“Seek to find God through the praises of spiritual prayers. Depriva-
tion of the spirit from worldly attachments will come to ALL who are joined in union with Me.”(From Gianna below)
Nearly every morning I make a 15 mile trek to St Peter’s Catholic Church in Libertytown MD. It isn’t my parish, but it offers not only a Perpetual Adoration Chapel and beautiful garden, it also offers a tiny community of prayerful people who watch over things. Dedicated worker bees who interact at the “changing of the guard,” to keep the chapel alive and in the spirit. It offers a place of holiness and solitude that’s hard to leave once I become immersed in the spirit. Even the energy of the people there serving The Lord provides a background through which I can pull myself closer to Him by praying for them and the work they do, whether it be some form of maintenance, or merely keeping watch over the blessed sacrament that is present there. It’s become my very happy place in recent months, as it’s a place I’ve found that truly brings me closer to Him. It a place of escape from all worldly things where true atonement can occur, and provides the “graces of union” with God, almost like a battery charge so that I can be spiritually stronger and better when I return to worldly things. I have a couple of other places where I can do that as well, but that place has an energy that seems to surpass all. It’s not easy to find places of perpetual adoration like that, where the souls of the people provide that kind of energy. I’m saying all of this because while these kinds of places aren’t always readily available, God does offer Himself to us wherever we are, that we can carry the peace that comes from that kind of atonement to any place we happen to be. To allow that purification of the spirit that lives in us through Him to be carried to others that they might crave the peace that comes from our solitude and life’s breath that it provides for us. That we might create this kind of place within ourselves that allows that light to shine in us and reflect through us, regardless of our physical location. To keep God’s work and God’s love alive in us always. To do what we can to transform the world into that place, into the garden as it was before the fall. Through Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. In perfect love. It’s up to us. Totus Tuus.
As told to Gianna Talone Sullivan, July 9, 1992, I am Your Jesus of Mercy Vol IV, Livorgna
Solitude
“My dear one, the soul is in so much need of solitude, a
time to search self and live in the silence of the truth.
Retreat inwardly to find the source of this grace. It is only
through prayer that this grace is granted. How loud the
whisper of the wind becomes, echoing and breathing life.
So is My Spirit! It is good to reflect on your state, facing
all imperfections with no place to hide. This is where union
begins, knowing you are nothing and experiencing, by the
purification of desolation and nothingness, that you can be-
come everything in Me.
When the soul thirsts for life, because it is stripped of sen-
sory and spiritual life, is when it has the graces of union and
gives glory to the Father. God makes His union with you. Seek
to find God through the praises of spiritual prayers. Depriva-
tion of the spirit from worldly attachments will come to ALL
who are joined in union with Me. The sinfulness of human
attachments to the world through the senses and spirit must
be stripped, purified and made whole if union is to exist, and
for God to find His resting place within.
See the beauty in the simplest of God’s creation. Be in union
with the serenity of the earth as the forests draw their life from
the richness of the soil, where God has planted the seed. Each
tree in the forest is different, but all yield to tranquil beauty
which the birds echo in their chants. Listen. Listen to silence.
See the richness through solitude.
I love you, My little one, I love all My people, as I love
you. Experience this love and see My love in all. The saints
before you gave alms of offerings and penance, and their main
message is still the one I preach to you today: to love; to give
to Me; to give to one another, that those who are hungry and
poor may live in union. The richness of the earth was created
for all, so that no one should go without. Why, then, are so
many without?
Give, and more shall be given to you. Never be afraid to
come and be alone with Me! This silence of union is essential
for the life of the soul. Even though your life of ministry be
active, silence and solitude is vital and is possible. It is the
backbone to any life of ministry. You must first face yourself
in order to face others. You must first live in union with God
before you can love others, or your life of ministry will only
be short lived. Before you can go out to others, you must first
allow Me to come to you and find My resting place through
your own crucifixion and purification in solitude.
Now let us pray together here and listen to this silence.
Blessings and peace as My Spirit of the wind breathes for
your soul. Ad Deum, My love. Ad Deum.”