Answers to God's Mysteries
By Cicily Sunny
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Confession: 

Speaking to his apostles and disciples in the garden of Mary of Magdalene, Jesus says, "You will be able to absolve in my name. You will be able to release people from the chains of sin, and you will be able to join two people who love each other so that they become one body. And what you do will be valid in the eyes of God, as if God Himself had done it. I tell you solemnly that whatever you bind on this earth will be bound in Heaven and whatever you absolve on the earth will be absolved in Heaven….Because prayer is a great power, brother union is a great power….My name is a very great infinite power and so is my presence among you. And where two or three people are gathered in my name, I shall be in the midst of them, and I will pray with them and the Father will not refuse anything to those who pray with me. Many do not get what they ask for because they pray by themselves, or they ask for what is illicit, or they pray with pride or sin in their hearts. Make your hearts pure so that I can be with you, then pray and you will be heard (Vol. 3, Ch. 277, P. 21). Speaking about the need of purity in giving absolution Jesus says to John, "I have given you the power to remit sins. But one cannot give what one does not possess. So you must be certain that I possess this power in a perfect manner and I make use of it for you, who must be pure in the highest degree to purify those who will come to you, soiled with sin" (V. 5, Ch. 625, P. 757). On the day before his ascension Jesus said to his disciples, "What I implore you with all my heart to observe is a holy life. It will increase the supernatural lights in you to such an extent that you will succeed in reading the hearts of men without mistaking, and you will be able, with love or with authority, to tell sinners, who fear to disclose their sin or refuse to confess it, the state of their hearts, helping the timid and humiliating the unrepentant. Bear in mind that the Earth is about to lose its Absolver and that you must be what I was: just, patient, merciful, but not weak. I said to you: what you will loosen on Earth will be loosened in Heaven and what you bind here will be bound in Heaven" (V. 5, Ch. 631, P. 845).

Prayer

Answering the question of a little boy named Marjiam about prayer, Jesus says, "The day is given to us by God. The whole day, the bright one and the dark one, day and night, is a gift to live and have light. Our way of living is a means of sanctification….So we must sanctify the moments of the whole day to preserve in holiness and have the Most High and His bounty present in our hearts, and at the same time, keep the Demon away. Watch the little birds. They bless the light. We must bless the light as well, because it is a gift of God, and we must bless God who grants it to us and who is the Light. We must crave for God as from daybreak to put a seal, a note of light on the whole oncoming day, that it may be entirely bright and holy. And we must join the whole creation in praising the Creator. Then, as hours go by, and going by they make us aware of how much sorrow and ignorance there is in the world, we must pray again that sorrow may be relieved and ignorance may vanish and God may be known, loved and prayed to by all men, who, if they knew God, would be comforted in their suffering. And at the sixth hour we must pray out of love for our family, to enjoy the gift of being united to those who love us. That is also a gift of God. And we must pray that our eating, instead of being useful, may not become an occasion of sin. And at sunset we pray remembering that death is the inevitable end waiting for all of us. And we must pray that our end, be it today or later, may take place with our souls in grace. And when the lights are lit, we must pray to thank for the day which is over and to ask for protection and forgiveness, so that we may go to sleep without any fear of a sudden judgment or assaults of the demon. And, finally, we must pray at night-but this applies only to adults-to make amends for the sins of the night, to keep Satan away from weak people, and that culprits may ponder, repent and make good resolutions which will become facts at sunrise (V. 3, Ch. 290, P. 94). 

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