XIX Edition October
2003
Heart to heart
"A
Gift for the Church and for the World"
EDITORIAL Mother Adela Galindo,
Foundress, SCTJM
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Dear Brothers and Sisters:
Today, the 13th of October, we remember the last
apparition of our Lady in Fatima, in which the
Blessed Virgin opened her hands and pointed to
the sky, thus beginning what we have come to
know as the miracle of the sun. This event has
been considered one of the most prodigious
manifestations of the twentieth century.
That day the pilgrims, who came from many
different places to be present during the last
apparition of our Lady, had to wade through
paths full of mud due to a strong rain that did
not seem as if it would end. Everything was
dark; black clouds covered the sky; and it is in
those conditions that the Blessed Virgin Mary
appeared, fulfilling her promise: “In the last
month, I will do a miracle so that all may
believe.” As the Mediatrix of all Graces,
through her intercession, she obtains for us the
miracles that initiate, defend, strengthen and
increase the faith of the people of God.
Again in the twentieth century we saw the rise
of great black clouds that assaulted the life,
mentality, consciousness and roots of the
contemporary human heart. This darkness required
great interventions of the Holy Spirit, and at
the same time, of the maternal gaze of the
Virgin Mary, who cares for all men and history
with great solicitude. Modern civilization,
symbolized in the secret of Fatima as a city of
ruins, was in need of another miracle brought
about through the hands of the Immaculate
Virgin, another miracle of the sun, another
luminous miracle that presented itself in the
midst of great contemporary floods capable of
drowning faith, truth, solidarity, human dignity
and the defense of life. It needed a miracle of
light for a dark era.
Therefore, just as in Fatima, the Virgin again
opened her hands and her Immaculate Heart and
fulfilled her promise of “a miracle so that all
may believe.” This miracle happened so that a
world without answers, a disorientated humanity,
many darkened and fatigued consciences, and
those without direction and searching for a Way,
would be able to believe. This luminous miracle,
brought about by the hands of the Virgin for the
Church and the world, has a name, and it is no
other than His Holiness John Paul II.
With honesty, we can all recognize that the Holy
Father has been, and still is, a great gift of
God to the Church and to the world. Even those
who reject the light of Christ he presents
respect his authenticity and the fact that he is
a living witness to the truth he teaches. The
testimonies of the many hearts that have been
touched by his presence and his word are
innumerable, just as his contacts with humanity
have also been innumerable – through apostolic
trips, audiences, meetings around the world,
youth days, letters to children, women, and
families, encyclicals, and apostolic letters. He
has taught the valorization and promotion of
human dignity, the sublime and permanent love of
marriages, and the strong defense of life from
conception until natural death. He has given a
testimony of peace and reconciliation to a world
obsessed with war, shown untiring efforts for
the unity of Christians, and wisely implemented
the Second Vatican Council. He has demonstrated
care and concern for the persecuted Church and
offered constant consolation to those who
suffer. He has encouraged sanctity through his
exhortations on the holiness of consecrated
life, his numerous beatifications and
canonizations, and his physical sufferings born
with a sacrificial spirit that challenge a
culture of comfort and ease. He has loved to the
extreme in fidelity to Christ, to the Church and
to us, for whom he remains afoot as a lighthouse
that brightens the darkness for those ships
navigating through dangerous seas. We –
contemporary humanity – are these ships that
navigate through this historic moment amidst
turbulent seas with great waves capable of
causing shipwreck – unless we are aware of where
to navigate to find the sure port.
O Holy Spirit, we thank you for always coming to
the aide of the Church, assisting her with the
gifts that she most needs in each historic
moment. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for having
inspired the conclave, begun on the 14th of
October, 1978, that elected Karol Wojtyla as the
263rd successor of Peter and as captain of the
ship of the Church!
Thank you, Most Blessed Virgin, Mediatrix of all
graces and our Advocate, for having opened your
hands before the dark sky of our modern history
and giving us the miracle of such a luminous sun
as His Holiness John Paul II.
Thank you, Holy Father, for being an authentic
image of the Good Shepherd who gives his life
for his sheep. Thank you for sustaining yourself
in the Eucharist and in Mary Most Holy, and for
teaching us, the entire Church, to sustain
ourselves in them. Thank you for such a fruitful
pontificate, which has been the fruit of a
docile heart that allows itself to be pierced so
that others may have life. Thank you, Holy
Father, for having given us a witness – with
your life, words and actions – of the joy that
comes from living the Gospel in a radical
manner. Thank you for having taken us through
the Heart of Mary, during a turbulent era, to
the fountain of Redemption, the Heart of Christ.
In the Two Hearts and with gratitude for the
gift of the Pontificate of His Holiness of John
Paul II.
In the Love of the Pierced Hearts,
Mother Adela, SCTJM
Foundress
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