A new life of conversion and holiness
May 1, 2023
St. Joseph the Worker
Dear Family of Mary!
St. Joseph! Pray for us!!!
First, let’s again prayerfully read the message of April 25, 2023:
“Dear children! I am calling all of you to be carriers of the peace and joy of the risen Jesus for all those who are far from prayer; that the love of Jesus, through your lives, may transform them to a new life of conversion and holiness. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
Our Lady calls us to be carriers of the peace and joy of the risen Jesus! She wants us to take Jesus in our hearts out to all those who do not know him: “That the love of Jesus, through your lives, may transform them (the people who are far from prayer) to a new life of conversion and holiness.” This is a call to be bold and evangelize!
We live in challenging times. Many people in our lives today do not believe in Christ, or do not even know about Him. It is not much different than the times of the first Apostles. Listen to how the Lord sent Peter out to transform those who were far from prayer in his day:
“The Apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem the circumcised believers confronted him, saying, “You entered the house of uncircumcised people and ate with them.”
Peter began and explained it to them step by step, saying, “I was at prayer in the city of Joppa when in a trance I had a vision, something resembling a large sheet coming down, lowered from the sky by its four corners, and it came to me. Looking intently into it, I observed and saw the four-legged animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky. I also heard a voice say to me, ‘Get up, Peter. Slaughter and eat.’ But I said, ‘Certainly not, sir, because nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ But a second time a voice from heaven answered, ‘What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.’ This happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into the sky.
Just then three men appeared at the house where we were, who had been sent to me from Caesarea. The Spirit told me to accompany them without discriminating. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house. He related to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, saying, ‘Send someone to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter, who will speak words to you by which you and all your household will be saved.’
As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them as it had upon us at the beginning, and I remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said, ‘John baptized with water but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ If then God gave them the same gift he gave to us when we came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to hinder God?” When they heard this, they stopped objecting and glorified God, saying, “God has then granted life-giving repentance to the Gentiles too.” (Acts 11:1-18)
Peter received a vision in which the Lord told him that the Gentiles were also being called! Peter changed his mind. And then three men from Caesarea arrived at his house, having also had a vision of an angel, who told them to go to Joppa and bring Peter back with them. The people in Ceasarea were converted and baptized in the Holy Spirit! Wow! God orchestrated this whole event by speaking to the hearts of Peter and of the men from Joppa.
I have listened to so many stories that Michael Nolan has relayed to us about just this kind of event! Mike and many others are learning to hear the voice of God, and respond to it in amazing ways. The result is the conversion and healing of many people! Mike’s life sounds very much like Peter’s life. Inspirations from God lead him to many strangers who have hidden needs that Mike and his friends speak to, and conversions abound! This movement is really very much like the early Church! And the result is exactly what Our Lady asked of us on April 25, 2023:
“Dear children! I am calling all of you to be carriers of the peace and joy of the risen Jesus for all those who are far from prayer; that the love of Jesus, through your lives, may transform them to a new life of conversion and holiness. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
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In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV
