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"I desire to bring you all to heaven unto God."
J.M.J.
May 9, 2013
Ascension
Thursday
(Thursday of the Sixth Week
of Easter in some Dioceses)
Dear Family of
Mary!
Our Lady has often spoken
to us of heaven. She wants us to desire heaven. She wants us to realize that
heaven is real, and it is our true home. She asks us to live with our eyes on
heaven, not on our temporal earthly reality.
When I think of the
Ascension, I think of heaven. Jesus ascended into heaven in the presence of the
Apostles and Disciples. His Mother Mary was among them. How that ascension must
have pulled at her heart! Jesus was going back to the Father, to His heavenly
home. She knew she would follow one day, but not yet. And so her heart must have
been pulled in two. Only the Holy Spirit could have helped her to remain on
earth, her love was so strong.
And now she is trying to
communicate to us the same desire for heaven and for Jesus that she had at that
moment, and has to this day. She wants us to identify with heaven as our true
and only home. Listen to this message she gave in 1986:
"Dear children! Again today I call you to
consecrate your life to me with love, so I am able to guide you with love. I
love you, dear children, with a special love and I desire to bring you all to
Heaven unto God. I want you to realize that this life lasts briefly compared to
the one in Heaven. Therefore, dear children, decide again today for God. Only
that way will I be able to show how much you are dear to me and how much I
desire all to be saved and to be with me in Heaven. Thank you for having
responded to my call." (November 27, 1986)
Mother Mary wants to bring
us all home. She has come for her children. She comes to shake us out of our
earthly stupor, and get our eyes on our true home. She wants us to gaze upward,
into the heavens where Jesus ascended, and to long for Him and for home! Heaven
is our true home. In another message she told us:
"Dear
children! Do not forget that you are here on earth on the way to eternity and
that your home is in Heaven. That is why, little children, be open to God's love
and leave egoism and sin. May your joy be only in discovering God in daily
prayer. That is why, make good use of this time and pray, pray, pray; and God is
near to you in prayer and through prayer. Thank you for having responded to my
call." (July 25, 2000)
Clearly, she is calling us
to long for home, and to live this life as a preparation for that life. On this
Ascension, may we contemplate our Savior, rising on the clouds into heaven.
Jesus has gone back to the Father, to prepare a place for us. Mother Mary has
joined Him there, and she is now coming back to us to lead us there. If we live
her messages, she will be able to lead us forward towards eternity in heaven
with our God.
As Denis says every day on
our Rosary, "Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!!"
In Jesus, Mary and
Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2013
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world!"
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