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In the world but not of the world Lourdes asked the Lord regarding our community’s relationship with the world. Are we to flee from the world or engage it. This was the answer: 1. My little one (to retreat) is not the way that I am seeking for these end times. Satan will be defeated by heroic acts of love united to My perfect sacrifice of love.  2. I need souls willing to live in the world but not of the world. 3. Souls who receive the brokenness of other souls and suffer for them as one with Me solely for love. 4. Souls immersed in the darkness of this world to fight as My soldiers of Light against the demons of hell. 5. These are My hidden victim souls in the world living through Me, with Me, and in Me. 6. My little one, Satan will try many tactics to move your heart from the desire of My Heart.  7. I am forming you (plural) as My warriors of the great battle. Now I shall reflect on the above seven points: 1) How did Jesus defeat Satan? It was a battle but not as we may imagine. Most of His life was hidden, but living in the world, not isolated. He lived among the people of Nazareth who knew Him. -they thought.  Then He lived intimately close to His disciples. Finally, death on the Cross. Every step Jesus lived in heroic love in the ordinary things while being misunderstood, rejected, giving Himself when He had other plans. He takes His disciples to rest only to find a multitude. Even His plans are changed, and He continues loving unto the Cross.  Lourdes’s example of how we are to apply this: A husband that returning from work proceeds to be attentive to his wife and children instead of seeking his pleasure (tv, computer....)   2) Willing to live in the world but not of the world. Jesus said: “Do not be conformed to this world” (Rom 12:2). Fr. Cantalamessa comments: “After these words, we would expect to hear, “but transform it!” Instead, He tells us, “but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, “in other words: “Transform yourselves!” Transform the world, yes, but the world within you before thinking you can transform the world outside of you. We are to participate in His mission, and so He goes on to say: “that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Jesus defeated Satan by becoming flesh and loving in the world with a human heart. He came to redeem all that is human, even the most ordinary, making it the locus for our growth in holiness. ​ 3) Souls who receive the brokenness of others and suffer with them as one with Me solely for love When others hurt us, we want to run away! The hurt eclipses our discernment, and we find a pious reason to break relationships. Had we given the Lord time, we could have seen our mistake; we could have seen how we are growing through the trials. When we run from suffering and still want to feel pious, we become fake saints. We want to love those we find lovable. Mt 5:44 “Jesus said to his disciples: “I say to you, love your enemies... For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers and sisters only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect. How does the Father reveal His perfection? -By sending to us His only Son, while we were sinners. Jesus reveals the Father’s perfection with His love, receiving the sin, the brokenness, the sorrows of all. He asks us: “Will you be one with Me?” Will you receive My love so that you can love as I love? 4) Souls immersed in the darkness of the world to fight as my soldiers of Light and against demons. Yes, the world is in darkness, but we have the mission to go into the darkness being light. This brings us into the same battle Jesus fought unto the Cross. 5) These are My hidden victim souls in the world living through Me, with Me, and in Me. Our lives are...