Excerpt from The Father Speaks to His Children. This concludes this series of posts covering the the entirety of the booklet of approved messages which were given to M. Eugenia Ravasio.
God the Father speaks and closes the work.
Before ending this message, I want to express a wish to numerous souls who are consecrated to My service. You, priests and religious, are those souls. You are dedicated to My service, whether in the contemplative life or in charitable and apostolic works. For My part, this is a privilege granted through My goodness; for your part, it is faithfulness to your vocation, together with your good will.
This is My desire: you who find it easier to understand what I expect of mankind, pray to Me, so that I will be able to accomplish My work of love in all souls. You know all the difficulties that have to be overcome to win a soul! Well, this is the effective means of helping you to bring a great number of them to Me: this means is that of making Me known, loved and honoured by men.
I want you to be the first ones to start doing this. What joy for Me to enter first the houses of priests and religious! What joy to find Myself, as Father, amid the children of My love! With you I will converse as with intimate friends! I will be for you the most discreet of confidants! I will be everything to you, I will satisfy all your needs! Most of all, I will be the Father Who receives your requests, Who lavishes His love, His benefits and His universal tenderness upon you.
Do not refuse Me this joy which I desire to enjoy with you! I will give it back to you a hundredfold and, since you will honour Me, I will honour you too, by preparing great glory for you in My kingdom!
I am the light of lights: where it penetrates there will be life, bread and happiness. This light will illumine the pilgrim, the sceptic, the ignorant. It will illumine you all, o men who live-in this world of darkness and vice. If you did not have My light, you would fall into the abyss of eternal death!
Finally, this light will lighten the ways, which lead to the true Catholic Church for its poor children who are still victims of superstition. I will show Myself as a Father to those who suffer most on earth, the poor lepers. I will show Myself to be the Father of all those who are abandoned, the outcasts of every human society. I will show Myself as a Father to the afflicted, the sick, and above all, to those who are in agony. I will show Myself as a Father to all families, to orphans, widows, prisoners, workers and the young. I will show Myself as the Father of kings, the Father of their nations. You will all feel My goodness and My protection, you will all see My power!
My fatherly and divine blessing on everyone. Amen!
Especially to My Son and Representative. Amen!
Especially to my Son, the bishop. Amen!
Especially to my Son, your spiritual father. Amen!
Especially to my daughters, your mothers.Amen!
To all the congregation of My love. Amen!
To all the Church and to all the clergy. Amen!
A very special blessing to the Church in purgatory. Amen! Amen!
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Bromar4 reflection
It is our Father’s desire that His priests and religious be the first to embrace this devotion in order to spread it. He desires all His children to come to Him, and He gives those consecrated to Him the grace of understanding His heart and therefore He expects them to understand what it takes to win over a soul to Him. He wants to give consecrated souls the means to make this easier by helping souls to know, love and honor Him.
He desires us to make Him known, for who He is, who He has revealed Himself to be. And He will illumine souls with His light and penetrate the darkness and even vice. But we must speak of the Father that we have come to know. Not by doctrine but by personal knowledge. Let us offer to souls what we have been given. This will reach the skeptics who will not be able to deny the authenticity from where our words come from. Telling people what we really believe plants a seed, then, if there is good will in the soul, that seed will germinate.
For those who are consecrated to Him, and have given Him their all, He wants to be all for them. And He wants them to be all for Him, to be about their Father's house. And He wants to give them all the help they need to bring His children back home to Him. It doesn't take a degree in theology, it doesn't take anything particular at all. It takes a willing soul who loves Him and wants all to love Him and to experience His great love for them. To desire others to have God is to desire others to have all they need, and that is charity toward neighbor. It is not words that convince or convert people, it is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives unction to words that come from a pure heart, a heart that loves, that wills another's good, and therefore He is saying that He will give unction to those priests and religious that give themselves to this work for His sake.
Father gave this message in the 1940's, and even though this devotion is starting to spread, it is apparent that the clergy and the consecrated have not taken up the call to fulfill this desire of the Father. There is so much fear of apparitions and messages, fear of being led astray by the devil, fear of so many things that Our Lord's words from the gospels are being ignored, forgotten or worse, rejected as not worthy of belief. Did He not say before Pilate that those who seek the truth hear My voice? Did He not say that by their fruits you shall know them? Did He not say that I know My sheep and My sheep know Me and they follow Me? Did He not say that love is not yet perfect in one who is afraid? I can't help but think that the real reason messages from heaven are not more disseminated by Bishops and the clergy is because the adversary attacks it, attacks them in so many ways and on so many fronts. How often were the apparitions that are now approved, attacked and the seers persecuted and slandered, messages suppressed. The authentic ones are the modern day prophets. And as Jesus said of the Jewish leaders in His time and before, that they would go down in history as the people who killed their prophets: how is this not true of our Church as a whole these last 150 years dating back to LaSalette? How do you approve of the apparition as authentic but not the message which came from the authentic apparition? How can we say that Our Lady definitely appeared but we are unsure of Her words? Let us be honest. Are there not modern day Pharisees who oppose the Spirit of God in order to further their own agendas? Perhaps they do not kill the prophets physically but they do kill their reputations, and is this not the same in Jesus' eyes.
There is so much fear of the end times. Why? Jesus told us that He is victorious and those who remain in Him will also be. In opposition to these prophets it is often quoted that Jesus said only the Father knows the day or the hour. True, none of these apparitions predict the exact day or the hour. Besides, Jesus also criticized the fact that the people of His time could not read the signs of the times while they could read the signs of the weather. He wants us to understand the times that we are in. If He is willing to speak to us Himself and send Jesus and Our Lady all over the world to give us help to navigate our way in these times, why not listen? Why not be open? Why not be willing to discern? Is anything against Church doctrine? (For instance, a Bishop statement determined that Gianna Sullivan's messages were against doctrine but it never determined what words actually were?) Is the event supernatural in origin? (Ecstasies cannot be faked and are easily tested scientifically.) Is the seer of sound mind? (This is only as good as the person testing and has to be verified by a non interested third party, which doesn't always happen.) Is the seer's devotion to God authentic. (Their habits in this regard prior to having said apparitions is not that hard to authenticate and verify.) If these are in place and the investigation of them is beyond reproach, which is where the main problem lies today, then they are worthy of belief.
Let us pray for the authentication from the Church of all truly authentic apparitions and that the priests and religious have the courage to spread them even when they aren't approved yet following the Holy Spirit's prompting in their own souls
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