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Victim Souls Newsletter
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Num. 7 Mar. 11, 2022
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Charity + Immolation
Through Mary and with Mary
The Roman Catholic Apostolic Church will Triumph
Under the Cross of Christ
Editorial
Think of Heaven
"There is little perceptible charity because you think too much about yourselves, and not enough about your God and about Heaven. You neglect the virtue of Hope.
"And yet this virtue is neither optional nor supplementary. I ask it of you. Hope makes everything joyous. It is My messenger that opens the door and introduces My graces.
"Do you not feel, My little daughter, that it always speaks the truth? That is why It gives and communicates its joy—My joy –only to sincere souls.
"If you love Me, welcome and radiate Hope!" (565.)
"In heaven you will have a full knowledge of the Divine Mercy –here on earth, you ought above all to contemplate the mystery of the Cross, because the work of redeeming souls calls you, it needs your generosity to second the action of My Grace; here on earth there is a call for expiation –do you not hear it?" (494.)
–Words of Our Lord to Sister Mary of the Holy Trinity
OUR readers will recall that in a previous issue of "Reflections" we had an editorial named The Great Finality of Our Lives, and in the same issue an article about the virtue of hope. In that issue we emphasized that anyone who teaches religion should often teach about heaven, because being in the heaven of the blessed is the end, the finality, of our lives as Christians. The virtue of hope is closely related to this end. In the quotation given above, Our Lord spoke about this and how we should often think about being in heaven. It is precisely those who most think of heaven, who do the most good in this world. If people do not think of heaven, that means that they do not even know the purpose of their existence, and if they do not know the end of their existence, then how can they make good decisions?
So many people follow the impulses of their passions blindly, and they do not know where they are going, nor where they are being led. They are in darkness. They need the first gratuitous grace of conversion, but this grace cannot come by words only. It is obtained by our being united to Christ, by sacrifices and by prayer. The work of redeeming souls calls us, the mystery of the cross fascinates us, because only by the cross can souls be redeemed.
"In heaven you will have a full knowledge of the Divine Mercy –here on earth, you ought above all to contemplate the mystery of the Cross, because the work of redeeming souls calls you, it needs your generosity to second the action of My Grace; here on earth there is a call for expiation –do you not hear it?"
Christ said that this work needs our generosity, our obedience, our expiation and our prayers. Souls need our cooperation in order to be saved. So we request all our subscribers to do whatever they can: holy hours, little sacrifices, obeying God, even when it is difficult, and he will give us the opportunities of serving him. The more we try to help our neighbors by these hidden actions, the more happiness we will be creating for ourselves and for others. On the day of judgment, all the actions of victim souls will be revealed, and how they helped to give salvation to souls in distress. "It is more blessed to give than to receive."
May it be for the glory of God
"All those who yield themselves to My way of the cross and suffering, will be blessed for all eternity." – Our Lord to the Portavoz: April 23, 1969.
Hope For Sinners. -- "If your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made white as snow; and if they be red as crimson, they shall be made white as wool." (Is. 1, 18).
"For I have come to call sinners..." (Matt. 9, 13).
"Her sins, many as they are, shall be forgiven her, because she has loved much." (Luke 7, 47).
"Him who comes to Me, I will not cast out." (John 6, 37).
Following His Footsteps
by Anselmo del Álamo
Chapter 7. Mortification, Suffering
53. It is certain that if you abounded in consolation and spiritual sweetness, and through the abundance of heavenly dew you were melted in love and veneration, you would not merit as much as you would by tolerating dryness of soul, and this cross on which I now put you. Rather, in these intimate sorrows that penetrate you, not only do I love you cordially, but rather I will make you an heir of an unspeakable reward. Our Lord to Blessed Henry Suso
54. The world flees from afflictions and it despises the afflicted, and I bless them and crown them. These souls are my beloved, those most worthy of love, most conformable and most resembling my Divinity. Our Lord to Blessed Henry Suso
55. When Our Lord was on the cross, he was declared a King, even by his own enemies; and the souls who are on the cross are declared queens. Do you know why the angels envy us? Because we can suffer for Our Lord, and they have not suffered anything for him. St. Paul, who was carried up to the third heaven and was among the delights of Paradise, considered himself fortunate only in his illnesses and in the Cross of our Lord. St. Francis de Sales
56. Considered in themselves, tribulations frighten us, but considered in the will of God, they are lovable and delightful. Can we not offer prayer? And what better prayer than to look often at the crucifix and to offer him our troubles and sufferings, uniting the little we suffer, to the immensity of the pains that Jesus Christ suffered on the cross? St. Francis de Sales
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A Treasury of Atonement (continued from previous issue)
39. I love the flowers of the field, the little birds and every new suffering; itis a variation that pleases me, but what I love above everything else is Jesus Christ, our beloved Savior. -- Therese Neumann
40. If you were flooded with spiritual consolations and you overflowed with love, you would not gain as much as suffering dryness and the trials that I send you. Live, therefore, in peace, with the certainty that you will not perish under the cross. It is easier for ten souls to fall into sin, who enjoy the delights of grace, than only one soul that is in affliction: the enemy has no power against those who sigh under the cross. Even if you were the first doctor of the world and the wisest theologian of my Church, and even if you could speak about God with the tongues of angels, you would be less holy to my eyes and less amiable, than a soul that is subject to my crosses. I grant my graces to the good and to the evil, but I reserve my crosses for my elect.
Affliction separates a man from the world, and brings him near to God. The more his friends on earth abandon him, the more my grace is increased in him, and it raises him and makes him divine. From the Cross proceed humility, purity of conscience, fervor of spirit, peace, tranquility of soul, discretion, recollection, charity and all the benefits that this produces. -- Our Lord to Blessed Henry Suso
40. If you were flooded with spiritual consolations and you overflowed with love, you would not gain as much as suffering dryness and the trials that I send you. Live, therefore, in peace, with the certainty that you will not perish under the cross. It is easier for ten souls to fall into sin, who enjoy the delights of grace, than only one soul that is in affliction: the enemy has no power against those who sigh under the cross. Even if you were the first doctor of the world and the wisest theologian of my Church, and even if you could speak about God with the tongues of angels, you would be less holy to my eyes and less amiable, than a soul that is subject to my crosses. I grant my graces to the good and to the evil, but I reserve my crosses for my elect.
Affliction separates a man from the world, and brings him near to God. The more his friends on earth abandon him, the more my grace is increased in him, and it raises him and makes him divine. From the Cross proceed humility, purity of conscience, fervor of spirit, peace, tranquility of soul, discretion, recollection, charity and all the benefits that this produces. -- Our Lord to Blessed Henry Suso
41. You cannot form an idea of how happy I am. In spite of your sorrows? Because of them. Eva Lavalliere
42. As the usurer does not lose any occasion of making a small sum of money, I also will not consent that the smallest movement of your little finger, done in my name, remains without fruit, and without its concurring to my greater glory and your eternal salvation. Our Lord to St. Gertrude -
8. Saint Padre Pio
PADRE Pio's life was one of suffering and prayer, for the salvation of souls. He offered himself, so that others would be saved. He said: “Souls are bought with the coin of suffering.” He taught that it is a privilege, and not a burden, to be allowed to participate in Christ’s suffering. His last words were: "Love the Blessed Mother and make her loved. Always say the Rosary, for it is the weapon against the evils of the world today."
To be continued ---- A Treasury of Atonement -- on line
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The Revelations of Saint Gertrude
"You have licked the dust with My enemies
and you have sucked honey amidst thorns.
But return now to Me.
I will receive you,
and inebriate you
with the torrent of My celestial delights."
-- Words of Christ to Saint Gertrude
Chapter 1
The Saint's thanksgiving to God for the first grace
vouchsafed to her, by which her mind was withdrawn
from earthly things and united to Him.
LET the Abyss of Uncreated Wisdom invoke the Abyss of Omnipotent Power to praise and extol the amazing charity which, by an excess of Thine infinite mercy, O most sweet God of my life and only Love of my soul, hast led Thee through a desert, pathless and dry land, that is, through the many obstacles I have placed to Thy mercy, to descend into the valley of my miseries.
I was in the twenty-sixth year of my age when, on the Monday before the Feast of the Purification of Thy most chaste Mother, in a happy hour, after Compline, at the close of day, Thou the true Light, who art clearer than any light and yet deeper than any recess, having resolved to dissipate the obscurity of my darkness, didst sweetly and gently commence my conversion by appeasing the trouble which Thou hadst excited in my soul for more than a month, which Thou didst deign to use, as I believe, to destroy the fortress of vain-glory and curiosity which my pride had raised up within me, although I bore the name and habit of a religious to no purpose. But Thou didst will to use this means, that Thou mightest thereby show me Thy salvation.
Being, then, in the middle of our dormitory, at the hour I have named and having inclined to an elderly religious, according to our rule, on raising my head I beheld Thee, my most loving Love and my Redeemer, surpassing in beauty the children of men, under the form of a youth of sixteen years, beautiful and amiable and attracting my heart and my eyes by the infinite light of Thy glory, which Thou hadst the goodness to proportion to the weakness of my nature. Standing before me, Thou didst utter these words, full of tenderness and sweetness: "Thy salvation is at hand. Why art thou consumed with grief? Hast thou no counsellor, that thou art so changed by sadness?" When Thou hadst spoken thus, although I knew that I stood corporally in the place I have mentioned, it seemed to me, nevertheless, that I was in our choir, in the corner where I had been accustomed to offer up my tepid prayers and that there I heard these words: "I will save thee. I will deliver thee, fear not." After I had heard them, I saw Thee place Thy right hand in mine, as if to ratify Thy promise.
Then I heard Thee speak thus: "You have licked the dust with My enemies, and you have sucked honey amidst thorns. But return now to Me. I will receive you, and inebriate you with the torrent of My celestial delights." When Thou hadst said these words, my soul melted within me. As I desired to approach Thee, I beheld between Thee and me, I mean, from Thy right hand to my left hand, a hedge of such prodigious length, that I could see no end to it, either before or behind. The top of it appeared so set with thorns that I could find no way to return to Thee, Thou only consolation of my soul. Then I paused to weep over my faults and crimes, which were doubtless figured by this hedge which divided us. In the ardour of the desires with which I desired Thee, and in my weakness, O charitable Father of the poor, "whose mercies are over all Thy works," Thou didst take me by the hand, and placed me near Thee instantly, without difficulty, so that, casting my eyes upon the precious Hand which Thou hadst extended to me as a pledge of Thy promises, I recognized, O sweet Jesus, Thy radiant wounds, which have made of no effect the handwriting that was against us.
By these and other illuminations Thou didst enlighten and soften my mind, detaching me powerfully, by an interior unction, from an inordinate love of literature and from all my vanities, so that I only despised those things which had formerly pleased me. All that was not thee, O God of my heart, appeared vile to me. Thou alone wert pleasing to my soul. I praise, bless, adore, and thank from my inmost soul, as far as I am able, but not as far as I ought, Thy wise mercy and Thy merciful wisdom, that Thou, my Creator and Redeemer, didst endeavor in so loving a manner to submit my unconquerable self-opiniatedness to the sweetness of Thy yoke, composing a beverage suitable to my temperament, which has infused new light into my soul, so that I began to run after the odor of Thy ointments. Thy yoke became sweet and Thy burden light, though a little while before they had appeared hard and almost unbearable.
Chapter 2
How the grace of God illuminated her interiorly.
Hail, Salvation and Light of my soul! May all that is in heaven, in earth, and in the abyss, return thanks to Thee for the extraordinary grace which has led my soul to know and consider what passes within my heart, of which I had no more care formerly than, if I may so speak, of what passes within my hands or feet. But after the infusion of Thy most sweet light, I saw many things in my heart which offended Thy purity. I even perceived that all within me was in such disorder and confusion that Thou couldst not abide therein.
Nevertheless, my most loving Jesus, neither all these defects, nor all my unworthiness, prevented Thee from honouring me with Thy visible presence nearly every day that I received the life-giving nourishment of Thy Body and Thy Blood, although I only beheld Thee indistinctly, as one who sees at dawn. Thou didst endeavor by this sweet compliance to attract my soul, so that it might be entirely united to Thee. (To be continued)
Revelations of Saint Gertrude -- on line
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God needs our suffering, to be used by virtue of the Communion of Saints, to assist other souls in their redemption.
God sends the heaviest crosses to those He calls His own,
And the bitterest drops of the chalice are reserved for His friends alone.
But the blood red drops are precious, and the crosses are all gain,
For Joy is bought with Sacrifice, and the price of love is Pain.
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The Work of Atonement is the highest consecration that one can make, to surrender oneself to Jesus in doing His Divine Will.
Requirements to Become a Victim-Soul
• Daily Mass
• Monthly Confession
• Morning Offering
• Daily Rosary
• Own personal devotions
• Should wear Miraculous Medal, as well as a Brown Scapular. --
Benefits of Victimhood
• Victim-Souls never see Purgatory, they will see Heaven
• Special Graces from the Blessed Mother and Her Son
• Receive greater merits for prayers and Holy Masses
• You become the apple of the Father's eye, because you desire to imitate His Son
• Victim-Souls united with victimhood are holding back the great chastisement
• The purpose of victimhood is to release suffering souls from Purgatory, and to save sinners from the horror of eternal condemnation.
Consecration of the Legion of Victim Souls
LORD my God, you have asked everything of your little servant: take and receive everything, then.
(See "Victimhood of Little Souls" in the list of free atonement booklets, for complete consecration.)
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May it be for the glory of God
Laus Deo