Notes for this theme
Reading comfort
GRM 35.12
Give Me your sorrow. That is all I want. It is greater than anything else you could give Me. It is Friday today, Mary. Think of My grief and of My Mother’s on Golgotha in order to be able to bear your cross.
Our peace and love remain with you.
GRM 36.8
True love is not selfish.
GRM 36.9
Whatever comes from Good God is ‘good’. Even if it is poor and meagre, love gives it flavour and body, the love that allows you to see, in the Eternal Creator, the Father Who loves you.
GRM 36.9
In that house they love work, and they would love it even if there was plenty of money, because the working man obeys the command of God and frees himself from vice, which like tenacious ivy clenches and suffocates idle people, who are like immovable rocks. Food is good, rest is serene, hearts are happy, when you have worked well and you enjoy the resting time between one job and the next one. Neither in the houses nor in the minds of those who love work, can various vices arise. And, in its absence, love, esteem, mutual respect prosper and tender children grow in a pure atmosphere and they thus become the origin of future holy families.
Maria has just seen a vision of the Holy Family in Egypt.
GRM 36.9
Food is good, rest is serene, hearts are happy, when you have worked well and you enjoy the resting time between one job and the next one. Neither in the houses nor in the minds of those who love work, can various vices arise. And, in its absence, love, esteem, mutual respect prosper and tender children grow in a pure atmosphere and they thus become the origin of future holy families.
GRM 37.8
(...) A son is not only flesh. He has a mind, a heart, a soul. Believe Me, no one is more entitled and more obliged than a father and a mother to form that mind, that heart, that soul.
GRM 38.7
Is it not fair that two, who love each other, should have the same thoughts and the same wishes, so that each may accept the wishes of the other as if they were his own?
GRM 38.7
ou do not necessarily spoil your children just because you keep them at home. To keep them at home implies loving them with good common sense and wholeheartedly.
GRM 38.8
You must keep their attention and let them relax at the same time. You must understand them, love them, and be loved by them, if you wish to get good results.
Mary agrees to teach Jude and James of Alphaeus and she says:
GRM 39.4
My Jesus needs love to be happy.