Instruction of Holy Mary by Jesus

Vol 3 Bk 1 Chap 7

INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO ME BY THE HEAVENLY MOTHER, OUR LADY. 

(Warning to all parents: Guide your young children from early youth instructing them in faith, hope and love of Jesus our God: Evil demons are always watching them, to eventually win your children over into sin and eternal death never to see God face to face).

"The Most High, who in sheer goodness and bounty has given existence to all creatures and denies His providential care to none, faithfully supplies all souls with light, by which they can enter into the knowledge of Him and of eternal life, provided they do not of their own free will prevent and obscure this light by sin or give up the quest of the kingdom of heaven. 

To the souls, whom, according to His secret judgments, He calls to His Church, He shows himself still more liberal. For with the grace of Baptism He infuses into them not only those virtues, which are called essentially infused and which the creature cannot merit by its own efforts; but also those, which are accidentally infused and which it can merit by its own labors and efforts. These the Lord gives freely beforehand, in order that the soul may be more prepared and zealous in the observance of His holy Law. In other souls, in addition to the common light of faith, the Lord in His clemency grants supernatural gifts of knowledge and virtue for the better understanding of the evangelical mysteries and for the more zealous practice of good works. In order that you may be well instructed and informed, I wish to warn you as a solicitous and loving Mother, of the cunning of satan for the destruction of these works of the Lord.

From the very moment in which mortal children begin to have the use of their reason, each one of them is followed by many watchful and relentless demons. For as soon as the souls are in a position to raise their thoughts to the knowledge of their God and commence the practice of the virtues infused by Baptism, these demons, with incredible fury and astuteness, seek to root out the Divine seed; and if they cannot succeed in this, they try to hinder its growth, and prevent it from bringing forth fruit by engaging men in vicious, useless, or trifling things.

Thus they divert their thoughts from faith and hope, and from the pursuit of other virtues, leading them to forget that they are Christians, and diverting their attention from the knowledge of God and from the mysteries of the Redemption and of life eternal.

Moreover the same enemy instills into the parents a base neglectfulness and carnal love for their offspring; and he incites the teachers to carelessness, so that the children find no support against evil in their education, but become depraved and spoiled by many bad habits, losing sight of virtue and of their good inclinations and going the way of perdition. 

But the most kind Lord does not forget them in this danger and He renews in them His holy inspirations and special helps. He supplies them with the holy teachings of the Church by His preachers and ministers. He holds out to them the aid of the Sacraments and many other inducements to keep them on the path of life. That those who walk in the way of salvation are the smaller number, is due to the vice and depraved habits imbibed in youth and nourished in childhood. For that saying of Deuteronomy is very true : "As in the days of your youth, so also shall be your old age" (Deut. 33, 25). 

Hence the demons gain courage and increase their tyrannical influence over souls in the early years of man's life, hoping that they will be able to induce men to commit so much the greater and the more frequent sins in later years, the more they have succeeded in drawing them into small and insignificant faults in their childhood. 

By these they draw them on to a state of blind presumption; for with each sin the soul loses more and more the power of resistance, subjects itself to the demon, and falls under the sway of its tyrannical enemies. The miserable yoke of wickedness is more and more firmly fastened upon it; the same is trodden underfoot by its own iniquity and urged onward under the sway of the devil from one precipice to another, from abyss to abyss (Ps. 41, 8) : a chastisement merited by all those, that allow themselves to be overcome by evildoing in the beginning. 

By these means Lucifer has hurled into hell so great a number of souls and continues so to hurl them every day, rising up in his pride against the Almighty. In this manner has he been able to introduce into the world his tyrannical power, spreading among men forgetfulness of death, judgment, heaven and hell, and casting so many nations from abyss to abyss of darkness and bestial errors, such as are contained in the heresies and false sects of the infidels. 

Therefore beware of this terrible danger, and do not let the memory of the law of your God, His precepts and commands, and the truths of the Catholic Church, and the doctrines of the Gospels, ever fail in your mind.

Do not let a day pass in which you do not spend much time in meditating upon all these; and all those who listen to you, to do the same. For your enemy and adversary is laboring with ceaseless vigilance to obscure your understanding in forgetfulness of the Divine law, seeking to withdraw your will, which is a blind faculty, from the practice of justification. This, you know, consists in acts of living faith in Christ, trustful hope for eternal life, ardent love of God, all coming from a contrite and humble heart "(Ps. SO, 19).