“I would like to envelop all priestly souls with Infinite Love. To pray, to offer myself, to suffer for the priests -instruments of the Kingdom of Infinite Love-”, such was the mission of Mother Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche.
“I would like to be able to protect, defend, guard the priestly souls that Jesus has taught me to love so much; I would like to be able to envelop them with Infinite Love, to hide them in the Heart of the Divine Master, so that they may be freed from the dangers that threaten them.
Feeling powerless with regard to them, I go to Jesus; I tell Him that I love Him, that I want to love Him with all my heart, with all my strength; by my tenderness and my loving supplications, I try to obtain from Him the graces that my priests need.
Yesterday afternoon Jesus told me: ‘My priest is another Me; I love him, but he must be holy. Nineteen centuries ago, twelve men changed the world; they were not only men, they were priests; also now twelve priests could change the world’. And this morning: ‘The priest is a being so invested with Christ that he becomes almost a God, but he is also a man and he must be a man. He must feel the weaknesses, the struggles, the pains, the temptations, the fears and the rebellions of man; he must be wretched in order to be merciful, and he must also be strong, pure, holy in order to be sanctifying. It is necessary for My priest to have a heart that is broad, tender, ardent, powerful in order to love. The priest must love so much! He must love Me, his Lord, his brother, his friend, his consoler, as I have loved him, and I have loved him to the point of confusing my life with his, to the point of making me obedient to his word. He must also love my Bride, his own, the Holy Church, and with what love! With an intense and jealous love, jealous of her glory, her purity, her unity and her fruitfulness. In short, he must love souls as his own children. What father has so many children to love as the priest?” – “My priest’s heart must be a burning flame that burns and purifies. If only my priest knew the treasures of love that my Heart contains for him! May he come to my Heart, may he take from it, may he be filled with love until it overflows from him and pour it out upon the world! Margaret Mary has shown my Heart to the world, show it to my priests, draw them all to my Heart’”.