‘Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.’
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Lift your gaze to the crucifix, to an image of Me crowned with thorns, My Face disfigured, bruised, and bloody, and remember that this was the price paid for your salvation. Look at the Cross and your Savior nailed to it. Do not avert your eyes from the debt paid for you. Do not forget that for every sin you commit, there is a corresponding wound on My Body, and in My Heart, and every one of those wounds has been suffered correspondingly but spiritually by My Mother and yours. Do not make light of sin. Do not make excuses for your weaknesses. Every sin has to be taken out by its roots, and every trace of it gone.
Sin begets sin just as grace begets grace. Heaven is reserved for those prepared to choose the Way of Golgotha, the Way of the Cross from Gethsamane to the Place of the Skull. Choose the narrow way, the way that the world rejects. The world loves ease, comfort, entertainment, frivolity, and dissipation. It hates silence, discipline, sacrifice, mortification, fasting, penance, stillness, quiet, recollection, and contemplation of the good, the true, the noble, the pure, and the beautiful. Not everyone chooses heaven because the journey to God is filled with suffering, rejection, loneliness suffering, sorrow, and grief, but at the end of it is joy beyond human comprehension. And remember, if you choose the narrow way, you will not be alone. I will be with you every step of the way. Keep your gaze on the Prize, which is union with God eternally.
