Communication with Visitors Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on us! May 1, 1999 (P.S. May 9,16,18,23,30,31) Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, How are you? It is nice to be communicating with you again. May is a special month of Mary, Our Heavenly Mother. Let us rejoice and be grateful to Jesus Our Lord and Saviour who has so freely and generously shared with us His most precious and loving Mother. Whether or not we are Christians, Our Heavenly Mother is known to be the second greatest gift ever given to each one of us by God after the Most Holy Trinity, i.e., God has first and foremost given us Himself as the greatest of all gifts. By all appearances, this century is the century of Satan in which innumerable diabolic crimes have been committed against God and humanity which the whole human history has never known previously. However, God, in His unfathomed foresight and mercy, had not left us alone in this great struggle against evil and the evil one. In fulfillment of Gen 3:14-15, He has sent her to us in various Marian apparitions in the same century. Without coincidence, Pope Pius XII in 1950 called this century Marian. Countless individuals, including the editor, have been brought closer to the Most Holy Trinity and Its Church through her. There is no century in which Our Heavenly Mother has appeared to us more frequently. People have begun to wonder why. In fact, there was one visionary who allegedly asked Our Heavenly Mother the same question. Her response was that if it were indeed possible, she would appear to every family. Our Mother also said that if we know how much she loves us, we would be thanking her in grateful tears. If we have already developed a loving relationship with her, it is really not that difficult to give ourselves the benefit of doubts over these Marian reports. As there is always room for improvement, let us then ask God to help us receive and appreciate more this second greatest gift from Heaven. In retrospect, one of the most important Marian apparitions is that of Fatima which first occurred there on May 13th, 1917. Irish theologian Fr. Michael O'Carroll, C.S.Sp., says, "Fatima has touched the Church at the level of the papacy more than any other event of its kind." Here are three websites concerning this extraordinary event and message at Fatima: reference 1, reference 2, reference 3. Today is also the feast day of St. Joseph the worker. Pray for us, dear holy St. Joseph! May the Holy Family be with us always! Yours sincerely in Jesus, Mary and Joseph, The editor (P.S. May 9) Today is Mother's Day. Let us wish every mother, especially Our Heavenly Mother, a truly happy Mother's Day! As we know, mothers are normally regarded as truly great by their numerous loving self-sacrifices. Our Heavenly Mother can be taken by the same measure too. For example, she has made incomprehensible self-sacrifice by becoming a prophetess for us. Deeply aware that prophets are not welcome at home (cf. Mt 13:57), she becomes one for us in Fatima and various others places, taking the risk of being despised, ignored and distanced by her own people. Indeed, she has been treated so by many, even by her beloved sons and daughters today. However, Our Heavenly Mother's messages may be exactly what we need to hear. For two instances, many people today are seeking peace by various human ways --- which might escalate to greater mutual accusation, hatred and conflict. Yet she tells us that a better way for peace is praying, praying and more praying --- which would lead only to greater mutual repentance, self-sacrifice and love. She has also taken the risk of becoming unpopular, unscientific, uneducated, outmoded. extreme and irrational, etc., by reminding us that there is an everlasting Hell waiting for us if we do not repent of our serious sins against God and each other, and that countless individuals have actually gone there forever and ever. As there is no perfection on earth (which does not mean we should not try our best), her greatest desire is that each one of us without exception would happily go to Heaven and spend all eternity in loving union with the Most Holy Trinity and the whole Family of Holy Angels and Saints. "For here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come." (Heb 13:14) If we were to name the greatest human person of all centuries, Our Heavenly Mother is certainly the one, knowing that at all times Christ as the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity is the greatest Divine-Human Person in all creation. Please continue to pray for us, Our Dearest Heavenly Mother! (P.S. May 16) Today is the Feast of the Ascension of Christ into Heaven. One of our friends comments: "Imagine the unspeakable exuberant glory and joy that this city would experience when it won the Stanley Cup. Now multiply the intensity of this exuberant glory and joy by a zillion zillion zillion times and we would have a glimpse of it in Heaven when Christ triumphantly ascended and entered there to receive His Crown of crowns -- or Cup of cups -- for all eternity as the unsurpassed King of kings and Lord of lords of the whole creation." Yet this triumphant King of the whole visible and invisible universe -- and God of the whole Family of Holy Angels and Saints -- did not forget us. As St. Thomas Aquinas reminds us, the exact whole Christ in His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity has come down from Heaven and is now living in the Sacred Host to be with us as long as we live on earth. Indeed, Christ could not wait to share with us His Heaven. He has brought the whole Living Heaven, i.e., He Himself, to us. How could our hearts not be touched by this loving tender care of our dearest Friend and Saviour? Blessed are those who could understand and have a taste of it! Apparently, only those who have prayed fervently or contemplated deeply for a long time before the Blessed Sacrament - say, more than two hours daily for a few days in a row (as to be best done by some during a retreat) - could be given a savor of this grace. Why? First, the grace, Fire or Energy radiated from the living Holy Eucharist must burn away the countless layers of ungodly or unwanted veil existing between the living God and us. Second, it does take time for our wounded soul to be healed before it can truly be set on fire. Third, it does take time also for our empty heart and boundless desire, unholy and slow to respond to grace as they are, to be filled with some fullness of God. (P.S. May 18) In order not to diminish the beauty of the above message on Mother's Day, it is important to add that there is no room for mutual accusation, hatred and conflict in God's Family, whether in Heaven or on earth. Our only enemies are the enemies of the Most Holy Trinity and the whole Family of Holy Angels and Saints, i.e., the devils or the evil spirits. Through St. Paul we are clearly revealed by God as follows: "Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." (Eph 6 10-12) As we know, the three greatest prayers in God's Family, or the three greatest sources of spiritual strength in God's armour, continue to be the participation in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Divine Office and the Holy Rosary. They are not only biblically based, but have also stood the test of time. Let us praise God and the whole Family of Holy Angels and Saints for ever and ever! (P.S. May 23) Today is the Feast of the Pentecost. Happy Birthday to our dear Mystical Body of Christ on earth! Let us thank God the Father and God Jesus for giving us God the Holy Spirit! As we know, without the Holy Spirit of the Most Holy Trinity, absolutely nothing positive in the Lord is possible. For further information on the Holy Spirit, click here. Thank you. (P.S. May 30) Today is the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity. As Pope John-Paul II wants the Church to breathe with her two lungs, i.e., both her Western and Eastern Christian traditions, let us take a few minutes to meditate on what Vladimir Lossky, an Eastern Orthodox theologian, has to say about the Most Holy Trinity: "The goal of Orthodox spirituality is above all a participation in the divine life of the Holy Trinity. The Holy Trinity is the unshakable foundation of all religious thought, of all piety, of all spiritual life, of all experience. It is the Trinity that we seek in seeking after God, when we search for the fullness of being, for the end and meaning of existence… If we reject the Trinity as the sole ground of all reality and of all thought, we are committed to a road that leads nowhere; we end in an aporia, in folly, in the disintegration of our being, in spiritual death. Between the Trinity and hell there lies no other choice. This question is, indeed, crucial - in the literal sense of that word. The dogma of the Trinity is a cross for human ways of thought… This is the reason why no philosophical speculation has ever succeeded in rising to the mystery of the Holy Trinity. This is the reason why the human spirit was able to receive the full revelation of the Godhead only after Christ on the cross had triumphed over death and over the abyss of hell. This, finally, is the reason why the revelation of the Trinity shines out in the Church as a purely religious gift, as the catholic truth above all other." [Vladimir Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (Crestwood, N. Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1976) p. 66] (P.S. May 31) While this website runs the whole year around, the writer of the present column would like to take the rest of the summer off, i.e., the months of June, July and August, to focus on the preparation of the Energy Symposium entitled The Ultimate Nature of Energy as an Emerging and Unifying Paradigm in the Next Millennium. Thank you for your understanding. For further information, click here. As the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ is coming, i.e., next Sunday on June 6, one may find what we have retroactively written above on May 16 -- the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord - quite relevant to the celebration of this Feast. One may also anticipate the coming of Father's Day, June 20. We most sincerely wish then every father - especially God the Father, the Father of all fathers, the Father of the whole human family, the Father of the whole Christian family, the Father of all ordained fathers (priests), the Father of all Holy Fathers (Popes), the Father of the whole Family of Holy Angels and Saints, the Father of the whole Divine Heavenly Family, and above all, the Father of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit -- a truly happy Father's Day. For further information about God the Father, click here. Thank you. At the same time, we would like to wish every one of our dear visitor and friend a most restful and fruitful summer in the whole Divine Heavenly Family, i.e., the Most Holy Trinity and Its whole Family of Holy Angels and Saints. We truly thank you for each of your visits. We would also like to thank with all our heart all those who have been supporting this internet ministry through their typing, writing, giving, counselling, and praying, etc. May the whole Divine Heavenly Family be with you and us always!
May 1, 1999 (P.S. May 9,16,18,23,30,31)
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ,
How are you? It is nice to be communicating with you again. May is a special month of Mary, Our Heavenly Mother. Let us rejoice and be grateful to Jesus Our Lord and Saviour who has so freely and generously shared with us His most precious and loving Mother. Whether or not we are Christians, Our Heavenly Mother is known to be the second greatest gift ever given to each one of us by God after the Most Holy Trinity, i.e., God has first and foremost given us Himself as the greatest of all gifts.
By all appearances, this century is the century of Satan in which innumerable diabolic crimes have been committed against God and humanity which the whole human history has never known previously. However, God, in His unfathomed foresight and mercy, had not left us alone in this great struggle against evil and the evil one. In fulfillment of Gen 3:14-15, He has sent her to us in various Marian apparitions in the same century. Without coincidence, Pope Pius XII in 1950 called this century Marian. Countless individuals, including the editor, have been brought closer to the Most Holy Trinity and Its Church through her.
There is no century in which Our Heavenly Mother has appeared to us more frequently. People have begun to wonder why. In fact, there was one visionary who allegedly asked Our Heavenly Mother the same question. Her response was that if it were indeed possible, she would appear to every family. Our Mother also said that if we know how much she loves us, we would be thanking her in grateful tears. If we have already developed a loving relationship with her, it is really not that difficult to give ourselves the benefit of doubts over these Marian reports. As there is always room for improvement, let us then ask God to help us receive and appreciate more this second greatest gift from Heaven.
In retrospect, one of the most important Marian apparitions is that of Fatima which first occurred there on May 13th, 1917. Irish theologian Fr. Michael O'Carroll, C.S.Sp., says, "Fatima has touched the Church at the level of the papacy more than any other event of its kind." Here are three websites concerning this extraordinary event and message at Fatima: reference 1, reference 2, reference 3.
Today is also the feast day of St. Joseph the worker. Pray for us, dear holy St. Joseph!
May the Holy Family be with us always!
Yours sincerely in Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
The editor
(P.S. May 9) Today is Mother's Day. Let us wish every mother, especially Our Heavenly Mother, a truly happy Mother's Day!
As we know, mothers are normally regarded as truly great by their numerous loving self-sacrifices. Our Heavenly Mother can be taken by the same measure too. For example, she has made incomprehensible self-sacrifice by becoming a prophetess for us. Deeply aware that prophets are not welcome at home (cf. Mt 13:57), she becomes one for us in Fatima and various others places, taking the risk of being despised, ignored and distanced by her own people. Indeed, she has been treated so by many, even by her beloved sons and daughters today.
However, Our Heavenly Mother's messages may be exactly what we need to hear. For two instances, many people today are seeking peace by various human ways --- which might escalate to greater mutual accusation, hatred and conflict. Yet she tells us that a better way for peace is praying, praying and more praying --- which would lead only to greater mutual repentance, self-sacrifice and love. She has also taken the risk of becoming unpopular, unscientific, uneducated, outmoded. extreme and irrational, etc., by reminding us that there is an everlasting Hell waiting for us if we do not repent of our serious sins against God and each other, and that countless individuals have actually gone there forever and ever. As there is no perfection on earth (which does not mean we should not try our best), her greatest desire is that each one of us without exception would happily go to Heaven and spend all eternity in loving union with the Most Holy Trinity and the whole Family of Holy Angels and Saints. "For here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come." (Heb 13:14)
If we were to name the greatest human person of all centuries, Our Heavenly Mother is certainly the one, knowing that at all times Christ as the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity is the greatest Divine-Human Person in all creation.
Please continue to pray for us, Our Dearest Heavenly Mother!
(P.S. May 16) Today is the Feast of the Ascension of Christ into Heaven. One of our friends comments: "Imagine the unspeakable exuberant glory and joy that this city would experience when it won the Stanley Cup. Now multiply the intensity of this exuberant glory and joy by a zillion zillion zillion times and we would have a glimpse of it in Heaven when Christ triumphantly ascended and entered there to receive His Crown of crowns -- or Cup of cups -- for all eternity as the unsurpassed King of kings and Lord of lords of the whole creation."
Yet this triumphant King of the whole visible and invisible universe -- and God of the whole Family of Holy Angels and Saints -- did not forget us. As St. Thomas Aquinas reminds us, the exact whole Christ in His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity has come down from Heaven and is now living in the Sacred Host to be with us as long as we live on earth. Indeed, Christ could not wait to share with us His Heaven. He has brought the whole Living Heaven, i.e., He Himself, to us. How could our hearts not be touched by this loving tender care of our dearest Friend and Saviour? Blessed are those who could understand and have a taste of it!
Apparently, only those who have prayed fervently or contemplated deeply for a long time before the Blessed Sacrament - say, more than two hours daily for a few days in a row (as to be best done by some during a retreat) - could be given a savor of this grace. Why? First, the grace, Fire or Energy radiated from the living Holy Eucharist must burn away the countless layers of ungodly or unwanted veil existing between the living God and us. Second, it does take time for our wounded soul to be healed before it can truly be set on fire. Third, it does take time also for our empty heart and boundless desire, unholy and slow to respond to grace as they are, to be filled with some fullness of God.
(P.S. May 18) In order not to diminish the beauty of the above message on Mother's Day, it is important to add that there is no room for mutual accusation, hatred and conflict in God's Family, whether in Heaven or on earth. Our only enemies are the enemies of the Most Holy Trinity and the whole Family of Holy Angels and Saints, i.e., the devils or the evil spirits. Through St. Paul we are clearly revealed by God as follows: "Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." (Eph 6 10-12)
As we know, the three greatest prayers in God's Family, or the three greatest sources of spiritual strength in God's armour, continue to be the participation in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Divine Office and the Holy Rosary. They are not only biblically based, but have also stood the test of time. Let us praise God and the whole Family of Holy Angels and Saints for ever and ever!
(P.S. May 23) Today is the Feast of the Pentecost. Happy Birthday to our dear Mystical Body of Christ on earth! Let us thank God the Father and God Jesus for giving us God the Holy Spirit! As we know, without the Holy Spirit of the Most Holy Trinity, absolutely nothing positive in the Lord is possible. For further information on the Holy Spirit, click here. Thank you.
(P.S. May 30) Today is the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity. As Pope John-Paul II wants the Church to breathe with her two lungs, i.e., both her Western and Eastern Christian traditions, let us take a few minutes to meditate on what Vladimir Lossky, an Eastern Orthodox theologian, has to say about the Most Holy Trinity:
"The goal of Orthodox spirituality is above all a participation in the divine life of the Holy Trinity. The Holy Trinity is the unshakable foundation of all religious thought, of all piety, of all spiritual life, of all experience. It is the Trinity that we seek in seeking after God, when we search for the fullness of being, for the end and meaning of existence…
If we reject the Trinity as the sole ground of all reality and of all thought, we are committed to a road that leads nowhere; we end in an aporia, in folly, in the disintegration of our being, in spiritual death. Between the Trinity and hell there lies no other choice. This question is, indeed, crucial - in the literal sense of that word. The dogma of the Trinity is a cross for human ways of thought…
This is the reason why no philosophical speculation has ever succeeded in rising to the mystery of the Holy Trinity. This is the reason why the human spirit was able to receive the full revelation of the Godhead only after Christ on the cross had triumphed over death and over the abyss of hell. This, finally, is the reason why the revelation of the Trinity shines out in the Church as a purely religious gift, as the catholic truth above all other."
[Vladimir Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (Crestwood, N. Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1976) p. 66]
(P.S. May 31) While this website runs the whole year around, the writer of the present column would like to take the rest of the summer off, i.e., the months of June, July and August, to focus on the preparation of the Energy Symposium entitled The Ultimate Nature of Energy as an Emerging and Unifying Paradigm in the Next Millennium. Thank you for your understanding. For further information, click here.
As the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ is coming, i.e., next Sunday on June 6, one may find what we have retroactively written above on May 16 -- the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord - quite relevant to the celebration of this Feast.
One may also anticipate the coming of Father's Day, June 20. We most sincerely wish then every father - especially God the Father, the Father of all fathers, the Father of the whole human family, the Father of the whole Christian family, the Father of all ordained fathers (priests), the Father of all Holy Fathers (Popes), the Father of the whole Family of Holy Angels and Saints, the Father of the whole Divine Heavenly Family, and above all, the Father of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit -- a truly happy Father's Day. For further information about God the Father, click here. Thank you.
At the same time, we would like to wish every one of our dear visitor and friend a most restful and fruitful summer in the whole Divine Heavenly Family, i.e., the Most Holy Trinity and Its whole Family of Holy Angels and Saints. We truly thank you for each of your visits. We would also like to thank with all our heart all those who have been supporting this internet ministry through their typing, writing, giving, counselling, and praying, etc.
May the whole Divine Heavenly Family be with you and us always!