The Rosary and Exorcism

     

Over the centuries many Saints have told us how powerful the Rosary is, but they didn’t tell us why or how the Rosary makes such a change in our world.  The following is an attempt at an explanation of the power of the Rosary

The Rosary is one of the most powerful tools of portable semi- exorcism and soul purification.

 Soul Purification:
The Holy Rosary, if prayed with dedication, and singularity of heart, allows one that prays purification, a desire for the things of God's church which include the sacraments, and as God allows the soul will touch the edge of eternity in preparation for their judgment.  How can one prepare for eternity, if we have no tangible concept of the Holy Realm?  Can the finite touch the infinite? Yes, but only as God allows, for not by our own merit can man interact with eternity unless our hearts are aligned with God. God in His goodness has given us the Holy Sacraments of the Church as the way that a sinfully inclined man who will one day taste death experience the actuality of his own judgment.

The Holy Rosary allows a purified soul to have access to the heavenly realm to seek the good of another.  If God allows us to attain heaven while we are still in the flesh, it is because we seek the good of another asking nothing for ourselves.  As a result, when we pray the Rosary for another, God works in the life of that soul, and we are purified for heaven.  But our intentions must be pure.  If we are seeking out mystical experiences, or notoriety, then God, who knows our heart will purify us by allowing us to feel how we have withdrawn from Him by our pride.  (He never withdraws from us while we are in the flesh, but by willful pride and disobedience we can pull away from Him.)

God does this so that we may have a small taste of the absence of Him to call us again to humility.   He allows this so that we will not experience a permanent separation from Him in Hell.  When we again humble ourselves before Him, He embraces us even tighter giving us more than we can imagine or express. There are two things that shall never be in heaven, they are pride and disobedience.  God will purify a soul of all pride and disobedience and if we cooperate with this purification we can attain heaven.

God always speaks life, and the Hail Mary, or angelic salutation, are words of life given by God through the Archangel Gabriel, raining down upon us.  “Hail favored one the Lord is with you.” (Luke 1:28).   Wherever God's words have been vocalized in prayer, life blossoms.

Portable Mini-Exorcism:
We cannot forget that nothing evil is ever going to touch Mary.  Mary, as Jesus's Mother has the absolute protection of the whole Trinity.  Those that pray the Rosary daily, and seek to console her Immaculate Heart, already have a soft spot with Jesus because He loves His Mother so much.  The devil cannot stand to be where the life of God flows, so he will always seek to disrupt or destroy it.  But with the angelic salutation, he cannot touch those that pray the Rosary.

The Rosary has a ‘loosening’ quality that counters the chains that the devil seeks to bind us.  The devil chains to himself those that are in sin, but by the Rosary we place the Rosary around the person we pray for and gently pull them towards Jesus.  The Rosary always leads to repentance of sin, whether you are praying for yourself or for another.   If you pray the Rosary for someone and you don't think there is a change, remember the words of our Lord, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.” (Mark 9:29).  So then add some form of fasting to help the person you are praying for to come to repentance.

So when you pray the Rosary with devotion you are purifying your soul and loosening the chains of the devil, either for you or for another.  The chains are only fully cut when the soul in true repentance goes to Holy Confession.  The Rosary always gives us the desire for participation in the sacraments.  When the chains are cut to the devil after Holy Confession, then with penance, we begin the process of purification from the devils influence.  If you roll in mud, when you get up, you may no longer be rolling in mud, but you definitely need to be cleaned.
  
Once unchained, cleaned and purified, now you need to stay with the Sacraments of the Church to keep strong for the battle for others. Praying the Rosary for someone places the prayers of the Rosary around the person and pulls them away from their sins in such a way that does not impede their free will.  The Rosary is a mini form of exorcism because it pushes the devil away and also looses the bonds that the demon has on anyone you pray for.

Praying the Rosary in public can send the demon running.   Catholics are called to bring their Rosaries into the public forum, praying them for anyone they may encounter and making the devil flee.  If you know how much the devil fears the blessed Rosary that you hold, you would never let it out of your hand nor cease praying it.  You will find that those that are in mortal sin (chained to the devil) will want to run from the Rosary that you hold.  The Rosary prayed in public will always give a reaction of those around you, and if your heart is aligned to the will of God, He may give you knowledge of the state of some of the souls around you.  This knowledge is for the betterment of their souls through your prayers only. 

Legions of Angels
We know that there are legions of angels in heaven, because Jesus spoke of them, but we must never forget that there are legions of fallen angels also.  Praying the Holy Rosary can send an entire legion of fallen angels running.   Think of that for a moment how one devoted soul, praying the Holy Rosary can, as God wills, cleanse an area of demonic influence.  The Holy Rosary not only purifies souls, but it can purify lands and nations.

Pray the Rosary, pray it often, pray it in public. 

The Hidden Mother

I see you and you do not know it, I watch you and you do not see me.  I don't want you to.  It is better for you if you if you never know me as who I really am.  When I do get a glimpse of  you, my heart leaps for joy for the gift of holding you with my eyes, because I know I will never hold you with my Mothers arms.  I am so proud of you, but I can never tell you that.  The best thing I can do for you is be hidden, loving and praying for you.  If who I am to you is every revealed, God will have to do it for I never will.  I am....

JOCHEBED

The Last Age Before the Messiah Comes: The Age of WAR.

In all history of God there have been three ages and we are in the last of the three ages.

The first age was the Age of the Prophets,  This is the age of the creation of Man, the coming together of the Chosen people, the House of Israel, and their purification up to the coming of the Messiah.  We see God crying to His chosen children begging for their repentance and for them to turn away from their sin.

The second age is the Age of the Messiah, Jesus Christ.  This encompasses His holy conception in the womb of the Virgin Mary and continues through His life, miracles, preaching, suffering, death and resurrection.  This age was not completed at the Resurrection of Jesus, but continuing till the present day with the fruit of the apostolic spreading of the Word of God via the Holy Spirit.  

The last age that has started, and is continuous with the Age of the Messiah is the Age of War.  This is the most terrifying of the three ages, because at the end of this age the Lord Jesus returns.  

Whenever there was a danger to God's people, God has ALWAYS sent a Prophet, a Messenger to warn of the danger, and beg the people to repent of their sin and turn back to our Holy God before it was too late.  Too late for what? For Christ's return which is closer than anyone can imagine.

If you understood the terror of the Cross you would listen to me.  What should terrify us is what it truly means that God Jehovah took flesh and submitted to the Crucifixion for our Salvation.  

This brings a great responsibility on our part to be HOLY.  

Yes, God is infinitely merciful and does not desire the loss of one soul, no not one.  But God is perfectly just, and when He returns as the just Judge, there will be no more time for mercy!  Where the economy of the soul is at that moment can determine the souls destination for ALL ETERNITY.   Do not let the light be extinguished at night unless you have reconciled yourself to God. 

God always prepares His people for the next big event in the economy of Eternity.  God sent the Prophets, they were abused, scoffed at, killed.  God sent His Son, and He was Crucified. 
But GOD ALWAYS PREPARES THE WAY for His next arrival!  

But this preparation is very different.  Yes, God is sending messengers to give the hard truth to as many as possible, but there is something more this time.  God is training and preparing Warriors for battle with the demons for the souls of the lost.  The state of sin in the world is so great, it is greater than the time of the flood of Noah. So God is sending those who will lay down comfort and sacrifice in pleading with God for the blackest of hearts.  God does not need those He sends, but by what those sent will have to suffer for the sake of the Gospel and speaking the truth, God will bring souls to repentance and at the same time purify the Warrior for a greater battle ahead. 
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Luke Chapter 17:  

26 'As it was in Noah's day, so will it also be in the days of the Son of man.

27 People were eating and drinking, marrying wives and husbands, right up to the day Noah went into the ark, and the Flood came and destroyed them all.

28 It will be the same as it was in Lot's day: people were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,

29 but the day Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and it destroyed them all.

30 It will be the same when the day comes for the Son of man to be revealed.

31 'When that Day comes, no one on the housetop, with his possessions in the house, must come down to collect them, nor must anyone in the fields turn back.

32 Remember Lot's wife.


33 Anyone who tries to preserve his life will lose it; and anyone who loses it will keep it safe.

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Now is the time for Holy Souls, innocents, that will willingly lay down their comfort for the sake of the conversion of sinners.   We can no longer deny that we are at war with the devil for the souls of the lost.  We can do nothing for God but we can plead to God and sacrifice something of comfort for our brother in penance for his or her sin.   

The Prophets and Preachers of this age must speak the truth of God, and the Warriors will make war on the Earth battling the devil.  Woe to those who are called to preach the Gospel at this time and reject this call!  

With the Stations offered for a Country, a City, or just to bind a great sin in the way God would have it bound, if our heart is aligned with love for God and seeking only the salvation of lost souls then we can be in our own home church, and at God's will , we can wage war against the demon on the whole Earth.   

With the Holy Mass, the Stations, and the Holy Rosary, if God allows it, the Catholic can change the face of the Earth.   (The trick is you must remain hidden). 

With God with us and with St. Michael the Archangel and the Holy Angels to defend us, who can come against us?  The Rosary is my weapon, humility is my shield and Holy Confession and Holy Communion are my armor in this fight.  

We have been prepared for the Messiah, we have had the Messiah come, and now...we are preparing for the return.   Do I know when this is? No. No one does, and if they say they do, they are either a liar or deceived by the devil.  

"When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the Earth?"  This is our hourglass so to speak, the only measure given us of a possible timing of His coming.  As the world becomes more atheistic and secular, so is the time so much shorter for our repentance and/or conversion before our Lord comes again. 

Now is the time to be AWAKE!

What A Catholic Is.

Sacred Heart of Jesus

A Catholic is for the other.

A Catholic is called to first be holy, so that they may bring the rest of the world to God.

By being Holy, the Catholic should participate in the gifts of the sacraments and sacramental of the Church.  Use Holy Water daily, Daily Mass, regular confession, and the Holy Rosary.

We have to clean up our own muck before we can offer penance and sacrifice for our brother.

Richard Dawkins, Atheist

If there is an Atheist in the world, we, the Catholics are called to go to Holy Mass and take Holy Communion for him or her.  Then we are to do penance not only for ourselves, but out of love for the soul of another, ask God to accept additional penance as if we where placing our hands in the hands of the lost and doing the penance as one soul before God.

Unkown Satanist (From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWVtyBLqYEs)

If there is a Satanist, it is the Catholic that must secretly do penance for him and take Communion for him.  (Want to make the devil mad?  Take Holy Communion for one that he has earmarked as his own!).  If there is a Murderer, a Thief....etc, the process is the same.

The Catholic is NOT to be arrogant, and say, "We are the true Church, we are the First!", Jesus NEVER said these words.  What He did say was, "The greatest of all is the servant of all."  We are called to be the lowest servant to any one who is far from God by sin or in a different faith.

Many of our brothers in different faiths have Jesus, so we don't have to bring Jesus, although we will by the fact that we have had communion, but we do need to bring His Mother.

When the Catholic wears a blessed Rosary and or Miraculous Medal, the soul of another sees the Mother of Jesus deep in their soul.  You will be amazed at how people will react to you.  Do not confront, just smile, love all and pray your Rosary, even in their services.  For the truth is, they ARE your brother's and sisters, and should be treated as your own self.

If a Protestant has the Holy Word of God given to the world by the Holy Catholic Church, even if that word is in a different form, then if there is even one Word spoken by Jesus is the book, then they are part of the Holy Catholic Church.  As such, for the gift of the Holy Eucharist that they lack and can never have, we should, in a state of grace, take Holy Communion into ourselves and then bring Jesus to them in a hidden way.

Mary when she was on the road to Bethlehem with her husband Joseph did not shout before men, "I'm the Immaculate Conception, and I have God in my womb!"  No, she was hidden, said nothing, obeyed her husband completely, and let the Angels declare her Holy Virginity and the Divine nature of her Son.   So we should be hidden when we are among our brethren, always being obedient to the Catholic Church in our travels to other 'lands', and let the Holy Spirit declare what we have brought in love to our brethren.

Legions of Angels Will Defend You

St. Michael the Archangel

The average person has one guardian angel, they can have more as needed, but most of the time, one is more than sufficient to protect the soul because of the strength of the least angel in the Kingdom of God can defend the soul against many many demons.  This is in accordance with the free will of the person being defended.   

The free will of the soul fighting off the evil forces is the key to whether the Angel can be effective to provide God's protection and guidance, because if God will not take back His gift of free will to man, then the Angels certainly can not go against man's God given free will, even if that free will is to reject the Creator. 

The Warrior on the other hand, can call upon a Legion of Angels if needed.   The reason for this, is that the average person, whether they are Christian or not does not delve in the battlefield that the Warrior has been given and takes by choice.  The Warrior's fight is for the salvation of souls and to plead to the Father for the salvation of others.    

Because Warriors seek by the grace of God to take the blackest souls directly from the demon's grasp, the Warriors are high on the devil's hit list.   This is why the Warriors, can, at God's discretion, ask for a Legion's protection.  Every night before the Warrior sleeps, he or she should cross themselves with holy water, and ask God to send an angel to stand guard outside the doors and windows of the home.  

With great love for God and for the souls that God loves, even the most lost soul, the Warrior takes the battlefield of the Cross and pleads at the bottom of the Cross with Jesus hanging in his suffering with the blood pouring from Him.  The Cross of Christ, as is all of His life, Passion, and Resurrection are moments that are NOT in the past, they are NOW.  

The eternal God took flesh, and gave us a permanent oblation of His life, Suffering, Crucifixion, Death, and Resurrection that is not placed in the past but the eternal NOW.    When God who is eternal touched the earth by becoming the Holy God Man, even though His flesh was subject to time, He DIVINITY was NOT, and as such as He was equally Man and Equally God, then we have the God given gift of pleading EVERY MOMENT OF THE LIFE OF JESUS for the salvation of one is lost.  

Jesus was our offering to God, so offer to the Father every moment of His life and plead to the Father through the Son for the salvation of the lost.

Offer to the Father the infancy of our Lord Jesus Christ for those about to be aborted, and plead for the conversion of the heart of the Mother to a heart like His Mother's.

Offer to the Father the childhood of our Lord Jesus Christ for those who are physically abused as children and plead to God for the conversion of the abusers. 

Offer to the Father the teenage years of our Lord Jesus Christ for those teenagers who face a world that does not seem to know God anymore.  

Offer to the Father the early years of our Lord Jesus Christ for those who struggle with the loss of a Parent, (He lost Joseph), for those trying to learn a trade or looking for a job, (Jesus had to work to support His Mother)

Offer to the Father the last day that Jesus was in His Mother's home, and their goodbye to each other before He would start His ministry.  Offer this to the Father for parents who have to say goodbye to children by separation, death or other means.  

We must never forget that God is a very efficient God, and nothing He did on the Earth was wasted.  Every step, every breath, everything He did had a purpose geared toward our salvation. 

Connecting to Heaven

As a Mathematician I have a great hunger for knowledge.  I seek knowledge in Mathematics like a bulldog would, I dig in, latch on, and don't let go until I have what I want.  Because this is the method I have used to acquire knowledge, it was no surprise that I would employ these same techniques when it came to seeking after God.    

It is written, "there is no one who seeks God", well I did.  I went after God, and sought Him diligently and by God's grace I will tell what I found.  

1.  God exists, and is very real and is an eternally Holy, and is eternally just.   Although there will be no direct scientific proof of Him, because He is the author of creation and is not bound to be subject to the criteria of proof required to prove 'existence' .  God does give evidence of Him being the author of all life and creation, but men push it away as a natural occurrence, a fluke or a coincidence.  There is no such thing.  Natural occurrence, fluke or coincidence are only aspects of the mystery of "God Allowing."  God is  "I Am"....He IS existence.    

Human beings experience 'reality' in relation to time and sensation, God is not bound to these constraints.  As we were created by an Eternal God, the eternity that is our destiny was placed in our hearts and despite all our limitations in a fleshly state, we can rise above the groans and demands of the flesh and seek the truth of an Eternal existence that is not waiting for us when we die, but that we are a part of right now. 

If we are in Eternity right now, then our thoughts, actions, and words will have eternal consequences.  Whatever we say, do, or think, God remembers for all eternity, and if our actions are sinful and not repented of, they may require an eternal consequence.  Do not think that because you flesh lives a short life, that you can do what you please and tread on the Honor of God for your own desires.  For some will come to their deathbed in such a horrible state of mortal sin, that only the hands of a Priest giving the Anointing of the Sick can turn God's wrath from their eternal damnation. 

2.  As God loves those He has given life, God has given his creation a means of piercing the veil that separates life from death and perceiving, at least in part, the eternal reality that awaits those that will diligently seek Him.   Yes, we can perceive Heaven, even while we are in the flesh.

3.  The most powerful methods given to man to gain access to the heavenly realm are:
      i) The Holy Mass with frequent Holy Communion
      ii) The Holy Rosary 
      iii) Confession and Penance
      iv) Holy Scriptures 

The two most 'portable' methods of these being the Holy Rosary and Holy Scriptures.  

The Holy Rosary is the best portable method of purification of a soul in order to gain access to the Heavenly Realm, as God allows.  We can have access to praying a Rosary when reading scriptures would not be feasible.  

4.  Gaining access to heaven isn't about what you do, or how many times it is done, but about what your heart does.  There is no list of how many prayers it takes to get into heaven.  St. Michael will not be looking at your excel spreadsheet of prayers to see if they were completed, but he will take you heart and weigh it in it's love for others.   How much did you truly love and pour yourself out for others, even to your last breath.    In one scale, will be your heart, in the other will be the Cross of our Lord.  Your heart will be weighed against the Passion of our Lord, and His sacrifice.   If you understood this, you would be terrified.

5.  The Holy Rosary is for purification and petition, but the Holy Mass is where the Heaven's are first opened for us.  This was not something that happened instantly, I had been a great sinner, and had to go through several years of purification before I attained this perception, as God wills it.  But I can tell you, when the Heaven's Open during the Holy Mass, we have access to the Throne of God for our petitions for others.  (You only get to this level, if you have truly humbled yourself before God, sought nothing for self, and petition God for the good of another, seeking no acclaim or attention.)  

I have seen the Saints in heaven observing the Holy Mass being celebrated on Earth, and how happy they are!  When you perceive God in this way, you are given what a victory the Holy Mass is on the Earth and how it was a gift from God to man.  Not just Catholics, but every soul on the Earth benefits from each and every Holy Mass that is said, and many souls in Purgatory are released to the beatific vision of God. 

6.  As God allows, depending on the state of your heart and soul to God, He may allow you access to the Throne of God for your petitions outside of the Holy Mass.  Yes, God can do that, and I didn't even realize I was seeking this connection outside of Holy Mass until God showed me what I was doing.  

We in the flesh are very limited, so God gives us each and every person that we encounter in our lives, no matter how insignificant that encounter.   Your children and family are a gift from God, but also is the woman that cut you off in traffic.  God gave her to YOU and He showed you that she is in a potentially dangerous state, and made sure you didn't forget her.  (Wouldn't you come home and complain about being cut off!  You remembered her!!)  There are NO coincidences, and no accidents.  

After encountering an older gentleman that God gave to me for prayer,  I looked up to heaven and petitioned God for this soul as if I was with him before his Judgement.  Instead of just praying for the soul, I go the extra mile and seek to be present at the souls Judgement and petition God for them.   I seek the Throne of God, the Judgement seat of Christ, and before the Cross, I kneel with this soul and petition God to be merciful for his or her sins.  

If the man is still alive, how can I do this? Because we are bound by time, God is not.  God is ever present in a state of eternal "now", with all things before Him constantly with an eternal and perfect knowledge whether the knowledge is from the past or the future.    This perfect knowledge in eternity in no way hinders man's free will to direct his future even though that future is already known by an eternal, loving and perfectly just God.   Even though this man is still living, God is in some sense of eternity presiding at this man's judgement, and He was given to me to be one that pleads for him before the Throne of God.  I have a level of faith that knows that God, if He wills, can allow me to plead at this man's Judgement even though this man is yet still in the flesh.  

If we are going to seek after God we must realize that because of our sinful nature, He is not like us, but as He wills, we can become more like Him.  We must seek to understand the truth of God's reality and seek to perceive this reality to attain the salvation of others.  

One of the best ways to do this is also to constantly remind God, "Nothing is impossible to you, if you will it."  But know God is not mocked, He knows even the deepest secrets of your hearts, so if your intention is not pure, you will attain nothing without a heart directed for others that allows you to be properly dressed for the wedding feast.

God desires ALL  to seek Him.  The Saints have all had this access to the Throne of God, and the one's that did most obviously, where very devoted to the most Holy Rosary.

GO AFTER HIM...and Godspeed. 

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St. Gemma praying, looking to Heaven.

St. Gemma's prayer as a child was “Holy Virgin, make me a Saint.” During this time she often said the whole fifteen decades of the Rosary on her knees in the evening after her return from school and she also began to use penances and to rise in the night to pray. - 

Conversation With My Guardian Angel

Driving Home from Work.

Suddenly I had such a feeling of appreciation of all the times that I had been protected by my Guardian Angel and Saint Michael the Archangel.  I thought I would give thanks to God. 

Me:  "..., my Angel, I know how God has allowed you to protect me in the past when I have gone to battle for souls that are lost, and I thank God and you for this gift.  For you know I will go to battle again soon, as God wills it."

Guardian: "I will be there." 

Me: "I know, and I appreciate that."

Guardian :  "It is not by your appreciation that I serve." 

This is when I realized, that my angel served first out of love for God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit and then for the love for me.  

Our Guardian Angels have one of the hardest jobs in Eternity.  First they love God and then they love the soul they have been given to guide, protect and defend on the  souls journey back to God. Angels know no sorrow for they know the plan of the Creator is perfect.  But if they could wish for anything it would be to be able to suffer for those they are in charge of, and then offer this suffering to the Father for them.   Angels cannot do this, because God did it for us on the Cross.  

But God in His mercy left us the gift of offering an oblation of our suffering to God for the salvation of the lost.  "Take up your Cross and follow me."  Not to seek any suffering but by accepting the smallest to the greatest suffering without complaint, and then offering it silently to the Father for the conversion of sinners.  

The Angel can guide, protect, and defend us, but he cannot offer an oblation by his own merit for any soul on Earth.  The closest and Angel comes to offering an Oblation to God for us is when the Angels take the Sacrifice of the Holy Mass before the Throne of God for us. 

The Angels love the most Blessed Trinity so much, and they are made happy to do the least thing in obedience to God so that souls that God loves will not fall into hell.  What joy they must know at this moment........

An Angel's Joy.

THE EXCHANGE*

The truth of our Salvation is far more terrifying on this side of the Cross than for the Jews before the Incarnation of God in the flesh.  

When you study His Passion, you only begin to understand the truth of what His Blood truly means to both those who accept Him and those who .....reject Him.

When you have touched the edge of Eternity and faced a second of your own future Judgement you are never quite the same again. This is why those that claim to be mystics and have messages from Jesus or Mary but then try to get WEALTH from these claims of mystical knowledge are LIARS.   When you have touched the edge of heaven, you never fully want the things of the earth again, because everything that sparkles is so dull compared to the beauty of Heaven.

I have sure knowledge of God's existence and He has confirmed every promise made to those who love and also fear Him.  I cannot prove His existence, because that is not how He works.  Do not ask God to provide you proof of His existence, ask Him to provide proof of His love, and then watch what happens in your life.

THE EXCHANGE

In the beginning God created with His word, and it was good.  Satan created with his word, and it was evil.   Adam and Eve listened to the devil and by their free will chose death and sin to come into the world.  Man, through Adam had EXCHANGED intimate relationship with God for a stain of sin and death that would be generational.

Because of the unfaithfulness of His people, God allowed His people to go through many tribulations and suffering in order to bring them to a state of purification.  He did this by the creation of life through a holy act of sexual creation.  (The "begat"s in the bible).  With each "begat",  This purification of the hearts of the Jewish people in one lineage (David) led to a heart so pure that the heart of the woman that had the potential to be a holy vessel for God himself to come into her womb.  At God's intervention, at Mary's conception, God made the chosen vessel of the Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, to be Immaculate, or free of the original sin of Adam in her Mother's womb.  

At the exact moment that Mary was perfected to be God's vessel of our Salvation, God rained His blessings on the Earth by sending an angel to say to her, "Hail Favored One!", and with her yes, the story of our Salvation begins.  She was always the first to say yes to Jesus.  She was presented with an EXCHANGE of her own, for this unplanned pregnancy could potentially cost her suffering and even her life.  God in His goodness sent her a protector in the form of Joseph her husband.  

At the conception of Jesus in the womb of the Holy Virgin Mary (for God cannot come into any place that is not holy) the EXCHANGE began.

God EXCHANGED heaven for flesh, and at His death on a Cross, God would leave a permanent sign of the way to heaven through the EXCHANGE.  The sign of this exchange is NOT an empty cross, but one with our Lord on it in His suffering.    

When Moses held up the snake on a wooden staff, those that looked upon it were healed.  Jesus even compared His passion to this event. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; that whoever believes may in Him have eternal life."  [John 3:14-15].

Many deny Jesus on the Cross, and protest that He is no longer on the Cross.  True, but if Jesus compared himself to the event in the Old Testament, and did not instruct us to remove the image of the snake on the pole that represented His passion, then we must study the Lord's passion with Jesus ON THE CROSS.    Not to re-crucify our Lord, but to study the ULTIMATE SIGN OF THE EXCHANGE, and find our way to our own final suffering and passion as He wills it.    Only by studying the sign allowed by God which is Jesus ON the Cross can we fully walk the path that is laid before us and drink the cup of suffering that may be presented to us.  

The EXCHANGE  is simple.  A life for a life.  

God came and by His will laid down His life for us, submitting His flesh completely to the will of God, as God allowed His Passion to progress.  He did this not because He had to, not because it was something He could do for His Father, but because the LOVE in His heart brought forth His willingness to lay down His life for all of us. 

 Jesus didn't just begin pouring out His life for us at His Passion, He began pouring himself out at the beginning of His ministry.  Feeding the poor, healing the sick, raising the dead,  showing us not only holy poverty but God's providence in that holy poverty.   In His poverty Jesus paid his bills in holy obedience.  (The temple tax). 

As the shadow of the Cross passes over us, we know that we too must walk our own path to Calvary, not exactly as He did, but as we have been assigned and placed on this Earth and to the best of our abilities.  

Jesus did nothing for Himself, and we see Him teaching and giving all for others, pouring Himself out for others through all His Ministry.  All of this was like the previews to what the final destination would be, but the message from all of it is the same.  

The road to heaven is to pour yourself out for another because of love for God and the one you pour yourself out for.  In order to seek the salvation and the good of another because you love God so much you would not wish to feel the heart of God hurt by the loss of a soul to hell for all time.  Knowing that you can do nothing for God, but as you love Him, you know that His heart will be moved by your love to work in the life and salvation of those you pray for. All of this must be done to seek NOTHING FOR SELF.  We only pray for a few crumbs from the Master's table to fall to us at the judgement.  This is giving a life for a life.  

This is what the Saints knew, and tried to teach us.  Fasting, prayer, works of charity, and with the greatest love of God in the hearts of the Saints, even miracles.   When we see the life of a person completely make a 180 degree turn, and every aspect of the person's life changes to reflect the life God wishes for us, we are witnessing a soul who has accepted the EXCHANGE.    St. Augustine of Hippo is one of these. 

The Saints that embraced Holy Poverty, Obedience, and Chastity, giving all that they had for love alone to God and others, where those that also realized the terrifying aspect of the Cross.

The terrifying aspect of the Cross is that before the moment of His Ascension into Heaven was 100% of God's mercy poured on the Earth in the form of the Blood of His Son.  On the judgement side of the Cross will be the Judgement of God when He returns.  Each of us will be presented with His Passion and Crucifixion in comparison to how we have lived our own Passion in our lives in our book of life.

While we live, we are still on this side of the Cross, the side of His love and Mercy.  We have time to repent and preach to other's the importance of studying the Passion of our Lord on the Cross so that those who would, will accept the gift of the EXCHANGE.

Look at the world.  How many are shirking the EXCHANGE in their lives, leading lives of complete "me, me, me..." selfishness.  This self centeredness leads to so many sins; adultery, lying, stealing, murder, all sexual sins.  How many are on the path of destruction because they wish their own will and not Gods.  

Jesus taught us this also.  

The Innocent must pay for the guilty.

Holy hidden souls are needed that love God and are willing to do much Penance and offer sacrifices for the sake of the Salvation of those who are running headlong into eternal damnation. 

If we have someone we love who is not saved, or living an atheistic life, then if we say we love them, we can offer some small sacrifice and do penance for this soul.   All of this must be completely hidden from the eyes of others, for if we seek acclaim for our holiness, we have cut off our communication with the ONE who can actually do something about the one we love who is lost.     

The time of  seeking mercy by the Holy Passion and Crucifixion of our Lord is a limited proposition.   There will come a time when our Lord will say..."That's it, time's up. "  

Do the sacrifice now, do penance now, for the one you seek to know God, and never give up on those that are lost, even to your last breath.   
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*Inspired by the writing of Bryan Melvin.