Message from Our Blessed Mother to Carlos Lopez February 21, 1996 Ash Wednesday St. Bruno's Church, San Bruno, CA Dear Children, Praised be Jesus! I come this night with much sadness in my Immaculate Heart. I come to ask you to stop offending my Beloved Son. Stop sinning. An afflicted Mother, with swords of pain in my Immaculate Heart, asks you, pleads with you - stop sinning, stop offending my Beloved Son. My Beloved Son is and continues to be very offended. My little ones, since the majority of you do not want to listen to nor put into practice my messages and many are indifferent to what I have come to say in this last year and a half of being with you in this parish, I will stop coming to you little by little. From now on I will come only 3 times a month to leave you my messages of peace, of love, of conversion. But, I do plead with you, my children, to obey what I have always asked you: Pray, pray, pray. My Heart is sad at knowing that my Beloved Son will only permit me to come to you 3 times a month and very soon I will leave you. Now that Lent is starting, I desire you to be reborn - that you clothe yourselves with Light, with purity, with love and humility and stop living in darkness. I desire you to leave the path of sin and return to the path of salvation. I desire also that each one of you offer a sacrifice and offer to God to change your lives and come close to Him completely. I desire a sacrifice from each one of you out of love for God and to help me to clean His wounds, which today more than ever bleed and multiply more and more. Help me, my little ones, I ask you and if you desire to help me, as a reward I offer you many graces and I will answer many petitions, because I love you infinitely and because God desires it so. I desire, also, that your souls during Lent be transformed into Light and that they may illuminate with that Light, the world - which today is clothed in darkness. Live in the state of grace - pure of body and soul before His Divine Eyes and in that way God will live in your bodies where He needs to rest. Your bodies will become temples of His Spirit of Love, of Peace, and of Mercy. Obey, my little ones, what I come to tell you today. Lastly, I desire that you meditate in special way, each Friday, "The Way of the Cross" as well as the Holy Rosary, in a special way the Sorrowful Mysteries. Thank you, my little ones, for having accepted my message of this night. I leave you with many graces in your hearts and to my beloved priests, the Flame of my Immaculate Heart. May the peace of God be always with all of you. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.