The Door to Heaven
Part 9 of 10 (in HTML format)
Messages #81 to #90
DH-81
1-Dec-96
The Lord
Know that the Son of man will soon come to verify past truths and to gather together His chosen ones because the time will come when everyone will experience the state of his soul... Everyone will have to look inside himself; it cannot be avoided. There, where the peace of salvation exists, free will and protection reside.
When I ask you to get ready to live this Christmas differently, to begin this time of Advent, in which I cry and bleed in profound withdrawal because of man’s rejection. I place the angels of protection around you. Look after the Door to Heaven.
DH-82
2-Dec-96
The Lord
Let us go back to the topic of prayer. I, the cornerstone of your soul, make the graces of your prayer advance when it is silent and profound, and one day you will notice that you have progressed in this immense grace of wisdom when loving.
The prayer of My Love moves from the mind to the heart. Your imagination will be reduced until there are just sparks left to remember. At that moment, abandon yourselves to Me, praise the Father and recognize that you have been blessed with progress on your path through commitment and devotion when contemplating Me.
I know that it is a challenge to give up your control to Me but it is not a loss for you since you will not be deceived by My Love and, on the contrary, your abandonment will be rewarded. The fervor of My Love will inspire you to give Me everything else, until there is nothing left to give and even then I will extract more from you.
In this gift of prayer you will discover what really nourishes your souls. The search becomes the goal and the desire for My Love is enough in itself to sustain you. The fruits will be self-evident. The desert flowers will flourish when you no longer waste energy on controlling or becoming distracted from My Will.
The battle of the mind is no longer of interest to you, thus, the desert flourishes because the source of nutrition comes from Heaven, covering and enriching the earth to produce a fertile season and this better performance will be sown with love.
The struggle for success will no longer worry you because you will be ready to open up like a flower to receive My Merciful Love, the marvelous compassion of the graces of healing. The commitment of your heart in prayer to Me will gather strength and any disappointments hiding there will come out.
Once you have found Me every day in the small retreat of your hearts, you must endeavor always to find humility. You should be transformed into a new person; you need to be shaped, formed, consumed, melted, tested and treated many times, so that you will take your time because time will be My time.
You do not understand, you do not know how wise it is to go against your selfish wishes. If you truly walked on the path of freedom to be gloriously crowned, you would prefer the things that follow My ways and desires, not yours… At times it is necessary to obey others, following and helping in things that are irksome for you. Remember that I am in everything; I work through each thing and each person. If your desires and thoughts are with My desires, then you must patiently and humbly bear the purification and reshaping of your spirit towards perfection and static union with Me.
When you reach the innumerable beautiful mountains and green forests along the way, do not go on ahead, but take care that your will becomes humble, offering it to Me since these ascents are previews of later tests. I am there, shaping, purifying until the creature reaches the highest level of profound prayer in perfect contemplation of the union with Me.
Many things happen that bother you when your attention strays far from Me, when you are intoxicated with material desires. Look at the Master and you will take one day at a time, one person at a time that you find and to whom you will show your love. Because if love cannot be shown or expressed through sincerity and simplicity, how can your love illuminate many people at the same time? Start with yourselves. Make an effort to change your inner behavior and work constantly to be kind, open to every person and, thus, eventually, your charisma will reflect your true peace.
Try to spend some time alone to look for Me, reflect on a passage from the Gospel, on a phrase in a sentence, something that will ring in your heart all day long. A saint, Francis Xavier, abandoned the world because of the impression that the verse Matthew 16,26 made on him.
DH-83
3-Dec-96
The Lord
You talk a lot about the community and I would like to give you some guidelines on what I want so that a lay community can be, with their strength, the backbone of My Church. But I am only talking about those communities that are strong in their unity and communion of love with each other.
Many norms can be established and you are free to choose them, but the spirit of love, understanding, prayer, are the props that will give the community strength. Forgiveness from the beginning and not having to beg forgiveness afterwards, living simple lives focused only on My goodness through praise, songs of peace, work and comradeship, living My Words so that others might return to Me, to live in harmony and love.
Understand children, many have not been called to receive My blessing of the priesthood, but just as St. Francis of Assisi lived the Word in constant poverty yet in richness of spirit, so I want lay communities sanctified by means of love and harmony, through forgiveness, prayer, reparation, mercy and love. Everyone can follow their rules and norms, but living freely in the growth of the spirit and not through a dictatorship, through love, observing chastity, poverty and obedience, just as My saints did.
People today do not want to follow My path, they have forgotten Me and only remember Me as a distant, intangible God that is not alive in their hearts. I want My children to come back to Me, but this will not be possible just through speeches. At present, words only mean something if they are accompanied by works or by the spirit of community life.
To start up a community, you must live it in the world, among men, speaking of My Love, of My Mercy, of My forgiveness. What do I mean by telling you to start living in a community now? To fight for Me with one spirit, without selfish deviations, vanity, pride, selfishness, envy, meanness... I need My people to devote themselves entirely to Me in order to help them more. I need them to form a group that will evangelize throughout the world, that will seek and generate resources, plan My final battle, get My children back. May they see strength and unity between you. Be an example for other laymen, be one in My Love.
It is time for everyone to find out about the disastrous devastation that is about to eliminate humanity on earth. Many people love Me, but not many are willing to carry My Cross and help others in their needs, particularly those who are the poorest of the poor with regard to poverty of love and mercy. Please do not choose who you would prefer to love and help, but without prejudice, help and love everyone, since whether they are aware of My Love or not, I live amongst them. Only those who condemn My Love as they draw their last breath, condemn their own soul.
Thus, so that you can then live in a private community, you must first be free and grow in humility. Feel the joy of being in My Love, settle your inner state, by praying for My Grace to guide your physical, spiritual and emotional needs. In order to live in a community you must prepare yourselves, and in truth I tell you, you are not even half way there yet.
In order to work for Me, you must abandon all egoism and seek that which will satisfy the Father's Will. In this way, you are witnesses of the fruits of the Spirit. I am happy when you in your simplicity share everything with Me, even your fear. Controlling your fear in My Love allows you to feel free since you will be in control of your useless fears.
Understand, My children, that My Love is lasting and saves even at the last breath. So, begin to love at home, in the group and it will be easier to love outsiders. The more you love those that you meet in your lives, the deeper your love will be. You cannot state that you love Me without first showing that same love to My people.
When The Gospel Reaches All the Corners of the World, My Second Coming Will Be Possible
DH-84
3-Dec-96
The Lord
My daughter, blessed by your God, we have been working all this time to prepare another book that will serve as spiritual nourishment in the terrible days to come. Just as with the previous book, you will make simple photocopies to hand out among the people who want to know Me; but the groups that are on their way to living in a community will be taught the following.
You will keep a set of books that might be useful, since it is unlikely that you will have access to any other type of reading material or training. That is why I insisted incessantly that it was urgent for you to work on the books, since if you study them well, it is unlikely that you will forget My Word. However, those who have not yet read or assimilated anything, will have to keep them, protect them well, if necessary bury them in pre-established places, obviously next to a Bible, in order to recover them when the time comes. Terrible days await humanity, since the first thing to disappear will be the Holy Scriptures.
Now then, with all this that you have in your hands, hurry out to evangelize, do it now, because there is not much time left and only when the Gospel reaches all the corners of the world will My second coming be possible.
You do not know how much I love you, little one, I admire your docility, poverty of spirit and sacrifice, in these hours when the world is sinking into the pit of materiality. Do not worry about what happened today, I care for you so much and this angers the enemy who does not know how to harm you. You are not the one who loses out, I assure you. Now, go and rest, I am going to give you a few days of freedom, except for the moments when I will ask you to write something.
Prepare your worship of the Father, to share it with Me.
DH-85
4-Dec-96
The Lord
(The passage on the multiplication of fish and loaves of bread was read in the Holy Mass. The priest was explaining the Gospel when the Lord said to me:)
This is what I want you to do, to share everything I have given you among the men who are hungry for the bread of My Kingdom, of My Word. Hurry with everything you have so that the world will not starve…
I Am Bringing My People Together
DH-86
6-Dec-96
The Lord
My daughter, a priest from far away will arrive in a few days’ time. Please give him a copy of the Evangelization, which must go to that country as well. I am bringing My people together, I need you to meet this son of Mine who will do much for the cause. You will recognize him because he will speak to you of the new form of Evangelization.
Let us pray, it is three in the afternoon…
Try to Win Over the greatest Number of Souls
DH-87
6-Dec-96 (When I was leaving after the Holy Mass.)
The Lord
Little one, I feel very sad with the offenses of the world but, at the same time, you heal, with your fervor, so many of the wounds that hurt My Eucharistic Heart.
I want you to tell My children that, in effect, there is hardly any time left. However, right now it is far more important to try to win over the greatest number of souls possible than to live shut away in a Community. I am not against your plans for living in a Community, get everything ready within your possibilities, without making large financial sacrifices.
You cannot go until a year has gone by. Right now the most important thing is to evangelize. Get yourselves and your people ready for the spiritual success of the Marian Eucharistic Congress. Nevertheless, I need all My children here, since the triumph of My Eucharistic Heart in the conversion of many children depends on the success of the Congress. Thank you, little one, for the renewal of your offering of life. I value your generosity so highly!…
You will soon have to leave your current activities behind to devote yourselves solely to My cause, but do not disperse your efforts, please... I love you...
DH-88
12-Dec-96
The Lord
(The Lord has dictated an evangelization method to me, which is why He mentions … )
Fetch your notebook, little one, I want you to write a list of the people who will receive a copy of "Evangelical Renewal", apart from your children. This does not mean, however, that all these people will go out and evangelize, but that they should all know this text so that they can, from the place I indicate to them, to provide support at times with prayer, others materially and the most, morally.
(He tells me the names… )
Now, sweetness of your God, I want you to know that man, in unity of spirit and body, is a synthesis of the universe. He is more than the universe because in his soul’s spirituality and immortality, man is superior to the whole universe and when he concentrates, when he goes down to the bottom of himself, he returns to that deep inner world to encounter Me. Can you see how important contemplation is in a soul that wants to encounter its God?
Let us go outside and contemplate the clouds, silently and talk with your Lord...
DH-89
12-Dec-96
The Lord
Beloved one, what are you amazed at? None of My children should be astonished to know that I love them? This love is so immense that I love them so much that I even chase them with My Love... You recognize it, you enjoy it, because you are permanently talking to Me, because you feel My nearness when you have to speak well or badly of people, but, how many do what you do?
I want you to keep away right now, to observe from afar, analyze, remember things, the moments of intimacy with Me; the moments in which My Grace has allowed you to discover the devil’s tricks. However, I do not want you to make judgements, to reach your own conclusions and even less for them to cause a rift between you and other people... I tell you; I repeat to you: You are the chosen one of My loving Heart to take My compassionate Love to the people in this part of the world and, through you, I will be pouring Mercy on the souls of those who want to open the doors to their little hearts to Me.
Move away from envy, run from the discord that has gained a place in the hearts of some of My chosen children. Be grateful for so many benefits and so much love poured on you in this torrent of Love... Whenever you participate in My Life and in My Passion, you should remember how unworthy you are of this choice which has, so splendidly, shown its source: My Mercy. Be grateful for your conversion and the intimate friendship I share with you. A joy becomes a genuine marvel when the soul admits that it has sinned and it knows that just as it is, I seek its love to glory in it, to make from that clay, a magnificent sculpture, the finest porcelain.
You still have much to suffer. These sufferings will reach you by means of people with whom we shared so much good... Do not worry: the Pharisees were always amazed at the love and kindness I would show the publicans and sinners. They were shocked because they thought that they did not deserve it. He who thinks that he can receive more of God’s Love than others through his own merit is committing a grave sin... I accepted the love of the woman who had sinned, because it sprang from a humble, grateful heart. I grant so much more to that soul than what it asks for, trusting that since it is aware of and grateful for this totally unmerited love, it will know how to correspond with me more and more. Read Luke 7,47 and you will better understand what I am saying. This means that a person who considers that, after all, there is not much for Me to forgive, will certainly feel uncomfortable in the Kingdom of My redeemed Love.
A perfect soul will say: I am astonished and amazed because God loves me like this, me, a sinner, creating links of saving solidarity with all sinners. And if the Lord loves me like this, then I must be grateful because He loves us sinners in this way and He unites me to the choirs of praise of His Mercy.
Do Not Be ungrateful Before So Much Grace
DH-90
14-Dec-96
The Lord
Beloved one, let us work a bit more on your preparation for Christmas Eve. Thank you for your weeping... Tears of compassion shed while contemplating My unutterable sufferings in the work of redemption, will dissolve your pride and cure you of your unfounded self-pity. It is that love grateful for My Passion and for the sufferings I bore for you, that becomes the capacity to share My Love and My pain for all men.
Thus, when a heart joins My Heart in the passages of My earthly life, it becomes My compassionate and active disciple from the depth of its soul. Remember that zeal for souls can only arise from amazement. Remember the passage in Matthew when he speaks of Levi, the publican: as soon as I invited him to follow Me, he prepared a great banquet full of sinners and publicans. Consider this, Levi did not think that he was better than the other sinners and since he was invited by Me, I would surely not reject any of the others. He wanted the others to share the joy of knowing Me.
Now, meditate. My goodness made Me wait for you and save your life when you had fallen into misfortune; My compassion enlightened you and invited you to forgiveness; it gave you repentance, the desire to love Me and now you are in My Grace... Pray for wisdom and strength so as not to be ungrateful before so much Grace. Reflect deeply on My Love for you...