Father Melvin Doucette

Palmer Road North, R.R. 2, Tignish,

Prince Edward Island C0B 2B0 Canada

Monday, 13 May 2002

RECEIVE MY STRENGTH

Dear Paul, Rita and Friends,

Greetings on this bright morning as the sun streams through my window! There was a white frost on the grass this morning but it quickly went away in the sun. Yesterday, I was at Alberton Parish for the two celebrations of the Holy Eucharist and I sold almost all copies of the book, "My Thirty Day Retreat." I have only 3 left. My sister and I had a great afternoon with our mother yesterday. I went to get her at 12:15 and brought her to her former home. She could not remember that she had lived there for many years. We had supper at my sister's and she enjoyed herself looking at pictures and Mother's Day cards. She cannot read anymore because of the deterioration of her eyes. I brought her back to the Manor around 7:00 PM after taking her for a drive along familiar roads. In the evening, I attended the seminar in the Life of the Spirit and we prayed with those people who could not be there last Sunday. I spent my usual half hour with Jesus in prayer this morning.

Jesus spoke to me saying: "Melvin, I love you. Come into my heart and find the joy that the world cannot give. All need to be protected from the world, from its evil effects. The mentality of the secular world is far from me for it lives on the illusion that there is no God, no law and no need to give an accounting of one's life. This sort of life breeds only darkness and despair. Those who belong to it cannot find peace. This world will pass away and be forgotten as a bad dream. It is those who belong to me who live in the light and find fulfillment in following me. Come, my dear brothers and sisters, do not fear to approach me. Open your heart to me that I may make my home with you. Make acts of faith in me and know that I truly exist and I am your Saviour. Give me all your pain and suffering, your anxiety and fears, your problems and difficulties and I will take them away. I will replace them with my peace and joy. Did I die for you for nothing? Will my love find a response in you? My divine love is upon you and it will change your life. I will give you a new heart to love as I love you. Receive my strength and my grace to walk closely with me. I embrace you, I love you."

Today Jesus spoke about the love relationship He wants with each one of us. It is only in the strong rays of His love, that we can grow and shed all our pride and our attraction to sin. He frees us from all attachments of this world and opens us to the things of the spirit. His suffering and death on the cross was not for nothing. Through His life of pain, He won for us our salvation. We need, though, to come to Him and accept Him and turn our lives over to Him. What we cannot do on our own, He will do for us with His grace. Let us embrace Him without fear and follow the path He traces out for us. May the Lord give us His strength to renew us and to continue our walk with Him.

Father Melvin

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