Directive from Heaven #789 – Selfishness - given to Veronica Lueken at Our Lady of the Roses Shrine at Bayside, New York

#789 – Selfishness

“For all seek the things that are their own; not the things that are Jesus Christ’s.” – Philippians 2: 21

“WITHOUT CHARITY YOU ARE AS NOTHING”
"Sorrowfully in the past, I have warned you all and counseled you, as your Mother, as a Mediatrix from God to man, that you must mend your ways and do penance. And what did you do to stop any chastisement upon you? Very little, My children, very little! The good have gone upon their way, neither caring to save their brothers. Selfishness has entered into the hearts of even the good. My children, without charity you are as nothing.” – Our Lady, October 6, 1977

SELFISHNESS NOT TO SHARE THE WAY
"The knowledge of the supernatural must be given to the children. Pastors in My Son's houses, are you bringing this knowledge to the children? Have you chosen to scatter the sheep? Whatever will become of them? You must exercise discipline and good, firm example for the flock.
"Stand up, pastors in the houses of My Son, and give firm discipline by example and words chosen from the Book of love and life, the Bible. Remember all that can save a soul must be given to mankind. Good words kept in a closed mouth is like placing meat on a dead man's grave. What good is it to keep this knowledge to yourself, for would it not be, My children, selfishness not to share the way with the sheep? Awaken from your slumber, pastors! There is not much time left. You will have to account to My Son for your errors and for your arrogance and for your sloth. Awaken, pastors in My Son's houses! You are misleading the sheep.” – Our Lady, August 21, 1975

SELFISHNESS ABOUNDS IN THE HEARTS OF MANY
"You understand now, My child, with your experience, why I cry bitter tears throughout your world, crying for the true meaning of love to be expressed by mankind. Love means the corporal works of mercy.
"Do you, My children, truly know the meaning of love and practice it in your daily life? Or have your lives been given over to luxury and seeking pleasures of the flesh? Selfishness abounding in the hearts of many, and even in the hearts of the clergy. The corporal acts of mercy must be practiced by the clergy in My Son's House.
"My Son has sent Me to you, through the Father and the Spirit of life, as a Mediatrix between God and man, to direct you and counsel you, that you may understand the knowledge given in the Book of love and life, your Bible. For many who read, they are just words, not to be practiced in the daily lives of many.” – Our Lady, September 7, 1979

“WITHOUT CHARITY YOU HAVE NOTHING!”
"My children, without charity you have nothing! Does holiness reign, and charity, in the hearts of the clergy in My Son's House? Or shall I give to you the measure of offenses by count as My Son suffers for these offenses by count? For when you do not clothe your brother in his nakedness, when you do not feed your brother in his hunger, when you do not comfort him in his affliction, you offend the Father in Heaven and the Trinity; for even the most humble and smallest among you, as human beings upon earth, are the children of your God, and each and every man, woman, and child has been created in the image of God.” – Our Lady, September 7, 1979

SIN HAS BECOME A WAY OF LIFE
"The Eternal Father is much distressed by mankind's actions. They must not try to control the start and expiration of a life. Abortion is murder, My children, for you bring to an untimely end a mission of a soul. The Eternal Father breathes the spirit of life into the body at the moment of conception. No man shall destroy this body until it has completed its mission as directed by the Eternal Father, for any man who destroys the mission and the body is guilty of murder. Euthanasia, untimely death, My children, man has transgressed into a form of evil far worse than in the time of Noe or Sodom. Therefore, how great shall be the punishment to mankind!
"In these days, My children, the signs of the times come fast upon you. There will be no charity of heart; selfishness shall abound. There will be little light of piety. Morality--the word shall not be accepted. Sin has become a way of life.” – Our Lady, June 12, 1976

“SELFISH MOTIVES HAVE NO CONSTRUCTIVE FUTURE IN OUR PLAN OF REDEMPTION”
"Yes, many have joined Us here at this sacred place, blessed by the Father. Do they raise their hearts in prayer, or to seek selfish entertainment or self-gratification? Unless you reach out to help gather the souls of all your brothers and sisters, you will not be counted among those gathered during the destruction. Love is always in giving.
"My child, care not for the judgment of mere man, but shoulder your cross. Keep the words given to you by My Son in your heart, for they will comfort you in your trials.
"I have come here as an Advocate of peace. I have come here to beg for prayers of atonement. Do you come here to just experience miracles, or to join Us in the gathering of the souls? Selfish motives have no constructive future in Our plan of redemption. I say unto you that he who shall set himself to judge will thus find himself judged. My Father will always be the final judge.” – Our Lady, April 10, 1971

“HOW MANY HAVE BEEN WILLING TO SACRIFICE THEIR OWN SELFISH DESIRES TO SAVE MANKIND?”
"As My Mother counseled you through many earth-years of visitations to you, that when a country gives itself over to Lucifer, discarding all knowledge of true faith and the Commandments of the Eternal Father, that country will be destroyed. The hand that will be set upon your country shall be heavy. My Mother has pleaded your cause to Heaven, but how many have listened to Her? How many have been willing to sacrifice their own selfish desires to save mankind? Too few, My children, I say too few! The balance is heavily to the left, leaving Heaven no recourse but to allow you to continue upon the road to your own destruction.
"My children of light, do not be distressed, for I shall be with you; and your confidence shall be in the words given to you through My Mother, in all of the messages from Heaven that will guide you when the road becomes filled with thorns and the cross grows heavy.” – Jesus, November 24, 1979

THOSE IN HELL
“You ask, My child, for those who are in hell. Remember, My children and My child, that if they are in hell it is because they willed it so, preferring to have the materials and power of the world, even power over mankind, which they did not exercise for the glory of God, but for their own selfish, human gains.” – Our Lady, August 21, 1985

“IT IS A SELFISH REASON”
"You see, My child, if you give dates, others will run to come back to the fold, but as soon as the danger passes they will go back to their old ways. We must have a complete redemption, not just a temporary state of goodness. For it is a selfish reason that does not reach out and give to the Eternal Father what He asks: your love, your compassion, and your willingness to help Him in this crisis.
"I will continue, My children, to go throughout the world. The Eternal Father is much pleased with the manner in which you have given out the messages to the world. Know that We do not expect you, because of this compliment, My children, to slacken your pace; for it must increase, because the time is growing short.” – Our Lady, May 17, 1986

DESIRE FOR A REPRIEVE MUST NOT COME FROM SELFISH REASONS
"We know the evils rampant in Rome; We know the tortured heart of your Vicar, Pope Paul. The Eternal Father has a plan for settling that issue.
"My children, My Mother has given you sight into the future. What was to happen in the far future shall be now. And I assure you, My children, if you want this changed, if you want a reprieve, the Eternal Father will not turn from you, but this desire for time must come from the heart and not for selfish reasons.” – Jesus, April 2, 1977

MANKIND DOES NOT WISH TO FACE THE TRUTH
"My warnings at Fatima were cast aside as they are being cast aside now, My children. It is a failing of human nature, My child, that that which does not give pleasure to the carnal nature of man is not accepted. Man shall blind himself to the truth, as he does not wish to face the truth. And those who seek to bring him the truth are cast aside and do much penance, My child.” – Our Lady, September 13, 1975

YOU HAVE BECOME PAGANIZED
"No man shall be condemned to eternal damnation, no man shall fall unless he falls of his own free will. Man has fallen and become lukewarm because he has sought the material things of life to feed his body, his carnal nature, while he starves his soul. What good will it be if you gather all of the riches of the world and you do not store your treasures in Heaven? You will come across the veil with nothing but the merits of love and prayer.
"My children, you must change your values back to the plan of your God. As a nation, as a country, as in many countries throughout the world, you have become paganized and immoral. My children, it is the gauge for the fall of mankind: immorality and paganism. No nation shall stand without its God, the God in Heaven.
"Man is creating many new gods, gods to feed his human nature; and it is a basic carnal nature. Idolaters abound. When you worship in abundance things, My children, you are worshiping idols! If you spend your time gathering things, money, power, you are worshiping idols. Remove yourself from these worldly pursuits.” – Jesus, March 18, 1978

“THEY CANNOT RISE ABOVE THE DARKNESS WITHOUT YOUR HELP”
"Parents, be an example of purity and goodness and disciplinarians in your homes. Your children enter outside your doors into a world of ravenous wolves ready to devour their spirit and crush them, until they cannot rise above the darkness without your help and guidance. You cannot, at this time, turn them over to others to teach the way; you must do this now yourselves! Take yourselves away from your daily pursuits, your seekings of worldly gain and materialism, pleasures of the flesh! For what? You cast aside the true way, and you go farther into the darkness and meet satan and his consorts.
"My children, you cannot have the light within you unless you partake of the Bread of life. Come to Me in all of the tabernacles of your world. Refresh yourself in the Blood of the Lamb. What is there in common between the light and the darkness? Have you chosen your way? The way given from Heaven is a simple way; the rules have been laid down. And why do you make your own rules now and change the rules to suit your carnal human nature? And for what? To bring about your own destruction!” – Jesus, June 16, 1977

“YOU SEEK, AS DID LUCIFER, TO DETHRONE YOUR CREATOR”
"You ask, My child, how a state such as this could come upon human nature? My child, it is because of this very basic human nature and frailties that man, in exercising his own free will, has brought the world of mankind to the brink of destruction; because man has rejected the teachings, the teachings of old, the teachings that never shall grow old, for they are the basic foundations from your God, the Eternal Father, your Creator. And now you reject your Creator, and in your arrogance and pride, you seek, as did Lucifer, to dethrone your Creator, and set up a world government of man.
"O My children, you are heading toward the fatal abyss. O My children, now the world is proceeding in the same path as Lucifer started, and was cast forever from the Kingdom of God. Lucifer, in his arrogance, was given much knowledge, but he used this knowledge against his God! He, too, had a free will. My children, no man, woman, or child shall fall into hell, the eternal abode of the damned, unless he gives himself to satan willingly, of free will.” – Jesus, September 28, 1977

PLACING MAN ON A PEDESTAL TO WORSHIP
"In the Eternal City of Rome now, red forces gather. And why? Because they do not pray enough. They are, My children, busy running in all directions, setting up new government, new procedures, all manner of implementation and novelty, trying to rise high above the Eternal Father, placing man on a pedestal to worship. Long were you warned to beware of modernization in My Son's House. Humanism is satanism! You do not bring a soul back by laxity and feeding his carnal nature. Discipline is needed, but first and above all, this discipline must start with the leaders.” – Our Lady, June 12, 1976

MOST PLEASING TO THE FATHER
"Pray; pray much. Make many sacrifices of your senses. These are most pleasing to the Father. Sacrifice will recover a straying soul.” – Our Lady, November 24, 1973

SACRIFICES OF THE SENSES
"Pray much, My child. Make many sacrifices. The greatest pleasure to the Father is to watch the sacrifices of the senses being made by mankind." – Our Lady, June 15, 1974

“SACRIFICE AND RETIRE INTO A LIFE OF PRAYER”
"My child, We are very pleased with the progress of My Mother's mission to reach all souls in these desperate days. Know that the road for your salvation has been given to you. You will stay on this road, or you will find yourself wandering in the darkness. The truth in light has been given to you in your hearts. You have a basic foundation for your Faith. You will follow the simple plan given to you by the Father, the Commandments and the discipline. Your example must be one of strength in truth. Only in this manner will you recover souls, for many of Our sheep are wandering. Do not set yourself to win the treasures of your world, for you will forfeit then the treasures of Heaven.
"On your pilgrimage in your world you must lead a life of austerity, one based on sacrifice and discipline. Return to prayer, dedicate yourselves with true vocation. Do not follow the modes of your world based on the themes of modernism, and setting of man up as an idol to worship by humanism, and eventually subjugating your will to follow the plan of satan. Prayer, redemption through sacrifice! There is no other course that leads to Heaven. The road is filled with thorns. The road is narrow, but the reward is great. Deny yourself of your worldly pleasures. Sacrifice and retire into a life of prayer. You will not gather the sheep with socializing. You must return to a life of inner contemplation and prayer. Get down on your knees and return to a pure spirit of child-like quality." – Jesus, November 20, 1974

WORLD ENSHROUDED IN EVIL
"My children, if you have been given the grace to be now in the light, We beg you to share this grace, and try from your heart to rescue those who are drifting toward the abyss of hell.
"Yes, your prayers and sacrifices are needed for those who do not have the power of grace to help themselves. If you could see the vast numbers who have already succumbed to the evil, you would spend all your time on your knees. No excuses must be given in defense of worldly gain. No excuses will be accepted if you did not care enough to save your brother. You will be held accountable for all discard of duty, of inborn godly conscience.
"Yes, the world is enshrouded in evil. Yes, it has entered everywhere. To talk solves few problems now on earth. Your only recourse now is prayer. We are of light and hope. If you cast Us aside, you will travel only one road--in the darkness!” – Our Lady, May 30, 1971

“DO NOT BE AFRAID TO EXPOSE EVIL”
"Do not be afraid to expose evil. If you do not bring into the light others who are fast encased in darkness by their own will, or by acts of obedience to evil; if you do not seek to save them, to bring them out of this darkness, you, too, will be guilty of arrogance and pride--and charity, charity that must be extended--a lack of charity, for charity must be given to others. Those who receive in abundance, whether it be graces or the material, must use their abundance to save others.
    "Prayer, My children--you must pray a constant vigilance of prayer, but you must also gather graces through works.
    "I see, My children, a great evil transpiring upon earth. Those who have the power to stop the evil have chosen to go downstream like ducks upon water, letting everything slide off their backs, neither caring nor visualizing the future. And why? Because they have given themselves to the world.
    "Just as My Son stood before Pilate and he washed his hands and said: 'This man is innocent; I see no wrong in him,' however, in his heart he knew of innocence but he feared reprisal from the crowd, My children; he valued his life, he loved his sin, and he was too much involved with the pleasures of this life and the world.
    "You see, My children, it is taking place all over again for those in command in rule. They go along 'passing,' as you say, 'the buck,' each one not willing to admit his error or his participation in evil, but only too willingly allowing others to take the blame or the responsibility. And I assure you, My children, if evil is being allowed, the 'buck passer' is just as guilty as the original one who had started the evil.” – Our Lady, March 18, 1977

RAISED TO KNOW NO SIN
"Your children are being raised to know no sin. They conduct themselves as pagans worshiping false idols, giving themselves to mind-destructive drugs, seeking pleasures that are abominations to the human flesh!” - Our Lady, October 2, 1975

“MAN HAS BECOME THEIR GOD!”
"Parents, exercise discipline in your homes, or your children shall be victimized outside their doors. Because of the laxity in the highest places of lawmakers in your country and countries throughout the world, sin has become a way of life! Murders and all manner of foul deeds are being committed!
"Discipline in government . . . The words are emblazoned: 'In God We Trust', but who is the god they trust? Man has become their god!
"All manner of foul pursuits enter upon the lives of mankind, giving themselves over to trust in astrology and fortunetelling. Paganism! With the demons now loosed from hell, I say unto you: you will walk softly; and you walk now where angels fear to tread! Do not enter into the realm of the supernatural. There are forces about you, unseen to the human eye, but they are from hell! You must guard your lives, your spiritual lives, with all of the armor given from Heaven, receiving all of the graces for yourselves and your children.” – Our Lady, May 28, 1977

IDOLATRY
"Your world has become a cesspool of errors, giving itself over to fornication, immorality, idolatry, and all manner of foul pursuits. The major crisis is among the young. How shall you rescue them, but by your example and prayer.” – Our Lady, June 10, 1978

CHAOS IN MY SON'S CHURCH
"My child and My children, I say again: test the spirits. For now there is a conspiracy of evil throughout the world, going to the extreme left of invoking satan in the worship of satan, a contrary mass to My Son. Sadly, darkness of spirit pervades among mankind. How long shall the Eternal Father permit this condition to exist?
    "My children, I tell you now as your Mother that My tears fall upon you, for you do not know what you are doing. You are bringing upon you a great punishment.
    "Are you so blind that you do not recognize the acceleration of sin among you? Murders abound, thievery, all manner of carnage, destruction of young souls, abortion, homosexuality, condemned from the beginning of time by the Eternal Father. Yet sin has become a way of life. Sin is condoned now, even unto the highest judges of your land and your lands throughout the world. As you have sown so shall you reap. Sin is death, not only of the spirit, but of the body. Wars are a punishment for man's sin, his greed, his avarice. Pride and arrogance is bringing down into hell mitres from My Son's House.
    "O My children, how long must I travel far and wide throughout your world persevering because I love you as your Mother, and I want to save you from yourselves. For I cry out as My Son, 'Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.'
    "In the name of modernism, in the name of communism, in the name of humanism you have fallen into error and discord. Chaos in My Son's Church, the falling away of souls from the Eucharist, the Bread of life--My children, without the Bread of life within you, you cannot sustain yourselves long in your world now." - Our Lady, August 14, 1981

DOES HOLINESS REIGN?
“My children, without charity you have nothing! Does holiness reign, and charity, in the hearts of the clergy in My Son's House? Or shall I give to you the measure of offenses by count as My Son suffers for these offenses by count? For when you do not clothe your brother in his nakedness, when you do not feed your brother in his hunger, when you do not comfort him in his affliction, you offend the Father in Heaven and the Trinity; for even the most humble and smallest among you, as human beings upon earth, are the children of your God, and each and every man, woman, and child has been created in the image of God. But now you have given yourselves over to seeking worldly pleasures; you have given yourselves over to the worship of Lucifer and false gods. And then you cry to Heaven: 'Where are my children? Why have my children turned against us?' Parents, leaders in the houses of religion upon earth, have you followed your vocation? What measure of responsibility shall you be counted for in the fall of your nation?” – Our Lady, September 7, 1979

SIN FAR WORSE THAN THE TIME OF NOE
"My child, repeat after Me.
    "I have given you a warning that must be acted upon now! You ask the time allotted by the Father for you to make amends. I may assure you now that were you to receive knowledge of this time, you would fast act upon Our direction.
    "Your world is wallowing in sin, a sin far worse than during the time of Noe! Therefore, if you do not do penance now and change your ways that offend the Father much, you will receive a far worse punishment than given in the time of Noe.
    "Your country must return to its knowledge and belief in the Father.
    "No man shall escape a due chastisement. Many good, those in the light, will have to be victims in the oncoming Chastisement. Know, My children, that all will receive in measure of the state of their spirit.” – Jesus, March 18, 1975

SELF-LOVE
"Remember, My children, love is the outstanding word being used in your world today, but so few know the true meaning of love. So few have practiced the true meaning of love, for much of this in your world, My children, is based on self-love.” – Jesus, October 1, 1983

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