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   The love of God frees us from envy and jealousy   
      
   How can we overcome envy? With the love that God has put into our   
   hearts through the gift of the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5). The Holy   
   Spirit purifies our heart and frees us from our disordered passions,   
   such as envy, jealously, greed, and bitterness. God's love is a   
   generous and selfless love which is wholly oriented towards our good.   
   The love that God places in our hearts seeks the highest good of our   
   neighbor. God's love purifies and frees us from all envy and jealousy   
   --and it compels us to give generously, especially to those who lack   
   what they need.   
      
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   August 3rd - Our Lady of Akita: The 2nd Message   
      
   Today, marks the anniversary of the second message delivered to Sister   
   Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa by Our Lady of Akita, Japan. Previously, in   
   June of 1973, Sister Agnes had witnessed a heavenly glow emanating   
   from the tabernacle in the convent chapel, and had witnesses a   
   “multitude of angels surrounding the alter in adoration before the   
   Blessed Sacrament.” A wooden statue of the Blessed Virgin had also   
   begun to weep. Following her vision, Sister Agnes had developed a   
   miraculous stigmata on her hand in the shape of a cross, which   
   appeared each week.   
      
   Sister Agnes, deaf in both ears, reported three messages in total from   
   the Blessed Virgin during 1973. The last vision would occur in   
   October. The statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary- carved from a single   
   block of Katsura wood from a tree, and approximately three feet tall--   
   continued to weep thereafter for some years. On July 6, 1973, Sister   
   Agnes reported that she first heard the statue calling her. She was   
   visited by her guardian angel and Our Blessed Mother and the wooden   
   statue also began to bleed. The message of Our Blessed Mother on July   
   6 was to pray for the reparation of the sins of man.   
      
   She also provided Sister Agnes with the Akita Prayer:   
      
   Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, truly present in the Holy Eucharist, I   
   consecrate my body and soul to be entirely one with Thy Heart, being   
   sacrificed at every instant on all the altars of the world and giving   
   praise to the Father pleading for the coming of his Kingdom. Please   
   receive this humble offering of myself. Use me as Thou wilt for the   
   glory of the Glory of the Father and salvation of souls. Most Holy   
   Mother of God, never let me be separated from Thine Divine Son. Please   
   defend and protect me as Thy special child. Amen   
      
   On August 3, Sister Agnes was in the chapel praying the Rosary when   
   her guardian angel appeared to her. She had come armed with a list of   
   questions, proposed by her bishop, to ask Our Blessed Mother, should   
   she return. Her guardian angel said to her:   
      
   " You have something to ask? Go ahead, you have no need to be troubled."   
      
   Sister Agnes began to speak, but was interrupted by the beautiful   
   voice from the statue, saying:   
      
   "My daughter, my novice, do you love the Lord? If you love the Lord,   
   listen to what I have to say to you. It is very important...You will   
   convey it to your superior.   
      
   Many men in this world afflict the Lord. I desire souls to console Him   
   to soften the anger of the Heavenly Father. I wish, with my Son, for   
   souls who will repair by their suffering and their poverty for the   
   sinners and ingrates.   
      
   In order that the world might know His anger, the Heavenly Father is   
   preparing to inflict a great chastisement on all mankind. With my Son   
   I have intervened so many times to appease the wrath of the Father. I   
   have prevented the coming of calamities by offering Him the sufferings   
   of the Son on the Cross, His Precious Blood, and beloved souls who   
   console Him forming a cohort of victim souls. Prayer, penance and   
   courageous sacrifices can soften the Father's anger. I desire this   
   also from your community...that it love poverty, that it sanctify   
   itself and pray in reparation for the ingratitude and outrages of so   
   many men.   
      
   Recite the prayer of the Handmaids of the Eucharist with awareness of   
   its meaning; put it into practice; offer in reparation (whatever God   
   may send) for sins. Let each one endeavor, according to capacity and   
   position, to offer herself entirely to the Lord.   
      
   Even in a secular institute prayer is necessary. Already souls who   
   wish to pray are on the way to being gathered together. Without   
   attaching to much attention to the form, be faithful and fervent in   
   prayer to console the Master."   
      
   Sister Agnes reported a long silence occurred at this point, where she   
   prayed in earnest to be worthy to receive the messages of Mary. She   
   was rewarded with a further message:   
      
   "Is what you think in your heart true? Are you truly decided to become   
   the rejected stone? My novice, you who wish to belong without reserve   
   to the Lord, to become the spouse worthy of the Spouse, make your vows   
   knowing that you must be fastened to the Cross with three nails. These   
   three nails are poverty, chastity, and obedience. Of the three,   
   obedience is the foundation. In total abandon, let yourself be led by   
   your superior. He will know how to understand you and to direct you."   
      
   In total, Sister Agnes would receive three messages from Our Lady of   
   Akita, similar to those delivered by Our Lady of Fatima. Additional   
   miracles would occur, including several miraculous cures. As with her   
   other appearances on earth, Our Blessed Mother urges us to pray the   
   Rosary daily, to lift our lives to the Lord in reparation for not only   
   our own sins, but the sins of mankind. She urges prayer, penance, and   
   courageous sacrifice for the sins of others. Our Blessed Mother   
   promises to intercede for us, if we only ask her to: Our Blessed   
   Mother, our constant advocate, Mediatrix of all Graces, and   
   Co-Redemptrix of the Human Race!   
    --by Jacob   
      
   Saint Quote:   
   "He who purifies himself from his faults in the present life,   
   satisfies with a penny a debt of a thousand ducats; and he who waits   
   until the other life to discharge his debts, consents to pay a   
   thousand ducats for that which he might before have paid with a   
   penny."   
   --Saint Catherine, Treatise on purgatory.   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Who shall find a valiant woman? far and from the uttermost coasts is   
   the price of her. 11 The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he   
   shall have no need of spoils. 12 She will render him good, and not   
   evil, all the days of her life.  (Proverbs 31:10-12) DRB   
      
      
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   Saint Anthony, Disperser of Devils   
      
   Dear St. Anthony, it is still as St. Peter said: The devil prowls   
   about, lion-like, looking for someone to devour. I confess that   
      
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