Questions and Answers: Our Lady's message of December 26, 2009
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As thousands of words spill out from the Haitian pictures, they grab hold of us quickly and tightly. They take away our breath. Then, they pull us into the suffering of those who stood on the earth as it quaked. Those thousands of picture words string together in a lamentation, so profoundly innocent and sad that when they break silence, their mere whisper shatters hearts. A spontaneous call and response conversation between the soul and intellect is drummed up. The soul cries. The intellect responds with one word: "Why?"
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Have you ever ask God why He permits suffering? My answer, "Yes, I have." But few things have brought this question to the forefront like seeing Haitian people, especially the children and aged, stagger back to life, like Lazarus, dusted heavily with cracked and broken earth talcum powder. There is a struggle to see the situation from God's eyes. But often, this struggle dissolves into a scene on a foggy spiritual battlefield where trust does combat with the human perspective. It may seem like Heaven is silent through it all, permitting evil an opportunity to twist and distort Truth. But, Heaven is not silent. Rather, Heaven is pouring down torrents of messages, through Our Lady of Emmitsburg, which provide guidance and answers to difficult questions in difficult times. As a mother teaches her children, Our Lady spoke to the world about many important issues on December 26, 2009, for complete message. The focus here, however, surrounds only her remarks on God's ways, so mysterious to us. Her words speak volumes, as we react to catastrophes, both worldwide and personal:
"[I]f you have many questions and wonder 'why' God allows this or that, or 'why' His answers do not fulfill to your liking, or 'why' your outcomes give you doubt or despair, then perhaps you should reflect on my Son Who Himself looked for help from God the Father and even thought that His Father had abandoned Him, or reflect on a sorrowful Mother who wondered 'why' my Son would die in such a manner."
Our Lady's statements not only provide a remedy when suffering comes, meditation on the Passion and Death of Jesus, but her comments also snap us out of the belief that enduring hardship, pain, and difficulties are exclusive to us, as she points out that she too has suffered and "wondered ‘why"'. And more importantly, she reminds us that the Creator, God Incarnate, the Son of the Father, also suffered, unfathomably, and while doing so cried out a question: "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?" So it appears, our questions in the throes of suffering may be an authentic part of the human experience.
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But what about our desire for answers? Is that also a part of the human experience, or are there answers that we simply have no right to demand? In the same message, Our Lady discloses, "There is a reason [for suffering] that I am not allowed to reveal". Following up on that comment, she offered words of hope: "...[T]he day will come when you will know [the reason], because all the world will know." Then, she offered challenges, through questions directed at us. When referring to the repeated question of why the slaughter of the Holy Innocent children, murdered by Herod's command, was permitted, she said: "With all the indifference and lack of holiness, why should my Son reveal the Truth of His Glory?" Through this question, she has given answers: She has disclosed, in a way that only a mother can, that we need to take stock of ourselves and realize that many of the answers we seek from God may not be given due to the consequence of our own lack of Love. This question contains the challenge to Love. Other challenges she posed in that message came through a series of questions:
"So, even though He is a King in all His righteousness, perhaps He wants to see if you truly are worthy though your littleness and faithfulness, and your loyalty and fidelity, to be called to His banquet. If you knew Him as "King", you would be His best friend. But if you don't know, do you want to be His friend? Or is it too bothersome? Are you annoyed? Does it take too much time to ponder His Love?"
This passage challenges us to shift our perspective from asking questions of God to asking questions of ourselves. It also challenges us to shift the focus from our hunger for answers to dining at the banquet table of the Lord, the only place in all of eternity where we are filled to capacity. It is at this banquet that we are given the wisdom to grasp the answers, coupled with trust and faith to the extent that questions are no longer necessary. Our Lady's questions force introspection and self evaluation. This brings about the realization that answers are rarely given on demand, but rather come about through the practice of "littleness and faithfulness...loyalty and fidelity". These are the virtues necessary to feast at the banquet table of the Lord, where we are fed the grace to see the disguised King sharing in the suffering of His children.
The information on this web site contains excerpts from Private Revelations 12:1, The Prophecies of Our Lady of Emmitsburg.
So fly away you evil spirits! The Lion of the Tribe of Juda, the Root of David has conquered. All the evil ones shall be silenced and cast into the Lion's mouth.
