To the
Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons
From the writings of Don Stefano Gobbi
Year 1976
YOU MUST BE LITTLE
91
February 2, 1976
Feast of the Presentation of the Child Jesus
A Sign of Contradiction
a "Do not be troubled, my sons, if you are
not understood by some and if on the contrary you are openly
criticized and persecuted. My Heart permits this to accustom you not
to rely on any creature, but on me alone. Beloved sons, lean on my
Immaculate Heart alone.
b Let yourselves be carried just as the
baby Jesus let Himself be carried in my arms to the house of the
Father. He presented Himself in the temple to be offered to the Lord
on this mother's Heart of mine.
c At the moment when I entrusted Him into the
hands of the priest, the old prophet Simeon revealed that the Mother
had been chosen by God for this offering: 'He is destined to be a
sign of contradiction and a sword, O Mother, will pierce your soul.'
(cf. Lk 2:34-35)
d You also, my little children consecrated to my
Immaculate Heart, you will be called today to be this sign of
contradiction.
e By your life, which will be, purely and
simply, a living Gospel. Today the Gospel of my Son Jesus is believed
in less and less, and even in the Church there are some who tend to
interpret it in a human and symbolic manner.
f You will live out the Gospel to the letter: you
will be poor, simple, pure, little and totally given over to the
Father.
g By your word, which will repeat ever more loudly
and clearly the truth which my Son Jesus has come to reveal to you.
h Do you see how many of your brother-priests
betray this truth, in the attempt to adapt it to the mentality of the
world, impelled by a false illusion of being better understood,
listened to by more people and more easily followed? No illusion is
more dangerous than this.
i Always announce the Gospel that you live with
fidelity and clarity! Your speech must be: ‘Yes, Yes – No, No.’
(cf. Mt 5:37). Everything else comes from the Evil One. Therefore let
yourselves be guided and led with docility by the Church
j See how the Pope is now announcing this truth
with power and how his voice falls more and more on barren soil!
k My motherly Heart is again pierced by a
sword as I see how the Holy Father, this first of my beloved sons, is
abandoned even by his brother-priests and left more and more alone.
l You, O priests consecrated to my Immaculate
Heart, must be the voice which spreads throughout the whole world
whatever the Vicar of my Son announces again today with firmness, for
the salvation of my poor misguided children.
m By your witness, which must be a light
and example for all the Church. It has been ordained by the Father
that yours be a witness which will become more and more painful. I
repeat, my sons; the road upon which I am leading you is that of the
Cross.
n Do not fear if you become increasingly the
target of misunderstandings, criticisms and persecutions. It is
necessary that this happen to you because, as was my Son Jesus, so
also are you being called today to be a sign of contradiction.
o The more you are followed, the more you will be
rejected and persecuted.
p When they attack your person or my Movement,
answer with prayer, with silence and with forgiveness.
q You will soon be called upon to struggle openly
when my Son Jesus, myself, the Church and the Gospel are attacked.
r Then only, led by me by the hand, should you
come out in the open to at last give your public witness. For now,
continue to live with simplicity, by entrusting yourselves, each and
all, to the care of my motherly Heart."
92
February 11, 1976
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
The Perfume o f Your Purity
a "Today, my beloved sons, I receive with joy
the perfume of your purity, and I place it on my Immaculate Heart to
offer it to God as a sign of reparation.
b How much filth submerges this poor
humanity, urged by me to set itself free from sin: `Come and drink of
this water I give you; come and wash at the fountain!' (cf. Jn
4:14)
c Do you see how, every day, many of my children
remain defiled with this filth which is spreading more and more and
dragging countless numbers of souls to their death? How can even many
of my poor priest-sons escape from this tide of filth?
d I am the Immaculate One: I am purity.
e Take refuge in my Immaculate Heart.
f Even though the surroundings in which you live
become more and more submerged in this impurity, you must breathe in
only my heavenly perfume.
g I have come down from heaven to make of you,
sons consecrated to my Heart, my heaven on earth. In you my light is
reflected. Thus through you many souls will again be drawn by my
candor, and they will spread the perfume of my virtue.
h The Pope has given you the signal for
turning the tide of this moral battle.
i Listen to him! Defend him! Console him!
j The outrage which was recently perpetrated
against his person and the insults which are increasingly being
hurled against him deeply pain my motherly Heart.
k This tide of filth has finally reached to
his very feet! But you must set up an embankment about the feet of
this angelic Pastor, of the gentle `Christ on earth.'
l By a special intervention on my part,
carried out through you, this diabolical wave of rebellion and of
filth, unleashed against the Pope, will stop at his feet. And the
greatness of his innocent person will appear intact to all."
93
March 7, 1976
First Sunday of Lent
The Perfect Consolers
a "My sons, be the perfect consolers
of my Son Jesus. Never as at the present time has his divine lament
been so often repeated: `I looked for comforters, and I found none!'
(Ps 69:20) Why does my Son ask if there is anyone who is able
to console his Heart?
b Jesus is God, but He is also man. He is
perfect man. His Heart beats with divine and human love: in Him is
all the fullness of love. His is the Heart which has loved most,
which has suffered most, which is sensitive to the delicacies and the
manifestations of affection, as it is to outrages and offenses.
c The Heart of my Son is now, as it were,
submerged in the great sea of human ingratitude.
d How much it still loves you! It continues to
beat with love for you, and it receives only offenses and sins.
e To you He has revealed the secret of the Father,
and He has led you back to Him. And now humanity has rebelled by the
very rejection of God.
f The flood of atheism is the thorn which now
makes the Heart of my Son Jesus bleed continuously.
g And you, O priests, are all my privileged sons
because you are the most painful and loving fruit of the predilection
of my Son Jesus.
h You are called by divine plan to be his
ministers, his apostles, his consolers.
i Why then do so many of you again betray Him
today?
j Why do many of you again flee today and leave
Jesus and the Church all alone?
k Why are so many of you again sleeping
today? And that sleeping is often the very work in which you allow
yourselves to be caught up and overwhelmed.
l That sleeping is also the way in which you seek
to adapt yourselves to the world, and to succeed in being agreeable
to, as well as accepted and understood by, this world. That sleeping
is everything which humanly weighs you down.
m Where are my sons who again today are
willing to keep watch? In prayer: `Watch and pray lest you give in to
temptation!' In the suffering of this new hour of agony for my
Church: `The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak!' (Mk 14:38)
n I am now calling you, my beloved sons; I am
gathering you together from all parts of the world, as a mother hen
does her chicks. I am gathering you all into my Immaculate Heart.
o Can the Mother remain indifferent to the great
abandonment and the great sorrow of her Son?
p And so then, understand that my duty is above
all to console Him.
q Therefore, I want you all consecrated to my
Heart to make you all into perfect consolers of the Heart of my Son
Jesus."
94
March 25, 1976
Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord
Mother of Jesus, and Yours
a "Priests consecrated to me, my sons, this
is the reason why you have need of me to become perfect
consolers of my Son Jesus.
b At the moment when, overshadowed by the
light of the Spirit, I uttered my yes to the Will of the Lord,
the Word of the Father, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity,
descended into my most pure womb, in the expectation of my maternal
collaboration, to receive from me his human nature and thus become
also man in the divine Person of my Son Jesus.
c Do you see how God entrusted Himself completely
to this human creature of his? The reason is to be found in the
mystery of the love of God.
d What moved God to stoop down to me was
the profound sense I had of my littleness and of my poverty, as well
as my perfect availability for the accomplishment of the Will of the
Lord.
e God could have chosen many other ways to come to
you, but He chose to select mine.
f And therefore, this way now becomes necessary
for you to reach God.
g The first thing that I ask of you, sons, is your
unconditional yes, and you say this by your consecration to my
Immaculate Heart.
h And then I ask you to entrust yourselves
to me with the greatest confidence and most complete abandonment.
i Your yes and your complete availability
will allow your Mother to act.
j As with great love I formed the human nature of
the Word, so too I will form in you, my sons, that image which
corresponds more and more to the plan which the Father has for each
one of you. The plan which God has for you, my beloved sons, is that
you be priests according to the Heart of Jesus.
k I am the Mother of God because I was
chosen to bring God to men; I am your Mother because I have the duty
of bringing to God those men redeemed by my Son and entrusted, each
and all, by Him to me.
l I am, therefore, the true Mother of Jesus and
your true Mother as well.
m On this day, when all Heaven exults in the
contemplation of the mystery of the Incarnation of the Word, you too
must rejoice while meditating on this mystery of the love of your
Mother.
n It is not given to everyone to understand this
mystery of love; it is given only to the pure of heart, to the
simple, to the little, to the poor. Go forward thus, my beloved ones,
and you will always be consoled and encouraged more and more by me."
95
April 3, 1976
First Saturday
Your Light Will Shine Resplendently
a "My beloved sons, today I accept with joy
the homage that you give to my Immaculate Heart.
b Let your hearts never become troubled.
c Obscurity is descending ever more and more upon
the world wrapped in the chill of the denial of God, of hatred, of
egoism, of rebellion against God, of impiety.
d The cup of iniquity is almost full, and the
justice of God demands atonement.
e I need you, my beloved sons, to form you into
victims worthy of being offered to the divine justice.
f And so you will be called more and more to
suffer. The hours of agony and passion are drawing closer to you.
g Do you see, sons, what is happening even in the
Church? Errors are being spread more and more and have taken hold of
even the good; infidelity is spreading increasingly among the
ministers of God and the souls consecrated to Him; even the hierarchy
is impaired in the bond of charity and in its unity.
h Above all, the Vicar of my Son Jesus is
left more and more alone! He is calumniated, even in a most vulgar
and blasphemous way; he is criticized and challenged and left more
and more alone by my own sons.
i You must share his lot with him: this is for him
and for you the hour of Gethsemane.
j Live it with me, in my Immaculate Heart.
k You are the crown of love woven by me to
place, as a source of comfort, about the Heart of my Son Jesus and of
his Vicar on earth.
l Therefore I ask you again for prayer,
suffering and silence.
m But your light must shine ever more and
more brightly as the darkness envelops everything.
n And yours will be the light of my presence in
this most severe trial. And my motherly and merciful intervention
will then become manifest to all."
96
April 13, 1976
Holy Tuesday
Look at My Crucified Son!
a "Beloved sons, look at my crucified
Son.
b Look at his face stained with blood, his
head crowned with thorns, his hands and his feet pierced by nails,
his body which has been made an open wound by the scourges, his Heart
pierced by a lance.
c My beloved ones, look at my crucified Son, and
you will be faithful priests.
d How many of you have gone no further than
to merely consider his word. They have wanted to penetrate and
understand it only with their own human intelligence and have thus
inadvertently fallen into most serious errors.
e It is not with human intelligence alone that the
word of my Son is to be read. He thanked the Father for having hidden
the mysteries of his kingdom from the wise and prudent of this world
to reveal them to the little ones.
f It is above all with interior humility and full
docility of the soul that his word is to be read and understood.
g For this reason, my Son has entrusted its
authentic interpretation only to the Magisterium of the Church, and
this, to accustom you to this difficult, and yet so necessary,
attitude of humility and interior docility.
h If you remain united to the Magisterium of the
Church, and if you remain humble and attentive to what the Church
points out to you, you will always keep within the truth of the word
of Jesus.
i Today error is being spread more and more within
the Church, and it seems that there is no longer any barrier that can
contain it. It is spread about especially by many theologians; it is
propagated by my poor priest-sons.
j How can you now, in the Church, be sure of being
preserved from error?
k Look at my crucified Son, and you will be
faithful.
l My Son who, God though He was, became obedient
even to the death of the Cross.
m Look at his thorns; look at his blood; look at
his wounds: they are flowers blossoming from the pain of his
obedience.
n My beloved sons, now that darkness covers all
things, you are being called to bear witness to the light of complete
obedience to the Church: to the Pope and to the bishops united with
him.
o And the more you witness to this complete
obedience to the Church, the more you will be criticized, ridiculed
and persecuted.
p But it is necessary that yours be an
increasingly painful and crucifying witness in order to help many of
my poor children to remain, even today in truth and in fidelity.
97
April 16, 1976
Good Friday
See if There Is a Greater Sorrow
a "Beloved sons, behold my sorrow. See if
there is a greater sorrow than mine!
b My Son Jesus, abandoned by all, scourged,
crowned with thorns, climbs Calvary with difficulty, carrying the
heavy Cross on his poor shoulders.
c He is unable to walk: He totters. There is not
one gesture of pity: only hatred, hostility and indifference surround
Him.
d It is at this moment that the Father
gives Him the comfort of his Mother. Think, my beloved sons, of the
comfort and of the pain of this encounter.
e Oh, the glance of my Son at that
moment!... In my Heart there opened a wound which has never healed.
f See the sorrow of your Mother as she
contemplates her Son crucified, agonizing and slain.
g Sorrow for Him who was dying; sorrow for you.
h Now my Son continues his passion in his
Mystical Body which is the Church.
i Today I think again of the villainous gesture
made by Judas in betraying Jesus. I feel again the same pain
at the betrayal which so many of my priest-sons perpetrate every day.
j O priests, my beloved sons, why do you still
betray? Why do you still persist in your treason? Why do you not
repent? Why do you not return?
k And Peter, who three times denies my
Son out of fear...
l How many of you, for fear of not being
understood, appreciated or esteemed, still deny the truth of the
Gospel: `I do not know that Man!'? (Mt 26:72)
m And the Apostles who run away and leave
Jesus alone for the whole of this long Friday!...
n How many of you run away and abandon my Church.
Some leave the Church to follow the world; others remain in the
Church and, to please the world, abandon it in their minds and
hearts.
o The Church is not loved by many of you. The
Vicar of my Son finds himself in a state of isolation which grows
ever greater.
p The bishops united with the Pope feel in their
souls the thorn of this solitude: they are increasingly criticized,
challenged and abandoned by their priests.
q John remains. He stays with the Mother.
r Priests of my Movement, you at least stay with
the Church and with me, your Mother.
s Look well at my sorrow, and suffer with me. In
this hour of Calvary for the Church, you will thus be the sign of my
presence - the one and only comfort which the Father gives it, in
this moment of its passion and its martyrdom."
98
May 3, 1976
You Will Be Capable of Loving
a "Beloved sons, let your hearts never
be disturbed by the attacks against my Movement, which are becoming
increasingly frequent.
b This is my work alone, and it corresponds
to a special plan of my Immaculate Heart.
c Difficulties, misunderstandings and sufferings
are permitted by me that this work of mine may be purified yet more.
d I want it to be purified of every human element
that it may thus reflect only my most pure light.
e I want to cover all my beloved sons, the
priests consecrated to my Immaculate Heart, with this most pure
light.
f This is why I ask you for complete detachment
from all persons, that I may give you true purity of heart. Every
human attachment to yourselves, to creatures and to the world
beclouds your interior purity.
g Of course I cannot ask you to live apart from
the world. It is in accord with the Will of my Son that you live in
the world, but without being of the world.
h You should live in the world in such a
way as to belong solely to my Son Jesus.
i You must belong solely to my Son Jesus to bring
the whole world to Him and thus lead souls to salvation.
j This is the kind of sympathy that you
should have for the world: the only kind desired by my Son and still
proposed to you by the Church today.
k Many of my sons are today being drawn
into numerous errors and becoming alienated from my Son and from me,
by this false way of understanding how you should live in the world.
l How many of my poor priest-sons have ended up by
being totally of the world and have become its prisoners.
m My Son Jesus saved this world above all when, to
be faithful to the Will of the Father, He detached Himself from
everyone to be raised up from the earth and hung upon the Cross.
n You will begin to bring back many souls to my
Son when, like Him, you also will be raised up from the earth. You
must become accustomed to being raised up even now, spiritually
speaking, by interior detachment from everyone.
o Thus you will possess true purity of heart. And
you will be truly capable of loving, even to the supreme test.
p You will always be carried by your Mother, who
knows where and how to lead you, that in each one of you the design
of the Father's Will may be realized."
99
May 13, 1976
Anniversary of the First Apparition at Fatima
Consecrate Yourselves to My Immaculate Heart
a "Today, my beloved sons, recall my coming
down upon this earth, in the poor Cova da Iria in Fatima. I came from
heaven to ask you for the consecration to my Immaculate Heart.
b Through you, priests of my Movement, what
I had then asked is now being realized. You are consecrating
yourselves to my Immaculate Heart and leading souls entrusted to you
to this consecration which I desire.
c Since that day how much time has passed! It is
now fifty nine years.
d The Second World War, foretold by me as a
punishment allowed by God for a humanity which alas did not repent,
has also taken place.
e Now you are living in that period of time when
the Red Dragon, that is to say Marxist atheism, is spreading
throughout the whole world and is increasingly bringing about the
ruin of souls.
f He is indeed succeeding in seducing and casting
down a third of the stars of heaven.
g These stars, in the firmament of the Church, are
the pastors: they are yourselves, my poor priest-sons.
h Has not perchance even the Vicar of my Son
affirmed to you that it is the dearest friends, even the confreres of
the same table, the priests and the religious, who are today
betraying and setting themselves against the Church?
i This is then the hour to have recourse to the
great remedy that the Father offers you to resist the seductions of
the Evil One and to oppose the real apostasy which is spreading more
and more among my poor children. Consecrate yourselves to my
Immaculate Heart.
j To everyone who consecrates himself to me I
again promise salvation: safety from error in this world and eternal
salvation.
k You will obtain this through my special
motherly intervention. Thus I will prevent you from falling into the
enticements of Satan. You will be protected and defended by me
personally; you will be consoled and strengthened by me.
l Now is the time when my call must be answered by
all priests who want to remain faithful.
m Each one must consecrate himself to my
Immaculate Heart, and through you priests many of my children
will make this consecration.
n This is like a vaccine which, like a good
Mother, I give you to preserve you from the epidemic of atheism,
which is contaminating so many of my children and leading them to the
death of the spirit.
o These are the times that I myself foretold; this
is the hour of the purification. Heed the requests of your Mother,
and entrust yourselves to me with all confidence and the most
complete surrender."
100
May 28, 1976
Follow Me on the Path of My Son
a "Beloved sons, listen to the voice of your
Mother who calls you gently to follow her.
Follow me along the path of prayer.
b Many of my children are on the point of
being eternally lost in these decisive moments, because there is no
one to pray and sacrifice himself for them.
c You must pray for them. Help me to save your
brothers!
d This is the hour of error, which is
succeeding in entering everywhere and especially in seducing many of
my priest-sons.
e Do not be astonished if you see fall
those who, still only yesterday, seemed the most faithful and most
secure.
f You will see fall even those who set themselves
up as teachers of others.
g Do not be surprised if, in this battle, those
fall who did not want or did not know how to use the weapon that I
myself gave you: my prayer, the simple and humble prayer of the holy
rosary.
h It is a simple and humble prayer, and
therefore it is most efficacious in combating Satan who today is
leading you astray especially by ostentation and pride.
i It is my prayer because it is offered with me
and through me. It has always been recommended to you by the Church
and also by the first of my beloved sons, the Vicar of Jesus, with
words that moved my motherly Heart.
Follow me along the path of suffering.
j You have now arrived at the moment of your
immolation; you are being called to suffer more and more.
k Give me all your suffering. Today it is
the misunderstandings, the attacks, the calumnies of your brothers.
Tomorrow it will be persecutions, imprisonment, condemnations on the
part of atheists and enemies of God who will see in you the obstacles
that must be eliminated.
l Walk with me, and follow me along the
path of my Son Jesus, along the way of Calvary, along the way of the
Cross.
m Never as in these moments will you have
to live so profoundly that which is the vocation of every Christian:
'He who wishes to come after Me must deny himself, take up his cross
and follow Me!' (Mt 16:24)
n Follow me, beloved sons: today it is necessary
to follow your Mother if you want to travel without fear the path of
my Son Jesus."
101
June 19, 1976
Say with Me Your Yes
a "There is another thing I ask of
you, beloved sons: your life. These are times, my sons, when I must
ask of some of you the gift of your very lives.
b The hour of martyrdom is in preparation, and the
Mother is gently leading you to the moment of your immolation.
c Do not look any longer at this world: look
to me; look upon the face of your heavenly Mother.
d I am reflecting upon you the light of
paradise which awaits you, and at the hour of trial, you will be
strengthened and encouraged.
e Do not look to creatures who, misled and
corrupted by Satan, will hurl themselves upon you with hatred and
violence.
f And yet, my beloved sons, you have always loved
and done good to all; you have always sought to help everyone.
g And now the chill of hatred and ingratitude is
spreading all about you.
h Do not be afraid. This is the hour of
Satan and of the power of darkness.
i Do not fear: take refuge in my Immaculate Heart.
j In this motherly Heart you will be warmed and
consoled. Here is the source of your joy and the secret of your
confidence.
k In this Heart you are little children
whom I am forming in interior meekness so that, at the invitation of
my Son who is associating you in his Sacrifice, you may respond with
a yes.
l Say it with me, my beloved sons, this yes of
yours to the Will of the Father. Then very soon you will see
appearing the dawn of a new world, washed and purified by your
reparative offering.
102
Lourdes (France); July 3, 1976
First Saturday
Your Most Necessary Witness
a "Be ever more docile in my hands,
beloved sons.
b Your life will be truly mine alone, if at
every moment you offer me your interior docility.
c How many priests there are today who do not
obey, who are in rebellion, who no longer observe any kind of
discipline!
d Your interior docility will bring you to
a more complete discipline in respect to the norms and directives of
the Church.
e You suffered today when you saw, in this
place consecrated to me, what a great number of profanations there
are and how many sorrows are inflicted on my motherly Heart. Children
who come to me dressed so indecently and who manage to pass freely at
the very feet of my venerated image.
f Share in my sorrow, and make reparation for
these true profanations that are being committed every day in this
place consecrated to me.
g Unfortunately the most responsible are the
priests. You see how they themselves dress in all sorts of ways,
sometimes in ways that are so shocking that they even scandalize the
faithful themselves.
h And yet the existing discipline of the
Church obliges these sons of mine to wear the ecclesiastical garb.
But who any longer observes this discipline? Few, and they are for
this reason all the more thought of as backward and old-fashioned.
i This question of garb is just a small example,
but it is indicative of a sad reality: today lack of discipline,
disobedience and intolerance of any norms is spreading among priests,
who are nevertheless still the sons of my maternal predilection.
j You at least, O priests consecrated to my
Immaculate Heart, be an example by your interior docility and your
obedience to the discipline of the Church.
k This is today the most urgent and
necessary witness that you can give.
l Only thus can you spread about you the example
and the fragrance of my Son Jesus. You will be chosen
instruments for the return of many priests to their duty of giving
that good example, which is one of the most important exigencies of
your own ministry.”
103
July 16, 1976
Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
In the Spirit of Filial Surrender
a "Son of my maternal predilection, do not
let yourself be distracted by things and by human vicissitudes.
Remain always close to my Heart in prayer!
b I am arranging everything for you as your real
Mother: the persons you are to meet, the circumstances in which you
find yourself and what you are to do. And so accustom yourself to
live trustfully in the present moment which the Father gives you and
the Mother prepares for you.
c Sons consecrated to my Immaculate Heart, you
should all live in the spirit of filial surrender, with the most
complete confidence in your Mother's action.
d A priest, who consecrates himself to my Heart,
draws upon himself this predilection on my part, which becomes
stronger and more evident and which the soul comes to perceive with
greater and greater clarity.
e It is I myself who, with you, am enabled to
carry out in a more complete manner my function as Mother. I am thus
able to act through you because, by your consecration to my
Immaculate Heart, you truly place yourselves like little children in
my arms
f Thus I speak to you, and you can hear my voice.
I lead you and you let yourselves be guided by me, with docility.
g I clothe you with my own virtues; I nourish you
with my food. You are more and more interiorly drawn by the perfume
of this motherly action of mine which makes you little, poor humble,
simple and chaste.
h Above all, I bring you gently before the divine
Person of my Son Jesus present, as in heaven, in the sacrament of the
Eucharist. You acquire from me a taste for prayer. Prayer of
adoration, prayer of thanksgiving, prayer of reparation.
i The more the coldness of desertion and silence
surrounds my Son Jesus, present among you in the Eucharist, the more
I myself gather the voices of my beloved sons so that, united with my
voice, there may be composed even here on earth a melody of love to
be offered to the Heart of my Son for his consolation.
j This is the army that I am preparing; this is
the cohort of my priests that I am now gathering from all parts of
the world. A hidden cohort of little children consecrated to my
Immaculate Heart, whom I am making more and more like myself, that
Jesus may offer them to the Father as a sign of reparation and
atonement.
k Therefore I say to you again: pay no
attention to all the evil which is spreading more and more and
flooding everywhere. Disregard also the great evil which Satan is
succeeding in spreading even in the Church.
l Turn your gaze to me alone, and consider
the great good which, in silence, your Mother is accomplishing by
drawing an ever increasing number of priest-sons to her Heart.
m Close your eyes to everything else, and
open them only to this marvelous reality. This is why I ask you
again, sons, to live in the spirit of filial abandonment and of your
most steadfast confidence in my Immaculate Heart."
104
July 26, 1976
Feast of Sts. Joachim &Ann
My Time
a "My time, beloved sons, is not measured by
days. My time is measured only by the beating of my motherly Heart.
Each beat of this Heart marks a new day of salvation and of mercy for
you, my poor children.
b And so I invite you to live only in
trust.
c Your time must be measured by trust in the
merciful love of the Father and in the action of your heavenly
Mother.
d My parents, Ann and Joachim, whom the
Church calls to mind today and holds up to you as examples, lived in
this trust.
e All the saints and the friends of God lived in
this trust.
f The Almighty, in carrying out his plan in every
age, always made use of this trust alone.
g Often He realized it even against everyone's
expectation, at a moment when no one thought it possible. This is how
the great plan of God was accomplished through these two poor and
humble creatures, whom He called to prepare for the birth of your
heavenly Mother.
h And your Mother was called to hope against the
very evidence of things and to place her complete trust only in the
word of God. Thus she became the Mother of the Word and gave you her
Son Jesus.
i Now I have announced to you the triumph of my
Immaculate Heart and the necessary and painful purification which
must precede it.
j I have also told you that this is the time of
the purification and that these are the years of my triumph. But do
not search out the moment, scrutinizing the future and counting the
years, the months and the days. In this way you would be caught up by
anxiety and agitation and would truly waste your time, which is so
precious.
k My beloved sons, my time is not to be measured
in this way, but only by your trust in me, who am preparing
you to be instruments chosen and formed by me to bring about at this
time the triumph of my Immaculate Heart."
105
July 31, 1976
Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola
Your Difficulties
a "Follow me, beloved sons, in complete
trust, and do not let yourselves be troubled by the difficulties
which you encounter on your way.
b These difficulties are permitted by God to help
you grow in your life of perfect consecration to my Immaculate Heart.
c They detach you from your way of seeing and
thinking, from your tastes and attachments, and little by little,
they bring you to see and think only according to the Heart of my Son
Jesus.
d After each difficulty I see the life of
Jesus increase in you: and it is this that gives such great comfort
to my motherly Heart.
e Have you not become aware, my sons, of
how, under my personal influence, your life is truly changing?
f It is the interior difficulties of
the soul which cause you most pain.
g You are mine, and yet you feel attracted
to the world; you are clothed in my own purity, and yet you
experience the affliction of temptations of the flesh. Some of you
complain and would like to be free of this.
h And yet, my beloved sons, how much this
interior difficulty which you are experiencing makes you grow in
detachment from your own selves!
i Never look at yourselves. The less beautiful you
look to yourselves the more beautiful you will look to me and my Son
Jesus.
j It is my mantle that covers you. It is my own
purity which causes you to shine.
k Then there are the exterior
difficulties. These are the ones in the midst of which you find
yourselves: misunderstandings, criticism. Sometimes I permit even
scorn and calumny.
l My Adversary makes special use of this
last mentioned, above all, to strike at you and discourage you.
m And you, how are you to respond? As Jesus did:
by silence, by prayer, by living in intimate union with the Father.
n In the light of the Father, all that is not
true, all that is not good, all deceit and all calumny dissolve of
themselves like mist in the sun.
o And since you are in my Immaculate Heart, there
is nothing that can touch you.
p Anyone who would intentionally do you harm will
not succeed in striking you; anyone who acts in good faith will see
the light even before the evil reaches you.
q And you will walk in peace, even in the
midst of the tempest of the present moment.
r Then there are also the difficulties of your
time. Beloved sons, with what care you have been formed and
prepared by me for your time!
s These difficulties are also permitted by me that
they may make you ever more docile instruments in my hands for the
plan which I am realizing at this time.
t Atheism which is spreading throughout the world,
the crises which continue to expand within the Church, error which is
being disseminated everywhere: these are the waves of the great
tempest.
u You are being called to be my peace in this
storm.
v And so walk in serenity, walk in tranquility,
walk in trust. Thus the more obscurity descends, the more you will be
my light; and if the storm increases day by day, you will be ever
more and more my peace. You will give to each one, at every moment,
the sign of my motherly presence among you."
106
August 7, 1976
First Saturday
Only with the Pope
a "Today from every part of the world comes
that homage which is so pleasing to my Immaculate Heart, the homage
of those priests who are consecrated to me, of you, sons of my
maternal predilection.
b Let yourselves be led by me, and you will
not feel the weight of your daily difficulties.
c I want you in my arms, all of you given over to
my Immaculate Heart, that you may thus walk toward the goal which I
have set for each one of you.
d I have already pointed out what this goal
is: to make of you priests according to the Heart of Jesus.
e You must be truly Jesus today for the men of
your time.
f Jesus who speaks: thus you will speak only the
truth. The truth contained in the Gospel and guaranteed by the
Magisterium of the Church.
g Today, as darkness descends upon everything and
error spreads more and more in the Church, you should direct all
people to that fount from which Jesus causes his words of truth to
issue forth: the Gospel entrusted to the hierarchical Church, that is
to say, the Pope and the bishops united to him.
h Not to individual priests, not to individual
bishops, but only to those priests and bishops who are united with
the Pope.
i Today, how deeply wounded and afflicted is my
Heart of Mother of the Church by the scandal, even of bishops who do
not obey the Vicar of my Son and who drag a great number of my
children along the path of error.
j And therefore, you should at this time proclaim
to all by your words that Jesus has made Peter alone the foundation
of his Church and the infallible guardian of truth.
k Today whoever is not with the Pope will not
succeed in remaining in the truth.
l The seductions of the Evil One have become so
insidious and dangerous that they are succeeding in deceiving almost
anyone.
m Here even the good can fall.
n Here even the masters and the wise ones can
fall.
o Here even the priests and the bishops can fall.
p Those will never fall who are always with the
Pope.
q This is why I want to make you a disciplined and
attentive cohort, obedient and docile even to the desire of this
first of my beloved sons. The Vicar of my Jesus.
r Jesus who acts: you must above all relive Jesus
in you life and be a living Gospel.
s For this I will make you ever poorer, ever more
humble, ever purer, ever smaller.
t Do not be afraid of entrusting yourselves
completely to me. I am his Mother and yours; and I know how to do
only one thing for you, and that is to help you to be born and to
grow up like other little Jesuses for the salvation of all my
children.
u When this cohort of priests is ready; then it
will be the time for me to crush the head of my Adversary, and the
renewed world will experience the joy of the triumph of my Heart.
107
August 15, 1976
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin Mary into Heaven
Live in Paradise with Me
a "Live, my beloved sons, there where
I am: in paradise, assumed body and soul, to share fully in the glory
of my Son Jesus.
b Always associated with Him through my
role of Mother on this earth, I am now in paradise associated in the
glory of the Son, who wants the Mother at his side, having given me a
glorified body like his own.
c Here is the reason for this extraordinary
privilege of mine.
d As by my yes I made it possible
for the Word of God to assume his human nature in my virginal womb,
so also by my yes I entrusted myself to the action of my Son
Jesus, who assumed your Mother into the glory of heaven, body and
soul.
e Mine is a transfigured and glorified
body, but a real body, my beloved sons. Mother and Son are now
together in paradise forever.
f But I am also your real Mother, and thus I can
love you not only with my soul, but also with my glorified body.
g I love you with this mother's Heart of mine
which has never ceased to beat with love for you.
h Beloved sons, you also should be living
there where I am: live in paradise with me.
i It is true; you are still on this earth of
sorrows, and often you experience all its weight and suffering.
j But why, while still living in this land of
exile, do you not also live, even now, there where your Mother is?
Live in paradise with me, and do not let yourselves be attracted by
the world, nor imprisoned by this earth.
k Today there is a tendency which is
extremely false and dangerous: that of looking only at this earth. It
is as though we are afraid that, if we look at paradise, we will be
drawn away from the duties of daily life. Live in paradise with me,
and then you will live well, even on this earth!
l Carry out here below the plan of the Heavenly
Father, and you will create true happiness all about you.
m The more you look to the Father and live with
me, the more will you labor on this earth for your own good and the
good of all.
n Paradise - that is, the real one - can never be
found on this earth.
o How he deceives and seduces you, this Adversary
of mine who in his fury tries to prevent you from coming up here to
be with my Son and with me!
p Paradise is found only in the light of the Most
Holy Trinity, with my Son Jesus and with me.
q The angels and the saints are illumined
by this light, and they rejoice in it. All paradise is resplendent
with this light.
r Live then while searching for, cherishing and
gazing upon this paradise which awaits you, my beloved sons.
s And here below, live in the paradise of my
Immaculate Heart.
t Then you will be serene and deeply happy.
u You will always be littler and more abandoned,
poorer and more chaste.
v And the littler, poorer and more chaste you
become, the more you will be able to enter into the paradise of my
Immaculate Heart, where time is now marked by the beating of a Heart
which knows no stopping."
108
August 22, 1976
Feast of the Queenship of Mary
Your Queen and Your Leader
a "I am your Queen.
b The power of the Father, the wisdom of
the Son and the love of the Holy Spirit, in the light of the Most
Holy Trinity, have confirmed me forever in my function of maternal
royalty.
c This is my crowning glory.
d It is my universal royalty: Mother of the
Son, Queen with the Son.
c I am your Leader.
f I am calling you, my beloved sons, to gather you
all into my cohort, of which I myself am the Queen and the Leader.
g Therefore there should be no leader among
you: you are all brothers, united in love that must grow ever more
and more.
h If anyone wishes to become the greatest, let him
become truly the least.
i Only he who loves the most, who serves the most,
who listens to me the most, who becomes ever smaller to the point of
disappearing in my Immaculate Heart is the one whom I myself will
make ever greater.
j I am your Leader.
k You therefore, my beloved ones, must
listen to my voice, be docile to my teachings and above all be prompt
and obedient to my orders.
i I want to make of you sons who want to obey, who
always know how to obey.
m Obedience and docility: this is the
livery in which I wish to attire you.
n I will give my orders through the voice of him
whom my Son has appointed to govern his Church: the Pope with the
hierarchy united to him.
o How my motherly Heart is wounded and saddened
today to see that some priests and even some bishops no longer obey
the orders of the Vicar of my Son Jesus!
p Every kingdom divided against itself is destined
to defeat and ruin.
q These poor sons of mine who do not obey and who
rebel are already victims of the most subtle and insidious kind of
pride and are walking towards their death.
r How Satan, my Adversary from the beginning, is
succeeding today in deceiving and seducing you!
s He makes you believe that you are guardians of
tradition and defenders of the faith, while he causes you to be the
first to make shipwreck of you faith and leads you, all unaware, into
error.
t He makes you believe that the Pope is denying
the truth, and thus Satan demolishes the foundation on which the
Church is built and through which the truth is kept intact throughout
the ages.
u He goes so far as to make you think that I
myself have nothing to do with the Holy Father’s way of acting. And
so, in my name, sharp criticisms aimed at the person and the work of
the Holy Father are spread about.
v Priests, sons of my maternal predilection, be
prudent, be attentive, be enlightened because the darkness is
invading everything.
w How can the Mother publicly criticize the
decisions of the Pope, when he alone has the special grace for the
exercise of this sublime ministry?
x I was silent at my Son’s voice; I was silent
at the voice of the Apostles. I am now lovingly silent at the voice
of the Pope: that it might be disseminated more and more, that it
might be heard by all, that it might be received into souls.
y This is why I am very close to the person of
this first of my beloved sons, the Vicar of my Son Jesus.
z By my silence, I am helping him to speak.
A By my silence, I am lending strength to his own
words.
B Return, return, my priest-sons, to love,
obedience and communion with the Pope!
C Only in this way can you belong to my cohort, of
which I am the Queen and Leader.
D Only in this way can you hear my orders, which I
will give through the very voice of the Pope.
E Only in this way can you fight along with me for
the assured victory; otherwise, you are already marching toward
defeat.
F Beloved sons, if you consecrate yourselves to my
Immaculate Heart and entrust yourselves to me completely, I will
cover you with my own brightness, and you will always be filled with
light. I will clothe you with my interior docility, and you will be
ever obedient; I will thus make you instruments fit for this battle
of mine, and you will see in the end my royal victory.
109
September 8, 1976
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
Mary
You Must Be Little
a "Look, O sons, at your Mother, as a little
infant. Because I was little, I was pleasing to the Most High.
b The exemption from all stain of sin
whatsoever which I enjoyed, by privilege, from the first instant of
my conception, gave me the true measure of my littleness.
c Little, because a creature of God and chosen
beforehand to be the Mother of the Word.
d Little, because I received everything
from God.
e Little, because I was overshadowed by the
power of God who covered me with his greatness.
f My richness is therefore only that of the little
and poor: humility, faith, abandonment, hope.
g Today the Church invites you to
contemplate your heavenly Mother at the moment of her birth.
h Look, my beloved ones, at this infant
Mother of yours, and learn to be little.
i You must be little because you are my children,
and therefore you should live the same life as I.
j You must be little to become docile
instruments in my plan and to draw upon yourselves the good pleasure
of my Son Jesus.
k How Jesus loves you, my dear sons! Indeed
He loves you because you want to be little, poor, simple and humble.
l You must be little to oppose Satan who is
succeeding in leading people astray by pride and arrogance.
m Do you not understand that he will never
succeed in leading you astray or in deceiving you if you remain
humble?
n You must be ever littler because your
Mother wants you entirely for herself: she wants to feed you, to
clothe you, to carry you in her arms.
o You must be little because in this way you will
always say yes to the Will of the Father.
p Say with me your yes. Thus in you
I will repeat the yes of my perfect docility to the Will of
God.
q And lastly, you must be little to form this
humble heel which Satan will try to bite, but with which I will crush
his head.
r You must therefore be ever littler if you wish
to prepare for the greatest triumph of my Immaculate Heart."
110
September 25, 1976
This Is Why I Speak to You
a "If you are little, you will always hear my
voice.
b My beloved sons, do not let yourselves be misled
by the many voices which are heard today. My Adversary deceives you
with ideas and confuses you with words.
c You are, as it were, being submerged by a sea of
words which grows ever greater and covers everything. The event of
the Tower of Babel described in the Bible is now being repeated. You
are now reliving the drama of the confusion of tongues.
d Your own words confuse you. Your own voices
hinder you from understanding.
e It is now more than ever necessary to listen to
my voice. This is why I speak to you.
f I speak to you to help you recover from
the confusion, created today by your own words. Hence, as Mother, I
gently lead you to listen to the one Word of the Father. This Word
was made flesh and life in my most pure womb. My Heart opened to
welcome it and guarded it as a precious treasure.
g I speak to you because today it is
necessary to listen to his word. It is necessary to welcome it and to
guard it jealously.
h It is only the word of my Son that I want you to
hear. Today his voice has become, as it were, drowned out: it is the
Word of he Father; it is my Son Jesus who is no longer heard.
i His word, so clearly contained in the Gospel,
is, as it were, submerged by so many other human voices. You have
made a gospel of your own with your own words. You, my beloved sons,
should listen to and announce only the word of my Son, just as it is
set down in his Gospel.
j The Church speaks to you. But each one wants to
have his own say as to what she is telling you, and thus insecurity
and confusion spreads about. And the Church is more than ever torn by
this real confusion of tongues.
k I speak to you to tell you what sort of
word you should listen to today in the Church: that of the Pope, and
that of the bishops united with him.
l The darkness grows ever deeper, and I speak to
you to be your light. Error spreads, and I speak to you, my beloved
sons, because you are called to remain in the truth, you the
ministers of the word, you the heralds of the truth.
m The future looks distressing, and I speak to you
to urge you to be confident and completely abandoned, in my motherly
Heart.
n A deafening uproar of voices brings greater and
greater confusion to everything. And I speak to you to implore
silence, suffering and prayer.
o 1 speak to you to ask of you today those
things which are most precious to me. Each day I gather up your
prayer and your suffering, and they are deposited by me in the
chalice of my Immaculate Heart and are offered to the justice of God
which seeks to be appeased.
p Hence today everything can still be saved: and
this is why I speak to you!
q Beloved sons, do not close your hearts to my
words.
r The plan of the Father has made much of what
awaits you depend on whether my words are harkened to or rejected.
s The purification can still be set back or
shortened. Much suffering can still be spared you.
t Listen to me, sons, with simplicity. If you are
little, then you will hear me and heed me. Little children understand
very well the voice of the Mother.
u Happy those who still listen to me. They will
now receive the light of the truth and will obtain from the Lord the
gift of salvation.”
111
November 8, 1976
Look at Your Mother!
a "Look, son, at your heavenly Mother. See
how beautiful she is!
b She is the Father's masterpiece of beauty. She
is the cradle of the Son. She is the delicate tapestry of the Holy
Spirit. She is the enclosed garden in full bloom, where the delight
of the Most Holy Trinity has grown ever greater.
c Look only at your Mother! Thus my beauty will
cover you. I want to clothe you in my heavenly mantle; I want to
clothe you with my purity; I want to surround you with my own light.
d You feel little, and this is true. You
feel poor, and you see yourself full of defects; it seems to you that
you have nothing to give me.
e Oh, your love is enough for me! I do not
want anything else of you.
f You cannot understand at this time, but in
heaven you will contemplate, in yourself, the glory of your Mother
and the summit of love to which Jesus, with her, has brought you.
g It seems to you as though Jesus is hiding
Himself to put his Mother before Him. But this is because He wants it
to be she who loves Him in you!
h It seems to you that you always have the
Mother before you. I see that it is Jesus Himself who leads you to
me, because in this way you will give to his Heart that joy which
others cannot give Him.
i Do not talk; be more and more silent with
everyone. Never become discouraged because of your defects. I love
you so much, son; I look at your heart, not at your character. And
when by impulse you make mistakes, how great is the joy you give me
if immediately you humble yourself and ask forgiveness. Offer me your
wounds. Give me always a yes, and no longer think anything of
yourself. I want to be the one who thinks of everything."
112
November 20, 1976
The Time o f the Purification
a "Listen to my voice, and let
yourselves be led by me, beloved sons. Thus my own life will increase
in you, and you will spread my light all about you.
b It is now becoming ever more necessary and
urgent to spread the gentle invitation of your Mother throughout the
world.
c This world is constantly drawing further and
further from God and no longer pays any attention to the word of my
Son Jesus. Thus does it fall into the darkness of denial of God and
into the deceitful mirage of being able to do without Him.
d It is as if you have even succeeded in
building a purely human civilization, obstinately closed against any
divine influence whatsoever.
e God, in his infinite majesty, cannot but hold in
disdain this humanity which has gathered itself together in
opposition to Him.
f Thus the cold of egoism and pride spreads ever
more and more. Hatred prevails over love and daily claims its
countless victims, victims known and unknown, violence against
innocent and defenseless creatures who, at every moment, cry out for
terrible vengeance before the throne of God.
g And more and more, sin continues to pervade
everything.
h Where today is there a place where sin
does not exist? Even those houses consecrated to the worship of God
are profaned by the sins that are committed in them. It is the
persons who are consecrated, the very priests and religious, who have
lost even the sense of sin. Some of them, in their thoughts, their
words and their way of life, sacrilegiously allow themselves to be
led by Satan.
i Never before as today has the Devil succeeded so
well in seducing you.
j He seduces you through pride and thus
brings you to justify and legitimize moral disorder. And after you
have fallen he succeeds in smothering within you the voice of remorse
which is a true gift of the Spirit, which calls you to conversion.
How numerous now are my poor children who for years have stopped
going to confession!
k They are rotting in sin and are eaten up
with impurity, with a devouring attachment to money, and with pride.
l Satan has now pitched his tents even among the
ministers of the sanctuary and has brought the abomination of
desolation into the holy temple of God.
m It is necessary, then, that the Mother speak to
you and lead by the hand. Her duty is above all that of guiding you
in struggle against the infernal dragon.
n So I say to you: these are the times of
the purification; these are the times when the justice of God will
chastise this rebellious and perverted world, for its salvation.
o The purification has already begun within the
Church: pervaded with error, darkened by Satan, covered with sin,
betrayed and violated by some of its own pastors.
p Satan sifts you like wheat; how much chaff will
soon be blown away by the wind of persecution!
q From now on, my presence among you will
become more continuous and more apparent. You yourselves will
experience it more and more, as from every part of the world I am
already calling you and gathering you together in the cohort of my
priests, that you may all be guided by me in the battle which has
already begun."
113
December 4, 1976
First Saturday
Of What Are You Afraid?
a "My beloved sons, be ever more
docile, and allow yourselves to be led by me with complete
confidence.
b In the darkness of this hour of trial for
the Church, you are called by me to walk in the light.
c The light shines forth from my Immaculate
Heart and comes to you to envelop you and illumine your path.
d Stand firm; never again must you doubt! Your
road is safe because it has been marked out for you by your heavenly
Mother. How much my motherly Heart is saddened by the doubt and
mistrust which is taking more and more hold of the souls of so many
of my priest-sons! Why do you doubt? Of what are you afraid?
e Jesus redeemed you from the Evil One at
the very hour of his triumph: `This is the hour of Satan and of the
power of darkness.' (cf. Lk 22:53)
f My Son Jesus gave you life for ever at the very
hour when He was slain on the Cross.
g At the moment of his death, He set all of you
free from death.
h My Church, of which I am the Mother,
lives again the life of Christ and is now called to tread the same
path He trod.
i Of what, then, are you afraid?
j Of a world that has hurled itself with violent
hatred against you? Of Satan who has succeeded in making his way into
the heart of the Church and of reaping his victims from among its
very pastors? Or of the error which menaces it, or the sin which
darkens it more and more, or the infidelity which floods it?
k This, my beloved sons, is for my Church
still the hour of Satan and of the power of darkness.
l It will be also immolated like Christ on the
Cross and be called to die for the salvation and the renewal of the
world.
m And since this is the hour of your purification,
it is above all the hour of your suffering.
n Could it perhaps be this that you fear?
o But what if the Father has called you now, one
by one, from all eternity for this hour? And what if your heavenly
Mother has long since chosen you and prepared you for this hour?
p Live then in serenity of spirit and without
fear, even in the midst of the anxieties and threats of your time.
q And so I say again: do not be always peering
into the future to see what is going to happen. Live only the present
moment with trust and complete abandonment, in this Heart of mine."
114
December 24, 1976
The Holy Night
I Ask the Gift of Your Love
a "Beloved son of my Immaculate Heart, spend
these hours of vigil with me: in prayer, in silence, in attentiveness
to your heavenly Mother.
b Today, as of old, is the birthday of my Son
Jesus; today, as of old, my dear sons, you should prepare for his
coming.
c With my spouse, Joseph, a just and chaste man,
humble and strong, chosen by the Father to be of precious assistance
to me especially during these moments, I completed the last stage of
a most fatiguing journey.
d I felt the fatigue of the journey, the
sharpness of the cold, the uncertainty of the arrival, the insecurity
of what might be lying ahead of us.
e And yet I dwelt, as it were, far from the world
and the things of the world, all absorbed in a continual ecstasy with
my Child, Jesus, whom I was about to give you.
f My sole support was trust in the Father; the
sweet expectation of the Son lulled me; in the Spirit, I was filled
only with the fullness of love.
g As Mother I thought of a house, and the
Father prepared us a shelter; I dreamt of a cradle for my little
baby, and even then the manger was ready; on that night all paradise
was contained within a cave.
h And when fatigue had seized upon us and the
continual refusal to receive us had worn out our human endurance,
then the cave was ready for the light. And in the light of a heaven
which opened to receive the great prayer of the Mother, my virginal
bud opened in the divine gift of the Son.
i With me, my beloved sons, give to his Heart the
first kiss. Feel with me its first beat. Be the first to look into
his eyes.
j Hear his first cry of weeping, of joy, of love.
k He wants only your comfort.
l He asks for your gift of love.
m Enwrap his little limbs in love; He has so much
need of warmth! All the coldness of the world surrounds Him. Only the
warmth of love comforts Him.
n Since that time, each year the Church renews
this mystery. Since that time, my Son is ever being born again in
hearts.
o And today, also, there is a world which rejects
Him and, in great part, closes its door to Him. Just as in those
days, the great ones ignore Him.
p But the hearts of the little ones open to Him.
The longing of the simple is appeased. The life of the pure is
enlightened.
q On this holy night, my beloved sons, I want to
entrust my Child to you.
r I lay Him down in the cradle of your hearts. Let
the great fire of your love increase. With Him I must enkindle all
the love of the world."
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December 31, 1976
Last Night of the Year
True Poverty of Spirit
a "Spend the last hours of this year, which
the Immaculate Heart of your heavenly Mother has made extraordinary
for you by its graces and gifts, in prayer and interior recollection.
b I myself have wanted you here and have
led you to this house which I have been preparing for you for some
time. You are here in silence and in prayer: you listen to me; you
speak to me; you call upon the Father with me. You have close to you
this brother of yours who loves you so much and who, in my Heart,
deeply cherishes you.
c Your heavenly Mother sees with eyes that are
different from yours: hers is a regard of light and of love. For me,
that person is great who is considered a nobody and of no value in
the eyes of men.
d This house, which is hidden and unknown
and attracts no attention, is now the place of my presence, and it is
here, and nowhere else, that I have wanted you to spend these holy
days with me.
e Accustom yourself to see everything with the
same eyes as your Mother. Always regard with pleasure and very
special love those whom the world ignores and disdains.
f May your heart always consider those to be
greater whom men consider as nobodies and of no worth: the poor, the
small, the humble, the suffering, the unknown.
g Even among your brother-priests you should feel
closer to those who are overlooked and considered as nothing. Oh, if
you only knew what precious treasures to my motherly Heart are all
these beloved sons of mine whom no one esteems.
h Give them to me on this last night of the
year: offer them to me, one by one. What comfort their love brings to
my Immaculate Heart! How their hidden beauty makes amends for the
sorrow caused to my Heart by those who consider themselves great and
esteemed, and who spend their lives seeking every kind of human
recognition.
i True poverty of spirit is the gift I make to him
whom I call. It is emptiness which draws my love. It is the
wavelength on which my voice can be heard and understood.
j Be always poor in this way, that you may see
each new day through my eyes and give me to him who, in poverty, has
awaited me for so long."
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