Jesus says:
“All of you would like Me to come and display Myself to terrorize and annihilate the blameworthy. O wretched ones! You don’t know what you are asking for!28
“Unfortunately, I will come. I say, ‘Unfortunately’ because my coming will be one of Judgment, and tremendous judgment. If I were to come to save you, I would not speak like this and would not seek to put off the times of my coming, but, on the contrary, would anxiously rush to save you still. But my second advent will be an advent of severe, inexorable, general Judgment, and for most of you it will be a judgment of condemnation.
“You do not know what you are asking for. But even if I showed Myself, where is there in hearts - and especially in those mainly to blame for the present catastrophes - that residue of faith and respect which would make them bend down, with their faces to the ground, to ask Me for mercy and forgiveness? No, sons and daughters who ask the Father for vengeance when He is the Father of forgiveness! Even if my Face flared out in your skies and my Voice, which made the worlds, thundered from east to west, things would not change. But a new blasphemous chorus of insults, a new tumult of affronts would merely be hurled against my Person.
“I repeat: I could work a miracle, and I would do so if I knew that you would afterwards repent and become better. You, the major wrongdoers, who bring the small ones to despair and ask for vengeance, and you, the minor wrongdoers, who ask for vengeance. But neither you major culprits nor you minor ones would repent, and you would not become better after the miracle. Indeed, in a fury of blameworthy joy, you would trample on the bodies of the punished, at once deserving censure in my sight, and get on top of them so as to oppress, in turn, from that throne founded on a punishment.
“You would like this. For Me to strike in order for you, in turn, to strike. I am God and I see in men’s hearts, and I thus do not listen to you in this regard. I don’t want you all to be damned. Those mainly to blame are already judged. But I am attempting to save you. And this hour, for you, is the sieve of salvation. Those who already have the devil’s darnel in them will fall into the power of the Prince of the devils, whereas those who have in their hearts the wheat germinating the eternal Bread will spring up into eternal life in Me.”
Mary, who have taken us as your children at the foot of the Cross; Mary, who are our Mother and the Mother of our God and Brother Jesus, listen to the voice of your children.
It is this: we drag ourselves to the foot of the Cross, where your Son is agonizing and where You, too, are agonizing, with your Heart torn apart - O Mother seeing your Child die. Look at us, Mary. We are all sprinkled with the Blood of your Son. He died for us, to give us Life and Peace in this world and the other. And we turn to You - who were the foundation stone of our redemption - to receive life, salvation, and peace, which we have forfeited through our way of living opposed and rebellious to the doctrine of your Son.
Yes, we know we have deserved the scourge which is now striking us. We humbly acknowledge it so as to resemble You, who were the Most Humble One, as well as the Purest One. But, O Mother, in addition to being pure, You are merciful. So have mercy on us, Mary, who brought into the world Mercy itself!
Save us, save us, O Mary, from the enemy’s rage!
Save our churches and our homes, the churches and the homes of this city,29 which recognizes You as its Queen and Patroness.
Save our men, those men whom You, Star of the Sea, so often saved from mishaps at sea.
Save all of us, bowing at your feet; save those whom infirmity keeps from being here with us, but who are present with their souls and their suffering.
Also save those who are absent by their obstinate will, the wayward children, the greatest unfortunates, for they have lost the Light, the Way, and the Life in losing your Son, authentic Truth.
And in order to penetrate with our prayer into your merciful Heart, O Mary, here we are, stripping ourselves of rancor, of the spirit of revenge, of the thirst to be cruel as others are with us. In this hour we remember that we are all created by the Father, that we are all brethren of the Son, that we are all loved by the Spirit. In this hour we remember the prayer of your Jesus, a Martyr for our sake - “Father, forgive them” - and we repeat it for all, over all, so as to be forgiven, in turn, by God and saved by You.
Hail, Mary! From your pierced Heart send down upon us the grace of salvation for this city, for our country, for the whole world, which is dying amidst the ruins after having lost sight of Heaven.
Holy Mary, pray for us. And if the will of God should have to be fulfilled in us by the shedding of blood, be at our side at the hour of death to take us with You, Mary,30 to see You and thank You, in the midst of the eternal splendors of God. Amen.
28 In the dictation of June 3.
29 Viareggio. See August 15.
30 The prayer ended here. The writer later erased “Mary” and added the words which follow, specifying, in a pencil annotation, that there were “added words,” except for “Amen.”