Jesus says:
“That I am with you is an act of my goodness. The desire of a God of love is this one: to be with his creatures, and when the creatures do not throw him out with their betrayal, God does not draw away. In certain cases, and because of a special correspondence by the soul, the closeness is more noticeable.
“But woe if the soul enjoying the blessing of the sensible presence of God were to fall into pride. It would immediately lose God because God is not where pride is. The greater the creature’s humility is, the more God descends into it. had God in herself, not only spiritually but as living Flesh, because She reached the summit of holy humility.
“But if God wishes to remain with his creatures, the creatures ought to wish to remain with God.
“There is too much straying by souls! They run after human interests; they scatter over the ways of human pleasure; they go off course, following after deceitful doctrines; they become blinded by too many mirages of human science. The evening of their lives arrives, and they find themselves so far from Me! Weary, nauseated, and corroded, they no longer have the strength to approach the Lord. It is indeed a great deal if there remains in them a residue of heavenly longings and memories of Faith which makes them hurl the cry of the lepers of old: ‘Jesus, have mercy on me.ì
“It is the saving cry, because my Name is never called out to no avail. I, whokeep watch, waiting to be called, hasten to anyone invoking Me, and for the sake of my Name, before whose sound the Heavens tremble with joy and the abysses with terror, I work the miracle.
“But, O cold-hearted and imprudent children, one should not come to Me only in the final hour. And do you know beforehand if you will have the time and the opportunity to call Me? And do you know if Satan, with final craftiness, will play the last trick on you to hide the approach of death from you, so as to make it catch you like a thief arriving unexpectedly?
“The world is full of sudden deaths. They are one of the products of your way of existing. have multipliedpleasure and death; you have multiplied knowledge and death.
“The former leads you to death, and not only you that sin, but also the children and children of your children, just as you expiate the sins of your fathers’ fathers, through the consequences of your lusts and your excesses.
“The latter leads you to death through your so-called ‘progress,’ quarters of which is the work of the teaching of Satan, because the results of your progress are the works and the means of refined destruction which you create, and the other quarter is provided by an excessive love of comfort, under which there is hidden, in addition to Epicureanism, the ancient pride as well of wanting to emulate God in velocity, flight, and in other things superior to man and poorly used by man. if Solomon found that whoever increases knowledge increases pain, and he found this then, what should be said now that you have reduced the world to a chaos of knowledge to which the bridle of the law of God and of charity is lacking?
“You would have had so much to study without racking your brains in harmful abstruse arguments or running after homicidal works. In my Universe there are immense pages in which the eye of man could- and I would have wanted it to be that way - read supernatural teachings and laws of beauty and goodness. created - I, the Triune God - this universe surrounding you, and I have not placed evil in it for you.
“Everything in the universe obeys a law of love towards God and towards man. But you learn nothing from the ordered course of the stars, from the succession of the seasons, and from the fructifying of the soil. The only ones who do not obey, you are the disorder of the Universe. And you pay for your disorder with continual ruins, in which you perish like maddened flocks down from a ravine into a roaring torrent.
“Wretched men who have dulled the spirit under sin, dulled to the point that it is no longer able to grasp the harmony of universal things, which sing all the praises of God the Creator and speak of Him, and obey Him with a love which I seek in man to no avail.
“Leave aside vain wandering after so much human knowledge, so many human hungers. And come to Me.
“My Cross is there for a reason, so very high above the world. Look at this cross, where a God immolates Himself for you and, if you have the insides of men, not beasts, govern yourselves in proportion to my love for you.
“I have not given you my life so that you would continue to lose yours. I have given it to you to give you Life. But you must want to have this eternal life and act accordingly and not imitate the most unclean animals by living in the slime.
“Remember you possess a spirit. Remember that the spirit is eternal. Remember that a God died for the sake of your spirit. You areso afraid of a malady which lasts a short while, and you do not fear the horror of damnation, whose torments are endless.
“Return to the way of Life, poor children. The One who loves you implores you.
“And to you, that listen and write, I will teach the safe way to come to Me so that you may teach it to your brothers and sisters.
“Imitate the Master in all things. This is the secret which saves. If He prays, pray. If He works, work. If He sacrifices Himself, engage in self-sacrifice. No disciple is more than his Master or different from his Master. And no child, if a good child, is unlike that child’s parent.
“Haven’t you ever noted the way children imitate their father in acts, words, and the manner of walking? They set their little feet in their father’s footsteps, and it seems to them that they become adults in doing so, for to imitate the father they love for them is to reach perfection.
“My Maria, do as those little ones do. Always do so. Follow in the footsteps of your Jesus. They are bloody footsteps, for your Jesus is wounded out of love for men. Out of love for them, bleed as well, from a thousand wounds. In heaven they will turn into jewels, for they will be as many witnesses to your charity, and charity is the gem of Heaven.
“Lead souls to Me. They are as cantankerous as kids. But if you attract them with sweetness, they will bend. To be sweet amidst so much bitterness, which one’s neighbor discharges continually, is a difficult thing. But one must filter everything through love for Me. is necessary to consider that for every soul that comes to Me my rejoicing is great and makes Me forget the forms of bitterness which man continually gives Me. One must consider that Justice is very angry and that more than ever it is necessary to be redeeming victims to placate it.
“I do not want you to follow Me with love alone. I want you to follow Me with pain, too. I suffered to save the world. The world needs suffering to be saved still.
“This doctrine, which the world does not want to know, is true. All means must be used to save humanity, which is dying. Hidden sacrifice and evident sweetness are two weapons to win this fight, for which I will reward you.
“Like your Lord, be heroic in charity, heroic in sacrifice, sweet in trials, sweet towards your brothers and sisters. You will then take on the face and the robe of your King; like a clear mirror, you will reflect my Face.
“One must be able to imitate Mary, who bore the Christ - the Salvation of the world - in the midst of the people.”
Also on October 13, in the Evening
Jesus says:
“I am speaking to you for everyone, to explain the loving relations between God and the soul.
“I am not called the ‘spouse’ of your souls through a vain manner of speaking. I have wedded you with the rite of pain and have given you my Blood as an endowment, for you are so poor, by yourselves, that you would have been a discredit to the King’s dwelling. Those who are stripped of all robes do not enter into the Kingdom of my Father. I have woven the nuptial garment for you and dyed it with divine purple to make it even more beautiful in the eyes of my Father; I have crowned you with my wreath, for those who reign wear a crown, and I have given you my scepter.
“Truly, I would have liked to give this to all souls, but numberless ones have disdained my gift. They have preferred the robes, crowns, and scepters of the earth, whose duration is so relative and whose efficacy is so empty compared to the laws of the spirit.
“I do not curse honors, riches, and glories. Isay only that they are not an end in themselves, but are means to conquer the true end: eternal life.One must use them, your mission as men entrusts them to you, with one’s heart and mind filled with God, making these unjust riches not a reason for ruin, but for victory.
“To be poor in spirit, to gain Heaven with unjust riches - these are two sentences which you little understand.
“Poor in spirit means not to be attached to what is earthly; it means to be free and unbound by what is a pompous robe, like humble pilgrims going towards the goal, enjoying the help which Providence dispenses. But not enjoying them with pride and avarice, but, rather, like the birds of the air, that contentedly peck up the grains which their Creator scatters for their little bodies and then sing with gratitude, so happy are they with the downy robe which protects them, and they seek no more, and they do not complain wrathfully if one day food is scarce and the water of the sky soaks nests and feathers, but they patiently hope in Him who cannot abandon them.
“Poor in spirit means to live where God has placed you, but with your soul detached from the things of the earth and concerned exclusively with conquering Heaven.
“How many kings, how many powerful ones in earthly wealth were ‘poor in spirit’ and conquered Heaven, using force to tame the human, which in them got stirred towards ephemeral glories, and how many poor of the earth are not such because, though not possessing wealth, they have longed for it with envy, and have often killed the spirit by selling themselves to Satan for a bag of money, for a robe of power, for a table always sumptuously laid which serves to form food for the worms of putrefaction in the tomb!
“To gain Heaven with unjust wealth means to practice charity of every kind in the glories of the earth.
“Matthew, the publican, was able to turn unjust wealth into a ladder to penetrate into Heaven. Mary,196 the sinner, by renouncing the artifices by which she made her flesh more seductive and using them for Christ’s poor, beginning with Christ Himself, was able to sanctify that sinful wealth. Over the centuries, a great number of Christians, who were only a few in comparison to the mass, have managed to make wealth and power their weapon for holiness. They are the ones who have understood Me. But there are so few of them!
“My robe, the robe I give you, is the one I have soaked in my Blood during the spiritual, moral, and physical agony extending from Gethsemane to Golgotha. My crown is the crown of thorns, and my scepter is the cross.
“But who wants these jewels of Christ? Only those who truly love Me. And I wed them by a rite of lofty charity. When earthly time is over, I will come in radiance for all of those who love Me, one by one, to introduce them into glory.
“I will come, Maria; I will come. For the present, it is the time of mutual desire. For, no matter how close to you I may be, even perceptibly, I am always like a lover roving around the walls preventing Him from getting through to his beloved. Your spirit peers through every fissure to see Me and hurls its cry of love. But the flesh keeps it imprisoned. Even if I force the flesh within - for I am the Master of the miracle - they are always fleeting, relative contacts.
“I cannot take you with Me. I would kill your flesh, and it still has a present and a future of usefulness to my cause. all your work has yet been done,197 and I alone know when I will halt the passing earthly hour for you.
“But then I will come. Oh, soul desiring to depart from the hostile earth, how beautiful Heaven will appear to you! And how inflamed Love’s embraces will seem to you, compared to the ones at present!
“You say that anxiety over the vicissitudes which, in these times of misfortune, could have disturbed the last days of your mother has ceased for you and that this introduces a vein of peace into your suffering as an orphan. But consider the time when you can say to yourself that every anxiety and every danger has ceased for you and nothing can separate you from your Lord any longer!
“Love by surpassing your strength, for I have loved you by a surpassing of measure.
“My Charity has washed and clothed you so as not to see your nakedness, over which there were many shadows of human dust. My Charity has arranged everything for your immortal good.
“In the eyes of the world it may seem that my hand has weighed upon you. But the world is a fool unable to see supernatural truths.
“You have always been loved by Me with a preferential love. Like a gardener who has created a new flower from a rough shrub until then devoid of corollas and covetous of it as if it were a treasure, I watched and watch over you. You told Me that I possess a jealous overbearance. It is what I do with the favorites whom I reserve for Myself alone.
“And if I have created a desert around you, it is because I have wanted to put you in a position where you have no other point of attraction except Heaven. There, in the other life, is everything you loved with such human force. Now you no longer have anything on earth and are like an imprisoned bird that looks at the sky, where his companions are free and happy, through the bars of his cage, and remains alongside the little door, waiting for it to be left ajar so as to take flight.
“I will come. Be sure of this. Even your present longing serves to adorn your diadem. Be constant and patient. Like a child knowing his mother is near, rest without anxiety on the love of your Jesus. He doesn’t lose sight of you, leave you, or forget you. He longs more than you do to pronounce the word which frees the spirit and introduces it into the Kingdom. After so much frost, after so much stripping, after so much weeping, I will come to give you my Sun, to dress you in eternal flowers, to dry all your tears.
“You, that have had a vision of the Light filling the Heavens,198 consider what it will be to enter into it, with your King taking you by the hand. If a crack barely half-opened upon that Kingdom of Light and scarcely discerned remains in you as a remembrance filling you with gladness, consider what it will be when the Light is your possession. Then, and no longer with the limitations of the present, I will live in you and you in Me, and, like the bride in the Canticle, you will be able to say that your Jesus is yours and you are his.
“For the time being call Me with all your affections. It does not matter that I am near. Ilove to hear Myself being called, and the more I am called, the quicker I come, for I am unable to resist the voice of love.
“Before the evening of age comes, I will come. I will not return, for it is you that have returned to Me and not I to you, whom I have never left. I will come. I was standing like a poor man in the shadow waiting for you to give Me your heart, open the door to Me, and have Me come into you as your King and Spouse. But now I will come. I will come for the wedding. The time of mortal betrothal is about to end, and the rite of the eternal marriage is about to begin.
“I still have a few finishing touches to give you, O my vine, to make you utterly beautiful in my eyes. Do not moan if the shears hurt. When it is time to prune, it is a sign that it is spring. in the springtime I will come, for it is the time of loves. The soul enters the spring when the mortal winter ceases for her and gladness in God’s garden begins.”
196 Mary Magdalene.
197 The monumental work on the life of the Lord still had to be given.
198 In the text of July 1.