 I paraphrase what Our Mother said to me through her messages in Medjugorje, "Open your heart to God, He is alive!" It's as though she was echoing Rev. 3:20. From there I heard another of her messages, "Abandon yourself totally to me and I will lead you in God's perfect will (Totus Tuus Maria - JPII's motto)." So I did, and I have been in awe ever since.
The saints say that when we consecrate our lives to Mary it is like life in the fast lane to God. The saints also say that the purpose of our consecration is to grow in the deepest union with the Most Holy Trinity who dwell within us through Baptism. And, this is what is happening to me. Our Mother has taken me by the hand and is drawing me to an ever-deeper union with Our Heavenly Father - Abba!, Our Divine Savior and Eucharistic Bridegroom - Jesus, and the Most Holy Spirit - the Fire of Divine Love and Truth.
At the heart of my spirituality is "the source and summit" of our whole christian faith - Jesus in the Most Holy Eucharist. It is through being one with our Mother as Spotless Bride in receiving Him in Holy Communion and spending time before Him in adoration that I am gradually coming to know more clearly who I am in Him, who I am created to be and what God's perfect plan is for my life St. John Bosco's famous dream of the Two Pillars has resonated deeply in my heart. I feel called to help the Church to "anchor on!" to these two great pillars of our Catholic faith of devotion to the Eucharist and Mary. Bosco prophesied, "There will be chaos in the Church. Tranquility will not return until the Holy Father succeeds in anchoring the bark of Peter" to these two pillars.
I have also been very blest to be formed in JPII's Theology of the Body. |