Now that My Body – My Church – has endured the scourging, for so many years, because of the spirit of evil, the Crowning of Thorns is now being inflicted on the leadership within My Church.
When the third thorn pierced My Right Eye, I could no longer see through It. Only through My other Eye could I see the terrible pain, which was experienced by My Mother. Now that the Crown of Thorns pierces the Head of My Church in Rome, only one-half will bear witness to the Truth of the prophecies foretold. The other half will be blinded and will fail to see the damage, which is to be meted out upon every part of My Body – My Church – in every nation in the world.
Just as the blind cannot see, there will be those amongst the Church in Rome who can see, but who will refuse to acknowledge the Truth. So painful will the Truth be, that it will be easier for these sacred servants of Mine to take the easy path. Cowards, they will choose the path of desecration rather than take up their cross for Me.
Then there will be those who love Me and this division will not deter them in the plan to help Me salvage souls from certain death. These brave souls, filled with the grace of the Spirit of Fire, will fight to preserve My Most Holy Sacraments. These are the clergy who will feed My flock during the persecution. Every grace will be granted to such pure souls and they will, in turn, lead My remnant army, to the gates of the New Heaven and the New Earth.
It takes great courage to accept the Word of God’s prophets. It is never easy to hear the Words of the prophets, whose Words cut to their heart of souls like a double-edged sword. Their warnings are painful to hear, but sweet because of the fruits they yield, for when the Word of God is given as a Gift, it offers salvation. Grasp My Holy Word, as It is your lifeline. You, My beloved followers, are protected by the Seal of the Living God and so you must never fear.
Your enemies will scold you, insult you, and may persecute you, but it will be I, Jesus Christ, Who will walk with you. You, My chosen few, who respond to My Call, through your suffering, will redeem much of humanity, in My Eyes.
I bless you. I give you peace and strength, so that you can follow Me without fear in your hearts.
Your Jesus”
unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
it remains just a grain of wheat;
but if it dies, it produces much fruit.”
Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent
Lectionary: 252
Reading 1NM 21:4-9
to bypass the land of Edom.
But with their patience worn out by the journey,
the people complained against God and Moses,
“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert,
where there is no food or water?
We are disgusted with this wretched food!”
In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents,
which bit the people so that many of them died.
Then the people came to Moses and said,
“We have sinned in complaining against the LORD and you.
Pray the LORD to take the serpents away from us.”
So Moses prayed for the people, and the LORD said to Moses,
“Make a saraph and mount it on a pole,
and whoever looks at it after being bitten will live.”
Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole,
and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent
looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
Responsorial PsalmPS 102:2-3, 16-18, 19-21
O LORD, hear my prayer,
and let my cry come to you.
Hide not your face from me
in the day of my distress.
Incline your ear to me;
in the day when I call, answer me speedily.
R. O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to you.
The nations shall revere your name, O LORD,
and all the kings of the earth your glory,
When the LORD has rebuilt Zion
and appeared in his glory;
When he has regarded the prayer of the destitute,
and not despised their prayer.
R. O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to you.
Let this be written for the generation to come,
and let his future creatures praise the LORD:
“The LORD looked down from his holy height,
from heaven he beheld the earth,
To hear the groaning of the prisoners,
to release those doomed to die.”
R. O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to you.
Verse Before The Gospel
The seed is the word of God, Christ is the sower;
all who come to him will live for ever.
GospelJN 8:21-30
“I am going away and you will look for me,
but you will die in your sin.
Where I am going you cannot come.”
So the Jews said,
“He is not going to kill himself, is he,
because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?”
He said to them, “You belong to what is below,
I belong to what is above.
You belong to this world,
but I do not belong to this world.
That is why I told you that you will die in your sins.
For if you do not believe that I AM,
you will die in your sins.”
So they said to him, “Who are you?”
Jesus said to them, “What I told you from the beginning.
I have much to say about you in condemnation.
But the one who sent me is true,
and what I heard from him I tell the world.”
They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father.
So Jesus said to them,
“When you lift up the Son of Man,
then you will realize that I AM,
and that I do nothing on my own,
but I say only what the Father taught me.
The one who sent me is with me.
He has not left me alone,
because I always do what is pleasing to him.”
Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.”
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them like a tent to live in; …”
they will not go to the wise.”
