Part IV: My Soldier The Flame of Zeal Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Mary You are resolved to be my apostle, but you wonder how in your present situation you can be one. If you are not invested with the priesthood, you have received no mission to preach. 2. Look about […]

Part IV: My Soldier My Mission and Yours Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Mary My child, listen attentively to what I am going to say and try to understand it well.I have a mystery to reveal to you, a mystery concerning both of us. 2. At the same time that Gabriel

Part IV: My Soldier The Great Enemy of Jesus in You Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Mary My child, knowing the thoughts of Jesus is not sufficient to make you immediately begin to live His life. You must at the same time fight and conquer the enemies who are opposed to

Part III: Requirements of the Ideal The Secret of Success Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Mary My child, the practices and the dispositions I have recommended to you will lead you to identify yourself with Jesus only on one condition, namely, that you apply yourself to them under my direction. Jesus

Part III: Transformation Into Jesus Three Essential Dispositions Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Mary My child, the exterior means I have indicated will be useful only insofar as you join to them certain interior dispositions. The same practices lead one soul to sanctity but leave another in mediocrity. “It is the

Part III: Transformation Into Jesus Three Means of Success Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Mary My child, in order to push forward more quickly the work of transforming yourself into Jesus, you must proceed methodically. I am going to teach you three means that can be of great help in that

Part III: Transformation Into Jesus Put Ye On the Lord Jesus Christ Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Mary My child, it is a difficult task to recognize your great enemy; it is a task a thousand times greater to exterminate it. By yourself you will never succeed; but if you remain

Part III: Transformation Into Jesus Learn to Think the Thoughts of Jesus: By Direct Contact with Him Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Mary My child, there is another way of coming to think the thoughts of Jesus, a very rapid, sure, and efficacious way. It consists in putting yourself in direct

Part III: Transformation Into Jesus Learn to Think the Thoughts of Jesus: In Books Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Mary: My child, in order to learn to live the life of Jesus, you must first learn to think the thoughts of Jesus. The world thinks one way but Jesus thinks quite

Part III: Transformation Into Jesus My Aim: To Transform You into Jesus Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Mary My beloved child, to whom I gave birth when giving birth to Jesus, in whom I see Jesus, and whom I love with the same love I have for Him, my First-born Son