511 Sant' Omero
(Teramo, Italy); February 2, 1994 Feast
of the
Presentation of the Child Jesus
a "Beloved children, let
yourselves be carried in my motherly arms into the temple of the Lord, to be
offered by me to the perfect glory of the Most Holy Trinity.
b For this I am gathering you from every part of the world.
For this I ask you to consecrate yourselves
to my Immaculate Heart. For this I am
leading you each day along the road pointed out by me, and I am forming you, for many years now, with the gift of
my motherly word.
c In you, the Father must be glorified in the
perfect fulfillment of his divine Will.
In you, the Son wants to be relived in such a way that you become the instruments of his divine mercy. In you,
the Holy Spirit is at work, with the force of his love, in order to make you capable of transforming hearts
and souls.
d Thus, in these last times, you must become light to whomever is walking in darkness, life to
whomever is under the yoke of sin and death, love to whomever is
consumed by violence and hatred, comfort to
whomever is overwhelmed by suffering, balm
upon the wounds of the poor and the sick, strength for the weakness of
the little and the oppressed.
e In this way you are able to communicate to all
the
gift of my trust.
f — Be the gift of my
trust for the Church, today so suffering and divided, crushed and oppressed, a
Church which is climbing the Calvary of its
painful passion.
g Never as in these times of yours has the Church had such need of experiencing all the tenderness and
merciful compassion of its heavenly
Mother. I want to exercise through you my motherly duty toward the Church. Love the Church with the beating of my Immaculate Heart. Wipe away its
sweat; heal its wounds; soothe its
pain; share in its suffering; help it to carry its heavy cross toward
the Calvary of its immolation.
h Stay close to the Pope and to your bishops, with prayer
and with your filial love. Support your
brother-priests. Above all, run to meet the weakest, the most fragile, those
who are yielding under the weight
of the great difficulties of these last times. You must be the gentle
and merciful hand of your heavenly Mother who bends over to place balm on the
wounds of the sinners, of those who are
estranged, of the poor, of those who are marginalized, of the oppressed, and of the abandoned. In this way, you yourselves become the gift of my trust
for the Church of these, your times.
i — Be the gift of my trust for all this poor humanity. Help it to return to God along the road of
prayer and penance. The pathway of conversion is the only way along which it
must journey in order to attain salvation and
peace.
j But now you are
entering into the decisive times, times for which I have been preparing you for
many years. How many will be swept away by
the terrible hurricane which has already hurled itself upon humanity. This is
the time of the great trial; this is
my time, 0 children consecrated to my Immaculate Heart.
k I want to manifest myself by means of you and to give to
all the gift of my trust, above all when the days of the great
desolation and of a general despair will have
come.
i
For
this reason, I ask you to let yourselves be carried in my motherly arms into the temple of the glory of the
Lord, in order that you may become for all light of hope, by
spreading everywhere the gift of my trust in these, your final times.
