On September 19, 1846, the world was moved by the Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in La Salette to two children: Mélanie Calvat and Maximino Giraud. The Vatican authorities recognized these apparitions as authentic in 1851. Few people have gone deeply into the content of the messages received at that time. Those who are interested in studying these sources will find extremely interesting topics that help us to comprehend the ups and downs of this century that is drawing to an end.
But La Salette is neither the first nor the last. Latin America knows about the important apparitions of Guadalupe in 1531 and one hundred years later in Coromoto (Venezuela), both approved by the Catholic Church. The year 1830 witnessed another similar miracle in France, where the Blessed Virgin Mary asked Catherine Labouré to make a medal, which because of its miraculous effects will be known as "The Miraculous Medal". The apparitions of Lourdes in 1858 and of Fatima in 1917 eloquently confirm the extraordinary presence of the Blessed Virgin Mary in human chronology. She is the Mother of all men and lives close to them.
The world has confronted these phenomena in such a lukewarm way that Catholics have not been enriched by the contributions of these transcendental experiences. Many Catholics are unaware of the apparitions in Belgium in 1932-33; in "Tre Fontane" in Rome in 1946 to Bruno Conacchila; those of Jesus to Teresa Musco until 1976, and in whose home, close to Naples, 24 images bled; those of Padre Pío de Pietrelcina until 1968. Few have been enriched by the story of Luisa Piccarreta, the "Daughter of the Divine Will" whose only food was the Sacred Host received during Communion. Although she did not get out of bed for 64 years, she did not suffer from skin, joint and circulation trouble. She wrote 36 books on the "Divine Will", marvelous texts of love. We must not forget the marvelous story of Faustina Kowalska, beatified by His Holiness Pope John Paul II a little more than two years ago and to whom all the devotion of the "Christ of Mercy" is owed. She relates the spiritual retreats she made with Jesus, His daily visits, and the importance of prayer. Where has the modern Catholic placed these experiences, and how have they helped him bring his life of faith up-to-date?
There are so many opportunities to recognize the "Good News" in the world, that we should all be individuals with noble and loving minds because all those messages are poems of love, songs of unity and ecumenism. But man would rather move in the world of conflict, clinging to difficulties in the midst of darkness that suffocates him, anguished by his finances, injustice, hunger, and so many ills that afflict him. It is surprising to observe that the same dedication given to stating the problem is not given to the search for solutions. We need to "search the spirit', an interior renewal, where the principal inspiration arises from the rediscovery of the transcendence of man. These are the premises that make us ponder on the importance of Love and Hope. If more than 85% of the world's population believes in God, why do we not let His Word guide us?
But God is a loving Father. He knows of our confusion and ignorance, which is why with great love, He allows the visits of His Mother to this earth. Experts estimate that in Garabandal (Spain), there were at least 2,500 apparitions between 1961 and 1965. Lamentably they have had an effect only on the hearts of a few people and are lost in the indifferent hearts of the majority, which is why these apparitions are generally unknown. But this Loving Mother "does not tire". She searches for options before the Father, continues to implore for mankind, and it is the Mercy of God that again gives mankind the gift of new wonders. In 1968, in Zeitoun (Egypt), twenty million Muslims saw the Virgin Mary until 1970. Two years later Father Steffano Gobbi received messages from Our Mother, and the Holy Father John Paul II authorized him to travel around the world, founding the "Marian Movement of Priests". Japan has also witnessed similar events. In Akita, Sister Agnes Sasagawa saw the Virgin, and a wooden statue representing Mary cried 101 times. The Bishop of that area, Monsignor Ito, approves of the event, which would later be confirmed by Cardinal Ratzinger in 1990. In 1976, similar apparitions followed in Betania (Venezuela). Bishop Pío Bello Ricardo recognized them as authentic and thousands of people saw the Virgin. But the most intense expression was yet to come. It was on June 24, 1981, in Medjugorje (Bosnia-Herzegovina), that six young people saw the Virgin. Fifteen years have gone by and the phenomenon is repeated every day. More than 22 million people have visited the place and the "fruits are good", millions of converts live the forgiveness and rediscover prayer, the sacraments, the Eucharist. An enthusiastic rebirth of the Christian faith can be seen.
Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, the Americas, in other words the whole world, talks of the same subject: "Place God in the center of your lives; He exists, but you have forgotten Him; convert, confess, receive communion, fast, pray, live in love, follow in the footsteps of Jesus; I, His Mother, ask this of you." Yes, it is the voice from Heaven; now no one can hide from this fact. He has come to embrace the world with Love. The proof is eloquent; science has been manifested in such a way that the local authorities of the Catholic Church are recognizing in many places, many apparitions (Akita, Betania, Zeitoun, Naju - Korea). The Mother of God and His Son are appearing throughout the world. What is this phenomenon?
Another loving answer comes from God. One more attempt to soften and move the hardened hearts of mankind. And these are no longer isolated events; Mary lives on this earth beside her Son every day. They search for free wills; they whisper words of love and mercy inviting conversion - many listen, others do not.
This whisper is also heard in Bolivia (South America), this time from the city of Cochabamba, where a "humble servant of God" named Catalina, receives the stigmata of Jesus. The wounds are eloquent, authentic; science has no explanation for them. They appear on a Thursday night, on Friday they manifest themselves with great pain, and by Saturday they have disappeared. The Church authorities have seen them.
As in other parts of the world, they are a visible proof of the presence of Jesus. But this is not all; Catalina receives messages from Jesus for Bolivia. In them He expresses His Love for Bolivia, seeks the support of His Bolivian sons to spread throughout the world a wonderful movement that He calls: "The Great Crusade Of Love".
All of the text that is before you are His Words, dictated to Catalina, the Bolivian woman who talks with God, the woman who has offered herself to Him as a victim soul with the deep desire to follow in His footsteps, she who has generously given her life for the good of Bolivians and of all mankind. Although her experiences are authentic, according to scientific opinion, this criterion does not seek to anticipate the official judgment of the Church authorities, to whom we submit ourselves unconditionally. Our opinion only endeavors to make it easier to understand an experience of love that this time God, in all His kindness, wanted to manifest to an innocent and beautiful world that thirsts for love. What could be better than quenching this thirst with the love of those that brought us the Love of Loves - Jesus and Mary. His Love and Mercy are for you and for those whom you want to reach with these messages.
On January 25, 1996, after 15 days' work, Catalina concludes this "dictation". As the reader can verify (CL-182), Jesus asks His "secretary" to call this manuscript "The Great Crusade of Love".
Our Lord justifies the need for this "Crusade" because "the time of charity has turned cold in the world" and considers that "it is time to renew it all..."
To help us collaborate with His task, He has dictated to His humble servant a "text of Love and Mercy" and asks us to study and meditate on these messages in order to "live" them later on. This mutual understanding will help us to be collaborators in this "Crusade". "... Make haste to send them to the prayer groups that have been formed ... it is the Voice that will have to summon the assembly."
It is His wish that the messages should reach the humble, the poor, the imprisoned, the sick, the needy, the religious, and non-religious. "Do not keep My Messages of Love and forgiveness locked up in a drawer ... Speak out, act ... I could make My Messages reach the most remote places of the world and My Angels would be My messengers, as they did so many times with the first books ... but I want your cooperation" (CL-182). He finishes by mentioning that after reading these pages, many will say, "Truly, this is the Son of God".
1. Jesus tells Catalina that only 150 copies are to be printed; for He will make sure that the messages reach the world (CL-183). For this your help is needed. If you have had the grace of receiving one of these volumes, we beg you to do what is possible to make them known to other people ... You can talk to people about them, or if you wish, photocopy the text for other people, who in turn can do the same.
2. "I want everything that I tell you made known" (CL-183). "I come to you for a reciprocation of love, to open My Heart like a passionate lover that does not know how to live but for the beloved ... I want to show you My Heart in all its sensitiveness."
3. We are warned: "Take heed, My children, it is the hour of darkness. Satan, jealous, tries to prevent the publication of My Messages; but have confidence. That which is human must mix with the Divine." "It is time to manifest to the world the anguish in My Heart. Do not withdraw from Me. We are in intimate conversation."
4. "You will have to drink with Me some drops from the bitter cup of Gethsemane, tasting the ingratitude of humanity. Since I chose you to be My spokesperson, each day I must mold your heart to conform to Mine. My daughter, there is a great difference between the Heart of your God and that of men. To do what is right, and in return receive nothing but ingratitude ..." (CL-183). "Never displease your God, never troubling your parents is something beautiful" (CL-183).
5. The fundamental subjects of the Messages invite us to conversion, prayer, the Rosary, penance, communion, fasting with the body and the soul. But they acquire a splendor for this Crusade, His Messages dedicated to Love and Mercy, Jesus as only Son of the living God, Obedience, Suffering, Unity. In addition, they include messages for priests and members of religious orders.
6. The task is enormous: He wants to reach the whole world with 150 copies ...! If you have received one of them ... will you say yes to Jesus? May God bless and inspire your 'yes' in light of one of His Messages - "He who loves Me ... has My strength!"
These pages have been written in less than 15 days, since the dictation began on January 6 and concluded on the 25th of the same month, with an 8-day break when I was ill.
I do not know how long it took me to write so many pages, almost three notebooks, of about two hundred and three hundred pages. Sometimes I wrote for 4 straight hours; however, my hand did not get tired. At other times, I would write at night in the darkness, so as not to wake my husband; I asked the Lord to guide my hand and He did.
Today, as I conclude the typewritten document, without any help in the correction of style and form, is May 17, 1996, the day on which the Novena to the Holy Spirit begins. Each day, during this period of transcription, when I would sit down to write, I always invoked the Holy Spirit, asking Him to be my guide and that these Messages should not contain a single word of mine. I think the Lord has been so good to me that He has foreseen everything so that I would finish today.
I do not know anything about Theology; I am a common and ordinary woman. I was an office clerk, and now a housewife and Secretary of the Lord, as He mentions in some of the Messages. I, unworthy as I am, have suddenly become His secretary ... I, who never knew anything about Theology or read the Bible (I shamefully admit this now that I am starting to read it), all of a sudden start to learn of the Love of my God, who is also yours. I, who am a sinner and have been the least adequate person to give testimony of Jesus, all of a sudden see myself writing this introduction ... but take into account that none of the merit is mine! I say humbly: here is the Hand of Love, His infinite mercy, forgiving, healing, raising, but above all, loving.
Fundamental teachings reveal to us that the only love that does not lie, does not deceive, does no harm, is His, and He invites us to live that love through the many messages, each one more beautiful than the other.
I am not going to subject myself to disputes, but I shall humbly accept criticism. I surrender myself to the obedience of the Church, as I have personally manifested. My only desire is to accomplish what my Lord asks of me and for that, I say as my Heavenly Mother said: "I am the handmaiden of the Lord. May Your Word be carried out in me."
May the Glory be given to God and no other.
For you, with much love,
Catalina
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CL-1 |
6-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
In order for each one of you to progress, My Will must be fulfilled after the soul has managed to overcome certain difficulties predisposed by Me. Think, each one of you, about yourself in the time elapsed since your conversion and do not forget that if I delayed in manifesting My Glory it was because I wanted that manifestation to be much greater.
Do you believe that at the age of ten I could not have manifested the wonders that I performed when I was thirty? However, I waited and I diligently prepared in silence until the day appointed by My Father for My presentation. Bear in mind that I talk about Myself as a man, since My example has been necessary for you, and not only that of My Sacrifice on Calvary, but also of My childhood, of My concealment in the little house at Nazareth. I prepared Myself thirty years for only three years of activity.
Today this house is that little house at Nazareth. Here, through My beloved daughter, I want to give you your last instructions because you have pleased My Heart with your efforts... I am a God Who is deeply grateful and I recognize the efforts that are made for My greater Glory, just as I contemplate with sorrow the graces that are allowed to slip away since you do not know how to receive them.
Open your eyes, look how great the field is in which I am preparing you day by day. I promise you, you will gather from this field all the fruit that I have reserved for you if you remain faithful and steadfast.
You, who believe in Me, leave everything to Me, because no one except Me can understand your longing, and no one except Me can appease it, since I gave it to you to call you to certain things. And if I gave you the desire, should I not know how to satisfy it?
Say "enough" to your anxieties, calm yourselves, rest in My Heart, because divine harmony will be revealed if you hear only one heartbeat.
I know that I have said enough. As you chirp like a little bird calling to the mother for its much desired food, I have revealed a great deal of your mysteries, of those doubts that darken the mind of man.
Let us sit together and talk about the love that I want to give you, since this is the discourse that I always nourish, because you have to grow a lot in love. I tell you this because I have a particular preference for you.
I shall help you, yes, of course I shall. But it is so that you will love Me, so that you will grow to the stature that I want to give to you all...
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CL-2 |
6-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
The soul wants to understand what is contained in those moments of life that I give it. In other words, it wants to know what I expect upon making it pass from one state to another. This desire makes it fall easily into anxiety, which places no small obstacle to My work.
I said: Be simple like doves, and this refers to faith in the truths that the Church proposes to all men. But simplicity comes from truth; therefore, he who is simple with respect to My truths is already in truth, step by step, until he obtains the highest level of simplicity that is realized in the unity of the creature and the Creator. That is why the road to simplicity is long and it stops on the day of My call.
You talk amongst yourselves, but without simplicity. In fact, your minds are full of hidden reservations, which in themselves would not be harmful, but they become so because of the non-mortified attachment to things and people.
Because of this, you speak without complete simplicity, and, thus, you cannot penetrate and remain in the hearts of your brothers. But rather, every time you behave like this, you gain rejection, sometimes hidden and other times open.
I want to tell you that in your minds some of the things, which impede you from penetrating deeper into the spirit of those that listen when you speak of Me, are held firm. And it is urgent that I remove these obstacles, because I see that you have eagerly accepted My proposal that I made some time ago. Therefore, listen to Me.
When speaking of Me, use all the words that are suited to what your mind sees at the moment you are speaking. Do not distort things, but rather be satisfied with simply saying what you see. The effort of making your thoughts accessible to the person listening to you is admissible, but if, in spite of that effort, you cannot make yourselves understood, be silent; it is better for you and for the listener. Do not stop your discourse if you see that the listener is becoming inattentive. Persist, stay with them so that you can approach them again as soon as possible... as you are already doing.
My child, consider, moreover, that another obstacle in your mind is believing that everyone with whom you speak has your same mentality, but this is not always so. Hold the gifts that I have given you in high esteem, so that you will guard them zealously. These gifts are the fruit of My Love for you, and they will be your crown and joy.
Another obstacle in your mind represents the digressions to which you are subject because of the sinful life you led when you were in the company of the evil one on the path to hell. These are the very best occasions to strike with wisdom the tempter who always returns ever more violent. Wisdom, in these particular cases, lies in you to give to you and Satan the clearest and fastest rejection. But I do not insist on this because I have already instructed you. I point this out in order to enumerate all the obstacles in your mind, obstacles that oppose themselves to a complete simplicity, which is what I want of you.
Speak of what I manifest to your intelligence, without listening to comments on the contrary. Furthermore, I shall show you that My Love assures the effectiveness of your words.
Simple like a dove, fly to the center of where you find life; fly dove, transformed by the care of the most tender of lovers; fly and get here where the Triune Love holds and embraces His little loves. Be good as love is; but be wise as wisdom is, so that one and the other may have in you the pleasure of the Father's eternal joy. Praise, My dove, the eternity of righteousness that our adored Father has given Me; praise with Me the eternity of Love that the Holy Spirit has given Me, because in exalting My Humanity, it has made you and all who love Me, truly in My image; that is, it has sanctified you.
Bless, swift and bright dove, the eternal Love, and bless Him forever, because forever He has blessed you; forever He has made you His.
Lift up a Hymn to our Mother, she who stands up to the devil in order to save you from his instigation. Bless her also because amongst all of her children, you, deprived of her help, would truly be one of the worst. Love your Mother Most High dearly, and love her as I teach you, hour by hour; that is to say, considering her first of all as My Mother. Did you know that all Heaven smiles when you praise her just because she is My Mother?
Fly, dove, to Mary's side. And you, My Mother, take this dove to the arms of the Eternal, infinite Love desired by her.
Tell Me if You, at Least, Want My Love
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6-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
Humanity is long-suffering, and I shall show it salvation. Man must not seek peace on earth if at first he has not found the road to Heaven.
I want to be benevolent to all of My lost or missing brothers, so that they might return sincerely to Me, for I am anxious to give Myself to them in order to save them from the infernal claws. When I see only one act of good faith, who could detain the Love that I bring to human beings? I came to earth only to bring them Love.
Live loving and you will rescue Me from so many offenses, from so many insults, and so much ingratitude that come to My Heart from every corner of the earth. I do not ask you for much, only that you love Me and live for Me, because I love you and I have lived, died, and I live for you. You will know the heartbeat of My Love and hear My voice and, together with one and the other, you will learn how you should love Him who is purely Love. From My Heart will sprout a fountain of happiness that no one will be able to snatch away from you, and do not let it affect you if there is no one to hear you. I know full well how deaf the ears of man are and how he confuses what best helps him with the false doctrines of love. This century will not pass without the world knowing the evil it has committed.
O children, return to Me! I shall be Life for you, you will find in Me what, until now, you thought you could find on earth. I shall not remind anyone of, nor reproach them for the evil they have done, but rather I shall hug and kiss all those who believe in My Love.
Who could refuse to recognize the fire of Love in My Heart? Who will deny Me that soul for whom I suffered so much here on earth?
O My creatures, love Me and I shall glorify you. Do not be timid nor cowards before Me. I want to make you aware of how that cry which I sent forth from the Cross: "I am thirsty" came from the very depths of My soul.
I am thirsting to make you humble in order to give you the treasure that in vain you will seek outside of Me. Do you not see how My Words burn with so much ardor, to the point that I show that I need you, while you have need of Me? Where is he who loves Me and why do so few listen to Me?
Tell Me, if you at least want My Love... I shall pay you by giving you more longing. I know what your heart wishes, and I shall satisfy it fully by giving it the fullness of love without a shadow of concern or fear. I shall not hide from your eyes; you will see Me and will enjoy the ardor of lovers. But, in the meantime, burn all the impurities; accept the works that I fulfill in your soul, and with confidence abandon yourself in Me...
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6-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
The soul is incited to love Me when I show it the beauty of the object of its search. It is necessary that I build a refuge for each one of you where you can find Me and recognize Me. Many follow false ideals and are always eager for the good that escapes them, because of the delusions with which they fill their minds and hearts. I allow Myself to be found, I manifest Myself to those who rid their souls of vices and defects, of selfishness and pride. No one will know the truth if he does not abandon that which is false.
I speak to you through created things. I attract you to Me, because I am the light who gives sight to the blind. I am the good that satisfies. Do not search for reality in distractions, because they are smoke that disappears, and this one lasts forever. He who wants Me, clear the path, prepare the land. I shall make it fruitful.
(Without You, Lord, we cannot do it)
Certainly, you cannot do anything without Me, and your word is the result of My two wills: Mine and yours. However, I expect more from those to whom I give more, and if I give less, I am happy with less.
Do not think that because of this I do not give to all an abundance of gifts with which you can do pleasing things for Me. I do not look at whom I make My gifts; it is My Love that drives Me. And everyone shares these gifts, without which not only would you return to nothing, but you would never be able to receive mercy and forgiveness, like those who are condemned. They lie in the most horrible of prisons - the one of rebellion. And why? Because in life they were guided and driven by all kinds of vices. Many times I wanted to bring them to Me! They fled, making use of their own will - My supreme gift.
Remember that each one of them is an example of what man is capable of without Me. Be assured that not one of them is condemned without his willingness and, just think, Divine Justice has not even cried out against them with the severity they well deserve. I am just, and I appease justice with My Mercy. My Love is sufficient unto itself without needing to live except by its own life and own love. They do not, nor will they ever, love Me. Yes, you will love Me. I have set My eyes on you since the beginning of time, even before anyone had been created. I share with you My sorrows because you are truly Mine, and what is Mine, takes part in all of My Life - sorrows now, glory in Heaven.
If Only I Had a Faithful Creature
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6-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
If I had a faithful creature on whom to pour the fullness of My Love, I would make of her an ember by which I would set fire to humanity.
When I say a faithful creature I mean one that is very much in love with Me, and one in whom My Love may make its abode. I want to raise souls like that, and I will raise them in spite of the unleashing of the kingdom of ruin. And their eyes will see things never before seen and they will be amazed to see how I manifest My power.
How many saints in Heaven will be overjoyed by the splendid victory that My Church will achieve. Hell demands to be able to initiate the great battle, but it will not be able to do so without My permission. And definitely, whatever it does will be for its dishonor and fury.
The Father has given Me everything, and I can dispose of what I want and how I want. I will be the One to take from the claws of Hell whoever I wish and whoever consents to My call.
Whoever Loves Me, Has My Strength
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6-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
From Heaven I send My riches to all creatures, and each one receives them in the necessary proportion to the manifestation of the beauty and goodness of My Father, of the Divine Spirit, and Mine, because in this manner We want to manifest the Glory from which We have life in common. The creature receives so much, as much as I want to give, and is satisfied in the continuous enjoyment of the gifts reserved for him.
But it happens that, upon lacking the appropriate dispositions for this enjoyment, the Divine Love must detain its flow, and so the soul, no longer faithful, feels discontent, becomes agitated, and believes that it cannot obtain that which it felt it should possess.
This is helpful for the light that is of intelligence, and also for the love that is of the will. To this I apply a remedy with successive deeds of Grace, and I do not tire because I want My creature to accept My outpouring of Beauty, Goodness, and Love.
Who could not recognize the work that I have entrusted to the one that I most loved on earth, and is now the Queen of all the Angels and saints? Know, little children, that protecting My faithful ones and guiding them down the road of virtue in present day trials has been entrusted to Her.
She will be listened to, but unfortunately not by everyone, and in recognition to whoever may do what I did in Nazareth, he will be confirmed in grace. Today it is not recognized, but soon you shall see in the world that you are My children.
The power I had as a Man, I give to My followers so that they will prevail in the fight and, in prevailing, give testimony of Me, not with words, but with deeds. It is time to show that only he who knows how to give even his own life for Me, truly believes. Whoever believes in Me, loves Me; and whoever loves Me, has My strength.
I Seek Souls That Will Understand Me
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6-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
I seek souls that will understand Me. Without them, without My loved ones, I do not act; if they accept Me, My Word will be fulfilled.
I thirst for those who offend Me, and I want them to find out about their faults, because one of the principal faults that distances them from Me is ignorance. They do not know what helps or harms them. They have hardened their hearts in such a way that they have become like a rock over which the ocean waves pound. My poor loved ones, what will they do without Me? Who will take them out of their misery? I shall do it together with those who love Me.
For that reason I ask you to be glad if I have asked you to help Me. Do you realize how great the pressure is around My Heart? Contemplate the multitude of wanderers who allow themselves to be blindly driven to ruin.
I, with mortal sadness, saw them in the Garden of Olives the night of My Passion. For them I covered Myself with shame in front of My Father, and He Himself, at the height of My affliction, wanted to comfort Me through His infinite Mercy, by which I also was sacrificed.
My little daughter, contemplate how everyone has made a mess of Me, treating Me like a leper in front of My Father! My greatest wounds are these, which you see adhered to My Soul. These are the wounds of men that I have loved and love, until making Me believe that I am a demented being.
And now follow My Life, do not worry about yourself because this does not help you. I shall provide for you so that through My Love you can provide for your brothers.
I tell you again. I have thought of you; may you think of Me and of those whom I love.
Father, into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit
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6-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
It would be better to lose everything than to forget one wish of Mine.
I want you to repeat to whomever I call My chosen ones that what I constantly did on earth was only one thing: the Will of My Father. Everything I did was because He wanted it done. That is why He gave testimony of Me saying: "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am pleased."
The goal, then, must be clear so that the premises will be clear. Work in union with Me to give Me the pleasure of expanding, and diffusing Myself as I wish and because I wish. The fulfillment of My wishes will be hard at times, but I, Myself, place the difficulties in order to affirm the love, and to be able to glorify all of you in Heaven.
When I said, "My Father, into Your hands I commend My Spirit," I did so because My Father wished it. But whoever possesses the light, knows that My Spirit was totally in His hands, since the instant in which Gabriel gave My most beloved Mother the announcement of My Incarnation.
I want you to learn from Me, because Heaven must be populated with a multitude of blessed ones that will be in My image. This is My living wish because it is the same Will of the Father and of Love, and carried out like this, My Humanity will be honored. My Father wants to reproduce the image of His Son by which His infinite mastery and Love are at the disposal of mankind.
He wants this and you will be My joy if you allow yourselves to be molded in My image. Do it, if you love Me; do it, if you truly want to be like Me.
Be Humble and Concern Yourself with Your Misery
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6-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
The days reserved for the estate that I acquired with My Blood, spilled for Love, will be divine days. Days in which the answers to present day controversies will be found, and in which man will be transformed from being arrogant to being humble, and he will find that being humble is worthy of human nature. Contrary to what is believed now, man will have to concern himself a lot with the knowledge of his misery and will praise Me for having led him to recognize the truth.
Do the children who are present know that soon they will have to reexamine somewhat their presumptuous judgment against My Church? Do they know that the hammer with which they hit the Church is heavy only because of their insolence? Do they believe they have the virtue of judging without error? Who can prevent Me from eliminating from earth Satan's friends who act as masters?... A little while longer and they will have My answer, which will be harsh, but as a matter of fact, I shall not frighten My people because they will have the joy of seeing the tare cut and burned. They tempt Me, and challenge Me. How will they resist the storm that will break them up forever?
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6-Jan-96 |
Mary |
My husband, of whom I had so many proofs of special affection, does not truly recognize the virtues God gave him. But I knew him in the course of many adversities and could always admire the way he faced them. What patience in my Joseph! And what adoration for Jesus! He did not seem to be a father in our little house, but rather, His most faithful disciple since he was the first man who received instruction, guidance, and consolation from Him.
He was a creature full of God, so full that he accepted, bore, and prevailed over the trials that are given to the chosen ones of pure Love. Ah! My husband was greater than a Seraph, higher than Michael, and purer than all the souls that shone, and will shine after me. He put so much care in protecting me from the persecution triggered by Herod. And remember how perseveringly he watched over me, while he could have accused me as a common traitor.
The Joseph who worked as a carpenter is not important, although he did so in an exemplary manner. The great Joseph you must see is as the disciple of Jesus, well hidden but sublime.
Sometimes it is believed that the peace in our little house was fruit of a special grace that the Father gave us, without considering that this peace was not only grace, but also a day-to-day conquest!
You only know the street door of the house, but coming closer, you will see that each step causes fatigue, and no one climbs up without an effort. Because of that, the graces we received were the fruit of our most Holy Son's generous Love, but occurred with full detachment of ourselves; otherwise, what could My Jesus' reward in Heaven be?
Joseph was pure, it is said and this is true, but I wish to add something about his purity. It equals chastity, but my husband's purity had a special fragrance: it was a purity that could and can be very close to mine. It can be represented by a large handfull of irises cultivated in a field surrounded by roses; that is, it was a purity that had for a horizon the most holy love that a husband could nourish for his wife.
If men wanted to, they could be saved from many blemishes by turning to Joseph. It would suffice if they asked him from the bottom of their hearts to shield them from all impurities in order to honor the acts of purity with which he treated me, his wife.
Do All the Things that Please My Father
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CL-11 |
7-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
He who has entered My fold can leave it, only if he opposes My Will. But if he listens to My Words and delays in carrying them out, he is not left out, because those who are outside the fold are those who hurt Me with grave fault.
Your absence is proportionate to the intensity of the emotions that depend only on Me. If at times, reason tells you the contrary of all that your emotions witness, you must not be surprised. These are the ways in which I wish to guarantee the good results at all costs. The simpler you are, the more you will please Me. But if you think that I can go against your reason because of the pity I feel, you are mistaken. What does man do if he follows My advice? It is simple, he imitates Me and I give him good testimony saying: "I do all things that please My Father and speak what I hear from Him."
O hidden meaning of My Words! How can man be just if he does not listen to Me? And what justice can please Me if not the one that I have said? Human reasons do not completely come up to the divine ones, and nothing is wanted by Me without first having foreseen the consequences to everything.
Grow and you will see that no man lives without My impulse. You cannot resist this impulse, neither by lack of love nor by foolishness, thus making useless the feeling that I give.
The trouble that you experience is good, because it is born of the stimulus of the brotherly love that I have given you and I do not take it away, because you please Me this way - troubled because of My Love. Peace is yours and you know that peace comes from Me.
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CL-12 |
7-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
Live with Me, creature born and grown under the rays of My pains. Love of My pains! Not you, let us live because I want to relive in you; this is so pleasurable for Me. Remain in peace, continue to love, you cannot give Me greater pleasure than to want to be like Me…
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CL-13 |
7-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
I have given My Life and My Blood to men. The Blood to wash them, and My Life to resuscitate them.
The Passion in My Soul could not be expressed without lessening its magnitude, but I speak of it to encourage you to consider it, to make you penetrate into My secrets so that you may remain My prisoners and derive My benefits.
I wish I could save My children all suffering, if in this way it would help them, and it would be enough for Me to have endured suffering for their love. But I cannot hide My Passion; on the contrary, I must ignite it in those who wish to please Me in the accepted way of love.
My daughter, love of My pains, trust Me. I take care of My souls and I always direct them to what I have promised, to the things for which each one must give the payment of love. You are united to Me in a state of adhesion to My Will and this pleases Me. But that is not all that I want, because I wish you to be like putty in which I will imprint all that My ardent Heart wishes.
Listen to My love-hungry cry that reverberates. This cry comes from My exhausted chest, and it renews itself more or less according to the correspondence that it finds in many souls chosen with preference by Me.
What do you seek in your intelligence; what do you seek groping in the darkness that surrounds you? In the meantime would you like for Me to give form to My Words? Do you not realize that you are My companion in the Garden? And as such, no one will see you, not even yourself.
Great Wisdom, infinite Love moves Me and you, flower of My Passion and love of My pains, and feeds what I inspire in you, without fear and without consideration to any consequences, because My example should serve you as a perfect model in your life. I was alone with the Father, and so alone that I experienced the maximum confusion. You will please Me if you remain in solitude with Me without any support. This suffering of yours is a part of the trial of which I spoke to you. Offer it to the Father to console Me. Each day we shall make an offering. Start with Me.
Know Better the Sower of Discord
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CL-14 |
7-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
Crueler than the worst tyrant is the devil that tries to subjugate the greatest possible number of souls, with astuteness and deceits. He wants to have a kingdom in which, without being seen, he would be heard willingly and not by force as it happens in his reign of hate, fury and discord.
He wants vainly to snatch away from Me the power that My Father has given Me and of which I am very jealous. He takes pleasure in the acquiescence of humans and he boasts of this among his own.
It is necessary that you know better the purposes of the sower of discord so as to be able to confront him and beat him. It is necessary to see in the tempter the procedure that distinguishes him amongst all the sinners, in order to give him the lesson he deserves. And I listen to you attentively when you ask for refuge and strength to combat the filthy one, the lying detractor of My power.
Know, children, that in guiding you, having some contact with the enemy is necessary because I want to unite you to Myself in combat with him, so that later I can glorify you as conquerors of he who hates Me. If these combats were not given, My work of Love would not be complete; therefore, it is not necessary to have fear. Confidence in Me and fear, not of Satan, but of yourselves – this is enough to obtain the victory.
Know that there does not exist a greater disgrace for him, plague and condemnation from Heaven, than seeing himself beaten by any person. Having experienced such defeats, he always comes back for his satanic pleasure of making war, destroying what I have given to men with so much generosity.
If he would not put obstacles, one could stay longer in the state of Grace. But by My giving him permission, the rebel would like to split My structures, without taking into consideration that I, many times, serve Myself of his work in order to take a soul to the opposite of what he has schemed.
He who laments over the work of the evil one, must be aware of these aspects:
· he would not be better than Satan if I abandoned him to himself;
· and the fact that I would have a human experience is a very major reason to accept, as desired by God, the annoyances of Lucifer or of his perfidious comrades of disgrace.
Do not be terrified, have fear, or uncertainty, but rather have a firm confidence in My power, and I shall make you participants of My Wisdom to defeat our common enemy. You do not see him, but he is present and being astute, he presumes to be what he is not, but I dominate and I defeat him, and one look from Me makes him run far away.
I tell you today and when it happens, every word of Mine will confirm how much I love you and how I seek to protect you in all things…
I Want to Make You in My Image, but You Tire
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CL-15 |
7-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
I want to make you in My image; however, you do not care to accept My promises of righteousness. What do I intend by proposing that you be like Me? Maybe you do not want to understand that this is possible only at the cost of a will that does not turn back, but rather that hangs on tightly to My Will.
You understand it a little and you tire; you attempt and then become indifferent. And I am seeing how My child obeys My directions, but without having the joy of seeing them advance in My Will, without enjoying the happiness of giving them My resemblance, My beauty, My strength: Me.
If you obeyed, you would always feel peace. There is no illusion in this, there cannot be, I tell you, because to do My Will, contradicting your own is the sure way to lose your bad habits and to cover yourself with eternal beauty, for this is My Will.
What do you say when doing a thousand thoughtful acts and not a single one the one I want? Do you get lost in the maze of your own love?
Oh, how many times you rush to follow the impulses of old habits rooted in the passionate love that you have for yourselves!
Advancement means to go forth, to elevate oneself over the past. Therefore, to advance means to have new knowledge of good, of love, new experiences of Divine life, new knowledge of the roots of pride. You must advance in goodness, and for that reason, it is necessary to descend until the point that you want to hold onto My Divine Providence.
This is not fair? Do you not think it is a holy thing to know evil so that you can run away from it? Here is your confusion. If the evil is of anyone who is not yourselves, it is easy to admit it; it is difficult to admit that knowledge of oneself.
My poor friends, how upset you are! Do you not think that My Heart burns to see you like this? Take courage, do not be afraid to contradict yourselves; indulge yourselves with My Divine Love; you will be certain and in peace, and nothing will disturb you. I want this of you: that you earnestly accept My Word of encouragement, and that you not close your souls in the face of difficulties. Do you believe Me? Believe in Me Who experienced for you the greatest bitterness so that I could give you certainty of victory!
And so, do not get discouraged, do not inquire into what color your cross is, it is a cross and that is enough. Even more, be grateful to Me for every cross, because with this I give clear demonstration of the greater good that I want for you.
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CL-16 |
8-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
I have searched among My sheep for one that would give itself to My solicitudes of Wisdom and of Love… Not a few seem to avoid My hand and many have run away.
Now you are in My hands and I am cleaning your magnificent wool of all dirt. Soon My little sheep will be clean and then, I shall show her docility and kindness.
You were bleating; you would not let yourself be held, but now you have understood that I loved you. Tell Me now: do you wish for Me to continue My work? If you accept, you know what I will give you. The longed for reward, the Love that I have reserved for you. But do not cry out; remain tranquil in My hands.
The Light Will Shine over the Darkness
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CL-17 |
8-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
Enemies who rage against My beloved Church have insulted Me in the same way as when they insulted Me in front of Pilate. Today they accuse My Church of the corruption of temporal power. Today they have placed in the scales of their atrocious politics, the slander that will cause ample defamation to My Spouse. I am not watching passively, I take from the enemies much of their boldness, so as to destroy that mud which they would like to make penetrate the mystical body of the believers.
My people do not take notice of this because I preserve them from many things, but if they knew them all, they would allow Me for sheer human fright. But he who knows, must be vigilant.
My friends, these words announce battles but not defeats; you will see on the day that I make the sun shine over the tempest, the light over the darkness.
My help is constant and will have marvelous results. O friends, listen to the cry that says: "death to sin, not the sinner…!"
You Have Been Called To The Life Of The Spirit
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CL-18 |
8-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
The flowers of the Celestial spring open up and diffuse their divine perfume, giving the air that surrounds them a silent share of the qualities that each one has. This wonder, this spectacle of the souls that works hidden in My Will, is beautiful.
Accustomed as men are to the stench of sins, which infects their atmosphere, they do not pay attention to, or better, they do not have that spiritual sense that perceives those Heavenly perfumes which I deposit in their souls. But the product that I obtain from it is great, and much more powerful than the evil caused by sin.
You usually reflect on mundane things. When will you reflect over Celestial things? You have been called to the life of the spirit. And why do you materialize even the things that are not things, but rather only spirit?
I gave you spring; nevertheless, its flowers have a short life. I gave you the perfumes of the flowers and they also pass, but not as soon as the flowers from which they come. In everything I have left something that testifies to the invisible, and this is what matters the most and gives assurance of future and also present life. What is a rose bud? Is it only what you see and nothing more?
It is the intricate workings of wisdom that gives vitality to the creatures through which the breath of My Life has passed over. What is the perfume of a flower? Is it only one thing that recreates the sense of smell?… It is in fact, a diffusing of ignored vitality that I have put in all plants as a testimony of My Spirit that infuses existence – life.
My souls who receive as a gift the "flower of Heaven", do you know that you carry the perfumes of the divine flower? Think; think well about this. I do not send you pollen to fertilize you, because you receive the whole flower that wants to reproduce itself in you so that new flowers will adorn the eternal flower and all together may send to the Divinity the gracious perfume of the principal flower. Also, you are not experienced with nor do you know, but I do not stop working on your blindness until reaching the transformation that I have wanted
Large meadow, flowery countryside of souls in which I gently place My gaze. Little flowers of Mine, if you could see My work, I tell you, you would go out of your mind with love and would not bring up certain difficulties of yours.
If you, little flower, wish to make a crown of the eternal flower, let Me take care of you, because I am a gardener without equal. If you, little flower, wish to spread the perfumes you like so much, be tranquil in My hands and you will see completely unpredictable results. It is not difficult, I assure you; it is only difficult to truly see it. Once the will is submitted, the rest will be less rough, more possible.
Little flowers of Mine, when I receive you one by one, you will know perfectly well what I have told you today. Now, give Me credit, and confidence, I want no more.
All That Comes from Me Is Good, Let Yourselves Be Guided
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CL-19 |
8-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
Write and do not worry. All that comes from Me is good. Do you not understand what you write soon after? Do you know why? Look at the pen. For Me you are the pen that I move making you trace the symbols which express My Words. At the beginning you do not know, but I make you capable of explaining what before you did not know. Nevertheless, you are not totally unskillful, because while I move you, I also depend on your intelligence, but I only depend on you because this is the way I wish it.
It is true that My Words take on the color of the spirit that receives them, just like the pen that can write in red, black, or blue, according to the ink of those colors. Although the relationship between the colors may remain, it is always nothing in comparison with the words that, in one color or another, the pen writes on the paper. In this way, the Word is Mine; the color is yours. But I am the arm that moves the pen that in all colors will always say what I want.
Will they understand the reasoning – those who should understand it? I do this, precisely for them. And you, what do you say? What do you fear? You fear the same thing; I know it. You fear the enemy; I understand it. But hold firmly to My guarantee because I cannot go back on My Word.
Two days ago you tore up some papers. This is an example of what you do when I do not assist you. The writing you did not understand was dictated by Me. I told you of the high objectives in which tranquility is supreme, but you became confused because I was speaking of wanting to repeat Myself in you and I was telling this to you with a certain amount of insistence. Why did you do it? Had you understood the trial that I desired?
For this reason do not fall again in that, and even though you believe that you pleased Me, have I not said it clearly enough to warn you. Now, be alert; you must do what the pen does in the hand of the writer, that is, to allow yourself to be guided. Do you prefer it this way?
Spread My Seed, for It Will Give Fruit
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CL-20 |
8-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
(I meditated, wondering if all priests would be saved…)
They will believe when sadness will have dragged them to despair – but only by My Mercy – because it would be much easier for a blind man to stitch delicate embroidery than for the obstinate man to believe in the truth. I shall save them in great part, because I know My creatures and I know how to make them Mine.
Now they are in battle because the light approaches. They are still not able to seek acceptance of the truth, that is why they escape Me and I allow them to do so, but later I shall give the command and they will turn docile. I will go through the earth and My Spirit will spread. Oh, then, man will weep and I will gather their precious tears.
Cast the hook and do not retrieve it. Spread My seed because it will give fruit. I preached to all with the certainty that the Father would do what was necessary and appropriate for His glory, and I did not stop preaching, knowing in anticipation the effect that would ensue. I was the object of mockery, but not humiliated, because whoever condemns the error will not feel humiliated by the truth spoken, since I do not permit it. And if, as a result of the truth, My beloved ones suffer persecutions, not even then will they be humiliated, but rather they will shine like many suns in front of My Father.
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CL-21 |
8-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
My daughter, flower of My Passion, write what your Lord wants to say through you…
I would rather die once again and not know that somebody barters with Me and with My doctrine. Once again, if it were necessary, I would give My life to save My children from this fake pretense before My Spouse on earth. But the calculations that they do will spread like smoke to the wind; and even more, I tell you openly that those who act as such, sell their own souls, but they will not succeed in defaming the Church because I will not permit it.
You are not sufficiently united, and so you do not have the strength to oppose deceit. I shall form, out of a disorganized body, a bastion against error and lies. You will see this work and, as I serve Myself with good instruments, you will rejoice seeing how only I can obtain, which I desire, the opposite effect.
Children of My Father, all My brothers, remain peaceful because then My glory shall be manifested.
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CL-22 |
9-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
You are poor of word but your hand guided by Mine knows how to record what the Spirit dictates and your heart hears. That is your mission for now: knowing how to write what I am telling you. If your voice were allowed to be heard, who would pay attention to you? Eloquent people were heard and later forgotten. Your voice would be just another sound.
What your hand writes, guided by Mine, will remain. Repeated and amplified by other voices, it will fill the earth, reminding that I am, that the reign of My Heart will not be kept waiting.
Remain ignored, humble, hidden, absolutely obedient to My Will, and in submission to perform for the good of humanity.
When the sufferings come, think that even though you perceive My absence, I will never be closer to you than in those moments. And if you feel your heart grow weak, abandon it into My hands, knowing that these hands will give you the necessary fortitude.
If you feel tedium and discomforted by complying with what I arrange, take away the worthless matter of your displeasure because if you truly want to possess Me, you must accept the unpleasantness that I have destined for you on earth. And know also that, while you live attached to the earth, you have to live off the land.
It is well that you wish to think only in loving Me, and that I am also in all that forms life and your desires and your duties. In them you will always have motives to serve Me and advance in My Love.
My Mother, as yourself, lived in this world, working, watching over the good of her people, praying… And though her soul elevated towards God in each instant of her life, she did not for one moment leave the path of the Divine Will. She knew how to harmonize the cares and troubles of the world, in a way that they all formed a hymn of gratitude to Divinity. With her heart full of bitterness at the thought of My future, she knew how to hide it in her soul and to make life enjoyable for the rest.
Being destined to be the Queen of the Angels and the universe, she lived hidden, ignored and humble because she had God with her and that was enough for her.
Try then, My daughter, to follow the example that I have traced, and continue in a withdrawn life a while longer. Your only wish must be to please Me always.
Before you existed, I already loved you. I saw your loves and ungratefulness, but I wanted you for Me. I want you detached, separated from every thought that is not of Me; not even to a thought of some merit of how much you have done for Me. I must be your supreme and only good.
Poverty carried with dignity will make you, and with you, yours, to be more like Me and My Mother when we were on earth. And My eyes will contemplate you joyfully because in this way you conform your life to Mine, to the image of My Heart.
Consecrate yourself to the care of your home; I do not want anything else for now. Keep getting closer to the fire of My Heart, bring yours also, so that they will come to love Me as I love them.
Each soul has its mission on this earth; yours is of love, sacrifice. Your mission is to draw the world closer to the only thing that will be able to save it: My Eucharistic Heart and the Immaculate Heart of My Mother.
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CL-23 |
9-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
O soul of Mine, you have hidden yourself in My Passion. How sweet it is to your Savior to sing your victory! You are blood of My Blood, life of My Life, even more so, you are precisely the cause of My Victory. I remained hung on the Cross, not for My glory, but for the glory of My Father. I gave all of Myself for His happiness, and His happiness is the conquest of those whom He had lost. Thus I sing your victory, that is to say, for the glory of the Father, since I live and glorify each instant the Life and the Glory of He who sent Me to you.
Everyone know: I love nothing more than to please My Father. That is why I shall glorify all who will make Him happy, because in that joy is the Divine Life that goes from the Father to the Son, and return from the Son to the Father through the Spirit of Love.
Love Me; love Me greatly, My daughter. Think of loving as renouncing your own will, renouncing and giving yourself to your loved one, suffering for him however much is necessary, for that love that he gives.
To love is to submit, to make oneself so small until allowing oneself to be stepped on, and to be spurned even by the most despicable creature, if that should be the case. To love is to put oneself in the last place, renouncing even one’s own merits and to bear without reproach, that unjustifiably others appropriate, and doing it for the loved one, to merit his love.
I did this. I did good; I helped the needy; I raised the dead, and I had nothing more than disloyalty and ungratefulness for recompense.
Love Me, give of yourself completely and voluntarily. Suffer with Me, and also resist that pain. Will you not want to do it? The world deliberately throws itself into the abyss, without accepting the help that My Heart offers. Afterwards it will cry and despair; humanity will groan under the deserved lashing.
One must atone and pray because the punishment will come; but if you might do penance, the souls would entrust themselves to My Heart.
I promise in the tenderness and greatness of My Love, to save men from the rigor of Divine Justice, taking them to a secure port, where neither terror nor death can hurt them... Suffer, atone with Me.
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CL-24 |
9-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
My daughter, love of My Passion, sacrifice yourself, pray, because humanity needs sacrifices, prayers, charity. You should be content when the Spouse gives you the gift of nailing you to His Cross… Accept all that comes from My hand, as hard and hurtful as it may be. Remember, of the souls I love who are nailed to My Cross, I destine them to rejoice in the infinite sweetness of love, of that love for the One through which they knew to reject all earthly joy.
(Lord, take me in Your arms, never separate me from Your heart…)
You do not know…daughter. If you are in My arms while you are on earth, you will have to suffer as I suffered. If I squeeze you in them, the pain will be deeper, more atrocious, and your sorrows will be a reflection of what I suffered. Do you think you will be able to endure them?
(I do not care, Lord, what I can or cannot suffer if I am in your arms. I only know that I shall suffer happily what You wish to give me because I shall suffer for You.)
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CL-25 |
9-Jan-96 |
Mary |
Do you know, my daughter, that what I did when knowing the Will of God was to overwhelm myself with His grandeur? I would think about that same Truth. I would think about and meditate on God. I would think about Him and love Him, and in loving Him, I understood and accepted how much of that Truth could overtake me.
I accepted that His Will be done in me, accepting by it whatever the good, great and painful I would have to bear; adapting my wish to His and becoming one with Him.
I thought about Him, loved Him, and served Him. And even though the knowledge of the future filled my soul with bitterness, no one realized it because at the same time it was happiness, since it came from the hands of He, who being my Son, was at the same time my God, my beloved Lord.
The knowledge of that truth, while overwhelming me, exalted me at the same time, because it lifted itself up to the Divine Will, making me helpful for the good that would arise over all men.
And so, little daughter, to be chosen is an infinite gift that also carries an inevitable and painful duty, for it is to renounce being for oneself and to lose oneself in the hands of God.
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CL-26 |
9-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
For Me, the miseries of men are the best occasions to prove My omnipotence to them. If the sinner lies prostrated because of his faults, how can I better show him love and power if he moves to desist from sin? Love, because easily I will forgive him; power, because I transform the repugnant one into beauty, and the bad one to good. And of this love, you can give good testimony.
Oh, how beloved you are to Me! I wanted to die for you and I would die again to be able to glorify you next to Me. You form part of a selected group of companion souls of My Passion. And the closer you come to Me, the more you will be tempted; and the more you triumph, the more gifts I shall give you. What more could I give you who struggles only to please Me, while nearly everyone surrounds Me to seek his own interests? Oh, how little they are like Me, the souls who think only of their own gains!
You must understand that My sacrifice was total, that is, a benefit, since from eternity I possess Happiness in essence and My glorified Humanity the same. You cannot add anything to the infinity of My joy, but in an incidental manner.
Do you see how far you have come? Well, I guided you, I moderated you, I conquered you, I stopped you, and I pushed you towards Me. And if I had not done all this, you would now be one of My worst creatures. On the other hand, with My gift of Love, you have become a jewelry case, to which many will have access. Do not suffer, as you are now doing. I order you to write because I am the one who had arranged it in order to confuse those who being fools, think they are wise.
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CL-27 |
9-Jan-96 |
God the Father |
Even if every heart would turn hard, I would always continue to be equally sweet with My creatures. No one can move Me to anger because I am peace in essence; only through the effects, demanded by My justice, can you believe that I am moved to anger.
Tell Me, if I were to become indignant, what would be of the world now? Nevertheless, the doctrines that I wanted for humanity when it was but a child still continue. But then, should men always remain young children? No, they should grow and comprehend.
The language of My Son changed all the past, and wanting to remain in the old while including listening to the new, signifies not only to not comprehend the new, but also not having the light to see in the old the seed of the new.
Children, like the valiant ones, reconstruct and revise your knowledge; this is an act of humility that is enough for Me to be able to open for you the golden door to My palace.
I Want Your Thoughts to Come Quickly towards Me
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CL-28 |
9-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
(After seeing a videotape of Vassula Ryden)
She is the messenger of My Peace, you are the messenger of My Love. (I write this because Jesus insists that I do).
I have chosen you because you are loyal and sincere, because even in your idle pursuits you guarded in your heart that sweet and tender devotion to My Heart.
So many times I have taken your tears that welled up in your heart since you were a child. They came tenderly to your eyes at the thought of Me. When you went to a theater to see a representation of My Passion, I collected your tears on the tip of one finger and I would take them to My lips. When whatever would come over you, you would abandon yourself to My Will without reproach, being grateful for the pain; and for Me you forgave and distanced yourself from the resentment. Through all that My eye lovingly followed you when it seemed that I had abandoned you. My hand held you even though you did not feel its pressure. In one way or another, I tried to call you to the right path; I reminded you that you belonged to Me, that My Heart awaited the reflections of your heart which was turning into hard stone.
In the same peril, contemplating your deafness to My voice, I protected you. My poor little one, like a dove searching for the true light, you confused it with foolish fires. The pureness of your intentions and the eagerness to love spiritually, took you by erroneous paths, without thinking that it was throwing immaculate white flowers into muddy puddles.
The sacrifices that you will now make in My memory, were then relief to My saddened Heart… There is no time nor space in the things of Heaven. I want your thoughts to come quickly towards Me, considering yourself with Me in My painful path. This way I will not be so alone and I will feel the comfort of your company. When the one who suffers is near someone who loves and shares in her heart, her company and even her silence is enough to console him. So, My daughter, even if you only tell Me that you love Me, I know what love there is in your soul.
Plead for all those souls that are being attacked and tortured, so that they will know how to resist the pain and torture, and the horrendous solitude in which they find themselves. Plead for those battling between life and death, doubt and certainty, and flattery and lies against their feelings of confidence in Me and My eternity; debilitated by long days of physical and moral sufferings... without hearing one word of encouragement, without being able to receive the sacraments, and without being able to unburden themselves of their immense pain.
These souls suffer for Me as I suffered for them, but strength is missing from many of them in the trial; they are weak and could succumb. It is necessary to pray much for them so that they will not give in to their pain and sorrow, to not lose hope, and to know that their weakness is what assures them everlasting glory.
The sacrifices that are asked of you are caresses of God, just as the paintbrush is happy in the hands of the artist. It knows that the beauty that blossoms under its strokes is not its own work.
My daughter, love of My pains, let Me nail you with Me on My Cross… I need for you to be thus nailed for love.
The Surest Road To God: Humility
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CL-29 |
9-Jan-96 |
Mary |
God encompasses all, penetrates all, and fills all. I am your sorrowful Mother. I know your desire to better comprehend your God in order to love Him more. I want to tell you what God is, to the extent that you can conceive Him.
God is eternal and from His eternity, being Father, He has in Himself His Son, who is also eternal. From the unity of the Father and the Son, lives the Holy Spirit that is the Love of both, the three forming one Divinity.
One is, then, His Will, His power, and one His Mercy. This unity in Love is always directed to the only end, which is God. Immense in His simplicity, filling all that exists, penetrating it all, living in everything and in everything encompassing the distance, dominating all the spaces…
God is Light and with it He illuminates everything created. God is Life, for from Him beings have received it. God is Love and because of that Love, the Son became man; and with His Blood rescued humanity that offends Him, repaying Him for this incomparable sacrifice with hatred and incredible offenses.
Even though God is a person, He is not a creature. His essence is life itself, all life takes life out of His very essence. Some of this has been given to you to contemplate; but the human eye cannot see more than God permits.
God, center and cause of all things, who encloses unto Himself the most perfect unity and from whose unity all that, which coming from that center that is God Himself, is unified in this same beginning: the contemplation of this ineffable mystery that God gives to those who love Him till the end.
Now, daughter, many roads lead to God, but none as sure as humility. God, He Himself humanized, became humble to die crucified. I myself was exalted to Mother of God for loving humility.
No creature can boast of the good that may be in her nor of the potential of her mind because, being a creature of God, to Him she owes what she is, how much she has; therefore, only He should be addressed as the supreme and only end.
Make an effort to always be humble and simple, and you shall have God with you and in you. Let Him do with you as He wishes, so that you will always be able to be sure that it is for your well-being. You will then understand the immense treasure it is to possess God.
I assure you, my daughter, living in God and for God, may it be in pain or infirmity, sadness or happiness, and searching for Him in everything, you will have the certainty of finding Him at the end and find Him with open arms…
Because of Darkness, I Shall Diffuse the Light
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CL-30 |
9-Jan-96 |
Jesus |
Listen, My dear star, what is a small ray of light in the mind of man? It is a particle of Divinity. Even the lowest man and the most wretched one receive from Me innumerable rays of light because I always assist them, and I always diffused, not withstanding the darkness that opposes Me. If I proceed like this with the most wretched man, what can be said of the lighting of My Divinity in the chosen souls? I help them. In My work I have My sights set mainly in the level of love that I want to give, so much that each one cannot understand how by illuminating I bring warmth and, between fire and light I weave together mind and heart almost at the same instant.
So, may the light shine on the bad ones, and the good ones, to all according to My infinite kindness. What do I accomplish with this? Scorn on one side, and indifference on the other. To the reluctant ones I increase the light attracting them to Me, to the faithful ones, because of that, all My warmth as a compensation for the indifferent and the unbelievers.
A time will come in which darkness will reign on earth like a whirlpool because the group of My true faithful ones is small. Even then My work will not fail because, rather, on account of the greater darkness, I shall diffuse more light, and happy the one who believes.
I have cried over Jerusalem that did not know the hour of My visit. Now you will cry for Me. How I have shed tears and sighs for My people! Do you love Me? Well, then, you, too, will sigh and weep for those who reject Me.