"To turn our lives into
prayers" means to live and converse
with Jesus and Mama Mary at every moment, completely offering up the totality
of our lives to the Lord through Mama Mary.
Jesus made this devotion known for all the children in the world,
saying: "To turn your lives into prayers means to completely offer up the
totality of your lives to Me through My Mother as littler and littler persons,
even when your thoughts are imperfect." (June 13, 2000)
Thus, we
need to offer up everything we do in our lives, even the littlest, most
trivial, and seemingly worthless matters. When we do all things (eating, putting on
clothes, etc.) in the name of, together with, and for the sake of Our Lord, we
are breathing, moving, and living in the Lord, and it is the Lord, not
ourselves, who lives in us. This devotion of turning our lives into prayers is
an amazing gift of love from the Lord and Mama Mary and is a shortcut to
practicing the messages of Our Lady of Naju as well as the spirituality of Our
Lady of Naju.
"That is because your turning your life into prayers,
which you have been imploring (others to practice) and which is to totally
offer up and turn into prayers everything from the moment you wake up to the
moment you fall asleep, not neglecting even little and trivial things, becomes
dissolved in My Sacred Heart and My Mother's Immaculate Heart and becomes one (with Them); it pulls out the nails one
after another which the children of the world have driven into Me by offending
(Me); and it becomes prayers of consolation that wipe away My Mother Mary's tears and tears of blood." (November 2, 2000)
Thus, when we make sincere
efforts to completely offer up everything in our daily lives to the Lord
through Mama Mary, especially not neglecting even the littlest and most trivial
things, the Lord and Mama Mary will turn our such efforts into big merits of
pulling out the nails driven into the Hearts of Jesus and Mama Mary and
stitching up Their torn Hearts. They
(our efforts) will also become immeasurable glory, praise, and consolation to
the Lord and Mama Mary and will lead us to walk the way of sanctity and
perfection as humble, little souls and, on the last day, entitle us to the
right and privilege of picking and eating fruits of the tree of eternal life in
Heaven.
Therefore,
this simple and humble devotion of turning our lives into prayer is a certain
sign that the Lord and Mama Mary want not just some special souls but all the
children in the world to gain and enjoy Heaven.
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