My beloved ones, long ago, I used to buy wheat from the ration shop and take it to the nearby grinding mill. Usually, the mill would not yet be open in the morning. After that, I still had to bring the flour home and go to school, and the school was quite far away. I had to do all of this in tension and hurry.
It was during those tense moments that I began to use the Angelus prayer actively. I was not merely reciting it as a prayer; I was learning to live through it.
The mill owner’s house was quite far from the mill. He had to walk all the way through the village pathways because, in those days, there were no proper roads like today. Until he arrived, we would keep praying the Angelus. When he finally came, the first thing he would do was check whether all three phases of electricity were available by looking at the wooden switchboard.
Usually, three red bulbs would be glowing. But if there had been wind or rain, sometimes a palm frond or branch would fall on the lines, and one phase would go out. Then he would say, “There is no power.”
I would immediately reply, “Brother, there is power!” At that age, I did not understand what three-phase power meant. When I looked, I saw one bulb glowing, so I thought there was electricity. But what he meant was that the three-phase power required to run the motor was missing.
This is the issue with communication. We often measure the depth of a subject according to our own limited knowledge and understanding.
The other day, a priest came here and shared a very beautiful testimony. In the course of his sharing, he began by saying, “My faith did not have much depth.” Immediately, I remembered the mill owner. It was exactly like the mill owner saying, “There is no power.” When the priest said that his faith lacked depth, it did not mean he had no faith. It meant something deeper.
There is a type of faith that the servants of the Lord speak about. Those who have entered into this Covenant certainly have faith. No one would go to the extent of borrowing money to come here without faith. They are here because they have faith. But within faith itself, as I often say, there is single-phase faith and there is three-phase faith.
In the language of the Apostles, after living with the Lord, they discovered a certain kind of faith. That faith was different. When we turn toward that and move into the three-phase level, we enter the faith that I always speak about.
I have explained this many times, but certain things must be repeated. New people are constantly entering the Covenant. Every day, hundreds of new people may come. Because of these new people, older members may say, “Father has already said this before.” But that does not matter. I am not speaking only to the old members. I am also addressing those who have newly entered the Covenant, so that they may understand.
During the time of the Lord, faith was identified in a certain way. In the time of the Apostles, faith was explained more deeply. When we recite the Creed, we call it the Apostles’ Creed, not merely the Christian Creed. In the Holy Mass book, it is written as the Apostles’ Creed. What the Apostles believed is the faith of the Church.
When an infant is baptized, the priest lights a candle and gives it. When he hands over the lit candle, he says, “Receive the light of Christ.” The faith handed over through that light is the faith of the Apostles. It is in this faith that the child receives Baptism. The parents are asked, “Do you renounce Satan?” They reply, “We do.” Since the infant cannot profess faith, the parents profess the faith on behalf of the child. In this way, the Church hands over the faith to the infant through the parents.
In the past few days, I experienced a deeply sorrowful situation. While I was staying in a house during ministry abroad, the parents came to me and said, “Father, my daughter is asking, ‘Did I tell you to baptize me?’” Do you understand? Our children have truly grown up. Somewhere along the way, this girl had fallen into a trap, and that is why she was questioning her faith.
There are many deceivers today. For a time, until they are sixteen, children may believe and pray. They may come here with their heads covered, standing with great devotion. But when wicked desires begin filling their eyes, they may go somewhere and fall into the danger of losing their faith. They may become friends with someone who has no faith or someone who opposes our faith. After that, they may begin striking back against the Lord Himself.
What is the reason? It is the madness of one caught in sin. I tell parents, “You must keep quiet. You are not fighting against your daughter or son. You are fighting against the evil power working through them. Therefore, you must fasten the belt of truth around your waist.”
Ephesians 6:10 says, “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His power.” The Word continues, “Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh.”
Do you understand? When your daughter speaks against the faith, your struggle is not against her flesh and blood. Look at who is speaking through her. The Word says our struggle is “against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”
Therefore, when a daughter or son speaks against the faith, you must immediately identify what is happening. From that moment onward, the battle must be fought through the spiritual path. It is not by going to them and crying, “Oh daughter, why are you like this?” Some mothers handle such situations only by weeping. But you should never cry helplessly before these destructive forces. When you cry like that, it is merely human. The sword you are using is made of ice. If you strike with it, it will break.
The Lord has told us exactly what to do. Ephesians 6:13 says, “Take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day.” Notice carefully. It does not say “evil days”; it says “that evil day.” A son or daughter may go and make a decision that overturns everything. They may bring someone and show you a card saying, “I am eighteen years old.” The evil day has come. Later, consequences may unfold, and you may feel helpless. But what must you do on that evil day? You must withstand.
The Word continues, “Having done everything, to stand firm.” You must fulfill the duties that are yours, whether human or spiritual. But at the core of it all is faith. Even then, you must stand firm, holding on to your faith. You must not let go.
They may speak many arguments. They may lord it over mothers with less education and try to make them let go of their faith. But what must you do? You must stand firm. How do you stand firm? By fulfilling your duties toward God.
When your children were baptized, the Church asked you, “Do you believe?” It was your faith. Now they may say, “We did not ask you to give us faith.” When they ask, “Did we ask you to baptize us?” you should ask them, “Did you ask us to treat you when you were sick? When you were in the hospital and close to death, did anyone ask your permission before giving you medicine or an injection? Until you were fifteen, did we ask your permission before feeding you, educating you, sending you to school, and buying medicine for you?”
None of these things were done by asking the child’s permission. They were done because God entrusted parents with responsibility. That responsibility is toward God, not merely toward the child. Therefore, when such questions arise, you must make your stand clear: “We declared that we would raise the child born of our blood in the faith of the Lord. That is the responsibility we committed to God. The obligation is between us and God.”
We were speaking about faith. Actually, it is not we who are speaking, but the Lord who is speaking with us. You must always remember that this Covenant Retreat is a new spiritual chapter that the Lord has written for the world. Through this spiritual chapter, believers are deepened in faith, and non-believers are brought into faith. A great and beautiful heavenly dream is being fulfilled.
What did that priest mean when he said, “My faith did not have much depth”? I understand it to mean that he lacked three-phase faith, a faith capable of carrying heavy-duty work. Faith is a process of growth. There is what we call common faith. There is also great faith. Beyond common faith, there is even negative faith. We must examine the different levels of faith that Jesus referred to.
Matthew 14:31 says, “Immediately Jesus reached out His hand and caught him, saying to him, ‘O you of little faith, why did you doubt?’”
When Jesus asked, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” He was speaking about this common faith. Peter began to sink, but he was someone who had faith at first. It was precisely because he had faith that he spoke those words when he met the Lord on the sea. We can encounter the Lord on the shore, and we can encounter Him on the sea. Meeting Him on the sea represents encountering Him in our afflictions.
We can encounter the Lord in times of peace, but encountering Him in times of hardship is symbolized by Peter meeting the Lord on the sea. When Peter met Him there, fierce waves surrounded him, and deep waters lay beneath him. Yet a profound desire arose within him: “Lord, I wish to come to You, walking upon these waves.”
Not everyone felt that desire. John was there. Andrew was there. The others were there. But who stepped forward for this test? Peter. What we see in Peter’s faith is a deep inner urge. We must cultivate this inner urge. When people see the Lord, they often say, “Well, He is the Lord, so He can do anything.” But we should not stop there. We should say, “If the Lord can do it, and if it is the Lord’s will, then I too can do it.” That is the Gospel according to Peter.
You must understand how, after all the twists and turns, the keys of the Kingdom were entrusted to this man. Among all the Apostles, Peter is the one I look up to and follow the most. The others also have their place, and I am not diminishing them. St. Paul and others entered the apostolic movement later, and God had a mighty plan for them. But Peter received direct apostolic revelations from Jesus. He learned in the school of Jesus, not merely through theory, but through practical tests and trials.
Among the Apostles, only a few truly passed these practical tests. John and James failed certain practical tests. Remember when Jesus sent them into Samaria to arrange a place for Him to stay? That was a practical test, but they did not realize it.
The Samaritans and Jews were not on good terms. Their faith and history clashed. It was into that hostile territory that Jesus sent them. They were being sent into what felt like an enemy camp to arrange a place of rest.
Instead of preparing spiritually, they went casually, singing songs and telling stories, without intercessory prayer. That caused the problem. When you go near an enemy, or into a place unfamiliar to you, if there is no one else to intercede for you, you must take the Rosary and pray before you go.
I give this teaching from my own experience. Some days are calm, but other days are stormy. There are issues in different places, interactions with people, responsibilities outside, and many matters that drain me. Yet even when things seem peaceful, I pray before going out.
Do I not pray every morning for the routes you travel? I pray over your documents, deeds, land conversion matters, and boundary disputes. Boundary disputes can be very dangerous. Even today, people are stabbed, shot, and killed over land boundaries. When dealing with boundaries, we must be truly careful. At any moment, an evil spirit can begin working.
When a person on the other side desires just one more handful of soil, that greed may be driven by an evil spirit. It does not matter if the person is your father’s brother’s son or your father’s younger brother. You must discern what is operating spiritually.
Therefore, you must use fewer words, pray more, and let the Lord work with you. These are three things Jesus has revealed for handling crisis points: use fewer words, pray more, and let the Lord work with you. If someone asks why we take the Covenant, there is only one real answer: so that the Lord may work with us. That is all.
You should not immediately say, “To pass IELTS,” “To sell property,” or “To stop a foreclosure.” If you reduce the Covenant only to your personal intention, then no matter how much God blesses you, you will connect the blessing only to that one matter.
Suppose ten kilograms of rice are being given freely, but you arrive with a bag that can hold only two kilograms. Even though ten kilograms are available, you receive only what your vessel can hold. In the same way, if twenty tons of Covenant blessing are available, but your intention is only the size of two pounds, you limit the immense blessing to that small measure.
That is why I always teach: never measure the Lord’s hand according to your specific intention. Do not measure the Lord by your petition.
If someone asks why you take the Covenant, do not say, “So that my wife who left me will return.” That may be your intention, but the deeper point is that the Lord must work with you. If the Lord’s weapon is in your hands, then the deeper spiritual disorder can be addressed. Do not keep thinking only about whether the person returns. Think about whether the Lord is working with you.
Many husbands and wives say, “He is not calling me,” or “She is not calling me.” Yet they keep checking their phones, looking for missed calls. They refuse to call first because they think, “If I call first, I will become smaller.” Secretly, they keep checking whether the other person has called.
The Covenant often works in reverse gear. Sometimes going backward is actually moving forward. Even aircraft are sometimes moved backward for safety. In the same way, stepping back, yielding, and humbling ourselves can become protection. At times, we must humble ourselves.
Some women come to me and say, “Father, let him come and take me back, and then I will return like a queen.” But I tell them plainly, “You must go.” If you are the one who left, you must go back. But their mind says, “He must come and take me back.” They are not ready to humble themselves.
Then they say, “If I go alone, my mother-in-law and sister-in-law will humiliate me.” There may be truth in that fear, because anger and emotion can create disasters. But when we act only out of emotion, we create catastrophes.
God has given mothers a deep emotional capacity because mothers must raise children with attachment and care. A mother must have a special concern for the child entrusted to her. But when that possessiveness is misused to dominate, attack others, or establish power, the Lord will not work with that.
What is the point? Why do we take the Covenant? So that the Lord may work with us.
Therefore, you must sit and reflect deeply on the sinful lifestyles you have created. Do not continue supporting the family conflicts and divisions you yourself have caused.
In some families, after marriage, a woman enters a home and immediately thinks about separating the husband from his parents. She may say, “I will live with you only if we move out.” But that husband’s parents raised him with suffering, hunger, loans, and sacrifice. Just when they hoped to live peacefully in old age, how can he abandon them?
If you demand that he abandon his parents, will that bring peace? If he refuses, some go to court, file false cases, and try to seize family property. But will there not be consequences for filing false cases and coveting another person’s wealth? Our bodies and health are sustained by God. Therefore, if you want a great result in the Covenant, you must correct such wrongs. God will never work alongside the devil.
Matthew 6:24 says, “No one can serve two masters.”
You cannot serve God and wealth. A lifestyle displeasing to God and Covenant living cannot go together. A sinful lifestyle and the Covenant cannot exist together.
Now let us return again to Peter. The Lord said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” This is common faith. This is single-phase faith. There is faith, but there is also unbelief and doubt. When the priest said that his faith was not deep, he did not mean he had no faith. He meant that his faith had not yet reached the third phase. Faith has stages, just as human life has stages.
Last night I went to a retirement function. That family had helped me greatly during the coastal ministry, especially when I conducted conventions by the sea. Seeing my old coworkers brought me great joy. At that time, I was about thirty years old. Now I am sixty-five or sixty-six. The mother I saw there back then was around fifty. Yesterday I saw her again, now about eighty-five or eighty-seven.
When I saw her, I was very happy. She was a warrior who worked hard on the seashore. She offered her children for the ministry of Kreupasanam. Those were difficult days. Kreupasanam then was not like Kreupasanam today. Today it has become worldwide and is ministering to families. The Lord has chosen it not merely for local ministry, but for international ministry. Today, the sanctification of people is happening very powerfully.
That mother had eight children. Many of them worked for the Lord. Some are retired now. Some settled in life, married off their children, and their grandchildren came running to me. It was a joyful day.
Then I reflected: I met that woman when she was fifty, and now I am meeting her at eighty-seven. How blessed she is. Her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren are gathered around her, and she sits there like a queen.
But then I thought: If the faith she had at fifty is exactly the same faith she has at eighty-seven, then even if we say she has won, she has failed in the Lord’s book. That is the issue.
Her plus point is that her family is in the faith. Directly or indirectly, they are active in the faith. One son is a catechism promoter and a Plus Two principal. According to their standing, they are all workers of the Gospel. Because of this, the mother will be saved through the faith that bore fruit in her children and grandchildren.
There is a kind of faith we may call survived faith. Sometimes a person’s faith is understood through the fruit it has produced. Either this mother is a tremendously holy woman because she raised so many children and grandchildren in faith, or her faith itself is greater than others.
But you must be careful. No one should say, “I cheated for the sake of raising my children.” God will not accept that.
I know a man whose younger brother had been discharged from the army because of a mental issue. This older brother forged the younger brother’s signature and took his pension. Finally, the court caught him. The court asked, “Is this not the pension money of a person with mental illness? Did you not forge his signature and take it?” He replied, “I did it to raise my children.” But the court did not accept that. If even an earthly court does not accept deceit disguised as raising children, how will the court of Heaven accept it?
Do not cheat others saying, “It is to raise my children.” Do not withhold your sisters’ property saying, “It is to raise my children.” Do not run unjust money dealings and show off saying, “It is to raise my children.” That is not child-raising; God knows the truth. It is greed and dishonesty covered with an excuse.
Before taking the Covenant, you must reflect on such things. You must think, “I am becoming a worthy Covenant partner. I am entering into a Covenant, not merely attending a retreat.” Some people handle the Covenant like children eating cashew apples. When children pick up cashew apples, they often twist off the nut and throw it away. They eat the fruit and discard the seed.
Similarly, in the Covenant, some people take only the blessing they want. If their foreclosure is lifted, they consume that benefit and throw away the part that brings true grace. They take the fruit of the blessing but throw away the seed of grace.
Forgiveness, mercy, gentleness, and allowing the Lord to work with you are the grace-giving parts. But many throw these away. Pension, job, interview success, and financial relief are like the sweet fruit. People eat that and discard the rest. Do not approach the Covenant this way.
Do not think you can take the Covenant, snatch a few blessings from God, and then end it. Some people say, “I cannot even have a small drink anymore.” Some say, “Certain people will behave only if I curse them.” But it is the weak who use curses and foul language to correct others. Impure language is unclean.
If you are waiting for the ninety days of the Covenant to end so that you can start cursing again, what kind of state is that? Some think, “The ninety days are over, so now I have permission.” No. You may think it is over, but with God the Covenant continues. The process of sanctifying you in the holy presence of the Lord is within it.
Therefore, the goal is that the Lord must work with you. Little faith is like wood that still contains much water. Because of this, their faith struggles to “catch fire.” They may believe one day and doubt the next, pray but worry excessively, or trust God only when circumstances are favorable. When Peter stepped onto the sea, his feet became wet and he began to sink. When he felt he was drowning, he cried, “Lord, save me,” and raised his hand. That was correct. When the very ground beneath you sinks, who else is there? Only the Lord.
Sometimes foreclosure, sickness, or another trial may make the ground beneath your life feel as if it is collapsing. When the ground sinks, raise your hand like Peter. The Lord will catch you. But after catching him, Jesus asked, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” This common faith must be upgraded into great faith.
What is great faith? It is formed when you add missionary activity, works of charity, healing, and contributions to the matters you are undertaking. Then faith is forged into something greater.
Matthew 15:28 says, “Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.”
From that moment, her daughter was healed. What did Jesus say? “Let it be done for you as you wish.” In the Covenant, you submit six intentions. Are they not six desires? God is not against your desires. If fulfilling them will not harm you, He can grant them. But if certain things would bring danger, now or even many years later, the Lord may alter or delay them. The Lord knows what we do not know.
For example, I have been praying for a cemetery in my parish for a long time, but it did not materialize for years. When a matter remains unfulfilled, I do not understand it as “it will never happen.” I understand it as needing more time. That is why I tell people to renew their intentions.
If something is not fulfilled, it does not mean it will never happen. It may mean that if it happens now, complications may arise that we cannot foresee. The Lord knows everything.
Regarding the cemetery, even with the Bishop’s permission, there was no movement for years. If I had taken a Covenant and placed that intention, I would have renewed it many times. I did not follow that intention-based Covenant line because I live a greater Covenant life through my full-time ministry. My food, Gospel work, and entire life are dedicated to this ministry twenty-four hours a day. I have no other profession. My work is to make the Lord known to those who do not know Him, to deepen the faith of those who know Him, and to live a holy life myself.
Still, even for a full-timer, it is good to take an Intention Covenant. I think of Fr. Thomas Ettiyil. He had been ministering in a retreat center for many years. His mother came here and took the Covenant. Whenever Father came home, his mother would speak about the Covenant. At first, Father thought, “Mother Mary is everywhere. Aren’t there retreats everywhere? Why should people come to Alappuzha?” He did not say it aloud to his mother, but he thought it in his heart. Then his brother had cancer. When it seemed almost final, his mother came and took the Covenant. His brother was saved and came here to give testimony. From that day, Fr. Thomas began to be drawn toward the Covenant. But he did not have any specific intention.
When I reflected on his testimony, I thought about my own cemetery issue. There was no need for me to struggle for five years. If I had taken a Covenant for that intention from the beginning, perhaps it would not have dragged on so long.
I used to tell the Blessed Mother, “Before I leave, I want to finish the cemetery there.” But when the cemetery could not be completed or even started, the Bishop told me, “Your time there is over. The appointment must change.” I told the Bishop, “I will do as Your Excellency wishes.” In the Church, we may express our desire, but the final decision belongs to the Bishop.
I had taken that church as a mission. When no one was really looking after it, I took it up and did many things there. I desired to complete this also. But because I did not take a Covenant for it, the matter dragged on.
Fr. Thomas also faced a situation. The Church ordered him to go to the UK. To go there, he had to pass IELTS. He had good marks in English in school and college. So he thought, “Why should I go for an IELTS course? I have merit.”
That is the word: merit. Some people think that because they have merit, they do not need the Covenant. But even though he was a priest and a retreat center director, when the issue came, he failed IELTS. After handling English for so many years and scoring well earlier, he failed. His merit did not work. That is what we mean by not by merit, but by grace.
No matter how great we are, sometimes merit does not work. Why should we take the Covenant? First, so that the Lord may work with us. Second, because no matter how much merit we have, sometimes merit may not work. There may be others with more merit than us. If everything is given only according to merit and justice, we may be left out.
Fr. Thomas’s English was good. His pronunciation, writing, reading, and listening were good. Yet he failed. Many who studied in Malayalam medium come here, take the Covenant, write IELTS for the first time, and testify that Mother Mary lifted them up. That shows the Covenant does not work merely by merit.
So Father came and took the Covenant online. He said that from the moment he took it online, he began living it diligently. Diligence is important. When I conducted a retreat in Australia, a priest said, “The Covenant is a disciplined life.” When I conducted a retreat in Singapore, a priest said during thanksgiving, “It is when the Covenant ends that the Covenant truly begins.”
The Church and the world are realizing that the Covenant makes a deep contribution in transforming people into witnesses. Even after taking the online Covenant, Fr. Thomas failed a second time. Yet he did not give up. He said to the Blessed Mother, “Mother, giving testimony is the hardest thing for me to do. I make this vow: I will faithfully live my online Covenant, and when You grant me victory on the third attempt, I will come to Kreupasanam and give testimony.”
This is a vow we too can make within the Covenant. Some say, “If my matter receives a favorable decision, I will come to Alappuzha and take the Covenant.” Some say, “I will give testimony.” If offered sincerely, Mother accepts such things because they are dear to her heart.
When priests give testimony, it brings great conviction to people. Whether I am preaching in London, America, or elsewhere, I show priest testimonies. When people who are wavering hear a priest testify, they gain conviction about the Covenant.
After making his vow, Fr. Thomas went for his third IELTS exam. It felt like the greatest disaster in the world. Reading went wrong. Listening went wrong. Writing went wrong. Fear entered him. When he came out, his friends asked how the exam went. He said, “If I pass this, it will be the eighth wonder of the world.” He was shattered.
But that night, while praying, he remembered his vow: “If I pass, I will come to Kreupasanam and testify.” Mother wanted to hear that. Perhaps that is why she allowed him to fail twice, so that this man would testify.
This also points to a challenge with the online Covenant. Those who take the Covenant online do not physically receive the Kreupasanam newspaper. If you are not receiving the paper and Gospel work is not happening, you must find a suitable way to transmit the faith. Do not say, “I took the Covenant online, so reciting the Apparition Prayer is enough.” You cannot catch fish with empty hands.
Here, people draw water, chop firewood under the sun, bear humiliation for the Lord, and live as witnesses of the divine Covenant Gospel. Those who take the online Covenant cannot simply sit comfortably in unwrinkled clothes and do nothing.
Online Covenant members must do Gospel work suitable to their situation. The Kreupasanam Pathram is available in many languages on the website. If there are technical issues, report them. It is available even in Korean, Chinese, and Nepali. Wherever you are in the world, download it, print it, and distribute it to people. That is what online Covenant members must do.
By God’s grace, let me tell you the real challenge of the Covenant. The challenge is not merely in what you do. The true challenge is convincing God that you are truly in the Covenant. That is very difficult. Explaining it does not make it understandable. Hearing it does not make it understandable. Only by demonstrating it through life does it become clear before God. Sometimes, even actions alone are not enough.
God’s discernment works in a very unique way.
Think of a mobile phone. Sometimes we leave a testimony or news playing on the phone and go to the kitchen. While the phone keeps playing, we get distracted with cooking. Some smart phones can sense that no one is watching and stop playing. Phones have become so sensitive that they seem to hear what we speak about. If we talk about America or kangaroos in Australia, related content appears later. If even a phone can sense such things, how much more does God discern? God’s system is far beyond that.
So when we make a Covenant, we must be careful. We must make sure we are doing it with love for God, with faith, and with true dedication. God senses all this. If there is any deceit, if we are merely putting on a show to get a job or promotion, trying to fool God, then the process stops.
All dealings with God must be honest down to the smallest level. If you interact with God sincerely, personally, carefully, truthfully, and with total surrender, and if God sees that your whole being is involved, the Covenant will begin to move swiftly even without anyone asking. Fr. Thomas was convinced he had failed the third exam. But by Mother’s intervention, he passed. That same priest came here and gave his testimony.
The Covenant was given to me by Mother. To Vijayakumar, she only mentioned it as an agreement. If I had not been there, he might have understood it only as a business agreement, because he was familiar with government agreements. But when it was told to me, the Holy Spirit revealed that there was Covenant content in it.
When I began writing about the Covenant, Mother gave a book of about one hundred pages within seventy-two hours. Jomol had a role in that book. She searched for relevant Scripture passages, referred to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and supported the contents. Many people, directly and indirectly, supported this Covenant from outside.
Thousands upon thousands of people are now in this Covenant. I received God’s message. I saw the apparition of Mother Mary. I could have thought, “Why do I need a Covenant? Mother came and visited me uninvited, not once, but twice. She saw me and gave me such a complex message, with a clock on her chest showing the hands at ten and eight. She said we must pray against the coming disaster.”
Compared to the many apparition messages of Mother Mary, this message is profound. A time will come when the Church studies all of this deeply. That is why thousands interceded, praying, “May the plan of grace that God and Mother desire be fulfilled in Kreupasanam, and in our families, as a reflection of this apparition.” It was then that Mother gave the Covenant.
When this Covenant is given, and people live according to it, how many people and families are being saved!
I am an instrument used by God for this Covenant, a spiritual father, and the first witness to Mother’s apparition. I say “first witness” because today many people see Mother, many who take the Covenant see Pilgrim Mother, and many have visions of Mother. But I am the first witness.
Still, the truth is this: no matter what grace you are in now, it is never the final word of grace. If you are capable of doing more, Heaven expects more from you.
The greatest aspect of the Covenant is that there is shortening of time, communication, the very presence of God, divine communion, the fragrance of God, and many such graces. These things do not happen by our own merit. They happen by the grace of God. When a situation requires many things to come together, there is no other way but the Covenant.
Disclaimer: All content in this article is credited to Dr. Fr. V.P. Joseph Valiyaveettil of Kreupasanam Marian Shrine, Kerala, India. This English adaptation has been prepared as a humble effort to make Father’s Malayalam YouTube sharings more accessible to a wider audience, with the assistance of translation and editorial resources. If Fr. V.P. Joseph believes that any content here infringes upon his rights, I will remove it immediately upon his request.
Many of Father’s teachings were originally shared within the context of the Kreupasanam Covenant and may therefore include references or practices specific to that spiritual journey. Nevertheless, this blog is intended for everyone. Whether or not you are a Covenant member, it is my hope that these reflections, biblical teachings, and testimonies will encourage you in your own walk with God.
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