Many Catholics who have left the Church have done so because they never fully understood the Church's teaching on the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. Many Catholics who complain that they aren't/weren't being "fed" do not realize that the Bread from Heaven is available at every Mass, and that the Mass is nothing less than miraculous. At every Mass, ordinary bread and wine becomes the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ. Jesus wants to feed us with his very self so that we might divinize us, that is, allow us to share in his divinity! This is utterly Good News.
The following is a Top 10 list I created; it is not an official Top 10 list from the Vatican (or from Letterman for that manner, although I'd love to see him use it on his show!). I pray it inspires you and increases your love for the Mass and for our Lord present in the Eucharist. Ever since his Ascension, he is not limited to time and space anymore. He is present simultaneously at the right hand of the Father AND in every tabernacle in the world! He is made present, under the appearances of bread and wine, at every Mass, because he loves us and wants to fill us with his divine life.
Top 10 Reasons to Go to Mass
10. Pray with Power!
St. Bernard says, "One merits more by devoutly assisting at a Holy Mass than by distributing all of his goods to the poor and traveling all over the world on pilgrimage." St. Peter Julian Eymard says, "Know, O Christian, that the Mass is the holiest act of Religion. You cannot do anything to glorify God more nor profit your soul more than devoutly assisting at It, and assisting as often as possible."
9. Become a Witness!
Would you consider yourself a 'witness of hope’? Pope John Paul II says that the Eucharist "...enables us to become, for everyone, witnesses of hope (Ecclesia de Eucharistia).” When we receive Holy Communion, we also receive the Holy Spirit who empowers us to be witnesses to the gospel. Saint Ephrem says, “He called the bread his living body and he filled it with himself and his Spirit... He who eats it with faith, eats Fire and Spirit" (quoted by John Paul II inEcclesia de Eucharistia, #17).
8. Save the World!
“Through the liturgy Christ, our redeemer and high priest, continues the work of our redemption in, with, and through His Church" (Catechism of the Catholic Church #1069). Focus on the word 'through' here. By attending Mass, we help to redeem the world! Scott Hahn says, "God wills that you and I should play an indispensable role in salvation history" (The Lamb’s Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth, p. 138). We can help to end every form of evil in the world, including the abortion holocaust, by offering our Holy Communions for concerns that the Lord puts on our heart, and by making visits to Jesus in the tabernacle for these concerns! We should be sure to offer each Holy Communion we receive for a specific intention.
7. Visit Heaven on Earth!
Mass is a preview, or foretaste, of Heaven. John Paul II says that the Mass is "heaven on earth," and that, "the liturgy we celebrate on earth is a mysterious participation in the heavenly liturgy" (Angelus Address, Nov. 3, 1996).
6. Love Better!
“As bodily nourishment restores lost strength, so the Eucharist strengthens our charity, which tends to be weakened in daily life; and this living charity wipes away venial sins" (CCC #1394). Look to the Saints. They went to Mass often, and were empowered by Jesus in the Eucharist to love others with heroic love!
5. Be Freed from That Sin Habit!
“Holy Communion separates us from sin…the Eucharist cannot unite us to Christ without at the same time cleansing us from past sins and preserving us from future sins" (CCC #1392). The Eucharist is the ultimate antidote to the deadly temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil. Make it a one-two punch by regular Confession also, another incredible gift God offers us to free us from sinful habits. For serious sins (aka "mortal sins"), we need to go to Confession before we can receive Holy Communion.
4. Help the Holy Souls in Purgatory!
St. Bonaventure says, “Oh Christian souls, do you wish to prove your true love towards your dead? Do you wish to send them the most precious help and golden key to Heaven? Receive Holy Communion often for the repose of their souls.”
3. Prove Your Love!
We prove our love for someone by spending time with them. “Because Christ himself is present in the sacrament of the altar, he is to be honored with the worship of adoration. ‘To visit the Blessed Sacrament is . . . a proof of gratitude, an expression of love, and a duty of adoration toward Christ our Lord’" (Pope Paul VI, MF 66) (CCC #1418). Pope John Paul II says, "Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love!" Receiving Jesus in the Eucharist at Mass and making a visit (short or long) to the tabernacle outside of Mass are great ways to prove our love for the one who loves to prove his love for us. Also, we prove our love for him by following the precepts of his Church, including participation in Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of obligation.
2. Be Filled with Divine Life!
“The Lord addresses an invitation to us, urging us to receive him in the sacrament of the Eucharist: 'Truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you'" (CCC #1384). We feed or bodies daily, should we not feed our souls often as well? We imitate Mary when we invite Jesus into our hearts by receiving Holy Communion.
1. Abide in Jesus!
“The principal fruit of receiving the Eucharist in Holy Communion is an intimate union with Christ Jesus" (CCC #1391). Jesus says, "I am the living bread that came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; . . . he who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life and . . . abides in Me, and I in him (John 6:51, 54, 56).”
Please see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and John chapter 6, for more faith-building info about this most amazing treasure of our faith, the Holy Mass. The Mass doesn't have to be boring; a little self-education can make our experience much richer!
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Dearest Readers,
The messages Jesus is dictating to me these days and that will be published in the next months, definitely trace the path towards the events awaiting us. Therefore, I felt I had the duty to write this introduction, to help you enter more deeply in the subject you will be reading.
Up to today I shared with you the revelations I received from God. In my first book, Beyond the Great Barrier that ends with the 15th chapter entitled “The new Creation”, I amply presented to you the central message of the revelations received, that is: recapitulate in Christ all things in heaven and on earth. I tried to lead you to the events that have to do with the Earth and the universe. These days, Jesus told me that in the next months He wants to prepare us to face those events awaiting us in the immediate future.
How to face such events? I believe that in these years, through the many explanations I received and I communicated to you, we obtained the grace of understanding the interior walk which prepares us to enter the mind of Christ and to understand the mystery of God and of life, to elevate and transform us to the point of becoming new creatures. I spoke to you about this spiritual walk in particular in the book Writing History Anew – Vol. 1 In the mind of God. Furthermore, you have been accompanied by the messages published every month on this site; these messages continue and they introduce us, more and more, to a serious phase of preparation and decision making.
I cannot comment on these messages. Jesus Himself and His Holy Spirit will explain them to you in your heart. An answer is expected from you to understand the words that you will read. Finally, it is up to each one of us to commit ourselves, for the Earth and for the whole universe, so that the promises of God may be realized.
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My Father is at work until now, so I am at work”
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“I bless you my children! Today I wish to speak to you about God’s work in these times and about the general picture in which your life and your mission is inserted.
“Try to understand, above all, that you did not happen to be in the reality in which you are by accident, but you are here because of a precise divine project. Whatever you might think about yourselves or others might think about you, know that your life is precious and irreplaceable in the time and place in which you find yourselves to be, according to God’s projects. You have been preordained for this reality, and for this reason God gave you irreplaceable and original potentialities. No one in the universe is equal to you, because God’s creativity is unlimited and inexhaustable, and because each one of you is absolutely unique in his being and in his way of acting.
“Unfortunatly, many on Earth live below their potentiality, because they do not make of themselves a gift to Me. I am the only One to know pefectly the Father’s project for each one of you, because from Him I received the order to bring to completion His work in every person. I am acting in you by the power of the Holy Spirit, who enlightens you, cloaks you, constantly inspires you pointing out the avenue towards Me, so that I might reveal to you the Will of the Father for each one of you.
Without me you shall never truly be able to know yourselves, nor to be able to understand what is asked of you to do in this life.
“The Holy Spirit and I are constantely at work in order to realize the Father’s project in each one of you, but we can do this only with the help of your freedom, that is, only when you willingly and freely choose to love and serve God and you offer to Him your life. This is the indispensable condition so that your potentialities activate and are at work. In fact, by the moment you decide to live for God and to be totally abandoned to His will, within you the action of the Holy Trinity starts working, and little by little, transforms your life and your thoughts. Thus, you are beginning to become conscious of who you are in God and to make a mark on reality, a creative mark, because it is divine creativity working in you. I wish you to be conscious about what I am saying to you, because the knowledge that God is active in you, independently from your human limitations and frailties, is determinant for your mission in the time in which you live.
“Yours is a grand time and a difficult time for the entire universe. Grandiose for the power of the events that the hand of God is preparing, and difficult because it is a time of battle with the powers of evil, an always more open battle.
All this does not refer to the planet earth alone, but to the entire creation and all the people who inhabit many other planets. I have already told you that they are children of God as you are, and that I gave My life for them as well. They are your brothers in whom the project of My Father has to be perfectly accomplished, just as it is in yours.
“What is the project of the Father? To bring back the entire creation to the state of integrity and perfection it had before original sin; to bring back every person to the dignity and glory of a child of God. All men and every creature that exists in the universe must be made free from corruption and death which infiltrated themselves in the work of God because of the sin of your forefathers. Humanity must return to a correct relationship with God, by recognizing His authority and by submitting to His guide. How is the Father going to realize this project? By recapitulating all creation in Me, since He gave Me all power in the whole universe.
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“This is why I am at work in this time, so that all those who will come to Me might be brought to a new and filial relationship with the Father.These people will be instructed interiorly by Me, to be ready to understand and to live the events awaiting humanity. When My work will be accomplished in each one and in the entire universe, I will return in My glory and I will introduce all those who belong to Me, in the new incorrupt and incorruptible creation. This will be the new and most pure dimension of the spirit, in which redeemed humanity will live; it will be the kingdom of heaven that at the end of times I will give to My Father, but a kingdom that even now belongs to those who live for Me and in Me.
ReplyDelete“On the contrary, those who will remain outside Me, because they will not have accepted Me nor recognized Me as Son of God and Savior, they will not enter the new creation.
“I came on Earth in order to bring the beginning of a new time, a definite and decisive time for the humanity of the whole universe. After My death and resurrection a progressive journey towards the new creation had begun. With My passion, I fufilled in front of My Father what His justice required, washing the sins of the forefathers with My Blood and erasing your heavy debt. This way I opened the avenue to every single person of good will who wants to accept Me and follow Me. If you offer yourselves to Me, I will lead you perfectly according to the plans of God, to introduce you, some day, in the kingdom of heaven. However, the walking is up to you. Don’t think that I also do your part! I am near you and I sustain you but I do not walk for you. Christians often depend on Me, thinking I already did everything, so they don’t have to do anything anymore. They feel satisfied by participating in some religious rite, and they think they are fine. No, children, this attitude is very wrong. I redeemed you, this is true, but if you remain lifeless and passive, without taking upon yourselves the responsibility expected of you, as spiritually mature people should do, how is Redemption going to bring any fruit in you? What will distinguish you from those who do not believe? My life and My work must become incarnated in each one of you, so that you might be able to make My Sacrifice efficacious, alive and visible, for your benefit and that of others. It is not sufficient to believe in Redemption, one must fully enter It, taking up your cross and following Me.
“If this is true at the level of a single person, much more is it true when referring to the entire humanity. The entire humanity will have to know Me, accept Me, and follow Me if it wants to be taken back to the Father and led into the kingdon of heaven.
Bringing back the entire creation to the Father is up to Me only, therefore everything has to pass through Me.
“Which is your duty then during these times? It is that of firmly believeing in Me and offering Me your very selves, so that I can unite you to Me in order to take you back to the Father. This is the meaning of being recapitulated in Me. This way you will be part of My Mystical Body which is the most powerful force working in the universe. Part of the Mystical Body are My Mother, the angels, the Saints, and all those, living and dead, who believed and still believe in My work, because they love the Father and recognize Me as Son of God and Redeemer of the whole humanity.In this way you will become partakers of My actions and of the Father’s; you will be part of God’s army, that in these times is powerfully at work. This is why it is absolutely necessary that you decide to live for God, renewing yourselves interiorly and detaching from your selfesheness and egoism. I expect from each of you a serious and unequivocal decision. Such a decision is not postponable anymore; this is valid for each individual and for the entire humanity.
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“The walk of all humanity has come to a crossroad, particularly for you, men and women of Earth, a crucial planet in the plans of God. Here I became incarnate, I died and Resurrected, here I instituted My Church, the first cell of the Kingdom of God. From Earth a powerful mission of evangelization of the entire world should have started. The Church of Earth, in fact, is called to this: to be a witness of My death and Resurrection and a carrier of the message of salvation to every person living in the universe, in the manners and times foreseen by God. Every person in the universe is destined to be part of the Church, that is of the people of God, and not just your humanity. Do not forget that I died and I resurrected for all people in the universe.
ReplyDelete“My Father gave to your humanity ample decisional freedom throughout the millennia, and He always gave signs and prophets, so that you would be able to understand His plans and to stay with His work and Mine, in order to recapitulate the entire universe in Me. He sent you my Mother who many times called you, with strength and tenderness, to the need of returning to God.
“A lot has been done by My people on Earth, but much more remains to be done. Nowdays, on Earth, just a small part of humanity believes in God, in spite of the work of evangelization done by Christians. The evangelization of the universe instead remains an unknown question and is rejected by many, ridiculed, and never seriously faced. Why? Because of two fundamental reasons:
“The first reason is that the people of God, upon the Earth, withdrew into themselves and their own problems. Faith has been lived and it is still lived by many Christians as the remedy to life’s problems. Life on Earth, with all its difficulties, has been the center of every attention, of every preaching and mission. The Church herself, that is, My people, is running the risk of operating more as a charity institution then a depository of a universal mission. For sure I do not mean to say that the works of charity are not necessary, on the contrary! However, I am saying that they cannot constitute the only field of action of Christians, which seems to be the case for many.
“Christians thought too little about heaven and too much about Earth. This created a vicious cycle: the more Christians are concerned with earthly matters, the more they remain slave of them. I see a great decadence of My people and even of many pastors, that run after earthly matters. It is obvious that each one of you has duties and responsibilities and that life on earth is objectively difficult; your heart, however, must remain free from the troubles of everyday life and rise to God and to the things of heaven. Only this way will you be able to come to know the things of God. Instead, after two millennia of My coming, notwithstanding the faith in Me you profess and the teachings of the Gospel, you still have not been able to come to a resolution to your earthly problems. This means that your faith is weak. Then, as I said to Nicodemus, if you do not believe Me when I speak to you about earthly matters, how can I speak to you about heavenly matters? How would you be able to believe, what would your position be in front of them?
“This is the reason why the universal dimension of Christianity did not fully develop, universal in that it is able to embrace the entire universe. I have been wanting to talk to you for a long time about things of heaven, but you were never ready. And yet, this humanity was given plenty of signs about the existance of life on other planets! I am telling you, not even the Church was left without signs. Who accepted them and had been able to read them at the light of faith? Very few, and those few have been harshly persecuted.
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“The time has come now for Me to talk to you about heavenly things. I cannot wait any longer for the awakening of those who do not want to understand, because many people on other planets are waiting to be awakened to the faith. It is not fair for them to wait forever. I assure you that the humanity of Earth will not be able to do without communion with the other people of the universe, and even more so Christians, because it is exactly this communion that expresses, in all its dynamism, the energy of the universality of the Christian faith. The communion of which I am talking existed at the moment of creation but it had been broken by original sin; it will have to be brought back to life again, through Me. God is Father of everyone. And if the Church is mother, it will have to be mother of all. He who has ears understands.
ReplyDelete“Wake up therefore, Christians of the Earth, and begin to raise your eyes up high! Only this way will you be able to understand what My Spirit is constantly teaching you.
“The second reason is that the forces of evil, headed by Lucifer, worked in a powerful way upon the Earth. They boxed humanity in close systems, oppressing the conscience of the individual, robbing him of his identity and of his freedom. Political, economical, social, scientific, and even religious systems reign upon the Earth, and their aim is that of creating ideas, convictions, and models to impose on peoples, who progressivley become deprived of their freedom. This assures and guaranties the power to only a few. Earth, in fact, is governed by a restricted oligarchy of powerful people, consecrated to Lucifer, that operate above any system and control the whole of humanity.
Those, for centuries, know about life in the universe, but they are very careful of not speaking to you about it. They have stipulated allegiance with humanities of planets rebellious to God, motivated by the desire of dominating, not only the Earth, but the the entire universe, and they are very much afraid of the humanities of the planets faithful to God. They have prevented the peoples, up to now, to come to the knowledge of the truth of things, because they fear losing their power, they fear that the humanity of Earth would be visited and helped by the humanities faithful to God, because it would be the end for them.
You are prisoners of a subtle game, which passes above your heads and carries you out of the truth. Open your eyes, the sign will not be lacking!
“The systems created by Lucifer, with the complicity of greedy and corrupt men, give life to structures, organizations with thousands of different acronyms or initials, whose rules serve to protect the systems from which they are born. They are innumerable and operate in every field. Outside of systems and structures, man of the Earth can no longer live because he has been set into them. Systems and structures have shaped entire generations of individuals, that think and act according to the rules of the systems, and not according to divine lawsmolded into the spirit of each person. Thus, man walked farther away from God, losing certainties and hopes, and was compelled to place his false hope upon systems which he considers infallible, because he had been led to think that way.
“Even religions themselves, under many aspects, transformed themselves into systems that generate structures. For many believers, the religious system made of rules, codes, orders, and prohibitions, has become the very idol that took the place of God.
“Earthly man does not feel as being part of humanity any more, but of a conglomeration of systems that keep him oppressed, making him unable to think with his own head. He who puts himself outside the rules imposed by the systems is thrown out of the game, he has no value anymore, he is condemned to death, as happened to Me. This is
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opposite of what the Heavenly Father desires!
He created you free why only few have the courage to oppose them.
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, many will be afraid of it. I repeat again, do not be afraid, I shall prepare you, if you will permit Me to do so, if finally you will set aside your analyses, your logic, your scientific experimentation, if you will allow faith to guide you.
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“I will act in purgatory so that the greatest possible number of souls may enter in the beatitude of heaven, thus participating in My work with their prayer. Purgatory will be shaken and the souls will definitely place themselves on the road towards heaven.
Generations and generations are in purgatory: they will be awakened and will drag also the living with the power of their faith.
“A very powerful time has started, where the signs from heaven will be more and more evident, if you will be able to read them. Lucifer’s anger will grow stronger and will hurl itself against everything and everybody, but it will not be able to hurt those who belong to Me.
“You will also see nature restless, because nature reacts to the solicitations of good and evil, with a sensitity often stronger than yours. Nature will be hit heavily by the forces of evil, forces who will try to damage humanity, but nature will not be destroyed. Nature also will be recapitulated in Me in order to be renewed and transformed. Therefore, do not be afraid, My children, when facing the natural events that will follow one another. Hold on tightly to Me and you will have nothing to fear.
“I am stopping here for now; later I will talk to you about other matters so you can be prepared for what is about to happen. The Father never asks man to adhere to what he cannot understand; first He gives him light, then He asks him to decide, because God is fair with you. The Father sent Me among you to enlighten your road toward God and place you in the condition to be able to walk. Now it is up to you to decide.
“I am asking you to pray a lot and to seriously decide for God. I am asking you again to donate your life to Me, so that I can protect you and prepare you for the events that are awating you. It is not about catastrophes, like the most apprehensive ones fear, but it is a matter of tests necessary for the purification of humanity, in view of the beautiful and incorrupt new creation awaiting you. The Father prepared it for those who love Him, and I am calling you to be part of it. The Father is at work unceasingly and I am at work as well; therefore, your eyes will see great things. If you have faith you will be able to read them in the right light. They will appear to you for what they truly are: the marvels of God’s love for His people.
“I am blessing you in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit”.
In the book “Beyond the great barrier” at Chp. 6, I spoke about the humanities of other planets, and of the choices made by each humanity. As a matter of fact, not all men have committed the original sin. There exist some humanities that kept themselves faithful to God, thus preserving spiritual and physical prerogatives much superior to ours.
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