Answers to God's Mysteries
By Cicily Sunny
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"Our Father, Who art in Heaven"

Whenever Jesus was free from sermon, he always spent time alone in prayer. In Chapter 356 we can see that after giving a sermon on divorce, Jesus prays with arms stretched out crosswise, with face raised towards the east, where the first pale hint of moonlight appears. Whenever Jesus prayed, he said 'Our Father…'. 

In Volume 2, Chapter 203, Jesus teaches his disciples how to say 'Our Father' and explains the meaning of each sentence. About God's Kingdom on earth he says, "Desire its coming with all your strength. If it came, it would be the joy of the earth: the Kingdom of God in hearts, in families, among citizens and nation. Suffer, work, and sacrifice yourselves for this Kingdom. Let the earth be a mirror reflecting the life of Heaven in each individual. It will happen. All this will happen one day. Centuries of tears and blood, of errors, persecutions, of darkness relieved by flashes of light radiating from the mystical Light of my church will precede the moment in which the earth will possess the kingdom of God." 

About God's will done on earth Jesus says, "The submission of one's will to God's can be achieved only when one achieves possession of the theological virtues in a heroic degree. In Heaven, where everything is faultless, God's will is done. You, children of Heaven, must learn to do what is done in Heaven." 

About delivering us from temptations Jesus says, "It is not God who tempts you to evil things, but it is the Evil One who tempts you. Pray to the Father that He may support your weakness so that it may not be led into temptation by the Evil One."

The last prayer he prayed with his apostles was 'Our Father'. When we say the words "Give us our daily bread", most of us interpret it as the food we eat daily. But Jesus says, "Give us our bread, the bread for the soul, a bread not of this earth. I do not ask it for myself. I need only your spiritual comfort. But, I, the beggar, stretch out my hand for them. Before long it will be pierced and nailed, and it will no longer be able to make a gesture of love. But it can still do it now. Father, grant me to give them the bread that daily fortifies the weakness of the poor children of Adam. They are weak, Father, they are inferior, because they do not have the bread that is strength, the angelical bread that spiritualizes man and leads him to be deified in us." (V. 5, Ch. 595, P. 474).

Marriage and Divorce

In Book 3, Chapter 407 we see that in the house of Joseph of Arimathea Jesus brings together a couple named John and Anne who have a broken relationship. He tells John, "So God did the right thing in joining together man and woman together….Satan, the usual disturber, has come between you and your wife….When love is disorderly, it becomes hatred, John. Satan has worked on your virile sensuality to get you to commit sin because that is where your sin began. One disorder has brought about new and much graver disorders. In your wife you have not seen only a good companion and the mother of your children, but also an object of pleasure. And that has made your eyes like those of an ox, which sees everything altered." 

In his last teachings before the ascension, Jesus says about marriage, "In the Mosaic religion matrimony is a contract. In the new Christian religion let it be a sacred indissoluble act, on which may the grace of the Lord descend to make of husband and wife two ministers of His in the propagation of the human race. From the very first moments try to advise the consort belonging to the new religion to convert the consort, who is still out of the number of the believers, to enter and become part of it, to avoid those painful divisions of thought, and consequently of peace, that we have noticed also among ourselves. But when it is a question of believers in the Lord, for no reason whatsoever what God united is to be dissolved. And when a consort is Christian and is united to a heathen, I advice that consort to bear his/her cross with patience, meekness and also with strength, to the extent of dying to defend his/her faith, but without leaving the consort whom he/she married with full consent. This is my advice for a more perfect life in the matrimonial state, until it will be possible, with the diffusion of Christianity, to have marriages between believers. Then let the bond be sacred and indissoluble, and the love holy." (V. 5, Ch. 631, P. 845).

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