THE SECOND ADVENT
St. Louis Marie
de Montfort – True Devotion Nos. 12-38:
“If then the
knowledge and the Kingdom of Jesus Christ are to come into the world, they will
be but a necessary consequence of the knowledge of the most holy Virgin Mary who brought Him into the world for the first time and will make His second advent full of splendor.”
From the Divine
Appeal (in the Words of Jesus) – The Book of Heaven:
If you will give
Me your will, all will be done just as I have said; and you will make Me happy,
and you will be happy too. I long for nothing else than for My Will to reign
among you. Heaven and earth will be smiling at you. My Heavenly Mamma will be
sure to be a Mother and Queen to you. She knows the great good that the Kingdom
of My Will will bring to you; and, in order to satisfy My ardent desires and to
stop My weeping, and because She loves
you as Her true children, She is traveling amongst the people of the nations
disposing and preparing them to receive the dominion of the Kingdom of My Will.
It was She who prepared the people for Me so that I could descend from Heaven
to earth. And now I am entrusting to Her, and to Her Maternal Love, the task of
disposing the souls of our people to receive a Gift so great (the Gift of
living in the Divine Will).
“To the Priests,
Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”, MMP, #438:
“I was chosen by
the Most Holy Trinity to become the Mother of the Word, who became incarnate in
my virginal womb, and thus I have given you my Son Jesus. His first coming among you took place in
poverty, in humility and in suffering, because Jesus wanted to assume the
limitations, the misery and the weakness of our human nature. And so my motherly action was carried out in
silence, in prayer, in hiddenness and in humility.
I was chosen by
the most Holy Trinity to become the
Mother of the Second Advent, and thus my motherly task is that of preparing
the Church and all humanity to receive Jesus, who is returning to you in
glory. His second coming will take place in the light of his divinity, because
Jesus will return to you on the clouds of heaven, in the splendor of his
royalty and will make subject to Himself
the peoples and the nations of the earth, and all his enemies will be crushed
under the throne of his universal dominion.”
Book of Heaven,
July 26, 1921:
“Such is my Will;
It is not only queen, but more than soul of all created things; It is life of
each heartbeat, of each fiber of the heart. My Will, like water, flows within
everything - now silent and hidden, and now palpitating and visible. Man can
subtract himself from my light, from my love, from my grace, but from my Will –
never. He would be like someone who wanted to live without water. It is true
that there might be some lunatic who hates water; but in spite of the fact that
he hates it, that he does not love it,
he will be forced to drink it - either water or death. So it is with my
Will; since It is life of everything, creatures will keep It with them either
with love or with hatred, but, even
though unwillingly, they will be forced to let my Will flow in them, like blood
in the veins.”
“Enter with me
into the fullness of time, which will take place when Jesus returns in the splendor of his divine glory. This, his first coming, will reach its full significance only at is second coming. My divine Child, whom you now contemplate in
the manger and who cries and shivers from the cold, will one day return in the power of his divine gory and will bring
time and history to its fullness. Time and history will reach their
completion; with his divine and glorious presence He will make all things new.”
‘You are living
out the mystery of this second Advent, which is preparing you to receive Jesus,
when He returns to you on the clouds of
heaven. Only then will the second Advent through which you are living reach its
fulfillment. Then time will attain its fullness.
Then will the Immaculate Heart of your heavenly Mother attain her
triumph, in the definitive and glorious triumph of her Son Jesus.”
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop
(Cat. 15, 1-3)
“There is a hidden coming, like that of
rain on fleece, and a coming before all eyes, still in the future.”
“At the first coming he was wrapped in
swaddling clothes in a manger. At his
second coming he will be clothed in light as in a garment. In the first coming he endured the cross,
despising the shame; in the second coming he will be in glory, escorted by
an army of angels.”
“His first coming was to fulfill his
plan of love, to teach men by gentle persuasion. This time, whether men like it or not they
will be subjects of his kingdom by necessity.”
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From
a sermon of St Bernard of Clairvaux |
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The word of the Lord will come to us |
We know that the coming of the Lord is threefold: the third coming
is between the other two and it is not visible in the way they are. At his
first coming the Lord was seen on earth and lived among men, who saw him and
hated him. At his last coming All flesh shall see the salvation of our God,
and They shall look on him whom they have pierced. In the middle, the
hidden coming, only the chosen see him, and they see him within themselves; and
so their souls are saved. The first coming was in flesh and weakness, the
middle coming is in spirit and power, and the final coming will be in glory and
majesty.
This middle coming is like a road that leads from the
first coming to the last. At the first, Christ was our redemption; at the last,
he will become manifest as our life; but in this middle way he is our rest and
our consolation.
If you think that I am inventing what I am saying
about the middle coming, listen to the Lord himself: If anyone loves me, he
will keep my words, and the Father will love him, and we shall come to him.
Elsewhere I have read: Whoever fears the Lord does good things –
but I think that what was said about whoever loves him was more important: that
whoever loves him will keep his words. Where are these words to be kept? In the
heart certainly, as the Prophet says I have hidden your sayings in my heart
so that I do not sin against you. Keep the word of God in that way: Blessed
are those who keep it. Let it penetrate deep into the core of your soul and
then flow out again in your feelings and the way you behave; because if you
feed your soul well it will grow and rejoice. Do not forget to eat your bread,
or your heart will dry up. Remember, and your soul will grow fat and sleek.
If you keep God’s word like this, there is no doubt
that it will keep you, for the Son will come to you with the Father: the great
Prophet will come, who will renew Jerusalem, and he is the one who makes all
things new. For this is what this coming will do: just as we have been
shaped in the earthly image, so will we be shaped in the heavenly image.
Just as the old Adam was poured into the whole man and took possession of him,
so in turn will our whole humanity be taken over by Christ, who created all
things, has redeemed all things, and will glorify all things.
Luke 21:25-27
(25) - And there shall be signs in the sun,
and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by
reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea and of the waves;
(26) - Men
withering away for fear, and expectation of what shall come upon the whole
world. For the powers of heaven shall be moved; (27) - And then they shall see the Son of man
coming in a cloud, with great power and majesty.
L. Bauer, Dec. 2, 2018
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