Repentance, the Lever that Opens Wide the Doors of Mercy

Jesus, through the Simple Path, leads us through stages into our hearts to discover all that is a distortion of God’s image in us. This self-discovery is the foundation of true repentance and humility. The few souls who learn to live “wrapped in the gift of self-knowledge” and in a continuous state of repentance become God’s agents of His mercy.

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Repentance, the Lever that Opens Wide the Doors of Mercy

10/30/25

Unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did. (Lk 13:3,5)

The first and foremost call of God to His people throughout the Scriptures is repentance. Why is repentance so necessary? Because without repentance, there is no change in us. God desires contrite hearts (Ps 51:17; Daniel 3:39). This, too, is what my husband and I want to see in our children and grandchildren. I remember when my sons were younger, and they did something wrong, if they cried tears of sorrow for their sin, Peter and I felt immediate compassion and relief because repentance brought a change of heart in our sons. But when they remained rebellious, obstinate, and justified their sinful behavior, as parents, we felt very worried because their lack of repentance kept their hearts darkened and hardened. Jesus, throughout the Gospels, reveals the Heart of our Father, who rejoices when we repent and who suffers intense grief when we justify our sinfulness or hide our disorders. As parents, when our children genuinely repent, we still must inflict a just punishment, but mercy flows from our hearts. Jesus said on May 19^th, 2011:

Repentance from the heart is the lever that opens wide the dam doors of My mercy.

The Simple Path to Union with God begins at the foot of the Cross, seeking the gold of precious repentance. Without repentance, we are stuck in the pit of our darkness; without repentance, our hearts remain hardened; without repentance, we cannot come to know Christ and have an intimate relationship with Him; without repentance, we cannot ascend the ladder to heaven, to union with God. We remain stuck in the darkness of our brokenness and sinfulness. Therefore, the first thing Jesus taught us was how to seek deep, heartfelt repentance. He told us to come every day in prayer to the foot of the Cross and to kiss His feet and ask for the gift of the Holy Spirit of self-knowledge, for if we do not see or know our wounds and all the disorders, lies, and sin patterns infecting our inner wounds, we will not repent. The gold of precious repentance can only be received through the gift of self-knowledge. Therefore, we must beg for this gift, asking and seeking with all our hearts, and we will receive it. Here lies the solid foundation of humility.

Eyes have not seen, nor ears heard, what your God has prepared for you in heaven. I invite you to come and see. I will remove the veil that covers the eyes of your soul so that you can see what few are able to see. You will see the new Jerusalem in all her glory. She, more precious than gold or diamonds, will be yours to possess. Allow Me to remove the plank from your eyes that keeps you from contemplating the glory of God before you. Come, My daughter, and bring many to the foot of the Cross. Prostrate yourselves before the foot of My Cross and kiss holy ground. Rise and embrace My precious feet and kiss My wounded feet. It is here, through this gesture of humility and love, that the plank of pride and self-love is removed from blinding your sight. Touch My feet, bless My feet with your kisses and cleanse them with your tears. The Holy Spirit drew Mary Magdalene to this act of love in preparation for My crucifixion, and it is My Mother who completed this act of love and reparation at My crucifixion. It is here at My precious feet that you receive the gold of precious repentance. I desire for you to bring My sons to the foot of My Cross. 11/16/10

Notice in this message from Jesus that He says, Allow Me to remove the plank from your eyes. This reveals that God respects our freedom to choose. It is up to us to allow God to purify us or to resist this work of our redemption.

It is not enough to repent a few times to feel good about ourselves. We must “live wrapped in the gift of self-knowledge,” therefore, living in a continuous state of repentance. This is possible through persevering at the foot of the Cross, for then the veils that keep the eyes of our hearts from seeing the glory of God before us and the truth of our misery come down. Then we can live in a continuous state of knowing who God is — Mercy — and who we are — misery.

Humility is acquired through constant knowledge of your misery and My mercy and love. You receive the gift of knowledge at My feet, and you must always maintain yourself wrapped in this gift.  3/4/11

The soul that lives wrapped in the gift of knowledge grows in true humility and then is able to advance in My path on the wings of the Holy Spirit. At times, you fall and have setbacks, but do not get discouraged, for these falls are meant to keep you wrapped in the gift of knowledge —the gift of knowing that you can do nothing without the grace of God. 12/12/11

The Lord stressed in our early years of formation as God’s hidden victim souls that our growth in humility comes through receiving the gift of self-knowledge and repentance. On November 14, 2011, He spoke to the men of our community, the Missionaries of the Cross, encouraging them to seek repentance of their sins with words of profound love and mercy.  These words apply to all men and women.

Do you see the darkness that has consumed the hearts and minds of My people, the darkness that is consuming My Sanctuary? Do your eyes see the light of God that WILL consume this darkness, or have you too become blinded by the darkness of the world? I wish to heal you of your blindness so that you can see the Son of Man in all His glory before you. To see is to believe. To see is to hope. To see is to become the beauty of what is revealed to you, which is LOVE. Then you can become the men of My Kingdom, guiding, protecting, and blessing your families. Continue to seek repentance of your many sins through the light and power of the Holy Spirit by crying out in tears and supplication, “Abba, Father save me!” And our Father will bless you with the sight of the angels so that you can behold the majesty, grandeur, and goodness of the Lord. Seek Me, My sons, and you will find Me, and the treasures of Heaven will be given to you to bless and share with many. Go in peace and know that I am with you.

Men, have you ever had such a deep-felt repentance that you have come before the Lord in tears? If not, pray daily for this gift, for tears of repentance are a gift from the Spirit to aid in the softening of our hearts.

I wait with Abba for your tears of repentance as Peter did. Your tears of repentance are the sign of the grace of the Holy Spirit alive and at work in your hearts. I continue to wait for every soul to approach Me at the foot of My Cross with hearts open wide to receive the outpouring of My Spirit that reveals the truth of who you are and who I am. 4/5/23

How is it that one lives in a continuous state of repentance? This is actually a fruit of living and becoming the Simple Path to Union with God. Let me explain: each part of the Path takes us deeper into our hearts to discover who we have become that we are not —what we have become that is not the image and likeness of God. At the first stage of the Path, at the feet of Jesus, we pray for self-knowledge, thus opening our hearts to the Holy Spirit and permitting Him to enter and begin revealing ourselves to ourselves. Then we enter the stage of receiving self-knowledge of our wounds. This leads to much self-discovery of our brokenness, disordered tendencies from these wounds, and the lies we have lived by. All this self-discovery walks hand in hand with repentance. When we enter the fire of the Sacred Heart and begin the purification through the three nails of crucifixion, we gain deeper self-knowledge of our desires, expectations, control, self-love, pride, manipulations, the subtle intentions of our hearts, and our reactions to our many emotions. We come to see our hypocrisy and duplicity. Thus, this work leads us to deeper confessions and the humility to continuously ask for forgiveness from others.

Our call to repentance is lived in two ways. First, as I have already stated, by seeking self-knowledge and living in a continuous state of repentance, we see our self-love and pride concealed in many disguises. Second, by bringing into the light the darkness in the hearts of others, especially those the Lord has given to us.

The truth will set you free, and living in a lie will keep you in bondage. You have not been asked to form good men and women, but pure victims of love. You must always speak the truth of the darkness that Satan wants to keep hidden in the hearts of My sons and daughters. 12/28/12

Throughout the Gospels, Jesus frequently confronts the religious leaders of His day, particularly the Pharisees, challenging their hypocrisy and legalism. In Matthew 23, Jesus delivers a series of "woes" against the Pharisees, exposing their self-righteousness and lack of proper understanding of God's law. He accuses them of being "blind guides" and "whitewashed tombs" (Matthew 23:24, 27), exposing the corruption in their hearts.

Jesus has given us many messages concerning the darkness in the hearts of our priests and in our Church and has called us to bring to the light what Satan wants to keep hidden.

You must bring to light the darkness of sin hidden in the hearts of My priests. 3/23/11

We encounter in the life of Jesus that He confronted with the truth, not only the sin of the Pharisees and scribes, but also ordinary men and women. For example, in the story of the woman caught in adultery (John 7:53-8:11), Jesus is confronted with a woman accused of sin. After her accusers leave, He tells her, “I do not condemn you; go and sin no more.” Jesus always offers grace and calls for repentance. In John 4, Jesus meets the Samaritan woman at the well. He reveals her past of multiple marriages and current relationship, confronting her sin directly. He speaks the truth to her with kindness, offering her hope and redemption.

After many years of ascending the spiritual journey from Jesus’ feet, into His pierced side, into the fire of purification in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, He invited us to enter and live in the cloister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to become living hosts with her participating intimately in Jesus’ Eucharistic life. Now, as Christ’s living hosts, you and I are undergoing another intense purification, which will bring us to perfect love. Jesus spoke these challenging words to me on September 14^th, 2025:

My little one, I know that what you are about to do is very difficult for you, but speaking the truth for the conversion and salvation of another soul is love. This is now the purification I am accomplishing in you, for when you speak the truth of the evil in others, you will be persecuted violently. Tonight, I will pour down My Spirit upon you so that you can also be My light, bringing the darkness in so many souls to the light. This is My Divine Mercy being poured upon souls through you, My beloved spouse, but be ready, My little one, for My Mercy will not be received by the vast majority of souls. Yet this is required of My disciples–– to speak the truth because of love.

Jesus reveals that we must speak the truth to others for their conversion and salvation. Pure love stops thinking of myself and what others will think of me, and is only concerned with the redemption of souls. Jesus began to prepare me for this new stage of my formation as His victim of love in 2012, when He said:

You must allow the barrier to come down that prevents you from speaking the truth as My living torrent of grace. The truth will set you free, and living in a lie will keep you in bondage. 12/28/12

That barrier for me was fear. I fear being misunderstood, judged, cast out, spoken ill of, and persecuted. Bringing down this barrier of fear has been a long process of first learning to identify my fear, process it, and then choose to do what is most difficult, speak the truth. I have had to learn to never speak the truth in a moment of anger or frustration, but only when I have entered the peace of Christ and know that I am speaking from the pure desire for the well-being of the other.

Jesus also reveals in the message from 9/14/25 that as His living hosts, we become His agents of mercy: I will pour down My Spirit upon you so that you can also be My light, bringing the darkness in so many souls to the light. This is My Divine Mercy being poured upon souls through you. As we forget ourselves and speak the truth to others with much grace and kindness, and also direct, it is the mercy of God desiring to enter the hearts of others and call them to repentance. Jesus draws a correlation between mercy and our openness to receiving self-knowledge.

Jesus's words to us telling us we must speak the truth, does not necessarily mean that now I go out to all my family and friends and begin to tell them of their disorders. Speaking the truth must be moved by the Holy Spirit. This is why becoming men and women of silence and spending long hours in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament is essential to knowing when and how to speak the truth through the grace of the Spirit. It is never something we do in a heated moment, but only after the silence of discernment through prayer. Therefore, it is never a reaction to our emotions, but rather an act of pure love solely desiring the healing, conversion, and salvation of another soul. Being able to speak the truth with courage and zeal, moved by God, as His agent of mercy, flows from hearts that have become humble, who know their misery, and are living in a state of repentance. These humble souls have persevered through years of intense and difficult purifications through the SPTUWG, and therefore can speak truth, not from self-righteousness, but rather, from divine love.

Jesus is also straightforward, telling me and you that as His agents of Divine Mercy, speaking the truth of the darkness in others, we will also be hated and “persecuted violently,” just as He was.

Jesus healed a crippled woman on the sabbath (Lk 13:10-17), and the leaders of the synagogue became indignant. Jesus spoke the truth to them, confronting them with their hypocrisy. He said:

“You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?” (15-16)

This is one of countless examples in the Gospel of Jesus speaking the truth. Yet, the majority of those He addressed did not receive His gift; therefore, they became indignant and furious, which led to the hatred in their hearts that moved them to crucify Jesus. In fact, very few people received self-knowledge from Jesus. How can we think it will be different for us? It won’t, and Jesus has been telling us this for years as well. But be ready, My little one, for My Mercy will not be received by the vast majority of souls. When we choose to speak the truth solely for love of God and the conversion and salvation of others, we too will be persecuted, hated, condemned, thrown out, misunderstood, and spoken ill of. We will not be liked by those individuals we love who would not receive the gift that God was bringing them through us.

As God’s pure victim souls, we must learn to live these piercings well. Our focus MUST be on Jesus’ sorrows for His beloved children. The scene from Jesus’ life when He healed the crippled woman and the synagogue officials condemned Him and spoke ill of Him to the people pierced Jesus’ Sacred Heart. Their hardness of heart, He received, and suffered His interior crucifixion for them. He said the truth, for He is Love, and desired with all His Heart for their repentance so that they could receive salvation through Him. Yet, they did not respond. Jesus voluntarily went to His passion, knowing that not even this ultimate witness of Divine Love would change their hardened hearts. He said:

I, God Incarnate, was in their midst, yet they were blind. My Heart was grieved to see the condition of their hearts, for I knew that not even My crucifixion would touch their hearts. My daughter, many are called, but it is few that respond. The act of Mary Magdalene and Peter, in which they come to Me with tears of sorrow, is necessary to pierce the hardness of the human heart seeped in sin. My daughter, My Heart continues to be grieved at seeing such hardness of hearts within My Church. 1/14/11

I spend long hours before the Blessed Sacrament pondering and entering God’s grief, His tears, as He continues His agony of love hidden in the Eucharist. And He, too, suffers with us, as He continues to be resisted, when He speaks the truth to others through us, His victims of love, His living hosts. Suffering in the grief of our Beloved must be our focus, which brings us to die for Love!