To the
Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons
From the writings of Don Stefano Gobbi
Year 1996
IN MY SAFE REFUGE
561
Milan (Italy); January 1, 1996
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
In My Safe Refuge
a "Today you celebrate with joy the feast of
my Divine Maternity, and you look to me with filial trust, imploring
the great gift peace for the Church and for all humanity. I am the
Queen of Peace. I have been chosen by the Heavenly Father to become
the Mother of his only-begotten Son, born to bring to all humanity
the precious blessing of peace.
b My divine Child, who is born in the poverty of a
cave and placed in a manger, is Himself peace: peace between God and
humanity, redeemed by Him and brought to a new communion of love and
life with its Lord; peace among men, who have become brothers
because, being children of God, they share his gifts and are members
of the one same family.
c My Son Jesus wanted me to be your Mother also.
Thus I have become Mother of mankind, redeemed and saved by Him. My
task is that of following, as a Mother, throughout the course of
history, the lifelong events of all my children.
d In a special way, I am the Mother of those who,
through the sacrament of Baptism and the gift of faith and grace,
become intimately engrafted into the very life of Jesus, making up
his Mystical Body and forming part of his Church.
e I am Mother of the Church. My maternal task is
that of following, throughout the course of its history, all the
earthly events of the Church. And, in every circumstance of its
painful journey, I have always offered the Church the safe refuge
of my Immaculate Heart.
f My Immaculate Heart contains all my virginal and
maternal love for you. My Immaculate Heart opens itself to give you
assistance, comfort and protection. My Immaculate Heart becomes, for
each one of you, the safest refuge and the road which brings you to
the God of salvation and peace.
g At the beginning of this new year, packed with
significant and painful events for this poor humanity, already under
the power of the forces of evil which have unleashed themselves, once
again I invite all to enter into the safe refuge of my Immaculate
Heart.
h - Into my safe refuge there enter those
who are called to give a bloody witness to the Lord. From the first
martyr, Stephen, whom I have gathered into my motherly arms after his
slaying, to those who today are again giving their own lives, the
great cohort of martyrs enters into the refuge of my Immaculate
Heart, to receive new force and courage, in the hour of their
immolation.
i - In my safe refuge the countless cohort
of confessors of the faith is gathered together, that they may obtain
light and the Spirit of Wisdom which leads them to understand, to
live and to proclaim the Gospel to all.
j - In my safe refuge the white phalanx of
virgins is being formed, that they may learn from my virginal
motherhood to live only for Jesus, chosen as the one and only Spouse
of their own life. Clothed in his immaculate light, they follow the
Lamb wherever He goes.
k - In my safe refuge there seek shelter
and protection those who are called to offer themselves to the Lord
by following Him along the way of the evangelical counsels. I myself
cultivate these fragrant and precious flowers, which have sprung up
in the garden of my Immaculate Heart.
l - In my safe refuge I cultivate, with
care and solicitude, all the priests who have been entrusted to me by
Jesus and whom I cherish with a most special love. Here they are
comforted, encouraged and formed by me to follow, to imitate and to
relive Jesus in all his fullness.
m - In my safe refuge Christian families
take shelter, that they may be defended from many dangers and
protected from the terrible evils which threaten them.
n - Into my safe refuge I call the
children, that they may breathe the atmosphere of purity and of
prayer; the youth, that they may be helped to grow in grace, in love
and in holiness; the sinners, that they may find mercy and pardon;
the sick, that they may have health; the dying, that they may pass
from earth to paradise through the heavenly gate of my Immaculate
Heart.
o - Into my safe refuge, above all, all of
you, my children, must enter that you may he protected and defended
by me, now that you are entering into the conclusive period of the
purification and the great tribulation.
p Now the events will follow one upon the other in
rapid succession, toward their complete unfolding. My secrets will be
revealed to you by the very events through which you have been called
to live.
q Because of this, seeing with motherly concern
all that is now awaiting you, I once again invite the Church and all
humanity to enter into the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart. Only
here will you be protected and consoled by my very own self. Only
here will you find peace and will you cross with joy the bright
threshold of hope.
r Because, in the safe refuge of my Immaculate
Heart, which the Most Holy Trinity is offering to you as an ark of
salvation in these last times, you will await, in confidence and in
prayer, the return in glory of Jesus, who will bring his kingdom into
the world and make all things new
s In the expectation that the blessed hope will be
fulfilled and in expectation of the glorious coming of my Son Jesus,
I bless you all, as this new year begins, in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
562
Milan (Italy); January 19, 1996
Eve of my Journey through Thirteen Countries of
Latin America
A Work of Love and of Mercy
a "My most beloved son, you are again on the
eve of a long, burdensome and wearying journey, which I am asking you
to make through thirteen countries of Latin America, to bring a great
number of my children into the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
b Do not be afraid for I am with you
always. I lead you at every step of your journey, and I carry you in
my arms where you will feel the comfort and the rest which the
heavenly Mother has prepared for you. I am pressed for time, and I
must complete as quickly as possible my great work of love and of
mercy.
c - It is my great work of love because, by
means of it, I offer to all the help which the heavenly Mother gives
you to surmount the unspeakable sufferings of these last times. The
help which I offer you, with my Marian Movement of Priests, is my
Immaculate Heart.
d My Immaculate Heart is the precious
garden which encloses within it all the love which your heavenly
Mother has for her children. You must all enter into my Immaculate
Heart, so that you may feel the force and the tenderness of my
maternal love. Through your consecration to my Immaculate Heart, you
enter into the safe refuge, which the heavenly Mother has built for
you in the painful hours of the great tribulation.
e Through the voice of this, my little son,
whom I am again leading to far distant places, I invite all the
bishops, priests and faithful to consecrate themselves to my
Immaculate Heart. In this way, you do what I have asked of you at
Fatima for the salvation of this poor humanity, which is lying
prostrate under the weight of its obstinate rejection of God and
living in dark bondage to Satan, who has attained over it the summit
of his power.
f How can you take shelter in the painful hours of
the great trial, which has now come for the Church and for humanity?
Where can you find a refuge in the tremendous squall which is shaking
heaven and earth because of the hatred which is spreading everywhere,
of the violence which is exploding, of the evil which is being
committed, of the sin which is being exalted, of the impurity which
is submerging the whole world?
g You are all being called to find assistance and
protection in the heavenly garden of my motherly love. For this it
will become ever clearer and clearer to the Church and to humanity
how my Immaculate Heart is the sure refuge, which the Most Holy
Trinity has prepared for your salvation, in the hour when justice
will become manifest in all its divine power.
h It is my great work of mercy because the
merciful love of Jesus wants to manifest itself to you, through the
motherly means of my Immaculate Heart. To me has been entrusted by
Jesus the task of going in search of my wandering children; of
leading back the sinners along the road of righteousness; those who
are far away, along the road of return to the Lord; the sick, along
the way of healing; the despairing, along that of trust; the
oppressed, along the road of relief; the lost, along that of
salvation.
i I am the Mother of Love and of Mercy.
j At the moment when the world will be set free
from the Evil One and the earth purified by the painful trial which,
in many ways, has already been foretold to you, my Immaculate Heart
will be the place where all will see fulfilled the greatest prodigy
of divine mercy.
k Thus the Holy Spirit will pour out upon
the world his second Pentecost of grace and of fire, to prepare the
Church and humanity for the return of Jesus in the splendor of his
divine glory, to make all things new.
l And so you understand now, my little son, the
great design which I have upon you. Continue, with confidence and
joy, your wearying journey, and second, at each moment, my great work
of love and of mercy.
m Even though you now feel more and more the
weight and the fatigue of the journey, you will see as never before,
the triumph of your heavenly Mother, who is always close to you and
who leads you at each step. Extraordinary graces will descend upon my
children who will take part in the cenacles, and all will have
special signs of my love and of my motherly presence.
n My angels of light are bearing you along at each
moment and defending you from all the subtle snares which my
Adversary sets for you. And everywhere you will contemplate, with
emotion and joy, the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the hearts and
the lives of my little children who respond with a yes and are
called by me to take part in this, my great work of love and of
mercy.”
563
San Salvador (El Salvador); January 24, 1996
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Bishops and Priests of the M.M.P. from Latin America
Go in My Name
a "With what love I welcome you to this
cenacle, bishops and priests of my Movement, who have come from many
countries f Latin America, this land so ensnared by my Adversary, but
so wed and protected by your heavenly Mother. I unite myself always
to your prayer; I help you to grow in mutual love; I console you in
your numerous sufferings and carry with you the burden of your
difficult ministry.
b During these days, I am obtaining for you
the gift of the Holy Spirit, who is coming upon this cenacle as He
came down upon that of Jerusalem. And the Holy Spirit will open up
hearts and souls to the understanding of the important and special
mission which I entrust to you.
c - Go in my name along the roads of this
continent and bring to all the light of my motherly and merciful
presence.
d - Go in my name to search out my children
who have strayed along the painful ways of sin and of evil. You see
how your society has again become pagan, the victim of materialism,
of the mad search for pleasure, of unbridled egoism, of violence, of
injustice and of impurity. How many are my poor children who suffer
and carry the weight of this hardness of heart, which turns the earth
into an immense desert, devoid of love.
e - Go in my name, and bring to all the
tenderness of my motherly love. Seek out the lost; support the weak;
lead the uncertain; pardon the sinners; reach out to those who are
far away; heal the sick; give your priestly assistance to the poor
and the little ones; bow down to pour balm on the open wounds of
those stricken and those smitten by violence and hatred; take them
into your arms, and carry them all into the safe refuge of my
Immaculate Heart.
f - Go in my name, and bring my motherly
comfort to the Church which is suffering so much here and walking
toward the Calvary of her immolation. My Adversary, during these
years, has stricken her forcefully, in the shepherds and in the
flock. How many sufferings the Church in your countries has endured;
how many abandonments has she had to experience; how much bitterness
has she drunk from the chalice of her daily faithfulness to Christ
and to his Gospel!
g I have always been close to her, as I was to
Jesus beneath the Cross. And in this, her painful journey, the Church
which lives in Latin America has felt the comfort and the assistance
of your heavenly Mother. For this reason, in your countries, devotion
to me has never weakened, but on the contrary it has everywhere
become even stronger and greater, day by day. And thus it is that
here I am particularly loved and glorified and that Latin America
occupies a privileged place in the garden of my Immaculate Heart.
h - Go in my name to bring the light of my
faith, my invitation to hope and the ardor of my charity to those who
are entrusted to your priestly ministry. My beloved sons, go forward
with courage along the painful roads of these last times. I am always
with you. Do not feel that you are alone. Even if you must carry the
cross of misunderstandings, of abandonments and of opposition, I am
always close to you.
i I am with you at each moment, and I am helping
you carry the cross which the Lord is asking of you for the salvation
of those who have been entrusted to you. In the safe refuge of my
Immaculate Heart, you will find your peace, and you will experience
that joy which only Jesus knows how to give you.
j Leave this cenacle as apostles of my
Movement in all Latin America. Spread everywhere the cenacles which I
ask of you: among the priests, the children, the youth and especially
in families, so that they may be protected and defended from the
great dangers which threaten them.
k Then you become precious instruments of
the triumph of my Immaculate Heart, as you feel with joy the comfort
of my motherly presence.
l With those dear to you, with those who
are entrusted to your ministry, I bless you in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
564
Managua (Nicaragua); February 2,1996
Feast of the Presentation of the Child Jesus
In the Spiritual Temple
a "My little son, you are here in this
country, ensnared and stricken by my Adversary, but loved and guarded
by your heavenly Mother in the safe refuge of her Immaculate Heart. I
have obtained for it the gift of liberation from slavery to communism
and that precious gift of peace.
b The Church too, which lives and suffers here,
has had to carry the cross of persecution and of betrayal on the part
of some of her children. But I have intervened in her defense and for
her protection, because she has been consecrated to my Immaculate
Heart.
c Into the spiritual temple of my
Immaculate Heart, the Church and all humanity must now enter.
d - In this spiritual temple, I lead the
Church to the perfect glorification of the Most Holy Trinity. In her,
the Heavenly Father is pleased to be reflected; in her, Jesus wants
to live again in order to give the Father full assent to his Will; in
her, the Holy Spirit pours Himself out that He may reflect his divine
splendor upon you all.
e For this reason, I am purifying the Church and
leading her along the way of Calvary, where she will again give her
full witness to my Son Jesus.
f - Into this spiritual temple, I am
leading all humanity, a humanity so far from God, now incapable of
loving, seduced by errors and made into a slave of evil, of
disordered passions and of sin. Over it Satan has now established his
dominion.
g In the spiritual temple of my Immaculate Heart,
I am preparing for the complete return of humanity to the Lord along
the road of conversion and penitence, of a change of heart and of
life.
h - In this spiritual temple, I am making
all peoples into one single family. Thus I am preparing the new times
of a universal pacification of all peoples, disposing them to receive
the Lord Jesus, who is now returning in the splendor of his divine
glory. Prepare yourselves to receive Him. For this, I invite all the
nations of the earth to throw open the doors to Jesus Christ who is
coming.
i - Into this spiritual temple, I am
carrying in my arms all my little children, who have entrusted
themselves completely to me through their act of consecration to my
Immaculate Heart. They are experiencing the security of being carried
in the arms of the Mother, and the Mother is experiencing the joy of
seeing herself loved and glorified by these, her children.
j The hour of my triumph and yours has arrived.
And so, I invite you to hasten, each and all, into the safe refuge
which the heavenly Mother has prepared for you in the final times of
the great tribulation.
k Here, in my arms, you will be consoled. As a
mother caresses her son, you will be caressed by me. Because in the
spiritual temple of my Immaculate Heart, I have already prepared for
you the altar, upon which you too will be immolated for the salvation
of the world."
565
Cuzco (Peru); February 22, 1996
Feast of the Chair of St. Peter
The Powers of Hell Will Not Prevail
a "My little son, how wearying is this
Journey, which I am asking you to make through thirteen countries and
in fifty-two cities, in order to hold wonderful cenacles with the
priests and faithful of my Movement. Today you find yourself here, in
this city, situated at an altitude of almost four thousand meters, in
the midst of the great Peruvian Andes range. And, with a great
cenacle held in the stadium, you are celebrating the feast of the
Chair of Saint Peter.
b Jesus has founded his Church upon the
solid rock of the Apostle Peter. To Peter, Jesus has given the task
of being the foundation of the Church and of safeguarding all her
truth. For Peter, Jesus has prayed, that his faith might remain
intact throughout the whole course of human history. To Peter, He has
given the sure guarantee of his victory: the powers of hell will
not prevail.
c -The powers of hell will not prevail. The
task entrusted to Peter is handed down to his successors. Thus the
Pope becomes today the foundation upon which the Church is built, the
center where there converge her charity and assurance to ever
maintain intact the deposit of faith.
d -The powers of hell will not prevail, despite
the fact that Satan has broken loose, sowing divisions and schisms,
these deep wounds which have shattered the unity of the Church, the
Mystical Body of my Son Jesus. All the various Christian confessions,
which in the course of the centuries have separated themselves from
the Catholic Church, represent a victory of the Adversary against the
unity of the Church, that unity willed by Christ and ardently
implored of the Father.
e And now the effort is being made to rectify all
these errors by walking the path of reconciliation and ecumenism.
However, the coming together of all the Christian confessions in the
Catholic Church will take place with the triumph of my Immaculate
Heart in the world.
f - The powers of hell will not prevail,
despite the fact that my Adversary has broken loose in order to
bring you to a breakdown of charity. For this, he launches a strong
attack on the Pope, who presides over all the charity of the Church.
And so, division has entered into her very own structure. Above all
in the division which often sets bishops against bishops, priests
against priests, faithful against faithful, Satan has succeeded in
building up his triumph.
g But the powers of hell will not prevail,
because, after the painful period of the purification and the great
tribulation, the Church will shine forth in all her light of charity,
of unity and of holiness. And this will be one of the greatest
benefits which my motherly love will bring to the Church.
h -The powers of hell will not prevail, even
if now they have reached the point of contesting the Pope, of
opposing him openly and of rejecting his Magisterium. Thus, errors
are being spread about which draw many away from the true faith, and
sects are being propagated which draw to themselves many children of
the Church. Never as in Latin America has the great spread of the
sects represented such a victory on the part of the powers of hell,
who appear to have the upper hand.
i But I am calling all my children to the greatest
fidelity to the Catholic Church; I am instilling in them a love for
the Church, zeal for her unity, passion for her holiness, and
strength for her work of evangelization.
j And thus, through those who are consecrating
themselves to my Immaculate Heart, I am bringing to nothing all the
effort which Satan is exerting, in his attempt to draw many of my
children away from the one and only Church instituted by my Son
Jesus. And by means of my extraordinary and motherly intervention,
once again, the powers of hell will not prevail.
k The power of Christ will be revealed, when He
brings his reign of glory into the Church, and then all the powers of
hell will be imprisoned, so that they will no longer be able to do
any more harm in the world. Then the holy Church of God will be able
to pour out upon all the nations of the earth the greatest splendor
of her truth and her holiness."
566
Montevideo (Uruguay); March 7, 1996
The Task I Have Entrusted to You
a "Continue this very wearying journey of
yours to hold cenacles in so many cities of this continent of Latin
America, where the heavenly Mother is loved and more and more
glorified. You see how the triumph of my Immaculate Heart is becoming
here a marvelous reality.
b What you are succeeding in doing is humanly
impossible; I am supporting and leading you; I am giving you strength
and comfort, because the times of my triumph have come, and you must
carry out the task which I have entrusted to you, the task of
bringing all into the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
c - The task I have entrusted to you is that
of bringing into my motherly garden the children, exposed to many
dangers, subjected to so many acts of violence, set on the sorrowful
road of sin and impurity. This perverse and wicked generation is
daily setting snares for these little ones, whom Jesus is protecting
in the enclosure of his divine love and to whom He is making known
the secrets of his Heavenly Father.
d - The task I have entrusted to you is that
of leading to the consecration to my Immaculate Heart the youth, in
order to rescue them from the great danger of straying away from
Jesus and me. How greatly has the wicked world in which you live
seduced the young people by offering them the poisoned bread of sin
and evil, of pleasure and impurity, of entertainment and drugs.
e I am leading the young people into the safe
refuge of my Immaculate Heart, so that they may be defended by me and
protected from all the dangers, instructed and led along the road of
love and holiness, of mortification and purity, of penance and
prayer. Thus I am forming for myself the cohort of my young people,
called to enter into the new times, which the heavenly Mother is
preparing for the Church and for all humanity.
f - The task I have entrusted to you is that
of bringing into the bright enclosure of my Immaculate Heart
Christian families, that they may be assisted by me to live in unity
and faithfulness, in prayer and love, open to the gift of life, which
must always be welcomed, protected and jealously guarded.
g - The task I have entrusted to you is that
of leading into the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart the priests,
who are the sons of my maternal predilection, that they may be
consoled and encouraged by me and assisted in becoming fervent
ministers of Jesus, whom they must relive in life and faithfully
announce in his Gospel.
h - The task I have entrusted to you is
that of bringing into my Immaculate Heart all this great continent of
Latin America which belongs to me and which I guard with motherly
jealousy.
i Go, my little child, for yet a little while,
along all the roads of the world, to peoples and nations so far away,
to whom I am bringing you with love and joy. You must now enter into
the second phase of your existence and prepare yourself to live out,
in love and in suffering, whatever I ask of you, however great it may
be, so that your mission might be accomplished and thus you might
bring to fulfillment the task which I have entrusted to you."
567
San Luis (Argentina); March 19, 1996
Solemnity of Saint Joseph
Protector and Defender
a "Today you are bringing to an end your long
journey throughout Argentina, with a great cenacle which you are
holding with the priests and many seminarians of my Movement. In this
way, you are celebrating the liturgical solemnity of my most chaste
spouse, Joseph. You have seen, in this great country, how I am loved
and glorified by so many of my children. This land is especially
loved and protected by me, and I cultivate it with special care in
the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
b I desire that here my Marian Movement of Priests
be spread even more. I ask that family cenacles be multiplied
everywhere, these cenacles which I offer you as a powerful aid in
saving the Christian family from the great dangers that threaten it.
c Entrust yourselves to the powerful protection of
my most chaste spouse, Joseph. Imitate his industrious silence, his
prayer, his humility, his confidence, his work. Make your own his
docile and precious collaboration with the plan of the Heavenly
Father, in giving help and protection, love and support, to his
divine Son Jesus.
d Now that you are entering into the painful and
decisive times, entrust also my Movement to him. He is the protector
and defender of this, my work of love and mercy.
e Protector and defender in the painful events
that are awaiting you.
f Protector and defender against the numerous
snares which, in a subtle and dangerous way, my Adversary and yours
is setting for you with increasing frequency.
g Protector and defender during the moments of the
great trial, which now awaits you, in the final times of the
purification and the great tribulation.
h As I express my gratitude to this country of
Argentina, for the homage of love and of prayer which I have
everywhere received, with Jesus and my most chaste spouse, Joseph, I
bless you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit."
568
Capoliveri (Livorno, Italy); April 4, 1996
Holy Thursday
The Chalice of Comfort
a "Beloved sons, live within the safe refuge
of my Immaculate Heart this day of Holy Thursday. This is your feast.
This is your pasch.
b Gathered about your bishops, you are
renewing today the commitments and the promises which you made on the
day of your priestly ordination. And you are recalling, with joy and
gratitude, the institution of the new Priesthood and the new
Sacrifice, which took place during the Last Supper.
c It is the Supper of love: `Jesus, having loved
his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.' (cf. Jn 13:1)
d It is the Supper of the institution of the
sacrament of love: `Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and
gave it to his disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."
And He took a cup, and when He had given thanks He gave it to them,
saying, "Drink of it, all of you; for this is my blood, which is
poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins."' (cf. Mt
26:26-28)
e It is the Supper of the new commandment of love:
`A new commandment I give you: to love one another. As I have loved
you, so also are you to love one another.' (Jn 13:34)
f It is the Supper of service given as an act of
love: `If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you
too should wash one another's feet.' (Jn 13:14)
g But it is also the Supper which opens upon the
sorrowful mystery of his passion. And thus comes the moment of his
agony in Gethsemane, of the sweat of blood, of the weeping and mortal
anguish, of the abandonment on the part of his disciples, of Peter's
denial, of Judas' betrayal. Beloved sons, live, in my Immaculate
Heart, the painful hours of Gethsemane.
h How I would have wanted to be at Jesus'
side to console Him in the moments of his interior agony, but the
absence of the Mother was ordained by the Heavenly Father so that the
agony of the Son would become all the more painful.
i Behold Jesus burdened with all the sin of the
world; upon his fragile body there weigh the rebellions, the
violence, the injustices, the impurity and all the wickedness of man.
He feels Himself crushed in the press of divine justice, and from his
body there begin to ooze forth drops of sweat and blood.
j When He goes to seek comfort from the three
Apostles, He finds them sleeping. So then the Father sends Him the
angel with the chalice of his comfort, which Jesus drinks with
immense gratitude. In this chalice, I have placed all the love, the
prayer, the suffering, the tenderness of my motherly Immaculate
Heart. And thus Jesus, at the supreme peak of his abandonment, is
comforted by the spiritual presence of the Mother.
k My Immaculate Heart becomes today the chalice
of comfort, which I want to offer to the Church and to all my
children in the moments of their greatest suffering. For this reason,
I invite you to enter, with your act of consecration, into the safe
refuge of my Immaculate Heart, because I want to make of you today,
my beloved sons, my chalice of comfort:
l - Chalice of comfort for Jesus who
relives in his Mystical Body the very events of his passion. How many
are those today, even among his ministers, who abandon Him, deny Him
and betray Him! In the sorrowful Gethsemane of your time, beloved
sons, be the chalice of comfort which the Mother wants to offer to
her Son Jesus. Place in this chalice all your love, your fidelity,
your zeal, your apostolate, the precious drops of your priestly
suffering.
m - Chalice of comfort for the Church,
which today is living the very hours of agony of Jesus, in her
sorrowful Gethsemane of these last times. How the Church is crushed
and beaten, abandoned and betrayed, struck and crucified in the agony
of her great tribulation! Place in the chalice the comfort of your
priestly fidelity; be zealous ministers of the divine word and of the
sacraments; walk with courage along the painful way of love and
holiness.
n Chalice of comfort for my Pope, who is
now consummating his sacrifice, on the Calvary of an immense
suffering; for the bishops, who have so much need of the love and
assistance of their priests, that they may be comforted in their
difficult and painful ministry; for your brother-priests, whom you
must love, help, take by the hand and share the burden of all their
difficulties. In these last times, how many dangers and subtle snares
are being set each day in the life of many priests, who are the sons
of my motherly predilection.
o - Chalice of comfort for all this poor
humanity ill and so far from God, crushed under the weight of sin and
evil, of hatred and violence, of injustice and impurity.
p Then, in the Gethsemane of these last times, you
become the chalice of comfort, which the heavenly Mother
offers today to the Church and to humanity, so that they may live, in
confidence and in great hope, the hours of the painful passion that
have now arrived."
569
Capoliveri (Livorno, Italy); April 5, 1996
Good Friday
His Wounds
a "Climb Calvary with me today, beloved sons,
that you may be of assistance and comfort to my Son Jesus, condemned
to the gibbet of the Cross. Led by the hand of John, who supports me
as a son, I meet Jesus as He is climbing with great difficulty toward
the summit of Golgotha. At this instant my Heart becomes pierced by
the sword of an immense suffering, to which I do not succumb, because
as Mother I must give the utmost assistance to my Son.
b From the flagellation He has received, Jesus is
reduced to one single wound. The terrible Roman scourges have incised
deep lacerations in his body, and from them flows his life's blood
which covers Him entirely. The thorns of his crown have opened up
wounds in every part of his head, and from them flow rivulets of
blood which descend and cover his whole face.
c On Golgotha, his hands and feet are pierced with
nails, and the jolting impact of the Cross, as it is dropped into the
earth, cause Jesus unspeakable pains and make his living blood pour
out continuously from his torn wounds. Today, look, one and all, upon
Him whom they have pierced. Today, contemplate my Son Jesus, now
reduced to one single bloody wound.
d - His wounds, open and bleeding, are a
sign of his love for you. They are the price of your ransom. They are
the flowers of a new springtime of life. They are the precious gift
of divine mercy, which brings to all of you the paschal joy of
redemption and salvation.
e - His wounds, beloved sons, cover them
with love and with kisses, together with me, sorrowful Mother of the
Passion and desolate Mother of the Crucifixion. Draw close with
filial love and place the kiss of your immense gratitude upon each of
his wounds: upon the wounds of his head, opened by the thorns of his
crown; upon every laceration of his immaculate flesh produced by the
flagellation; upon the wounds of his hands and his feet inflicted by
the nails, by which He is hung from the Cross. Upon every one of his
wounds, let the homage of your kiss of love be deposited, a kiss
which makes amends, at least in part, for the gesture of the one who
has betrayed Him, of the one who has denied Him, of the one who has
abandoned Him, who has abused Him, who has crucified Him.
f - His wounds are for you the safe refuge
in which you take shelter from the tempest of sin and evil. In his
wounds you find your safe dwelling place, the new house which the
Heavenly Father has built for you, the new house of communion with
God and of salvation, the new house of purity and holiness, the new
house of love and prayer, the new house of confidence and hope.
g Within his wounds, hide yourselves from the
world and its seductions, from the Evil One and his temptations, in
order to live in sweet intimacy of life with your divine Brother
Jesus, who is today immolated for you.
h - His wounds become a fount of living
water which springs up to eternal life. Wash yourselves in the
fountain of grace and of divine mercy, springing from the open and
bleeding wounds of my Son Jesus, today lifted up and dead, for you,
on the Cross.
i Thus, you are washed from every stain, freed
from every form of slavery, redeemed from every sin, withdrawn from
the kingdom of Satan, brought to full communion with the Heavenly
Father, open to love and goodness, illuminated by grace and purity,
renewed in the fount of divine mercy.
j Beloved sons, hasten today, each and all, to
Jesus Crucified and, with me your sorrowful Mother, kiss his wounds
with love and gratitude. Hide yourselves in the safe refuge of his
wounds; wash yourselves in the fountain of living water, which now
flows forth forever from the open and bleeding wounds of my Son
Jesus.
k And with the whole Church Militant,
Suffering and Triumphant, on earth, in purgatory and in heaven, let
there rise up to Jesus our act of profound adoration and immense
gratitude: 'We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You, because by your
holy Cross You have redeemed the world and by your holy wounds we
have been healed.’ ”
570
Capoliveri (Livorno, Italy); April 6, 1996
Holy Saturday First Saturday
Assuage My Sorrow
a "Beloved sons, stay close to your sorrowful
Mother, on this one day when I remained without my Son. His body,
hastily arranged and covered with purest linen, rests lifeless in his
new sepulcher. I keep watch in sorrow and in prayer, in confidence
and hope, in the certain expectation of his resurrection.
b - Assuage my sorrow. See if there is any
sorrow like mine. My eyes again see with dismay all the cruelty, the
wickedness, the inhuman ferocity of the crucifixion and the death of
Jesus on the Cross.
c And I go back in my thoughts to the joyful
moment of the Annunciation; to the heavenly songs of the angels and
to the glad announcement given to the little ones and to the poor,
the announcement of his birth in a cave; to the blessed time of his
infancy threatened by snares; of his boyhood and youth as He bent
over his daily work; to the brief and intense years of his public
mission, when He proclaimed the Good News to all and was followed and
listened to by the little ones, the poor, the sick and the sinners.
My life has always been marked by the presence, close to me, of my
Son Jesus.
d -Assuage my sorrow. Precisely to offer
sweet company to my solitude, there spread - from the very first
years of the Church - the pious custom of dedicating Saturday to a
special veneration of your heavenly Mother. And at Fatima I asked
that the five first Saturdays of the month be offered to me, as a
sign of filial and loving reparation. And by means of my Marian
Movement of Priests, this request of mine is now being accepted in
every part of the world. And this gives great comfort to the sorrow
of my Immaculate Heart.
e - Assuage my sorrow. This is also the
first day of my new and spiritual motherhood. And so I look at all my
children, whom Jesus has entrusted to me from the Cross, and I invite
them to welcome into their own lives the precious gift of his
redemption.
f How many there are, still today, who reject Him
and who walk along the road of sin and evil, of violence and hatred,
of pleasure and impurity. How great is my sorrow in seeing thus that
the suffering of Jesus has been endured in vain, because the blood
which He has shed for your salvation is being trampled underfoot by
many.
g - Assuage my sorrow. I ask you to bring
into the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart all those who are far
away, the atheists, the sinners, the slaves of sin and evil, those
who are being seduced by the subtle snares of my Adversary and yours.
h For this reason, I want you all here today with
me, on the one and only day when I have been left without my Son.
Learn from me to believe, to hope and to love. Learn from me to
entrust yourselves, with unshakable confidence, to the truth of the
word. of God. In moments of doubt and of darkness, ask of me the
assistance to keep vigil in prayer and expectation.
i When Jesus will return to you in the splendor of
his divine glory, then this poor sinful and wounded humanity, which
is lying in the sepulcher of corruption and death, will come forth to
begin at last the new times of its renewed life."
571
Capoliveri (Livorno, Italy); April 7, 1996
Easter Sunday
His Glorious Return
a "Let your hearts be opened to joy,
on the day in which my motherly Immaculate Heart was filled with such
a fullness of blessedness that it cancelled out even the trace of her
every suffering.
b You too, beloved sons, live the moment
when my Son Jesus, in the dazzling splendor of his glorified body,
has presented Himself before me and has surrounded me with his most
powerful light, has embraced me with filial tenderness, has placed
his kiss on my wounded Heart and led me by the hand into the
celestial kingdom of his divine glory.
c Thus I became the first announcement, silent and
motherly, of his resurrection. I was the first living witness of his
glorious return to life. For this reason, I invite you to look today,
with confidence and sure hope, to his glorious return.
d - His glorious return gives new force of
life to all humanity, redeemed but subjected to the terrible snares
set for you by him who is a murderer from the beginning and who still
wants to spread sin and death in the world.
e - His glorious return gives comfort and
consolation, courage and confidence to the Church, born in the
sepulcher from which Christ came forth victorious and which is
walking along her painful way of the definitive encounter with her
Lord and Master.
f - His glorious return gives a new light
of grace to all of you, my poor children, who are subjected to the
terrible and painful experiences of these last times of the
purification and the great tribulation.
g Never as in your days does it become so
necessary to live this stupendous truth of Easter: Christ Risen is
living in your midst and is guiding the events of individuals and
peoples toward their ultimate fulfillment.
h Turn today your gaze towards Him who is risen
from the dead to lead you all into his kingdom of life.
i Turn today your gaze upon your heavenly Mother,
who is surrounded by the light of the purest paschal joy and who
becomes again for you the silent and motherly proclamation of his
glorious return."
572
Shrine of Caravaggio (Bergamo, Italy); May 13,
1996
Anniversary of the First Apparition at Fatima
The Sure Road
a "Priests and faithful of my Movement from
the region of Lombardy, you are gathered today for a great cenacle of
prayer and fraternity in this venerated shrine, and in this way you
are observing the anniversary of my first apparition, which took
place in the Cova da Iria in Fatima on the thirteenth of May 1917.
b I came down from heaven to point out to
you the way along which you must journey in this century, in order to
attain peace: that of conversion and of a return to the Lord, through
prayer and penance. I came down from heaven to give you my Immaculate
Heart, as a refuge in which to take shelter and the sure road
which leads you to the God of salvation and peace.
c - The sure road in these times, when many
other roads are being pointed out, easier and traveled by many, but
which are unsafe and do not lead to an encounter with the God of
salvation and the Father of divine mercy.
d - The sure road which leads you to accept
all the truth contained in the Gospel of my Son Jesus. Along this
road, pointed out by me, you are drawn by the splendor of the truth
and become profoundly transformed by grace, which brings into your
life the divine fragrance of sanctity.
e Thus you become shining examples of the
lived-out Gospel and courageous witnesses of Christ, who draws you to
follow Him, in the daily actualization of his divine word.
f - The sure road which leads you to
renounce every form of sin and evil, to have a concrete experience of
grace, of love and of purity.
g In the pagan world in which you live, submerged
by materialism and hedonism and by the feverish search for pleasure
and impurity, you spread the light of holiness and purity, of the
mortification of the senses and of penance, and thus you offer to all
the help which my Immaculate Heart gives you, in order to attain a
communion of life with God, your Redeemer and Savior.
h - The sure road which opens up for the
full communion of love among you all, made brothers by the bond which
unites you as children of one and the same Father, redeemed by one
and the same Son, sanctified by one and the same Spirit, and become
children of one sole Mother.
i My Immaculate Heart, above all in these times,
becomes the sure road which leads you to a reciprocal
communion, to an understanding, to a rejection of egoism and every
kind of division, so that the new commandment which my Son Jesus has
given you might at last become a reality: `Love one another as I have
loved you.' (Jn 15:12)
j As you celebrate today this great cenacle of the
Marian Movement of Priests, in this region from which it has spread
to every part of the world, and as you recall my first apparition
which took place at Fatima, where it was born, I want again to offer
you my Immaculate Heart as your refuge and the sure road which leads
you to God.
k It is the sure road which leads you to
the God of salvation and of peace, to the God of truth and holiness,
to the God of communion and of unity.
l On this sure road, walk – each and all
– with me, in confidence and in certain hope, in joyous expectation
of the greatest triumph of God which will take place with the triumph
of my Immaculate Heart in the world.”
573
Madrid (Spain); May 22, 1996
The Time of the Cenacle
a "My little son, for a week you find
yourself holding wonderful cenacles with the priests and the faithful
of my Movement in the principal cities of Spain, particularly
stricken and ensnared by my Adversary, but guarded and protected by
me in the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
b Live then, with particular intensity, the
liturgical time which occurs between the solemnity of the Ascension
and that of Pentecost, which is the time of the Cenacle.
c Call to mind the period of time which I spent
together with the Apostles in the Cenacle of Jerusalem, united in
prayer and in ardent expectation of the fulfillment of the prodigious
event of Pentecost. And with what great joy did I contemplate the
descent of the Holy Spirit, under the form of tongues of fire which
came to rest over each one of those present, working the miracle of
their complete and total transformation.
d This is, for the Church and for all
humanity, the time of the Cenacle.
e - It is the time of the cenacle for the
Church, invited by me to enter into the cenacle of my Immaculate
Heart. In this new and spiritual cenacle, all the bishops must now
enter, so that they may obtain, through prayer made incessantly with
me and by means of me, a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit, who
opens minds and hearts to receive the gift of divine wisdom; thus,
they attain an understanding of the truth, whole and entire, and come
to give their full witness to my Son Jesus.
f The priests must enter into this new spiritual
cenacle so that, by the Holy Spirit, they might be confirmed in their
vocation and, by prayer made with me and by means of me, they might
obtain power, assurance and courage to announce the Gospel of Jesus
in all its integrity and to live it to the letter with the simplicity
of the little ones who are nourished with joy by every word that
comes from the mouth of God.
g All the faithful must enter into this new
spiritual cenacle, that they may be assisted in living their baptism
and receive from the Holy Spirit light and comfort in their daily
journey towards sanctity. Only in this way can they become today
courageous witnesses of Jesus, risen and living in your midst.
h - It is the time of the cenacle for this
poor humanity, so possessed by the spirits of evil, impelled along
the road of pleasure and pride, of sin and impurity, of egoism and
unhappiness. Humanity must now enter into the cenacle of my
Immaculate Heart: here, as Mother, I will teach it to pray and to
repent; I will lead it to penance and conversion, to a change of
heart and of life.
i Within this new and spiritual cenacle, I will
prepare it to receive the gift of the second Pentecost, which will
renew the face of the earth. For this reason, I am asking today that
the Church and humanity enter into the cenacle which your heavenly
Mother has prepared for you.
j The period of the purification and the great
tribulation in which you are living must be for you the time of
the cenacle.
k Enter, all of you, into the new and
spiritual cenacle of my Immaculate Heart to recollect yourselves in
an intense and incessant prayer made with me, your heavenly Mother,
in expectation that the great miracle of the second Pentecost, now
close at hand, will be accomplished."
574
Shrine of Latas (Santander, Spain); May 26,
1996
Solemnity of Pentecost
The Second Pentecost
a "With an extraordinary cenacle of prayer
and fraternity, you celebrate today the solemnity of Pentecost. You
recall the prodigious event of the descent of the Holy Spirit, under
the form of tongues of fire, upon the Cenacle of Jerusalem, where the
Apostles were gathered in prayer, with me, your heavenly Mother.
b You too, gathered today in prayer in the
spiritual cenacle of my Immaculate Heart, prepare yourselves to
receive the prodigious gift of the second Pentecost.
c The second Pentecost will come to bring
this humanity - which has again become pagan and which is living
under the powerful influence of the Evil One - back to its full
communion of life with its Lord who has created, redeemed and saved
it.
d Miraculous and spiritual tongues of fire
will purify the hearts and the souls of all, who will see themselves
in the light of God and will be pierced by the keen sword of his
divine truth.
e - The second Pentecost will come to lead
all the Church to the summit of her greatest splendor. The Spirit of
Wisdom will lead her to perfect fidelity to the Gospel; the Spirit of
Counsel will assist her and comfort her in all her tribulations; the
Spirit of Fortitude will bring her to a daily and heroic witness to
Jesus. Above all, the Holy Spirit will communicate to the Church the
precious gift of her full unity and of her greatest holiness. Only
then will Jesus bring into her his reign of glory.
f - The second Pentecost will descend into
hearts to transform them and make them sensitive and open to love,
humble and merciful, free of all egoism and of all wickedness. And
thus it will be that the Spirit of the Lord will transform the hearts
of stone into hearts of flesh.
g - The second Pentecost will burn away,
with the fire of his divine love, the sins which obscure the beauty
of your souls. And thus, they will return to the full communion of
life with God; they will be a privileged garden of his presence; and
in this resplendent garden there will blossom all the virtues,
cultivated with special care by me, your heavenly Gardener. Thus the
Holy Spirit will pour out upon the earth the gift of his divine
holiness.
h - The second Pentecost will descend upon
all the nations which are so divided by egoism and particular
interests, by antagonisms which often set them one against the other.
And thus are spread everywhere the wars and fratricidal struggles
which have caused so much blood to be spilt on your streets. Then,
the nations will form part of one single great family, gathered
together and blessed by the presence of the Lord among you.
i Today I invite you to enter into the cenacle of
my Immaculate Heart, to recollect yourselves in prayer with me, your
heavenly Mother. And thus, together let us implore the gift of the
Holy Spirit, and together let us await the descent of the second
Pentecost, which will renew the world and change the face of the
earth."
575
Valdragone (San Marino); June 27, 1996
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with 25 Bishops and 300 Priests of the M.M.P. from Europe, America,
Africa, Asia and Oceania
My Motherly Plan
a "How pleased I am to see you here, gathered
together in a continuous cenacle of prayer and fraternity, bishops
and priests of my Movement, who have now come from every part of the
earth. Never as in this year has your participation been so great;
never as in this year has the response to the request of your
heavenly Mother been so generous.
b I am gazing upon you with the delight of
a mother who feels herself listened to and followed by her children.
I unite myself with your prayer, and I deepen your priestly unity. As
Mother, I help you to meet each other, to come to know each other,
and to love each other; and I make your priestly fraternity greater.
Thus you are formed by me to respond in a perfect manner to my
motherly plan.
c My motherly plan is to lead you along the
road of holiness and immolation. For this reason, I help you to set
yourselves free from sin and from the evil which is within you. And
so I lead you along the road of purity, of love and of holiness.
d It is my task to uncover for you the
subtle snares of my Adversary and yours, who seduces you in order to
lead you along the way of evil and sin, of impurity and infidelity.
e And so, I descend from heaven to set myself on
the journey with you along all the roads of the world. And I call you
to enter, each and all, into the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart:
here yon will be formed by me to a great sanctity.
f - My motherly plan is to give comfort to
you in your sorrow, to pour balm on each of your wounds, and to give
confidence and great hope to you in your discouragement. How
difficult are the days in which you are living! This is the
conclusive period of the purification and the great tribulation. In
fact, all humanity is possessed by the spirits of evil, and my Church
is shaken by the impetuous wind of errors, of divisions, of unbelief
and of apostasy.
g You must bear the painful weight of this
situation. You are being called to carry the cross of all the Church.
For this reason, you are destined to experience, as never before, the
gentle comfort of my motherly tenderness; in my arms you will be
caressed and consoled by me. Thus, I ask you to enter, once and for
all, into the refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
h - My motherly plan is to assist the
Church along the painful way of her crucifixion and martyrdom. And I
am making use of you, my little sons, whom for years now I have
called and formed with the words of the messages which I have poured
forth from my Immaculate Heart.
i Be my very motherly and merciful presence in the
Church. Close each of her wounds; wipe away her every pain; gather up
the drops of her precious blood; place your priestly kiss on her
every open and bleeding wound.
j I ask you to love and console the Pope, who is
living through the painful hour of his immolation. Be a filial
support to the bishops with your love and your docility. Stay close
to all your brother-priests, above all to those who are succumbing
under the weight of the trial, which is now reaching its most painful
peak. Therefore, you must now find shelter in the safe refuge of my
Immaculate Heart.
k – My motherly plan is to protect all
humanity in the painful time of its salvation. The time is close when
justice will espouse itself to divine mercy, for the purification of
the earth. Prepare yourselves, all of you, to bear the pain of the
great purifying trial.
l You are the rays of love, which come down from
my Immaculate Heart to brighten up the painful hours of the merciful
chastisement. Illuminate with my maternal and merciful light the
hours of gloom and of the great darkness which has come down upon the
world. Give the balm of my motherly tenderness to the little, the
poor, the sinners, the sick and those far away.
m I want to live in you and to act by means of
you. The remedy that I am giving for the salvation of all, at the
culminating moment of the great trial, is my very self, who will
manifest myself to all, to the Church and to the world through you,
my little sons, called by me and formed for this great task which I
now entrust to you.
n Enter then, one and all, into the safe refuge of
my Immaculate Heart, and never again leave it. Go out from this
cenacle with joy and with a great hope. The graces which you have
received here have been great, and you will come to understand them
soon.
o The Most Holy Trinity has bent over you with
pleasure, and God has granted you the gift of a change of heart. In
the place of your little hearts filled with sins, I have put my
Immaculate Heart. Be now the new heart of the new Church which Jesus
is forming for Himself each day in the garden of his divine and
merciful love. Go down from this mountain in peace, and become
instruments of my peace in every part of the world.
p With those dear to you, with those who are
entrusted to your priestly ministry, I bless you, each and all, in
the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
576
Dongo (Como, Italy); August 15, 1996
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin Mary into Heaven
Look Up to Heaven
a "Live today with me, beloved sons, in
paradise where I was assumed with my soul and my body, to participate
in a perfect manner in the glory of my Son Jesus.
b - Look up to heaven. Your heavenly Mother
was assumed into leaven at the very moment when she closed her eyes
to her earthly life. And then, surrounded by a multitude of the
angelic host, who exalted and venerated me as Queen, I was raised up
to the glory of paradise.
c The Most Holy Trinity has bowed down, delighted
and glorified, and in me has reflected the rays of its eternal and
divine splendor. My Son Jesus, who had already ascended into heaven
to take his seat at the right hand of the Father, has welcomed me
with filial love and joy and has wanted me at his side, to share in
his royal power in subjecting all things to Himself.
d Thus have I become Queen, because the Most Holy
Trinity has confirmed me in my glorious role of beloved Daughter of
the Father, Mother of the Son, and Spouse of the Holy Spirit.
c - Look up to heaven. In paradise, I
exercise fully my maternal power. As Mother, I am close to Jesus in
order to intercede for you. I cause to descend from my Immaculate
Heart the graces of which you have need, in order to walk with me
along the painful road of these last times. Thus you also can arrive
here in paradise, where, with Jesus, your heavenly Mother awaits you.
f I am close to Jesus to offer my motherly work of
reparation to the Most Holy and Divine Trinity. For this, I gather in
the chalice of my Immaculate Heart all your sufferings, the great
sorrows of all humanity in the time of its great tribulation, and I
present them to Jesus, as a sign of reparation for all the sins which
are committed each day in the world.
g And thus, I have again succeeded in postponing
the time of the chastisement, decreed by divine Justice, for a
humanity which has become worse than at the time of the flood.
h - Look up to heaven. From heaven, you
will see my Son Jesus returning on the clouds in the splendor of his
divine glory. Then finally the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the
world will be accomplished.
i To prepare for this divine prodigy, I want to
establish my motherly triumph in the hearts and the souls of all my
children. For this, I have caused my Marian Movement of Priests to
spring up within the Church, and I have brought my little son to
every part of the world; and, in him and by means of him, I have
manifested myself to all. For this reason, I continue to ask him to
go to remote and distant places, in order to help you enter, through
your consecration, into the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
j Thus you too, with your soul and heart, are
living in paradise where I dwell, even if with your bodies you are
still dwelling on this earth. In this way you too share in my
maternal glory. And thus, you too unite yourselves in my work of
intercession and reparation, and prepare, in prayer, in silence and
in suffering, for the awaited moment - so hoped for - of the triumph
of my Immaculate Heart in the greatest and most glorious triumph of
my Son Jesus."
577
Prague (Czech Republic); September 2, 1996
The Evil of Your Century
a "Once again you find yourself here,
my little son, to conduct cenacles with bishops, priests and faithful
of my Movement, in these countries of eastern Europe, which have
lived for many years in the terrible bondage imposed by communism and
who have obtained their liberation by one special intervention of my
Immaculate Heart.
b How many persecutions, acts of oppression
and sufferings have these children of mine had to bear! My Church
here has also been oppressed and persecuted, despoiled of its goods,
crucified and led to martyrdom.
c But now you are being menaced with an even more
serious and insidious danger. It is practical atheism, the evil of
your century.
d - Practical atheism spreads by false
ideologies, by the sects, by the errors which are spreading more and
more, even within the Church.
e - Practical atheism has led humanity to
build a civilization without God, characterized by a feverish search
for material goods, for pleasures, for entertainments, and by the
worship given to money and to its great power.
f – Practical atheism has destroyed in
many the thirst for God, has impiously led to withdraw from Him the
worship due Him, to give it to creatures, even to Satan, and to live
as though God did not exist.
g - Practical atheism has spread everywhere
the wound of unbridled egoism, of violence, of hatred and of
impurity. Impurity is proposed as a value and a good, and it is
propagated throughout all the mass media. Sins of impurity are
presented as a way of exercising one's personal freedom, and so
impure sins against nature, which cry for vengeance in the sight of
God, become justified and even exalted. The world has now been
reduced to an immense desert, completely covered with filth.
h You are living under the yoke of this terrible
slavery. For this reason, only the pain of the merciful chastisement
will be able to free this poor humanity from the great evil of
practical atheism, which has spread everywhere.
i It is my motherly duty to help you in the hours
of the great purifying trial. As Mother, I am close to you to protect
and assist you. And I am close to you also because my work, which I
have begun in these countries, must be brought by me to its complete
fulfillment.
j And this will be done when, with the triumph of
my Immaculate Heart in the world, you will be completely liberated
from every form of practical atheism, which has been the greatest
evil of your century."
578
Bratislava (Slovakia); September 8, 1996
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
Mary
With the Strength of the Little Ones
a "Gather together, like fragrant flowers of
love and purity, about the cradle in which I am placed at the moment
of my birth. Because I am little, I am pleasing to the Lord. Because
I am little, I have been destined by my God to guide the cohort of
his children against the terrible army of Satan, of the rebellious
spirits and of their powerful followers. With my little children, I
will in the end achieve my greatest victory.
b - With the strength of the little ones, I
will conquer the great power of Satan, who has set up his reign in
the world and has seduced, with the cup of pleasure and lust, all the
nations of the earth. For this reason, with my Marian Movement of
Priests, I am gathering together, from everywhere, my little
children, and with joy I see that they are responding to me with
generosity and in ever increasing numbers.
c - With the strength of the little ones, I
will bring back to God this poor humanity, deceived and seduced by
false ideologies and particularly ensnared by the great error of
atheism. With it, Lucifer, the ancient serpent, Satan, has wanted to
renew before God his proud challenge, bringing humanity to repeat his
gesture of rebellion against the Lord: `Non serviam: I will not serve
Him.' And so, I gather in the garden of my Immaculate Heart the great
cohort of my little children, and I offer them to the perfect
fulfillment of the Will of the Heavenly Father.
d Thus, in them and by means of them, I repeat my
gesture of humble and perfect availability to his Will, repeating
again my Fiat: let your holy and divine Will be done.
e - With the strength of the little ones, I
will heal this humanity, ill and wounded by sin, by pride, by
violence and by impurity. For this, I lead with gentle firmness all
my little children along the road of holiness, of humility, of love
and of purity.
f And then this world will go back to being the
garden, in which the Lord can once again be loved, enjoyed, served
and perfectly glorified. Thus will be achieved the great victory
foretold and sung in the Sacred Scriptures: `Out of the mouths of
babes and sucklings,You have asserted your power against your
adversaries, to silence the enemy and the rebel.' (cf. Ps 8:3)
g I bless this little country which, in these
days, has given such joy and comfort to my Immaculate Heart.
h You have seen, my little son, with what
enthusiasm the priests and faithful have responded to my invitation
to take part in the cenacles: how many graces have come down upon so
many children in this country, where the heavenly Mother has received
one of the greatest responses to her invitation to belong to the
Marian Movement of Priests, in order to form part of the victorious
cohort of my little children."
579
Debrecen (Hungary); September 15, 1996
Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
Share in My Sorrow
a "Share in my sorrow, beloved sons. A
sword continues to pierce t he soul of your heavenly Mother. To the
little children to whom I appeared at Fatima, I have wished to show
my Immaculate Heart surrounded with a crown of thorns, in order to
make them understand how numerous and painful the wounds are which
cause my motherly Heart to bleed.
b - Share in my sorrow, you who, through
your act of consecration, are called to enter more and more into the
refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
c - Share in my sorrow, for the great
spread of materialism and hedonism in these countries, which have
lived for decades under the painful yoke of atheistic communism. My
Immaculate Heart has obtained the great grace of their liberation.
But the diabolic and Masonic forces are being unleashed, causing to
enter, into them also, the evil which now contaminates the whole
world, such as materialism, the mad quest for pleasure and money, the
dissolute and obscene entertainment, the pornography and
prostitution. And thus these poor children of mine are again even
more threatened and are running a greater danger of being lost.
d - Share in my sorrow, for the spread of a
subtle and insidious anticlericalism. The Church here has, for years,
been persecuted, imprisoned, crucified and brought to martyrdom. I
wish to recall, among all others, my beloved son, Cardinal Joseph
Mindszenty, who has been a symbol and the precious victim of this
bloody persecution.
e Now the Church is apparently free, but she is
still being obstructed in her mission by the flood of practical
atheism, by the sects, by indifferentism and nihilism among the
youth, because of which many of them flee from religion and thus new
vocations to the priestly and religious life are far too scarce.
f - Share in my sorrow, because here
Freemasonry, with its hidden power, is in control, which leads to
dissoluteness, to a loss of the sense of morality, to the exaltation
of sexual liberty, to the destruction of the family through divorces,
birth control and these abortions which are becoming more and more
widespread and legitimized.
g And so then you understand how the fall of
communism, which took place here in 1989 through a special
intervention of my Immaculate Heart, becomes only a sign and
anticipation of my one complete and greater victory.
h This victory will take place with the
fall of practical atheism throughout all the world, with the defeat
of the Masonic and satanic forces, with the destruction of the great
power of evil, and with the full triumph of God in a world, then
completely purified by the great merciful chastisement.
i For this reason, I exhort you to filial
abandonment, to confidence and to a great hope. My Immaculate Heart
is your safe refuge, in which by me you are consoled and defended,
protected and prepared to live out the longed-for and awaited hours
of the triumph of divine mercy upon the world."
580
Zagreb (Croatia); September 20, 1996
Do Not Fear, Little Flock
a "How happy I am with the cenacle which you
have held here, with the priests and the faithful of my Movement,
presided over by the Cardinal Archbishop, whom I so love and protect.
b In this country, my Adversary is on a
rampage, bringing into it the painful trial of violence and war. How
many sufferings these children of mine have had to undergo! I have
intervened to obtain for them the great gift of liberation and peace.
c But still graver tribulations are now awaiting
you.
d - Do not fear, little flock. The Heavenly
Father has been pleas to give you the reign of my Immaculate Heart. I
have manifested myself to you, and you have welcomed me with the
generosity of my little children.
e Now I can lead you along the road of purity, of
love and of holiness, with the exercise of all the virtues which I
cultivate, as a heavenly gardener, in the resplendent garden of your
souls. Thus each day I offer you, as victims of reparation, to the
justice of God, so that He may pour out upon the world the purifying
grace of his divine mercy.
f - Do not fear, little flock. Your
heavenly Mother has made you the gift of drawing you together from
all sides into her victorious cohort. The hour of the decisive battle
has come. Satan has now reached the summit of his power, and now,
even in the Church, he will bring to fulfillment that which the Lord
has permitted him for her most painful purification.
g The hours which you are about to live are among
the most important, because all the events, which I have foretold too
you, will reach their fulfillment.
h - Do not fear, little flock. Jesus has
gathered you into the heavenly enclosure of his divine love. He leads
you to the perfect fulfillment of the Will of the Father. Jesus wants
to be glorified by you. The hour has come when Jesus will be
perfectly glorified by you. You are the consolation to Him in his
abandonment; you are the profound joy of his divine Heart.
i Do not fear, little flock. You are my
little children, whom I have gathered together from every part of the
earth for the great battle between God and Satan, between the forces
of good and those of evil. The Lord will conquer by means of me, his
little servant. I will conquer by means of you, my little children.
j What has taken place in this country becomes a
sign for all. Because of its fidelity to Jesus and to your heavenly
Mother, to the Church and to the Pope, Satan has been unleashed
against it in an attempt to destroy it. With this object in mind, all
the satanic and Masonic forces have come together.
k But I myself have marked the hour of
their defeat. And thus it will be for all humanity. For this reason,
I bid you to have confidence and a great hope.
l - Do not fear little flock. To you has
been entrusted the mission of bringing to completion the triumph of
my Immaculate Heart in the world."
581
Tokyo (Japan); October 13, 1996
Anniversary of the Last Apparition at Fatima
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests of the M.M.P. from Japan
A Great Sign
a "With great joy I gaze upon you, priests of
my Marian Movement of Priests of Japan, who have come here to live
with me these days, in a continuous cenacle of prayer and
brotherhood. You are bringing your cenacle to an end today, on which
you are observing the anniversary of my last apparition which took
place at Fatima and which was confirmed by the miracle of the sun.
b There appeared in the sky a great
sign: signum magnum.
c I am the great sign which appeared in the sky: I
am the Woman Clothed with the Sun, with the moon beneath my feet, and
with a crown of twelve stars upon my head.
d - A great sign in the terrible struggle
against all the forces of evil, which have joined together against
God and against his Christ. And so, close to the great sign of the
Woman Clothed with the Sun, there appears also that of the Red
Dragon, of the ancient serpent, of Satan, who is now manifesting
himself in all his extraordinary power. It appears that the great
Dragon has won his victory, because he has led humanity to build a
civilization without God; he has spread everywhere the cult of money
and pleasure; he has seduced minds with pride and with errors; he has
violated souls with sin and evil; he has hardened hearts with egoism
and hatred; he has corrupted all the nations of the earth with the
cup of lust and impurity. Satan has succeeded in bringing his wicked
kingdom upon the entire world.
e But in the furious struggle of these last
times, this struggle between heaven and earth, between the heavenly
spirits and the demons, between the Woman and the Dragon, I appear as
a great sign of my greatest victory.
f - A great sign of the victory of God over every
form of atheism, theoretical and practical, of good over every form
of evil and sin, of love over every form of violence and hatred, of
truth over every form of error and falsehood.
g For this great victory, I have formed for myself
the cohort of all my little children who, from every part of the
world, have responded to me with a yes. With my Marian
Movement of Priests, I have brought my invitation to the farthest
confines of the earth, and I have formed for myself my victorious
army.
h Even in this great country, almost completely
pagan, my little children have responded to me with joy and great
generosity. My motherly Heart trembles with love and tenderness for
them. I open up for them, also, the way of salvation, and with the
triumph of my Immaculate Heart, they will enter into the one
sheepfold of which my Son Jesus is the Good Shepherd.
i - A great sign of light in these times of
dense darkness. For this, I invite you to walk along the road of
prayer and penance, of confidence and of your very great abandonment.
Once again, I have sent you this little son of mine, to bring you the
gift of my motherly tenderness. By means of him, I offer to your
Church and to your fatherland a sure sign of my assistance and of my
motherly protection.
j With those dear to you, with those entrusted to
your ministry, I bless you in the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit."
582
Nagasaki (Japan); October 18, 1996
In This City
a "Today you are bringing to a close here the
journey which you have made through all Japan, where you have been
able to see the marvels of love and mercy of my Immaculate Heart. And
you are bringing it to an end precisely in this city, especially
loved by your heavenly Mother.
b - In this city, the work of
evangelization was begun by Saint Francis Xavier, the great apostle
and missionary, who opened the way in this distant continent to the
first announcement of the Gospel.
c - In this city, there were led to their
martyrdom twenty-six of my children, heroic witnesses of Christ, to
whom they offered their lives on the altar of my Immaculate Heart.
You also were here to celebrate Holy Mass in the shrine, raised upon
the spot of their terrible execution.
d - In this city, there also lived my son,
Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and it is here that he constructed the city
of the Immaculata, which still today brings my shining presence to
many of my Japanese children, who so love and honor me.
e In this city, there also exploded the
atomic bomb, causing tens of thousands of deaths in a few brief
instants, a chastisement and terrible sign of what man can do when,
distancing himself from God, he becomes incapable of love, of
compassion and of mercy. This is what the whole world could become if
it does not welcome my invitation to conversion and return to the
Lord. From this place, I renew my anguished appeal to all the nations
of the earth.
f - In this city, I manifest my maternal
work of salvation and of mercy. I again invite all my children to
journey along the road which, during these years, I have traced out
for you with the messages which I have given to the heart of this, my
little son.
g For this reason, I have wanted you here again,
so that you night offer to this city and to all Japan, the safe
refuge of my Immaculate Heart. Enter, each and all, into this refuge.
Thus, you will be protected and defended by me, when the great and
terrible day of the Lord comes upon you."
583
Seoul (Korea); October 31, 1996
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Bishops and Priests of the M.M.P. from Korea
A Land Blessed and Threatened
a "How consoled I am by you, beloved sons, in
seeing you gathered together here from many parts of Korea, to live
these days in a continuous cenacle of prayer and brotherhood under
the delighted gaze of your heavenly Mother. I unite myself to your
prayer and make the bond of your priestly unity stronger.
b Love one another as Jesus has loved you. Put
into practice his new commandment to become one, and in this way you
will give joy and comfort to the pierced Heart of my Son Jesus.
c Carry in your heart and in your prayer the
needs, the concerns and the apprehensions of your Church and of your
fatherland, Korea, this land blessed by me and so threatened.
d – A land blessed, because here my
Church is prospering and spreading, thanks to the blood of the
martyrs which has become red of so many new Christians.
e - A land blessed, because the faithful
are ardent in the faith, fervent in prayer, and united with their
shepherds. Here, I am especially loved, invoked and glorified, above
all by the little ones, the simple, the poor, the humble. And from
these are springing up numerous vocations to the religious and
priestly life.
f - A land threatened, because here too the
errors which distance one from the true faith are being spread; the
sects which represent a grave threat to many of the faithful are
undergoing a great expansion. And so I urge you, my beloved priests,
to a great unity with the Pope and with your bishops who are united
to him. Listen to and follow the hierarchical Magisterium of the
Church, in order to resist the subtle snares of error and infidelity.
Spread with courage the words of the Gospel, and form the faithful in
the growth of their faith through a zealous work of catechesis, so
necessary today for the Church in Korea.
g Above all, I ask you, my beloved ones, to be
zealous in your priestly ministry, persevering in prayer, ardent in
love for the Eucharistic Jesus, who must become the center of your
apostolate and the great love of your life, open to the needs of the
poor, of the humble, of the little ones, and, above all, of my
children who live in the darkness of paganism and who do not yet know
the light of the truth and of salvation which my Son Jesus has given
you.
h - A land threatened in its peace and
unity. This people has, in fact, become separated and divided. It has
borne the weight and the bloody trial of a fratricidal war, and still
today, great is the danger which threatens its tranquility and peace.
i Priests consecrated to my Immaculate Heart, be
the instruments of my peace and of my motherly assistance to this
nation, where I am so loved, invoked and glorified. Korea is a land
particularly loved and protected by me; it is the garden in which
your heavenly Mother gives extraordinary signs of her continual
presence among you.
j I am leading you along the road of unity and
peace. This unity and peace will come to your Church and to your
fatherland as a special gift of my Immaculate Heart.
k Leave this cenacle in joy, and spread
everywhere my invitation to be consecrated to my Immaculate Heart, in
order to live in confidence and in a great hope.
l Through you, the comfort of my motherly
presence also reaches my children of North Korea, of China, of
Vietnam and of all this immense continent of Asia, still in great
part pagan, but whom your heavenly Mother is leading along the way of
truth and salvation.
m With those dear to you, with those who
are entrusted to your ministry, I bless you all in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
584
Milan (Italy); December 8, 1996
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
With Joy and with Immense Hope
a "Look today, with joy and with immense
hope, at your immaculate Mother.
b - With joy, because I am the cause of
your joy. This is how you invoke me, with the prayer which is so
pleasing to me, in the litany of Loreto. On this day, I invite you to
look to me with joy.
c - With joy, you contemplate me in the
light of my Immaculate Conception. Because I was destined from
eternity to become the Mother of the Incarnate Word, the Most Holy
Trinity has exempted me from any sin whatsoever, even from original
sin, which each and every creature contracts at the moment of its
human conception.
d Thus, you see reflected in me the original plan
of the Father, who has created man in his own image and for his
greatest glory. And the Heavenly Father bows down over me with
particular delight.
e - With joy, you see me become the
Virginal Mother of the Word, who becomes Man in my most pure womb. My
Son Jesus is born of me to become your Savior and your Redeemer. In
Him alone all humanity has the possibility of being set free from
slavery to sin, to join in a communion of life and of love with the
Heavenly Father.
f - With joy, I manifest myself to you,
completely filled with the Holy Spirit, who unites Himself to my soul
by a true bond of spousal love, because only through his work does
the human conception of God-made-man take place within me, and only
by his divine action do I become the Mother of God. Because I am
beloved Daughter of the Father, Mother of the Son and Spouse of the
Holy Spirit, I can truly become the cause of your joy
g But today look at me also with immense hope.
h - With immense hope, in the days in which
humanity knows the sorrowful experience of being far from God, having
built up a civilization without God, in which his Law is continually
violated and openly rejected. There have arrived for it the hours of
the great trial and of its merciful chastisement.
i Then, as Mother, I make myself present, in a
strong and continuous way, in order to help it in its journey of
conversion and of return to the Lord. Thus, to all humanity, I open
the door of my Immaculate Heart, a safe refuge, wherein it
must enter for its salvation.
j - With immense hope, the Church looks to
me as she lives out the purifying hour of her greatest crisis. She is
being permeated with the smoke of Satan, lacerated in her unity,
darkened in her holiness, threatened with the loss of faith and with
a great apostasy.
k For this reason, I manifest myself to the
Church, with the tenderness and the mercy of my motherly love, and
thus I myself am helping and comforting her, in the painful moments
of her great purification. My presence in the Church is, from now on,
becoming stronger, continuous and more manifest. In the Marian
Movement of Priests, the whole Church will see the extraordinary
assistance which the heavenly Mother is offering her, to lead her
into the safe refuge of her Immaculate Heart, where she will
know the bright hour of her second Pentecost.
l - With immense hope, look to me, my
little children, so afflicted, wounded and stricken by the impetuous
wind of the great tribulation.
m Come to me, all of you, my little
children.
n Come to me, because you have need of being
consoled, encouraged, protected, defended and saved by your heavenly
Mother.
o For this purpose, I have built for you the Ark
of the New Covenant, into which you must enter to attain the new
times which are now awaiting you. For this purpose, I invite you
again today to enter, one and all, with joy and with immense hope,
into the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart."
585
Dongo (Come, Italy); December 24, 1996
The Holy Night
God with Us
a "Live with me the mystery of this holy
night, in silence, in prayer, and in expectation. Share in the deep
joy of your heavenly Mother, who is preparing herself to give you her
divine Infant.
b The Son who is born of me is also my God. Jesus
is the only-begotten Son of the Father; He is the Word through whom
all things have been created; He is Light from Light, God from God,
consubstantial with the Father. Jesus is outside of time; He is
eternal. As God, He carries within Himself the synthesis of all the
perfections. By means of me, this God makes Himself true man.
c In my virginal womb, there came about his human
conception. In this holy night, He is born of me in a poor and
unadorned cave; He is placed in a cold manger; He is adored by his
Mother and by his legal father; He is surrounded by the humble
presence of shepherds; He is glorified by the heavenly cohort of the
angels, who sing the hymn of glory to God and of peace to the men who
have been loved and saved by Him.
d Bow down with me to adore the Infant Jesus, just
born: He is he Emmanuel; He is God with us.
e - He is God with us, because in the
divine Person of Jesus are united the divine nature and the human
nature. In the Incarnate Word, there is realized the substantial
unity of the divinity and of the humanity. As God, Jesus is above
time and space; He is immutable and impassible.
f But as man, Jesus enters into time, undergoes
the limitation of space, subject to all the fragility of human
nature.
g - He is God with its, who makes Himself
man for our salvation. On this holy night, the Savior and the
Redeemer is born for all. The fragility of this divine Infant becomes
remedy for all human fragility: his cry is alleviation for all
sorrow; his poverty is wealth for all misery; his pain is comfort for
all the afflicted; his gentleness is hope for all sinners; his
goodness becomes salvation for all the lost.
h - He is God with us, who makes Himself
redemption and refuge for all humanity. Enter with me into the bright
cave of his divine love. Allow yourselves to be placed by me in the
gentle and sweet cradle of his Heart, which has just begun to beat.
i Bow down with me, in an ecstasy of supernatural
blessedness, to feel its first beatings. Listen to the divine harmony
that rises from them with heavenly notes of love, of joy, of peace,
which the world has never known. It is a song which repeats to each
man the eternal and sweetest rhythm of love: I love you; I love you;
I love you. Each of its beats is a new gift of love for all. Listen
with me to his first sounds of crying. It is the cry of a
little baby, just born; it is the sorrow of a God, who carries upon
Himself all the sorrow of the world.
j - He is God with us, because, even in his
human fragility Jesus is truly God. Jesus Christ is God, outside of
changes of time and history: He is the same yesterday, today and
forever. During this year, when the Church is inviting you to enter
into the contemplation of the mystery of Christ, enter, each and all,
into the refuge of my Immaculate Heart. As Mother, I am leading you
to understand the great gift of this holy night.
k The Father has so loved the world that He
has given it his only-begotten Son, for its salvation. The Holy
Spirit has made my virginal womb fertile, because the Son born of me
is nothing else but the precious fruit of his divine action of love.
Your heavenly Mother has given her maternal assent, so that there
might be fulfilled the divine prodigy of this holy night.
l Beloved sons, bow down with me to kiss my
newborn Son, and love, and adore, and give thanks because this frail
Infant is God-made-man: He is the Emmanuel: He is God with us."
586
Milan (Italy); December 31, 1996
Last Night of the Year
Pray and Make Reparation
a "I invite you to spend the last hours of
this year, recollected with me in prayer, in silence, in a spirit of
intercession and of reparation.
b Pray and make reparation.
c - Pray, to obtain from the Lord, through
the maternal mediation of my Immaculate Heart, the graces of which
you have need in these conclusive days of the purification and the
great tribulation. With this coming year, enter into the time of
immediate preparation for the great jubilee of the year 2000.
d This special preparation which the Pope is
urging of you through his apostolic letter,' Tertio Millenio
Adveniente,' is to make you understand that this date is
important and significant for the Church and for all humanity.
e This date should be particularly significant for
you, because I have previously announced to you, for that date, the
triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the world.
f - Pray in intimate union of faith with
your heavenly Mother, who is carrying out her motherly work of
intercession for all her children. I ask of you an incessant prayer,
humble, persevering, trustful. And so I renew again my request to
spread everywhere the cenacles of prayer and fraternity. Let these
cenacles be spread among the priests, who are my beloved sons, and
among the faithful.
g I await a generous response from the little
children, so that they may be defended and protected by me from the
great perversion which has contaminated all the world. I ask the
young people to gather together in these cenacles, that they may
attain the new times which I have prepared for them. Above all, in
these cenacles, Christian families must gather together, so that they
may be helped by me to live in perfect communion of love, always open
to the gift of life which must be desired, protected and defended.
h - Pray to obtain the great gift of the
second Pentecost, implored and awaited by you. It will be the Holy
Spirit who will give to the world his full and perfect witness to
Jesus.
i Jesus Christ must be welcomed, loved,
adored and followed by all humanity as your one and only Redeemer and
Savior. The Holy Spirit will open the minds and hearts of all to
receive the light of truth. And thus there will be one single flock
under one single Shepherd.
j - Make reparation for the sins of this
poor humanity, which finds itself completely under the power of my
Adversary. See how it has rejected God! It has built a pagan
civilization, founded on the unbridled quest for pleasures and
material well-being. The Law of the Lord is being completely
subverted, and even the gravest moral disorders are being
legitimized. Pride has seduced minds; impurity has corrupted hearts;
the darkness of sin and evil has obscured souls.
k As of now, this poor humanity has touched
the bottom of its misery. It can no longer succeed in recovering if a
great act of mercy does not raise it up.
l Pray that the great miracle of divine
mercy come upon this world.
m - Make reparation for the infidelities of
so many sons of the Church. The lack of faith is spreading among its
very shepherds, and the flock is being stricken by the impetuous wind
of apostasy. Errors are being spread, taught and followed; the sects
are multiplying everywhere.
n Who will still remain firm in the faith in Jesus
and his Church?
o - Make reparation for my poor sinful
children. I ask of you that which I asked of the three children to
whom I appeared at Fatima. Do you wish to offer your life in a spirit
of prayer and reparation for the salvation of all the sinners,
especially those who have most need of divine mercy?
p So form, with me, a great network of love and
salvation, spread out over the whole world.
q This then is the Ark of the New Covenant, the
safe and awaited refuge, into which must enter those far away, the
atheists, the sinners, the poor, the sick, the despairing, so that
they may all enjoy the light, the peace and the joy which only the
Immaculate Heart of your heavenly Mother can give you.
r Never as in these final three years, which
separate you from the great jubilee, will it become clear to the
Church and to humanity, in an increasingly powerful way, how my
Immaculate Heart will be your safe refuge.
s For this I ask you to spend the last hours of
this year, not in dissipation and amusements, but with me in prayer
and in recollection.
t Pray and make reparation, my beloved
sons. Your heavenly Mother is causing her bright rays of purity and
holiness to come down upon you.
u I am preparing you to receive the new days which
are awaiting you as gifts of grace and mercy, because, through you,
my Immaculate Heart desires to attain its pre-announced triumph.”
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