To the
Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons
From the writings of Don Stefano Gobbi
Year 1993
THE TIME OF THE GREAT TRIAL
486
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); January 1, 1993
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
The Time of the Great Trial
a "My beloved ones and children consecrated
to my Immaculate Heart, today you are living spiritually united in
the solemn liturgical observance of my Divine Maternity.
b I am the true Mother of God. The Word of the
Father has assumed human nature in my virginal womb and has become
your Brother. On the Cross, a few moments before He died, Jesus
entrusted to me this humanity which had been redeemed and saved by
Him.
c I have thus become the Mother of all humanity.
It is in virtue of my role as Mother of God and of humanity that I am
intervening in your life, in the life of the Church and in the life
of humanity, to assist you in carrying out the designs of the
Heavenly Father, by responding to the gift which my Son Jesus made to
you and by seconding with docility the action of the Holy Spirit.
d As Mother, I am always close to you, to the
Church and to humanity, in order to lead you along the way of the
fulfillment of the Father's Will, of the imitation of the Son, and of
communion with the Spirit of Love, in such a way that the Most Holy
and Divine Trinity may be more and more glorified.
e The fountain of your joy and your peace is to be
found in the perfect glorification of the Most Holy Trinity. Peace is
given you by the Father, shared with you by the Son, and becomes
communicated to you by the Holy Spirit.
f The Father has indeed so loved the world that He
has given his only-begotten Son. The Son Himself is the peace which
is communicated to the world. The Holy Spirit brings you to that love
from which alone peace can spring.
g The Evil One, Satan, the ancient serpent, the
great Dragon, has always acted and works in all kinds of ways to take
away the precious blessing of peace from you, from the Church and
from humanity. It enters then into my function as Mother to bring you
all to a great communion of life with God, so that you may have the
sweet experience of love and of peace.
h Never as in your days has peace been so
threatened, because the struggle of my Adversary against God is
becoming stronger and stronger, more insidious, continual and
universal.
i You have thus entered into the time of the
great trial.
j - The great trial has come for all of you, my
poor children, so threatened by Satan and stricken by the evil
spirits. The danger you are in is that of losing grace and the
communion of life with God, which my Son Jesus obtained for you at
the moment of redemption, when He delivered you from slavery to the
Evil One and set you free from sin.
k Now sin is no longer considered an evil;
indeed, it is often exalted as a thing of value and as something
good. Under the perfidious influence of the mass media, the awareness
of sin as an evil has been gradually lost. Thus it is committed and
justified more and more and is no longer confessed.
l If you live in sin, you return again to slavery
under Satan, subjected to his wicked power, and thus the gift of
redemption which Jesus accomplished for you is made useless. Thus
peace disappears from your hearts, from your souls and from your
life.
m O my children, so threatened and so ill,
accept my motherly urging to return to the Lord along the way of
conversion and of repentance. Recognize sin as the greatest of evils,
as the source of all individual and social evils. Never live in sin.
If you should happen to commit it out of human weakness, or through
the subtle temptations of the Evil One, have recourse quickly to
confession. Let frequent confession be the remedy which you make use
of against the spread of sin and evil.
n You then live in great communion of love and of
life with the Most Holy Trinity, who takes up its dwelling in you and
who is more and more glorified by you.
o - The great trial has come for the Church, so
violated by the evil spirits, so divided in its unity, so
darkened in its holiness. See how error has flooded throughout it,
error which leads to the loss of the true faith. Apostasy is
spreading everywhere.
p A special gift of my Immaculate Heart for these
times of yours is the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which
my Pope has wished to promulgate, to be as it were his shining last
testament. But how many are those pastors who grope about in the
mist, become speechless out of fear or compromise, and who no longer
defend their flocks from the many rapacious wolves!
q Many priestly and consecrated lives have become
dried up by impurity, seduced by pleasures and the search for comfort
and well-being. The faithful are being drawn in by the enticements of
a world which has become pagan, or by the countless sects which are
spreading more and more.
r The hour of its great trial has above all come
for the Church, because it will be shaken by the lack of faith,
obscured by apostasy, wounded by betrayal, abandoned by its children,
divided by schisms, possessed and dominated by Freemasonry, turned
into fertile soil from which will spring up the wicked tree of the
man of iniquity, the Antichrist, who will bring his kingdom into its
interior.
s - The great trial has come for all humanity,
already lacerated by spreading violence, by destructive hatred,
by wars which are expanding menacingly, by great ills which no one is
able to heal.
t At the dawn of this new year, the threat of a
terrible third world war is becoming stronger and more worrisome. How
many people will have to suffer the scourge of hunger, of famine, of
discord, and of fratricidal struggles which will spill much blood on
your roads.
u If the time of the great trial has come, the
time has come also for all to hasten into the safe refuge of my
Immaculate Heart. Do not lose courage. Be strong in trust and
confidence. I have told you beforehand of the times which await you,
painful and difficult times, precisely in order to help you live in
trust and in a great confidence in your heavenly Mother.
v The further you enter into the time of the great
trial, the more will you experience, in an extraordinary way, my
motherly presence close to you, to help, defend, protect and console
you, and to prepare for you new days of serenity and peace.
w In the end, after the time of the great trial,
there awaits you the time of great peace, great joy, great holiness,
the time of the greatest triumph of God in your midst.
x Pray with me on this, my feast day, and live in
that expectation which sweetens the bitterness of your daily
suffering. Today I am spreading my mantle over you to shelter you, as
does a mother hen with her chicks, and I bless you all in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
487
Jauru (Mato Grosso, Brazil);
February 2, 1993
Feast of the Presentation of the Child Jesus
In the Temple of My Immaculate Heart
a "Let yourselves be carried in my motherly
arms, beloved children, as newborn babes, in the spiritual temple of
my Immaculate Heart.
b - In the temple of my Immaculate Heart, I
offer you to the perfect glory of the Most Holy and Divine
Trinity.
c I offer you to the glory of the Father, who
takes delight in you, and I lead you, at each moment of your life, to
do his divine Will with love, docility and filial abandonment. Thus
as in heaven, so also on this earth, the Heavenly Father is
glorified, and his name is adored and sanctified.
d I offer you to the glory of the Son, who
pours out upon you the torrents of his divine mercy, to wipe away
every shadow of evil and sin from your souls; who imprints there his
image as the only-begotten Son of the Father; and who associates you
in his divine splendor, so as to make of you yourselves light for
revelation to all the gentiles. For this, I am leading you with
gentle firmness, along the way of faith and purity, of hope and
mortification, of love and an ever greater holiness.
e I offer you to the glory of the Holy Spirit, who
gives Himself to you in inexhaustible abundance, in order to lead you
into the heart of his very own design of love for the Father and the
Son, thus making of you burning witnesses of divine charity. For
this, I am obtaining for you his seven holy gifts, which give you
vigor and constancy, courage and strength, zeal and perseverance in
the fulfillment of the mission which has been entrusted to you.
f Thus, while in the temple of the created
universe God is denied, scorned and blasphemed, in the temple of my
Immaculate Heart, the Most Holy and Divine Trinity receives again
today, from the mouths of my little children, the praise and perfect
glory that is due It.
g - In the temple of my Immaculate Heart, I am
forming you for the greater splendor of the Church, the new Israel of
God. In the time of the great trial for the Church, you become the
help which it earnestly awaits, the help which my Immaculate Heart
gives it, for these bloody moments of the great tribulation.
h And so I am bringing you to the heroic witness
to Christ and to his Gospel, making of you courageous heralds of all
the truths of the Catholic faith, in such a way that you illumine
with your light the deep darkness of these times of great apostasy.
By means of you, the Church will become more and more enlightened and
will recover its confidence and strength, so that it may accomplish
the task of the second evangelization, to which it is being strongly
urged by the Spirit.
i - In the temple of my Immaculate Heart, I
give to all humanity the refuge, so sought for and awaited, for
these times of the great trial which is now upon you. During these
years, how very many of my children will you see, starved and
scattered, crushed and wounded, hastening in search of protection and
salvation in the temple of my Immaculate Heart.
j I desire that the task entrusted to the Marian
Movement of Priests be brought to its conclusion in the shortest time
possible and that all make right away the consecration to my
Immaculate Heart, which I have asked of you for these days of the
great trial.
k It is for this reason, my little son, that you
find yourself again today in a very distant place, where I am
venerated and Jesus is adored by a great number of my little
children, poor, humble, simple, but faithful and docile to the
request of your heavenly Mother.
l In the hearts of all my little children, I take
up my dwelling, where I myself find my refuge, to be consoled by your
tender filial love and to obtain that great reparation which I have
asked of you and of which I have need, in order to shorten the great
sufferings of these, your days.”
488
Sao Paolo (Brazil); February 11, 1993
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
The Dangers Which Threaten You
a "Look today at the splendor of your
heavenly Mother, who appeared in Lourdes as the Immaculate
Conception.
b I appeared in order to announce to you
that you have entered into the time of my full manifestation. I
appeared in order to point out to you the way along which you should
travel in these final times of yours. I appeared in order to carry
out my motherly task in your regard, my children, so ensnared by my
Adversary and yours. In the time of the great trial, I am pointing
out to you the dangers which threaten you.
c -The gravest danger is that of succumbing to the
seduction of the world in which you live, of becoming the victim of
sin and evil, of returning to slavery under Satan and his diabolical
power. And so I have manifested myself to you as the Immaculate
Conception, that is, as the only creature who has never known the
shadow of sin, not even original sin, which every person contracts at
the moment of his human conception.
d And I have directed to you my motherly
invitation to walk along the way of goodness and grace, of purity and
humility, of love and of an ever greater holiness. I have also asked
you to make use of those means which are indispensable for walking
along this difficult road: penance and the sacrament of
Reconciliation.
e - Another danger which threatens you is
that of allowing yourself to be taken up with inordinate activity,
and so forgetting the powerful force which prayer has in obtaining
the grace of conversion for many of my poor sinful children. And so I
have invited you to pray much for the conversion of sinners, by
showing you, through my little daughter Bernadette, that the most
efficacious prayer, the prayer which is most preferred by me, is that
of the holy rosary.
f - And lastly, there is the continual danger of
falling ill, of allowing yourself to be seized by discouragement and
lack of confidence, thus reducing you to a true spiritual impotence.
And so, I have wished also to manifest myself as a medicine for your
ills, a help in your needs, and a support in your human weakness. I
have invited you to go and wash at the fountain, with that water
which I have caused to spring up miraculously from the rock on which
I appeared.
g Today, now that the time of the great trial has
already come, I gain repeat to you my motherly invitation to follow
me along he way of grace and purity, of penance and prayer, in order
to obtain the gift of healing and salvation.”
489
Fatima (Portugal); March 15, 1993
I Have Wanted You Here
a "Today I invite you to come here in spirit,
my beloved children, to the poor Cova da Iria in Fatima, where I
appeared that I might be a light upon your path in this period of
time in which you are living. And so I have again wanted you here,
my little child, at my feet, in the very same place where I began
this great work of love, my Marian Movement of Priests.
b I have wanted you here, to receive from
your hands this work of mine, which has now spread throughout the
whole world, and by means of which there comes to me from all sides
the homage of my beloved priests and children who have consecrated
themselves to my Immaculate Heart. This generous response which I
receive, especially from the little ones, the poor, the simple, and
the humble, gives much joy to my motherly Heart and consoles me in my
great sorrow.
c I have wanted you here, to tell you that
you must now all enter right away into the safe refuge of my
Immaculate Heart. Just as Noah, in the name of the Lord, called into
the ark those who were to be saved from the flood, so now must you,
my littlest child, in the name of your heavenly Mother, call into the
refuge of my Immaculate Heart those who must be protected, defended
and saved from the great trial which has now come for the Church and
for all humanity.
d I have wanted you here, because you must
communicate to all that as of now - as of this year - you have
entered into the events which I foretold to you, and which are
contained in the third part of the secret, which has not yet been
revealed to you. This will now be made evident by the very events
themselves which are about to take place in the Church and in the
world.
e My Church will be shaken by the violent
wind of apostasy and unbelief, as he who sets himself against Christ
will enter into its interior, thus bringing to fulfillment the
horrible abomination which has been prophesied to you in Holy
Scripture.
f Humanity will know the bloody hour of its
chastisement: it will be stricken with the scourge of epidemics, of
hunger and of fire; much blood will be spilt upon your roads; war
will spread everywhere, bringing down upon the world incommensurable
devastation.
g You, my poor children, must all bear the weight
of great sufferings and of unspeakable sorrows, so that the great
miracle of divine justice and mercy may be manifest to all.
h For this reason, from my shrine in
Fatima, I renew today the pressing invitation for you to take refuge
in me, through your consecration to my Immaculate Heart, and to
multiply everywhere the cenacles of prayer, which I have asked of
you, cenacles of priests, of little children, of youth, and cenacles
within families.
i Do not be afraid. Do not allow yourselves to be
seized with discouragement. I am with you always.
j I have wanted you here, because you must
announce to each and all that the time has come when I will make
myself manifest, in an extraordinary way, to all those who have
consecrated themselves to me and have formed part of my victorious
cohort.
k From this place, where I appeared as the
Woman Clothed with the Sun, to be your light in these dark years of
the great tribulation, I bless you all in the name of the Father, and
of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
490
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); April 8, 1993
Holy Thursday
A Service o f Love
a "Beloved sons, this is your feast day. This
is your pasch. Today you are recalling the institution of the new
Sacrifice and of the new Priesthood, which took place at the Last
Supper. Gathered about your bishops in concelebration, you are
renewing your promise of fidelity to Jesus and the Church.
b You are his ministers; you are his servants. Let
your priestly ministry be a service of love.
c - Love Jesus who has chosen, called and
consecrated you in order to perpetuate throughout time his Sacrifice,
accomplished on the Cross for the salvation of the world.
d Jesus asks of you, his priests, only to be
loved. He asks this of you with the anxiety of a thirsty man who,
moaning, waits for a drop of water; with the longing of a hungry man
who stretches out his hand for a scrap of bread; with the ardor of a
lover who longs to receive love from the one he loves.
e My beloved sons, open your priestly hearts to
the perfect love for my Son Jesus. Your love is balm upon his Heart
which sweetens the bitterness of his feeling Himself so little loved,
in these times when the hearts of men have become cold, frigid,
closed by egoism and a great aridity.
f Never before as today, has Love been so unloved.
You who are his priests, love Jesus who is surrounded by great
coldness and a general indifference. Let your priestly ministry be a
service of love for Him.
g Lay a caress upon his face, so often disfigured;
bind up his head, pierced with deep thorns; kiss his lips to taste
the bitterness of his chalice; anoint with balm his body, covered
with sweat and blood; make reparation by your presence for the
countless and repeated acts of abandonment; give your life to Him in
loving compensation for the ongoing acts of betrayal. Enter with
Jesus into Gethsemane, and live with Him the painful hours of his
interior agony.
h - Love his brothers and yours, with the
infinite delicacy of his divine love. Learn of Jesus who is meek and
humble of Heart. Learn from Jesus how to love. You too, gird yourself
with the towel, to put yourself at the service of your neighbor. Let
your priestly ministry be a service of love for all. Let it be
Jesus Himself who loves in you.
i To the poor give his richness; to the rich, his
poverty; to the healthy, his weakness; to the sick, his strength; to
sinners, his salvation; to the dying, his paradise; to the hungry,
his body; to the thirsty, his blood; to the weak, his support; to the
little, his defense; to all, his divine caress.
j On this Holy Thursday, beloved sons, learn from
Jesus how to love. And so I invite you today to enter, each and all,
into the Gethsemane of his divine love, never to leave it again."
491
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); April 9, 1993
Good Friday
His Sorrowful Passion Is Being Renewed
a "Beloved children, come with me to Calvary,
to live the sorrowful hour of the passion and death of my Son Jesus.
With what fatigue He makes his way towards Golgotha, carrying on his
wounded shoulders the burden of his gibbet. How distant are the
voices of his triumph: `Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He
who comes in the name of the Lord.' (Mt 21:9)
b In place of the palm and olive branches, there
are the lances of the Roman soldiers; in place of the hosanna
cries of the crowd, there is the shouting and the insults of the
executioners; in place of the joyful songs of the little children,
there is the weeping of the faithful women; in place of the majestic
and regal entrance, there is the slow advance carrying the Cross on
his shoulders.
c The crowd fed by Jesus with his bread are not
there, nor are the sick who had been healed, nor the sinners led back
along the road of righteousness, nor the Apostles chosen to be his
witnesses. But his Mother is there, and close to her, the beloved
John, who represents all of you, my beloved sons.
d Together, let us kiss his wounds; let us collect
his blood; close the deep gashes; arrange his blood-soaked hair; wipe
away the bruises and spittle from his face; make clean again his
martyred body, covered with injuries; drink the blood and water that
flow from his pierced Heart.
e And let us ever live in spirit his
sorrowful passion.
f This, his sorrowful passion, is being renewed
in these last times when the great trial has come for all.
g His sorrowful passion is being renewed by
the Church, his Mystical Body. She too is called to enter into the
Gethsemane of his agony. She too knows the kiss of betrayal, the
denial and the abandonment on the part of her own. She too must taste
all the bitterness of his chalice. She is likewise mocked, scourged
and crowned with thorns. She likewise experiences the condemnation
and abuse of many. Indeed, she is crucified and immolated so that the
plan of the Heavenly Father may be fulfilled.
h His sorrowful passion is being renewed by
you, my beloved children. And so I have called you time and again to
enter, by your consecration, into the Gethsemane of my Immaculate
Heart. This is in order to form you for your priestly immolation and
to give you the strength to go forward without fear to the Calvary Df
your martyrdom, close to me, the sorrowful Mother, who has begotten
you beneath the Cross upon which my Son Jesus has been put to death.
i The time of your painful passion has now
arrived. You too will be persecuted and stricken, rejected and
condemned, imprisoned and killed. But do not let yourselves be seized
with apprehension or fear. I am as close to you, as I was beneath the
Cross.
j I am at your side at the hour of the painful
passion which is being renewed by you, my beloved ones, because today
also it is beneath the cross that I am fulfilling my role as Mother
of the new times, which are coming to birth from your painful
suffering.”
492
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); April 10, 1993
Holy Saturday
Close to Every Sepulcher
a "Live together with me in prayer, in
silence and in expectation, close to the sepulcher where lies the
lifeless body of my Son Jesus. Beloved children, live close to me on
this day of my immaculate sorrow.
b This is the day of my new and spiritual
motherhood. This is the only day when I am left without my Son. This
is the first day when I feel myself called to be a mother to you, to
the Church and to all humanity.
c From today on, as Mother, I am close to every
sepulcher in which each of my new children is laid.
d I am close to the sepulcher, where
millions of innocent little babies repose, babies who have never been
born into life, as they were killed in the wombs of their mothers. In
the new sepulcher, where the body of my Son is laid, I see gathered
together all these countless sepulchers, and copious tears flow down
the cheeks of a Mother who is mourning for all her little babes who
have been killed in such a cruel and inhuman way.
e I am close to the sepulcher, where lie
all the victims of hatred, violence and wars, and who have been put
into common graves, without as much as a gesture of human pity.
f I am close to the sepulcher, where there
rest in the sleep of death all my sinful, poor, sick, marginalized,
persecuted, oppressed and battered children.
g I am close to the sepulcher which gathers
together the mortal remains of my priest-sons, of the religious, and
of those who have consecrated their lives to the service of my Son
Jesus.
h Close to every sepulcher, I want to keep
watch today with you, my beloved ones, in sorrow and in prayer. As of
this Holy Saturday, copious tears flow daily from my motherly and
merciful eyes, as I mourn over each of my new children who is being
carried to the sepulcher.
i But close to every sepulcher, I keep
watch above all in hope and expectation.
j From the moment when my Son Jesus came forth
from his sepulcher, alive once again and victorious over death and
hell, I have been waiting with confidence for the moment when all my
children too will come forth from their sepulchers, to share forever
in the immortal life which Jesus has obtained for you by his death
and resurrection."
493
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); April 11, 1993
Easter Sunday
The Pasch of the New Times
a "Beloved children, rejoice with me, the
joyful Mother of the Resurrection. Your hearts, hearts of newborn
babes, like little white flowers blossoming from the bloody torment
of Calvary, are exulting with purest paschal joy.
b Jesus, scorned, scourged, crowned with thorns,
condemned to the gibbet, crucified, put to death and buried, today
comes forth victorious from his sepulcher in the splendor of his
divine glory.
c Jesus is alive; Jesus is holy; Jesus is
immortal; Jesus is God! In the light of his risen body, Jesus Christ
is spreading over the world and the entire universe the splendor of
the Father, the reflection of his glory, the imprint of his divine
substance.
d And peace descends into your souls, set free
from slavery to Satan and sin; into your hearts, purified by the fire
of his love; into your minds, opened up to the gift of his word of
life; into your spirits, upon whom his very own Spirit comes gently
to rest; into your eyes, called upon to reflect his most ardent
light; into your bodies, called to share in the new experience of
divine immortality.
e Yes, Jesus Christ has conquered death; has made
Satan, the ancient Adversary, his slave; takes you by the hand and
leads you into the stupendous kingdom of his freedom.
f Do not let the hour of a new Gethsemane, through
which humanity is now living, make you sad. Do not be discouraged if
evil has the upper hand in the world today. Do not be alarmed if
Satan has reached the summit of his diabolical reign.
g Humanity is now lying in its sepulcher of death,
of sin, of impurity, rent asunder by the impetuous wind of violence
and hatred. Soon it too will come forth from this, its immense
sepulcher, to live the pasch of the new times, when Jesus will
return in glory to restore his kingdom of love and of life.
Prepare yourselves to live the pasch of the new
times. It is the pasch prepared for you. It is the pasch which
awaits you at the end of the gloomy period of the purification and
the great tribulation, through which you are now living. It is with
great hope and in this certain expectation that you must live through
time of the great trial which has now arrived for all.
i In this pasch of 1993, I invite you all to look
to `Jesus Christ, the Faithful Witness, the First-born of the dead,
and the Ruler of the kings of the earth.
j `To Jesus Christ who loves us and has freed us
from our sins by his blood and who has made us into a kingdom,
priests to his God and Father, to Him be glory and power for ever and
ever!
k `Behold! Jesus Christ is coming amid the
clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him. The
peoples of the earth will be confounded. Yes. Amen.' (cf. Rev
1:5-7)
l Beloved children, in the paschal joy of this
announcement, which brings you to peace, with my risen Son, I bless
you all today in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Spirit."
494
Sant'Omero (Teramo, Italy); May 1, 1993
Feast of St. Joseph the Worker
First Saturday
My Motherly Presence
a "Beloved children, today I invite
you to live with particular diligence your consecration to my
Immaculate Heart. It is the best way of offering me this month of
May, which has been set aside by the Church for my particular
veneration.
b I am especially close to you during this month,
and I want my motherly presence to be felt by each one of you.
You will succeed in feeling my presence as Mother close to you if, as
little children, you accustom yourselves to do everything together
with me. Pray with me; work with me; love with me; suffer with me;
offer yourselves with me; keep silence with me. Silence must become
for you the sign of my motherly presence.
c Let yours be an exterior silence, which
protects you from the deafening roar of voices and images, which
continually fill the course of your days. Remove yourselves from the
easy seduction of the press and television, this terrible means made
use of my Adversary to draw you away from me and my Son Jesus.
d Let yours be an interior silence, which
leads you to listen, with love and faith, to the word of God alone.
Penetrate into the deep mystery of truth and beauty, which is
revealed to you in the Gospel. Let the Gospel of Jesus be the only
word of life which you seek, welcome, love and live. Let yours be
that interior silence which leads you to contemplation and prayer.
Let your prayer become more intense. Let it be a true prayer of the
heart, which you make with me and by means of me.
e For this, let the cenacles of prayer which I
have asked of you flourish everywhere, like fragrant flowers which
blossom in the desert of a great aridity and general dissipation.
f Mortify your senses. Let the tongue be loosened
only for words of wisdom and goodness. Let your mouth be ever closed
to judgments, criticisms, affronts, gossip, calumnies, duplicity and
insincerity. Let the eyes be opened to see the deep wounds of the
sick, the poor, the little ones, the abandoned, the stricken, the
persecuted, the oppressed and the slain. Turn your gaze away from
impurity and malice, from evil and wickedness, from seduction and
impiety.
g Open your hands to the aid of all. Go along the
rough and blood-stained roads in search of my poor wandering
children. Offer me your hearts so that I may love in you and by means
of you, in such a way that all may receive the comfort of my
motherly presence.
h Beloved children, these are the flowers which I
am asking you to give me, to make more pleasing to me this month of
May which you are beginning today.
i Only in this way do I feel myself ever close to
you. Only in this way do you spread about you the charism of my
motherly presence. Only in this way do you reflect my light of
love and hope. Only in this way do you live the consecration which
you have made to me.
j Then, by means of you, the heavenly Mother
becomes more and more invoked, listened to, followed and lived, and
my Immaculate Heart attains its greatest triumph."
495
Shrine of Caravaggio (Bergamo, Italy); May 13,
1993
Anniversary of the First Apparition at Fatima
The Bloody Years of the Battle
a “By a day-long cenacle at this
venerated shrine, you, the priests and faithful of my Movement in the
region of Lombardy, are today observing the anniversary of my first
apparition which took place at Fatima, in the poor Cova da Iria.
b You are still in the period described by me in
my apparition. Above all, you are in the heart of my message. The
struggle between the Woman Clothed with the Sun and the Red Dragon
has, during these years, reached its highest peak. Satan has set up
his kingdom in the world. He is now ruling over you as a sure victor.
c The powers which are directing and arranging
human events, according to their perverse plans, are the dark and
diabolic powers of evil. They have succeeded in bringing all humanity
to live without God. They have spread everywhere the error of
theoretical and practical atheism. They have built the new idols
before which humanity is bowing down in adoration: pleasure, money,
pride, impurity, mastery over others, and impiety.
d Thus, in these years of yours, violence
is spreading more and more. Egoism has made the hearts of men hard
and insensitive. Hatred has blazed up like a scorching fire. Wars
have multiplied in every part of the world, and you are now living in
the danger of a new terrible world war which will bring destruction
to peoples and nations, a war from which no one will emerge
victorious.
e Satan has succeeded in entering into the
Church, the new Israel of God. He has entered there with the smoke of
error and sin, of the loss of faith and apostasy, of compromise with
the world and the search for pleasure. During these years, he has
succeeded in leading astray bishops and priests, religious and
faithful.
f The forces of Masonry have entered into the
Church, in a subtle and hidden way, and have set up their stronghold
in the very place where the Vicar of my Son Jesus lives and works.
g You are living the bloody years of the
battle, because the great trial has now arrived for all.
h There is now taking place that which is
contained in the third part of my message, which has not yet been
revealed to you, but which has now become evident from the events
themselves through which you are now living.
i To prepare you for them, I have caused my Marian
Movement of Priests to spring up in every part of the world. And thus
I have chosen this littlest and poorest child of mine and have
brought him everywhere, as an instrument of my motherly plan of
salvation and mercy.
j By means of him, I have called you from all
sides to consecrate yourselves to my Immaculate Heart; to enter, each
and all, into the safe refuge which your heavenly Mother has prepared
for you; to multiply the cenacles of prayer as lightning rods which
protect you from the fire of the chastisement. How many of you have
responded to my call with filial love and with great generosity!
k My plan is now on the point of being realized,
and the task which I have entrusted to this little son of mine is
about to be completed. And so today I am looking upon you with the
special satisfaction of a Mother who is being consoled and exalted by
you.
l I urge you to live without fear, but rather with
great confidence and trust, these bloody years of the battle. From
the chalice of sufferings never experienced until now, there will
come forth the divine sun of a new era, of a humanity heretofore
unknown, of grace and holiness, of love and justice, of joy and
peace."
496
Notre Dame de Laus (Gap, France); May 30, 1993
Solemnity of Pentecost
Comfort Amidst Mourning
a "You are bringing to completion today, in
this venerated shrine, the journey which you have undertaken all
through France. In fifteen days, you have held a good twenty
cenacles, in which bishops, priests and a great number of the
faithful of my Movement have taken part.
b Everywhere you have gathered together in prayer
with me before the Eucharistic Jesus solemnly exposed on the altar,
and you have renewed your consecration to my Immaculate Heart.
Everywhere you have contemplated the marvels of love, of grace and of
mercy of your heavenly Mother.
c You are completing this extraordinary journey
today, on the solemn feast of Pentecost. This is a sign which I am
giving you, to make you understand that, in the garden of my
Immaculate Heart, the new Church and the new humanity, purified,
sanctified and completely renewed by the Holy Spirit, arc even now
ready to come to birth.
d This decisive time of the purification
and the great tribulation is the time of the Holy Spirit. And so I
renew again today my invitation to multiply the cenacles of prayer,
which I have asked for, with such motherly insistence.
e Let these cenacles be spread among the priests,
my beloved sons. Surrender to me your concerns and your many
occupations. Do not give in to the easy seductions of the world.
Return to the spirit of simplicity, of humility, of littleness.
Recollect yourselves in prayer in the cenacle of my Immaculate Heart,
and then you will be able to see, with your own eyes, the wonder of
the second Pentecost.
f Let children come together in cenacles, because
their innocent prayer, united to mine, has today a great power of
intercession and reparation. From how many evils you have already -
been spared, because of the prayer of these little children of mine!
g I want to gather young people together in
cenacles, so that they may experience my motherly presence, the
presence of a Mother who loves them, protects them from the great
dangers to which they are exposed, and who leads them with gentle
firmness, along the road of goodness, of love, of purity and of
holiness.
h The cenacles which I have asked of
families are a precious gift to them, so that in them they may
experience the joy of my presence, the comfort of my assistance, and
the help offered against the grave evils which threaten their very
existence. In these cenacles, the Holy Spirit will come down to lead
you to the second Pentecost.
i It is necessary, above all in these last times,
that the Church and all humanity be transformed into a continuous
cenacle of prayer, made with me and through me. Then the Holy Spirit
will come down as a comfort upon the mourning of your days, in
which the great trial has already come.
j Amidst the mourning of a humanity without
God, there will come down the comfort of the Holy Spirit, who
will lead the whole world to the perfect glorification of the
Heavenly Father, bringing about a new marriage of love between
a renewed humanity and its Lord who has created, redeemed and saved
it.
k Amidst the mourning of a divided,
darkened and wounded Church, there will be felt the comfort of the
Holy Spirit, who will clothe it with fortitude and wisdom, with grace
and holiness, and with love and light, in such a way that it may give
its full witness to Jesus, living in it until the end of the
world.
l Amidst the mourning of souls, made slaves
of Satan, immersed in the shadow of sin and death,
there will alight the comfort of the Holy Spirit, who will
give the light of the presence of God, the life of
divine grace, and the fire of love, so that in them the
Most Holy and Divine Trinity will be able to take up its permanent
dwelling.
m Amidst the mourning of the great trial,
there will come down the comfort of the divine presence of
the Spirit of the Lord, who will lead you to live - with
confidence, courage, hope, serenity and love - through the events,
which are awaiting you.
n Then, in the midst of fire, you will feel
his refreshment; in the cold, his heat; in the darkness, his light;
in mourning, his comfort; in fear, his courage; in weakness, his
strength; in great suffering, his divine solace.
o And so today, I invite you to unite your prayer
to mine, so that the Spirit of the Lord may come down upon
you, with all his gifts.
p Come, O Holy Spirit.
Come, and change the face of the earth.
Come, quickly.
Come, in these last times.
Come, now that the great trial has arrived.
Come, and bring us your second Pentecost, so that our eyes may see your greatest miracle, that of the new heavens and new earth.”
Come, and change the face of the earth.
Come, quickly.
Come, in these last times.
Come, now that the great trial has arrived.
Come, and bring us your second Pentecost, so that our eyes may see your greatest miracle, that of the new heavens and new earth.”
497
Monastery of Le Bouveret (Vallese,
Switzerland); June 19, 1993
Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
My Work
a "With a great cenacle of priests and
faithful of my Movement from French-speaking Switzerland, you are
celebrating today the liturgical memorial of my Immaculate Heart. You
are completing the journey which you have been making through all
Switzerland, so ensnared and stricken by my Adversary, but so loved
and defended by your heavenly Mother.
b Here, where my Adversary is exercising
his great power through hedonism, moral permissiveness and impurity,
and is obscuring the splendor of my Church through division, through
the spread of errors which are leading many away from the true faith,
through disobedience and contestation directed against the Pope, I am
taking action in a powerful way to spread everywhere my great work
of love and salvation.
c It is my work, which I am carrying out in
every part of the world in these last times.
d It is my work, which I am raising up
everywhere for the triumph of my Immaculate Heart.
e it is my work, which I myself am now
carrying out, in order to gather from all sides the little remnant
which will remain faithful to Jesus and to his Gospel, to the Pope
and to the Church united with him.
f It is my work, because I myself am
accomplishing it and spreading it in a silent and hidden way.
g Satan and all the diabolic spirits are able to
do nothing against it. The Lord has prohibited them from harming it.
The powers of evil, the dark forces of Satanism, and the secret
rulers of Masonry can do nothing against it, because it is protected,
preserved and defended by me.
h It is my work, which I am carrying out in
every part of the world in order to conquer Satan, in the great
battle against all the wicked spirits, because in the end my
Immaculate Heart will triumph.
i It is my work, which I am accomplishing
to spread the truth in these times of great apostasy, to bring you to
greater unity with the Pope in these days of division and of
widespread rebellion, to lead you along the way of grace and holiness
amidst the general spread of sin and impurity.
j It is my work, which I am carrying out by
means of my Marian Movement of Priests. For this, I have chosen this
little child of mine and made him an instrument of my greatest
marvels in every part of the world.
k Satan has sought in many ways to destroy it, by
stirring up opposition and criticisms against it, persecutions and
obstacles, subtle snares on the part of false visionaries and false
messages, which have succeeded in misleading a great number of my
poor children.
l But I have personally intervened, in an
extraordinary way, to prevent him from harming it, because I am
jealous of this work of mine with the very jealousy of God. For it is
through it that I will bring about the triumph of my Immaculate Heart
in the world.
m And so, now that the great trial is here, my
work must shine forth with a light that becomes stronger and
stronger, because the times have arrived when my Immaculate Heart
must be exalted by all the Church and all humanity.”
498
Valdragone (San Marino); July 1, 1993
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Bishops and Priests of the M.M.P. from America and Europe
The Mission Which I Entrust to You
a "During these days, beloved sons, how much
joy you give to my Immaculate Heart, and in my sorrow, how greatly am
I consoled by you! You have come from faraway countries of America
and from all over Europe. And now, bishops and priests of my
Movement, you find yourselves reunited in a continuous cenacle.
b Your heavenly Mother is present in an
extraordinary way, to pray with you, in order to make you grow in
love and unity, to obtain for you the gift of the Holy Spirit so that
He will confirm you in your vocation, and give you courage in your
apostolate, and bring joy and peace to your hearts.
c Your heavenly Mother is glorified in you.
Through you the triumph of my Immaculate Heart is accomplished. For
this reason, I have once again called you up here, on this mountain,
and you have responded with great generosity. And so I have exercised
my motherly action in a powerful way in your hearts and your souls,
because you must now be ready for the mission which I am entrusting
to you.
d The mission which I entrust to you is
that of going everywhere to bring the light of the truth, in
these times when the darkness of error has spread everywhere. See how
the lack off faith is spreading like a flood; see how the apostasy
becomes greater and greater each day!
e You must be the light lit in the night; you must
be apostles faithful to the Gospel, which must be lived by you and
proclaimed to the letter. Do not allow yourselves to be misled by
false teachers, who have become so numerous today. Do not let
yourselves be deceived by new doctrines, even if they are generally
followed. Because, like Christ, his truth is ever the same:
yesterday, today and always.
f Then, in these days, your light will shine forth
before men, who will glorify your Heavenly Father. You will point out
the way they should go in this new evangelization, and you will
become the apostles of these last times.
g - The mission which
I entrust to you is that of going everywhere to bring the
salvation of Christ, to a humanity which has once again become
pagan, after almost two thousand years since the Gospel was first
announced. Give Jesus, the only Redeemer and the only Savior, to the
world of today. Give Him through the faithful exercise of your
priesthood, which puts you at the service of souls, by the ministry
of the sacraments which have been entrusted to you.
h Above all, be diligent in prayer, zealous in the
apostolate, ardent in love in the celebration of the Eucharist,
assiduous and available for the sacrament of Reconciliation, which is
being much neglected today by a great number of my priest-sons. So
then, help the faithful entrusted to your care to walk along the way
of holiness, of the grace of God, of love, of purity and of the
exercise of all the virtues.
i - The mission which I entrust to you is
that of going everywhere to bring the fire of love to a
humanity dried up by egoism, darkened by hatred, wounded by violence,
threatened with war. See how many poor children of mine give way
every day under the weight of this general inability to love. Now
that the great trial is at hand, go into every part of the world to
seek out my children who have gone astray. Take them in your priestly
arms, and carry them all into the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
j Support the weak; restore strength to the timid;
convert the sinners; bring those far away to the house of the Father;
heal the sick; comfort the dying; give to all the heavenly dew of my
motherly and merciful love.
k Even now, as of this year, events will worsen in
the Church and in the world, because you are entering into the times
which I foretold to you in the message which I have given you at
Fatima and which up to now has not been revealed to you. But now it
will become evident by the very events through which you are living.
l And so, the mission which I entrust to you is
that of going everywhere to bring the light of the truth, the
salvation of Jesus, and the tenderness of my motherly love. Thus you
become instruments of the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the
world.
m Go from this cenacle in joy; may peace of heart
be the sign of my daily presence near you. Live in confidence and in
great hope, and become a sign of consolation for all those you meet
along your way.
n With your dear ones and all those who have been
entrusted to your care, I bless you in the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
499
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); August 15, 1993
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin Mary into Heaven
Close to All of You
a "Beloved children, look with joy at the
splendor of my glorified body, assumed into the glory of paradise.
The Most Holy and Divine Trinity is glorified today by your heavenly
Mother.
b The Father contemplates in me the masterpiece of
his creation and is pleased at seeing me surrounded with the splendor
of his glory and his divine power. The Son joyfully sees me at his
side and shares with me his royal power over all the universe. The
Holy Spirit is glorified in his Spouse who is exalted above all
creatures in heaven and on earth.
c On this day, I reflect upon you the rays of my
splendor, and I ask you to walk in the light of my motherly presence
close to all of you.
d Precisely because of the privilege of my
bodily assumption into heaven, I am always able to be close to all
of you, my poor children, still pilgrims upon this earth.
e I am close to my Church, suffering and
divided, crucified and immolated, still living through the painful
hours of its martyrdom and its Calvary.
f I am close to all humanity, redeemed by Jesus,
but now so far from its Lord, and walking along the wicked way of
evil and sin, of hatred and iniquity.
g I am close to my straying children, that I may
lead them along the way of conversion and return to the Lord; to the
sick, that I may give them comfort and healing; to all who are far
away, that I may lead them to the house of the Heavenly Father who
awaits them with great love; to the despairing, that I may give them
hope and confidence; to the dying, that I may open up for them the
gate of eternal happiness.
h I am particularly close to my Pope, who
is being guided, led and immolated by me; to the bishops and priests,
that I may give them courage and strength to walk along the way of
heroic witness to Jesus and his Gospel; to the religious, that I may
help them follow Jesus, obedient, poor and chaste, all the way to
Calvary; to all the faithful, that I may give them the grace of
keeping their baptismal promises in all circumstances.
i Now that the great trial has come, you will feel
me in an extraordinary way, close to all of you, that I may be
the great sign of consolation and certain hope in these last times of
the purification and the great tribulation."
500
Beppu (Oita, Japan); September 8, 1993
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
Mary
Along the Way of Humility
a "Beloved children, look today at your
infant Mother, and place a fragrant crown of love and humility about
the crib in which you venerate me at the moment of my earthly birth.
I am your Mother who am leading you along the way of humility and
littleness, of docility and obedience, of mortification and purity.
b Follow me each day on the way of humility,
because you are being called to contemplate, in these last times,
the greatest marvels of the Lord. As the Lord has looked upon the
humility of his servant, so also today the Lord is looking upon the
humility of all of you, my little children.
c Along the way of humility, learn to be
little. Today, when my adversary is succeeding in deceiving all with
the spirit of pride and arrogance, remain ever in the truth, and
proclaim it with courage, in all its fullness. Thus, in these times
of great darkness, you give to all the light of the Gospel.
d You then become today the very voice of God, who
speaks again by means of you and achieves, by means of the silence of
my little children, his greatest victory over his strong and powerful
adversaries.
e Along the way of humility, learn to be
docile. In these times when my Adversary is succeeding in misleading
many, through the wicked spirit of self-affirmation and rebellion,
give a good example of humble and courageous obedience.
f Be obedient to the Pope and the bishops united
with him. Obey all the norms which regulate your priestly life. Obey
the Will of God, which becomes more and more manifest to you, so that
your Father who is in heaven may be glorified in you, each day, in
the perfect fulfillment of his divine Will.
g Along the way of humility, learn to be
pure. In these days in which you are living, when my Adversary is
succeeding in misleading everyone through the darkness of sin and
impurity, remain pure, and give the good example of a holy and
spotless priestly life.
h Above all, give the witness of a joyful
faithfulness to your promise of celibacy, because your priestly body
should be a body crucified to the world and to all its seductions.
i For this, my little son, I have brought you once
again to this great country, so very far away, on the day of my
nativity. Look at the tens of millions of your brothers who are still
living plunged in the darkness of paganism, and who are awaiting the
moment when they will enter the one and only sheepfold, to know at
last the consoling voice of the one Good Shepherd.
j Today I announce that this great miracle will
take place soon. With the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the
world, this entire great nation, which is still pagan, will enter and
become part of the flock of which Jesus Christ is the Good Shepherd.
Prepare yourselves for this moment, with humility and confidence,
listening with docility to the voice of your heavenly Mother.
k Today I bless you and take you by the
hand, in order to lead you to live through the painful hours of the
great trial, which is even now upon you, to prepare the world for the
meeting with its Lord, who is about to return to you in the splendor
of his reign of glory."
501
Tokyo (Japan); September 15, 1993
Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests of the M.M.P. from Japan
A Cause of My Great Sorrow
a "Today I see you gathered here in this
cenacle of prayer and brotherhood, beloved sons of my Marian Movement
of Priests of Japan, and I am consoled by you in my great sorrow.
b A cause of my great sorrow is all of
these poor children of mine, who are still living immersed in the
darkness of paganism and who are unaware of the truth of the Gospel.
In this great country, almost all are still far from faith in Jesus
Christ, who has come into the world to be your only Savior, your only
Redeemer.
c I am the Mother of all these pagans as well, a
Mother who is concerned and anxious for their salvation. I nurture
seeds of life and goodness in their hearts. I help them to observe
that Law which the Lord has engraved in the depths of each man. I
stir up in their minds a desire for the truth, and thus lead them
gently to the encounter with my Son Jesus. Their full and total
adhesion to the Gospel will be an extraordinary work of my Immaculate
Heart.
d and bloody Gethsemane of its great
tribulation. You have seen, my little son, how, even here in Japan,
the Church is being threatened with the loss of faith and with the
increasingly vast and subtle spread of errors. It is wounded in its
unity by the contestation and opposition directed against the Pope
and his universal Magisterium. Its holiness is being obscured by the
spread of sins and sacrileges.
e Thus it is becoming paralyzed, and its drive to
evangelize has become greatly weakened.
f A cause of my great sorrow is the
hardness of your hearts and your incapacity to accept what your
heavenly Mother is asking of you. How many times have I spoken to
you, and you have not listened! I have given extraordinary signs of
my motherly intervention, and you have not believed. How many have
closed the door of their own hearts and have not wanted to receive me
as a mother in their lives!
g In this very country I have given you an
extraordinary sign, causing copious tears to fall more than a hundred
times from the eyes of one of my statues, in which I am represented
as the sorrowful Mother beneath the Cross of my Son Jesus. And I have
also given you three messages to warn you of the great dangers into
which you are running.
h I now announce to you that the time of the great
trial has come, because during these years all that I have foretold
to you will come to pass. The apostasy and the great schism in the
Church is on the point of taking place, and the great chastisement,
about which I foretold you in this place, is now at the very doors.
Fire will come down from heaven, and a great part of humanity will be
destroyed. Those who will survive will envy the dead, because
everywhere there will be desolation, death and ruin.
i And so, once again I have wanted you here, my
little son. For you must tell all that the hour of the chastisement
has come and that, in order to be protected and saved, they must all
enter right away into the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
j Return to your homes, my beloved children, and
bring to all this message of mine, as a final call from your heavenly
Mother, who is calling you all and gathering you under her mantle,
that you may be consoled and defended by her, during the painful
trial of these last times of yours."
502
Milan (Italy); October 2, 1993
Feast of the Holy Guardian Angels
First Saturday
The Task of the Guardian Angels
a "Beloved children, on this first Saturday
of the month, you are gathering together in cenacles to renew your
consecration to my Immaculate Heart and to observe the liturgical
memorial of your guardian angels. In the times of the great trial, I
invite you to strengthen the bond which unites you to your guardian
angels. They have a special and important task to carry out with
regard to you, especially in these last times.
b - The guardian angels have above all the task
of being a light upon your path. The days in which you are
living are marked with a great darkness which is becoming ever more
profound and widespread. It is the darkness of errors which
encompasses the minds of men and which makes them victims of the
great apostasy. It is the darkness of sins which obscures the beauty
and holiness of the soul. It is the darkness of impurity which
degrades the splendor of your body, called to reflect the glory of
the living God. Thus, how many of my poor children are today living
like shadows, submerged in the darkness of error, of sin and of
impurity!
c To your guardian angels has been entrusted the
task of protecting you from the great darknesses which surround you,
to make you walk always in the light of truth, of holiness, of
purity, of humility, of trust and of love.
d - And secondly, the guardian angels have the
task of being a defense for your life. How numerous and subtle
are the snares which the wicked spirits set each day for you: these
demons who have now been poured out over the world and who are
working everywhere to lead souls to eternal damnation! Their activity
has now become powerful, because it has become associated with the
powers who have control of the mass media, such as the press and
television. With subtle refinement, evil has been spread under the
guise of good; sin, as an exercise of one's own freedom; and
transgression of the Law of God, as a new conquest on the part of
this poor and perverted humanity.
e How strong and continuous are the attacks of the
wicked spirits in striking you even in your physical life, by
accidents, misfortunes, assaults, sicknesses, calamities, explosions
of violence, wars and revolutions! To the guardian angels has been
entrusted the task of protecting you against all these evils, of
defending you against these snares, and of making you walk through
life under their secure and powerful protection.
f - And lastly, the guardian angels have the task
of waging together with you one and the same battle to obtain
the same victory. In the great trial which has now arrived, the
fierce struggle between the Woman Clothed with the Sun and the Red
Dragon, between the forces of good and evil, between Christ and the
Antichrist, is becoming still stronger and more bloody.
g It is a battle which is being waged above all at
the level of the spirits: the good spirits against the wicked
spirits, the angels against the demons, Saint Michael the Archangel
against Lucifer.
h You are involved in this great struggle, which
is immensely above and beyond you. And so you must be particularly
close to those who are close to you in the great encounter, who have
great power in this struggle, who assist you in fighting, and who
lead you to certain victory.
i Littlest of my children, entrust to the
particular protection of your guardian angels the long and wearisome
journey which you must undertake in a few days to Malaysia,
Indonesia, Australia, the Fiji Islands and New Zealand, in order to
hold cenacles everywhere with the priests and faithful of my
Movement.
j I urge you all today to be more assiduous in
prayer, stronger in your bond of unity and deeper in your affection
in respect to these angels of light, who are being given to you by
the Lord as your guardians and protectors.
k Together with them all, I bless you in the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
503
Jakarta (Cisarua, Indonesia); October 21, 1993
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle with
the Priests of the M.M.P. from Indonesia
Have Confidence and Great Hope
a "How happy I am to see you here, gathered
together in a continuous cenacle of prayer and brotherhood, priests
of my Movement who have come from every part of Indonesia. I am
united with your prayer; I am helping you grow in brotherly love; I
am obtaining for you from the Lord those graces which make your
ministry fruitful and holy. And I want today to give you a message of
confidence and hope, which will accompany you on your difficult
journey.
b - Have confidence in your heavenly Mother who is
ever close to you, to be of assistance and comfort to you in your
priesthood. I see your innumerable difficulties. I welcome all your
entreaties. I am close to you to comfort you in your solitude. I give
you joy and consolation amidst so much bitterness.
c Do not feel yourselves alone. Even if the field
of the apostolate is sometimes dry and difficult, even if the society
which surrounds you places obstacles in the way of your priestly
action, even if the weight of human weakness seems often to overwhelm
you, never become discouraged!
d I am always close to you, as a good and
understanding mother, and I am supporting, leading, consoling and
encouraging you. I am gathering up your tears like precious jewels,
and I am treasuring your every fatigue in the secret of my Immaculate
Heart.
e - Have great hope in the full triumph of
God for this poor humanity, so ill and far from Him. You are living
the painful years of the great tribulation, and the sufferings are
becoming daily heavier for all. Spend the present hour in the
Gethsemane of my Immaculate Heart, and set yourselves to carry out
with love the Will of your Heavenly Father.
f Be witnesses of faith in these times of the
great apostasy. Be witnesses of holiness in these days of great
perversion. Be witnesses of love in a world which has become hard and
insensitive, consumed and dried up by egoism, hatred, violence and
wars. Bring everywhere the balm of my motherly love and mercy. Take
into your priestly arms my children who have strayed, those far away,
the poor, the weak, the sick and the sinners, and bring them all into
the safe sheepfold of my Immaculate Heart.
g Go out from this cenacle with joy. Return to
your homes in peace, and become apostles of this, my Movement, in
every part of this great country.
h With you, and with your dear ones and the
faithful who are entrusted to your care, I bless today all Indonesia
and the Church which lives, suffers and works here, so that my Son
Jesus may brine to all the gift of his love, of his life and of his
peace."
504
Suva (Fiji Islands); November 12, 1993
Feast of St. Josaphat, Martyr
In the Heart of the Little Ones
a "You find yourself here today, my little
child, in this great island of the Pacific, to hold cenacles with my
beloved ones and with the faithful, come from even very distant
islands. My voice has reached even here; even here have I received a
generous response. You see how it is especially the littlest ones,
the simple and the poorest who have responded to me. You see how they
are able to understand my voice, to listen to my word, to obey my
requests, to pray with perseverance, to consecrate themselves
joyfully to my Immaculate Heart.
b - In the heart of the little ones, I
experience my great comfort. How many from among the great ones,
even from among my beloved ones, reject my invitation and close the
door of their hearts to my motherly presence. This persistent
rejection is a cause of deep pain to me. But I am consoled in
receiving such a generous response from the little ones, because it
is these who are the balm which the Heavenly Father gives me and
which is placed upon every new wound which opens in my motherly
Heart.
c - In the heart of the little ones, I find
my greatest joy. In them I reflect my light, and I see my plan
reproduced. Because little, I am pleasing to the Most High. Only in
the hearts of the little ones does the Father take pleasure, is the
Son glorified, and does the Holy Spirit find his permanent dwelling
place. Thus, by means of them, the Immaculate Heart of your heavenly
Mother can repeat her eternal Magnificat, her canticle of adoration
and praise to the Divine and Most Holy Trinity.
d - In the heart of the little ones, I again
set my delight, because I am able to exercise fully my function as
Mother. Thus, I am able to nourish them, clothe them, form them, and
lead them gently along the road of purity, love and holiness.
e - In the heart of the little ones, my
Immaculate Heart already achieves its triumph. It is by means of
these that I am able to carry out my great work of love and mercy for
the salvation of the world and the greatest renewal of all the
Church.
f - In the heart of the little ones, you too
must find your repose. On such a burdensome journey, amidst such
great fatigues which seem humanly impossible to bear, rest on the
Heart of your heavenly Mother, and rejoice in the response which you
receive everywhere from all my littlest children."
505
Sydney (Australia); November 21, 1993
Solemnity of Christ the King
The Glorious Reign of Christ
a "Beloved children, you are celebrating
today the solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the universe, and you
are doing this by way of a great cenacle in which priests and
faithful of my Movement, coming from other cities of this great
nation as well, are taking part.
b Your heavenly Mother wants to enfold each one of
you in the secure refuge of her Immaculate Heart, to protect you in
the time of the great trial and to prepare you to receive Jesus, who
is about to return to establish his glorious reign among you.
c - The glorious reign of Christ will be
above all established in hearts and souls. This is the most precious
part of the divine royalty of Jesus. In fact, for this the Word
became man and came to dwell among us. For this, the Son made Himself
obedient to the Father even to death, the death of the Cross.
d Through the redemption, carried out by Jesus on
Calvary, you were rescued from the reign of Satan, set free from sin
which is the yoke of slavery under him, and you became children of
God, because He has communicated his Love and his very own Life to
you. Those hearts renewed by Love and those souls sanctified by grace
form then the most precious part of the divine royalty of Jesus.
e - The glorious reign of Christ will
correspond to a general flowering of holiness and purity, of love
and justice, of joy and peace. For the hearts of men will be
transformed by the powerful force of the Holy Spirit, who will pour
out Himself upon them through the miracle of his second Pentecost.
f And souls will be enlightened by the presence of
the Most Holy Trinity, who will produce in them an extraordinary
unfolding of all the virtues.
g - The glorious reign of Christ will also
be reflected in a new form of life in everyone, because you will be
drawn to live only for the glory of the Lord. And the Lord will be
glorified when his divine Will will be perfectly accomplished by each
one of you. The glorious reign of Christ will coincide, then, with
the perfect accomplishment of the Will of God on the part of every
one of his creatures, in such a way that, as it is in heaven, so it
will also be on this earth.
h But this is not possible unless there
first takes place the defeat of Satan, the tempter, the lying spirit,
who has ever intervened in the history of mankind in order to lead
men to rebellion against the Lord and disobedience to his Law.
i - The glorious reign of Christ will be
established after the complete defeat of Satan and all the spirits of
evil, and the destruction of Satan's diabolical power. Thus he will
be bound and cast into hell, and the gates of the abyss will be shut
so that he can no longer get out to harm the world. And Christ will
reign in the world.
j - The glorious reign of Christ will coincide
with the triumph of the Eucharistic reign of Jesus, because in a
purified and sanctified world, completely renewed by love, Jesus will
be made manifest, above all, in the mystery of his Eucharistic
presence.
k The Eucharist will be the source from
which will burst forth all his divine power, and it will become the
new sun, which will shed its bright rays in hearts and souls and then
in the life of individuals, families, and nations, making of all one
single flock, docile and meek, whose sole shepherd will be Jesus.
l Your heavenly Mother is leading you on toward
these new heavens and this new earth, the Mother who is gathering you
today from every part of the world to prepare you to receive the Lord
who is coming."
506
Sydney (Australia); November 23, 1993
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests of the M.M.P. from Oceania
Your Light Will Shine
a "How happy I am, dear priests of my
Movement in Australia, to see you gathered together here in a
continuous cenacle of prayer and brotherhood. Grow in love among
yourselves. Live these days with the joy of brothers who meet
together, who know each other, love each other, and help each other
to walk together along the painful road of these times of the great
tribulation.
b Pray with perseverance and trust. I am uniting
myself with your prayer. I am close to you to give strength and power
to your prayer, so that the Holy Spirit can come down, with his
gifts, upon this cenacle of yours and make you fit for the mission
which awaits you.
c Brighten up the earth in these days of great
darkness, and be a source of comfort and consolation for all the
Church in this time of its great desolation. Your light will shine
more and more and will spread throughout all this vast continent of
Oceania, so ensnared and possessed by my Adversary and yours.
d - Your light will shine by way of your
priestly witness of faith.
e See how the apostasy has spread everywhere; how
errors are taught and propagated; how the lack of discipline and
confusion is increasing. How many pastors no longer keep watch over
the flock entrusted to them, and thus many rapacious wolves, in
lambs' clothing, are entering to wreak havoc in the sheepfold of my
Son Jesus.
f Be the light set on a lamp stand, to draw along
the road of truth many of my poor children who are walking in the
darkness of error and of the loss of the true faith. Thus, you will
be faithful ministers of the Gospel, and by means of you, the Church,
after the painful trial through which it is now living, will once
again shed, in all its splendor, the light of Christ and of his
truth.
g - Your light will shine by way of your
priestly witness of holiness.
h See how materialism and hedonism are threatening
this great country. The search for pleasure, money, comfort,
entertainment and impurity have become for many the only ideal in
life. And thus the little ones are led astray along the path of evil.
Youth are drawn into vice and drugs. Families are destroyed by
divorce and by the selfish shutting off of the gift of life.
i Bring back to the house of the Father these poor
children of mine who have gone astray. For this, be faithful
ministers of grace and holiness, through the ministry of the
sacraments which Jesus has entrusted to you, above all that of
Reconciliation. Put yourselves at the disposal of the faithful to
lead them along the way of good and love, of purity and grace, of
peace and salvation.
j - Your light will
shine by way of your priestly witness of love.
k Love everyone with the divine Heart of
Jesus and with the tenderness of my motherly love. See how the world
today has become a desert for want of love! Unbridled egoism rules;
violence and hatred are spreading; indifference has the upper hand in
many hearts, become cold and insensitive toward the most needy.
l Priests consecrated to my Immaculate
Heart, you must be the soothing balm which is placed on every open
and bleeding wound. Take the little ones by the hand; support the
weak; lead the uncertain; comfort the sick; save the lost; convert
the sinners; give confidence to the despairing; go out to meet those
who are far away, and bring them, in your priestly arms, into the
safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
m In this way, you become the instruments
of the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the world.
n Go out from this cenacle, and go to every
part of this most vast continent to brighten up the earth with the
light of your faith, of your holiness and of your love. I am always
with you. As Mother, I follow you on your journey, and I am close to
you, to give you help and comfort.
o With your dear ones, and with those persons who
are entrusted to your care, I bless you all in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
507
Perth (Australia); December 8, 1993
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
The Years of My Triumph
a "Today you are concluding a long journey
which, in two months, you have undertaken in many countries of Asia
and Oceania. You have been able to hold seventy-three cenacles, in
which bishops, priests and faithful of my Movement have taken part.
You have seen, my little son so loved and protected by me, the great
marvels of my Immaculate Heart in every part of this vast continent.
b These are the years during which I am forming
for myself the new Church and the new humanity, in the heavenly
garden of my Immaculate Heart.
c These are the years of my triumph.
d - Satan has deceived this entire poor
humanity, bringing it so far away from God and building for it idols
of his own perversion: pleasure, money, pride, egoism, amusement and
impurity. And so humanity is today greatly threatened by violence,
hatred, rebellion and war.
e During these years, you will see the great
chastisement, with which the justice of God will purify this world,
which has become a thousand times worse than at the time of the flood
and so very possessed by evil spirits.
f And so I am gathering my little children from
every part of the earth and enclosing them in the safe refuge of my
Immaculate Heart, so that they may be defended and saved by me at the
moment of the great trial which has now arrived for all.
g Thus in the very years when Satan is triumphing,
by leading humanity along the road of its own destruction, my
motherly Heart is also triumphing, as I bring my little children
along the way of salvation and peace.
h - Satan has also entered into the interior of
the Church and has succeeded in darkening her splendor. With the
darkness of sin, he has obscured the splendor of her holiness; with
the wound of division, he has made an attack upon the strength of her
unity; with the spread of errors, he has stricken her in her
proclamation of the truth. This poor gravely ill Daughter of mine!
i And so I am calling my little children from all
sides to consecrate themselves to my Immaculate Heart, in order to
entrust themselves to me as babes. In this way, in the garden of my
Immaculate Heart, I am forming for myself each day the new Church,
holy, united, a faithful herald of the Gospel, who gives her perfect
witness to Jesus.
j These are the years when Satan is ruling as a
sure victor; these are therefore also the years of my triumph. My
light will become stronger and stronger, the more you enter into the
decisive moments of the battle. In the end, the victory will be that
of your immaculate Mother who, with her virginal foot, will crush the
head of the serpent and, with her hands, will bind the great Dragon,
that he may thus be rendered powerless and no longer be able to do
harm in the world.
k Both humanity and the Church will
experience this new era, which you are now awaiting in confidence and
in prayer, in suffering and in hope.
l For this, as a breaking dawn, you will as
of today see my light becoming stronger and stronger until it
encircles the whole earth, ready now to open itself to the new day,
which will begin with the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the
world."
508
Dongo (Como, Italy); December 24, 1993
The Holy Night
This Holy Night
a "Recollect yourselves with me, in silence
and expectation. Forget every other preoccupation, and enter into the
quiet of prayer. Live together with me this precious moment which
precedes the birth of my divine Child.
b This is the night of love and of
light.
This is the night of reconciliation and of peace.
This is the holy night.
This is the night of reconciliation and of peace.
This is the holy night.
c Share in the joy of your heavenly Mother, who
feels that the moment of her virginal motherhood has now come.
d For me, it is as though everything that
surrounds me is far away: the fatigue of the journey to Bethlehem;
the noise of the crowded caravan; the anxious search to find a place
to spend the night; the sad surprise before each door as it is
closed; the trusting confidence before a poor little cave which opens
itself to us.
e The gentle and loving assistance of my most
chaste spouse, Joseph, surrounds me like a caress. It is he who seeks
to make the place more hospitable; who prepares the crib in a warmer
manger; who looks about for a shield against the rigor of the cold;
who stays close to me and joins in my great prayer; who sees the
heavens open; who contemplates in wonder the prodigy, hears the song
of the angels and is conscious of the peace which comes down from
heaven; who opens the door to the poor and the little ones and
graciously accepts the simple gifts of the shepherds.
f As for myself, I am absorbed in a profound
rapture: the face of the Father is revealed to me, and I contemplate
the divine mystery of his merciful love; the Word, who has taken
human form in my virginal womb, becomes present in my motherly arms
as a newborn Babe, and I cover Him with kisses and tears; the Holy
Spirit looks with pleasure on the fruit [of his overshadowing].
g Beloved children, live with me in this profound
rapture throughout this holy night.
h It is Love which is born into a world consumed
with hatred. It is Light which dawns upon the long season of deep
darkness. It is the awaited Reconciliation between a lost humanity
and its Lord who loves and redeems it. It is Peace which comes down
from heaven upon all men of good will.
i Enter with me into the mystery of this holy
night. For the great trial has now arrived for all. Violence and
the fire of hatred are bringing death to the world. A deep darkness
enwraps this humanity, which no longer sees light. The pact of the
Covenant is again broken by men who have openly rebelled against
their God. And wars, rebellions and destruction fill your journey
with tears and blood. For you, the time of the great trial has come.
j And so, once again, I invite you to let
yourselves be carried by me into the mystery of this holy night.
And then, like Joseph, exert yourselves earnestly to open up the
souls and hearts of men to receive Jesus in his second coming. And do
not allow yourselves to be taken up with vain and useless
preoccupations, but keep watch with me in prayer and in the
expectation of his now closely approaching return in glory.”
509
Milan (Italy); December 31, 1993
Last Night of the Year
Great Is My Concern
a "Beloved children, spend with me, in
recollection and prayer, the last hours of this year which is about
to end. Do not let yourselves be taken up with dissipation, clamor
and amusements, in which the majority of my poor children spend these
hours. Read, in silence, the signs of your time, and join in my great
concern for what awaits you.
b Great is my concern because this
humanity, so ailing, is continuing in its obstinate rejection of God
and of his Law of love. In many ways and with numerous signs and
extraordinary interventions, I have intervened in the course of this
year, to urge it to conversion and to its return to the Lord.
c But I have not been listened to. The name of the
Lord is scorned, and his day is more and more profaned. Egoism is
suffocating the hearts of men, become cold and closed due to a great
incapacity to love. Life is considered of little value: violence and
homicides are increasing; all kinds of means are being used to
prevent the birth of more children; willful abortions, this terrible
crime which day and night cries to your God for vengeance, are
increasing everywhere; impurity is spreading like a great tide of
filth which is sweeping everything before it.
d The cup of divine justice is full to
overflowing. I see the chastisement by which the mercy of God wishes
to purify and save this poor sinful humanity. How numerous and great
are the sufferings which await you, my poor children, so enticed and
ensnared by Satan, the spirit of falsehood, who is seducing you and
leading you to your death!
e - Great is my concern because my Church
is at the mercy of the forces of evil which are threatening it and
attempting to destroy it from within. Masonry, with its diabolical
power, has set up its center in the very heart of the Church, where
the Vicar of my Son Jesus resides, and from there it is spreading its
evil influence to every part of the world. And now the Church will
once again be betrayed by its own; it will be cruelly persecuted and
led to the gibbet.
f I see that the bloody persecution is now at the
doors, and many of you will be scattered by the violent wind of this
frightful hurricane.
g During these hours, share in my great concern,
and unite yourselves, each and all, to my prayer of intercession and
reparation. Multiply everywhere the cenacles of prayer which I have
asked of you, as safe places, as refuges in which you take shelter in
the tremendous storm which awaits you.
h In the cenacles, you will be aware of my
extraordinary presence.
i In the cenacles, you will experience the
security and peace which your heavenly Mother gives you.
j In the cenacles, you will be preserved from evil
and defended from the great dangers which threaten you.
k In the cenacles, you will be formed by me in
confidence and in a great hope because the cenacle is the place of
your salvation, which the heavenly Mother has prepared for you, in
these last times in which the great trial has now come for all.”
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