The Door to Heaven
Part 7 of 10 (in HTML format)
Messages #61 to #70
DH-61
30-Oct-96 (midnight)
The Lord
Please, keep Me company. I am so lonely in My Shrines. Will you watch over Me?
There is so much struggle in the world! So much inequality! The rich are richer and the poor have turned into the poorest among the poor.
There is fear, there is famine, pain, suffering, devastating illnesses... There is too much evil, both physical and moral. This makes the world get involved in more tension and contradictions. Life today has become a fatigue for the human being and is, in fact, leading man towards uneasiness.
The fundamental human cultures are becoming divided and dichotomy comes from man himself. Today My children in the Church feel alienated.
Men are so worried about themselves that they fail to see what they really are.
My beloved one, everything will be in accordance with Divine Providence. Be calm then, and rest in My Love...
I Want Us to Talk about Heaven
DH-62
30-Oct-96
The Lord
Love of My sorrows, I want us to talk about Heaven. The place of which you must talk to encourage My children to work toward its conquest... I transfigured before My apostles so they would see the beauty of My divine face and what irradiates from it.
Heaven, My children, is a good so great, that I wanted to die on the Cross to open it up to you. Goods, joys and sweetness can be conquered, but you would not understand it even if I explained it. Read 1 Corinthians 2,9.
Think, if in this world there are things that come to you and please your senses, how many others are there that afflict them. If you like the light of day, the dark of night saddens you; if spring and fall please you, the cold of winter and the heat of summer afflicts you. Add to this the pains and preoccupations caused by illnesses, persecutions, the discomforts of poverty... the anguishes of the spirit, the fears, the demon’s temptations, the anxiety of awareness, the uncertainty of eternal salvation.
In Heaven there is no death, no fear of dying; no pain nor illness, no poverty, no heat. There is just an eternal day that is always calm, a continuously blooming and delicious spring because everybody loves each other tenderly, and each enjoys the good of the other as his own. In Heaven there is no fear of getting lost, because the soul, confirmed in divine grace, cannot sin or lose itself anymore.
Everything you can desire is there, My beloved ones... Everything is new: the beauty, the joy, everything will satiate your desires. Seeing that magnificent city that is so beautiful will satiate the sight. You will see that the beauty of the inhabitants gives a new splendor to the beauty of the city because they all dress like kings, they are kings.
What joy you will feel in seeing My Mother, who allows you to contemplate her, more beautiful than all! Hear her sing, praising her God!
All this is minor happiness in Heaven. The main delight is that we will see each other face to face.
The reward promised to you is not only beauty, harmony and other good things, but I, Myself, being seen by the blessed ones. So, joys of the soul have advantage over joys of the senses.
To love Me even in this life, is it not a sweet thing? Can you imagine how much sweetness rejoicing in Me will produce? How much sweetness a soul experiences in which My Father manifests through prayer His goodness, His Mercy and especially the Love I demonstrated in My Passion? What will happen then when this veil is lifted and you can see Us face to face? You will contemplate all Our beauty, Our power, Our perfection, all the Love We have for you.
The greatest affliction of souls who love Me, is fear of not loving Me and not being loved by Me. But in Heaven, souls are sure they love and are loved by Me. They see that I embrace them with immense Love and that My Love will never end. That love grows then with the conviction of how much I loved them when I offered Myself in sacrifice for them on the wood of the Cross and I turned Myself into sustenance, into food, in the Eucharist.
It is there when the soul will see clearly all the graces I have granted to preserve it from sin and attract it to My Love. It will see that those afflictions, that poverty, those illnesses, the persecutions it considered misfortunes, were just love and the means by which I lead it to Paradise.
The soul will see all the amorous inspirations and Mercy I shed over it, after it despised Me with its sins. It will see so many souls, condemned in the abyss of Hell, maybe less guilty than itself and it will rejoice at seeing itself saved and secure.
My beloved ones, the pleasures of the world cannot satiate your desires. In the beginning they intoxicate your senses, but little by little your senses become dulled and the pleasures cease to thrill you. On the other hand, goods from Heaven always satiate and leave the heart content. And although they satiate completely, they always seem new, always delight, are always desired, always obtained. In this way, desire does not generate distaste because it is always satisfied and satisfaction does not generate distaste, because it always comes together with desire. That is why the soul is always satiated and always wishing for those joys: Just as the condemned are cups full of anger, the blessed are cups full of Mercy and joy because they have nothing else to desire.
Believe Me, My beloved ones, saints and martyrs say they have done little to get to Heaven. What are all your sufferings compared to that sea of eternal joy, in which you will remain forever?
Resolve, My beloved ones, to suffer patiently whatever you must suffer in the time that is left, because all your suffering is little and nothing compares to glory of Heaven.
When the sorrows of life afflict you, look up to Heaven and console yourselves with the hope of Paradise. My Mother awaits you there, I await you there, with the crown in My hand, to crown you as kings of that eternal Kingdom...
Ask, My beloved ones, for the grace of perseverance in your conversion. Those who entrust themselves to My Mother, will obtain that grace. Meditate on My Passion and ask My Angel to comfort you and give you strength...
My Heart Rejoices with the Courage of My Chosen Ones
DH-63
2-Nov-96
The Lord
I am very calm and happy that My son is working with Us. How much joy My Heart feels with the courage of My chosen ones. Will you thank him for Me?
Love of My Passion, hidden flower which you have grown between thistles so that your God might flourish a garden in the depth of your heart, there where your Lord and master would live... There is nothing left to hide to the world. Everything has been said. Now, speak for Me, little nothing... Go now to tell the world that man is not the fruit of a test tube, nor can My Spirit culminate the breath of life at the will of little and miserable man... presumptuous man who defies your God, when you really are barely a worm. And what if I were to turn you into a butterfly?
Now, My good daughter, you must fear no more, go and tell man that his nudity can only be covered with My Love... You must not think about whether you will be accepted or not, if you must speak or not. I command you, go out into the world and talk about My Mercy. Say that I am a God of Love and not of forgetfulness. If man loves Me, how could I not bless his destiny? If man surrenders himself to Me, how can I forget that surrender? If man does My Divine Will, how could I not have words of Mercy and Love for him? Recognize Me as your beginning and your goal, and I will recognize you as the sons and heirs to My Kingdom.
Thank you, My beloved one, and run to tell man about My Love and My pain. Go and tell the world about all the delights the creature can find with its Lord.
Go, My beloved ones, for there is almost no time left. The way is long and stony for he who walks barefoot, but I will send My angels to shorten the distance and pick up the stones... Surrender yourselves without restraint, for your reward shall have no limits...
DH-64
4-Nov-96
The Lord
I will not tell you what you must do, because I will always respect your will. What I do not want you to do is to neglect your time of prayer and for that reason to fall into lukewarmness.
You ask what is actual lukewarmness? I will explain it to you, because many times man confuses the term. Lukewarm is not the soul that lives in disgrace; neither the soul that committed a venial sin because of its fragility and with no intention of doing so, because no human being is free from these kind of faults, when stained by original sin. You do not enjoy the special grace granted only to My Mother, to avoid completely any minor sin. This is allowed, even to the saints, in order to maintain them humble and make them see that if it were not for the grace of God, just as they fall into minor faults, they could also fall into very severe faults.
I want you to assimilate this well. A lukewarm soul is one that frequently falls into venial sins, consciously, on purpose: lies, acts of impatience, voluntary curses. Some will say that this cannot be avoided. That is false, this guilt can be avoided, with My assistance, by those souls that are determined to suffer even death before deliberately committing a sin, no matter how little it is.
Think, read My Messages again, let your hearts work. Know that every bad habit makes you lose even your shame, and blinds sinners in such way that they do not see their wrongdoing or the ruin it causes themselves.
My beloved ones, all sins produce blindness in the spirit and when they accumulate with bad habits, blindness increases... So, compare with a dirty glass, full of stains. Can the sunlight pass through it? In the same way, in a heart full of little stains, My Light cannot penetrate to make that person understand about the abyss he is walking into. This is not an exaggeration. Man continues obstinately in his bad habits, deprived of My Light, walks from guilt to guilt and loses himself because he does not take amending into account. He turns into a beast without reasoning, that does not look for anything else but the pleasure of its senses... He is like a vulture feeding itself from the fetid corpse between its claws, it would rather be hunted than to leave the prey.
The heart of the lukewarm is hardened against the heavenly rain of grace and cannot produce fruits with it. Inspirations, conscience, remorse, fear of God, are a rain of graces; but the habitual sinner, instead of obtaining fruit from that rain of grace, repenting from his sins and committing himself, continues to sin. That is where that soul hardens its heart more, and you already know that a hard heart will end its life badly.
Lukewarm souls always confess: murmurs, lies, impatience, in short, minor sins, but continue to sin and in that way, wallow once more in the abyss of sin, just as some animals that with so much pleasure wallow in the most disgusting and repulsive mud. And, do you know what is even worse? That the soul accustomed to any vice commits almost always the same sin, even at the moment of death.
My beloved ones, I pour out Mercy in torrents, but up to a point. I do not punish; I deny the assistance of the special grace in the face of the ingratitude you show for the divine benefits and, in this way, man’s heart is hardened. Know that I do not harden the heart of man by inspiring malice. But just as the sun hardens water and turns it into ice when, shadowed by the clouds, its rays do not fall upon earth, in the same manner, I deny the soul My Mercy and with that, the grace to convert.
No matter how small the sin, it hurts the soul. Let us see. If a person is assaulted by a wicked man, usually he is not rendered unable to defend himself at the first blow, but if afterwards he receives two or three wounds, he will lose strength and will finally die. It is the same for the soul. The first and second time, it still has the strength to resist, but if it continues to sin, the enemy attacks it and takes away all its strength to resist and a bad habit turns into a need to sin, because man becomes slave of that passion. That is to say, he makes a peace alliance with sin.
Those Who Suffer Today, Join My Passion
DH-65
5-Nov-96
The Lord
Love of My wounds, be calm, think of My suffering on the terrible night of Gethsemane. Then I was alone, apparently, nobody was there beside Me. But in a corner, you were hidden among the bushes, and now at night you accompany My Passion.
And you came a bit closer. Your eyes looked at Me with pain, with immense compassion, but also with sorrow, with repentance and deep love.
All My Catalinas were there that night... Do you know what Catalina means? It means "pure woman", pure of intention, pure of heart... Do you feel better?
(I cry with immense gratitude and love. You are unique, Lord!)
Well, you need a lot of peace to transmit it to My beloved daughter. Tell her that I love her very much, that the humble souls were the ones who received My Tears in the most cruel Flagellation in human history. I cried over the lips of humble people. I bent My head over the chest of humility. How could I not if I had breast-fed from the humility of My Mother!
But, those who took My Cross, helping Me, those who kissed My shoulder and refreshed it - as a soft balsam - were the same people who today offer their sufferings, the terrible wounds of their bodies, united to My Passion, for the conversion of men. In fact, they have earned Heaven for themselves and for their people.
Go, Catalina, go and take care of your responsibilities...
Learn to Bless Those Who Mistreat You
DH-66
5-Nov-96
The Lord
My little nothing, I humiliated Myself so you could overcome your pride with My humility. Accept My Will and overcome your anger, your pride. You must learn to bear humiliations patiently and lovingly. Learn to bless those who mistreat you.
Always be thankful, recognize My incomparable Love for you and when you feel as if I am hiding My face, look for Me with your love; with your calls, because I like to know I am being looked for by you. Give to Me in the way I give to you, and give Me even more when you think you are alone, and I have abandoned you.
My beloved daughter, I do not hide because you have offended Me, you have offended Me many times and My Love subsists. I hide so you will surrender to man's humiliations, only for My Love; so you will overcome your pride with My humiliation. You cannot control the paths you want to. Remember you are only dust and if your soul is precious, it is because I have forgiven you through My Passion and My death...
Listen to Me, tell My son NN that he should not make a decision on the work he wants to do yet, that he must choose from the Messages, including many from the last months.
DH-67
7-Nov-96
The Lord
Little Catalina, I want you to know that during this time of great tribulation, crime, war and fighting, I want My children to don My armor and the seal of the Cross. Therefore, place your hearts in the hands of My Father, beware of Satan who always wants to destroy all eternal joy and peace. You have free will, you must decide for yourselves because I will never force the freedom of each one of you.
My Father knows which is the path of happiness for each of you, trust in Him totally and use the gift of His Spirit. Be at peace and try not to despair, particularly in these times of struggle. I have been training you to be My soldiers, which is why you must pray. In many homes, people are not praying as they should since their families are tabernacles of My Love, just as their bodies are the Temple of My Spirit...
Satan thinks that nobody wants to follow My path because man desires only the freedom of his mortal life, material pleasures. The universe is at war, you cannot see it, but you are subject to its effect, because the Evil One wants you as his victims.
In this horrible fight, My Mother prays for you and tries to teach you the true joy of life, through devotion, by living a simple, devout life committed to purity with God. But man refuses to take the spiritual path. Understand, My children, that if the spiritual image you carry in your hearts is of yourselves, it has no value… Come close to My Mother, pray with Her, follow the example of Her spiritual, silent life closely united with God…
DH-68
10-Nov-96
The Lord
My daughter, every Message, every word, every phrase is designed with great love, with the sole aim of helping you on your way... Many of My children do not believe in anything. They turn a deaf ear to the knowledge I wish to impart; they place restrictions on the revelations, prophesies, visions of My chosen ones and, thus, they do not notice My prophets, saints, visionaries and martyrs of today in their lives.
They do not understand that I am a God who teaches, that I do not change, that I continually bring them springs of life... All I want is to cleanse them of their tendencies to try to control My Mercy, My Love…
My Children, I want to present My Cross to you and I ask you to embrace yours. The key to entering the Kingdom of Heaven is a cross. Without a cross there is no crown. Do not reject them in the name of the pleasures of this fragile, corrupt world.
When a soul is baptized, it is born into the light of truth and purity. Then man in the hands of the devil, gives rise to sin and the soul carries a victim, producing despair and shame through humiliation. The soul then exposed without compassion or love, tries to avoid self-accusation; it seeks other souls that are more guilty to start criticizing and to silence their wound and thus the created love is buried deeply; it lies and it hurts... Then, self-pity leads to other dependencies, lack of acceptance, shame and finally despair... everything except the cross and they do not know that the cross is the ticket to tomorrow.
I come to call men, to invite them to restore the components of love, of mercy, of compassion, of respect, of dignity of the human soul. This can only be achieved in the school of My Love. But if men reject this invitation, there is nothing else I can do to save them from themselves in this terrible hour.
DH-69
19-Nov-96
The Lord
Dear Missionary, here I am holding your hand once more… Do you love Me?…
(I adore You, Lord!)
I am so glad that you confessed your guilt and that you are now at peace. Forgive Me, but I had to test you like this to show you that I do not like disobedience and even less that you come to receive Me with even a small misdeed in your heart. Your soul belongs to Me, how can I not want it to achieve even greater perfection?
Now that your heart is clean and they need a lot of strength to defend the event that is about to be lost, I want to leave you these irrefutable demonstrations of My satisfaction with your cause.
Now, take photographs in your bedroom, in our oratory, of the images in the corridor. I beg you to do so with both cameras… Then take up your notebook again when you come back from the Rosary. Make copies of this Message only, owing to the importance of the moment.
Later on
Daughter, let us do some work, enough work to discuss a very pleasant topic in the growth of My creature.
During My life on earth, the gentiles thought it was impossible for man to be God’s friend, since friendship makes the friends equal. I told them that they were My friends if they did what I said.
Now I ask you: Is not man foolish to want to live far from God when he can enjoy His friendship? I love all creation and the only thing that I abhor is the sin that contradicts My Will and opposes it. If the sinner were punished with a corporal punishment and also five years in prison for each sin committed, he would think twice about sinning. But he is so foolish that he does not believe in the fire in Hell, the place where he will go to burn for all eternity.
Being a man or a woman denotes a rational being who acts according to reason, not the appetite of his senses. And whosoever does not believe in Hell, tell them to read Deuteronomy 32,29 and to envisage the future with that rational mind. And that is the state of My Church today. Do you know who are the true wise men? Those who live for Me, to fulfill My Will, those who seek My Glory.
So many priests and bishops who thought they were wiser are now in Hell! How low there arrogance has brought them! Poor children who do not know the importance of an act of reparation and adoration of My Divine Body and Blood!… Nihil video, nisi putredinem, ossa et vermes.
Pray, My child. Make amends for the offenses, the insults I receive from many of My consecrated ones…
DH-70
24-Nov-96
The Lord
My little nothing, My great Missionary of love, happy birthday, I give you My blessing.
I have not been far from you, little one, I have already told you that the less you feel Me, the closer I am to you... Everything is all right; do you not want to offer your sufferings to Me? Do it again; you comfort Me so much!... I have prepared something Holy for you, so accept and eagerly seek My Sanctity.
Accept everything patiently and, thus, allow My Love to guide you. Only My Love can lead you towards perfection... First of all, look for your God and if anything distracts you from prayer, just do not do it. Nothing is more important than your moments of prayer. Appreciate everything that I offer you since you cannot be holy through your own efforts.
We have walked so much over these months and the last three years; what moments of intimacy we have shared!
Man must know that he who comes towards Me with an open heart will be enfolded in My Merciful Love. You have already experienced this. If when a soul comes to Me, without thinking of his problems, by paying close attention he can hear what I whisper to him and he wants to abandon himself to Me. That love so strong, he will join together with Me strengthening himself, without freedom, since I demand all his love. On the other hand, the effect of this love is eternal freedom of mind, soul and body; thus, the grace of this sentiment turns into the essence of purity.
My Catalina, My Love and its action has no limits for freeing your soul and filling all voids... It is My Love that sustains you.
Today I want to ask you once more to follow Love with the freedom and grace of a child. You have proved that if you follow Me, there is nothing to fear. This sentiment will burn in you and will deny you nothing because your heart will always be My treasure.
Continue to empty yourself so that you can receive love. Empty out your feelings, wishes, anything that is not Me. Focus your attention on what is happening at that moment, not on what has already happened or what is to come. In this way, My Will can act in you.
I live in everybody, but I respect man’s freedom. Whoever devotes himself to Me will be granted virtues and I will guide him through trials and tribulations; I defend and protect him at the appropriate hour. My Love is filled with delight; all guilt dissipates in My Love. It lifts punishments and bears fruit.
Daughter, take your time to make progress through prayer. If you give your soul up to Me, you need not fear envy nor justify your words or actions. You must understand that to receive My Graces, you must devote yourself to Me even more and devoting yourself means knowing with confidence that I act through you for the good of the souls that I have entrusted to you, many of whom you have not yet met.
Trust Me, do not try to please everybody because that is impossible. Try to please Me, your Jesus. Let My Graces replace in your life everything that you still depend on.
Give My Spirit the freedom to act in you. Believe that everything that happens is for the souls’ good... Do not try to understand; you will not be able to comprehend how My Spirit works in you and why, until the moment comes when you have reached the highest level of devotion to God.
Do not expect everyone to understand you regarding your decisions. If you had obeyed Me when I told you to get away for a while, people’s attitude would have improved…
Focus on your own course with Me, I want My chosen ones to be at rest even in the midst of the troubles others are giving them. I need you to get ready, to watch your diet and to pray in order to send you out into the world at once.
At this moment it is true Wisdom to be in silence and solitude rather than talking to those who do not want to listen. There is something that I want you to understand: envy is a capital sin and very common in women; you are going to meet that type of person very often, and you should escape from them. What should you do instead? Work to be calm and make sure that you focus on My Love. Because if the words of others affect you so much, it is because you still belong to this world and are not totally devoted to Me.