Salvation

FESTIVITY OF SAINT MARTIN OF PORRES

3 NOVEMBER

J.M.J.

Dear Father Thomas:

I was reading a news in the newspaper this morning about a man in Thailand that should be awarded with the Nobel Price because of his humanitarian services. Every weekend he goes down from his town in the mountain to go to Bangkok. In that place he looks for young girls that were abducted, kidnapped, or deceived and taken to one of the hundreds of city brothels.

These young girls have between twelve and fourteen years and they serve around ten clients per night. This man travels from far away, does not receive pay, and risks his life to save them. He has succeeded in returning more than 400 girls to their parents and families. Could you imaging the joy of a father or a mother when they see the return of their young girl safe and sound after a so horrible Odyssey? Think about how grateful these parents should be to this man, for having salved their little girls.

Dear Thomas, that is nothing compared with the gratefulness that God will have to you, for having permanent adoration in your parish. It's for this reason that our Holy Father, Saint John Paul ll, beatified Dina Belanger.

She was a Canadian woman very devote to prayer before the Holy Sacrament. Before her holy hour, Jesus showed her a multitude of souls to the border of the precipice of hell. She could see these same souls in the hands of God after her holy hour.

Jesus gave to the venerable Dina a message to send the church.

The value of a holy hour is so big, that brings multitudes of souls from the border of hell, to the same doors of heaven.

Think about this in this way, Thomas. Due to San Martin of Porres was black and illegitimate, he was insulted, and mistreated. He identified himself with Jesus, ignored, and mistreated in the Holy Sacrament. While they comfort themselves, Martin became more charitable, less hostile, better and less bitter. He used to spend until eight hours daily in prayer before the Holy Sacrament.

This pleased so much Jesus that made of him an author of miracles. He used to bring from the monastery a basket with baked breads and go to the streets to feed the poor. With a sole basket, he could feed a whole village.

Martin fed hundreds of hungered peoples with a sole basket of bread. You, dear Thomas, salve hundreds of peoples from hell with only one holy hour, in the presence of the Living Bread brought down from heaven.

This is the reason for Carlos de Faucauld spent his entire life before the Holy Sacrament in the desert in Arabia. His only prayer was: 'My God, lead all mankind to salvation.'

Establish perpetual adoration in your parish, dear father, and God will be infinitely more grateful to you, than the parents of Thailand are to this man that salve little girls from the brothels. God will spend all eternity thanking you for the countless of souls that you salved.

What would be a better reason to have perpetual adoration, than this fifth grace of salvation!

Fraternally yours in His Eucharistic Love,

Mgr. Pepe