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Mother Luisita’s Letter about Growing in Holiness
Our Lord gives you so many proofs of His love for you, and how I wish that you would correspond to that love. You have to be very grateful and not deny Him anything that He asks of you.
Mother Luisita’s Letter on Hearing God
Do you want Our Lord to communicate with you? Then try to do the following.
Mother Luisita’s Letter during Times of Sickness
So, you are sick? My heartfelt desire for you is this—I’m asking our good God to send abundant graces into your soul. Our good God is molding His image in you by means of your sickness.
Mother Luisita’s Letter about Carrying Your Cross
In this life we shouldn’t live without a cross. It is true that wherever we go we will find the cross. And woe to us if it were not so.
Mother Luisita’s Letter when you Experience Financial Difficulties
Let us bless our good God in all situations, in adversity as well as in prosperity for we can greatly profit from them both. Adelante! (Onward!) God will provide!
Mother Luisita’s Letter on Experiencing God’s Peace
How have you been, my child? Run to Our Lord and full of confidence in Him ask Him to help you. Invoke our Blessed Mother praying to her with fervor,
Resurrection Power
We hear of this mystery as the Exultant sung by the Deacon during the Easter Vigil Mass. Speaking of Adam and Eve’s sin, the ancient words recall, “O happy fault which earned for us so great a Savor.”
A Friend of Jesus Christ
Are you a friend of Jesus Christ? It is an acceptable time to ask during Holy Week, for love is demanding. For example, God asked Adam in the garden, “Where are you?” It wasn’t that God couldn’t see Adam hiding. The question begged a response, “Where are you with me?”
Laying Down Our Cloaks for Jesus
As Jesus entered Jerusalem, the people responded to Him with what they had readily available, their cloaks. These they offered in a practical and symbolic way: laying them on the colt for Jesus to ride and spreading them on the path before Him.
Radical Dependence on the Father
In today’s Gospel, Jesus reveals yet another counter-cultural truth. He, who is the picture of perfect human maturity, “can do nothing without His Father”.