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Post by Elizabeth on Feb 26, 2019 16:41:51 GMT
(There are 207 extracts in total, I started by putting the first 10, and I will be posting so many each day until finished)
Thoughts of Blessed Melanie Calvat Seeress of La Salette Extracts from her correspondence
Numbers 1-10:
1. On the Mountain of La Salette, the Most Blessed Virgin manifested to me that She wanted the creation of a new religious Order which She Herself designated to me by the name of the Apostles of the Latter Times. (May 22, 1879)
2. The spirit of the Order must be the spirit of the first Apostles. (May 22, 1879)
3. Darkness prevails in minds without anyone realizing it; yet there are souls that are privileged and faithful to grace, humble and prayer-loving, which the darkness cannot reach. These are the souls truly devoted to the Mother of God. (May 22, 1879)
4. Do not worry that I might be afraid when it is a matter of the Most Blessed Virgin. Oh no, I fear no one and I am ready to be cut into pieces for Her, for Her honor which is dearer to me than life. (June 21, 1879)
5. People everywhere say, "Prudence, prudence!" And while waiting, the wicked are becoming bolder and stronger. Lucifer, Asmodeus, Mammon and Beelzebub are extending their kingdom with hardly any effort, men promptly obey their desires. (July 7, 1879)
6. To draw near to Mary, one must abandon sin which is the unique line of separation; do not fear, the water of penance will heal our wounds, open our mind to know the true durable good and make us walk lightheartedly in the observance of God's commandments. (July 7, 1879)
7. Let us pray, let us pray for our brothers who purchase hell with their toil and sweat, they do not know what hell is, what it is to lose God Who created us all for His beautiful Paradise. (July 7, 1879)
8. It is good for me to be purified by all sorts of tribulations. For me, it is God , and always God in all events good and bad, and I never stop praying to the good Lord for my persecutors who are indeed my best friends, helping me to be absolutely for God alone, to give myself all to God, to seek only the pure and naked glory of God, and to detach myself entirely not only from all that is created, but also from myself and from all that is sensitive. (Aug. 8, 1879)
9. The love of God brings with it a great hunger and thirst for sufferings of very kind, every quality, and every color, and these4 same sufferings increase the desire of charity, of love. (Aug. 8, 1879)
10. In order for God to act freely within us, we must lift our shoe - that is, detach ourselves from all earthly vanities, strive to know our nullity, and destroy in us all that is not God in order to then establish the virtues of a living faith, and ardent charity, towards God and towards our neighbor. (Aug. 8, 1879)
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Post by Elizabeth on Feb 27, 2019 16:27:25 GMT
Numbers 11-22:
11. If Apostle means "Angel of the good news," the good news is universal charity, and charity brings about the life of sacrifice. (Aug. 8, 1879)
12. After Pentecost, the first Apostles had only one goal, that of making Our Lord known and loved, and this good news merited the palm of martyrdom for them. Well, there are several kinds of martyrdom and it is the ardor of charity that makes it more or less glorious. (Aug. 8, 1879)
13. The sweet Virgin Mary, without having actually died in defense of the faith, is no less called Queen of Martyrs. To die fighting for the faith is to be a martyr of the faith. (Aug. 8, 1879)
14. Humiliations, contradictions, persecutions, derision are not lacking to Apostles of the truth, but their trust in God, their mortified and penitent life united to prayer serve as a rampart, and Mary being with them, they are always victorious. (Aug. 8, 1879)
15. One must not give the light to those who reject it... It seems to me it would be better not to write him so as not to make him more responsible before God. (Aug. 8, 1879)
16. God blesses His Works and lets those of men collapse. (Sept. 30, 1879)
17. Suffering, exile and every other sacrifice will never make me retreat, with the help of God and the protection of the Most Blessed Virgin. (Dec. 15, 1879)
18. I am doing nothing for God although I am so beholden to Him, I have only to suffer for His love, and this suffering is very sweet and pleasant to me, and I can truly say that I hunger and thirst with the desire to suffer for my God who is so good to me, the last of all His creatures. (Dec. 15, 1879)
19. I would like to be all coated and dredged in the love of God; my heart is really too small, too narrow: it makes me suffer. (Dec. 15, 1879)
20. Oh, if we loved the good Lord, we would be very happy, we would love each other mutually, all would go well and the good Lord would be happy with us!... (Dec. 15, 1879)
21. What can anyone do to me that could hurt me? They cannot touch my soul, and my body is not mine either. If they wanted to tear it to pieces, they would please me greatly, each piece would praise and glorify the good Lord; in this way they would relieve me. (Dec. 15, 1879)
22. I want everything the good Lord wants. All I need is to love Him. (Dec. 15, 1879)
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Post by Elizabeth on Feb 28, 2019 16:50:26 GMT
Numbers 23-36:
23. If the food Lord wanted to accept my life or anything, I am entirely His, entirely at His disposal. I love priests so much because they are Our Lord's ministers, His lieutenants on earth! (Dec. 15, 1879)
24. They do not want to do anything or let anyone else do anything, but Mary's moment will come... (Jan. 3, 1880)
25. I know not whether I am mistaken in my poor way of seeing and understanding things, it seems to me that humility (since one must call it humility) is nothing but truth; being very convinced of our nothingness and our nullity, of our incapacity to do a good that is meritorious for heaven, without God, without His grace and His operation within us. (Jan. 27, 19880)
26. In order for divine grace to act in us, we have only to cooperate with our will, and even then God must stimulate that will. (Jan. 27, 1880)
27. Once very certain, very convinced that by ourselves we can do nothing, how after having freely received several gifts from God, can we be so ungrateful, so blind, as not to recognize the gift of God and His benefits? (Jan.27, 1880)
28. If you want to know, my favorite book is the Crucifix, and my bed of repose is a perfect abandonment into the hands of the divine Master. (Jan. 27, 1880)
29. All my loves Jesus, and Jesus for Himself and not for His gifts nor for the paradise He will give me if He wants to, provided I love Him everywhere He puts me. (Jan, 27, 1880)
30. I passionately love only my Jesus and I long to love Him more and more, and the more I love Him, the more I desire to love Him. Oh, He is so good to us, how can we not love Him? (Jan. 27, 1880)
31. I have given myself entirely to Him and I remain like an idiot drowned in His immense greatness, power and loving wisdom. I would want to do a great deal for God and I would want all men to be mad with the love of God: it would be a paradise on earth. (Feb. 22, 1880)
32. If sufferings of all kinds were not my lot, I tell you in truth that I would not want to remain any longer on this wretched earth, but we have to suffer, repair, expiate and love our Divine Savior Who has loved us so much and who loves us so! (March 18, 1880)
33. I would not want to die once for Him, but thousands and thousands of times. (March 18, 1880)
34. You tell me to forgive those who make me suffer. Oh, I have nothing to forgive because no one is offending me, yet I tell you frankly that I would not want to enrich myself at other people's expense; I would like to suffer without there being sin for anyone. (March 18, 1880)
35. But alas, neither the good nor the bad that one can say changes anything, anything of what I am before the good Lord. (March 18, 1880)
36. The Divine Master, in His Mercy has shown me my evil, my nothingness and my incapacity to be able by myself to do the slightest thing meritiorious in His sight, and by a second grace, also unmerited, He has made me see all things in God, and this has led me to a total abandonment to God. (March 18, 1880)
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Post by Elizabeth on Mar 1, 2019 18:41:05 GMT
Numbers 37-57:
37. In the depths of my heart I feel a great hatred for the slightest faults, and a burning love for God, and this desire, this hunger for the love of God makes me ill and makes me suffer a kind of agony, but an agony that I love, despite the fact that I am afraid to appear before the Tribunal of God, never having done anything for the Glory of the Most High. (March 18, 1880)
38. Courage, let us combat, let us fight generously, while forgetting ourselves. Without God we can do nothing, with God we are (illegible) God. (June 22, 1880)
39. It is so good to suffer, it is so just to suffer and it is the unique consolation in life; to suffer and to love Jesus Christ. (July 7, 1880)
40. Seeing myself ready to give up my soul to my Divine Savior, my only regret was not having suffered enough; it seems to me that we should not desire heaven unless on earth there is nothing left to suffer. (Sept. 18, 1880)
41. Blessed are the faithful religious who suffer for justice's sake; but woe to those who are not faithful to their sublime vocation. Oh, how many are they who will come to the terrible judgement of God with empty hands and hearts, but with eyes full, full of the desire of earthly things and empty of good works! (Oct. 31, 1880)
42. God breathes His spirit upon whom He wills and in the manner He wills. Oh, if we were steeped in Divine Love we would not reason so much! (Nov. 8, 1880)
43. If we five ourselves to Jesus only halfway, we will always be souls that are languishing, imperfect and wavering and of little faith. (Nov. 8, 1880)
44. Our Divine Master humbled Himself, and He humbled Himself in such a way as to make anyone crazy who reflects on in in the least. (Dec. 20, 1880)
45. Only in heaven will we be able to understand this excess of love, this profound humility of our Fool Jesus Christ. But I cannot understand that man humbles himself, should he not always be immersed in his nothingness? (Dec. 20, 1880)
46. When a man is scorned, thwarted, insulted, abandoned, persecuted, accused, etc., etc., should he not tell himself, "People are only doing what they should do to me, it is precisely what I deserve. I am getting what I want, thank you, my God." (Dec. 20, 1880)
47. I need the help of God, and consequently a great love for the Divine Child. Oh, if I came to love Him truly, I would not suffer so! (Dec. 20, 1880)
48. The wicked are gaining ground only because the good give it to them; they give it to them because they are weaker; and they are weaker because they do not pray enough. (June 23, 1883)
49. The priest according to God should never leave the holy Altar except to visit the sick and the suffering. (June 23, 1883)
50. When the people think that La Salette is snuffed out, has collapsed, it will reappear and live again, for the words of the Blessed Virgin are not vain, and She is mighty enough to resurrect it. When you see all this, you will not doubt. But remain confident. (Jan. 22, 1885)
51. As for me, I would see La Salette dead and buried, and I would not doubt. Mary is mighty. Men and devils can do nothing against Her. She will triumph. (Jan. 22, 1885)
52. Men can resist the call of grace, Her appeal, but She (Mary) can transport Her great light and show it to others. Let us await Her help and Her hour. (Jan. 22, 1885)
53. When the crisis has passed, when the hour has sounded, the Blessed Virgin will be able to resurrect La Salette... to accomplish Her work. But you will see what happens... despite everything, do not doubt... The Blessed Virgin's words are not sterile like those of men... Her Work will be done. (Jan. 22, 1885)
54. God is with us when we accomplish His Holy Will, and everything we do outside of this Holy Will can be neither meritorious for eternal life nor pleasing to Him. (June 20, 1885)
55. Our love for Jesus is measured by the love we have for abasement, for crosses and humiliations, no more... (March 5, 1890)
56. It is impossible to go to God with a heart attached to earthly goods. (March 5, 1890)
57. Long live crosses with divine grace, and they will be all the sweeter and lighter, inasmuch as our love is great and generous for our most loving Jesus. (June 6, 1890)
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Post by Elizabeth on Mar 2, 2019 16:27:01 GMT
Numbers 58-78:
58.Courage, courage, as you advance, the adversaries retreat. That is the way of the things of the world; the Works of God develop and grow sooner or later, whereas the works of the world fall. (June 21, 1890)
59. If we want to be instruments in the hands of our most loving Jesus, let us be very little in our own sight, let us meditate on the wholly simple but wholly divine Rule of our sweet Mother Mary, on the pure love of God and true love o neighbor. (July 23, 1890)
60. Let us keep the eyes of our soul constantly on God , so that all our works may be divinized by the reflection of the Majesty of God ever present in our mind. (July 23, 1890)
61. Let us remind ourselves that it is not works that sanctify, but the rectitude of intention with which we do them. (July 23, 1890)
62. Mary, our sweet Mother, during Her life on earth, did not perform any striking deeds, no; and yet all Her actions, even the most ordinary ones, were extraordinary actions that ravished the Heart of God and raptured the Angels. (July 23, 1890)
63. The very great Work of the Redemption was accomplished only upon the death of the God-Man on the Cross; can we hope to lay the foundations of the great Work of Mary Immaculate without the total sacrifice of ourselves? (Aug. 17, 1890)
64. It is so rare in our unhappy times to find people who seek only the pure and naked glory of God and not their own glory. (Aug. 17, 1890)
65. Let us never get discouraged. Trial, if we accept it with humility, will be a great help to make us consider our nothingness and expiate our little imprudences, however involuntary. (Sept. 1, 1890)
66. The Mountain of La Salette where the Immaculate Virgin appeared is but a symbol of the lofty Mountain of perfection to which the daughters of the Mother of God are called, and it is up this mystical Mountain that we must climb by degrees all the way to the summit. (Dec. 8, 1890)
67. Faith, hope and charity are the first stairs to climb. (Dec. 9, 1890)
68. Let us speak much and without fear to God, but let us be sober in word with creatures. Our sweet Mother Mary did not speak much. (May 10, 1891)
69. Be devoted for your neighbor, but above all for the poor, the poorest, and when you absolutely cannot help them as amply as you would like, encourage them and always speak some good words of friendship and affection to them. Good words often do more good than gifts, alms given with an air of vanity and contempt. (July 25, 1892)
70. With patience, you obtain everything, and by patience, you rejoice the Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary. With patience things work themselves out. (July 25, 1892)
71. Serious foundations are not made with words, but with works. We must have a living faith, long patience, great firmness and a very clear view of what God is asking of us. (Dec. 29, 1892)
72. The greatest evil is discouragement, and it never comes from God. (Dec. 29, 1892)
73. We are in a time when we would need generous souls, filled with the spirit of God, but alas! there are too few: people fear men more than God, and, while waiting, evil is ever on the increase. Man is walking with great strides towards the abyss. (March 2, 1880)
74. The good Lord loves you very much, since He associates you to His Cross. He is so alone today, for no one wants the cross, and yet the cross, our cross, will constitute our glory in heaven. (Jan. 3, 1891)
75. Everything God does is very sweet in its bitterness, and very adorable to the flowering faith of holy love. (Jan. 30, 1891)
76. Persecution suffered for justice's sake is not shame, but a very, very great glory, a glory envied by the Angels, were it possible. (Sept. 9, 1894)
77. We know that the more man withdraws from his God through sin, the closer the infernal serpent comes to him. The closer we get to the reign of Antichrist, the more also does the devil redouble in infernal zeal and activity to cause the loss of souls. (Sept. 30, 1894)
78. Each time we are disputed, humiliated, contradicted, and everyone thinks not as we do, if we cannot put everything at the foot of the Cross, like a treasure one silently hides, but on the contrary we sound the trumpet so that everyone knows Mr. or Mrs. So-and-so has dared to contradict us, where would we be? ... And would heaven, that heaven, be for us? It is doubtful. (Oct. 6, 1897)
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Post by Elizabeth on Mar 3, 2019 22:28:04 GMT
Numbers 79-101:
79. Courage and confidence; the devil attacks only souls that make war on him and that do not belong to him. (April 4, 1897)
80. If I do not correct my anger, that passion will not stop there: it will turn into hatred, and once I hate my neighbor, I do not love my sweet Savior. (June 28, 1897)
81. The good Lord endures me despite all my faults, known and unknown; and I cannot endure anything. God gives me the medicine to heal me: and look, I get angry, I get impatient over it. (June 28, 1897)
82. With the eyeglasses of mental prayer, I discover the nest of this cunning reptile: selfishness. I love myself too much, I esteem myself too highly; faith should make me see Jesus in souls, the price of His blood in these bodies that are sometimes repulsive. (June 28, 1897)
83. The more we know God and love Him, the more we will also love our nothingness, our abjection. (June 28, 1897)
84. If God dwells on earth, you will surely find Him in the heart that loves its nothingness. (June 28, 1897)
85. Nothing can disturb the sweet peace of the soul convinced of its abjection; if it is scorned, cast aside, abandoned, it tells itself quite naturally that this is its due. (June 28, 1897)
86. Nothing but the purest faith can make us love sufferings and every possible abjection. (June 28, 1897)
87. In order for our most loving Jesus to be able to take possession of our heart as absolute King and Master, we must sell all our treasures, the treasures of nature, which are: our senses, love of ourselves and of our commodities, well-being, human affections, honors, pleasures; in a word, we must divest ourselves of everything, as the price of the divine Treasure of humiliations, abjections and sufferings. (June 28, 1897)
88. Nothing but the purest faith can teach us to love our own annihilation and destruction: worldly wisdom cannot understand it. (June 28, 1897)
89. The kingdom of Jesus Christ will be established in us only by the destruction of our selfishness. (June 28, 1897)
90. Happy to expend my life in the service of my Divine Savior, I must manifest my faith by manisfesting in myself the life of Jesus Christ on earth, and I must never stop studying Him, imitating Him and following Him, until the sacred fire of Holy Love consumes all thevestiges of my own life. (June 28, 1897)
91. It never displeases the Most Blessed Virgin when Her children go to Her with total confidence. She is our Mother and a Mother full of love for Her dear children. She is so good, so tender and so loving, that She makes Herself loved by force. She attracts, She enlightens, She warms even icy hearts. (June 28, 1897)
92. The crosses of Providence are, without a doubt, the ones most pleasing to our divine Master, because we have not chosen them and because, for our part, we have only the loving acceptance of such a great good. (June 28,1897)
93. Suffering is a need for the soul that has freely received much from supreme beauty. (June 28, 1897)
94. For the lover, suffering is a relief for the soul athirst with the thirst of proving its love to the Most High, to the divine Gardener who makes the lilies to bloom amid the thorns. (June28, 1897)
95. Sufferings are also a way to make us practice the beautiful virtue of patience with ourselves. (June 28, 1897)
96. It is in the school of Calvary that one learns the rare science of the love of suffering and of true self-destruction, and of the destruction of the debt that our father Adam bequeathed to us. (June 28, 1897)
97. God reigns in us only inasmuch as we will have put our corrupt nature to death. (June 28, 1897)
98. Let us empty ourselves of all that is created and of every affection that is not God. (June 28, 1897)
99. Let the eye of our soul always be upon the divine sun of Justice. (June 28, 1897)
100. May Mary be our mistress to instruct us, our guide to lead us, our confidential friend in all our little affairs, our zelatrix to warm us counsel us. (June 28, 1897)
101. Mary, Mary and always Mary. She is beautiful and She was the first and the worthiest living Tabernacle of Jesus, our Brother, Her divine Son. (June 28, 1897)
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Post by Elizabeth on Mar 5, 2019 3:36:12 GMT
Numbers 102-116:
102. There has never been, there will never be in hell a soul that has been a lover of the Mother of God. (Aug. 16, 1897)
103. Mary the Virgin Mother does not permit, will never permit any of Her devoted children to be lost forever. (Aug. 16, 1897)
104. But if that person says, "I do not feel this attraction, this love, this zeal for God and the Virgin: mortification and penance frighten me," I reply, "Attraction is the wheel that carries us, almost despite ourselves, to love and to act; and our only merit is that of not resisting the impulse of grace." (Aug. 16, 1897)
105. If we know God, we will love Him. It is impossible not to love God when you know Him. (Aug. 16, 1897)
106. Faith lifts the soul to heaven, and forms beautiful hope, founded on the infinite merits of the God-Man. (Aug. 16, 1897)
107. Let us love, let us love our most loving Jesus and let us go to Jesus through Mary: She will break the ice in our heart and make us love Jesus with an ardent love. (Aug. 16, 1897)
108. If alone I had committed all the sins that are on the earth, I would want to hope in the great mercy of God. (Aug,16, 1897)
109. He (Jesus) does not want to do violence to our free choice: He tolerates us and awaits our penance. His grace never forsakes us as long as we are alive. (Aug. 16, 1897)
110. Oh, faith! Faith makes the soul live and gives it holy hope; and hope gives patience and meekness, mildness for our brothers in Jesus Christ. (Nov. 11, 1989)
111. Reason alone can only bring us darkness. One cannot reason over faith, because the mysteries of God are impenetrable, incomprehensible to human reason. (Feb. 19, 1898)
112. Faith! Faith gives hope, and with hope comes kindness, affability, patience and love for our fellow-men, inseparable from the love of God. (April 16, 1898)
113. What miseries in life! And our dear Jesus looks with His eyes of goodness and mercy on all the efforts and sacrifices that all souls created by Him, for Him, make for His love. (Oct. 10, 1898)
114. I am also very grateful to my adversaries: God has used them to help me and to attach me, unite me more closely to the Cross with my most loving Jesus. (Nov. 22, 1898)
115. When one strongly feels this divine presence of God thrice holy in the depths of his soul, suffering is a real necessity, a hunger, a need to prove to the Beloved that you love Him and that you want to love Him. (Nov. 22, 1898)
116. The cross is a very great treasure, it is the repose of the soul... Our most loving Jesus, in His great mercy, has accustomed me so well to crosses, that I would no longer know how to live without them. (Dec. 1, 1898)
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Post by Elizabeth on Mar 5, 2019 17:12:14 GMT
Numbers 117-139:
117. It remains for us to have recourse with fervor and rectitude of heart to our sweet Mother Mary : it is Her business to repair our faults, whatever they may be. Without worrying, let us pray to Her and allow Her to act. (June 247, 1899)
118. Enjoyment, prosperity, consolations, etc., never make the soul enter into union with God. Crucified union is more perfect yet, because the soul is divested of all created things and it is like a living-dead, letting itself be governed by God. (Aug. 13, 1899)
119. One act of uniformity to God's good pleasure is far more pleasing to the Most High than all speculations on non-merited and entirely free favors. (Nov. 12, 1899)
120. One must not delude oneself: whoever undertakes the project of performing a work of God directly aimed against all hell, should expect to be fought by all men, by disappointments, and by the spirit of darkness. One must not have mediocre virtue. (Oct. 28, 1899)
121. In heaven all the elect will have a palm, yet all will not have shed their blood for the faith: there is the martyrdom of patience in adversities. (Nov. 6, 1899)
122. If the Holy Ghost were to reveal to mortals His (the God-Man's) physical and moral sufferings, they would remain dumbstruck, petrified. (Jan. 31, 1900)
123. The love of God levels every difficulty, and humility in charity is the cement that unites every heart in the spirit of our most loving Savior Jesus Christ. (March 10, 1900)
124. The Divine Master abides most particularly in souls that suffer, but are humbly submissive to His good pleasure. (March 28, 1900)
125. In everything one must have patience, perseverance in the enterprise of the formation of hearts; and one must get them to love virtue by showing much affection for the eternal salvation of souls. (Oct. 11, 1903)
126. Oh, I would want the great Saint Paul to return: he would not let himself get condemned without defending himself. Besides, one is not defend his own person: it is the faith, beleaguered Religion that one defends. (Nov. 20, 1903)
127. Passions have obscured the minds of the enemies of God and the Holy Religion that Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, taught us and confirmed with miracles for three years. (Nov. 23, 1903)
128. The Mother of mercies and of pity chose me only because She recognized me as the lowest of the lowest in the whole world. (Nov. 23, 1903)
129. Whoever is unwilling to guide his life according to God's Law, according to the Gospel maxims, will always find motives for doubting all he wants to doubt; the faith of these people is not a sanctifying faith. (Nov. 25, 1903)
130. When you do what you can, you have done your duty. (Feb. 3, 1904)
131. If we knew ourselves, we would keep our face in the dust day and night, striking our breast to ask for pardon and mercy. (Feb. 17, 1904)
132. What a dreadful sight! What a chastisement of God! We are not even aware of our blindness. (Feb. 17, 1904)
133. You have labored greatly (do not say for nothing); the good Lord will take it into account, better than if you had succeeded in converting all the convertibles. (Feb. 24, 1904)
134. Take courage, let us trample all passing things underfoot and move forward: if we have God for us, what does it matter to us what creatures say? (Feb. 24, 1904)
135. Nothing false enters the heavenly Jerusalem. Only those who have serve God with all their heart in spirit and in truth. (Feb. 26, 1904)
136. When you have God for you, with you and with rectitude you serve Him in the souls He has redeemed by shedding all that is created. (March 29, 1904)
137. We know by faith that all we suffer for justice is imputed to us: nothing is lost for eternal glory. (March 29, 1904)
138. If the divine Master presses His hand a little more on those who are His, so that their resignation, their generosity, their expiation may make amends to Him for the offenses of His idiot creatures, should they not consider themselves honored? Courage, confidence and abandonment in God. (March 29, 1904)
139. It is time to draw nearer to the divine Master, when, in our nature, we feel ourselves beaten down, contradicted in our projects, in our plans, and it seems that nothing succeeds for us. (April 26, 1904)
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Post by Elizabeth on Mar 6, 2019 16:57:40 GMT
Numbers 140-162:
140. When we have a sacrifice to make, we must not bargain over it as when I buy a pocket knife; we must make it generously and quickly, quickly, for fear that it well escape us. (May, 28, 1904)
141. What would we do if we were deprived of the good crosses sent by the One Who carried the Cross first to open this beautiful eternal paradise for us? (Oct. 6, 1904)
142. Crosses detach us from transitory things and unite us to Our Lord, our unique Good. (Oct. 6, 1904)
143. As you are doing, let us place ourselves above everything that anyone says against us: God alone must judge us and will judge our slanderers. (Oct. 6, 1904)
144. Why do you spend your days in sadness, my very dear Father? Does the good Lord, Whom you have chosen to serve, no longer exist?... Come now, let us shake off sadness: it does not come from the limpid light of the Most High. (Nov. 14, 1904)
145. Know that before dying we must die over a hundred times, through violence done to our miserable nature inclined to satisfy itself. (Dec. 13, 1904)
146. Let us do all the good we can, let us save souls, save them with great sacrifices, great patience and meekness; let us forget ourselves for souls. (Dec. 13, 1904)
147. Let us go with confidence to the Throne of mercies, Mary. That name is sweeter than honey; it gives more light than the sun, and it is everything in the heart of the one who loves Her. (Dec. 7, 1888)
148. As for me, I need patience: not only exterior, but interior; this virtue which accepts all without the slightest resentment towards creatures, and which can cover their weaknesses and imperfections with the mantle of beautiful Charity. (Dec. 23, 1888)
149. Oh, if sinners knew what they lose by losing the friendship of God, His grace and glorious eternity! (Feb. 2, 1889)
150. The Associates of the Order of the Mother of God must be the LIVING LAW. (Feb. 2, 1889)
151. God tries the souls He loves. (April 24, 1889)
152. (The cross) is a very precious gift; we will only recognize its value when we are in heaven. (June 8, 1889)
153. There must be Victims to disarm the justice of God irritated by so many people who never cease offending Him. (June 8, 1889)
154. When God wants our good works, He gives us health; and when He wants to see His face on the cross, He puts us there. We must become saints after God's fashion, not ours. (June 8, 1889)
155. The wicked will do all evil possible; we have a great need for our sweet Mother Mary to perform prodigies of mercy, to save, to make Her true children invisible to the infernal rage of the godless. (Oct. 23, 1889)
156. I must live and act only under His lovable dependency; love only what this Divine Savior loved on earth: humiliations, contempt, poverty,pains of mind and body, solitude, penance, etc., etc., for the pure and naked glory of the Eternal Father. (April 5, 1890)
157. The Divine Master tries His friends and makes them participants of His precious Cross. Oh, if we knew the value of sufferings, we would not be able to live for a moment without suffering something. (June 8, 1890)
158. Poor Jesus, how He is mistreated! And He suffers everything, He endures everything, and with one sign of our repentance He wants to forgive us. (Aug. 28, 1890)
159. Oh, more than ever we need the help, lights and protection of our sweet Mother Mary, to make the perilous crossing of this sad life. (Dec. 3, 1890)
160. God purifies all His elect with illnesses, infirmities and tribulations. (Dec. 12, 1890)
161. Purity of faith,love and patience are the three secure stairs for attaining the possession of eternal glory. (Dec. 12, 1890)
162. One day a soul said to Our Lord, "My God, my pains are crushing me; I want to suffer cheerfully." The Divine Master answered, "Do you think that in the Garden of Olives I did not feel My sufferings deeply? The proof is that I sweat even unto blood, so strong were My pains and sorrows that I wanted to anticipate, and so much revulsion did My human nature have at the great sacrifice of the Cross, that I was reduced to Agony." (Dec. 23, 1890)
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Post by Elizabeth on Mar 7, 2019 17:12:12 GMT
Numbers 162-184:
163. Let us pray, let us pray, and at the hour of the disasters God will have mercy on His own, because His mercy is infinite. (April 13, 1891)
164. Oh, if we thought about death and about this indefinable ETERNITY, our works would be very different. (May 17, 1891)
165. The great work of the Redemption was firmly planted only upon the death of the Living God, and it was confirmed only upon the resurrection of His Humanity. (May 25, 1891)
166. so it is for the Work of the Mother of God: it will rise more glorious after its passion and death and abandonment by its disciples. (May 25, 1891)
167. We should never hope more strongly than when it seems that all human hope is lost; because this is the work of Mary and not the work of creatures. (May 24, 1891)
168. The work of the Mother of God must be called to accomplish a very great good in favor of souls, for hell and all that is of hell to raise so many, many obstacles and difficulties against it, in order to prevent its formation, (July 11, 1891)
169. The greater the hatred of hell, the more we should rejoice: it is a good sign: our sweet Mother will again crush his old head full of ire,lies and blasphemies. (July 11, 1891)
170. Science without active faith is just insanity in the man who possessed it badly, who possesses it without God. It is pagan science, wholly given to earthly goods and the pleasures of the sense. (Aug. 13, 1891)
171. It is better to foresee an evil to avoid it, than to heal it when it is done. The children of God must walk in the light; their path must be clear to everyone. (Nov. 14, 1891)
172. To die in Mary's arms means to be carried from darkness to true light; to true happiness. The mercy of God is infinite; the merits of Jesus Christ being applied to us, we have nothing to fear, because we have the mark of the triumph of the children of God. (Nov. 14, 1891)
173. Our sweet Mother will know how to protect Her faithful servants against the greatest chastisements. She is our Mother. for Her true children She will be their hedge, their rampart, their fortification against the rage of their enemies. (May 1, 1892)
174. Fear must give way to confidence. We are consecrated to Him who, in order to save us, shed all His blood. Now, this same Jesus, Who has done the more, can do the less,l which is to protect His sheep and His lambs from the enemies of all good. (May 7, 1892)
175. We belong to Mary, to the One who is like an army in battle array. We are the children of the Mother of God, Mary will take care of us in a wonderful manner. (May 7, 1892)
176. Oh, acquired knowledge, with the absence of divine knowledge, claims many victims! (June 26, 1892)
177. We all have our miseries, and consequently we need the great mercy of the good Lord, of this same Jesus Christ Who told us, "Love one another as I have loved you. The same measure you have used for your brother, I will use for you." (Nov. 22, 1892)
178. Long live God! The little number will be preserved; the bunch of grapes that has remained attached to His Mother will live; the Apostles of the Latter Times will preach penance and will comfort the weak and the afflicted, Mary will be with them. (March 6, 1893)
179. We cannot rebel against the order established by God, we have only to submit, uniforming our will to that of the Most High, while waiting for us all to be reunited to sing the mercies of the Lord. (April 22, 1893)
180. What a beautiful celebration we will make On High all together! What a joy to see one another again, to recognize one another! (April 22, 1893)
181. I have said it and I will never stop saying it: it is we, it is ourselves who force the scourges of divine justice from the Hands of God. (April 22, 1893)
182. What is consoling is that out of all Christians devoted to the Mother of God, not one of them will miss the gate of paradise. (Nov. 28, 1894)
183. Mary is the Queen, the mistress of the universe and the depositary of the treasures of the Most Blessed Trinity; and whoever heartily invokes Her all the days of his life will surely be saved: hell has never been able, will never be able to boast over having in its fires a veracious devotee of the Mother of God and of all the predestined. (Nov. 28, 1894)
184. God, always good and merciful, always desiring the salvation of souls, would receive us with open arms, if we would return to Him with a humble and repentant heart; if we would call the mighty Virgin, the Mother of mercy, to our aid and assistance. (Jan. 5, 1895)
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Post by Elizabeth on Mar 9, 2019 4:35:22 GMT
Numbers 185-192:
185. Children love their Mother and want Her to be loved by all Christians; and this desire is operative, generous, active, and sacrifices everything, even life, to win Her souls, the price of the blood of Jesus Christ our divine Redeemer. (April 22, 1893)
186. It is not enough to pray: in wartime, you must fight, combat, and fighting is praying indeed. (Jan. 26, 1896)
187. God created us without our accepted will, but He will not save us without us. Yet God, ever good, will save His faithful servants. (Jan. 26, 1896)
188. Let us pray, let us fight against the countless iniquities. Let us trust in Mary, She is our Mother. (Jan. 6, 1896)
189. I tell myself: God is infinitely merciful, but also infinitely JUST, He never rewards evil. (Feb. 3, 1897)
190. Will God reward men for their iniquities? He will chastise, and the chastisements of various kinds are not and will not be given to us without cause; no, we ourselves force them from the hands of God's justice. (Feb. 27, 1898)
191. No matter how long life may be, it seems only a dream at the moment of departure. But the eternity of happiness will be so long! To see God, to love Him, to know Him. (Sept. 8, 1898)
192. Darkness is upon the eyes of men, because they have refused to receive the reparatory light: MARY, MARY. (Nov. 13, 1897)
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Post by Elizabeth on Mar 10, 2019 18:22:30 GMT
Numbers 193-207:
193. Men desire happiness and seek it where it cannot be: in the things that end. (July 18, 1898)
194. A good long life is a grace of divine mercy. Ah, if the saints who are in the royal place of repose could have one desire, it would be to be able to return on earth to suffer and pray to the God of all holiness. (Dec. 5, 1898)
195. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the greatest act on earth, since it is God Himself offering Himself for us in sacrifice; and it is there, on Calvary, that one learns to love this infinitely good God. (Dec. 5, 1898)
196. Blessed are they who, amid the general apathy of Christians, have preserved by divine grace, their ardent fervor in the service of the divine Master for their reward in heaven shall be great. (Aug. 3, 1899)
197. God tries His intimate friends with tribulations, in order to have them acquire greater merits. (Sept. 28, 1899)
198. Since the faith teaches us that everything good or sad that happens is willed by God, we must not only resign ourselves to what we think is an ill, a disgrace in the family, but uniform our will to that of the divine Majesty. (Sept. 28, 1899)
199. The vows of Religion are the terror of the old serpent (when they are strictly observed). (April 20, 1900)
200. The more bitter crosses seem, the more sweetness they contain, and they destroy what is human and all that comes from corrupted nature. (July 1, 1900)
201.What would someone not give to be infallibly assured of a place in the heaven of heavens! Let us give our passing life for the eternal palm. (Aug. 31, 1901)
202. The Apostles of Our Lord Jesus Christ did not seek their repose, their ease, the friendship of the divine Master's enemies; they obeyed God rather than men, and they shed their blood for the faith. (April 3, 1902)
203. Our confidence in God, in the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary should do violence to Heaven: confidence moves even the most justly irritated hearts. If our Mother Mary keeps us, we will be well kept. (Dec. 23, 1902)
204. Often the scourges of God do more good in souls than a mission would, because they awaken the faith and make people perform works of faith, and they multiply prayers among the faithful. (May 7, 1898)
205. Let us remove the obstacles, remove all sin, all imperfection, and let us cast ourselves blindly into the omnipotence of the divine love of Jesus: then we will see what He does with us in little time. (Constitutions of Melanie, Chap. 6)
206. Prayer is the key to every grace, it opens the pores of the soul of the greatest sinners... Prayer brings down from heaven the torrents of graces of conversion, repentance and sorrow. What country did the Most Blessed Virgin preach in? She is called Regina Apostolorum. She prayed. (April 14, 1884)
207. I have never claimed to be a personality, and even less to perform miracles. I have limited myself to being faithful to God and accomplishing my mission, which will end at my death. Performing miracles is an entirely free gift of God that adds nothing to one's holiness of life. (May 22, 1879)
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Post by Elizabeth on Mar 10, 2019 18:43:49 GMT
THE HIDDEN TREASURE
I am happy to learn that good Father Roubaud will be spending ten days with you in holy conversations on the great work of the Mother of God; a work which is too far beyond human intelligence to be understood by people attached to earthly goods and worldly pleasures, who cannot perceive it because they are deprived of a living faith. This work is a hidden treasure. To find it, one must first sell the heritage left to us by our fist father, Adam. This heritage is sin with all its subsequent results. These results are often very refined and insidious and they sometimes take on the fine appearance of virtue. We must not be tricked by them. It is the heart that has sinned. We must dig deep down and search into every nook and cranny to find all that is not marked with the seal of the cross, in order to tear it out.
Ordinarily, when God, in His great mercy, wants to draw souls to Himself in a special way, He has them see two extreme extremities: His extreme greatness, power and wisdom, and then the creature's extreme nullity, its extreme powerlessness, , its extreme incapacity to perform a single good work that is meritorious for paradise, without the help of God's grace. With the help of grace, this knowledge causes the soul to enter into the greatest depths of the earth, which is certainly its place; and it is pleased with the fact that God is the One Who is and that it is nothing coming from men, unless it be scorn, desertion, abandonment, poverty and abjection. It desires scorn, suffering, illness, solitude, prayer and austerity. Oh, what a beautiful life is this, and it does not suffer from anyone's jealousy! No, no one covets the happy stare of this dead-living or living-dead soul: it is the hidden treasure, and it is the treasure that the Apostles of the Latter Times must find. It can be found through a living faith. When Jesus came down on earth, He lowered Himself, He lived poor, humble, scorned, thwarted, calumniated, etc. If we want to be with Jesus, we must imitate Him by sacrificing our excellence to the Eternal Father, who sacrificed His Son to save us.
Blessed Melanie Calvat
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