To the
Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons
From the writings of Don Stefano Gobbi
Year 1984
I ASK THE CONSECRATION OF ALL
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January 1, 1984
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Have Courage
a "Begin this new year in the light of my
divine maternity Beloved sons, this feast should be a sign of
confidence and of hope for all of you.
b Have courage; I am the Mother of Grace
and of Mercy. If the new year is opening amid clouds that menacingly
thicken on the horizon, if humanity is incapable of finding its way
back to God, if the disintegrating forces of evil and death in the
world are increasing, if insecurity and fear mark the passage of your
days, look to me as to the Mother of Divine Mercy.
c Today I bend down over this generation, so
ailing and so threatened, with the love a mother has for the neediest
of her children and for those exposed to danger. With my immaculate
hands I gather up all the sufferings and immense miseries of humanity
and present them to the Heart of my Son, Jesus, that He may cause the
river of his merciful love to flow down upon the world.
d Have courage, because Jesus loves you
with his divine tenderness, and your heavenly Mother is always among
you to share your difficulties and dangers.
e Have courage; I am the Mother of the
Savior and of your Redeemer.
f On the Cross Jesus redeemed you forever,
suffering and dying for you. His Sacrifice has an infinite value,
transcending time. His blood, his wounds, his painful agony, his
atrocious death upon the Cross, possess the value of salvation even
for this generation of yours, which without Him would have gone to
perdition.
g His Sacrifice is mystically consummated
in every Holy Mass which is celebrated.
h To the general and renewed rejection of
God, the answer is still that of his renewed and sorrowful prayer,
with its infinite capacity for reparation: `Father, forgive them, for
they know not what they say or what they do. ' (cf. Lk 23:34)
i If sin and evil are overflowing, today there is
offered anew to the divine justice the innocent blood of the true
Lamb of God, who takes away all the sins of the world.
j To the threat of war and of destruction, the
answer is the certainty of having the real presence among you of
Jesus in the Eucharist, he who is Life and who has conquered sin and
death forever.
k At the beginning of this new year, look
to Jesus your Redeemer and to your heavenly Mother, who console you
and lead you to penetrate into the wonderful plan of your salvation.
l Have courage: I am the Mother and the Queen of
Peace. Through me peace will come to you. Listen to my voice, and let
yourselves be led by me with docility.
m On the eve of the great trials awaiting
you, in the threat, now feared by all, of a new and frightful war,
know that my presence among you, confirmed today in so many ways and
with such great prodigies, is a sign which tells you how, at the end
of the great suffering, my Immaculate Heart alone will triumph.
n This will be the great victory of love and of
peace throughout the whole world!"
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Shrine of Castelmonte (Udine, Italy);
January 21, 1984
Feast of St. Agnes
(After the Gospel during the concelebration)
My Book
a "I accept the homage from you, who have
come up here to my Shrine, to give thanks to your heavenly Mother for
the book. How many difficulties `my book' has encountered, but how
much good has it already done in every part of the world, translated
now into so many languages!
b It has been the instrument for carrying to the
hearts and souls of so many beloved children the voice of the
heavenly Mother, the manifestation of my maternal plan, my invitation
to receive you all within the refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
c How should this book be read?
d With the simplicity of a child who is listening
to his mother. He doesn't ask why she speaks, or how she speaks, or
where her words are going to lead him. He loves her, and he listens
to her. He does what she says. And then the child is happy, because
he feels that in this way he is guided and illumined by his mother.
Led by her and formed by her words, each day he continues to grow in
life.
e So should it be for you. Read it with
simplicity, without minding about such problems as how I speak, why I
speak, where I am speaking. My only concern is that you live
everything I have told you. Then your hearts will be inflamed with
love, your souls will be illumined by my light, and I will transform
you interiorly to lead you to do each day what pleases the Heart of
Jesus.
f If you are consecrated to me, I take you just as
you are, with your limitations, your defects and sins, your frailty,
but then each day I transform you to bring you to be in accordance
with the plan which God has entrusted to my Immaculate Heart.
g What do I say in this book of mine?
h I trace out a simple and beautiful road,
but a difficult one, oh how difficult! It is necessary to travel it,
if you wish to live the consecration.
i I teach you how to live; I form you in a
practical way to live with me.
j I tell you the things which I have most on my
Heart, because they are the very things which Jesus has told you in
the Gospel, which today should be lived with the simplicity of little
ones, with the ardor of martyrs, and with the fidelity of courageous
witnesses: it should be lived to the letter!
k Accordingly I am calling you to prayer, to
penitence, to mortification, to the practice of virtue, to trust, to
hope, to the exercise of an ever more perfect charity.
l This is what I want to tell you. Don't be
delayed, therefore, by the predictions I give you in the effort to
make you comprehend the times in which you are living.
m Like a mother, I am telling you the dangers
through which you are going, the imminent threats, the extent of the
evils that could happen to you, only because these evils can yet be
avoided by you, the dangers can be evaded, the plan of God's justice
always can be changed by the force of his merciful love. Also when I
predict chastisements to you, remember that everything at any
moment, may be changed by the force of your prayer and your
reparative penance.
n Do not say therefore: 'How much of what you
predicted to us has not come true!' Instead, give thanks with me to
the Heavenly Father because at the response of your prayer and
consecration, your suffering, and on account of the immense suffering
o: so many of my poor children, again He alters the period of
justice, to permit that of the great mercy to come to flower..."
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Zompita (Udine, Italy);
January 24, 1984
My Signs
a "Beloved children, I welcome this rosary
you are reciting together with such great love and fervor.
b As Mother I want to tell you that I am here with
you, represented by the statue you have here. Each of my statues is a
sign of a presence of mine and reminds you of your heavenly Mother.
Therefore it must be honored and put in places of greater veneration.
c Just as you look with love at a photograph of a
cherished person because it transmits to you a reminder and a
likeness, so too you should look with love at every image of your
heavenly Mother, because it transmits to you a reminder of her, and
still more, it becomes a particular sign of her presence among you.
d How deeply saddened I am by the fact that I am,
so frequently today, ousted from the churches. Sometimes I am placed
outside, in a corridor, like some trinket; sometimes I am put in the
back of the church, so that none of my children can venerate me.
e A sign of how much I am pleased with the fitting
veneration given to my images is also what I am doing through this
little statue. It is a triple sign I give you: that of my eyes, which
suddenly come alive; that of the color of my countenance, which
changes its hue; and that of my Heart, which exudes a fragrance, now
a delicate one, now one of greater strength.
f By the sign I give you in the eyes, I want to
show you that your heavenly Mother, never so much as in these times,
is watching you with her merciful eyes. She is not far from you; she
takes cognizance of you in all the difficulties in which you find
yourselves, in the difficult moments you are living through, with all
the sufferings which are awaiting you, with the great cross you must
carry.
g And with these eyes I look at all, at those far
away, at the atheists, at the drug addicts, at my poor sinful
children, to know them just as they are, to help them, to guide them
along the path of goodness, of a return to God, of conversion,
prayer, fasting and penance.
h In a particular way I look at you, my beloved,
objects of my maternal complacency. Especially you, beloved of my
sacerdotal Movement, who form for me an object of great
gratification.
i I look at you, and I illumine you with my own
beauty. In you I reflect the candor of heaven that is mine. You
should be lilies in your purity, roses in your fragrance, cyclamens
in your littleness. In this way you compose this beautiful crown of
love that makes the thorny crown of my sorrow break into blossom.
j By the sign I give you in the color of my
visage, I want to show you that I am Mother for all, and today I
share in all your needs, and I rejoice in your joys. But I also
suffer in all your numerous sufferings.
k When a mother is happy and jumps for joy, you
see the color of her face become rosy; when she is worried about the
fate of her children, you see her face turn completely pale. If this
happens to an earthly mother, it also happens to me, and the sign I
give you, so human and maternal, is to tell you that as Mother I
truly share in all the moments of your life.
l When you suffer, I suffer. When you rejoice, I
rejoice. When you are good, I jump for joy. When you love me, my face
is all aflame because of the joy you give me.
m By the sign I give you with the fragrance I
exude, sometimes of lesser, sometimes of greater strength, I wish to
show you that I am always among you, but especially when you are more
in need of me.
n If you do not recognize the perfume, or you
notice it in a very faint way, it is not because I do not love you,
or because you are wicked. The Mother loves with merciful
predilection even those who have the greater need for her!
o Understand then why my maternal
compassion goes out sinners, all, but especially those who are
furthest away, those most in need of divine mercy. Appearing at
Fatima, I taught you pray to Jesus in this way: `Bring all souls to
heaven, especially those most in need of thy mercy.'
p I love all, beginning with the furthest away,
those of my children who are sinners, for whom I am a secure and
maternal refuge.
q Look at my merciful eyes which shed tears of
sorrow and compassion. In so many parts of the world I give this
sign, causing copious tears to stream from my eyes, even tears of
blood.
r To give a sign of my presence and to
accord to your lives a secure support, and amid the tribulations you
are living, to call you to joy and to trust, in so many parts of the
world, I am still giving my maternal messages. They announce to you
the certitude that I am following you and am with you. I live with
you; I prepare everything for you; I lead you by the hand along the
difficult road of this time of purification.
s A fragrant sign of my maternal presence is to be
found in the apparitions I am still making in many regions of the
world. Yes, in these times I am appearing in Europe, in Asia, in
Africa, in America, and in distant Oceania. The whole world is
wrapped in my mantle.
t In the struggle, now conclusive, between me and
my Adversary, my extraordinary presence tells you that my victory has
already begun. My beloved children, how much I love you!
u From you, to whom I have given so much, this I
ask: that you increase your love for me!..."
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San Marco (Udine, Italy); January 28, 1984
Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas
My Gift to You
a "...Everything in life has been arranged
for you, in every particular, by the providence of God the Father and
of your heavenly Mother: the moments of suffering, those of spiritual
trial and interior difficulties, the moments of joy and of
consolation, the moments of special fervor and of union with me.
b Everything is the gift of God to you,
which Jesus gives you through the Immaculate Heart of your heavenly
Mother. For this reason it is also a gift from me.
c When my Heart, which is replete with grace and
with love, opens and pours out upon you my maternal predilection,
encouraging and consoling you, what is this unfolding of my maternal
tenderness, of the fullness of my immaculate love, if not a gift I am
giving you?
d The task of the Mother is to prepare this
gift each day for her children, for all; for the furthest away, it is
a gift of mercy and pardon; for sinners, it is a sorrowful gift, one
recalling them to the road of goodness; for the many who suffer, it
is a gift of compassion and comfort; for those soon to die, it is a
gift of support, helping them to close their lives here below in a
good way and opening the golden gate of the life awaiting them after
death.
e And for you, my beloved ones, the gift is
one of most particular predilection, expressing itself by the
ordering of all things, the arranging of every circumstance of your
day like an embroidery of perfect beauty woven by the fingers of your
heavenly Mother.
f Your being together among yourselves, your
gathering together in prayer, the frequent recitation of my prayer,
the holy rosary, your mutual love, and this even with your weaknesses
and human miseries, all is a gift of my Immaculate Heart.
g Walk forward always united, hand in hand
like so many little brothers, praying together, loving together,
rejoicing and suffering together, because I have now revealed to you
my plan, which should be realized in a most perfect unity.
h Also a gift of my Immaculate Heart O yes, a most
particular gift! - is the book containing my messages.
i In my book what you should know has already been
revealed. If you know how to read it, therein is my total plan, in
its preparation, in its sorrowful actualization, and in its luminous
and victorious completion.
j Read it, my beloved sons; meditate on it; live
it! Have no doubt; I am speaking to you. Through these words I am
present in it and manifest myself. Only tomorrow will you understand
the importance of this maternal message of mine.
k A gift of my Immaculate Heart is the plan I have
revealed to you. When I speak to you, I use your human words, but
whereas you speak in virtue of the experience you have from your
earthly life, I speak to you in virtue of the light of paradise. In
the Heart of my Son Jesus and in the profound mystery of the Most
Holy Trinity, a single reality is comprised, binding together in a
true communion of life the present, the past and the future, the
Church that is triumphant and rejoicing in heaven, that which is
suffering and being purified in purgatory, and that which, as a
pilgrim on your poor earth, is still struggling.
l In the vision of this divine communion that now
unites you, I speak to you always in the vision of eternity, so that
for me there is no difference between my children living here in
paradise, between those still in purgatory, and those yet walking
upon earth...
m For this reason I see close to you, still
members as valuable as ever of my Movement, your brothers and my
beloved ones who have arrived here above and compose so beautiful a
harmony... You should feel them close to you, these brother-priests
of yours who have arrived here above, because they are forever a part
of my Movement. Perceive them as members who are living and working,
and as valuable fighters in my victorious cohort, which battles at my
command!
n A gift of my Immaculate Heart to the Church is
this, my Movement. It is my work alone.
o For eleven years I have been diffusing it in
every part of the world; I call my sons, and they respond. For eleven
years I have been achieving a masterpiece of love and mercy for the
triumph of my Immaculate Heart. Everything that I have told you will
be fulfilled to the letter. The Church will come to an ever greater
realization of how the Marian Movement of Priests is a gift of my
Immaculate Heart, because with it too I wish to give the Church the
certainty of my perennial presence and my maternal protection...
p But above all, the gift of my Immaculate Heart
will be the new Pentecost. Just as in the Cenacle of Jerusalem the
Apostles, reunited with me in prayer, prepared for the moment of the
first Pentecost, so also, in the cenacle of my Immaculate Heart - and
consequently in the cenacles where you are gathered in prayer - you
apostles of these last times can, with your heavenly Mother, obtain a
new effusion of the Holy Spirit.
q It will be the Spirit of Love, with his powerful
action of fire and of grace renewing the very foundations of the
whole world.
r It will be He, the Spirit of Love, with his
great force of holiness and of light, bringing my Church to new
splendor, making it therefore humble and poor, evangelical and
chaste, merciful and holy.
s It will be the Spirit of Love, through the fire
of innumerable sufferings renewing all creation, that it may become
that garden of God, that terrestrial paradise in which Jesus will
always be with you, like a sun of light reflecting its rays
everywhere."
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February 2, 1984
Feast of the Presentation of the Child Jesus
The Soul Transpierced
a "At the moment I presented my Son Jesus in
the temple and my Heart was overwhelmed by maternal bliss in seeing
how the Spirit had revealed the secret plan of the Father to two
simple and elderly creatures, my soul was transpierced by the
prophetic words addressed to me: `He is to be as a sign of
contradiction, for the salvation and the downfall of many .. and a
sword will transpierce your soul!' (cf. Lk 2:34-35)
b See now how the profound mystery of my divine
and universal maternity was also revealed.
c It is a mystery of love.
d My motherly Heart opens itself to love in a
perfect manner. No other creature can ever possess so profound a
capacity for love.
e If the extent of maternal love can be measured
by the number of the children, consider how great must be the love of
your heavenly Mother, to whom Jesus has confided all mankind as her
children.
f How great is my motherly love! It embraces all
and each one in particular; it follows each one along his road; it
participates in difficulties, shares in your sufferings, helps you in
all your necessities; it assists you in dangers, keeps vigil in
decisive moments. No one is ever abandoned or forgotten.
g Penetrate into the secret of my maternal love,
and you will always be consoled.
h It is also a mystery of sorrow.
i At the moment my Infant Jesus was put back into
my arms by the priest and I contemplated Him, then forty days old, in
all his beauty with the freshness of a flower that has just begun to
bloom, the prophetic voice of the aged Simeon caused me to behold Him
mentally already stretched out on the Cross, and then my soul was
truly transpierced by a sword.
j I am the Mother of the Transpierced Soul!
Therefore all your wounds are now mine, O sons, just as those of my
Son Jesus were mine!
k You are living days of great sufferings
that are ever increasing, especially for you, my beloved ones. The
time in which you are living is marked by wounds of every kind,
caused by a persistent and general rejection of God, by a great
neglect of your duties, by the widespread habit of ignoring and no
longer obeying the commandments of God's Law.
l Within the Church the confusion grows; too few
are those who accept my invitation to let themselves be formed and
led by me, with the humble docility of my Infant Jesus; and
consequently, the darkness deepens in minds, in hearts and in souls.
m I am your Mother of the Transpierced Soul. I am
close by you to close your wounds.
n Do not lose heart! Pray; do penance; be little
and docile; let yourselves be formed by me; let yourselves be carried
in my Heart over the stormy waters. Courage!
o Above all, my transpierced soul today wishes to
pour down upon you the fullness of its light and grace.
p I hold you in my Heart; each day I carry you to
the temple of the Lord, and from my maternal arms I place you upon
his altar, victims prepared by me and pleasing to Him, for the
salvation of the world."
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March 19, 1984
Solemnity of St. Joseph
Look at My Spouse Joseph
a "My beloved sons, today look at my most
chaste spouse, Joseph, who is an example for all of you in furthering
God's plan with love, with purity, with faith, and with perseverance.
b During his life he was a chaste and faithful
spouse for me, a valuable collaborator in the loving care of the
Child Jesus, a silent and provident worker, careful to see that none
of the things necessary for our human existence were lacking, just
and firm in daily fulfilling the tasks entrusted to him by the
Heavenly Father.
c How much he loved and followed each day the
wonderful growth of our divine Son Jesus! And Jesus repaid him with
an affection that was filial and profound; how He listened to him and
obeyed him; how He comforted him and helped him!
d So also in you, beloved sons, I wish those
virtues to flourish which made him so perfect in the fulfillment of
the providential design for him.
e May his silence and self-effacement, which are
necessary in these times to enable you to carry out the plan I have
entrusted to you, be in you.
f Live far from noise and commotion, from shouting
and the din that to an ever greater degree surrounds you. Maintain
your interior quiet in silent colloquy with Jesus and with your
heavenly Mother.
g Take no part in worldly shows, and shut your
eyes to the loose seductions of the world. Know how to avoid the
subtle tactics of moral perversion, today disseminated in so
insidious and dangerous a way by the press and the television.
h Do not waste time in front of the television,
stealing precious moments from prayer and from listening to my word.
i May his virginal purity also be in you, in a
detachment - which I wish to be as great as possible - from
yourselves, from creatures, from human affairs, so that you will be
interiorly free, able to love and to fulfill with faithful
perseverance whatever the Lord asks of you.
j Imitate my most loving spouse, Joseph, in his
humble and trusting prayer, his heavy labors, his patience and great
goodness.
k Entrust yourselves and my Movement to his
powerful protection. Just as once he knew how to protect the menaced
life of the Infant Jesus, so now he will protect this, my work of
love, during those moments in which it will be attacked and furiously
combated by my Adversary.
l With him, and together with our divine Infant
Jesus, I encourage you today, and I bless you."
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March 25, 1984
Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord
I Ask for the Consecration of All
a "Consider the ineffable moment of the
Annunciation made by the Archangel Gabriel, sent by God to receive my
yes for the realization of his eternal plan of redemption, and
for the great mystery of the Incarnation of the Word in my virginal
womb, and then you will understand why I ask you to consecrate
yourselves to my Immaculate Heart.
b Yes, I myself manifested my wish at
Fatima, when I appeared in 1917; I have asked it many times of my
daughter, Sister Lucy, who is still on earth for the accomplishment
of this mission I have entrusted to her; during these years I have
insistently requested it through the message entrusted to my
sacerdotal Movement; today I renew my request that all be consecrated
to my Immaculate Heart.
c Before all I ask it of Pope John Paul II, the
first of my beloved sons, who on the occasion of this feast,
performed the consecration in a solemn manner, after writing to the
bishops of the world and inviting them to do so in union with him.
d Unfortunately the invitation was not
welcomed by all the bishops; particular circumstances have not yet
permitted the explicit consecration of Russia which I have requested
many times. As I have already told you, this consecration will be
made to me when the bloody events are well on the way to actuality.
e I bless this courageous act of my Pope in his
wish to entrust the world and all the nations to my Immaculate Heart;
I receive it with love and gratitude, and because of it I promise to
intervene to shorten greatly the hours of the purification and to
lessen the gravity of the trial.
f But I ask this consecration also from all the
bishops, from all the priests, from all religious, and from all the
faithful. This is the hour in which the whole Church must assemble in
the secure refuge of my Immaculate Heart!
g Why do I ask you for the consecration?
h When a thing is consecrated, it is removed from
all uses other than the sacred one to which it has been assigned, and
so it is with an object designated for the divine worship.
i But this can also be the case with a person,
when such a one is called by God to render Him perfect worship.
Understand then how your true act of consecration is that of baptism.
j By this sacrament, instituted by Jesus, grace is
communicated to you, placing you in an order of life higher than your
own, namely the supernatural life. Through this you participate in
the divine nature, you enter into a communion of love with God, and
your actions, accordingly, have a new value exceeding that of your
nature, because they have a value which is truly divine.
k After baptism you are then destined for the
perfect glorification of the Most Holy Trinity and consecrated to
live in the love of the Father, in the imitation of the Son, and in
full communion with the Holy Spirit.
l The fact that characterizes the act of
consecration is its totality: when you are consecrated you are then
wholly so, and forever!
m When I ask you for the consecration to my
Immaculate Heart, it is to make you understand that you must
completely entrust yourselves to me, in a total and everlasting way,
that I may dispose of you according to the Will of God.
n You must entrust yourselves in a manner that is
complete, giving me everything; you should not give me one thing and
hold on to another, for yourselves; you should truly be wholly mine.
o And then you should entrust yourselves to me not
on one day yes and on another day no, or for a period of time as you
would have it, but forever.
p It is to emphasize this important aspect of a
complete and lasting dedication to me, your heavenly Mother, that I
ask for the consecration to my Immaculate Heart.
q How should the consecration be lived by you?
r If you consider the ineffable mystery the Church
commemorates today, you will understand how the consecration I have
asked of you should be lived.
s The Word of the Father was entrusted completely
to me, in love. After my yes, He came down into my virginal
womb.
t He was entrusted to me in his divinity.
u The Eternal Word, Second Person of the Most Holy
Trinity, after the incarnation, was received and hidden in the tiny
dwelling, miraculously prepared by the Holy Spirit, of my virginal
womb.
v He was entrusted to me in his humanity, in a
manner as profound as the way any son is entrusted to the mother,
from whom everything is expected: blood, flesh, breath, food, love,
to enable him to grow in her womb each day, and then - after birth
each year, always close to the mother.
w For this reason, just as I am the Mother of the
Incarnation, so also I am the Mother of the Redemption, which had on
this occasion its wonderful beginning.
x And so you see me intimately associated with my
Son Jesus; I collaborate with Him in his work of salvation, during
his infancy, his adolescence, his thirty years of hidden life at
Nazareth, his public ministry, during his sorrowful passion and up to
the Cross where I offer and suffer with Him, receiving his last words
of love and sorrow, in which I am given to all humanity as true
Mother.
y Beloved sons, called to imitate Jesus in
everything because you are his ministers, imitate Him also in this,
his complete reliance on the heavenly Mother. For this reason I ask
you to offer yourselves to me with your consecration.
z I will be able to be an attentive Mother for
you, concerned to make you grow in God's plan, to realize in your
lives the great gift of the priesthood to which you have been called;
I will bring you each day to an ever better imitation of Jesus, who
must be your only model and your greatest love. You will be true
instruments, faithful collaborators in his redemption.
A Today this is necessary for the salvation of all
humanity, so diseased and so far from God and from the Church.
B By an extraordinary intervention of his merciful
love, the Lord can save this humanity, and you, priests of Christ and
my beloved sons, are called to be the instruments of the triumph of
the merciful love of Jesus.
C Today this is indispensable for my Church, which
must be healed from its wounds of infidelity and apostasy in order to
return to its splendor and to renewed holiness.
D Your heavenly Mother wishes to heal the Church
through you, my priests. I will do this soon, if you will allow me to
work in you, if you entrust yourselves with docility and simplicity
to my merciful maternal action.
E Again today, with sorrowful supplication, I ask
you all to consecrate yourselves to my Immaculate Heart."
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April 20, 1984
Good Friday
Close to Every Altar
a "I am your Mother, so very sorrowful. I am
close to my Son Jesus at the moment He ascends Calvary, exhausted by
immense suffering and by the weight of the Cross which He carries
with meekness and with love.
b His feet leave their bloody imprint on the
ground; his hands grip the Cross, which weighs upon his wounded
shoulders; his body is bruised and lacerated by the terrible
scourging it has undergone; from his head fall streams of blood,
flowing from the wounds opened by the crown of thorns...
c What weariness the ascent costs Jesus; what
suffering is imposed upon Him by each step He makes towards the
summit of Calvary!
d He staggers; He stops; He is shaken by spasms of
fever and pain; He bends down as if to recoup new energies; this no
longer avails Him, and He falls to the earth.
e Behold the Man. Behold, O sons, your King.
f With an outburst of my motherly Heart, I would
help Him to his feet, to succor Him with the force of my sorrow, to
comfort Him with the strength of my presence; I caress Him with the
moan of my prayer; I accompany Him with the anguish of a wounded
mother; and upon my Immaculate Heart, now united with his in a single
offering to the Will of the Father, I lead Him towards the summit of
Golgotha.
g I am close to Him when they strip Him of his
garments, and with a mother's impulse, understood and accepted by the
executioners, I give my white veil so that his modesty will be
protected. I watch Him as they stretch Him out on the gibbet; I hear
the hammer on the nails which pierce his hands and feet; the terrible
thud of the Cross upon the ground penetrates my soul, and makes Him
quiver with pain.
h I am beneath the Cross on this Good
Friday, to live together with my Son the long and terrible hours of
his passion.
i Like a mantle, the peace that comes from his
immolated body envelops me; like a river of grace, it flows into me,
and I feel myself opening to an immense capacity for love; a new and
greater maternal vocation discloses itself to my soul, while my
Immaculate Heart receives every precious drop of his sorrow during
the hours of agony.
j This Good Friday has truly illumined every day
granted you by the Lord for your earthly pilgrimage, O my sons,
because it was on this day that you were redeemed.
k Let all behold Him whom today they have
pierced!
l Let yourselves be washed in his blood,
penetrated by his love, be generated by his sorrow, hidden in his
wounds, restored by his ransom, redeemed by his new and eternal
Sacrifice.
m This Good Friday is repeated when Jesus is again
immolate for you, although in an unbloody manner, in the Sacrifice of
Holy Mass. The supreme gift of this day is mystically renewed by you.
n But, close to Jesus who is immolated, the
sorrowful oblation of your heavenly Mother is also repeated. She is
always present close to every altar upon which Holy Mass is
celebrated, just as she was during the long and sorrowful Good
Friday.
o Let your confidence be great and irresistible!
p Evil, every evil, and the spirit of Evil, Satan
your Adversary from the beginning, has been vanquished and reduced
henceforth to perpetual bondage.
q His great commotion of today should not frighten
you, should not disturb you. Live in the joy and in the peace of
Jesus, the gentle and meek Victim, offered on the Cross to the Father
as the price of your everlasting ransom.
r Now that darkness has again fallen over the
world, and the night envelops a straying humanity, on this, his Good
Friday, behold Him whom they have pierced, so that you will
understand how the victory over evil, over hatred, and over death,
has now been forever obtained for you by the force of the merciful
love of Jesus, your divine Redeemer."
289
May 13, 1984
Anniversary of the First Apparition at Fatima
Be Converted!
a "These are my times. Today while you
recall my first apparition which took place at Fatima in 1917, you
are living the events I then predicted to you.
b You are in the period in which the
struggle between me, the Woman Clothed with the Sun, and my
Adversary, the Red Dragon, is moving now toward its conclusion, and
for this reason I am again appearing in a new and more extraordinary
way to assure you that my presence in your midst is habitual.
c I am communicating to all my maternal will with
a message which today has become anguished and urgent:
d Be converted, and repent of your sins!
e Be converted, and return to the God who
saves you!
f Be converted, and walk along the road of
goodness, of love, and of holiness!
g This is still for you the precious time of
conversion. Receive my invitation, which, in so many ways, I still
wish to address to my children who are so endangered.
h Pray more; pray with the holy rosary;
pray among yourselves in the cenacles; above all, pray in the family.
i I want Christian families to return to the
practice of praying with me and by means of me, so that they will be
saved from the great evils threatening them.
j Mortify yourselves with penance and corporal
fasting.
k It is fasting from evil and from sin that I
prefer, of renunciation of smoking, alcohol, motion pictures and
television. Do not watch television shows which corrupt your interior
chastity and bring so much dissipation into your souls, sowing the
germs of evil in your hearts.
l I am also asking for bodily fasting, at least
every now and then, just as it has been requested of you by my Son
Jesus, in the Gospel, when He said: `Certain kinds of demons can be
ejected only by prayer and fasting.' (cf. Mk 9:29)
m Consecrate yourselves continually to my
Immaculate Heart, and live in daily communion of life and of love
with me.
n I am the Mother of the Faith; I am the faithful
virgin, and today you should ask me for help to remain in the true
faith. For this reason I summon you to listen to and follow the Pope,
who has from Jesus the promise of infallibility, and to recite the
Creed often as a renewed profession of your faith.
o If you do everything I ask you, you will be
walking each day with me towards your conversion. Live well this
space of time which the merciful love of Jesus still gives you.
p You will live with trust and with joy the
impending moment of the triumph of my Immaculate Heart."
290
June 30, 1984
Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The Mystery of My Immaculate Heart
a "Venerate my Immaculate Heart, beloved
children. Today the Church is inviting you to look at the mystery of
love and of mercy enclosed in my Immaculate Heart.
b If you venerate my Heart, you give praise
to the Most Holy Trinity, which receives its greatest glory in it,
because it has made of this, my heavenly garden, the place of its
divine delight.
c In it the Father is reflected with joy, the Word
is placed therein as in a precious cradle, and the Holy Spirit burns
with the purer light of his divine love.
d If you venerate my Immaculate Heart, you also
give praise to your heavenly Mother, because within it is enfolded
the mystery of my predilection and of the privileges of grace with
which lave been adorned by God. And thus you also venerate my
singular privileges of the Immaculate Conception, of the divine
motherhood, of the bodily assumption into heaven, of the fullness of
grace and of perpetual virginity. Through the way of my Heart, enter
in so that you may understand and delight in the divine masterpiece
which is your heavenly Mother.
e If you love this Heart, you yourselves become
clothed with my motherly love and my immaculate mercy. In the depths
of my Immaculate Heart, there takes place the wonder which I
accomplish every day with you in order to make you ever more like
myself and to transform your soul into the image of my own soul.
f I also communicate my spirit to you in order
that you may truly grow in my life and become, today, the expression
of the presence of your heavenly Mother. I form you in purity of
mind, of heart and of body; and thus, you will spread about you the
brightness of my immaculate light. I communicate to you my capacity
to love, and your hearts will open up as a refuge of salvation to all
who have strayed along the path of error and of sin. I give
gentleness to your way of acting, so that you may be good and
merciful to all. I give comfort and balm to your actions, that you
may heal the painful wounds of the sick and of all my poor sinful
children.
g And thus, you yourselves become, today, the
concrete expression of my motherly love.
h If you offer reparation to the sorrow of my
Immaculate Heart, you become a source of great joy and consolation
for me, because through you I am able to take action, in these years,
in order to carry out my plan of salvation.
i It is a plan which I am still keeping secret; I
reveal it only to my little ones, who accept my invitation to
venerate, to love, and to offer reparation, as they are led by me to
understand more and more the great mystery of love and of mercy of my
Immaculate Heart."
291
Valdragone (San Marino); July 5, 1984
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests of the M.M.P. of the Italian Language
Mother of Jesus, the Priest
a "Beloved children, how pleasing to my Heart
is this continuous cenacle of fraternity and prayer together with me,
your heavenly Mother!
b I am the Mother of Jesus, the Priest.
c My Immaculate Heart has always been the altar
upon which Jesus has wished to present his priestly offering to the
Father. From the ineffable moment of the incarnation, when the Word
of the Father was placed in my virginal womb and divinity annihilated
itself, assuming therein the beginnings of human nature, my
Immaculate Heart became the altar upon which the first priestly
action of my Son, Jesus, took place.
d I always accompanied Him in every most perfect
accomplishment of his continuous offering as Priest and Victim. From
his birth in poverty to his infancy spent in exile, from his youth
passed in humble labor and obedient service to his public life
quickly expended amidst so many sufferings and misunderstandings
until its painful completion in his bloody agony and death on the
Cross, the whole life of Jesus was a continuous priestly action,
offered with love to the Father for our salvation.
e At every moment of this offering, Jesus willed
to have his Mother with Him that she, too, might suffer and offer. In
this, I became co-operator with Him in his work of redemption, truly
Co-redemptrix, and I am, above all, the Mother of Jesus, the Priest.
f And so you understand why I feel a particular
predilection you, my sons, to whom has been entrusted the great gift
of the priesthood.
g I am at your side in every moment of your day,
so that it may be completely sacrificed and given to the Father in a
continuous priestly offering. I am at your side at the time of prayer
and work, in the hours of joy and of suffering, of solitude and of
abandonment.
h I am always at your side when you celebrate the
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which renews that accomplished by Jesus
on the Cross. With Jesus who, by means of you, today carries out his
Sacrifice, I am always at the side of each altar to offer with you to
the Heavenly Father, on my Immaculate Heart, the precious Victim of
our redemption.
i Today it is necessary to shed greater light upon
the value of Holy Mass as the Sacrifice which renews, in an unbloody
but true manner, that accomplished by Jesus on Calvary.
j These are my times, and I am at your side, sons,
to receive your continuous priestly action. For this reason, allow
yourselves to be formed by me with docility.
k In these spiritual exercises in the form
of continuous cenacles, which I wish to be multiplied more and more,
I am gently preparing you for your offering.
l As little lambs I have gathered you into
my sheepfold to prepare you for the immolation which awaits you. And
now I look upon you with pleasure because you are cooperating with my
action which disposes you to be offered to the Lord, on the altar of
my Immaculate Heart, for the salvation of the world.”
292
August 15, 1984
Solemnity of the Assumption d Virgin Mary into
Heaven
Walk in the Light
a "From paradise, into which I have entered
with my body as well, I look upon you today with my motherly and
merciful eyes. I am shedding upon you the rays of my immaculate
light, and, in the deep darkness in which you are more and more
enveloped, I invite you to walk along the light-filled path which
comes from my Heart. Little children, walk in the light of your
heavenly Mother; allow yourselves to be carried upon the wave of her
heavenly perfume.
b Walk in the light of faith.
c These are the times in which my children run the
grave risk of straying from the true faith. Errors are being spread;
they are listened to and followed; they are publicized and
disseminated especially through the press, even that which processes
to be religious. How great a need there is today for a press which
spreads the truth of the faith in all its clarity and integrity!
d And so it is necessary to be vigilant, to pray
and to remain strongly faithful to the authentic Magisterium of the
Church. For this reason I invite you to listen to the teaching of the
Pope and to recite often the Creed as a profession of your Catholic
faith and also to meditate upon the complete profession of faith
composed by my beloved son, Pope Paul VI, who is already up here. You
will then remain in the true faith, beloved children your Mother, who
is for all the model of how you must believe guard, love and live the
one and only Word of God.
e Walk in the light of grace.
f As a terrible cancer, sin is today infecting
souls more and more and leading them to death. If you looked with my
eyes, you would see how this real spiritual epidemic has spread,
causing slaughter among so many of my children and making them
victims of evil.
g You must become instruments which I will make
use of for the healing of all poor sinners. For this I invite you to
walk along the way of love and of divine grace, of mortification and
penance, of prayer and of holiness.
h Walk in the light of love.
i In these times, in an ever more dangerous way,
hatred and unbridled egoism are spreading everywhere. My Adversary is
bringing about division on all sides: in families, in religious
communities, in the Church, in all human society. How difficult it is
becoming to understand one another today; how hard it is to live
together with understanding and in mutual agreement!
j And so I ask of you to remain always in my
peace, to become instruments of peace for all. For this reason I
invite you, with gentle severity, to silence, to concrete gestures of
charity and communion, to help whoever is in need, always to speak
word of peace and reconciliation with everyone.
k Thus you will diffuse my immaculate light in the
darkness which has spread about, and you will contribute to the
transformation of your earthly life according to the model which is
lived here above in paradise, where your heavenly Mother has been
assumed, even with her glorious body."
292
Altotting (Germany); August 30, 1984
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the priests of the M.M.P. of the German Language
Mother of Faith
a "I am the Mother of Faith. I am the
faithful Virgin. Beloved sons of Germany, Switzerland, Austria,
Holland and Hungary, how happy I am with these days of spiritual
exercises which you are making with me, in the form of a continuous
cenacle! How your fervent and persevering prayer consoles my
Immaculate Heart, now more than ever surrounded by a great crown of
thorns!
b In these countries of yours, you are facing a
great danger which causes concern to my motherly Heart, because
errors are being spread much more, efforts are being made to weaken
the bond which unites you to the Pope, and moreover many souls are
being led away from devotion to your heavenly Mother.
c And so, during these days of cenacle I am
causing extraordinary graces to shower down from my Immaculate Heart
upon you and upon all my consecrated children. I want to obtain for
you from the Holy Spirit the gift of your spiritual transformation to
lead you to be courageous witnesses today.
d Be witnesses of faith.
e Preserve in the true faith all those who have
been entrusted to you. So therefore defend yourselves from the
danger, so widespread today, of falling into error. Do not give
acceptance to any error: unmask it when it presents itself hidden
under the appearance of truth, because it is then even more
dangerous. Do not be afraid if, because of this, you are judged as
being backward and not up-to-date, because just as for Jesus, so also
his Gospel is the same: yesterday, today and always.
f Renew often with the faithful your profession of
faith and ask of me, the Mother of Faith, the grace to remain always
in the Truth which my divine Son, Jesus, has revealed to you.
g Be witnesses of unity,
h Above all you must be united with the
Pope, whom Christ has placed as the foundation of his Church. Today
only those who remain united to the Pope can be saved in the faith.
Listen to him; follow him; spread his teaching with courage.
i Be also united to your bishops with prayer, with
good example and with effective collaboration. By the witness of your
life, may they be assisted in rooting out error from the holy Church
of God, and by your obedience and your filial love, may they receive
encouragement in their difficult ministry.
j Bring all the faithful to this unity of life
with the bishops united to the Pope. And thus you will console my
Heart, so sorrowful and wounded today because of the profound
disunity which has entered into the interior of my Church.
k Be witnesses of true devotion to me.
l In your countries there is under way a strong
attempt to remove me from the life and piety of many of my children.
It is your duty to have me shine once again upon your path. For this
reason, I invite you to multiply the cenacles of prayer and of life
with me. Hold them everywhere. Gather the faithful about you to
recite the holy rosary, to meditate on my word, to renew and to live
the consecration to my Immaculate Heart.
m The more I will begin again to shine within the
life of the Church, the more the darkness of error and infidelity
will recede from it.
n Courage! Take leave of this cenacle with my
motherly blessing. And in times of greater danger, I will be your
defense and your protection. Many evils will be spared you because of
your response, so generous and fervent, in consecrating yourselves to
my Immaculate Heart and in walking with me.
o With you, I bless all my priest-sons and
faithful of the surrounding countries, who are especially suffering
and who are praying in the hope of an early liberation."
294
Strasbourg (France); September 13, 1984
Anniversary of the Fifth Apparition at Fatima
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests of the M.M..P. of the French Language
In Cenacle with Me
“Beloved sons, how happy I am with your homage
of prayer and brotherhood, which you are offering to my Immaculate
Heart during these days of continuous cenacle. These are the times in
which I wish my beloved priests and all the children consecrated to
me to gather together in cenacles of prayer and life with me.
b In cenacle with me, I form you to prayer,
which now becomes necessary to employ increasingly as the weapon with
which you must fight and conquer in the battle against Satan and all
the spirits of evil who, in these times, have been unleashed with
great violence. It is above all a battle which is waged at the level
of spirits, and so you must fight with the spiritual weapon of
prayer.
c How much power you bring to my motherly work of
intercession and reparation when, together, you pray the Liturgy of
the Hours, the holy rosary and above all when you offer the Sacrifice
of the new and eternal Covenant, through your daily celebration of
the Eucharist.
d In cenacle with me, I encourage you to
continue along the difficult road of your times, in order to respond
with joy and immense hope to the gift of your vocation.
e In these times, how many of my
priest-sons there are who find themselves more and more isolated,
surrounded by so much indifference and lack of response, with such a
great burden of work to carry out, and thus they are often overcome
with weariness and discouragement.
f Courage, my beloved sons! Jesus is always at
your side and gives vigor and strength to your weariness, makes your
work efficacious and causes everything you do in the exercise of your
priestly ministry to be fruitful in graces. These abundant and
wonderful fruits you will see only in paradise, and they will be an
important part of the reward which awaits you.
g In cenacle with me, I teach you to look
on the evils of today with my motherly and merciful eyes, and I form
you, because I wish you yourselves to become the remedy for these
evils.
h Above all in your countries, you see how
the Church is violated by my Adversary, who is seeking to obscure it
with error which is being accepted and taught, to wound it with moral
permissiveness which leads many to justify everything and to live in
sin, to paralyze it with the spirit of the world which has entered
its interior and has also rendered fruitless many consecrated and
priestly lives.
i There are especially three wounds which, in your
countries, cause my Immaculate Heart to suffer:
j - Catechesis, which is frequently no
longer in conformity with the truth which Jesus taught you and which
the authentic Magisterium of the Church still sets forth for all to
believe.
k - Secularism, which has entered into the
lives of so many of the baptized and especially so many of the
priests who, in their souls, and in their way of living, of acting
and even of dressing, behave, not as disciples of Christ, but
according to the spirit of the world in which they live. If you only
saw with my eyes how great this desolation is which has struck the
Church!
l - The emptiness, the abandonment and the
neglect, with which Jesus present in the Eucharist is surrounded.
Too many sacrileges are committed by those who no longer believe in
the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and by those who go to
Holy Communion in the state of mortal sin without any longer going to
confession.
m Beloved sons, you must be the medicine for these
ills by your greater adhesion to the Magisterium of the Church, and
thus may your unity of thought and of life with the Pope become ever
greater.
n Give to everyone an example of a holy, austere,
recollected and mortified life. Bear in your body the marks of the
passion of Jesus and, outwardly also, the sign of your consecration
to Him, by always wearing your ecclesiastical garb. In all things, be
opposed to the secularism which surrounds you, and have no fear if,
like Jesus, you also for this reason become a cause for
contradiction.
o Be burning flames of adoration and of reparation
to Jesus present in the Eucharist. Celebrate Holy Mass with love and
with intimate participation of life. Go to confession often, and help
the faithful to make frequent confessions. Make frequent hours of
Eucharistic adoration, and bring all souls to the Heart of Jesus, who
is the fount of grace and of divine mercy.
p And so, in cenacle with me, you are
preparing the second Pentecost which is about to come so that,
through the irresistible power of the Spirit of Love, the Church may
be healed and the whole world renewed."
295
Fatima (Portugal); September 20, 1984
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests of the M.M.P. of the Portuguese and Spanish
Languages
Be My Apostles
a "How my so sorrowful Heart is
consoled by this continuous cenacle, which you, beloved sons of
Portugal and Spain, are holding with me during these days!
b Be united in prayer. In this way, you
give power to my motherly work of intercession and reparation;
implore from the Father and the Son the gift of the Holy Spirit who
will gently transform your entire life; you are of great assistance
to many of your brothers, my beloved sons, whom Satan, particularly
at this time, is ensnaring, wounding and deceiving.
c Be united in brotherhood. Grow increasingly in
your love for one another. Overcome the snares of my Adversary who,
especially in your countries, is seeking to lead you into division,
putting obstacles in the way of your brotherly understanding and
mutual love, which I want you to live in a perfect way.
d For this reason, I invite you to
littleness, to humility, to docility, to simplicity. Be little
children who allow themselves to be carried in my motherly arms, so
that my plan may be carried out through you.
e Be also courageous witnesses of your
heavenly Mother. I want to be glorified in you. Through you I want to
be increasingly honored. You are called to be my apostles in these
very difficult times of yours.
f Be my apostles, in
living and spreading what I have told you, during these years. I
myself am leading forward my work of the Marian Movement of Priests,
by means of all that I have told you through the book of my messages
and the little son whom I have chosen as my instrument to spread it
in every part of the world. May you all be more and more united to
this son of mine; only in this way are you sure of walking in the
light which I give you. You must be vigilant because, in your
countries, my Adversary is seeking to do all he can to break up this
unity of yours.
g Be my apostles, in spreading everywhere
the one and only light of Christ. Proclaim with courage and without
fear the truth of the Gospel, which the Pope and the Magisterium of
the Church continue to set forth for all to believe. And then give
the example of a life which is in all things in conformity with the
Gospel. I want to bring you to a great summit of holiness, to repel
the attack of my Adversary who - especially in your countries - is
seeking to obscure the Church with the secularism which has entered
deeply into the life of so many of my consecrated sons and into many
religious houses.
h Be my apostles, in spreading my light and
in leading everyone into the refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
i How great is the work of Masonry and Communism
which, in a hidden way, is being carried out for the destruction of
my Church, which has always shone forth and flourished in your
countries. Respond to these dark attacks by spreading my light
everywhere. Give to all the security which I have prepared for you in
view of the bloody days which are awaiting you: the refuge of my
Immaculate Heart. Fight with prayer and penance; let the rosary be
your victorious weapon.
j I am the Queen of the Holy Rosary.
k I am the Mother of Faith.
l I am the Queen of Peace.
m From this place, where I appeared as the Woman
Clothed with the Sun, I bless all of you in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
296
London (England); October 24, 1984
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests of the M.M.P. of the English Language
Do Battle, Beloved Sons!
a "I welcome with joy the prayer and
fraternal sharing which, during these days, brings you together in a
cenacle of life with me, dear sons of my Movement from England and
Ireland, this land which is so threatened today by my Adversary, but
so loved and protected by me.
b I unite myself to your unceasing prayer,
to obtain for you from the Father and the Son the gift of the Holy
Spirit, that He may confirm you in your vocation, give courage to
your apostolic action, efficacy to your work and consolation to your
souls.
c Take courage, beloved sons of mine, because
these are my times, and I am calling you, who form my cohort, to do
battle for the triumph of my Son Jesus, in the triumph of love and of
good.
d You are being formed by me to spread the
light of Christ, of his truth and of his Gospel in these days of
obscurity and darkness. You are being called to be my apostles in the
difficult times in which you are living.
e Do battle, my beloved ones, by means of love,
which must become ever greater within you, until it reaches the
very dimensions of the divine charity of the Heart of my Son Jesus.
f You see how, in your countries, my Adversary is
fighting above all with hatred, which brings division and discord,
unbridled egoism and violence everywhere. And thus many of my
children often fall victims to terrorism, and blood flows in your
streets.
g You must make love and goodness triumph. Quench
the fire of hatred with the dew of your priestly love. Become my
instruments for building up unity and brotherhood around you. For
this, approach all, but especially those who are most in need and
most alienated, with the tenderness of my motherly love.
h Do battle, my beloved ones, by means of
prayer, which must be made in union with me and must be offered
to God as your most precious contribution for the salvation of the
world.
i In these countries of yours, the Church is seen
as still divided, although the problem of its unity is keenly felt by
many. I bless the efforts which are being made on the part of so many
to bring about the restoration of the unity of the Church. But I
confide to you, my children, that this can only take place through a
special miracle on the part of the Holy Spirit and through a special
intervention of my Immaculate Heart.
j For this I need much prayer. More is obtained
through one day of intense prayer than through years of continuous
discussions. Pray with faith and trust, with recollection and
perseverance. Recite well the Liturgy of the Hours and the holy
rosary and let Holy Mass be the center of your apostolic day.
Multiply, everywhere the cenacles of prayer and fraternal
sharing. I promise you that, after the triumph of my Immaculate
Heart, these countries of yours will have the joy of seeing once
again a renewed and united Church, which will reflect everywhere the
splendor of Christ.
k Do battle, my beloved ones, by means of your
personal immolation. Give me all your sufferings. They are
precious to me because I can offer them to Jesus, that they may be
united to his perennial and priestly intercession for you.
l Above all in these countries of yours, my
Adversary is seducing you with the venom of neo-paganism and with an
immorality which is spreading more and more and claiming victims
among many of my children. How many young people are seduced by vice
in their quest for all kinds of pleasure and, allured by the great
spread of impurity and of drugs, live like sick people in need of
help that they might be healed!
m Your priestly sufferings are the effective
remedy for so many wounds which today, in ever-increasing numbers,
are afflicting my poor children. Because of this, I am calling you
each day to a greater immolation.
n May the peace of Jesus and my peace be in you.
Live in peace of heart. Spread peace around you. I am the Queen of
Peace. I am the Mother of Consolation.
o Through you I bless today all my beloved ones
and all those children who are consecrated to me, both in these
countries yours and throughout the whole world."
297
Shrine of Castelmonte (Udine, Italy); November
9, 1984
(After the Gospel during the concelebration,
immediately after the Gospel)
My Messages
a "Beloved sons, today you have once again
come up here to my shrine before my image which is so venerated
because it is a sign of my very special presence among you. You have
come here to invoke my protection on the Church, on the world and on
the whole Marian Movement of Priests scattered throughout the world.
b How pleased I am with the Holy Mass which you
are celebrating in my honor! I desire that all the beloved sons of my
Movement from all the five continents be spiritually present with you
because my times have at last come.
c In these years, as Mother, I have formed you
through my messages. They are so many words of wisdom, which I
have caused to come down from my Immaculate Heart to form you
according to my plan. My messages trace out, above all, a
simple and luminous way which I have pointed out to you and upon
which you should travel, each day, in order to live the consecration
which you have made to me, to grow in my love and in life with me and
to be ever more mature and prepared to carry out the task which I
have shown you.
d If any, after having consecrated themselves to
me, have come to a halt, it is because they have no longer listened
to, meditated upon, or lived my messages. Oh, after my triumph, these
messages will be a light for the whole Church; then all that I have
done for you during these years will be understood!
e Meditate on my messages, and live them. If you
live what I have shown you and travel the road which I have traced
out for you, you will walk securely along the way of the consecration
which you have made to me, and you will bring to fulfillment the
great plan of the triumph of my Immaculate Heart.
f Otherwise, you will be halted by doubts,
discouragement, difficulties and the opposition which you will
encounter. You will come to a halt and will not be ready to
accomplish what I have arranged for you and which today is so
necessary for the salvation of the world and the renewal of the
Church, whose Mother I am.
g In these messages, I also reveal to you
my plan in its silent preparation, in its painful realization and in
its victorious fulfillment. You are already about to reach the most
painful and bloody conclusion of the purification which will take
place in these years, before the great triumph of my Immaculate Heart
in the coming to you of the glorious reign of Jesus.
h This is a plan which embraces this century. In
1917 at Fatima, I anticipated it, as in a prophetic announcement, at
the moment when the great struggle between the Woman Clothed with the
Sun and the Red Dragon became evident, a struggle which was to last
throughout the whole century, as a proud challenge to God on the part
of my Adversary, who was certain that he would succeed in destroying
the Church and in bringing all humanity to a universal rejection of
God. The Lord has granted him this space of time, because in the end
the pride of the Red Dragon will be broken and conquered by the
humility, the littleness, and the power of your heavenly Mother, the
Woman Clothed with the Sun, who is now gathering all her little
children into her army, drawn up for battle.
i Now that you are coming to the most painful and
bloody years of this great struggle, I have intervened personally in
order to form for myself my cohort through the Marian Movement of
Priests, which is my work. For this I have chosen as my instrument a
son from among the weakest and, humanly speaking, least gifted, and I
have brought him to every part of the world to show to all that what
is to take place is due solely to my personal and extraordinary
intervention.
j However do not be afraid, son, of the
difficulties which you encounter when it seems to you that some
instrument chosen by me, deceived by Satan, no longer wishes to
respond to my plan. Have confidence in me; I alone am the Leader of
my cohort; I alone am the Mother and Queen of my Movement. I make use
of the instruments who respond to me; I choose others when those who
have been chosen by me no longer respond.
k I myself am leading this work forward each day
for the great battle which we are fighting…"
298
Zagreb (Yugoslavia); November 14, 1984
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests of the M.M.P. of the Slovenian and Croatian
Languages
My Urgent Invitation
a "Beloved sons, I joyfully welcome
this continuous cenacle of priestly fraternity and of prayer, which
you are making together with me, your heavenly Mother.
b You are in this land where my children
are in pain and carrying the burden of innumerable sufferings, in
this land which is so threatened by my Adversary and yours but which
is so loved and protected by me. I spread over all of you my luminous
mantle, and I enclose you in the sure refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
c Through you, beloved sons, I want to spread
everywhere in these countries of the East, my urgent and heartfelt
message, so that it may reach all my children.
d I am the Queen of Peace.
e Never before as today has the human race
been so threatened by the danger of war and of an immense
destruction. Look to me as to her who has the task from God of
bringing peace to the world.
f For this, I invite you to beg for it through a
prayer which is continuous, trusting and always made with me. Above
all, recite the holy rosary. In this way you can obtain from the Lord
the great grace of changing hearts, that all may open themselves to
sentiments of love and of goodness. Thus peace can enter into the
hearts of men and then be spread into families, nations and the whole
world.
g I am the Mother of Consolation.
h In these so troubled times, I am taking my place
at the side of each one of you, to share in the difficult moments of
your life. I am at your side when you pray and work, when you walk
and rest, when you rejoice and suffer.
i It is to give you a sure sign of my motherly
presence and to give you joy and comfort in the midst of your many
sorrows, that I myself have chosen this land in which to appear in a
new way, more prolonged and more extraordinary. The pure of heart
know how to see me; the poor, the little, the simple know how to
listen to me; the humble, the sick and the sinners know how to find
me.
j If there are difficulties or obstacles
which make it impossible for you to come to the place of my
apparitions, do not be saddened. When you pray and do penance and
listen to my motherly invitation to walk along the way of conversion
and of love, you come to meet spiritually with your heavenly Mother,
who thus manifests herself, present in your midst.
k I am the Mother of Trust.
1 In these times, how many of my poor children
there are who have distanced themselves from God, because they become
victims of the error of atheism, so widespread today, sustained and
propagated through all the means of social communication! Innumerable
is the company of those who walk in the darkness of the rejection of
God, of the lack of faith, of immorality, of injustice, and of
impiety. Evil is covering the whole earth like a thick coat of ice,
and the cup of divine justice is already full and flowing over.
m And now I am revealing myself to you to show you
the road of salvation: it is the road of return to God. If humanity
does not accept my motherly invitation to return to the Lord, it will
be inevitably lost. And so I repeat again to you this, my heartfelt
message: walk along the road of your return to the Lord. Be converted
because, for yet a little while, this is the favorable time of
conversion. Be converted, and return to your God.
n From here, through you, I bless all my children
who live in these countries, so loved and protected by me because
they must bear great trials and sufferings: those of Yugoslavia,
Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany,
Poland, Russia and the whole world, whom I want to enclose as soon as
possible in the sure refuge of my Immaculate Heart"
299
Dongo (Como, Italy); December 8, 1984
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
The Will of God
a "Today you are sharing, beloved sons, in
the joy of Paradise, which exults in the contemplation of your
heavenly Mother, so filled with privileges, with graces and with the
fullness of holiness by her Lord, whose least servant she feels
herself to be.
b The exemption from every stain of sin, even from
the original one, has made my life a pure reflection of the life of
God. Thus my soul was filled with grace, and its powers were always
directed to carrying out the divine plan in a perfect way. My mind
was opened to seek and love the Will of God, and my Heart was
impelled, with joy and complete abandonment, to fulfill only the
divine Will.
c This is the road which today I want to point out
to you also, for you to journey along, if you wish to follow your
heavenly Mother in her plan of immaculate purity and of sanctity.
d The Will of God: this is where, even for
you, sanctification is achieved! It is the Will of God that, in your
lives, you walk along the road of an ever more perfect knowledge of
Him. Let the word of God be the daily food with which you nourish
your spirit. Seek this word in the sacred book of Divine Scripture;
savor all its beauty in the Gospel of my Son Jesus. Through the
wisdom which I am giving you, I am leading you to understand more
profoundly the secret of Holy Scripture, so that you may fathom it,
delight in it, guard it and live it.
e The Word of God became Flesh and Life in Jesus
Christ, who is the revelation of the Father, the Image of his
substance, and the reflection of his glory. The Will of God is
carried out through you only by your following, with love and
complete trust, my Son Jesus. Jesus must be much more loved, listened
to and followed by you, his brothers, his ministers, and my beloved
sons.
f The more you penetrate into the deep mystery of
his divine love, as into a blazing furnace, the more you will be
purified from sin, from frailty, from miseries, and from all your
impurities. If you love and follow Jesus, you too will always walk
along the road of an immaculate purity and of a great sanctity. When
you happen to fall again into sin, his mercy will set you free and,
in the sacrament of Reconciliation, will restore you to the life of
grace and of intimate union with Him.
g When discouragement takes hold of you,
the bond with Him which is established in prayer and especially in
the Eucharist will give you strength and infuse you with new energy
for good. When aridity threatens you, communion with Him will open
you up to new and profound experiences of love and joy. Then you too
will carry out the divine Will, which is that of living to know, love
and serve the Father, in a profound intimacy of life with the Son,
whose mystery will become ever increasingly revealed to you in its
fullness by the Holy Spirit.
h Thus you will respond to the plan which I
have for you for the triumph of my Immaculate Heart, which is carried
out only in the reign of love, justice and peace of my Son Jesus. By
his divine mercy all evil, sin and impurity will be washed away in
such a way that the renewed world will be able to sing again the
glory of the Lord."
300
December 24, 1984
The Holy Night
Everything Has Already Been Revealed
a "Beloved sons, be recollected with me in
prayer during these hours which precede the birth of my Baby Jesus.
Live in my Immaculate Heart the moments of the holy night. Follow me
along the way of incessant prayer so that it may become a colloquy of
love, of trust, and of filial abandonment to the plan of salvation of
the Lord our God.
b This abandonment carried me on the wave
of a joyous experience of the presence of my Son, of which I was
aware in a most powerful way, because the moment of his birth in time
had come. My journey toward Bethlehem became nothing but a sweet and
motherly bowing down to his divine wish to come and live among you as
a brother. And I spoke with Him in a conversation made up of silence
and listening, contemplation and love, adoration and expectation.
c Thus unceasing prayer enwrapped the long
journey, undertaken in order to reach the hospitable grotto, and
there it became even more intense and more recollected, to the point
of lifting the veil which separated me from entering into a profound
ecstasy with heaven, from which I emerged with my divine Baby already
born.
d Follow me along the road of a suffering
understood, welcomed, and lived by me, as a humble response to what,
at this time, the Lord was asking of me. An interior suffering,
brought about by unfolding circumstances, which presented themselves
to me as a claim on my motherly collaboration with his plan of love.
e The necessity of abandoning the house in
Nazareth, which had been made ready with such care, the exhausting
journey to Bethlehem in my condition of motherhood already brought to
term, the uncertainty of that which we were to find there, the
refusal to put us up in any house, the squalid shelter in a freezing
cave: all these things were like so many thorns which pierced my
motherly Heart. But I understood that this suffering was asked of me
by the Father, in order to prepare a more precious cradle for my
Child who was about to be born.
f Now I ask of you also, my beloved children,
prayer and suffering, as your personal collaboration in preparing a
fitting dwelling place for Jesus who is about to return in glory.
g Understand the meaning of my motherly
interventions, which today have become more frequent, extraordinary,
and urgent. On this holy night, my message, which I give you as
heavenly prophetess of the last times, appears clearer to you.
h Prepare yourselves for the second birth
of Jesus in glory: He is about to come to reign in your midst. The
ways by which He will come are those of prayer and suffering. Already
these are the times in which you must all recollect yourselves in a
continuous and trusting prayer, as was mine during the long journey
made to Bethlehem.
i The time for projects and discussions is over.
j For those who wish to listen and understand,
everything has now already been revealed.
k The hearts of men have been dried up by
hatred and sin; nations and people are rebelling against their God,
and a great darkness is surrounding them; humanity no longer wishes
to throw open the doors for Christ, who is coming. So then let the
poor caves of your hearts be opened which, in the deep night, must
blaze in the light of an unshakable faith, of a sure hope and of a
burning love.
l And suffer with patience and with trust. As for
me, so also for you, the sufferings which the Lord asks of you form
part of a loving plan of his. The pangs must increase for everyone,
the closer his new birth approaches. Accept them just as your
heavenly Mother did.
m Walk in the light of the star, which tells you
that the time has already come in which the prophetic announcements
that have already been given you during these years are coming to
pass. And live each hour of your life in the greatest trust and in
the joyous expectation of the glorious return of my Son Jesus.”
301
December 31. 1984
Last Night of the Year
The Signs o f Your Time
a "Beloved sons, pass the final hours of the
year, which is about to close, in sweet intimacy with me.
b How many of my children spend these
moments in amusements and clamor and are inebriated with emptiness
amidst so many frivolities and diversions which are often licentious
and against the Law of the Lord!...
c I invite you on the contrary to spend these
hours in prayer, in recollection, and in interior silence, so that
you may enter into a conversation with me, your heavenly Mother.
Then, with the same familiarity that a mother has for her children, I
will reveal to you the cares, the anxieties and the deep wounds of my
Immaculate Heart, and, at the same time, I will help you to
understand and to interpret the signs of your times.
d Thus you can cooperate in the plan of salvation,
which the Lord has for you and which He wishes to carry out in the
course of the new days which await you.
e - You are living under an urgent request
made by your heavenly Mother, who is inviting you to walk along the
road of conversion and of return to God. Beloved children, share in
my anxious motherly concern as I see that this call of mine is
neither welcomed nor followed. And yet I see that the only
possibility of your salvation is bound up uniquely with the return of
humanity to the Lord, with a strong commitment to follow his Law
f Be converted, and walk along the road of the
grace of God and of love. Be converted, and build up days of serenity
and peace. Be converted, and take part in the plan of divine mercy.
g With how many signs has the Lord manifested to
you his Will to at last put a fitting halt to the flood of impiety:
incurable diseases which are spreading, violence and hatred which are
exploding, misfortunes which are occurring, wars and threats which
are spreading. Know how to read the signs which God is sending you
through the events which are taking place and accept his strong
admonitions to change your life and to return along the road which
leads you to Him.
h - You are living under your heavenly Mother's
concerned and constant request to remain in the true faith. And yet I
see, with anguish, that errors continue to be spread, taught, and
propagated. The danger of losing the precious gift of faith in Jesus
and the truth which He revealed to you is thus becoming ever greater
among my children. Even among my chosen ones, how great is the number
of those who doubt or who no longer believe.
i If you only saw with my eyes how vast this
spiritual epidemic which has struck the entire Church: it brings its
apostolic action to a halt, wounds it and paralyzes its vitality,
often even making its effort at evangelization empty and ineffective.
j - You are living under my very painful anxiety
as I see that you are still the victims of widespread sin. I observe
how, by the means of social communications, experiences of life
contrary to those indicated by God's holy Law are being proposed to
my poor children everywhere. Every day you are being fed with the
poisoned bread of evil and given to drink at the polluted spring of
impurity. Evil is being proposed to you as something good, sin as a
value, and transgression of the Law of God as a way of exercising
your autonomy and your personal freedom.
k And so you arrive at losing even the
consciousness of sin as an evil, and injustice, hatred and impiety
cover the earth and make of it an immense desert, deprived of life
and love. The obstinate rejection of God and of return to Him, the
loss of the true faith and the iniquity which is spreading and
leading to the diffusion of evil and sin: these are the signs of
the evil time through which you are living.
l But at the same time see in how many ways I am
intervening to lead you along the road of conversion, of goodness and
of faith. With extraordinary signs which I am giving in every part of
the world, through my messages and through my so frequent
apparitions, I am pointing out to everyone the approaching of the
great day of the Lord.
m But how much sorrow my Immaculate Heart feels in
seeing that these admonitions of mine are not heeded and are
frequently and openly rejected and opposed, even by those who have
the duty of being the first to accept them. For this reason, I am
revealing myself today only to the little ones, to the poor, to the
simple, to all my children who still know how to listen to me and
follow me.
n Now, as never before, I have need of a great
force of supplication and reparation. For this reason, I am turning
to you, beloved children, and inviting you to spend the hours of this
last night of the year on your knees in a continuous prayer with me.”
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