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Ask for the Coming of the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is not a dove…Nor a fiery tongue resting over someone’s head. The Holy Spirit IS the Love of God. Intense. All-embracing. Attentive and faithful.
Preoccupied with God’s Greatness
How big does God appear when our minds are preoccupied with concerns, worries and the cares of daily life? Magnifying God’s greatness in our lives means moving from a self-focused existence to a God-focused one as the saints did…
Surrender
Surrender. This word in today’s world may not have positive connotations connected to it. It speaks of giving up, losing to another, being defeated.
Mother Luisita’s Letter about Your Prayer Life
Between Jesus and the soul there flows a current no one can see and a dialogue that no one hears. Form a rich and beautiful tabernacle for Our Lord within your heart and then do not let Him go.
Mother Luisita’s Letter about God, Your Soul, and Eternity
Accept my loving greeting and my prayer for you to be what God wants you to be. What about your soul? Is it taking little steps toward heaven or is it flying there?
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!