To the
Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons
From the writings of Don Stefano Gobbi
Year 1981
THE LIGHT AND GLORY OF THE LORD
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January 1, 1981
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
The Only Possibility of Salvation
a "Begin this new year in the light of my
divine maternity. I am the way along which peace will come to you.
b The inability of the men of today to establish
peace, is caused by their obstinate denial of God. So long as
humanity continues to go along the way of rejection of God and of
rebellion against his Law, you will have no peace. On the contrary,
egoism and violence will increase and wars will follow upon wars,
ever more cruel and bloody.
c As has been many times foreseen, a third
world-wide war, which will have the terrible capacity of destroying
the greater part of the human race, can take place, if men do not
seriously resolve to return to God.
d The Lord is ready to pour out upon even your
straying and so very threatened generation the floods of his mercy,
only on the condition that this generation return with repentance to
the arms of its Heavenly Father.
e I myself have sung of his divine mercy, which
extends to all generations of men who acknowledge the Lord, and the
one and only possibility of salvation for you is in this return to
the love and fear of God.
f On the first day of the new year, on which you
venerate the joyful mystery of my divine maternity, I direct to you,
my poor sons, my merciful eyes. With an afflicted soul and an
anguished voice, I implore you to return to God, who awaits you with
that love with which the father, each day, awaited the return of the
prodigal son...
g I invite you to a loving crusade of reparative
prayer and to works of penance. Together with me implore of God the
grace of return for so many of my estranged children.
h Multiply everywhere cenacles of prayer to compel
the mercy of God to descend, as a dew, on the immense desert of this
world. And prepare yourselves to see that which human eyes have never
before seen. I am the way of peace. Through me, all humanity is
called to return to God, because only in its complete return can my
motherly Heart triumph..."
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February 2, 1981
Feast of the Presentation of the Child Jesus
The Light and Glory of the Lord
a "Entrust yourselves to me, beloved sons,
with complete abandonment and with the greatest confidence in your
immaculate Mother. As I did my own Child, Jesus, I take you too today
into my arms, to present you each day in the temple of the Lord.
b Let yourselves be offered by me to God,
on the altar of my Immaculate Heart:
c To be his light, which must ever shine
more and more in the midst of the darkness which has recently covered
the earth.
d The light shines, even though the
darkness still does not want to receive it. This light must shine
through you, my beloved sons, because this forms part of your
priestly mission.
e Spread about you the light of the truth which is
contained in the Gospel, which is the very light of my Son Jesus.
f My motherly duty is that of making Jesus live in
each one of you, to his very fullness. Never before as in these
difficult times is it so necessary that all priests be Jesus alone,
lived and living, to be once again the light of all nations.
g His merciful eyes in your eyes; his divine Heart
in your heart; his soul in your soul; his love in your love, to
spread everywhere in the Church the fullness of this light.
h To be his glory, which through you must
be reflected in ever part of the world.
i At the same moment, in fact, in which humanity
is experiencing the greatest rejection of God in all history, you are
being immolated on the secret altar of my Immaculate Heart, to sing
today the glory of the Father, the mercy of the Son and the love of
the Holy Spirit:
j - The glory of the new people of Israel, called
to prepare humanity for the return of Jesus;
k - The glory of the renewed Church, which
will experience its new Pentecost of fire, of grace and of light;
l - The glory of a new humanity, purified in the
great tribulation, now ready to live the ineffable moment of its
complete return to the Lord.
m This is a grave hour, my dear sons. Therefore
live out each day, with love and faithfulness, the consecration which
you have made.
n Allow yourselves to be always carried in
my arms as my little Jesus, leaving everything to your heavenly
Mother, that for each one of you also the plan of the Father may be
fulfilled."
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February 11, 1981
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
I Look Upon You with Pleasure
a "Beloved sons, you are called today to
carry out a great task, which has been prepared for you in all its
details by your immaculate Mother.
b For years I have traced out the road for you. I
have taken you by the hand, and I have led you, supporting you and
teaching you to take one step after the other, just as a mother does
for her children.
c How many times I have taken you in my arms,
after each fall; how many times I have bound up your painful wounds
and have given you strength in your great weakness!
d How many times, without your even having been
aware of it, have I intervened personally to rescue you from the
dangerous snares which my Adversary and yours sets each day for you!
e And now I look upon you with the pleasure of the
Mother, who sees herself reflected and lived by her children.
f My cohort is ready; my hour has come; my battle
is already in its final phase...
g Walk in this light of purity. You must spread
about you only the fragrance of my Son Jesus and of your heavenly
Mother, who never knew sin.
h Let the fragrance of the very life of God be in
you: the fragrance of the grace which clothes you, of the wisdom
which enlightens you, of the love which leads you, of the prayer
which sustains you, of the mortification which purifies you.
i Do not be troubled by the assaults of my
Adversary, who rages at you with fury to rob you of the precious
virtue of purity, which is mine and which I give – to those sons
who respond to me and consecrate themselves to my Immaculate Heart -
as a sign that they belong completely to me. No one will snatch you
from my heavenly garden, in which I have gathered you with such care.
j In it, grow every day more beautiful and pure,
to sing to all the glory of the Father, who is pleased to be
reflected in you, of the Son who wants to be perfectly relived by
you, of the Holy Spirit who gives Himself to you with inexhaustible
abundance. And thus, many of my poor sons, who are today in such
great need of grace and purity, will be able to run and wash
themselves at the fount of that immaculate love which is both mine
and yours!"
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March 4, 1981
Ash Wednesday
Mortify Your Senses
a "Beloved sons, accept the invitation to
conversion which the Church offers you especially at this time of
Lent.
b At this time your heavenly Mother asks of you
works of penance and of conversion. Prayer should always be also
accompanied by fruitful interior mortification.
c Mortify your senses, that you may exercise
dominion over yourselves and over your unruly passions.
d Let the eyes be truly mirrors of the soul. Open
them to receive and to give the light of virtue and of grace, and
close then to every evil and sinful influence.
e Let the tongue free itself to form words of
goodness, of love and of truth, and therefore let the most profound
silence always surround the formation of each word.
f Let the mind open itself only to thoughts of
peace and mercy of understanding and salvation, and never let it be
sullied by judgment and criticism, much less by malice and
condemnation.
g Let the heart be closed firmly to every
inordinate attachment to self, to creatures and to the world in which
you live, that it may open itself only to the fullness of the love of
God and neighbor.
h Never as at the present time have so many of my
fallen sons need of your pure and supernatural love, in order to be
saved.
i In my Immaculate Heart I will fashion each of
you in the purity of love. This is the penance which I am asking of
you, dear sons; this is the mortification which you must perform, in
order to prepare yourselves for the task which awaits you and flee
the dangerous snares which my Adversary sets for you.
j In purity, in silence and in fidelity, daily
follow your heavenly Mother, who leads you along the same road as
Jesus Crucified.
k It is the road of renunciation and
complete obedience, of suffering and of immolation.
l It is the road of Calvary which you also must
travel, carrying your cross each day and following Jesus to the
consummation of the pasch. ((P)asch in Hebrew means: Immolation of a
lamb, sacrificed and consumed as in the Passover meal. In the case of
Jesus, He is the Lamb of God sacrificed and consumed. Used in the
lower case, (p)asch is meant to signify the priests being the lambs
of God sacrificed and consumed for the salvation of others.).
And thus you will also put at my disposal a great
power of intercession with which I will be able to break open the
golden gate of the Heart of my Son and pour out the fullness of his
mercy..."
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March 25, 1981
Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord
"Yes, Father"
a "Beloved children, entrust yourselves to
me, and I will bring you to perfect docility to the Will of the
Father.
b just as it was for my Jesus, so too on
the plan for the life of each one of you it is written: 'Behold, I
come to do your Will, O Lord.' (Heb 10:7)
c Your heavenly Mother wants today to help you
fulfill well - and only the divine Will. This is the Will of God:
your sanctification!
d By the gift of your sanctity, you place on the
altar of the Lord a powerful force of intercession and reparation.
For how many evils, how many sins reparation is offered each day on
the part of my beloved sons who, led by their heavenly Mother,
journey along the painful way of their own sanctification!
e Do not look at the great evils which are
still perpetrated and spread about by the highly refined means of
social communication.
f Under the ashes of the immense desert, to which
this poor world has today been reduced, many new buds of life and
salvation are sprouting. These are the lives, hidden and unknown but
how precious, of my priests and of all those children whom I lead,
each day, along the road to sanctity.
g Let your yes to the Will of the Father be
realized in your daily effort to shun and to free yourselves from
sin, to live in grace and in the fullness of love; in the effort to
recollect yourselves in the intimacy of prayer and of life with
Jesus, of reflection and of the understanding of his divine word; in
the interior suffering in the face of the great abandonment and the
solitude in which man today finds himself.
h Yes, Father, to your Will, that as in
heaven, so also on this earth, your Will alone may be done.
i Yes, Father, that as in heaven, so may it
be done on earth, abandoned as it is and never before so threatened
as today.
j Yes, Father, to your scorned love, to
your outraged presence, to your spurned word.
k Yes, Father, to the gift of your immense
mercy which shines forth in your Son whom, through the yes of
the Virgin Mother, you have once for all given us, Jesus-salvation,
Jesus-life, Jesus-truth, Jesus-fount of divine mercy, Jesus-perfect
fulfillment of the divine Will.
l May your yes, beloved children, be placed in the
yes which the heavenly Mother forever repeats to her God: for the
soon-to come triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the triumph of mercy
and love, of truth and justice..."
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April 17, 1981
Good Friday
Today His Passion Is Repeated
a "Beloved sons, live with me today the
passion of my Son Jesus. Each day this painful passion is repeated.
b Enter, with me, into the depths of his divine
Heart to savor all the bitterness of his chalice: the abandonment by
his own, the treason of Judas, all the sin of the world which crushes
Him under an impossible and deathly weight. As He is crushed in this
olive-press, the drops of blood escape, trickling down his body and
falling to irrigate the earth.
c How heavily, even today, weighs on his Heart the
ease with which so many turn their backs on Him, to follow the ideas
of the world, or the ways of those who still reject and deny Him!
d How many of his disciples daily sleep the
slumber of indifference, of interior mediocrity, of doubt, of lack of
faith!
e Again the blow which the servant dealt to his
face is repeated, and that other still more painful one, the blow
which his soul receives from the High Priest, as he accuses and
condemns Him: `You have heard the blasphemy! Since He proclaimed
Himself the Son of God, He deserves death.' (cf. Mt 26:65-66)
f There is another secret Sanhedrin which, every
day, judges and condemns Him, often made up of those who, among his
people, are invested with power.
g The attempt to recognize Him only as man
continues: the tendency on the part of many to deny his divinity, to
reduce his divine words to a purely human interpretation, to explain
all the miracles in natural terms and even to deny the historical
fact of his resurrection.
h It is this trial which is still going on; it is
the same ignoble and unjust condemnation which is being repeated.
i See Him before Pilate, who tries Him and who has
the grave responsibility of passing judgment on Him, and who would
like to save Him... But out of cowardice he subjects Him to cruel
violence: the horrible scourging, which lacerates his innocent flesh
and transforms his body into a single bloody wound, the crown of
thorns, the condemnation and the impossible climb to Calvary… then
the scaffold of the Cross, the agony and his death, with his Mother
nearby, called to die with Him in spirit!
j Beloved sons, live with me in silence, in prayer
and in suffering these precious hours of the passion being repeated
in the Church, which is his Mystical Body; it is being renewed in
each one of you, called to be the ministers of his love and of his
sorrow
k Together with me, suffer the judgment of the
world, the rejection, the persecution and the condemnation on the
part of a society which continues to deny its God and to walk in the
darkness of perversion, of hatred and of immorality.
l Together with me, carry your heavy cross each
day. Pour out, with love, your blood. Allow yourselves to be placed
on the altar of his very scaffold.
m Meek as lambs, allow your hands and your feet to
be also transfixed with nails: love, forgive, suffer and offer
yourselves to the Father, with love, for the salvation of all.
n And then let your Mother place you in the new
sepulcher of her Immaculate Heart, at the moment when the whole
Church is called to live mystically this passion of condemnation and
of death, in expectation of the hour of the resurrection…”
225
Lome (Togo, West Africa); May 13, 1981
Anniversary of the First Apparition at Fatima
I Have Come Down from Heaven
a "You are journeying along the roads of many
of the countries of Africa, of this great continent so dear to my
Heart for its poverty, its simplicity and the goodness of so many of
its children.
b This is the time when all are bound to become
aware of my special motherly presence.
c Give to all that light which comes from my
Immaculate Heart. Give it especially to my dear missionary sons, whom
I love with immense tenderness.
d I, who gather up their every tear, who wipe away
every drop of their sweat, who measure with joy their fatigue and
count, one by one, their painful steps, how can I not express my
motherly predilection for these sons who, for Jesus, have chosen to
live here, amongst so many of their poor brothers, abandoned and
still far from the Gospel in the midst of great sacrifices and much
renunciation?
e The light of my Immaculate Heart now
embraces all areas of the world, and my plan for the salvation and
the comfort of all stands out with ever increasing clarity.
f For this I appeared at Fatima to three little
children.
g I have come down from heaven to join you in your
journey. Be aware then of the presence of your heavenly Mother at
your side. It is a silent and serene presence. She wants to bring
strength to your weariness; she sustains you in your work; she
defends you from many dangers and leads you each day to carry out
well whatever the Father has disposed for you, that the Most Holy
Trinity may today be better glorified.
h I have come down from heaven to manifest
myself, through you, along all the roadways of the world: along those
traversed by the poor and the desperate, along those grievous roads
of the sinners and the wanderers, along those of the sick, the
agonizing and the dying.
i To all those you meet anywhere along the way,
you must give the light of my Heart and the tenderness of my motherly
love.
j For this I want to form you ever more and more
to the gentleness of love, to attentiveness to others, to complete
availability to each and every one you meet along your way
k I have come down from heaven to live once
again in you and to love with your heart, to sustain with your labor,
to save through your sufferings many of my children who have gone
astray and, never before as today, have such need of firm assistance.
l Along all the roads come to your heavenly
Mother. My Immaculate Heart is the refuge which gathers you all from
all sides, to bring you to the God of mercy and of salvation.
m With you and through you, I want to
manifest myself, to save my children who are in such great need. For
this I come down again from heaven to this poor suffering earth."
226
Tananarive (Madagascar); June 7, 1981
Solemnity of Pentecost
"Come, Holy Spirit!"
a "I am the Spouse of the Holy Spirit.
b My powerful function as Mediatrix between
you and my Son Jesus is exercised above all in obtaining for you in
superabundance, from the Father and the Son, the Spirit of Love.
c By this divine fire, the Church must be renewed
and transformed. By this fire of love, the whole world will be made
new. At his powerful life-giving breath, new heavens and a new earth
will at last be opened!
d In the cenacle of my Immaculate Heart, dispose
yourselves to receive this divine Spirit.
e The Father gives Him to you to associate
you intimately in his very own life and that the image of the Son, in
whom He has made to repose all his pleasure, may shine forth in you
ever more perfectly.
f Jesus gives Him to you as the most precious
fruit of his redemption, as witness of his Person and of his divine
mission.
g Even in this distant land in which you find
yourself today brought here by me, to hold cenacles with so many of
my children, you see the Gospel already spread, through the precious
work of the missionaries.
h Today the whole world must be brought to
the fullness of the truth, to the Gospel of Jesus, to the one Church
willed and founded by Christ, and this is achieved by the Holy
Spirit.
i The Church must be opened to his divine fire in
such a way that, completely purified, it will be ready to receive the
splendor of his new Pentecost, in preparation for the second,
glorious coming of my Son Jesus.
j Today I invite you all to enter into the cenacle
of my Immaculate Heart in the expectation of receiving in fullness
the Spirit of Love which is given to you as a gift by the Father and
the Son.
k My Immaculate Heart is the golden doorway
through which this divine Spirit passes to reach you. And so I invite
you to repeat often: `Come, Holy Spirit, come by means of the
powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your
well-beloved Spouse."'
227
Valdragone (San Marino); July 1, 1981
Cenacle with the Directors of the M.M.P.
This Is the Hour of My Victory
a "Beloved sons, you are here in my house
which I have prepared for you, and you are spending these days in a
continuous cenacle of prayer and of brotherly sharing, together with
your heavenly Mother.
b I am always with you. I join in your
prayer, and I present it to the Father through my Son Jesus; I help
you to know and love each other, and I lead you to the perfection of
love. I pour balm on your wounds, and I give you strength in your
weakness. My wounded Heart is consoled, and my sorrow is transformed
into joy by you, my little children.
c But why have I wanted you here again this year?
Because the struggle between your heavenly Mother - the Woman Clothed
with the Sun - and her Adversary, the Red Dragon, has now entered
into its conclusive phase.
d What has taken place in these recent
months has a profound significance, following on what has already
been predicted regarding this time of purification in which you are
now living.
e In the spirit of wisdom, know then how to read
the signs of the times in which you are now living. For this reason I
have called you and brought you up here, and given you strength
because my great plan must now be accomplished.
f But I can accomplish it only through you.
g And so I await from you a complete response to
my will. No more doubts, no more hesitation, no more uncertainty. How
many of you my Adversary has paralyzed with these subtle and
dangerous weapons of his!
h Do not look to those about you; pay no
attention to the criticisms you hear, to the skepticism which often
surrounds this work of mine. Not to all is it given to understand my
plan.
i To you, my little ones, this has been granted by
the Father through Jesus who, in his Spirit of Love, has placed you
in the cradle of my Immaculate Heart.
j Only in my Immaculate Heart is the source of
your security.
k Here you are prepared by me for the great
struggle which awaits you.
l Here you are trained by me in prayer, because
this is the weapon with which you must fight. Pray more. Pray always.
Every action of yours must truly be a prayer. Live your Mass, which
immolates you each day with Jesus. Pray well the Liturgy of the
Hours, which consecrates to God the rhythm of your day. Recite the
holy rosary with love and joy. Meditate on my words, which I have
communicated to you these past years. They will bring you to
understand the Gospel, which must today be lived by you and announced
to all.
m You cannot come down from this mountain without
being transformed by me into living victims, offered by the Holy
Spirit to the Father, for the salvation of the world and for the
imminent coming of the glorious reign of Jesus.
n Here you are being helped by me to suffer. And
now, the cradle of my Immaculate Heart becomes an altar, upon which I
immolate you each day, in order to appease divine justice and that
the mercy of God may descend, like a rain, to renew the world.
o For this, you are called to great suffering,
following the first of my beloved sons, the Pope, who now, bathed in
his own blood, is following the path that leads to Calvary along
which, together with him, your heavenly Mother is leading you.
p Here you are, above all, being formed by me to
the perfection of love. All your brothers in the Movement are
spiritually close to you, and during these days, extraordinary graces
are being poured into the hearts of my beloved sons scattered
throughout all parts of the earth.
q The time has come when I wish to live in you and
to manifest myself to all through you.
r I want to love with your heart, to gaze with
your eyes, to console and encourage with your lips, to assist with
your hands, to walk with your feet, to follow your bloodied
footprints and to suffer with your crucified body.
s This is the hour of the final battle; it is
therefore also the hour of my victory. And so I have called you once
again, and you have responded and have come to this cenacle, where we
are praying together, loving and invoking the Holy Spirit, whom the
Father will give you in superabundance through the Son, that you may
soon see new heavens and a new earth."
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August 15, 1981
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
Mary into Heaven
Refuge of Sinners
a "Today Paradise rejoices in contemplating
the glorified body of your heavenly Mother, in whom the splendor of
the Most Holy Trinity is reflected.
b You too look upon me, and I will shed my light
on you. In times of temptation, struggle and discouragement, look
upon me, and you will be encouraged and aided.
c When you happen to fall or to feel the weight of
defeat, when you are overwhelmed by evil and sin, come to me, and I
will give you support.
d Today, looking with eyes of mercy on my sinful
children, I say: I am your heavenly Mother who invites you all to
gather together under my immaculate mantle, to be protected and led
to Jesus, your Savior.
e I am the refuge of sinners!
f At the moment when the fury of my Adversary is
unleashed, and succeeds in sweeping away so many with the power of
evil which is triumphing, I invite you, my beloved sons, to offer
yourselves and to pray for the conversion and the salvation of all
sinners.
g You yourselves be, with me, the refuge of
sinners, of the poor, the sick, the desperate, the little, the
abandoned. From my glorified body I reflect my light upon your mortal
body; from my Immaculate Heart I communicate my love to your ailing
hearts; from my blissful soul I cause the fullness of my grace to
descend upon your wounded souls. And so I now transform you, because
I want to be, also through you, a refuge for all my poor sinful
children.
h Come then to me, and I will console you and lead
you along the safe road which takes you up here to paradise, where,
in the light and the joy of God, you will attain the goal of all your
earthly existence."
229
Sao Paulo (Brazil); September 4, 1981
First Saturday
Mother of Mercy
a "You have come once again to the largest
country of this vast continent, to hold cenacles with my beloved sons
and with all who have heeded my invitation and consecrated themselves
to my Heart.
b The Church will become more and more aware of
the powerful assistance which the merciful love of my Immaculate
Heart gives it.
c I am the Mother of Mercy. And my presence
today wants to become stronger there where the Adversary has done
greater damage and brought about greater devastation.
d I am entering into the enclosure of the Church,
which is so desolate, and there I am gathering the broken flowers in
order to repair them, and those that are withering to give them back
new life, and those that are bent over to straighten them up. I am
trying to make beautiful once again this garden, which should blossom
and give forth fragrance solely for the love and glory of Jesus. Here
also, where the Adversary has so violated the Church I want to
exercise mercy in an extraordinary way.
e And I am making use of you, my poor child, whom
I have set up as the sign of my merciful love, because you have been
called to bring to everyone confidence in my motherly Heart.
f Encourage, console, strengthen your
brother-priests. See how they are suffering! They are, as it were,
abandoned and so discouraged, as a flock without shepherds, they who
are called to be shepherds of the flock.
g I want to be, with Jesus, their loving and
understanding shepherdess. Let them follow me into the safe refuge
which I have prepared for them: my Immaculate Heart. Bring light and
strength to my poor children, bewildered as they are in the midst of
the confusion in which they are living. Strengthen them in the faith
and in their complete obedience to the Pope and to the hierarchy
united to him, and confirm them in the truth; entrust them all to me,
by the sincere and generous consecration of themselves to my
Immaculate Heart.
h I am pressed for time. Never as at the
present time have you had such need of your heavenly Mother! For this
reason, I desire to manifest myself through you. The time left to you
is short. That you may be protected and defended, hurry - all of you
- under the mantle of the Mother of Mercy."
230
Brasilia (Brazil); September 8, 1981
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
Mary
By the Power of the Little Ones
a "Gaze today upon your infant Mother. Learn
to be little. If you do not change and become as little children, you
cannot understand my plan. Its power lies in weakness, and its
realization takes place each day in silence and hiddenness.
b With the power of the Holy Spirit, which
sets afire and renews everything, the kingdom of God will come to you
through the way of littleness and humility.
c If your heart is pure, it can open itself to the
Holy Spirit, who comes to give witness in glory to the triumph of my
Son Jesus. If your mind is docile, then you can understand and accept
this invitation of mine.
d By the power of the little ones, my proud
Adversary will be defeated, and the whole world will be renewed.
Therefore, all of you, gather today about the cradle of your infant
Mother, any repeat with me to the Lord: `In my littleness I was
pleasing to the Most High. God has looked upon his servant in her
lowliness, and thus He who is mighty has done great things in me;
holy is his name.’ ” (cf. Lk 1:48-49)
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Ponta Grossa (Parana, Brazil); September 15,
1981
Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
Mother of All Sorrows
a "I am your sorrowful Mother. Mine are all
your sorrows.
b At the present time, for you also sufferings and
afflictions are increasing, because you are living at a period of
time when the hearts of men have become cold, closed up by a great
egoism.
c Humanity is continuing to hasten along the road
of its obstinate rejection of God, despite all my motherly
admonitions and the signs which the mercy of the Lord continues to
send it.
d Thus the chill of sin, of hatred and of violence
spreads increasingly, and the easiest victims are the most
defenseless of my children and those most in need of protection.
e How numerous today are the poor, the
disinherited, and those who live in conditions of inhuman misery,
without steady work, without means of livelihood; and how numerous
are those who daily drift away from God and his Law of love, swept
away by the powerful cohort of those who teach atheism!
f Humanity is living in a desert, barren and cold,
and never before as now is it so threatened.
g The pain of humanity is enclosed within my
Immaculate Heart.
h Today more than ever, I am the Mother ofA11
Sorrows and tears are falling from my merciful eyes. Listen to
me, and do not withdraw yourselves from the love of your sorrowful
Mother who wants to lead you all to salvation.
i Beloved children, at this time you are becoming
the sign of my immense sorrow. In your hearts carry, with me, the
suffering of the world and the Church, in this its new hour of agony
and of redemptive passion. It will be only from this suffering of
ours that a new era of peace for all can be born."
232
Montevideo (Uruguay); September 29, 1981
Feast of the Holy Archangels
Queen of the Angels
a "In the struggle to which I am calling you,
beloved sons, you are being especially helped and defended by the
angels of light.
b I am the Queen of the Angels. At my
orders, they are bringing together, from every part of the world,
those whom I am calling into my great victorious cohort. In the
struggle between the Woman Clothed with the Sun and the Red Dragon,
the angels have a most important part to play. For this reason, you
must let yourselves be guided docilely by them.
c The angels, the archangels and all the heavenly
cohorts are united with you in the terrible battle against the Dragon
and his followers. They are defending you against the snares of Satan
and the many demons who have now been unleashed with furious and
destructive frenzy upon every part of the world.
d This is the hour of Satan and of the power of
the Spirits of Darkness. It is their hour, which coincides with the
moment of their apparent victorious action. It is their hour, but the
time which they have at their disposal is brief, and the days of
their triumph are counted.
e Therefore they are setting dangerous and fearful
snares for you, and you would not be able to escape them without the
special help of your guardian angels. How many times each day they
intervene to rescue you from all the treacherous maneuvers which,
with astuteness, my Adversary undertakes against you!
f This is why I call upon you to entrust
yourselves more and more to the angels of the Lord. Have an
affectionate intimacy with them, because they are closer to you than
your friends and dear ones.
g Walk in the light of their invisible, but
certain and precious, presence. They pray for you, walk at your side,
sustain you in your weariness, console you in your sorrow, keep guard
over your repose, take you by the hand and lead you gently along the
road I have pointed out for you.
h Pray to your guardian angels, and live out with
trust and serenity the painful hours of purification.
i Indeed, in these moments, heaven and earth are
united in an extraordinary communion of prayer, of love and of
action, at the orders of your heavenly Leader."
233
Buenos Aires (Argentina); October 13, 1981
Anniversary of the Last Apparition at Fatima
An Interior Wound
a "Today you are at Lujan, in the most
celebrated shrine of this great country, where I am so loved and
venerated. With a cenacle, you are commemorating my last apparition
at Fatima, which took place on this very day in 1917.
b The entire plan which I am now carrying out was
revealed to you at that time. You are entering into the most
difficult and decisive period of time. You are living through the
last years of this century in which a great part of the battle
between your heavenly Leader and her Adversary has already taken
place.
c You are now living out its conclusive phase. For
this reason I am preparing you each day, through confidence and
prayer, to live through the most painful hours of all.
d With the anxiety and concern of the Mother, who
sees how great the danger is through which you are passing, I beg you
again to return to God who is awaiting you all to give you his
forgiveness and his fatherly love.
e See with how many signs I accompany this
anguished appeal of mine! ... With messages I have given and
apparitions I have granted in many parts of the world, with my
numerous weepings, even with blood, I want to make you understand
that this is a grave hour, that the cup of divine justice is now
full.
f An interior wound has been inflicted on my
motherly Heart as I see that these extraordinary signs are neither
believed in nor accepted.
g What more can I do for you, my poor children, so
menaced and exposed to danger?
h In a final attempt to save you, I am giving you
the secure refuge of my Immaculate Heart. I am calling you from every
part of the world, through this work of mine, to enter into this
refuge by way of your consecration.
i And you, my little one who are led and guided by
me, go into every part of the world to bring to all my motherly call.
My hour has come...
j Raise up to the Father a powerful cry of
supplication and reparation. From the divine Heart of the Son may
rivers of mercy descend upon this world which, through the powerful
action of the Holy Spirit, will be entirely renewed that in this the
glory of God the Father may shine forth."
234
Santiago (Chile); October 22, 1981
Peace Will Come to You
a "In this country too, which I love so much,
you have gone everywhere to hold cenacles with my priests and with
many other children of mine. How much love and how much devotion to
me you find along all the roads of the world!
b The most generous response to my motherly
invitation comes from the poor, the little, the humble, the
suffering, the sinners. The thorns of my sorrow are thus transformed
into flowers and the tears into a smile.
c Each day I see you increasing in numbers and in
generosity, and from all sides the sound of your prayer, ever more
pleasing, reaches me. How very dear I hold the rosary, which you
recite so often in answer to the urgent appeal of your heavenly
Mother!
d How I welcome with joy your response to my
sorrowful plea to consecrate yourselves to my Immaculate Heart, in
the midst of the great indifference of the majority of my poor
children.
Together we are fighting, and each day, you will
add new forces to m y cohort, for the victory which has already been
announced.
f From my Immaculate Heart, peace will come to
you!
g At the moment when everything will seem lost, it
is then that you will see the extraordinary prodigy of the Woman
Clothed with the Sun, who will manifest herself in all her power.
h The darkness will be conquered by a light which
will cover the whole world; the cold of hatred, by the fire of love;
the great rebellion against God, by a universal return to his
merciful fatherly love.
i Yes, my beloved sons, you will also have to
suffer, and some of you, in my Immaculate Heart, will be immolated,
but through your generous response the time of the great trial will
be shortened.
j More quickly than you yourselves could think,
there will come to you the reign of love and of peace of my Son
Jesus, to whom alone is due honor and power and glory for ever and
ever."
235
Quito (Ecuador); November 1, 1981
Solemnity of All Saints
The Communion o f Saints
a "I am the Queen of all the saints. Today
you are bid to lift up your eyes here to paradise, where so many of
your brothers have preceded you. They are praying for you and helping
you, so that the reign of Jesus, which in heaven is the cause of our
joy and glory, may soon come also upon earth.
b May this living communion with all your
brothers who are already in paradise become ever more intense. The
communion of saints must be lived out still more fully at these
times, because there is only one Church in which my Son Jesus lives
and reigns and is glorified by his brethren, who are still
struggling, or suffering, or rejoicing in eternal beatitude.
c As you go about, bringing my invitation
everywhere and gathering my children into my cohort, how greatly you
are assisted, protected and defended by your brothers who have
already arrived up here!
d They form a crown of light about my
Immaculate Heart. Each one of these lights is reflected on each of
you and illumines and guides you on your journey.
e Your heavenly Mother wants to strengthen the
bonds of love which unite you to heaven, so that you may daily
benefit from the communion of saints, and go forward united with
them."
236
Puebla (Mexico); November 12, 1981
Feast of St. Josaphat, Martyr
Six-day Cenacle for the Directors of the M.M.PP
in Mexico
The Great Trial
a "You are gathered here for a continuous
cenacle of one week, and my beloved sons have come from the most
distant parts of Mexico, this land which loves me so much and which I
am protecting with special solicitude and which I am defending from
the many evils which are today menacing it.
b I am your sweet and merciful Mother. Many years
ago, I imprinted my image on the cloak of my little Juan Diego, to
whom I appeared; today I want to imprint my image in the heart and
the life of each one of you.
c You are thus signed with the seal of my love,
which distinguishes you from those who have allowed themselves to be
seduced by the Beast and bear his imprinted blasphemous number. The
Dragon and the Beast can do nothing against those who have been
signed with my seal.
d The Star of the Abyss will persecute all those
who are signed with my seal, but nothing will be able to harm the
souls upon whom I myself have impressed my image. By the blood which
many of them will have to shed, divine justice will be appeased, and
the time of my victory will be hastened...
e By your prayer, your suffering and your personal
immolation, I will bring my plan to completion. I will hasten the
time of the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the reign of Jesus, who
will come to you in glory. Thus a new era of peace will begin, and
you will at last see new heavens and a new earth...
f I have great designs on you. Respond, each and
all, with generosity! In this extraordinary cenacle, I have obtained
for you from the Father, through Jesus, the gift of the Holy Spirit.
He will transform you into `apostles of these last times.'...
g Give me your prayer, your suffering and your
trust. Do not be afraid if my Adversary attacks you with terrible
snares, to lead you to discouragement.
h You are my very little children, my beloved
sons, my apostles. Your light will increase day by day, and you will
be a source of guidance and safety at the time of the great
tribulation.
i Pray, most dearly beloved sons, because for your
homeland as for all the world, the great trial has come."
237
New York City (New York, U.S.A.); December 8,
1981
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
On the Road of Perfect Love
a "You are here today, on the feast of
my Immaculate Conception, to conclude by a great cenacle this long
and extraordinary journey, which has been strewn with true miracles
of grace from my Immaculate Heart.
b I am the Immaculate Conception.
c I am your all-beautiful Mother.
d I am the Woman Clothed with the Sun.
e Being without the least shadow of sin,
even of original sin, from which I was preserved by a singular
privilege, I could reflect completely the plan which the Father had
in the creation of the universe. Thus, in a perfect way, I could give
the greatest glory to the Lord.
f Because I was all-beautiful and full of grace,
the Word of the Father chose me as his dwelling place, and, stooping
to my extreme littleness, through a divine prodigy of love, He
descended into my virginal womb; He assumed his human nature and
became my Son. Thus I became truly the Mother of Jesus and your true
Mother.
g Because I am truly your Mother, Jesus has
entrusted to me the mission of begetting you constantly into his
likeness, by leading you along the road of love, of divine grace, of
prayer, of penance, of your interior conversion.
h In this daily struggle against Satan and against
sin, my place is that of victorious Leader.
i I am today the Woman Clothed with the Sun, who
is doing combat against the Red Dragon and his powerful army. The
Holy Spirit gives strength and vigor to the great cohort of my little
sons.
j Jesus is awaiting the moment to establish,
through you, his reign of love, to carry out the Will of the Father
in a perfect way. He will thus lead back all creation to its pristine
glorification of God...
k Go forward with the very greatest
confidence. Follow the light of your immaculate Mother.
l I am covering you with my very own splendor; I
am clothing you with my virtues; I am signing you with my seal; I am
revealing to you the secrets of divine wisdom; I am leading you
each day along the road of perfect love. From your mouths, little
ones, may the Most Holy Trinity receive today praise and glory. You
are the greatest joy of my Immaculate Heart: you are already part of
my victory. Today I am casting my light upon you all; I am protecting
you; I am consoling and blessing you."
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December 24, 1981
The Holy Night
In the Cradle of Suffering
a "Beloved sons, watch with me in prayer and
in expectation. This is the holy night.
b At the moment when the greatest silence
envelops everything, there unfolds upon earth the great prayer of the
Mother, which penetrates heaven and opens it to send down upon you my
divine offspring.
c I look into his eyes; I feel the beating of his
little Heart; I stroke, with my motherly hands, his little hands. I
place Him in the cradle, made of a poor manger, in the penetrating
chill of the night and the cold which closes the hearts of all.
d The cradle in which I place my heavenly
Child, on this holy night, is formed from the suffering and the pain
of all. For this Christmas also, the prayer of your heavenly Mother
becomes more intense. It embraces the suffering of all and the
desperation of many of my children.
e I look at the sufferings of the Polish people,
who have all been consecrated to me and who, in recent days, have
been repeatedly entrusted to me by ‘my’ Pope. They are living
through the dramatic hours of their Calvary and carry the cross of a
mortal suffering.
f I look, with motherly apprehension, upon their
children who are suffering from cold and hunger, upon their young
people who have been imprisoned and deported, upon their families
which have become broken up, upon their men who are carrying on an
unequal struggle to defend their human rights, upon their women who
again are shedding so many bitter tears.
g On this Christmas day, the people of Poland, so
loved by me, are becoming a warning sign for all and a symbol of that
which now awaits poor humanity.
h In the cradle of this immense suffering, I am
today placing my heavenly Child.
i Pray that the hearts of all may open to Him.
Throw open wide the doors to Jesus Christ who is coming. At the
moment of your greatest tribulation, from his birth will stream forth
abundant light for a new birth of all humanity."
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December 31, 1981
Last Night of the Year
A Gentle and Sad Voice
a "Spend with me, in prayer and in profound
silence, the last hours of this year which is about to end. You will
then hear in your heart the gentle and sad voice of my motherly
lament.
b And you will see many tears fall from my
merciful eyes. And you will notice that the beating of my Immaculate
Heart be comes more anxious and anguished.
c Because, in my motherly Heart, you will feel
beating the hear of the whole Church, never before so violated by its
Adversary, and betrayed by its own children; the heart of
your homeland never so threatened in its life and liberty; the heart
of all poor humanity, now on the point of living the painful moments
of it terrible trial. You are on the threshold of grave and painful
events In my Heart, your own preoccupation, anxiety and bewilderment
is now reflected.
d Turn your gaze, this night, to your immaculate
Mother. In my motherly Heart, your prayers and sufferings are offered
by me at each moment to the justice of God, as a sign of reparation
and supplication for all. Thus, by the mercy of the Father, each new
day and each new year is made ready for you.
e May the new year, which is now about to be born,
open up upon this straying world the road of your return to the God
of salvation. The great hour of justice and of mercy is about to open
upon the world. For this reason I bid you, beloved sons, to spend on
your knees, in prayer and reparation, these very precious hours of
this last night of the year."
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