“Cloister Echoes” On the Divine Indwelling by Sister Mildred Mary Ephrem Neuzil

“Cloister Echoes” On the Divine Indwelling by Sister Mildred Mary Ephrem Neuzil

O Mary, Immaculate Queen,

You who were always conscious Of the Presence of God within you,

Obtain for me the grace Of an ever-increasing awareness

Of the Indwelling Trinity Abiding in my soul.

May this Divine Doctrine So penetrate my heart

That I may realize, in truth,

I am the veritable house of God

Sheltering within myself

The Divine Being

Who is the Source of all sanctity

And holy living.

May I never forget that

I Am the living temple of God.

Help me, then, O peerless Virgin,

To be ever mindful of my dignity.

Let me remember also that all,

Even the most derelict of men,

Were redeemed by the same God,

And are, therefore, worthy

Of my respect and honor.

 Obtain for me also

That the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass,

The Fountain Head of grace,

May exercise so great an influence

Upon my life,

That I may become, as it were,

Another Savior,

 Going about, doing good.

May I too, carry Christ,

As you carried Him, O faithful Virgin,

And thus become a means

Of repentance and greater holiness to others.

May I be a channel of grace

To those to whom grace, perhaps,

 Would never be able to penetrate.

May the Hand of the Father,

Who created me,

Work through me.

And may the voice of the Word,

 Become Man,

Who redeemed me,

Speak through me.

 May the Love of the Holy Spirit,

Who is my continuous sanctification,

Bring holiness to others through me.

Amen.

The Luminous Mysteries

The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan: 

 The Baptism of Fire: 

“My daughter, the baptism at birth is by water, therefore it has the virtue of purifying, but not of removing tendencies and passions. On the other hand, the baptism of victim is baptism by fire, therefore it has not only the virtue of purifying, but of consuming any passion and evil tendency. Even more, I Myself baptize the soul, bit by bit: my thought baptizes the thought of the soul; my heartbeat baptizes her heartbeat; my desire her desire, and so on. However, this baptism is carried out between Myself and the soul, according to whether she gives herself to Me without ever taking back what she has given Me.  Book of Heaven, Vol. 11, Mar. 13, 1912

“My daughter, I recommend that you not get out of my Will, because my Will contains such power as to be a new Baptism for the soul - and even more than Baptism itself. In fact, while in the Sacraments there is part of my Grace, in my Will there is the whole fullness of It. In the Baptism, the stain of original sin is removed, but passions and weaknesses remain. In my Will, since the soul destroys her own volition, she also destroys passions, weaknesses and all that is human; and she lives of the virtues, of the fortitude and of all the Divine qualities.”  Book of Heaven, Vol. 9, Mar. 23, 1910

“I saw God’s Holy Spirit – as a devastating fire – inundate the world.  This fire did not bring peace, not mercy, but devastating punishment.  Where ever the flame of the Holy Spirit swept through, the evil spirits by the thousands fell back to hell.”  (Sr. Natalia, The Victorious Queen of the World) 

The Wedding Feast of Cana:

Now listen to Me: my Son had come back from the desert, and was preparing Himself for His public life; but first He wanted to be present at this wedding, and therefore He allowed Himself to be invited. We went there, not to celebrate, but to work great things for the good of the human generations. My Son took the place of Father and King in the families, and I took the place of Mother and Queen. With Our presence We renewed the sanctity, the beauty, the order of the marriage formed by God in the Garden of Eden – that of Adam and Eve – married by the Supreme Being in order to populate the earth, and to multiply and increase the future generations. Marriage is the substance from which the life of the generations arises; it can be called the trunk from which the earth is populated. The priests, the religious, are the branches; but if it were not for the trunk, not even the branches would have life. Therefore, through sin, by withdrawing from the Divine Will, Adam and Eve caused the family to lose sanctity, beauty and order. And I, your Mama, the new innocent Eve, together with my Son, went to reorder that which God did in Eden; I constituted Myself Queen of families, and impetrated the grace that the Divine Fiat might reign in them, to have families that would belong to Me, and I might hold the place of Queen in their midst.  (The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will)

          .  “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”  Rev. 21:9-27, Rev. 22:6 “And behold, I am coming soon.”    

Proclamation of the Kingdom:

“As you write new things concerning Me and all that is related to Me, I invent new favors with which to reward you and I prepare to reveal to you new truths so that I can give you new rewards. I have always loved more, and have reserved greater graces for, those who have written about Me, because they are the continuation of my life of evangelization, the spokesmen of my word. I reserved what is not contained in my gospels to reveal it to whoever would write about Me. My life of preaching did not end then.... with the death of my Humanity. No, I must preach always, as long as there are generations of creatures."  Book of Heaven, Vol. 14, Feb. 14, 1922

“…in my all-seeingness, I see that these writings will be for my Church as a new Sun that will rise in its midst and then, attracted by its brilliant light, would apply themselves to transporting themselves into this light and go forth spiritualized and divinized by which, renewing the Church, they will transform the faith of the earth.”   Book of Heaven, Vol. 16, Feb. 10, 1924

 As an evangelizer, Christ first of all proclaims a kingdom, the kingdom of God; and this is so important that, by comparison, everything else becomes "the rest," which is "given in addition. Only the kingdom therefore is absolute and it makes everything else relative. The Lord will delight in describing in many ways the happiness of belonging to this kingdom (a paradoxical happiness which is made up of things that the world rejects), the demands of the kingdom and its Magna Charta, the heralds of the kingdom, its mysteries, its children, the vigilance and fidelity demanded of whoever awaits its definitive coming.

The Transfiguration:

“My daughter, do you see how beautiful is the Sun of my Will?  What power!  What marvel!  In as far as the soul wishes to fuse itself in it to embrace everyone, my Will, transforming Itself into Sun, wounds the soul and forms another sun in her.  Once these acts are formed, they are changed to rays that wound the Sun of the Supreme Will.  And, enclosing everyone in this light, everyone glorifies and satisfies their Creator.  And what is more, it does not do this with human glory, satisfaction, or love, but the love and glory of the Divine Will, because the Sun of my Will has operated in her.  Do you see what it means to do acts in my Will?  This is living in my Volition:  That the Sun of my Will, transforming into sun the human will, act in her as in Its own center."  Book of Heaven, Vol. 17, Sept. 17, 1924

            “When Jesus will return in His divine glory and appear to all humanity, each one will be called to undergo the same experience as Peter, James and John underwent on Mount Tabor, because Jesus will manifest Himself in his splendor and his humanity will be completely transfigured in the most brilliant light of his divinity.”  (To the Priests, MMP #597)

“…through the power of the Spirit who dwells in man deification already begins on earth; the creature is transfigured and God’s kingdom inaugurated.”  The Light of the East, Pope John Paul II

The Institution of the Eucharist:

“I wanted to hide Myself under these Eucharistic veils and, so hidden, enter into her to form this transformation of the creature into Myself.  But in order for this transformation to take place, the dispositions were needed on the part of creatures; and my love, giving in to excess, in instituting the Sacrament of the Eucharist, released from within my Divinity more graces, gifts, favors and light for the good of man, to render him worthy to receive Me.” Book of Heaven, Vol. 15, March 27, 1923

“Listen my daughter, when I instituted the Eucharistic Supper I saw and called all to come to Me, all generations, from the first to the last man, so that I could give to all my Sacramental Life, and not just once but just as often as man needs corporal nourishment.  I desired to constitute Myself as the nourishment of their souls.  But I felt very abused when I realized that this, my Sacramental Life, was encompassed by indifference, by carelessness, and even by ruthless death. I felt all the crudeness of the death of my Sacramental Life, and so painfully, so repeatedly. But then I took a better look and, making use of the Power of my Will, I called around Me the souls that were to live in my Will, and oh, how happy I felt!”  Book of Heaven,  Vol. 14, July 6, 1922

“Jesus instituted the Sacrament of the Eucharist saying, ‘This is My Body, this is My Blood.’  And before twenty-four hours had passed, with the same lips He pronounced, “Behold your mother”, and it was because He not only gave Himself to you in order to nourish you as your food, but also to give me to you as your mother.”  Roses and Thorns, Concepcion Cabrera de Armida

            “…you can very well shrink all of yourself within my Will to be able to form the host of yourself in my Will.  For every act you do in my Will, you will make a host for Me; and I will feed Myself from you, as you do from Me.  What forms the host?  “ My own Life in it.”  Book of Heaven, Vol. 12, Oct. 20, 1917

“This last stage of the world belongs very specially to Him (the Holy Spirit) that He be honored and exalted…”  (Jesus to Conchita)

Lynne Bauer, JMJ

Feb. 5, 2013

Dreams and Visions

First vision (about a year prior to coming into the Catholic Church):
One night several minutes after going to bed, while still awake, a brilliant light suddenly appeared in my room to my left side.  The light was sort of transparent and very bright although I could look directly at it. A feeling of great peace came over my entire being and I felt such incredible love coming from the light.  My feeling was that I was in a differnt world, and yet I seemed to be still aware of my surroundings, in fact, I remember thinking that I hoped I would not wake up my husband.  I did not hear a voice in my ears or in my interior, but I knew that I was being asked something, although I do not remember what it was.  I replied with three yes's repeated one after the other which were spoken out loud in a long drawn out sound.  I remember lifting my arms towards the light as though imploring it to bring me into it.  I felt absolutely no fear and was totally at peace and very joyful.  After my answer, the light disappeared and I immediately got out of bed.  The next day while thinking about what I experienced, a thought came to me that I hoped I did not answer "yes" to God asking me to give up my horses!  I knew I had been asked something and my reply was without hesitation.

One morning while at Mass, I picked up a missal and opened to the inside cover and read that non-Catholics were not welcome to receive Communion.  I was horrified as I had been receiving Communion for sometime before reading this.  All I could do was sit and cry through the rest of Mass.  No words can explain how I felt.  The next day I went back to Mass and sat there in tears while everyone received Communion.  I then saw Jesus (interiorly) standing in the center isle just a few feet away from me with His arms out to me.  I heard Him say, "Come to Me". (Oh how beautiful His voice was!)  I could see that He was wearing a long white robe type garment and had long brown hair.  Sometime later, at another Church, I again heard Him say, "Come to Me", but did not see Him this time.  Just after this, I began going to RCIA.  A few months after this experience, I told this story to a Priest and he immediately set up for me to be received into the Church which was on Jan. 12, 1993. Thank you my Jesus!

Sat. Jan. 21, 1995 (2 yrs. after coming into the Catholic Church)
During Adoration, I saw a long dark tunnel with a bright light at the far end which looked like a Host brightly lit up.  Jesus told me that the darkness in the tunnel was the darkness of sin that surrounds us, but He is the Light at the end of the tunnel.  He told me to focus my eyes on the light and He said to me, "This is my Sacred Heart which prepares a place for you to rest.  Rest within My Heart as I rest within yours." 

"The outpouring of the Spirit"

I was reading a message Jesus gave to Vassula on Oct. 29, 1991.  Jesus told Vassula, “I will come back.” And Vassula writes next to this, “Second Pentecost.  The outpour of the Spirit.  Joel 3”)  I went to my Bible to read Joel 3 which speaks about “the day of the Lord” and in Verse 17 it says: “And Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers shall pass through it no more.”  A little while after this I read in Volume 15 from the Book of Heaven:

“Beloved daughter of Our Supreme Will, see, this whole machine of the universe – heavens, sun, seas, and all the rest – was created by Us to give it as a gift; but do you know to whom? To the ones who would do Our Will. Everything was given to them as to Our legitimate children. “…and Jerusalem shall be holy…” (Joel 3:17) We did this for the decorum of Our works, depositing them and giving them as gift, not to foreign people “..and strangers shall pass through it no more.” (Joel 3:17) or to illegitimate children, who would not understand the great goods contained in them, nor appreciate the greatness and the sanctity of Our works – on the contrary, they would waste them and despise them. On the other hand, by giving them to Our legitimate children, since in each created thing there is a distinct love and a special good for the one to whom the gift is directed, Our Will, dwelling in them, “and the Lord will dwell in Sion” (Joel 3:21) and forming Its very life in them, would make them comprehend all these loves, one distinct from the other, which are present in the whole Creation, as well as all the specialties of goods. So, they would give Us requital for each distinct love, and glory and honor for all the goods given to them. Our Will, which had created them with one Fiat, and which knew all the secrets - dwelling in Our legitimate children, with another Fiat would reveal Our secrets contained in all created things, and would make them give Us love for love. The harmonies, the communications, would be reciprocal between them and Us. And even though it seems that those who do not do Our Will enjoy and take part in them, yet the gifts are not theirs – it is as indirect cause, as usurpers, and as illegitimate children. More so, since my Will not dwelling in them, “Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed”:  (Joel 3:17) they understand nothing or very little of my love which all Creation brings to them, and of the great goods present in It. Even more, many don’t even know Who created so many things - true foreign people who, while living of the things that belong to Me, don’t even want to recognize Me.

Jesus’ message to Vassula:

“Since they have rejected My Spirit, My Light and My Knowledge, I shall take away my Kingdom from them “Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed” and give it to a people who can produce its fruit “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God who dwell in Zion my holy mountain” (Joel 3:17).  I shall then welcome these people as My own and ask them to come with Me and keep house with Me – in fact, this hour is here already.”

 “I will remove far off from you the northern enemy: and I will drive him into a land unpassable, and desert, with his face towards the east sea, and his hinder part towards the utmost sea: and his stench shall ascend…”  Joel 2:20

“And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh…”  Joel 2:28

Lynne B.

Sept. 23, 1999

For your discernment

https://vimeo.com/134035153

Ratzinger's forgotten prophesy on the future of the Church

 In five little known radio speeches made in 1969 and published again a while ago by Ignatius Press in the volume “Faith and the Future”, the future Pope gave his vision of the future of man and the Church. His last teaching, which he read out on “Hessian Rundfunk” radio on Christmas day, had a distinctly prophetic tone.

Ratzinger said he was convinced the Church was going through an era similar to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. “We are at a huge turning point – he explained – in the evolution of mankind. This moment makes the move from Medieval to modern times seem insignificant.” Professor Ratzinger compared the current era to that of Pope Pius VI who was abducted by troops of the French Republic and died in prison in 1799. The Church was fighting against a force which intended to annihilate it definitively, confiscating its property and dissolving religious orders.

Today's Church could be faced with a similar situation, undermined, according to Ratzinger, by the temptation to reduce priests to “social workers” and it and all its work reduced to a mere political presence. “From today's crisis, will emerge a Church that has lost a great deal,” he affirmed.

 “It will become small and will have to start pretty much all over again. It will no longer have use of the structures it built in its years of prosperity. The reduction in the number of faithful will lead to it losing an important part of its social privileges.” It will start off with small groups and movements and a minority that will make faith central to experience again. “It will be a more spiritual Church, and will not claim a political mandate flirting with the Right one minute and the Left the next. It will be poor and will become the Church of the destitute.”

The process outlined by Ratzinger was a “long” one “but when all the suffering is past, a great power will emerge from a more spiritual and simple Church,” at which point humans will realise that they live in a world of “indescribable solitude” and having lost sight of God “they will perceive the horror of their poverty.”

 Then and only then, Ratzinger concluded, will they see “that small flock of faithful as something completely new: they will see it as a source of hope for themselves, the answer they had always secretly been searching for. 

  Marco Bardazzi