Pages 7, 8 Valtorta's dream: As I am not familiar with Palestine, I cannot say which region it is. The sun does not seem to annoy Him. CRITIQUE: POEM OF THE MAN-GOD
MEDJUGORJE'S GOSPEL
Maria Valtorta, 1897-1961
Volume IV
Valtorta's Jesus goes to him. He approaches the poor wretch and asks him: "Who are you?"
"A poor man begging for bread."
V's Jesus: "Have you come from Judaea?"
"Yes, from Jerusalem."
V's dream: The poor man weeps. He does not eat. He looks at Jesus with the eyes of a stray dog.
Page 14 Valtorta's dream: I think that Zacchaeus is single and lives only with many servants.
Page 21 Valtorta's dream: They feel sorry for Jesus, to Whom they all tell their fears and complaints, but Whose mood no one understands.
Page 23 "Master! Our Master! You came just in time! Joseph is ..."
V's Jesus: "Cured. I have already seen to him. He is sleeping and does not know. There is nothing wrong with him now. All he has to do is to purge himself of the pus and he will be as healthy as previously."
Page 34 Valtorta's Jesus: "Come out of him. It's an order." [1]
"No!"
V's Jesus: "Come out!" [2]
"No!"
V's Jesus: "Come out!" [3]
"No!"
V's Jesus: "In the name of the true God, come out!" [4]
"Oh! Why do You defeat me? I am not coming out, no! You are the Christ, the Son of God, but I am ..."
V's Jesus: "Who are you?"
"I am Beelzebub, the Master of the world and I will not surrender. I defy You, O Christ!"
The demoniac becomes motionless all of a sudden, stiff, almost dignified, and stares fixedly at Jesus with phosphorescent eyes, hardly moving his lips to utter unintelligible words and making light gestures with his hands near his shoulders and his elbows bent. Jesus also has stopped. With His arms folded over His chest He gazes at him. Jesus also moves His lips lightly, but I cannot hear any word. Jesus opens His arms. His face flashes command. His voice sounds like thunder.
V's Jesus: "Come out. For the last time. Come out, O satan! It is I Who command!" [5]
"Aaaaah!"
Comment: Jesus Christ in our Gospel said only once: "Begone satan!"Page 37 Valtorta's Peter: "Master, why did the unclean spirit offer so much resistance?"
V's Jesus: "Because it was a complete spirit." [Can a spirit be "incomplete?"]
Valtorta's Peter: "What does that mean?"
V's Jesus: "Listen to Me. Some people give themselves to satan by opening a door to one capital vice. Some give themselves twice, some three times, some seven times. When one has opened his spirit to the seven vices, then a complete spirit enters him. satan, the black prince, enters."
Valtorta's Peter: "How could that man, still young, be possessed by satan?"
V's Jesus: "Oh! My friends! Do you know along which path satan comes? Generally three are the beaten paths, and one is never missing. Three: sensuality, money, pride of the spirit."
Comment: Did Adam have a money problem before he was sent out of the Garden of Eden?Page 38 Valtorta's John: "What about our mothers, then?"
V's Jesus: "Do not fear for them? Not every woman is an instrument for satan. Perfect as they are in their feelings, they exceed angels in action if they want to be of god, demons if they wish to be of satan. Holy women, and your mother is one, want to be of God; they are angels."
Page 39 Valtorta's dream: Jesus also, as, like everybody else. He is perspiring and His tunic is heavy with dust and sweat.
Comment: Our Jesus, on earth, as He is in Heaven, because He had not sinned, did not perspire.Page 42 Valtorta's dream: Jesus goes towards the cured demoniac, who begins to tear his hair as soon as he sees Him, and kneeling down he says: "Give the first demon back to me! Out of pity for me, for my soul! What have I done to You that You should injure me so much?"
As He was born of our Virgin Mary, keeping Her a Virgin, because She did not sin, also was not subject to our normal human illness and bodily functions.
Page 91 V's Jesus: "It is already a great gift that creatures, who had fallen by inheritance of fault, are granted by God the possibility to deserve a reward and become holy, by being born again, through their own will, to the initial nature of perfect creatures, as the Creator had given to Adam and Eve, to their children, if the first parents remained free from the original Fault.
"One must watch to ensure that it is not forced, and that no one opens either large gaps through which dissipations may enter, or sly little openings, at its base, through which vipers creep in: the seven capital vices! How necessary it is to hoe, to burn weeds, to prune, to trench, to manure through mortification and take care of one's souls through love for God and for our neighbour. "
Page 94 Valtorta's dream: It must have continued to rain all the previous day and during the night, because the ground is very damp and the roads are becoming muddy.
Page 107 V's Jesus: "I will leave you a pasture for your big bellies."
Page 108 Valtorta's dream: Jesus hastens to say: "As far as I am concerned it is enough if you go to Capernaum on the Sabbath with your companions. Come that I may kiss you, you who are leaving Me." He fondly kisses the apostles who are departing, giving each of them a piece of advice in a whisper.
Page 130 Valtorta's dream: Both Jesus and Mary stand up and they say together the Our Father.
V's Jesus: "Beelzebub will do us no harm. He harms only those who receive him in their hearts."
Comment: St. John Vianney was externally harmed and tormented by devils because of his good work. Father Vianney did not receive devils in his heart! Valtorta's Jesus is satan.Page 146 V's dream: Peter throws himself at Jesus' feet moaning: "I have sinned! Absolve me!"
V's Jesus: "How!"
Valtorta's Peter: "Master, I disobeyed You."
V's Jesus: "Praised be God I thought you had done something much graver than that."
Page 161 V's Jesus: "With My power of Judge and Savior, I absolve you of all faults [sins?] and omissions you may have committed during your lifetime, and of any feeling of your heart against charity and against those who hated you. I forgive you everything, son. Go in peace!"
Page 166 V's Jesus: "God is joined to Charity. Charity is truly, and more intimately and really the spirit of His Spirit even than is a married couple who love each other deeply. God is Charity. Charity is but the most manifest and illustrative aspect of God. Of all His attributes Charity is the sovereign and original one, because all the other attributes of God originate from Charity. What is Power but active charity? What is Wisdom but teaching charity? What is Mercy but forgiving charity? What is Justice but ruling charity?"
Page 173 Valtorta's dream: Jesus kisses him, and Judas recomposes himself.
Page 196 V's Jesus: "Go in peace, now, to your homes. The stars have filled the whole sky and the moon is clothing the world with purity. Go, and be as obedient as the stars and become as pure as the moon.
Page 204 Valtorta's dream: "A miracle! A miracle! Eliza's son, who was given up by doctors, has been cured! The Rabbi cured him by putting some saliva in his throat."
Page 218 V's Jesus: "The first condition to enter the Kingdom of Heaven: 'To live without fault'."
Comment: That leaves me out! Are former sinners Augustine and Magdalen, not Saints? "The just man sins seven times each day."Page 143 V's Jesus: "He who uses the enemy to build against the enemy serves the enemy."
Page 261 Valtorta's dream: While walking, surrounded by the crowd and followed by a train of people. He says the Our Father slowly.
Page 262 V's Jesus: "I cannot work two miracles. Consider that. If I free you from the demon, I will leave you with your illness.
Page 264 Valtorta's dream: John rests his head again on the Master's knees saying: "You could have made him strong'; and it sounds like a kind reproach. Jesus smiles running his finger through John' hair.
Page 270 V's Jesus: "A pharisee might say that they are doing service work by hanging out those garments. I say that they are doing a work of Love, towards God and towards their children."
Page 276 V's Jesus: "Enough of that! You are speaking human words, and even worse. May God forgive you, and give you light, brother. Go away, because you are grieving Me. Do not mention such silly advice to your mother and brothers or to My Mother."
Page 280 V's Jesus: "I will help you. Look, I will caress your lips [Jonathan] and thus they will be able to remain closed.
V's Jonathan: "My Master, This is a holy evening, as it allows me to see You!"
Page 300 V's Jesus: "I say to all those who are gathered here, whichever their religion and race may be, that they will recover the health which they expected from water, and they will receive it from Me, the living Water, as I give the life of the body and of the spirit to those who believe in Me and I work deeds of mercy with righteous hearts."
Pnqe 301 V's dream: Jesus raises the hem of His mantle and holds it out to receive the money: the large number of coins which heathens and Israelites hasten to throw into it. Not only coins, but also rings and other jewels are thrown freely by Roman women who look at Jesus when they approach Him and some of them whisper a few words to which Jesus nods assent or replies briefly.
Page 313 Valtorta's dream: Jesus, Who has been left all alone after He handed a servant His sandals and tunic so that they might be brushed and tidied after the journey of the previous day, does not sleep. Sitting on the edge of the couch. His bare feet on the floor-mat, a short tunic or vest covering His body as far as His elbows and knees. He is engrossed in thought. His scanty attire makes Him look younger in the splendid perfect harmony of His virile body, the intensity of His thoughts, which are certainly not joyful, wrinkle and contract His face in a painful expression of tiredness, which makes Him look older.
Page 330 V's Jesus: "Listen, Porphyrea. You are a clever woman and a good disciple. I have been very fond of you since I met you and it was with great joy that I accepted you as a disciple."
Valtorta's dream: At these words Porphyrea drops her hair.
Page 350 V's Jesus: "Let Me kiss you."
Valtorta's dream: He kisses them one by one. Judas weeps when he kisses Him. He clings to Jesus, kissing Him several times and whispering through His hair, close to His ear: "Pray, pray for me".
Page 352 V's Jesus: "What a beautiful night, Judas! Look how everything is pure! I do not think that the first night which smiled at the Earth and at Adam's sleep in the earthly Paradise was purer. Smell how scented are these flowers. Smell them. Do not pick them. They are so beautiful and pure! I also have refrained from picking them because to pluck them is to profane them. It is always wrong to do violence, to plants as to animals, to animals as to men. Why deprive them of their lives?"
Page 384 V's Jesus: "The power of the Father is the generation of the Son and the act of generating and being generated creates the Fire, [ Uncreated God ! ] that is, the Spirit of the Spirit of God. The Power turns to the Wisdom Whom It generated and Who turns to the Power in the joy of being One for the Other and of knowing each other for what They are." [You lost me! ]
Page 393 Valtorta's dream: Jesus makes a gesture which He never makes thus in public. He bends, because He is much taller than Abel, and taking his head with His hands. He kisses his lips saying: "Let it be so", at least I think that is what His "Maranatha" means. He adds:
"Because of your feeling let it be done to you according to the request of your words."
Page 405 V's Jesus smiling: "John is faithful to a T." [Translation*]
Page 422 Valtorta's John: "Does anybody live in the tower?"
V's Jesus: "I do not think so."
Valtorta's John: "Tell me something, a parable. I will sit here at Your feet. I am quite happy if I rest my head on Your knees."
Valtorta's dream: John sits down leaning his head, with his face looking at the sky, on Jesus' knees.
Page 426 Valtorta's dream: A woman passes through the corridor silently, followed by three girl: who are like her in thinness and countenance, to go into the kitchen and get boiling water. Woman: "Come, Master, and you too, John."
Valtorta's dream: Jesus, upon entering the little room in which are two large tubs (that is two small wooden vats probably used as wash-tubs) looks at the woman going out with her daughters and He greets her: "Peace to you and to your daughters. May the Lord reward you."
Valtorta's dream: Peter goes in with Jesus and John. He closes the door and whispers:
"Remember that she does not know Who You are. . . We are pilgrims. . . all of us, and You are a rabbi, we are Your friends. He [Peter] leaves them alone and goes back to his companions who are sitting in a little room. A short time later Jesus comes in wearing dry clothes and refreshed by the bath. John follows Him. [Is there a divider between the tubs? Same room?]
Page 441 Valtorta's dream: Jesus resumes walking, moving to the roadside, so that He may not touch the lepers, who look at Him, while He draws closer with their poor diseased eyes expressing nothing but hope. When Jesus reaches them. He raised His hand to bless them. People of the village are disappointed and go back to their houses. The lepers clamber up the mountain agair going to their grottoes or towards the Jericho road.
"You did the right thing in not curing them. Village people would not have let us go away."
Pages 446, 447 Valtorta's dream: They look at Him, while He eats, after offering and blessing the food, so simple as a human being, so supremely handsome and spiritually imposing as a god. He is wearing a white tunic shading into ivory like the hue of homespun wool and a dark blue mantle which is thrown over His shoulder. The sun, filtering through the willow, lights His hair with golden shafts which shift continuously as the light leaves of the willow move. A sunbeam caresses His left cheek turning the soft curl at the end of the tuft falling along His cheek into a skein of spun gold and the thick beard covering His chin and the lower part of His face. His skin, of an ancient ivory hue, shows in the sunshine the delicate embroidery of the veins on His cheeks and temples and one that runs across His smooth high forehead, from His nose up to His hair.
Page 474 Valtorta's dream: "In that case also Emmaus", says a man who is not new to me, but I cannot say exactly who he is, also because I found more than one Emmaus in Judaea, without taking into account the place near Tarichea.
Page 523 V's Jesus: "Do you all think I do not see Judas' errors, and I am unacquainted with his Heeds? If I had wanted beings that were perfect in their spirits, I would have got angels to become incarnate and I would have surrounded Myself with them."
Page 553 Valtorta's dream: Jesus kisses his forehead.
Page 583 V's Jesus: "John, who is that boy?"
V's John: "I don't know. Lord. Come here, child."
V's Jesus: "Who are you?"
Boy: "I am not telling you."
V's Jesus: "Why?"
Boy: "I do not want to hear bad words said to me. If you say them, I will answer back, and Joseph does not want that."
V's Jesus: "You are not from Israel, are you?"
Boy: "I am circumcised and it was very painful."
V's Jesus: "Tell Me your name, child. I love you. You are an orphan, are you not?"
Boy: "Yes."
Page 637 V's Jesus: "Seventy times out of one hundred, man sins of his own will."
Page 639 Valtorta's dream: Beautiful is the miracle of a little dumb boy, who is handed to Jesus by his weeping mother and is cured by Him with a kiss on his lips."
Page 652 "Are You or are You not the Messiah?"
V's Jesus: "Have you not understood? I told you that I am Door and Shepherd for that. So far no one has been able to enter the Kingdom of God, because it was walled up and without exits. [Entrance? Angels cannot exit?] Now I have come and the door to enter has been made."
Page 671 V's Jesus: "He who is deceived is not as guilty as he who deceives."
Page 672 V's Jesus: "Stand up, Elianna, and come here that I may kiss you. The kiss of a son to his father and may that reward you for everything."
Paqe 683 Valtorta's dream: Jesus asks a dignified citizen of Jerico: "Is that woman a Jewess?"
"No she isn't."
Page 691 V's Jesus: "Kiss the palm of My hand, man. I will find that kiss again and it will cure My torture. A kissed hand, a wounded hand. Kissed out of love. Wounded for love. Oh! I wish all men could kiss the great Victim, and the great Victim could die in its clothes made of sores, knowing that in each are the kisses, the love, of all men redeemed."
Page 693 V's Jesus: "Give Me a kiss, son."
Valtorta's dream: He takes the man's head in His hands and kisses his forehead, then He bends to receive his kiss. A timid kiss - that hardly touches the emaciated cheek. The young man collapses on Jesus' chest weeping.
Page 713 V's Jesus: "Peace to you. Have you been waiting for Me long?"
"For three days."
V's Jesus: "I was held up on the way."
Page 718 Valtorta's John: "Master!"
V's Jesus: "John, what do you want?"
Valtorta's John: "Do You know all the future or is part of it hidden from You?"
V's Jesus: "As God I am aware of future centuries, as a just man I know the state of hearts."
Comment: How could Valtorta's Jesus know the future since he does not answer John's question?V's Jesus: "I experienced also that torture of man: to have to proceed without seeing, relying entirely on Providence. I have a stronger will-power than you. I am subject to temptation but I do not yield to them. My merit lies in that, as it does for you."
Valtorta's Jesus is aware of future centuries, but does not know the "present".
Valtorta's John: "You tempted?"
V's Jesus: "Do not wonder whether I know or do not know what Judas is doing."
Page 736 Valtorta's dream: Jesus lays the tips of His fingers on the scar saying: "I want it." The man gets a shock as if he had been touched by electric power and he shouts: "What a fire!"
Page 743 V's Jesus: "Because in your affections you are pagan, woman. It is not your fault. It is the fault of the times in which you love, of Gentilism [sic] in which you have been brought up. You, a mother unaware of eternal life, loved your daughter in a disorderly manner. You, a loving faithful heathen wife, loved in your husband your earthly god with sensual love, your handsome god who made you worship him, degrading your dignity as his equal to the servility of a slave.
"Do You know what repelled me from him?"
V's Jesus: "Yes, I know. Because your soul woke up again in your body and you were no longer a female but a woman. Not everything is blameworthy in your customs. When Rome was less corrupt, women were chaste, industrious, and they served the divinity with their lives of virtue and faith. Even if their poor condition of pagans made them serve false gods, the idea was good. They offered their virtue to the Idea of religion, to the need of respect for religions, for the Divinity Whose true name was unknown to them, but Whom they felt existed and was greater than licentious Olympus and the degraded deities that people it according to your gods."
Page 746 V's Jesus: "Divorce is legal prostitution, as it puts man and woman in a position to commit lustful sins. The children of a divorced couple must judge their parents."
Page 747 V's Jesus: "When My law comes into force, it will extend to the souls of the consorts. In My rite, because death is not the end, but a temporary separation of the husband from his wife, and the obligation to love lasts also after death. That is why I say that I would like widows to be chaste. Man does not know how to be chaste, and also because of that I say that consorts have the reciprocal duty to improve the other consort."
Page 758 V's Jesus: "You can see that I am not asking you questions. I am speaking because I know, without having to ask. Look how I trampled on My possible sensuality as a man, as I am doing with this disgusting caterpillar that in the darkness was moving from one heap of dirt to another for its lascivious sensuality [A caterpillar has lascivious sensuality?]. That is how I always trampled on it. That is how I trample on it even now."
Page 762 V's Jesus: "Your mother is holy as a mother and as a creature. Through her prayers you have found mercy with God. A mother is always holy'"
Page 767 V's Jesus: "Who are these women?"
Page 768 V's Jesus: "When did you become a widow?"
Page 769 V's Jesus: "Oh! the happy wedding of two spirits who have become sanctified and are rejoined for ever where there is no separation, no fear of estrangement, no pain, where spirits will rejoice in the love of God and in their reciprocal fondness! Death is true life for the just."
Comment: Happiness in Heaven is: our God! Happiness on earth is our God!Page 773 V's Jesus: "I have around Me not only Hebrews and proselytes, in whom there is no wickedness, I mean that they do not come to Me to catch Me at fault."
Page 795 Valtorta's dream: Jesus resumes walking backwards and forwards to avoid standing still in the biting air.
Page 800 V's Jesus: "If one person only among many should convert his spirit to the Light after hearing My words. My fatigue of speaking to stones, nay, to sepulchre full of vipers, would be recompensed. You are partly wolves and partly wildgoats. None of you, notwithstanding that you wear the skins of lambs pretending to be lambs, are true lambs. Under the soft white fleece you have all the cruel colours, the pointed horns and the fangs and claws of billy-goats or wild beasts, and you want to remain such, because you delight in being such, and you dream of ferocity and rebellion. That is why you cannot love Me, you cannot follow and understand Me."
Page 802 V's Jesus: "John Baptist died in time not to be hated and persecuted also by you. If he were still alive, his 'it is against the Law' uttered for an incest, [adultery?] would be repeated also to you as you commit spiritual adultery by fornicating with satan against God. You would kill him as you intend to kill Me."
Page 807 V's Jesus: "Now, I give you [apostles] power to do what I do and what I want you to do, so that God may be glorified."
Valtorta's dream: He breathes on them. He kisses them one by one and dismisses them.
Comment: These events described, except for the kissing, were done after His Resurrection, not before His Passion and Death. This text is from: THE THIRD YEAR OF THE PUBLIC LIFE.Page 819 Valtorta's John: "Are we going to Gilgal for the night?"
V's Jesus: "No, John. I avoided all towns. I am going to avoid this one as well. If we meet a shepherd, we shall stay with him. We shall soon reach the road; if we see caravans that are going to stop for the night, we shall ask them to receive us under their tents. Nomads of the desert are always hospitable. We are likely to meet them at this time. If no one gives us hospitality, we shall sleep under the open sky, covered with our mantles and the angels will watch over us."
Page 820 V's Jesus: "The women disciples wilt come. My Mother will come. We shall all prepare for Passover. John, as from this moment I ask you to devote yourself very much to the women disciples, in particular to My Mother."
Page 825 V's Jesus: "The living soul of inferior creatures mentioned by Genesis, is not the same as the soul of man. It is life, simple life, that is, being sensitive to real things, both material and emotional. When an animal dies it becomes insensitive because death is its real end.
"Good things are to be always loved.
"I say that animals, plants, minerals, elements exceed man in obeying, by passively following the laws of creation, or actively following the instinct instilled by the Creator, or surrendering to become tamed for the purpose for which they were created."
Comment: Plants, minerals, and elements do not have wills, therefore they cannot obey, therefore they cannot be punished or rewarded.Pages 827, 828, Last pages of Volume IV V's Jesus: "To know what I was; the Man above senses, selfishness, hatred, the Man Who had to be tempted by all sorts of people to take vengeance, to seek power, to wish for the honest delights of marriage and family life, the Man Who had to put up with everything living in the world and suffer by it, because infinite was the distance between the imperfection and sin of the world and My Perfection, the Man Who replied 'No' to all the voices, to all the allurement, to all the reactions of the world, of satan and of My human ego. I remained pure, loyal, merciful, humble, obedient even to death on a Cross.
"Will all this be understood by modern society, to which t granted this knowledge of Myself to strengthen it against powerful attacks of satan? Now, as twenty centuries ago, those to whom I reveal Myself will contradict one another. I am the sign that is rejected, but not with regard to Myself, but with regard to what I stir up in them. Good people, those of good will, will have good reactions of shepherds and of humble people. The others will react in a wicked manner, like scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees and priests of those days. One gives what one has. A good person who comes in touch with wicked people provokes a surge of greater wickedness in them. [Mother Teresa of Calcutta?] Judgement will be passed on men as it was done on Good Friday, according to how they have judged, accepted and followed the Master, Who with a fresh attempt of infinite mercy has made Himself known once again. Many people's eyes will open and many will acknowledge Me saying: It is He. That is why our hearts burnt within us as He talked and explained Scripture to us'? My peace to them, to you. My LITTLE, FAITHFUL, LOVING, JOHN."
Comment: My LITTLE, FAITHFUL, LOVING, JOHN is Maria Valtorta.Proofreader for this critique: "If I had not promised to proof read this for you, I would have stopped reading. I do not know if I can contain my last meal. Very disturbing! Dangerously blasphemous material. Scary that many persons will believe this. Valtorta's Jesus is homosexual! "
I will critique Volume V when it is available. Poem of the Man-God is so demonic that without a special Grace from our Lord Jesus, we would be trapped in seemingly harmless statements by Valtorta's Jesus, but they enclose lies and heresy, contrary to Teachings of our One, Holy, Catholic Church. "The gates of hell shall not prevail against Me: My Church!"
Signed by
Brother James, S.D.B.
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