WEEKLY MESSAGE OF THE VIRGIN MARY, ROSE OF PEACE, TRANSMITTED AT THE MARIAN CENTER OF FIGUEIRA, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL, TO THE VISIONARY FRIAR ELÍAS DEL SAGRADO CORAZÓN DE JESÚS
Dear son, dear daughter:
What does the spiritual desert mean to you? Have you ever seen yourself before it?
Do you remember what My Son lived during His forty days in the desert?
Are you afraid to cross that desert and to know what really exists within you? Why?
Be encouraged, together with Me, to cross that inner desert; but first, become free from yourself so that your inner consciousness may be free from any oppression.
Be clear, the spiritual desert is not a punishment, but an opportunity for confirmation and, above all, for self-giving. That is why My Son taught you how to free yourselves from temptations and expectations that, with illusion and deceit, promise the disciple achievements and triumphs.
The desert comes, in life, to reaffirm absolute trust in the silent Presence of God. This moment of life comes for the disciples of Christ to take a new step, so that they can move forward and not backward, so that they accept to be the subject of God in spite of any circumstance. For that was the synthesis lived by Christ, Our Lord: accepting to drink from the Chalice of salvation and redemption, bearing in Himself all the sins of the world.
Christ did not decide what life He wanted to lead, because He knew that to be a Christ He had to allow God to be His Life, so that His Will would be fulfilled.
I thank you for responding to My call!
Who blesses you,
Your Mother, the Virgin Mary, Rose of Peace