Message # 454

Olomouc (Moravia], September 3, 1991
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle witn the Priests of the M.M.P. from Czechoslovakia

"How happy I am, my beloved sons, to see you in such great numbers at this retreat, which you are making in the form of a continuous cenacle. You have come from Moravia, Bohemia, and Slovakia to live days of intense prayer and of great brotherhood, in the company of your heavenly Mother. I am always with you.
As it was in the Cenacle of Jerusalem, so also in this cenacle of yours, I am uniting myself with your prayer; I am building up among you a greater capacity for understanding; I am help- ing you to walk along the way of your mutual love, so that the new commandment which my Son Jesus has given you - 'love one another as I have loved you' - may be more and more lived by you.
You have emerged from a painful and very burdensome trial. After many years of harsh communist slavery, I have obtained for you the grace of your liberation, as I had already foretold to you.
Now I am asking you to become the apostles of the new era, which is awaiting you. For this, I am forming a new heart in you, so that you may know how to love everyone with my maternal and merciful love. Do not be looking at some of those among you who, through weakness, have descended to compromise with my Adversary, who has now been defeated. Do not bear any resentment toward them. The past is now can- celled out. You are now called to live this new time and new tasks are awaiting you.
- There awaits you the task of rebuilding the Church, here where it has been so persecuted and violated by my Adversary. For this, I urge you to be ever faithful priests, witnesses of unity and of love for the Pope and for your bishops. Exercise your ministry with joy and with enthusiasm; give to all the light of Christ and of his Gospel; be ministers of grace and of holiness. Thus, by means of you, the Church will begin again to shine forth with great light for all those who live in this coun- try of yours.
- There awaits you the task of evangelizing this poor humanity, which has been so deceived and seduced by the Spirit of Evil. Think of the great number of my children - above all, the young - who have been formed for years in the school of the denial of God and of the rejection of his law of love. They are little sheep snatched from the flock of your divine Shepherd and led astray along the way of evil, of sin and of unhappiness. Take them up in yout priestly arms, these sttaying children of mine, and carry them all into the safe sheepfold of my Immaculate Heart. Be therefore persevering in your ministry of catechesis, giving the light of the truth which Christ has revealed to you, in order to help all to remain in the true faith. In this way, you accomplish the task of this second evangelization, so very much demanded by the first of my beloved sons, Pope John Paul II.
There awaits you the task of causing the sweet balm of my motherly tenderness to come down upon so many open and bleeding wounds. See how numerous are the poor, those far away, the sinners, the unhappy, the stricken, the downtrodden, the discouraged, the abandoned, the lonely, the desperate. You must be an expression of my love and my motherly concern. Love all with the strength of yout priestly heart and with the light which is given you by yout heavenly Mother.
If you carry out this task which I am entrusting to you today, you become truly the apostles of the new era, which I have alteady initiated here.
Leave this cenacle with joy, with confidence and with great hope. I am always with you. You are a precious part of my motherly property. With yout dear ones and with the souls entrusted to you, I bless you in the name ofthe Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."

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