October 29, 2001 

"Called to Sinlessness"

Another dimension that's extremely important for us as prayer warriors is to allow the Holy Spirit to call us into sinlessness and sanctify us.  Mary, the Immaculate Conception, was conceived without sin.  She wants us to be sinless so we can fight Satan.  We can't fight an enemy if we live in his camp.  We have to be free.  We are being called to holiness.  We are being called to be full of God's love.  God is calling us forth to be saints. 

Many of the saints have prophesied about our time in the Church today.  St. Louis de Montfort said, "The Most High, with His holy Mother, has to form for Himself great saints who shall surpass most of the other saints in sanctity. . . These great souls, full of grace and zeal, shall be chosen to match themselves against the enemies of God. . ." (True Devotion to Mary, 47-48). 

I had a beautiful image about angels to illustrate how much Our Lady wants this kind of virtue and holiness in us.  In the image the angels were pure white with light blue wings, and they were flying.  I had never seen them before, so I asked, "Who are they?"  The answer came was, "They're on mission."  It was not until the next day when I was praying about it that I asked, "What kind of mission?  Mary, they remind me of how you are dressed at Lourdes.  It's the same color of blue that is in your blue sash, and the pure white is the same as your mantle.  Whoever these angels are, they're extremely pure.  They're on mission."  Mary said, "Yes.  Anytime you call upon them, they'll come.  They want to help you."  She said that we can ask them to be assigned to us.  We can call upon one to be with us, as well as with our own guardian angels. Through more prayer, it was revealed to me that they are from the Angelic Choir of Virtues.  These are Virtue Angels. 

St. Thomas Aquinas' writings tell us that the choir of Virtue angels are in the middle classification of angels.  They are sent out on external missions by God to bring us into holiness.  This is what they are called to do.  I think Our Lady is saying is, "Call on these angels."  Now that we know they are on mission and are accessible and available, we can call upon them all the time-not only for ourselves personally, but for others, too.  From infancy until death, we are surrounded by their care and intercession (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 336).  Knowing they are intercessors delighted our hearts, as you can imagine!

Mary is clothed with the Sun, a Sun that is the fire of God's love.  She wants us to be ablaze with His Fire as well.  She wants us to prepare the whole Church for the Second Coming of her Son.  She wants sin to be eradicated so her Son can take up His dwelling within us in order to come against the enemy in power.

First of all, Jesus gave this kind of power only to His Apostles, but then as Scripture goes on, He gave this power to the seventy-two disciples who went out on mission.  As Scripture goes on, Jesus extended this power to all who believe in Him.  So our faith is a tremendous gift!  St. Paul tells us that our faith must always rest on love.  In this kind of prayer we experience His love day after day after day, which makes faith very easy.  It's very easy to believe in God when we're experiencing His love.  It's very easy to believe in God when we know that we know that we know that we are loved. 

Even though these modern times are dominated by Satan and will probably be even more so in the upcoming millennium, this conflict has an end.  It has a remedy.  St. Maximillian Kolbe said that the Immaculata alone has the promise from God of the victory over Satan-it's because of her stronghold of God's love within herself.  She is building that stronghold within us, too.  There is no power like the power of God's love.

This is what happened to them in the Upper Room when Jesus said, "Wait until you are clothed in power from on high." The Mother of Jesus was there.  The twin hearts of Jesus and Mary will triumph; she has promised us that.  The pierced heart of Jesus that releases His love, His grace, and His life.  The pierced heart of Mary is the heart that wins the grace for us to receive His love and life.  We need both.  We need the pierced heart of Jesus for the graces to be given, and we need the pierced heart of Mary for the graces to be received.  This is where we come in when we allow our hearts to be pierced.  We need more and more of Jesus, and less and less of ourselves.  So that the victory will be the Lamb's; the victory will be Jesus.

In Revelation we read the beautiful prayer, "The Spirit and the Bride (the Spirit and the Church) are praying, ‘Come, Lord Jesus, Come!'"  Jesus is responding, "Yes, I am coming.  I am coming to you day after day after day, so together we can share and win this victory for the greater honor and glory of the Father and for the salvation of all souls so that none will be lost."  All of this I, too, tell you tonight, as Jesus has said, so that His joy may be in each of you and your joy may be full! God bless you all!

Excerpt from "Spiritual Warfare for the New Millennium," New Orleans, LA, 2000.