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The Medallion of the Apostolate of the New Evangelization
The Passion
Reflections that Jesus makes on the mystery of His suffering and the value it has on the Redemption.
Cochabamba — Bolivia
Spanish
Editions: 1996 and 1998 - English 1st Edition - November
1999
Katya Rivas' Passion : The Passion (
Begins )
Extract 1
Jesus
My
little daughter, let yourself be embraced by My most ardent
desire that all souls come and purify themselves in the
water of penance, and that the feeling of confidence, and
not fear, may penetrate them, because I am a God of Mercy
and I am always ready to receive them in My Heart.
Thus,
day-by-day we shall be uniting ourselves in our secret of
love. A tiny spark and then a great flame… Only the real
Love is not loved today! Make Love be loved! But before
that, pray little daughter, pray a lot for the consecrated
souls who have lost their enthusiasm and happiness in the
service. Pray also for those priests who accomplish that
miracle of miracles on the altar and whose faith is
weak.
Lose yourself in Me like a drop of water in the
ocean… When I created you, I kissed your forehead signing
you with the sign of My predilection. Look for souls,
because there are few who love Me; look for souls and
imprint in their minds the vision of the pain in which I
consumed Myself. Men, without knowing it, are about to
receive great gifts.
When you do what I ask, I am near
you; it is as if you quench that flaming thirst which on the
Cross dried even My lips.
I will make Myself present each
time that you invoke My Passion with love. I will permit you
to live united to Me in the pain that I experienced in
Gethsemane when I knew the sins of all men.
Be conscious
of that, because I call few creatures to this type of
Passion, but none of them understand the predilection I have
placed on them by associating them to Me in the most painful
hour of My earthly life.
Katya
Rivas' Passion : The Last Supper
Extract
2
Jesus
Now let us go to the story of My
Passion… The story that shall give glory to the Father and
holiness to other chosen souls…
The night before I was
betrayed was a night full of joy because of the Paschal
Supper, the inauguration of the Eternal Banquet at which
human beings must sit to feed themselves of Me.
If I were
to ask Christians, “What do you think of this Supper,”
surely many would say that it is the place of their delight
but few would say that it is My delight… There are souls
who take Communion, not for the joy that they experience but
for the joy that I feel; they are few because the rest only
come to Me to ask for gifts and favors.
I embrace all the
souls that come to Me because I came to Earth to expand the
Love in which I embrace them. And since love does not grow
without sorrows; little by little I take away the sweetness,
to leave the souls in dryness. Thus, they fast from their
own joy to make them understand that their focus should be
on another desire: Mine.
Why do you talk about dryness as
if it were a sign of a diminishing of My Love? Have you
forgotten that if I do not give happiness, you must taste
your dryness and other sorrows?
Come to Me, souls, but
know that it is only I who wills everything and who incites
you to look for Me. If you only knew how much I appreciate
unselfish love and how it will be acknowledged in Heaven! O,
how the soul who possesses it shall rejoice!
Learn from
Me, dear souls, to love only to please the One who loves
you… You shall have sweetness, and much more than what you
leave; you shall enjoy so much of whatever I have made you
capable. It is I who prepared the Banquet. I am the
nourishment! How then, can I let you sit at My table and let
you fast? I promised you that whoever feeds on Me shall not
go hungry again… I serve Myself as these things to reveal
My Love to you. Listen to what My priests say, for they use
this Paschal feast to lead you to Me, but do not stop at
that which is human, otherwise, you shall nullify the other
purpose of this feast.
Nobody can say that My Supper has
become their nourishment when they only experience
sweetness… For Me, love grows in as much as they deny
themselves.
Many priests are so because I wanted to make
them My ministers, not because they truly follow Me… Pray
for them! They should offer My Father the sorrow that I felt
when in the Temple I knocked down the benches of the
merchants and I reproached the ministers of that time for
having turned the house of God into an assembly of
moneymakers.
When they asked Me under what authority had
I done that, I felt an even greater sorrow in proving that
the worst denial of My Mission came precisely from My
ministers.
For that reason, pray for the priests that
treat My Body with a sense of habit and, therefore, with
very little love.
You will soon know that I had to tell
you this because I love you and because I promise the
remission of all temporal punishment owed those who pray for
My priests. There shall be no Purgatory for those who grieve
for the lukewarm priests, but rather they will go to
Paradise immediately after their last breath.
And now,
let Me embrace you again in order for you to receive the
life that I, with infinite joy, made you part of.
That
night with infinite Love, I washed the feet of My Apostles
because it was the culminating moment in which to present My
Church to the world.
I wanted My souls to know that even
when they may be weighted down with the greatest sins, they
are not excluded from graces. They are with My most faithful
souls; they are in My Heart receiving the graces that they
need.
I felt such sorrow at that moment knowing that,
represented in Judas, My Apostle, there were so many souls
gathered at My feet and cleansed so many times with My
Blood, yet they were to be lost! At that moment, I wanted to
teach sinners that just because they have sinned, they
should not distance themselves from Me thinking that there
is no recourse and that they will never be loved as much as
before they sinned. Poor souls! These are not the feelings
of a God who has poured out all His Blood for you. Come to
Me all of you and do not be afraid, because I love you. I
shall cleanse you with My Blood and you shall be as white as
snow. I shall drown your sins in the water of My Mercy and
nothing will be able to snatch from My Heart the Love that I
have for you.
My beloved, I have not chosen you in vain,
respond to My election with generosity. Be faithful and firm
in the faith. Be meek and humble so that others may know the
greatness of My humility.
Katya
Rivas' Passion : Jesus Prepares Himself
Extract
3
Jesus
There are souls who consider My
Passion, but very few who think about My preparation for My
public life: My loneliness!
The forty days which I spent
by the side of the hill were the most distressing hours of
My life because I spent them completely alone, preparing My
Spirit for that which would come. I suffered hunger, thirst,
discouragement, and bitterness. I knew that for those people
My sacrifice would be useless, for they would deny Me. In
that solitude I understood that neither My new doctrine nor
My sacrifices and miracles could save the Jewish people who
would become God-slayers.
Nevertheless, I had to do My
duty, the Divine Mission. I had to first leave My seed and
die later. How sad this is, looking at it from the human
point of view!
I was also a man and felt sadness and
anguish. I found Myself very alone! I mortified My Body by
fasting and My Spirit by prayer. I prayed for all humanity
that would deny Me, that would sacrifice Me so many
times…
I was tempted as any other mortal, and Satan was
never more curious to know who the man was that remained in
such loneliness and abandonment.
Think about everything
that I had to go through to save man, to be able to reign in
his heart, to make possible his entrance into My Father’s
Kingdom.
(continuing)
EDITOR’S NOTES: For the final two weeks of Lent 2020 Scoop will be publishing a series of daily reflections on the Passion from Bolivian author Katya Rivas. Rivas has received an official imprimatur from the Catholic Church for several books.. Readers can sign up to receive daily extracts from Katya Rivas’s writings by email HERE. To order a video about Katya’s work visit… apleatohumanity.com
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