Call Upon Him

Brothers and sisters, I have taught you not to complain if that sip is vinegar and gall—given not only to your lips but often to your heart, which asks to love and receives endless offenses.
Remember that your Jesus had His Heart saturated with this truest and most bitter mixture. I have taught you whom to invoke in the hours when pain comes upon you and it seems to you that everyone, even God, has abandoned you.

I was, for the sake of Redemption, truly forsaken by the Father, yet I still called upon Him. This is what you must do, O children, in times of trial and sorrow. Even if God seems far away, call upon Him for help all the same. Give Him your filial love always, and He will give you His gifts. They may not be the ones you asked for; they will be others even more useful to you.

Trust in the Lord and your Father; He loves you and provides for you.

Always believe this: God rewards those who believe in His Goodness.

But before uttering the final words—in which the anguished pain of that death was united with the joy of having won you for Life—I spoke the phrase: “Father, into your hands I commend my Spirit.”
The Spirit of Christ had no need of divine mercy. It was the divine and innocent Spirit of the Son, of the Father, and of the Immaculate.

But I wanted to teach you that only one thing is precious in life and precious beyond life: the spirit. It must have all your care during your existence and at the hour of death. Everything you possess on Earth is something that dies with the flesh. Nothing follows you into the next life. But the spirit remains; the spirit precedes you, and it is the spirit that stands before the Judge and receives the first judgment. I bless you.

Your Master.

Reflection on the message:

Jesus has appeared once again as a Master, to soothe the sufferings of our hearts, that sense of loneliness and abandonment we experience in life’s difficult moments, when we long for a little love but instead receive only hurt.

What must we do when pain knocks at the door of our hearts, when we are desperate, when we cannot help but weep over all that befalls us? We must IMITATE HIM, do what He did on the Cross: call upon God the Father, show Him our love as children, our unconditional trust, knowing that as the good Father He is, He will give us what is good and helpful for us—even if it may not be what we ask for or believe will help us.
Finally, Jesus teaches us that the only thing that matters is our spirit, that divine breath that existed even before our birth and will continue to exist even after our bodies have died. It will be our spirit that stands before God, bearing the full burden of our good deeds and sins, to be judged.

May the silence that Jesus has imposed on me be a cause for reflection for everyone, because what He is asking is that our attention be directed solely to Him and to the Father, and that each of us take greater care of our own soul.