To the
Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons
From the writings of Don Stefano Gobbi
Year 1991
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE NEW ERA
441
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); January 1, 1991
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
The Announcement of the
New Era
a "In the light of my divine maternity, begin
this new year in prayer and in confidence. I am true Mother of God.
He who is born of me, in the holy night of Christmas, and is placed
in the manger with great love, surrounded by such squalor and with
such immense poverty, is the true Son of God, the Word of the Father,
made flesh in my virginal womb, the Image of his substance, the
Splendor of his glory.
b By the Will of my Son Jesus, I have become your
Mother also.
c -As Mother, I am close to each one of you to
help you carry out, in the time which has been granted you, the plan
of your Heavenly Father. This plan is that his divine Will be
accomplished by you. And the divine Will is that you become holy. I,
therefore, help you to walk along the road of holiness, so that the
divine Will may be accomplished by you in a perfect way, and thus you
may give, in your life, the greatest glory to the Most Holy Trinity.
d - As Mother, I am close to the Church, my most
beloved Daughter. In these times, the Church is being called to live
the hours of agony and of Gethsemane, the hours of the redemptive
passion, the hours of her bloody immolation on Calvary.
e At the beginning of this new year, on the road
of Calvary, I am meeting all my children: the Pope, especially loved,
guided and defended by me, the bishops, the priests, the religious
and the faithful. How heavy a cross they must carry today, these most
beloved children of mine: the cross of apostasy and of the lack of
faith; the cross of sins and of innumerable sacrileges; the cross of
abandonment and of rejection; the cross of condemnation and of
crucifixion!
f For my Church, the moment of the shedding of
blood and of her bloody immolation is close at hand. Especially in
these times, I am ever close to this suffering and agonizing Daughter
of mine, as I was beneath the Cross, upon which Jesus was immolated
for our redemption.
g -As Mother, I am close to this poor humanity,
sick and oppressed under the weight of its obstinate rejection of God
and of his Law of love. How greatly has it turned away from the Lord!
It has wanted to build for itself an atheistic and materialistic
civilization; new values have been proposed, values founded on the
satisfaction of all the passions, on the search for all pleasures, on
the legitimization of all moral disorders. Thus, love has been
replaced by egoism and hatred; faith, by pride and unbelief, hope, by
avarice and lust; honesty, by fraud and deception; goodness, by
malice and hardness of heart.
h Satan has sung his victory because he has
brought sin into souls and division into families, into society, into
nations themselves and between nations. Thus peace has never been so
threatened as in your days. You are beginning this new year under the
grave threat of a conflict which could become the spark for the
outbreak of the terrible third world war.
i Pray, beloved children, and do penance, because
you have now entered into the time of the great chastisement which
the Lord will send for the purification of the earth. Multiply
everywhere the cenacles of prayer which I have been asking of you for
so long, and do not let yourselves be seized by fear or
discouragement. Have great confidence in the powerful work of
intercession and of mediation of your heavenly Mother.
j The great suffering which awaits you is to
prepare you for the birth of the new era, which is coming upon the
world. Live this new year in my Immaculate Heart: it is the refuge
which I have prepared for you for these times, burdened with
sufferings for individuals and for nations. And so, you will not be
afraid. Your suffering will increase with the increase of the trial
which has already begun.
k I am the announcement of the new era. In
the deep darkness of this, your time, if you live with me, you can
already glimpse the glimmer of the new times which are awaiting you.
Look to this light, and live in peace of heart and in hope. If you
remain always in my Immaculate Heart, my beloved ones and children
consecrated to me, even as of these moments you can begin the new era
of holiness and of grace, of light and of purity, of love and of
peace.
l Thus, in the hour of the great trial, you will
give to all the charism of my motherly presence, and you will be a
soothing and longed-for balm for so many open and bleeding wounds.
m At the beginning of this new year, which opens
the door on the last decade of this century and which will be marked
by grave and decisive events, I enclose you in the depths of my
Immaculate Heart, and I bless you in the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”
442
Milan (Italy); February 2, 1991
Presentation of the Child Jesus
First Saturday
The Road Which Leads to the New Era
a "Contemplate me today in the mystery of the
presentation of my divine Child in the temple. With how much docility
and filial abandonment does Jesus allow Himself to be carried in my
motherly arms as, with my most chaste spouse, Joseph, I go up to the
temple of Jerusalem, to satisfy the precept of the holy Law of the
Lord. I entrust the Child to the hands of the priest, and thus He is
offered to the Father as Victim and Sacrifice for our ransom.
b Jesus enters into the glory of his temple, as
Light which illumines every man, for the salvation of all the
nations.
c The mystery, hidden from the eternal centuries
in the secret of the Father, is manifested at this moment. Not to the
great and the wise, not to the powerful and the clever, not to those
who are first and to those who are more important. It is revealed to
the little, to the poor, to the simple, to the least of all, to the
pure of heart. And thus a simple woman and a poor old man, open to
receive the gift of the Spirit, come to be the first to enter into
the understanding of this great mystery.
d `Now, O Lord, you let your servant depart in
peace, because my eyes have beheld the Savior, a light for revelation
to the gentiles and glory of your people Israel.' (cf. Lk 2:29-32)
e This is a mystery of love and of sorrow, of
light and of darkness, of joy and of suffering, of death and of life.
-'He will be set up as a sign of contradiction, for the salvation and
the ruin of many.' (cf. Lk 2:34)
f And I become intimately associated in the
unfolding of this, his divine mission. - 'And as for you, O Mother, a
sword will pierce your soul.' (cf. Lk 2:35)
g You too, my beloved ones and children
consecrated to my Heart, you too must allow yourselves to be carried
in my motherly arms. The time of your light and your witness has
come. For this reason, I invite you all to enter into the temple of
my Immaculate Heart. Here, you are offered to the glory of the
Father; here, you become molded in imitation of the Son; here, you
are transformed by the powerful work of the Holy Spirit. Your
priestly immolation is necessary for the salvation of all peoples.
h You have entered into the conclusive period of
the great tribulation, and the hour of the great trial, which I have
been foretelling to you for so many years, has now arrived for you.
It is a trial so great and painful, that you cannot even imagine it,
but it is necessary for the Church and for all humanity, in order
that the new era, the new world, and the reconciliation of humanity
with their Lord may come upon you.
i In these days, Jesus is working in a very
powerful way in every part of the world, to carry out the plan of his
merciful love. For the present, this plan is hidden and enclosed in
the secret of his divine Heart. Today it is again being revealed only
to the little, to the simple, to the poor, to the pure of heart. With
these little ones, whom He is gathering from every part of the earth,
Jesus will soon restore his reign of glory.
j This is the road which leads to the new era.
k Thus today, as you venerate me at the moment
when I present the Child Jesus in the temple of Jerusalem, I invite
you to enter, each and all, into the spiritual temple of my
Immaculate Heart, so that I can offer you to the glory of the Lord,
and I can form you in simplicity and littleness, in poverty and
purity. Only thus can you yourselves become the road which leads to
his reign and be a most powerful light which points out to all poor
humanity the way which leads to the new times which await you."
443
Brasilia (Brazil); February 26, 1991
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with Bishops and Priests of the M.M.P. from all Brazil
Not by Bread Alone
a "During these days, my Immaculate Heart is
consoled in seeing you in such great numbers at this continuous
cenacle of prayer and of brotherhood. You have come from all Brazil,
this land so loved by me and increasingly ensnared by my Adversary.
b Today I welcome into the garden of my Immaculate
Heart the Church which lives and suffers here, and your fatherland
which is again passing through moments of great difficulty and of
danger. I invite all my children to consecrate themselves to my
Immaculate Heart, and to enter as quickly as possible into the safe
refuge, which I have prepared for you, for these times of the
purification and of the great tribulation.
c I am a tender and understanding Mother for all
of you. I want to lead you along the way of peace, of prayer, of
holiness, of your more profound union with Jesus, our Redeemer and
our Savior.
d I see your zeal in the apostolate; I know of
your great difficulties; I carry with you the burden of your daily
sufferings. Above all, I look with love upon your diligent care for
the poorest, the marginalized, and those in the last places, in your
effort to set them free from the slavery of poverty and misery. But,
as your Mother, I take you by the hand and lead you to the
understanding of the truth, whole and entire.
e `Not by bread alone does man live.' (Dt
8:3)
f Man lives also by every word that comes from the
mouth of God, to nourish the hunger of his mind. Besides the poverty
of material goods, there exists a greater poverty of spiritual goods.
g How many there are of these children of mine who
live under the yoke of this spiritual slavery! They are those who
become victims of false ideologies, founded on the denial of God. How
great is the spreading of the error of theoretical and practical
atheism, which brings many to pass their life, getting along without
God! They are those who withdraw from the Church to join the various
sects, which are spreading here, more and more. This has come about
because the hungering minds of so many of my children are no longer
nourished with the bread of the Word of God.
h I ask you to give with abundance this spiritual
food, and above all, to you my beloved ones and sons consecrated to
me, I ask a still greater effort in communicating to all the light of
the Gospel. Preach the Gospel with courage and without fear; present
it with the clarity of its completeness; announce it with the same
vigor with which my Son Jesus preached it to you. Thus you will help
all to walk along the way of the true faith, in the greatest
obedience to the Magisterium of the Pope and of the bishops united
with him.
i ‘Not by bread alone does man live.’
j Man lives also by divine grace, which Jesus has
given him, to nourish the hunger of his soul. Besides the poverty of
material goods, there exists a greater and more dangerous moral
poverty, consisting in the heavy yoke which makes many of my children
slaves of evil and of sin, of unruly passions, especially of
impurity. How great is this wound among you!
k How subtle is the snare of my Adversary,
who often leads you to put all your priestly energy into healing the
wounds of the poor and exploited, in order thus to make you forget to
look above all at the deep wounds of the sinners and of the wicked.
Give the food of the grace of God to these souls who are dying of
hunger. For this, you must help sinners to return to the fount of
divine mercy, by putting yourselves at their disposal in the
sacrament of Reconciliation.
l This is the favorable time for you. This
is the time of conversion and of return to the Lord. Beloved sons,
you yourselves must become solicitous ministers of reconciliation,
for the salvation of many souls, who are running the danger of being
lost.
m `Not by bread alone does man live.'
n Man lives also by the Living Bread come down
from heaven, to nourish the hunger of his heart. How many there are
today who live under the terrible slavery of pride, of unbridled
egoism, of avarice, of hatred, of violence, of a great incapacity to
love! The way which leads to salvation is solely that of communion
and of love. For this reason, Jesus has made you the inestimable gift
of the Most Holy Eucharist.
o Jesus becomes present in the Eucharist to be the
food of your spiritual life and to form you to a true capacity for
love.
p Jesus gives Himself to you in the Eucharist to
love in you, with you and by means of you.
q The Eucharistic Jesus is the Living Bread come
down from heaven, the food to eat that one may hunger no longer, the
water to drink that one may thirst no longer.
r The Eucharistic Jesus wants to become today the
Good Samaritan for your Church, so divided and suffering, and for
your fatherland, so ill and threatened.
s The Eucharistic Jesus wants to lead all of you
along the road of love, of reconciliation, of communion, of peace, of
mercy and of salvation. Learn of Him who is meek and humble of heart,
and you will find rest for your souls.
t This year, Brazil is celebrating its National
Eucharistic Congress. May your Church and your fatherland prostrate
themselves in an act of profound adoration directed to the
Eucharistic Jesus.
u Today I ask all to throw open the doors to
Jesus Christ who is coming. I am the Mother of the Second Advent
and the door which is being opened on the new era. This new era will
coincide with the greatest triumph of the Eucharistic reign of Jesus.
v For this, I invite you, in this extraordinary
year, to make flourish everywhere the cult of adoration, of
reparation and of love for the Most Holy Eucharist. In your churches,
return to the exposition of the Most Holy Sacrament, through solemn
hours of public adoration. Let the Eucharist become the center of
your prayer, of your life, of your cult and of your ecclesial
gatherings.
w Thus, again today, the Eucharistic Jesus, with
his word, will nourish the hunger of minds; with his grace, will
nourish the hunger of souls; with his love, will nourish the hunger
of your hearts.
x And it will be the Eucharistic Jesus who will
finally give you the great gift of the true liberation from every
form of physical, spiritual and moral slavery. And thus, in all of
you, there will shine forth the great dignity of sons of God, created
by Him, loved, redeemed, sanctified and saved.
y Go forth now, from this your cenacle, and become
the apostles of this new evangelization in all of Brazil. I accompany
you with my immaculate love, and I sustain you with my motherly
blessing."
444
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); March 28, 1991
Holy Thursday
The Parch of Love and of Sorrow
a "Beloved sons, today is your feast,
because it is the day of the birth of your priesthood. At the Last
Supper, with the words - `Take and eat of this, all of you, this is
my body; drink of this, all of you, this is the chalice of my blood.'
(cf. Mt 28:26-25) – Jesus institutes the new Sacrifice, the
pact of the new and eternal Covenant. And with the words which He
addresses to the Apostles - 'Do this in memory of me.' (Lk 22:19)
He institutes his new Priesthood.
b To this new and eternal Priesthood of
Christ, all of you also, my beloved sons, have been associated - you
who have participated in the indelible sign of the priestly
character, on the day of your presbyteral ordination. And
today you are recalling this gift, renewing your complete
availability in the service of Christ and of the brothers, gathered
about your bishops during the concelebration of the Holy Mass of
Chrism, which allows you to express, in such a profound and visible
way, the unity which exists among yourselves, the bishop, and Christ.
c On this day, I ask you to renew your act of
complete and total love for Jesus. Live the moments of his such great
suffering. Enter with Him into the Garden of Olives, to live his very
agony of Gethsemane.
d How Jesus has awaited this day! -'I have
ardently longed to eat this, my Passover, with you before I suffer.'
(Lk 22:15)
e It is the Pasch of love.
f It is the Pasch of the institution of the
Sacrifice of love; it is the Pasch of the sacrament of love, of the
new commandment of love, of the service given as a perfect act of
love, of the prayer for the unity of you all, as a fulfillment of
love.
g It is the Pasch of sorrow.
h And lo, no sooner has Jesus entered into the
Garden of Olives, than a profound anguish takes hold of Him and
almost paralyzes Him. He feels Himself to be an innocent victim, an
immaculate lamb, an immolated sacrificial victim upon whom has fallen
the burden of all the sin of the world. In an instant He has the
clear vision of every detail of his painful and opprobrious passion.
And then, with a deep voice which come forth from his whole divine
Person, He entrusts Himself to the Father. – ‘Father if it is
possible, let this cup pass me by' (Mt 26:39)
i He prostrates Himself on the ground; He prays;
He moans; He weeps. Deep shudders shake his whole body which begins
to sweat profusely, and the drops of sweat are changed into drops of
blood.
j He has need of comfort. He asks it of the three
most beloved disciples: Peter, James and John. Three times He goes to
them, crushed by such great suffering; three times He finds them
asleep.
k I am far away with my presence, but with my soul
and my Heart, I am always close to my Son. And thus, the only earthly
creature who assists Him even in these moments of sorrowful agony is
his Mother. Comforted by this, my spiritual and motherly help, Jesus
offers Himself in an act of perfect abandonment: `Father, let not my
Will but yours be done.' (cf. Mt 26:39)
l And now, the angel is sent Him by the Father
with the chalice of gentle comfort, of divine consolation, to give
Him the courage to go forward to the encounter with his traitor, who
has already come. - `He who betrays me is at hand.' (cf. Mt 26:46)
m Beloved sons, in your priestly life, there must
be renewed the great mystery of love and of sorrow of your divine
Brother, Jesus. You too are called to enter into the Gethsemane of
these last times, which are making ready your priestly immolation,
for the new era which awaits you.
n How many times the weight of sorrows oppresses
you; the powers of evil paralyze you; the misunderstandings leave
their mark on you; the acts of opposition bring you to a halt; the
sins of this humanity crush you; the betrayals weary you. `Father, if
it is possible let this cup pass us by.'
o Beloved sons, do not seek human consolations or
superficial comforts. It is my motherly task to give you that chalice
of comfort which the Heavenly Father has prepared for you. In this
way, you are assisted by me to carry out today only the Will of the
Father. Entrust yourselves, all, to my Immaculate Heart, that I may
be able to lead you along the road of the divine Will.
p And live with me, in the Gethsemane of these
last times, your pasch of love and of sorrow, in expectation
of the new era which now awaits you."
445
Rubbio (Vicenza. Italy); March 29. 1991
Good Friday
The Man of All Times
a "Gather together in the garden of my
Immaculate Heart, beloved sons, to live together with Jesus the
terrible hours of his painful passion. It is Good Friday. It is the
day of his condemnation and of his death on the Cross.
b After having spent all the night, amidst the
insults and the effronteries of the members and the servants of the
Sanhedrin, as the day wears on, Jesus is led before Pilate. Here
takes place a second and more humiliating trial. Before a great
crowd, stirred up into a rage against Him, face-to-face with the
religious leaders who accuse Him of blasphemy and sacrilege,
Jesus, meek as a lamb which silently allows itself to be led to the
slaughter, assists in august silence throughout the entire unfolding
of events.
c The initial honesty of Pilate, who finds no
guilt on his part; `If He were not guilty we would not have brought
Him here before you!' (cf. Jn 18:30); the incipient fear of the
crowd; the doubt over the reality of his word: `Are You a King?' (cf.
Jn 18:33); the attempt to save Him, proposing his liberation in the
place of Barabbas; the fear caused by the cries of the people; the
terror of the judgment of Rome: `If you set this fellow free, you are
an enemy of Caesar.' (cf. Jn 19:12) And thus, with cowardice, Pilate
signs his condemnation to death.
d He hands Jesus over to the soldiers to be
scourged. His whole body becomes one deep, living wound, from the
gashes which the terrible Roman scourges gouge in his immaculate
flesh.
e He is then crowned with thorns. The
thorns open up on Him rivulets of blood, which run down from his head
and disfigure his face, and they strike Him and cover Him with
spittle and with insults. -'We have looked upon Him, stricken and
humiliated; his face no longer bore human semblance.' (cf. Is 52:14)
f The final and most wicked and cruel contrivance:
they cover Him with a scarlet scrap of cloth as his royal robe; they
put a reed in his hands as scepter; and they lead Him to Pilate who
presents Him to the crowd: `Behold the Man!' (cf. Jn 19:14)
g Behold the Man of all times. Upon Him, in
Gethsemane, have been placed all the sins of the world. In the
praetorium, there have been heaped on Him the sufferings, the
humiliations, the abuses, the acts of exploitation and enslavement of
all men.
h He is the Man of all times. The men who
went before Him have lived in the hope of seeing this, his day, and
in Him they have found salvation. He is the One who, in Abel, was
killed; in Isaac, was bound by the feet; in Jacob, walked as a
pilgrim; in Joseph, was sold; in Moses, was exposed on the waters; in
the lamb, was slaughtered; in David, was persecuted; and in the
prophets, was dishonored.
i He is the Man of all times. By the gift
of his redemption, all men who have lived after Him have been called
to live in communion of life with God. He has borne on his body the
sufferings of all the victims of hatred, of violence, of wars; He has
enclosed within his wounds the blood shed by millions of innocent
babies, slaughtered while still in their mothers' wombs. He has been
scourged by all the sufferings and the sicknesses, especially the
incurable diseases that are spreading about; He has been crowned with
thorns in those who succumb to the false ideologies and to the errors
which lead far from the faith, to pride and to human conceit. He has
been despised in the little, in the poor, in the marginalized, in
those who are the last of all, in the exploited. He has been spat
upon in those who are rejected and have given up hope. He has been
exposed to derision in those who display as merchandise the dignity
of their own bodies.
j Behold the Man. Now He takes upon Himself
the wood of the condemnation; He climbs toward Calvary; He meets me,
its transfixed Mother; He is nailed to the gibbet; He is raised upon
the Cross; the three anguishing hours of his agony, near me, his
Mother, and John, the beloved apostle; and in the end, his act of
complete abandonment to the Father and his death on the Cross, toward
three o'clock of this day.
k Behold truly the Man of all times. In Him
is every man - from he first, Adam, to the last who will find himself
on the earth at the end of time - who has lived and has been redeemed
and saved. With the help of John, of Joseph of Arimathea and of the
holy women, I bring Him to the sepulcher, where He is laid until the
dawn of the first day after the Sabbath. His divine resurrection is
the greatest proof that He alone is the Man of all times.
l He is the Man of the new times. Because
only in Him will there rise all the men who have lived, have died,
have been buried and have wasted away to dry dust. So then, even in
the great desert of your time, live with me these hours of his
passion and of his death on the Cross.
M Live them in silence, in recollection, in
prayer, in sweet intimacy of life with your divine Crucified Brother.
Because only in Him will the new times which await you be
accomplished, when He will return to you in glory, and all the powers
of heaven, of earth and of hell will prostrate themselves before Him,
to the perfect glory of God the Father."
446
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); March 30, 1991
Holy Saturday
In the Long Holy Saturday
a "Beloved children, let us live together
this day of Holy Saturday. Jesus rests, lifeless, in the new
sepulcher where He has been placed. I am keeping watch, in
confidence, in prayer, in hope and in expectation. This is the day of
your spiritual rest. This is the first day of my spiritual
motherhood. In these last times, let your commitment to live in union
of life with your sorrowful Mother become stronger.
b This is a long Holy Saturday, which is
now about to end. And so, let your prayer become more intense. Do not
allow yourselves to become absorbed or taken up by activity and by
excessive preoccupation. In the moment of suffering, in the sorrows
of the last times through which you are living, I urge you to keep
watch with me in assiduous prayer.
c In the long Holy Saturday through which
you are living, keep watch with me in confidence and in hope. In the
sepulcher of your long Holy Saturday, iniquity and human misery are
buried once and for all; evil and sin, pride and hatred, impurity and
arrogance and every form of corruption and death are laid away.
d In the long Holy Saturday of these last
times of yours, you must above all keep watch with me in expectation.
That which made lighter for me the great sorrow of this day was the
certitude that Jesus was to be gloriously risen. The Saturday of the
sepulcher was to be succeeded by the first day of the resurrection.
e Even though you are still living the pain, the
fatigue, the suffering and the death of this long Holy Saturday,
live with me in expectation. Jesus will return on the clouds of
heaven, to restore his reign of glory and to make all things new.
Beloved children, live with me today, in the expectation of this, his
return.”
447
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); March 31, 1991
Easter Sunday
Mother of Joy
a "Share with me in the joy of all the
universe, beloved children. Jesus is risen! The dark hour of
Gethsemane and Calvary has passed. In three days, the greatest
mystery of history has been completed: the betrayal, the judgment,
the condemnation, Calvary, the agony, the death and the new
sepulcher. All has passed. Jesus is risen! Jesus is alive in our
midst. Let your joy be great, together with me who am the Mother
of Joy.
b From the moment when Jesus appeared to me in the
splendor of his glorified body, my Heart was filled with such a great
fullness of joy that it has never again abandoned it. Let nothing now
disturb the deep joy of your human existence: not the sin, which has
been cancelled out; not the sorrow, which has been ransomed; not
death, which has been conquered forever.
c Your earthly journey is passing through the
stages of the very journey of Christ. You are still in the moments of
the purification and the suffering, of Gethsemane and of Calvary.
d But today, open the doors of your heart only to
the joy, with me who am the Mother of your joy. Christ, risen and
living in our midst, arranges all events for the accomplishment of
his divine plan and predisposes everything so that his reign of glory
may quickly come upon you."
448
Milan (Italy); May 4, 1991
First Saturday
The Times of Your Witness
a "With this first Saturday of the month of
May, you begin the period of time which is set aside for my special
veneration. In this month of May, I want you to be more completely
united with me, so that I may cause you to grow in your life of
consecration, to the point of full maturity. The times of your
maturity have come.
b These are the times of your witness.
c Give to all the witness of being consecrated to
me. Your life must be illumined by my motherly presence, and you must
spread about you the charism of my holiness, of my purity, of my
mercy, of my charity, of my tenderness. Whoever sees you must see the
power of my light; whoever meets you must find the sweet balm of my
mercy. Give my help to those who are far away, to the poor, to the
sick, to the sinners, to the despairing. Come with me, your motherly
shepherdess, in the search of the many little sheep who have lost
their way and are running the danger of dying of hunger and of cold.
d Give to all the witness of walking with me along
the road of faith. In these times, errors are spreading in a way
which is so vast and profound that it is not possible for you to so
much as imagine it. Many are losing the faith, and apostasy is
expanding more and more within the Church, like a terrible cancer
which has spread through all its members. You are being called to
follow me along the road of heroic and pure faith. I am making you
the gift of preserving you in the integrity of the faith, so that you
can illumine my children in these times of great darkness. For this
reason, I ask you to be strongly united with the Pope who has, from
Jesus, the great task of confirming all in the truth of the Catholic
faith.
e Give to all the witness of walking with me along
the road of prayer. Prayer is the strength of the Church; prayer is
necessary for your salvation. Prayer, made together with me, can
obtain for you the gift of the second Pentecost. Only with prayer can
you enter into the new era which awaits you. So then I invite you to
call everyone to prayer. Multiply the cenacles of prayer which I have
asked of you. I want you priests to be the first to give the example
of taking part in these cenacles. And then, I ask that, in these
decisive times, cenacles be spread among the children, among the
youth and in the families. The time has come when all the Church must
gather together with me in prayer, in the spiritual cenacle of my
Immaculate Heart.
f Give to all the witness of walking with me
along the road of holiness. My Immaculate Heart must be
honored and glorified by the Church and by all humanity. For this
reason, I want to bring you to a great holiness. Thus, by means of
you, little children consecrated to me, the whole Church can become
illumined and transformed by the very holiness of your heavenly
Mother. I am taking you along the road of perfect imitation of Jesus,
of littleness and of humility, of disdain for the world and for your
own selves, of the heroic exercise of all the virtues, and of a great
love for the Most Holy Eucharist.
g You are now in the decisive times, which are
bringing you to the new era. You are in my times. In these days of
great darkness, your light will shine forth with greater and greater
strength, to the point of surrounding with its rays and illuminating
souls, the Church, and all humanity."
449
Salzburg (Austria); May 13, 1991
Anniversary of the First Apparition at Fatima
The Pope of My Secret
a "Today you are gathered here in this, my
venerated shrine, in a cenacle made up of very many priests and
faithful of my Marian Movement of Priests. You are observing in this
way the anniversary of my first apparition, which took place in
Fatima on the thirteenth of May 1917.
b You are aware of being spiritually very much
united with my Pope, John Paul II, this precious gift which my
Immaculate Heart has made to you, who, in these very moments, is in
prayer at the Cova da Iria, to thank me for the motherly and
extraordinary protection which I gave him, by saving his life, on the
occasion of the bloody attempt made upon it, which took place ten
years ago in Saint Peter's Square.
c Today I confirm for you that this is the Pope
of my secret, the Pope about whom I spoke to the children during
the apparitions, the Pope of my love and of my sorrow. With great
courage and with superhuman strength, he goes about every part of the
world, heedless of the fatigue and the many dangers, in order to
confirm all in the faith, and thus he carries out his apostolic
ministry as successor of Peter, Vicar of Christ, universal Pastor of
the holy Catholic Church, founded on the rock of my Son, Jesus.
d The Pope gives to all the light of Christ, in
these times of great darkness. With vigor, he confirms us in the
truth of the faith, in these times of general apostasy. He invites us
to walk along the road of love and of peace, in these times of
violence, of hatred, of tumult and of war.
e My Immaculate Heart is wounded in seeing
how, all about him, there is an expanding emptiness and indifference;
contestation on the part of some of my poor children - bishops,
priests, religious and faithful; haughty opposition to his
Magisterium. For this reason, my Church is today wounded by a deep
division; it is threatened with the loss of the true faith; it is
pervaded with an infidelity which is becoming greater and greater.
f When this Pope will have completed the task
which Jesus has entrusted to him and I will come down from heaven to
receive his sacrifice, all of you will be cloaked in a dense darkness
of apostasy, which will then become general.
g There will remain faithful only that little
remnant which, in these years, by accepting my motherly invitation,
has let itself be enfolded in the secure refuge of my Immaculate
Heart. And it will be this little faithful remnant, prepared and
formed by me, that will have the task of receiving Christ, who will
return to you in glory, bringing about in this way the beginning of
the new era which awaits you."
450
Berlin (Germany); May 19, 1991
Solemnity of Pentecost
The Understanding of the Whole and Entire Truth
a "Today you are here to observe the
liturgical solemnity of Pentecost, in a continual cenacle of
brotherhood and of prayer, carried out with me and by means of me.
Thus there is renewed the very same reality which took place in the
Cenacle of Jerusalem when, under the form of tongues of fire, the
Holy Spirit came down upon the Apostles, gathered together in prayer
with your heavenly Mother. That was the first Pentecost. That was the
beginning of the earthly journey of the Church in the history of
humanity.
b With the extraordinary abundance of his
charisms, the Spirit the Lord has completely transformed the
Apostles, from being timid and fearful to being courageous witnesses
of Jesus and of his Gospel. With the powerful force of his divine
action, He has brought them to the understanding of the whole and
entire truth, and He has made them into perfect witnesses of
Jesus, even to the shedding of blood.
c You have now entered into the times of the
second Pentecost. For this reason, it is necessary that these
cenacles be multiplied in every part of the world. I ask that all the
Church be gathered together in the spiritual cenacle of my Immaculate
Heart. Then the Holy Spirit will bring you to the understanding of
the whole and entire truth.
d He will bring you into the secret of the word of
God and will give you the light of wisdom to understand all the
Gospel and whatever is described in it concerning the times through
which you are living. The Holy Spirit will make you understand the
signs of your time. They are the times foretold by Holy Scripture as
those of the great apostasy and of the coming of the Antichrist. They
are times of great tribulation and of innumerable sufferings for all,
which will bring you to live through these final events in
preparation for the second coming of Jesus in glory.
e The Holy Spirit gives his perfect witness to
Jesus and proclaims Him as the only only-begotten Son, coeternal and
consubstantial with the Father, He through whom all things have been
made, the Incarnate Word, the King of all the universe, who must come
again in glory to restore his reign in the world.
f The Holy Spirit prepares hearts and souls for
the second coming of Jesus. For this reason, He is today pouring out
his charisms in a manner which is even stronger and more
extraordinary than at the time of the beginning of the Church,
because you have now entered into the last times, which will lead you
to the new era.
g The task of the Spirit is to prepare humanity
for its complete change, to renew the face of creation, to form the
new heavens and the new earth. For this reason, I ask you to
persevere with fidelity in the cenacles which I have requested of
you.
h And allow the Holy Spirit to mold you with his
sweet and powerful action of love. Only thus can you be ready for the
great plan which awaits you.”
451
Dongo (Como, Italy); June 8, 1991
Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Apostles of the Last Times
a "Today you are celebrating the liturgical
memorial of my Immaculate Heart. This is your feast, my beloved ones
and children consecrated to me.
b You have been chosen by me and called to form
part of my victorious cohort. You form part of my estate. I have a
great design upon you. This design of mine has been revealed to you
in every detail. It must now appear to the Church and to humanity in
all its splendor, because these are the times of your maturity and of
your public witness.
c Show yourselves to all as my consecrated ones,
as the apostles of these last times.
d As apostles of the last times, you must
announce with courage all the truths of the Catholic faith; proclaim
the Gospel with force; and resolutely unmask the dangerous heresies
which disguise themselves with truth in order to better deceive minds
and thus lead astray from the true faith a great number of my
children.
e As apostles of the last times, you must
withstand with the strength of little ones the proud force of the
great and the learned, who, seduced by a false science and by
vainglory, have torn to pieces the Gospel of Jesus, by propounding an
interpretation of it which is rationalistic, humanistic, and entirely
erroneous. The times foretold by Saint Paul have come, times when
many announce false and strange doctrines, and thus they go running
after these fables and stray away from the truth of the Gospel.
f As apostles of the last times, you must
follow Jesus along the road of disdain for the world and for
yourselves, of humility, of prayer, of poverty, of silence, of
mortification, of charity and of a more profound union with God. You
are unknown and despised by the world and by those who surround you;
you are often obstructed, marginalized and persecuted, because this
suffering is necessary for the fecundity of your very mission.
g As apostles of the last times, you must
now illumine the earth with the light of Christ. Show yourselves to
all as my children, because I am always with you. Let the faith be
the light which illuminates you in these days of apostasy and of
great darkness, and, in these times of such a vast infidelity, let it
be zeal alone for the glory of my Son Jesus which consumes you.
h As apostles of the last times, there
befalls you the duty of carrying out the second evangelization, so
much asked for by my Pope, John Paul II. Evangelize the Church, which
has strayed from the spirit of Christ and has allowed itself to be
seduced by the spirit of the world, which has penetrated it deeply
and has pervaded it entirely. Evangelize humanity, which has again
become pagan after almost two thousand years since the first
announcement of the Gospel. Evangelize all men, who have become
victims of errors, of evil, and of sin and who let themselves be
swept away by the impetuous wind of all the false ideologies.
Evangelize the peoples and the nations of the earth, immersed in the
darkness of the practical denial of God, as they prostrate themselves
in the worship of pleasure, of money, of power, of pride and of
impurity.
i Your times have come, and I have formed you
during these years, so that you may be able to give now your strong
witness as faithful disciples of Jesus, even to the shedding
of your very own blood.
j When, from every part of the earth, all of you,
my little children, will give this witness as apostles of the last
times, then my Immaculate Heart will have its greatest triumph."
452
Valdragone (San Marino); June 26, 1991
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests of the M.M.P. from America and Europe
In You I Manifest Myself
a "Beloved sons, again this year I have
called you up here on this mountain, to spend a week of continuous
cenacle together with me. And you have responded in so generous a
way. You have come from every part of Europe and from many countries
of America, offering me the discomfort of long and tiring journeys.
b I am with you always. I unite myself to
your prayer; I am building up among you a more perfect brotherhood. I
help you to know one another, to understand one another, to love one
another, and to go forward together on the painful road of these last
times.
c Why have I again wanted you here? Because the
times have arrived in which I wish to manifest myself through you to
the Church and to the whole of humanity.
d In you I manifest myself as Leader of my
cohort, formed by me in every part of the world, to fight against the
great army of the enemies of God under the orders of him who opposes
himself to Christ, that is, of the Antichrist. My cohort is made up
of the little ones, of the poor, of the humble servants of the Lord
whom I call to enter into the cenacle of my Immaculate Heart, so that
they may receive in fullness the gift of the Holy Spirit. It is in
the hearts and the souls of the littlest ones that I am working my
greatest prodigies in these years. For this reason I have wanted you
here again: to form you all to littleness, to spiritual childhood, to
poverty, to humility, because it is with the weakness of the little
ones that I will conquer the proud power of the great.
e In you I manifest myself as Queen, because
it is by means of you that each day I am bringing about the triumph
of my Immaculate Heart in the world. Open the doors of your lives, so
that I can reign in you and prepare the way for the glorious reign of
Christ.
f I am the dawn that announces the arrival of the
great day of the Lord.
g In you I manifest myself as Prophetess of
these last times. This is why I speak to you. Because I know that I
am listened to, obeyed and followed by you, my sons. So, I still
continue to manifest myself through the messages which I am giving to
the heart of this, my littlest son. Believe in my word. Receive with
docility these messages of mine because, in them, everything has
already been said to you about that which awaits you.
h In you I manifest myself as a tender and
merciful Mother, in these painful hours of the purification and
of the great tribulation. You are called to be the instruments of my
motherly tenderness. Love everyone with my motherly Heart. For this,
I want to manifest myself in you more and more. Because, in you, I
want to console those who suffer, to support those who are weak, to
lift up those who have fallen, to lead back to the Lord those who
have strayed, to convert sinners, to heal the sick, and to give hope
to all who have lost their confidence. Be my sweet balm which comes
down to soothe the great sufferings of so many of my children.
i Walk along the road which I have traced out for
you in these years. Show yourselves to everyone as my children, as
those who are consecrated to me, because I am always with you. Live
in contempt for the world and for yourselves. Let the faith be the
only light which enlightens you in these times of great darkness. Let
zeal for the glory of God be the only thing which consumes you, in
these days of such widespread aridity. You are called to be the new
heart of the new Church which Jesus is forming, in wholly mysterious
way, in the heavenly garden of my Immaculate Heart.
j I thank you for the comfort which you give, in
these days, to the great sorrow of my Immaculate Heart. With those
dear to you, and with the souls who are entrusted to you, I bless you
in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”
453
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); August 15, 1991
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin Mary into Heaven
The New Era
a "Today, beloved sons, contemplate me in the
splendor of my glorified body, assumed into the glory of paradise.
Live in joy and confidence the last times of this, your second
Advent, by looking to me as to the sign of sure hope and of
consolation.
b The new era, which awaits you,
corresponds to a particular encounter of love, of light and of life
between paradise, where I am in perfect blessedness with the angels
and the saints, and earth, where you, my children, live in the midst
of many dangers and innumerable tribulations. This is the heavenly
Jerusalem, which comes down from heaven upon earth, to transform it
completely and to thus shape the new heavens and the new earth.
c The new era, toward which you are
journeying, is bringing all creation to the perfect glorification of
the Most Holy Trinity. The Father receives his greatest glory from
every creature which reflects his light, his love and his divine
splendor. The Son restores his reign of grace and of holiness,
setting free every creature from the slavery of evil and of sin. The
Holy Spirit pours out in fullness his holy gifts, leads to the
understanding of the whole truth, and renews the face of the earth.
d The new era, which I announce to you,
coincides with the complete fulfillment of the divine Will, so that
at last there is coming about that which Jesus taught you to ask for,
from the Heavenly Father: `Your Will be done, on earth as it is in
heaven.' (Mt 6:10) This is the time when the divine
Will of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit is being
accomplished by the creatures. From the perfect fulfillment of the
divine Will, the whole world is becoming renewed, because God finds
there, as it were, his new garden of Eden, where He can dwell in
loving companionship with his creatures.
e The new era, which is just now beginning,
brings you to a full communion of life with those who have preceded
you and who, here in paradise, enjoy perfect happiness. You see the
splendor of the heavenly hierarchy; you communicate with the saints
of paradise; you relieve the purifying sufferings of the souls who
are still in purgatory. You experience, in a strong and visible way,
the consoling truth of the communion of saints.
f The new era, which I am preparing for
you, coincides with the defeat of Satan and of his universal reign.
All his power is destroyed. He is bound, with all the wicked spirits,
and shut up in hell from which he will not be able to get out to do
harm in the world. Herein, Christ reigns in the splendor of his
glorified body, and the Immaculate Heart of your heavenly Mother
triumphs in the light of her body, assumed into the glory of
paradise.
g This feast of mine, which bids you to look to
your heavenly Mother, assumed into heaven, thus becomes for you a
reason for deep joy and great confidence.
h In the midst of the innumerable sufferings of
the times through which you are living, you look upon me as a sign of
sure hope and of consolation, because I am the luminous door which
opens upon the new era that has been prepared for you by the Most
Holy Trinity."
454
Olomouc (Moravia, Czechoslovakia); September 3,
1991
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests of the M.M.P. from Czechoslovakia
Apostles of the New Era
a "How happy I am, my beloved sons, to see
you in such great numbers at this retreat, which you are making in
the form of a continuous cenacle. You have come from Moravia,
Bohemia, and Slovakia to live days of intense prayer and of great
brotherhood, in the company of your heavenly Mother. I am always with
you.
b As it was in the Cenacle of Jerusalem, so also
in this cenacle of yours, I am uniting myself with your prayer; I am
building up among you a greater capacity for understanding; I am
helping you to walk along the way of your mutual love, so that the
new commandment which my Son Jesus has given you -`Love one another
as I have loved you.' (Jn 15:12) - may be more and more lived by you.
c You have emerged from a painful and very
burdensome trial. After many years of harsh communist slavery, I have
obtained for you the grace of your liberation, as I had already
foretold to you.
d Now I am asking you to become the
apostles of the new era, which is awaiting you. For this, I am
forming a new heart in you, so that you may know how to love everyone
with my maternal and merciful love. Do not be looking at some of
those among you who, through weakness, have descended to compromise
with my Adversary, who has now been defeated. Do not bear any
resentment toward them. The past is now canceled out. You are now
called to live this new time, and new tasks are awaiting you.
e - There awaits you the task of rebuilding the
Church, here where it has been so persecuted and violated by my
Adversary. For this, I urge you to be ever faithful priests,
witnesses of unity and of love for the Pope and for your bishops.
Exercise your ministry with joy and with enthusiasm; give to all the
light of Christ and of his Gospel; be ministers of grace and of
holiness. Thus, by means of you, the Church will begin again to shine
forth with great light for all those who live in this country of
yours.
f - There awaits you the task of evangelizing
this poor humanity, which has been so deceived and seduced by the
spirit of Evil. Think of the great number of my children - above all,
the young - who have been formed for years in the school of the
denial of God and of the rejection of his Law of love. They are
little sheep snatched from the flock of your divine Shepherd and led
astray along the way of evil, of sin and of unhappiness. Take them up
in your priestly arms, these straying children of mine, and carry
them all into the safe sheepfold of my Immaculate Heart. Be therefore
persevering in your ministry of catechesis, giving the light of the
truth which Christ has revealed to you, in order to help all to
remain in the true faith. In this way, you accomplish the task of
this second evangelization, so very much demanded by the first of my
beloved sons, Pope John Paul II.
g There awaits you the task of causing the
sweet balm of my motherly tenderness to come down upon so many
open and bleeding wounds. See how numerous are the poor, those far
away, the sinners, the unhappy, the stricken, the downtrodden, the
discouraged, the abandoned, the lonely, the desperate. You must be an
expression of my love and my motherly concern. Love all with the
strength of your priestly heart and with the light which is given you
by your heavenly Mother.
h If you carry out this task which I am entrusting
to you today, you become truly the apostles of the new era, which
I have already initiated here.
i Leave this cenacle with joy, with confidence and
with great hope. I am always with you. You are a precious part of my
motherly property. With your dear ones and with the souls entrusted
to you, I bless you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Spirit."
455
Velehrad (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia); September
8, 1991
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
Mary
The Crown of the Slavic Peoples
"Today I have wanted you here to celebrate
the day of my nativity, with a cenacle which you are holding in this
important shrine, where I am venerated, along with the memory of the
two great Slavic apostles, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius. You are
meeting many priests and faithful, who have also come from afar, to
spend this day in continuous prayer with the heavenly Mother and to
renew together your consecration to my Immaculate Heart.
b Bring to me, as a filial gift, about the crib
where I am placed on the day of my birth, the crown of the Slavic
peoples. With it, adorn and make fragrant, with love and with
trust, this day of my birth. From this, my venerated shrine, I bless
you today, O Slavic peoples, who are particularly loved and protected
by me, especially in these times, during which I have been close to
you.
c - I have always been close to you, in the
long years of your harsh and bloody slavery. The Red Dragon had been
exerting all his power over you, setting everywhere, in blood and in
tears, the seal of his cruel reign. But I have obtained from the Lord
the great grace of your liberation.
d - I have always been close to you, in the
decisive moments when communism was forever defeated by you, and I
have personally intervened in order that this changeover take place
without fratricidal struggles, without the shedding of blood and
without further acts of destruction.
e - I am now particularly close to you, to
help you walk along the road of true liberty, in the faithful
fulfillment of your baptismal promises, and in a daily commitment to
follow Jesus along the way of the grace of God, of love, of purity,
of communion and of brotherhood.
f Let the wounds of the past be closed forever and
open yourselves upon the new times which await you. All Europe must
become one great single family, faithful to Christ and to his Church,
in one effort of conversion and of return to the Lord, so that the
most dangerous enemy of practical atheism, of hedonism, of impurity
and of impiety be defeated by you. As your great teachers and
patrons, Cyril and Methodius, have brought you the first
evangelization, so also all of you, my beloved ones and children
consecrated to me, are now being called to be the apostles of this
second evangelization.
g Be in peace and in joy; live in confidence and
in great hope. I am always with you.
h From this place, together with Saints Cyril and
Methodius, I bless today all the Slavic peoples and this new Europe,
completely renewed, which I am forming each day in the heavenly
garden of my Immaculate Heart."
456
Sastin (Slovakia, Czechoslovakia); September
12, 1991
Cenacle held at the National Shrine of Slovakia
In the Name of Mary
a "Today, my dearest son, on the feast of the
venerated name of your heavenly Mother, you are bringing to a close
your journey, so extraordinary for its graces, with a great cenacle
which you are holding for the priests and the faithful, in this great
national shrine, dedicated to the memory of my sorrows.
b You have seen everywhere a most generous
response, on the part of all, to my request for prayer and for
consecration. Especially, you have been astounded, because you have
come here for the first time and have found my Marian Movement of
Priests so widely spread, received and followed. This is my work
alone, and I myself am furthering it in every part of the world,
because these are the times of my triumph, of my victory and of your
salvation.
c - In the name of your heavenly Mother, yes, in
the name of Mary, the Turks were defeated, when they laid siege
to the city of Vienna and threatened to invade and destroy the whole
Christian world. They were far superior in strength, in numbers and
in weapons, and they felt that their victory was assured. But I was
publicly invoked and called upon; my name was inscribed upon their
banners and shouted out by the soldiers, and thus through my
intercession, there took place the miracle of this victory which
saved the Christian world from its destruction. It is for this reason
that the Pope instituted, on this day, the feast of the Name of Mary.
d In the name of Mary, Marxist communism,
which for decades had been exercising its rule and holding so many of
my poor children in oppressive and bloody slavery, has been defeated
in these countries. Not because of political movements or persons,
but through my personal intervention, has your liberation finally
come about.
e It will again be in the name of Mary that
I will bring to completion my work with the defeat of Masonry, of
every diabolical force, of materialism, and of practical atheism, so
that all humanity will be able to attain its encounter with the Lord
and be thus purified and completely renewed, with the triumph of my
Immaculate Heart in the world.
f It is for this reason that I desire that the
feast in honor of the name of Mary be restored, now that you are
entering into the fiercest moments of the struggle and the most
painful stage of the great tribulation.
g From this, my shrine, I look with love upon
those countries which have still preserved the feast of the name of
your heavenly Mother, and I promise them my special and motherly
protection. In particular, I bless this land of Slovakia, where I am
so loved, venerated and more and more glorified."
457
Budapest (Hungary); September 15, 1991
Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
Great Is My Sorrow
a "Today you find yourself here in order to
hold two great cenacles with the priests and the faithful of my
Movement in Hungary.
b You see the deep wounds left by so many years of
harsh communist oppression. But with joy you are able to contemplate
the new buds which have sprouted from so much suffering, and today
you are gathering them up in the heavenly garden of my Immaculate
Heart.
c Give to all the balm of my motherly tenderness.
Make it felt how great my motherly love is for them.
d Here, I have personally intervened to bring
these children of mine along the road of their liberation from a
great slavery.
e But great is my sorrow in seeing that all
humanity is still a slave to materialism, to practical atheism, to
hedonism, to rebellion, to hatred and to impurity.
f Great is my sorrow because my motherly
and anguished calls for conversion and for a return to the Lord are
not being listened to or followed.
g For this reason, I turn again to you, my beloved
ones and children consecrated to me, and I ask you to offer to the
Lord your life of prayer and of suffering, in a spirit of love and of
reparation, for the salvation of this poor humanity, which is rushing
along the road of its own destruction.
h Thus, by means of you, I am able to continue my
motherly work of mercy, which I have begun in these countries, but
which I must still bring to completion in every part of the world,
for the triumph of my Immaculate Heart."
458
Birkenhead (England); October 13, 1991
Anniversary of the Last Apparition at Fatima
The Great Sign in Heaven
a "Look to me, beloved sons and you who are
consecrated to me, in the great battle which you are fighting, under
the orders of your heavenly Leader. I am the Woman Clothed with the
Sun.
b I am the great sign which appears in heaven.
c Today you are calling to mind my last
apparition, which took place in Fatima in the Cova da Iria and which
was confirmed by the miracle of the sun. This miracle shows you, in
an extraordinary way, that I am the Woman Clothed with the Sun. This
miracle invites you to look to me as to the great sign which appears
in heaven.
d I am a great sign of battle between me
and my Adversary, between the Woman and the Dragon, between my army
and the army guided by the enemy of God. You are entering into the
decisive times of the battle.
e You are preparing to live through the
most difficult hours and the greatest of sufferings. It is necessary
that all of you come as quickly as possible to form part of my army.
For this, I again invite my children to consecrate themselves to my
Immaculate Heart and to entrust themselves to me as little children.
f Today, I am extending this invitation of mine,
above all, to the little ones, to the poor, to those who are least,
to the sick and to the sinners. Come, all of you, to fight beneath
the sign of your immaculate Mother, because it is with the weakness
of the little ones, with the trust of the poor and with the suffering
of the sick that I am today fighting my great battle.
g I am a great sign of victory.
h I am the victorious Woman. In the end,
the power of Satan will be destroyed; and I myself will bind him with
my chain; and I will shut him up within his kingdom of death and of
eternal torment, from which he will not be able to get out.
i In the world, there will reign the one and only
Conqueror of sin and of death, the King of the entire created
universe, Jesus Christ.
j Let yourselves be now signed with my seal.
k In these times, the angels of light are
going about the world to mark, with the sign of the Cross, all those
who form part of my victorious army. Against these, the Star of the
Abyss will have no power, even if they will be called to great
sufferings and some to shed their own blood.
l But it will be with the great sufferings
of these children of mine that I will obtain my greatest victory.
m Today, I am inviting you to look to me, as to
the great sign which is appearing in heaven, in order to live in
trust and in serenity, as you are enlightened by my own light and
signed by my motherlv seal."
459
Birmingham (England); October 16, 1991
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests of the M.M.P. from Ireland and Great Britain
The Gift Which I Am Making to the Church
a "I look upon you with motherly tenderness,
my beloved sons, priests of my Movement, who have come from every
part of Ireland and Great Britain in order to live these days of
retreat, in the form of a continuous cenacle.
b The great sorrow of my Immaculate Heart
is consoled by you, and many of its wounds are closed by the sweet
balm of your filial love. I am always with you. I unite myself to
your prayer; I am building up amongst you a greater capacity for
communion and mutual love; I am giving you peace of heart and the joy
of being, today, priests of my Son Jesus. I want to make you into
instruments of my motherly tenderness; the apostles of my triumph;
the gift which I am making to the Church, in these times of
her purification and her great tribulation.
c It is above all a gift of love and of mercy.
d You see, my beloved sons, how great is her
abandonment, how deep her desolation!
e The Church is today climbing Calvary,
bearing a heavy cross. The spirit of the world has penetrated into
her interior and has spread everywhere. How many are the priestly and
religious lives dried up by secularism, which has possessed them
completely.
f The faith, in many of them, has been
extinguished, because of the errors which are increasingly taught and
followed; the life of grace has been buried by sins which are
committed, justified and no longer confessed. Their hearts have
become enslaved by many disordered passions and no longer have the
capacity to feel joy and peace.
g You, O priests consecrated to my Immaculate
Heart, be the expression of my motherly love and my great mercy. Love
these brothers of yours by good example, by prayer, by advice and by
welcoming with love, for them, all the sufferings which the Heavenly
Father sends you.
h Then the whole Church will feel the
comfort which the heavenly Mother is giving her through you, and in
this way she will be helped to carry her great cross towards Calvary.
i It is also a gift of consolation and of hope.
j Through you, the Church will feel, in an
increasingly powerful way, the presence of the heavenly Mother. And
the presence the Mother will bring to the Church the grace of her
total renewal, causing her finally to emerge from the long night in
which she finds herself, towards the bright day of the new times
which are about to come. Thus the Church will be consoled at seeing
the faith again flourishing everywhere, hope being renewed, charity
expanding and a great holiness spreading.
k You, O beloved sons, be the flowers which come
to maturity on the tree of your life of consecration to my Immaculate
Heart, order to cause the heavenly dew of hope and of my motherly
consolation to come down upon the immense desert of today.
l It is above all a gift of salvation.
m How many are my children today who run the risk
of being lost! How numerous are those far off, the atheists, the
sinners, the victims of evil, of egoism, of violence and of hatred!
n Look at the millions of innocent babies who are
being killed in the wombs of their mothers; at the young people set
upon the evil experience of impurity and drugs; at the families which
have been destroyed; at the sick, the poor, the abandoned and those
in desperation.
o Through you, my beloved ones, my tender and
anxious motherly help must come to all of them, to bring them to
salvation. Gather up with your priestly hands these fallen, lost and
scattered children of mine, and bring them all into the motherly
sheepfold of my Immaculate Heart.
p Be light and security for all those who form
part of other Christian confessions, and point out the harbor into
which they must enter in order to fulfill the Will of my Son Jesus:
the holy and Catholic Church, which has the Pope as its foundation
and sure guide.
q I confirm to you that, after the triumph of my
Immaculate Heart, there will remain, in these countries of yours,
solely this one and only true Church.
r Leave this cenacle with joy. I am with you. Bear
everywhere the charism of my presence and the light of my glory.
s With those who are dear to you, with all the
souls who are entrusted to you, I bless you in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
460
Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy); November 21, 1991
Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin
Mary
In the Temple of My Immaculate Heart
a "Beloved children, live on this day the
joyful mystery of my presentation in the temple of the Lord. This is
a mystery of silence, of offering, of prayer and of personal
immolation. As a sweet and immaculate victim of love, I am offered to
the worship of my Lord. I now belong to Him forever, rejoicing to put
myself at his service, in prayer and in silence, for his greatest
glory.
b For all of you also, O children who have
consecrated yourselves to me, the hour has now arrived to enter into
the temple of my Immaculate Heart.
c - In the temple of my Immaculate Heart, I am
forming you more and more to a deep silence. In these times, when my
Adversary is succeeding in seducing humanity with words, and the din
of voices and of images is turning the world into a new Tower of
Babel, you are being called to give a witness of deep silence:
silence in order to receive only the word of God, silence to meditate
on it in the heart and to keep it with love, silence to live it and
give it to all in the light of its integrity. And thus you speak with
life. Life becomes your word. And thirsting souls receive it like a
heavenly dew, which comes down to give light and life on the immense
desert of such a great aridity.
d - In the temple of my Immaculate Heart, I am
preparing you for your priestly offering. In these times of the great
tribulation, you are being called to carry the burden of a very heavy
cross. How many sufferings await you! So then, you must prepare
yourselves for your priestly offering, as a token of reparation and
expiation for the salvation of many of my poor lost children. Offer
your whole life to the Lord: your body, your heart, your soul, your
mind, your will, your freedom. In this way, you become the chosen
victims, precious and pleasing to God, which I can offer to Him, so
tht the times of the great trial may be shortened.
e - In the temple of my Immaculate Heart, I am
calling you to a continuous prayer. Pray, my beloved children. I want
so much prayer of you! Transform your day into an act of unceasing
prayer. Be a good example of prayer to all. Pray with the prayer of
the heart. Pray with abandonment, with confidence, with perseverance.
Such difficult and dangerous moments are drawing close that only
those can be saved who accept my invitation to pray always with me.
f - In the temple of my Immaculate Heart, I am
preparing you for your priestly immolation. There is a spiritual
immolation which I am asking of everyone. It is made up of the
acceptance, with love, of every circumstance of your life as a
fulfillment of the Will of the Heavenly Father. Do always and at
every moment only the divine Will. Then the Father will be pleased
with you, who are giving to the Son the joy of doing, in you, only
the Will of the Father. There is also a physical immolation for which
I am preparing you gently, as Mother, who is making of her Immaculate
Heart, in which you are enclosed, the altar upon which you will be
immolated for the salvation of the world.
g Do not be troubled. The powerful times of the
purification, of the great tribulation and of the apostasy have
arrived. For this reason, I invite you all today to enter into the
temple of my Immaculate Heart, so that I may offer you to the perfect
glorification of the Most Holy Trinity."
461
Milan (Italy); December 8, 1991
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
The Gate Which Opens
a "Rejoice, beloved children, with all
Paradise which today contemplates, in the divine light of the Most
Holy Trinity, the splendor of your heavenly Mother. I am the
Immaculate Conception. I am the most pure reflection of the light,
the love and the holiness of God. I am all beautiful: tota pulchra.
Only thus have I been able to be ready to fulfill my virginal and
maternal purpose of being the Gate of Heaven: Janua Coeli.
b - I am the Gate which opens to hope. At
the very moment when all humanity, in the sin committed by the first
parents, knows the hour of defeat and of death because of the victory
of the serpent, I am prophesied as Gate which opens to allow
hope to descend upon the world. -'I will put enmity between you and
the Woman, between your offspring and hers. She will crush your head,
while you strike at her heel.' (Gen 3:15)
c - I am the Gate which opens to my greatest
gift, when, with my maternal collaboration, the Redeemer, your
Savior, comes to you at the moment of the birth of my Son Jesus. It
is He, my victorious offspring, who will crush forever the head of
the serpent and bring about his definitive victory over Satan, over
evil and over death. I am the Mother of the First Advent, because I
am the Gate of Heaven, through which Jesus passes to come to you in
the fragility and the humility of human nature.
d I am the Gate which opens upon your salvation
because, through it, every one of you must pass to arrive at your
personal encounter with the Lord. For this, my Son Jesus has
constituted me true Mother of all humanity. Only if you pass through
this, my Gate, can you gain entrance into the heavenly garden of
mortification and penance, of faith and prayer, of humility and
purity, of charity and sanctity. And in this, my maternal estate,
Jesus has, each day, the great joy of meeting you. Jesus communicates
Himself to you with his grace; He enlightens you with his word; He
assimilates you through his real Eucharistic presence; He fills your
soul with his divine splendor; He brings your hearts to the fullness
of joy and peace.
e I am the Gate which opens upon the new era,
which awaits you and which is just now coming upon the world. For
this reason, in your times, I am called to be the Mother of the
Second Advent. Just as, by means of me, Jesus has come to you in the
fragility and humility of his human nature, so too, again by means of
me, Jesus will return to you in the splendor of his glory, to restore
his kingdom in the world.
f My presence in your midst must now become more
and more powerful, continuous and extraordinary. With it, I want to
announce to you that you must lift up your heads from the heavy yoke
of the great tribulation through which you are living, because your
deliverance is at hand.
g I am the Gate which opens on the new times which
await you. Enter, all of you, into my Immaculate Heart, with your
consecration; in this time of your second Advent, keep watch in
prayer and with confidence, and await with lighted torches, within
the Gate of Heaven of your heavenly Mother, the approaching return of
the Lord Jesus in glory."
462
Dongo (Como, Italy); December 24, 1991
The Holy Night
The Bright Cave
a "Live with me, beloved children, the
mystery of love and light of this, your Christmas. I want to take you
with me on the long journey which led us to Bethlehem.
b I was absorbed in a continuous ecstasy of love
with the divine Child, whom I was carrying in my virginal womb,
comforted by the precious assistance of my most chaste spouse,
Joseph, who devoted himself so completely to making the wearying
journey less burdensome. Thus an interior silence surrounded our
presence in the midst of a noisy caravan. And the deep prayer of the
heart marked the slow flow of our approach to our goal. And a
tranquil peace of soul descended upon the calm unfolding of time, in
a loving knowledge of the great mystery which was now about to take
place.
c When we arrived in Bethlehem and every door was
closed upon our request for hospitality for that night, there was
pointed out to us by some shepherds a poor cave which, for all its
squalor, was ready to welcome us.
d This is the holy night. This is the night which
brings to an end the expectation of the centuries. This is the night
which is opened to the Light and brings to an end forever the time of
the first Advent. This is the night which brings to a beginning the
new day which knows no setting.
e In this night, heaven is espoused to earth; the
song of the angels blends with the voices of the little ones, of the
poor, of the pure; to the shepherds is given the announcement which
gives joy to all: `Today is born for you a Savior.' (cf. Lk 2:11)
f Bow down, together with me, to cover the Child
with kisses and tears, with warmth and love, with sweet and
affectionate tenderness. He is so little; He is just born; He cries
because of the sharpness of the cold; He wails because of the great
coldness which enfolds the whole world. Like the shepherds, you too,
bring Him simple gifts. Your priestly heart, filled with love,
becomes for Him his one great comfort.
g And do you also welcome the great announcement
of joy that is given to you today: his second birth in glory is close
at hand. You too are traveling along the last stage of a long
journey. You too are coining to the end of the time of the second
Advent. So therefore, live with me and with my spouse, Joseph, the
precious hours of this new vigil.
h Let a deep silence surround the great
noise of words and of images, which today is filling the whole world.
Let the prayer of the heart bring you to a continuous loving dialogue
with the Lord Jesus who has come, who comes and who will come in
glory. And let the tranquil peace of the soul mark the passing of
your days, so threatening and thick with sorrows for all.
i Go forward safely on the tempestuous waves of
these last times of the great tribulation, without becoming troubled
at seeing that the doors are still closing to Jesus Christ, who is
coming.
j My Immaculate Heart is the bright
cave, which brings to an end this second Advent, because it is
with its triumph that Jesus will return to you in glory."
463
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); December 31, 1991
Last Night of the Year
Prostrate Yourselves with Me
a "Beloved children, keep watch with me in
prayer and in recollection. Spend thus the last hours of this year,
which has been marked by grave and important events, for the destiny
of all humanity.
b Prostrate yourselves with me in an act of
profound adoration before the Eucharistic Jesus. His real
presence among you in the Eucharist, kept with love in all the
tabernacles of the earth, is a light upon your path; it is a comfort
for all your weariness; it is a balm upon every wound; it is a joy in
all your sorrows; it is peace which calms every anxiety; it is the
dawn which marks the beginning of each new day of your human life.
c Prostrate yourselves with me in an act of
fervent thanksgiving for all the favors that have been given you,
by the love and the providence of your Heavenly Father. It is the
Father who arranges for you every minute of your life, as an
expression of his love and of his divine mercy. You are living within
time, in order to bring to realization a great loving plan of his.
Even when you draw away from Him, He never abandons you, but prepares
for, awaits and brings to completion your every return. His divine
mercy is a heavenly dew which comes down to make fertile the great
dryness of this world and to make the desert, in which you live,
blossom with holiness and with life.
d You are now entering into the times when the
miracle of divine mercy will become manifest to all. See how humanity
lies prostrate and wounded, lacerated and defeated, threatened and
stricken, diseased and dying. Of itself it can no longer rise again,
unless a great mercy lift it up.
e The moment is at hand when the Heavenly Father
will take it up in his arms, will relieve it of evil, will heal it
and bring it with Him into his delightful garden.
f Prostrate yourselves with me in an act of
intense reparation for the innumerable offenses committed against
the Spirit of the Father and of the Son, who groans within you with
unutterable groanings. How much evil is still committed each day in
the world! The Law of God is openly violated; his name is blasphemed;
his day is profaned. The value of life is no longer respected; the
number of abortions grows greater and greater; homicides and crimes,
hatred and violence, spread; cruel and bloody wars suddenly break
out, threatening the peace of all humanity.
g How numerous are the sins against the Holy
Spirit, which are being committed today! Let us pray together, with
humility and trust, to invoke the gift of the Holy Spirit that He
come down, as a dew, to purify the earth and to renew the whole
world.
h Do not spend the last hours of this year in
noise and dissipation. Prostrate yourselves with me in a
prayer of adoration, of thanksgiving and of reparation, to obtain
from the Father, from the Son and from the Holy Spirit that there may
be a shortening of the time of the great tribulation in which you are
now living, order to enter into the new era which now awaits you."
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