Jesus says:
“May the gift I have given you never induce pride in you by leading you to believe what is not so about yourself.
“You are nothing but a spokesman and a channel in which the wave of my Voice flows, but as I take you, I could take any other soul. Just taking it would make it capable of being a channel and spokesman of the Voice of Christ, for my touch works a miracle. But you are nothing. Nothing more than someone in love.
“My spokesmen are found either among the pure or among sinners who are really converted.
“Look at the core group of apostles. Who did I give power to? To Peter. The man who had come to Me at the culmination of his manhood after experiencing the escapades and passions of youth and maturity, the man who was still so much a man, after three years of contact with Me, that he became a denier and violent.
“Who did I give revelation and Revelation to? To John, to the flesh that did not know woman, and to the one who was a priest even before being one. He was pure and in love.
“Who did I allow to touch my most pure and divine members before and after the resurrection? Mary Magdalene, and not Martha.
“Peter and Mary, the converts. John, the pure one. It is always that way.
“But to Peter, in whom the pride of self lay hidden - ‘Master, even if everyone else betrays You, I will not betray you’ - I did not give what I gave to John. And Peter, a mature man and the head of the core group, had to ask John - a boy in comparison to him - to ask Me who the traitor was. And it was to John that I revealed the last times - not to Peter, the head of my Church.
“I speak where I want to. I speak to whomever I want to. I speak the way I want to. I have no limitations.
“The only limitation, which does not limit Me, but blocks the coming of my Word, is pride and sin. That is why my Word, which ought to spread out over all Creation from the depths of the Heavens and instruct the hearts of those marked with my sign, finds so few channels in all classes of people. The world - Catholic, Christian, or of other faiths - is moved by two motors: pride and sin. How can my Word enter into this arid mechanism? It would be crushed and offended by it.
“Be Johns and Marys, and you shall become the voice of the Voice. Root out sin and pride. Cultivate charity, humility, purity, faith, and repentance. are the plants under which the Master takes his seat to instruct his sheep.
“To be my spokesman means to enter into an austerity that no monastic rule imposes. My Presence imposes supernatural reservedness, self-mastery, detachment from things, spiritual ardor, rugged penance, generosity in pain, and lively faith as does nothing else in the world.
“It is a gift. But it is taken away if the one to whom it is given departs from the spirit and remembers that he is flesh and blood.
“It is suffering. But if it is suffering which crushes flesh and blood, it possesses in itself and with itself a vein of such sweetness that the manna of the ancient Hebrews is bitter wormwood in comparison to it.
“It is a glory. But it is not the glory of this earth.”