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After Communion
Jesus says:
“First listen to what I say to you and then, out of obedience to Father,41 you shall copy the lesson on the consecrated.
“Maria, do you know why things are enlightened for you which are not at all reserved for you alone? Because you were not content with following Jesus as far as the Cenacle, but, following behind your Spouse in pain, you also entered the torture chamber. Great generosity, great charity, and great faithfulness are needed to do this, and I know how to reward these three greats.
“When I was arrested, apostles and disciples, who had been able to follow Me, swearing fidelity to Me until the breaking of the bread, fled. Only two followed Me. John, the loving one, and Peter, the impulsive one. But Peter, like all impulsive people, broke his impetus in the face of the first crag of hardship and fear and stopped at the gate. John, all love, defied everything and everyone and went in.
“There was more courage in John in that instant than in all the rest of his life. Afterwards, during his long apostolate, He was confirmed by the Holy Spirit and helped, in the early years, by my Mother, Teacher of fortitude and apostolate. In addition, He had been confirmed in faith by my Resurrection, by the first miracles, and by seeing my doctrine spread more and more.
“But that night He was alone. Against him he had a furious crowd; Satan was puffing out his doubts to carry away the others, especially those faithful, into the doubt which is the first step in denial. Against him he had the cowardice of his flesh, which felt the danger for the Master and which felt the same danger overflowing upon his followers.
“But John, love and purity, remained and entered behind his Master, his Spouse, his King. The King of pain, the Spouse of pain, the Master of pain.
“As long as a soul does not agree to be admitted into the ‘secret of pain’ which I, the Christ, tasted to the utmost, it cannot claim to know my doctrine in depth or receive illuminations exceeding the small illuminations granted to all.
“From my Brow crowned with thorns, from my pierced hands, from my perforated feet, and from my rent chest I emit rays of special light. But they go to those who cleave to my Wounds and my pain and find pain and wounds to be more beautiful than every other created thing.
“Stigmatization is not always bloody. But every soul in love with Me to the point of following Me into torture and the death that is life bears my stigmata in its heart, in its mind. My rays are weapons that wound and lights that illuminate. They are grace that enters and vivifies; they are grace that instructs and elevates.
“By my benignity I give to all, but I give infinitely to whoever gives himself to Me totally. And believe that in truth if the works of the just are written in the great Book which will be opened on the last day, the works of my loving ones reaching the point of holocaust, the works of the voluntary victims, in my likeness, for the redemption of their brothers and sisters, are written in my Heart and shall never be erased, forever and ever.
“Moreover, the fact that you cannot explain how the phenomenon occurs of seeing certain special things, reserved for you alone, and clearly illuminated, is only natural. Don’t even try to explain. You would say many words and you would say nothing. They are things that are accepted and not explained, not even to oneself. They are accepted with the simplicity of a child, with the simplicity of a dove.
“What the good Jesus tells one to give is given to one’s neighbor, and the rest is kept to oneself, as precious daisies enclosed in one’s heart, in an effort to merit many others with a life entirely immersed in charity, faithfulness, generosity, and purity”
Heard on June 10 and Copied Today, the 14th42
Jesus says:
“Pray, offer, and suffer a great deal for my priests. A lot of salt has become insipid, and souls suffer on this account, losing the savor of Me and my Doctrine.
“I have been telling you this for some time, but you do not want to hear this. And you do not want to write this. You draw back. I understand why. But others before you have spoken of it, by my inspiration, and they were saints. It is useless to want to close one’s eyes and ears so as not to see and not to hear. The truth cries out, even in silence. It cries out with deeds, which are the mightiest of words.
“Why don’t you repeat the prayer of Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi? At one time you always said it. Why don’t you offer part of your daily sufferings for all of the Priesthood. You pray and suffer for my Vicar. That’s fine. You pray and suffer for some consecrated men and women who entreat you or towards whom you have a special duty of gratitude. That’s fine. But it is not enough. And what do you do for the others? You have established an intention to suffer for the clergy on Wednesday. It is not enough. It is necessary for you to pray every day for my priests and offer part of your sufferings for this motive. Never grow weary of praying for them, who are the ones most responsible for the spiritual life of Catholics.
“If it suffices for a layman to do the work of ten so as not to cause scandal, my priests must do that of a hundred, a thousand. They should be like their Master in purity, charity, detachment from the things of the world, humility, and generosity. Instead, the same slackening of Christian life which is in the laity is in my priests and, in general, in all the persons consecrated by special vows. But I will speak to you about them later.43
“I am now speaking to you about priests, about those having the sublime honor of perpetuating my Sacrifice from the altar, of touching Me, of repeating my Gospel.
“They ought to be flames. They are instead smoke. They do wearily what they must do. They do not love one another and do not love you as shepherds who must be ready to give their entire selves, even to the point of sacrificing their lives, for their sheep. They come to my altar with their hearts full of earthly concerns. They consecrate Me with their minds elsewhere, and not even my Communion sets aflame in their spirits that charity which ought to be alive in all, but which in my priests ought to be extremely lively.
“When I think of the deacons and the priests of the Church in the catacombs and compare them to those of today, I feel infinite compassion for you, throngs who are left without, or with too little, food of my Word.
“Those deacons and priests had a whole malevolent society against them; they had the public authorities against them. Those deacons and priests had to carry out their ministry in the midst of a thousand hardships; the slightest act of imprudence could cause them to fall into the hands of tyrants and lead to death by torture. And yet how much faithfulness, love, chastity, and heroism existed in them! They consolidated the nascent Church with their blood and their love and made each of their hearts an altar.
“Now they shine in the heavenly Jerusalem like as many eternal altars upon which I, the Lamb, repose, taking delight in them, my intrepid confessors, the pure who were able to wash away the filth of paganism which had saturated them for years and years before their conversion to the Faith and which sprayed its slime even after their conversion, like an ocean of mire against indestructible cliffs.
“They had cleansed themselves in my Blood and had come to Me in white stoles covered with the ornament of their generous blood and their impetuous charity. They had no external robes or material signs of their priestly militancy. But they were Priests in spirit.
“Now there is the exterior of the robe, but their hearts are no longer mine.
“I have mercy on you, flocks without shepherds. This is why I still hold back my lightning bolts: because I have mercy. I know that much of what you are comes from not being supported.
“There are too few real priests who reach the breaking point to lavish themselves on their children! Never as now has it been necessary to ask the Master of the harvest to send true workers to his harvest, which is falling in ruins because the number of true tireless workers - upon whom my gaze rests with infinite, grateful blessings and love - is not sufficient.
“If only I could say to all my Priests, ‘Come, good and faithful servants - enter into the joy of your Lord!’
“Pray for the secular and conventual clergy.
“The day there were no more truly priestly priests in the world, the world would end in a horror that words cannot describe. The time of the ‘abomination of desolation’ would come. But with such a terrible violence that it would be a hell brought onto the earth.
“Pray and tell others to pray that all the salt will not become tasteless in all except in One, in the last Martyr who will be present for the last Mass, for until the last day my militant Church will exist and the Sacrifice will be carried out.
“The more true priests there are in the world when the times are fulfilled, the shorter and less cruel the time of the Antichrist and the final convulsions of the human race will be. For ‘the just’ about whom I speak when I preach the end of the world are the true priests, those truly consecrated in the convents scattered over the earth, the victim souls, an unknown array of martyrs that only my eye knows, while the world does not see them, and those who act with true purity of faith. But these latter are - even though unaware of it themselves - consecrated and victims.”
41 Father Migliorini.
42 See June 7.
43 In the dictation of June 15.