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

Monday, 29 July 2002

I  SPEAK  TO  YOU  WHEN  YOU  LISTEN
         
Dear Paul, Rita and Friends,
I wish you a good day on the Feast of St. Martha, who often had as a
guest in her home, Jesus Himself. He now wants to make His home in our
hearts. Yesterday, I celebrated Holy Mass at St. Mark's in Burton,
P.E.I. and at Alberton. We prayed for the success of the World Youth Day
which came to an end yesterday. In the afternoon, I went to Lennox
Island for their St. Ann's Day which is celebrated every year at the end
of July. There was a large crowd of people present. I spent some time in
the little church dedicated to St. Ann and I asked the Lord to bless all
the people who live on that small island.

In prayer today, I spent my 30 minutes with Jesus. He spoke saying,
"Melvin, you are my faithful friend, I love you. I bring you this
morning to a beautiful resting place in the mountain where you can
admire the beauty of nature and spend time with me. I call all my
friends to this restful place so they can commune with me. Each person
has the need to spend time with me every day. This is the heart to heart
prayer by which our love can grow. You and I must become one in spirit.
I need to grow in your heart so that we think as one, become one in love
and work together. Your faith has to increase so that I am accepted
without any doubt. My dear friends, I live with you at every moment. Be
aware that you are constantly in my presence. I open my hand with the
gift of my grace to give you the strength to follow me. Make use of that
grace by submitting yourself to me. Give me the burdens you carry and
accept each day as it comes as your opportunity to love me more. Forget
about yourself and place your heart in me. Do not look back but look
forward as your time to grow in holiness and to deepen your friendship
with me. I am not difficult to find; I live in your heart and I speak to
you when you listen profoundly. Come and spent time with me. I bless you
all."

The words of Jesus this morning are full of love. He is our great friend
who calls us to Himself. The secret of friendship with Jesus is found in
that heart to heart prayer with Him. It is in contemplative prayer when
we are in a state of listening that He speaks to our heart. Open your
heart to Him and listen in silence and quietness. Enkindle your faith to
believe and know that He lives in your heart. He tells us this morning
to give Him our burdens and to find peace in Him. We have all the need
to spend time with Him and be strengthened by Him. Let us make a firm
resolution to pray every day.

I will go to the Manor this afternoon to celebrate the Holy Eucharist
with the residents. I will present to them St. Martha as a great model
to imitate. She believed in the Lord with all her heart and she followed
Him every day. The Lord loved to go to her home to rest when He was near
Jerusalem. I pray that He will come and make His home in your hearts
today.

Father Melvin

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