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[Gabriel Marie Josef Anton]

Peace be with you.


Divine Mercy in My Soul.


Diary Entry 40 and 41.



40. The year 1929. Once during Holy Mass, I felt in a very special way the closeness of God, although I tried to turn away and escape from Him. On several occasions I have run away from God because I did not want to be a victim of the evil spirit; since others have told me, more than once, that such is the case. And this incertitude lasted for quite some time. During Holy Mass, before Communion, we had the renewal of vows. When we had left our kneelers and had started to recite the formula for the vows, Jesus appeared suddenly at my side clad in a White garment with a golden girdle around His Waist, and He said to me, I give you Eternal Love that your purity may be untarnished and as a sign that you will never be subject to temptations against Purity. Jesus took off His golden cincture and tied it around my waist.



Since then I have never experienced any attacks against this Virtue, either in my heart or in my mind. I later understood that this was one of the Greatest Graces which the Most Holy Virgin Mary had obtained for me, as for many years I had been asking this Grace of Her. Since that time I have experienced an Increasing Devotion to the Mother of God. She has taught me how to love God interiorly and also how to carry out His Holy Will in All things, O Mary, You are Joy, because through You, God descended to Earth [and] into my heart.




41.On one occasion I saw a servant of God in the immediate danger of committing a mortal sin.



I started to beg God to deign to send down upon me all the torments of hell and all the sufferings He wished if only this priest would be set free and snatched from the occasion of committing a sin. Jesus heard my prayer and, that very instant, I felt a crown of thorns on my head. The thorns penetrated my head with great force right into my brain. This lasted for three hours.



The servant of God was set free from this sin, and his soul was strengthened by a Special Grace of God.


St. Maria Faustina - Helen Kowalska.
 

God Bless you.

[Shin]

'The doctrines of Godliness are overturned; the rules of the Church are in confusion; the ambition of the unprincipled seizes upon places of authority; and the chief seat is now openly proposed as a reward for impiety; so that he whose blasphemies are the more shocking, is more eligible for the oversight of the people.

Priestly gravity has perished; there are none left to feed the Lord's flock with knowledge; ambitious men are ever spending, in purposes of self-indulgence and bribery, possessions which they hold in trust for the poor. The accurate observation of the canons are no more; there is no restraint upon sin.

Unbelievers laugh at what they see, and the weak are unsettled; faith is doubtful, ignorance is poured over their souls, because the adulterators of the word in wickedness imitate the truth. Religious people keep silence, but every blaspheming tongue is let loose. Sacred things are profaned; those of the laity who are sound in faith avoid the places of worship, as schools of impiety, and raise their hands in solitude with groans and tears to the Lord in heaven.'

St. Basil the Great

[Gabriel Marie Josef Anton]

Peace be with you.


Preparation for Death.


Description of One Departed.



My brother, in this description of death, you see yourself, and that, which one day you will be, "Dust you are, and unto dust shall you return." Reflect, for in a few years, no, perhaps in a few months, and even days, you will become a mass of corruption and worms. By thinking upon this, Job became a Saint, "I have said to corruption, "You are my father, to the worm, you are my brother and sister." (Job 17,14)



Everything must have an end; and if, when the hour of death arrives, your soul is lost, everything will be lost for you. St. Lawrence Justinian says, "Consider yourself as dead already, since you know already you must die. If now the hour of your death were approaching, what is there of good, that you would not like to have done? Now, that you are still living, reflect, that one day you must die.



St. Bonaventure observes, that in order to guide the vessel aright, the pilot must place himself at the helm; even so must a man, if he wishes to lead a Holy Life, reflect that death is ever nigh. Therefore, St. Bernard observes, "Look upon the sins of youth, and blush; look upon the sins of manhood, and weep; look upon the present evil habits of your life, and tremble, and hasten to make amends."



When St. Camillus de Lellis beheld the graves of the dead, he said within himself, "If all these dead bodies could come back again to life, what would they not do to gain Eternal Life? And I, who have now the opportunity - what am I doing for my soul?" Yet it was Humility on the part of this Saint which caused him to say this. But perhaps, my brother, you might with reason fear, lest you should be like that barren fig-tree, concerning which our Blessed Lord said, "Behold these Three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and find none." (St. Luke 13,7) You, who for many more years than Three have been living in this world, what fruits have you yielded?



Take Care, remarks St. Bernard, for the Lord does not require flowers only, but seeks for fruits also; that is to say, not only good desires and resolutions, but also good works. Therefore, Take Care to make Good Use of the Time which God in His Mercy grants to you; do Not wait until "Time shall be no longer" to desire to do good - when it shall be said to you: "Time shall be no longer, Depart." Make haste, it is now almost time to leave the world; make haste, what is done, is done.


St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori.
 

God Bless you.

[Shin]

'Quid hoc ad aeternitatem?'

'What is the value of this for eternity?'

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

[Shin]

My friend I have removed the last post of the messages, I hope this does not upset you. I hope we will discuss these messages together in the future.

[Shin]

'Adulterers! Do you not know that the love of this world is hatred toward God? Therefore whoever chooses to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.'

James 4:4

[Gabriel Marie Josef Anton]

My friend I have removed the last post of the messages, I hope this does not upset you. I hope we will discuss these messages together in the future.

Peace be with you.


No, it does not upset me because I don't believe it is your intent to upset me by deleting the post. You might be offending your Mother in Heaven though. When you want to delete speech or remove a post, you have to give a good reason to stifle speech. Your reasoning was not good. It would be good if you could give a good and proper reason for its removal, like "your post was sinful", or "your post was rude", or "your post contains evil". I don't really know the reason why the post was deleted so no point judging anything. Maybe you know something about them which I don't. Maybe you are still examining the contents of them to determine its source. The Messages were not posted here for it to be spread, just for it to be read among a few of us. This site here would not be the site of choice to spread them. Let me know if you know something about them from your vast experience and knowledge. Is it dangerous to talk about them? Why do so few people know about them compared to the other Messages of the Blessed Virgin Mary? Is there a censure on those Messages? The Messages have an Imprimatur which was issued years ago so they have been checked for Theological errors.

I will cease posting until a good and proper reason is given as to not misguide you or maybe the other way round, for you not to misguide me.


God Bless you.

[Shin]

          

Well now, when you are online and it's a good time for you, send me a PM and we can discuss the messages and I would like to hear about how they inspired you so much to become a promoter of them. Then I will tell you the concerns I have about them, and I know it's a sensitive matter for you, so I understand why you responded so, let's try to speak about them peacefully, rather than have them be a justification to throw out everything for their sake and talk to each other like idiots throwing bricks rather than folks trying to understand. Don't worry I have more to say about them and why your post was removed, I know it's often upsetting to have a post removed for many folks and to have these messages which obviously mean a lot to you spoken about as false.

We can have a good long discussion about discernment of these matters and why you embraced them and I will tell you how I know they are false, giving you examples, despite the good feelings about Our Lord and Our Lady and many good things they promote at times. Emotional appeals to love Our Lord and Our Lady naturally inspire good feelings, and then, too, when there is a series of messages that are like this particular case it is in fact often hard to tell they are false because there is spiritual influence adding positive feelings to them that inspires them to convince otherwise and leads them to good deeds to keep this conviction. I knew they were false but for your sake my friend, I read through them anyway, over a couple hours, from beginning to end, a significant investment of time and effort. I hope you appreciate that to read false apparitions messages is not a pleasant task, but for your sake and God's sake I did so, and weathered the spiritual interference that tries to convince a person they are true when a person reads them, which was quite a bit of trouble I must say. I did this hoping despite the normal probabilities that we could carry on somewhat like before and have a good long discussion about them.

It is a sad case in these times there are so many messages out there that are false.. but that is the kind of times were are living in.

   

      

[Shin]

'Those who wish to enter upon the religious life, should first of all mortify themselves for a long time, and particularly mortify their will in things to which they have the greatest repugnance.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'Those locutions are very dangerous, and I cannot approve of them. I shall tell you the reason, founded on the little experience which God has given me. What necessity is there that God should reveal to a novice that He desires from the novices more fervor in their Communions? Is it, perchance, that their master, with the aid of the lights that God has given him for his office, does not know it himself? And again: does he not know that God is greatly offended chiefly by sacrileges? You see that this locution is not necessary. God makes revelations only in view of His glory and the needs of holy Church; and as we can learn these things from holy books, from the experience God gives us, and, principally, by the light He gives those that hold offices, there is no reason for desiring to learn by locutions.'

St. Paul of the Cross

'He who follows the spiritual path must pay great attention to discrimination, since the ability to distinguish between good and evil, and to scrutinize and understand the various tricks through which the devil by means of plausible fantasies leads most people astray, keeps us safe and helps us in every way. If a man wanting to test his wife's virtue comes to her at night disguised as someone else, and she repels him, he will rejoice at this and welcome the assurance it gives. It is exactly the same with us in relation to the attacks of the evil spirits. Even if you repel the heavenly spirits, they will be gladdened by this, and will help you to participate still further in grace: because of this proof of your love for the Lord they will fill you brim-full with spiritual delight. So do not from light-mindedness speedily surrender yourself to the visitations of spirits, even if they are heavenly angels, but be wary, submitting them to the most careful scrutiny. Thus you will welcome the good and repel the evil. In this way you will increase in yourself the workings of grace, which sin, however much it may assume the appearance of the good, cannot altogether simulate.'

St. Symeon Metaphrastis

[Shin]

'Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. [Mt 6.26]

The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no business on earth. They do not labour, but by contemplation alone they already live in heaven.'

St. Anthony of Padua

[Shin]

'The practice of recommending to God the souls in Purgatory, that He may mitigate the great pains which they suffer, and that He may soon bring them to His glory, is most pleasing to the Lord and most profitable to us. For these blessed souls are His eternal spouses, and most grateful are they to those who obtain their deliverance from prison, or even a mitigation of their torments. When, therefore, they arrive in Heaven, they will be sure to remember all who have prayed for them.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'Ecclesiasticus says, that the fear of the Lord brings not pain, but joy and gladness: The fear of the Lord shall delight the heart, and shall give joy and gladness. Thus this very fear leads to the acquisition of a firm hope in God, which makes the soul happy: He that fears the Lord shall tremble at nothing, and shall not be afraid, for He is his hope. The soul of him that fears the Lord is blessed. Yes, blessed, because fear draws man away from sin. The fear of the Lord drives out sin and at the same time infuses into him a great desire of observing the commandments: Blessed is the man that fears the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in His commandments.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'Our enemy employs no surer artifice for banishing true charity from the hearts of God's servants, than to make them rule themselves in spiritual matters, not with calmness and reason, but thoughtlessly and with all the unrestrained violence of their passions.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'Obedience to the commandments is the resurrection of the dead, for by nature life follows upon virtue.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'The most evident mark of God's anger is the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world, is manifested when He permits his people to fall into the hands of clergy who are priests more in name than in deed. When God permits such things it is very positive proof that He is thoroughly angry with His people and is visiting His most dreadful anger on them. That is why He cries out unceasingly to Christians, return you rebellious Christians and I will give you pastors according to my own heart.'

St. Jean Eudes