Jesus says:
“Do you know why I chose you? Because you are indigent - and you are convinced you are - and because you are animated by love.
“I go in search of humility and love to deposit my words and my graces and to make my acts of mercy shine forth, for the world always needs proofs of mercy to conserve a minimum of love and faith in Me.
“If the historical formation of my Church and the spread of Christianity around the world had yielded the fruits for which the first blossoming gave cause for hope, nothing more would have been needed.
“I had given those believing in Me all they needed to grow and grow in Faith and in my Doctrine. And I had given this in a perfect form, as only I, the Most Perfect, could give it. Now it has happened not that what I have given you has lost its efficacy, but that the capacity for understanding has diminished in you. It has diminished because you have dimmed your spiritual sight with the smoke of acts of human pride, your spiritual hearing with the sound of too many human words, your spiritual taste with the savor of so much corruption, your spiritual touch with the abuse of too many carnal contacts, your spiritual smell with your perversion, which spurs you to prefer what is putrid to what is pure. It has dimmed because you have crushed your spirits under the stones of sense, flesh, pride, and evil in a thousand forms.
“Like a rivulet destined to water the flowers of your souls, I had made my Doctrine issue forth from the Heavens - or, better, from my Heart, which loves you. But you have hurled stones and debris into it, splitting it up into thousands and thousands of strands of water which have eventually been lost without benefit to you, Christians who have more or less denied Christ.
“Evident heresies have even obliterated many veins which, starting from my Heart, descended to nourish the organism of the One, Catholic, Roman, Universal Church, and a great part of the organism has turned into a paralyzed member, dead to life, destined to bear gangrenous cells.
“But small individual heresies - and how many of them! - are scattered through the core of Catholics. And they are the most pernicious and most highly condemned ones. For - reflect carefully - if at a distance of years and centuries the Protestants of whatever church, the Orthodox, and the orientals, who follow faithfully what their forebears have left them as the true Faith, are to some extent condemnable, those living under the sign of the Church of Rome who create for themselves the private heresy of their sensuality in the senses, mind, and heart are unforgivable.
“How many compromises with Evil! How many! Which I see and condemn.
“Ninety per cent of Catholics are concerned about everything - about everything except life in and for my Faith. And then I intervene. I intervene with direct teaching, with its lights and its flames, which takes the place of so many pulpits which are too cold and too dark. I intervene to be the Master, in the place of masters who prefer cultivating their material interests to the spiritual interests which are yours and, above all, mine. For I have entrusted to them the living talents that you are, souls I have bought with my Blood, the vineyards and granaries of Christ the Redeemer, not so they would leave them idle and untilled, but so that they would consume themselves in making them produce a yield and fructify.
“Well then, Maria. You know who the most backward ones are in accepting this aid which I give to make up for the damage done by the spiritual starvation on account of which you Catholics die? They are precisely my priests. The poor souls scattered through the Catholic laity with devotion welcome this bread, which I break for the multitudes dispersed in the desert, for I have pity on these, who are fainting. But the doctors of doctrine do not.
“It’s logical, moreover. As it was twenty centuries ago, my Word, which caresses you, poor souls, is a reproach for them, who have let you grow poor. And the reproach always weighs heavy, even if it is just. But now, as twenty centuries ago, I can only repeat to them, ‘Woe to you, doctors of the Law, who have usurped the key to science and have not entered and have placed impediments for those who were entering.’
“Those who have not entered - because you have blocked the way with your pettiness and scandalized hearts, that looked to you as masters, since they have seen you to be more indifferent than they themselves to the eternal Truths - will be judged with mercy.
“But you, you that have preferred money, honors, comforts, and gain for your relatives to the mission of being ‘masters’ in the name of and to continue the teaching Christ; you that are so severe to your brothers and sisters, demanding that they give what you do not give and yield fruit which you have not sown in them, while you are so indulgent towards yourselves; you that do not believe in my manifestations, provoked, at bottom, by you, for it is to make up for the ruins provoked by you that I come to instruct hearts dispersed around the world, and you observe that the more the times are laden with heresies, even inside my Church, the more I come; you that deride and persecute my spokesmen and insult them, calling them ‘mad’ and ‘obsessed,’ as your distant forebears called Me- you shall be treated with severity.
“Purify with the fire of love and penance the senses of your souls, and you will hear, see, taste, smell, and feel Me in the words which I speak to the humble and which I silence for you proud ones, for only those with a child’s heart will enter into my Kingdom, and only to the little ones do I reveal the secrets of the King, for the greatest among you Catholics is not the one who wears the robe of authority, but those who come to Me with a pure heart, trusting as children, loving as babes towards the mothers nourishing them.
“Blessed are the small. I will make them great in Heaven!”