Father Melvin Doucette
1704 Palmer Road North, R.R. 2
Tignish, Prince Edward Island
C0B 2B0  Canada

Friday, 06 September 2002

I  BLESS  YOU

Dear Paul, Rita and Friends,
Good morning on this windy and cold day! It surely feels like autumn
with the large clouds racing along in the sky. I went to see my mother
yesterday evening. She is still bleeding and getting weaker but her
spirits are good. Please continue to pray for her that this bleeding
stops.

My prayer on this Friday morning brought me to Gethsemane where Jesus
suffered the Agony. He spoke to me saying, "Melvin, my brother, come and
join me with Peter, James and John as we go a little distance to pray.
We are in the Garden of Gethsemane. Watch and pray that you may not
enter into temptation. I am sorrowful unto death, Father, because
tomorrow I will die in great torment on the cross. My body shutters at
this terrible death and my heart faints. Father, may this cup pass me by
but not my will but yours be done. Melvin, I am suffering the agony here
tonight. My heart is very heavy as I see what will soon happen. It is
now the hour of Satan who will mount a terrible attack on me. My heart
is pounding so hard in my chest that I am sweating blood. Yet, in all
this great suffering, my Apostles are asleep. They do not yet realize
that the moment has arrived for me to give up my life for the salvation
of the people of the whole world. Watch and pray together with me, my
dear friends. Keep me company during this dark hour when I am living in
my heart what will happen tomorrow. You are all my friends and I love
you. Pray for those who do not believe in me. Offer your prayers and
love to the Father for reparation for the terrible crimes committed
against me every day. I offer my live to the Father for you all. I bless
you."

I was brought back during my prayer to Holy Thursday in Jerusalem when
we spent a large part of the night in Gethsemane on the stone where
Jesus suffered the agony and sweated blood. Pain and sorrow filled my
heart this morning as I was with Jesus listening to His heart prayer to
His Father. He pleaded that this horrible death would go away, that He
would be spared from it. However, at the end He made the great act of
obedience to His Father wishing to do only His will. It is also out of
love for us that He consented to undergo the Passion and death. He calls
us today to offer our prayers and our love to the Father in reparation
for the many sins committed against Him. We have only to see the
millions of unborn children killed every year to see how these actions
cause Him so much pain. There are others who insult Him and commit all
kinds of sins against Him. Yet He offered His life for them too. He
wants their conversion and their salvation. Let us spend some time with
Jesus today in His Passion.

I will celebrate the Holy Eucharist and hold an Island wide Cenacle of
the Marian Movement at the local parish here this evening at 7:00 PM.
This will be the third year that I have such a celebration in honour of
Our Blessed Mother. After Holy Mass we will pray the rosary all
together, pray for the Pope, read a passage from the Marian book and all
present will consecrate themselves to the Immaculate Heart. I will pray
for all of you.

May Jesus as He undergoes His Passion, bring us all close to Him.
 
Father Melvin

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