The Call of Levi

January 11, 2015

The Call of Levi

A reading from the Gospel of Saint Luke 5, 27 – 39:

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him. Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were at table with them. The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus said to them in reply, “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do. I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.”
And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink.” Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” And he also told them a parable, “No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one. Otherwise, he will tear the new and the piece from it will not match the old cloak. Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skin will be ruined. Rather, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins. And no one who has been drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’ “

The money for the project of Our Blessed Mother and for the monasteries asked by Jesus has not arrived yet. The court is asking for another $2,500 to pay for the work done. I received $1,000 and what I need now is $1,500. I pray that some can send me the money so I can pay this so the money can arrive shortly. I need the money by Wednesday next week. You can send the money via Paypal which you can find if you go to Our Lady of PEI website. I thank all those who have sent me money during the last weeks. It was very helpful to pay the bills I had. May the Lord bless you all.

Below you will find the message of Our Lord and Savior given to Father Melvin. Jesus spoke to him these words,

“You have all received a call from Me My brother Melvin and all My brothers and sisters and how I wish that you all accept the call and work to carry it out. As the biblical passage above shows, I called a tax collector named Levi to be My disciples and in time he was to become an Apostle. The Pharisees and scribes would never even think that I would call such a sinner for all tax collectors in their eyes are sinners. However, they do not know that I have come on earth to call sinners and through My Passion and death on the cross, I will take away all their sins. The Pharisees and scribes considered themselves non-sinners but they did not realized that they too were great sinners and needed repentance to take away their sins. The Pharisees complained to Me against the Apostles because they did not fast as did the disciples of John the Baptist and the disciples of the Pharisees. I told them that as long as the bridegroom is with them, they cannot fast. You must remember that I am the bridegroom. When I am taken away from them, then they will fast.
At the beginning of My public life, I went around and selected twelve men as My Apostles. I had selected them and their call was to begin My Church. They remained with Me for three years and after My death and resurrection, they received the Holy Spirit and on that day they began My Church. They did very well in giving birth to My Church. There is only one who did not follow Me and that one is Judas Iscariot. He sold Me for thirty pieces of silver. He left the table at the Last Supper and the next day he committed suicide. All the other Apostles are great saints who worked extremely well in the building up of My Church under the leadership of Saint Peter. Follow My Church and you will be blessed. I love you all.”

Father Melvin

P.S. We had a beautiful sunny day but it was about minus 9 degrees Celsius.