GREGORY: At yesterday’s Holy Mass on the Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima, I had a vision of Our Lady cradling her infant Jesus in her arms. This vision occurred during the gospel reading of the parable of the vine and the branches.
In the vision, Our Lady began to walk slowly towards the Cross which was erected on a stony hill. When she arrived at the Cross, she knelt and placed her baby Jesus at the foot of the Cross in a small cradle filled with soft hay and at that moment blood began to drip from the Cross onto the forehead of her child. Her eyes were gently focused on him as she watched her son being anointed with his own blood.
I do not understand the meaning of this vision except that I can see her looking at him with thoughts of future years to come when he will no longer be a child, but the Savior and Redeemer of the world.
She understood from the day of his birth that he would have to suffer and die for the forgiveness of our sins, for peace in the name of true love and sacrifice for one another.
She had to live with this thought all of her life until that single moment in eternity when all of the powers of darkness would be defeated through his victory in the name of love.
Mother, why have you brought your son here as an infant to the foot of the Cross?
Mary lifts her right hand into the dark night sky and says . . .
MARY: My dear, dear child, I am the mother of all mothers through giving birth to Jesus. I am calling all souls to repent and place their hearts, with the heart of my infant and tender Jesus, at the foot of the Cross before it is too late.
He serves as the first example of living what he believes, for he is truth and the truth of love and sacrifice can never be divided by hatred. He desires for all souls to return their hearts to the foot of the Cross and repent in becoming like little children before the heart of God, our Father, for in doing so, your hearts will become and remain pure in the forgiveness of his love.
He chose to come here as an infant in my arms to serve as an example for all mankind for the precious anointing of his redemptive blood to cure all spiritual disease within a heart wounded by the treachery of sin and evil. Satan is always waiting to destroy the hearts and souls of my children and to rob them of their blessings.
He chose to come here as an infant, humble in my arms, that all souls may understand the need to become more childlike in faith and to trust in the heart of God, our Father, to redeem you daily and give you peace. To serve as a first example of the meaning of entrusting one’s heart to the heart of our Father like little children so that all parents may understand the responsibility and obligation to raise their children in faith which is why he allowed me to carry him here in being his mother.
Meditate upon the humility of living your life at the foot of the Cross and the sacrifices necessary to obtain holiness by growing in faith, to become more childlike daily, to rest your heart where you can truly find peace. Peace in the anointing of his Precious Blood to heal and forgive you.
Amen.