Mediugorje "A constant reminder of Love that saves"

A constant reminder of the Love that saves

The eternal fire of Trinitarian Love is pouring out today with moving superabundance on the world through the Immaculate Heart of the Queen of Peace.

The God "rich in mercy" already at the beginning of the history of salvation in revealing his Name to Moses on Sinai had proclaimed mercy the main attribute of the divine mystery: "YHWH, YHWH, God merciful and merciful, slow to anger and rich of grace and fidelity "(Ex. 33,18-19). In Jesus Christ then he revealed himself fully in his most intimate essence: "God is Love" (1, Jn 4,8: 221): "eternal exchange of love: Father; Son and Holy Spirit ”(CCC. 25.09.1993). In this time, in which spirals of darkness seem to envelop the city of men, He sends the Queen of Peace among us solely out of love, to manifest to the world the glory of her merciful love, through the unspeakable tenderness of a Mother's heart: "Dear children, these times are special times, that's why I am with you, to love and protect you, to protect your hearts from Satan and to draw you all closer, ever closer, to the Heart of my Son Jesus" (Message 25.04.1995) ; "God, for love of man, sent me among you, to show you the way of salvation, the way of love" (Message 25.05.1999), and further on he repeats: "For this I am with you, to teach you and draw you closer to the love of God ”(Mess. XNUMX).

Our Lady solicits a profound existential decision, which arises from the freedom of the children of God, to joyfully offer them our poor hearts, petrified and clouded by heavy stories of sin and innumerable wounds, to completely reshape them to the divine love flame of her Heart. Immaculate: "Little children, you seek peace and pray in various ways, but you have not yet given your hearts to God to fill them with his love" (Message 25.05.1999). Only in this way can the sick depths of our soul be healed at the root and we can be restored to the fullness of life, peace and true joy, which radiate incessantly from the Heart of Christ, the only Savior: "Therefore I invite you all to open the your hearts to the love of God, which is so great and open to each one of you "(Message 25.04.1995); “You know that I love you and that I burn with love for you. Therefore, dear children, you too decide for love, in order to be able to burn and know the love of God every day. Dear children, decide for love so that love takes over all of you. However, not human love, but divine love ”(Message 25.11.1986).

Mary shows us the concrete way to reach the true opening of the heart, to fully welcome the river of love that the Father at this time wants to give us "without measure": to open ourselves totally to the grace of his presence, transforming us into life with simplicity and love of children his messages, so as to make the burning Word of divine truth of the Gospel fully alive and operative in our hearts. Mary assures us that this can be achieved through deep prayer of the heart and unconditional abandonment in God: "Pray, because in prayer each of you will be able to reach complete love" (Message 25.10.1987); “Children, pray and through prayer you will discover love” (Message 25.04.1995); "God does not want you to be lukewarm and indecisive, but to be completely abandoned to Him" ​​(Message 25.11.1986); “Abandon yourselves to God, so that He can heal you, console you and forgive you everything that hinders you on the path of love” (Message 25.06.1988).

She wishes that, with the heart full of tenderness of true children of the heavenly Father, in whom the Spirit ceaselessly cries "Abbà", we fully welcome the love of God which is expressed on all levels of our life. In this way we fulfill with a renewed spirit the great commandment of the ancient People of the Covenant, that "we love God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength" (Dt. 6,4 -7), opening ourselves, with all the senses of the soul, to the Father's Love, which is admirably given to us through the mystery of Creation: “Dear children! Today I invite you all to awaken your hearts to love. Observe nature and see how it is awakening: this will help you to open your hearts to the love of God the Creator "(Message 25.04.1993)," Little children, rejoice in God the Creator, because he created us in such a wonderful way "(Message 25.08.1988)," So that your life may be a joyful thanksgiving that flows from your heart like a river of joy "(ibid.) Our Lady invites us to trust God totally, eradicating every trace of self-centeredness from the heart spiritual, which irremediably sterilizes His work in us, admonishing us that the superabundance of merciful love that is given to us in this time belongs to us to the extent that we pour it out incessantly on our brothers, to generate in them the light of life and new communion: “Dear children, today I invite you so that each one begins anew to love God first and then the brothers and sisters who are close to you” (Message 25.10.1995); "Do not forget that your life is not yours, but a gift with which you must give joy to others and guide them towards eternal life" (Mess. 25.12.1992) The Queen of Peace calls her "dear children" true " offspring of the Woman "(Gen 3,15:25.01.1987), whom God has chosen and called" in his great plan of salvation for humanity "(Message 25.02.1995), to make present the flame of love of his Immaculate Heart in every part of the world, becoming almost an extension of His special presence of grace among men: "I invite you to live with love the messages I give you and to transmit them all over the world so that a river of love flows among people full of hatred and without peace "(Message 25.10.1996); “Through you I wish to renew the world. Understand, little children, that today you are the salt of the earth and the light of the world ”(Message XNUMX).

As in Lourdes and Fatima for some chosen ones, so in Medjugorje for multitudes of those who have been called, to those who have been given a special experience of the fiery mystery of Trinitarian love, through a living and personal encounter with the "burning bush" of the Immaculate Heart, a precise spiritual mandate is also entrusted: to be a witness and bearer of the Father's merciful love even in the darkest and most wounded depths of men, so that every "devastated land may be called His satisfaction" (Is. 62,4), every reality may be fully redeemed and shine with the paschal splendor of the new heavens and the new earth: “I invite you to become apostles of Love and goodness. In this world without peace, bear witness to God and the Love of God ”(Message 25.10.1993); "I invite you little children to become peace where there is no peace and light where there is darkness, so that every heart may accept the light and the way of salvation" (Message 25.02.1995).

In order for this fundamental plan of grace to be fulfilled, at the dawn of "a new time" (Message 25.01.1993), marked by the announced triumph of her Immaculate Heart, Mary calls us to witness among the brothers a very different quality of love. from that commonly understood by the world. It is not human love, it is the Love of God. It is what is fully revealed in the Paschal Mystery of Christ through the scandal of the Cross, it is the fruit of that "divine, mysterious wisdom which has remained hidden, which God foreordained before the ages for our glory ”(1 Cor. 2,6). it is the love that is fully glorified in the immolated Lamb that illuminates the new creation (cf. Rev 21, 22-23): the Queen of Peace calls us first of all to sacrificed love. “Dear children, today I call you to love, which is pleasing and dear to God. Little children, love accepts everything, all that is hard and bitter, because of Jesus who is love. Therefore, dear children, pray to God to come to your aid: but not according to your wishes, but according to his love! "

(Message 25.06.1988). "Reconcile yourselves with one another and offer your life to make peace reign over the whole earth" (Message 25.12.1990). This is the royal way of the evangelical Beatitudes, traced by Christ to all the generations of the redeemed, which Mary, the docile servant of the Word, with her special presence of grace wants to make alive and bright in this time in the hearts of her children: "I desire that you love all good and bad, with my love. Only in this way will love gain the upper hand in the world ”(Message 25.05.1988); "I wish to draw ever closer to Jesus and His wounded Heart, so that a source of love may flow from your hearts on every man and on those who despise you: in this way, with the love of Jesus, you will be able to overcome all misery in that world painful that is hopeless for those who do not know Jesus "(Message 25.11.1991).

This divine love, accepted and given, continually generates the mystery of the Church, the supreme fruit of Christ's Paschal Way and true "sacrament of salvation for the world". In it the image and glory of the Trinitarian family are visibly present. Our Lady, with simplicity and moving tenderness, invites us to enter the crucible of love of her Immaculate Heart, to live, with special intensity and fullness, this mystery of communion given from above: "I desire that my Heart, the of Jesus and your heart are founded in a single heart of love and peace… I am with you and I guide you on the path of love ”(Message 25.07.1999). For this he raises new spaces of communion, spiritual families and prayer groups, where, through the grace of his special presence, the truth of Trinitarian Love shines more intensely and brightly, in order to proclaim to the world the ineffable joy of the offering of Christ, consumed in the fire of love of the Spirit, for the salvation of the brothers: ”… form prayer groups, so you will experience joy in prayer and communion. All those who pray and are members of prayer groups are open in their hearts to the will of God and joyfully testify to the love of God ”(Message 25.09.2000).

Our Lady, who is "Mater Ecclesiae", in perfect harmony with the intuition of the Pope, who, among the significant acts of the Jubilee journey, wanted to celebrate the "purification of the memory" of the Church, wishes that in this time the Bride is fully renewed and may he shine with new life before his Lord, that every "stain and wrinkle", residue of unredeemed human old age, still nested in many ecclesial structures, become "soulless apparatuses and masks of communion" (see Apostolic Letter. " Novo millennio inenunte ", N ° 43), is in this time fully consumed by the ardent love of the Lamb, to which the Queen of Peace tirelessly wants to lead her children, so that all hearts may be totally healed and renewed by the" river of water alive as clear as crystal ”, which incessantly“ springs from His throne ”(Ap. 22, 1):“ Let us pray, little children, for those who do not want to know the love of God, despite being in the Church. We pray that they are converted; may the Church be resurrected in love. Only in this way, with love and prayer, little children, can you live this time which is given to you for conversion ”(Mess. 25.03.1999).

To this royal throne, "to him whom they have pierced" (Jn. 19,37:25.02.1997), today ever more vast multitudes of brothers unconsciously turn their gaze, thirsting for that living water that the Father wants to give them through our free response. 'love. Let us entrust to the tenderness of the Queen of Peace the weight of our weakness and of the radical inability to love present in the deep wounds of our hearts, so that everything is fully transformed into an overabundant light of grace, which finally makes us those "outstretched hands of God who humanity seeks "(Message XNUMX).

Giuseppe Ferraro

Source: Eco di Maria n. 156-157

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