I want to speak to you today about the Prophetic Word of God. In fact every Word that comes from the Mouth of God is what we live by. Jesus is the Word that became Flesh -- Jesus is our Life. The more we cling to every Word of His - whether in the Gospel or through the Prophetic route - the more we show that we really love God.

So, today I want to highlight Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, and Our Lady when she was just a little more then two years old, and I think you will really be touched by this. I want to highlight in comparison the Prophecies of Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, speaking about the Saints of the Latter Days, and the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and our relationship to her in the light of the Prophetic revelations concerning the End Times. This is something that we are all familiar with, so it is not like I have to re-invent everything.

I would like for you to focus on Saint Joachim and Saint Anne - two very wonderful souls - who lived very much in touch with the Prophetic Word, particularly from the Prophet Daniel. And when I quote this text from Volume I of the Poem of the Man-God, you will see how Saint Anne expresses it. But first, try to realise that in that time the Prophetic Word was something very real - just like for us. It is very real, it is not just something like the people who accuse us all the time -- a fantasy. They lived in the imminent expectation of the Coming of the Emmanuel.

The Prophecy of Isaiah 7:14 - "A Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, You shall name Him Emmanuel!" This was something very, very real, this old, ancient Prophetic text of Isaiah, and the little souls like Prophetess -- Anna of  Phanuel; Simeon, the Prophet who had been promised by God through His Spirit, that he would not taste death until he had seen the Anointed of the Lord - the Messiah! These very people were living at the same time as Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, and many, many other souls also believed in the imminent Coming of Our Lord. They were living in that first Advent, in other words.

I would like for you to listen to something that Our Lady has said. She is very, very gifted, to say the least, because She is so full Grace. Our Blessed Mother is talking to Her Mother, Saint Anne, about the Prophecy in Daniel. The ancient text where the Angel Gabriel came to Daniel and explained to him the meaning of the End Times, and the various Kings, and the one with the ten heads - and one cut off - and this whole mystery of the End Times was given to Daniel way back then.

Our Lady - She is a little more than two years old - is thinking deeply, absorbed in Her thoughts; Her expressions should be immortalised in a portrait. Maria Valtorta says: "Shadows of her thoughts are reflected on Her childish Face. There are smiles and sighs, sunshine and clouds thinking of the history of Israel. Then Our Lady makes up her mind; She tells Her mother: 'Tell me again the story of Gabriel and Daniel, where Christ is promised!" Now follow this, for you are going to see that Saint Anne is going to refer to the Prophecy of the "seventy weeks", in Daniel. It is very important, because this is not make-believe or fantasy or illusion. These souls lived with the Word of God deeply imbued in their life.

She listens with Her Eyes closed, repeating in a low voice the words Her mother says, as if to remember them better. So here is the mother explaining and reading the text, and Mary, Our Holy Mother is just repeating word after word. So when Anne comes to the end Our Lady asks: "How long will it be before we have the Emmanuel?" Isn't that the classic phrase of today! "How long, Lord? when, Lord?" And the answer: "Soon!"

Our dear Saint Anne says this: "About thirty years, My Darling!" Is she enlightened by God? Indeed she is. She doesn't say, vaguely: "Who knows!" Because you see the Prophetic Word had been really alive, and speaking to these souls in profound ways - just like now. So she says; "About thirty years!" And isn't that the truth! Actually, it is a little bit more than forty, because Our Lady is two years old. Mary says to her: "And such a long time, and I shall be in the Temple. Tell Me, if I should pray very hard, so hard day and night, night and day - and I wanted to belong only to God all My life for this purpose - would the Eternal Father grant Me the Grace of sending the Messiah to His people, sooner?" This is a two year old Mary praying - speaking. You see Our Lady already wants to give Herself to God!

This is why the young girls were given to the Temple. They understood. Anna of Phanuel and some of the others looked after these young girls, and Our Lady is going to go there as well, when she is three - very shortly - and give Her life to the Messiah. Our Lady wanted to serve the Virgin Mother, Prophesied in Isaiah. All of these souls at this time were imbued with the imminence of this - this reality, the Prophetic announcement of the Coming of the Messiah. It was something so real, just like it is for us. The 603 Messages given to the 'Little Pebble' bear this out.

Saint Anne says: "I do not know, My dear! The Prophet says seventy weeks. I do not think a Prophecy can be wrong, but the Lord is so good." The Prophecy about the seventy weeks is in Daniel. So Saint Anne understands it in the Prophetic way, and she knows it is soon, very soon - whether it is a little more than thirty years, or what - this is not that important to them. Already Our Lady wants to be near this chosen Virgin Mother - to serve her. Our Lady just wants to serve this woman, knowing that She will be the one to introduce Her to the Messiah.

Saint Anne goes on the say; she hastens to add, seeing the Tears appear on the fair eyelashes of her child: "The Lord is so good, and I believe that if you do pray, very hard - so hard - He will hear your prayer." And this makes Our Lady, as a little girl, smile. So Our Lady, is going to give Herself to Our Lord in this way. Now you are going to see just how much Saint Joachim and Saint Anne really believe in the Prophetic Word. They are going to make the greatest sacrifice of their lives.

I want you to see by an analogy where this is leading in your life. They are going to make the sacrifice of their lives to give this tender 'little flower' to God -- to live in the temple, where She can be with a lot of other girls, also expecting the imminent Coming of the Messiah. Mary wants to serve His Virgin Mother. You might remember reading this, but you can read it again and see with what fervour: yes, the tears; yes, the Cross - it doesn't matter - these souls live for God. They live like Saint James says in the Second Reading: "Unspoilt from the contamination of the world!" They want to live for God and for His Prophetic Word to be fulfilled.

They have been through a hard time, Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, with the Caesars, and all the other things happening in the corrupt time in which they lived. So we can see an analogy here that we are at the time of the Second Advent. We, too, live steeped in the Prophetic Word of God which speaks about weeks and days and years and hours, and all the panorama of Imagery; it speaks about specific events and times and places - Pope John Paul II. All sorts of wonderful things; it is very real to us - the "soonness" of it - just like it was to them.

We, too, are called to lay down our life for this mystery of the Second Advent - the Second Coming of Our Lord - this mystery that is given to the Queen of Heaven - just like She wanted to serve the Messiah's Mother. Saint Louis Marie de Montfort writes in his "True Devotion", the Saints of the Latter Days are going to live with Mary, breathe Her, be in Her, live for Her, and live by Her. It is going to be such a beautiful serving - serving Her interests. They are going to lay down like little unpetalled roses; we are going to lay down our lives for this mystery. In that way the coming birth of the Latter Day Saints - which is actually happening - which is given to the Mother of God to generate the birth (cf. Apocalypse 12) of the Latter Day Saints, we can serve this great mystery in the same joy - because it is a Grace of God - the same joy as Saint Joachim and Saint Anne. They ended their years in such peace, and you can read here in the "Poem" - such beautiful peace. They closed their eyes together in the hope and in the joy that they have given themselves and their beautiful daughter, to God, forever.

Behold the scene when they meet their daughter again - the Queen of Heaven and Earth. You see these two humble people, Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, and the Queen of Heaven calls them to Her Throne and at Her side. After all, they honour their parents in Heaven! Can you imagine two happier people? Can you imagine the happiness of these two souls, because while they lived in this vale of tears they made the ultimate offering of their lives, for the Prophetic Words to be fulfilled, to serve that mystery. Who else do you know that served the mystery? Saint Joseph!

And all of us, we are all called to serve the mystery of the Second Coming and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, by carrying our cross, believing every Word that comes from the Mouth of God; cherishing - like Saint Anne cherished - the Prophecies in Daniel, and many other texts of Scripture. It was real; they laid down their life in that mystery. This is what we are all about.

I know you have heard this many times, but isn't it nice to hear it from a new angle and a new facet, a new beauty - this is the charm of our loving Faith, and the deposit of Scripture and tradition; the Teachings of the Church; the many Saints and examples of the heroic people who have gone before us. So this is our time now - the time we live in, in this Prophetic Word to laid down ourselves to serve the Queen of Heaven, so that She can give birth to the Latter Day Saints.

Now I will just close with this! If you realise, and I know you do, how much She Loves our 'Little Pebble of Love', and there is no doubt about that. In fact it is abundantly clear how much she - the Queen of Heaven - Loves him and upholds him. What a Blessing then, in serving Her, if we can serve the one that She Loves so very, very much, and who carries such a heavy, heavy cross. It is one and the same - can you see that? In serving Her 'Little Pebble' you are serving Her, because She finds so much delight, not only in him, but all of Her little children. So this is our privilege to be the one's enclosed, as it were in the desert of this world, but in Her Immaculate Heart and in the Order of Saint Charbel.

Mary went into the Temple when She was three; you went into the Order of Saint Charbel at this stage in your life. Many people would say that this is irrationality at its highest - but they said the same to the Saints in old time, too - didn't they?

I just wanted you to reflect on that today, and bring my homily to a close. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.