Jesus says:
“Many, to draw forth a lesson, need a thousand books of meditation. But it’s not that way. My Gospel is enough, and the life that you live and that is being lived around you.
“Look, Maria, at the teaching of these days.107 What do you see? A great demonstration of human weakness. With the same facility with which they got worked up in professions of deceitful faith, so they now deny all that was previously asserted.
“But the true Christian must not act this way when there is a need to witness to his or her faith. Have you seen what your Master did before Caiaphas? I knew that to confess that I was the Messiah, the Son of God, would provoke condemnation, the most ferocious condemnation. But I did not hesitate. I, who before the accusers observed the rule of silence, was here able to speak up loud and clear, for to be silent would have been a sacrilegious denial.
“When the things of heaven are at stake, one must not hesitate in one’s way of acting, for the fruit deriving from our words is eternal. Man, a being of flesh and blood, would be unable to be courageous in the face of certain heroic confessions. And it is for this reason that man denies with facility. But the creature who lives in the spirit possesses the courage of the spirit, for I am alongside those combating against the world and against their own weakness.
“And with Me is Mary, the Mother of all, the Help of all. It is She that has smiled at the martyrs to encourage them towards Heaven. It is She that has smiled at the virgins to help them in their angelic vocation. It is She that has smiled at the blameworthy to draw them towards repentance. It is She that man always needs, especially in the hours of most intense anguish.
“It is on the Mother’s breast that you are fortified and find Me and my Forgiveness, and with Forgiveness, strength. For if you are in Me, you possess the gifts of Christ and do not experience death.”
107 As in the previous dictation of July 24.