The Most Holy Trinity has filled my entire being with this singular
privilege, because I was destined to be the Mother of the Word, become man
in my most pure womb.
In view of my divine maternity, I have been preserved from original sin
and from every shadow of personal sin, and I have been filled with grace and holiness.
Because I am the Mother of Jesus, I have been intimately associated in the
mystery of his work of Redemption, as coredemptrix, and have thus become
true mediatrix of grace between you and my Son Jesus.
Beneath the Cross, through the will of my Son, I have become Mother of you
all, and in the Cenacle with the apostles, I have participated as Mother in
the birth of the Church.
My motherly task is that of leading the Church along the way of its
evangelization. As so I have always been at the side of each of my children
who, through two thousand years, have brought the announcement of the
Gospel to every part of the world.
Precisely on this day, you are celebrating here the five hundredth
anniversary of the beginning of the evangelization of all this great
continent of America.
After nearly two thousand years since the first announcing of the Gospel,
humanity has again become pagan. I am the Mother of the second
evangelization. Mine is the task of forming the apostles of the second
evangelization. During these years, I have formed you with particular care
and through the gift of my words, to be the apostles of these last times.
Apostles of the last times, because you must announce to all, to the very
ends of the earth, the Gospel of Jesus, in these days of the great
apostasy. In the great darkness which has descended upon the world, spread
the light of Christ and of his divine Truth.
Apostles of the last times, because you must give to all the very life of
God, by means of grace which you communicate with the sacraments of which
you are the ministers. And thus you spread the fragrance of purity and of
holiness in these times of great perversion.
Apostles of the last times, because you are being called to bring down the
dew of the merciful love of Jesus upon a world parched by the inability to
love and menaced more and more with hatred, violence and war.
Apostles of the last times, because you must announce the closely
approaching return of Jesus in glory, who will lead humanity into the new
times, when at last there will be seen new heavens and a new earth.
Proclaim to all his forthcoming return: 'Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus!' "
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