Day 3

The Mass and the Rosary

Prayer

Dear Lord,

Help me the honor Your day and Your name by attending Mass with devotion. Help me also to rescue souls as a child of Our Dear Mother by saying the Rosary with devotion.

My Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingly power. I love you. Thank you for loving me first.

+ Amen +

Reading

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you.

“Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more, but you will see me; because I live, you will live also. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.”

– John 14:15-24

Reflection

Dear Mom’s first priority is to love God. As Christ’s beloved disciple and a child of Dear Mom, no one should contribute more greatly to this effort than us, her own children. And how do we love God? When we follow His commandments.

The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments are the rules of a holy life that God gave the Israelites while they wandered in the desert. They are:

1. I am the Lord your God: you shall not have strange Gods before me.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
3. Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day.
4. Honor your father and your mother.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.

The 2 Great Commandments

Our Lord Jesus Christ summarized the Ten Commandments and all the teachings of the Law and the Prophets of the Old Testament into Two Great Commandments.

1. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
2. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The First Great Commandment

The First Great Commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This includes putting God first, honoring His name and honoring His day.

In 1846, our Dear Mother appeared to two children at La Salette, France. During her apparition, she was crying and said:

“How long I have suffered for you! If my Son is not to cast you off, I am obliged to entreat Him without ceasing. But you take no least notice of that. No matter how well you pray in future, no matter how well you act, you will never be able to make up to me what I have endured for your sake.

“‘I have appointed for you six days for working. The seventh I have reserved for myself. And no one will give it to me.’ This is what causes the weight of my Son’s arm to be so crushing.

“The cart drivers cannot swear without bringing in my Son’s name.

“These are two things that make my Son’s arm so burdensome.”

– Our Lady of La Salette

God would have brought the world to an end far earlier in our history because we broke everything about the First Great Commandment. Had it not been for Dear Mom’s intercession, who knows when the world would have ended.

We must honor God and this is how we can do it:

By doing this, we obey the First Great Commandment and, in return, God promises us abundant blessings.

If you turn back your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly; then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

– Isaiah 58:13-14

The Second Great Commandment

The Second Great Commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. This includes honoring our parents, not killing or hurting others, not betraying our spouses, not stealing, not telling lies, and not coveting what belongs to others.

On top of this, on the night before His death, Our Lord further said:

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” – John 13:34-35

We are to love others as we love ourselves and to love each other as Christ loved us. And how did Christ love us? By saving us.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. – John 3:16-17

Christ came into the world to save us from our sins. We therefore love others as Christ loves us when we work to convert sinners.

This is where the Rosary comes in.

The Rosary

In the year 1214, St. Dominic pleaded for the conversion of sinners. Dear Mom appeared to him and told him the following:¹

Dear Dominic, do you know what weapon the Most Holy Trinity wants to use to reform the world? I want you to know that in this kind of warfare the ‘battering ram’ has always been the Angelic Psalter which is the corner stone of the New Testament. So, if you want to reach these hardened souls and win them to God, preach my Psalter!

– Our Dear Mother¹

We are in a spiritual war and this war is a siege war, a planned assault of a fortress.

When Christ was casting out demons, he told the Pharisees:

…How can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house. – Matthew 12:29

Christ clearly explains that the spiritual war is a siege war. In this war, souls are stolen and trapped by the devil, and the Church, by the help of God, must break into (lay siege against) the enemy’s fortress, defeat the enemy and rescue the captured soul within.

Christ confirms this when he later makes St. Peter the Pope:

And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
– Matthew 16:18

Gates don’t move. They are stationery. Christ clearly explains here that it is not the devil attacking the Church, it is the Church attacking the kingdom of the devil.

The Church is on the offensive, breaking into the house of the strong man and binding him before plundering his goods.

And how are gates broken down in any war? With a battering ram.

Mary has called the Angelic Psalter, also known as the Rosary, a battering ram. And she has made known that it was created by God for the purpose of breaking down the gates of the enemy’s fortress to rescue souls and convert sinners.

In Genesis 3:15 and Revelation 12, God declared that Dear Mom was the one to wage war against the devil and rescue Christians. When we say the Rosary, we partake in her war.

That is why the Rosary is also difficult to say. It is the prayer of God’s siege warriors, the ones who fight where the fighting is most fierce, where demons are defeated and souls are rescued.

When you say the Rosary, you are that siege warrior. By saying it with devotion, we help Dear Mom save souls. And in so doing, we obey Christ’s command to love one another as He loved us.

By reciting the Rosary, we obey the Second Great Commandment and, in return, Dear Mom makes us 15 promises, some of which include receiving guidance, growing in holiness, dying a holy death and Heaven.

“If there were one million families praying the Rosary every day, the entire world would be saved. ” – Pope St. Pius X¹

Summary of The Little Marian Way

Bl. Alexandrina da Costa was a victim soul for Christ who died on October 13, 1955. For 31 years, she endured unimaginable bodily suffering and terrifying torments from the devil; and she endured this pain to help atone for the sins of mankind through Christ.

Before her death, she issued this last teaching, which perfectly summarizes The Little Marian Way:

“Do not sin. The pleasures of this life are worth nothing. Receive Communion, pray the Rosary every day. This sums up everything.”
– Bl. Alexandrina da Costa¹

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