Holy Suffering, the Divine Remedy...
A TradCatKnight follower emailed me this wonderful message today
I wrote you a while back and you answered me, you probably will not
remember as I know how busy you are with all you are doing in your
efforts to warn people about the coming events and the situation in the
church. I was wondering if you haven't already you would mention in a
podcast the remedy of our great little flower St Therese Lisieux? You
know, she foresaw that in our century and the one following her death
that the Great Apostasy would happen, and one must wonder if her intense
sufferings were not to save souls at this period. She wrote her
"little way" while she was ill and bedridden and was urged by God that
it was of utmost importance. You might say she wrote this treatise with
her own blood in the pen.
Her little way sanctifies daily life and even the smallest thing
has great power united to Jesus to save souls and obtain graces and
favors from God, THEY ALSO APPEASE DIVINE WRATH. It is a way that was
meant for all of us. Little Jacinta was similarly disposed. I know you
mention sacrifices but the little way is actually a great intro to this
idea, the theology behind it hand delivered from God to the little
flower of Jesus and thereby us, and it also adds the power of her
intercession to the enterprise. If you do this, do not be surprised if
she does not shower roses from heaven on you! You always get a rose
from Therese when you invoke her, do her novena or promulgate her little
way. And she promised that she would spend her time in heaven doing
good on earth. You have a large following and if a large group could
devote to these practices who knows? Miracles will happen.
Reading the messages of the Sacred Heart are curative in any
situation I have found. It is really difficult now to hang onto the
Catholic mind and heart. Reading the most intimate words from our
Blessed Saviour's Heart is like a balm in troubled times, It is
reassuring to know that Jesus will never abandon us, not even when the
church which was His chosen means to save us is lacking I am reading
now about St Mechthild The Book of Special Grace, and boy! Oh what a
wonderful book it is and it is a good remedy for sadness over all this
and help in having great confidence in God. In it she mentions St Mary
Magdalene. I know that you are working to help the lost girls and I was
reading in the Book of Special Grace that St Mary Magdalene can procure
the greatest graces of conversion for sinners, let us say those who had
less than the perfect walk in life.
It was revealed by Our Lord that St Magdalene is at Jesus feet in
glory. Saint Mechthild saw two trees at Our Lord's feet that were
flowering with graces obtained by the great penance she performed in
life and the great love she had for Christ. God has ordained that she
obtains through her intercession the grace of a perfect contrition of
sinners and also the grace of conversion. If you do not already invoke
her, you might. It might really surprise you the results she can
obtain in your ministry to save these women.
I weep everyday for the situation in our beautiful Catholic
Church. I weep because God is so mocked and Jesus discarded. I weep
because of my own failures, I weep because of the people I know who
passed without the benefit of the sacraments and who knows where they
are? Where did they go? It is so hard to face that so many are going
to be lost, even among those we love most. It is hard not to dissolve
into hopelessness at times and think what is the use? Nobody listens
anymore. The world is mad. It is so hard not to get overly sad and
that combined with the personal trials we go through and the weight of
our own sinfulness and apparent helplessness it seems sometimes that all
is lost, but it really is not, but it is for many. That is the worst
part. Many will go out without every really knowing why or how or what
they missed until it is too late. Those of us who are in the agony of
knowing have to lift up the rest. If we don't I cannot help feel God
will require it of us in judgement.
I think it is good to know about the problems we face, but more
important to work on the solution. The traditional devotions are a
powerful help now staying fixed on Jesus, making reparation and
consoling God for the many who are insulting Him, and for the many times
we have also wounded His Heart and knowingly or unknowingly done the
same. For our neglects, our omissions, our pride, our laxity, our
failure to desire eternal and spiritual treasures over the occupation
with the world and its distractions. Oh, it goes on and on! Our youth,
the prayers we did not say, the time we lost chasing the rainbow and
ignorant of the Divine.. I think that if it wasn't for the Sacred Heart
we would all be lost today, probably only a few survive. But we do
still have this Heart that loves us with a burning love to do us good.
He is the Good Shepard. We do have our Jesus at the right hand of the
Father. We still have the Lord with us and our Catholic Faith, the
rosary, Our Mother's solicitude, the scapular, the Holy Face to bring us
back to baptismal purity and radiate in us in glory. All these
devotions have promises from the Lord to bless us along our journey to
heaven and to help us through the perils of this short life on earth.
May God protect you this coming year, which may well be the last for so
many. May Mary help us with her Loving Child.....Irene
Irene H
