Solving the World’s Problems
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Today, November 21, is the Feast of the Presentation of Mary which commemorates the entrance of Mary to the Temple of God in Jerusalem when she was a little child. This feast commemorates Mary’s entrance into God’s plan to save the world.
Since her introduction into God’s plan to save the world, She has never left the stage. On July 13, 1917, Mary appeared to the visionaries at Fatima and showed them a vision of Hell in which they saw a sea of fire. Plunged in this fire were demons and human souls, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the inferno amid shrieks and groans of despair. Then Our Lady said to the three children:
You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart… I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. If My requests are heeded, Russia will be converted and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be annihilated. In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph.
At Fatima, God gave us the solution to solve the world’s problems. There Mary asked us to do four things:
A. Consecrate ourselves to Her Immaculate Heart and live the consecration
B. Pray the Rosary every day
C. First Saturdays of Reparation
D. Be Donkeys of Mary and Spread the Message
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Even though God gave the solution… too few answered the Call of Mary and Russia spread her errors throughout the world in the form of atheistic Marxism turning mankind away from God. Mary promised us that in the end Her Immaculate Heart would Triumph resulting in an era of peace. She is calling us to help rescue souls and bring about that Triumph first by Consecration to Her Heart.
Consecration is the process of the Holy Spirit forming Jesus within us. Think of the Consecration of the Eucharist.
· The bell is rung at the prayer of the epiclesis in the Mass
· The priest asks God the Father to send the Holy Spirit to transform the bread and wine into Jesus.
· Consecration is the Holy Spirit bringing Jesus into a soul or into the bread and wine to transform what he enters into himself
It is the maternal mission of the Holy Spirit to conceive and form Jesus in souls. This is accomplished through a collaboration between the Holy Spirit and Mary. Since the Holy Spirit forms Jesus with and through Mary,
· The more we unconditionally entrust ourselves to Mary,
· the more we belong to Mary,
· the more the Spirit may form Christ with us
· that is why we consecrate ourselves to Mary, why we seek to belong entirely to Her.
Once we consecrate ourselves to Mary then we must live a personal relationship with her – moment to moment and day after day.
Jesus consecrated himself entirely to Mary by becoming an embryo in her womb and a little child in her care.
Then he lived a personal relationship with her for 30 years in Nazareth.
Our Lady told Lucia at Fatima, My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.”
In the Approved apparition of San Nicolas Argentina, Jesus said:
I have chosen the heart of my mother, so that what I ask will be achieved. Souls will come to me through the means of her Immaculate Heart.
Have you consecrated yourself to Mary? Do you live a daily personal relationship with Mary like Jesus, or did you stop short?
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In every approved apparition since Fatima, when asked: What do you want us to do? Mary responded: “Pray the Rosary every day in order to obtain peace for the world…
Again, at San Nicolas Argentina, April 10, 1986 the visionary reported she saw an enormous crown of white rosaries. Then Mary, the Mother of God said to her: You see this crown because this is what I want you to do, create a real crown of rosaries. Pray my daughter pray. How many mouths remain silent, still without even knowing a single prayer which may bring them close to the Lord! The Holy Rosary is the weapon which the enemy fears. It is also the refuge of those who look for relief for their sufferings, and it is the door to enter into my heart. Glory to the Lord for the Light which He gives the world.
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The 3rd means…First Saturdays of Reparation
On December 10, 1925, the Mary appeared to Sr. Lucia.
Then the Most Holy Virgin said: “Look my daughter, at My Heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce Me at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You at least try to console Me and announce in My name that I promise to assist at the moment of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months shall confess, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep Me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making Reparation to Me.”
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At Fatima Lucia asked Mary to take them to Heaven to which Our Lady responded:
“Yes. I will take Jacinta and Francisco soon. But you are to stay here for some time longer. Jesus wishes to make me known and loved. He wants to establish in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart. I promise salvation to those who embrace it, and those souls will be embraced by God like flowers placed by me to adorn his throne.”
Our Lady gave Lucia the mission of helping to rescue souls by spreading devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
This is the mission of the Movement of the Holy Family - to lead people to Jesus through the Heart of Mary. We do this by living a simple way of life of friendship, good conversation and the Rosary.
If you feel drawn to this mission – then join us in this spiritual family, this spiritual army that seeks to rescue souls and lead them to Immaculate Heart.