Living in the Cloister of the Immaculate Heart as Missionaries of the Cross
- Lourdes Pinto

- Nov 1, 2023
- 12 min read
Updated: Sep 22
What does it mean, and what is required for the men, Missionaries of the Cross, to enter and live in the Cloister of the Immaculate Heart?
Transcript
Living in the Cloister of the Immaculate Heart as Missionaries of the Cross.
The title I gave this talk tonight for you is “Living in the Cloister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as Missionaries of the Cross.” Tonight, I want to give you an introduction to what it means to be chosen to enter the cloister of our Mother’s Heart. So, the first question I’d like to begin with tonight is this one:
Who is chosen to enter the cloister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary? Is it just for the Mothers of the Cross?
Our Blessed Mother and Our Lord answer this question for us. So I’m going to bring to you the messages where it’s very clear who is called to enter the cloister. Our Blessed Mother, on August 15th of this year, 2023, made it very clear. She said :
This cloister is only reserved for the women and men who choose to remain in the sorrows of my Son's Sacred Heart because humanity continues to not give glory to ABBA by loving Him with all their hearts, souls, and might. Jesus came to earth to reveal the goodness and love of our Father through His life, death, and resurrection. Yet, humanity continues to reject this gift purchased for all through the pouring out of His precious Blood and leaving you the gift of the Holy Spirit through all the sacraments of the Church.
Therefore, Our Blessed Mother desires to have not just the Mothers of the Cross but the Missionaries of the Cross in her cloister. But she makes it clear that it is only for the men and women who choose —it is a choice we have to make— to remain in the sorrows of her Son’s Sacred Heart. It sounds quite easy when you read it in a paragraph. But when you begin to try to remain in the sorrows of God, it is quite a challenge. You enter my brothers, an incredible interior struggle because our human condition, due to original sin, does not want to remain in an interior state of sorrow with God.
In February of 2022, the Lord spoke to us again about the cloister. He begins to prepare us; He said, My Sacred Heart desires companionship.
I feel tonight that I want you, my brothers, to understand that the Lord chose a woman, He chose me, to give me His voice, and I have the responsibility to bring you the voice of God. But the voice speaking to you is the voice of Christ. It’s the voice of the Shepherd. It’s the voice of the Man-God. It’s the voice of the High Priest. He chose the insignificant vessel that I am.
Listening, receiving, and responding are required to truly enter silence. So don’t just hear words; listen and receive the voice of God. He says to us:
My Sacred Heart desires companionship. Enter this Lent into the cloister of your hearts where I dwell. In silence and stillness, remain with Me, praying for the conversion of the world and the salvation of countless souls. I desire silence and continuous prayers, for your prayers united to My sacrifice of love have great power before the throne of ABBA. This is my desire for each of you this Lent. 2/28/22
He began to tell us to enter the cloister of our own hearts, where He lives. How difficult that can be. He says to remain in a continuous prayer. Well, how do we do that? How has He formed us? What is He saying here to us? When we live our ordinary lives as men and women, united to His sacrifice of love, living our daily struggles, our daily piercings, our daily pains, when we live it all through Christ, with Christ, and in Christ, we have entered the perfect prayer of the Mass; we become one with the sacrifice of Christ to the Father. That is the most powerful prayer. That is a continuous prayer, one that brings a shower of grace to the world. This is how we are called to live in the Cloister.
On March 9th, 2023, Mary speaks. The voice of our mother. How does Mary speak to us? Listen to her voice. She says:
My solitude after Jesus ascension was my perfect union of love in Abba’s tears for His people.
Listen to Mary. She says, My solitude. Mary enters a desolation. She enters the abandonment of Jesus on the Cross, and she continues on earth as a Mother, living that abandonment for years. She describes her solitude on earth as her union with Abba Father in His tears. How beautiful! The way heaven speaks to us is so profound, my brothers. If you receive the voice of Christ and Mary, the depth of where they’re taking us is so amazing. That’s just the first sentence I’m reading to you. That one sentence is enough for a lifetime of contemplation. She then says:
I then received the sin and brokenness of each of the apostles into my motherly heart as one with God and embraced them in the embrace of the Trinity.
That is the heart of a mother. She received yours and mine, our sins, our oppression, our brokenness, and she draws us into her Motherly Heart because that’s what Christ did. And she suffers with Christ for us. This is our formation. We are called to receive the brokenness of our spouses, the sin of our children, of our friends, of our priests, of our parents, of our neighbors, and our own sin and suffer it, allowing our hearts to be pierced like Mary’s and Jesus’. It doesn’t mean that when we’re in the cloister, we’re going to be before the Blessed Sacrament all day long, but when we are united in the sufferings of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, we are one with them. And the agony that’s lived within the heart is a silence; it’s a stillness. You can go to work and at any moment, even sitting at your desk, while you’re still for a second and enter interiorly into your hearts, that sorrow, the pain is there, and in that moment, in that second, you just unite it to Jesus’ agony, and that’s a prayer. It’s continuous. It’s a new way of living. This is how we live in the cloister.
She goes on to say:
I continued the life of my Son on earth after His Ascension. I continued living the interior crucifixion as one with Christ, thus living as His living host, one in His Eucharistic life, as grace for the nascent Church. This, my little one, is where I am now taking each of you (LC)… 3/9/23
She’s speaking to Love Crucified. She’s speaking to you, her beloved sons, the men of Love Crucified. This is where our men are called to go, and this is when our men enter transformation.
Why am I here with Maria and, united with us, all the Mothers of the Cross? Because I truly believe that it is the heart of the mother, the heart of the woman that’s united to the Mother of Sorrows, that can bring our men into the depth of their masculine hearts to enter this perfect union with God —with the Man of Sorrows.
His prayer to Peter, James, and John is the same prayer He’s speaking to you, Micah, to you, Cesar, Fernando, Thomas, Jaime, Daniel, Father Jordi, Carlos, Juan Carlos, Hector, Alberto, Mark, Jack, and Willie. “Remain with me, My Heart is sorrowful unto death. Watch and pray with me.” The words of Scripture have not changed; they are the words of God that are speaking to us, my brothers. Christ continues to tell us, remain, my brothers, my sisters, remain with Me. Look at the condition of your families and the world. Enter the silence of My passion with Me. Cry with Me. Was He crying at Gethsemane? Yes, He went to his brothers; He went to His friends in tears. “Watch,” He said, “remain with Me.” Our fiat is to remain with our Beloved, to remain in the sorrows. This is the life in the cloister.
Mary goes on to say:
Living in the cloister of my Heart as one with me in the last stage of my life on earth completes the Simple Path to Union with God. The new Adams and the new Eves continue the life of God Trinity, establishing God's Kingdom on earth. 3/9/23
Do you realize what the Queen of Heaven said to us this year? We’ve entered the end of the Path! We have come, and she is bringing us to the summit. The cloister is the summit of the Simple Path to Union with God, and the men and women of Love Crucified have been chosen and invited to enter. This is what the Queen of Heaven is telling us.
And then we become what? New men and new women for the glory of God and for the new dawn that’s coming to the world. This is how we’re prepared to suffer the great chastisement that’s coming upon us: with joy, with anticipation, because we’re in the cloister. At least we’re trying to get there.
In the message of April 28th, 2023, Jesus asks me to prepare this family to enter the cloister of Mary’s heart. So yes, my brothers, you have been chosen. You are invited to enter the cloister, but He asked the mothers to come first, and we just had a retreat because, again, like Mary, she was the one that helped the Apostles become the new Adams, and therefore, these mamas with our Blessed Mother are called to give our lives with the passion of our feminine hearts to raise you up, so that you can then, as one with Jesus Christ crucified, bring these women to heaven.
The second question:
What is required of the women and men chosen by God to live in the cloister of the Immaculate Heart?
Here is the nitty gritty. Here’s the hard part. Our Lady made it clear on August 15th, 2023. She’s speaking of the Mothers of the Cross, but it’s the same for you, the men. “Bring this invitation to all the Mothers of the Cross, but before each gives their fiat, there are five promises we have to make.” After tonight, you should have them all memorized and pray daily for them:
1– Silence.
2– The prayer of remaining in God’s sorrows.
3– Simplicity.
4– Poverty of spirit.
5– Perfect obedience to me as your queen mother and mother of God.
Then she says:
Go in peace, and know that I await each of you in heaven for the glory of God.
Do you realize what Christ and Our Lady have been telling us for years? The promise: those who give their fiat and persevere in trying their hardest every day to live this way of life will die as saints. This is the hope that St.Paul speaks about so powerfully in Romans. The hope that we will, because God has promised it to us, die as the saints of the end times. And Our Lady is saying, “I await each of you in heaven.” This is exciting. This is a time to rejoice, but we’ve got to work hard. That’s why I gave the women, 40 days before our retreat, a document that I also gave all of you.
Our Blessed Mother also said to us:
The knowledge of the Father and his love, through your participation in the sufferings of my Son, has purchased for you the title of my maidens of the cloister of my Immaculate Heart.
Now, that one sentence holds a treasure. Our Blessed Mother explains to us that it is through the grace of participating in Christ's sufferings that we come to know and experience the love of Abba Father.
Those are the powerful words that St. Paul speaks to us in Romans 8:17 which are key to our formation from the beginning of the Simple Path:
It is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Heaven is telling us the same thing as St. Paul, because God wants us to enter the depth of the Scriptures, of the letters of St. Paul, so powerful. You have a great missionary of the cross, my brothers, in St. Paul. Romans is packed with the depth of our formation of how Christ has wanted us to discover the treasure of the mystery of the Cross that St.Paul discovered, and that’s where the Lord is bringing us and how He is forming us: One with that Missionary of the Cross.
Our Blessed Mother goes on to say:
This privilege is given to few women by the Father, but it is being given to you and the MOC following you as God's chosen one. Enter with the MOC my cloister and choose to remain as one with me, suffering my Son’s interior martyrdom, which continues in His Eucharistic presence on earth. 8/15/23
That one sentence sums it all up, except it’s not just the women. You, the men, are also the few, but notice that our Blessed Mother says, “It’s Abba that is inviting us, and it’s an invitation that’s given to few.” Why? Because very few souls, in Spanish, it’s “se han lanzado” (have given themselves completely to say, yes, I’ll be a victim soul. That’s why only a few can be chosen by the Father to enter this grace of a cloistered soul. Do you realize the privilege, the blessing that God is giving you, the few men, and us, the few women? In the midst of our sorrows, that is why we have to be full of joy. The gift the women received in our retreat was joy.
Cesar nods because he witnessed the joy of his wife when she came home. I’m still dancing! The joy we received is necessary to enter the passion, my brothers. So that, if we are called to shed our blood and be martyrs, we can go hand in hand, the new Adams and the new Eves, men and women united, helping one another like the beginning Church, with the joy of laying down our lives. So it’s not doomsday. The new dawn is coming! Yes, we’re going to suffer, but we can’t lose sight of the goal like St. Paul preaches. That’s why we’re a community. That’s why I’m here as the mother, one with Mary. What did she do with her Apostles? She encouraged them (los animó) so they could be martyrs. We can be those saints also. I’m honored as Mary was honored to be with the Apostles. I’m honored, along with Maria and all the Mothers of the Cross, to have you. There are such few men willing to enter their hearts and this level of depth, and you’re trying, and we’re here to help you as you are here to help us. What a blessing.
So, what’s required?
In a message, Monday of Holy Week, April 3rd, 2023, Jesus tells us:
God’s people have become drunk with the passions of the flesh and world, and therefore, the power of My light has been dimmed in many and extinguished in others. Yet, God in his infinite mercy is raising His saints for these end times.
His “saints”? What is Jesus, our Shepherd, our High Priest, the Victim, the Man, my brothers telling us?
His saints are My victims of love who have chosen to love Me above all else, to walk with Me the narrow path of My passion, and to remain with Me in the sorrows of life suffering as one with Me with perfect faith, hope, and love. These few men and women possess My Light and it is through them that God will conquer the darkness and I will be glorified on earth as I am in heaven. 4/3/23
Listen to the voice, receive the voice of the High Priest, my brothers. Listen to His voice, listen to the Heart of the Man-God, and respond to Him. I am a nobody, but I have one responsibility and so does Father Jordi with me. We are not the leaders of this mission. We are not the leaders of this community. We are insignificant vessels to bring you the voice of God and Our Lady for these times and to encourage you, teach you, and proclaim this voice. That is what we’re called to do. But the leader of our community, the commander in chief preparing us, is Jesus Christ himself. Therefore, when you read these messages, read them with attentiveness due to the God-Man leading this community.
And to truly enter silence means you’re willing to listen to His voice. You’re willing to receive His voice. You’re willing to allow His voice to pierce your masculine hearts as we allow it to pierce our feminine hearts. And then we respond. So, my brothers, that’s how far I got tonight. But, with all the passion of my heart, I pray that you’ve received at least an introduction to what it means to enter the cloister and how God waits for your response.

