Grace and mercy period extended

Joseph Lee L'Heureux,

“Are the weather Gods angry?” asks the Edmonton Journal. For over two years my 90-year-old father, Ernest, keeps repeating daily, “The lull before the storm.” Mother Mary, for 26 years, has appeared daily in Medjugorje warning us, “to change, (repent) fast and pray for the world.” Forty years we have allowed the “lawless one” (2 Thessalonians 2:8) to bully and undermine our natural law, personal liberties before God. By not protecting our unborn and giving buggery a foothold, then giving it status, we have committed an unpardonable abomination. There will be a price to pay. A recent survey tells us 75 per cent of Canadians claim they are Christian, born again or spiritual, or have had an epiphany, (an experience with God) yet only 17-25 per cent attend church regularly. We seem to have a problem with what it means to be a believer. St. Paul wrote. “I affirm that. . the Gentile people are to praise God because of his mercy” (Romans 15:8-9). We are the Gentiles invited into the Church, for which the period of grace has been extended. Have we really entered the Church to praise God? No, many of us have left the Church in droves and abandoned our offspring to flounder with no basic faith foundation. Jesus said to Nicodemus, “I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?” (John 3:12) If Mother Mary in her appearances represents God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and the heavenly Church; (cloud of witnesses (Hebrews 12:1) should we not heed her advice to “repent, pray and fast for the world;” for we are indeed in a period of grace and mercy and need to seek Jesus Christ’s mercy. If Mary represents the “heavenly Jerusalem that is above and free, and she is our mother;” (Galatians 4:26) is the earthly Church an extension of the heavenly Jerusalem? If so, is she the womb which Nicodemus unknowingly made reference to when he said to Jesus, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born again?” (John 3:4) Which Jesus seems to affirm with His response: “Amen, Amen! I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the (Holy) Spirit he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.” (Verse 5) Jesus prayed, “that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you sent me. . . That they may be one as we are one.” (John 17:21-22) For the Christian or even the unconverted, we look pretty divided. Jesus agreed with the Father, and so they were one, which created the Holy Spirit, who was also in agreement. Should we not be in agreement with the Church, which appears to claim this leadership, and the heavenly messenger, Mary? In the book of the prophet Jeremiah there is a prophecy, “Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these your cities. How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth: a woman encompasses a man.” (Jeremiah 31:21-22) Is Mary that woman? She certainly was the bride, when she said, “Let it be done to me according to thy word.” (Luke 1:38) “Surely from now on all generations will call me blessed.” (Luke 1:48) In light of the disasters for the past few years, it does not appear that any part of our globe is immune, to God’s Justice. Indeed the Lord Jesus Christ, King of heaven and earth, in His great mercy has given us a period of grace and mercy with His mother, Mary calling us home. “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’” And let everyone who hears say, “Come.” (Revelations 22:17) May God bless us all.