Cecilia: Thank you for being with us. It’s a pleasure to say hello to all of you. I am with Gregory Kerr today and we thank you for being with us.

Gregory: I feel like Mexico has become a second home for me.

Cecilia: Yes, it is.

Gregory: It is a great joy to always be here in this country of faith and in the beauty of the land of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who presents her loving mercy, the loving mercy of her son. She calls all souls back to her son in the Holy Eucharist. And his love, in his sacrifice and the hope of his passion, through the mercy of the forgiveness of our sins. And in the joy of his resurrection through our cleansing, especially, as Our Lady has said, in the sacrament of reconciliation.

Do you have any thoughts?

Cecilia: Yes, yes. I just wanted to introduce our audience to how we developed this topic. We created this topic, the infinite possibilities of the confession, because we discovered many things we don’t do in confession, and therefore, we do not take advantage of those graces.

We were discussing our emotions, our feelings and our fears. We had previously talked in a dialogue with a friend, who explained to us that she has a very difficult situation that makes her very afraid.

It hasn’t to be with anything about God. It is something that could happen to us. We are very at risk in this world. And sometimes we have difficulties, feelings and fears that are out of our control.

Gregory explained to her, and now to us, what we can do.

Gregory: Yes, I explained to her that the sacrament of confession is the sacrament of God’s mercy, where we unite our hearts to the mercy of Christ in his loving passion in the confessional with the holy and sacramental priest. Our Lady has said, Jesus is present before us. First, for the call and desire of our heart to repent. Our Lady has said there’s no sin greater than God’s mercy to forgive.

But also to offer our hearts, anything within our hearts, any emotions that are not of the light or distractions that are not of God’s calling and will for our lives. We are called to live in the world, but not to be of the world.

Yes, and at that moment, I expressed for her to go to confession and to offer her fears, to offer everything within her that is not of the light but of the darkness, to cleanse her heart in God’s mercy.

She then responded that she didn’t know this.

Our Lady once said that sin is anything that separates our hearts from the heart of God. Therefore, through the sacrament of confession, our Lord is calling us to offer our hearts to the purity of his heart so that we may be purified of all things in his mercy.

I go to confession as much as possible and I receive joy. Yes. Because it’s not only the sacrament of God’s mercy, but it’s also the sacrament that cleanses us to receive the joy.

Cecilia: You receive the graces of his mercy.

Gregory: Yes, and they not only purify but produce joy in our hearts, the joy of healing, the joy of hope, of knowing that our hearts and minds are renewed in Christ. So, when I am going to confession, I offer all within my heart, mind and soul to the love of God’s mercy. I offer such things if I feel sad, afraid, or do not know what to do, or if I am experiencing the attacks of the enemy.

Cecilia: Temptations?

Gregory: Yes, temptations, any act, thought or word that is not an example of our Lord. I give my heart fully to him, to grow in him and to love him.

The sacrament of confession is for the power of repenting, but also offering anything within us that detaches us from God. Do you understand?

Cecilia: Yes, and it’s very important. That’s why we have lost the chain between us and the confession. And we prefer to go to the psychologist or the analyst or the coach or whatever, but not to the confession in which there is the Lord.

Gregory: Perfect. You said something very important, “There is the Lord.” Because our Lord once expressed to me that in the confessional, he is present before us.

Cecilia: It’s not the priest.

Gregory: It is truly our Lord of mercy, our Lord of Divine Mercy and love.

One is led to confession through the power of the Holy Spirit, through the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Because the Holy Spirit convicts us in love, to repent, to turn our hearts to God, and in a call to grow in a deeper relationship of love. For he is the Spirit of Love.

Do you understand?

Cecilia: Yes, I understand. I think that we can go to confession and repent, or go to the priest in this sacrament to tell him all that we are feeling and ask for his expertise and the grace to lead us. That would be wonderful.

Gregory: Once a friend expressed to me after the Mass we had attended that during the Mass we say, “I confess to my almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have sinned,” and at that moment we unite in the body of Christ and ask for forgiveness. Then he said, ‘If you are not in a state of mortal sin, why would you go to confession?’ Because in that proclamation during the Mass, we are forgiven, which is true.

But I believe in our Lord and Our Lady’s call to receive the sacrament, sacred and holy in all things, to purify us in his mercy. Therefore, it’s a great joy that I can express anything within my heart in the confessional that detaches me from God.

When I was in Assisi at the beginning of this month, on March 1, I went to confession in the Basilica of St. Francis and there was a wonderful priest. When I entered the confessional, I entered with a smile, and the priest said, “Oh, my God, someone is coming to confession that is joyful.”

I said, “Father, to come to confession is a great joy.”

And he said, “Not with the faces that I always see.”

When we finished the confession, which I simply spoke from my heart, he said, “Go now in peace.” And I said, “Yes, I am also going to go in joy.”

I believe, and Our Lady has said, that it is so important to go to confession, especially in times of suffering and struggles. Yes, especially to offer struggles and conflicts within the family, any mental, emotional, or spiritual problems you might be having. Especially, Our Lady has said, for the poor most in need of the hope of God’s mercy. Because financial difficulties can weigh so terribly on the hearts of the poor and those who are poor in spirit.

So, to offer our hearts for the cleansing of mercy in the confessional also gives us greater clarity through peace and a greater strength to persevere.

I speak to so many souls who are suffering. This week, I will be going to either Altiplano prison or Morelos prison to speak with my brothers and sisters who need the freedom of God’s mercy to give them hope. They are in need of love and they are suffering, no matter the crime. Our Jesus said that he who has not sinned cast the first stone.

So, I think it’s really important to go in God’s mercy, to give them God’s mercy and hope, to know that they are free in Christ. Yes, we are all free in Christ’s mercy. Which is why in the Chaplet of Divine Mercy we say, “Jesus, I trust in you.” Jesus, I trust in your mercy and love.

Every day, I repent before I go to bed, asking the Holy Spirit to forgive me in any way I have offended him and to go to the sacrament of reconciliation, most often weekly. Our Lady has said, especially in difficult times, to receive it weekly. Yes, to free our hearts in God’s mercy.

Why is Our Lady of Guadalupe impregnated with her son? I think for many profound reasons in her call to humanity to return to her son in the Holy Eucharist, but I also believe to receive her son’s mercy and that we can be reborn in him each day.

Do you understand?

Cecilia: Yes, beautiful. We can be renewed in him every day.

Gregory: Why is she appearing pregnant? This is a question for you, Cecilia.

Cecilia: For me, there are several reasons. First, she’s not pregnant with her son directly because, at the moment she appeared, her son had already been born. She’s pregnant with us. That’s my theory. She is pregnant with us and we are going to be reborn through him through her.

Gregory: And ultimately, that’s what I’m saying. She carries him within her as she carries all of her children so that we can be reborn through Christ each and every day, to be renewed: heart, mind, body and soul in him.

Someone from the audience is recommending that I use my Clerical, but I am not a priest. But thank you for the beauty of recommending that.

Cecilia: He is not a priest. Often we think that a man talking about Jesus or the church or Our Lady is the priest. No, not always.

Gregory: I’ve been called by God to love only him. At that moment, I didn’t understand that that meant to be consecrated to him. And he asked me to love only him throughout my life, to be with him.

I imagine being a man of the cloth of the collar without the collar, but not in the sacrament.

Cecilia: So, for giving the audience the infinite possibilities of the confession, we can say that we can go to the confession to receive enormous graces.

Gregory: The power of the sacrament is the power of the call of Jesus’s passion. It is why he came and sacrificed his life for the forgiveness of our sins.  It is one of the greatest calls of our faith. John the Baptist said, ‘Repent, for the hour is near.’

Yes, Jesus gave his life that we may repent of our sins to receive the gift of salvation and redemption and to set the captives free. We are being called to be set free and live freely through receiving the sacrament of reconciliation, the forgiveness of our Lord and the power of the Holy Cross, which is love.

This is the ultimate call, to receive Christ, his great mercy and love, so that we can be with him eternally. It is the power, the fulfillment of the resurrection and the life. And I believe the most important thing is simply to be in a relationship with him, to truly be in a love relationship with God. Because ultimately that fulfills all things. It fulfills everything.

Since I was a little boy, our Lord was always calling me to love him. And even today, I cannot live without his love. His love is my strength and consolation. It is my hope in every circumstance.

Saint Faustina once said that she could not fathom God’s infinite mercy. But even today, I cannot fathom God’s infinite love, but I know that he opens his arms in love to receive us. And this is the path and the hope of the faith.

I would like to continue this program and I believe we have one already scheduled.

Cecilia: Yes. What do you want to say to finish today?

Gregory: The power of God’s mercy is infinite and lives within us when we choose to receive it, as is the power of his infinite love. We, who are the temples of the Holy Spirit, are being called to walk in that love and mercy each day.

My call is to call all souls to repent in preparation for the Second Coming of our Lord. This is the purpose of my life and my mission. We must live the example of God’s mercy and compassion. But we cannot do that if we are not free, if we are living in bondage and darkness. So, be free in God’s love. Choose mercy and life. Amen.

Cecilia: Amen.

Thank you, Gregory, for being with us. Thank you to all of you for being with us.

We look forward to the next program with Gregory, hopefully in the coming days.