“The human needs the love of community and the touch of each other. Man was not created to live alone, but in unity. However, man was created to give glory to God for His honor, and so, praise to the Creator for His blessing was, and continues to be, essential for freedom.”(From Gianna below)
It’s hard to reflect God’s light and to bring peace to others if we can’t find a way to bring peace to our own souls. I spoke yesterday about the fact that churches across the country still seem to outnumber Starbuck’s, yet somehow Jesus seems to be an obscure notion once we travel outside of those church walls. Are we taking God with us when we leave to give to others? Or are we merely passing Him a token so that we can feel good about “our faith” and get on with our worldly lives once we walk out the door? I certainly grew up in a culture that praised God on Sunday and pretty much ignored Him the rest of the week. One thing I have to appreciate about Catholic culture, is that unlike most Protestant venues, there is usually a way to get to church any day of the week, whether for Mass, or just to pray in adoration. We have active religious out there keeping Our Lord open 24/7, and giving us access to avenues of prayer and reflection whenever we need Him, and I’m finding that the longer I live, the more I need Him close 24/7. We also have tools like the Rosary that give a convenient way to reflect on the Gospel at any given time. It keeps it fresh in our memory and in our soul so we can keep Him at the forefront of our lives. Despite its challenges and difficulties, this 2000 year old magisterium and its sacraments and saints definitely provide a level of access to Him that can be daunting to try to imitate outside of the faith. But people do manage to keep Him close without these things as well. Many times closer than those who do have access to these things. Nevertheless, if He isn’t living at the forefront of our hearts and souls 24/7, we’re allowing access to things that are damaging to every element of our psyche and soul, and unfortunately, there’s much of that available for the taking as well. I pray that we use whatever tools are available to keep our hearts and souls living through Him, with Him, and in Him, for now and for eternity. That we might keep His Kingdom at hand on Earth as He has proclaimed. In perfect love. Totus Tuus.❤️🙏
As told to Gianna Talone Sullivan, June 27, 1992, I am your Jesus of Mercy Vol IV, Jerusalem
Look Within
“My dear one, peace must exist in the cornerstone of your
heart, because I am to exist in your heart! Before peace
can escalate out unto others, it must encompass your being
in totality because I must encompass you in totality. This is
the free will given to you through creation of mankind. You
are only to be willing and have faith of a mustard seed, and
I shall consume you in love!
By now, My dear one, you have seen what a mustard seed
looks like, and you know the history of the parables relate in
reality, not only to the people of that age, but also carrying
into today’s generation. You look for a quiet place of peace to
rest your weary head, but you have not looked within.
My people need to look within. There I lie; an inner con-
templation living amongst an active world. If I call My ones
to solitude in hermitage, that grace is for those chosen. But
most of My people are subject to living in an active world
as I walked, and must flee within to find solitude in Me. It
then would not matter where you are. The peace, solitude and
love of contemplation would become the cornerstone of your
soul, because I am the cornerstone of peace in your soul. I
dove into the heart of My being, there to find My Father’s
peace and to dwell in solitude, then to rest My head on My
Mother for loving care. You also need to turn for love, and
care for one another.
The human needs the love of community and the touch
of each other. Man was not created to live alone, but in unity.
However, man was created to give glory to God for His honor,
and so, praise to the Creator for His blessing was, and contin-
ues to be, essential for freedom.
Dive into My Sacred heart for rejuvenation of the soul. Do
not look for rest and peace in outer sources. Look inside, and
those who are willing to receive My love and peace will find
Me! Here lies your protection and intimacy with God. Here
rests total knowledge, the knowledge I grant you through the
heart. Even though you have knowledge through the intellect
of the mind, you have not knowledge unless it is processed
and absorbed in love through the heart!!
My dear one, in My time of human existence amongst My
people I worked hard. I was rugged and exhausted. I never
ceased to teach My Father’s word and to have mercy on those
in need. I was crucified and humiliated amongst a market
place of thieves and wild people, none who cared about the
mercy of God; a common place where no one took heed of
the presence of the Son of the living God.
I could not find peace exteriorly because the world did not
exist in peace exteriorly. I came to save the world so all would
have life and peace, but I dove interiorly into My Father’s
heart for solitude, contemplation and the peace of His love.
I then walked the back roads to freedom by walking the ac-
tive world in the contemplation of solitude and peace within
where My Father dwelled.
I call all My people today to this same magnetic quiet-
ness of solitude, which exists within yourselves interiorly, not
exteriorly. I live within. It is where you will find rest in your
busy world, and the guidance of the teachings of My truth.
Then you can see Me living exteriorly amongst all, but not
before you have seen Me within, because there you will first
see yourself, and therein, Me.
The Son of Man is coming to verify the past truths and
to collect His chosen ones! The time will come when all will
experience the state of their soul. All will have to look within.
It cannot be escaped. There, where the peace of salvation ex-
ists, will freedom and protection lie.
Come, My sweet one, it is time to begin a new day of My
Father’s creation. I am with you always in your soul and by
your side. I place My Angels of protection around you, as I
send them to all My people of God. The interior protection I
will procure. The exterior now will be guided by My archan-
gels. Peace and Ad Deum.”