The Change We Need
MESSAGE #2663 from the Blessed Mother August 11, 2004
My daughter, God has been warning His children for some time now,
yet many remain blind to the truth. Many are not preparing their soul
in this time of God’s mercy.
My children must understand that Change takes time. Change does not
happen over night. One must truly want to Change. One must turn to
God and ask, ask for His guidance. One must be willing to do their
part or Change cannot occur.
Change must happen now, so please do your part by truly turning your
lives around. Repent of your ways and be truly sorry for your sins.
Do penance every day and obey, obey all of God’s Commandments. Come
to Mass as often as you can so you have the grace needed to live a
holy life. Get down on your knees and pray, pray more. Get down on
your knees and pray and I will truly lead you closer to Jesus’ Most
Sacred Heart.
Be open to my Son’s love and mercy and be grateful for this time that
has been allowed to amend your ways. Use the protection God has given
you, for this will truly help keep evil away. Pray together now as a
family so you are strengthened for times to come. Many trials await
this world because sin has become widespread.
Please take refuge in My Immaculate Heart so that I can help you
before it’s too late. Take refuge now so that I can protect you
through all trials and storms. Take refuge so that I can help you
endure your crosses with love. Trust, trust in my motherly
intercession, for I am truly here for all my children.
Now, please pray with faith in your hearts so you come to know God’s
love for you. Pray, pray every day and I promise you, Change will
occur in your life. Change is truly needed, so begin today and give
your live to God. Amen.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
2070 The Ten Commandments belong to God’s revelation. At the same
time they teach us the true humanity of man. They bring to light the
essential duties, and therefore, indirectly, the fundamental rights
inherent in the nature of the human person. The Decalogue contains a
privileged expression of the natural law:
From the beginning, God had implanted in the heart of man the
precepts of the natural law. Then he was content to remind him of
them. This was the Decalogue.
Reading (Isaiah 48:17-19)
Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I, the
LORD, your God, teach you what is for your good, and lead you on the
way you should go. If you would hearken to my commandments, your
prosperity would be like a river, and your vindication like the waves
of the sea; your descendants would be like the sand, and those born
of your stock like its grains, their name never cut off or blotted
out from my presence.
Friday December 10, 2004 Homily by Fr. Robert Altier
In the first reading, God says through the prophet Isaiah, If you
would hearken to My commandments, all these other things would
follow. All we have to do is make the Changes in our lives to live
what we believe. But that is the hard part. As always, and as I have
pointed out many times, we do not like to Change.
So we can listen to this over and over and over again and we walk
away and nothing happens. Not because it was not true or it was not
good, but because we do not want to Change. Therefore, we do the same
thing to Our Lord. We like Him from a distance, we acknowledge that
He is God, that He is Lord, that He is Messiah, but we do not want to
Change our lives to become more like Him and to do His Will. And so
we become just like the people He was talking to today.
We look at the saints and we think they are all right – but we do not
want to be like them. We look at Jesus and Mary and we think they are
wonderful – but we do not want to be like them, either. You can
say, “Okay, you don’t want to be one way and you don’t want to be the
other way. What’s going to make you happy?” The answer, if we are
going to be honest with ourselves, is “nothing” because we do not
want it.
That is what needs to Change. We need to look at it and say, “It’s
not enough to look at the saints from a distance. It’s not enough to
read the Gospels and think that Jesus is pretty good.” If we are
going to profess it, we have to live it, we have to Change and be
like Jesus, be like Our Lady, be like the saints, and not just simply
hold them at an arm’s distance and say, “It was good that they did
what they did, but I don’t want to.”
That is not enough. Otherwise, we can look at all of them, some of
the incredibly ascetic saints, and we can say, “We piped you a dirge,
but you didn’t wail.” We can look at saints like Therese, that
everybody loves, and we can say, “We piped you a tune, but you
wouldn’t dance.” All we can say is that we like our sins, we like to
be mediocre, we do not want to be saints.
That is a tragedy because we are going to look at Jesus and we are
going to do the same thing to Him: “He’s really great, but I don’t
want to be like Him.” That is not an option if we are going to claim
to be His followers, and it will be our condemnation if we continue
in that. So we need to make the Change to hearken to the Commandments
of the Lord, to hear His voice, to be obedient, and to live the faith
that we profess.
