Since 1985, the Lord called me to enroll me into His program of Unity and this was the last thing I ever expected in my life to happen. The Lord never ceases to surprise me.
Already back in October 14, 1991 the Lord Jesus said:
“Your mission, is to bring My people under one Name, My Name, and break bread together.”
The basic message of “True Life in God” is Unity. It is a call to turn our lives into an unceasing prayer. It is a call to go through a true repentance, to repent of our division, and to reconcile with God and neighbor. It is an urgent call for the Churches to unite in diversity. Jesus says: “I have preached to you and to others, do not stop there, forward the teaching I have given you … Evangelize with love for Love”
“Unify My churches; the real Christian is the one who is inwardly a Christian and the Unity is and will be in the heart; Unity will not be of the letter but of the spirit.”
Many ask, why is God speaking in our times? The Lord God comes to respell His Word and remind us of His precepts and His Law. This is what He said said: “Tell them that the God they have forgotten has never forgotten them.”
Our Lord Jesus calls His priests and asks His shepherds:
“Is there anyone willing to work with vigor and love to rebuild this tottering House? Is there anyone in there who is willing to defend this House? Is there anyone who understands now what I am saying? Is there anyone in My House who is disposed to expand the Kingdom of God?” (October 20, 1998)
“I desire My entire Church to be united; those that persist in remaining separated have already separated My Heart from theirs; realize the gravity of your division, the urgency of My Call and the importance of My request; I need your heart to unite you and rebuild My Church united into one, inside your heart; all I ask is love to break the barriers of your division…” (October 20, 1991)
The then Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople who was so close to bring forth unity with Pope Paul VI once wrote: “If we are satisfied to repeat our formulas, hardening them against our fellow Christians, then our inheritance will become something dead. It is sharing, humility, reconciliation which makes us truly Orthodox, holding the faith not for ourselves – if we did that we should simply be affirming yet one more historic confession of faith – but for the union of all, as the selfless witnesses of the undivided Church.”
In our efforts, we should be willing to pray more together because prayers are heard and answered, whereas dialogues and formulas are just spoken words. This does not mean that we should eliminate our dialogues or formulas, not at all.
But, what is more important for us, the letter or the Spirit? If we say, the letter, than we will work like administrators when dealing with God”s affairs and we will not be justified nor will we ever achieve anything, because it will be like saying to the Spirit, “look here, I am not a child any longer and I can walk by myself.” The letter then will kill the Spirit and we will become truly administrators shifting papers only and leaving every meeting empty-hearted.
On October 14, 1991, Jesus said: “Tell them that the Heart of the Lord is Love and that the Heart of the Law is based on Love; tell My people that I do not want administrators in My House; they will not be justified in My Day because it is these very ones who have industrialized My House.”
So what is more important, the law or the Spirit? If we say the law then already we will be judging our brother sitting near us belonging to the other church, while he, will be already judging us and we will hear from each one of us: “We are in the full truth and we are the ones who are right.” And again we will be fragmenting Christ and again we will achieve nothing.
If we start with the doctrine and its contents, there again we will end up perhaps even more separated and fragmented, never reaching the essential. I don”t mean by that, that we should violate the doctrine since the doctrine is the very existence of the Church. But, if we allow the Holy Spirit to lead us by our sleeve, instead of us trying to lead the Holy Spirit for once, then the Spirit will enliven the letter and the law, and He will show us the true doctrine, that Jesus Christ is the only active principle in us despite our differences in doctrinal terminology. For this act of charity, we need intense poverty of the spirit, humility that is, and an overflow of generosity.
So let our doctrinal dialogues begin with the Holy Spirit. Let Him be the one who leads us by our sleeve to show us in our heart that the essence of doctrine should be based on love and humility which is the key to unity.
Then on May 20,1987, again the Lord said: “how can a Body function if one or two of its members are disabled or injured or dismembered? Would it have the same capacity and strength as one, which is whole? My Church is My Body, so how can My Body function if they disabled it?”
Seven months later, December 23, 1987: “Do you know why My lambs are scattered and My Body maimed? do you know why disharmony reigns in My Church? it is because they have been walking at night without any light to guide them; seek Me who am the Light and I will guide you, cast away your bigotry and your obduracy; be meek and humble; open your hearts and let My Sap fill you up; I am your Good Shepherd who loves you;”
On April 12, 1990: “If you allow Me to enter your heart, I shall make you see My Wounds given to Me in the house of My best friends; you shall be awed by their depth and struck by the numerous marks savagely inflicted on My Body; the Wounds of My Body are such that they left Me maimed in their battle;”
When Pope Francis spoke in his weekly general audience in June 19 he said: “The Church is the body of Christ, but when Catholics fight among themselves or Catholics and other Christians are in conflict with one another, they make Christ”s body suffer. Don”t make the body suffer with our divisions and conflicts.”
“Unity is a grace we must ask from the Lord so that he would free us from the temptation of division, fights among us, selfishness and complaining about each other – how much damage, how much evil that chatter creates,” he said. “How much damage is created by divisions among Catholics and between Christian communities. Evangelical Christians, Orthodox Christians, Catholic Christians – why are we divided? We must try to bring unity.”
“Pray that the Lord would give us unity,” he said. “Let us pray to the Lord to make us members of the body of Christ, ever more united to Christ, help us not to make the body of Christ suffer with our conflicts, our divisions,” he said.
(So the Pope is ready for unity, are we? Are the other Churches ready as he is ready?)
Back in 1987, on the 4th of April the Lord lamented saying: My Body is weary and injured. My Body is the Church; I wish to consolidate My Church.
Our Lord would have not used the word “consolidate” if the Church was strong and healthy, but we must acknowledge that in remaining divided, we have indeed weakened the Church, razed it to the ground, so much, that several times our Lord says that His Church is in ruin and many members of the Church are nearing putrefaction.
When the Lord asked me, “which house is more important, your house or my House?” And my reply was, “your House Lord” He said: “Revive My House, embellish My House and unite My House.” He did not say rebuild My House, but said, “revive ” My House, a strong term, showing at what state we damaged the Church… this is so deplorable…
On the June 2, 1987, Jesus asked me to draw three iron bars standing rigidly near each other. They represented the Protestant Churches, the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox. Then He asked me to draw them again by uniting the tip of the bars, thus joining together, and He said:
to unite you must all bend by softening
Yes, softening from our rigidity, rigid as iron bars that are unbending. After eight days, the Lord called me again and said: will you see Me in My Church? Confused, I asked: Which Church Lord, which one do You mean?
He responded: All are My Churches they are all Mine; they all belong to Me and Me only, I am the Church. I am the Head of the Church. … I am One God and have One Body, a Body that they have lamed; millstones have damaged My Body.
– I said: My God, You seem so upset!! Indeed He was!!
– He answered: Upset? O Vassula, why, why have they cruelly dismembered Me? My Body aches, it has been torn apart…
In that message the Lord reminds us that He is the Head of the Mystical Body that is the Church. But we, we in our arrogance and haughtiness, we made sure to dismember the Head for without the Head no one can dictate us, or reproach us or correct us. The Body has no say. We managed to silence Christ.
How are we to feel our way and where we are walking if we have dismembered the Head? We cannot say we are walking in the Light since we are still divided and fragmented. The Lord said on the 7th October 1991:
“tell them also how I abhor insincere hearts; their solemnities and their discourses weary Me; tell them how I turn away from their loftiness and their rigidity; their judgment appears indeed great and impressive to men but not to Me, I cannot congratulate a dying church nearing putrefaction; tell those who want to hear that:
unless they lower their voices, they will never hear Mine; should they lower their voices then they will begin to hear Mine and thus do My Will; I am One, yet each one of them made a Christ of their own; I am The Head of My Body, yet all I see are their heads, not Mine; tell them to lower their heads and they will see Mine; tell them to lower themselves so that I may be able to lift them to Me;”
Again in that same general audience, in June 19 this year, Pope Francis said: “And like any real body, he explained, the church has a head — Jesus Christ, “who guides, feeds and supports it” — and if Catholics are not firmly united to Jesus, the head, then the body dies.
“Let us remain united to Jesus,” Pope Francis said. “Let us trust in him, direct our life according to his Gospel, nourish ourselves with daily prayer, listening to the Word of God, participating in the Sacraments.”
The Orthodox delegation that came from Constantinople to meet Pope Francis at the feast day of St. Peter and St. Paul they said: “unity is not a luxury but an imperative…” the Pope told them: “the search for unity among Christians is an urgent task, urgency more than anytime, we cannot disregard this. Our witness demands that we should at last be able to proclaim with one voice, the good news of the Gospel and celebrate together the Divine Mysteries of our new life in Christ.”
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