Mothers of the Cross
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Lourdes Pinto speaks to priests of Tulsa
INTRODUCTION
The Mothers of the Cross are our Blessed Mother’s maidens, women of all walks of life, who unite with Mary’s “fiat”, given at the Annunciation and at
We strive to live our lives in charity, humility, simplicity and interior silence, imitating Mary in all her virtues. We are spiritual mothers in which our maternity, in Mary, expands to include all priests, families and our Lord’s suffering children throughout the world.
Our lives are centered in the Eucharist. Therefore, we strive for daily Mass and prayer before the Blessed Sacrament as much as our vocation permits. We offer all our prayers, sacrifices, sufferings, tears and joys, our whole lives, for the sanctification of priests, including priests of the domestic church, all fathers. We are formed in the Spirituality of the Cross as given to Venerable Concepción Cabrera de Armida by our Lord.
The Mothers of the Cross are called to:
Be victim souls
Pray and sacrifice for the sanctification of priests
Console the suffering hearts of Jesus and Mary
Continue Mary’s suffering of solitude by our union of hearts with her.
BE VICTIM SOULS
The mothers of the Cross unite their fiat to My Mother of the Cross as victim intercessors. They live a life of prayer, penance and sacrifice, united in Me (Christ) crucified, for the expiation of sin and the sanctification of My priests. Their ordinary lives lived in simplicity, humility, interior silence and prayer is a sweet fragrance that reaches the Heart of My Father. -Lourdes Pinto
The Mothers of the Cross give their fiat to be Jesus’ victim souls: one body, one blood, one sacrifice, one suffering in Jesus Christ, for love of Him and the salvation of souls. We are called to be pure and living chalices. We receive Jesus’ blood in suffering and bring it to the world in love, humility and service. We absorb every drop of His precious blood through patient endurance in every difficulty, struggle, pain, sacrifice, suffering, and daily labors. The prayers, sacrifices, sufferings and tears of mothers united to Love Crucified, through Mary, is a hidden force that will sanctify, purify and aid in the salvation of many souls.
Immense grace comes to the world through victim souls and they fill the suffering Hearts of Jesus and Mary with joy. Heaven is filled with the sweet fragrance of victim souls.
Souls who are victims for the Church must unite themselves to My Heart, the supreme Victim, to offer themselves to the eternal Father on behalf of this so beloved Church, in order to expiate sins. I love My Church so much that in union with My Heart I seek victims who immolate themselves in order that the just wrath which menaces her be assuaged and changed into a shower of graces. (Diary, June 14, 1898)
PRAY AND SACRIFICE FOR THE SANCTIFICATION OF PRIESTS
The Mothers of the Cross are called to raise up God’s army of holy priests that will usher in the new Pentecost. We pray for Jesus’ beloved priests as we pray for our sons and daughters. We give our lives for the sanctification of priests as we lay down our lives for our spouses and children. We, the Mothers of the Cross, offer ourselves as victims for priests. We unite ourselves to Christ Crucified gaining many graces for our Mother’s favorite sons. The prayers, sacrifices, daily Communion and Eucharistic Adoration are the hidden force that will prepare the way by opening the hearts of many priests. This prayer life united to the simplicity of our lives and our daily ordinary tasks (cleaning, cooking, nursing, teaching) lived in love, touches directly the Heart of the Father. The power of a mother’s ordinary life lived in love and in deep interior silence, through the Holy Spirit, will bring about the sanctification of many priests. Mary has a thorn in her Heart for each priest that is not holy. As Mothers of the Cross, we allow our hearts to be pierced like Mary’s. We participate in the living chain of pierced hearts for the sanctification of priests. As our hearts are pierced like Mary’s, we will become a fountain of living grace for the Church.
Offer yourself as a victim for My priests. Unite yourself to My sacrifice for gaining them graces… It is Christ, ever crucified in the members of His Mystical Body, who saves the world. (Conchita’s Diary, p. 103)
CONSOLE THE SUFFERING HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY
Jesus also desires for the Mothers of the Cross to be His constant consolation as were Mary and the holy women during His life on earth. During His agony it was women of great courage, zeal, passion and profoundness of heart that came to console Him: Mary His Mother, Veronica, Mary Magdalene and the weeping women.
Jesus continues to suffer in the tabernacles of the world, in the Eucharist. He thirst for love and desires consolation. By living completely united to Mary we are also able to console our suffering Lord. Through Mary, with Mary and in Mary we will also be women of courage, who are willing to forget ourselves and wipe His precious face with the tears of our suffering and the cloth of our very lives. We are women embracing Jesus as the Pieta and with her, removing every thorn in His precious head and allowing each thorn to penetrate our hearts, thus bringing our Beloved consolation.
Like Mary, in our lives of total service to our families, we will keep the thorns and give away the roses. Our lives will be blessed, broken and given through the Holy Spirit (as the priest does with the host at consecration), thus becoming “living Hosts” on earth for the consolation of our Lord, the glory of the Father, and the salvation of souls.
The Mothers of the Cross remain with Jesus on the Cross. We practice silence as much as possible to maintain this union of love. We mortify ourselves through silence.
Give Me a love like this, give Me souls who love Me in suffering, who find their joy on the Cross. My heart thirsts for such a love. I want a pure love, an unselfish love, an expiatory, crucified love, a sound love such as it may be said no longer exists on earth. Yet it is the only true love, the love which saves, purifies, and the love I require through My commandments. All other apparent loves do not satisfy Me; all other love is vain, artificial, often culpable, save the love which I have just shown you. (Diary, Sept. 11, 1900)
CONTINUE MARY’S SUFFERING OF SOLITUDE
It was through Mary’s suffering, which she united to her Son’s Sacred Heart, that the nascent Church was sustained and the Apostles were strengthened for the mission to go out and preach the Gospel to the ends of the world. Mary embraced this hidden martyrdom; a mission hidden to the world yet the most powerful of all missions. She continues to do so for the priests today. The Mothers of the Cross are called to join our Mother to carry on her mission of love.
A mother’s love in suffering, united to the hearts of Jesus and Mary, is filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. It is through the Mothers of the Cross that the Missionaries of the Cross will be sustained and strengthened. One can not be sustained without the other. The Missionaries of the Cross will be like the first apostles. They will be sent out to preach, filled with the Holy Spirit, to the ends of the world, and it is the hidden sufferings of the Mothers of the Cross, united in Mary, that God will use to sustain and empower them.
“She reared Me to be a Victim, attaining the supreme oblation of her soul when She delivered Me up to be crucified. One sole sacrifice was there, that which I offered on the Cross and which took place in Her heart. She continued this sacrifice by Her martyrdom of solitude, offering up Her sufferings to the eternal Father in union with Me.” (Diary, April 6, 1928)
"The prayers, sacrifices, sufferings, and tears of mothers united to the Cross through Mary is a hidden force that will sanctify, purify and aid in the salvation of many souls!. " -Lourdes Pinto