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(Begun at the Moment of Communion)
Jesus says:
“The archangel Michael, whom you invoke in the Confiteor - but, according to your habit, with your souls absent, too absent - was present at my death on the cross. The seven great archangels who perennially remain before the throne of God were all present at my Sacrifice.
“And do not say that this contradicts my saying, ‘Heaven was closed.’ The Father, I repeat,162 was absent, distant, at the moment in which the Great Victim accomplished the Immolation for the salvation of the world.
“If the Father had been with Me, the Sacrifice would not have been total. It would only have been the sacrifice of the Flesh condemned to death. But I had to accomplish the total holocaust. None of the three faces of man - carnal, moral, and spiritual - was to be excluded from the sacrifice, because I was immolated for all sins, and not only for the sins of sense. Now, then, it is understandable that my moral and spiritual aspects also had to be crushed, annihilated, under the millstone of the tremendous Sacrifice. And it is also comprehensible that my Spirit would not have suffered if it had been fused with that of the Father.
“But I was alone. Raised up, not materially, but supernaturally, to such a distance from the Earth that no more comfort could come to Me from it. Isolated from all human comfort. Raised up on my gibbet, I had borne thereupon the immeasurable weight of the sins of all mankind during past and future millennia, and that weight crushed Me more than the Cross, dragged with such fatigue by a body that was already in agony over the steep, sultry, stony streets of Jerusalem, amidst the jokes and hard shoves of a furious mob.
“On the Cross I remained with my total suffering in tortured flesh and my supersuffering in a spirit prostrated by a heap of sins which no divine aid rendered bearable. I was shipwrecked in the midst of a stormy ocean and had to die that way. My Heart burst under the anguish of this weight and this abandonment.
“My Mother was close to Me. She really was. The Two of Us, the Martyrs, were enveloped in the torment and abandonment. And to see one another was torture added to torture. For every shudder of mine lacerated the fibers of my Mother, and every moan of hers was a new scourge upon my scourged flesh and a new nail driven not into my palms, but into my Heart. We were at once united and divided so as to suffer more, and, above us, the Heavens were closed over the Father’s anger and so far away...
“But the archangels were present at the Immolation of the Son of God for the salvation of man and at the Torture of the Virgin Mother. And if it is stated in the Apocalypse that in the last times an Angel will make the offering of the holiest incense to the throne of God, before sprinkling the first fire of divine wrath upon the Earth, how can you fail to think that among the prayers of the saints - enduring incense, worthy of the Most High - first of all are the tears, more prayerful than any word, of my blessed Holy One, my most sweet Martyr, my Mother, gathered in by the angel who bore the announcement and who received the consent, the angelic witness to the supernatural nuptials whereby the Divine Nature contracted a bond with human nature, attracted flesh to its heights, and lowered its Spirit to become flesh for the sake of peace between man and God?
“Gabriel and his heavenly companions, bending over the pain of Jesus and Mary, prevented from relieving it - for it was the hour of Justice - but not absent from it, in their intellects of light gathered in all the details of that hour - all of them - to set them forth, when time no longer exists, in the sight of the resurrected: joy of the blessed and condemnation of the reprobates, a foretaste for the former and the latter of what will be given by Me, the supreme Judge and most high King.”
Jesus began to speak while I was saying the Confiteor, and my mind saw Gabriel, golden light, bending in adoration of the Cross, I think. But I did not see the Cross.
In addition, today, while carefully leafing through the typewritten pages to correct the smallest errors in transcription, so that there will not be blunders which alter the thought, I found my comment, dated May 31, on the destruction of Jerusalem... I remember the impression I got that day on reading St. Luke 21:20-24. I said that day, “I understood that there is a reference to all of us. I did not see clearly. But I was left under the painful impression.” Today I reread St. Luke, and it seems to me, unfortunately, that the passage correctly fits our unhappy circumstances...
Jesus is speaking to me today about seven archangels who always remain before the throne of God. Are they really there, or is it an allegorical number? I looked in the Bible, but I found nothing in this regard. This must be one of those “gaps” Jesus talks about on June 11.
162 In reference to the dictation of September 5.