"The Priest who fulfills his mission will be another Me"
Life 6, 345-346; CC25,259-265) "Identified with Me he is another Me,
that is, he is then Myself when consecrating, in that mystery of love
which is worked at the transubstantiation" (CC 49, 181).
In Jesus’ Confidences to
Conchita, we learn that our Lord has been preparing his Church for this
moment of purification; it is a time of grace that takes us to the roots
of our Priesthood. This moment of great growing in humility for our
priests will bring sanctification to many souls. If only the priest
would think back, reminiscing on the day of his consecration to God. How
and what, Priest, did you sense and experience at that moment? What led
you to ignore this personal and intimate experience of unsurpassed
grace?
Jesus shares with Conchita:
"I need others on earth, forming only one Me in my
Church by their unity of sights, of intentions and of ideals; forming
only one mystical Body with Me, only one wish with the will of my
Father; only one soul with the Holy Spirit; one unity in the Trinity out
of duty, out of justice, out of love." (CC 50, 102)
"And the goal of the Church in its intrinsic part is to
form on earth only one Jesus, Savior of souls; only one Priest in the
eternal Priest by their union, resemblance and identification with Him."
( CC 50,126)
"Thus, I in them and they in Me will glorify the Father
in only one praise; and with souls, we would form that perfect unity in
the Church, which must honor the Trinity." (CC 50,253)
"The purpose of these confidences has been to unite all
priests in the unity of the Trinity, but transformed in Me; they have
the goal of making of all of them only one Jesus; I in them; not many
Jesus, but one only." (CC 50, 292)
"I want all my bishops and priests absorbed in the unity
of the Trinity so they may be fruitful in souls, so they may engender in
the virgin Church souls for heaven." (CC 50, 4)
"The Father is constantly engendering his Word in
Himself and working the Mystery of the Trinity... and is eternally
rejoicing in Himself in his unity of the Trinity, He wants to attract
everything to the unity; for that He formed his only Church, where all
souls must form unity 2
in the Word, through the Holy Spirit, an the mission of
the priest is to bring souls to that unity." ( CC 50,88)
Priests, we want you to
know that many of us laymen and women hunger for Holiness, a gift and
mission you have been entrusted to fulfill. Teach us how to live in
communion with the blessed Trinity. But, in order to accomplish your
mission, you, yourself, must live a holy life.
If we desire to have
priests that live a holy life, I exhort you to form families that are
holy. But this holiness must first be lived by us. A priest who has
eternally consecrated his life to God, is the fruit of a family. Neither
the priests nor their vows and formation are the direct causes for the
serious problems confronted by our Church today. Those are only some of
the issues, as having been ordained without fully taking into
consideration their personal problems is another aspect. If we take a
closer look at what is happening, we will understand to what extent we
too are responsible. Yes, we need priests that are holy but for this to
happen, we need to form families that are holy. Families with strong
ties that are united by a love of God, in other words, a family invaded
by the presence of God.
In her later years (1935),
Conchita wrote that Jesus asked for the formation of a Chain of Souls
who would sacrifice for the glory of the Father, following the spirit of
the Apostleship of the Cross.
"It is a union of souls that are pure, who without any
personal gain, are sacrificial victims in this world, fulfilling their
responsibilities with love and zeal, sacrificing their lives, to give me
glory".
He asks that these souls
form a Crusade for the Sanctification of Families and that their mission
is to offer up their sacrifices in atonement for divorced couples, who
violating God’s law harm many souls, not only those who execute the
divorce but of husbands and wives, children, society, etc. He tells her
that divorce brings about many sins that no one remembers to atone for.
That these sins need reparation and many special graces for those who
commit them.
He addresses sins of
adultery, of mothers who commit crimes, cold and indifferent mothers who
set bad examples and neglect their responsibilities with their children.
Jesus talked about these social problems in 1935. What would He say
today with countless abortions being performed? Lives are truncated in
wombs from the very beginning, as roots being cut from a tree. Violence
grows every day and we wonder and still don’t understand what is going
on in our planet. Only priests are to blame? Let’s take a closer look at
families whose lives are not centered around God. I think we have a
clear picture from what we read in the daily news and from what we
observe around us.
I ask all of you that,
united in one heart, in the image of the Holy Trinity, we offer
ourselves as victims in unity with Jesus, for the sanctification of
families; therefore, for the sanctification of Priests.
Ana M. Quirós
Apostleship of the Cross Coordinator - Houston Center
July 2002
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Priests