Fr. Chris Alar on "Divine Mercy and the Flame of Love Grace"

our first speaker will be father Chris al our father Chris is with the Mary and fathers of the Immaculate Conception from Stockbridge Massachusetts most of you know those wonderful priests and father is the father Joseph of the order which is the priest that oversees the association of the Marian helpers which is the lay apostolate of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and so he travels all over the country speaking very grateful to him because he understands the connection between divine mercy and the flame of love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary priests welcome father Chris hey lar [Applause] thank you okay can everybody hear me it's harder to say can everybody see me right so we're very thank you Tony it's very great to be here I'm from the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge Massachusetts some of you have been there you may know our other priests well more well known father Don Callaway and father Michael Gately with his books that have really beginning as Tony and I were talking about the Marian consecration which is such an important part of the triumphs of the heart of the Immaculate Heart which all ties into this beautiful way of life this flame of love and I flew in this morning and I'm going to be flying right back out this afternoon so it's a quick stop for me back to Stockbridge I asked for your prayers the reason I'm going back to Stockbridge is a gentleman that used to come or does has been coming for years to our Association every morning every single morning and yesterday morning was no different to bring his daughter who works for me at the shrine her cup of coffee his name is bill price and a beautiful man and about 6:00 p.m. last night I received a frantic call from Bethany that her father was found unresponsive and I raced down there just in time to pray that Divine Mercy chaplet as he passed away and so we asked for your prayers for him he was a wonderful wonderful man and his daughter's provided service for us at the shrine of divine mercy so I'll be going back to be with the family so we ask for your prayers for him and like I said most of you may know the shrine of divine mercy from EWTN I've been on EWTN several different things a the last one I think was broadcast a father Apostoli talking about the conclusion of the year of mercy but as I said if you tuned in at 3 o'clock you'll see for instance the chaplet of divine mercy prayed every day and how beautifully that ties in with this way of life the flame of love so I will like to start there and Tony talked about you know the Marian's apostolate called the Marian helper center or the association of Marian helpers and it's because our two focuses tie-in with you guys now father Mike Gately if you haven't heard his talk talks about the two most powerful spiritual weapons that we have today in those two powerful spiritual weapons are Marian consecration and divine mercy and how beautifully those are part of what you do in the flame of love so where I want to start is what is divine mercy now most of us probably think when we hear mercy something to the effect of compassion or loving someone and this is all true but mercy actually goes deeper than you think okay if I was to ask you all to list the virtues and there are many virtues we have the cardinal virtues the theological virtues so we have prudence being smart temperance being reserved not over dull geing we have fortitude being courageous then we have the theological virtues of faith and hope but if you put all these virtues on the table what's the greatest love love so if I was to stack up on this floor all the virtues temperance and fortitude patience and all the virtues up at the top you'd have faith hope and love and the greatest of these is love so of all the virtues the greatest is love now is all love the same no way I'm a graduate of the University of Michigan probably father Cass still laughs when I came into the Marian's I said father I don't need anything I don't take days off I don't take vacations I worked to midnight every night but I asked for one thing Saturday afternoons in the fall can i watch Michigan football that's the only thing I asked for so they still laugh about that and I love Michigan football now unfortunately we were right on the edge of that four playoff teams so you all have to root for Colorado to beat Washington tonight so Michigan can slide into one of those four teams okay so anyway but do I love Michigan football the same way I love my mother no way at least I hope not all right my mom would really reprimand me if I said yeah there's different modes of love the Greeks tell us about euros which is a romantic love all the way to the highest agape this kind of love where you are willing to give your life for another and as Tony Mullen so beautifully put it that's the basis of the Fanny flame of love to allow the Holy Spirit to enter yourself but you got to be disposed so that you completely die to yourself and let Christ consume you through the power of the Holy Spirit so that that love is so great that you'd be willing to die for God that's what we have in the martyrs all right and so this love is the highest love now of all the modes of love all the modes put together I love my dog I used to have a great yellow lab named rocky - the husband loving his wife conjugal love - a father loving his son feel you love the highest mode of love is mercy mercy is the highest mode of love mercy is the particular mode of love that when love encounters suffering it takes action to do something about it now as I said if you stack all the virtues the highest is love and if you look at all the modes of love the highest is mercy in other words you can't do better and this is the flame of love as Tony and I were talking in the car here it's God's continuing act of divine mercy and in fact Elizabeth in fact when I was reading effect that I was in the car with Tony and this Elizabeth Kindle Minh and I've been reading more and more and the more and more unlike Tony we got to get the Marian father's involved in this because Elizabeth kinderman was saying that not since Christ's passion death and resurrection in the giving of the sacraments have we been given a greater act of divine mercy and of course Mary's Immaculate Conception not since then have we been given a greater act of divine mercy than this flame of love now in this the highest mode of all the excuse me of all the virtues is love and the highest mode of love is mercy mercy is a particular mode of love that when love encounters suffering it takes action to do something about it it doesn't just sit by and say oh now what do I got for dinner it doesn't do that it makes that suffering one's own and this is what Jesus did on the cross so mercy being the highest mode of the highest virtue you can't do better in fact here's one you've probably never heard y'all know Scott Hahn right Scott Hong came and gave us priests a retreat at the shrine of divine mercy the summer and he said something that was staggering and I said dr. Han can I steal that from you know there's a virtue right can I steal this from you he said absolutely he said mercy is greater than forgiveness because we always hear we must forgive and this is true we got to forgive but he said forgiveness does not require reconciliation I once had an employee when I had my own business in North Carolina steal $2,000 from me I forgave him but I didn't have to hire him back as my CPA okay what happened is Scott Hahn said this he said mercy is greater than forgiveness how could that be well think about it and as I was contemplating he gave a great analogy and I want to share that with you Scott Vaughn said I want you to picture what first forgiveness is picture you are a death row inmate scheduled to be executed but you're in deeper water than just even gonna be executed because even if you weren't gonna be executed he said vision this you have a terminal illness you're gonna die in six months anyway you have no friends you have no family even if you were released you would never get a job because you're a criminal record you're a felon you have no home you have nothing to look forward to suppose that's who you are sitting in that jail cell waiting to be executed then Scott Hahn says picture you get a call from the governor and the governor says hey Chris this is the governor you're free to go close the door on your way out of the prison hey thanks guv appreciate it and I walk out the door I've been forgiven of my let's suppose I was in there for murder or something I've been forgiven of that I walk out the door but I'm still gonna die in six months I still have no friends I still have no family I still can't get a job if I'm a convicted felon and I still have no home but I've been forgiven and this is a good thing and I'm like hey this is good but then Scott Hahn said picture you get this call from the governor hey Chris I pardon you in other words I've been forgiven but he doesn't stop there he says on your way out the prison Chris there will be a limousine waiting and in that limousine is a doctor he's found the cure for your terminal disease you will be cured he will drive you to my mansion where I will adopt as my son you will be brothers and sisters with my own children you will be part of our family you will have a job forever in my administration and I will lay wipe your criminal record clean you will have no criminal record you will be wiped clean and your slate will be spotless that is mercy see the difference there's a huge difference forgiveness is mandatory it's necessary you don't get into heaven without it but mercy goes beyond it's beautiful so this mercy is why we're here today because it ties to what you do in your way of life in the flame of love now people ask us all the time is divine mercy optional is it mandatory well let me ask you our devotions in the Catholic Church mandatory or optional they're optional do you have to believe that Mary appeared to three children at Fatima in order to go to heaven no but we strongly suggest you listen to her message there because it's in line with the gospel right now think about Divine Mercy is it's not just a devotion Divine Mercy is both a message and a devotion and while devotions are technically optional the message of divine mercy is not optional it's mandatory and you don't get to heaven without it believe it or not I'm a lot older than I look I remember those American Express commercials don't leave home without divine mercy yet don't get to heaven without here's the deal while the devotion we're going to talk about that in a minute as given the st. Faustina is one aspect of the devotion is one aspect of divine mercy the message of divine mercy is not optional mandatory you need it to get to heaven what is it what is the message of divine mercy what do you need to know about it to get to heaven it's this it's as simple to remember as a B C and it goes back to Adam and Eve God's divine mercy was present from the very beginning of Adam and Eve now you can remember it as easy as ABC a is ask for God's mercy now when Adam and Eve sinned in the garden did they ask for God's mercy no way they didn't say they were sorry didn't say have mercy on me be be merciful to each other did Adam and Eve be merciful to each other heck no Adam manly man stands up and says it's her fault hey there you go there's a there's a real leader but we are I mean I'm not putting my finger at Adam because I've done many many men were stings as it's it's broken humanity right see completely trust in God's mercy Jesus told st. Faustina the vessel by which all Grace's are received is trust if you do not trust you do not receive any grace Trust is the vessel by which all graces are received did Adam and Eve trust no they ran what did they do did they trust God no they ran in they hid the problem with Adam and Eve wasn't just that they sinned the problem with abandon Adam and Eve is they didn't know their ABCs so in the garden in the garden God's mercy was present he could have squashed Adam and Eve out of existence for all eternity but instead he had mercy on them and he asked for God's mercy something now the Bible teaches us we don't get into heaven unless we repent and ask for forgiveness then God has mercy on us because as I said in Scott Hans example God's mercy on us is making us adopted children of God do you know you ever hear exceeding agustin saying oh happy fault has anybody ever heard that what is oh happy fault me yeah it means that God made a greater good this is why you know okay people ask all the time why does God why would a good and loving God allow suffering in the world it makes no sense and the answer is because he'll always bring a greater good out of it believe it or not God will always bring a greater good out of even the worst evil I mean pick any evil a 911 horrible evil what good could have come out of Adam in or out of a 911 do you know that the churches were so bursting from the seams that following Sunday in in North Carolina my parish we've got 12 families that are pretty much the leaders of our parish and almost I think 10 of those 12 came back after 9/11 God will bring a greater good out of even the worst evil God we always refer to his ordained will and his permissive will and God's ordained will he doesn't want sin and death but in his permissive will he allows it why he'll bring a greater good out of it now what greater good came out of Adam and Eve's sin Jesus Christ a savior but what other gift came out of Adam and Eve sin the gift of a mother the gift of a mother because his father my Gately says God's so wise he knew after we fell that we'd be wounded and afraid to go back to him so he gave us the gift of a mother that we would go running to and would intercede for us because we're not quite yet ready to go to God marries one of us she's not God despite what the Protestants tell us we believe she's not God but we go to her to help us what family is complete without a mother and this is the meaning of the Trinity the Trinity has it's a family and it has a mother not in the Trinity she's not part of the Trinity but shearing that love that goes outside of the Trinity now here I mean a mother is so important a mother is a beautiful gift and we were given one in the garden she and her seeds for us boy my mother I mean okay when you used to get in trouble when you were a little I know I did who did you go to first usually now I I tell you my dad I I have fun two stories about my dad he's a crew-cut hard totin marine flew helicopters out of the name in Vietnam spent 14 months Southeast Asia going through rice paddies talk about tough he was tough well let me tell you the way I see some kids talk to their parents today if I ever would have talked to my parents that way when I was a kid you'd see a permanent handprint right here on the side of my face no way was that ever allowed but let me tell you my dad will give you a quick story my dad the one thing that we always did together since I was little as kid was fishing I liked to go fishing and my dad had all these fishing rods and he told me you can use any of these fishing rods except mine he had the special Eagle Claw but to me that rod was magical because every time we went to the river he catch more fish with that rod now as a kid I never thought that it was my dad's skill that was catching the fish I was convinced the power was in that rod so my father says Chris you can use any fishing rod but not this rod doesn't it kind of sound like Adam and Eve you can eat from any tree in the garden but not this tree and what did they do they ate from that tree so my dad tells me you can use any fishing rod it's set mine you are not allowed to use mine well one day he's at work and my two buddies come over Chris and Mike it's funny father Chris and father Mike's my best friend wasn't Gately but Chris and Mike came over Chris and Mike Rowe Penske he said let's go fishing I wanted to impress him so I figured I'm going to give you two guys one of these rods over here and silently I went and I took my father's fishing rod my whole intent was I was going to be the hero I was going to be the guy that caught all the fish because I had the magic fishin rod so I'm all excited I grabbed that fishing rod I put it over my shoulder like little Opie Taylor on the beginning of the Andy Griffith Show and I got him over to my shoulder I'm so excited I go running out the door they're already the front yard I grabbed it I put it over my shoulder I go running out the door and I slammed the door behind me snap there went the fishing rod so what do I do I immediately got a piece of tape and tried to tape the end of the rod thinking my father would never notice well pretty soon the guilt got me and then I started to panic then I started to get really nervous what did I do I ran to my mother and I said mom don't let dad get mad at me I'm sorry I didn't do it I didn't mean to do it I did it I admit it I did it I grabbed it I took the rod see eh I was asking for mercy I was asking please I'm sorry I'm sorry don't let him get mad at me well sure enough 6:30 p.m. in walks my dad through the door sees me crying in the corner Oh what did he do what did he do and then my mom brought out the fishing rod talk about the flame of love well the flame of anger started going out of my father the flame of Wrath the flame of wrath he saw that fishing rod and he turned to me and his hand was raised ready to grab it and to give me a SWAT with it just like st. Faustina says the rat the hand of God was going to strike it pulling but through the intercession and if fatima mary did it and in poland Faustina did it and as my dad was ready my mother stepped forward and she met him head-on but it wasn't an anger that my mom took my father on with it was a look of love because she said he's sorry he didn't mean it he came to me and said he was sorry this is what it took this is what Adam and Eve didn't do this is what it took and all of a sudden I still never forget my dad this heart charging Marine flying helicopters out of the name taken on the world and he I could see the anger subside just like st. Faustina said and just like Mary did a Fatima to hold back the hand now it wasn't out of wrath or anger that my dad wanted to hurt me it was discipline it was a discipline of love and this is what the hand of God is prepared to do because we are stubborn stiff neck people we keep disobeying we keep turning our back we keep going in our own will not God's will that's another part of the flame of love and the whole movement you have here is the divine will not our will but God's will be done now when my dad my mom interceded my father listened and if any of you've ever heard the story of father Steven Shire the priest who actually died and then went before the judgment throne of God and he was actually sentenced to hell not because God condemned obey because he chose it because he wasn't living a good life Mary interceded for him and stepped in at the moment of his judgement and said my son give him another chance and he came back to life I met him when I was in a retreat in Kansas in Wichita and I asked him about it he said you know something the Trinity cannot say no to Mary the Trinity cannot say no to her now does that mean that the Trinity decided to bend their will and change your will to match the will of Mary no it means that they do whatever Mary asked them in interceding because her will is perfectly United to the Trinity this is the perfect love of God when you unite your realest Oni and I were talking and that's the beauty of it the Divine Will is you follow the will of God and you surrender yours and so this Trinity this perfect love eternity can't say no to Mary who is the Trinity it goes back to divine mercy now this is what mercy as I said a minute ago mercy is a a particular mode of love that when love encounters suffering it does something this is what the Trinity did when the love the Trinity saw the fall of Adam and even their suffering as a result of sin what did they do the Trinity did something here comes the Sun to redeem us now who's the Trinity the Trinity is a beautiful example I want to explain to you what the Trinity is right no of course not but we try to give you an understanding that might work in a little sense now I said a minute ago about all the virtues now who is God we know we have one God in three persons okay now in this we call the Trinity I'm gonna tell you something right now you know what you all got them in your family y'all got them in your friends somebody who says to you as my own family does my own nephew says to me uncle Chris it doesn't matter what you are I'm not Catholic anymore he declares I'm his Godfather I'm in trouble pray for me because I'm the one that's supposed to be leading him in his faith and my own nephew has left the Catholic Church now he tells me it doesn't matter uncle Chris what you are as long as you're something I can talk to my nephew a little different way than I talked to you in the confessional because in the confessional I wouldn't tell you what I told my nephew what I told my nephew was hogwash it does matter what you are and Brian I want to tell you right now God has to be a Trinity because he's looking at some Pentecostal you a Unitarian Pentecostal or something that doesn't believe in the Trinity so Brian God has to be a Trinity it can't be any other way this is why something like Islam which is actually not a religion it's a political ideology or even Judaism or seventh-day adventists or Mormons or all these now we come from the Jews and God will reconcile them back through Christ that's coming but all these others the Mormons the seventh-day Adventists all this they don't believe in a Trinity God has to be a Trinity I can prove it to you right now right now I can prove to you God has to be a Trinity how here's how if you could pick one word and almost all religions believe this in some form or another if you could pick one word to describe God what would that one word be we just said it what's the highest virtue love you remember Pope Benedict's encyclical God is love if you could pick one word to describe God and be loved now I ask you God is one God but how many persons okay now I got a question for you if I was the only person who ever lived none of you none of you else ever existed only me I'm the only person who ever existed none of you ever existed can there be love no in order to have love you need a community of persons now this is the Trinity you have the father the lover you have the son the beloved and the love between them is so great it generates a third person the Holy Spirit this is the Trinity the father is the lover the son is the beloved and the love between them is so great it generates a third person this is why God has to be a Trinity because you need love God is love and who have love you need a community of persons now who's the family the church has always talked about the family who is what is the family the family is a mirror of the Trinity you have the husband the lover you have the wife the beloved and the love between them is so great it generates a third person the child the family is a mirror of the Trinity now I'm not here for a political talk but don't beat up your church because your church is proclaiming and probably one of the last man standing that that's why marriage is between a man and a woman because the husband the man is the lover the wife the beloved is the woman and the love between them is so great it generates a third person the child that only happens in a man and a woman again I'm not here for a political talk but don't beat up your church because she stands for the truth this is how God set it up now the Trinity that perfect love of the Trinity is that mercy quiz that love between the Father Son and the Holy Spirit is that mercy no because mercy is when love encounters suffering it takes action to do something about it there's no suffering in the Trinity mercy is loving the unlovable there's no unlovable in the Trinity mercy is forgiving the unforgivable there's no unforgivable in the Trinity so what mercy is is when that love of God which is so great overflows outside of itself becomes mercy when God's love overflows outside of itself it becomes mercy so what would you guess is God's first great act of mercy when I just said God's love comes outside of itself to someone else what would you guess is God's first great act of mercy creation creation is God's first great act of mercy because the greatest evil Thomas Aquinas tells us of all the evils in the world and there's many to choose from abortion and contraception and euthanasia and murder and all these things the greatest evil the greatest misery Thomas Aquinas says anybody you know anybody want to take a guess what Thomas Aquinas says is the greatest misery the greatest evil the greatest misery that there is in the world what is it not to exist not to be so this is why creation is an act of mercy the greatest miseries not to exist will God put us into existence he gave us creation now this is what's important our whole thing up you guys are in a seminary ok you guys are sitting in a seminary I'm gonna give you four years of seminary in four minutes I went to Dominican houses studies in Washington DC and Holy Apostles and Cromwell Connecticut and you could summarize our entire four years of theology in four minutes it's one concept which is what the basis of Thomas Aquinas one of the arguably the greatest saint in the church next to Mary of course our whole faith our whole Catholic faith can be summarized by a circle a circle and he used the Latin term XE tous ready to all comes from God all will return to God that's it his whole Summa Theologica is based on that one concept all comes from God all will return to God that's it now didn't I just tell you what the first great act of mercy was creation all comes from God so now picture the Trinity up here okay here's the Trinity perfect love they decide to share that love overflow that love so the first great act of mercy when the Trinity does that is creation all comes from God now what member of the Trinity do we normally attribute creation to the Father so here's the Trinity the first great act of mercy by the first person of the Trinity creation now what happened it took Adam and Eve all of 10 minutes to fumble the football now I'm from Detroit we haven't had much to cheer for with my lions elbow we're in first place right now since Barry Sanders Barry Sanders never fumbled the football ever Adam and Eve fumbled the football so after the first great act of mercy by the first person of the Trinity Adam and Eve from of the football get broken what would you guess is the second great act of mercy Redemption now in the second great act of mercy the second person of the Trinity comes down and redeems us Redemption now is all of mankind redeemed true or false question all of mankind is redeemed true or false true Jesus died for everybody but will all of mankind be saved no because some won't choose it we need to be sanctified before we can enter into the Trinity so here it comes Trinity first person of the Trinity God the Father creation we get broken Adam and Eve sinned in the second great act of mercy the second person of the Trinity Jesus Christ incarnate the son the second person of the Trinity comes down and redeems us now in the third and the final and the greatest act of mercy guess who the Holy Spirit will return us back to God the Father for all eternity but we got to be sanctified the third and greatest act of mercy sanctification in the east they call it divinization Thomas Aquinas put it with Redemption but in essence it's three great acts of mercy the third great act of mercy in the East called divinization we call it sanctification is the power of the holy spirit to transform you to be prepared to enter into eternal life this is the flame of love your movement is the greatest act of mercy in mankind salvation history this is it this is everything salvation history culminates in our sanctification through the power of the Holy Spirit utilizing the passion death and resurrection of Jesus Christ through His redemptive act on the cross he rose from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit this third great act of mercy is what turns us and takes us back to God the Father for all eternity this is the flame of love this sanctification as Tony said the Trinity put the love of God in the Heart of Mary what was the greatest act of Mercy ever bestowed upon a creature the Immaculate Conception so Mary who had this love of God now wants to spread it through the entire world through the triumph of the Immaculate Heart she will prepare the world for you to be ready to receive as that love of the Holy Spirit is poured back onto the world that you're ready to receive it that you're ready to be sanctified that's the flame of love and when you are sanctified you are ready to enter into heaven now how does this play into my mercy this is incredible here's the big moment now to me this is unbelievable that we have a God this loving and this amazing in this merciful because here's how it all ties together I told you earlier the Divine Mercy is a message in a devotion and I told you that the message of divine mercy goes back to the beginning of Adam and Eve to the beginning of time what was that message of mercy let's see if you forgot it already ABC come on come on you can't forget it already ABC asks for mercy be merciful to each other completely trust in mercy you don't get to heaven without it a the Bible tells us you don't pen and ask for forgiveness you don't get to heaven be be merciful you the Bible tells us you don't get to heaven without it father Mike Gately wrote the book called you did it to me Matthew 25 the least of my brethren at the end of time God will take the sheep and the goats to the Sheep he'll say sheep well done when I was hungry you fed me and by the way I tell that to all the ladies with leftovers at the egg of Mary and helpers center feeding the hungry is a definite act of mercy so some of them some of them are just treat me so well and they bring in their leftovers and I love it because I never get to go back to eat with the community because I'm stuck at the center so what a gift of mercy so I remind them of that but Jesus says when I was hungry you gave me food when I was thirsty you gave me drink when I was naked you called me in prison you visited me good job you all enter into the kingdom of your father sorry goats but to Hugh he says when I was hungry naked clothed in prison you're naked you didn't call me hungry you didn't feed me in prison you didn't visit me away with you into the fire because what you did they say Lord Lord when did we see you naked hungry called a naked in prison he says what you didn't do for the least of my brethren you didn't do for me away with you into the fire this is why the Catholic Church is always taught you need works not works of the law this is what the Protestants confuse us all the time you know I lived in North Carolina I loved it I had a business north of Charlotte and you don't get out of North Carolina as a Catholic without being challenged on Romans 3:28 now you're all Catholics got your Bibles please get them out and read to me Romans 3:28 you all know what it says right Romans 3:28 says you are saved by faith alone and not by works uh-oh that's problematic for us Catholics and as I was sitting the first time I was challenged was in Walmart is in Walmart and I had a necklace on a Benedict cross with the corpus the body of Christ so that immediately they zeroed in he's Catholic he's Catholic he's got that body on that cross so they zoomed in they said Romans 3:28 you are saved by faith alone and not by works ooh that's tough for us Catholics how do you justify that because that's not what the Catholic Church teaches but its scriptural we're in trouble I didn't know how to answer that because we got to know our Bible the first thing is Romans 3:28 that's not what it says Romans 3:28 says you are saved by faith it doesn't say the word alone Martin Luther added it it's in the Protestant Bibles Martin Luther added the word alone it does not say that in the original scriptures it says you are saved by faith we believe that and it says you are not saying you are saved by faith which we believe and not by works of the law they seem to forget that little part we believe that you're not gonna wash your hands seven times and get into heaven or not eat pork and to get into heaven or be circumcised and get into heaven what is he talking about he's saying you are saved by faith and not by works of the law we believe that but what does the Bible say the only time faith alone is mentioned the Bible is a book of James and the book James says you are not saved by faith alone he says faith without works is dead what works is he talking about love works of love so be merciful to each other you don't get to happen without it see I already talked about completely trust in Jesus you don't get to heaven without it it's a vessel by which all Grace's are received now here's how it all ties together and I've only got ten minutes I got to try to do my best here all right this message of divine mercy has been given by God from the beginning of time given to Adam and Eve throughout salvation history he has been trying to get us to follow it to listen to it and to accept it into livens for salvation history from the beginning God has said please ask for my mercy forgiveness be merciful to each other and completely trust in me as your God this is the message of mercy God has been trying to get us to realize that so he's been raising up awesome saints and prophets he's been rising them up to teach us the message of mercy but were stiff-necked people we don't listen so God keeps going and he keeps raising up more saints and more prophets he rose up Saint Mary Mary Alacoque and gave the Sacred Heart and then and then he keeps going and going and raising up these Saints after saints and prophets please listen my people doesn't sound like the Israelites in the desert listen my people and they do and then they fall away and then he brings them back and forgives them then they fall away I remember when I was in junior high with sister Dorothy and we'd read the Israelites came back and then they fall away then they God would forgive him bring them back and they'd fall away and then God would forgive him and I said sister Dorothy how stupid are these people she used to grab me back to the back of the here I don't have any hair anymore that's one of the reasons I don't wear long hearing no the point was the Israelites were stiff necked people but we are worse we are worse because we have the fullness of revelation of Jesus Christ they didn't have that yet so we're worse so God keeps trying to wake us up to this message of devotion of divine mercy so finally he gets to st. Faustina this little nun somebody john paul ii calls nobody from nowhere isn't that usually who God works through doesn't God usually work through those kind of people look at the Apostles he's gonna change the world if you went to hear it or a Caesar overnight but he went to 12 fishermen or fishermen and tax collector I mean a tax collector Matthew in the zealot Simon not Peter but the other Simon should have killed each other because a zealot job was defend Israel against traders and a tax book there was a traitor Jesus brought these people all together God works with people you don't expect and so then he brings this thing to Saint Faustina and you know what he tells st. Faustina something incredible he basically says the Saint Faustina these aren't as exact words but in essence this is what he said st. Faustina you're it I'm done people all father Chris don't say that yeah that's true guys never done but Jesus said to st. Faustina you're it you will prepare the world for my final coming you st. Faustina and all these other approved apparitions all right Louise piccata and others come together and they match this because Jesus went to sing for us - he said you're it you will prepare the world for my final coming and he gives this little nun an important message what did he do he told her I'm giving you the message of divine mercy now nothing new something that's been there from the beginning called ABC he gave it to st. Faustina and what a women do way better than men many things but wrap gifts when no man can compete with a woman in wrapping a gift mind look like they came out of the wood chipper men cannot compete with women wrapping gifts and Jesus gave Saint Faustina the gift of the message of divine mercy which had been from the beginning and he said st. Faustina wrap it up and give it new to the world wrap it up in a brand new wrapper and give it new to the world in st. Faustina took that message of divine mercy put a brand new box around and put a brand new bow around it put a wrapped it up and put a brand new ribbon on it and she gave it back to the world what is that the devotion of divine mercy you know it better by the acronym Finch fi n CH F is the Feast of divine mercy I is the image of divine mercy n is the novena of divine mercy see is the chaplet of divine mercy and H is the hour of divine mercy now here's what's powerful in my last five minutes I got to get to I wish I could stay but Tony's got invite me back so I can tell you about the other aspects of Finch but I'm going to sitt end with F the Feast because this ties everything together everything everything ties together Jesus took this message of divine mercy give it to Saint Faustina it's not optional she wrapped it up in a package and gave five new channels of grace to the world the five new channels of grace that Jesus gave to the world through st. Faustina is the devotion of divine mercy fynch feast image novena chaplet in the hour of mercy three o'clock and Jesus gave her those things and said give it new to the world through this devotion to spark a new a love of my message of divine mercy now let's finish with the feast because this is so important Jesus told st. Faustina I want a feast of divine mercy and it has to be on the Sunday after Easter just boom my own question I was gonna say when is Divine Mercy Sunday after Easter it has to be on that day and by the way the missiles are missed translated into English any priest who beliefs because the missile says the second Sunday of Easter or Divine Mercy Sunday it's mistranslated in English Robert Stackpole theologian who works for me at the Association did his doctoral thesis on us the words say Oh in Latin was mistranslated it should be namely or that is so the missile properly translated would be the second Sunday of Easter namely Divine Mercy Sunday the second Sunday of Easter that is Divine Mercy Sunday now jesus said the feast has to be on this day has to be why here's why this is so powerfully important ok in the Jewish tradition when a feast was so big it couldn't be celebrated over one day they used to celebrated over eight days and all eight days were as one day and they would celebrate a giant feast over eight days do you know what that word was called octave now we used to have many octaves in the church we used to have the octave of Pentecost the octave of Corpus Christi we have two octaves less than the church name what are they Christmas and Easter now when does the Christmas octave begin Christmas Day the twenty-fifth that's the first day of the octave the 26th the 27th the 28th the 29th the 30th the 31st the first the eighth day of the octave is January 1st why do we go to church on January 1st to pray for a holding peppy New Year no because it's the Feast of Mary the Mother of God and you can't separate Jesus from Mary the Nativity of Jesus and the Mary the Mother of God cannot be separated so in that octave Jesus and Mary are not separate now what's the greatest octave we have in the church Easter when does the Easter octave begin Easter Sunday day one Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Divine Mercy Sunday you can't separate it from Eastern because Christ on Easter Sunday opened the door to heaven does everybody enter in no here's what's important and this is what I have to finish with Tony I'm finished in two minutes here's what's important Jesus on divine excuse me on Easter Sunday opened the door to heaven that's the first day of the octave what's the perfect number in the Bible seven we just missed it no what's this perfect number of the Bible seven refer to creation time we are all living in time in creation and seven is the perfect number in regards to time but what is the number eight to the Jews eternity eternity so you see on Easter Sunday day one Jesus opened the door to heaven the next seven days are symbolic of your pilgrimage here on earth you're like the Israelites wandering in the desert looking for the Promised Land the Promised Land is heaven the open door on the eighth day Jesus wants you to enter into heaven XE - shreddy tous through the divine mercy of God and the flame of love to sanctify you but you cannot enter into heaven until what okay every Jewish groom wanted his bride well let me back up the church we always refer to a wedding feast who's the groom Jesus who's the bride the church who's the church us okay what did every Jewish man want his wife to be before he took him home to meet his mother and his father spotless spotless here's the problem Jesus opened the door to heaven on Easter Sunday the next seven days worst work in our pilgrimage of called life the problem is when the eighth day comes we're probably not ready because we have stain on our wedding garments now there's a couple ways that we can get rid of that stain and God in the church through the church gives it to us one is prayer fasting and almsgiving the Bible tells us you can get rid of sin that way and the punishment of sin but you got to have perfect love that's hard to do no fasting to lose weight no almsgiving to get your picture in the bulletin you got to have perfect love now here's the thing there are two things that we can get on our wedding garment one stain is sin the other stain is punishment due to sin now I ask you when you go into the confessional are your sins forgiven guaranteed because Jesus said and by the way everybody it is the priest who forgives the sin in the confessional now it's not from the priest the grace comes from God but Jesus because he had ultimate authority delegated that authority to the priests the Apostles and handed down to every priest today who sins you forgive are forgiven who sins you retain are retained when Jesus gave because he has ultimate authority he gave that power to the priests so in the priest says God the Father of mercies through the death and resurrection of his son he gives you the words of Absolution he says i absolve you in the name of the Father Son Holy Spirit grace doesn't come from him he did nothing to deserve it but it goes through him and that grace from God was given to him and his ordination now when you go to the confessional you're forgiven of sin but what about the punishment the punishment may remain eternal punishment due to sin hell is gone what the way when you come out of the confessional the eternal punishment due to sin is gone but the temporal punishment due to sin may remain unless you have absolute perfect contrition and you're so sorry you'll never do it again you probably have some punishment remaining this is one of the stains on your wedding garment which you get into heaven with so God's mercy there's purgatory right now the church is another way to forgive us of all sin and punishment what's it called well you jump the gun indulgences indulgences we could be wiped clean of all sin and punishment through indulgences walking through the holy door you know the big four indulgences you can do any day of the year I heard this nice lady who just prayed the rosary says for the plenary indulgence and we pray there's four big plenary indulgences praying the rosary inside a church chapel or with another person can be a plenary indulgence walking the Stations of the Cross can be a plenary indulgence half an hour of adoration can be a plenary indulgence half an hour of Scripture can be a plenary indulgence but you got to do the four conditions the four conditions that you need are one you have to receive holy communion hey no problem - you must be the confession how many days before after good job eight used to be no wrong sorry twenty everybody thinks eight it used to be eight the church has now changed it to twenty since a jubilee year 2000 and I know Tony I'm finishing and finishing so the third pray for the intentions of the Holy Father usually an our Father Hail Mary and glory be but what's the fourth condition that sinks most all of us no attachment to sin even venial good luck with that one so if you have any attachment to sin you probably got some punishment on your garment if you got any punishment on your garment you're probably not ready to get to heaven if you're probably not ready to get to heaven Jesus and Mary are sad and I don't mean that funny I mean it seriously this is why my Gately says consoling the heart of Jesus in his new book coming out next spring is consoling the Heart of Mary all right now now I keep say I'm gonna finish this is it this is it if we have any of these things on our wedding garment we're not ready to enter into on the eighth day which is eternity sin is one stain but you can wipe that out in the confessional punishments the other stain but it's harder to get rid of because you either have no attachment to sin and get a plenary indulgence or a perfect love when you do prayer fasting and almsgiving now we have one more way Divine Mercy Sunday Jesus told st. Faustina on that day if you do two simple things that you should be doing as Catholics anyway you can receive something called extraordinary grace what are those two things Communion and confession confession doesn't have to be on that day confession could be during Lent or sometimes before as long as you're in a state of grace and then you receive Holy Communion on that day or the vigil the night before and jesus promises in number 699 of the diary that any soul who wants this grace goes to confession receives Holy Communion on Divine Mercy Sunday will receive the complete forgiveness of not only sin but all punishment this ladies and gentlemen cleans your wedding garment so on the eighth day when Jesus comes through the power of the Holy Spirit to the flame of love to sanctify you you are ready to enter into heaven because your wedding garment is clean if you don't you're missing a tremendous grace this is God's divine mercy that any snake can crawl out of the gutter and go to confession receive Holy Communion and be spotlessly clean father Seraphim says your wedding garment will never be cleaner your soul will never be cleaner other than your original baptism than it is on Divine Mercy Sunday this is so God can sanctify us this is so the Holy Spirit through the flame of love given through the grace in the hands of Mary Immaculate when her Trump heart triumphs can give it to you to be cleanse so your wedding garment is ready to enter into heaven this is the meaning of the eighth day this is the meaning of Divine Mercy Sunday and this is the flame of love god bless you thank you very very much [Applause]

Channel: Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Movement, United States

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Keywords: Flame of Love Movement, Flame of Love, Elizabeth Kindelmann, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Consecration to Mary, Jesus, Catholic, Grace, Satan, Chastisement, End of World, Triumph of Mary's Immaculate Hea, Second Pentecost, Holy Spirit, Pentecost, Amazing Grace, Blinding of Satan, Antichrist, Salvation, Chris Alar

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Length: 66min 0sec (3960 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 22 2018