Volume IV, Issue 24, November 17, 2007

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- The Seven Sorrows of China, Part V: Interview with an Underground Bishop by Mark Miravalle
- Heaven Speaks to Those who don't Know Jesus by "Anne," a Lay Apostle
- Bishop of Kilmore Endorses Writings of "Anne" by Bishop Leo O'Reilly
- The Annunciation: The Commencement of Mary's Role as Co-redemptrix by Martin LaMartina
- Mary, Mediatrix: History and Vatican II by Fr. Michael O'Carroll, C.S.Sp.
- Mary and the Distribution of Grace by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.
- Divine Mercy Mirrored in Mary's Heart by St. John Eudes
- Victory Will Come for the Glorified Lady by The Lady of All Nations

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- The Seven Sorrows of China, Part V: Interview with an Underground Bishop by Mark Miravalle

This morning, I am traveling on a fast train through provinces in this huge Chinese country, en route to a privileged meeting with an underground bishop. After a preliminary call a few days ago to a contact person for the bishop, the bishop agreed to meet with me at great personal risk to himself. Typically, bishops who refuse to have any cooperation with the Government-run Patriotic church are forbidden to speak to foreigners, receive outside financial aid, and have experienced a long history of abductions, imprisonments with extended terms of solitary confinements, and hard labor. They are also under near-constant surveillance by the Religious Affairs Bureau and the police. Exactly how this meeting is to take place, I am unsure.

Although I have an extended train ride to the general area where the bishop lives, I cannot use public transportation for the last hour of travel, as officials will notice me. The bishop and those assisting him have arranged that a driver will pick me up from the train station and drive me for the final hour of the journey.

As I begin Morning Prayer on the train, I am happily shocked to discover that today, July 9, is the optional memorial of the Chinese martyrs canonized by John Paul II in the 2000 Jubilee Year! From the seventeenth century to the present day, Chinese Catholics have suffered numerous occasions of violent persecution. In 2000, John Paul II canonized 120 Chinese Catholics and foreign missionaries martyred from 1648 to 1930. St. Augustine Zhao Rong (+1815) was one of the 29 priests, including six bishops, martyred in this group.

I cannot help but think that I am soon to meet in person a bishop who ranks in the company of the other Chinese bishops, priests, religious, and laity whom we invoke on today’s feast. Bishop C, like most all underground bishops, is greatly loved by his faithful flock, and has repeatedly shown his willingness to offer his life for Jesus, for the Vicar of Jesus in Rome, and for the Church of Jesus in its fullness without compromise.

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- Heaven Speaks to Those who don't Know Jesus by "Anne," a Lay Apostle

Anne, a visionary from Ireland, has received permission from her local ordinary, Bishop Leo O'Reilly, for the distribution of messages which she receives from Jesus, God the Father, Our Blessed Mother, the angels and saints (see article, "Discernment of Lay Apostolate of Jesus Christ the Returning King," Marian Private Revelation section). – Ed.

December 21, 2006

Jesus

I am Jesus. I am God. I am complete in Myself. I am present in your world and I am present in heaven. You see, I am omnipresent. Even if you wish to, you cannot remove yourself from My presence on earth. I created earth. You might say the earth belongs to Me. All in it, are also My creation. You, dear beloved one, were created by Me. Do I say that you belong to Me? I say it in another way. I say, I want you to belong to Me. I want to possess your heart. Why do I use the word heart when truly it is your soul that I seek? I use the word heart because people characterize the heart as the place where people hold the love they possess. If you have love, people say you have it in your heart. The heart is known as the source of love and the receptacle of love, so I, Jesus, tell you that I want to possess your heart. When it is all simplified, as it should be, I am saying that I want you to love Me. I love you. There is no problem there. I love you today and I will always love you. A difficulty We have is that you do not know Me. The only way for Me to teach you to love Me is for Me to reveal Myself to you, to allow you to know Me. For that reason I come to you today. I reveal Myself to you through these words and through the graces attached to them. If you read these words and sit in silence, you will begin to know Me. If you begin to know Me, truly, you will begin to love Me. Forget anything that tempts you to move away from these words and graces. Rest. Be with Me. Allow Me to teach you about Myself.

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- Bishop of Kilmore Endorses Writings of "Anne" by Bishop Leo O'Reilly

"Anne" has received permission from her local ordinary, Bishop Leo O'Reilly, for the spreading of her messages, as well as his own personal endorsement below, that her writings are "orthodox." Anne has also submitted all her writings to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. We encourage, (as the Church herself permits), the prayerful reading of these messages.
—Ed.

To Whom It May Concern:

Direction For Our Times (DFOT) is a religious movement founded by "Anne," a lay apostle from our diocese who wishes to remain anonymous. The movement is in its infancy and does not as yet enjoy canonical status. I have asked a priest of the diocese, Fr. Darragh Connolly, to assist in the work of the movement and to ensure that in all its works and publications it remains firmly within the teaching and practice of the Catholic Church.

I have known "Anne," the founder of the movement, for several years. She is a Catholic in good standing in the diocese, a wife and mother of small children, and a woman of deep spirituality. From the beginning, she has always been anxious that everything connected with the movement be subject to the authority of the Church. She has submitted all her writings to me and will not publish anything without my permission. She has submitted her writings to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and I have done so, as well.

In so far as I am able to judge, she is orthodox in her writings and teaching. Her spirituality and the spiritual path that she proposes to those who wish to accept it are in conformity with the teachings of the Church and of the great spiritual writers of the past and present.

+Leo O'Reilly

Bishop of Kilmore

16 June 2006

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- The Annunciation: The Commencement of Mary's Role as Co-redemptrix by Martin LaMartina

Not of man’s seed, conjoined to its own
Artificier, without the debt of death
These mandates of the Father through bright stars.
An angel carries down, that angel-fame
The tidings may accredit; telling how
A virgin’s debts a Virgin, flesh’s flesh
Should pay (1).

Carmen adversus Marcionem, 3rd century A.D.

The whole plan of salvation history is evident in the integrity of the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. We can find benchmarks and points of progression in this plan beginning with the accounts of the "Word" or Logos initiating creation and then later the "Word" made flesh, the new Adam, re-creates or recapitulates fallen creation by the obedient offering of his natural life for the greater love of the Father. The first Adam and Eve failed to choose obedience over suffering and forfeited supernatural life. At the Annunciation Mary’s fiat, "Let it be done to me according to thy Word," imitates Jesus’ impending suffering in obedience to his Father’s will. In doing so she becomes the first to co-operate in the operation of salvation but in a unique and objective way. She becomes the instrumental cause of salvation for herself and the whole human race. This active offering of herself begins her role as the Co-redemptrix. The fiat she gave is a lifetime yes that is confirmed by her cooperation and mystical suffering throughout her life as Mother of God, on through "the loving consent to the immolation" (2) in her offering of the Son during the Passion, and still today in her role as Mediatrix and Advocate (3). We should examine the theme of the Woman in her role as Co-redemptrix as it was providentially planned, and its commencement with the offering of her womb at the Annunciation, the womb that provided the flesh for the "Word" incarnate that brings about our redemption.

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- Mary, Mediatrix: History and Vatican II by Fr. Michael O'Carroll, C.S.Sp.

The theology of mediation in Sacred Scripture has been built on New Testament passages. In the light of this theology, mediators are retrospectively identified in the Old Testament, in moments of special divine power or illumination, as with the prophets. Angels also intervene between God and man. A mediator is, in religion, one who unites God and man. Christ is the perfect Mediator as the Son of God and true man. "For there is one God and there is one mediator (mesites) between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony to which was borne at the proper time" (1 Tim 2:5). What then of Mary as Mediatrix? (1) As will be abundantly clear from the historical evidence to be set forth later, the question arises from the life and practice of the Church.

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- Mary and the Distribution of Grace by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.

Does Our Lady distribute grace only in the sense that she intercedes for each one of us and so obtains that the fruits of the merits of her Son be applied to each one of us at the appropriate moment, or does she transmit graces to us in the way in which the Sacred Humanity does? According to the teaching of St. Thomas and many other theologians, the Sacred Humanity is a physical instrumental cause of grace, an instrument always united to the divinity and higher than the sacraments, which are instruments separated from the divinity.

St. Thomas has treated of this question in many places in so far as it refers to Christ, the Head of the Church (1). It is but reasonable to ask if something similar to what he says about the Head may be affirmed of her who is, according to the teaching of Tradition, as it were the neck of the Mystical Body which unites the Head to the members and transmits the vital impulse to them.

In this connection theologians commonly admit that Mary exercises moral causality by her past merits and satisfaction and by her present intercession. But very many stop there and do not admit that she exercises any physical instrumental causality (2). Other theologians admit physical instrumental causality in subordination to the Sacred Humanity. They rely in support of their thesis on the traditional doctrine of Mary as the neck of the Mystical Body, uniting Head and members, and transmitting the vital influence to them (3).

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- Divine Mercy Mirrored in Mary's Heart by St. John Eudes

Divine Mercy is a perfection directed towards the miseries of creatures, tending to alleviate them and even to free them from created things when such a liberation enters into the designs of Divine Providence, which does all things with measure, number and weight (Wis 11:21).

This adorable mercy extends, like goodness itself, to all God's works: "His tender mercies are over all his works" (Ps 144:9). God's mercy overshadows the works of nature, the works of grace and the works of glory.

Mercy supervises the works of nature, because God has created out of nothing all things contained in the natural order. It overshadows the works of grace, because man had fallen into the horrible abyss, and Divine Mercy not only drew him from its depths but reestablished man in a state of grace so Godlike and noble that from being a member of Satan (as he was by his crime) he became a member of Jesus Christ.

God’s mercy permeates the works of glory, because God was not content simply to raise man to the supernatural and sublime state of Christian grace, making him thus partaker of the divine nature. The Creator further designed to withdraw man from the baseness, miseries, imperfections and perils which surround him here below, and to elevate him to heaven, even to the throne of God, to grant participation in his everlasting glory and the enjoyment of his eternal happiness. God has willed to share all his possessions with man, his creature.

Among the effects of Divine Mercy, we must enumerate three principal realities, which in turn embody numberless effects. The first is the Incarnation of the God-Man; the second, his Mystical Body, namely Holy Church; the third is the Mother of the God-Man, namely the Most Blessed Virgin Mary. These constitute three admirable masterpieces of Divine Mercy.

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- Victory Will Come for the Glorified Lady by The Lady of All Nations

During her May 31, 1977, Eucharistic Experience (ecclesiastical approval, May 31, 2002, see "Church Approves Apparitions of the Lady of All Nations" article), Our Lord once again shows the Lady of All Nations "in all her heavenly glory." Visionary Ida Peerdeman hears of a coming struggle, but an ensuing victory for the "Glorified Lady." – Asst. Ed.

August 15, 1977

During Holy Mass "the Light" came over the altar and the priest at the Offertory, and I heard: "My blessing come down upon all of you. Remain faithful to her whom I have sent."

After receiving "Our Lord" I saw a heavenly vision. "The Voice" spoke to me: "Come, follow me." And I was going on a long road, with a "Radiant Figure" ahead of me. Then "the Voice" said to me: "Once more you are allowed to see her in all her heavenly glory."

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