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This Sunday is the
Feast of Pentecost
Transformed and Strengthened
The New Pentecost Will Ready My Army for the Battle
An excerpt from the Message of May, 21, 2024
STRENGTH FROM A NEW PENTECOST
Our Blessed Mother speaks:
I remind you once again of what happened to My beloved Apostle-sons at Pentecost: They were transformed and strengthened in order to fulfill the mission entrusted to them, at all cost, and sparing no sacrifice.
The Most Holy Spirit of God descended into their hearts and completed and sealed their preparation.
It will be the same with you, little children. Do not be afraid.
What you live now – each of you, and each in such varied circumstances – is part of this preparation prior to His Coming. It is the purification, the removing of the old and dirty garments, in order to be clothed with the garments and armament of My soldiers.
DO NOT BE AFRAID.
TRUST, BELIEVE, WAIT.
And you will receive Strength to live this waiting.
Yes, children, what has been promised will be fulfilled, and what has been announced will take place.
The Rivers of Grace will flow from My little Hill and will gather all the pure Waters that the Father has brought forth in each continent, people, and region.
In the same way that I gather My Army and I unite it to My retinue of Angels and Archangels and all Heavenly Choirs, so do all the Graces given throughout the centuries gather to be renewed, purified, and poured out once more in unimaginable abundance.
The New Pentecost that will seal the preparation of My Army and will ready it for the battle, in which all the forces of evil will be gathered as well.
The Battle is won, children, but it must be fought, and lived, and offered.
We welcome you to join us in our annual novena in preparation for Pentecost. The novena began last Friday and ends tomorrow Saturday, May 23. During these nine days we have united ourselves in prayer with Our Blessed Mother and the Apostles in the upper room as we implore the coming of the Holy Spirit with all His gifts. If you haven't been part of it until now, know that even a brief preparation is better than no preparation.
Below is the Sequence from the Mass of Pentecost, also known as the Golden Sequence. We are suggesting it as your novena prayer, but you are certainly free to choose your own prayer.
Come, Thou Holy Spirit, come! And from Thy celestial home Shed a ray of light divine!
Come, Thou Father of the poor! Come, Thou source of all our store! Come, within our hearts to shine.
Thou, of comforters the best; Thou, the soul's most welcome guest; Sweet refreshment here below;
In our labor, rest most sweet; Grateful coolness in the heat; Solace in the midst of woe.
O most blessed Light Divine, Shine within these hearts of Thine, And our inmost being fill!
Where Thou art not, man hath naught, Nothing good in deed or thought, Nothing free from taint of ill.
Heal our wounds, our strength renew; On our dryness pour Thy dew; Wash the stains of guilt away.
Bend the stubborn heart and will; Melt the frozen, warm the chill; Guide the steps that go astray.
On the faithful, who adore And confess Thee, evermore In Thy sevenfold gifts descend;
Give them virtue's sure reward; Give them Thy salvation, Lord; Give them joys that never end.
Amen. Alleluia.
The Mission office and grounds will be closed Monday, May 25th in celebration of Memorial Day.
Heads Up!
Beginning 0n June 7, Sunday Masses will be celebrated in the O'Callaghan Center due to the hotter temperatures and for the comfort of the congregation.
A NETWORK OF TRUST
"This is what MDM is called to be: a growing communion of trust in His Mercy for our needy world." ~ Fr. John Mary
MDM started encouraging people to pray "Jesus, I trust in You" ten times a day back in 2011. Recently we felt it was important to remind people to turn to Jesus with this simple, powerful prayer in a world that feels more and more out of control. We are suggesting 20 times, but some people find themselves repeating it hundreds of times. It reminds our troubled souls that GOD IS IN CONTROL.
Many of you have put your name on our growing list and have also left a comment or testimony. We ask that prayer intentions be placed at Prayer Request on our website. **** May God pour his graces on all sinners for their true conversion and salvation. Praying for evil to be exposed & expelled from within the Church and all areas of society. Praying for our country and all Nations - may they accept and recognize Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Praying for holy Priests, Religious, and People of Consecrated Lives. Praying to be as holy as our Lord has desired my family, my neighbors, and myself to be. God bless Mission of Divine Mercy for communicating these important messages and bringing us the Gospel. Thank you! ~Marcia
**** Thank you, all of you at Mission Of Divine Mercy. The messages and Father John Mary Foster's Homilies in the regular emails are so very important to me in these confusing times inside and outside Holy Mother Church. I am currently reading a book highly recommended to me by someone very much involved with the Mission. I just finished reading the first chapter of the book "I Am Sending You Prophets (The Role Of Apparitions In The History Of The Church) by Edward D. O' Connor, C.S.C. I am so happy to have this, I believe important book. This, to me is essential in helping discern all this information overload (internet, cell phones, TV, etc.) With the recent explosion of AI now hitting all forms of communication, it's almost impossible to truly hear God's voice. In the Reconquest messages, God The Father urges us to listen only to His Voice. How can we really do this with oh so many distractions for our attention and intellect? This book is helping me to do just that, to sort through all the "noise" we are constantly bombarded with and discern what is it that God is saying to mankind. Thank You ~Leedell
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Thanks to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary for The Mission of Divine Mercy, I ask that the true church triumph, for the conversion of the most inveterate sinners, for the healing and conversion of my son, the health of my daughter, for my little granddaughter who is one month old, so that God our Lord continues to bless his family and they grow in holiness. By the grace of compulsion for my husband. For the holiness of the cardinals, bishops, priests, those who have betrayed God may they return to him.~ Anonymous ****
May God continue blessing you for so much love for our Lord God Almighty Father, our Lord JESUS CHRIST and our Blessed Mother MARY . Thank you for all your work and effort in this great Mission. Have a nice day from Mexico. ~ Veronica
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"JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU" I'M EXCITED TO LEARN about this prayer I will begin this tomorrow , THE FEAST OF DIVINE MERCY. ~Carole
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God bless your mission and all the wonderful work you all do. Happy Easter!~Kori
**** Jesus, I trust in You. ~Jaqueline
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I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen ~Nino
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To build my life in You, my Lord and my God, as it was in the beginning before the creation of the world, where we were blessed with every kind of spiritual and heavenly good in the Person of the Son to fulfill our vocation in the Love of being holy and BEING ONE IN HIM, THROUGH HIM, FOR HIM, according to the Divine Will of GOD THE FATHER of all CREATION. It is in the Son, with the Son, through the Son, for the Son, and so it has been with us, His children, as creatures in the Son, Jesus Christ, our Father, who is, and in Him and through Him, adopted children of GOD THE FATHER. Our Father, who art in Heaven... AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING, BE IT NOW, THROUGH THE REDEMPTION OF OUR FATHER, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND BE IT FOREVER, FOREVER AND EVER. Amen, Amen, Amen! ~ Francisco
Jesus was leaving to ascend in glory. Yet at the same time, He promised, “I will be with you always.” In the great trials of the Church today, more than ever, He wants us to know that He Himself is the Head of the Church. He will never abandon her.
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