Message from Our Blessed Mother to Carlos Lopez
March 7, 2001  St. Bruno's Church, San Bruno, CA

Dear Children, Praised be Jesus!

My little ones, I come to thank you for being together with me and for having 
accepted my invitation of this night.

You have arrived, dear children, at Lent - the most important moment of your 
lives - where you will walk together with me along the path to Calvary. You will 
participate in the passion, suffering and resurrection of my Beloved Son, Jesus.

I come to invite you to take this time of Lent very seriously as a great grace 
in your lives. Return to the Sacrament of Reconciliation and receive the love and 
mercy of Jesus. The suffering, love and mercy of God is like a woman who is ready 
to give birth. That woman goes through great and grave pains, but when that being 
is born that mother holds her child in her arms with much love and the pains are 
forgotten due to the birth of that being who fills her life with happiness and 
love. That mother has completely forgotten how much she suffered - as such is the 
love an mercy of God.

Once your sins have been forgiven, the love of God has come into that soul and 
the sufferings that have been inflicted on the Body and in the Heart of Jesus 
have been completely forgotten and His infinite mercy envelopes that repentant 
soul. That is the importance of confession - find in it the forgiveness, the 
love and the infinite mercy of Jesus.

Live in the state of grace and today nail on that Cross of love and redemption, 
your sins, your bad habits, your anxieties, your fears, your weaknesses and all 
that displeases God.

Pray, pray, pray, my little ones. satan has recovered strength and it is now that 
he is attackinng the world more. If you do not pray as I ask you to, you will 
not be able to overcome him. satan tries to convince many that prayer is neither 
necessary nor ipmportant. If you listen to him, especially those vulnerable and 
weak hearts, you will fall into many errors and then into sin. Do not tire of 
praying. If you pray as I ask you to, I will help you to overcome and to ward off 
many chastisements coming to the world. If you do not obey me, I will not be able 
to help you.

Thank you for having accepted my message of this night. Thank you for praying 
and for having participated this night in my prayer group. I fill your hearts 
with many graces and I bless my beloved priests who helped me this night. 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.
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