Dear pilgrims, who are aboard ‘Mary’s Ark of Salvation,’ thank you for coming in the midst of the cold weather! Now it’s New Year Day, 2019. On the last day of 2018 and at the beginning of this new year, you came here praying together with the Lord and the Blessed Mother who appeared and are present here in Naju, at the Blessed Mother’s Mountain, the holy city of God that flows with milk and honey. God will grant you abundant blessing and love.
Ringing in the new year together with the Infant Jesus who was born to save this world as Our Redeemer, let us be born again today and entrust ourselves to Our Blessed Mother of God, who is Our true Mother. And let us make a new start from now on. At this hour when people in the world are eating, drinking, and seeking pleasure at the year-end parties, or bidding the old year out, you are here graciously offering up not only the cold but also everything in your lives and are making a new resolution. How happy will the Lord and the Blessed Mother be seeing you! Do you feel it? (Yes!)
Jesus has laid himself down even for wicked sinners. What else can't He give to all of you, His beloved, who come together here working in prayer for the Lord and the Blessed Mother? As you come and pray continuously, persevering in accordance to your original resolution to Jesus and the Blessed Mother, all of your earnest prayers will come true. (Amen!)
In the closing year of 2018, for this very eventful year, let's forsake all our past impure secular things, by offering up our little flowers of self-denials. Let us make a bleeding effort again and again to correct our misbehaviours. Even if it is hard, we can do it if we make a determined effort. (Amen!)
In 2018, the Blessed Mother told us in Her Message of Love:
“There are a number of cases in which we indulge in narcissism, judging everything with our negative thoughts, and even punish others by our prejudice. Remember Gu-ja-gwan-ya and do not tear down the merits that you have accumulated so far. As humble little souls like children, arm yourselves with ‘the Five Spiritualities’ and offer up everything in a simple and beautiful manner.” ‘Gujagwanya’ (口者關也 : A mouth is just like a gateway, so that we must not run loose with our mouths carelessly)
You do remember, don’t you? Let’s not judge others by removing the eyeglass of prejudice, but rather, look positively at everything with our lovely gaze. May our eyes be changed into the eyes of the Lord and the Blessed Mother and the eyes of the Infant Jesus. The Lord and the Blessed Mother love us so much that they have showed us immeasurable and unprecedented miracles of love that cannot be seen anywhere in the world except here in Naju which is beyond all our human thoughts or imagination.
In this Sacred place, God's infinite blessings will be with us all who pray with Jesus and the Blessed Mother. Now, in dawning of the new year, 2019, let's work harder to develop our happiness. May you receive more abundant love from Jesus and the Blessed Mother. Let us arm ourselves with ‘the Five Spiritualities’ and practice it consistently, so that each day and at every moment of our life, we may all be full of joy, love, and peace and defeat the devil of division who fill the sky and the earth in order to do the Will of the Lord. Let us display the power of love forevermore, and be heroic and persevering in our utmost loyal ways to God. Amen! (Amen!)
The Blessed Mother grants us Heavenly Signs such as tears, fragrant oil and mother’s thick milk at every Christmas through the statue of the Infant Jesus.
The graces of the Signs of love have henceforth flowed into all of you today! Dear pilgrims who have responded with "Amen" and who are gathered here praying to the Lord and the Blessed Mother! Jesus has given us everything He has for us. So do not worry about those who criticize you may be thinking, but Just keep on praying, praying and spreading (the Message of love).
When God’s Hands are upon us, the thoughts of those who criticize will change quickly like the clouds that dissipate in the sky. Amen! (Amen!) Dear pilgrims, who recognize the voice of Jesus and the Blessed Mother and rush to Them! Even though if you experience a lot of difficulty and pain now, you who work for Jesus and the Blessed Mother will surely share love at Jesus’ dining table in His Kingdom where there is entirely no sorrow, pain, or suffering. The tears that you shed now will be completely wiped away before the throne in Heaven, where there is no thirst or hunger. You will be given a hundred-fold reward. Happiness will be yours. Won’t it?
Dear beloved pilgrims! Now is the time, and let's not hesitate or procrastinate anymore. Let us hold the hands of the Blessed Mother tightly, who is the String that ties Heaven and earth together, and put the Five Spiritualties into practice through ‘the Messages of Love, and thus participate in the work of saving this world. By doing this, in the midst of acclamation of angels and saints, let us join in the eternal heavenly banquet, where there is no death, starvation, thirst, sadness, suffering, or sighs any longer; but that is purely filled with love; and let us participate in the glory. Thank you.
