The Door to Heaven
Part 5 of 10 (in HTML format)
Messages #41 to #50
The Path of the Soul Towards me
DH-41
9-Oct-96 (Miami)
The Lord
Little one, I am going to dictate to you a few pages on the importance of the path of a soul towards My Tranquil Heart. Do not worry, we will do it during the time that does not interrupt the normal course of your activities. Keep a notebook and pencil nearby.
Do not say anything, keep calm, with your conscience at peace... It was better like that... That was one of the moments and later there will be another no less important. Man is so imperfect that he acts on disorganized impulses. Look at Me in your heart. Do you love Me?
Let us begin. The word "heart" is one of the words that appear most in the Holy Bible, indicating man's heart, his most intimate center and also My Heart. We think of man's heart particularly when he wants to find and talk to another being whose love touches and embraces him closely. Neither is this definition irrelevant to Me. In this perspective, these revelations appear as the revelation of Divine Love and of the sublime call to this Love.
Above all, it is about My Merciful Love that wants to transform you and all your human relations. It is a call to saving solidarity. On the one hand, I confess how much I love you; on the other, I warn you how outrageous and harmful it can be to spurn My Love, which goes to you in the Heart of Man-God, the Word incarnate.
Go and have breakfast ... we will carry on another time. Now you have a topic for reflection.
DH-42
11-Oct-96 (Atlanta-Conyers)
The Lord
My little one, what looks of love we exchanged today at the altar of our commitment. If your eyes did not see it, I know that your soul was able to perceive the number of angels that witnessed that encounter... Thank My children...
(Jesus is referring to the people who made our trip possible.)
Let us get on with our work… A society without love and without mercy has separated from Me, who is Love, before explicitly denying it.
Today, the most latent form of atheism is organized dialectical atheism, that sets the Christian faith in a God of love against an interpretation of history that has its own engine in hatred and struggle of classes, since it sees man - My favorite creature - within an economic life full of conflicts. Thus, it is an atheism lacking in love and mercy.
Near this organized, aggressive form of atheism there are many idols that keep man apart from his God: self-glorification - which leads them to their radical rejection of worshiping Me - arrogance, ambition for power, terrorism, reliance on abundant armaments, the threat of the humanity's total self-destruction, greed, the deification of consumerism.
But, apart from and on top of everything, atheism is hidden in the heart and lifestyle of many "Christians" - writes that in inverted commas - the progressive infection by practical atheism and again of theoretical atheism.
The destruction of these false idols, the overcoming of the various forms of atheism, are only possible by means of a living faith in the Love of the Father that was revealed in Me.
Man can only escape the dangers and build a dam against the waves of atheism by letting himself be touched in the most intimate center of his being by the message of Love and Grace, by responding to Me with all his heart to this infinite Love that I offer. At this moment, the Catholic faith demands in a particular way a momentous decision. I want a radical yes to the Kingdom of Love. Only those who have been conquered by My Love can be believable evangelizers and faithful witnesses to faith. Only a heart that burns with My Love turns any form of hidden atheism into ashes. Only that love can clear your sight to unmask disguises of incredulity. Only love finds the saving means that the world urgently needs.
Those who have been conquered by My Love should draw closer together in these times of momentous and heroic decision, to provide mutual support in the communal testimony of that faith, that bears fruit in love, in true justice.
My children, the decision that I desire and make possible is the decision for the Kingdom of Peace and Love, the decision in favor of the glorification of My Father, through faithful love. Those who reject My Love, fall into the kingdom of darkness, of lies, of hate and of enmity. Choose this Love without reservation. Look at My Heart and understand the injustice of a world that needs credible testimonies.
Let us pray together now: Father, wake them up from their sleep, from their lack of enthusiasm, indifference. Fill them with fervor and zeal. May they find the safest paths to give evidence of You and Me. I came to cure a sick world, but I am also the sign before which men, My brothers, must decide. I want to draw them to My Heart, Father, to fill their little hearts with My Love, so that they, in turn, can fill many hearts.
Thank you, little one, be at peace. Your Lord will reward you and then there will be no doubt that you are My envoy, the small channel that I chose to spread My anguished call over the world…
Prepare the field for the God of Love.
They Are Only Enthusiastic about Tangible Things
DH-43
14-Oct-96 (Atlanta-Conyers)
The Lord
Beloved one, soul that belongs to Me, leave your distractions and nourish yourself with My presence. I want you to arrange things so that you go back home soon. An activity is waiting for you that will please you greatly, because once more you will discover how much I expect of you.
I am preparing your soul for so many things! I fertilized the land for so many fruits, at times watering it with My tears and at others with yours! …
Later on.
I will not keep you for much longer. You are on holiday now and I am going to let you fully enjoy it. However, you have a few spare minutes and let us use them to carry on with our work.
Why has the veneration for My Divine Heart cooled of over the decades? This cooling off has been due to many complex factors: many people's love has grown cold, a lack of capacity to be enthusiastic about anything that is not tangible, a fondness for goods and pleasures, an impressive and cruel bombardment of the mind and heart with images and sounds. Finally, insufficient understanding of its theological foundation.
How many Saints were pleased to stop and contemplate My open side, at the gateway to salvation from where My Church, the Sacraments and all the wealth of graces spring.
Observe the New Testament and John, the evangelist of My Love who laid his head on My heart. Truly I tell you that whosoever wants to evangelize must first, like John, lay his head on My heart.
Read the Old Testament, that speaks of My ardent Love and of the image of God the Father of Israel, of the divine spouse who remained faithful to his first love despite the sins of the people, My image of the Good Shepherd.
When you should speak, let the unfathomable love that is shown in the great bitterness of My Passion enter your heart for a few minutes. As the sun reveals itself in its splendor, the beauty of the rose in its perfume and color, so fire is evident in your ardor. Reflect on your own, remember the wounds and how much I suffer for you…
I want you to enclose yourself in My open wound right now, close to My Heart that is intoxicated with love. Try to linger there, to stay there... Absorb My humanity. Ask Me to protect your heart from all false appearances of love.
Once you have steeped yourself in this slandered and reviled heart, in this Heart that has been treated so cruelly, so abjectly, then come out and speak and spread your devotion just as another Catalina did in Sienna… Margarita María, Juan Eudes…
Go to sleep, we have finished for today, My sweet little one…
I Do Not like My Messages to Be Questioned
DH-44
15-Oct-96 (Miami)
The Lord
(I was very worried because Jesus had dictated a message to me referring to the activity a Doctor from the "International Group for Peace" was going to carry out in Miami. He has studied the authenticity of different seers in the world. I had mentioned that Jesus dictated a message to me, referring to the feast of the Rosary, which was celebrated on October "8th". Quite rightly, the Doctor questioned the date, because according to his calendar and that of the saints, the feast of the Rosary is celebrated on October 7th… This also made him question the message in that he considers that: if Jesus "dictates" to me then there should not be any mistakes. This concern made him resort to two seers that he had studied, and whose reliability had been "scientifically" proved. They told him that, on asking Jesus in a vision whether my stigmata were authentic, Jesus had replied: "These are My Wounds and they are a Grace that I send to that country." Even though this reassured the Doctor (I did not know about his initiatives), the question of the date of the Rosary still remained. This is why I receive the message set out here on October 15th.)
My beloved one, when will you do it?
(He is referring to when I will stop worrying about things.)
You are still worried because the feast of the Rosary was not on October 8th. Well, even though I do not like My messages to be questioned, I am going to explain this to you so that you can reassure My son, R. I know about fragility of faith in human nature…
Owing to an inspiration, it was on October 8th, 1483 that the incomplete Hail Mary began to be diffused in many countries. You should know that Domingo de Guzmán did not invent the Rosary, but that the first part of the Hail Mary was already being prayed in the year 1150. Instead of praying 150 Psalms, they prayed 150 Hail Marys.
Later, Pius V, through a letter or Encyclical, recommends praying the Rosary as it is prayed today. Then, in 1878, Leo XIII requests that the festivity of Our Lady of the Rosary should be on October 7th. And dedicates 12 Encyclicals and 23 documents (one of which was later annulled) to the praying of the Rosary.
Do you feel calmer now, little one? That is the story. If they still persist, consult with the Theologians…
You see how your Lord knows what He is doing, even when some of the reactions might be uncomfortable for you?
You are a faithful soul, I do not need to test you. Devote yourself to Me every day, remain united with your God, for I know how to look after and protect that which is Mine.
DH-44.1 Diffuse the Devotion of the Rosary in Bolivia
I definitely want you to take Rosaries to Bolivia. Diffuse its devotion, because My Mother promised that if just one member of the family prays it every day, She will save that family. And this promise is signed and sealed by the Divine Trinity.
DH-45
16-Oct-96 (Miami)
The Lord
Love of My Passion, we have almost come to the end of our trip. Today we are going to visit the homes of the sick.
You have no idea how important this trip was, little one, for your preparation... I am going to explain it to you point by point so that you can understand it properly. Write it down:
1) I want unity to exist between the seers and My chosen souls; six of the people who were in that room, truly are the souls I have chosen to spread Our graces through them. This was the first meeting. Now, it is very important that the people who follow them should be united with you, pray for all of you and join together with other groups of followers and brothers. They must speak with charity about each other.
Whatever happened or stopped happening in Conyers, is My business… I needed you to be there so that the group could observe the organization, for when their moment comes.
My truly chosen ones can be recognized by their fruits. Pray that I might allow them to discover these fruits. I will show them the graces that have been granted to each one of them.
There is no time left for jealousies and divisions, even less for acting pompously and seeking multitudes. I want compassion, I want unity, I want true love. Only through unity can you conquer the beast that is about to make itself known.
I thank My children who have made this unity possible. Now you will find out that Miracles are not achieved through glass and amulets, but through love, charity, generosity, unity, prayer, work and daily effort. My Spirit has been scattered on you, do not waste the gifts of the Spirit by intending to manipulate it as you please. Give yourselves up to the Holy Spirit. I told you that, when you receive it, you will be able to perform miracles that are even greater than the ones I Myself performed.
Each of you should work to overcome your dark sides, the things that stop you from performing real Miracles.
2) It was necessary for you to be with the people you were with... On the one hand, people who are serious and pray and are deeply devout. On the other, people who work for Me with other charisma, in another way, no less important... Take the good from each one and absorb it.
3) It was necessary for you to visit the homes we will be going to today, so that you can then tell people, on the one hand how good suffering can be, and on the other, how a lack of faith can hold up a process of graces... You will understand.
Beloved one, I want so much of you, I expect so much of your family. I need each member of both groups so much, each person in particular … I want your and My son H.'s total devotion!…
I want to fashion you to My Love and for My offering to the Father's Glory.
Thank each one of them.
DH-45.1 Follow in My Footsteps
Later on:
Love of My Passion, when will humanity understand that the only way to find their path is to follow in My footsteps? They do not understand that I am like a circle, from any point you depart from Me and return to Me.
DH-45.2 The United States Is a Country with Too Many Idols
It is wonderful to be home, is it not? The United States is a very nice country, with too many idols. Man just does not want to absorb that if his soul sows winds, he will reap storms. That is the fruit that today parents, children, the rich and the poor are reaping.
This is a country full of storms…
DH-46
19-Oct-96 (Cochabamba.)
The Lord
Well, we are back home and with our things. Now your work begins; now I want the fruits.
Do everything with love; organize your work. You have everything you need for the tree to begin to bear good ... very good fruits.
Man Is the Result of His Thought
DH-47
20-Oct-96
The Lord
Let us get down to work. Start by reading John 1, 2-4 and 1 John 4, 2.
My Heart that began to beat in My Mother's womb and whose last beats on the Cross were for you, synonymous with unlimited love, represents the nucleus of Christian faith in My incarnation. In this human Heart, through this Heart, capable of loving more than all other hearts, I, Myself, love you with divine and contemporarily human Love.
There, creation and salvation find their ineffable center and poignant vertex. This Heart truly and without pretense shares the Love of My Father and responds perfectly and ultimately in the name of all creation. This Heart combines the Love of the Father for the favorite Son and in it, for all humanity as well as man's love for the Father and with the Father, for all mankind.
The only motive for the fullness of the Trinity in creating man could be Its overflowing Love which It wishes to transmit.
Thus, God loves you, mankind, not only as an object of His Love, but also as participants in that Love, as people who love with their God. This is the meaning of God creating man in His image and likeness.
You are the real image and likeness of My Father, a masterpiece of His wisdom and of His Love, when you correspond to His Love with gratitude, when you insist on learning the true love which inserts you completely in His Love.
You are disciples on earth; learn to love Me, learn to love the Father and your fellow man with My Heart...
The sinner encloses himself in a mistaken self-love. Left at the mercy of himself, he would be condemned without hope to suffer the cold death of a lack of love
Be calm, My child. Look, go and talk to Monsignor and explain your concern to him... You will see that there is no need to worry.
The same day:
Love of My pain, why do you come before Me thinking about so many things? Why do you not put your thoughts, worries and struggles to one side, come out of your ego, to place your thoughts in the abyss of My Love, letting Me cool you down like a sea breeze?
Man is the result of his thoughts. His thoughts are the place in which he puts his desires and the emphasis of his motives. Man is where his thoughts are.
Little one, strive for silence in your mind, so that your heart can speak always to your mind and so that your mind cannot silence your heart.
Tell your brothers and sisters that I want to fulfill them on a path that I have designed specifically for you all.
Therefore, I want each of you to lose yourselves. A generous heart has great joy, and knows and finds pure love in everything that exists and, thus, begins to receive everything I want to give it. For this to happen, you must empty yourselves of your self.
Today I urge you towards a profound dimension of faith, since only there will you find true unity with Me. Only faith will allow you to progress from your limited world towards the interior of the unlimited Being of your God.
So, I am asking you in particular, little one, to tell men that, when they do not yearn for Me because they feel that they are restricted, when they find barrenness and think that they are not capable of progressing in their spiritual life, then they should know that they are on a healthy road because they are entering the initial stage of a profound encounter with Me… I assure you that then I will keep you happily poor, so that you can receive everything that My Father desires for you at every moment, at every step... But, owing to the freedom of choice that God has granted them, they should be the ones who choose and accept help in their growth, in their spiritual development.
Tell all My children that I live inside them and that I offer Myself continuously in Love.
Later on:
Beloved one, go more deeply into prayer. Maintain peace and harmony inside you, going deeper into your silent prayer, which is where you will find My Peace. Why not seek it? Silence is unity and this unity is essential for life and for the soul. You should know that even when your life is active, silence and solitude are vital.
If the soul could understand just how important solitude is, it would be able to reflect on its condition and face the imperfections that cannot hide in solitude and silence...
That is where true unity with Me begins, knowing that you are nothing and feeling - through desolation and emptiness - that you can become everything in Me.
Seek moments of silence and solitude... Do you love Me?
(I ADORE YOU AND I LOVE YOU, Lord!)
Look for a Quiet Place Where You Can Make a Home for me
DH-48
21-Oct-96
The Lord
Beloved one, My sweet Catalina, always look for a quiet place where you can make a home for Me. For you to grow in My Grace, you must refuse to be the center of attention; hold on to Me, allowing Me to defeat you in Me.
They are going to ask you for the Messages again, wait until this week has gone by, and then you can give them the Messages; explain that you do not have much time.
I love these children so much! I am overjoyed that I have recovered them!
(He explains the pilgrimages to the Holy Land to me.)
It is a promise that whoever visits My earthly Homeland and the holy places in a pilgrimage of faith, will receive many graces in life. There is not much time left; you will learn a great deal spiritually from the places that accompanied Me in My life.
I love you so much, My children… I am gathering together My last flocks … Help each other with love.
My Heart, Shaken by Sin, Sweats Blood
DH-49
21-Oct-96
The Lord
Love of My pains, let us do some work... What some scientists have guessed about the progressive loss of energy on the part of the world and of the consequent death through numbness, is a pale image of the threat that is much worse and that hangs over humanity: man's numbness from the lack of love.
Be more careful, you are easily distracted. Let us pray...
(He makes me pray the Lord's Prayer, a Hail Mary and the Gloria, and tells me to write all this down.)
Let us continue. The Son of Man, I, the Son of God, whose Heart beats and bleeds for you, whose cordial Love brings you insuperable revelation of paternal Love. I, with My ardent Love, do not present Myself as a model and end of all love, but I come to immerse you in My Love.
My Father and I want to see in you a great desire to worship Love, to praise it, to love it together will all the true lovers of My Heart, to a greater extent than those who allow their hearts to grow cold.
I want to see your capacity to love purified and reinforced. I want My Love to conquer your hearts too. I want My Heart to love men also in their hearts and through their hearts.
If the face of someone in love lights up when they see their loved one, their hearts should die of pleasure when they know that the happiness of those in love is only a symbol of My looking at them with affectionate eyes… On seeing the smile of a beloved child - a smile that is already a response to a mutual love - parents' hearts beat faster. Only those who are stupid, proud, do not know that this comes from the Creator of everything.
But all this is just a prelude to the infinitely greater revelation of the Love of the Father in My incarnation. Creation is already a manifestation of the eternal Word, to which My Father communicates His whole Being, all His Love, and for whom everything has been done.
God enters without reserve into the misery of the incarnate Son. He is on the side of the poor and of the small, so that they can recognize the true riches for which He Himself is preparing them.
And I, share their weariness, their disappointments, their fragility. I bear the burden of their sins. I am so interested in their misery that My compassionate Heart that has been shaken by sin sweats blood in Gethsemane…
Those Who Do Not Bear Their Cross With Love Cannot Follow me
DH-50
22-Oct-96
The Lord
So, did you not like the talk? Of course you did. Learn, you already have the theory and the practice, everything before your eyes, before your being to savor it...
You see how your God is teaching you, repeating to you, telling you things, methods, words again... Now there will be no excuses, you have everything.
Go ahead, My children!
Later on
The world is nothing without Me, but is everything with Me, therefore you must learn to find a quiet, intimate time with My enveloping Love. Spend time alone and let the reality of My Being dominate your solitude, the place of your pride... Be liberated from worries, but keep your conscience free. Little ones, do not be distracted by the world’s emotions, not even for a few minutes or hours.
Very soon you will see that you are very special for your Lord, created individually in My Love. Do not resist internal change, since I am creating a new identity for each one of you: the small identity of your true selves…
Support each other, help each other, without selfishness, without question, without arguing, in the same way that I support you, help you …
Work, you cannot live without working. If I, the Son of God, worked in this world to earn My living, then you should copy Me... Man cannot live in idleness, man must eat with the sweat of his brow if he wants to be worthy of the Father's promises...
My children, live in peace, fill yourselves with patience for each other and your kin. The Trinity cannot be where impatience exists... Am I not patient with you?
I look at the good and bad inside you. The good, however small, can be the yeast that brings a lot of good and, with it, the conversion of those who are living in evil right now.
Do not try to guess what My plans are, just trust in Me. I will guide and look after you.
You are Mine and I want you to give Me even the smallest piece of love that you have in your hearts to make it grow.
Come to Me with your doubts, worries and your small love.
Each of you should bear the small Cross that I give you. Those who do not bear their Cross with love cannot follow Me.
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