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A weeping Mother’s Day
Joseph Lee L'Heureux
South Peace News
Happy Mother’s Day!
The day especially chosen, to honour our mothers, just like the fourth commandment instructs us: “Honour thy father and mother!” The day when mothers wish to gather their children into the family fold.
A would-be conversation last week.
“Mother, why are you weeping?”
Silence.
“Mother, do you think my brothers and sisters will be coming this weekend?”
“I don’t know, I have not heard from the others, they all seem pretty busy. Joan is off to Afghanistan, Henry is off to the United Nations for another conference on the problems in the Sudan and North Korea. Patrick is in the NHL playoffs this year; Tony is working on his hockey pool, he has to stay close to his computer; Peter has his son in a soccer tournament, Mark is staying close to the Internet, the market is very volatile these days and everyone is short of money due to the collapse of those financial institutions; Heather is very busy, its income tax time you know and Jude is off to Vegas, you know how he loves those one-armed bandits, and Hank, well Hank is in rehab.”
“But Mother, it’s Mother’s Day! Don’t you think they will remember you?”
“Oh, most of them will phone, you know, or send a card or flowers. They’re way too busy. Beside your Father and brother, Jesus, didn’t fare very well last month either, and that was Easter, the Passover, the biggest feast of all time.”
Now let us raise this conversation to a heavenly level.
“But Mother! Father has sent you back to invite them back home for the past 28 years!”
“Where, John?”
“Mother! Your daily visits in Medjugorje these past three decades to those six people.”
“Yes, John, that’s true and 30 million have responded. I know but what’s that out of over one billion Christians or six billion people? Unfortunately, the world does not believe in heavenly appearances. Remember when Jesus told a parable of Abraham and the rich man with poor Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31). When the rich man died and was in Hades, he wanted to send someone to warn his brothers that they might not end up in the same inferno. Jesus said, ”Even if someone rises from the dead they would not believe or change." (Luke 16:31)
“They are to believe Moses and the Prophets.” (Luke 16:29) “But today most of them don’t even believe there is a God, or that God is active and interested in their lives. So how could they possibly believe Moses or any of the Prophets if they don’t believe in any of us.”
“Mother, they should believe after all Jesus did for us, dying on the cross for all of us; Father even allowed that big earthquake to happen that day at the same time as the eclipse of the Sun. (Matthew 27: 45, 51-52) They sure came to believe then, didn’t they?”
“Yes, they did and the Word spread like wildfire and everyone was excited for a long period of time, but that was so long ago. Today the Holy Spirit is around to help everyone and they have all come to believe they are creating all these new inventions and doing good deeds on their own. St. Paul tells us ”we are not capable of doing anything for our salvation without a prompting from the Holy Spirit, for our sufficiency is from God. (2 Corinthians 3:5) No one wants to give credit where credit is due. No one believes in God-incidences anymore, they only think these are coincidences and flukes of nature."
“Yes, mother, but recently you predicted through the visionary Christina, the tsunami, the Twin Towers destruction in New York and before that the slaughter in that civil war in Rwanda and recently the financial collapse of the stock market. Isn’t anyone listening?” (It’s Time News March 30, 2009)
“Yes, but the world is very skeptical of these messages.”
“But, Mother, what’s the point of all your appearances in the world? I know; God the Father and Jesus, want us to invite people with love, rather than intimidate with fear, right? All the prophetic messages are to authenticate the appearances rather than threaten people, and because people are always asking for a sign.”
“I am the sign. A mother always comes in time of need,” says Mother Mary. (Message of Nov. 30, 1976 Confirming Revelations 12:1)
“Sad is it not? Now you know why I appear weeping so often.”
In Maclean’s (April 20) in ‘The Making of Mary’ it is asked, “How did a few cameos in the Bible create the world’s most powerful woman ever, or most recognizable female figure in the world?”
The answer to that might be the “Muslim Koran mentions Mother Mary 34 times compared to 19 in the Christian Bible. This would explain why Mother Mary can and does introduce Jesus to our Muslim brothers and sisters.”
Mother Mary’s appearances down through 2,000 years has left or brought us a new icons of Mary, “Mother of God” to every different nation, from Michelangelo’s Pieta to our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico 1531, Lourdes and Fatima and now Medjugorje for the past 28 years.
So what would Mother Mary say to mothers on Mother’s Day?
“Happy Mother’s Day and remember we are mothers first.”
It is our role to pray for protection over our children from conception until their heavenly birth.
God Bless and Happy Mother’s Day!
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