Let us also become the five wise virgins and welcome Jesus! (Dec 3, 2022)

 
Praise be to Jesus! Praise be to the Blessed Mother!


Nice to see you. I had great difficulties the day before yesterday and until today when I came here. I couldn’t move my entire shoulders and no matter what I did, I couldn’t move them. I realized, “Ah! Our pilgrims with shoulder pain will be healed on the First Saturday!” Even typing on the computer keyboard was extremely difficult for me. But I had to do it even though it hurt. Since yesterday, the extreme pain in my left shoulder blade has made it very difficult for me to breathe. I believe many of you with muscle cramps will be healed tonight.


Dear all, be healed of all of them! And you suffer a lot because of people, don’t you? (Yes!) Yes, you do a lot, right? (Right!) Yes, you do a lot. You will also be healed from it. I came here today feeling like crying the entire time because of such people. Even after arriving here, I still felt like only crying.

I had severe stomach cramps, which felt like writhing and nausea. So, I went to the toilet and strained my lower abdomen tightly. Then my rectum, which had prolapsed due to the pains in reparation for the sins of homosexuality, prolapsed again this much. The rectum had almost fallen out, and I couldn’t defecate or vomit. I only writhed and left the toilet.


So, I offered up all these for you. You sometimes suffer from conflicts and have anger because of others, right? Dear all, may you be healed from these things as well. I offered up all these for you.

And I offered up my sore shoulder for all of you who have frozen shoulder, the severe pain that causes difficulty to breathe, and muscle cramps. With that sore shoulder, I cut my hair and did some hairdo somehow not to come here with just a plain hairstyle. And cutting my hair, I prayed for the repentance of people as the number of my hairs.

Other times, I offered up for the repentance of sinners as the number of my hairs being cut, for resolving the spiritual and physical problems of our pilgrims, and for their healing. Today I offered up the prayer, “Please heal each pilgrim’s all the ailments as the numbers as many times as the hair I cut.” Hence, may all of you be healed!


And I keep having a parched and a bitter mouth. May you be healed, those who have these symptoms! Because of my bitter mouth, someone suggested me to suck on candy. When I did so, my teeth became sensitive, even though it should not have been so. If you have a toothache, be healed of it today! And all those who want to cry today, please cry to your hearts’ content and be healed!

In the Gospel of Matthew 24:36-38, “But of that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” We heard Gloria’s testimony a while ago. It happened to her out of the blue. But this can happen to anyone. Her mother couldn’t prepare herself well due to the death from a heart attack, right? We do not know the day nor the hour.

What happened in Noah’s Deluge? Everything was swept away and flooded. We are told that it would be so when the Son of God comes. We never know when the thief will break in. If we knew when the thief would come, we would be thoroughly on guard. However, people usually prepare after being robbed, saying, “Mend the barn after the horse is stolen.” We also don’t know when such a thing will happen to us.

Our parents might face a sudden death or we ourselves also might die that way. Aren’t there too many things like that? So, we must always be vigilant and prepare ourselves. We don’t know when Jesus will take our lives: today, tomorrow, 10 years, or 100 years later. It might not be 100 years, but you might live such a long life.

So, no matter when the Lord calls us, how wonderful it would be if we are truly well prepared, and if He brings us up to Heaven saying, “Yes, you are here now for you have well prepared!”

It is not enough for us to just arm ourselves with the Five Spiritualities. We have to put them into practice after completely arming us with them. Hasn’t it been only a while since our priest came here? But he is completely fascinated by the Five Spiritualities, right? However, no matter how many times I repeat again and again the same words for so many years, in the past 30 or 40 years, if people don’t accept them, I don’t know where they will end up when the Lord calls them.


Yesterday Father Alexander said in his homily, “Let us be nice to others when they are with us.” Let’s treat others well when they are with us. No matter when the person dies, we should be able to confess, “Oh, I feel so sorry about him, but at least I’ve treated him well.” For I couldn’t treat my mother well, my heart still aches a lot. People around me say, “You really did your best to be filial to your mother. Nobody will treat their parents better than you!” But my heart still aches.

When I married, my mother said, “You don’t have to do anything for me. Just buy me some skates (fish) when I visit your home,” because she only liked skates. But I couldn’t do that even once. While she was peddling to support me in my studies, she made a lot of money. But she had to give all the money to her second brother and she herself couldn’t even have a bowl of soup. When I could afford skate for her, she was already too old to eat it.

But by the time I could afford it, her teeth had already got bad and she couldn’t eat it. So, “Let us be nice to others when they are with us.” We won’t regret if we treat others well when they are with us.


You have your parents, your husband or your wife. You don’t know when your wife will die, even so, your husband, your parents, and your children. There are many whose children passed away first. When their children die first, where will the parents bury them? They are buried in their parent’s hearts.

So we always have to stay awake and do well in any situation. What do you think of the parable of the ten virgins? If we stay awake, we can meet the bridegroom by putting oil in the lamp and lighting it up when he comes. The foolish virgins waited for him without preparing the lamp oil.

When they were told that he was coming, they couldn’t light the lamps though they tried to do so. But the five wise virgins prepared the oil in their lamps. So the foolish virgins said to the wise “Give us some of your oil.” But the wise ones replied, “No, for there may not be enough for us and you. Go instead to the merchants and buy some for yourselves.”

And the five wise virgins lit their lamps to prepare to meet the bridegroom and went to the wedding feast. Only then did foolish ones go off to buy oil and came back, but the door was already locked. That’s it. There is always the right time for each of us. We should prepare ourselves and wait for it, but there are so many people who don’t do so. That’s why Jesus and the Blessed Mother make us prepare well.

Now, let me ask you a question. Dear all, why are you here? What did you come for? Why are you here? To go to Heaven? What else? Why are you here? (To console the Lord and the Blessed Mother.)


Yes, you answered well. You came here to comfort Them. But the right answer is this. Because the Lord and the Blessed Mother love you so much that They personally called you to bring you to Heaven. That’s why you responded with Amen and came here. But for some of those who were loved so much by Jesus and the Blessed Mother and called here, no matter how their cancers and even the incurable diseases were healed and they received all the graces, when they don’t get along well with someone here, they just stop their pilgrimage.

Do we come here seeing at other people? There are many cases like that. There is a lady named Mira from Bali, Indonesia. She came here after she had been a lapsed Catholic for 14 years. At that time Father Jerry Orbos also came here. Then looking at her, he asked, “What have you come here for?” Then she thought, “Oh my, I have come because someone” asked me to come. Is there a reason for a pilgrim’s visit here?

Fr. Jerry still kept looking at her and asked, “What are you here for?” And she thought, “Why is that priest asking this question?” Then Fr. Jerry said, “It is because the Lord and Blessed Mother love you. They called you, so you’ve responded to Their call with Amen and came.”

But Mira didn’t recognize if she responded to the call with Amen. Because she came here after being a lapsed Catholic for 14 years, during the individual meeting with me, she thought, “Since I’ve committed so many sins so far, she will not meet me.” So she was at the end far from me.

Dear all, don’t ever think this way. Just as Jesus and the Blessed Mother love the sinners more, so do I. I really wanted to be a friend of people who had difficulties and sufferings. Even now I still have such heart.

But being sad, she was far away alone. While I was meeting others, she couldn’t come to me. She couldn’t come to me because she thought that I would push her aside and say, “You have committed too many sins.” Later she said to me that I had said, “Come to me.” She thought “Oh, why is she asking me to come?” but she came to me. And she said that I had smiled at her beautifully and hugged her. So she thought, “Oh! This is a place where the Lord loves the sinners!” Since then, she opened her heart and started to come here.


A while ago, a lady confessed during her testimony that she had six abortions in her past. But people in the past didn’t know that abortion is a sin. As she said, do priests and nuns teach that abortion is a murder? They don’t. That’s why people don’t know that abortion is a sin. I didn’t know much about that either when I didn’t know God. I didn’t know until I received Messages from the Blessed Mother. I didn’t know about it that well before I began offering up the pains in reparation for abortions either.

At the time I was running a beauty parlor, we heard about a torso murder case. Many customers were talking about that murder. “What a rascal! Authorities should chop the murderer to death. They should rip him into pieces.” So I asked them, “Wait, have you ever had an abortion by any chance?” Many of them spoke without reserve, “Sure!” I asked them, “How many times?” Then she said, “I only had eight.” And someone said, “I had thirteen.” They said so very proudly.

So I said, “Dear all, please listen to me well,” while doing their hairdos. Even while talking with others, I don’t stop moving my hands. While doing the hairdo, I said, “Dear all, please listen to me. You have killed 13 of your own children, eight of them, or five of them. But the murderer killed only one. What was abortion like?” It was before I received Messages.

“God grants us children, but people kill them by tearing them into pieces.” Although they killed their own children, they reasoned out saying, “He must be killed by being ripped into pieces,” and used all kinds of unspeakable words. So when I said that to them, the beauty parlor went into solemn mood. No one talked anymore.


I guess they all had abortions. They exclaimed, “Oh, I see! Dear me!” Some people were weeping. They were not Christians. “Oh my goodness, though I killed my child, I didn’t realize it and it’s murder.” I said to them that abortion is murder. Then, they cried saying, “I didn’t even know it was murder.”

So I said, “Let’s not judge others. It is also a great sin to try to take the speck out of another’s eye without seeing the plank in our own eyes. Before criticizing or cursing others, we should see ourselves first and ask ‘How well did I live?’” Then they said, “Oh my, this beauty parlor is really nice. I have to use this one only.”

I didn’t say that to get more customers. I only kept books on Catholicism in my beauty parlor. So when the bar girls would come for their hairdo, they complained, “Why doesn’t this beauty parlor have women’s magazines?” I even only played sacred songs in the beauty parlor.

And our hairdressers weren’t all catholic. When I was absent, the hairdressers would play secular songs that they bought and quickly changed them to hymns when I came back. You who came here as the children of the Lord are special. You are the ones who responded Amen specially to the call of the Lord and Blessed Mother.


An Indian tribal lady came to Waikiki Square in Hawaii where a lot of people gathered. I talked to people about abortion there. The Indian tribal lady thought, “I’m a sinner, so Julia won’t even make eye contact with me.” Since there were a lot of people there, even though the volunteers tried to give me a way to go through the crowd of people, when I tried to go over there, I was being pushed to this way.

So many people tried to hold me. Watching me from afar, she said inwardly, “Oh, I’m a sinner, so I can’t even go to her side.” I was pushed up in front of her but I don’t even remember it. I reached out my hand unwittingly to her and then she told me she was a sinner, trembling with fear. So I held her hand and hugged her.

At that moment, she realized, “Ah! The Lord is not scary. He is really merciful.He loves even such a sinner like me who had a lot of abortions!” So from then on the lady vigorously told others about the Blessed Mother of Naju to the Indian tribes and her hometown.

We should never hide ourselves for our sins. Rather, always remember that whenwe rush to the Lord by confessing that we are sinners, He will accept us more gladly.

Even though we commit sins, we should never think, “Ah! I cannot come to the Lord.” Then, it gives joy to the devil. Jesus says, “Come now, all My children of the world!” Jesus is shedding His Blood for us even now. “Come now, all My children of the world! Today, as always, I have become the sacrificial offering and wait for you.”

Jesus shed so much Blood on the Cross, But It did not just fall to the ground. It fell onto a beautiful chalice and a beautiful paten. It means that Jesus comes to us through the Blessed Sacrament. Jesus said, “When you open your heart widely and return to Me, I will not question your past, but will bestow the cup of blessing to you.” Therefore, dear all, please never be worried, but let us meet the Lord as sinners.


As we don’t know when the thief will break into our houses, we don’t know when the Lord will come to us. So, let us clean up the state of our souls. If we practice the Five Spiritualities, we will be going that very way. However, if we don’t do so, when the Lord calls us, we can go to purgatory. There are not many people who can go to Heaven directly.

As I told you before, the way to Heaven is really uncrowded. There are only a few people. But the way to purgatory is crowded indeed. That way is overflowed with too many people. How about the way to hell! Too many also! So, let us all meet in Heaven, every moment of every day, with the Five Spiritualities.

And, as I told you through the video a while ago, indeed, there are many people who lack consideration for others. Considerateness That is the same at the Chapel, and here as well. When someone is praying next to us, we should think “I should not disrupt the person,” and move quietly. I told you that I walk on my tiptoes, right? I did so for others even before I knew God.

We have to be considerate of others. If so, how much God the Father will adore us! The Lord loves even the most wicked sinners, then how much He will adore us when we do so fervently!

How do you pray with this Scapular of Jesus of Mercy in Glory, dear all? Let me show you what I do, but I don’t mean you must do in the same way as I do. In my case, I kiss the scapular three times first, then after making the Sign of the Cross, I kiss it another four times. I usually kiss the scapular countless times. “Jesus, Jesus of Mercy in Glory!” I keep calling out for “Jesus of Mercy in Glory.” When children give nonstop-kiss to their parents out of love, would they adore their children or not? They will, right? (Right.) Yes, they are adorable. Then, won’t Jesus adore us if we do so?


Try to do so. Not doing it perfunctorily, because you were told to do so. “Jesus, Jesus, I love you. I love you!” If you say like this, He will be with you as He is alive. How much He will adore you! But, if you just make the Sign of the Cross perfunctorily and unfaithfully kiss the scapular only because you were told to kiss it to receive one indulgence, it might not be given to you. An indulgence will be given when you do it sincerely.

So no matter what we do, if we do it with all our hearts indeed, how much Jesus and the Blessed Mother will adore us! What do you think? Dear parents, you raised your children, right? Dear Fathers, these are all your spiritual children also, right? What parents would hand his child a scorpion when he asks for an egg? Right? If our worldly parents know how to give good things to their children, how much more will the Father in Heaven give better things to His children?

He will grant the Holy Spirit needed for us! So, if we entrust the rest of our lives to the Lord and Blessed Mother regardless if it’s long or short, offering up immediately even when we get irritated, and moving forward with the Five Spiritualities, the Lord and Blessed Mother will always keep us by our side, take care of us, lead us and arrange everything for us.


Do not say, “Why doesn’t the Lord hear my prayer?” When we give only thanks to the Lord, no matter what He gives us, suffering, health, money, or poverty He will grant us what we need someday. Even if He doesn’t give it to you in this world, He will do in the afterlife. Dear all, do you want to live happily by possessing everything in this world? Or, despite some suffering on earth, would you prefer to enjoy eternal happiness in Heaven beside the Lord and Blessed Mother? (Eternal happiness!) Right? (Yes!)

Then, even though you suffer pain, let us offer it up graciously and always live by seeking the things of the afterlife. Whenever He takes us, if we prepare ourselves with the mindset, “Lord, call me anytime,” we can go to Heaven.

If you totally practice the Five Spiritualities as they are, you will go to Heaven. I have told you about the Prayers of Life several times, right? We can do it tens of thousand times. We can practice the Prayers of Life just by saying, “Jesus, I love You. Jesus, someone is in this situation now, please save him. Now he is dying. Please save him.”


Jesus is with us. Don’t think, “Which Image of Jesus should we look at to pray the Glory Be?” but just pray the Glory Be. If we give the glory to Jesus wherever we are, He will receive glory.

For instance, when we practice the Prayers of Life, do not think just lightly, “Ah, let me clean one garbage with the Prayers of Life.” But do it with prayers, “Jesus, please remove all the trash from our hearts, and even our bad habits,” instead of merely cleaning the garbage. When something is out of place, please put it neatly and pray, “Jesus, please correct the disorder in our lives.” Then, how good a prayer it will become, right?

In everything, without missing anything, we can turn them into prayers. There are some people who say, “Prayers of Life are the most difficult for me.” Where can we find something as easy to do as the Prayers of Life? Please acquire a taste for the Prayers of Life.

What is the Prayer of Life like? It is the great prayer that can fill, again and again, the abyss that lies between the greatness of God the Father and our lowliness, and can help us to go across the abyss. Well, let us arm ourselves with the Prayers of Life, completely practice them, and offer up and accept everything as “My Fault.” However, most people won’t accept, “My Fault,” but blame others, “Because of you…”

That is justification! I hate most when people justify and rationalize. Even when I didn’t know about God, I never faced those kinds of person since I was young. But I cannot help but facing those after I came to know God. However, we must really throw away justification and rationalization. These are the biggest evil habit among evil habits and the ones preventing us from going to Heaven. We must correct these evil habits.


Let us all correct them! To make excuses and rationalize are the meanest acts. Don’t justify yourself. Justification is totally opposite to Heaven. Therefore, rather than justifying or rationalizing, let us think about what the Lord and Blessed Mother want us to do! Let us clearly realize the simple truth that even light feathers accumulated together in large numbers can sink a boat, and let us all make a new start.

Shouldn’t we all live the life of giving glory to the Lord and comfort to the Blessed Mother? And the life of resurrection where our gratitude never dries up? Right? So that Jesus may come to us, let us close our eyes and reform our hearts newly again.


♬ Everything in my heart, my thoughts, and my life, Mother, please receive them and lead them.

Everything in my sorrow, my pain, and my agony, Mother, please receive them and guide them. Everything in my conflict, my anguish, and my sorrow, I entrust them to Jesus, so please guide them. ♬ Amen!

All glory be to the Lord, Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, As it was in the beginning, is now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.

In the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. I love you. I love you all. I love you.



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