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The latest Messenger of the Immaculate Heart of which I am Editor features a striking Cover photo of a Priest at the Consecration and Elevation of the consecrated host during “THE MASS OF THE AGES,” – the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. One sees 16 altar boys in traditional robes in an inside picture with a sidebar stating: “THE EXTRAORDINARY FORM HELPS TO DEVELOP VOCATIONS TO THE HOLY PRIESTHOOD BY CALLING ONLY YOUNG MEN TO BE ACOLYTES, TORCH-BEARERS, THURIFERS AND MASTER OF CEREMONIES. YOUNG MEN CAN EASILY IDENTIFY THEMSELVES WITH THEIR MASCULINE CHARACTER THROUGH THE EXTRAORDINARY FORM.” You will gain a deeper appreciation of this form in 6 pages dedicated to it with ample pictures.

THE OCTOBER-DECEMBER ISSUE HAS A SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THE MIRACLE OF THE SUN AT FATIMA – the remarkable resutls of a 40 year study. It occupies 4 pages and gives details from witnesses most have never heard about.

Our News briefs and comments section tells of the conversion of the President of the Evangelical Theological Society. Also, how certain Protestant groups were dismayed over the release by the Vatican of the Catholic Church’s own identity as the ONE TRUE CHURCH.

OUR EDITORIAL tells how Catholics have been assimilated into American Culture at a great price to their personal Catholic faith. We too often see evidence of what the Editorial speaks of in politicians that parade themselves as “Catholic” but at the same time are vocal in defense of abortion, even the killing of babies in the process of delivery, gay unions, etc. These are stances which when widespread would destroy civilization. They are ignorant of basic Catholicism, even ignorant of what is required to be in the state of grace to receive Holy Communion worthily and not sacrilegiously, but they want to run our country and many of them tell the Church not to interfere with their own brand of “Catholicism.”

There are other articles which are thought-provoking, “Is the Separation of Church and State Fatal?” which explores the Secularization of America; Miracles in Damascus in our own times – History of the Rosary as you’ve never heard it before, rooted in the very beginnings of Christianity and much more.

Besides QUESTIONS & ANSWER section there are 9 pages of A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF FATIMA EVENTS – PART II – HONORING THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FATIMA MESSAGE FOR THE WORLD. You’ll see picture you have not seen before.

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I want to walk with each of you, but you must first come to Me

I want to walk with each of you, but you must first come to Me

Prayer group 5/1/2007

MESSAGE #2969 from Jesus March 5, 2007

 My child, Come to Me and I will strengthen and renew you. I will give you hope through all trials and suffering.

I want to walk with each of you, but you must first come to Me. You must allow My light to shine through you. Open your hearts and trust in My love and forgiveness. Accept My love, and My mercy will flow and heal your broken hearts. I am here to cleanse you and protect you from all evil.

Listen to Me and take refuge in My Most Sacred Heart. Listen to My cry of mercy. Pray, fast and do penance. Time is short. Devote yourself to prayer and listen to My voice. Come to Me and I will do all things for you. Follow Me along the Way of the Cross and unite your soul to Mine.

I am Jesus. Respond to My words of mercy and love.

Catechism of the Catholic Church 

74 God “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth”: that is, of Christ Jesus. Christ must be proclaimed to all nations and individuals, so that this revelation may reach to the ends of the earth:

1506 Christ invites his disciples to follow him by taking up their cross in their turn. By following him they acquire a new outlook on illness and the sick. Jesus associates them with his own life of poverty and service. He makes them share in his ministry of compassion and healing: “So they went out and preached that men should repent. And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them.”

2717 Contemplative prayer is silence, the “symbol of the world to come” or “silent love.” Words in this kind of prayer are not speeches; they are like kindling that feeds the fire of love. In this silence, unbearable to the “outer” man, the Father speaks to us his incarnate Word, who suffered, died, and rose; in this silence the Spirit of adoption enables us to share in the prayer of Jesus. 

Isaiah 55

Invitation to the Thirsty

 1 “Come, all you who are thirsty,

       come to the waters;

       and you who have no money,

       come, buy and eat!

       Come, buy wine and milk

       without money and without cost.

 2 Why spend money on what is not bread,

       and your labor on what does not satisfy?

       Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,

       and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.

 3 Give ear and come to me;

       hear me, that your soul may live.

       I will make an everlasting covenant with you,

       my faithful love promised to David.

Excerpts from a Homily by Fr. Robert Altier July 31, 2005 

Our Lord tells us through the prophet Isaiah that we are to come to Him and we are to receive freely the milk and the food and the water that we need.

Yet, at the same time, we realize that it is not the food for the stomach that is important here, but it is the Eucharist.

He is there giving Himself freely to us, but it requires a choice on our part. As He says in that first reading: Come to Me. He has already made the first move and He has come to us. Now He is right here in front of us every single day. How many of us come to Him? How many of us are really taking the opportunity every single day to come to Christ to receive for our souls what we need? All too long, we, as American Catholics, have been giving lip service to Christ but our hearts (if we are honest) are rather far from Him.  How many times we have heard over and over again that we need to pray

We need it desperately. If we do not pray – and I mean pray from the heart, not just say some prayers; I mean going inside and praying deeply within the heart – we are not going to make it. Things are only beginning, and look at how hideous it is. It is going to get far, far worse in the very near future. If we are not steeped in prayer, we will be lost because lip service to Christ is not going to suffice. Only true love for Jesus Christ is going to suffice, and the only way to develop a true love for the Lord is through prayer.

But we now have to make the choice. He is present among us, but He is there passively waiting for us. He will not force us to love Him. He will not force us to be faithful to Him. He gives to each one of us the choice because He made us free and He will treat us according to the dignity that He has given us in creation. We have to make a free choice,

Look at it honestly and seriously in prayer in front of the Blessed Sacrament. We need to heed the voice of the Lord when He says to us, Come to Me, and receive freely what He is offering; also to look very seriously at the warning of Saint Paul, his great question: What can separate us from the love of Christ, and the knowledge that the only one who can separate us from the love of Christ is our own self; and that we are going to remain faithful to Him regardless of the circumstances. Then it is going to require time before the Blessed Sacrament and opening our hearts to grow in faith, to grow in love, and to unite ourselves with Jesus Christ.

Our Father Prayer – Robert Powell

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