Anytime a person is in danger because of ill health or injury, they ought to call on the priests to have them anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick can, and in certain cases, be repeated.

We are trained that hope means that tomorrow, there will be no more illness, tomorrow there will be more money, tomorrow a relationship will be pieced back together, tomorrow I will suffer less, have more, and will experience no discomfort. That is NOT what the Christian means by hope. For the Christian, Hope is something much more profound, something all together superior to some vague wish that tomorrow is more pleasant that today.

Brothers and sisters, I could not talk to you as spiritual people, but as fleshly people, as infants in Christ. I fed you milk, not solid food, because you were unable to take it. Indeed, you are still not able, even now, for you are still of the flesh. While there is jealousy and rivalry among you, are you not of the flesh, and walking according to the manner of man?

If I understand the times of Consolation and Desolation that I experience, I am equipped then, to know if I am truly a friend of God, and where I can become a more intimate friend.

If you have been away from the Church, come home. I wait to welcome you back into the Father’s house. I stand ready to embrace you. If you have been hurt by someone in the Church bring that hurt with you and let me help your bear it.

I entrust all of this to Mary, the Queen of Heaven and Earth.

To put simply, prepare for war! The spiritual life is a battle, and we too quickly dismiss this as being overly spiritual or we doubt that the fight is real. While we are in a state of Spiritual Consolation we are in a period of peace where we are blessed with the opportunity to bind the wounds of the previous battle, to strengthen our armor, to restock our weapons and munitions, regain our strength, rest and regain our energy.