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Jan-Feb 2006 - Yr 22 # 1; Echo of Mary, Queen of Peace, P.O. Box 27, I-31030 Bessica TV, Italy. Ph/fax +39(0)423470331 - E-mail: [email protected] A translation of the original Italian: Eco di Maria Our Lady’s message, 25 December 2005: Our Lady’s message 25 November 2005: “Dear Children! Also today in my arms I bring you little Jesus, the King “Dear Children, Also today I call of Peace, who blesses you with His you to pray, pray, pray till prayer peace. My children, in a special way becomes life. My Children, particularly today I call you to be my bearers of at this time I pray before God to give peace in this world without peace; God you the gift of faith. Only in faith will will bless you. Do not forget my you discover the joy of the gift of life children: I am your mother. With little that God has given you. Your heart will Jesus in my arms I bless you all with a be joyful thinking of eternity. I am with special blessing. Thank you for you and I love you tenderly. Thank you responding to my call.” for responding to my call.” Bearers of Peace The Gift of Life Peace I leave with you, my peace I give In a world that emphasizes the to you. Not as the world gives do I give to ephemeral, virtual choices, and temporary you (Jn 14:27). These words of Jesus come relations, Mary speaks of eternity. In a to mind each time Mary speaks of peace. world where the doctrine of market There is an enormous difference between attempts to mortify the individual the peace that comes from God and peace personality and produce a mass of of the world. True peace is a gift of God; it stereotypes, Mary proposes the doctrine of is fruit of His most pure Love. Worldly the faith which enhances the dignity of the peace, even when it is not fruit of single person, ratifying the original, unique oppression, can at the most be fruit of essence of the individual. In a world where human solidarity; it can contain a reflection man attempts to seize the principle of life, of divine Love, but it can never be its fruit. Mary ratifies that life is a gift of God. Let We know our limits, and the recurring us meditate on her words, that our soul may temptation to defend or impose peace with be imbued with this message, and our soul weapons – once with the sword, today with be irrigated, fertilized, and blossom; and He is the King of peace, and He terrible instruments of destruction. may not pass without having accmplished blesses us with His peace Like then, and perhaps even more so its purpose (cf. Is 55:10-11). now, ours is a world without peace. It Pray, pray, pray, till prayer becomes always will be for as long as we seek peace life. Prayer is a bridge that connects us to cared for and defended in all circumstances, with our own strength, instead of imploring God; it places us in communion with Him. in health and in sickness, in youth and in for this gift from God. Though not easy, it It acts as a vehicle for His Love. Prayer, old age. Human life is to be protected from is the only way to put a stop to hatred, real prayer, is never sterile: sooner or later everything that disfigures the image of God hostility and divisions that continue to it makes life fertile, gives shape and impressed in it (cf. Gen 1:27). Life is to be divide civilizations, nations, peoples, and substance to life, it becomes life, eternal promoted so it may always conform to religions and even people within the same life which we can experience already on Christ impressed in each life at Baptism. nations, the same religious creed, the same the earth, because the eternal life is to know Life is to be offered up, in Jesus and with city and the same family. Today divisions the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Jesus, to the Father so that it may be a have penetrated even the psyche of He sent (cf. Jn 17:3). sacrifice pleasing to God. These days individuals, creating apprehension or more My Children, particularly at this sacrifice is refused without realizing that subtle sicknesses than in the past. time I pray before God to give you the by doing so it is man who is sacrificed and This world without peace is our world, gift of faith. At this time when our opulent reduced to a good for consumption, our planet earth, but also the world of our countries identify the Christmas gift with merchandise for exchange, an object for the cities, of our families, and our personal consumerist presents Mary instead market. Life is to be lived as a gift of God, world. What can we do? Where can we implores for us the gift of faith. And she and thus offered, spent for others: heal the start? We can start from the message: will surely obtain this gift, as it is also infirm, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast “Dear Children! Also today in my arms God’s desire. Only in faith will you out demons. You received without cost, give I bring you little Jesus, the King of Peace, discover the joy of the gift of life that God without charge (Mt 10:8). who blesses you with His peace.” This is has given you. This is not just biological Your heart will be joyful thinking of where we can begin. The Infant Jesus is in life, but much more so, it is life in Christ eternity. Eternity is life in Christ: If then Mary’s arms, not to be cuddled by His Jesus, in His Name (cf. Jn 20:31). I came you have been raised with Christ, seek the mom, or admired by us. No, He is there to that they may have life, and have it things that are above, where Christ is be given to us (I bring you); He is there to abundantly (Jn 10:10) which is to say full seated at the right hand of God. Set your be received by us, lived by us. It all starts life in which will reign messianic peace (Is minds on things that are above, not on from here. If we accept Jesus in us, His 11:1-9) and there shall no more be an infant things that are on earth. For you have died, blessing will blossom into peace, because that lives but a few days, or an old man and your life is hid with Christ in God. He is the King of peace. May our soul be who does not fill out his days (Is 65:20). When Christ who is our life appears, then the womb for God who comes into the Life is a gift of God, and as such is to you also will appear with him in glory (Col world, and shrine of His Presence. be accepted from the moment of 3:1-4). There is no special project to study. We conception, is to be respected, honoured, Nuccio Quattrocchi only need let ourselves be penetrated by 2 the presence of the Child that Mary brings to us as a gift, and be inundated with His The Year of two Popes blessing. Jesus is the sole project of peace that God offers us, and He is found in a At the conclusion of a year it is natural The holy death of this grain of wheat bed of straw. Conversion begins from an to turn back and cast your eye over past has germinated a new ear and given us encounter. The Gospel is not a treatise on events. In particular, on the last day of Benedict XVI: meek pontiff with clear and theology, but the story of an encounter December, the Church sings the Te Deum solid ideas, able to orient with wisdom and between Jesus and mankind: those who after the last Vespers to give thanks to God strength the path of today’s Church as she accept Him, those who treat Him with for the year about to end. Not only, but the journeys amid the waves of doubt, indifference, and those who refuse Him. compilation of what we could call an uncertainty, relativism, and nihilism “But to all who received Him, He gave annual report helps lay foundations for the submersing the man of today. power to become children of God” (Jn year to come. We needed a pope like him. He is one 1:12). As we think of the year 2005 memories of the greatest living theologians, yet it If we let Jesus encounter us we will stop especially at the events in the “house became immediately evident that he is also bear His peace, His caress and His loving of Peter” – in particular on the conclusion meek, timid, reserved, fatherly and humble, look to those who seek our hands, and our of the lengthy and fertile pontificate of in contrast with the image painted of eyes. You received without cost, you must Pope Woytila, and the beginning of the Cardinal Ratzinger who was feared for his give without charge (Mt 10:8). No longer new pontificate of Pope Ratzinger, who doctrinal rigour. eye for eye, violence for violence! Now, is a gift to the Church, the splendour of He is not afraid to tell the truth, which after the coming of Jesus, the reply to which is being gradually revealed to us.