Blessed Mother says: “Praise be to Jesus.”

“Today, I invite you to contemplate a tree. In the springtime, it is covered with buds. Each bud, according to God's Will, blossoms into a leaf. All the leaves, together, make the tree beautiful. The leaves make the tree what it is.”

“So it is with nations. All the laws, when put into action, make up the nation as a whole. If small freedoms are surrendered to unjust authority, one by one, pretty soon the whole nation is redefined. It no longer is a safe harbor or a nesting place such as the tree in full foliage. Its character is damaged. Its freedoms gone – it now is diseased by error.”

“Someone, on seeing a diseased tree, will care for it and restore it to health. Who will restore the faltering nation to health?”