The Door to Heaven
Part 8 of 10 (in HTML format)
Messages #71 to #80
DH-71
24-Nov-96
The Lord
Now we are going to talk about contemplation, because you must make sure that your heart is cleansed through silence. At the same time, silence increases knowledge and reaches the virtue of contemplation in which the spirit permanently ascends. I solemnly tell you that silence is a whisper and a grace, through which I instigate the truth in your heart.
So many people would be better off in silence and solitude, rather than looking at themselves through their own eyes of wisdom, not letting others guide them.
Only silence lets the soul be regulated by God and to flourish in the gifts of divine humility and chastity. And I am going to enlighten you even more: Contemplation is the measure of humility. Whoever chooses silence through prayer and discipline will be blessed with true wisdom and no vanity. The soul improves with and feeds from intimacy.
If in the midst of this contemplation you feel that the light is going out, be certain that this darkness is so blessed that it will light up your soul, since humility can only be sown in contemplation.
Please understand that I shape My chosen ones, living proof of My Love. Then you should not care who is being awkward with you, using harsh words, criticisms, ordering you in a selfish and authoritarian manner; you can keep peace and harmony within you if you pray silently and earnestly without straying from your objective. Do not let people influence you, but be yourself following only Me... Open the door!
DH-72
25-Nov-96
The Lord
(After evening prayers, praying for some intentions that were commended to me from the interior of the country.)
Little one, here I am next to you. I am not an oracle or a pack of playing cards for men to guess their future through My chosen people. In this they will recognize My chosen ones. If I need to send a Message to a certain person, I am the one who will make that decision; I do it when I think the time is right. The other is fraud, guessing. I want you to escape, to flee from this because it is just as bad as spiritualism, horoscopes and I do not want you mixed up in that.
Give this message in general, to that group, since I can say whatever I want and not because you have asked Me to. Doing My Will is not to ask Me through three or four different people what is going to happen to this or to that, but to be docile to My inspirations, to trust in Me, to know Me and to think: "What would Jesus say or do if He were here next to me, according to the way in which I know him." (Underline the word "know" because only those who study My Words can know Me.)
It always takes the soul time, its time, to get to know Me, to meet Me and to do My Divine Will. But at least believe, trust.
I do not deprive anybody of his or her identity, instead I reinforce each person's identity. I am God who offers and gives Love. I give, and only take in order to give you more, abundantly. Why are you so worried? If you really had faith, you would find Me inside yourselves because I live there and I am Peace. The existence of external peace is inspired by inner peace. Peace can live externally once it exists internally; in the meantime, you cannot speak even of conversion, and even less of growth because I am the inner part.
What do I mean? Man’s every act that implies peace, comes from Me and is approved by Me. On the contrary, it will be hard for any tiresome, anxious, expensive, immodest enterprise to receive My approval because I am humility, modesty, poverty, virtue.
I am sorry to tell you that you do not love yourselves internally, you do not want to recognize that your inner self is a precious temple of the Holy Spirit. If your heart would listen, you would not be trapped in an enclosed world.
You speak of praise and your lives do not praise Me because you live without confidence, full of worries and fears. You speak of love and act selfishly, without doing anything to overcome divisions. You speak of My Glory and only care about your earthly lives. You speak of hours of prayer and do not know how to forgive.
Little ones, you cannot love your fellow men when you do not love yourselves. The few who do love themselves and go to others with love, find injustices, ingratitude and airs of superiority that offend Me since all My children are equal before My eyes; only I can say who has more merit in My eye.
You limit the number of graces you receive through your own actions. You set limits and restrictions on yourselves... You will soon realize that your current anxieties, worries and tensions are irrelevant and trivial compared to what is to come and has been created by man’s own hands.
I ask for love, mercy, respect, dignity, compassion, honesty, purity of intention, poorness of spirit, charity and above all, humility (highlight this).
I want to remind you tonight of My Love, I invite you to accept this Love once more, totally in your hearts. The Love with which I love you is unselfish, a Love that sacrifices itself…
It will not be easy for you to have hope and to love, unless you yourselves accept My Love and My hope as your own...
I invite each of My children to be My apostles now. I send you out to evangelize with your own lives. I need you to touch your world, to speak of My Love, My Peace, My forgiveness.
I bless you, My children, start living in faith, feed from My Word, fill yourselves with My Messages that are for you, for the today’s men... for the true children of My Most Blessed Heart …
DH-73
25-Nov-96
The Lord
Beloved one, how could I miss this appointment when it is your Anniversary? Let us talk a bit about prayer. I want you to write down for all men what I am going to say to you about this topic, though you must put these Messages away until I authorize you to use them. They need to receive the running, limpid water to care for the garden in which their God lives permanently.
I want you to always see Me as your help and source of life. This means that you must put your temptations of falseness, lies, the sweet attractions of the world to one side and to come and delight in My Love. If you are at peace let My Love be the catalyst for your enthusiasm, of your drive... Love Me with all your heart and let Me be your Teacher. Read John 16.
I love you so much that, however many sinners deserve to go to Hell, I do not want any of them to be lost. I want to save My creature because the moment of opening the Door to Heaven to them has been fraught with too much pain. I want all of you to recover your grace and obtain eternal salvation through confession. Without prayer, the punishment cannot be suspended because, how can you ask for it?
I say to you in Jeremiah 23,3 so that you may ask Me. In John 15,7 I invite you to ask Me.
You, men, when you receive a request from someone who has offended you, normally reproach them for their fault. I reproach you for the offenses that you have committed against My sanctity, but at the moment when I see your faithfulness, I hear your entreaties and I forgive you. I listen to your requests, as long as they do not oppose your sanctification or the salvation of your soul.
Why do you complain about Me? Complain about yourselves as you do not receive graces since you do not know how to ask for them. Sometimes through a lack of faith and others, because when you know you lack merits, you do not ask My Father in My Name or by My merits.
Those who govern the world grant a limited number of people an audience and not many times a year. But I grant audiences always and to whoever requests one. I listen to all My children.
Beloved one, tell man not to let the glory of the world attract him in such a way that he draws away from Me. And you, pray for wisdom so that other people’s errors and falsities might not upset you and be a disadvantage… Let Me prevent any mistake that might affect your progress. Beware of those sweet deceptions. Pray and be strong through perseverance. May your spirit not be broken with invalid arguments.
I am embracing you, now, I am teaching you - through My Spirit - to love Me unconditionally and to give Me your whole being so that you can reap the rewards and be with Me forever in My infinite Love.
Prayer is necessary to achieve eternal life. Teach everyone about the value of prayer, since I, Myself, became their debtor with My promises. In John 16,24, in Matthew 26,41 and Luke 18,1 I give them My seal. In Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 2,10 a Prophet tells them that there has not been, nor will there be, anybody who asks and God does not listen. Did any of My Prophets ever lie?
I promised you that I would protect whoever placed their hope in Me... I invite you to do it; how can I deceive you?
We will continue with this topic tomorrow. Now, go to bed, My sweet child, and lie down on this ardent heart, letting its flames consume you in the Love that I sowed just over 53 years ago in your mother's womb…
DH-74
26-Nov-96
The Lord
Beloved one, sweetness of your God, I am here. Let us begin with a reflection: Do not be impatient, but go at My pace a minute at a time. Do not think about tomorrow or yesterday, or of things that are going or not going to happen. Do not waste your energy on analyzing or trying to seek direction in your lives. Trust in Me and I will take care of you.
You say: I trust, but the Lord helps those who help themselves. Today I tell you to surrender and to trust in Me. You are afraid to let Me care for you because the way in which I want to take care of you does not agree with the way in which you want Me to. Men of little faith! If you surrendered to Me and directed your lives towards My loving Peace, you would never need to discern or choose a certain course of action to help yourselves, since I will concern Myself with ensuring your safety and peace. But fear the changes that I will place before you.
If you would place, like the poor widow in the Gospel, all your safety, possessions and your fortune at My service, you would never want for anything. But no, you spend your lives bargaining for your alms; calculating what will give you more profit, and where mathematical calculations and financial interests exist, I am not your God; your God is money, your God is comfort, your God is calculation, your God is the master of the world...
Later on, at dawn on the 27th:
Let us go back to the topic of prayer. Do you know the story of Joroboan? He was an impious man who cursed a brave Prophet who had told him of his wickedness. He wanted to strike the Prophet and his hand shriveled up. Then he begged the King to ask God to give him back the use of his shriveled hand. Many Christians are like that, they beg to be freed from problems, sickness, tribulations, but they do not beg to receive the grace of not sinning and of being converted... Sin is an instrument of debt that you sign against yourselves!
What should I do? Heed the entreaties of those who beg to be released from sorrow, but not forgiven their sins? How can We care about your prayers, fasts, alms if you do not want to change your lives? Read 2 Maccabees 9,13.
When the enemy is inside the walls, the city runs the risk of falling into his power. First cast out from your souls the enemy that torments you. Then, beg for My Mercy to free you from sin. And I want to make it clear that, in the supposed growth of some of you, sin can be all those "little things" that make you uncomfortable. Sin might be something that you consider a "skill" or a charm... Remember that you can deceive each other, but not Me...
DH-75
28-Nov-96
The Lord
My children, I want to help you, but I also want you to cooperate in your healing.
If someone is drowning in a lake, the first thing they will do is to wave their hands around and try to grasp onto something safe. Thus, those who want help should begin by helping themselves. They can not expect Me to do everything without their cooperation.
Those who ask for something with the firm intention of mending their ways will receive My Mercy.
You do not know Me and this is why you live full of fear for human life. I want to give you a prayer for a saint of Mine. He would pray like this: Lord Jesus, I worship You. I hope in You, I trust in You, I place my faith in You because it is through You that everything is possible and You are our living God.
I am the Good Shepherd, I know how many sheep I have and I will find them all. I have chosen My sheep, they have not chosen Me.
Nobody is Superior to Anyone Else
DH-76
28-Nov-96
The Lord
There now, calm down, My little cucarachita [a familiar, affectionate term in Spanish]. You are the only one to blame for accepting situations or people that upset you. Now, get away, you have a week to escape everything, to think more calmly and analyze things more clearly. Above all, be at peace.
With regard to that little thorn inside you, remove it, speak to that person, do not commit the sin of complicity and even less of omission. Let us work now.
Beloved children, nobody is superior to anyone else. All My children were made with the same Love, created and saved with My Life. However, I give some of My children, owing to the nature of the responsibility that I give them, another type of life. I want to talk to you about this. My Love has let you meet Nancy Fowler, Fr. Stefano Gobbi, and allowed you to receive many videos and books from other people who were chosen in this era of the salvation of a planet that is sinking into the abyss of sin, of the rejection of God.
(The Lord allows me to explain that I am writing this under strict obedience to His instructions to do so.)
The responsibility that I place in the hands of My chosen ones implies an enormous quota of persecutions, suffering and bitterness. This is why I am forming, building a group of people, no less important, who will help, protect and aid My son or daughter, the prophet who will take My Words to the world.
In the majority of cases, I and My Word have been the nucleus. The voice has been such and such a person, and the hands, strength, support have been those who surround that person. In some cases the group has grown and therefore, strengthened its work, widened its radius of action. They have won over more and more souls for Me until they have joined together with another group of chosen ones and thus created a great front of love and solidarity...
Sometimes two or three people have given their support and, with My Grace, many works have been completed. There has also been more than one group that has not wanted to commit itself and My chosen ones have had to struggle with just My help to deliver My Messages and, since it was My help they received, the action was strong.
This group, whom My Mother has been choosing, maintaining, warning, alerting against the attacks by the despicable one, has not known how to respond. I am not going to say in what way or to whom. Each of you knows what you are like and I am first and foremost Love. But I am not going to stop communicating with you through My daughter without first telling you that this is the first time that the person that I choose to direct the spiritual life of a group through My Messages has been reviled, ridiculed and left to her own devices by those who received so much through her.
In this case, it is the one person who fights, not against outsiders, but against her brothers and sisters, classmates (underline that) because I wanted to provide you with a school of love, of growth in faith, of evangelization, of unity. It is a single person who fights against your slovenliness, selfishness, comforts, laziness, greed, ambitions, irresponsibility, arrogance… And that one person, for having endeavored to be faithful to My commands, just like Me, today defends with all her might that which is sacred for her Lord, even though tomorrow they might take her to Praetorian and then to the Cross.
Do you realize, My children, what you have done? You are so hard of heart and mind that even by bringing before your eyes the life of other seers so that you can observe how you should help each other... how you should help My daughter, but always around My person, around the entreaties and exhortations of My Mother. Not around yourselves; none of you is worthy of a single line of My Messages, even though man is My perfect creation and therefore the object of My greatest Love... You still have one more chance to recover My trust, but comfort instead of being comforted, do not try to hear words that please yourselves, and try to be at the service of others.
I want you to forget yourselves and to look towards Me. Silence your minds and understand how unproductive it is to seek comfort from somebody else.
When you want another man to assess your spiritual performance, you are just delaying your growth, because only I can see inside you. Then, why do you need to hear words of praise to fill a momentary pleasure? That is selfishness and should be avoided as it is harmful to your growth.
Serve others, listen, pray and try to serve others, as that is the only way to give pleasure to your soul.
When I ask you to forget yourselves, I mean love Me by denying your humanity so that I can live together with your good will.
Accept praise from others, gracefully, when appropriate, but do not look for praise. It is not as important to be understood as it is to understand, that is why St. Francis of Assisi asked for this, since if you live in Me and I in you, you are understood by the Trinity. Do you understand the magnitude of what I am saying?
Do not turn a deaf ear to what I have been saying. Truthfully I tell you that if you had followed My words with the same solicitude as other groups, your families would already have been converted and preaching My Messages.
Do not cry over spilt milk, but learn something from this failure and set out on the road again, along the paths that you indicated yourselves.
Listen to the Whisper of My Spirit
DH-77
28-Nov-96
The Lord
Beloved one, I have been watching over your sleep and I am always at your side, even when you become impatient. Here I am, watching over you. Let us see, lean on My shoulder; speak to Me or be quiet, without any thoughts at all, with total emptiness. You see? That is how you can grow in humility. You do not know this, but I will tell you. It is better to understand poorly than to be anxious about what you know and wallow in vanity.
I am the One who gives light and can take it away. If I take it away, you regress... That is to say that light is beautiful, but darkness makes growth in humility, in your confidence in Me; darkness closes the door on your own vanity. It is paying attention to the whisper of My Spirit that speaks of its personal desires, very quietly to sharpen your hearing... I force My way through for anyone’s love, so that person might come to Me with sincerity.
I ask My children to remain constantly in My presence even when they are performing their daily tasks and responsibilities. They should not wait until they are in the midst of confusion and turbulence, in need of help to come to Me...
My children, come to Me now, because it will be more difficult later, when envy and the lack of humility invades you.
Nobody is worthy of My Love, not a single man; but for this same Love, which is sublime and eternal, I make you just in Me before the Father.
Remember that a heart is humble when it does not allow the conscience to bear witness to its innocence since it trust Me more than itself…
Adopt Habits That Keep you Faithful to My Words
DH-78
29-Nov-96
The Lord
Beloved one, why did this happen? I did not like the answer you gave your Mother at all. Call her and say you are sorry. That is not what I want in you. What is the matter with you today? You are very irritable. Come, take up your Rosary and meditate on the Joyful Mysteries. I know is not the day for the joyful ones, but they will help you to contemplate My Mother’s peace.
Two days ago I told you not to let them influence you in your decisions. Do you not know that when I live next to you, in you, I am the One who makes the decisions?
They want to see you? You set the conditions, whoever want to visit you must adapt to your schedule. They do not like it? What a shame, but you are carrying out your work with Me and we are interrupted too often.
I want you to understand this: In a life of dedication, an engineer begins by working out in the field, in the hot sun like the workers. But time goes by and he gets a job in an office and out in the field. Later he becomes a manager, and finally he is given a very special position... If it is a housewife, she will begin by burning the food and end up preparing delicious, complicated dishes for her family.
DH-78.1 Responsibility in Your Country
Now, let us apply this to real life. You must start to change, because that is part of the price you will pay for the graces that I pour on you and, through you on this country. Nobody else in this country has this responsibility that you have. So, you need a lot of hours for working with Me, hours to guide you to Me and hours to organize My interests like a good Secretary. Only an organized Secretary can keep her boss’ things in order....
This might seem contradictory to you: on the one hand I ask you for humility and meekness, and on the other I solemnly tell you that you are not the one who has to check on the group or people and their activities, but quite the opposite. Everything has a place and each one of you should be in your place. Everything else is false humility, and you know that I cannot tolerate that.
You must experience the shelter of My Love so that the creation around you can be enlarged in My goodness, with your emotional state.
Work to keep your equanimity. Change your habits and adopt true habits that will keep you faithful to My Words…
Hold Retreats and Do Exercises That Bring You Closer to Me
DH-79
1-Dec-96
The Lord
Let us work, little one, for the world is hungry; let us prepare the food they need.
Just as the sun cannot be seen except with its own light, so man cannot see My light without the help of My own light. This light can be reached in retreats, in exercises that bring you closer to Me, and there I enlighten you with My light, since the objective is to cut yourselves off for a while from the worries and hubbub of the world to speak to Me alone. There I speak to you through inspirations and those who surrender to the meditation, to the Divine Love, aching, correspond to My Words, making amends for their faults that have upset Me and offering themselves to My service with the full intensity of their love, asking Me to show them My Will and to give them the strength to fulfill it.
The Kings who escape to retreats are the people who despise the world to make themselves worthy of talking to Me. I told a saint: flee the world, close your lips, cease conversing with men; just talk to Me and you will rest calmly in the retreat. Go and rest in your God! That was the first experience that led him towards sanctity.
Before peace can spread to others, it should first embrace your whole being. This is the freedom I gave you through the creation of humanity. Each of My children should have the faith of a mustard seed so that I can consume it in My Love.
You need retreats, certainly, but you also need to look for Me in inner contemplation, in a world that actively lives. If I call you to live in a hermitage, it is a grace for the ones I choose. The fact that I am now calling you to hold this type of temporary retreats is also a very important grace. Let us study the two types of meetings.
When I call you to solitude far from the chaos of the world, My call is like a soft whistle that can barely be heard. It is not for your bodily but your spiritual ears and it blows without noise, with gentle quietude. When I want to attract a soul, I normally take that person to a solitary place and I speak to him there with words of fire that melt his soul, preparing that soul to bend before My orders and to receive the form of life that I want for each of you. Words of action that are so effective that as they are received in the soul they achieve what I demand of that soul.
When you read the life of Teresa you will see something that I said to her one day about the desires I have to talk to certain souls, however, I do not do so because the chaos of the world in their hearts silences My voice.
I want to talk to you alone and in a retreat, not at home, where relatives, friends, domestic tasks, stirs the noise in your hearts or prevents the echo of My divine voice from reaching you.
Why do you think that many saints left everything to seek Me in pursuit of My Words? People of the world enjoy conversations with friends, jokes and fun. But saints want to withdraw into solitude to talk to Me in the familiarity of two friends. The husband in Song of Songs emphasizes the beauty of a solitary soul and compares it to the beauty of the turtledove, because the turtledove avoids the company of other birds and always lives in solitary places.
You do not know this, but the angels are filled with admiration and jubilation when they contemplate the beauty, the radiance of a soul that lived a withdrawn and solitary life on earth, such as in a desert. The angel choir sings when that soul reaches Paradise.
My children, hold this type of retreats at least three or four times a year because they help the soul immensely whatever your position in life.
Why do I say that these retreats are a grace? Because the mundane sinner who is interested in the world and not his soul, bears the burden of his remorse and instead of finding peace and calm in the solitude of the retreat, he finds tedium, boredom, uneasiness. But the soul that seeks God finds satisfaction, peace, happiness, strength. He renews his spirit. I know well how to comfort the soul that has removed itself from the world, compensating the pleasures and comforts left behind with the gift of a beautiful garden where the peace that satiates his desires can be found. That soul will always praise Me because I treat it so affectionately.
Even though this solitude may not provide another pleasure other than showing you the eternal truths, this moment is enough in itself to make it pleasant for you. Divine truths have always satiated a soul as soon as they are known. The opposite happens with the vanities of the world, which are just insanity and corruption.
Every man who leaves a retreat is different from the one who entered. I assure you that they are blissful, detached from the mundane crowd, conscious of being taken by My hand to an exercise such as this one in which they take part in the celestial delights.
But concentrate fully to meditate on everything you hear, to derive benefit from it, because saintly resolutions arise from reflection, and for this, withdrawal is necessary. Observe how the shell that receives the dew from Heaven closes its valves and goes down to the bottom of the sea to form a pearl... This is what you have to do in this meeting.
Begin this retreat with the Holy Rosary, reciting calmly, meditating on its Mysteries.
Peace, Solitude, Contemplation
DH-80
1-Dec-96
The Lord
Now let us move on to the second part.
Most of My children are subject to living in an active world. So did I, though not in this time of madness. You must learn how to escape inside yourselves to find solitude in Me. It does not matter where you are. Peace, solitude, the love of contemplation will become the cornerstone of your life, of your soul, since I am the cornerstone of your soul.
Understand, My little ones, I immersed Myself inside My Heart to find the peace of My Father and to rest in solitude. To find loving care, I rested My head on My Holy Mother's lap. You also need to seek love and to worry about each other.
Man needs the love of the community and the affection of each of its members. I want you to understand that man was created to give glory to God for His honor, and therefore to praise the Creator for His blessings, which will always be essential for the freedom of the soul.
Do not seek rest and peace in inner sources. Immerse yourselves within My Sacred Heart when you want to rejuvenate your souls. Those who truly want to find love and peace will find Me. Protection and intimacy with Me can only be found here, as well as absolute knowledge, which I grant you through the heart because, even though you have knowledge through intelligence, you do not have knowledge unless it is processed and absorbed in profound love, through the heart.
Beloved ones, think of My earthly life. I worked hard, I passed through rough land and grew tired, but I never stopped teaching My Father's Word and being Merciful to those who were in need. I was crucified and humiliated in the middle of a market of thieves and savage people, nobody wanted to hear about God’s Mercy. It was a place where nobody paid attention to the living Son of God.
I could not find peace on the outside, because there was no external peace in the world. I came to save the world so that all might have life and peace, but I immersed Myself within My Father's Heart in the solitude, contemplation and peace of His Love… Today I call you to this same magnetic quietness of solitude that exists within you, internally, not externally and with less shouting and noise, with less words lacking in harmony. I live in the inside; that is where you will find rest in your active world and guidance for My teachings of the eternal truths. Only then will you be able to see Me living externally among you all, but not before you have seen Me internally, because that is where you will first see yourselves and there, within you, Me.
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