Messages From on High
"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 476
Title: " I tell you now: I plant in your midst a concern for the souls in Purgatory. Commit this to a daily intention. "
(Notebook XLIII, pp. 155--163)
Live + Jesus
Holy Saturday, April 11, 1998
(I am awakened early, about 4:15 a.m. and am with Jesus until 5:30 a.m.)Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
Child. (Yes, my Lord?)
Sweet thing, hear the Words of your Saviour. (My Saviour! My Lord! My Love! My God! My Jesus! My Sweetest Friend! I bow before You, my Lord and my God! I Love You; I adore You; I believe in You. And, O my Jesus, I trust in You. By Your Grace, Lord. All is possible only by Your Grace! You are my Strength! You are my All and Everything! You are God! Son of God! Amen.
And again, child, I give you the visions. (Yes, Jesus, within my spirit I see.....The ceiling is low, my Lord. The space spans out and the walls curve to meet the floor..... Rock, my Lord. In my mind I can still see the Cross. Yet here, now, before me is You. You are still, Jesus, motionless, Jesus. Loosley bound in wrappings, Jesus. Why is it, Jesus? It is as though I can see Your Face.....Your posed Expression.....Your closed Eyes.....Your Peace?)
You feel My Way, child. (Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. I bow before You and I pray Your Name. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.)
You are to understand this re-enactment, little one. This vision I have permitted that you would be with Me always. Even to the End of Time. Always and all places am I. Present even in the coolest of hearts. Present even in the tombs which are all too many hearts. Some, so cold, so chilled, that decay is imminent because Life is growing further and further away. By the choice of this place. Here in the tomb of one's heart.
Let Me speak also of the souls which had seemed lost. In My Mercy I have preserved them. They are not here in the tomb of life. They are beyond. For they have, in all reality, died. Unprepared for True Life in Me, they are detained. For further purification. For some, not all is achieved in this life. Why? Because all too many opportunities are missed.
I have asked, I would reiterate. Each soul must bloom where it is planted. The good works performed must be done in your garden. But have you? Have you left things undone where I have planted you, because you were about another's business? Have you overlooked the space in which you dwell, for the desire to serve in another garden?
Children, I tell you these things now. These are the things that are prayed for you by the souls who linger in Purgatory. O children! Look around the garden where you spend your life. Start with the place where you rest your head. With those next, in whom you have direct relationship. These are the plants of your garden. These are the virgin good works waiting to be accomplished. Motion beyond this point should be ventured in prayer. Each step should be tested. Is it to come and follow Me? Or ar you planning an escape route from whence you dwell? Children, recall that to stoop and wash the feet of another is My Instruction to you. Do not set out on a road of Glory. For reality bears crosses. Each unique to each and every person. And they are most recognizable by the Joy within Me that they bring. Even the cross, its validity, is tested by how well you are growing in Me. For should I plant a cross within you, child, it is as though I have directly come to till your soil. Relinquishing self to Me quickly, produces the most growth; and then all will look upon YOU and see Me! This is the test of the value of your cross. This is the meter for you. That you might measure, discern, your path now. To gain the most reward NOW for you actions than to linger, later, in Purgatory.
Can I describe for you that Moment? When I descended among the dead? True Light, True Life, has entered the land of the living who have waited for all so long! I have stretched out My Arms and in a INSTANT, a myriad of souls have been scooped up to Me! O! And I have embraced them! O! I have LOVED them! For all time I have waited for this Moment! And a song has risen from that Place! And in union, they have prayed My Name in song! [This moment, I was permitted to see in vision. It was SO very MOVING....it has brought me to tears! And I am in song in Tongues.....with our sisters and brothers! I cannot even describe the feeling, SO alive in my heart!]
Daughter. (Jesus!) There is a light about My Tomb, child. You have wondered of its source? (Yes, Jesus! I have wondered why this closed space seemed lit. Illumined. And suddenly, Lord, around where You lie.....I see like "lamps" surrounding You.)
Look more closely, child. (My Lord! There are angels there! Their form is almost human.....but not. They are.....kneeling, Lord. Their heads are bowed. Their prayer is a deep act of being. Their hands are crossed upon their chests. Their wings seem to arch.....point upwards as if stretched toward the heavens. They are golden and solid yet clear.....The light in the tomb, Jesus, is from the intensity of their prayer! They are motionless, my Lord. Steeped in prayer. Guarding Your Body. Motionless. Of sole purpose. For You.)
The Son of Man has come for but one Purpose: To set the captives free! On this Day, it is My accomplishment. [I understood, the first Holy Saturday.] On THIS Day it is My accomplishment. [I understood, our TODAY.]
Pray for the souls in Purgatory. For there is one for whom little pray. Assist Me now, in freeing these captives. For as it is, they can no longer help themselves by prayer or any means. They pray for you and one another. But now, they wait for you and your prayer, just as I have done in their life. For them to be about the business at hand: the gift of life I had given to them. But they have avoided My Desires in the Life I have given and it is now for them to repair. [of faults]
Child, this day many souls shall join Me in Paradise. Because of prayer. I tell you now: I plant in your midst a concern for the souls in Purgatory. Commit this to a daily intention. (Yes, Jesus.)
All. Hear Me. All. Pray for the souls in Purgatory. Militant ones [we are the Church Militant] pray for those in Purgatory. Pray in union with those in Heaven. Saints are you, awaiting the fullness of My Glory. The Love of Christ must emanate from your bodies. All must come to see and know Me more because of My Presence within you. I shall touch My people through your gentle hand. But from whence I have planted you. Do not overlook those with whom you dwell. What is your dwelling? Where I have planted you to be. Where are you? I pray that you know the answer. I pray that you are in ME! Amen.
And daughter? Where are you now? (Outside Your Tomb, Lord. I can see [mystically] the large rock at its entry[which seems somehow.....alive. And I touch it with Joyful Hope as one does when placing a hand on a pregnant woman.....as I have done to my own self. This place of waiting for the new life to burst forth! O Lord! You are here! We wait! Your New Life is all around us! All is New in You, Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!)
I am the Way to a True Life in Me. Come. Be. In Me. Now and forever. Amen. +
(Ex. 14:15--15:1; Rom. 6:3-11; Ps. 118:1-2, 16-23; Lk. 24:1-12)
With Love, in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
His Sarah
