October 19, 2014
Freedom from the Law
A reading from Saint Paul’s letter to the Romans 7, 1 – 6:
Are you unaware brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to people who know the law) that the law has jurisdiction over one as long as one lives. Thus a married woman is bound by law to her living husband; but if her husband dies; she is released from the law in respect to her husband. Consequently, while her husband is alive she will be called an adulteress if she consorts with another man. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and she is not an adulteress if she consorts with another man.
In the same way, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God. For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions awakened by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, dead to what held us captive, so that we may serve in the newness of the spirit and not under the obsolete letter.
I am always very happy to pray with people who are sick. The Lord gave me this gift of healing to be used every day if possible. So people come to see me or others telephone me and explain to me their sickness and their pain. So if they are at the chapel, I make them sit before the image of Our Blessed Mother and I place my hands on their heads asking the Lord through the intercession of Our Dear Mother to heal the sick people. If it is by telephone I pray over the phone for the healing of the sick person. I must say that it is better for the person if he or she is with me where I am than just praying on the phone. However, people have been healed too by telephone.
Below you will find the message of Our Lord and Savior given to Father Melvin. Jesus spoke to him these words,
“I wish to tell you again My brother Melvin and all My brothers and sisters who are united to Me that because of your faith and baptism, you have been freed from the law known as the Mosaic Law. You can eat pork without any trouble. You do not have to be circumcised. You can eat with any person even those the Jews call sinners. You do not have to go to church on the Sabbath which is on Saturday but you go to church on Sunday because I rose from the dead on the first day of the week. All these Jewish laws do not apply to you Christians for I freed you from them. What you have to follow is this: Love God with all your heart and soul and love your neighbor as yourself. You are to forgive all those who have hurt you in any way as you recite in the “Our Father” every day. I call you to pray every day and to go to church on Sunday to take part in Holy Mass and to receive Me in Holy Communion. Pray for all those in need and for your needs too. I am always there to help you. Remember the ten Commandments of My Father have not been abolished. You are called to follow them with all your strength enlivened by the Holy Spirit.
My friends, follow the way I have shown you and you will be blessed by My Father and by Me. I love you all.”
Father Melvin
P.S. We had a most cloudy day but the sun did come out at times.