Page 14 V's Jesus: "A heathen can also be virtuous. God, Who is just, will reward him for the good he has done. It will not be a complete reward, but I can tell you that between a guilty believer and an innocent heathen, God looks at the latter with less severity. If you know you are such, why do you not come to the True God? What is your name?" CRITIQUE: POEM OF THE MAN-GOD
MEDJUGORJE'S GOSPEL
Maria Valtorta, 1897-1961
Volume II
"Photinai!"
V's Jesus: "Well, tell me, Photinai, are you sorry that you cannot aspire to holiness because you are a heathen, as you say, or because you are in the haze of an old error, as I say?"
Photinai: "Yes I am sorry."
V's Jesus: "Well then, why do you not live at least as a virtuous heathen? Call your husband and come back here with him."
Photinai: "I have no husband."
V's Jesus: "You spoke the truth. You have no husband. You have had five men and you have one with you who is not your husband. Was that necessary? Also your religion condemns lewdness."
Comment: Photinai is an innocent heathen, with five husbands, without religion - [but] "Also your religion condemns lewdness."Page 15 V's Jesus: "I am the Saviour. I came here, although it was not necessary, because I knew that your soul was tired of wandering. You are disgusted with your food. . . I have come to give you a new food, which will remove your nausea and tiredness... Here are My disciples coming back with My food. I have already been fed by giving you the first crumbs of your redemption."
Page 17 "It is written that the Messiah is to be born of a virgin in Judah. Of whom and where were You born?"
V's Jesus: "In Bethlehem Ephrata, of Mary of the House of David, by means of a spiritual conception. I ask you to believe Me."
Jesus' beautiful voice is a declaration of triumphant joy in proclaiming His Mother's virginity.
Paqe 20 V's Jesus: "Nothing contaminates unless one wants to be contaminated."
Paqe 45 To V's Jesus: "It is true. You are really a great man. You know?"
V's Jesus: "Every man who wanted, could be as great as I am, if he were all one with God."
Page 49 V's Jesus: "Would you love Me? I am a Jew, too, and I am not a boy. Just imagine: I am a Master, something like a priest. That is the secret to love: to be good. Good children are angels. Angels have one fatherland only: Paradise. They have only one religion: the religion of the One God. They have only one Temple: the Heart of God."
F.J.L. Comment: This is surely proximate to heresy. It is defined catholic Dogma that "The God-man Jesus Christ is a high priest."Valtorta's dream: A tall shapely woman calls Ludius, who leaves Jesus saying: "My mother!" and shouts tp the woman: "I have a big friend. He is a Master!"
Valtorta's man-God is only "something like a priest." THIS is devil talk!!!
Page 51 Valtorta's dream: Jesus wets His finger with saliva, puts it into the little panting mouth, pressing it down the throat. The child writhes and becomes darker in the face. The mother cries: "Don't" .and she writhes as if she were pierced by a blade. The people are holding their breath. Jesus pulls His finger out with a mass of putrid membranes. The child writhes no longer, cries for a few seconds, then calms down and smiles innocently, shaking her hands and moving her lips like a little bird, that chirps flapping its little wings white waiting to be fed.
V's Jesus: "Take her, woman. Feed her. She is cured."
The mother is so bewildered that she takes the child and still kneeling in the dust she kisses and caresses her and breast-feeds her. A Roman asks Jesus: "How did You do that? I am the Proconsul's doctor: I am clever. I tried to remove the obstruction, but it was too far down!"
V's Jesus: "You are clever, but the True God is not with you. May He be blessed. Goodbye."
Page 78 V's John: "How thirsty You were, my Master! I foolishly, did not get any water."
V's Jesus: "It does not matter, John. It is all over" and He caresses him.
Page 81 V's Peter: "Lord, do You think that You will change him? Oh! what a wasted miracle! Let that little snake die! Also the old man will die broken-hearted. .. and there will be one less on Your way. . . God has seen to it."
V's Jesus: "Simon! To tell you the truth, you are now the snake."
Valtorta's dream: Jesus severely repels Peter, who lowers his head, and He goes on.
Page 88 V's Uriah: "You are saying that because You are poor, too."
V's Jesus: "No, Uriah. It is justice. Why has Rome been able to oppress us thus? Because we sinned and we are divided by hatred. The rich hate the poor, the poor hate the rich."
Page 94 Valtorta's dream: Jesus smiles, sits on the rustic mattress made of foliage picked in the wood. He bends and kisses the cheek of John, who opens his eyes and is dumbfounded at seeing Jesus. He sits up and says: "Do you need me? Here I am."
V's Jesus: "No. I woke you up as I did the others, but you thought it was your mother. So I kissed you, as mothers do."
John, half naked in his undertunic, because he used his tunic and mantle as bed covers, clasps Jesus' neck and lays his head between Jesus' shoulder and cheek saying: "Oh! You are more than a mother! I left her for You, but I would not leave You for her! She bore me to the earth. You are bearing me to Heaven."
Page 95 Valtorta's dream: John smiles and weeps, panting, inflamed by love, relaxing on Jesus' chest, as if he were exhausted by his ardour. Jesus caresses him, burning with love Himself.
V's Jesus: "Do not worry, John. No one will be aware of your wedding with the Love. Get dressed, come. We must leave."
Iscariot looks at Jesus with a shy smile, marked by tears. Jesus caresses him passing by.
Page 96 V's Jesus: "Come here, John, near Me, and you, too, Andrew, James of Zebedee, Simon, Bartholomew, Philip, My cousins, Matthew, Judas of Simon and Thomas, come here. Sit down. You have grown from children into adolescents and you are already aware that such a proclamation might humiliate a companion who was perhaps less helped by God, and therefore you do not speak. You are also like pubescent girls."
Page 97 V's Jesus: "You are the priests, who have been prepared by Me, the Eternal Pontiff, diligently and for a long time."
Page 110 Plautina: "Have You any children or grandchildren. Master?"
V's Jesus: "No, I have neither children nor grandchildren, but I love children as I love flowers. Because they are pure and without malice. Nay, give Me your little one, woman. It is such a great joy for Me to press a little angel to My heart."
Page 114 Valeria: "Master, tell me where the soul of my child is. I will kiss that spot like a shrine and I will worship it, because it is part of God."
V's Jesus: "The soul! It is like this light that little Fasuta wishes to grasp and cannot, because it is incorporeal, but it is there. You, I, your friends can see it. Likewise a soul can be seen in everything that differentiates man from animals. When your little one will tell you her first thoughts, you can say that such understanding is her soul, which is revealing itself. When she will love you not by instinct, but with her reason, consider that love is her soul. When she will grow beautiful beside you, not so much in her body as in virtue, consider that beauty is her soul. Do not worship her soul, but God created it, wishes every soul to be a throne for Him."
Comment: Does God sit on souls, since they are His throne?Valeria: "Where is this incorporeal and sublime thing: in one's heart? in one's brains?"
V's Jesus: "The soul is in the whole of man. It contains you and is contained within you."
Page 124 V's Mary: "Do not shake your head. Do you think that only he is pure who has never known sensuality? Do you think that a soul can never again become virgin and beautiful? My daughter, between the purity which is entirely a grace of the Lord and your heroic ascent to climb back to the summit of your lost purity, you must believe that yours is the greater. Can a little child, a few hours old, have carnal desires? Does he have any merit thereby? The same applies to Me. I do not know what that tragic hunger is that made mankind a victim. I know but the most holy hunger for God."
V's Mary: "0 Eternal Spirit, a little of You is always in Your Mary! Allow Her to pour forth Your Sanctifying Spirit on this creature who is weeping and hoping. For the sake of Our Son, God of Love, save this woman who is expecting salvation from God. May the Grace, with which the Angels said that God has filled Me, may that Grace by a miracle rest upon her and support her until Jesus, the Blessed Saviour, the Supreme Priest, absolves her in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Spirit. .."
Page 126 Valtorta's dream: I cannot see what lies to the west, because the mountain acts as a wall.
V's Peter: "My Lord* You left us just at the right moment. I have never been so afraid as I was just then. Don't play such a trick on me again!"
V's Jesus: "Did anything wrong happen to you?"
V's Peter: "No! On the contrary... Oh! Master! Don't You know that John gave a sermon?... It sounded as if You were speaking through him. I . . . we were all dumbfounded. . ."
Page 135 V's Jesus: "Let us not say: "Woe to me, if I do not do that!" trembling with fear of sinning, of not being able not to sin, but let us say: "How glad I will be if I do that!
Beatitudes: "How happy I will be if I am poor in spirit, because mine shall be the Kingdom of Heaven!
"How happy I will be if I am gentle because I shall have the earth for my heritage!"
Comment: Our Lord was born in a stable, lived and died in poverty. Valtorta's Jesus: beatitudes: "How happy I will be if I am gentle because I shall have the earth for my heritage'" I know the person speaking is Satan!"How happy I will be if I mourn without rebelling, because I will be comforted!
"How happy I will be if I hunger and thirst for justice more than I do for bread and wine to satisfy the flesh, because Justice will satisfy me!
"How happy I will be if I am merciful, because I will have divine mercy shown me!
"How happy I will be if I am pure in heart, because Cod will bend over my pure heart and I will see Him!
"How happy I will be if I am peaceful in spirit, because God will call me His son, because love is in peace and God is Love Who loves whoever is like Him!
"How happy I will be if I am persecuted in the cause of right, because God, my Father, to reward me for my earthly persecutions, will give me the Kingdom of Heaven!"
Page 132 V's Jesus: "I shall not ask an account and I will not punish those who perish through your laziness."
F.J.L. Comment: Valtorts has her "Jesus" speak in opposites: How can it be that a man who has perished cannot have been punished???Page 133 V's Jesus: "Goodness and love are the rarest virtues amongst men."
This alone is sufficient to demonstrate the "mental illness" spoken of by Cardinal Ratzinger.
Page 149 V's Jesus: "Do not swear by the head of your father or of your mother, or by the head of your wife or of your innocent children. You have no right to do so. Are they perhaps money or merchandise? Are they a signature on a document? They are more and they are less than such things. They are blood and flesh of your own blood, man, but they are also free creatures and you cannot use them as slaves to guarantee your false statements. They are less than your own signature, because you are intelligent, free and grown up, you are not interdicted, neither are you a child who does not know what he is doing and must be represented by his parents. Are fathers responsible for their children? Yes, they are, but only as long as they are under age. After, everybody is responsible for himself."
Page 156 V's Jesus: "You will keep your Passover, but without any trouble. You have already carried your cross, father. Put it down now. All you have to do is to concentrate in prayer thanking the good Lord."
Page 161 V's Jesus: "I have mighty friends among rich people and I have friends amongst the poor people of the earth. I solemnly tell you that the mighty ones are not the most loved. I go to them not for My own sake or profit, but because they can give Me much for those who have nothing. I am poor. I have nothing. I would like to have all the treasures in the world and change them into bread for those who are hungry, into homes for the homeless, into clothes for the naked and into medicines for the sick. Tomorrow, when I am no longer on the earth, there will still be poor people, but I shall not be there to work miracles for those who have faith, nor to give alms to lead to faith, but then My rich friends, who are in touch with Me, will have learned how to help, and My apostles, after their experience with Me, and have learned how to give alms out of love for their brothers. The poor will always receive assistance."
Page 184 "You really are the Bread of the spirit!"
V's Jesus: "Let it be done as you wish. Let us go and tell the pilgrims."
"Are you a scribe?"
V's Jesus: "I am."
"May the Lord take you where your heart deserves."
V's Jesus: "I understand what You mean but do not say. You mean: to the Truth. Because great are our errors. . . and our ill-will."
"Who are you?"
V's Jesus: "A son of God. Pray to the Father for me. Goodbye."
Page 185 V's Peter: "Master, why did You not come with us?"
V's Jesus: "I needed to pray."
V's Peter: "You also need to rest very badly."
V's Jesus: "My friends, during the night a voice came from Heaven asking for prayers for the good and the wicked and also for Myself."
V's Peter: "Why? Do You need it?"
V's Jesus: "As much as anybody. My strength is nourished with prayer and My joy with doing what My Father wants. My Father told Me the name of two people and a sorrow for Myself. I was praying for John, for the disciples and for Myself.. ."
Pages 195, 197 V's Jesus: "Coming here from Capernaum I was thinking what I should tell you and I found an indication in the events of this morning. The plough had turned the weeds upside down, it looked as if they were not there, but they were, because only fire, the radical destructor of weeds, prevents them from growing again."
Page 203 V's Jesus: "Peter is quite right."
Valtorta's dream: Peter's wife almost faints from joy on hearing her husband being praised thus. She weeps behind her veil: she is quiet but happy. Peter blushes so much that he seems to be having a stroke of apoplexy. He remains dumb for a few moments, then says: "Well, then, give me my reward. The parable of this morning."
Page 207 Valtorta's dream: John throws his arms round Jesus' neck and shouts: "I am afraid for You! Saints have their traitors who sell themselves for gold and for fear of the mighty ones, yearning for reward, obeying satan."
Page 208 Valtorta's dream: Dead silence follows John's report. Jesus looks bloodless. His deep blue eyes are dimmed. He is standing with his head bowed. His hand still on John's shoulder, and His hand is trembling lightly.
Page 213 Shepherd dares to ask: "You are the Messiah, are You not?"
V's Jesus: "Yes, I am. How do you know?"
Page 219 Valtorta's dream: The entire apostolic college is around Jesus.
Page 220 V's Jesus: "Christ did not come to save those who are already saved, but those who are lost... and you shall be 'Peter', or Rock, not Simon, for that purpose. Are you afraid of becoming contaminated? No I Not even this one, see (and He points at the very young John) will suffer any harm. Because he does not want, as you do not want, as your brother and John's brother do not want, as none of you, for the time being, wants. As long as one does not want, no harm is done, but one must not want resolutely and perseveringly. I, Who am the Christ, constantly pray to have strength against satan. Are you better than I am? Pride is the opening through which satan penetrates. Matthew, since you are familiar with this place, tell Me: is it better to go to the town this way, or is there another road?"
FJ.L. Comment Valtorta's "Jesus" says: "Christ did not come to save those who are already saved..."Page 240 V's Jesus: "My friendsl I am so anguished and disgusted. Do not increase My grief with your pettiness! Let Me seek some comfort in things which do not know how to hate..."
It is defined Catholic Dogma that "Fallen man cannot redeem himself."
The question then is: Who (apart from the BVM) were/are those who were/are "already saved" who had no need of Christ's 1) redemptive act, and 2) remained in a state of grace until their deaths?
Page 242 Valtorta's dream: When John stops speaking, slightly bent forward, he reminds me of the gracefulness of the Virgin Mary at the Annunciation in Nazareth.
V's Jesus kisses his forehead saying: "We shall go and contemplate the sea, to let you dream once again My future Kingdom in the world."
Page 264 Valtorta's dream: Jesus embraces James' shoulders with His arm to draw him closer to Himself.
Page 281 Valtorta's dream: The group has spent most of the Sabbath morning resting their tired bodies and cleaning their clothes.
Pages 283, 284, 285 V's Jesus: "One day, listen. She [Mary] told Me of when She was a little girl. She was not yet three years old because She was not yet in the Temple, and Her heart was full of love, emanating, like flowers and olives pressed and crushed in a mill. She wanted to be a virgin to please the Saviour more, but that She would have liked to be a sinner in order to be saved, and She almost wept, because Her mother could not understand Her and could not tell Her how it is possible to be "pure" and a sinner at the same time. Her father satisfied Her by bringing her a little sparrow, which he had saved when it was about to be drowned on the edge of a fountain. He explained the parable of the little bird, saying that God had saved her in advance and therefore She was to bless Him twice. The little Virgin of God, the Most Great Virgin Mary, practiced Her first spiritual maternity on behalf of the little bird, which She let free when it was strong enough. Because woman is created to be a mother and it is an aberration, if she is deaf to such sentiment, which is love of a second power."
V's Judas Thaddeus: "What do You mean. Master, by love of second power?"
V's Jesus: "There are many loves and various powers. There is the love of first power: the one given to God. Then there is the love of second power: the love of mother or of a father, because if the previous one is entirely spiritual, this one is spiritual by two parts and carnal by one. It is true that human affection is mixed in it, but the superior sentiment prevails, because afather and mother, who are such in a wholesome and holy way, do not only feed and caress the body of their child, but they give also nourishment and love to the mind and the spirit of their creature. What I am saying is so true, that those who devote themselves to children, even if only to educate them, end up by loving their pupils, as if they were of their own flesh.
"There is the love for one's wife: love of third power because it is made -- I am always talking of wholesome and holy loves -- half of spirit and half of flesh. A man, besides being the husband of his wife, is a teacher and a father to her: and a woman is an angel and mother to her husband, besides being his wife. These are the three highest loves.
"God is to be loved because He is God, so no explanation is required to convince one to have such love. He is He Who is, that is Everything; and man: Nothing, who participates of Everything, because of the soul infused in him by Eternal God.
"The love of man, and particularly of woman, for their offspring, is indicated as an order in the words of God to Adam and Eve, after He had blessed them, seeing that He had made a 'good thing', on a remote sixth day, the first sixth day of creation. Man loved woman and woman loved man, naturally, not naturally according to nature as we understand it, or rather, as you men understand it, but according to the nature of children of God: supernaturally. Sweet were the days of love of the Two who were brothers, because born of one Father, and yet were husband and wife. who loved and looked at each other with the innocent eyes of twins in a cradle; and man felt the love of a father for his wife 'bone from his bones and flesh from his flesh', what a son is for his father; and the woman experienced the joy of being a daughter, protected by a very high love, because she felt that she had herself something of the wonderful man who loved her, w!th innocence and angelical ardour, in the beautiful meadows of Eden!
"Later, in the sequence of commands that God, smiling, gave to Grace with an intelligence inferior only to God's, decreed speaking of his wife and of every woman through Eve, a decree of the thought of God, which was clearly reflected by the spotless mirror of Adam's spirit, a flower in thought and in word: 'Man will leave his father and his mother and will join himself to his wife and the will become one body.' "
Page 288 V's Judas: "Excuse me if I, a sinner, dare speak, but did Joachim and Anne know that She was the chosen Virgin?"
V's Jesus: "No they did not know."
V's Judas: "How could Joachim say that God had saved Her in advance? Does that not refer to Her privilege over sin?"
V's Jesus: "Joachim, as a Pontiff, consecrated Her with the sweetest title: Immaculate One'. The day will come when another grey haired Pontiff will say to the world: 'She is the Immaculate Conception' and will give this truth to the world of believers, as a dogma which cannot be refuted, so that the Most Beautiful Virgin of God, crowned with stars, clad with the rays of the moon, which are not so pure as She is, brighter than all stars, the Queen of Creation and of God, may shine, fully revealed, in the world which in those days will be sinking deeper and deeper in the grey fog of heresies and vices. Because. God-King has as His Queen, in His Kingdom, Mary."
Page 297 V's Mary: "What is your name?"
"Jabez, but I am expecting a new one."
V's Mary: " 'Marjiam'. You are the little star in the sea of those saved by Jesus. Do you like it? Thus it will remind you also of Me besides of Salvation."
V's Bartholomew: "Isn't it a woman's name?"
V's Mary: "When this tiny drop of Mankind is grown up, you can change his name into the name of a man. For the time being he has the name which his Mother has given him. Is that right?"
Page 309 V's Jesus: "Come here, you usurper and corrupter!"
V's Peter: "Me? Why? What have I done. Lord?"
V's Jesus: "You have corrupted My Mother." That is why you wanted to be alone. What shall I do with you?"
Jesus smiles. Peter recovers confidence. "You really frightened me! Now You are laughing."
Pages 327, 328, 329 V's Jesus: "Our Father, may Your Name be held holy. Your Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven. May Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts as we forgive those who are in debt to us. Do not put us to the test, but save us from the Evil One."
Page 335 V's Jesus to Plautina: "You do not sin against faith, because you believe that you are in the Truth. When you become acquainted with the Truth and you persist in your error, then you will commit sin. God is just. He cannot punish one who does the wrong thing, thinking that he is doing the right one. He punishes those, who being able to tell Good from Evil, choose the latter and persist in it."
Comment: Saul was knocked off of his high-horse, on his way to Damascus to arrest Jews who were followers of our Lord.V's Jesus: "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?"
V's Saul: "Who are you!"
V's Jesus: "I am Jesus of Nazareth!"
Our Lord could not be wrong in having Saul fall off his horse, because he did not know that he was persecuting Him!
Page 354 Marjiam, twelve years old, bends back his little dark-haired head, resting it on Mary's breast, and remains thus while Jesus blesses with the solemn Mosaic blessing.
Page 358 V's Mary to V's Jesus: "The good honest homes in Bethlehem were crowded with insensitive proud people, who are always arrogant, and are so also nowadays, and they could not perceive You."
Page 365 The apostles are getting ready to go, each with his favourite companion and only the inseparable couple of John and Andrew do not get together because they both go to the Iscariot saying: "I will come with you."
Paae 366 V's Jesus: "God is everything."
Page 409 "Oh! Lord! Don't send us alone. Please, come with us!" They beg.
V's Jesus: "Go, I said. Obedience will be of more help to you than My mute presence."
F.J.L. Comment: Incredible! A virtue is greater than its Creator!!!Page 420 Pharisees: "We the chosen ones in Israel, will never worship You, nor love You."
V's Jesus: "I do not compel you to love Me and I say to you: 'Worship God' because..."
Pharisee: "That is You, because You are God, are You not? We are not the horrible people of Galilee nor the foolish people of Judah who follow You forgetting our rabbis. . ."
V's Jesus: "Do not be upset, man. I am not asking for anything. I am fulfilling My mission. I teach people to love God and I repeat the Decalogue to them, because it has been forgotten, and what is worse, it is badly applied. I want to give Life. Eternal Life. I do not wish anybody a bodily death and much less a spiritual one. The Life in which I asked you whether you were interested, is the life of your soul, because I love your soul, even if your soul does not love Me. It grieves Me to see that you are killing it by offending the Lord and despising His Messiah."
Page 428 Jesus all alone, wanders far and wide in the town, a seeming nonentity amongst busy people who pay no attention to Him. Only two or three children look at Him curiously and a woman provokingly dressed comes resolutely towards Him smiling alluringly. Jesus looks at her so severely that she becomes purple, lowers her eyes and goes away.
Page 429 Jesus' tips tremble as if He were on the point of smiling, but He controls Himself.
V's Jesus: "You will give Me two things immediately: your promise that you will no longer commit such offences and that puppet.
"Who made this puppet?"
"I did. Lord..."
V's Jesus: "I will keep it as a souvenir and I will pray for you.
"What is your name?"
"Alexander. What will You give me?"
Valtorta's dream: Jesus is embarrassed. He always has so little!
Pages 430, 432 "Do You wish to make some purchases?"
V's Jesus: "No. I have no money. I have friends who love beautiful things and have money."
"I thought You were a rich man. Your manners and aspect are those of a lord."
V's Jesus: "Instead I am only a Galilean rabbi: Jesus, the Nazarene."
"We are in business and we are unprejudiced. Come and see."
V's Jesus: "You are clever. I am glad I have seen all this. I am glad that you are a good woman."
"How do You know?"
V's Jesus: "It is written on your face; the boy told Me about Dinah. May God reward you for it. Even if you do not believe it, you are very close to the Truth, because there is charity in you."
"Which truth?"
V's Jesus: "The Most High Lord. He who loves his neighbour and practises charity both towards his family and his subjects, and extends it to unhappy people, has already Religion in himself.
That is Dinah is it not?"
"Yes. Her mother is dying. Later, I will take her, but not for the looms. She is too young and too delicate. Dinah, come to this gentleman."
Valtorta's dream: The little girl, with the sad look of unhappy children approaches Jesus shyly.
V's Jesus caresses her and says: "Will you take Me to your mother? You would like her to be cured, would you not? Then, take Me to her. Goodbye, woman. Goodbye, Alexander. Be good."
He goes out holding the girl's hand. "Are you alone?" He asks her.
"I have three brothers."
Comment: A woman permits a little girl to be led away by a man she has never seen?When they arrive at the little girl's home. Jesus: "Your daughter believes that the Messiah could cure you. What about you?"
"O! I believe that, too. Where is the Messiah?"
V's Jesus: "It is I, Who am speaking to you." Jesus, Who was bending over the mattress whispering His word to the poor woman, stands up and shouts: "I want it. Be cured."
Valtorta's dream: The children are almost afraid of His majesty, and the three amazed faces remain around their mother's pallet.
Page 442 "Who are You?"
V's Jesus: "I am He who I am, in Heaven, on the earth."
Page 477 V's Lazarus: "Master."
V's Jesus: "I will go. Is it possible for you to tell Martha to come and meet Me at Capernaum in a fortnight's time, at most?"
V's Lazarus: "Yes, I can do that. What about me?"
V's Jesus: "You will stay here. I will send Martha here as well.
V's Lazarus: "Why?"
V's Jesus: "Because redemptions are deeply modest."
Lazarus weeps on Jesus' chest. Then, when he recovers, he tells of his anxiety, of his depression... "For almost a year I have been hoping and despairing. How long is the time taken by resurrection!"
Page 478 V's Jesus: "Do not mourn his death. He is in peace, and from his peace he prays for you, who made his last days happy. Where is he buried?"
V's Lazarus: "At the end of the orchard. Still close to his beehives."
Comment: Valtorta's Jesus asks many questions, because he is Satan, not our God!Page 479 "That is true. Master, but those women! What perfect disciples they arel"
Page 493 V's Jesus to V's Martha: "You are a little girl! Mary has Me and you. Can she possibly not succeed? However, take this. Give Me your hand, which has never sinned, and has always been kind, merciful, active and pious. It has always made gestures of love and prayer. It has never been lazy or idle or corrupt. Now, I will hold it between My hands to make it even holier."
Page 514 V's Jesus: "The sinner was dead. Mary [Magdalen] is reborn, as beautiful as a modest girl, through her deep sorrow and her righteous love. She washed herself in her tears. I solemnly tell you, o Pharisee, that between this young man [John] who loves Me in the purity of his youth, and that woman who loves Me in the sincerity of repentance of a heart reborn to Grace, I make no difference."
Page 515 V's Jesus: "Caesar is what he is because that is what God wants."
F.J.L. Comment: Heresy!!! All men have free will - including Caesar!V's Jesus: "I did not call her. She came. She was not a prostitute. She repented. That throws a different light on the matter. If they were not overcome with nausea beforehand, when they approached her and desired her, also in My presence, now that she is no longer just flesh, but a soul, they should not feel disgust seeing her enter the house to kneel at My feet and accuse herselfi weeping, humiliating herself in humble public confession represented by her tears."
On the other hand, it is De Fide that: "God. by an Eternal Resolve of His Will, predestines certain men, on account of their forseen sins, to eternal rejection" - NOT because that is what God wants!!! Again, we see Satan speaking!
Page 520 V's Jesus: "Peace to you all who have walked for miles and in dog days to come and hear the Gospel. You are beginning to really understand what the Kingdom of God is, how precious its possession is and how blissful to belong to it. Labour is no longer burdensome for you, as it is for others, because you are ruled by your soul, which says to the flesh: 'Rejoice because I am oppressing you. I am doing it for your own happiness. When you are joined to me again, after resurrection, you will love me for crushing you and you will see me as your second saviour.'"
Page 522 V's Jesus to Martha: "Mary came to Me three evenings ago. She anointed My feet and left at My feet all her jewels. She thus consecrated herself, and for ever, and has become one of My disciples. Do not disparage her in your heart. She has excelled you."
Page 523 V's Jesus: "Do you not know that nothing of what exists and happens in creation is uncontrolled, but everything follows an eternal law of subordination and consequence, whereby the deed of one person has very wide natural and supernatural repercussions?"
Page 530 Valtorta's dream: Mary Magdalene collects herself at once, she does not reply to her sister's questions, but she goes out of the room and probably withdraws to the kUchen for a little while.
Page 542 V's Jesus: "I solemnly tell you, there is much rejoicing among the angels of God and the good people of the earth over a repentant sinner. I solemnly tell you that there is nothing more beautiful than tears of repentance. I solemnly tell you that only demons cannot rejoice over such a conversion, which is a triumph of God. The way a man welcomes the conversion of a sinner is the measure of his own goodness and his union with God. Peace be with you."
The crowds understand the lesson and look at the Magdalene, who has come to sit on the threshold holding the baby in her arms, perhaps to strike a posture.
Page 546 V's Mary: "They are blind to Light. My Jesus is the Eternal Misunderstood One."
Page 549 V's Jesus: "If Science is not based on God, it becomes error and does not elevate but abases. Knowledge is not corruption if it is religion.
"Every age is capable of becoming wise.
"As I do not reject those who repent, Israel, so I do not reject those idolaters who believe in what they were given to believe and who inwardly implore: 'Give us the Truth'."
Page 551 Valtorta's vision: Jesus is not averse to a hearty laugh, when the case demands it, but immediately resumes His noble serenity. When He laughs. He prodigiously looks younger, to the extent of looking like a twenty year old man and the world seems to blossom through His lovely, hearty, loud, melodious laughter.
Pages 553, 554 Valtorta's dream: The voices of the three women disciples laying the tables can be heard from the room upstairs. Susanna tells of the miracle which was worked at her wedding [Cana?] and Mary of Magdala replies: "To change water into wine is a great thing, but to change a sinner into a woman disciple is even greater.
Page 560 Valtorta's dream: John blushes very much when he begins to repeat the speech of Jesus.
V's John: "Here is the infinite page on which currents write the word: I 'believe'. Think of the chaos of the Universe before the Creator decided to order the elements and arrange them into a wonderful association, which has given man the earth and what it contains and has adorned the firmament with stars and planets. Nothing existed: neither as amorphous chaos, nor as ordered system. God created the Universe. To understand the glorious mystery of Our being One and Triune, one must believe and understand that the Word existed from the beginning and was with God, joined by the most perfect Love, Which can be effused only by two Who are Gods, being, however, only One. In the beginning there was the sky and the earth and for them light was given and through light everything else was made. In the most high Heaven the spirits of light were separated from those of darkness, so in creation light was separated from darkness and Day and Night was made and that was the first day of creation, with its morning and its evening, its midday and midnight."
Comment: "Think of the chaos of the Universe before the Creator decided to order the elements and arrange them into a wonderful association. In the beginning there was the sky and the earth." St. John: In the beginning was our Word, our Word was with God, and our Word was God!Page 591 V's Jesus: "Immaterial things, that is dead virtues and dead souls. The former are dead in souls, the latter are dead because they killed themselves."
Page 597 V's Peter: "It's his fondness for the sea. He who loves something, sees every perfection in it. If you loved a woman like that, you would be a perfect husband."
Page 598 Valtorta: While twilight is falling and the sea is whispering its evening prayers . . .
Page 599 V's Jesus: "Mary of Magdala, the great sinner, had no excuse for her sin, has come back to the Lord. ... Everything can become a good action. Also what seems less suitable to become so. When matter is presented to the will of God, even if it were the most inert, cold and filthy, it can become living, blazing pure beauty."
Page 607 V's Jesus: "The purpose is to attain Heaven and give joy to the Father. Meet therefore on the same road and love one another spiritually as you love one another for reasons of your trade."
V's Jesus: "John is staying with us. When will the murex fishing be over?"
"At the first storms in autumn. The sea is too rough here, afterwards."
Page 610 V's Martha: "There are others as well who want to be cured. They are more anxious to be cured than to be taught."
V's Virgin: "It is difficult for a man to be entirely spiritual. The voice and needs of the flesh are more strongly felt."
Page 622 They are walking along the sea, to avoid the fierce heat of the dry earth, and many of them have taken off their sandals and pulled up their garments to paddle in the water.
V's Peter: "If the women disciples were not here, I would strip myself and go in up to my neck."
Page 631 V's Jesus: "What are you discussing? Must I tell you once again that the women disciples surpass you? Do you not know that an imperfection of yours is more harmful to the redemption of a heathen or a sinner, than all the errors of paganism?"
Page 642 Then Jesus draws His cousin towards Himself and James takes John's habitual posture: his head resting on the upper part of Jesus' chest, one arm hanging loose, the other hand in that of his Cousin. They remain thus, while in the dusk, birds twitter loudly in the thicket, the tinkle of cattle-bells recedes and fades in the distance, and a light breeze rustles caressingly in the tree tops, cool and reviving after the heat of the day, and promising dew in the night.
Page 643 Valtorta's dream: James then looks just like a sacred host.
Page 645 V's Jesus to V's James: "I beg you then to be another Myself, you who are the nephew of the most just man [Joseph] that Israel had, you must be a perfect Christ."
Page 650 V's James weeps on Jesus' chest. V's Jesus: "Come I will kiss you thus, to help you forget the burden of My fate as Man. You will remember alt this at the right moment, as you asked. I kiss your lips that will have to repeat My words to the people of Israel." They remain embraced for a long time and James seems to doze off in the joy of God's kisses.
Page 652 V's Jesus to V's James: "I will inform you of the Church's various classes with the differences between apostles, disciples and women disciples."
Page 657 V's Jesus: "Joseph was able to be silent on his sorrow of a bridegroom when he thought his bride was unfaithful to him and on the mysteries of Her virginal conception and of My Nature. Imitate him. That was a tremendous secret as well. It was to be kept, because if it had been disclosed, out of pride or carelessness, the whole Redemption would have been endangered."
Page 671 V's Mary: "Look, Jesus, what a beautiful baby! She is somewhat like You when You were one day old. ...Darling, I have no milk."
Valtorta: Our Lady lulls the baby who stops crying and falls asleep, gurgling like a little dove.
V's Jesus: "Mother, did You do that to Me also?"
V's Mary: "Yes, Son."
Page 678 V's Mary: "If God had not wanted Me to be a virgin, that seed might have fallen on Me, and I would be the mother of the unhappy child."
Page 692 V's Jesus to His apostles: "Man, to be attracted by and convinced of spiritual truth, needs material kindness, as if he were an eternal boy who will not study a lesson or learn a trade unless he is attracted by a sweet from his mother, or a reward from his school master, or his trade tutor. In order to let you have the means to be believed and sought after, I will grant you the gift of working miracles."
Page 694 V's Jesus: "If anyone should rob you of your mantle, give him also your tunic. If you should remain completely nude because of your mildness and detachment from riches, you will not scandalise the angels of the Lord or the infinite chastity of God."
Page 699 V's Jesus: "I am Father, Mother, Husband, Brother, Friend, and I love you as such and as such I am to be loved."
Page 733 V's Jesus: "Simeon, can you tell Me how he [John Baptist] died?"
Page 743 V's Jesus: "A spirit transmigrates only from the Creator to the being and from the being to the Creator, to Whom it presents itself after this life to receive a sentence of life or of death. That is the truth."
Page 751 V's Jesus: "I had merged with My Father, for Whose love I was infinitely sick. I was on the earth, but like a lifeless hide."
Page 758 V's Jesus: "God gave man only one wealth: His Grace, health, and intelligence. Not the filthy wealth, which is gold."
Comment: Wise men offered gold, frankincense, myrrh.Pages 762, 763 V's Jesus: "There was at least one moment when a soul was perfect: while God was creating it. If Sin disfigured it, depriving it of its perfection, because of its Origin it still confers] beauty to matter and because of the beauty that comes from God, a body is embellished and deserves respect. We are temples and as such we deserve to be honoured, as the places where the Tabernacle stopped were always honored. There are ignorant people who do wrong only because they do not know good."
Page 766 V's Jesus: "Do the Jews not purify the dead out of respect for the body, which is to rise again? To admonish sinners is like purifying their limbs, the first operation for burial. May the peace of God and Mine be with you now and ever."
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