Daily Reflections by Cathy
April 30, 2025 Reflection – Peaclessness and Perdition…
Peacelessness and Perdition
April 30, 2025
St. Pius
Dear Family of Mary!
Our Lady has been repeatedly impressing upon us that it is possible to have hearts that are so stony and cold that they cannot see what God is doing, and that they can only choose the paths of peacelessness and perdition. Read again her message to us on April 25, 2025:
April 25, 2025 “Dear children, winds of peacelessness, selfishness and sin are catching hold of many hearts and leading them into peacelessness and perdition. That is why I am calling you, little children: return to God and to prayer, so that it may be good for you in the hearts and on the earth on which you live. I love you, little children, and that is why I am not tiring of calling you to conversion. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (With Ecclesiastical approval)
Now read the first reading for Mass today:
Acts 5:17-26
The high priest rose up and all his companions, that is, the party of the Sadducees, and, filled with jealousy, laid hands upon the Apostles and put them in the public jail. But during the night, the angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison, led them out, and said, “Go and take your place in the temple area, and tell the people everything about this life.” When they heard this, they went to the temple early in the morning and taught. When the high priest and his companions arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin, the full senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the jail to have them brought in. But the court officers who went did not find them in the prison, so they came back and reported, “We found the jail securely locked and the guards stationed outside the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.” When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this report, they were at a loss about them, as to what this would come to. Then someone came in and reported to them, “The men whom you put in prison are in the temple area and are teaching the people.” Then the captain and the court officers went and brought them, but without force, because they were afraid of being stoned by the people.
The word of the Lord.
The Sadducees were clearly unable to see the mighty work of God in freeing the Apostles from their jail, even though the doors remained locked and the guards stationed outside the doors!!! This miracle made no impression on them!! Were they blind and unable to hear? Yes, they were. They were on their way to perdition, because of years of peacelessness, selfishness and sin. They could not perceive the works of God. It was beyond their comprehension.
We see the same condition in many hearts today. They have lost true values, and wandered far from the light of God. But Our Lady does not want to give up on them. She told us many years ago:
January 23, 1986 “Dear children! Again I call you to prayer with the heart. If you pray with the heart, dear children, the ice of your brothers will melt and every barrier shall disappear. Conversion will be easy for all who desire to accept it. That is the gift which by prayer you must obtain for your neighbor. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
We are called to pray, pray, pray for our neighbors, so that they can be freed from the blindness of unbelief. It is not too late. Our job is to pray, pray, pray, for their conversion and for our own as well!! Conversion is a mighty gift from God! It is a gift we must obtain for ourselves and for our neighbors!! It is vital!!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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