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A reader asks "What does The Spirit of Grace mean"?
Grace is the saving power of God.Jesus is the only Savior and so all Grace springs from Him. Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary, who was Immaculately Concieved; that is, She was without Original Sin as well as without personal sin throughout Her life. That is why the angel greeted Her as "Full of Grace". Jesus Himself is the Grace, and because Our Lady remained without sin She retained the Spirit of Grace forever. The Spirit of Grace is the saving power of God.
In His lifetime on earth Jesus said that "you will do the things that I do and greater far than these". Only by the suffering, death and Resurrection of Jesus can salvation be merited. But, the fruits of the salvivic act of Jesus can be applied to sinners by each of us, provided that we have the Spirit of Grace within us. We obtain the Spirit of Grace by asking for it with a cleansed heart; a heart remade through the sacramental life of the Church into the very image of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Therefore, pray, pray and pray for the Spirit of Grace to grow ever greater in you, so that you too can save souls.
Another reader asks: What are the weapons Our Lady has given us in the battle against evil spirits?
The first prayer Our Lady of All Graces gave us was the Prayer of the Heart. It allows us to be united in our prayers and in our intentions with the Immaculate Heart of Mary and all the others who are praying in a similiar fashion. That means that we are no longer fighting the enemy alone but in a coordinated effort. We are no longer an "army of one" but of many.
Later Our Lady taught us that the Devil and his minions do exist and that they influence people, often good people, to do bad and even sometimes evil things. We can all be, and prpbably have been, subjected to the evil spirits at points in our lives. Unfortunately, the role of "unclean spirits" has been minimized in our society today. We look for intellectual answers to proplems and behaviors that are influenced by these unclean spirits. We fight them as though our enemy was human and not spirit. These "weapons" are the ones that the Devil and its minions hopes we will choose, because they are immune to them.
To effectively combat the true enemy of mankind, Our Lady gave us the Deliverance Oil and the Deliverance Prayer. Further, She taught us that the spirit of evil in the world today will be defeated by casting the "Spirit of Death in the Woumb" into Hell for all time and eternity. Striking at the spirit behind Abortion is striking at the heart of the Devil. The most effective way to do this is to anoint yourself with the Deliverance Oil and pray the Deliverance Prayer. The Deliverance Oil is ordinary oil that is first blessed by a priest and is then belessed by Our Lady of All Graces Herself.
Our Lady also gave us the "Necklace of Love". It is similiar to a scapular and is to be worn around the neck. The Necklace carries an image of Our Lady on one side and a cross with a small swatch of the Deliverance Oil on the other side. It signifies that those who wear it are within the embrace of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It is our way of telling people that we believe in the protection of life for all people, especially the unborn and the aged.
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