to my left and I saw a Rosary on the side of the bathtub.  I picked it up and began to pray it. I don’t think I realized the spiritual warfare that was going on around me at the time. I thought I was suffering a physiological response to a drop in estrogen, or at least that’s what the Doctors told me.

The journey from there was one of many ups and downs.  The doctors wanted to help me get better giving me the best advice they knew.  I went to counseling. I took medication, I exercised, tried to sleep as much as you can with a new baby, and of course, took birth control because they told me, as the world tells you, you cannot have another baby who will be such a burden.  And I believed what they told me. I didn’t see or realize at all what was happening.

I followed the advice and within a year I would feel almost normal.  I got to a place of “good enough” but that place was filled with ebbs and tides of high anxiety mixed with some depression.  But I was functioning. I prayed on and off, mostly begging God to stop my anxiety.

I remember when I went off birth control and was pregnant with my second son how upset my doctor got with me, verbally reprimanding me in a very hostile tone telling me how I was putting myself in jeopardy.  As I hung up, I felt sad that she was not happy for the new life that had been created.

I hung up the phone and I prayed to God and I told him, “Jesus, I trust in you.”  After a pregnancy filled with complications. I gave birth prematurely to a healthy baby boy on September 29, the Feast of the Archangels.  I didn’t know that at the time either, even as I named him after one of them.  

My husband and I decided, myself somewhat reluctantly, we were done having children.  

I went back to my comfort zone of praying sometimes, going to church regularly, and using birth control.  At some point, I decided the birth control was making me fat, so I went off of it. In hindsight, my worldly view was still used by God to bring us the great blessing of our daughter, born of the feast of Saint Polycarp.  Little did I know what was about to happen in my life that would make me hear the words of Saint Polycarp, when he went before the Roman proconsul, “hear me declare with boldness, I am a Christian and if you wish to learn what the Doctrines of Christianity are, appoint me a day, and you shall hear them.”

Those words mean a lot to me, as I stand here before you today to proclaim them myself.

About a year and a half after my daughter was born, I got a call from my friend Veronica, who was the mother of my oldest’s son’s best friend.  Veronica wanted to know if my son could sleep over. I got sick to my stomach, and I didn’t know why because my son had slept over her house plenty of times before.  I told her he couldn’t sleep over but that I would bring him over and let him play for the day and I would pick him up before dinner. At 4 o’clock I drove out to her house to pick him up.  I chatted with her about how wonderful our boys were. She was so positive, pouring life into them about what blessings they were. I drove home for an uneventful evening.

I got a call the next morning from another friend who was distraught and crying.  It seems, she told me, that someone shot and killed my friend Veronica in her home and she lay dead right there where I had stood talking to her less than 24 hours before. I found out later there were 4 bullets in her head.

In all the sufferings of my life I don’t think anything could have prepared me for this.  I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. I couldn’t breath and I couldn’t stop crying.  I actually laid down on my bedroom floor and wailed. It seems that Veronica and her husband were going through a divorce and he decided to hire a hit man to kill her.  I couldn’t understand. I couldn’t fathom it.

I cried out to God.  I screamed at him. How could you let this happen?  Why Lord? And in the middle of my fit of rage at God, He answered me.

He said, “I don’t want this, people choose this.”  He had been waiting a long time for me to talk to him, really talk to him.  I asked God, “what, what in the world can I do, in this awful place?” He answered me.  He said, “Susan, good in the world starts with you.” I began to think. I thought about how I had seen Veronica and her husband in church together and I wondered, how can a person who would murder sit in church?  God answered me again. He told me that her husband did not start out a murderer, but that his sin had grown in his heart and gone unchecked, and had lead down a long dark path. I remembered the bible verse that stated, “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”( Matthew 5:28)  That was the moment that verse made sense to me. I never had understood it. I had always thought, “how can a thought be a sin?” But after her murder it made sense to me. Sin starts with a thought, a suggestion thrown your way, it moves to your heart and takes over until you act on it with your hands, sin helps you to justify and dehumanize. And if we never take the time to examine our conscience, or think about what is right and what is wrong, well then, we can really go down a wrong path.

So Lord, “what can I do?”  He told me that the only person I could control was myself.  That I can choose to love and spread that love outward. For me this meant examining my own conscience and trying to become a better person.  Did I love my enemy? or even my neighbor, for that matter? The answer was a resounding, NO. Oh my, I thought, I have not always spread love and left people better off for knowing me. I realized too in these personal moments of conversation with God how I had compromised on the things that he had asked of me.  

In the months to follow I came across Pope Paul the VI encyclical, Humae Vitae and I was astonished at the words I read.  He spoke of the consequences of contraception, divorce, adultery, abortion, the general lowering of moral standards, the government becoming involved in promoting contraception and involved in the most intimate decisions of husband and wife, a place where God should actually be the center of their decisions.

I was shocked and ashamed as I read these prophetic words.  I had considered myself a good Catholic. I was not. As I laid crying in my room realizing all of the ways I had been blind, I thought about confession.  I had always hated this Sacrament, but here in this place, I found it to be a gift. A gift I was grateful for.  

I went and made the biggest confession of my life.  In telling my sins, I was able to encounter Christ. In this Sacrament, I received the grace that Jesus offers to us when we choose to ask for it.  I took a good hard look at myself and my selfishness started to burn away because of the love I encountered in confessing. 

I also realized the way I had judged others, and how much I had bought into a view of the world that promoted myself and didn’t reach out to others. I thought of Veronica.  In Catholicism while Jesus is in His Passion, walking His way to Golgotha, bloodied and beaten, He comes across a woman named Veronica. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. A small kindness.  This man, this God man, was bloodied, beaten, tired, in agony, and this women, Veronica, provided a brief respite, if you will. A few seconds where the sweat and blood were wiped away, and for a moment, however brief, He felt love from this woman.  It did not stop His Passion, His suffering, but in a world that was mocking Him, scourging Him, that woman’s touch with the cloth must have felt glorious. So He imprinted His image on her cloth. Veronica, means “True Image”.

I understood what it meant to value the sanctity of life that God creates, and I knew in a moment that the Doctrines of our Church are true.

When this veil is lifted, it is like coming out of a fog.  Life is a gift, from conception to natural death. I realized that there is an active entity seeking to steal, kill and destroy.  And Satan has done a very good job. By convincing us that contraception is okay he has stolen our fertility. He slaughters our children in abortion.  56 million a year worldwide, more than all other causes of death combined. He is destroying marriage and the family. And we have been trained to think by him.  It’s why Saint Paul tells us to take captive every thought.

But Jesus told us;

… from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.  For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother [and be joined to his wife], and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.  Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate.”

It’s no wonder that Satan wants to distort even what it means to be male and female these days.  We know as Catholic’s that what God made is good, made in His image and likeness. Yet Satan wants to convince us otherwise.  He does everything he can to get people into bed before they marry and everything he can to stop them in bed after they’re married, and we have listened.  Listened to a voice that serves the wrong kingdom. And we as a society have created laws to serve the wrong kingdom. I am very much aware as a child born in 1972 how my life was protected by LAW.  In fact, when I look at my ancestry, it doesn’t require me to look very far before I find a scenario where today I may not exist if we had had today’s laws back then.  

When my Grandmother was in her 60’s she found out she was adopted. Her mother, the woman who raised her, never told her she was adopted and the father she thought died in a war, may never have actually existed. What she did find out was that she was born with a different name than the one she had, and that the woman who she thought was her mother was not. Many of my family members have tried to investigate her ancestry, and have pieced together some scenarios, but due to the death of the woman who raised my Grandmother as her own, and a lack of the birth records, we will perhaps never know the full truth, though we have a good idea.

The thought that has struck me time and again is that because her birth seemed so shrouded in secrecy, there was shame attached to it. In today’s day and age that kind of shame, the kind that breeds secrecy like that, would make a woman abortion minded. Some of the scenarios that I have been told that surround my Grandmother’s arrival on this earth are scenarios today where people would have an abortion. Whatever the case, I can’t help but think if my Great-Grandmother had been pregnant today, she may have been a woman at huge risk for aborting her child. That my Grandmother lived, I can perhaps attribute to the fact that the LAW protected her life. I often think about this. That if abortion had been acceptable back then, I may not exist. Though I know there was probably much suffering surrounding the birth of my Grandmother, the joy that was brought forth into the world by her and her family line has been boundless. There is no shame in that.

The impact of this on my family personally is profound. My grandmother, with her murky story of coming into existence, had 12 children. I there are at least 54 grandchildren, and many, many more great-grandchildren. We are doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, firemen, policemen, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters. If my grandmother had been aborted there are literally now hundreds of us who would not exist.

I was once told online that if my ancestor had been aborted, I wouldn’t be around “to give an (expletive),” so I should just be pro-abortion. That statement presupposes that my life has no meaning, that my brother and sisters, that my cousins, my nieces and my nephews, we don’t matter to the world. I know for a fact that is not true. We matter. We matter to those who love us, to those whose lives we have impacted and most importantly to God, who knew us before He formed us in the womb. Every life is precious. 

The impact of abortion goes far beyond mother and child, it impacts generations, generations that are lost. We often seem to narrowly look at the specific person who is in an unplanned pregnancy situation – even more so only the woman and not the man.  But what I found to be true in my own family made me pull way back and see the countless lives that were affected by the one choice of my great grandmother. This is something we need to be talking about. We need to help others pull back and see the generations of human lives that are cutoff from life by this one choice.

When it comes down to it, the mentality that accepts abortion, is a mentality that devalues. It is a very narrow view, thinking of only the immediate situation and not considering others that may be affected.  This devaluation of human life spreads from being pro-choice, eventually permeating all aspects of society. This is because the source of the pro-choice argument is a lie. Although a lie can sometimes seem like it is in the best interest of the person, as you logically follow that lie from its source, we eventually find ourselves in a place where starving a person in the hospital becomes acceptable, or eliminating the life of a healthy baby who may have an unfavorable genetic makeup is the recommendation of the doctors.  Moreover, the elderly are deemed unnecessary once they need so much of our care and help and so we find ourselves tossing them aside, in the name of mercy. Where we end up by following the lie is where good is called evil and evil is called good. This is what Saint Teresa of Calcutta means by what she said. But she and Pope Paul VI take it even further when they include the mentality of the acceptance of contraceptives, this is where the real breakdown began. Contraceptives allowed sexuality to become twisted, and children become commodities to be bought and sold and created in a lab. 

ArchBishop Fulton Sheen stated; Once the idea is introduced that one may take the life of a person because he is not useful to the state, then it will not be long before we are taking his life because his ideas are not the same as those of the state. In 1936 Hitler introduced the idea of mercy killing under the lying title of ‘Charitable Foundation for Institutional Care.’ The basic principal was that those who could not be of benefit to society should be killed. Up to the outbreak of the war 275,000 people were put to death. Once the door was opened for destroying the sanctity of a single personality, there was nothing to stop wholesale slaughter.” 

The path of Truth is a straight line.  A narrow road. If you follow that path it will bear fruit in all aspects, as long as you remain on the path of Truth.  Oftentimes at the onset of this path it does not look favorable. But the final destination is a clear promise from the Father to His Beloved child that he will rest with the Father for all eternity. While walking on the path of Truth, if you look back to where you have been along the way, you will be able to see the good fruit that this path bears.  The stories of triumph over suffering and an ever leading deeper spiritual union with the Father will be the stories of those upon the path of Truth.

 Conversely, the path of lies always leads to destruction. It is a path that may look beautiful at first, or there may even be beauty along the way. It may contain parts of Truth. You may meet very loving and kind and generous people along this path, but we must remember that the final destination of the path of lies is destruction. If you look back on the path of lies you will see the traces of destruction that it has left in its wake. 

 If we look at these two paths with the example of abortion, a clearer picture may be seen. First of all, we know that the majority of men and women who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy situation are faced with an uphill battle.  Often times they themselves are not equipped to face this battle on their own, whether that be financially, socially, emotionally, physically, mentally or spiritually. By choosing to walk the path of Truth, we know that it will not an easy path, but neither was Jesus’ passion.  By placing our trust in God and taking that first step along the path of Truth, not knowing the outcome, but surrendering our lives to the Will of the Father, we are SAVED. Oftentimes it is our own selves standing in the way of letting Jesus SAVE us.  

 As we move along this path of Truth, we begin to see God place people (his hands and feet) along this path in order to help these men and women who are struggling. This is a reflection of Simon of Cyrene who helped Jesus carry the cross.  Even Jesus needed help! And what joy to know that we are able to participate in God’s great work by loving and helping others along the way. In this act, God reaches down from heaven, through you and me, to be incarnate in this world. The path of Truth, when we continue on this path, although it is not an easy path, eventually shows us the light of Christ’s presence in the world.  It shows us His love and mercy and action that is able to conquer the world. The fruits of the path of Truth are what we look back upon in order to encourage us on further. It is the strength for the journey when things get tough.

 In this same situation of abortion, we can see that there is also a path of lies. This path is no doubt full of love and concern for the men and women in these situations.  There are many people who are there at the entrance of this path to help and support them just as they are on the path of Truth, but their love and support only goes skin deep. By leading the man and woman to have an abortion, these people are able to remove the immediate circumstance and alleviate them having to continue on in their uphill battle. But it is a false help.  It is a lie. The men and women who have chosen an abortion are left in their pain. They are like the thief who chose to walk the passion alone. 

 When we choose to walk our passion WITH Jesus, we find healing and peace through our surrendering ALL of who we are to Him. We cannot hold anything back, not our hidden pregnancy, our sexuality, our sins, our fears, our pain, not anything! On a more global level we are seeing where this path of lies in regard to abortion has lead.  At this point in some states, abortions are legal up to 40 weeks, up to the point the mother is pushing the baby out of the birth canal, up even to the point of the baby being born alive and then giving the mother the option, after birth, to deicide the baby’s fate. Here we can see clearly that the upfront concern for women and men in the situation of an unplanned pregnancy, the loving concern that we find at the beginning of the path of lies, has clearly led to destruction.

 In further pondering this, I realized God is all about the pure and loving relationship.  Satan wants to destroy relationship. It made me profoundly understand that the post-partum depression I suffered wasn’t just physical and emotional, it hit the deepest core of who I am, my soul and it was an attack on the essence of my motherhood.  This made me think of Mary, who is the daughter of God the Father, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, and Mother of the Son, all things related to God, but the preeminent definition of who she is in relation to God is Mother.  That is the essence of who she is and is a defined dogma.  

Our existence is about our very relationship with God and how we relate to God extends outward to our fellow man.  When we recognize our source, and that it is a source outside of ourselves, but that dwells in us, we become Christ-like.

The very first relationship we have is that of daughter or son.  This is a relationship of receiving. We are young, weak, unable to care for ourselves, and so we must receive what we need in order to flourish.  A child that receives from his or her parents what is needed is a child that flourishes.

The next relationship we have is two-fold – it can be brotherly or sisterly – or it can be spousal.  These relationships are giving and receiving. These relationships are intimate, not in a sexual way (though with spouses that intimacy is also physical), but in a way, that when the good of the other is sought, these people can know who you are and continue to give love and receive love from you.

The relationship with a mother or a father has with their children is one of giving.  When a child is in the womb and later born, they are completely weak and helpless. They cannot give of themselves.  Mothering and Fathering require much sacrifice.

This is the ultimate expression of God in us because it requires total giving. Satan has convinced us that sacrifice is about suffering and that suffering is worse than sin.  We make laws intended to stop the suffering, which is only counter-intuitive and brings more suffering, when we should be working to purify our hearts to stop sin, recognizing that love of the other is life giving.  It is no wonder Satan attacks Motherhood so much.

Motherhood is  life-giving. The other place that is Life-Giving is the Eucharist, which necessarily needs the Priests, who we call Father.  Women give life from their wombs and men, as Priests, give life to us in the Eucharist.  There is an attack on the womb, which in Hebrew came to mean mercy.  Whether it be the physical womb of a mother, or the Tabernacle that houses the Eucharist.  There is an attack on the Mercy Seat. 

The relationship cycle is meant to purify us and draw us closer to God.  Throughout our lives, it is an ebb and flow of these relationships, but union with the will of God is a life-giving, self sacrificing love.

We need first to receive, and then give and receive, in order to be brought to this union of giving the way that God did.  When we walk this path, when we walk in the authority God gave us, we become confident Mothers and Fathers that the devil will flee from.  This self-giving love does not require actual Motherhood or Fatherhood, it requires the recognition that the Love of God is sacrificial and giving and can dwell within each of us.  It is true charity and does not expect a reward.

Mary as Theotokos is the ultimate expression of the love of God.  Defining Mary as the Mother of God defines who Jesus is and how He wants to fill us and what we are to become.

If a society looks down upon Motherhood and Fatherhood the society will collapse because it is a society that doesn’t know how to give.  We have reached that point.  

Jesus came as the Divine Child to show us the source of charity, to show us how to give.

Mary and Joseph were essential to this plan because they had to give of themselves in order for the rest of us to receive Him and grow into Mothers and Fathers whether literally or spiritually.

He started as a child to show us who we are to become.  To show us our own dignity.

Looking at the Divine Child you are looking at the source of dignity.

In a twisted diabolical form, Satan has convinced by getting us to accept contraception and abortion, that we are uplifting women by attacking the very essence of what forms her in Love. 

The other place Satan attacks life-giving  is in the Eucharist by attacking Priests. They take what Jesus said about calling no man Father and twist it to destroy what Christ is trying to teach us about Love.

The Fatherhood of the Priest is not a Fatherhood of man.  Remember no one is good but God alone (Mark 10:18). The Priesthood is the Fatherhood of God,   a Fatherhood of giving, a source of charity. Priests are giving us divine life very literally. The devil wants nothing more than to destroy this.  And he is working inside the church.

God calls each of us as the Body of Christ to actively partake in the building of His Kingdom. Living a Sacramental life from the heart, helps us do this.  Each of us has a different role but we should all be working together, in love towards our fellow man, to create laws that breathe life, and to help those who are suffering.  To help people walk out of a life of sin. We need to be doing the Spiritual and Corporal works of mercy. These actions are birthed from our prayerful relationship with God.  

If we want to change our society and help her to recognize the Sanctity of Human Life we must purify our interior in prayer from which action can flow.  We can turn to the Mother of God who is so needed right now. And her sons, the Priests, who are also Fathers of God because they give us the source of charity in the Eucharist.  We need to build them up and pray for them. We must look at the Divine Child. When we recognize the Divine Child mirrors Christ on the Cross and the Christ in the Eucharist; He is person totally in the hands and control of others. We must ask ourselves how will we love Him?  How will we love others?  We must recognize the dignity of every human person from conception to natural death, and for me this means even the dignity of the person who murdered my friend. 

Romans 16:20 tells us, “The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The 

grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.”

Our lady and Saint Michael are always depicted with the devil under their feet.  For us to truly embrace the Sanctity of Life, we too need to put the devil under our feet and say no to the culture of death and embrace that each and everyone of us is made in the Image and Likeness of God. We as a society need an illumination of conscience to life the veil of confusion and help us recognize the Sanctity of Human Life from conception to natural death.  In closing, I will leave you with a prayer asking for this;

Lord Jesus, you came to destroy the works of the devil and to call us all children of God. 

You sent us the Advocate so that we may know your truth and rest in the bosom of the Father.

Hear our prayers and supplications Lord as we beg of you to help us in this time of darkness and confusion. 

Send us Angels in sufficient rank, number, power and authority to fight the demons off and away from us, to fight the demons off and away from our families, our communities and our nations.

We ask Our Lady and the entire Communion of Saints to intercede and pray on our behalf.   

We are your Mystical Body, and we ask for healing through forgiveness and restoration. 

Lord Jesus, rain down the Holy Spirit upon all of Mankind. 

Illuminate and convict each of us of who we are in your eyes. 

Show us how much you love us and comfort us as you reveal to us our faults.

Give us the strength and courage to surrender our sin to you, who alone can make us whole. 

May we turn back to you with our whole heart and be transformed in your image.

We implore you through the intercession of Saint Michael, lift the veil of confusion that plagues us. 

Lord, show us your mercy.

In this we give thanks and praise.

All Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, Amen.

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Ann Vucic – Conversion Talk on Medjugorje

Posted on August 5, 2019 by veilofveronica

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“Little children, I wish that all people convert and see me and my son, Jesus, in you. I will intercede for you and help you to become the light. In helping the other, your soul will also find salvation.”  alleged message from Our Lady Queen of Peace – Medjugorje May 25, 1996

My friend Ann Vucic came to visit and gave a talk at my parish.

Ann Vucic was born in a little village two miles from Medjugorge, Bosnia-Herzegovina (place of alleged Marian apparitions since 1981). Her family moved to the United States when she was two years old. Painful adolescent experiences led to destructive behaviors in her early teens. In the summer of 1981, at the age of 15, Ann returned to her homeland for a summer vacation. Shortly after she got there, a whispered conversation in an outdoor cafe led to a life changing encounter with the Lord, which forever changed the trajectory of Ann’s life. That summer, she was able to be a witness to the beginning days and months of Our Lady’s apparitions in Medjugorje. Many years later, a magazine article about Ann’s experiences in Medjugorje, called her “The First American Conversion in Medjugorje.”

​While trying to discern the Lord’s plan in her life, Ann completed undergraduate studies in Theology and Psychology, and graduate studies in Social Work at Loyola University Chicago. By 1999, after many years of working in the field of Social Work, Ann discerned a call by the Lord to leave her career and begin a new life, fully committed to evangelization and ministry, which has always been her greatest passion. Since 1999, Ann has given her life fully for ministry through: coordinating and directing pilgrimages to Medjugorje, the Holy Land, and other Catholic sites; interpreting for Medjugorje visionaries and priests throughout the United States and beyond; working extensively with Fr. Zlatko Sudac (a Croatian priest with the stigmata) as his interpreter and retreat coordinator; sharing her testimony, speaking about the messages of Medjugorje and giving talks on matters of faith and spirituality at retreats, conferences, and media outlets throughout the United States.

​Ann’s powerful testimony will inspire you as you listen to the ways in which the Lord has worked in her life and led her in a direction she could never have dreamed of for herself. God indeed has bigger dreams for us than we have for ourselves. Ann’s story bears witness to that fact.

Here is her testimony;

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The Sanctity of Human Life

Posted on August 4, 2019 by veilofveronica

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“We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, of killings, of wars, of hatred. If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other.” Saint Teresa of Calcutta

This is a talk I gave at the Carmel Center in Liberty, TN on the Sanctity of Human Life.

 

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The Living God

Posted on July 22, 2019 by veilofveronica

I wrote this piece two years ago on the Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene. My friend Eva has since passed away; I feel certain into the loving arms of a good Father. I remember my experience in the chapel that day, and I hold on to the hope because I do not doubt the infinite love of My Creator.

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Mary Magdelene the Penitent

Mary Magdalene- Painting by Kathleen Carr, my cousin.

Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene

Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping.  And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb
and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet
where the Body of Jesus had been.  And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”
She said to them, “They have taken my Lord, and I don’t know where they laid him.”
When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus.  Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?  Whom are you looking for?”
She thought it was the gardener and said to him,  “Sir, if you carried him away,
tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!”
She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,” which…

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Apocalypse

Posted on July 14, 2019 by veilofveronica

 

God the Father

Philip said to him, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

John 14:8-9

The post I am writing I feel is meant urgently.  Urgently for us and urgently for Priests.  I know I am not the only one who receives this message.  Before I begin, I want to give a little background information of some things that have happened over the past couple of weeks.  As always when I show you posts from my journal I record them as if the Lord were speaking to me directly.  If the church were ever to come out and say anything I have written is wrong, then the church is correct and I am wrong.  Know that as you discern what I write.

To begin, something happened to me before I wrote my last post.   It was July 7, 2019 and I was feeling the tug to write that post, but I really didn’t want to.   It was storming outside and as you know, I like to watch storms, so I decided to go outside and watch the storm and pray asking God if I should write.

Sometimes when I am intent on asking God something, it seems God wants to talk to me about something else and I will find myself overwhelmed at the immensity of God.  On that particular evening God had something specific to show me.  I had closed my eyes to ask about writing as the storm was blowing in front of me when suddenly,  He just said to me very clearly,

“he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.”

And then he showed it to me.  He was standing in front of Philip.   And Philip closed his eyes, and Jesus breathed the breath of God and Philip inhaled the breath of God, and Philip KNEW the Father.  And the love and power was overwhelming…he did it to all that were there.

And I sobbed.  I just sat on my front porch and sobbed.  Because I felt it and saw it but I cannot adequately explain it or how overpowering it was.  The immensity of the moment.  The joy of it.  And what it means to be a Priest…And how much responsibility it entails, and how they received it as Loved sons of a Good Father….so they could bring Mercy to the world…

And I knew Jesus weeps at those Priests who don’t understand this.

So fast forward a week and I had planned a trip to the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, AL.  I realized we had planned the trip on the Feast of Saint Veronica.  These things are never coincidence to me.  Remember Veronica wiped the Face of Jesus with her veil.

The priest who gave the homily was AWESOME.  He said what needed to be said.  He touched on everything my friends and I in our prayer group have prayed for and spoken of the past year.  About persecution, Priests and Bishops needing to lead more than they do.  He told us he got most of his homily from this article.

As you know I veil at Mass.  On this day at the Shrine I wore my favorite veil.   You can see it here;

Susan in blue veil

 

After Mass I took off my veil and put it in my purse.  We ate lunch and decided to go to adoration and confession.  But I could not find my veil.   This veil is my favorite for many reasons.  It’s Marian blue and it is the one I have touched to so many relics, including Saint Padre Pio, Saint Faustina, and the last one I touched it to was the heart of Saint John Vianney, patron of Priests.  I looked everywhere in my purse where I had put it and then all over where I had been and including the lost and found but was unable to find it.  I thought perhaps God wanted to speak to someone else about veiling and he would use my veil to do it.  I went to to get one of my other veils to go to adoration, but I was, and am sad to lose that one.  It was special to me.

After confession, I sat in adoration a little bit bummed out.  I asked the Lord to speak to me.  The only thing God said to me was, “Restore the Father’s Blessings”.  I wasn’t sure what He meant.  We left shortly thereafter.

I got up this morning, and was going to just get cleaning done in my house because I have company coming in.  But the tug on my heart to go to Mass was strong.  Very strong.  So I got in my car and headed off to Mass.  Adoration was going on prior to Mass.

It was then God started pouring over me during adoration and then continued in Mass.  I will try to relay what he said to me as best as I can and hope that it makes sense.  This is also one of the most dire post pleas I have posted before and so I want to relay that in receiving this, I had God’s peace.  He is in control and really truly does not want us to be afraid.  The only thing we should fear is losing our salvation;

Beloved Lily of the Father,

 In the beginning they KNEW the Father.  They KNEW ME.  They walked in union with me.  They KNEW their source which came from the Tree of Life.

  • …Now, what if he also reaches out his hand to take fruit from the tree of life, and eats of it and lives forever? (Genesis 3:22)

Once they turned to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as their source the unity they walked in experienced a rift.  I did not withdraw the source, or they would cease to be, but the source was veiled, guarded by the Cherubim.  I send angels to help you make your way back to the source to help you do My will.

The Priesthood is the bridge between heaven and earth bringing back to earth what has been veiled.  Giving the sacramental life to my people so they can be brought back to unity with my will. 

When Philip asked Jesus, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” I let Philip know that knowing ME is done through the Son who is in me.

On July 7, 2019 I showed you on your front porch the moment Philip really, really knew the Father.  Jesus breathed on him and said “receive the Holy Spirit.”  You sobbed understanding the gravity of the Priesthood.  They are the Fatherhood of God bringing my Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity to my people, reconciling my people to me, so they turn back to the Source from whom their goodness comes.

And yet I say, woe to my shepherds.  You have entered your final warnings.  Rome is burning.  The Mass is becoming decimated.  Some leaders are a brood of vipers.  It is their disobedience that calls my hand of justice upon the earth.  They are withholding the Kingdom from my people.  They in their unbelief.  It is the only time the Son was amazed, it is because of unbelief.  He could not perform miracles because of it. 

My Priests restore the Father’s Blessings.  But instead because of their unbelief they bring down judgment.  The passion of the church. 

When the Mass becomes decimated, and the bridge between heaven and earth broken I must bring the apocalypse directly.  Apocalypse means unveiling.  I will unveil and make transparent Good and Evil.  Every action I make is to bring union back to the will of the Father.  When those in the bridge refuse my will, I ACT ON A GLOBAL SCALE.  Death will be a mercy for some because it will be in death that they turn back to me.  Many will refuse my mercy and will lock themselves in hell for eternity.  THE EARTH HAS SEEN NOTHING LIKE WHAT I WILL UNVEIL.  The constructs in your mind of who I AM will be shaken to the core.  But remember I AM LOVE, DO NOT DOUBT IT.  You lost your veil to give out warning and let my shepherds know, TIME IS RUNNING OUT… REPENT OR SUFFER MY DIRECT UNVEILING.

Look now I will unveil the Mass for you Beloved Lily of the Father.  Look and see what I see.

{At this point, I Susan, am watching the consecration.  My eyes become super blurry.  Everything blends together in a Bright White Light.  I know where we are in the Mass by the words being proclaimed.  The Priest has raised the Host, but what I see is a Bright White Light.  I see the Face of Jesus, Massively large taking up the whole altar space.  As he raises the chalice I see a Rainbow.  God is using the surroundings of what is in the church to reveal all of this to me.  He says the rainbow is a symbol of his Covenant.  He tells me He is everywhere and permeates everything.  I sense WRATH at the covenant symbols misuse especially when embraced inside of the church in a way that damages souls, wrath for the perversion of everything, and especially the harming of children.  But in the midst of it is an overwhelming love from the altar. As I stated, “Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof,” I was brought to tears at the immensity of it all.}

I will bring you to your knees and you will know who I AM.  Everything that comes from me is a movement back towards my WILL which is LOVE, MERCY AND TRUTH, anything that is evil and moves souls away from this will be destroyed.  The day of Justice rapidly upon you.  Time is short and velocity speeds up.  I will restore the Father’s Blessings.  The righteous will be lifted up and my peace will be upon you.  Do not be afraid of the battle.  I AM with you. 

 Psalm 33:18

 The Most Holy Trinity

To the shepherds who are fighting the battle I pray for your perseverance and I thank you for fighting for us.  DO NOT BE AFRAID.  To those who are not, repent and believe in the Gospel.

 

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The Stronghold of Unforgiveness

Posted on July 8, 2019 by veilofveronica

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View from the 9th floor balcony of the Palms in Destin, Florida

….he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.” John 20:22-23

This is one of those posts I really didn’t want to write.  I didn’t want to open up and tell everyone what goes on inside my head.  But God said, “SPEAK. ” And so I will.

Before I tell this story, I want to remind readers of a dream I had on December 20, 2014.

In my dream I was attacked by a demon, and when I awoke I knew it was real.  Prior to this I knew that the devil was real because I knew that evil was real and I knew that God is not the orchestrator of evil.  But this day, this dream changed me.  I knew for sure that the devil was an active entity, a real entity, one that was trying to steal, kill and destroy.

I bring this up because I had known and established a relationship with God and knew I could hear Him speaking, but I don’t think I realized that the “voices in my head” could also be coming from Satan.  I had thought it was either my own voice, or God’s, but after this dream I knew there was a third voice, and it was one that wanted my destruction.

Discerning where something is coming from can be hard, but the nearer you draw to the Lord in prayer, the louder the Lord gets, and it gets easier to discern when the enemy is trying to derail you.  It’s how I know that my post-partum depression and anxiety contained the spiritual attack on my motherhood.

I tell you all this so you know there are 3 voices that speak to you.  God’s, your own, and Satan’s.  The more you sin, the louder Satan’s gets.  The more you pray, the louder God’s gets.  Whichever one you choose to make your own and you internalize and believe becomes how you interact in the world.  If you internalize God’s and walk as a loved child, you bring that love to the world.  If you internalize Satan’s you bring hate, death and sin in the world and you call it love but it’s a lie.

One of the things that brings a barrage of demonic voices to anyone is getting stuck in unforgiveness.  This is a wide open door that will let those voices pummel you with fiery darts of suggestion.  I know I have an area of forgiveness to work on when my anxiety rises and the images and thoughts make me feel out of control.  They make me accuse and suck all my joy.

So that brings me to my story.  I finally got to go on vacation after several months of feeling like I was on a treadmill.  I was so very very excited!!! Until I got to our destination…

My wonderful, loving husband booked us a room on the 9th floor of a high rise in Florida.  Now anyone who knows me knows that I have a grave fear of heights.  It isn’t just the healthy caution that one should have, it is an irrational anxiety that keeps me from doing things.  When I walked in the condo I cried.  Which promptly made the 17 year old roll his eyes and go out on the balcony of death to look over the railing.

Now I will say that in my journey I have come a long way about a lot of things.  There was a time when I would have LIT MY HUSBAND UP for booking a place like that.  I would have taken it so personally like he was malicious.  But I knew he wasn’t malicious, he was clueless.  Apparently my fear of heights did not occur to him when he was booking our vacation.  He worked hard to plan it, and at a nice place.  I wasn’t mad.  He sheepishly looked at me and said next time we wouldn’t stay up this high.  I knew God had something for me to work on.  I knew God wanted me there.  So it was time to take it to prayer.  I hugged my husband and retreated to prayer.

I had to shut the blinds as the balcony was like a magnetic pole to my children who must have been wearing metal clothing.  They wanted to be no where else but there.  So here’s where I tell you all about the “voices in my head.”  I would get barraged with image after image of my children falling off the balcony.   Then if I even tried to go out myself a voice would whisper, “jump”.  Now this one voice made me angry because it was so bold and I KNEW IT WASN’T MINE.  And I knew instantly Satan just wants me dead.  But God wants me to figure something out.  I wasn’t always afraid of heights, at some point something had changed.

I knew I could command the voices and images to go away in Jesus’ name, but that if I had an area of unforgiveness they would just come back immediately.  That’s why Jesus says;

But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

Matthew 6:15

So I set to my task of asking God because I didn’t want to hand myself to the torturer’s any longer.

“Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.  Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’  In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

 “This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.” Matthew 18:32-35

He showed me a moment in time.  It was September 11, 2001.  I was newly pregnant with my firstborn.  The one I would suffer post-partum depression with.  I was watching the TV in my living room, watching the towers burn.  Watching people jump to their death.  I held my stomach tightly and I said, “my God, what kind of world am I bringing this child into.”  And I questioned having a child in a world filled with evil.   Like speaking a curse over the blessing God was giving me.

And I knew immediately who I needed to forgive.  I actually needed to forgive the terrorists for the trauma.  I needed to forgive myself for the doubt of life I spoke over my child.  Once I did this I could command those demons to leave and break any curses in the name of Jesus.  Thank God for confession.

I felt God further say that he wanted me to share this story so people would know how to discern the voices, and how to make them leave.

I could have spiraled into a wild amount of control, refusing to let my kids on the balcony.  But God let me know that we were on the 9th floor for a reason, because 9 is the number of the angels.  They surround me and my children, and if I don’t trust God with my children, then I don’t trust God.  These voices are barraging everyone, but not everyone recognizes it.  And even when you do, it is often a struggle to make it stop.  Don’t let a stronghold of unforgiveness keep you stuck.

By the end of the week I could sit on the balcony and have coffee.  I wouldn’t say I am ready to climb the Empire State Building, but I would say the voices left and the fear subsided.  And I rested in the love of God, and relaxed on my vacation.  In the months ahead I think it is important not to get stuck in our own control, and unforgiveness.  You are not your Savior, Jesus is, and he has left us so many tools to fight this battle.  If you think you have it figured out on your own, He will let you know you don’t.  If you find yourself in fear and accusing others, there’s probably something you need to work on.  Remember forgiveness does not mean no consequences.  Forgiveness just means you can be free.  Totally free.

The demons are so active right now.  My friend Charlie also had a vision on December 20, 2014.  These demons are actively trying to take us down.  So RECOGNIZE IT and fight intelligently.  Put your Holy Hatred on Satan where it belongs.  Don’t be afraid, be MAD, at the right entity and put on the Armor of God.

 

 

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The Work Still to be Done

Posted on June 23, 2019 by veilofveronica

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Poussin – The Institution of the Eucharist

Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness. You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who remains in him sins; no one who sins has seen him or known him. Children, let no one deceive you. The person who acts in righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous. Whoever sins belongs to the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. Indeed, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the devil. No one who is begotten by God commits sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot sin because he is begotten by God. In this way, the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; no one who fails to act in righteousness belongs to God, nor anyone who does not love his brother. For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another, unlike Cain who belonged to the evil one and slaughtered his brother. Why did he slaughter him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous. Do not be amazed, [then,] brothers, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death.  Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.  If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him? Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. 1 John 3:1-18

 

As you all know I record what pops in my head as a letter from God.  If the church came out today and said all I have written is wrong, the church is correct and I am wrong.  I always want to be clear about that so you can discern what I write.  Here is what I felt the Lord say to me on this weekend of the Feast of Corpus Christi;

Beloved Lily of the Father,

I have come for your sanctification.  I reveal nothing to you that I haven’t revealed in and through others, you are a connector, connecting things I have revealed.  I died on the cross for your Redemption but my promise is still to be fulfilled.  I came to destroy the works of the devil.  This was done and completed in My Mother.  My Kingdom was established in her.  But I came to establish My Kingdom in each of you, this is the work still to be done.  Your baptism and belief bring you Redemption but the fullness of what I came for is Sanctification.  Purgatory sanctifies.  However, if you do MY WILL on earth as it is in heaven you partake in sanctification as co-redeemer.  My Mother is Co-Redemptrix because in order to Redeem,  I came through a soul where My Kingdom was established already.  It was established in her.  Redemption is for all baptized who believe and sanctification is subject to each soul who is willing to be purified by surrendering their human will to us.  The levels of purgatory are the degree to which a person hands themselves to our will while on earth.  Purgatory is my Mercy.  Being purified of what kept you from complete sanctification.  Nothing imperfect can be in heaven.  Those who reject my mercy for themselves and others and remain in pride of mortal sin unto their death blaspheme the Holy Spirit and are lost to the fires of hell.  You can be sanctified on earth.  I make you holy when you surrender all to me.  I completed Redemption your cooperation determines your level of sanctification.  Some realize this to a great degree.  They partake in my cross.  When you partake in my cross you have access to MY CREATION.  Full domain over creation.  The more you give yourself to me, the more you have access to creation and are not limited.  Healing, bi-location, raising the dead.  You can do things that seem impossible because it is no longer you, but I who have established My Kingdom in you and I am not limited.

I am raising Saints like you have never seen before.

Many fear my chastisement.  I tell you, DO NOT FEAR, EMBRACE IT AND YOU WILL SEE POWER LIKE NEVER BEFORE.  I AM POWER MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS.  TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW ME.  My Will will be working in and through you.  IT IS PERFECT LOVE and perfect love casts out all fear.  This is how you operate as the Body of Christ.

Isaiah 60:1

– The Most Holy Trinity

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Storm Watching

Posted on June 21, 2019 by veilofveronica

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Downed Tree from storms in Middle Tennessee June 19, 2019

 

You who dwell in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shade of the Almighty, Say to the LORD, “My refuge and fortress, my God in whom I trust.” He will rescue you from the fowler’s snare, from the destroying plague, He will shelter you with his pinions, and under his wings you may take refuge; his faithfulness is a protecting shield. You shall not fear the terror of the night nor the arrow that flies by day, Nor the pestilence that roams in darkness, nor the plague that ravages at noon. Though a thousand fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, near you it shall not come.You need simply watch; the punishment of the wicked you will see.  Because you have the LORD for your refuge and have made the Most High your stronghold, No evil shall befall you, no affliction come near your tent. For he commands his angels with regard to you, to guard you wherever you go. With their hands they shall support you,lest you strike your foot against a stone. You can tread upon the asp and the viper,trample the lion and the dragon.  Because he clings to me I will deliver him; because he knows my name I will set him on high. He will call upon me and I will answer; I will be with him in distress; I will deliver him and give him honor. With length of days I will satisfy him, and fill him with my saving power. Psalm 91

 

Yesterday, I spent the day getting ready for my family to go on vacation.  I didn’t turn on the news or look at the weather for the day at all.  I just went about my day, doing laundry and getting ready for travel.  Around 4:00 p.m. I wheeled our trash can out to the curb and felt a spit of rain on my arm.  I looked up at the sky, it was cloudy and a little bit eerie.  I knew a storm was coming.

I like to watch storms.  Don’t get me wrong, I am not a storm chaser, though I have been in the eye of a hurricane before.  I was in Thibodeaux, LA when hurricane Andrew hit back in 1992.  I had never seen a sky that color before.  Weather often lets us know we are not the ones in control.  But back to yesterday, I don’t chase storms, but I will watch storms from my front porch on occasion, as long as they aren’t too scary.

Yesterday’s storm was weird though.  I knew it was coming from the time I took the trash can out.  But 5:00 p.m. came and it didn’t hit us, and 6:00 p.m. came and it didn’t hit us, and 7:00 p.m. came, and it didn’t hit us.  Somewhere around 7:30 p.m., the sky stopped it’s occasional spitting and opened up into a downpour.

I went to sit on the front porch.  I grabbed my bible and a candle in a glass jar.  I lit my candle and sat in my rocking chair.  I held my bible and prayed.  God told me to pay attention.

He said, “you knew the storm was coming, I warned you for quite awhile.”  The rain began to fall very hard and very quickly and in a flash of lightening,  it got nasty wicked out.  It almost looked like a hurricane as the rain was full on sideways because of the wind.  I thought I better go inside.  God said, “no, stay and watch.”  The wind was blowing so hard a mist of rain was getting me wet.  I was becoming very cold and very uncomfortable.  Rain poured from my home’s gutters, threatening to soak the entire porch if they broke away from the house, but they held firm.  I was wet but I wasn’t soaked.  My candle blew out.  It was dark.  He said, “this is what it will be like, it will be dark like a hurricane.  You will be uncomfortable, you will suffer, but you who dwell in the shelter of the Lord will be rescued.”  Psalm 91 was coming alive.  The storm was fierce but ended rather quickly, as quick as the bolt of lightening that had unleashed it.  I had a sense of total peace about me, even though most people would have come inside long before I did.  I felt as though he was giving me a glimpse, a small glimpse, of what is to come.

We are in a storm, still the warning phase, much is yet to come.   What will come will not be what we have envisioned in our heads.  I actually don’t think we can fathom it, the immensity of it all.  But what I do know is God is in control and we should have no anxiety.  It isn’t like me to stay out in a storm that was as bad as last nights, but I KNEW God was with me and I didn’t need to fear.  He is giving us time, time to pray, fast, and align ourselves with His Will.  His Mother is interceding for us.  Time is short, don’t waste it.  We shouldn’t wait until the storm is full blown before we start listening to God.  Pray now.

May the Peace of Christ be with you.

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On Motherhood and Fatherhood and Calling No Man Father

Posted on June 7, 2019 by veilofveronica

Divine Child

 

As for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi.’ You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers.  Call no one on earth your father; you have but one Father in heaven.  Do not be called ‘Master’; you have but one master, the Messiah.  The greatest among you must be your servant.  Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.  Matthew 23:8-12

The other day I was sitting in my office pondering Our Blessed Mother and thinking about the Litany to Our Lady Healer of Families.  And in a moment it struck me that one of the Dogma’s of our faith is Mary the Mother of God, or Theotokos.

I pondered this for awhile, that Mary, who is the daughter of God the Father, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, and Mother of the Son, all things relationship with God, but the preeminent definition of who she is in relation to God is MOTHER.  That is the essence of who she is and is a defined dogma.  And I realized with my heart (not just my head) that this means she isn’t just the Mother of Jesus’ humanity (Nestorian heresy), but the Mother of the his divinity, his whole person;  And since the Spirit by the action of the Holy Spirit we receive him in the Eucharist and he dwells in us, she is LITERALLY OUR MOTHER and not just spiritually.  The more we turn to her, the closer in union we become with God.

Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 3:16

And so it was here that I knew God was trying to tell me something more.

Our existence is about our very relationship with God and how we relate to God extends outward to our fellow man.  When we recognize our source, and that it is a source outside of ourselves, but that dwells in us, we become Christ-like.

The very first relationship we have is that of daughter or son.  This is a relationship of receiving.  We are young, weak, unable to care for ourselves, and so we must receive what we need in order to flourish.  A child that receives from his or her parents what is needed is a child that flourishes.

The next relationship we have is two-fold – it can be brotherly or sisterly – or it can be spousal.  These relationships are giving and receiving.  These relationships are intimate, not in a sexual way (though with spouses that intimacy is also physical), but in a way, that when the good of the other is sought, these people can know who you are and continue to give love and receive love from you.

The next relationship is that of Mother or Father.  This relationship is one of giving.  When a child is in the womb, and later born, they are completely weak and helpless.  They cannot give of themselves.  Mothering and Fathering requires much sacrifice.

This is the ultimate expression of God in us because it requires total giving.

Motherhood and Fatherhood are life giving.  I have written before of how women give life from their wombs and men, as Priests, give life to us in the Eucharist.

The relationship cycle is meant to purify us and draw us closer to God.  Throughout our lives it is an ebb and flow of these relationships, but union with the will of God is Motherly and Fatherly.  It is self-giving love.

We need first to receive, and then give and receive, in order to be brought to this union of giving the way that God did.  When we walk this path, when we walk in the authority God gave us, we become confident Mothers and Fathers that the devil will flee from.  This self giving love does not require actual Motherhood or Fatherhood, it requires the recognition that the Love of God is sacrificial and giving and can dwell within each of us.  It is TRUE CHARITY and does not expect reward.

Mary as Theotokos, is the ultimate expression of the love of God.  Defining Mary as the Mother of God defines who Jesus is and how He wants to fill us and what we are to become.

If a society looks down upon Motherhood and Fatherhood the society will collapse because it is a society that doesn’t know how to give.

Jesus came as the Divine Child to show us the SOURCE OF CHARITY, to show us how to give.

Mary and Joseph were essential to this plan because they had to give of themselves in order for the rest of us to receive HIM and grow into Mothers and Fathers whether literally or spiritually.

He started as a child to show us who we are to become.

Looking at the Divine Child you are looking at the SOURCE.

Which brings you back to the will of God;  The source, the giving tree, the Tree of Life.

There is a reason Satan attacks Motherhood.  There is a reason even Catholics are now attacking calling a Priest Father.

Destroying Motherhood and Fatherhood destroys CHARITY.

In a twisted diabolical form they claim to uplift women by attacking the very essence of what forms her in LOVE.  They take what Jesus said about calling no man Father and twist it to destroy what Christ is trying to teach us about LOVE.

The Fatherhood of the Priest is NOT a Fatherhood of man.  Remember no one is good but God alone (Mark 10:18). The Priesthood is the Fatherhood of God.  A Fatherhood of giving.  A SOURCE OF CHARITY.  Priests are giving us DIVINE LIFE LITERALLY. The devil wants nothing more than to destroy this.  And he is working inside the church to do so.

It is why Mary is so needed right now.  And her sons, the Priests, who are also FATHERS of GOD because they give us the SOURCE OF CHARITY in the Eucharist.  Look at the Divine Child.  The Divine Child mirrors Christ on the Cross and the Eucharist… a person totally in the hands and control of others…How will you LOVE HIM?

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The Tree of Life

Posted on June 3, 2019 by veilofveronica

Tree of Life

 

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.  1 Corinthians 2:19

 

As you all know I record what pops in my head as a letter from God.  If the church came out today and said all I have written is wrong, the church is correct and I am wrong.  I always want to be clear about that so you can discern what I write.  Here is what I felt the Lord say to me today;

Beloved Lily of the Father,

The Garden of Eden had both the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  The Tree of Life is My Will, the will of the Father.  This tree nourishes and is an ever flowing source of life drawing from the endless river of Divine Love.  This is because this is a giving tree, a tree of perfect love.  The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is Free will, wherein lies your human will.  Eve saw that the tree was good for food and a delight to the eyes.  It was both of these things because it’s source was Divine.  But it was not a source in and of itself.  She had been convinced it would make her wise, instead of to the tree of life and she convinced Adam of it as well, who failed in giving of his protection.  The devil who looked only to this tree of knowledge of good and evil himself, convinced them to partake and stole what had belonged to Me and what I had given to those who dwell with me.  He who was a Seraph and knew from where he came because he was so close to me, in his pride and his envy, he tried to become the source.  He can never be the source.  He can only mimic the source, and they handed their will to Him, their authority, their domain.  The veil of self knowledge shrouding the source of Divine Life, shrouding my will.  But this tree is not self sustaining, it cannot live on its own without the tree of life.   To try to live on this tree alone begets death and destruction because apart from living in the divine will, the human withers and dies.  The effect of this original sin is the continual concupiscence, looking to self, to human will, to accomplish what only I dwelling in you can accomplish.  You miss the fact that you no longer walk in authority because you have handed it over and you try to sustain what cannot be sustained because you have rejected the truth from where you came.  You can never truly be apart from the Tree of Life, because if you were you would cease to be.  But you can reject it as the source from which your life, your will- came, and in doing so, you choose an eternity that is empty of love.  I never severed you from the Tree of Life, the story of Salvation is my cry to you to turn back to it.  Back to unity of with my will.  In my love for you, I continue to be the source, but all of my creation cries out to move you back in union with your source of life.  In my Providence because I AM THE UNCREATED IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, outside of time I withheld original sin from the Woman of Revelation. I breathed the breath of Life into the CREATED IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, one who was never shrouded from MY WILL and so never experienced concupiscence.  Born full of grace, recognizing the source of Life and walking always in union with My Will.  She still had to choose and she chose perfect love.  I created a human being who chose to be totally sustained in the will of the Father.  Drawing only from the Tree of Life.  Her yes to My will enabled me to come.  To send My son who is consubstantial with me.  Taking on the humanity and human will in the person of the eternal Son who is God.  The Holy Spirit, who is God, dwelt within her.  She became Mediatrix of all Grace so I could come and you could come back to unity with my will.  Everything coming forth from me and returning to me.  Just as I came to you through her, so too it is through her that you come to me.  You too can be Immaculately conceived anew by handing yourself to her who is in total unity with us.  The more you hand yourselves to her, the more you receive the Sacraments, the more you pray, the more full of grace you become, raising you and glorifying you to do even greater things with the Spirit dwelling in you.  You were meant to be powerful as the Body I created you to be; Drawing straight from the Tree of Life.   

A great sign appeared in the heavens, a woman clothed in the sun, with the moon at her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.  This has taken place.  She has come to guide you to the Tree of Life.  The one to which her Son was nailed, uniting once again humanity’s will and the will of the Father.  You will experience a pouring out of the uncreated Immaculate Conception to unite you with the source of Life that extends beyond Pentecost to all the earth.  The hour to reap the harvest has come.  Look for fire from the skies.  Stay awake and do not fear.

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