“Dear children! I wish also today to call you to live the messages in the parish. Especially I wish to call the youth of the parish, who are dear to me. Dear children, if you live the messages, you are living the seed of holiness. I, as the Mother, wish to call you all to holiness so that you can bestow it on others. You are a mirror to others! Thank you for having responded to my call.”
Leviticus 19:2
Say to all the congregation of the people of Israel, You shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy.
Leviticus 20:7
Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God.
Saturday: God’s compassion and generosity: our standard for living
Luke 6:36-38
“Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back.”
Sunday: “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Matthew 5:48
He is like a man building a house, who dug deep, and laid the foundation upon rock; and when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it had been well built.
Monday: Relying on the power of God who called us to be holy.
2 Timothy 1:8-9
Do not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel in the power of God, who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not in virtue of our works but in virtue of his own purpose and the grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus ages ago.
Tuesday: “Be yourselves holy in all your activity, after the model of the Holy One.”
1 Peter 1:15-16
But as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct; since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Cf. l John 3:3
And every one who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
Wednesday: “I have given you an example: love one another as I have loved you.”
John 13:15
For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
John 13: 34-35
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."