Tuesday 10 October 2017

#73 Our Lord, Our Lady and an Unidentified Saint – an INTERIOR WARNING Will be Given



Our Lord, Our Lady, and an Unidentified Saint – an INTERIOR WARNING Will be Given Before the Chastisements


Ecstasy date August 27, 1878

Marie-Julie: “Here is what the good Jesus said: "It is at the foot of the altar that I teach you every day to love Me. The more you love Me on earth, the more you get closer to the loving and eternal Union.” There, good saint, how Our good Lord commences.” (Note, this is not only a message for Marie-Julie, the more we love God at Mass and in the Blessed Sacrament, the closer we come to Eternal Union with Him in Heaven. This is how the Lord draws us to Him.)

(Unidentified saint speaks:) “Does He give you imminent hope?”

 (This text seems to have missing segments, or, the scribe for the day did not catch the name of the saint speaking to Marie-Julie along with Our Lord and Our Lady.)

Marie-Julie: “Yes. When He speaks to me of the imminent hope, He is beaming and His adorable face is radiant with joy and happiness.”


The Blessed Virgin: “Wait for that which must arrive, an alarm (inquietude) will be felt by all, a harbinger of the Justice of God.”



Our Lord: “My children, some time before these sinister signs are sent onto the Earth, they will already feel in the heart the effect of My justice, it will be that the heart will say the time is not far away. But a grace of peace is reserved for faithful Christians, those who have not disregarded the warnings of Heaven and who will conform their their lives (to them).

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Monday 9 October 2017

#72 St. Benedict of Nursia - God Getting Ready to Strike – WARNINGS of Numerous False Visions and Miracles – The Signs before the Chastisements




St. Benedict of Nursia – God Getting Ready to Strike – Evil also Stealthily Plotting - WARNINGS of Numerous False Visions and Miracles – The Signs before the Chastisements will RESEMBLE THOSE OF THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT


Ecstasy date August 26, 1878

God is preparing now, men are also getting ready, the have made an accord to plot more quietly, and God raises His mighty arm, He lifts it so quickly that they fear at any time of day that the arms of the Lord will be weighed down in an unexpected moment. (i.e. the evil ones feel their time will be cut short, so they work all the harder.) Why today do we seem to see, so many miracles? Why is there a sounding on all sides works (or facts) that are unknown to God?” (Note. 'unknown to God', literal translation from the French text may have lost its significance in English- perhaps the saint means, “Why are we seeing so many works that have no knowledge of God in them? I.e. that evil ones are doubling their efforts in godless wonders and false miracles?)

Marie-Julie Jahenny: “I do not know, good Saint.”

St. Benedict: “It is is the vengeful enemy (i.e. the Devil) who, at this moment, runs quickly around, he makes wonders that raise a lot of noise, he speaks to the ears of many souls, he makes them invent, he makes them hear that it is God who reveals to them these new mysteries and profound (deep) graces.

You who see all this happen, afraid because God has said: 'When the world seems to explode in miracles when, on all sides, they will announce their marvels, when we hear the voices ringing in the middle of the world, God manifested His glory on earth.' Consider these facts, believe that these inventions (are) of the enemy of God, that the hour God has set is not far from you. That is why, this is a sign that God has given and that He will renew again. (i.e., when we see an explosion in number of false mystics that claim they are receiving visions and divine revelations from God, not to mention many wonders that are not true miracles, it is a sign that the chastisements are close upon us.)


All these signs are the arrival of the Lord, the arrival of a joy and great sorrow. The Evangelists also marked these facts for the great day of the General Judgement. Ah well! It will happen before the last, it will be terrible, a judgement of Justice, a judgement of anger and at the same time a glorious resurrection in peace, in hope for the friends of God. (NOTICE the phrase: it will happen 'before the Last', that is, before the LAST DAY. We will see signs before and during the Chastisements similar to the signs written about by the Evangelists concerning the General Judgement.) Why is it today one does not want to see the Justice of God who visits you at every moment?” (I.e. why does everyone ignore the punishments already being sent?)

Marie-Julie: “I do not know, good Saint.”

St. Benedict “It's because they (the evil ones) want to satisfy their malice and their freedom, they do not want to cede their rights, (to God), led, directed, commanded by pride. This is what (why) presses God to punish soon.” 
 

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St. Benedict (c. 480-550) was born in the district of Nursia, Umbria, central Italy. He was sent to Rome for his studies, but fled from the moral dangers which beset him and joined c. 500AD a sort of community of ecclesiastical students at Affile. Shortly after he retired to a cave near Subiaco, now the Sacro Speco, to live as a hermit. Here his sanctity was soon discovered and many disciples flocked to him, for these he built a 'laura', composed of twelve small monasteries, himself retaining the command over all. About the year 530 he left Subiaco for Montecassino, where on the road to Naples he founded the great arch-abbey and where he lived until his death, famous as a wonder-worker. Here too, he promulgated his Rule, which is justly considered one of the most potent factors in building up the civilization of Christian Europe. Eventually it became the norm for all western monks, and was simply called “The Holy Rule”, “The Papal Rule”, “the Roman Rite” of monks. The little we know of St. Benedict's own personality shows him to us as a strong but loveable character. He died standing erect in prayer before the altar. He has been called the “Father of Western Europe”, “The Patriarch of Labour”, and the “Father of Peace”. His large spiritual family still carries on an intense apostolate of prayers and work in the service of Christ and His Church. In art St. Benedict is usually represented holding either his book of the Holy Rule or a broken cup with a serpent and a raven at his feet, allusions to episodes in his life where he was miraculously saved from being poisoned by his enemies. His is the patron saint of Europe. Traditional Feast day March 21, new feast day July 11.

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Saturday 7 October 2017

#71 St. Gregory the Great - PROPHECY Echoing Leo XIII's vision to Come - CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE CHURCH




Vision of St. Gregory the Great, Pope – Jesus Receives Abuse for His Love – PROPHECY Echoing Pope Leo XIII's vision to Come – Evil to be Granted and Great Power on Earth for a Period of Time - A Possible Revelation about Leo XIII, or, the Angelic Pontiff – The Dark Night of the Soul Amidst Persecutions – The Children of the Cross must Remain Faithful – CONSPIRACY Against the Church but it SHALL REMAIN INFALLIBLE 


Ecstasy date August 19, 1878

May the sweet peace of Our Lord be in your soul, and in those of all the servants of His Cross! May the love of God kindle in you its ineffable sweetness! I am Saint Gregory, Pope and Doctor of the Church.”


(He wore clothes of glory different from all other saints, which Marie-Julie of the Crucifix attributed to a Celestial Glory that was particularly sublime and associated with the rays of the Glorious Cross.)

I come, at the entrance to the path of the Holy Novitiate, to say a word on behalf of Our Lord.

The Lord in His love and His mercy has given us His grace, His love and His blessings. What did we do in our turn? Lift our eyes to the heavens and bless such a good Father! The Lord's power broke forth over the earth, the riches of His love are given to us, what have we to do? Give a generous thanksgiving to Our Lord, to show Him our gratitude for all His kindness.

What is the love of Jesus? This is nothing else but a tenderness mixed with kindness, He gives it to us at every moment to strengthen our souls and our courage.

What does He receive, this God of Love for the love He gives? He receives the most abuse, the most profanities! O blind of this time, what then when the light strikes your eye to make you see the divine effects that God works in all places by His infinite power? Tremble, small number of friends of God, for the fate of so many unfortunate souls who have rejected the light to live in the idolatry of the evil spirit.

When the Lord's Church has been threatened and beaten, when the hour of light, grace, of the promised triumph, burst forth on the ground trodden by insolent feet, what will they say, what will they do, what will they think? (I.e. what will the evil people think when they time of the Great Age of Peace comes?) They are the first to throw stones, and the Temple stands, it will resist them by grace. Why? Because God has set the fixed time, the hour of grace for His Holy Temple. If these last lights and the last graces of Heaven do not open their eyes closed by a perverted society, what terrible misfortune! (I.e. if those blinded by evil do not wake up during this time of Mercy and grace before the chastisements that will herald in the Triumph of the Church, it will be a terrible misfortune for them.)


Tremble, groan and cry, because the devastation is at its height. Our sweet Lord in His great goodness and His love so powerful and all adorable, allows to act in full freedom the free will of all His enemies. He will detract nothing from them, He will grant them a power so strong, that, by this same power, they should sense that the powerful Hand of the Lord has reserved for them a frightening blow. (I.e. the evil ones will be granted a long period of time on earth and left to their own devices without any apparent punishment from God, it should make them realise that the longer they are left alone, the greater the punishment that lies in store for them.) But they only think about their work, to deepen their work in evil. By the power of digging, (i.e. down deeper in evil) they will arrive at the end of this profound career, and there, what do they have once it is done? They will have nothing! (i.e. all their work to undermine God will be for nothing.) God has spoken, God has commanded, God will put an end to their scandal.

There, there walk a great number of the children of God! Today God makes and will allow (them) to be made martyrs. Here is how God Himself allows it to be so: He makes Himself suffer and He orders still others after Him to suffer. The passage of time is simply a time of suffering and pain. It is necessary that we meet God through the sufferings and pains. Our Lord asks souls to share His shame. (I.e. His humiliations).

Children of God, the storm is brewing everywhere, evil and injustice will soon enter in triumph. (I.e the long period of time and power that would be granted to the evil ones).

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NOTICE: this prophecy was given only c. 5 years 10 months before Pope Leo XIII's famous vision of October 13, 1884 wherein Satan demanded 100 years declaring he could destroy the Church in that time:

Pope Leo XIII, just after celebrating Mass, turned pale and collapsed as though dead. Those standing nearby rushed to his side. They found him alive but the pontiff looked frightened. He then recounted having a vision of Satan approaching the throne of God, boasting that he could destroy the Church.



According to Pope Leo XIII the Lord reminded him that his Church was imperishable. Satan then replied, “Grant me one century and more power of those who will serve me, and I will destroy it.” Our Lord granted him 100 years. 
 

The Lord then revealed the events of the 20th century to Leo XIII. He saw wars, immorality, genocide and apostasy on a large scale. Immediately following this disturbing vision, he sat down and wrote the prayer to St. Michael. For decades it was prayed at Mass until the 1960’s. Like many of the Church’s spiritual defences, it was discontinued in the second half of the 20th century.  Source: Joe Tremblay, “The 100 Years Test” CNA, February 1, 2013.


Notice: Marie-Julie was already warned by St. Joseph on March 19, 1878 about the Great Apostasy that would come in addition to the chastisements that would follow. Later, she would foretell in a cryptic manner on July 7, 1880 that the flames of Hell would take away Leo XIII's prayers of protection that were to be said after Mass.  See post #116 Prophecy of the Leonine Prayers of Pope Leo XIII: Hell will Reduce them to Ashes

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We now continue with Marie-Julie's vision of Pope Gregory:

Who will bear the terrible revenge? (I.e. who will suffer the terrible vengeance of the evil ones and the storm they are brewing). Towards the Temple of God, towards those who represent God on earth, towards those who serve and are, with all their will, ready to serve and to suffer for His glory.

(In other words, St. Gregory is warning future generations that stay faithful will be the ones who will suffer this terrible storm brewed up by the evil ones against God's Church, His ministers, and all willing to suffer for God and His glory.)

Today, the reasoning of the evil spirit and the spirit of man agree together to form a terrible storm, through their will and their desires. This frightening storm will be terrible, because the Justice of God will mingle with the impure and evil will of men. (I.e, God will use them as tools for His Justice.)

Right now, what (does) the great Pontiff think living on the Throne, which supports the army of God? He thinks about doing God's will, he thinks to support the faith and support his right, while he is alive. Would you believe, God's children, they will make an attempt with fury and black vengeance on the life of this illustrious Pontiff? But he is firm and strong, his faith does not waver. Too often he thinks about the martyrdom, he thinks like you, children of the Cross, to do the Holy Will of God. The rocks strike against each other, the stones hiss. (i.e. this could be a revelation of the reigning pontiff during this vision, none other than Leo XIII, who was recently made pope only a few months by then, or, it could refer to the Great Angelic Pontiff to come, who will also be in great danger before the Triumph.)


Under the fury of the storm, (I.e. persecutions from the evil men) what will you do? Wait, pray and do what God wants. Love God with all our heart, faithfully serve God, serve him through the obscurities that are in us, serve despite the darkness where God leaves us and where we need to walk, serve Him all the same. (I.e. during the 'dark night of the soul' when it seems God has abandoned us and we are dry in spirit, we are to remain faithful.) Even when the light of your soul is absolutely extinguished, do not lose heart, go through all the dangers, face the dangers and God will fill you with His grace and His comfort.

Who can make us happy on earth, except the peace of God that lives within us, working in us, that prays in us? Without this peace, man becomes like one damned, he runs and precipitates himself into the first gulf that he meets, because it is the devastation inflicted within him by his unregulated passions. Yet this is what happens in many hearts.

To keep peace, there is one thing to do, it is to say what God wants, it is to obey the Will of God, it is nothing that can be found in the human creature. It is to be found in God, since He is the treasure of all.

Serve God, love God, seek God and run away from this love of the world, since it is through the Cross that we come to happiness and richness. We take our crosses, carry them without a blush, since it is the Cross that will one day give us the happiness of seeing God, to understand and to love. Carry the cross. There are crosses everywhere! The joy of loving the Cross gives us in this life, a delicious hope to see and possess God.

What does God love more than His Cross? Nothing. It was His portion, it was His Throne of pain. He chose it because He wanted all His children to be made heirs of His Cross, His treasury. That is why we are called children of the Cross, the heirs of God.

Pray for the Church threatened by a conspiracy hatched by a horrible jealousy of perverted minds banded together to overthrow it. The storm is terrible, but the Church will remain infallible and its walls shall not be shaken. But there will be martyrs ... Pray for the Church and ask God for the return of a lost family, a people corrupted, a degraded society. All are our brothers in the Lord. They are souls redeemed at the price of His Blood. (i.e. don't judge anyone, PRAY for the confused and the 'lost family' of these times to return to the Church!)

I wish strength and courage for victims and friends of God. After bearing the cross on earth, our meeting will be in eternal glory. This is where we will meet again.”

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Notes: St. Gregory the Great (c.540-604 AD), Doctor of the Church, has been aptly described as Vir incomparabilis, an incomparable man. Bone in Rome of patrician parents, (his mother was St. Sylvia), he became a praetor or prefect, mayor of the city, before he was thirty, but he soon gave up the office, turned his ancestral home on the Caelian Hill into a Benedictine Abbey and became a monk there. Next he was sent to Constantinople as papal nuncio. On his return he was chosen pope in 590AD., and his achievements in the fourteen years of his pontificate make him one of the most commanding figures in world history. First in importance was his mission to England, where he sent St. Augustine and forty of his Benedictines from the Caelian Hill monastery, this was important not only on account of the conversion of England itself, but also because of the spreading of the Benedictine Rule among the new races of Western Europe. He promoted likewise the conversion of the Lombards in Italy and of the Goths in Spain, upheld the rights of the Roman See against Constantinople, embellished the Liturgy in its sacramentary and in its chant, defended and befriended monarchism, and cared for the poor in Rome, at Ravenna and on his estates in Sicily. He was moreover a prolific writer, his dialogues, comprising the only extant life of St. Benedict, and his Regula Pastoralis are classics in ascetical literature.

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Tuesday 3 October 2017

#70 St. John-Francis Regis - Sufferings of the Cross Worthy of Holy Envy –– the Mortal Danger of Slander - Unless God Intervenes Slanderers Will be Lost



St. John-Francis Regis visits Marie-Julie Jahenny – Sufferings of the Cross in these evil times Worthy of Holy Envy – Slanderers: how they behave – the Mortal Danger of Slander - Unless God Intervenes Slanderers Will be Lost

Ecstasy August 13, 1878

I have come to give a word on behalf of God at the entry of your Holy Novitiate. We are at the foot of the Cross, and we wait and we hope to go into our sweet and Blessed Country.


What is this earth, what is suffering in comparison with endless happiness? Our life on earth is short and Our Lord has measured our years. Let us commence, it is time to live for God and for Heaven.


If the adorable Lord descended now, upon a bright cloud to judge and condemn, how would He find any just in this fair land of merit? It is frightening! ... Today, what injustice! What hidden infamies! What veiled slander! How do they persevere, those souls who commit them?

This is how they do it.

First they try to stifle remorse, but it follows them everywhere. In conversations, in their companies, their words are beautiful, clear as glass. But the reasoning of the soul, at the bottom of their interior, no one hears and it is frightening. The soul moans, cries, suffers, because it is the only thing in these men that belongs to the Sovereign Good. (I.e. the rest of these sinners has become completely evil in thought, word and deed.)


Slander is like a worm, it eats into the soul of the most beautiful and chaste virtues, and then, after being eaten whole, the soul can not become master because it is opposed by the evil human mind, by human nature so angry and so cruel. The soul can no longer prevail, and if God does not come to its aid, it is forever doomed …


Wait with patience! The time of the Lord is open to Heaven. But what a surprise for the headstrong! (The stubborn sinners who refuse to repent.) But what joy for the few (i.e. the righteous that suffer on earth) that I envy their position on earth, because I would have the honour to suffer for my God! Heaven, I come to their aid!

How admirable is the way of the Cross! It is worthy of envy!



How great are its merits! O Royal Way! Vive la Croix, the treasure of the true chosen ones ...”


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Notes:

St. Johan-Francis Regis was born at Font-Couverte in the diocese of Narbonne in Langedoc, France. At the age of eighteen he entered the Society of Jesus at Béziers, was ordained in 1631, and from that moment knew no rest spending himself in preaching the Gospel to the uneducated farmers of Languedoc and Auvergne, providing for prisoners and fallen women, establishing confraternities of the Blessed Sacrament, and effecting everywhere numerous conversions among the Protestant Huguenots. He died while preaching a mission on December 30, 1640, and was canonized in 1737. (New feast day June 16, traditional feast day December 31.). 

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Wednesday 27 September 2017

#69 St. Paul - Suffering Opens Heaven - Persecutions from Slander and Envy gain us the most Merits - "Friends of the Cross" will Suffer Persecution



Visit of St. Paul the Apostle – Suffering opens Heaven and marks our place in Glory – the Persecution caused by Slander and Envy is Highly Meritorious – How best to suffer this type of persecution – Marie-Julie Jahenny and the “Friends of the Cross” will suffering a 'double persecution' because this mission is a 'double work'




Ecstasy of August 12, 1878


May the Peace of the Lord be in your soul and your spirit, and with all the friends of God. I am Saint Paul. I come to say a word on behalf of Our Lord before the entry of your Holy Novitiate.

Look first at our Lord on the Cross, and this glance will lead us to suffer. Let us meditate on the Sorrows of a God, and we will suffer bravely the trials of life.

God was the last of men by shame, by the ignominy, by insults. Why would we not wish to suffer? Do we wish to be above the Divine Master?

It is not only the pains of life that opens for us the door of heaven and mark our place in glory. He who does not suffer is not the disciple of God, and does not know Him. We are esteemed to be treated as His favoured ones.

If we are chained by the authority of men, if we can not leave, let us be silent. An hour will come, when we will speak to the authority of this land, which is not that of (or not by ) the authority of man. (Note: the bishop who approved her, Fournier of Nantes was dead by this time, after which Marie-Julie Jahenny was persecuted by the diocese and forbidden to receive the sacraments. This phrase by St. Paul saying a time will come to speak to 'the authority of this land' could indicate a warning to the current reigning bishop who was permitting the persecution due to slander and envy as we see in the next sentences....)

It is a thousand times better to be silent and suffer all things, (by those) who speak, with envy and jealousy. These two ways of persecution are horrible in God's eyes, the eyes of One who sees everything.

I prefer, I would rather have been chained for Jesus Christ, than to have been delighted to be ravished up to Heaven. There, however, was the joy, happiness without suffering, without alteration, it was perfect joy, but I did not suffer anything and I did not merit anything. (Observe: St. Paul's transports to Heaven gave him heavenly joy and he did not suffer, but in this joy without suffering he did not gain merits!)


Our adorable Lord, in the designs of His infinite Mercy, also wants us to be stoned at the hands of treacherous language. The slanderous tongue is more dangerous than a double-edged sword, because the blow of the sword can be cured or relieved, because it only extends to the depth and width of the blade, while the stroke of language extends everywhere. In one day, it will spread around the world, and who can stop it? (Note: this explains why God sees the sins of slander and envy as 'horrible' because they do so much more damage than a physical injury, hence, suffering these things silently without complaints grants great merits.)

Our Father the Creator is pleased to test us in different ways, friends tried, but friends of God.

When God wants to do a solid work, especially when He wants to establish the Friends of the Cross (I.e. Marie-Julie Jahenny's mission?) who worked from the beginning and are determined to work until the end, the persecution must be greater, because it is a double work.

Our Lord, choosing friends of the Cross, requires that the blows are deeper because the work will be more beautiful. The more disciples, the more suffering. It is the sign of a great work. It is a sure sign. Do not be afraid! ...”

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Notes: these last encouraging words are not only directed to Christians in general, but it seems in a particular way to Marie-Julie Jahenny and those entrusted to spread devotion to her Great Work of the Cross, which will come after that of the Sacred Heart and will be the work of the restoration of the Church and the world in France and beyond. It is through the Cross that the Victory will be gained after the chastisements. As Heaven told her, the Great Monarch to come will write everywhere 'In hoc signo vinces' as a sign of Heaven's miraculous intervention on his behalf:


May 11, 1877: "The Cross will defeat the greatest heroes (of the enemy). They will bring it to the face of the enemy and it will give them the victory ... You Christians, who will spend a terrible moment, take the Cross for support ... When the elected King and Saviour of France has seen the triumph of France, he will write everywhere “in hoc signo vinces;” by this sign you will conquer! (i.e. The sign given to Emperor Constantine.) France will be under the banner of the Sacred Heart, the Cross and Mary."


And again:

October 27, 1887. The Sacred Heart to Marie-Julie Jahenny:


Blessed Margaret Mary was chosen to publish the glory of My Sacred Heart, and you, you are chosen to publish the glory of My Cross. She is the victim of My Sacred Heart, you are the victim of My Cross. The Work of My Cross is beautiful and grand, it will quickly follow the Work of the Sacred Heart.”

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Wednesday 13 September 2017

#68 St. Thomas Aquinas Returns - Sufferings Perfect - True Happiness - Peace Amidst Sufferings



St. Thomas Aquinas visits again - Suffering perfects a soul and unites it to God - Suffering a Little-Known Treasure - Suffering is Never Without Reward - Suffering with Inner Peace gives us True Happiness - God Tests through Sufferings to see if we are True Christians - Perfection a Great Virtue Beloved of God and Attained through Suffering -  How to Be Peaceful Amidst the Cross -


Ecstasy August 8, 1878

“I wish you peace, I wish that peace be in your soul in your heart, in your mind.”

Marie-Julie: “It's St. Thomas Aquinas, He is radiant with glory at the foot of the Cross. He
said to me:

'It is I who come to say a word on behalf of the Lord, at the entrance of your Holy Novitiate. 

God created us to love Him and serve Him. All happiness is to love God, and all the joy you taste in the love of God, this is the peace one experiences. Our Lord gives us His goods so generously that there is no heart on earth able to thank Him as He desires, what the Divine Master ... (missing text here?) 

Suffering perfects us and unites us to our Beloved. Our Lord watches over us with such kindness and generosity, He wants our happiness, He wants to give us His rich rewards.  Let us rejoice in the suffering on this earth, that our heart beats with joy, happiness and gratitude! Suffering is a little-known Treasure. If known, this Treasure would also become for us an immense source of comfort, happiness and joy. 

God is pleased to test us on earth, because he wants to see if we are true Christians ...
Our Lord never gives suffering or pains without rewards. When we have trouble on earth, we must always keep a joyful heart of recognition (of this). Suffering proves (or tests) peace and peace proves happiness. All the happiness consists in love of Our Lord and His Cross. We must suffer with a sweet and holy patience, because it is in suffering that is perfection. 

Perfection is an eminent virtue, a virtue that is pleasing to God ... The higher the flood of persecutions pass over us, the more God will love us and God will draw His Glory in our
pains ..
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Our Cross of the earth is enriched with diamonds and pearls because we bear no irritation, because we carry them with calm, because we want only good for those who wish us harm. This thought, is it not capable to give courage to the soul?


Our souls are such a great price and are so dear to the eyes of God He loves them with a tenderness and kindness that can not be explained here below. Our adorable Lord, by creating our souls, made them with all His love, all His Goodness, but He wants our souls to love Him in return and that they give thanks for all the benefits He gives them in this life. .. . 


Walk with courage, do not worry about anything! Love God, serve Him faithfully. Walk in the way of the Cross with certainty, it is the Way of the Chosen, the Royal Way! I would still live on earth to suffer for the glory of my God!”

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Sunday 10 September 2017

#67 St. Vincent Ferrer - the PLAGUE of DEGREDATION - Pastors will be Punished by Scandal - Inner Peace Amidst Crosses



St. Vincent Ferrer visits Marie-Julie Jahenny - SOULS WEAKENED because pastors and ministers are INFECTED with the "PLAGUE OF DEGREDATION" - God is preparing the punishments but waits for sincere wills to return to Him - Pastors and Ministers will be PUNISHED THROUGH SCANDAL - A WARNING WILL BE GIVEN FIRST - God more comforted by single people living in the world who live the Faith rather than priests who fail in their duty in the care of souls - we know God is within us when we retain and feel peace within while amidst Crosses and Persecutions


Ecstasy August 5, 1878

“That,” he says, “is what comes (or, why it is that) souls today are much weaker than before. The faith of the Pastors is not entirely pure, because their charity is not single, it is accompanied by a kind of evil called the plague of degradation, it is the lack of charity, it is the lack of respect we should all have for each other since we are all children of the same Father and of the same Mother, the Blessed Virgin. 

God does not strike yet, He waits and in waiting, He suffers from all sides, but He prepares and He waits for a long time for the return of sincere wills.

 I begin by saying a word, it is this: if the Pastors and the souls entrusted with the painful responsibility of those souls created by God, (i.e. to lead souls to salvation through Catholic Truth) if they do not change, they do not conform in perfect faith, if they do not conform in charity ordained by God and order it especially (with regards) to themselves, God will soon make seen in and by them, a subject of scandal. This is how God is preparing. In the great surprise of His inscrutable designs, God will send them by His Divine Power, a serious warning that will be everywhere at once, it will be found even with those souls who have to follow the straight line given by the Pastors. 

God will strike in secret, He will strike in public for God complains for some time so strongly that it is impossible to understand the manner of these complaints as they are rigorous and mixed with justice.

 I pronounce this word which is very terrible, because God calls me, and God wills it. Here, at the foot of the Cross, I can affirm on behalf of God that God is a thousand times more comforted by the many souls who have no dependants, who living in the world are not in the priesthood but live well in their state. (I.e, single people who live the Faith.) God is a thousand times more comforted by this part than He is from many of his servants engaged in the painful paths of the direction of souls on Earth, I speak of God's ministers.  (i.e He is comforted more by those single inthe world who truly live and practise their Faith when compared with priests who fail in their duty and lead souls astray in the process.)

God cannot suffer for much longer so many injuries and so many injustices, so many infamies and so many veiled crimes. If you knew today how on earth how many iniquities there are veiled to the eyes of souls and the eyes of the body of this world, you would be in a terrible fright. God sees, God knows, God will judge. 

Take courage, they do not frighten us, but God's word will not be held back much longer, (i.e the promised punishments) mind this word. 

Oh! How sweet are the ways of the Cross when one has God as their Father and for support! What can we fear when we do the will of God and when we mind peace amid the waves of persecution and anguish? This is the true character of the operations of God in us, it is peace and the enjoyment of peace, it is the calm and courage that exist within us. I wish that all those who persecute God and His Cross, might know the peace and courage of the friends of the Cross because they are upset and confused, they would be in a kind of  astonishment which I will call an almost amazing and miraculous faith in midst of all this desolation. 

Courage and perseverance, God will accomplish it. God lets pass this effort, this terrible effort in a short time, His adorable Voice will pronounce an end and give to those who have suffered, the happiness of rejoicing in peace and in joy.  This is my last word that I extend to the victims
and to the faithful and devoted friends of Jesus.”

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Notes: Sy. Vincent Ferrer (c. 1350-1418) A native of Valencia, Spain, he entered the Dominican Order at an early age and soon became the advisor of the King of Aragon and of the Avignon Pope, with whom he sided in good faith.  To heal the schism of the papacy he travelled through Spain, France, Switzerland and Italy, preaching pennance, working miracles and converting thousands, being endowed with the gift of tongues.  When it became clear to him that the Avignon party was not in the right, he turned his efforts towards bringing them into obedience under the ligitimate pope.  It was St. Vincent, who under God, was the primary cause of the cessation of the papal schism.  He died at Vannes, Brittany, France.  Feast Day, April 5.
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Saturday 9 September 2017

#66 St. John of the Cross - How to Suffer Well - Suffering a Sign God Loves Us - Importance of the Morning Offering



St. John of the Cross visits Marie-Julie: Love of the Cross Perfects Viritues Within - How to Suffer Well and not Badly - Suffering a sign God loves us and we are the friends of God - The Importance of the Morning Offering, it pleases God



Ecstasy dated July 11, 1878

“I am Saint John of the Cross. I come to say a word before you enter the Holy Novitiate. Love the cross, all carry the cross. Cherish the cross and we all take comfort in the Cross. It is the love of the Cross which perfects within us the beautiful virtues that the Lord wants to give us in His generosity.

Without the cross and without the tribulations, we must not rely on the supreme happiness, because happiness is in pain, in suffering, in the Cross, in persecutions in this world. The Cross is a valuable book, but so few know how to read (it).”

Marie-Julie: “It is true, good saint, but teach us.”

St. John of the Cross: “The Cross of the Divine Master contains all the lights and all the sublime riches. It is necessary to start our study there during (our) life because that is where the perfection of the soul begins. The more the Lord sends us pain, suffering in this world, the more He loves us, the more it brings us closer to Him, He caresses us more in His blazing love. The pains of the earth and all the miseries of life are infinitely precious merits before the Lord.  Many suffer on earth, but many suffer badly.”

Marie-Julie: “Teach us good saint.”

St. John of the Cross: “To suffer well is to procure the immense glory of peace, wealth, love on earth, the recovery of the bliss of repose of the soul. I also lived on earth in the midst of crosses and tribulations, but I was never weary, because I felt so great perfection, a tenderness of love in suffering, as if I could take all the suffering of the earth, I would have done so for my God. If you are the friends of God, you must expect to suffer. And you, the friends of God, He will help you, sometimes in His joy, sometimes His dear Cross on which He has suffered so much.”

Marie-Julie:“Thank you, good saint, this is good.”

St. John of the Cross: “It is a sure sign that God loves us when He makes us suffer on earth. He who does not suffer, is not the true friend of God. The Lord admits us (into) His grace, thank him. Remember that when we feel the pains of life, we experience His grace. When the Lord begins a work in which He wants His glory to break forth, he surrounds it first with persecutions, the cross, neglect, all kinds of penalties. This is the real charm of the Finger of God. It is necessary that one who is in the friendship of the Lord be tested, that everything in his soul is purified.”


Marie-Julie: “I always fear offending the Lord, teach us, good saint, what to do not to displease
Him in the smallest things
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St. John of the Cross: “First, we must maintain humility, obedience, submission, love can say to the Divine Jesus: 'I offer you in advance what will happen, penalties, crosses, or love and joy,' that is the real way not to displease God, for all has been offered to Him in advance ...” (A reminder of how the Morning Offering each day pleases God!)

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Notes: Saint John of the Cross was a great Spanish mystic and theologian who worked with St. Teresa of Avila in the founding of the Order of Discalced Carmelites (1542-1591). He was canonized in 1726 and declared Doctor of the Church in 1926. His work in the field of mystical theology is authoritative. He studied with great precision, all stages of the ascent of the contemplative soul in its return to God. It is a long path of light and love, of painful purification and enlightenment gradually, resulting in the total and indissoluble union of the soul with God. Saint John of the Cross describes his personal experience which gives him an invaluable skill. His presence in La Fraudais should reassure those who still doubt the atmosphere of truth and obedience to the Church. He was just appointed to guide Marie-Julie in the ways of the Holy Novitiate. For several months she was taught by the Holy Spirit on the essential place of the Cross in the spiritual life of Christian souls on earth to heaven. (Biography provided by the Friends of Marie-Julie / SanctuaryWebsite.)

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Thursday 7 September 2017

#65 St. Francis de Sales - Christian Perfection - The "Persecution of the Enlightened" - and more.



Visit of St. Francis de Sales:  Christian Perfection requires Humility and Awareness of God's Presence at every moment - The "Persecution of the Enlightened" - How to Recognise if any Work is of, for and from God.



  Ecstasy of July 9, 1878

“I am St. Francis de Sales.”


Marie-Julie: “Yes, I saw you once, but long ago.”


Saint Francis: “Ah, good! It is I who have come today on behalf of the Lord. The peace of the Lord be with you! I wish the same to all children of God and of His Cross.”


Marie-Julie: “Many thanks, good saint.”


Saint Francis: “God created us on earth to love Him, to serve Him, to worship Him and to live in the union of His Holy Presence and His Peace. To rise in Christian perfection, we need two things: first humility, and second, the Presence of God at every moment.


 Humility is the safeguard of all virtues. Without this virtue, we cannot make progress in Christian life, nor in the advancement of Grace.


God communicates to us His light. He gives us His blessings because He wants us to return all to Him through these two great virtues. I tasted the Highest of God's love and I was admitted into the depths of His divine light. It is for us to understand the heights where God raises us. We can only understand them through the Light of God.  As long as our own light exists, (i.e an I - Me attitude,  self-interest, pride in self, etc,)  one should not think of making progress in virtue. This lower light needs to be extinguished and God replaces it with one of His divine lights.


I kept multiple lights at once that made me discern the pain and joy of many souls that I led by the Divine Light, from a distance. The Light of God, in our minds, brings to our own mind the conditions of pain and joy, which is in each soul. This discernment was not given to all the Fathers of the Church. God does what He wants. 


Christian perfection consists in a true love of God. The Love of God makes rapid progress in us, (I.e in the spiritual life), but do not put any obstacles to that love, if we want to rise in perfection.


I had much to suffer for this great Treatise on the Love of God; this is so difficult for the human
mind alone, (to understand by itself) that God must mingle this with His glory, that He wants us to develop in His greatness, His love and perfection.


Nothing can be acquired without suffering.


 I paid for everything and God sold everything dearly (An odd expression from the French, probably means all of God's graces came at a high price = suffering.)


There are ways to experience God that men can not define or understand. Why? Because our
mind is too attached to things of little value.


To understand this better:

- First: it is absolutely necessary that you must have a special gift.
- Second: the mind must be clear and fully detached from all things

- Third, the proper light of God is newly recreated in our minds for us to understand, and delve further into all the great ways to the degree in which they are found. It is difficult to look further into the Divine Ways, but it can be done with the help and power of God.



First I gave my mind, my thoughts, my memory, all to God. I sacrificed everything to Him and I said, "Lord, for Your own glory and for my humility, that I can perfectly distinguish the operations of each of your wonders worked in myself." I acquired this great grace by penalties as rough as martyrdom, by unbearable suffering (that) without the grace of God ...


How that our brothers and men of earth can figure not these graces appear for nothing! (Difficult / odd translation from the French, perhaps he means to say, 'How can men figure that all these graces
cost nothing?') I know what they cost me and I know what it costs to those who are destined to develop them.  I have not missed persecution, or slanders from all sides. But I can say it was a treasure of light for me because it was only when all these terrible persecutions (came) that I saw the desired light.


See how God tests with all sorts of troubles and tribulations. There came a time when, on the verge of the glory of God, I was everywhere overwhelmed by insults, outrages, to denounce me. I had a joy so complete, so perfect love, a peace so deep that I thought I already had the desired light.


 If we only suffered from ignorant people, it would be very little.  But to suffer from educated people, from people of integrity, of light. (I.e from those who should know and understand, for example, to be attacked by your own fellow priests and bishops when promoting God's work, etc.) This is called the PERSECUTION OF THE ENLIGHTENED. This is a merit infinitely large. All the strength and courage I had I found in the persecution by the bishops, from major prelates, which I received daily, denunciations of black and terrible accusations. All this only increased my faith and my love for God.


They strongly attacked me because I was giving advice to people who were far from me, but it was only by the light that God gave me. For all my trouble, I was corresponding with the soul far away from me. I understood and they understood me. Every pain and every love is shared between all the hearts that I had under my direction. That is what the Holy Spirit reported in a vision of the Holy Novitiate. This is nothing but a divine power and a direct permission of God. This is the true light, this is the perfect finger of God.


All the glories of God, if they are not pursued by people of both parties, (i.e the Church and the world)  they are not fully of God.

If the persecution of the works of God are not many, it is a sign that the work will not go long. (i.e a work that is truly of God and done for God's glory will meet with many setbacks and triublations.  If the road is 'too easy' it is a sign it won't go far, the work is not from God.)


I take proof from the great and illustrious St. Paul, who was caught up into Heaven. If the glory of God is not crossed, torn, exposed to all kinds of contradiction, this can not be purely the work of God. 

If you knew what I suffered to start the first convent! If we knew it would take courage and be armed with a boundless confidence. As soon as the walls were started, the man of God who had the right to govern me (i.e his superior) demolished it and it fell before my eyes. I was overwhelmed, insulted, covered with shame, by all the people following the man of power. I had to support a terrible struggle for the words I wrote on the Love of God and of Christian perfection.


When God wants to do great things, He puts a lot of seals of all kinds. He must also go through the Cross, go through the trials of this life before entering the glory that God has promised ..."

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Notes: St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) was canonized in 1665. Bishop of Geneva, he struggled against Protestantism that ravaged France and Switzerland. By his fiery preaching, he brought back
many lost souls to the fold. He was also a great master of the spiritual life. With Saint Jeanne de Chantal, of whom he was director, he founded the Order of the Visitation, and for the Visitines wrote his famous Treatise on the Love of God. Another of his works, "Introduction to the Devout Life" had a deep and lasting influence. This great saint was awarded the title of Confessor of the Church, for his zeal to proclaim and to love the Truth. He also received a Ph.D. for the soundness of his doctrine and the wisdom of his teachings. It seems he came several times "to visit" during the ecstasies, to advise and comfort Marie-Julie, who recognized and welcomed him with great respect. It is not always the case with the saints! At first, she is very suspicious because she fears to be deceived by an illusion, which is a credit to her care. The martyrs who come to prepare (her) for the Holy Novitiate must "show their credentials," which is sometimes quite touching in her direct simplicity! (i.e the Heavenly visitors to her had to prove who they were so she would not be fooled by the demon). This fear of being the victim of an illusion, human or diabolical, is the signature of a great experience for us and a guarantee (i.e. a safeguard for us). (In other words, she could recognise St. Francis de Sales' holiness immediately, and did not have to test him as she usually did to make sure it was not an apparition of a devil to trick her. Biography provided by the 'Friends of Marie-Julie  / Sanctuary Website.)

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