Transcript of the Recording.

Terrible things might have been happening at the front during the last war, but on the home front, things were quite different. Churches were full.

There was leadership, too, from Rome and at home, from bishops and priests who were as one.

But now there is no unity anywhere except for those who want to turn everything upside down, turning right into wrong and wrong into right.

And there is anger everywhere, as those who want to stand for the truth are not just marginalised, but they are eliminated.

Saint Augustine said there are two types of anger, the anger that rises from pride and the anger that rises from love.

We can see this anger, the anger that rises from love in the Gospels, when Christ made a whip and cast out those evil men who had desecrated God’s holy place on Earth.

Just as evil men are desecrating God’s holy place on Earth today, St Augustine warned people in his day what he would warn us about in our day.

If we spend our time each day drinking up the consequences of evil that prevails everywhere, that are reported in social media, then we will become so drunk with evil that we deplore, that we will become incapable of doing anything.

The evil that now prevails that was long since predicted by Our Lady and has long since been ignored, has only one hope, and that is to listen immediately to her message that, if practised, can at last return us to the faith of our fathers.

If we still stubbornly remain spiritually inert, then the Christ who once chased those evil men out of the temple will come again with far more than a mere whip to punish the world once created to enjoy eternal happiness with him and with his Father in heaven.

The courses, the retreats and lectures in the form of videos, podcasts, lectures, and books that you will find on this website have been produced to help those who want to do the one thing necessary.

To get back on their knees and pray in these terrible times, realising that the gates of hell are on the brink of prevailing and that they themselves are spiritually impoverished, to stand against the power of evil.

Then they must do the only possible thing, and that is to listen to the message of Our Lady that she gave us for the modern world.

Then put it into practice in their own lives and encourage others to do likewise.

Turn your just anger into practice, the only practice that can save the world. Use the time you spend each day raking over the evils of the world to Turn back to God.

Don’t let schadenfreude divert you from what you should be doing. Get back on your knees to beg the Holy Spirit to do through you what cannot be done without Him.

Only He can do the impossible through those who humbly seek his help. Put Our lady’s simple message into practice. It will enable you to be possessed by the Holy Spirit. Then He will do the rest.

Let me begin again then by making the point that whenever and wherever Our Lady has appeared in recent years to deliver her simple message, she has spoken to her listeners in their own language.

That message is simply to Repent, to Pray, and to Sacrifice. But sadly, despite our lady insisting that it is the  message that is important, all too many Marian pilgrims are seduced by externals.

Let me explain what I mean. In 1982, I arrived to give a retreat at a well-known Catholic Retreat and Conference Centre in Ireland. I walked into a sitting room where half a dozen priests were talking excitedly about Medjugorje.

They had recently come back from a pilgrimage to the place they were all sure that Our Lady had appeared and appeared many times over.

They shared experiences of the miracles they’d seen, the conversions they had witnessed, the healings that had taken place, and dramatic events that they’d seen, like the sun dancing in the sky.

Then, quite out of the blue, an elderly Benedictine monk interrupted them. While they’d been infusing about the miracles that they’d seen, he had been quietly reading about the message of Our Lady at Medjugorje.

“Fathers”, he said, “May I interrupt you for a moment? Could I ask, do you believe in Medjugorje”?

They looked at him with astonishment. “Of course. Have you been deaf to all that has been said? Of course we do. Most of us have just returned from there”.

“The reason why I ask”, he said, “Is because I’ve just been reading about our lady’s message at Medjugorje. She said that all the miraculous signs were for atheists, unbelievers, and doubters.

“The message is for believers. May I ask, how many of you fast once a week on bread and water? How many of you spend an hour a day in personal prayer?”

There was a deadly hush, and the priests were only saved from an extremely embarrassing situation by the bell ringing for supper.

There have been many more, millions of Marian pilgrims in the last 200 years compared to the comparatively few Christians in the first 200 years of the early Church.

But there is a massive difference in what each respective group achieved for the Kingdom of God.

The early Christians were so transformed by the profound contemplative spirituality given to them by our Lord himself that it was the fruits of their contemplation that enabled them to do the impossible.

It enabled them to transform a Roman Empire into a Christian Empire in such a short time. To this day, secular historians are baffled by a phenomenon that cannot be explained by human scholarship alone.

Sadly, the many more Marian Pilgrims in the last 150 years or more, might well have found spiritual solace in their piety for themselves.

But it has never done for them or the Church what profound contemplative prayer and the fruits of contemplation did, not just for the faithful in the early church, but for the pagan world  they converted.

This failure to deepen their prayer lives into contemplative prayer, where God’s infused love transforms them, has enabled the modern world to make serious inroads into our Catholic world and a traditional faith that has been all but forgotten.

Our only hope is to listen to the simple message of Our Lady for the modern world and to put it into practice.

As I will show, her call to Repent, to Pray, and to Sacrifice, when put into practice, opens believers to the action of the Holy Spirit in such a way that they will be led back to the profound Contemplative Redemptive and Sacrificial spirituality that Our Lord himself first lived before introducing it to our first Catholic forebears.

In every language, the word Pray and the word Sacrifice is virtually the same, or at least very similar. But the word Repent or Repentance is not, or at least it does not have the same meaning that it does for Our Lady herself.

In Aramaic or Hebrew, the word Repentance has a totally different meaning because it had its origins in a God-given religion that was unique to the Jewish people.

As Our Lady was born into that religion, then the understanding of Repentance and how to live it daily was taught to her by her Jewish parents, St Anna and St Joachim. Then she, in her turn, taught it to her son, Jesus.

From his earliest years, he was taught how to Repent or how to continually turn to God throughout each day and throughout the whole of his life.

In order to do this, she taught him the Shema, a prayer that consecrates the forthcoming day to loving God in all that is said and done throughout that day.

However, as her own son, the Son of God, grew in wisdom and understanding with the years in his human nature, so He, in his turn, taught her and his foster father, St. Joseph, a new and fuller meaning of Repentance.

This enabled Jesus to introduce a new form of worship that would be at the heart and soul of the new religion that would be inaugurated on the first Pentecost day.

The Holy Family at Nazareth was the place where the first exemplification of the new religion that Christ was going to introduce to every other Christian family was first lived and lived to perfection.

The profound spirituality that was lived there would continue to be lived in the new Catholic families, that would be the spiritual foundation of the new Catholic Church that would convert and transform the ancient world.

That is why Jesus gave His Mother to St. John to be his adoptive mother while he was dying on the Cross, and His Mother to be the mother to the Church who would look to her and the family life that she lived with her adopted son, as the perfect exemplification of what every Catholic family should be like.

The perfect Catholic family life, first formed and lived in Nazareth by the Holy Family, would continue to be the perfect example or paradigm of future Catholic families, which were to become the spiritual hearts and souls of the new Catholic Church.

Now, as I continue to detail the profound meaning of repentance to which Our Lady calls us to practise daily,  bear in mind what it first meant to her before her own Son taught her the ultimate meaning of Repentance for her personally and for the new church that would be inaugurated on the first Pentecost day.

In Aramaic then, with its roots in Hebrew, the word Shub is used for Repentance. It literally means simply to return, to return home, to our true home, which is in God, the God who created us for that very purpose.

In the Old Testament, Isaiah uses the word to describe the return of prodigal sons who return to their father, just as it is used in the same way in the New Testament to describe the return of another prodigal son to his father.

However, Jesus firstly taught his own family, then all who would later listen to Him that the God to whom we must return is not just the all-holy and utterly awesome infinite God who created the world, but someone far more loving and endearing.

Put simply, He taught that the all-holy and awesome infinite God wants to become our ever-loving dad. That is why, to make his point, Jesus calls God ‘Abba’ and tells us to call God Abba, too.

Now Abba means Daddy, or its equivalent in any language.

In fact, the first word of the prayer that Jesus gave us in the ‘Our Father’ does not begin with the word Father, referring to the one who created us, but to the word ‘Abba’, referring to the tender, loving God who loves us, as the most tender, loving human dad who ever existed.

God proved this love that he has for us, firstly, by creating us to be united with him in heaven and for all eternity.

Secondly, by embodying His love for us in the person of His son, Jesus Christ, to teach us how much He loves us and about his plan to unite us with Himself to all eternity.

Thirdly, by expressing His love for us in the passion and in the death of His beloved Son on the Cross.

Then, fourthly, after His beloved Son had been filled with His infinite love at His Glorification, He then uses Him, uses His human nature as the means of pouring out His love, this time on all who would be open to receive it on the first Pentecost day and on every subsequent day until the end of time.

In his epistle, St Peter, who at the time called upon all who would receive this love, to Repent on that first Pentecost day, sees the whole of human history between the first coming of Christ and the second coming of Christ as a time for Repentance.

 A time, in other words, to keep loving our devoted and Divine Dad every moment of every day of our lives in all that we say and in all that we do. That for St Peter, is what time is for above all else.

But I have not completely explained the full meaning of Repentance, because at Nazareth, the Holy Family, under the guidance of Jesus as He grew into manhood, was taught that the daily practice of Repentance would gradually develop into a new form of worship.

Jesus later described this as a worship ‘In Spirit and in Truth’ when He was talking to the Samaritan woman. Let me explain what I mean.

The Shema that was recited in the morning to dedicate the whole day to God was repeated at least three times a day as every Jew went to the synagogue at nine o’clock, twelve o’clock, and three o’clock.

These times coincided with the daily sacrifice made in the temple at Jerusalem. However, and note this, there is no record of Our Lord ever taking part in these sacrifices in the temple.

Why? Because He had come to introduce a new form of sacrifice that would develop out of the offering of oneself to God that was first embodied in the Shema.

Christ had to explain that God no longer wanted people to offer themselves to Him indirectly through some form of livestock or food in the physical temple, but rather through offering themselves to Him directly in a new spiritual temple.

After His death and Resurrection, that spiritual temple was Christ himself. Through baptism, all who receive His love would be taken up mystically into this new temple, which was nothing other than His own mystical body as He promised while He was on Earth.

Now we can see how Repentance and the daily practice of ongoing Repentance enables us to practise the new worship ‘In Spirit and in Truth’.

Just as every day of Christ’s life was given over to turning to his Father, in all and everything that He did, we are all called to take up our daily cross by following His example to do likewise.

This is true imitation of Christ.

Just as you can say that in doing this every day of His life was his Mass. In other words, the place where He continually offered himself to His Father while he was on Earth. So you can also say that every day of our lives should become our Mass, too.

Namely, it is the place where we, in imitation of Him, continually offer ourselves to God, in, with, and through Christ, our Redeemer, the New Temple and the New High Priest.

Then, as the early Christians knew so well, and we have too often forgotten, at what we call the day of the Resurrection, as the rising sun became a symbol of the Resurrection, Christ would return to dwell once more amongst his people.

The worship that would take place on that day, the first day of the week, soon came to be called the ‘Heavenly Liturgy’ because Christ became present once more, not as he had been before on earth,

But as he is now in heaven surrounded by all the angels and saints in the very act of offering to His Father all that He did every day of his life and death on earth, while simultaneously receiving in return from His Father, the same infinite loving that He had received in heaven before His incarnation.

However, there is a difference that enables us to join Him each time we take part in this Heavenly Liturgy.

Now, the infinite love of God not only possesses His divine nature as it did before and from all eternity, but His human nature too, that he took with him back to heaven to be Transformed and Transfigured by His Father’s love.

It is now through this transformed human nature that Our Divine Lord can continually reach out to possess each one of us.

This is what is happening when we go to Sunday Mass ready and prepared to participate in the Heavenly Liturgy.

We are ready and prepared if, if, if we take with us all the sacrifices that we have made during the preceding week with our weak human nature.

Then we unite them with Christ in His human nature, and in such a way that they can be offered in, with, and through Him to the Father.

With what we receive in return, or rather, Who we receive in return, namely the Holy Spirit, we are empowered to keep offering ourselves to the Father in the forthcoming week so that our daily lives become for us our Mass,

The place where we continually offer ourselves in, with, and through Christ, the New Temple, to our ever-loving Divine Dad, as Christ himself did before us.

By reciting the Shema in its new version or what came to be called the Morning Offering, the first Catholics offered themselves directly to God in all they said and did to give him glory every day of their lives (1 Corinthians 10: 31).

Whilst doing this, however, what was called the second great commandment, namely to love our neighbour as themselves, enabled them to continue to give glory to God, by loving Him in the neighbour in need.

Remember, whenever you do it to the least of my brethren, you do it to me (Matthew 25, 31-46). And remember, charity begins at home, where our father, our mother, our husband, our wife, and our children are in need of our love,

Or rather not so much our love, but our love that has become suffused and surcharged by the love of God that we receive in ever full  measure as we daily turn to him in prayer.

One last point needs to be remembered, and it is this. In the New Testament, our Lord changes the way in which we must love our neighbour.

We must love our neighbour in future, not just as we love ourselves, but as Christ himself loves us, as He told us at the Last Supper (John 13: 34).

This God-given spirituality that was first given to us by Jesus Christ, can only be lived by us as it was lived to perfection by Him, if we can only learn to be filled with the self-same love of God, the Holy Spirit, who animated Him.

This is the love that makes all things, all things possible that are quite impossible without it.

That is why, after Our Lady called us to Repent. She then calls us to Pray, because prayer is, as we must now see, the Schola Divini Amoris, the school in which Divine Love is learned.