The Secret of Fertility
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December 1993, Month of the Immaculate Conception - Orig.Italian Edit: Eco di Medj., C.P.149, 108 46100 Mantova, Italy. Yr.8#9 - All mail to: Echo of Medj., Cas. Post.27, 31030 Bessica (TV), Italy. Our Lady's message - 25 Nov. '93: Dear children, I invite you in this time The secret of fertility to prepare yourselves as never before for The law of spiritual fertility concerns all the coming of Jesus - that little Jesus Christians, who cannot remain in isolation. may reign in your hearts; for you will be To become the Mother of God (Mt12:50) happy only when Jesus is your friend. though, one needs Mary’s disposition - i.e. It will not be difficult for you to pray, a virgin heart like Hers: virginitate or offer sacrifices, or testify to the great- concepit; and in intimate communion of ness of Jesus in your lives, for in this time adoration before God, offer space to His He will give you strength and joy. I am creative omnipotence. The Lord says: close to you with my prayer and my "I want you to believe in my omni- intercession. I love you and I bless you potence, not in your doing, so you will try all. Thank you for having responded to putting Me into action, not yourself or my call. others. Look for my intimacy, fulfil my desire to have you, to enrich you, to love you the way I want. Let yourself be loved, Friendship with Jesus let me find rest in you, let me vent my brings happiness that helps us omnipotence on you continually. If you remain before Me and depend overcome every difficulty on My will, without worrying about doing things your way, racing to get things done Our Lady mentions this time twice in and say what you’ve done. you show Me Her message. Every time is a great you believe in my omnipotence, and I will opportunity of grace for us that we can’t work intensely on you when you speak, go, afford to lose. Like each year at Christmas, work, pray, sleep; for I give to my beloved when the apparition of the Child born for what they need even when they sleep. us, of the Son given to us, opens hearts to If you stay with Me without rushing, and the goodness and love that God has for men worrying about your needs, but totally (Tt 3:4). Our Blessed Mother says we need trusting in Me, I will give you all you need to prepare ourselves like never before, for Be like Mary, to generate Jesus according to my eternal plan. I will give the times are sad and being distracted by you the feelings that I want from you, great anxiety makes us insensible to heaven’s cally worthless; but for those who believe, it compassion for others, I will make you say gift. So we need more concentration, a is the greatest gift we could ever receive. and do what I want. Then your doing will return to prayer, fasting, participation in Indeed, what is man without Him? come from My love. I alone, not you with Holy Mass as much as possible, sincere In the second part, the message doesn’t all your activity, can generate new children confession that comes from true conversion, seem to promise easy times, but it does say that are born from Me. The more you want and reconciliation with all. if we are really His friends, we'll have no to be a true child, like my Only Begotten But perhaps She is saying now like difficulty in being His testimonies in this Son, the more children I can make, for you never before, because we need to receive a adverse world, even with great sacrifices, know that if you do my will you are my much greater grace, to be able to face much because He will give us the strength and brother, sister and mother: so as to generate more serious events, in which the Lord will joy. A special grace then to make us Me in others - for I shall give life to other come to purify the earth. Jesus must be our perseverant in prayer and in testifying to children by serving myself of true children. viaticum for the great battle. Jesus’ greatness before the nothingness of The effort you put into doing things is Mary does not promise a finish to wars, the world. He will make us witnesses of smoke compared to what I do in the secrecy disagreements, raging hate; but to those hope for those, who in this chaos, will lose of the hearts of those who love Me." who prepare themselves as never before, everything because they have lost God. She ensures an enormous help: little Jesus For all those who have responded to Her Those silvery rays! and His friendship. She doesn’t say that at call, She says: I am close to you, you can Christmas we’ll see Jesus reign in the always count on my presence. I pray and 2nd apparition to St Catherine Labouré in world, but that if we really want it, we’ll be intercede always for you all, so you may rue de Lubac, Paris (27.11.1930): Our Lady happy in discovering Him close to us open yourselves to my eternal gift of Jesus, was holding a small golden globe, repre- because He reigns in us as our friend. and Satan’s deceipt will disappear. Fr.A. senting the world in Her hands. As She held Jesus says his friends are those who it up lots of golden rings with precious listen to His word (Jn15). The word friend gemstones appeared on Her fingers. Light has an extraordinary power: it can move a Our Lady’s feasts in December shone from these all round. When the globe person to the very core. Jesus the friend is disappeared, She put Her arms down and Besides the feast of the Immaculate outwards; curtains of light shone out over not a distant God, but a God that is close to Conception (8 Dec.) we also celebrate: us and eternally faithful. To experience this the earthly globe beneath Her feet. Some of 10 Dec.: Translation of the House of these rays were golden, others were silvery. friendship is to experience how great and Nazareth to Loreto in 1294 - it doesn't St Catherine later explained that the golden powerful He is in us. matter whether by angels or a family named rays were the graces that Mary has already Then praying won’t be difficult, for we Angel. At first it was taken to Tersatto near showered upon us, and the silver ones were will joyfully make time to stay with a Fiume, then to a laurel wood near Ancona the graces that She holds in reserve for us. friend. For this Friend it will be easy to (hence the name Loreto). It is the Marian She will give them to us if we ask for them. offer sacrifices, to renounce, to overcome Shrine we cherish the most for in that Let us renew our "alliance" with our temptations, to flee from sin. Jesus with us house, the Word became Flesh. Mother: I am all yours Mary and all that I is a happiness that can’t be compared with 18 Dec: A week before Christmas many have is yours! And you, Mother, will give any other. Churches celebrate Mary’s Expected Child- me all that I, in my ignorance, have not This is heaven’s gift to us. To possess it birth. This feast has now been moved to the asked for, and which is much greater than we must give all we have, like we would for liturgy of the 4th week of Advent. anything I have so far asked for. a treasure or a precious pearl. For the world, Then there’s the Holy Birth of Jesus - This alliance, similar to the one God the Christmas gift of little Jesus is practi- undoubtedly His Mother's greatest feast. made with His people, is a perfect » pg.2 Refusal of absolute moral law Advent: for consecrated souls see God’s will. There’s a blindness (cf. Jn is mistrust in God’s wisdom, 9) that corresponds to lack of faith and this and leads man to self-destruction Oppose paganism of the heart is the greatest sin for a Christian. The mystery of Incarnation (Jesus with Pilate’s question: "What is truth?" reflects and live Eucharist us: the real discerning point for us all) the distressing perplexity of one who often as gift of self demands reverence, zeal, respect, and total no longer knows who he is, whence he adhesion to the Blessed Eucharist. The comes and where he is going. Hence we not The worst way to affront Advent is to be world needs authentic faith in the Divinity infrequently witness the fearful plunging of sluggish and not search for God’s will. This and Humanity of Christ Who is present. the human person into situations of gradual is called paganism of the heart, and comes Without a return to the Eucharist, paganism self-destruction. For some, it appears that from voluntarily refusing God, and replac- will advance in all senses - even if actions one no longer need acknowledge the ing Him with idols. We can’t wait for Lent not leading to God are justified inHis name. enduring absoluteness of any moral value. to purify ourselves. Destroying sin in us is Christ is present: a Christian knows that his All around us we encounter contempt for a task we must do always.