December 29, 2025
As we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family today, we offer the following excerpt from the book “A Paradise of Gratitude.”
Today in prayer Our Lady returned, and she began to tell me things about how she lived. She talked about life and what meant the most.
“When love is given and received from others, as it was in my little family, any space on Earth can become a paradise of gratitude. We lived together, Jesus, Joseph and I, in a continual paradise of gratitude. Paradise exists where people are both learning about love and teaching others about love, simultaneously. The state of paradise is achievable, imperfectly, on Earth, in the sense that the Father creates people to love. Wherever we travelled, we created a paradise of gratitude. When I was without my family, later in my life, I remembered that they remained with me, in our little paradise, but differently from the time when it was my great privilege to serve them. And so, in honor of them and in memory of what we had been allowed to create with the Father, I tried to recreate a paradise of gratitude with whomever I was called to serve later and also by myself, alone.”
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