Day 12 The purpose of the liturgical season of Lent is to grow in closeness to the Lord through truth, repentance, and the word of God moving into fullness within your heart. Truth of the Spirit with Patti Brunner presents Daily Meditations for Lent. We include personal revelation for your discernment to grow in your relationship with the Lord during this liturgical season of Lent.
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Welcome to Truth of the Spirit. I am your host, Patti Brunner. This is day 12 of our series “Daily Meditations for Lent” and we are beginning second week of Lent. We have gathered words from the Lord shared during various seasons of Lent and will share these personal revelations and meditations for you to discern and contemplate each day during Lent.
Praying before a healing mass on the 2nd Sunday of Lent, I heard the Lord say this, “My child, tell the children this: From age to age, I present myself to you. Through joys, through sorrows, through good times and bad I Am with you. Come, today, children, and enter into the fullness of my presence. For this is the day that I have made, a day especially made for you to receive my love, to receive my healing and for you to enter deeply into my presence. Come. Release all anxiety, release every barrier. Come.”
Praying in preparation of giving a talk during Lent the Lord gave these instructions: “My child, the people come forth for blessing, tell them of the blessings that are theirs for the asking.” Ask for the blessings of “Peace, certainly, blessing for others in need, for those who have departed in faith, for their families, for themselves. These promises are well documented. Next teach them to go beyond the desire for blessing to the depth of my Mercy. Love is the key to my Mercy. Love for others in need opens the flow of Mercy to those in need for whom you pray.”
The Lord continued, “There is also a Mercy that flows to the sinner who repents out of Love for the Lord God. The depths of darkness are whisked away when repentance because of love is given. Fear of consequences also brings repentance and allows the heart to be open to my grace, but it is the love that allows the heart to be washed completely clean in My Mercy.”
Then the Lord told me, “Tell the children this:
- Ask with a contrite heart.
- Ask with belief in the fullness of God’s power and ability.
- Ask for those who cannot ask for themselves.
- Ask with a heart most pure: reconcile yourself to God before You ask for favor to receive the fullness of God’s mercy.”
Now, as the Lord said this, I saw a cup full of rocks, a cup full of sand and realized no matter how much water is poured in, it does not hold much. Instantly, I realized to receive the fullness of God’s mercy we must clean out our hearts of sin, of distractions, doubt unforgiveness, and causes of hardness of heart. Then the Lord continued.
- “Ask for more than is ‘necessary’.
“Many choose to ‘get by’ with only what must be done. They attend mass on Sunday but do not comprehend the mystery of the Eucharistic celebration. They baptize their children but are in a ‘fog’ about what they ‘profess’ to believe as they recite the Creed. They look at their watches and wonder when it will conclude so that they may move on to worldly activities. –Yet the children who have stepped forward to hear my word this day have a desire to move beyond the ‘necessary’.
Ask for deep spiritual awakening. Ask to be aware each moment of the day of the love and mercy of your God. Ask for fulfillment of the promises; not just the promises connected to devotion to My Sacred Heart and Divine Mercy, but the promises of the new Covenant.”
The Lord said, “I have placed my covenant before the people, and it lays dormant—the people hold back their hearts and wills from Me. They are afraid to step out in faith. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you boldness. Let there be a “stepping out”. For the people – all the people of the world – to receive healing today, all that is necessary is for my people to step out in faith in the promise of my covenant; heal the sick, lay hands on them and they will recover. All that is necessary for the world to turn to Me is for My People to step out in faith to complete my command: Go forth among the nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.”
The Lord then said, “My dearest child, you ask what to teach my children. Teach them this: My Mercy is available to them. They are like a man adrift upon a raft in the ocean of my mercy. Until you dip your cup into it and partake, until you pour my mercy over yourself, you will not be refreshed. But to get the fullness of Mercy, you must abandon your raft and enter into that which will save you from all distress.” After the Lord said this, I could see the one who repents out of fear or guilt is like the one who pours a ‘cup’ of water, a cup of God’s mercy to refresh themselves. It does refresh but we quickly need refreshment. But the one who repents out of love, dives into the ocean and is totally refreshed and is less likely to get parched by sin like being parched in the desert or being parched on a raft where we think the water is salty or brackish because that is all we have known. I realized that we are ‘drinking’ with a dirty cup; the water itself is pure.
The Lord has more to tell us about his mercy during Lent. This is Day 12. We invite you to subscribe or follow and come back tomorrow for our Daily Meditations for Lent – Lenten Logos with Patti Brunner. Remember: “The event of the Cross and Resurrection abides and draws everything toward life.”[i] “Prepare for it, ready your heart.” The transcript of this episode is available at PatriarchMinistries.com/282. Come back tomorrow for more. With the Holy Spirit there’s always more. Amen
[i] Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraph 1085
