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Faith Accomplishes Where Pride Fails
You Will Walk in My Light
Excerpt from the Message of November 23, 2024 "The Light Is Coming"
...Pride has infected everything, children, injecting its venom into the minds and hearts of My children, separating them more and more from My Truth.
Pride clouds My children’s gaze, rendering it incapable of recognizing Me, and, no longer seeing Me clearly, their gaze turns inward, seeing themselves as gods or as demons. But incapable of seeing themselves for what they are: My children.
TURN YOUR GAZE TO ME ONCE AGAIN. AT EACH INSTANT. IN EVERY MOMENT. DO NOT STOP LOOKING AT ME, CHILDREN.
If you place your gaze firmly on Me, then whatever happens, whatever I permit, you will not become separated from Me; you will walk in My Light and in My Truth, even though you cannot see anything. Your Faith does what your eyes and what your mind cannot do.
Do you see how great and how necessary Faith is? And why I insist so much on it? And why I form you in the midst of so many trials, sacrifices, and pains, so much solitude, darkness and waiting, so that this luminous Faith becomes anchored, rooted, cemented in the depths of your being?
The FAITH that brings with it HUMILITY, the OBEDIENCE to what I ask for, the flowering and purification of LOVE. The FORTITUDE to fulfill My Designs. The ABANDONMENT to allow Me to do and act in you and through you...
January 17, 2024 Mission of Divine Mercy
Wednesday January, 22, 2025
National Day of Prayer for the
Protection of Unborn Children
Our God chose to first manifest Himself as an Infant: "The Light that descends from My Heart to yours, through the Heart made Flesh of My Jesus – the Heart of a tiny Baby; God in His fullness Who makes Himself so small to bring you My Kiss, full of Peace and the Hope of My Promise, of My desire that you be with Me for all eternity."
"The Light is Coming"
What's All the Fuss About a Crisis in the Church?
You hear people talk about a crisis in our Church. But your pastor isn't saying anything about it, nor is your bishop. So that must mean that everything is all right. Right?
Well, there are many lay people, religious and priests, even bishops and cardinals, who DO BELIEVE that something has gone very wrong in the Church that Jesus founded, and they have been writing and speaking about it for a long time.
And very meaningfully for MDM, we believe that God is also speaking forcefully about the problem through the Messages that we have been receiving.
But given all the daily demands on your time, you don't have a lot of time to investigate for yourself. It would be helpful if someone brought some of the different articles, books and podcasts together in one place.
That's just what we have tried to do.
"Resources on the Crisis" is located on our website under the "From Us" tab of the main menu bar.
It is an extensive list of resources to help you better understand the current crisis in the Church and MDM’s response to it. The resources, organized by topic, include official Church documents, writings from saints, and the views of prelates, priests, religious, and laity. Once at the sight, just click on the + sign and you will see drop down lists of publications and interviews.
"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.
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Thank you to all the members of the MDM because with humility, faith and obedience you persevere in the combativeness for the Truth and the Good in the light of the Holy Spirit, guiding us in these circumstances, not at all ordinary and very difficult... ~Pilar
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My husband prays the Divine Chaplet daily at the 3:00 p.m. hour or around that time. He suffers terribly from advanced end stage COPD. Please pray for him that God gives him some relief as he struggles to get air in and out of his lungs. It's a terrible suffering 24/7. I will pray 20 times per day JESUS I TRUST IN YOU because we only have GOD to trust in this world of so much evil. COME LORD JESUS RETURN to US. ~Gloria
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I have been going to the MDM...but never signed up. Just did though. I drive in from San Antonio and bring my wife and 2 boys . We love the MDM. It is a place like no other. There is a calm and a peaceful presence that draws us back every time. The messages are so beautiful and so full of hope. Fr John Mary and the community are very special to us. The Mass is so reverent. Thank you Jesus for bringing to us the MDM. JESUS I TRUST IN YOU~Juan
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They help me a lot, filling me with peace.~ Rosa Maria
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I am going through an illness that is very debilitating emotionally and physically, I will pray the 20 ¡Jesus en ti confio! Jesus assume control ~Miriam
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Praying for a job and to trust it is the one God wants me for me. ~Karen
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Please pray for my husband, that doctors can find a solution for his medication-related severe skin outbreaks. (There is no alternative medication he is able to take). Also, that his medical tests turn out well and nothing else is going on. Prayers, please, for all my family, including a son dealing with anxiety, and that they all live strong Catholic lives. Would appreciate prayers for my complicated health issues, also. God bless you and thank you. ~Anonymous
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May our Lord Jesus and Our Lady bless you for all that you give to us sheep.~Anonymous
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To rediscover simple faith, total abandonment to our Lord as Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face so well experienced and shared.~Martine
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Thank you for sharing these messages! It gives me strength and motivation to do more to bring my family back to God knowing we are so loved ~Anonymous
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Thank you, Jesus, for MDM. Please continue to pour Your graces upon Father John Mary and the Sisters and all who are involved in and support this very important Mission! We the faithful would be ever sooo lost and confused without them! Please Mother Mary continue to protect Father John Mary and Sister Amapola and all the Sisters, Brothers and laymen and place them close to your Immaculate Heart under Your mantle of protection! Amen~Leedell
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Thank you MDM. I look forward to all your messages, and visiting your chapel one day, please pray for my granddaughter who experiencing a high level of Anxiety Disorder. Jesus I Trust in You!🙏🏼~ Anonymous
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Yes, You Can Help!
Thank you for considering making a donation in support of MDM. Your donations go directly to the Mission of Divine Mercy Inc. which as of March 2024, is considered "not an approved Catholic apostolate of the Archdiocese of San Antonio." The Mission has no regular source of income. Every bit of support comes from people like you; people who God introduces to the Mission. We try to steward your money wisely and make each dollar work hard for Him and for His people.
