“You can live in joyful expectation of eternity and long for it, but first you must fulfil your mission” (Inner Word).
Our Father has a specific mission for each one of us, which we are called to fulfil to the best of our ability, with God’s grace. If we know the Heavenly Father and live in a state of grace, we are in the best condition to do this, because we know what the great desire of the Heart of Jesus, and therefore of the One who sent Him, is: that the Father be known, honoured and loved. If we try to do this with all our heart, then we are already fulfilling our first and most important mission in this world. All other tasks will gain their deepest meaning and glory from this first mission.
In the Message to Mother Eugenia, our Heavenly Father exhorts us to become apostles of His fatherly love and to seek every possible way to bring the message of His love to people. This is an infinitely worthy and fruitful mission in the following of our Lord Jesus Christ.
On the way to eternity, our hearts can be set aflame, yearning ardently to reach eternal life as soon as possible. We certainly do not need to restrain this longing if it comes from love. Indeed, the longing for eternity will always be able to strengthen us to fulfil with greater love the tasks entrusted to us in this world, while keeping our eyes on the essentials.
And there is one more thing we can do in connection with our longing and expectation of eternity, if the time has not yet come for us to enter our final home. Especially in the month of November, we can offer it for the blessed souls in Purgatory. They ardently long for full and final union with the Lord. Perhaps our act of love will help them and the Lord will count it towards them, thus shortening the time of their purification.