Daily Reflections by Cathy
July 31, 2025 Reflection – Help us, Jesus our brother, to obtain the goodness of the Father
Help us, Jesus our brother, to obtain the goodness of the Father!
July 31, 2025
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Dear Family of Mary!
In our Gospel for today, Mt 13:47-53, Jesus talks about the end of the age! He gives us an image of the Kingdom of heaven. Here is an excerpt from the Gospel:
Jesus said to the discipes: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind. When it is full they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away. Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth..”(Matthew 13:47-50)
I have always thought this was a curious analogy for the final judgement. But it gets the point across. Not everyone will go to heaven. Our hearts need to be 100% for God. We can clean them out, little by little, but we should never get satisfied. We need undivided hearts, loving God above all things!
Our Lady inspired Jelena to write down a prayer which we could pray for undivided hearts, and truly desire to love God alone! Here it is! I find it very beautiful.
Petition to God
(Given by Our Lady to Jelena Vasilj, 6/22/1985)
Recite 3 Glory Be’s
Oh God, our heart is in deep obscurity,
in spite of our union to Your Heart.
Our heart is struggling between You and satan;
do not permit it to be in this manner!
Every time that the heart is divided
between good and evil,
let it be enlightened by Your light
and let it be unified.
Never permit,
for there to be able to exist in us two loves,
that there can never co-exist in us two faiths,
and that there can never co-exist in us;
lying and sincerity,
love and hatred,
honesty and dishonesty,
humility and pride.
Help us on the contrary,
so that our hearts may be elevated toward You
just like that of a child.
May our heart be ravished with peac
and continue to always have the nostalgia of it.
May Your Holy will and Your love
find a permanent place in us, that at least
sometimes we would really wish to be Your
children and when, Oh Lord,
we will desire to be Your children,
remember our past desires
and help us to receive You again.
We open our hearts to you
so that Your holy love will remain in us.
We open our souls to you,
so that they may be touched by Your holy mercy
which will help us to see clearly all our sins,
and will make us realize,
that which makes us impure is sin.
God, we want to be Your children,
humble and devout,
to the point of becoming your cherished and
sincere children,
such as only the Father
would be able to desire that we be.
Help us, Jesus our brother,
to obtain the goodness of the Father in our regard,
and to be good to Him.
Help us Jesus,
to understand well what God gives us,
although sometimes we fail to perform a good act,
as though it were for us an evil.
Amen!
This is a very good prayer to pray! Our Lady gave us the words to say!! She understands the challenges of our human nature. She is one of us in everything but sin by the special grace of God.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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