“Dear children, in this time of grace, I am calling you to be people of hope, peace, and joy, so that every person may be a peacemaker and a lover of life. Pray, little children, to the Holy Spirit to fill you with the strength of His own Holy Spirit of courage and surrender. And this time for you will be a gift and a walk in holiness towards eternal life. I am with you and I love you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” -Our Lady of Medjugorje, in private revelation given to Marija Pavlovic-Lunetti, on May 25, 2025
The Holy Spirit, in private revelation given to Maria Valtorta:
Truly, you are the redeemed through love even before than from the Blood and from the Death of the Son of God. Blood and Death have been the final events of your redemption. However, the love of God for you is the eternal state of God for you, and this divine love has begun to save you from His eternal being, because even before time existed, you were in the thought of God. All of you, from Adam to the last man. With your heroisms and your aberrations, your treasures and your poverty, with your great need of being strongly helped, divinely helped, so as to be able to reach the end for which you had been created.
And the Love had already established “from the beginning”, in His divine Knowledge and Will, how much was necessary in order to bring you back to the Life, as a Humanity and as individuals. He embraced everything that was sacrifice and sorrow out of love for you. And He has always sacrificed Himself for your love, for the love of you who are so often ungrateful, and even more often, weak.
You need only to contemplate the heroic Will of the Son of God, the future Christ, always such; such before the Redemption, before His Birth, before His Incarnation, such from the beginning of the world and before the beginning of the world, drawing back in an immensity of time which is no longer time but “eternity”, and you will be able to comprehend that it is out love that you have been saved. For just as “in the beginning the Word was with God”, the same “in the beginning love was with God”, rather, it was God. For God is none other than Love. And just as it is written that “Through Him all things were made,” it is also correct to write that “through Love all things were made”.
All of the sensitive world and supersensitive creation is the work of love. All the providences, the physical, moral, and supernatural laws are the work of love. All the actions of God are works of love. Love—the creation of God, and love—the particular creation of man, the adoptive child of God. Love—the Passion to redeem man. Love—the Eucharist. Love—the gifts of the Paraclete, Whom the Paraclete, Theologian of theologians, Giver of Wisdom, Intellect, Advice, Strength, Knowledge, Mercy, and Fear of God, gives to those who worthily receive Him, He, the Love of the Father and of the Son, Fecundator and Sanctifier of the many who know how to keep Him within, with a pure and holy life. Love—the Church, distributor of grace and Teacher of the faithful.
The perfect Love One and Trine fills you with Himself and His munificences in order to make you perfect on Earth, and blessed in Heaven; and Christ proposes to you the two perfections through which you will attain eternal glory.
Jesus, the Word to creatures divinized by Grace, proposes to you the same holiness of His Father, “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” As a Teacher to men similar to Him in the flesh and soul, He, the Man, proposes His holiness to you, “Learn from Me. I have given you the example that as I have done to you, so you do also; you shall be blessed if you put into practice My example. You are My friends if you do that which I command you.”
Between the parallels of these two holy proposals, your path to eternal Life is the Christ, Who joins to Himself, as the Word Son of God, the Holiness of God, and as Jesus, Son of Immaculate Mary, the perfect justice of the innocent Man full of Grace and Truth. And since “you are gods and sons of the most High”, oh men redeemed by Christ, you can and must, as children of God and as children of men, copy Jesus your Brother in becoming other Christs, true children of God and heirs of Heaven; nor is it an impossible thing because He, Jesus, has demonstrated how it is possible to do so (i.e., through His Incarnation).
“On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, even so I send you.’ And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’ ” (John 20:19-23)
An excerpt from “Drawing Close to the Holy Spirit” by Sister Mary Ann Fatula:
In the sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation, the Holy Spirit continues to free us from our sins and to heal the wounds and pain that can lead us into sin. Every time we receive the sacrament of Reconciliation, the Lord Jesus, through the ministry of the priest or bishop, gives us a glorious new outpouring of His Holy Spirit of Love to impart to us His own forgiveness and healing. Even our very desire to receive this sacrament of forgiveness comes only from our being tenderly “moved by the Holy Spirit.”
It is also the Holy Spirit Who enables us to realize what is sinful in our lives. We know how easy it is for us to make excuses for our sins, to deny or ignore the fact that what we are choosing to think, desire, or do is sinful. The Holy Spirit’s tender mercy, however, “convicts” us of sin, giving us the grace to recognize our sins (John 16:8) and truly repent of them. The Holy Spirit enables us to confess our sins with heartfelt sorrow and humbly to resolve, with the Holy Spirit’s grace, not to sin again.
A Prayer to our Blessed Mother Mary by Pope Francis:
Mary, Virgin and Mother,
you who, moved by the Holy Spirit,
welcomed the Word of life
in the depths of your humble faith:
as you gave yourself completely to the Eternal One,
help us to say our own “yes”
to the urgent call, as pressing as ever,
to proclaim the good news of Jesus.
Filled with Christ’s presence,
you brought joy to John the Baptist,
making him exult in the womb of his mother.
Brimming over with joy,
you sang of the great things done by God.
Standing at the foot of the Cross
with unyielding faith,
you received the joyful comfort of the Resurrection,
and joined the disciples in awaiting the Spirit
so that the evangelizing Church might be born.
Obtain for us now a new ardor born of the Resurrection,
that we may bring to all the Gospel of life
which triumphs over death.
Give us a holy courage to seek new paths,
that the gift of unfading beauty
may reach every man and woman.
Virgin of listening and contemplation,
Mother of love, Bride of the eternal wedding feast,
pray for the Church, whose pure icon you are,
that she may never be closed in on herself
or lose her passion for establishing God’s kingdom.
Star of the new evangelization,
help us to bear radiant witness to communion,
service, ardent and generous faith,
justice and love of the poor,
that the joy of the Gospel
may reach to the ends of the earth,
illuminating even the fringes of our world.
Mother of the living Gospel,
wellspring of happiness for God’s little ones,
pray for us.
Amen. Alleluia!
