‘Our Lady 

Write!

Michael, each one of you has a name because each one of you are individuals and are unique.

Just as when you do an exam such as a driving test, you must do it alone and nobody else may do it for you.

Others may help you and support you but on the day of the exam, only you and you alone will sit in the car with the examiner.

My children, it is similar when you pass from this life you life on earth to the next. You will appear before God and your souls and your lives will be laid before you.

What will you do on this day if you are not prepared?

What good works and prayer will you have to show if you don’t act now?

Without conversion my children, not only are you not accumulating merits for this day of judgement but you are piling up condemnation and sin!

What a foolish choice to dedicate your entire life and hard work to things that will lead to nothing, only suffering and shame.

How many of you are wasting your lives with things that do not matter and teaching others to do so?

Convert your hearts and lives my children and do not play with your eternal salvation.“

Our Lady certainly isn’t mincing her words today but if she speaks like this, it’s not to frighten us but to convict us of the seriousness of life and the call to prayer.

Our Lady desperately wants to see us all with her in heaven and to pass the ‘test of life’ which is why she pleads with us to listen to her and to convert our lives and hearts and to teach others to do the same through our lives and example!

Well if there is one topic that is sure to cause a stir it’s the topic of sexual purity which is why I’m very happy this morning that it’s a message from Our Lady that I’m sharing on the subject and not my own thoughts (all complaints may be posted to heaven by dialing ‘Hail Mary full of grace..” and then leaving a voice mail!!).

‘Our Lady 

My children, today I want to talk to you about sin.

Sin my children comes in all shapes and sizes from very obvious sins such as premeditated murder to very subtle sins such as pride even when doing acts of charity.

Not all sins damage the soul in the same way. If you take the example of a white dress, not all sins stain the soul in the same way just as not all foods or drinks stain a dress in the same way!

For example, wine will be far more difficult to remove from a dress if it is red than a stain from a soft drink!

This my children is why you must be vigilant with your souls and especially with your sexuality because these types of sins although so easy to commit in today’s culture mark your souls far more than other sins.

Yet just as when red wine falls on a white dress one should act quickly to soak up the wine and remove the stain, so too should you always act quickly when you sin sexually either by action or in though!

Run to Jesus in prayer and repentance and make frequent use of the sacrament of reconciliation.

This way the sin, just like the stain will be removed all but straight away and will leave no permanent mark on your souls.

Those souls who do not repent of these sins and yet receive Jesus in the Eucharist cause Jesus a lot of pain.

Often they are unaware and do not carry all the responsibility but heaven still hurts to see this happening.

My priests must teach people about sin, especially about sexual sin which is so widespread.

They must teach people how to pray, how to remain pure and what to do if they should fall.

Read my children the lives of the saints and learn from them and you will understand how serious and important it is to avoid sin and to strive continuously for holiness.”

Well I don’t think Our Lady could be any more clear and yet loving and understanding about the call to sexual purity as the church teaches in the catechism and as so many saints have witnessed and like any good mother, she is with us on the journey to love us and help us and support us and to lift us back up should we fall short.

So let’s be humble and rather than waste our energy in arguing with church teaching on sexual purity, let’s put all that same energy and zeal into living it and be powerful witness of the power of the gospel in today’s world !

“Our Lady 

Continue to write my child!

My children, you must not be afraid to talk about sin and to teach people what it is through both examples and using the teachings of the church.

Leaving people in ignorance deprives them of an opportunity to convert and to change.

Yet you must not stop there, you must also teach people about prayer, about the sacraments and how to overcome sin.

Many will reject you and laugh at you while others will accuse you of judging them but these are all manners by which Satan works to silence you.

Sin is very serious and without understanding what it is and how to fight it, how will you grow in holiness?

Fear not being unpopular. Heaven has never sought popularity but love and truth.”

Another wonderful message and a reminder to us all to be brave and to be loving by teaching others about sin through using the church teaching such as the catechism and examples from the lives of the saints or perhaps using own testimonies of how God changed us.

This calling away from sin and to prayer is at the centre of Our Lady’s messages in Medjugorje and so at the centre of our Medjugorje LGBT ministry and also at the centre of the Medjugorje healing days at St. Mary of Angels on the first Saturday each month.

So let’s endeavour to come up with new and loving ways to teach others about sin, about prayer and about the narrow road to the eternal kingdom of heaven!

Last night we had our Medjugorje LGBT evening with rosary, mass, adoration, confessions and a talk by Monsignor Keith on LGBT ministry and the challenges thereof.

Rayne did a truly wonderful job with the music while Toni and I shared the rosary which is usually led by Eddie who was away.

We had more people than usual too with a wonderful mix of LGBT people, friends, family members etc. and we got a lot of very positive feedback from the newcomers who seemed to fall in love with the music from Medjugorje.

Monsignor then gave a talk about his role in the Westminster diocese as chaplain to different LGBT groups who are often at loggerheads with eachother and disagree on church teaching on these issues.

He has a very difficult role as he endeavours to bring all closer to Jesus and Mary in a backdrop of such confusion in both the church and in society around these issues which is made even more difficult by virtue of the fact that many Catholic LGBT people have been so hurt and wounded in the past.

Meeting everyone where they are at while praying and bringing them forward is no easy job. Go too fast and they give up, go too slow and God is not happy!

Our Lady had a message for us this morning in the context of all of this:

‘Our Lady 

All is well my child, continue to write!

My children, how my motherly heart thirsts to bring you to the truth of living holy lives.

Holiness is the only path to true happiness because my children you are made for God and to be in a deep intimacy with God.

Without deep prayer and perseverance, holiness is not possible and this is why Heaven is constantly calling you away from the world and to prayer.

In prayer my children your hearts will find the strength to overcome the desires of the flesh such as lust and all sorts of selfish and slothful behaviours.

You are in a war my children and like any war, the only way of winning is fighting.

If you don’t fight evil with the weapons of prayer then evil will overcome you and you will fall.

Come my children, open your hearts and devote your lives to holiness“

Compelling words from Our Lady who with ad much motherly tenderness and love as possible explains to us the seriousness and urgency of striving for holiness.

‘Our Lady of Medjugorje, please place in the hearts of all LGBT people a desire for holiness and prayer and bless especially Monsignor Keith with your motherly heart as he continues to do this very challenging ministry here in London which many other priests would run a mile from’.

A big thanks to everyone who came and again thanks to Rayne, Toni & Fr. Keith who made it all possible!

Good morning!

This evening we will have our Medjugorje LGBT evening to which all are welcome as we witness to the world that gays can pray too!!

Sometimes people get discouraged because they go to Medjugorje or they come to these prayer evening and they don’t have an extraordinary experience of God and so Our Lady gave me a beautiful message this morning for those in that category.

‘Our Lady 

My children,

So many of you get discouraged because you do not experience God’s love in a tangible way through things like spiritual experiences.

You must not get discouraged for even those people who have received such consolations also experience moments and periods of terrible doubt and confusion!

There is no purification of the soul without passing through such periods and no soul escapes! Look at the lives of the mystics who suffered so much despite such direct consolations.

My little ones, you must never compare. Each one of you is unique and especially loved by God who has a unique and different plan for each person.

Even if you experience nothing, see God in all the little things in your everyday lives from the simplicity of having a cup of coffee to the beauty of nature to the joy of meeting your friends!

Read and reread the lives of the saints and allow the joy of heaven to fill your hearts.‘

What a beautiful message from Our Lady and both a reminder and a confirmation that we are all loved by God whether or not we experience it through direct spiritual experiences or not!

So let’s let go of our fears and doubts and trust 100% that we are infinitely loved by God who hears every single one of our prayers and even though he may not seem to reply straight away or may allow us to pass through periods of terrible dryness or suffering, let nothing or nobody tell us that he doesn’t love us but rather let us cling even more to him who will bring us through every darkness moment and out the other end.

Hope to see some of you this evening!

‘Jesus 

Write!

My children, my infinite mercy desires to pass through your hearts and bring my healing love to the world.

For this to happen your hearts must be clear without blockages or judgements so that my love may flow through you.

When you judge others, you close your hearts, you block my love and then I cannot operate as I would like to through you.

It is made even worse when instead of loving, you hate and allow Satan to use you to hurt and wound others.

The power of life and death, holiness and evil truly is in your tongues and yet even the tongue speaks from what is in the heart!

Yes my children, if you desire to be perfect, examine your hearts and be ever vigilant how you use your tongues.

Run to me for forgiveness and healing when you fall short of perfection and always be humble enough to ask forgiveness from those you have hurt.‘

Wonderful message and also what is at the heart of Our Lady of Medjugorje’s messages, praying and loving with the heart where there should be no room for gossip or inappropriate talk or any of these things especially out of the mouths of those have been following Gospa for many many years.

So let us all be very careful because the more Jesus has given us, the more he will expect from us so please Lord, heal our hearts and help us to bridle our tongues so that we may only speak through your heart of love and mercy!

Can you believe it? It’s that time of the month again and this Wednesday we will have our Medjugorje LGBT ministry.

Séamus is doing great work over in Medjugorje and despite a few quite hostile encounters (which is to be expected) he is meeting so many supportive parents and priests who have been blown away and moved to tears with this much needed ministry.

And Our Lady continues to encourage us on as usual and to challenge those in the church who are afraid to open their hearts and minds to her work:

 

“Our Lady 

Write this short message

My children, it is not enough to pray for the conversion of LGBT people who are away from the church and prayer.

You must also love them and get to understand them and their needs so that you can help me in bringing them back to God and to the church.“

With that in mind, this Wednesday Ivan (2nd from the right) will be sharing some of his journey and experience as a gay Catholic man who didn’t have the typical story of leaving the church and falling into the gay scene but rather he stayed in the church and encountered many difficulties there too.

I won’t say too much more but just that Ivan’s story is a very deep and moving story and offers us a different perspective on being catholic and gay and yet moves us to asking the question ‘How can gay people be fully alive and happy in the church?’.

So please come along or join us online! We have rosary at 5.30 followed by mass and then at about 7 we start the second half of the evening either testimonies, eucharistic adoration and refreshments afterwards (feel free to come for just one half if you like and/ or invite a friends or parent etc.).

Have a super week and really looking forward to seeing some of you on Wednesday!

Last night at the dinner table this interesting subject of conversation came up as we were discussing God’s permissive will and how a loving God can allow so much suffering.

As I prayed this morning Our Lady gave me this little explanation:

‘Our Lady 

Write my child,

My children, many of you wonder if any souls go to hell and how such such loving God could allow such a thing.

This is like a little child wondering if things like murder really exist or if they are just fictional stories from the TV.

Evil is impossible to understand from a pure and innocent mind and yet as you all know, it is very real both in your world and in the next.

Many souls my children, many many souls refuse the mercy and love of God and freely choose eternal damnation.

This is not because they like to suffer but so horrific is the thought of surrendering their souls to the plans of God and his plan for them in heaven that they choose hell which seems to them to be a lesser suffering.

Heaven my children isn’t a place of freedom in the sense that you do what you want, it is a place of perfect love and perfect order and harmony. Souls who refuse heaven refuse to enter into this harmony.

Yet my children I do not want you to get discouraged because very many souls go to heaven too and very many souls who have lived very unholy lives have been saved and have gone to heaven thanks to the prayers and sacrifices of the just.

Pray my children in the hope that all can be saved and yet do not get discouraged when some are not for nothing is lacking in God’s mercy or power and no souls will ever perish if they turn to God’s mercy.‘.

So once again we are being asked to keep in praying and yet not to be discouraged or unaware of these spiritual realities.

And the good news is that in our church in Notting Hill we have so many different prayer apostolates in response to Our Lady’s pleas ams this coming week we will have prayer evenings on both Wednesday evening (LGBT family and friends) and on Thursday evening (Marion movement of priests) to which all are welcome!

“Jesus 

How I thirst and cry for souls to love and adore me who is present in the Eucharist and yet how few, how very few come to me.

For some it is a duty, a chore that needs to be done and then ticked off their to-do list.

Others do not come at all and see it as utterly silly and unnecessary as they justify their behaviour with other actions that they deem as more urgent.

How few, how desperately few souls come to me out of love and enjoy coming to me.

How desperately few priests spend time with me heart to heart and how much this wounds my already wounded heart.

Without me my children the church is like a body with no life, a corpse good for nothing only to be buried.

In your current times, my church is like a very sick patient gasping for life which is being kept alive by a small number of humble and often hidden souls.

How desperately my heart hurts when those that represent me publicly often love me so very little.

I am in no need of more books and thesis being written about me as if I were a scientific discovery, I am in need of love.

In heaven, every possible question you ever had about me will be clear but who will get there?

My children, pray, pray, pray and especially pray for your priests to be simple men of divine love and prayer.”

Temperatures here in London have dropped after a whopping 39° here in Notting Hill on Tuesday.

Like everything else, these things remind us of how fragile we are and how fragile is the gift of life.

“Our Lady 

Continue to write!

My children, you are so fragile and so delicate. Look at the current heatwave and how many of you have struggled with only only few days of high temperatures.

Consider the vastness of be universe and the goodness of your heavenly father to place you here on earth where you have life.

My children, it is similar in heaven except the temperature is measured in love and the closer you are to God, the closer you will be to the intensity of his love.

I desire my children for you to thirst to be with God in heaven and as close as possible to his love.

This process begins on earth through prayer and especially through prayer with the heart.

When you pray with the heart you will do everything else too with the heart. You will meditate my rosary with the heart, you will go to confession with the heart, you will fast with the heart, you will receive Jesus in communion with the heart, you will love with the heart and if you are a priest, you will celebrate mass with the heart.

The heart is like the centre of your being and it is what you will carry with you to heaven with its treasures.

I desire for your hearts to be full of love.

Let love of Jesus be your only treasure and endeavor to do everything from the smallest of your daily activities to the most important with love from the heart.“

Another beautiful message from Our Lady who is constantly drawing us to prayer and to Jesus.

We are so blessed to have such a mother and so may we endeavour to do everything with love and by doing so be her ‘apostles of love’ on earth before joining her in the ecstatic intensity of God’s love in heaven for all of eternity!