"Victory is Coming But..."

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Something to ponder which I received in my e-mail today:

Victory is Coming But Not Without the Battle You Must Enter

Satan seems to be triumphing in the world right now. But fear not! Precisely because God has permitted Satan’s power to grow, the Father wills Mary to appear more openly in order to blind him and then crush his head with her heel. A tremendous Victory is reserved by the Trinity for Mary to demonstrate God’s Love for us through His Mother and our Mother! God loves mankind so much as to share both our humanity through Christ and motherhood through Mary!! Think about that fact and cherish it each day! God has chosen to “need” our cooperation for the Victory.

Do you wish to accelerate the Victory? Do you wish to have peace, joy and protection through the coming Passion and Storm of the Church before the Victory? Then follow the incredible example of humility of Jesus Christ Himself and give yourself entirely to His Mother who is our Mother! We can not love Mary properly, unless we love her with the love Jesus had for her! We can not love Jesus properly, unless we love Him with the love Mary had for Him!

You can either be a lukewarm standby in her Army; or you can be a zealous warrior volunteering for the front lines. Make, renew and live your Consecration (www.myconsecration.org) and you will have the Grace and zeal to be in the front lines of the Victory for God’s Glory and the salvation of many souls! Wear your Scapular proudly; make the First Saturdays every month; pray your Rosary from the heart every day; fast from food or something as often as you can; enter into His Passion through mental prayer; and offer your daily duty for souls. This is the Spiritual boot camp that prepares you for the front lines of Victory! Your reward in Heaven will be beyond your imagining!

Based in a meditation from Fr. Emil Neubert from “My Ideal: Jesus Son of Mary”

 

[Dorothy]

Thank you for posting that Maria Christi!

I got that in e-mail as well.

Spiritual Warfare is won by each individual in Christ growing in holiness through our holy Blessed Mother.

And, there certainly is a fierce spiritual warfare going on in the world today!

She truly is our spiritual Mother, a gift to us from Our Lord Jesus Christ as he hung on the cross.

Thanks be to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit!

 

[MariaChristi]

Thank you for posting that Maria Christi!

I got that in e-mail as well.

Spiritual Warfare is won by each individual in Christ growing in holiness through our holy Blessed Mother.

And, there certainly is a fierce spiritual warfare going on in the world today!

She truly is our spiritual Mother, a gift to us from Our Lord Jesus Christ as he hung on the cross.

Thanks be to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit!

Dear Dorothy,

Thanks for your reply. Spiritual Warfare is fought daily, and our battle is “not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers” as God’s Word warns us (cf Eph 6:12) In fact, let me back up to verse 10 and quote that phrase in context:

…Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power. Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil. For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens. Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to hold your ground. So stand fast with your loins girded in truth, clothed with righteousness as a breastplate, and your feet shod in readiness for the gospel of peace. In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all [the] flaming arrows of the evil one.

And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God (Ephesians 6: 10 - 17)

The evil one hates Mary, but he also fears her for he knows that she has great power given her by God. We need to keep close to our Mother and by the power of God’s Holy Spirit keep God’s Word in our hearts as she did, pondering. We need to meditate on the mysteries of her Rosary and live as Jesus and Mary lived and loved in this world. As Fr. Neubert wrote: “…pray your Rosary from the heart every day…”