To the
Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons
From the writings of Don Stefano Gobbi
Year 1974
CENACLES OF LIFE WITH ME
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January 5, 1974
First Saturday
My Heart Will Be Your Refuge
a "Today, I want to lead you by the
hand like a mother; I want to lead you ever deeper into the depths of
my Immaculate Heart. My Heart must be as a refuge for you, in which
you ought to live and from which you ought to contemplate all the
events of this world.
b If you live each moment in this refuge,
you will always be kept warm by my love and that of my Son Jesus.
c Every day that passes, this world will plummet
deeper and deeper into the coldness of egoism, of sensuality, of
hatred, of violence, of unhappiness.
d Before the great darkness, the night of
atheism which will envelop everything will descend upon the world.
e It is especially then that my Immaculate
Heart will be your refuge and your brightness. Fear neither the cold
nor the darkness, because you will be in the Heart of your Mother,
and from there you will point out the way to a great multitude of my
poor wandering children.
f But my Heart is still a refuge which protects
you from all these events which are following one upon another. You
will remain serene; you will not let yourself be troubled; you will
have no fear. You will see all these things as from afar, without
allowing yourself to be in the least affected by them.
g `But how?' you ask me. You will live in time,
and yet you will be, as it were, outside of time. My Immaculate
Heart, O my son, is like a part of paradise in which I want to
enclose my beloved sons in order that they may be preserved from the
great events which await you, so that they may be consoled by me,
prepared by me, directed by me for the great and approaching moment
of my triumph!
h Remain therefore always in this refuge of mine!”
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January 17, 1974
Cenacles of Life with Me
a ‘When two or three are gathered in my name, I
am there in the midst of them,' (Mt 18:20) thus spoke my Son Jesus.
b When two or more priests of my Movement are
gathered together on my account, I also am in the midst of them. I
manifest myself to them and through them, especially when these
priests are joined in prayer.
c It is therefore necessary that these priests of
my Movement begin to meet each other and to gather together. It is
not necessary that they come together in great numbers: even two or
three are enough. These gatherings must constitute real and true
cenacles.
d Now that my Movement of priests is spreading
everywhere, these cenacles must be multiplied.
e There is no need of organization. Everything
should be simple, spontaneous, quiet and fraternal. Where two or more
priests of my Movement come together because of me, there is the
cenacle.
f In the Cenacle, there were the Apostles with
Mary, the Mother of Jesus. In these cenacles, I want the priests of
my Movement to be gathered with me, the Mother of Jesus, and Mother
most special for them.
g Why do I want them to come together in cenacles
with me?
h - To remain with me, so that I myself can
nourish and form them and cause them to grow in perfect consecration
to me, so that they may truly be my priests alone, and in them and
through them, I may once again manifest myself.
i - Above all to pray with me: when my
priests pray, united with each other and with me, how efficacious is
their prayer!
j For it is then that I myself accomplish in them
my maternal task of interceding before God for all my children.
k To be united among themselves and with me in the
celebration of Holy Mass, in the recitation of the Liturgy of the
Hours, and in praying the holy rosary: this is my prayer
l The rosary is the weapon that I give to these
children of mine to fight the great approaching battles which await
them.
m - To love each other and to live in true
brotherhood in the company of their Mother. It is necessary today
that my priests know each other, that they help each other, that they
truly love one another, that they be as brothers brought together by
their Mother.
n There is today too much loneliness, too much
abandonment for my priests!
o I do not want them to be alone: they must help
each other, love each other, they must all feel as - and really be -
brothers.
p - To await the decisive moments which are
drawing ever closer. The time is near when some of my poor
priest-sons, tricked and seduced by Satan, will come out in the open
and set themselves against my Son, against me, against the Church and
the Gospel.
q Then the cohort of my priest, prepared and led
by me, are to come forth into the open to proclaim with courage and
before everyone the divinity of my Son, the reality of all my
privileges, the necessity of the hierarchical Church united to, and
under the leadership of, the Pope and all the truths contained in the
Gospel!
r Many priests, uncertain and, as it were,
overwhelmed by the tempest, will follow you example and return along
the road of salvation. For the present, prepare yourself with me
during this time of waiting.
s Let you gatherings be true cenacle of life with
me, of prayer, of brotherhood, and of waiting.”
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January 23, 1974
The Sign That I Will Give to Each One
a "Do not be concerned about all that is
necessary for the spread of my Movement. I myself will provide for
everything.
b I want my priests to live always and only
in the greatest trust in me. They must expect everything from me,
even whatever concerns their life and their means of sustenance.
c My priests will have to be poor in imitation of
my Son Jesus, but they will never lack whatever is necessary to live,
and to live with dignity.
d I am the Mother, and I will take care
even of this. I will do great and extraordinary things, even
miracles, when it is necessary.
e But my priests must be neither eager nor
preoccupied about what concerns food and clothing. As little
children, they should leave it up to their Mother to provide.
f On the other hand, let them be solely and always
concerned about the salvation of so many of my children who, more and
more each day, are being lost and falling into the hands of Satan. Do
they not feel my great motherly sorrow which is growing ever greater?
g Let them live solely with me, to console the
Heart of my Son Jesus. Jesus, at this time, must be consoled. Let it
be my priests who will be the consolers of his Most Sacred Heart!
h Let them live solely and always looking
to me, remaining with me, loving with me, praying through me. From
the way they allow themselves to be possessed by me, they will be
recognized as priests of my Movement.
i This will be the sign that I will give to each
one, so that the life of each one may be truly transformed!"
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Rome (Italy); January 28, 1974
Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas
What a Mother Can Do
a "How happy I am, my son, with the gathering
which took place here with the twelve priests of my Movement! It is a
little seed which soon will become a tree and from here, my beloved
city; it will spread out its branches over the whole Church,
throughout the whole world.
b Have you not noticed how, through you, I
myself spoke to the hearts of my priests? They have received an
extraordinary grace which will transform their whole life. They will
now be apostles of my Movement.
c Oh, always let yourself be led by me; then you
will see what the Mother can do for her sons."
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February 10, 1974
Rely on Me Alone
a "You must be more attentive, O my son, in
order to remain always in my Immaculate Heart, and not let yourself
be taken up or discouraged by things, especially when these are
independent of your will.
b You are in a hurry. You would like my
Movement to spread more rapidly, and that the booklet would not
encounter so many difficulties in its reprinting.
c How much of the human there is in your desires!
It is necessary that I, in a motherly way, purify you, if you want me
to lead you to that perfection which is pleasing to my Heart.
d Rely only on me and not on human means;
entrust yourself only to me. There is one thing that you can always
do, and which is the only thing that I want you to do at each moment,
because it is so useful to me for the Movement: your prayer, your
suffering, your trust in me.
e This is what I ask of you: that you let yourself
instead be divested of all other preoccupations. This is not one
of many movements, but it is my Movement, my son. So then let me
act!
f All my priests must act this way. I will make
them understand by causing every human means in which they had placed
their trust to come tumbling down. They must entrust themselves to me
alone. I know that this asks much of human nature. But I want the
priests of my Movement to be mine alone.
g If they do not accustom themselves now to
seek me alone, to listen to me alone, and to entrust themselves to me
alone, how are they going to find me at the moment of the great
tempest when everything will be plunged in darkness? Let them
accustom themselves as of now to see me as the light of their every
action!"
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February 11, 1974
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
Let Them Live Out the Trust of the Present
Moment
a "How I am present, O my son, each
moment of your day. You are no longer alone. You always have with you
the Mother who leads you by the hand, who clasps you to her
Immaculate Heart.
b Everything that happens to you has been
prearranged by me for your good. Learn to entrust yourself to me ever
more and more.
c Even the moments of obscurity, of suffering and
of misunderstanding are prearranged so that you may grow and become
strong along the way of perfect consecration.
d Learn to see me even in obscurity; learn
to feel my presence even in abandonment, O my son; learn to do
everything with me, in me. Give me your whole self completely, at
each moment.
e Your past does not exist. I now see you
only in my Heart; you are mine. Do give me the present moment
with generosity: for me this is all that matters, because I can make
use of it for my designs.
f Oh, if all the priests of my Movement only knew
how much I have need of them! Let them offer me each moment of their
existence with perfect surrender, so that I can make use of them
according to my wishes!
g Since they have consecrated themselves to me,
they belong to me; they are mine. If they are mine, they can no
longer belong to themselves; they can no longer possess anything that
is not my very self.
h So then why do they still think of the
past? Why do they still make plans for the future? Let them truly
give themselves to me with perfect abandonment. Let them live the
trust of the present moment! Only when these children of mine
surrender themselves completely to me and are in my hands like little
babies, will I be able to work my wonders by means of them.
i O my priests, allow yourselves to be truly
possessed by me, so that I can again act through you and return to
the midst of all my children!"
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February 18, 1974
It Is Time That I Myself Gather Them Together
a "Let yourself be led by me, my son,
and you will see marvels happening around you: one of these is that
which you are living through today. X is an example of all the
priests of my Movement. What love he has for me and for my Son Jesus!
How he lives for souls; how many he saves!
b This is a humble place, a place of little
things, almost unnoticed by most. And yet it is here and no place
else that today my presence is to be found.
c Even today I like to reveal myself to my
children in places similar to those in which I lived with my Son
Jesus: Bethlehem, Nazareth. Yes, even today I choose poverty,
simplicity, littleness, and the ordinary in order to manifest myself
d I know this can be a difficulty for many; and
yet, this is necessary for those who wish to encounter me. It is
necessary to be little and that all feel themselves to be just what
they are before me: just little children.
e The little child never looks at himself,
but gazes so intently at his mother. It is the mother who looks at
her little child. She is the one who, looking at him, can say to him:
`Oh, how beautiful you are; how precious you are; how good you are!'
f Today for you, here in this very place,
something is really being born. It is like a small seed, but it will
spread itself out, grow and become a great tree. For you, there has
been a meeting here today: you have found a brother. But for a long
time he has been made ready by me! You see, from long ago I have been
fashioning this priest, through suffering, through misunderstandings,
through solitude; oh, how I have accustomed him to that interior
humility and to that childlikeness of spirit which is so pleasing to
my Immaculate Heart.
g Now I look upon him with satisfaction; he is
only a little child in my arms, and I can carry him and make use of
him as I wish. Such is one of my priests; such are all my priests.
h Called by me long ago, long ago they have
answered. Nourished by me, fashioned and guided by me, now they let
themselves be led with docility.
i It is time that I myself gather these children
of mine from all sides. With them I must form for myself an
invincible cohort.
j They meet each other; they look at each other,
and it seems as though they had always known each other. They feel
themselves to be really brothers. I give you as gifts, one to the
other.
k Love one another, my beloved sons; be
united; look after each other; help each other! Oh, how happy the
Mother is when she sees you all gathered together as good brothers in
her house!"
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February 23, 1974
It Will Begin with My Priests
a "You ask me if I am pleased. Oh, you
do not know, my son, the joy that you give me! It is a mother's joy
to be with her children. My paradise is that of being close to each
one of you. The priests are children whom I love in a special way
because, by their vocation, they are called to be Jesus.
b It is my duty to form the image of my Son in
them. I never abandon them; I never leave them alone.
c Let them not become discouraged because of their
defects or their falls, because they too are so very frail, I am
Mother. My greatest delight is to forgive because, afterwards, I can
show an even greater love.
d These children of mine should not be
afraid to give themselves to me completely. They are now living in
times of great confusion; in many of them faith in my Son and trust
in me is diminishing. Bad example is everywhere increasing, and how
discouraged are many of them becoming discouraged! This is the time
to call on me, to yearn for me; this is all I am waiting for in order
to reveal myself to them.
e That which most touches my Heart is to
hear them cry like little children. Can a mother not be moved before
her little child who is crying?
f Behold: when everything will have come tumbling
down, all that will remain will be the strength of their tears that
will compel me to intervene in an amazing and terrible way. And my
triumph will begin with these beloved sons, my priests.
g You will have to become accustomed to seeing
ever greater and greater things. My Immaculate Heart is an
inexhaustible channel of mercy and forgiveness and can no longer hold
back the flood of this fire. Soon God will begin to cause torrents of
pardon and mercy for these poor children of his and mine to gush
through the whole world."
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March 11, 1974
Great in Love
a "Today you had something like a
sign: a confirmation of how much I love you, my son. I permitted that
up to the last moment everything would be contrary to what I had told
you beforehand; and then, in an almost miraculous manner, it turned
out just as I had promised.
b This is because I want you to grow in
trust in me. You must let yourself be led by this trust
without ever offering resistance, but rather being, as it were,
carried and guided by it every moment of your day. Raise yourself up
ever higher and higher, until you live habitually in my Immaculate
Heart.
c Then this being habitually in me will be for
your soul like the air which will permit you to breathe and to live.
d Every priest who is consecrated to my
Immaculate Heart and who belongs to my Movement is called to live
this way.
e My Heart is sometimes saddened to see
that some children who are consecrated to me are not totally mine.
They do not give me everything. Why do they still keep something
back? From now on they must possess nothing, nothing at all: they
must simply be little children, the smallest of my children.
f Because I call them to be great in love, in
holiness, in heroism, they must become the smallest of all. Oh, my
priests are not yet, all of them, my little children, but I will make
them so, because it is only in this way that they can grow in trust
for me.
g When they are perfect in spiritual childhood,
when their only concern is to let themselves be led by trust in me,
then they will be ready for my great plan.
h My children, let yourselves be formed and
fashioned by me. Without you or others being aware of it, I will
transform you completely; I will give you great gifts of love; I will
call you to an ever deeper union with God and with me.
i This is why I ask you to entrust yourselves to
me; if this giving of yourselves is not perfect, you bind my hands,
and I will not be able to act according to my wishes. Oh, give
yourselves completely to me, O generous and dearly beloved children
of mine!"
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March 23, 1974
I Give You the Joy of the Cross
a "Let yourself be led by me at every moment,
my son, and you will find peace, even in sorrow, even in abandonment,
even in contradictions, even when you seem to feel that you are
powerless to do good.
b You would like to, and you cannot,
because this does not depend on you; you would like to, and yet you
cannot, because you meet with difficulties which you cannot overcome
alone. You would like to, and yet you cannot, because, one by one,
all those human supports on which you counted so much fail you.
c Even for me and for my Movement, how many times
you would have liked to do something, and you cannot. Oh, this
inability to act, this experience of your own fragility, and the
patience which you must exercise, and this waiting - how much this
costs you at times; how it makes you suffer; how it purifies you.
d Indeed, you will know joy even in sorrow;
moreover, you will offer for my joy each of your sufferings, even the
smallest. And I will accept it as a gift which the little child makes
to its Mother, and I will change it immediately into joy for you.
e However, the joy that I give you is deep; it is
not superficial; it is peaceful; it never brings agitation. It is for
you, my son, the joy of the cross: the joy of remaining always
in my sorrowful Heart to experience all its indescribable motherly
sadness.
f I want to bring all the priests of my Movement
to this joy. They must know how I completely change and transform
their existence, taking literally the gift which they made to me by
their consecration.
g I will lead them, these little children of mine,
very far in love, in suffering, in the joy of the cross!
h Those moments are approaching when I will be
able to act, for the salvation of the world, through the sufferings
of my priest-sons. From them I want trust, prayer, simplicity,
silence."
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March 27, 1974
Place Them in My Maternal Heart
a "Gather these sons of mine together. This
is the time for them to get to know each other, to meet each other,
to love each other.
b You are in me, and when you speak in these
gatherings I am truly present in the midst of you. Even though you do
not see me, I am not only spiritually but really and truly present.
And I will give you sure signs of this presence of mine.
c Each one will be aware of it; and his life will
be gently changed, and his soul will be delicately touched with my
motherly caress. Therefore, my son, you should not seek anything
else; you should not be concerned about anything but remaining ever
in my Immaculate Heart.
d What joy and comfort you give to your Mother, O
my son! Bring to me all these beloved sons of mine. Gather them into
my cohort; place them all in my maternal Heart."
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April 1, 1974
Let Them Offer Me Their Sufferings
a "The road on which I lead you is difficult,
my son, but it is the one that I have ever been preparing for you.
b With what difficulties and what sorrows it is
strewn! But you must not be discouraged. Why do you feel so
frightened? What are you afraid of? Let yourself be led by me; remain
always in my Heart.
c Give me all the difficulties which you
encounter, all the sufferings and the abandonment which you
experience. Nothing comforts my Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart more
than a suffering which is offered to me out of love by my
priest-sons.
d Even Jesus willed to offer to the Father
all his sufferings through and with me. And it was thus that,
offering my Son freely to the Father, I became true Co-redemptrix.
e Let these children of mine offer me all
their sufferings, all their misunderstandings, all their
difficulties. This is the greatest gift that they can make to me,
because thus they allow me to carry out in time in this, your time! -
my task as Mother and Coredemptrix. I will save many souls redeemed
by Jesus, but at present so far away from Him, because my sons,
together with me, will pay for them.
f Oh, all I want of them is prayer and suffering.
This is how they will really comfort my Heart and respond to the
great plan of mercy which I am about to realize through them."
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April 18, 1974
I Will Give Them This Water
a "Do you not understand that, as the
parched earth cries out for a drop of dew, so also my Church has long
been awaiting this work of mine which I am carrying out among my
priests?
b Indeed the priests of my Church are today the
most prepared, the most desirous of accepting it. The confusion and
the numerous defections of these recent times have, as it were,
parched the souls of these sons of mine. They have so much need now
of pure water, crystal-clear water, to quench their great thirst!
c I myself will give them this water.
d For this reason you must become more and
more available in my hands; let yourself be led completely by me, who
has great plans for you. From now on you must free yourself from all
other obligations with the school for the sake of my Movement.
e My son, gather together from all sides my
beloved sons. They need so very much to know each other, to meet each
other, to love each other deeply as brothers, to help one another, to
encourage one another in walking always in simplicity and abandonment
along the difficult and painful path of these times.
f I will be with you; do not fear. As
Mother, I will provide everything for you: home, clothing, and food,
as only the Mother knows how
g I will lead you to a complete emptiness of all
human support and to a more total abandonment, so that you may at
last learn to do that which pleases me most and that which I am
always asking of you: entrust yourself to me alone; let yourself be
always led by me; expect everything, and ask everything of me.
h What joy my motherly Heart feels when you
ask me for something. Ask me for everything for your brother-priests,
these sons so loved by me, and you will obtain everything, because my
Immaculate Heart has already begun its great triumph in them!"
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Lourdes (France); April 30, 1974
My Beloved Children
a "Have you become aware of the great
tenderness my motherly Heart feels for all these children of mine? I
reveal myself especially to the little and the innocent.
b If you only knew how much my Heart loves
and cherishes purity. This is a virtue which makes souls open
to receive a special influx of my love, which enables them to see me,
to feel my presence with them.
c This is the time when I am drawing all these
privileged souls to myself, so that they may be protected and kept
unharmed, by me and by my Son Jesus.
d All the sick and the suffering whom you
see everywhere, these too are my privileged children. They remind you
of the value of suffering, of the necessity to suffer.
e But, more than all others, my beloved
children are the priests. In striking them, my Enemy has truly
struck at my Heart.
f This has been permitted by God for the
sake of his great designs which are as yet unknown to you; however,
this wounded and sorrowful Heart of mine is preparing the greatest
return of my straying and wavering priest-sons.
g For this I bless in a special way all you
priests of my Movement. You are the soothing balm for this wound of
mine, my comfort in this great sorrow; you are the instruments
personally chosen by me for my great triumph!"
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May 20, 1974
The Prayer o f My Priests
a "As each day passes, I want you to
be ever closer to my Heart: far from human vicissitudes and the
events which so convulse the world and disturb my Church, so that you
will remain with me alone.
b I want you with me in prayer. These
present moments are so important and grave that they demand much,
very much prayer on the part of my priests. The prayer of my priests
is necessary for the salvation of the world.
c Holy Mass must be celebrated well, and it must
be lived by my priests. The Liturgy of the Hours must be for them a
summons to consecrate every moment of their day to me.
d The rosary should be a time of
conversation with me. Oh, they must speak to me and listen to me,
because I speak softly to them, as a mother does to her little
children.
e But even every action of their day can
become a prayer. And this happens when they let the Spirit within
them - which still today laments with ineffable groanings - cry
out invoking God as a Father.
f Seek the Father; cry out to the Father; yearn
for the Father! For yourselves and for all my children.
g The sufferings of your day will dispose you to
be prompt to enter into continuous prayer.
h The moments which are approaching are
more serious than you can possibly imagine. And so I want to prepare
you so that at the opportune moment you will all be ready.
i This is why I call you to prayer."
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May 27, 1974
The Work I Am Accomplishing
a "For all that pertains to my
Movement, let yourself be led only by me. You will receive light
little by little; this will be assured you through your confessor and
spiritual director.
b At the present time you do not see, my
son, all that my Immaculate Heart wants to do through you and through
my Movement.
c I want things this way for many reasons. First
of all, you must remain always poor, humble and simple, considering
yourself as the least of my children. Then you must become accustomed
to letting yourself be led by the hand and always by me. At every
moment you must expect everything from me. This is the way I want
the consecration which you have made to me to be truly lived out.
d Do not rely on other charisms or on other
confirmations; do not look to other works or other plans. This is the
work which I am carrying out in the Church through you.
e For this you will receive everything from
me; walk in simplicity and total abandonment. Never let your heart be
troubled.
f No external interference will ever be able to
harm this work of mine which I am jealously bringing to birth for the
salvation of my Church.
g In this, consider yourself as a nothing,
truly incapable of anything, because that, O son, is just what
you are. But in the measure you offer your utter nothingness to me; I
will be able to act and operate according to my plans.
h Prepare yourself now to also suffer a
bit; I want you to be always more and more my own, and soon I will
purify you. But this will be in order to give you a greater love than
you could ever imagine, O my son.
I love you, I bless you from my heart!”
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June 8, 1974
I Want to Make Jesus Live Again
a "You must remain more attentive to
my voice, my son, and let yourself be led by me with much docility.
It is also good that you form the habit of writing all that I cause
you to hear in your heart.
b I know that this costs you much, yet it is thus
that you please me, because you are more and more obedient to your
confessor and spiritual director. He will receive from me the gift of
understanding what should be made known, since this will be
beneficial to many of my sons. He will also know what should be kept
secret. For your part, write an account of everything in all
simplicity.
c I will accustom you to depend on me at each
moment; oh, but in a manner so simple and spontaneous, as a child
does in the arms of its own mother.
d At every moment I will tell you what I want of
you; thus it will be I myself who will do everything in you and with
you. You will always act, as it were, under my sweet motherly
inspiration.
e And thus you will grow continually in a life
united with me. My life will be your life. It will become painful and
insupportable for you to live even for a moment outside of me.
f My son, you see how I have accepted with
pleasure and taken at your word the gift of your consecration which
you have made to me!
g Certainly you are small; you do not have great
qualities; you get frightened over nothing; you are almost afraid of
your own shadow! And yet, I have considered the intensity and the
love of your total gift.
h Your nothingness, which you have offered
completely to me, will be transformed and made great by my motherly
Heart.
i My beloved priests, give me all your
nothingness; give me your whole selves!
j Oh, do not look to yourselves any longer. I want
even your miseries, your defects and your failures!
k Give me everything with great love, and I
will transform it all in the burning furnace of the most pure love of
my Immaculate Heart. I myself will transform you into most faithful
replicas of my Son Jesus.
l It is Jesus whom I want to make live
again in the priests who are consecrated to me, these priests of my
Movement. It is Jesus living in these priests of mine who will again
save my Church at the very moment when it will seem to be sinking.
m If you only knew, my sons, the designs
which I have upon you, you would leap for joy! This is why I say to
you: Give yourselves to me completely, your whole priesthood, without
fear. Abandon yourselves to me."
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June 21, 1974
Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
In the Furnace o f the Heart o f Jesus
a "Before leaving this place where I have
wanted you to be for a time of rest and of prayer and to give you
graces which you will understand later, I want to manifest to you
once more all the benevolence and the predilection of my motherly
Heart.
b Here you have been very closely united
with the one whom I love and hold especially dear and whom I myself
give to you as an elder brother for the sake of my Movement.
c How he loves you, this beloved son of
mine! He is one of the greatest gifts that I give you, and you will
understand this later on. He will be called upon to wear himself out
on a cross of true martyrdom, a martyrdom of love and of pain, which
will make him into a living copy of my crucified Son.
d Let him not be troubled over the
difficulties that surround him. They are allowed by God for his
sanctification. Let him always pronounce his generous and total yes.
This is so necessary and pleasing to me.
e And thus I will have him live always in my
motherly Heart, and there he will taste such great, such very great
sweetness.
f Oh, my sons, if the Mother has thus kept you
together for so long, it is because she has great designs upon you.
g I place you in the burning furnace of the Heart
of my Son. I press you both to my own motherly Heart, and I bless
you."
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June 24, 1974
Solemnity of the Birth of St. John the Baptist
I Have No Need of Human Means
a "The Movement goes forward when you
offer me your prayer and your suffering.
b I have no need of human means. Even the
little book is only a means for the spread of my Movement. It is an
important means which I have chosen because it is small. It will
serve to make known to many this work of my love among the priests.
c But to adhere to it depends entirely on
correspondence to a special grace which I will grant to each one. And
this you can obtain through your prayer, my son, through your love,
through your suffering, and even through your inability to act.
d Remain with me always."
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July 10, 1974
I Accept Your Crown of Love
a "Now I have made known to you the
dimensions of my motherly Heart. Every instant of your existence has
been prepared by me so that through you I can manifest myself more
and more.
b You have at last found your post: my
Heart. Rest, my son, on this Heart. Pray, console; and then let me do
everything for you.
c My Heart is surrounded by a crown of thorns. Oh,
my son, how sharp and painful these thorns have become in these
recent times! I am continually being pierced by them.
d Now you ask me for this crown of thorns.
How can the Mother offer the crown of her great suffering to her
little child? Nevertheless, I accept your desire, the gift of your
love.
e And so now, I will have you share in my
great sufferings. For this, very gently, I will make you more and
more capable of suffering, and I will make you resemble more and more
my crucified Son.
f I accept the crown of love, the
Movement of my priests. They form about my Immaculate Heart a triple
crown, as it were, which truly brings about a soothing of all its
wounds.
g - A crown of lilies, by their purity. Oh,
I know that many of these sons of mine have had to undergo the
violent attacks of my Adversary and that often they have fallen and
that many have lost their innocence.
h They must not become discouraged, these
sons of mine. I myself will clothe them with my purity, giving them
back their innocence. My innocence will be theirs, and as the fruit
of my special predilection, they will be made like me, immaculate.
i - A crown of roses. What is the rose if
not the most beautiful symbol of love? That is why, from among all
the flowers, I am called upon by you as the `mystical rose.' Oh,
these priest-sons of mine must have only one great love: Jesus and
souls!
j They cannot love anything else. They must live
and let themselves be consumed only by this great love. For this, I
myself will purify them through great sufferings, I will detach them
from everything, and I will lead them by the hand along the road of
my motherly predilection.
k - A crown of cyclamens. These are tiny
and fragrant flowers, which grow only in the coolness of the woods;
it is necessary to climb up high to find them.
l They signify the love that my sons must
have for me. They must truly be all mine, my little children who
always expect everything from me.
m But they will not be completely my little
children if they do not climb the summit of spiritual childhood, a
gift which I make to my priest-sons who consecrate themselves to my
Immaculate Heart.
n In this way my Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart
will be truly consoled, and the many thorns will cause me less pain
because of the great joy you give me.
o For the rest I myself will provide because this
is my hour, and I have prepared you all for this hour."
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July 24, 1974
My Triumph and That of My Children
a "Walk in simplicity. I am leading you by
the hand, and you should follow me always. Let yourself be led by me;
let yourself be nourished and cradled by me like a little child in my
arms.
b Since Satan has today deceived the
greater part of humanity by pride and by the spirit of rebellion
against God, it is only through humility and littleness that it can
now encounter and look upon the Lord.
c Caused by the rebellion against God, by this
pride which comes solely from Satan, it is the flood of the denial of
God and of atheism which truly threatens to seduce a great part of
humanity.
d This spirit of pride and rebellion has
likewise contaminated part of my Church. Even those who should be a
light for others have been deceived and seduced by Satan and are now
nothing more than shadows walking in the darkness of doubt, of
uncertainty and of lack of faith.
e They now doubt everything. My poor children, the
more you search for light by your own selves and through your own
strength, the deeper you will plunge into darkness!
f You must return today to simplicity, to
humility, to the confidence of little children, in order to see God.
For this, I myself am preparing this cohort: my priests, whom I will
cause to become littler, ever littler, so that they may be filled
with the light and the love of God.
g Humble, small, abandoned and trusting, they will
all let themselves be led by me. Their weak voice will one day be
changed into the roar of a hurricane, and, joining the victorious cry
of the angels, it will resound in a powerful cry throughout the
world: `Who is like God? Who is like God?'
h Then will come the conclusive defeat of the
proud, and my triumph and that of my little children."
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July 30, 1974
I Will Lead You by the Hand
a "Continue, my son, your life of simple and
filial abandonment. Live always in greatest confidence in my motherly
action.
b Do not let yourself be caught up with things; do
not become anxious. I tell you once again: no outside interference
will be able to harm this work of mine.
c I am making known to you how I want this work
done, and I myself will lead you by the hand to realize this plan of
mine. Bit by bit, I will detach those who are to help you from every
thing - even from what they consider good and useful for my Movement
- and I will lead them along the road of perfect abandonment and of
the accomplishment of my will.
d They will be personally called by me to this
detachment; from them I expect total submission.
e O my son, if you only knew with what care I am
molding my priests, just as I am molding you yourself! Entrust
yourself ever more completely to me; let yourself be led by me. You
will see how the Mother knows how to do all things well in your
place!"
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August 3, 1974
First Saturday
The Decisive Moments Are Near
a "Today you have remained constantly close
to my Heart; you have prayed for your brother-priests who belong to
my Movement. This has been a day of special graces for all of them; I
have made my presence felt, close to each and every one of them. I
must make these sons of mine ever more and more my very own. I must
detach them as quickly as possible from everything in order to cause
them to become only and completely the possession of my Son Jesus. If
only you knew, son, how much I love them, how much I clasp them to my
Heart, one by one!
b The decisive moments are very near. A little
while longer and then, together with them, with the littlest of my
babies, I will crush the head of Satan and his many followers, and I
will obtain the victory, which has already been announced!"
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Fatima (Portugal); August 15, 1974
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin Mary into Heaven
In Heaven to Be More a Mother
a "Today is my feast: all Paradise exults and
the Most Holy Trinity rejoices at the reflection in me of its most
pure light.
b Even with my body, I am in heaven so that
I can be more a mother: the Mother of all.
c Today I want you with me at Fatima. You have not
returned there since the time when, through you, my Movement was
born. Bring me all these priests of mine in order to make with them a
crown of love which you will place about my Immaculate Heart.
The great sorrow of yesterday evening you offered
it to Me and it will be useful to you to prepare for the great things
you will do in these days. Pray for your spiritual director; he
greatly needs to be more docile to my voice to respond to my plan for
him.
d Continue to walk deprived of all
assistance and in this abandonment. Do not be afraid; I myself am
leading you by the hand and clasping you to my Heart. In this way, I
can now make use of you as I wish, and never before as now are you
the instrument chosen by me for the spread of my Movement."
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August 22, 1974
Feast of the Queenship of Mary
My Reign
a "You will soon see in all its splendor the
great design which the Mother has upon you. You will be always my
little child who does not know how to say anything or to do anything
other than to remain with me, speak with me, and let yourself be used
by me.
b I will manifest myself in you. You will
also have to suffer because many - in good faith - will place
obstacles in the way of my motherly action. But in the end they will
understand and will become my most docile sons.
c Today the Church and all Heaven acclaim me as
Queen. My Son Jesus has given me this crown of glory.
d If you only knew, my son, what great
glory and what comfort is given to me when I reign as sovereign in
your heart! The hearts of all my priests must be the kingdom where I
may reign. Thus, very soon, my motherly Heart will triumph in all my
children!"
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August 28, 1974
Feast of St. Augustine
Pray for the Holy Father
a "Spend these days in continuous prayer;
make your spiritual exercises with me. Upon your descent from this
mountain, I myself will lead you here and there, that you may gather
my priests into my Movement.
b Pray also for the Holy Father. There are
grave and painful moments approaching for him, and I myself want to
give him the comfort of your filial affection and of your prayer."
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Arcade; September 16, 1974
No One Passes Beyond This Point
a "'I want to bring you to a detachment from
everyone and to an absolutely total abandonment.' These words of
mine, my son, I repeat to you today so that in the present
difficulties you will not become discouraged. You are grieved at the
fact that some have separated themselves, by organizing a new
association of priests who honor and love me, without considering
what I myself am doing through you.
b But if it is I myself who am taking hold
of you and leading you, who am causing you to do each thing, how can
these sons of mine please me more fully when they do not accept me in
the work that I am carrying out? Poor children of mine, because what
they are doing is done in good faith and with the intention of
honoring me, they will soon understand what path they must follow in
order to honor me. There are many ways, but there is only one path
for my beloved priests: that of my Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart.
c Here I want them all to be like little children.
For this they must learn to be silent, not to become agitated, not to
organize themselves, not to act. They must be little children who
pray and love, little children who suffer with me, for me and in me
for the salvation of all my children.
d Oh, this is for my Church the hour of
greatest confusion. The Pope speaks and points out the faith with
assurance, and he is left alone and unheeded by almost everyone.
e There are also speaking today false prophets,
who announce the Gospel by betraying it, and these are listened to
and followed! And they bring disorder and confusion among the most
faithful children of my Church.
f You priests consecrated to me, set up once again
a strong barrier of defense together with the Pope. Do not
leave him alone; form with him the last line of defense, the last
trench for the defense of my Son and of my Church.
g I am with you, and no one passes beyond this
point; and from here I will begin my battle for my greatest triumph!"
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October 23, 1974
Prayer and Docility to My Voice
a "I have already told you many times what
you must do, and I now repeat it: just pray and remain always in my
Heart in prayer. I will look after the Movement myself.
b You are not to let yourself become
worried about any preoccupations. I myself am calling together and
uniting the priests from all sides, and they, these beloved sons of
mine who have been nourished and formed by me, are all heeding my
call.
c Have you not seen how the declarations of
membership are now coming from all parts of the world?
d Tell X that there will be more and more
for him to do for my Movement. Therefore he must accustom himself to
do less and less on his own and to leave the action to me alone. He
must pray, pray much, and I myself will be his light.
e The booklet should be the only means of
spreading [the Movement]. Do not look at its weakness because it is
willed by me.
f I do not want any propaganda, but only
prayer and docility to my voice. I am pressed for time. The decisive
times have come, and my army is now ready and awaiting my orders.
g I bless you all from my Heart."
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October 29, 1974
Feast of Blessed Michael Rua
How Much You Have Need of a Mother!
a "I am always near you; let yourself be led
by me, without looking to anyone or anything.
b As I have said to your heart many a time,
human events are constantly getting worse and worse. Men have
forgotten God; many obstinately deny Him. How many there are now who
ignore Him in practice!
c This poor, poor generation whose sorry lot it is
to be so polluted and corrupted by the Evil Spirit, who has risen up
against God to repeat again his challenge: `Non serviam: I will
not serve; I will not acknowledge God!'
d My sons, how much you have need of the
Mother! She alone can understand and help you. She alone can heal
you. She alone can, by divine plan, snatch you from the hands of
Satan and save you. Have recourse to me still, and I will be
your salvation.
e To realize my plan of salvation for all poor
humanity, I am gathering together my priests from all parts of
the world. They must be docile to my voice and respond, each and all,
to the gentle invitation of my motherly Heart.
f I who have triumphed over all errors and
heresies, everywhere, will again, with the cohort of my beloved sons,
triumph over the greatest error which history has ever known: the
error of atheism which has now drawn away from my Son almost all
humanity.
g Write this, my beloved son: these are now the
years when I will realize my greatest triumph.
h Humanity, renewed by much suffering and by a
great purification, will re-consecrate itself completely to the
worship and the triumph of God, through the triumph of my Immaculate
Heart."
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November 19, 1974
The Altar on Which They Will Be Immolated
a "And yet, how I am molding you and
transforming you, my son! Are you not now aware of how completely I
live and act in you? It is difficult for you to understand, my son,
and yet it is a reality. In a priest who has consecrated himself to
my Immaculate Heart, it is I who live, work, suffer, pray and act.
b Take your own life for example: other people,
from outside, will say, `How he has changed; it no longer seems to be
he!' But as for yourself, do you not really feel that you are a
different person? Your tastes, your desires, your aspirations and
even your deepest interests, how changed they are! Consider how
formerly you longed for success, and now it seems that even life is
burdensome to you. How you used to make plans and projects for
tomorrow, and now it seems that the future does not interest you at
all. How often, even unconsciously, you have sought yourself.
c Now something is really changing: it is I who am
living and working in you. Your heart beats in unison with mine; your
mind follows my thoughts; your words repeat my voice; your hands
repeat my gestures: you are, as it were, born again in me.
d As for one, so also for all the priests of my
Movement. All little children, nourished, kissed, caressed and
cradled by me.
e So that I may place them all, with much love, on
the wood of their cross, I must prepare them for this ineffable and
painful moment. They, like my Son Jesus, will have to be immolated on
the cross for the salvation of the world.
f Let them entrust themselves therefore to me like
little children. The Heart of their Mother will be the altar on which
they will be immolated, victims acceptable to God for his triumph."
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November 30, 1974
Last Day of the Liturgical Year
The Sign Which God Gives
a "My beloved sons, do not let your hearts be
troubled. Why do you doubt? Why do you look with uncertainty at the
present and the future in search of the sign which I have predicted
to you?
b There is only one sign which God gives to
the world and to the Church of this day: I myself.
c I alone am announced as a great sign in the
heavens: this Woman, Clothed with the Sun, with the moon as a carpet
under her feet and twelve stars as a luminous crown about her head.
d My victory over the Red Dragon has been
foretold and over atheism which is triumphing and apparently
victorious today. This victory will be obtained through the triumph
of my Immaculate Heart in the world, and I will achieve this victory
through the priests of my Movement.
e For the present, do not look for any other
prodigies in the heavens: this will be the only prodigy!
f For this reason, prepare yourselves in prayer,
in suffering and in complete trust in me. The decisive hours of the
battle are near, but I am already declaring in advance that the great
sign of my victory is you, O priests consecrated to me whom I am
gathering together in the Church of which I am the Mother."
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Dongo (Como, Italy); December 7, 1974
First Saturday
Revealed to the Little Ones
a "You have come, my son, before my image,
which you have venerated with special love since your childhood and
which even then was a sign of my special predilection.
b You have celebrated Holy Mass to console
my Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart and for all the priests of the
Marian Movement of Priests.
c Have no fear. I myself am gathering these sons
from all parts of the world into my cohort; all are now
responding to my call!
d If now and then you meet up with some
obstacles, with difficulties or with misunderstandings, offer
everything to my Heart.
e I have already told you, and I repeat
again, that no external interference will be able to harm this work
of mine. It is the sign that I am today giving to my Church.
f At the moment of its greatest confusion, on the
very eve of events which will upset the faith of so many of my
children, this is the sign which I will give: My very self!
g I, the Mother of the Church, am personally
intervening and initiating my work of salvation. I am initiating it
thus: with simplicity, in hiddenness, and in such a humble manner
that most people will not even be aware of it. But this, my sons, has
always been the way your Mother has acted.
h Therefore, in order to recognize this
action of mine, you must have the eyes of a little child, the mind of
a little child, the heart of a little child. You must again become
simple, humble, recollected, poor, innocent. You must truly become
once again those little children to whom alone will be
revealed the plans of God, the mysteries of the kingdom of God.
i Thus the interior space of your souls will be
brightened, and your hearts will be truly transfigured because I
myself will imprint my image upon them.
j Your hearts will be my kingdom, and through you,
the priests of my Movement, I will give the Church of today a sign -
which will become clearer and clearer and perceived by all of my
presence, of my assistance and of my action which is destined for the
victory and the triumph of my Immaculate Heart."
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December 24, 1974
The Holy Night
Moments of Anxiety
a "Spend these hours of vigil with me, my
son. Forget everything else, and do not let yourself be taken up with
anything else today.
b Relive with me these moments of anxiety and
painful apprehension when my spouse received a refusal at each
request he made for hospitality for this night.
c Pain and apprehension not for ourselves, but for
my Son Jesus who was about to be born. Every refusal given to us was
a refusal given to Him.
d Many times during the day He had, so to
speak, knocked at the door of my Heart. The time had come for his
birth, and I, the Virgin, was now, as a Mother, to give Him to
all humanity.
e But humanity had no place to receive Him. Every
door which closed opened a new wound in my Heart which opened itself
more and more to beget in love and pain - in this pain my Son Jesus.
f And thus there was no welcome for Him but the
poverty of a cave and the warmth of an ox and the young donkey which
had carried us throughout the day.
g Relive with me these hours of vigil, my
son, that you may understand that it is your poverty alone
that has drawn down upon you the predilection of my Son Jesus who has
given you the gift of being a priest especially beloved of my
Immaculate Heart.
h Your poverty which makes you only and
always such a little child; your total poverty: of goods, of
attachments, of ideas, of affections. To be poor means precisely to
possess this nothingness. It is this nothingness which attracts God's
pleasure and which is alone capable of receiving it.
i Priests whom I cherish, you must all be poor in
this way. This is why I ask you to be as little children.
j Then I will always be able to lead you by the
hand, and you will let yourselves be led with docility. You will
listen only to my voice, because you will not be filled with other
voices and other ideas.
k And the voice and the ideas which I will
communicate to you will be those of my Son. How clear then for you
will all the Gospel be! The Gospel of my Son will be your only light,
and you, in a Church filled with darkness, will give the full light
of the Gospel.
l You will not be rich in other affections. Your
only affection will be mine, that of your Mother. And I, as
your Mother, will bring you to love my Son Jesus with a total love. I
will lead you to such a degree of love that you will not be able to
live without Him. I will make love for Him your very life, and He
will truly be able to live again in you!
m My beloved sons, this is why I need your
poverty, your humility, your docility.
n Do not be afraid if the world does not
understand you and does not accept you; there is always the Heart of
the Mother which will be your home and your refuge."
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December 26, 1974
Feast of St. Stephen
The Power o f the Spirit
a "Saint Stephen was truly a little
child. What candor illuminated his soul, what purity his unshakeable
faith in my Son, and what strength his whole person!
b He conquered everyone with his glance,
with the purity of his faith, with the power of his love. After
Jesus, he was my first child whom many times I clasped to my Heart...
I knew that he had to be the first one to die, after my Son Jesus.
And with what tenderness did I encourage him so that he would become
stronger and stronger.
c And when he fell, killed, they brought him to
me, and I again clasped him to my Heart... Oh, it was, as it were,
the same scene as at Calvary!
d You too, Stefano, are called to be a
crown: the crown of my Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart.
e As upon him, so also upon you I pour out
the fullness of my Son's love so that no one will be able to resist
this grace. The Holy Spirit will sweep you along like a little
feather on the wave of his fullness.
f Each of the priests of my Movement will
be this crown of love for me. A crown of lilies, of roses and
of cyclamens, all these little children of mine. But no one will be
able to resist the power of the Spirit which I will obtain for them.
g Oh, and even they in great part will be called
to the ultimate testimony. But their blood will wash and purify this
world, so that from it a new world may be born, renewed in love and
consecrated anew to the triumph of God!"
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December 31, 1974
Last Night of the Year
The Seed Is Beginning to Germinate
a "End this year and begin the new
year with me, my son, close to my Immaculate Heart, in prayer.
b Prayer of thanksgiving for all that I
have done this year for my Movement, accepting those most precious
things you offered me for it: your prayer, your suffering, your
complete trust in me.
c It is in this way that the invitation, sent out
by me, has now reached all my chosen ones throughout the world. Thus
the seed has been sown and is already beginning to germinate.
d With the coming year it will mature and
blossom into so marvelous a spring that it will be a great joy and
comfort for all my children.
e Prayer of propitiation for so many of
your brothers who await this new year amidst amusements, simply
straining to forget things and to enjoy themselves, and often they
offend the Heart of my Son and my motherly Heart.
f With the new year, the decisive events
will begin: at a moment when a great part of humanity will least
expect them.
g Now my cohort is ready for the battle and soon
the entire Church will witness this struggle between me and him who
has always been my Adversary: Satan, who has seduced a great part of
humanity and who has corrupted and led astray so many children of my
Church.
h Prepare, son, by incessant prayer; this
is what I want of you. Live always in my Immaculate and Sorrowful
Heart. Each day that passes, this Heart will be more and more your
only light. I bless you for this time which has still been
granted you for the spreading of my Movement.
i Priests, look only to me because the days when
all that I predicted will take place, word for word, are very near. O
priests specially beloved by me, offer yourselves each and
all, upon my Immaculate Heart, as a clean oblation for the
sacrifice with which this world must be renewed in blood, that it may
be purified and made ready for the birth of a new world, illumined by
the light and the love of my Son Jesus!"
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