1 January 2017 – Feast of Mary, Mother of God
Message of Jesus
Walk the path towards freedom
“Children,
I want to bless you at the beginning of the new year. I bless each one of you and the whole of this people, the Foundation[1], your houses. I bless each of your initiatives, all that you want to achieve with Me and for Me.
I am pleased to see that you are more and more united in Me and that you want to walk along My path; I thank you for this. I want the blessing that is proclaimed in today’s reading[2] to become the blessing the people shall always be blessed with and with which you shall bless each other. This blessing contains the whole history of salvation and the experience of St. Francis. It has the power of placing My Name on you, and I want My Name to light up in this people in this year.
Children, it is My great wish that you reach the freedom of the children of God in this year. This is a great goal but you cannot reach it without Me. I came to Earth to free men, to lead them towards the truth, which is freedom, to make them free children of God. I want each one of you and the whole of this people to get to experience the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
You are free when you allow Me to glorify Myself in you. When I glorify Myself in you, you are free, for I break all chains inside you and around you. I want to lead this people towards the freedom of the glory of the children of God. I could not realise this in the people of Israel who refused this freedom; a large part of the Church of the Earth has also refused it. Do not do that! Welcome the gift of freedom which is the most precious gift of all today in the midst of a humanity who is enslaved by evil, egoism, the law of death which makes man miserable and incapable of discovering what is in Me.
I bless you with this wish but also with the certainty that you will be ready to follow Me towards freedom. You are not walking alone; I have given you all graces so that you may reach the freedom of the children of God. I have given you primarily My Mother as well as St. Joseph, the Archangels, the extraordinary instruments, the communion with the brothers and sisters of the universe who are walking together with you towards the new creation, towards the City of Freedom.
I bless you and forgive you all your sins; in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
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Below you find the blessing contained in the Book of Numbers, chapter 6:22-26, which was later taken up again by St. Francis of Assisi. It is the formula used in the Franciscan Missal:
The Lord bless you and keep you
Amen
The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you
Amen
The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace
Amen
May the blessing of Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
come upon you and remain with you forever
Amen
[1] Jesus refers to the foundation “Fortezza dell’Immacolata“, which is “Foundation of the Immaculate“ in English.
[2] Num 6:22-26