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[music] [music] All right, we're going to start our 24-hour [music] and compassion discussion group. We're going to be on the 7th hour tonight. We'll start with a prayer.
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy [music] Spirit. Amen. Oh our Lord Jesus Christ, prostrate in your divine presence, we implore your most loving heart to admit us to the sorrowful meditation of the 24 hours in which for love of us you wanted to suffer so much in your adorable body and in your most holy soul until death on the cross. Oh, please give us help, grace, love, deep compassion and understanding of your sufferings as we now meditate on the seventh hour. And for those which we cannot meditate, we offer you our wills to meditate on them. And we willingly intend to meditate on them in all the hours in which we have to apply ourselves to our duties or to sleep. Except, oh merciful Lord, our loving intention, and let it be beneficial for me and for all as if I effectively and in a saintly way accomplished what I wish to practice. Meanwhile, I give you thanks, oh my Jesus, for calling us to union with you by means of prayer and to please you more. We take your thoughts, your tongue, your heart, and with this we intend to pray, fusing all of ourselves in your will and in your love and stretching out our arms to hug you. We place our heads on your heart and we begin.
So, you know, we're doing this prayer and um I like here where it says and and this this ties in with the writings where it says, "Except, oh merciful Lord, my loving intention and let it be beneficial for me and for all as if I effectively in a saintly way accomplish what I wish to practice." So, that goes back to that goodwill. You know, it's kind of like uh a pervenient act even while we're sleeping. uh it says, "I offer you my will to meditate on them and I willingly intend to meditate on them in all the hours in which I have to apply myself whether it's in duties or in sleep." So, it's important for us to remember that prayer and we can go back to volume 12. I was reading this today, volume 12, uh March 28th, 2017 reading for that goodwill that Jesus is working with us and our good intentions. But that's really neat that that's in that opening prayer.
All right. So, we're going to go to the seventh hour. Jesus's third hour of agony in the Garden of Gethsemane from 11:00 p.m. to midnight. And we're going to look and see what kind of themes we have here uh to to focus on.
My sweet good, my heart can no longer bear it. I look at you and I see that you continue to agonize. Blood flows in torrents from all your body and with such abundance that unable to keep standing you have fallen into a pool of it. Oh my love, my heart breaks in seeing you so weak and exhausted. Your adorable face and your creative hands lean into the ground and are smeared with blood. It seems to me that the rivers of iniquities that the creatures send you, you want to answer with rivers of blood so that these sins may be drowned in it. And with it you may give to each one the deed of your forgiveness. But oh please, oh my Jesus, rise. What you suffer is too much. Let it be enough for your love.
So, this seventh hour is going to be um really a a lot of focus on on reparation [clears throat] and and using the blood of Christ, Jesus's blood that he's pouring out. And it's going to start off where it says, "It seems to me that re that to the rivers of iniquities that the creature sends you that we send him all our sins and he's trying to wash that away with rivers of blood so that sins may be drowned in it." So as we make reparation uh and do our rounds throughout the day, a lot of times we can uh take the blood of Jesus and saturate the souls of our brothers and sisters from Adam and Eve all the way to the last soul, saturating them with the blood of Christ. And it follows along with as we read this seventh hour. So powerful, the blood of Jesus.
And while my lovable Jesus seems to be dying in his own blood, love gives him new life. So I think um that's something to think about there. Love gives new life to Jesus. And you know we can say that those [clears throat] words in our life in our lives. How has love given us new life? How does how have we been shaped in the times of our lives where love has given us new life? Uh I think we can all go back to different times in our lives as we've had had valleys and and dark areas in our lives and uh many of us who have had had conversions and and and and meditate on how love God's mercy that type of love uh God's sacrifice um maybe the love of someone in our lives, a holy love, somebody that's supported us, somebody that's forgiven us, somebody somewhere along the line that's prayed for us how has love given us new life and it gives new life to Jesus here and he wants us to die to self and to be reborn every day and as we are being reborn every day as we die to self as we it is no longer I but Jesus it is love that's giving us this new life remember I remember that moment in the passion where Jesus was he met his mother remember uh John was and and and Mary Magdalene were trying to get the Blessed Virgin Mary where she could see Jesus and they finally go through an alleyway and there he is. And I remember that scene where he's bent over and he's so just beaten and bloody and and she's looking at him and she's almost like in shock looking at her son and he says, "See, see mama, I make all things new." Some kind of line like that was beautiful. I make all things new. And he was making all things new with his love, with his blood, with his pains and sacrifice. Uh I'll never forget that that beautiful line in that scene and the blessed mother kneeling there and he has to move on because they're the guards are whipping him and they make him move on and and she pulls back and she looks at him in that state of great sorrow and shock almost just seeing her son like that.
And while my lovable Jesus seems to be dying in his own blood, love gives him new life. I see him move with difficulty. He stands up and soaked as he is with blood and mud. He seems to want to walk but not having strength. He can barely drag himself. So this blood in in mud, this imagine the the blood, so much blood that it's it's it's in the ground and it's turned the ground to mud. And you can just see this this caked on his hands because remember he's leaning over. I think the passion did a good job of that, too, where he leans over and his hands are down in the ground, but it's saturated with his blood to where he's got mud on his hands from the blood mixing with the dirt. It's just a it paints a a very vivid picture.
Um, are you perhaps going to your dear disciples but what not but what is not the sorrow of your adorable heart in finding them asleep again. So this is this theme that we see in that garden, right? Jesus is trying to tell his disciples to be on guard, to stay awake, to be vigilant to that uh evil is lurking. This is an extreme hour he's going to see say here in a minute, but yet they're slumbering, right? Because they're in their humanity, they've fallen asleep. Um, so this is a theme we're going to focus on. And you with trembling and feeble voice call them, my sons, do not sleep. The hour is near. Do you not see how I've reduced myself? Oh, please help me. Do not abandon me in these extreme hours.
So here Jesus uh you know a lot of times when Jesus mentions an about the hour remember remember in um the wedding [clears throat] feast at Kaa where to his mother uh when when the blessed virgin Mary remember that beautiful teaching we had by Steve Foscher about the wedding feast at Kaa and what Mary and Jesus were doing together there. Mary was putting an act the the the the public ministry of Jesus there at the wedding feast at at Kaa. And remember Jesus tells her as she wants him to turn water into wine that his hour had not yet come, right? That after this everything's going to be different. There's a there what's that book? um Fulton Sheen's book um life in Christ is a beautiful uh meditation on this this scene right there. But uh this is the hour Jesus is talking about there. He's saying my hour has not yet come now it's come. That's what he's saying here. Do you the hour is near? He's saying do you not see how I've reduced? Oh please help me. Do not abandon me. And he calls these extreme hours. Remember we've used that word or I have so many times. This is the the focal point. This is everything is focusing in in time in linear time. This is Jesus's hour that he talks about that it's coming. This is his hour and he wants his disciples to be vigilant because evil is all around lurking. Everything all these sins are weighing upon him and evil is there right? It is there. He's taking it on. And there's spiritual combat that's going on here. And he wants his disciples awake and vigilant so they can uh they can be a part of this. They can make reparation. They can pray. They can be strong. They can offer up prayers to help Jesus through this time and to be careful for themselves.
And almost staggering, you are about to fall near them while John extends his arms to sustain you. You are so unrecognizable that if it wasn't for the tenderness and sweetness of your voice, they would not have recognized you. Remember in the um we I was back at the the Eucharistic supper how beautiful Jesus was. We were talking about it in the other hours in the agony in the garden how his facial features, his humanity is responding to the interior pains and sufferings. He's shouldering all the sins of mankind, past, present, and future. And his his body, his humanity is reflecting that. And uh he can't stand. He's he's he's he's blood. He's weak. He's faint. Uh but the only thing that's sustaining him is this love. And he's unrecognizable. Um, and they say, "You are so unrecognizable that if it wasn't for the tenderness and sweetness of your voice, they would not have recognized you." I thought that was interesting. I was thinking about that, you know. Um, uh, Isabelle yesterday brought out a reading, um, that she I think was in volume five. I forget the exact reading right now, but it was about the the um it was October was October of um volume five and um it was about the the uh the crown of thorns on Jesus's and why he he had he mutilated his he sacrificed so much uh to in other words he was scourged at such a violent level where they flayed the skin off his body and his bones were exposed and he also did this to his head because the head being the part of our body that the mind and the thought generates from. It is the it is the the head always is the directing right the head of the church, the head of the body. And this is where a lot of our sins come from is in thought. Uh that always uh is uh uh precedes the actual act that we do that that is known as sin. And Jesus has this crown of thorns. so violently. Three times he's crowned with thorns and it it's just it's it's like it's like a scourge for the head, right? He's making sure that he's making reparation for for our thoughts in our mind. And I thought it was interesting how even though his humanity is is reflecting something that's unrecognizable, his voice, his tenderness and sweetness is emanating from he's from where? From his mind. He is speaking. So in other words, he might not look very good, but his voice is speaking what? His mind he's at peace. He's tender. He's loving. Even though his body is wrecked and wrecked and he can hardly walk, he still is loving. And and those words that are pouring out from his thoughts and his intellect are loving words in the face of an unrecognizable shell of a body.
Then recommending vigil and prayer to them, you return to the garden, but with a second piercing to your heart. In this piercing, my good, I see all the sins of those souls who, in spite of the manifestations of your favors, in gifts, kisses, and caresses, in the nights of trial, forgetting about your love and your gifts, have remained as though drowsy and sleepy, therefore losing the spirit of continuous prayer and of vigil.
So, it's it's it's not a coincidence that as we reflect on the agony in the garden in these three hours and Jesus's apostles are falling asleep, they are they are exactly what he's making reparation for because he's seeing the sins of souls that and I and I'm not saying that the disciples are sinful. I'm just saying that they're not vigilant. And when it says in spite of the manif manifestations of your favors in gifts, kisses and caresses, how many who who received more kisses and caresses and favors than his disciples? They lived with him for three years. He taught them. He loved them. He guided them. Right? They are favored. They are the favored ones. And they can't stay awake. And he's telling them stay awake, right? And here he is making reparation. And this this second piercing to his heart, this pierces him because we know in the other two hours that we've studied because they're asleep. Uh I mean he he's feels abandoned, right? His the ones that are closest to him have left him in a way because they're not there consciously. There's no one he can talk to. There's no one, you know. Um, so it he feels abandoned and this is part of this trial that he says that he's going through this second piercing to his heart. So I thought I'd we'd reflect on this a little bit about our own lives about our own journey about the times that we do not remain vigilant that we become drowsy and sleepy or uh the possibility that we could become drowsy and sleepy as we journey in the divine will. It says therefore losing the spirit of continuous prayer and vigil. So continuous prayer and vigil that's a pretty high order right continuous prayer but we know that as we journey in the divine will as we fuse ourselves with the most holy trinity we are in continuous prayer right with our pervenient act that we start and then throughout the day and with our good will intentions that Jesus gives us credit for we should be in continuous prayer and vigilant right but if we let that slip If we stop uh moving forward with what happens our desire diminishes and if our desire diminishes if we don't feed that desire it could it could drop away and if that desire drops away our pursuit of knowledge in other words receiving the the information unveiling the the pearl un unveiling the the great pearl that we'd sell everything four, we stop losing the um the the unveiling of the gift because as we read the volumes, as we study and meditate, we begin to learn more and more about this gift. And the more we learn about the gift, the more our desire increases, the more we want to keep reading, and the more we want to do rounds and actually stay in that circle of light. So if we become drowsy or sleepy, we could lose this spirit of staying in the light. And it can happen easily. You know, I've tried to do as we've journeyed together as a group. I think you've noticed that it's been very infrequent that we've canled a Thursday or a a day or a Tuesday or a day that we were to get together because I found that it's easy to if you skip a couple days it's easy to let that become a habit and uh that's where you start becoming sleepy and drowsy when you reduce. I I was glad one day I put out a little survey to everybody and I said, "Do you want us to continue with the hour and a half on Thursdays or do you want to just go to an hour?" And everybody for the most part said, "An hour and a half." And that was a good indication that the group was not getting sleepy and drowsy, but was moving forward. That desire was there, not to reduce, but to continue moving forward with that full hour and a half. So, we're doing pretty good. But still, I want to look at this theme. So in looking at this theme, let's go to I'm going to share the screen. All right. And hopefully you can see this reading. This is a uh a reading that uh I've quoted before or at least I've um I've given this reading out before and uh this is about continuous act uh about staying moving forward. Remember how the blessed virgin Mary in the kingdom of uh the virgin Mary in the kingdom she talks about move forward moving forward moving forward. this cont because we're always in continuous motion as we journey in the divine will. We're always we're always in that eternal sphere moving and and we've studied that also about we're we're everywhere. We're there's no time and space, right? But we have to keep our acts uh a continuous thought process here. Let me read this. July 25th, 1924. The divine will keeps searching for souls who would lose all their rights so that it may continue its act of placing all souls in their arms as it did with Jesus on the cross. So it wants us to be nailed with Jesus so we can what? We can place all souls in our arms with Jesus cuz we're praying. It's it's a universal prayer, right? Sanctity in the divine will is a continuous act. So it's to be vigilant. It's not to be sleepy or drowsy and contains the image of the sanctity of the creator. This morning my sweet Jesus made himself seen in my interior an act of stretching his arms in the shape of the cross and I remained stretched together with him. Then he said to me, "My daughter, the last act of my life was to lay myself on the cross and to stay there until I died with my arms opened, unable to move or to oppose what they wanted to do to me. I was the true portrait, the living image of one who lives, not of human will, but of the divine. Being an unable to move or oppose myself, having lost every right over myself, the horrible tensions of my arms, how many things they said, and while I was losing my rights, the others acquired my life. The first right was of the supreme will which using its immensity and allseeingness gathered all souls innocent and sinful, good and holy, and placed them in my outstretched arms so that I might bring them to heaven and I refused no one. So the divine will gave a place to everyone in my arms. Now the supreme will is a continuous act never interrupted and what it does once it never ceases doing. So that one eternal act right and even though my humanity is in heaven and is not subject to suffering it keeps searching for souls who do not move in the human will but in the divine and who oppose nothing. souls who would lose all their rights so that the right of being holy of my will. It may continue its act of placing all souls, sinners and saints, innocent and wicked, in the arms of one who offers to lay herself in my will in order to repeat and to continue what my arms did outstretched on the cross. This is why I've laid myself within you. So that the supreme mi will may continue its act of bringing everyone into my arms. [clears throat]
So this is a beautiful reading uh where Jesus is telling us he gave up all his rights when he was pinioned like this is something Fton Sheen would say pinioned like an eagle to that cross. And just think about being nailed to that cross where you you can't there's no movement. You're you're you're those nails are pinned have you pinned back and the he says the weight in my outstretched arms. And he had he had surrendered everything everything. He lost everything in the divine will as he as he was stretched out on that cross. And as we're nailed with him is what he's telling us here. as we're nailed with him, we lose our everything. We lose our human wills. Just you see, so uh we give up all our rights. We're outstretched on the cross with him. We don't have the rights anymore of our human will. We've surrendered it. We use it as a foottool because we've made ourselves one with the divine will. So the only thing we have is the divine will, which is the beautiful thing. And so we're like nailed with him, losing our rights, our rights to control our life, our rights to uh you know, we talk about growing in the virtues, you know, uh the the different virtues. We've lost our right to use our human will to grow in those virtues because it's no longer I. Jesus is going to do everything for us. We're nailed to the cross with him. And as we're nailed there with him, we're taking everybody past, present, and future from Adam and Eve to the last soul. And we have them in our arms on that cross with Jesus. As we pray and do our rounds, our universal prayer for our brothers and sisters in the divine will, having given up our human will and fusing ourselves with the most blessed trinity, we're now having our acts divonized in that as we're nailed to the cross with Jesus. It's a beautiful uh visual uh that our arms are outstretched with his.
But let me refinish now with this because now now we're going to get into the continuousness of this about being vigilant and about not being drowsy or sleepy. And here's what he says. Sanctity is not formed of one single act but of many acts united together. One act alone forms neither sanctity nor perversity. Because since the continuation of acts is missing, the colors and the living shades of sanctity are missing. And because these are missing, one cannot attribute a just weight and value either to sanctity or to perversity. So what he's saying here is if you're going to move forward in the divine will, you're going to have to do that. And then moving forward, it's a continuation of acts of desire, of reading, of knowledge, of doing the rounds. Right now, he's saying that not only in the divine will, but even in perversity, even bad, even in sin, you move forward in sin. And that is uh your uh continuation of acts that form and and and he's going to explain this a little further. So what makes sanctity shine and places the seal on it are the continuous good acts. So we can't just do something one day and it was really great and we did we we're in the divine will. We're praying and but and the next day we just forget about it. It's got to be continuous. Right? That's what he's saying here. No one can say he is rich because he possesses a coin. So let's say the coin is one good act. Right? But those who possess extensive properties, villas, palaces, etc. So it is for sanctity. And if sanctity needs many good acts, sacrifices, heroism, but can also be subject to gaps, to intervals. The sanctity of my will is not subject to intermittent phases but must associate itself with that continuous act of the eternal valition which never never ceases but is always acting always operating always triumphant which always loves and never stops. Do you see? Do you see how like as we journey in the divine will, we're not sleeping in the garden. We're not sleeping apostles, right? Jesus is there. We're there with him. That's what he wants from us. And as I read the prayer to open up the readings here, remember how I reflected on that he was crediting us with our good will that even in our sleep, we could be there with him nailed on that cross if that's our desire. So we're never sleeping really if we do our if our intentions are to be with him and to take our brothers and sisters and do rounds even in our sleep with each breath with each heartbeat we're making reparation we say I love you with each breath with each heartbeat Lord you know and he's giving us and that's that continuous prayer that we're reading about here where he says um therefore losing the spirit of continuous prayer and vigil we're not going to lose that as we're united with Jesus ever. Okay. Um he says it's not subject to intermittent phases but it must associate itself with that continuous act of eternal valition which never never ceases. It's always acting, always operating, always triumphant, which always love and never stops. So the sanctity in my will brings into the soul the mark of the operating of her creator. That is what continuous love. Remember how um just a while ago I read love gives him new life, right? Continuous love can give us new life, right? The continuous preservation of all the things created by him. He never changes and is immutable. One who is subject to changing belongs to the earth, not to heaven. Right? So changing is of the human will, not of the divine. Interrupting good is of the creature not of the creator. So if we pull away from this, if we begin to get out of sync, if we start feeling ourselves being pulled away, whether it's a family member, whether it's an attachment, whether it's a hobby, whether it's something pleasurable, we can sometimes we can make all kinds of excuses that will justify pulling us away from it. You know, I'll give you an example that just popped in my mind like uh and I'm not faulting anybody for this, but there are a lot of families that uh have their kids in sports. Their children are active. They want to make sure and the kids are doing these traveling sports where the father's taking Billy over to, you know, an hour drive west and mama's taking Lisa over an hour drive east and it's all on this day and they're running all over the place and they're missing and and some of the sports is on Sunday and they might miss church because there's a game, you know, and we make these excuses like, well, uh, you know, it's good for my child and and they're part of a team and this teaches them uh teamwork. work and and he has these loving relationships and we make these excuses and before you know it, we're we're not going to to mass on Sunday the way we should be because sports has now become our new our new focus and we're pulled away from where God wants us in this continuous prayer. It can happen. Uh we could say with us like, well, we're going to knock off doing Tuesdays because I don't know, I'm tired and the group there's not many people showing up and next thing you know, Tuesday's gone. So, we just have Monday morning and Thursday and then we go, well, you know, um I'm really getting kind of busy and hunting season and a lot of people are busy and stuff and family stuff and all. Let's just cut it back to once. Most people do once a week and no, because if we start doing that, we're starting to pull away and we're starting to become a little bit drowsy. So, we're moving forward. We're going to try to move forward with our group and we're going to try to move forward as we pray in our in our own spiritual lives never ever uh pulling away from this gift, right? Um [clears throat] uh therefore because it's saying one who who's subject to changing belongs to the earth, not to heaven. If you're making compromises with your spiritual walk to please somebody or you know we have to give some thought to that and make sure that we don't run the danger. Now are there going to be times where we have to compromise with things? Probably so. But we have to be vigilant and aware that we don't want to be pulled away, right? Therefore, all this would be unbe unbefitting for the sanctity of living in my will because it contains the insignia, the image of the sanctity of her creator. Therefore, be attentive. Leave all rights to the supreme will and I will keep forming in you the sanctity of living in my will. So you see how this ties in with this sleepiness, this drowsiness. And what Jesus is making reparation for what he's feeling in this second piercing in his heart are the people that pull away and forget about his love and his gifts. What gifts has he given us? Right? this great pearl and the more we know and love and come to understand it, the more we fall in love with it. Let's never pull away from it. Right?
And um and here it says in the next thing it says, "My Jesus, it is true that after having seen you, after having enjoyed your gifts, when one is deprived of them, it takes great strength in order to persist. Only a miracle can allow these souls to endure the trial." So, um, if you go back to scripture and what what this makes me think about with when he's talking about the gifts that he gives where he says up here, uh, his gifts, his his favors, his kisses, his caresses, everything that he's given us, and we're just throwing it back in his face and falling asleep. That's what he's saying up there. What about in scripture with the talents, right? What about, you know, uh the uh there's different readings. Luke has the the 10 and then uh Matthew has the five. But whatever it is, it's let's say it's the five talents and the and the two talents and the one talent. And the five invests and re and recovers five, right? And then the the two invests in the recover two. And when the master shows up, right, they have something to show for it. and the other one who just buries his or in Luke he wraps it in a cloth um he's he has it taken away from him and he's thrown in in prison right because the master gave him a gift and then this is I'm equating this with the gifts the kisses the caresses the graces that god gives us and once we have this gift of living in the divine will this journey once it's been in unveiled for us once Once we start stepping into the light of it and comprehending it and desiring and growing in it, if we throw that back, if we bury it like the one who buried his talent, then what is the master going to do, right? He's going to be upset with us. Now, what did he do in scripture? He took away from the one he took the talent away from the one who had buried it and gave it to the one who had five. And in Luke, he took it away from the one who wrapped it in cloth and gave it to the one who had 10. Um, so to much is given, much is expected. And for those of us who are vigilant and staying awake, all our brothers and sisters that are drowsy and falling asleep, those graces, they're not going to be lost. We're going to gather them up because we're we're investing our talents in this gift. And Jesus is going to give us more. The more we stay awake, the more we stay vigilant, the more we move forward continuously in this gift. He's going to give us graces. We're going to have light to understand these readings and and we're not going to we're not going to uh bury this talent, this gift that he's given us. That's one of the themes here that I thought we'd focus on here. It's a beautiful theme. And um so um let's all stay moving forward and vigilant.
Now I'll continue. Therefore, as I compassionate you for these souls who negligences, ficklessnesses, and offenses are the most bitter for your heart. I pray if they came to taking one single step which might slightly displease you, you will surround them with so much grace as to stop them so as not to lose the spirit of continuous prayer. So that's a beautiful prayer. Uh and that's what we're interceding for our brothers and sisters. Once we see our brothers and sisters slipping, we don't sit there talking bad about them, right? We're praying for them. We're praying that God's grace will come and pierce their hardened hearts and they won't lose that spirit of continuous prayer.
My sweet Jesus, as you return to the garden, it seems you cannot take anymore. You raise your face soaked with blood and to and soaked with blood and earth. So blood and earth, it's mud on it to heaven. And you repeat for the third time, Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. Holy Father, help me. I need comfort. It is true that because of the sins that weigh upon me. I am nauseating, repugnant, the least among men before your infinite majesty. Your justice is angry with me. But look at me, oh father. I am always your son who forms one single thing with you. Oh please help pity oh father do not leave me without comfort.
So remember we can always go back when we ever we see the um the the reference to the chalice. We can go back to that volume 16, January 4th, 1924 reading that we had Father Dave explain to us, which is so beautiful and um it helps us understand how what Jesus is doing here. And um [clears throat] I think this is worth mentioning here for us to reflect on this thought [clears throat] about the balance the balance within God's divine the divine will the balance in that eternal sphere the balance within the most blessed trinity where everything must be paid to the last far right and we have this balance that we see as we do the readings of [clears throat] of Jesus balancing uh uh divine justice with divine mercy, right? Uh balancing chastisements with the gift of a victim's soul like Louisa who takes on so much of the bitternesses that Jesus is experiencing because somebody's got to pay for this. Somebody uh these voids have to be filled because divine justice has to be uh uh justified. It has to be satisfied. And in the end, that's what we know will be the fullness of living in the divine will, the fullness of the kingdom when these voids are filled. Right? But until then there's this always this balance between divine justice and divine mercy which this equilibrium between chastisements and mercy and and uh and that's what we're doing as we journey in the divine will. We are shouldering and making reparation with Jesus and we are uh repairing right we're filling voids because what everything has to be filled everything has to be uh the voids have to be filled and we're filling them with divine Jesus is divonizing our acts and we are universally filling that's why time space means nothing to us because God's creation from that one eternal act we are the new Adam and Eve the new uh filling what Adam and Eve should have been doing from the garden we are doing as we journey in the divine will but the point I'm making here is is [clears throat] God's justice is so pure what God sees he sees and what is he seeing here he Jesus says because the God the father is looking and [clears throat] and and Jesus says holy father help me I need comfort it is true that because of the sins that weigh upon me. I am nauseating, repugnant, the least among men before your infinite majesty. So, does Jesus just make a is he just um is just this a visual uh that he's taking on our sins or is he really taking them on? He's taking them on. He is nauseating, repugnant, the least among men before God's infinite uh majesty. And God's justice is angry with him, right? Because he's taken on all this evil and shouldering and making reparation for it. So that's how pure even God the Father's looking at him like this in in the face of divine justice. And and Jesus is crying out, "Help me. Don't leave me alone." So, in other words, I'm taking all this on. I need help. I need comfort because it's love that's giving Jesus new life. Right? Jesus is is is dying, but he can't die. Right? That's what Father Dave says all the time. And what keeps him alive is love.
Then, oh my sweet good, I seem to hear you call your dear mama to help you. Sweet mama, hold me in your arms as you did when I was a child. Give me that milk which I suckled from you to refresh me and to sweeten the bitterness of my agony. Give me your heart which formed all my contentment. My mama Magdalene, dear apostles, all of you who love me, help me, comfort me. Do not leave me alone in these extreme moments. gather all around me like a crown. Give me the comfort of your company, of your love.
So, this is what Jesus is crying out for. And um [clears throat] I um on meditating on this uh and I've said this before, but I I just can't help but see this is um in extreme moments uh in on we know that on the battlefield and uh and I know in reading a lot of history and stuff that I've read, I've never been in combat, but I do know that in times of utter distress, people cry. cry out for their mother. You know, it's And why is that? Jesus is crying out for his mom right here. Sweet mama, hold me in your arms as you did when I was a child. And we know that uh many times I've read stories where uh men mortally wounded are crying out for their mom and their last breath. And you have soldiers on the battlefield wounded that are crying out like a three-year-old again reverting back to a child, where's my mom? I need my mom. My mommy, you know, even using terms because that is the guttural instinct of love that emanates from our very core which is which contains the kingdom of God, right? Which uh which rises up to the top. This is just me speaking. And in that that real uh that guttal guttural cry for help, it's to the mom. And even in our walk, I know for me personally, and I bet for you too, in those moments where you're utterly broken, utterly broken. And I've been there, believe me. And I cried out. And I cried out for my mother, my Mary, my my my my mother Mary. Please help me. I need you. And Jesus is crying out for his mom. And why is that? You know, I have a I have a thought. And of course, he's asked for his father, too. I mean, of course, of course, he's one with the father, right? But here he is crying out in his humanity. It's his mom. It's her DNA. It's her eyes. It's her It's her complexion. It's her hair. It's his humanity. He's crying out, "Mom, the one who held me in [clears throat] in in your arms." So, I think it is and and I I believe this is this m this maternal love. It's a sacrificial maternal love that we turn towards as creatures that is innate uh within us and we cry out for that. We look towards our mothers because of that nurturing sacrificial love that we that connection that we have with them. It's a beautiful connection and it's uh and we know that as we journey in the divine will for us men there are no boundaries. We can receive that maternal love. It doesn't have to be. It's not gender oriented as we as we move forward in our spiritual life with our spirits. Right? We are we're we're the kingdom of God with is within us. When we pass away, we'll separate the spirit will leave this body, right? That we are journeying spiritually interiorly in this gift. And we crave or we we work uh our goal is oriented in in nurturing ourselves to become that maternal love ourselves. sacrificial love, the love of a mother who thinks nothing of herself and always of of their child, right? It's it's there's no self-interest in a loving mom. Yeah. Any any comments about that? And he's crying out for other company, too. in this he's crying out for those people that should be there and loving him and he's saying these are extreme moments right so even though this is just me speaking but just the point that I I make is it's like as we journey in the divine will we know there's no the time and space is it's there are no boundaries but here we see Jesus in his humanity in linear time journeying and there are extreme moments in our journey journey here on earth in our in our humanity in our flesh because we are within linear time as we journey in our humanity as we um as Colossians 1 uh 124 is it u where we make up on in our flesh what Jesus can no longer suffer right there are extreme moments and Jesus is crying out for this this is his extreme moment right Jesus my Uh who can resist in seeing you in these extreme conditions? It's just this word keeps coming back. The extreme extreme extreme moments moments hours. It's time. This is the time. This is this is and someday we'll have our our time, right? Our struggle. We'll have our agony in the garden. We'll have our uh Gethsemane. will have our Golgatha in our own lives in these extreme conditions. What heart would be ever what heart would ever be so hard as to not break in seeing you so drowned in blood? Who would not pour bitter tears and torrents upon hearing your sorrowful accents, looking for help and comfort? So as we journey in our as we journey, one of the things that we need to keep in mind as we are meditating on Jesus's passion, we need to be focusing on the divine um sorrow. It it says, "Who can resist seeing you in these extreme conditions? Which one of us, you and me, would ever be so hard as to not break in seeing you drowned in blood? Who would not pour bitter tears and torrents upon seeing your sorrowful accents, looking for help and comfort?" So, we are one with him. We are reflecting on this. He wants us to meditate on his sacrificial love. He wants us to become a part of that love, nailed to the cross with him, one with him, surrendering our human wills and offering him our yes, it is no longer I. And suffering with him and praying with him and keeping him company, staying awake, right?
My Jesus, be consoled. I now see that the Father sends you an angel as comfort and help that you may leave this state of agony and give yourself into the hands of the Jews. And while you are with the angel, I will go around heaven and earth. You will allow me to take this blood that you have shed that I may give it to all men as pledge of salvation for each one and bring you as comfort in exchange their affections, heartbeats, thoughts, steps, and works.
So, what is Louisa doing, right? She's she's traveling in that eternal sphere. She's going around where time and space she's in. Remember the wheel? Remember the cogs, remember? And we talked about uh the ones just going all around is there's no there's no time and space. And Jesus tells us there we're touching every thought, every heartbeat, every breath. We're a part of it and making reparation and and she's gathering things. Those are her intentions and she's going to bring them to Jesus. She's a part of this. She's moving in. She's operating, right? She, it says, "The sanctity in my will brings into the soul the mark of the operating of her creator, right? That's the reading we did. She's operating." Um, let me see. I can stop sharing this screen. Um, so she's moving around and she's gathering. And that's what we do. That's what we can do to give Jesus comfort.
My celestial mama, I come to you in order to go to all souls to give to them the blood of Jesus. Sweet mama, Jesus wants comfort. And the greatest comfort we can give him is to bring him souls. So there it is right there. What's the greatest comfort we can give Jesus? Bring him souls. And what's a powerful way to do that? Right? We're taking his blood. We're giving him We're giving them the blood of Jesus. We're saturating their souls with his blood. Right? And we are praying that shafts of light will pierce harden hearts, souls for Jesus. And in those prayers that act in those prayers, we're sending bolts of light into souls. and you're praying that maybe someone will be disposed to receive that.
A bolt of light, and it will pierce a hardened heart and bring them to Jesus and bring them into the divine will. Right? We're praying for the fullness of it someday. We want to bring more and more into this great gift, bringing the blood of Jesus. Magdalene, accompany us. All of you angels, come and see how Jesus is reduced. He wants comfort from all, and his state of exhaustion is such that he refuses no one. My Jesus, while you drink the chalice full of intense bitterness which the celestial Father has sent you, I hear you sigh, moan, rave, mourn, and with suffocated voice say, you say, "Souls, souls, come relieve me. Take a place in my humanity. I want you. I long for you. Oh, please do not be deaf to my voices. Do not render vain my ardent desires, my blood, my love, my pains. Come souls, come."
So Jesus, uh, remember one of the most bitter pains for Jesus, uh, was the the feeling of abandonment, but also this ingratitude. And to know that he was going to and is pouring out every drop of his blood. He's, he's going to reduce his, his humanity to nothing. He's going to squeeze himself, every drop of blood out of his body before he, he, he breathes his last on the cross. And still, in the face of all that, he knows that there are souls that are going to go to hell. There are souls that are running away from him. Souls that are wriggling, well, the, the writings use the word wriggling free from his tight embrace. He's chasing after souls, and they're running from him. But here, we can bring him souls through our acts, through our prayers, our rounds, by taking his blood like Louisa is doing. She's our, she's our model. She's showing us how to take his blood all around, past, present, and future, from Adam and Eve to the, remember how we do the prevenient act, to the early church patriarchs, the church fathers, the holy angels and saints, everyone. Saturate them with the blood of Jesus to the last soul that was, that will ever be created in the future. Right? And we can do that. How powerful is that?
And if you want, you know, uh, Fulton Sheen used to have that, uh, radio show that called "Life is Worth Living," and he was trying to tell people, you know, a lot of people who were hopeless were like, "What's it all about? Why am I here? I'm not happy. I'm frustrated." You know, all these different things. And, uh, Bishop Sheen's focus was about why God created us and and what life is about, and life is worth living. But he never talked about this gift of living in the divine will. Living in the divine will. We are this is our the call to the creature, to the order, the place, the purpose for which we were created by God. Of course, life is worth living because in the divine will, as we journey, we are praying for humanity. If you wanna, if you want to make a dent, if you wanna, if you want a legacy, right, what better thing could you do than give your life to Jesus? Surrender your human will. Become one with the most holy Trinity and pray for our brothers and sisters. Not just today, past, present, and future, for all of humanity, sharing with Jesus in his divinity because we are sons and daughters of the kingdom of God. We're heirs of the Father, right? Romans 8. It's a beautiful thing. I mean, we just got to stop and just sometimes you just got to shake your head and say, "My gosh, thank you, Lord, for this gift."
All right, so let me see. I've muddled on here enough. I'm going to stop here, and we'll, like I said, we're going to take up things as we do. There's not going to be any real, um, you know, hour one is not going to be hour seven. We'll take it slow, and hopefully, we'll work on these themes. And I hope that you're getting something out of this as we discuss this and as I, I'm just looking at things and trying to have it unfold into certain thought processes and themes that'll keep us moving forward, uh, in this beautiful gift. And so we'll start back here, uh, next Tuesday. Let me do a finishing prayer. My gosh, if I keep talking like this, I feel like Billy Graham. [laughter] Oh my.
All right. Thanksgiving after each hour. First of all, thank you, Lord Jesus, for this beautiful gift, and Mother Mary, for for giving us this, for loving us so much, and in your book of gold, and the Virgin Mary in the kingdom. Thank you, Mother. Um, thanksgiving after each hour. Our lovable Jesus, you've called us in this hour of your passion to keep you company, and we've come. We seem to hear you praying, repairing suffering and anguish and sorrow, pleading for the salvation of souls in the most touching and eloquent of voices. We've tried to follow you in everything, and now, having to leave you for our usual occupations, we feel the duty to say to you, "Thank you, and we bless you." Yes. Oh Jesus, we repeat to you, we thank you thousands and thousands of times. And we bless you for all that you've done and suffered for me and for all. I thank, we thank you and we bless you for each and every drop of blood you shed. For every breath, for every heartbeat, for every step, word, glance, bitterness, and offense which you endured. And everything, oh Lord Jesus, we intend to seal you with a thank you and and I bless you. Please, O Jesus, let our whole beings send you a continuous flow of thanks and blessings so as to draw upon us and upon everyone the flow of your blessings and thanks. Oh, please, oh Jesus, press us to your heart and with your most holy hands, seal every particle of our being with your "I bless you" so that nothing other than a continuous hymn to you may come from us. Amen. In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Well, thank you all, um, for being here, and I look forward to being with you next Tuesday while we're continue on with hour 7. Thank you.
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