VIII
Edition April
2000
Heart to heart
"The
blessed of Fatima and St. Faustina"
EDITORIAL Mother Adela Galindo,
Foundress, SCTJM
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personal use
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
May Divine Mercy
cover us so that we may become channels of mercy toward others!
In just a few hours,
we will be leaving on our first pilgrimage of this Jubilee Year. One
hundred pilgrims from different parts of Latin America and Miami are
joining us. The main focus of our pilgrimage is to visit the two
greatest places for pilgrimages during this Holy Year, which are
Rome and the Holy Land. Also, we will be taking part in two moments
of extraordinary grace for the Church, the Canonization of the
Blessed Sister Faustina and the Beatification of the
visionary shepherds of Fatima, Jacinta and Francisco.
We begin our
pilgrimage with the Canonization of the one who was called to be the
Apostle of the Divine Heart of Christ, and we conclude it with the
Beatification of the children, apostles of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary. In a particular way, the Two Hearts are revealed during this
Jubilee Year and in our own pilgrimage, which just a year ago we
named: “A New Heart for Humanity.”
The name of the
pilgrimage was chosen long before we even knew of both ceremonies.
What a great confirmation of this name from the Lord! We go, as
pilgrims, with the intention of acquiring a new heart, and the Lord
has revealed to us His Heart and the Heart of His Mother. Since the
beginning, the Lord showed us the spirit we should undertake as we
embark on this pilgrimage, and He did it through the Sacred
Scriptures in Ezekiel, Chapter 36:25-26.
"I will sprinkle
clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your
uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new
heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I
will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart
of flesh."
It is very
significant that the Lord tells us in His word: "I will sprinkle
clean water upon you,” and "a new heart I will give you, I
will remove your heart of stone.” Isn’t Jesus in the image of His
Divine Mercy sprinkling us with His blood and His water? Aren’t the
visionary children of Fatima models of ardent charity, which can
only be born from new hearts?
Brothers and
Sisters, during the next couple of weeks, not only us the pilgrims,
but all of you as well, will be receiving abundant and plentiful
graces. Let us open our hearts to the profound conversion which the
Lord wants to make inside of us, which will prepare us to acquire a
new heart, with new feelings, new ways of thinking, new ways of
looking at life, with new values and with new desires. Everything is
new when our hearts are renewed and healed, when we remove our
stones of selfishness, our hardheartedness, personal interest, pride,
avarice, envy, gluttony, anger, rage, and we are given new hearts of
flesh: soft, gentle, meek, docile, charitable, merciful, peaceful,
self-sacrificing, self-forgetful, and kind.
How much do we need
a new heart!
It is precisely
during this Jubilee Year - a year of grace and mercy, of freedom
from our sins, of reconciliation and conversion - that our goal must
be to acquire a new heart so we can have a new life.
I ask all of you
that on April 30th, the day of Mercy and of the Canonization of
Blessed Faustina Kowalska, you will pray to the Lord to give us the
grace to be sprinkled with His Blood and with His Water so that we
can all be purified. Let us beg the Lord that His Mercy may be
poured out upon all of humanity.
I would also like
to ask you that on May 13th to direct your gaze toward
those two shepherd children, who in their simplicity and innocence,
profoundly understood the value of the Eucharist. They knew that the
sure way to Christ was through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and
they were aware of the danger of souls who were living in sin.
Therefore, they offered their lives as offerings of reparation and
consolation to the Eucharistic Heart and the Immaculate Heart of
Mary and for the salvation of souls.
How many models the
Holy Spirit presents us with! Let us have the love and courage to
contemplate them so that we can imitate them!
May the Two Hearts
Reign!!
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