To the
Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons
From the writings of Don Stefano Gobbi
Year 1988
SHED LIGHT UPON THE EARTH
(Marian Year)
371
Dongo (Como, Italy); January 1, 1988
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Shed Light Upon the Earth
a "Today you are looking to your heavenly
Mother and are all invoking her in order to obtain the great gift of
peace. With the solemnity of my Divine Maternity, you are beginning
this new year which is dedicated to a special veneration of me
because it has been consecrated to me. There is a profound desire of
my Immaculate Heart which today I want to make known to you, my
little children, who, with your consecration, have completely
entrusted yourselves to me.
b - First of all I confide to you my profound
grief at seeing how up to now this Marian Year has been passed,
by many of the children of the Church, in the greatest aridity. While
I am profoundly grateful to my Pope, John Paul II, for the way in
which he reminds everyone of the gift of this year consecrated to me,
I must also give expression to my interior suffering in the face of
the attitude of complete indifference evidenced by so many bishops,
priests, religious and faithful. In how many dioceses nothing has
thus far been done with respect to what has been determined, in order
to live out well this year consecrated to me: the fostering of
practices of piety towards me and the gathering together in my
shrines, where it is also possible to gain the special jubilee
indulgence.
c My Adversary who, in these days, has broken
loose with particular violence, is doing everything to prevent this
year from leading to a general renewal of devotion and prayer in
respect to me. The forces of atheism and of Masonry, which have been
brought in as far as the summit of the Church, have joined together
to boycott, in a subtle and hidden way, this Marian Year. A veil of
darkness has been spread over the Church, and the word of my Pope
falls increasingly upon an immense desert.
d - And then I entrust my motherly will to you,
who are my docile and obedient children, because you listen to my
voice and form a part of my victorious cohort. I ask you to make
reparation for the indifference and for such a great lack of response
on the part of many of my children, by living with greater generosity
and with particular diligence the second half of this Marian Year.
e I ask you to respond to my renewed request for
consecration. Make it often, and above all live the consecration to
my Immaculate Heart. Bring the greatest number possible of priests,
religious and faithful to make this consecration willed by me and
repeatedly requested, even up to your days.
f Multiply your cenacles of prayer. Pray more;
pray with me; pray, with the recitation of the holy rosary. I desire
that Christian families consecrate themselves to my Immaculate Heart
and become cenacles of prayer, of love and of life with me. Let the
priests of my Movement gather the faithful entrusted to them in
cenacles of prayer because, during this year, I have need of a great
force of intercession and of reparation to bring to fulfillment the
plan which the Most Holy Trinity has entrusted to my Immaculate
Heart.
g - And lastly I
promise you to welcome your filial homage and to bless this time
which has been entrusted to me. During this year, you will feel my
presence becoming stronger and more extraordinary. The great events
for which I have prepared you will begin to take place. For this
reason I call upon you today to allow yourselves to be penetrated by
the mystery of my divine and universal motherhood. Go forward with
confidence and with hope.
h The heavenly Mother is bringing you to live
within the heart of the life of God and is making of you instruments
of his peace. Thus you are ready for the task which I am entrusting
to you: go, and shed light upon the earth in these days of
dense darkness. Then, by means of you, the great rainbow of the
reconciliation of humanity with God will be able to arise and enfold
the whole world in new light."
372
Porto Alegre (Brazil); February 2, 1988
Feast of the Presentation of the Child Jesus
In You I Am Glorified
a "Walk with me, beloved sons, as I carry the
Child Jesus in my arms, to the temple of his light and of his glory.
Allow yourselves also to be carried in my motherly arms, with
humility, with docility and with meekness. I am leading you to the
temple of the Lord. I am bringing you to the full manifestation of
his light and of his glory.
b These are the times of your full manifestation.
The days of your public testimony have arrived. Show yourselves to
all as little children consecrated to me and as great apostles of
your heavenly Mother, in these last times. The hour has come when
I want to be glorified in you before all the Church and the world.
c I glorify myself in you, if you walk with me
in the light of the faith. Accept with humility the word of God;
meditate upon it in your mind; keep it in your heart; live it in your
daily life. Let Holy Scripture, above all the Gospel of Jesus, be the
only light which illumines you in these times of darkness. Believe in
the Gospel; live the Gospel; proclaim the Gospel in its fullness.
d You, my beloved ones, must, today, be the Gospel
alone, lived out and preached to the letter, against the errors which
are being spread about and against the great betrayal being
perpetrated by so many of my sons who have torn to pieces the Gospel
of Jesus by means of human, rationalistic and natural
interpretations. Thus, by means of you, the light of the faith shines
forth once again, and in you I am glorified.
e - I glorify myself in you, if you walk with
me in the light of love. Love, with the beating of my Immaculate
Heart, the Most Holy and Divine Trinity. Love the Father who
surrounds you with his tenderness, carries you in his arms and ever
assists you through his providence. Love the Son who has become your
Brother and has given you a new heart and a new spirit so that you
yourselves might become a lived out expression of his divine love.
Jesus awaits only love from you. Love the Holy Spirit who dwells
within you to bring you to the perfection of charity and who
communicates Himself to you with his seven holy gifts, that you may
become today a strong witness of love.
f And then love, with the very Heart of Jesus, all
your brothers, especially the poorest, the sinners, those furthest
away, the sick, the wounded, the stricken, the marginalized, the
weak, the littlest. Then, in these days of violence and hatred, of
unbridled egoism and of aridity, you cause the heavenly dew of
divine mercy to descend upon the immense desert of the world.
Thus, by mean of you, the light of love shines forth once again, and
in you I am glorified.
g – I glorify myself in you, if you walk with
me in the light of holiness. Walk along the road of disdain for
the world and for yourselves, of unceasing prayer, of the
mortification of the senses. of penance. Be opposed to the spirit of
the world which spreads about everywhere tolerance in matters of
morality, the satisfaction of all the passions, pleasure which is
sought after and desired, and sin which is carried out with full
awareness and in open disdain for the holy Law of the Lord.
h Then, in these days of impiety and of a so great
immorality, you spread about the perfume of sanctity. Thus, by means
of you. the light of purity and of divine grace shines forth once
again, and in you I am glorified.
i I am glorified in you when you are humble, poor,
little, pure and merciful. I glorify myself in you when you walk in
the light of faith, of love and of holiness. And thus you spread my
glory; you anticipate my triumph; you become the rays of light which
come down from my Immaculate Heart to enlighten the earth in these
days of intense darkness.
j Today I am carrying you all with joy into the
holy temple of the new era which is about to come upon the world.”
373
Manaus (Amazonas, Brazil); February 11, 1988
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
The Lord Is Sending Me to You
a "Today you are calling to mind my
apparition, in the poor grotto of Massabielle, to my little daughter,
Bernadette. Since then I have multiplied the times and the places of
my extraordinary apparitions. This century has been marked by my
strong presence in your midst, and, in order to make it perceptible
to all, I have everywhere multiplied my miraculous manifestations.
b Why am I, in these times, making myself present
to you in a new, continuous and extraordinary way? Because these are
the times of the reign of my Adversary, the Red Dragon, Satan, the
old serpent, whose head I shall crush. Under the weight of his reign,
there is an increase for you of trials and sufferings, of wounds and
of falls, and thus the danger of being lost is much greater for all.
c And so I am manifesting myself to you in an
extraordinary way to urge you to confidence, to trust, to take refuge
in me through your act of consecration to my Immaculate Heart. As of
now, my presence is becoming all the stronger, as my victory draws
nearer to the definitive defeat of Satan.
d For this I urge you all to look to me with
confidence and with great hope.
e The Lord is sending me to you to bring
you his salvation. Thank Him for this gift, and accept it with
humility and gratitude. I am coming as an announcement of his
victory. I am being sent to prepare the way for the glorious return
of Jesus.
f Walk in my light, and become the apostles of
your heavenly Mother in these last times. Spread everywhere the
perfume of my presence and of my motherly tenderness. With joy I
bless you all.”
374
Recife (Pernambuco, Brazil); February 17, 1988
Ash Wednesday
Converted and Return to the Lord
a "From this land, so ensnared by my
Adversary, where, especially in these last days, many of my children
have become instruments of the reign of Satan, who is seducing all
the nations of the earth with the cup of impurity and of lust, I
direct to you my repeated and concerned invitation to conversion.
b Be converted, and return to the Lord along
the road of sincere repentance and of personal confession of your
sins to the priests.
c Be converted, and return to the Lord along
the road of a conscious and serious resolve to flee sin and to keep
far away from every occasion that can lead you to fall into sin.
d Be converted, and return to the Lord along
the road of mortification of the senses, of penance and of fasting.
e There begins today the season of Lent of this
Marian Year: a period when the Church entreats everyone to carry out
works of charity and of penance. I, your heavenly Mother, am calling
upon you to live well the time of Lent of this year which is
consecrated to me.
f The period of time granted by the Lord to
humanity for its conversion is about to come to its end, and so,
respond to my anxious call which is urging you to do what I am now
asking of you for the salvation of all humanity.
g - First of all I desire that each one of you
take upon himself-. with greater force, the obligation of
living in the grace of God. renouncing Satan and all evil works and
the world and all its numerous seductions. Walk always along the road
of purity love and of a greater holiness.
h -And then I am asking of you personal
works of mortification and of penance. Offer to my Immaculate Heart
each day a crown made up of many little and hidden mortifications,
accomplished for the salvation of many of your brothers, who
habitually living in sin and are bound slavishly to Satan.
i - Lastly, I ask you to remove yourselves far
from anything that can contaminate the purity of your heart and the
chastity of your life. Do not take part in profane shows. Do not
waste time before the television set, which is the most powerful
instrument in the hands of my Adversary in spreading everywhere the
darkness of sin and of impurity. Television is the idol spoken of in
the book of Revelation, built to be adored by all the nations of the
earth, and to which the Evil One gives shape and movements, that it
might become, in his hands, a terrible means of seduction and
perversion.
j If you do what I am asking of you today, you put
in my hand a powerful force of intercession and of reparation. And
thus I any able to present myself before the throne of the Lord,
great and terrible, just and holy, to implore for you his divine
mercy: `Pardon, O Lord, the iniquity of your people, whom You have
acquired at the price of your most precious blood.'
k And before that time which has been
conceded to you to you for your conversion has come to an end, you
will already be able to see the signs of the triumph of the merciful
love of Jesus in the first extraordinary interventions of the
Immaculate Heart of your heavenly Mother.”
375
Sao Paulo (Brazil); February 25, 1988
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests and Faithful of the M.M.P. from all Brazil
My Motherly Message
a "How my greatly sorrowing Heart is being
consoled, during these days, by you my dearly beloved ones and
children consecrated to me, conning from every part of this very
great nation! I am always present in your midst, as I was with the
Apostles and the disciples in the Cenacle of Jerusalem. I am uniting
myself to your prayer. I am joining in, during the moments of your
fraternal sharing.
b From this cenacle today, I want to address my
motherly message to all Brazil, this land which is so ensnared by
my Adversary but so loved and protected by your heavenly Mother.
c - My Heart is afflicted with great pain by the
situation in which the Church here finds itself. It is interiorly
divided; it is threatened with the loss of the true faith; many
errors are being spread about within it.
d The cause of this situation is the pastors who
are no longer united with the Pope. Their only concern is exclusively
directed toward social problems, and they forget that Jesus died on
the Cross and rose again to obtain for you the great gift of
redemption and to save souls. And thus the teaching of the theology
of liberation, which is a true betrayal of Christ and of his Gospel,
is becoming more and more widespread. Bishops and priests of the holy
Church of God, return to full union with the Pope. Return to the
teaching of the truth, which Jesus has revealed to you, with courage
and fidelity. Preach the Gospel in its integrity, and take care of
the flock which has been entrusted to you. Schism and apostasy are
menacing today the Church which lives in this nation of yours.
e - My Heart is pained by the great danger into
which your homeland is running, because of the spread of violence and
hatred, of evil and of immorality. In the name of a false way of
understanding liberty, even the gravest moral disorders are today
being permitted and justified. Impurity is exalted and spread about
through the social means of communication, and thus a veil of
darkness has descended to blind the souls of many of my children.
f If there is not a general return to the Lord,
along the road of conversion and repentance, a great chastisement can
quickly strike this country of yours.
g - I want to tell you that my Immaculate Heart
has been consoled today by your response of consecration and of
prayer. Bring the greater number of my children to the consecration
to my Immaculate Heart, desired and requested by me. You who have
taken part in this cenacle, become the apostles of the consecration
to my Immaculate Heart throughout all Brazil. Multiply the cenacles
of prayer. Above all, spread family cenacles, like a great net of
salvation.
h Thus you become the rays of light which come
down from my Heart, to enlighten all Brazil in these days of dense
darkness. You become the signs of my motherly triumph. You are the
instruments of my victory. And by means of you who have responded to
me, the heavenly Mother will bring to your Church and to your country
the gift of salvation and of peace."
376
San Marco (Udine, Italy); March 22, 1988
The Glory of Mary
a "With what joy I have received the act of
consecration to my Immaculate Heart, on this your birthday I have
taken your heart and have brought it deeper yet into my motherly
garden, and I have placed it in the burning furnace of the love of
the divine Heart of my Son Jesus. This heart of yours now belongs
entirely to us, and we want to make of it a perfect instrument of our
most pure love. I am asking you to love ever more and more.
b Love each day, and at every moment of
your life. Let nothing disturb the purity and the intensity of your
love.
c Love the Most Holy and Divine Trinity,
glorifying the Father, imitating the Son, receiving the gift of the
Spirit.
d Love, with the divine Heart of Jesus, all
your brothers, especially the smallest, the poorest, and least, the
desperate, the marginalized, the sinners. You must be the luminous
ray of my motherly and merciful love.
e Love your brother-priests, especially the
weakest, the most fragile, those who fall, those who are imprisoned
by the chains of the passions, especially of pride and of impurity.
For them, immolate yourself, each day, in silence, in hiddenness, in
humility, in docility. Become the sweet and meek victim, immolated by
me, for the good and the salvation of all priests.
f Love always, without ever becoming
weary.Everything must be done by you only out of love:
The journey you must undertake for me - out of love;
The cross which you must carry - out of love;
The heavy work which is your lot to accomplish - out of love;
The cenacles which you lead - out of love;
The countries you journey through - out of love;
The distant continents you reach - out of love;
The intense prayer that I ask of you - out of love;
The sufferings I ask of you each day - out of love;
The weariness which takes hold of you - out of love;
The exhaustion which prostrates you - out of love;
Your limitations which mortify you - out of love;
Your defects which accompany you - out of love;
All your life which you give me - out of love.
The journey you must undertake for me - out of love;
The cross which you must carry - out of love;
The heavy work which is your lot to accomplish - out of love;
The cenacles which you lead - out of love;
The countries you journey through - out of love;
The distant continents you reach - out of love;
The intense prayer that I ask of you - out of love;
The sufferings I ask of you each day - out of love;
The weariness which takes hold of you - out of love;
The exhaustion which prostrates you - out of love;
Your limitations which mortify you - out of love;
Your defects which accompany you - out of love;
All your life which you give me - out of love.
g Only then will you be, here below, the glory
of Mary. Only then will you be able to carry out the mission
which I have entrusted to you and make blossom in your person, in
your life and in your work, the garden of my greatest and most
extraordinary wonders.
h With my Pope, with all my beloved priests, with
the children consecrated to me, I bless you with love and with joy."
377
Dongo (Como, Italy); March 31, 1988
Holy Thursday
The Johns of the Eucharistic Jesus
a "My beloved priests, today is your feast.
It is the day that recalls the Last Supper, the institution of the
Eucharist and of the new Priesthood, in the Cenacle of Jerusalem. It
is your feast because you, to whom it has been given to share in the
ministerial priesthood of Jesus, were also spiritually present in the
Cenacle.
b I am the Mother of you priests, because
you were entrusted to me by Jesus, in a special way, in the
person of your brother, John. Enter today into the cenacle of my
Immaculate Heart. Open for me the door of your priestly home that I
may enter there as the Mother who loves you, who forms you and leads
you, seconding also the desire which today, through his letter, my
Pope, the first of the sons of my maternal predilection, has
communicated to you. This is the most beautiful way to live this Holy
Thursday of the Marian Year, consecrated to me.
c I then lead you to realize fully the mystery of
love of your priesthood; I help you to be faithful to the obligations
which you have assumed, in particular that of celibacy; I point out
to you the road you must travel, in order to respond to such a great
gift as that which has been given you by my Son Jesus.
d I bring you to be priests according to his
divine and merciful Heart.
e - For this, I cause you to increase in a
profound intimacy of life with me, in a simple and spontaneous way,
in such a way that I am able to live with you, in the dwelling place
of your priestly life, just as I lived in his home with the apostle,
John.
f See how little children allow themselves to be
led by their mother, follow her directions, listen to her teachings
and expect everything from her. You also must do the same. You must
accustom yourselves to doing everything with me: when you get up,
pray, celebrate Holy Mass, recite the Liturgy of the Hours or are
absorbed in your apostolic activity. Even when you are beautifying
the church, when you want to undertake something new, do it with me,
in a spirit of filial confidence and of habitual dependence. Then
nothing will ever disturb the peace of your heart. If my Adversary
does everything to cause you to be perturbed, he will find you
covered with impenetrable armor, and you will always be immersed in
an inalterable peace, and you will be led to the highest summit of
interior quiet and of contemplation.
g - I lead you also to a
habitual intimacy of life, of love, of adoration, of thanksgiving and
of reparation to Jesus present in the Eucharist. With the impetus of
the faith which illumines you, with the flame of the love which
consumes you, with the strength of those who are sincerely in love,
like watchful sentinels, you must go beyond appearances to experience
in the soul the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist because,
under the white veil of each consecrated Host, Jesus is really
present among you.
h You cannot see Him; it is as if you were here,
and He were on the other side of a closed door. There is only this
thin partition, which impedes you from seeing Him with your eyes,
from hearing Him with your ears, from communicating with Him through
the external senses of the body. But you must go beyond the
appearances, to commune with Him through the powers of the soul.
i The power of your intellect causes you to
see Jesus in the splendor of his glorious body, as He appeared to me
after his resurrection, all light, with his enchanting face, with his
hair of gold, with his eyes of an intense blue, with his feet which
had walked so much for you, still shining from the wounds which had
transfixed Him, with a smile of infinite goodness and with his
wounded Heart, from which there gushed a luminous fount of love and
of grace. See Him, with the light of the intellect, in the splendor
of his divinity. Jesus will reveal Himself even more to you, will
communicate Himself in a greater way to you, and thus you will
contemplate Him in a way that will be more beautiful than if you were
to see Him with the senses of the body.
j The power of the will sets you on the way
of always doing his divine Will. As a compass points toward the north
pole, so also your will becomes irresistibly attracted to his Will.
When sometimes you turn from it, almost without you noticing it,
there is some force within you which turns you in the right
direction, because your will becomes absorbed by his divine Will.
Thus your mind becomes ever more and more enlightened, because you
are thinking as He thinks, you want what He wants, and thus you live
in an intimacy of life with Jesus who, in your priestly life,
fulfills again today his divine mission of doing the Will of the
Father: `I have come, O God, to do your Will. Not my Will but yours
be done.' (cf. Lk 22:42)
k Through the power of love you are
irresistibly attracted by his divine and merciful Heart. My dearest
little children, let your heart be completely immersed in his
Eucharistic Heart, that you may enter into a personal intimacy of
life with Him. Jesus then takes your little heart, opens it, expands
it and fills it with his love. He loves in you, and you love in Him;
and thus, you become more and more immersed in the stupendous vortex
of his divine and perfect charity. Then, just as John was the beloved
apostle, called to a profound intimacy of life with Jesus, living in
his human body, so too, you become a new John, called to have a
profound intimacy of life with Jesus in his glorified body, really
present in the condition of a victim and hidden under the appearance
of consecrated Bread, which is kept in every tabernacle of the earth.
Beloved sons, seek Jesus in order to quench your thirst for
blessedness; go to Him to satisfy your great need for love; you too,
place your head upon his Heart to feel its beating; live ever with
Him, you who are called to be other Johns of the Eucharistic Jesus.
l I confide to you now my maternal will that the
Eucharistic Jesus find, in your churches, his royal palace, where He
is honored and adored by the faithful, there where He is also
continually surrounded by innumerable bands of angels, of saints and
of souls who are being purified. See to it that the Most Holy
Sacrament is again surrounded by flowers and by lights, as signs
indicative of your love and of your tender piety. Expose Him
frequently for the veneration of the faithful; multiply the hours of
public adoration to repair for the indifference, the outrages, the
numerous sacrileges and the terrible profanation, to which He is
subjected during the black masses, a diabolical and sacrilegious rite
which is becoming more and more widespread and which has, as its
culmination, unspeakable and obscene acts directed toward the Most
Holy Eucharist.
m Because of this, the world is immersed in the
deepest night, in the darkness of sin and of impurity, of egoism and
of hatred, of avarice and of impiety, and it now appears that there
is no longer anything that can restrain it from falling into an
endless abyss.
n But the great hour of justice and of divine
mercy has as of now arrived. For you, my beloved priests, who are
called to be the light of the world, there now falls the duty of
illuminating the earth in these days of dense darkness. And so today
I am asking you to allow me to enter the home of your priestly life,
because the hour has also come for the triumph, in you, of the
Immaculate Heart of your heavenly Mother."
378
Dongo (Como, Italy); April 1, 1988
Good Friday
Behold Your Mother
a "Beloved sons, welcome today the supreme
gift of my Son Jesus, who is about to die on the Cross.
b 'Behold your Mother.’ (Jn 19:27) At
this moment I am at the foot of his Cross, transfixed by a sword of
sorrow.
c I have seen my Son climb the hill of
Calvary, crushed beneath the weight of the Cross, his head wounded by
the crown of thorns, his entire body reduced to one single wound by
the flagellation, his face disfigured by blood and by pain, his eyes
glazed from weeping, his Heart overwhelmed by the weight of
ingratitude and the lack of love.
d I have felt the blows of the nails, which
have pierced his hands and his feet; the heavy thump of the Cross in
the earth, which causes Him to heave with pain; the moans that come
from his crucified body in the last hours of his bloody agony. I am
now beneath the Cross, and I am crushed beneath the weight of the
blasphemies and the shrieks of hatred and of inhuman wickedness on
the part of those who are assisting at his execution.
e I gather in the motherly chalice of my
Immaculate Heart, every drop of his suffering, his great thirst, the
pardoning of the repentant thief, the prayer for those who are
crucifying Him, the feeling of being abandoned even by God, his act
of filial entrustment to the Will of the Father. But a few moments
before his divine Heart closes itself to earthly life, it opens
itself to his last gift: `Behold your Mother.'
f Thus I became the Mother of all humanity
redeemed by my Son. I am the true Mother of all. The new sepulcher
which receives Him, now dead, is transformed into the cradle in which
you are all born into life. Receive with love this last gift of his,
beloved sons, because, at the side of the cradle in which you have
been reborn, there is the presence of the Mother whom Jesus has given
to you.
g Accept me into your life, that I may be
able to help you walk along the same road upon which Jesus has
preceded you.
h Open for me the doors of your priestly
home that I may be able to beautify it and adorn it with sanctity and
purity.
i Live together with me each day, to be comforted
in the carrying of your cross and in following Jesus all the way to
Calvary.
j Let yourselves be formed by me, if you want
your priestly life to be made fragrant by the blossoming of all the
virtues.
k On Good Friday of this Marian
Year, understand all the preciousness of the gift which Jesus
has given you when He disclosed his hidden thoughts to speak to you
those words which you must never again forget: `Behold your
Mother.'
l And live ever in deep gratitude to Jesus for
having given you this last gift of his.”
379
Dongo (Como, Italy); April 2, 1988
Holy Saturday First Saturday
Into the Sorrow of My Desolation
a "This is the Holy Saturday. It is the day
of my great sorrow. It is the day of my incessant prayer.
b During this Marian Year, consecrated to me, this
day coincides with the first Saturday of the month. I came from
heaven to ask you to offer me the five first Saturdays of the
month. I asked this of my daughter, Sister Lucia, when she was in the
convent of Pontevedra, on the 10th of December, 1925. I asked that
this day be spent in a spirit of reparation for the offenses which
are directed at your heavenly Mother.
c Why, among all the days of the week, have I
asked you to offer Saturday to me? To recall the painful hours, spent
by me, during the only day when I remained without my Son. The body
of Jesus lies dead, placed in his new sepulcher, and I am
keeping vigil, continually recollected in my virginal sorrow, in
intimate union of faith, of love and of hope
with the Heavenly Father, who bows down over the wounds of my
inexpressible longing, with a kiss of his divine comfort.
d Today I want all of you near me,
the sorrowful Mother, to be consoled by you and to teach you to pray
with confidence, to suffer with docility, to love with purity of
heart, to believe with unshakeable certitude, to hope with
heroism, even against the evidence of things.
e This is the day when I receive you into the
sorrow of my desolation, and I open the door to you so that all
may be able to enter into the secure dwelling place of my spiritual
motherhood. This is the day which sprouted forth like a flower, upon
the heroism of my love, of my sorrow, of my faith and of my firm
hope. It is the day of your new repose.
f For this reason I am asking you to offer it to
me, with the recitation of the holy rosary, with the meditation upon
its mysteries, with sacramental Confession and a Communion of
reparation, and with the renewal of your act of consecration to my
Immaculate Heart. In this way you can make reparation for the
offenses which are directed at me and which cause my Heart to suffer
so much.
g Among the errors which are being diffused today,
there are even those which touch the person and the honor of your
heavenly Mother. My Immaculate Conception and my fullness of grace is
denied by some; others no longer believe in the great privilege of my
perpetual virginity and of my divine and universal motherhood. And
those children who have particular need of me, such as tiny babes,
the little ones, the poor, the simple and the sinners are kept far
away from me. Moreover, even my images are often removed from places
of worship.
h To make amends for these offenses which are
being committed against the Immaculate Heart of your heavenly Mother,
I am asking you to propagate again today the devotion of the five
first Saturdays of the month. I had asked for this during the first
part of this century of yours; I am returning today to ask for it as
this century turns towards its most painful close.
i If you do what I ask of you, devotion to me will
spread more and more, and then I will be able to exercise the great
power which the Most Holy Trinity has granted to me. Thus I will be
able to prepare for all humanity the new era of its complete
renovation, in the glorious triumph of my Son Jesus."
380
Dongo (Como, Italy); April 3, 1988
Easter Sunday
Rejoice with Me
a "Rejoice with me, beloved children.
Jesus, whom I carried with ineffable love in my virginal womb and to
whom during nine months gave flesh and blood, to prepare Him for his
human birth, is risen.
b Rejoice with me. Jesus, whom as a child I
clasped in my arms, whom I taught to take his first steps and whom I
formed and raised, as a loving and attentive mother, is risen.
c Rejoice with me. Jesus, whom I
contemplated in his infancy and watched develop according to the
rhythm of his human growth and become a young man in the course of
his adolescence, is risen.
d Rejoice with me. Jesus, who suffered
misunderstanding, marginalization, and persistent rejection by the
religious authorities, while He became more and more accepted and
followed by the little, the poor, the sick and the sinners, is risen.
e Rejoice with me. Jesus, who was abandoned
by his disciples, denied, betrayed, condemned to death by the
religious tribunal, brought before Pilate, scourged, crowned with
thorns, led to the gibbet and crucified, is risen.
f Rejoice with me. Jesus, who was slain on
the Cross and laid in the tomb, is risen.
g Beloved children, on this Easter Day, rejoice
with me. Share in the ineffable joy which my Immaculate Heart
experienced, when I saw for myself, before my eyes which were still
filled with tears, my Son Jesus in the divine splendor of his
glorified body.
h In that moment, for all humanity, sorrow was
transformed into joy, darkness into light, wickedness into goodness,
sin into grace, hatred into love, death into life, justice into the
triumph of divine mercy.
i Rejoice with me, beloved children, in
living together the joyful mystery of this Easter of the Marian Year
consecrated to me.
j Today even this poor humanity, which is still
closed up in the cold sepulcher of sin, of the rejection of God, of
hatred, of violence, of war, of impurity and of iniquity, is being
called to come out from its tomb of darkness and of death.
k Rejoice with me, all of you, because, on
this day of his Pasch, I am announcing to you that the risen Jesus
will return in the divine splendor of his majesty and of his glory."
381
Dongo (Como, Italy); May 1, 1988
Feast of St. Joseph the Worker
Offer Me Fragrant Flowers
a “You are beginning today the month of May of
this Marian Year, consecrated to me. I invite you to spend it with
me, in a more intense communion of life with your heavenly Mother.
b My times have come, and now I am about to leave
the desert, where I am, to accomplish my greatest prodigies and to
obtain my foretold victory. For this I have need of you today,
beloved sons.
c I want to let shine upon the whole world the
light of my Immaculate Heart, through you who have entrusted
yourselves completely to me, with the act of your perfect
consecration.
I want to act by means of you.
I want to love and to save by means of you.
I want to manifest myself to all and to complete the triumph of my Immaculate Heart by means of you.
I want to act by means of you.
I want to love and to save by means of you.
I want to manifest myself to all and to complete the triumph of my Immaculate Heart by means of you.
d I am asking you to spend this month in a
profound intimacy of life with me.
e Offer me the fragrant flowers of your prayer.
Pray more; pray with love and with perseverance; pray with the
prayer of the heart. Begin anew to gather about you the faithful who
are entrusted to you, to form with your heavenly Mother a true
cenacle of unceasing prayer, which can draw down upon the Church and
upon the world the gift of a second Pentecost.
f Offer me the fragrant flowers of your trust.
My Adversary is trying you with the temptation of doubt and of
discouragement. This is the subtle snare which he always employs to
bring you to a halt along the road of total trust in me. How many of
you have come to a halt because of doubt, of uncertainty and of
incredulity.
Begin anew to listen to me with the purity of little children.
Begin anew to believe me with the simplicity of the poor.
Begin anew to follow me with the abandonment of children.
Begin anew to listen to me with the purity of little children.
Begin anew to believe me with the simplicity of the poor.
Begin anew to follow me with the abandonment of children.
g Offer me the fragrant flowers of your
love.Love more. Love with greater intensity.
Be examples to all of the living out of the new commandment of my Son Jesus: `Love one another as I have loved you.' (Jn 15:12)Do not judge; do not criticize; do not condemn. Be kind, gentle and merciful to everyone.
Be the dew of my motherly tenderness which falls upon the desert of egoism and of hatred, of unlovingness and of aridity.
Be examples to all of the living out of the new commandment of my Son Jesus: `Love one another as I have loved you.' (Jn 15:12)Do not judge; do not criticize; do not condemn. Be kind, gentle and merciful to everyone.
Be the dew of my motherly tenderness which falls upon the desert of egoism and of hatred, of unlovingness and of aridity.
h In these times Satan is ensnaring very
much even this work of love of mine, seeking to sow division among
you. Therefore I am urging you all to be more docile and more humble,
more obedient and more united with this little son of mine, whom I
have chosen as the instrument for the spread of the Marian Movement
of Priests in every part of the world.
i Then the fragrant flowers of prayer, of trust
and of love, which you offer me during the month of May of this
Marian Year, will be accepted by me as a most welcome homage offered
on your part, my little sons and courageous apostles whom I hive
chosen for the triumph of my Immaculate Heart.”
382
Marienfried (Germany); May 13 1988
Anniversary of the First Apparition at Fatima
These Are the Times
a "Beloved sons, live in my peace. Today you
are calling to mind my first apparition which took place in the poor
Cova da Iria in Fatima. I came down from heaven as your Mother and
Queen. I manifested myself to you in the splendor of my immaculate
light. I appeared as the Woman Clothed with the Sun, who has the task
of forming for herself her cohort, for the decisive moments of
battle.
b These are the times of my great light.
c These are the times of prayer and of penance.
I call upon you again today to pray especially for the conversion
of poor sinners, of the atheists and of those who are far away.
Recite always the holy rosary. Offer prayers and sacrifices for the
salvation of souls, because I repeat to you again today that many are
going to hell because there is no one to pray and to sacrifice for
them.
d These are the times of conversion and of
return to the Lord. As Mother, I am taking you by the hand
and leading you along the road of goodness, of love and of holiness.
I am obtaining for you the grace of repentance, that you may be able
to live far removed from sin, from evil and from egoism. Each day,
let the number of my children, who are renouncing sin to walk along
the path of the grace of God, grow greater. Let the Law of the Lord
become more and more observed and practiced. And in this way many of
your brothers will follow you along the road of return to the Lord
and of salvation.
e These are the times of my peace. To those
children who listen to me and consecrate themselves to my Immaculate
Heart I give the gift of my peace. I lead you to live in peace of
heart and of soul. I cause you to remain in serenity, even in the
midst of great turmoil. You experience my motherly presence,
especially in times of danger and of trial. I mark you with my seal
that you may spread everywhere the light of the faith, of holiness
and of love in these days of dense darkness.
f These are the times of the great mercy. The
Heart of Jesus is about to pour out torrents of his divine and
merciful love. The hour of the great mercy for the world has come. It
will come down as dew upon every wound; it will open the hardest
hearts; it will purify souls immersed in sin; it will lead sinners to
conversion and will grant to everyone the grace of a complete
renewal.
g In this day of the Marian Year, consecrated to
me, I invite you to let yourselves - one and all be penetrated by my
immaculate light, that you yourselves may become my rays of light
which brighten up the earth, immersed in the deepest darkness, with
the sun of purity and of love."
383
Heede (Germany); May 22, 1988
Solemnity of Pentecost
The Holy Spirit Will Come
a "Beloved sons, gather together from every
part of the earth live this feast day in the cenacle of my Immaculate
Heart. This is the day which recalls the descent of the Holy
Spirit upon the Apostles, gathered together in prayer with me in the
Cenacle of Jerusalem. On this day of Pentecost of the Marian Year,
consecrated to me, I am calling upon you to unite your prayer to that
of your heavenly Mother, to obtain the great gift of the second
Pentecost. The time of the second Pentecost has come.
b The Holy Spirit will come, as a heavenly
dew of grace and of fire, which will renew all the world. Under his
irresistible action of love, the Church will open itself to live the
new era of its greatest holiness and will shine resplendently with so
strong a light that it will attract to itself all the nations of the
earth.
c The Holy Spirit will come, that the Will
of the Heavenly Father be accomplished and the created universe once
again reflect his great glory.
d The Holy Spirit will come, to establish
the glorious reign of Christ, and it will be a reign of grace, of
holiness, of love, of justice and of peace. With his divine love, He
will open the doors of hearts and illuminate all consciences. Every
person will see himself in the burning fire of divine truth. It will
be like a judgment in miniature. And then Jesus Christ will bring his
glorious reign in the world.
e The Holy Spirit will come, by means of
the triumph of my Immaculate Heart. For this, I am calling upon you
all today to enter into the cenacle of my Heart. Thus you will be
prepared to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit which will transform
you and make you the instruments with which Jesus will establish his
reign."
384
Monastery of Le Bouveret (Vallese, Switzerland)
June 11, 1988
Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The Great Apostasy
a "On the feast of my Immaculate Heart of
this Marian Year, consecrated to me, beloved sons, I am calling all
of you to enter into the heavenly garden which I have built for you,
during these painful and bloody moments of the purification.
b The hour of the great apostasy has come. What
has been foretold in Holy Scripture, in the Second Letter of Saint
Paul to the Thessalonians, is now on the point of coming to pass.
c Satan, my Adversary, with snares and by means of
his subtle seduction, has succeeded in spreading errors everywhere,
under the form of new and more updated interpretations of the truth,
and he has led many to choose with full knowledge - and to live in -
sin, in the deceiving conviction that this is no longer an evil, and
even that it is a value and a good.
d The times of the general confusion and of the
greatest agitation of spirits has come. Confusion has entered
into the souls and the lives of many of my children.
e This great apostasy is spreading more and more,
even through the interior of the Catholic Church. Errors are being
taught and spread about, while the fundamental truths of the faith,
which the authentic Magisterium of the Church has always taught and
energetically defended against any heretical deviation whatsoever,
are being denied with impunity.
f The episcopates are maintaining a strange
silence and are no longer reacting. When my Pope speaks with courage
and reaffirms with force the truths of the Catholic faith, he is no
longer listened to and is even publicly criticized and derided. There
is a subtle and diabolical tactic, woven in secrecy by Masonry, which
is used today against the Holy Father in order to bring ridicule upon
his person and his work and to neutralize his Magisterium.
g Victims of the great apostasy are those
children of mine who, often unknowingly, allow themselves to be
carried along by this wave of errors and of evil.
h Victims of the great apostasy are many
bishops, priests, religious and faithful.
i In these times, in the Catholic Church, there
will remain a little remnant who will be faithful to Christ,
to the Gospel, and to its entire truth. The little remnant will form
a little flock, all guarded in the depths of my Immaculate
Heart. This little flock will be made up of those bishops, priests,
religious and faithful who will remain strongly united to the Pope,
all gathered together in the cenacle of my Immaculate Heart, in an
act of unceasing prayer, of continual immolation, of total offering
to prepare the painful way for the second and glorious coming of my
Son Jesus.
j On this feast of mine in this Marian Year, I
address to all those who wish to become part of the little flock the
motherly invitation to consecrate themselves to my Heart, to live in
intimacy of life with me, to become my courageous apostles in these
last times, because the moment when my Immaculate Heart must
be glorified before all the Church and before all humanity has come.”
385
Shrine of Knock (Ireland); June 29, 1988
Solemmty of Sts. Peter and Paul
With the Faith of Peter
a "Beloved sons, enlighten the earth
with the light of Christ. Beloved sons, bring all people to Christ
with the faith of Peter.
b It was upon Peter alone that Christ founded his
Church. It was for Peter alone that Jesus prayed that his faith
remain ever intact. It was to Peter alone that the Lord entrusted the
task of confirming his brothers in the faith.
c Today you are celebrating the solemnity of the
Holy Apostles, Peter and Paul, during this Marian Year, consecrated
to me.
d As a sorrowful and concerned Mother, I
urge you all to look today to the successor of Peter, Pope John Paul
II. He is my Pope. He is the Pope who has been formed by me in the
depths of my Immaculate Heart. He is the Pope of my great light, in
these times of greatest darkness.
e With the faith of Peter, he is
enlightening the earth and confirming all the Church in the truth.
The Pope today, as a new Peter, is reaffirming the total faith in
Christ the Son of God and, as a new Paul, is going to every part of
the world to proclaim with courage his Gospel of salvation.
f Support the Pope by your filial unity. Pray for
him; suffer with him; love him; surround him with a powerful force of
humble and courageous obedience.
g The heart of the Pope is bleeding today because
of one bishop of the holy Church of God who, through an arbitrary
episcopal ordination carried out against his [the Pope's] will, is
opening up a painful schism in the Catholic Church.
h But this is only the beginning. In fact many
bishops are, as of the present time, no longer united with the Pope
and are moving along a road which is opposed to that which he is
pointing out. This is a greater and more dangerous deviation, even if
it is not yet visible, and one which gives pain to my motherly Heart
and causes it to bleed and, as it were, causes my Pope to fall under
the weight of a cross which is too heavy.
i I have prepared you so that you may help him to
carry his great cross. For this, the hour has come when there must
appear, in all its force and its splendor, the great army which, in
silence and in hiddenness, I have been forming for myself during
these years in every part of the world, through my Marian Movement of
Priests, for the defense and the strong support of the Pope.
j Thus there is beginning to be delineated clearly
the plan of the little flock, which will remain faithful to Christ
and to his Church, guarded whole and entire in the garden of my
Immaculate Heart."
386
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); August 15, 1988
Solemnity of the Assumption the Blessed Virgin
Mary into Heaven
Solemn Closing of the Marian Year
I Have Intervened Forcefully
a "Beloved sons, live in my peace. Today you
are looking to me, the Woman Clothed with the Sun, on this day when
the whole Church venerates the privilege of my bodily assumption into
heaven.
b My Pope has chosen this solemnity to officially
bring to a close that space of time which has been consecrated to me,
by a special Marian Year in my honor, begun on the day of Pentecost
of last year. Even though it has not been lived out according to the
expectations and the desires of my Immaculate Heart, I have
nevertheless welcomed this special offering which my Pope has wished
to make to me, in the name of the whole Church.
c During this Marian Year, which today is living
through its concluding moments, I have intervened forcefully in
the life of the Church and of humanity.
d During this Marian Year, I have been able to
exercise my motherly action in the heart, the soul and the life of
many of my children who have opened the door of their life to me.
Above all, I have been able to exercise my great power in the life of
all those children who have entrusted themselves completely to me, by
their act of consecration to my Immaculate Heart. In this heavenly
garden of mine, I have prepared numerous buds of great sanctity for
the new era which is at the doors.
e During this Marian Year, I have
intervened forcefully as well in the life of the Church. At the
present time, the tenebrous forces of evil are laying snares for her
on all sides. The dark conspiracies woven by Masonry, by means of its
many followers who have insinuated themselves at the summit of the
Church, have succeeded in paralyzing her activity and in
extinguishing her apostolic ardor.
f Many, even from among the Church's own pastors,
are languishing in aridity and tepidity, while this most beloved
Daughter of mine is living through the hour of her agony. I am
placing myself at the side of my Daughter, the Church, to live with
her through the painful moments of her agony and of her great
abandonment, to savor the bitterness of her chalice, to bear her
sufferings with her, and to share all her deep wounds.
g During this Marian Year, I have intervened
forcefully to save this poor lost humanity. Alas, my call to
conversion has not been accepted. People continue along the road of
apostasy, of rebellion against God, of sin, of social evil, of
blasphemy, of hatred and of impurity. And so I have urged all my
children, who have listened to me and followed me, to gather together
in cenacles of prayer and of penance, in order to obtain from Jesus
the great gift of his divine mercy.
h What comfort my sorrowful Heart has felt in
seeing that these cenacles have spread everywhere and that, during
this Marian Year, they have multiplied in number and in generosity.
And it is through the great response of prayer and penance, on the
part of so many of my children, that I have been able to obtain from
Divine justice the setting aside once again of a great chastisement
which ought to have struck all humanity.
i But now, with the close of this Marian Year, the
space of time granted by the Lord to humanity for its conversion is
also on the point of coming to a close. And now you are on the
threshold of the events that I foretold to you.
j For this reason I am calling upon you to walk,
one and all, along the road of divine grace and of holiness, of
purity and of prayer, of filial abandonment and of trust. Believe in
what I am telling you, and you will remain in my peace and in my
light. Only in this way will you be able to light up the earth in
these days of dense darkness.
k From this holy mountain I look upon you all with
eyes of mercy, and I bless you."
387
Vienna (Austria); August 31, 1988
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests of the M.M.P. from Austria, Germany, Yugoslavia and
Hungary
The Eyes Raised to Mary
a "Beloved sons, how it comforts my sorrowful
Heart to see you here, all together, for a week of continuous
cenacle! I am uniting myself always with your prayer, which you are
making with me and by means of me.
b I am taking part with joy in your fraternal
gathering and am building up increasingly your love for each other; I
am helping you to understand each other and to walk in greater unity
along the difficult road of this time of yours. I accept with joy the
act of consecration to my Immaculate Heart which you are renewing
each day, during the concelebration of Holy Mass. I am obtaining for
you, in superabundance, the gift of the Holy Spirit, which is
communicated to you by the Father and the Son, through the powerful
intercession of your heavenly Mother.
c You have entered into my times. You are being
called to be my apostles in these last times.
d The Marian Year, which was officially
concluded in the course of this month, has been willed by me as the
beginning of a period of time during which your heavenly Mother
will carry out her work, in an ever increasingly powerful way, in the
hearts, in the souls and in the lives of her children, in order to
bring to realization the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the world.
e The time of the eyes raised to Mary is now
beginning, as my Pope, John Paul II, has said to you.
f The eyes raised to Mary: thus you are
being enlightened with the virginal light of my faith, which is
bringing you to accept the word of God with humility, to keep it with
love, to live it with consistency, to preach it with fidelity. I am
lighting up for you the way along which you must travel in order to
remain ever in the true faith and in order that you yourselves may
become courageous witnesses of the faith.
g How many errors are being spread in your
countries, frequently caused by the attitude of pride on the part of
many theologians, who no longer accept the Magisterium of the Church.
And thus many of my children draw away, each day, from the true faith
and tumble into the deep darkness of apostasy.
h You must be today strong witnesses of the faith,
by accepting with docility whatever the Pope and the authentic
Magisterium of the Church are still teaching, and by preaching all
the truths of the Catholic faith, especially those which are no
longer being talked about. And thus you become light for many of your
brothers, who are walking in the deepest darkness.
i The eyes raised to Mary: thus you are
being enlightened with the virginal light of my purity and of my
holiness. How many live surrounded by the darkness of sin, of evil,
of impurity, of pride, of blasphemy, of idolatry and of impiety! You
must follow me along the road of holiness, which is joined with a
strong commitment to fight sin, in all its subtle manifestations, to
live in the grace of God, in love, in purity, in charity and in the
exercise of all the virtues.
j And thus you contribute to the healing of
the great wound of materialism, which has brought to your countries
the malady of immorality, of the devastating search for pleasures, of
comfort, of unbridled egoism, of avarice, of insensitiveness to the
needs of the little, the poor and the most marginalized.
k The eyes raised to Mary: thus you are
being enlightened with the virginal light of my prayer and of my
motherly love. Multiply your cenacles of prayer. Always recite the
holy rosary. Spread throughout your countries family cenacles, as a
remedy for the great evils which are menacing your families with
division, divorce, the legitimizing of abortion and all the various
means of impeding life.
l Your prayer must always be oriented to Jesus in
the Eucharist. Let it be a prayer of continual adoration, of
reparation, of praise and of thanksgiving to the Eucharistic Jesus.
May the love and adoration of Jesus present in the Eucharist begin
anew to flourish everywhere.
m The coming of the glorious reign of Christ will
coincide with the triumph of the Eucharistic reign of Jesus. Love
Jesus; imitate Him; walk along the road of disdain for the world and
for yourselves. Let the light of Christ be the only light which
illumines you, under the gaze of my motherly and merciful eyes, at he
moment when you live through the great tribulation.
n My light, as a dawn which is arising, is
spreading from the East and becoming ever stronger, until it covers
the whole world.
o Leave this cenacle with the light of Christ
and of your Immaculate Mother, and go to lighten up the earth in
these days of profound darkness.
p With Austria and Germany, from here I bless the
surrounding countries which are still under the yoke of a great
slavery, and today I announce that the moment of their liberation is
close.”
388
Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre
(Paris, France)
September 11, 1988
Cenacle with the Priests and Faithful of the
M.M.P.
Love Is Not Loved
a "Beloved children, how Jesus loves you! His
divine Heart is a furnace of most ardent love for you.
b For love of you, the Word descended from the
bosom of the Father to my virginal motherly womb and was made Man.
c For love of you, Jesus lived a life which was
humble, poor, hidden and spent in prayer and in work.
d For love of you, Jesus took upon Himself
suffering, humiliation and marginalization.
e For love of you, Jesus became the Man of
Sorrows and offered Himself as a victim on the Cross.
f For love of you, He allowed Himself to be
condemned, mocked, tortured, crucified and killed.
g For love of you, He rose again and ascended into
heaven, where He is seated at the right hand of the Father.
h For love of you, Jesus remains ever
present in your in your midst in the state of a victim in the
sacrament of the Eucharist.
i For love of you, He has even given you his
Mother.
j O my poor children, so tried in this time of the
great tribulation, if you knew how the Heart of Jesus loves you!
Jesus loves you and in return receives from you ingratitude,
indifference and lack of response. Jesus loves you, and you live as
though He did not exist. Jesus loves you and, in the Eucharist.
throbs with love for you, and you leave Him alone, abandoned,
surrounded by a great void and so much unbelief.
k Never before as in these stormy times is
it so true that Love is not loved.
l And so, allow your heavenly Mother to form you
to love, to make you grow in love, to lead you each day along the
road of perfect love. Only in this way will my Immaculate
Heart be able to triumph. Only in this way will you be able to
illuminate the earth, with the Sun of divine love, who will in the
end succeed in driving away all darkness, so that the new era of the
civilization of love will at last be able to shine forth
resplendently upon the world.”
389
Lourdes (France); September 18, 1988
Cenacle with the Priests and Faithful of the
M.M.P.
A Period of Ten Years
a "Today you are coming from every part of
France to the foot of this rock upon which I appeared as the
Immaculate Conception, to hold your great cenacle of prayer and
fraternal sharing and to renew together the act of consecration to my
Immaculate Heart.
b From here I bless my Movement; from here
I bless each one of you; from here I bless the Church and all
humanity. You have entered into my times. On this day, I am asking
you to consecrate to me all the time that still separates you from
the end of this century of yours.
c These are ten decisive years. I am asking you to
spend them with me because you are entering into the final period of
the second Advent, which will lead you to the triumph of my
Immaculate Heart in the glorious coming of my Son Jesus.
d - In this period of ten years, there will
come to completion that fullness of time which was pointed out to you
by me, beginning with La Salette all the way to my most recent and
present apparitions.
e In this period of ten years, there will
come to its culmination that purification which, for a number of
years now, you have been living through, and therefore the sufferings
will become greater for all.
f In this period of ten years, there will
come to completion the time of the great tribulation, which has been
foretold to you in Holy Scripture, before the second coming of Jesus.
g In this period of ten years, the mystery
of iniquity, prepared for by the ever increasing spread of apostasy,
will become manifest.
h In this period of ten years, all the
secrets which I have revealed to some of my children will come to
pass, and all the events which have been foretold to you by me will
take place.
i Therefore I am asking you today to consecrate to
me all this period of time, as though it were a more extended and
continuous Marian Year. Open to me the doors of your hearts, and let
me work in you. Open to me the doors of your families, of your
parishes, of your religious houses, and let the immaculate light of
my presence enter in.
j Multiply your cenacles of prayer, and live in
the greatest trust and filial abandonment to me, without allowing
yourselves to be seized by vain curiosity to know what is awaiting
you.
k May the water of divine mercy purify you
of every sin and make of you new buds for the era of grace and of
holiness which, in my Immaculate Heart, I am preparing for you each
day.
l From this most venerated shrine of mine.
I bless you all."
390
Madrid (Spain); September 29, 1988
Feast of the Holy Archangels
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Continuous
Cenacle with the Priests of the M.M.P. from Spain
To the Angels of the Churches
a "Beloved sons, you have completed the
spiritual exercises which, under the form of a continuous cenacle,
you have carried out during these days, and you have come from every
part of Spain, this land so much loved by me and so particularly
ensnared and stricken by my Adversary. I have accepted gratefully the
homage of your prayer, your fraternal sharing and your love. I have
caused a copious rain of grace to come down from my Immaculate Heart
upon you, upon the faithful entrusted to you, upon the Church and
upon your native land.
b There are three snares with which Satan
is trying today to seduce you in order to draw you away from Jesus
and from me.
c - The first is in regard to your native land,
which has officially departed from the road of its time-honored
fidelity to Christian tradition to welcome atheistic and
materialistic ideologies. Thus the error of indifferentism has been
accepted into political and social life, and in the name of a false
freedom, divorce, abortion and all the methods of preventing life
have been legitimized. What is left that is Christian today in this
country of yours, which has, however, been a light to all the world,
thanks to the example given by many of its saints and many of its
martyrs? Return, O Spain, along the road of conversion and of your
greater fidelity to Christ!
d - The second is in regard to the Church,
which is living in this country of yours. It is penetrated with a
secularism which has particularly stricken the life of many priests
and many religious. It has been lacerated by a deep interior
division. It has been stricken in its pastors who, for fear of
exposing themselves to criticisms, are remaining silent and are no
longer defending the flock which Christ has entrusted to them.
e To you, who are the Angels of the Churches, I
address today the sorrowful reproach of my motherly Heart, for
your lack of faith, of zeal, of prayer and of holiness. The Lord is
about to ask you for an account of how you have managed his vineyard
and why you have permitted rapacious wolves to enter into it,
disguised as lambs, in order to devour a downtrodden and dispersed
flock.
f The third is in regard to the life of my
children, especially youth, menaced with such a great spread of
immorality. I beg you to return along the road of a general
conversion to the Lord, through the observance of the laws of God and
through the practice of the Christian virtues, especially of penance
and of charity. Let the perfume of your purity once again bring
serenity to your surroundings, so thick with threats and with
dangers.
g Entrust yourselves to the protection of your
guardian angels, and especially of the Archangels, Saints Gabriel,
Raphael and Michael, whose feast you celebrate today. Thus you will
be clothed again in the virtue of fortitude, so needed today. You
will be healed of the deep wounds which you have been dealt, and
especially you will always be protected by Saint Michael in the
terrible battle which, during these last times, is being waged
between heaven and earth.
h And in the end you will all be able to form part
of the victorious army, guided by your heavenly Leader, the Woman
Clothed with the Sun, for the soon-to-come triumph of her Immaculate
Heart in the world."
391
Fatima (Portugal); October 13, 1988
Anniversary of the Last Apparition at Fatima
I Am Opening for You the Sealed Book
a "Today you are bringing to a close, here in
Fatima, the cenacles which, during this Marian Year, you have been
holding in every country of Europe, with the priests and faithful of
my Movement. My great net of love and of salvation has, as of now,
been spread out in every part of the earth.
b From this place, where I have appeared as the
Woman Clothed with the Sun, I announce to you that the time of the
purification has now reached its culmination and that you are
therefore called to live through the most painful moments which have
been foretold to you. The Lord is sending me to you that I might
bring to fulfillment the task which the Most Holy Trinity has
entrusted to me in these times of yours.
c I am opening for you the sealed Book,
that the secrets contained in it may be revealed. I have gathered you
from all sides, and you have been formed by me in order to be ready
for the great events which are awaiting you. Only in this way are you
able to carry out your important mission.
d In the great apostasy, which is spreading
everywhere, you must remain strongly rooted in the true faith and be
courageous witnesses of faith.
e In the great tribulation, in which you
are living, you must become the signs of my peace and of my motherly
protection.
f In the great chastisement, through which
this world is, as of now, living, you must be of assistance to all to
walk along the road of trust, of prayer, of hope and of a filial
abandonment to the love of your Heavenly Father. My light will become
continuously stronger in order to announce the coming of Jesus, King
of justice and of peace, who will renew all things.
g From this, my venerated shrine, I am
asking you to accept my word and to believe in my messages.
h Open for me the doors of your hearts, and
live in the peace and in the grace of the Lord.
i I am the Queen of the Holy Rosary, and I bless
you all with this sign of my sure victory."
392
Zagreb (Yugoslavia); October 27, 1988
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests of the M.M.P. of the Slovenian and Croatian
Languages
This Is Your Hour
a "Beloved sons, how happy I am to see you
here, gathered together as so many brothers who love each other, to
pray with me, in a cenacle which renews the marvelous reality of that
of Jerusalem. You too, in this house, are gathered together with me
to love each other, to pray together and to meditate on your life of
consecration to my Immaculate Heart.
b How many graces, during these days, I
cause to come down upon the Church and the world! How many graces I
cause to flow out from my Immaculate Heart for you, for all my
Movement and for you homeland, which is living through moments of
suffering and of difficulty and has, therefore, the need to be helped
by your heavenly Mother.
c I am the Mother and Queen of your homeland. I
love you with particular motherly tenderness. I want to bring comfort
and consolation today to all those who live in this land, so loved by
me. For this reason I am making use of you, priests and children
consecrated to my Immaculate Heart.
d This is your hour. It is the hour of your
public witness.
e - Be witnesses of love. Love your
brothers with the Heart of Jesus and with my motherly Heart. Love
everyone, especially those furthest away, the poorest, the most
needy, those who are suffering most. Love with my Heart the sinners,
those who are walking along the road of rejection of God, of atheism,
of hatred, of violence and of impurity. Let your love now come down,
as my motherly medicine, upon the many open and bleeding wounds, and
thus become builders of peace, of communion and of great
brotherliness.
f - Be witnesses of prayer. Pray always;
pray more; pray with the holy rosary. Multiply cenacles of prayer,
amongst you priests and with the faithful. Above all, spread all
about you family cenacles, which are desired by me as a remedy for
the great evils which are today threatening the life of Christian
families, through the legitimizing of abortion, of divorce, and of
all the methods which prevent life.
g With your prayer you can obtain everything from
the Lord. With your prayer made together with me, your heavenly
Mother, you can obtain the great gift of bringing about a change of
hearts and conversion. Each day, through prayer, you can drive away
from yourselves and from your homeland many dangers and many evils.
h - Be witnesses of mercy. Today you must
be above all a great and extraordinary sign of divine mercy
Let your heart be similar to that of Jesus: good, patient, meek,
humble and merciful. You will always then give the light of divine
love, and you will lead all along the road of salvation.
i Never judge. Condemn no one. Your duty is only
that of saving, with the supernatural force of your prayer, of your
suffering and of your immolation.
j The miracle of the merciful love of Jesus is
about to be accomplished in your time. In this consists the triumph
of my Immaculate Heart: in the greatest triumph of the merciful love
of Jesus, which will change the whole world and bring you to a new
era of love, of holiness and of peace.
k From this cenacle I bless you all: my Movement,
your homeland. the Church and all humanity."
393
Dongo (Como, Italy); November 12, 1988
St. Josanhat. Martyr
You Will Be Persecuted
a "Beloved sons, because this is your hour,
you are being called more and more to suffer. Jesus is inviting you
to follow Him along the way of Calvary. I see how great the cross is
which you must carry today, and I am close to each one of you, with
my motherly tenderness!
b Do not allow yourselves to be seized with
distress. My Adversary often wounds you, making use of good
persons and persons whom you have also helped in many ways. Sometimes
he makes use of your very own confreres. The times which I have
foretold to you have come, when those priests who venerate me, listen
to me and follow me are being derided, scorned and opposed by other
priests, who are nonetheless sons of my maternal predilection.
c You are therefore being called to enter into the
Garden of Gethsemane, with Jesus your Brother, who wants to relive in
you the sorrowful hours of his interior agony. You too, then, taste
the bitterness of his chalice and repeat, together with Him, with
filial abandonment: `Father, not our but your Will be done.' (Lk
22:42)
d Prepare yourselves to experience the
indescribable suffering of being abandoned by the most trustworthy,
mocked by confreres, set aside by superiors, opposed by friends,
persecuted by those who have accepted a compromise with the world and
have associated themselves with the secret cohort of Masonry.
e - Do not allow yourselves to be seized with
discouragement. These are the times for courage and witness. Your
voice must proclaim, in an ever more powerful manner, the word of the
Gospel and all the truths of the Catholic faith. You must unmask
every error whatsoever, overcome subtle snares, reject every
compromise with the spirit of the world and give to all an example of
your fidelity to Christ and to his Church.
f The times have come when Jesus Crucified must be
loved and glorified by you. Bring Him always with you, and show Him
to all as the only Savior and Redeemer. For this perverse generation
of yours as well, there is no other possibility of salvation except
in Christ Jesus Crucified.
g - Do not allow yourselves to be seized with
fear. The time of your immolation has now come. You will be
persecuted. It will even be that those who oppose you, who
calumniate you, who despise you, who push you aside and who persecute
you will believe that they are doing something pleasing to the
Heavenly Father and even to me, your Immaculate Mother.
h This forms part of the tenebrous time in which
you are living. Because you are now entering into the most painful
and dark phase of the purification, and soon the Church will be
shaken by a terrible persecution, a new persecution, such as has
hitherto been unknown.
i Live in prayer. Live in trust. Live the precious
hour of your priestly immolation with me, your tender Mother, who has
received you all into the garden of her Immaculate Heart, to offer
you to the Heavenly Father as victims, pleasing to Him, for the
salvation of the world."
394
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); December 8, 1988
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
A Sign of Hope and of Consolation
a "Today look, one and all, at me, your
Immaculate Mother. Join yourselves to the bands of angels and of
saints in heaven, to all the souls who are suffering and praying in
purgatory, to the pilgrim Church on earth, which is journeying
through the desert of this world and time, in order to contemplate me
as a sign of hope and of consolation.
b The exemption from every stain of sin,
even the original one, has made it possible for my soul to be
completely filled with the life of God, for my mind to be filled to
overflowing with the Spirit of Wisdom who has opened me to a
comprehension of the divine word, for my Heart to be molded into the
most perfect form of love, for my body to be enwrapped in the
immaculate light of a virginal purity.
c Gaze upon me, your heavenly Mother, in the
splendor of my superhuman beauty, and hasten along, one and all, in
the wake of the exquisite wave of this fragrance of mine from
paradise. It is in my beauty that the profound reason for your hope
and your consolation is found.
d Because I am `all beautiful'- tota pulchra - I
am for you sign of hope in the days in which you are living,
when my Adversary has succeeded in making everything ugly, through
the stain of sin and of impurity. You are living under the sign of
his great bondage, which is depriving you of the reflection of all
spiritual beauty. Souls are being darkened by sins, which prevent the
glory of life and of union with God from reaching them. Bodies are
being brutalized by the takeover of the passions and of impurity. Man
is being crushed under the weight of a civilization without God,
which disfigures in him the image of his original dignity. The world
is being darkened by a persistent rejection of God. A dense darkness
has now descended to obscure everything.
e And so it is then that the Immaculate Mother, at
this time presenting herself as the sign of your sure hope. Because
it is my motherly duty to bring souls back to grace, hearts back to
love, bodies back to purity, people back to the great dignity of
children of God, the world back to the perfect glorification of the
Most Holy Trinity.
f Because I am `all beautiful'- tota pulchra I am
for you also a sign of consolation. You are living in the time
of the great tribulation, and sufferings and trials are increasing
for everyone. The wicked are continuing with obstinacy along the road
of evil and of sin, without accepting my repeated urgings to
conversion and to a return to the Lord.
g The good are becoming tepid and, as it were,
paralyzed by the unhealthy surroundings in which they live.
Consecrated persons are given to the search for pleasure and are
being attracted by the spirit of the world which, by their vocation,
they had rejected. Priests are languishing; many are wicked and
unfaithful and are squandering the treasures of the holy Church of
God.
h The hour of the chastisement as of now has
arrived. And so, you have more need than ever of entrusting
yourselves to me, your heavenly Mother, because I have the task from
the Lord of leading you all along the road of goodness, of salvation
and of peace.
i Today I call upon you all to look at me, your
Immaculate Mother, as a sign of sure hope and of consolation, and to
allow yourselves to be enfolded in my light, in these days of
profound darkness and universal obscurity so that, led and guided by
me, you may go to all places in order to illumine the earth."
395
Dongo (Como, Italy); December 24, 1988
The Holy Night
In the Night o f Your Time
a "Keep watch with me, beloved sons, during
these hours of waiting. This is the holy night. Share, you also, in
the joy of my motherly Heart. My divine Child, the Awaited of the
ages, the Only-begotten of the Father, the Emmanuel, the God-with-us,
is about to be born.
b I want to bring you into the depths of my
Immaculate Heart, to share with you also, my little children, the
feelings which I experienced, during the hours which preceded the
birth of my Son Jesus.
c My soul was immersed in an ocean of peace
and of blessedness. The presence of the Word who, for nine months,
had been pulsating in his human body which was formed in my virginal
womb, had filled my soul with the light and happiness of all
paradise. There the Most Holy Trinity had made its habitual dwelling;
the choirs of angels were prostrating themselves in perpetual
adoration and interweaving sweetest harmonies of heavenly songs. The
very light of God was transfiguring my soul, which became a most pure
reflection of his divine beauty. Thus I was preparing a precious and
holy crib in which to place the Light which was about to rise in the
midst of an immense darkness.
d My Heart was opening itself to an
experience of a love so great such as has not been granted to any
other creature. What sentiments of ineffable love my Heart was
experiencing in feel that the awaited moment of the birth of my
divine Child had now come! My motherly love was made even more
perfect by my virginal state and the consciousness that the Child
about to be born of me was the Son of God.
e Thus, in the moment which preceded his birth, my
heart was filled to overflowing with the love of all those who had
awaited Him for centuries. The love of Adam, of Abraham, of Moses, of
all the prophets and the just ones of Israel, of the little ones and
of the poor of Yahweh was becoming present in my virginal Heart,
which was opening itself to love the Child, who was about to be born,
with the heartbeat of all humanity redeemed and saved by Him.
f My body was enwrapped in a light which
was becoming stronger and stronger and more intense, the more I
entered into ecstasy of prayer and of profound union with the
Heavenly Father.
g On this night, paradise was completely contained
within a poor and cold cave. As a ray of light passes through a
crystal without even grazing it, so too the divine Child passed
through the veil of my virginal womb without grazing the charm of my
perfect virginity. In this wonderful manner there took place the
birth of my Son. The greatest of all prodigies is accomplished in the
fullness of time.
h Beloved children, the Lord who has come in his
first birth is about to return to you in glory. His second and
glorious birth is close at hand. And so, in the night of your
time, it is my maternal duty to prepare you to receive Him, as I
received Him in his first coming.
i Let your soul be illuminated by the light
of divine grace and by his continual presence within you.
j Let your heart be opened to a new and
greater capacity for love. Love must burn within you as a fire so
powerful that it envelops the whole world and burns away whatever
there is in it of sin, of evil, of egoism, of hatred, of impurity.
k Let your body be enwrapped in the mantle
of holiness and of purity. Shine once again with the whiteness of
lilies. Spread about you once again my virginal and immaculate
fragrance.
l And so, in the night of your time, enwrapped
in the light of my Immaculate Heart, you too prepare a precious crib
for his glorious return."
396
Dongo (Como, Italy); December 31, 1988
Last Night of the Year
Mother of Intercession and of Reparation
a "Gather together in prayer with me, beloved
children, at the end of this year which has been particularly
dedicated to me. I am your heavenly Mother.
b I am the Mother of Intercession and of
Reparation.
c - My maternal task is that of
interceding each day for you, before my Son Jesus. As an
attentive and concerned Mother, I am asking for all the graces that
you have need of in order to walk along the road of goodness, of love
and of holiness.
d For my sinful children, I obtain the
grace of repentance, of a change of heart, of return to the Lord. For
my sick children, I grant the grace of understanding the meaning of
every suffering, of accepting it with docility, of offering it with
love, of carrying one's own cross with trust and with filial
obedience to the Will of the Lord. For my good children, I obtain the
gift of perseverance in good. For my priest-sons, I intercede that
they may be holy ministers and faithful to Jesus and to his Gospel.
e Each new day that opens out corresponds to a new
act of prayer on the part of your heavenly Mother, to help you to
walk forward, in the desert of your time, along the road of love and
of the faithful fulfillment of the Will of God, which must be
accomplished by you with filial docility.
f - My maternal task is also that of
offering reparation for the great evil which, still today, is
being committed in the world. I unite myself with each Holy Mass
which is celebrated, to offer to the Heavenly Father the precious
blood of his Son Jesus, who is still immolating and sacrificing
Himself for you on every altar of the earth. It is only his divine
blood, shed for you, that can wash away all the evil, the sin, the
hatred, the impurity, the iniquity that covers the world. Thus, in a
spirit of maternal reparation, I unite to the blood of Christ all the
sufferings which I gather together, each day, along your pathway.
g I unite to the blood of Jesus, the blood poured
out by millions of babies still being killed in their mothers' wombs
and of all the victims of hatred, of violence and of wars.
h I unite to the blood of Jesus, all the
sufferings of the sick, especially those who are stricken with grave,
humiliating and incurable maladies.
i I unite to the blood of Jesus, the agonies of
the dying, the sufferings of the poor, of the marginalized, of the
little, of the exploited, of the persecuted.
j I unite to the blood of Jesus, each suffering of
the good, of those consecrated, of the priests.
k I unite to the blood of Jesus, the great
cross which the Church must carry today for the salvation of all
humanity.
l At the close of this year, which has been
particularly entrusted to me, I want to associate you also in my
maternal task of interceding and of making reparation for all my
children.
m And even so, in the darkness and the coldness
which still surrounds the world, I urge you to live in hope and in
great trust, because I am ever praying and making reparation in order
to obtain, for all, new days of peace and salvation."
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