Dear Pilgrims,

after the Pilgrimage of the Ecuadorians we came back in our reflections to your pilgrimage. It was a joy to remember you and all the places we visited together.
We shared already that the Holy Land needs so much prayer and maybe it is true that especially in the chosen country all kinds of conflicts are focused. The longer I am here and meet different kind of people, my spirit and my heart tells me that there will be no way for real peace, unless Christ is better known in the Holy Land. But it´s not only this: also we need the testimony of the Christians around the world and especially of those who are coming to the Holy Land. This means a conversion of our hearts. So I hope that those retreats in the Holy Land will support our necessary conversion and that we understand that this deeper conversion is not only for our sake, but also our participation for the plan of salvation of our Lord. Besides this, I hope that the Grace of the Holy Land to follow more intensive Jesus will help to strengthen the prayer for the Holy Land in thankfulness and love and to give forces for the mission in the own country.
According to Lietuva I really wont to support this country with my prayers to resist spiritually against this tendency in the world to be more and more ruled by the spirit of the Antichrist. It would be a great help if the faithful people in your country can understand "the signs of the time" and give the right answer.
You know that we came soon after the pilgrimage to your country to celebrate the Apocalypse at the chapel of the Merciful Jesus! The intention was to support this message of love, because the world should know especially the mercy of our beloved Father. This message has a strong apocalyptic tendency because Jesus himself was offering that this apparition to Sister Faustina is to understand in the context of his second coming. If we look concretely that this message was given in your country than we can easily understand that this was not without purpose, and that your country might have the mission to be witness of Gods Mercy in spite and because of your bloody past in communistic and fascistic times.
For me it was a wonderful sign of heaven that we celebrated the next Apocalypse together with Russian Jews, who are at the same time our orthodox brothers and sisters, in the Armenian Church in Jerusalem. You will remember that the Armenians were the first victims in the last century who had to suffer a terrible genocide.
For your meeting I send you blessings from Jerusalem and ask you also to pray for Germany. Our country is sick and this moral sickness is in a certain way also touching the church. There are serious movements to separate from the general line of the church in order to be "friends of the world". So the inner division of the church gets more and more visible in our country. On one way this is a sad, on the other hand the faithful people are very much suffering that there is this inclination to be in distance to Rome. We will see what God makes out of it during the Pope visit in September.
Thank you also for your prayer for Ecuador, there was a good news to hear a police report, that the level of criminality in Santo Domingo is going down!
With all my love from Jerusalem to Lietuva and with the hope that the Lord will prepare the ways for a next mission in East Europe the coming year.

Elija from Jerusalem