Friday, July 6, 2012
The Ministry of Reconciliation
Dear Friends,
A reading from St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians (2 Cor 5:11-21):
Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade others; but we are clearly apparent to God, and I hope we are also apparent to your consciousness. We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you an opportunity to boast of us, so that you may have something to say to those who boast of external appearance rather than of the heart. For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are rational, it is for you. For the love of Christ impels us, once we have come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died. He indeed died for all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
Consequently, from now on we regard no one according to the flesh; even if we once knew Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no longer. So whoever is in Christ is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold new things have come. And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So, we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
I wish to thank all those who wrote to me during the last month saying they would pray for me. Thank you for your prayers. Some have even sent me a donation to help me with the expenses I have and to them I say a big thank you too. Let us continue to pray that all that Our Blessed Mother asked for may be accomplished soon.
(Below you will find the message of Our Lord and Redeemer given to Father Melvin. Jesus spoke to him these words.)
“Be reconcile to Our Heavenly Father and to Me, your Redeemer, I appeal especially to you My brother Melvin and all My brothers and sisters living in every country of the world. I came into the world to show the way you should follow and to establish My Church and at the end I offered Myself in oblation to My Heavenly Father by dying on the cross and so I paid the price for all your sins. As the Son of God I had not sinned but I took upon Myself all your sins and atoned for them all in great suffering. I spilled My blood and that was what I had to do in order to offer to the Father this sacrifice of Myself. In the Old Testament, the Jewish people used animals to offer a sacrifice for their sins. The animal was killed and the blood was poured out. Indeed I am the Lamb of God who replaced the lamb at the Passover in Egypt when I died on the cross and the soldier pierced My heart and My blood poured out. Now what is needed for each one of you is that you be reconciled with the Father through Me. There is a sacrament of reconciliation, which every follower of mine should receive from the hands of the priests. In this way My Father and I will come and live in your hearts for we love you.”
Father Melvin