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     LAMENTS OF JESUS, VICTIM
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               By 
   María Concepcion Zuniga Lopez


            LAMENTS
       of Jesus, Victim

 Words of Our Lord Jesus Christ
 to Maria Concepcion Zuniga Lopez

         CHARITY + IMMOLATION
              J.M.J.F.
      Through Mary and with Mary
the Roman, Catholic, Apostolic Church
will Triumph under the Cross of Christ

               LAMENTS
          of Jesus, Victim

Meditations suitable for all times and for all persons
especially for pious persons and for the end of the year

May it be for the glory of God!

CONTENTS

First Meditation – Let Us Unite Ourselves with Him
Second Meditation – Love
Third Meditation – The Spirit of Faith
Fourth Meditation – Purity
Fifth Meditation – Confidence
Sixth Meditation – Final Judgment

PROLOGUE

"Laments of Jesus, Victim" is a compilation of the words 
spoken by Our Lord to Maria Concepcion Zuniga Lopez in 1932. 
These revelations were compiled by her in the form of pious 
meditations. They confirm those of St. Gertrude the Great, 
St. Teresa of Avila, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Sister 
Benigna Consolata and Sister Josefa Menendez. 

Our Lord told her clearly: "My Justice is love. This Heart 
that is all love wishes to manifest itself to the world even 
more openly.

"It has manifested Itself in Its mercy; but the world has not 
understood this love of My Heart in Its Justice, and the time 
for these manifestations has now arrived, until the world is 
convinced of it.

"I want to be loved in My Justice; and you must know that there 
is no better way to obtain My mercy than to love My Justice. In 
all your afflictions, in your disappointments and in your 
misfortunes, in your temptations, in your sorrows, dangers and 
even in your falls into sin, make acts of love of My Justice, 
and you will see how My merciful love is shed over your soul.

"But never fear Me, for I am a good God, and a God of Love and 
Sanctity. Be afraid only of offending Me, for this is the true 
and holy fear of God, the beginning of all wisdom." (Prov. 9:10)

On Wednesday, December 20, 1972, at 3:00 a.m., Our Lord gave her 
a message concerning the obligation of living a life of perfection.

I was fast asleep; then I awoke suddenly because our cell was 
flooded with light. This light was very familiar to me, because 
it is the splendor which radiates from the presence of Jesus.

Awakening, therefore, I sprang to the floor and knelt. Then, 
almost weeping, I asked Jesus that He should deign to let me 
see Him. Immediately Our Lord permitted me to behold Him 
standing in front of me. Then Jesus said:

"Write: the words which I have given you concerning the 
perfection which is of obligation for all, should have already 
been sent to..." (Here Jesus named a certain person whose name 
must be discreetly withheld by me.) "You must send these words 
to him this very day. Tell him, on My behalf, that he must 
publish these words, adding a prologue composed by himself. 
In his prologue, he must exhort the world that no one shall 
attain salvation without leading a life of perfection."

Our Lord then alluded to some news which was brought here by a 
priest. Regarding this information, Jesus said:

"The news which has reached you through these visitors of Rev. 
Father Jonas is very true. At the present time, the demon is 
taking the greater number of souls along with him, to his kingdom."

Next Our Lord made allusion to some words which He deigned to 
express in the Universal Messages given to the world by Him, 
by means of this miserable soul, and which are already well known. 
However, hardly anyone pays attention to these Messages. The words 
to which Jesus referred at this moment were as follows:

"At the present time, that message of Mine is now being realized. 
It is the message wherein I said: If they do not correct themselves 
and do penance, I will abandon them to their whims until the end. 
I will deny them the grace of coming among you as Teacher and thus, 
after a tragic corruption, I will come and fling them all into Hell!"

Immediately after Our Lord had reminded me of these words of His, 
which are already known by many, He added:

"It is therefore urgent that you should once more insist upon the 
fact that I have not spoken in vain. Hence, be perfect. Indeed, 
everyone should strive towards perfection, the great sinners, 
coming to Me repentant, doing violence to themselves and abandoning 
sin; tepid souls, striving to become more fervent; and the ministers 
of My church who have prevaricated must retract if they desire to be 
saved. On the contrary, if they should desist, what a terrible 
eternity awaits those who are obstinate! My silence... ah, My spouse, 
it is due to a mandate of My Heavenly Father. Divine Justice is 
overflowing!

"To be sure, there are souls who are offering themselves as victims, 
but they are few in comparison with the momentary increase of sin. 
Where is the penance, the penance which is due? Who performs it? 
Everyone lives his life seeking commodities. After I have redeemed 
them, men have turned themselves into pagans once more, and they 
refuse to be Christians. By acting in this manner can they be saved? 
Will they help Me to save souls from this whirlpool of sin which now 
exists?

"It is as I have told you once before: Let them forget everything and 
love Me. That is to say: Let them live this time now, not for the body, 
but for the soul; do not live for your own selves, but for Heaven. 
Live to give Me souls through your sacrifices and prayers, offered 
with a clean and pure heart, full of love. Is this not the manner in 
which I have done the same for you?"

At this moment Jesus began to withdraw. Then I desired Him to give me 
some proof in reply to the persons mentioned above. Then Our Lord 
expressed the following words for that person, thus:

"Can I give him any greater proof? Or is there a better, more consoling 
indication of My good pleasure than to ask him to intervene with regard 
to the publication of My words? Therefore, send him the booklet 
concerning victim souls, that he may translate and publish it; and that 
he may also seek victim souls for Me.

"With regard to his family, if he learns how to bear with them for love 
of Me, while sustaining and exercising his rights as the head of the 
family, I shall reward him. And if he should constantly pray for their 
souls, I shall not fail to manifest My power. That is to say, I will 
give him those souls in eternity, together with many others. But he 
must always seek the right pathway, cost what it may."

Then Our Lord disappeared. It was ten minutes to four o’clock in 
the morning.
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     INTRODUCTION

I will say a word to those who may read these meditations, a word 
that may serve as an introduction. I wrote them about 25 years ago, 
for the private use of some nuns and students, and I inserted into 
them some of the words of Jesus revealed to me in 1932.
When I wrote them and mentioned those holy words that He deigned to 
reveal to me, I wrote speaking as the third person. But this Christmas 
(1969), since my Jesus wants me to publish them as a gift of His love 
for souls, I am going to speak openly in the first person, for the 
time has arrived to publish to the four winds all the "secrets of the 
King." I do it, then, obeying, and I do it filled with joy. I hope 
that these pages that I write with great difficulty (I am sick and 
always very busy) will bear much fruit for eternal life, if He deigns 
to bless this work undertaken for His greater glory and for the good 
of souls.
           Mexico City, D.F., December, 1969

     Preparatory Acts for each Meditation

We are in the presence of God, spiritually or physically, before 
a Tabernacle. 
We are going to meditate: let us do so in absolute silence, 
interiorly and exteriorly as well. 
Let us assure Jesus of our faith, or our hope in Him. . .but may 
He deign to help us so that these three acts may be done with the 
intensity He desires and demands of us with all justice.


      First Meditation

Let Us Unite Ourselves with Him

Let us unite ourselves to Jesus Who is so alone in the 
Tabernacles. Let us glance quickly outside at the world, 
and we see that, inebriated with pleasures and stunned by 
the deafening noise of passions, it has forgotten the Divine 
Guest Who has remained in Tabernacles solely for love of us.
Victim souls who want to console the Heart of Jesus, come 
to Him!

It is an undeniable reality that Jesus suffers the forget-
fulness and the sins of the world, because in that consecrated 
Host, although He is impassible, He is not insensible, because 
He is not dead, but living.

Yes, indeed, the God-Man is living among us who live on this 
earth. Do you believe it? Well then, you who believe this 
truth, do not forget it. Make it a constant part of your 
life, always in a truly real sharing of the sufferings Jesus 
bears in His Heart in a mystical manner, but really and truly, 
as is His presence in the Eucharist!

Jesus suffers, seeing that the world flings itself on its giddy 
course toward the abyss, and placing Himself constantly between 
His Heavenly Father and that guilty world, He is mediating with 
His continual sacrifice to obtain pardon for us. But, from the 
depths of the Tabernacle, He cries night and day:

"I want souls that will offer themselves as victims with Me to 
My Divine Justice. I want souls who will satiate My desire! 
I want a legion of these victim souls! With this legion of 
faithful servants, with the extension of the offering of victims 
throughout the world, the works of sanctity of the just souls 
will be increased. Through the merits of My redemption and 
before My Divine Justice, this will be the means of paying 
the debts of the wicked and will obtain many graces before 
the day of judgment arrives."

And you, do you believe in these words of His? Then, if He 
invites you, do not resist Him and offer yourself with Him 
to His Divine Justice, so you may be nailed to the redemptive 
Cross with Him and save many souls.

He can save all of them, but He wants to unite you with Him. 
He gives you His merits. He will give you His own Heart. 
He asks only one thing of you: that you give yourselves 
to Him without restrictions, that you let yourselves be 
transformed into Him, that you let yourselves be crucified 
with Him and like Him on His own Cross as a victim.

Do you want then, soul, to be generous? Listen to these words 
that He says for the victim soul:

"Give me your hands to work, your eyes to see, your feet 
to walk, your mouth to speak; all your body to animate it 
with My virtue, and your soul to transform it in Me."

This is the victim soul. Do you wish to make this exchange, 
so profitable for you, with Him?

And if you offer yourself and give yourself thus to Him, 
you will also hear from His lips these words that are a 
total ascetic program that will teach you to love Him and 
to give yourself to Him. He says:

"Forget everything and love Me. Kiss My Heart more and more 
and calm the fire of Its passion, the fire of love and of 
zeal for souls. My love longs for the pure love of its 
creatures, the chaste love of virgin souls who, as faithful 
and loving spouses, are enamored of Me, console me, receive 
Me and live watching for Me, recollected in their interior, 
shut off from the world, attentive to My voice. Love Me 
with your soul, with your heart, and with your body. Give 
Me your works, your words and your thoughts. It pleases Me 
when the love of My beloved ones overflows from their mouth. 
Then I will place My Heart next to their lips so their love 
may not be lost so, when their love expresses itself in 
loving words, it may fall as a balm upon My Heart."

Meditate on these words of Jesus and you find the perfect 
form for the love you must give to Him so you may be truly 
united with Him and console Him.

Aside from this, this is the form of fulfilling in all its 
extension the first commandment of the Law of God: Thou 
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all 
thy soul, and with all thy being.

But, returning to the words revealed here, the first thing 
He says is: "Forget everything and love Me."

Jesus thirsts for our heart, He hungers for our affection, 
for our tenderness, for love, for our affections and our 
caresses, for He adds: "Kiss My Heart more and more and 
calm the fire of My Passion, the fire of love and zeal 
for souls."

What would it be like to "kiss the Heart of Jesus?" What, 
except to love Him with all the tenderness of love?

Would mothers love their children; wives, their husbands; 
the engaged; their future spouses; more than the spouses 
of Christ, their divine Spouse, Jesus? They would kiss 
their loved ones almost with a cult of love and we, will 
we be cold in our love for a God made man for love of us? 
He became man precisely so we might love Him in a human 
and a divine way! That is what Jesus wants! That is what 
He asks of us with these words: "kiss My Heart."

We will kiss the Heart of Jesus when we give to Him alone 
all our affection, when we live solely for Him, when we 
think of nothing but Him, when He alone is the object of 
our life; when, our hearts overflowing with love, we will 
tell Him a thousand tendernesses at each instant, until 
expiring. Only thus will we calm the fire and the zeal 
our Divine Redeemer suffers for us. For, let us listen 
as He adds: "My love longs for the pure love of its 
creatures; the chaste love of virgins who, as faithful 
and loving spouses, are enamored of Me, recollected in 
their interior, shut off from the world, attentive to 
My voice."

What great kindness of Jesus, to make known to us what 
He wants of us, what He asks of us; what He longs for, 
what he waits for us to give Him: the pure love of 
His creatures.

The Spouse of virgins, He Who feeds among the lilies, 
wants purity, purity. He asks for purity in intentions, 
purity in works, purity in thoughts, purity in words. 
He asks for purity of everything that is unclean or 
stained, because that is "the pure love of creatures," 
the purity of conscience acquired by force of love for Him.

But still He emphasizes more directly another purity, 
"the chaste love of virgins who, as faithful and loving 
spouses, are enamored of Me."

Oh, indeed! Let us not forget that Jesus is a man, and 
the most sensitive of men, and He wants to be loved as 
a man. That is why He asks for human love, for He 
possesses angelic love from all eternity. But it is 
necessary to understand this well: He asks for a chaste 
love! Jesus is loved chastely when the soul is elevated 
to spiritual regions of love and, with those elevated 
affections, lives enamored of the most beautiful of the 
sons of men: (Ps. 44:2) the Son of Mary, Jesus of 
Nazareth, as His most holy and pure Mother loved Him, 
as the most chaste St. Joseph loved Him!

To love thus is to love without any other affection, 
nothing that might occupy the depths of the human heart. 
No other affection, then, is necessary, not that for 
one’s father or mother, nor much less any other 
affection less noble and pure.

To love Jesus thus is for the soul to live enamored of 
Jesus, the Lily of the valley. (Cant. 2:1) To Him she 
addresses all her loving; to Him, her fervent aspirations, 
that are true hymns of the soul. To Him she addresses the 
sweetest and most tender words, from the depths of all her 
being they rise to the lips and are spoken to Jesus when 
He approaches her with an actual grace or she approaches 
Him with a thought, or better yet, visiting His Tabernacle 
or receiving sacramental Communion.

That is how Jesus wants to be loved by His creatures. 
That is why He says, expressly: "That, as faithful 
and loving spouses, they may be enamored of Me, 
caress Me, they may receive Me and live watching 
for Me."

Do you hear Him? He wants caresses; He wants consolations. 
He asks us to watch for Him, not to leave Him alone for 
even one moment. That is how the faithful and loving 
spouse must be, who flies to the side of her spouse as 
often as her duties give her time. And when she is 
occupied, if she is away from him because she deals 
with the very interests of her husband and of the 
children, etc., her soul is watching over her beloved 
in her thoughts. And when she sleeps, she is like the 
spouse of the Canticle: "I sleep, and my heart watcheth" 
(Cant. 5:2), because her love is watching at all times, 
both when asleep and when awake.

What is it: to watch for Jesus? What is it: to watch 
for Him? It is not to forget for even one instant that 
souls are waiting for us to rescue them, because souls 
are the "interests of Jesus" and this alone consoles 
His Heart, the Heart of a Redeemer and a Victim!

To watch with Jesus is to be quick to give Him what 
the world denies Him. And, what does the world deny 
Him? The world denies Him love, fidelity, above all, 
it denies Him this in the midst of sorrow. To love 
Jesus in sorrow, to bless this sorrow for the love 
of Him and of souls (the world refuses to give it to 
Him), that is what it denies Him and even His own, 
who say they love Him, do this.

Therefore, it is our responsibility to give faithful 
love in the midst of sorrow or, what is the same, 
complete surrender of oneself, holy abandonment 
to the Cross.

The world defrauds Him. Of what does the world defraud 
Him? The world defrauds Jesus of the hopes He has and 
has always had and for which He came to give Himself 
up as a victim for the world itself: the hopes of taking 
away sin!

In justice, after we have been redeemed with the 
redemptive Blood in Baptism and we continue cleansing 
ourselves with the sacraments, above all Penance and 
the Eucharist, in justice the world, we souls, should 
no longer sin. Because Christ has sacrificed everything 
to achieve precisely this: that the devil might have no 
part any more in mankind; that all souls might belong 
to Christ; that all might be heirs of Heaven; that with 
all of them the Heavenly Father might be pleased. But oh!, 
Jesus weeps. He weeps because it seems His Precious 
Blood has been useless and that He is still hanging 
uselessly from the Cross, because he revealed that, in 
the Eucharist, He continues crucified. There He has made 
present His redemptive sacrifice that He consummated on 
Calvary – because His sacrifice began at the moment of 
the Incarnation, in a physical manner, and it continued 
during His mortal life. But, desiring to perpetuate that 
sacrifice until the end of time, in the midst of His 
beloved redeemer, He instituted the Eucharistic 
sacrifice, where He continues suffering in a mystical, 
but no less real, manner, for He is present in body and 
soul, living, and not dead. Then, if He is living, He 
is not insensible.

But the world, what heed does it take of this Victim? 
It seems that this world for which He immolates Himself 
has contempt for Him, like the mob that saw Him pass 
one day on the way to Calvary and hanging from the 
Cross, wagging their heads, murmuring: "Behold, a 
crazy man."

Indeed, Jesus is crazy with love for us, a caravan of 
sinful humanity, trivial, noisy, vulgar, devoid of 
every ethical and spiritual principle, given up to 
the sensuality of animal passions, of pride or vanity, 
and of insolent arrogance, diabolical envy, shameless 
lust, unbridled rage, and wicked corruption.

And Jesus, the innocent Victim, nailed to His Cross 
for us, remains alone, abandoned precisely by us. 
He remains on the summit of the coldest and heart-rending 
Calvary. Only Mary remains at the foot of Her Son’s Cross,
only She, with a few women, as the Gospel says.

Oh, what are we to do? What are we doing before this 
spectacle? Let us watch with Jesus! Let us be faithful 
at His feet! Even more: let us throw ourselves into 
action with fervent love, and let us ascend to His 
Cross and nail ourselves with Him. This will be, 
truly, to give Him what He asks of us when He says: 
"My love longs for the pure love of its creatures, 
the chaste love of virgin souls who, as faithful and 
loving spouses, are enamored of Me, recollected in 
their interior, shut off from the world, attentive 
to My voice."

To watch with Jesus, to watch with Jesus is to 
accompany Him in His perpetual watch that He carries 
out between Heaven and earth. It is to unite ourselves 
with Him!

That is why He says that He wants them to console Him. 
To receive Him; how to receive Him? Opening to Him the 
doors of our soul and receiving Him, every day. Would 
to God that it would be possible for us, in holy 
sacramental Communion, keeping our conscience clean, 
watching, that is, not to soil it, in order thus to 
be able to receive Him daily. And so He will receive 
consolation from us on coming to our souls every morning. 
Thus we will live "recollected in our interior," as He 
enjoins us. Because, today we will watch to guard 
ourselves to receive Him tomorrow and tomorrow for 
the following day, and this will have as its result 
that our constant concern will be in our interior, 
as He asks: "recollected in their interior."

But let us note that He adds: "Shut off from the world, 
attentive to My voice." Shut off from the world? How 
can it be, if we live in the world? For example, the 
Minim nuns, if we have constant dealing with the world, 
even in our isolation, because our mission is to concern 
ourselves precisely for the world and with the world?

What Jesus asks, on telling us to live, "shut off from 
the world," is shut off from its pleasures, its works, 
its pomps, its vain desires. That is why He says: 
"Attentive to My voice." Attentive to His voice, that is: 
listening to His divine complaints that, because of the 
sins of the world, He bears and wants to show to us. He 
wants to share them with us, to share with us His sorrows. 

Truly! Jesus thirsts for souls to confide in, souls with 
whom to converse. Go to the Tabernacle, then, not to 
waste time, not thinking you are there alone and bored. 
No! Because He is there and He awaits you with ardent 
desire and love! Talk with Him! Tell Him, if you like, 
of your many concerns, but above all, listen to Him! 
Tell Him you are attentive to His voice, and to let 
His Heart overflow into yours! That you want to feel 
in your human heart His intimate sorrows; that you 
want Him to complain to You; that you want to console 
Him with your words, with your promises, but, above all, 
with your works, in accord with His holy Law, for pure 
love of Him and for His divine interests!

Oh truly, let us unite ourselves with Him!

"You will console Me with your words." Indeed! He asks it. 
Tell Him that you love Him as much as others have ceased 
to love Him and as much as others hate Him. Jesus wants 
us to tell Him that we love Him because He knows that, 
by virtue of our telling Him so, we will come to know Him 
and we will love Him. Let us make acts of love constantly. 
Let us recite aspirations full of faith and fervor, of 
affection, of tenderness, of love for Him.

Do you see how He asks it of us? "It pleases Me," He says, 
"when the love of My beloved ones overflows from their 
mouth. Then I will place My Heart next to their lips so 
their love may not be lost, so that, having become loving 
words, it may fall as a balm on My Heart."

Oh what beautiful expressions Jesus has revealed to us! 
Let us meditate on the very profound meaning of these 
words. He says that, "it pleases Him," when we say 
loving words to Him because to Him this will be as 
if we were to let our hearts overflow from our mouth. 
And then He will put His Heart next to our lips, so 
our love may not be lost. Because this love, on 
becoming words presented as a gift to Him, will 
be saying precisely what is in our heart and this, 
He adds, will be for His Heart, as a balm.

Oh, the unspeakable folly of the love of a God made 
man that comes to place its joys in things of such 
little value: the words from our lips, when a heart 
that beats with affection for Him dictates them! 
Are we to deny this to Jesus? If it is not denied, 
at times, to a friend and even to a stranger when 
we intend to sweeten their lives by some words of 
fraternal tenderness, of affection or of compassion?

Let us unite ourselves and live solely for that. 
Let us live meditating on the afflictions and the 
desire of the Heart of this adorable Jesus, this Victim 
Heart so forgotten by men.

And, by virtue of meditating on it, these love words 
He awaits from us will flow from our hearts and 
spring from our lips so His Heart may have some drops 
of balm that may soothe It, that may refresh His Heart! 
Let this be our pursuit! In this let our lives pass: 
in loving Him, in consoling Him, and in conversing 
with Him; in listening to Him, in speaking words of 
love and tenderness to Him until we succeed in truly 
loving Him and compensating Him thus for the lack of 
love He suffers from the majority of His loved ones, 
from so may souls who live only for the things of the 
world and for themselves and those who live solely to 
offend Him, or the lukewarm who give themselves only 
by halves, only in part, but not totally!

On saying these words of love to Jesus, let us try to 
make them sincere, to make them the expression of what 
we have in our hearts. Let us not lie to Him! For we 
know that "He detests the lying man." For the 
"deceitful man the Lord will abhor," according to the 
words of the Psalmist (Ps. 5:7).

Do we love Him? Then, let us tell Him so. Let us not 
only feel it; let us not only harbor these affections 
we feel. Let us tell Him of them!

He desires it. He asks for it: "It pleases Me when 
the hearts of My beloved ones overflow from their mouth." 
And let us spread our love, not simply expressing it 
with words, but with works. Let our works be the most 
eloquent language of our love and let this language 
speak to Jesus all the love with which our heart is 
inflamed. But also, with words, let us tell Him of it!

O Jesus of my love, I love You! I love You with all 
the tenderness, with all the passion, of my soul and 
of all my being! You are my only love! And, inasmuch 
as this is true, we will be truly united to Him.


Second Meditation

      Love

In the divine Decalogue God says to men and He says 
it to all: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all 
thy soul, with all thy mind, and with all thy strength."

Do we understand well this solemn Commandment? What does 
it mean to love God with all one’s soul? What else but 
to love Him spiritually. What does it mean to love Him 
with all one’s heart? What else but to love Him also 
with one’s sensible affections, With the affection of 
children, with gratitude for all the favors we have 
received from Him, above all, for the Redemption. 
With the fidelity of a brother, with the fervor and 
delight of spouses for God, in the person of Jesus, 
Who is the Spouse of our souls, with the confidence 
of friends. This is to love God with one’s heart.

And what is it to love Him with all one’s mind? To love 
Him conscientiously, that is, to love Him because we 
meditate on Him, because we contemplate Him, because we 
comprehend Him with that sublime faculty He Himself gave 
us, precisely for this, to use it for the purpose of 
loving Him.

But what does it mean to love Him with all our strength? 
This means to love Him with all our works. That all our 
actions might proclaim how much we love Him! To love Him 
with works, not only with affections, not only with words, 
but to demonstrate that love for Him in our works. Indeed, 
God requires this love of His creatures. Do we give it to Him?

Ah, how little the world loves its God! This world that 
lives forgetful of Him most of the time. And now, let us 
not speak of the world that hates Him openly, the world 
of the sworn enemies of God, but rather of those who call 
themselves children of the Church founded by Him, the 
Catholics of all parts of the world. Ah, how little they 
love Him. And in what a miserable love they have come to 
reduce themselves with respect to that "great love" they 
owe to their God! Those who, first, before God and above 
God, love: some, their money; others, some creature; the 
majority love themselves; others, their well-being; and 
there are those who love sin itself – rather than God. 
They love sin! For they do not want to give it up, knowing 
they offend God. And they call themselves Catholics and 
they call themselves pious ones and, at times, they are 
souls consecrated to His service, His Church. But in their 
actions they manifest more love for, more attachment to, 
their delights and whims, their disordered appetites, 
although they well know that they will lead them openly 
against their God, against what is commanded by Him in His 
Law! Oh grief!

All of you souls predestined to contemplate this truth now, 
cry with Jesus, grieve for those offenses, and try to fill 
yourselves with affliction to compensate Divine Love with 
your generosity. All of you, His spouses, consecrated to 
His service, all of you, souls who have offered yourselves 
as victims, united to Him through love, give Him love, a 
great deal of love!

Love His Justice, so offended! All of you who long to atone!

Ah, come and hear from His own lips words surpassingly 
beautiful from which you will learn how to love Him, how 
He calls you to love Him, how He asks of you, of each 
one of you in particular, the practice of consecrating 
your heart to Him.

These are His words, for He wants them to reach all souls 
so He may be compensated by all for those who do not love 
Him, for those who repudiate Him or forget Him, for those 
who hate Him, too.

He has a program of love already prepared for all of you, 
for your own souls, where each one of you can find the 
taste of the love His Heart seeks, your own love and the 
love of everyone. For the love of God has all the elements, 
the most beautiful elements of love. Listen to Him, to the 
words of Jesus: "To some souls who give themselves to Me as 
daughters, I communicate My paternal love to them. To others, 
I am as a Brother for them and, as such, I treat them with 
the intimacy of My friendship. That is, as each of them feels 
affection for Me, I respond, always generously, and I give 
the soul who seeks Me what it comes to seek. I am, for each 
soul, the water that it seeks in its thirst for love, with 
the same taste of love the soul delivers to Me."

Have we heard Jesus? Have we listened to His very consoling 
words? He promises to give, to each one, the fulfillment of 
his longings for love. Now let us continue listening to this 
other, more intimate part, of His revelation. It is not 
solely a manifestation of what He will give to souls but, 
rather, what He asks of them, what He longs for most, the 
kind of love He desires. He says: "I want virginal souls 
who consecrate themselves to Me as sacramental spouses in 
order to pour out on them My treasures of love. These souls 
will be like an atonement for the sacrileges of those who 
approach to receive Me with their hears mired in worldly 
delights."

Do you hear it? Jesus asks for "sacramental" souls, that is, 
souls who consecrate themselves to receiving Him worthily 
in the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. And these He calls 
"sacramental souls."

He calls them "spouses" and He promises to pour out on them 
His treasures of love. Ah, let us consider this more slowly, 
let us meditate on it and let us understand the divine 
message in all its intensity.

It is an indisputable truth that each day the world is more 
indiscreet in its dealings with God our Lord for it is 
relinquishing its respect for Him. It offends Him. And 
not only those who are forgetful of Him and withdraw from 
Him but, rather, He is offended because, approaching Him, 
they do not draw near with the proper dispositions of 
reverence, of purity of life, that is, with the disposi-
tions with which a miserable creature must approach all 
of a God: conscientiously, with reverence of soul and body, 
as the Holy Church tells us by means of its doctrine.

There are some souls who receive Him in Holy Communion 
through routine, without any spiritual fruit, without 
any fervor either and, thus, they wound rather than 
receive the Body of the Lord worthily. There are others 
who receive Him for human considerations, for "what 
they will say," to look good in the eyes of the world, 
perhaps through hypocrisy, so they may be considered 
good, so they may be judged well by others. And others 
who receive Him with devotion for doing something good 
in their life, without love for Him, without having as 
their prime purpose the uniting of themselves to Him by 
love, by receiving Him as a divine Guest in order to 
honor Him. Rather, forgetful of this, they go to Him 
for some interest, more or less paltry, to obtain from 
Him some favor. And, although their interest may be 
devout, it is not loving. It is not for Him, therefore, 
but for themselves, they go, as the poor man goes to 
the rich so he may help him, but neglectful of the 
conditions necessary to receive Communion worthily.

Ah, therefore, this is what Jesus asks on saying these 
words, "sacramental souls." He asks, His love desires, 
that "virginal souls consecrate themselves to Him as 
His spouses."

Let us not forget that Jesus is "the Lily of the 
valleys, who feedeth among the lilies," (Cant. 2:1, 16), 
the symbol of purity. That is why He says, "I want 
virginal souls to consecrate themselves to Me as 
sacramental spouses. They will be like an atonement 
for the sacrileges of those who approach Me with 
their hearts mired in worldly delights."

He has said it clearly. That is why He wants 
"sacramental souls," virginal souls consecrated 
to Holy Communion, souls who console Him, who atone 
to Him for those others who, although receiving Him 
in Communion, instead of consoling Him, wound Him, 
because they are "mired" in the world, in its 
delights, practices and customs, with its indecent 
fashions, with its prohibited amusements, with its 
morbid reading, with its dangerous loves. In summary, 
the aspects of "worldly delights" are innumerable. 
That is why He asks consecrated souls to receive 
Him in Communion worthily.

And He promises to be to these souls as a "Spouse." 
He promises to elevate them to a plane of intimacy 
with Him that cannot be surpassed by any other. 
Because: what is it to be a "spouse?" What else 
but to be the treasurer of all the tenderness of 
the love of the Spouse? To be the treasurer also 
of His interests, even the most delicate, His 
most hidden secrets!

For Jesus promises everyone that to those souls 
who dispose themselves to love Him with that purity 
and virginity of soul, to love Him as spouses, 
receiving Him daily in Communion to offer Him 
consolation, the rest that His Heart demands. 
And He promises to come to those souls and to 
inundate them with torrents of His grace and 
His love and, as if to wrap them in His most 
pure love, to elevate them to the intimacy of 
spouses. And He calls them, "sacramental souls," 
that is, "consecrated to His Sacrament of Love."

Do you not feel yourselves called in the intimacy 
of your souls? Are you not inspired, filled with 
zeal, to respond to this divine call? Let us note: 
He does not say that those souls are going to be 
called by Him. He does not say, "I will call those 
souls. Rather, He says, "I want them to consecrate 
themselves to Me" in this manner.

Thus He wants them to have recourse to Him. He 
wants them to be the ones who go and offer them-
selves to Him, so that each morning at the 
Communion rail they may call Him, "Come, Jesus! 
Come out for a moment from Your Tabernacle! 
Come and visit the abode of my poor soul! For 
I am waiting for You, to console You, to dedicate 
to You this moment of consolation with You every 
day, of intimate talk, of intimate union. Come to 
my heart, O Sacramental Heart! And delight me with 
the caresses of Your love! Come and unite Yourself 
to me intimately, with Your Body, with Your 
redemptive Blood, with Your exquisite soul! And 
melt Yourself in me and see me transforming myself 
into what You are, so my misery and my defects 
disappear and the day may come when truly I may be 
atonement for You for those who receive You unworthily."

Ah, indeed! This should be from now on our only thought 
on going to receive Communion, not seeking for our-
selves anything but this, "to be virginal souls, 
sacramental spouses," who receive the Divine Lover 
of souls, and to fuse ourselves into His sanctifying 
Host. Then we will not take petty interests to 
Communion. Rather, every day we shall purify our 
intention more and more.

Because, with respect to this, the Blessed Virgin 
tells us, too, these words. When God deigned to 
manifest to us the symbolic image of Divine Justice 
and of the Victim Heart of Jesus in the Host, She 
said, "My Son wants to be received by souls making 
worthy Communions, and let them visit Him in His 
Sacrament, even spiritually, in an act of gratitude 
and love that may console Him."

These words come to corroborate those of Jesus. He 
wants the soul to call Him, with no other purpose 
but that of consoling Him and bestowing love on Him. 
Not to expect gifts from Him, but to lavish love on 
Him. Not so much to go to Him to ask of Him, but to 
give to Him. And not to give Him something that He 
esteems but little; rather, to give Him what He Himself
asks for: to give Him your heart, to give Him yourself. 
For that purpose we should go to receive Him – with 
that sublime, elevated intention above the petty 
intentions with which the world approaches Him, so 
He may see in us a compensation for the mean and 
selfish world.

And we can receive Him not only once a day, but a 
million times. Because, although we can approach 
to receive the sacramental Host we take physically 
in our mouths only once, on the other hand, we can, 
indeed, receive Him spiritually, visit Him, and this 
millions of times, even in a single hour. It suffices 
that we make the intention, that we want to do so. 

That we call with love, His love. If we quicken in 
ourselves the desire to receive Him, Jesus will come 
to the soul that calls Him as many times and in such 
a way because He (let us not forget that He is God 
– and Almighty God) will enable us to receive the 
same effects that a sacramental Communion produces, 
if we do so, as He has recently revealed. Everything 
will depend on the soul’s seeking Him, calling Him, 
and He will not be able to resist the one who calls 
Him lovingly. He has said, "Seek and you shall find." 
What He says is truth itself. He is the Fountain from 
which all those who approach draw water. And whatever 
is the measure of the vessel in which it is received, 
thus he will receive. That is, the vessel is our will, 
our internal dispositions, the spirit with which we 
approach God.

Thus, when we have received Communion and we want to 
receive Communion again – let us hear, from Himself, 
a secret way of achieving it. He has said thus: 
"Do you want Me to teach you a secret way of being 
in communion with Me? Lose yourself, by means of 
love, in My Host. And I will carry you in My Heart 
and you will enter with Me in all the souls that 
receive Me; think ?I have received Him in each of 
those who have received my Beloved,’ and you will 
take part in each one."

This is not a dogma but, indeed, it is a secret, 
revealed by His Heart and a human Heart that longs 
to be received constantly in Holy Communion and to 
be consoled for all the bad Communions.

Let us understand it well. Let us penetrate what 
these words that come from Him comprise, for He is 
Truth itself, that can neither be deceived nor 
deceive us. We cannot only receive Communion 
spiritually, but also live in sacramental 
Communion all day and all night, if we unite 
ourselves with an act of irrevocable love with 
the consecrated Host. We will be able to live 
in uninterrupted communion because everywhere 
in the world the Eucharistic Sacrament is being 
renewed, it is being distributed to the faithful, 
and while it is day in one hemisphere, it is night 
in the other and vice versa. Behold the critical 
point, the precise moment that we must not lose 
while we live here below. What the angels cannot 
do, we can, if we want to and if we ask it with 
all the love of which we are capable. There we 
must seek the realization of atonement for all 
the bad Communions and there repeat to Jesus that 
we are His sacramental spouses. A spouse of Christ 
in the Blessed Sacrament must occupy her mind with 
this. And for this purpose we can make use of the 
dogma of the communion of saints. And we can even 
unite ourselves not only with the souls that 
receive Communion, but also with Him, Jesus 
in the Host. Because He says, "Lose yourself, 
by means of love, in My Host." And, this is, 
we could say, a divine method of communicating – 
and of being communicated. It suffices that we 
make the intention, that we have the desire, 
that we do it with an act of real and true presence, 
face to face, now – with each beat of our heart. 
Even sleeping!

Had we dreamed, perhaps, of such beautiful things 
as these, that the Divine Guest in the Tabernacle 
makes manifest? Is it possible? To God all things 
are possible!

But, here He comes to remind us of the beginning 
of this revelation. Jesus says, "I want virginal 
souls who consecrate themselves thus: as sacramental 
spouses." He has clearly said it. He wants "virgins," 
that is, human beings so valiant that they guard the 
chastity, the virginity, not only of their bodies, 
but also of their souls. Just as wives guard their 
purity for their husbands, thus He wants these souls 
as sacramental spouses that consecrate themselves to 
Him, that they might be entirely for Him alone, that 
no other flavor but that of purity might be found in 
them. Undoubtedly as St. Paul explains it: "The 
married woman must please her husband and must busy 
herself in many things."

Surely a person occupied in many things, having 
contact with the world and its demands, cannot 
possibly guard that integrity of purity, of 
chastity, of virginity. How could she, then give 
to Jesus that fragrance of delicacy? In this, what 
He asks is seen clearly: souls that live solely 
for Him, consecrated to Him. And He promises 
these the secret treasures of His love as a 
faithful Spouse Who, introducing His spouse into 
His intimate chamber, shows her what He shows to 
no one else: the most exalted love, the most 
delicate of His caresses, the most valuable of 
what He has and can give her of His. It is not 
possible for divided hearts to give that 
refreshment and content, to pour themselves out 
and lavish themselves as He desires so much! He 
needs souls pure of any other love that is not His. 
That is, that soul will be able to love many souls, 
all created beings, but it must be only through Him, 
in Him and for Him. Because all the licit and holy 
loves must flow from the love that is of God, which 
alone should fill the soul of a sacramental spouse. 
This is what He means when He says, "I want virgin 
souls," that is, where He is the only love of their 
live, the center of every other affection, the ocean 
in which they must gather all the drops of love that 
flow from that heart to other creatures. Let us 
conclude: on approaching Him, above all in Communion, 
Jesus will give us what we want. Do we want to find 
a Father? Let us approach Him as children, let us 
love Him as children. Do we want Him to be our 
Brother? Let us love Him as sisters, seek Him 
as sisters.

We will please Him by this, but never so much as when 
we approach Him, for He says, "My love longs for the 
pure love of its creatures, the chaste love of virgin 
souls who, as faithful and loving spouses, are enamored 
of Me, caress Me, console Me, receive Me and live 
watching for Me, recollected in their interior, shut 
off from the world, attentive to My voice." Do we want 
Him to speak more clearly to us?

O Jesus! O Jesus, divine and human! You truly have for 
us a love we do not merit. By means of human 
attractiveness You call us to the divine, to elevate 
us to Your dignity, to make us Your spouses, to give 
us Your own divinity as one complete change and to 
seat us at Your right hand, and to have us share in 
Your Heart Itself. Oh! but on turning our eyes toward 
our human reality and on examining our works, our 
imperfect dispositions, we feel ashamed. We feel that 
our misery plunges us into the abyss of our unworthiness 
and it seems to us that such daring is a bold and 
reprehensible audacity; and that is why our heart 
retreats instinctively and with your apostle, St. Peter, 
we say to You, "Depart from Me, Lord, for I am a sinful 
man." Considering Your Justice it seems that we feel 
You repudiate us because You cannot admit anything 
stained and our heart feels itself still involved 
in a thousand unclean attachments. Our affections 
are still divided between creatures and the world, 
vanity still attracts us in many things. We seek a 
great deal for ourselves through self-love! How then 
can we approach You, Who are all pure and Who says 
You want "virgin souls?"

To this true and just reasoning of ours, let us 
continue with still other words of Jesus that solve 
this perplexity for us with an argument of His so 
irrefutable that now there is nothing left to fear 
in approaching Him. Because, if now we are still 
misery, if we are still divided in our heart, if we 
still cannot feel for Him that Love He desires, we 
can be sure that, our approaching Him, seeking that 
purity, that luminousness that He alone can give us, 
is precisely how we must and can acquire it. If we 
withdraw from Him, we will never attain it and we 
will go from abyss to abyss, from misery to misery 
until reaching spiritual indigence. These arguments 
that Jesus give us correspond, also, to other words 
of His revealed recently, when He says, "Trust in Me, 
O soul, trust in Me. I am the eternal thief who lies 
in wait for souls to make them My prisoners. I await 
only the opportune moment to sanctify them. I want 
them only to come to desire it in order to shed My 
graces on them."

Have we heard it? There we have the revelation of the 
loving Heart, of the loving design of Christ 
concerning our errant souls that walk far from Him. 
He is lying in wait for us to make us His prisoners, 
prisoners of His mercy, of His charity, of His love! 
If we are sinners, if we are stained, but we come to 
desire Him to clean us and to heal us; if we long for 
Him to whiten us, to beautify us, He will do it; 
precisely, He is only waiting to lift us from the 
dunghill. Everything will be realized if we approach 
Him and ask Him with good will, with sincere 
repentance, ask Him to transform us with His grace! 
Placed solely, then, in the state of grace, let us 
go to Communion, which will be the crowning of our 
intention. Let us go to Communion asking and seeking 
just one thing: purity of soul! Purity, beauty, to be 
able to serve Him and please Him and receive Him 
worthily! And, if we do so, we will see the wonders 
of His love. He has said it. He waits only for a soul 
to desire it in order to shed His graces on her. And 
let us note that he does not say He will give those 
graces to us slowly, little by little. Rather, He 
uses that literal expression, "to shed My graces on them." 
That is, to bathe her in them, to give them generously, 
lavishly, in abundance, as much as she desires.

Oh, indeed! The measure of our desire for purity, for 
virtue, for love of God, is in proportion to the 
graces we must receive from the One Who has said, 
"I am the fountain of living waters. All those who 
wish, come to Me and drink. I am the bread of life."

Do we want to love God? Let us go to Him Who is love 
and everything will be given to us. Because only He 
will teach us to love Him with His own Divine Love. 
The emanations of charity must come to us from Him.

Because only God is charity, is love! And He has 
created us to be loved by us, because He hungers 
and thirsts for our human love, to deify it in 
His infinite, in His divine LOVE!
 
 Third Meditation

The Spirit of Faith

Souls that wish to console the Heart of Christ our 
Lord, embittered by so many sins of the world, go 
to Him with great FAITH. Protest your faith to Him. 
Your faith in all His words; your faith in all the 
mysteries of religion; your faith in His doctrines; 
your simple, total, entire practical faith. Yes, 
indeed! Make acts of faith constantly, receive the 
Sacrament of love, the Eucharist, with great faith, 
with faith in the real presence of Jesus, believing 
in the power of His Word, the Word of Him Who 
created that admirable Sacrament.

Approach the priests of the Lord with faith, be 
submissive to superiors: priests, prelates, but, 
above all, to the Vicar of Christ, successor of 
Peter, because all this consoles the Heart of our 
adorable Redeemer and atones to Divine Justice.

See how God is offended a great deal in the world, 
in different ways and, nevertheless, Jesus has 
revealed recently, emphasizing the sin that wounds 
His Heart most, the sin that cannot be forgiven 
either on earth or in Heaven – the sin of 
incredulity – because it is the sin against the 
Holy Ghost. Let us hear His words, words He has 
now revealed for you precisely so that, meditating 
on them, you may be moved to help Him in the 
redemption of the incredulous.

Jesus says thus: "I am the bottomless sea of love 
and of pardon. Oh, if you knew how many thousands 
of consecrated souls receive Me sacrilegiously, and 
nevertheless. . .and how many impure hands lift Me 
in the unbloody sacrifice of the Mass, and I always 
pardon them when they repent of their transgression. 
And again they offend Me and again I pardon them. 
I know the force of the passions under which human 
misery groans. They offend Me, certainly they offend 
Me a great deal, but the sorrow the heretics cause Me 
is greater. Ponder the passion of My Heart for that."

Have we heard it? The divine Heart of Jesus complains 
of nothing as much as of the heretics, those who do 
not believe in Him, those who deny Him all access to 
their souls, those He cannot pardon!

How will that Heart, the fountain of sweetness, feel, 
that heart that has exhausted, as it were, all Its 
love and has spoken to the world in a thousand ways 
to make Itself understood, loved and believed, how 
will it feel on seeing souls persist incredulous 
after having spoken to them, first by means of the 
prophets, then personally by His own mouth, and who 
has not ceased speaking to the world in new 
revelations that ratify His doctrine, and still, they 
do not believe Him?

Faith is so powerful, to be a believer and a simple 
believer, "like a child," is such a great virtue that 
in the Holy Gospel he wished to leave this irrefutable 
affirmation: "He who believes in Me, although he die, 
will live."

How does He feel on seeing that many souls still 
resist believing that He is Christ, the Redeemer? 
That they refuse to give credence to Holy Scripture, 
that they doubt and mock so many apparitions He has 
sent in the course of centuries? How will He feel 
when they consider Him a false one, a blasphemer 
and a deceiver?

Let us remember that passage where Jesus cries on 
the hill, looking from afar at Jerusalem and exclaims, 
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, if thou hadst known the things 
that are to thy peace," (Lk. 19, 41); "Jerusalem, 
Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets!" (Matt. 23, 37). 
And He Who was very meek and most humble of heart, 
before the incredulity of His people, was irritated 
to the point of expelling with lashes the profaners 
from the temple because, by the use they were making 
of the House of God, they demonstrated that their god 
was gold, that is, they were acting as if they had no 
faith.

How would sweet Jesus feel now, now that His churches 
are so profaned? Let us hasten to console His Divine 
Heart.

Jesus came to rebuke strongly the incredulity of His 
contemporaries: "O unbelieving and perverse generation, 
how long shall I suffer you?" (Matt. 17:16)

In His passion, when it seems that He seals His lips 
rather than defend Himself, nevertheless, when it 
comes to ratifying that He is the Christ, the Son of 
God, He opens His lips to confess it: "Thou hast said 
it," to the one who was asking Him, "Art thou the Christ?"

Indeed, let us understand this well. That is why the 
Word of God made man came to speak to us in such a way, 
so there could no longer be incredulity among men. That 
is why nothing offends Him as much as incredulity, 
heresy, lack of faith, because these sins are the 
offspring of malice and diabolic cleverness, the 
cleverness of Satan and the malice of man, who allies 
himself with the sworn enemy of mankind and of the 
Word Incarnate who wants all of us to follow him in 
his chorus: "Non serviam." (I will not serve.)

The sins of incredulity and heresy cannot be forgiven 
because a heretic, an incredulous one, cannot repent 
because he has no faith. And how can he acquire it 
if his works are of no value to him to attract the 
grace of conversion?

An unbeliever, a heretic, is dead in the eyes of God 
and cannot receive the flow of grace, which is 
infused only in those who believe. That is what is 
meant by those mysterious words of the Gospel: 
"He that hath, to him shall be given; but he that 
hath not, from him shall be taken away that also 
which he hath." Such is the law of Divine Justice. 
And if this procedure is employed in all the cases 
in which a soul puts herself into disgrace for any 
grave sin, what can be said of the sin of incredulity 
and heresy? Because the lack of faith is like the 
lack of the base or foundation of the whole edifice 
and, without a base, without foundations, the whole 
edifice tumbles, comes down, cannot last.

Let us consider, then, with great compassion, the 
heretics and the unbelievers and – they are our 
neighbors! They are our fellow-creatures! It is 
urgent to save them! It is urgent to revive them! 
Because if they are fetid corpses, propitious 
fare for Hell, with respect to the Heart of Jesus, 
they are a wound that afflicts Him deeply, seeing 
the uselessness of His passion and of His Precious 
Blood that He shed for everyone. In spite of being 
God, He cannot revive those corpses, for He needs 
our cooperation. It is as when He raised Lazarus. 
It was necessary for his sisters, Martha and Mary, 
to ask it of Him and still, even then it was 
necessary to use other intercessors who went to ask 
Jesus to go to Bethany and console those desolate 
women, His friends. Similarly, to revive the faith 
in those who deny it, we intercessors and chosen 
souls must also unite ourselves. On our part, 
we need to redouble our acts of faith, but not only 
with our lips, but also with our hearts and our works: 
a great faith, entire and, at the same time, simple!

Let us remember the passage concerning Jesus and Martha 
before the tomb of Lazarus. Jesus exhorted her to have 
a strong, absolute, complete faith in Him, because He 
was God, and He said to her: "Did I not say to thee 
that, if thou believest, thou shalt see the glory 
of God?"

Oh, if you souls who believe in Christ, in His power, 
in His divinity, in His word, which is truth itself, 
in His doctrine, the only saving doctrine, in His 
miracles, in His indefectible Church; if you who 
believe in His Eucharistic Presence, if you do not 
do anything for the unbelievers – they will continue 
in the shadows of death!

Go, then, to Jesus and protest to Him that you want 
Him to give the life of grace and of faith to all 
the unbelievers. Ask it of Him with faith and with 
insistence, pay for them to Divine Justice what 
they owe Christ and He will work wonders! He will 
convert all the heretics. He will bring the 
schismatics back to the path. He will open the minds 
of those who refuse to believe in Him. Offer 
atonement for those dead brothers! Do not cross 
your arms before the present spectacle, so sad, 
in which, in the measure that God sends us 
charismatic graces, the majority, even of those 
who call themselves believers, rejects those graces. 
They continue "killing the prophets." They continue 
refusing God their hearts.

Jesus asks souls to unite themselves to His redemptive 
sacrifice and offer themselves to the Eternal Father 
to rescue heretics and unbelievers. Oh, souls who 
love this Perpetual Sentinel in the Tabernacle, souls 
who approach Him daily to receive Communion, ask Jesus, 
what is His most ardent longing? And He will reply to 
you, "That all might believe! That all might come to 
My fold, to My only church, the Apostolic, Roman 
Catholic Church. That there be only one flock – 
My Church – and one Shepherd – Myself, and that I be 
recognized in the person of My beloved Vicar, the Pope."

Should not this, then, be the only desire of all of us 
who believe in Him?

Let your heart be inflamed with holy zeal to attract 
all your brothers to the faith. For if we are 
sacramental souls, let us desire to bring all our 
fellow-creatures to this fountain of all good. 
Let us not be apathetic! If we labor externally, 
still more let us labor by means of victimhood, 
by atonement, prayer and penance! Let us purchase, 
at whatever price, Heaven, to populate it with 
souls redeemed through the Precious Blood of Christ 
and with our cooperation! Let us weep for the 
faults, the sins of all our brothers, as though they 
were our own, but especially those of unbelievers, 
for they harm themselves so much and they wound so 
deeply the Heart of Jesus! Let us beg pardon of the 
Eternal Father for those miserable ones, so their 
sins may be paid for in us, provided that we are 
not reprobates, but – let all be saved; let all 
come to Christ. Let them all believe in His word, 
revealed in Scripture and in all the other 
revelations that are in accord with the official 
revelation of the holy Apostolic Roman Catholic 
Church!

Let us not fear receiving the punishment for 
the brothers for whom we may implore resurrection. 
What can we fear from God? He is a good God, 
immensely good. If we offer ourselves with all 
confidence to His Divine Justice in ransom for 
our brothers, He will have great indulgence 
with them and with us.

To be victims? To be a victim is, in the eyes 
of the Heavenly Father, to appear like other 
Christs, so the debts of the world may be paid 
in us. But, precisely because of that, we will 
be loved by Him, tenderly, and we will be treated 
as Christ was. Surely, we will be crucified, but 
we will abound in grace to know how to suffer. 
We will be covered with the merits of Christ and 
thus, we will fear absolutely nothing, because 
we will rejoice in the midst of suffering.

Let us not fear the cross! Is it not, perchance, 
the only sign of eternal salvation?

Let us console, then, the Heart of Jesus, uniting 
ourselves to His mystical Passion, that is, 
crying with Him for the sins of the world and 
begging until obtaining the submission of all 
those obstinate against the faith!


Fourth Meditation

     Purity

"Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall 
see God."

Purity is the essence of God. God is most simple, 
most pure. If God is charity, that charity, that 
uncreated love, is not mixed with anything: 
GOD IS LOVE. Synonym: God is PURITY. Purity 
is where He feeds. He Who is all pure cannot 
tolerate the least impurity. He would feel 
repulsed immediately, if not in advance. 
That is why, without Christ, the Mediator, 
since humanity sinned, lacking that fitting 
divine contact in purity with God, the earth 
remained or rather lay prostrate in the shadows 
of death. Divine anger easily fell over mankind, 
as the Old Testament tells us.

For that reason, in order that God, in the person 
of Christ, could descend from Heaven and effect 
the mystery of the Incarnation, it was necessary 
that an exception be made in creatures. And He 
created the Virgin Mary without original sin, 
immaculate, pure and without any stain whatever.

How much God loves pure souls! How He manifested 
His predilection for children, because they were 
pure, when He passed through this mortal life. 
How, although He was kind with everyone, 
nevertheless, He did not share His confidences 
except with two hearts, because they were pure: 
His Mother and St. John, the virgin Apostle. 
Christ cannot relate to stained souls. Nor will 
He permit anything corrupt to enter Heaven. 
With reason Sacred Scripture compares Jesus with 
"the Lily of the valleys." (Cant. 2:1) Thus, He 
is delicate, because He is pure, our most 
pure Jesus!

That is why He has inspired His Holy Church, 
His Immaculate Spouse, to encompass Him 
with purity, even in her services. For the 
priest to approach to celebrate the Holy Mass, 
it is necessary for him to purify himself 
first and it obliges him to preserve chastity, 
under formal vow, deliberate and free, on 
which deliberation the seminarian meditates 
for many long years of experience in many 
virtues, but especially chastity.

On her altars, the whiteness of linen must 
shine forth. The same white vestment must 
clothe her Tabernacles. And, to consecrate 
the bread, it must be so purified that the 
Host must be of the whitest flour, smooth 
and without any ripples. The purity of the 
wine must be such that it is not mixed with 
any ferment. It is nothing but the juice of 
the vine, pure and simple. And thus also, 
for consecrated spouses, nuns, He requires 
virginity or chastity.

How beautiful is purity! Its whiteness! 
Its cleanliness. How beautiful, because 
purity envelops God, radiates God, holy 
Divine Victim: it emanates Christ.

Souls who love Jesus in the Host! Jesus, 
the heavenly white Bread! Would you like 
to please His Heart, thirsting for love? 
Give Him your whole love, impregnated with 
purity, with chastity, with virginity, 
if possible. The soul overcomes its carnal 
tendencies. All this is in your will, firm, 
strong as iron, conscious, human! And with 
the help of grace, you will be capable of 
all heroism! He loves purity exceedingly, 
virgin souls, those who do not contaminate 
themselves with the concupiscence of the 
flesh, those who consecrate themselves to 
Him to serve Him, especially for His sacred 
worship, for His love! Those souls are 
consolation on earth! Those will be the 
recipients of His most special graces! 
He will fill them with the sweetnesses, 
with the delicacies, with the ineffable 
joys of His love, exclusively for His 
"spouse souls."

Ah! Come and console Him for He suffers the 
pains of Hell, enclosed in the Tabernacle, 
contemplating the world that is not only 
impure but that sinks deeper each day in 
impurity.

Hear some of His complaints: "There are so 
few chaste souls, that you cannot understand 
this by natural reason. Even children of 
tender age lack this virtue. The demon of 
lust has his reign in the world to such a 
degree that, in all the states of life, he 
is deceitfully enthroned, making malice 
awaken in hearts, and there are neither 
simple nor pure eyes. My Heart is 
asphyxiated in that atmosphere of impurity."

Ah, indeed, if Jesus told me this about 
forty years ago, souls, friends of mine, 
who want to console Jesus, use all the 
efforts you can to separate yourselves 
from that world corrupted in mire!

O divine Jesus Who complains thus. "He 
is asphyxiated," He says, in the atmosphere 
of the world because impurity reigns. 
Have we heard it? His Divine Heart is 
asphyxiated! That is, there is no 
consolation whatever; rather, His mystical 
passion is increasing, horribly, infernally!

Let us imagine souls, placed in their bodies 
of flesh, inclined by original sin to the 
impure. Let us imagine them. Let us, for a 
few brief moments do what is called, taking 
a look at the situation. How many approach 
to receive Communion sacrilegiously because 
they wear a cloak of impurity! Impurities 
they have accepted with their eyes, amusing 
themselves with the indecent, with the 
obscene. Perhaps they have also committed 
impure acts.

Let us imagine: what does the Heart of Jesus 
feel on entering a soul that receives Him 
while having impurities?

And, from His Tabernacle, day and night, 
Jesus, as God, sees and is witness to all 
the impurities many souls commit and, 
without repenting, without confession, 
receive Him sacrilegiously. They receive 
Him or they are going to receive Him 
thus, stained!

Let us now contemplate the places of vice 
specifically open to the public so the 
children of God may go to commit sin. 
Let us imagine that Jesus penetrates with 
His glance the homes and there, too, He 
sees so many impurities. Perhaps the 
husbands and wives, the children, too, 
even the little ones, in what are they 
occupied? The servants, the friends who 
come to chat, perhaps of impurities, 
impurities in words, impurities in sight, 
in hearing, in touch, pornographic 
magazines that make the Divine Jesus, 
all purity, shudder. He who longs for 
pure souls! Virgin souls!

Impurities in the street, in theaters, 
on the radio, on television.

Jesus seeks in vain. No one pays attention 
to Him! How few souls attend to His call: 
"I want virgin souls to consecrate 
themselves to Me as sacramental spouses." 
He who longs to communicate to these souls 
so very many heavenly, divine things! 
He seeks in vain because "even children of 
tender age," as He says, are offending in 
this matter. Already they, too, are 
occupied in surprising conversations. 
Already they delight their eyes 
contemplating obscene magazines. The young 
girls, what are they doing? In what are 
they occupied? Impurities in dress, 
in everything. And the divine eyes of 
Jesus see everything, everywhere, and He 
continues enclosed in the Tabernacles, 
hoping we might come to Him. And, at times, 
He sends to earth a vestige of His sorrow, 
and who pays attention to Him? There are 
so few chaste souls, pure souls, souls 
consecrated to Him.

"The demon of lust has his reign in the 
world to such a degree that," He says, 
"in all the states of life he is 
deceitfully enthroned, making malice awaken 
in hearts, and there are neither simple nor 
pure eyes." What horror! Innocence agonizing, 
so to speak, on earth, and on the day when 
all innocence dies, the day when there is no 
pure soul, what will happen?

"Even the children of tender age lack the 
virtue of purity." Have we heard it? And do 
we not fall dead of affliction and sorrow? 
The day of final punishment, will it be that? 
Then, who would be able to be saved? When 
children are perverted, what must there be 
left on earth that would not merit the 
repelling of God, Who is all purity?

With how much reason, then, on the day we 
fill to the brim the measure God must 
tolerate of our wickedness, with how much 
reason we could await that punishment.

Jesus adds to His revelations something that 
is perfectly in accord with theological 
truths: "When the day of final judgment arrives, 
I, Who am now the innocent and merciful Victim, 
will then be the Judge of Justice without appeal. 
Then I will condemn the obstinate with the wicked, 
that is, with the devils, and this, for all eternity."

His revelation is concise, clear, definite. "Then 
I will be the Judge of Justice without appeal." 
Then mercy will cease and Divine Justice will 
begin to reign forever, repaying itself what 
we owe Him, taking the just to Heaven and the 
obstinate to Hell.

On that great day, there will be no clemency 
for the obstinate. But now, He still invites 
us to reconciliation with His Justice. For 
He tells us, "I will be with you for yet a 
little while as Victim; but only a short time 
remains. It is necessary to activate your forces. 
It is necessary to be prepared, for the final 
hour is now not far off."

Now, Jesus still advises us, exhorts us and 
awaits us. He calls us to penance. He calls 
us to purify ourselves and to help Him rescue 
other souls with our prayers, with our surrender 
as victims in proportion to the sins of others. 
Let us make use of the opportunity in which we 
now live! Tomorrow, perhaps, may be too late.

There are souls of heretics, not even baptized, 
but there are others that go through the mire 
of the world, staining their baptismal garment. 
Oh, grief! For they resemble the wicked, mired 
in worldly things and the impurities of that 
corrupting world.

Forty years ago Jesus was already complaining 
of the looseness of social customs, and what 
is it at present? Then, He said thus: "I want 
the mothers of families to attend to the 
formation of their children with zeal for glory, 
bringing them up in religion, not for the world, 
but for Heaven."

This is as to say that the woman in the home, 
the mother of the family, is to be dedicated to 
educating her children in the sound customs of 
the Church so that, from those families, there 
may arise a holy people, new, chaste, strong in 
virtue. And He adds: "I want the fathers of 
families to be an example to their children 
and the support of their wives in the pious 
formation of their home.

"I want youth to restrain their passions, 
freeing themselves from leading a life so 
similar to that of the wicked, as they are 
now doing.

"Let the women not dress immodestly.

"Let the men be concerned with God and with 
their work and not go about inebriated by 
pleasures and vices.

"Let the preoccupation for material goods be 
replaced by humble submission to My designs."

Do we hear it? He was asking this, He was 
warning of this, He was recommending this, and 
thus our Divine Redeemer was complaining, 
forty years ago. What will we say now?

And He concluded saying categorically, 
"Luxury and fashion will be their perdition." 
They are the enemies of the soul who battle 
with the virtue of purity. Are we not already 
witnesses to it? There exists at the present 
time a true perdition because of luxury, 
fashions and carnal deviations: so many abuses.

The Lord has always given us the wisest 
programs of life. But the world, disobedient 
and obstinate, continues its march toward the 
abyss. The programs the Divine Teacher gives 
us, in conformance with His doctrine, are the 
path to go to Heaven. But mankind goes 
flinging itself giddily along the opposite 
path.

Let us remember the Gospel: "Broad is the way 
that leadeth to destruction, and many there 
are who go in thereat. Narrow is the path that 
leadeth to life [Heaven] and few there are who 
find it." (Matt. 7:13-14)

Souls who come to the foot of the Tabernacle to 
meditate on these words of eternal life from 
the Divine Eucharistic Guest you are adoring 
here now with faith and love, do not forget 
the complaints of this Jesus, Victim; words 
that must pierce your hearts as a two-edged 
sword, a most ardent sword. Do you not feel it? 
Do not let yourselves as well be among those 
who commit such faults as those of which He 
complains.

You, feminine souls, young people of both sexes, 
Jesus speaks especially to all of you and, for 
His sake, I beg you: console the Heart of Christ 
that complains of being asphyxiated in the world 
because of the impurity that reigns in it. Do not 
wish yourselves also to be among those who go 
racing toward the abyss of eternal condemnation 
through lasciviousness, through impurity. Jesus 
loves you, Jesus calls you! Draw near to Him, 
be humbly repentant of your disorders and He 
will pardon you, He will lift you from the 
dunghill, He will purify you with His divine 
love and He will grant you many mercies, as 
you never imagined it possible to enjoy!

By the Precious Blood He shed for you one day 
on the Cross and by the sacrifice He renews 
daily, although in an unbloody manner, on the 
altars, have compassion on your own soul and 
do not waste that Redemption of a Man-God! 
Come and tell Him you will no longer make Him 
complain because, from now on, you will make 
a resolution to be valiant and to renounce 
the fictitious seductions that the enemies of 
your salvation – the world, the flesh and the 
devil – propose to you.

Do you not hear how He complains when He says, 
"Even the children of tender years lack the 
virtue of purity. The demon of lasciviousness 
has been enthroned in all the states of life."

And so it is: there are consecrated souls, 
priests, religious, unfaithful to their sacred 
vows, who have given themselves up to impurity!

You then, at least, who meditate now on these 
complaints of the lacerated Heart of the Divine 
Victim, rush up to dry the tears and the Blood 
of that most innocent Victim Who immolates 
Himself for us to obtain our pardon. With 
nothing but our repenting, we will be forgiven. 
Do not let Him wait! If you have lost the 
whiteness of the lily, with penance you will 
have the whiteness He promises to those who 
humbly repent. "He will wash us from our sins 
in His own Blood." "If your sins be as scarlet, 
they shall be made as white as snow," He says 
through Sacred Scripture (Apoc. 1:5; Is. 1:18). 
Be chaste from now on, to offer the Spouse of 
virgins the consolations His Heart longs for so: 
an atonement for the sins of impurity. "Let the 
women not dress immodestly," the most meek 
Jesus has repeated this for many years now and, 
oh, grief! Each day this sin has increased to 
the point of scandal and to the most impious 
excess. What will we do? What else but to 
react – and on time!

At that time He had said it: "Luxury and fashion 
will be their perdition." And how could He not 
have said this to us, if He knows which is the 
vulnerable point?

I repeat to you: He has spoken these things for 
you, by means of this, His poor portavoz; but 
they have been for all of you because He loves 
you so much! Return to Him!

O souls to whom these words may come, do not 
let them pass! It is the voice of Jesus Himself 
Who complains and warns you at the same time, 
Who reclaims you because you belong to Him. 
We humans are His cherished portion that the 
Father has given Him so we might achieve eternal 
salvation. He redeemed you at the price of His 
Blood. Do not waste that divine Blood! He asks 
of you what is fitting for you in order to give 
you one day the eternal reward. Remember the 
words of the Apostle St. John, the Apostle of 
love, the Apostle of purity: "Love not the world 
nor the things which are in the world. If any man 
love the world, the charity of the Father is not 
in him." (I Jn. 2:15)

And we know that, without charity, without the 
love of God, we cannot enter Heaven. He who is 
most filled with the love of God will be given 
the highest degree of purity and he will be 
identified with Christ. Because where there 
is a great deal of love for God there is a 
great deal of purity. That is why St. John 
was the disciple beloved by Jesus, the one 
who rested on His Heart.

Do you want to have divine love? Do you want 
to be filled with that charity of God? Be pure! 
And God will come to you and enrich you with 
His gifts and He will make you happy from now on, 
in this life – a happiness without illusions or 
mirages, a happiness and peace the world does 
not know how to give and one that no one can 
snatch away from him who possesses it. "For all 
that is in the world is concupiscence," adds St. 
John, and is contrary to purity and, therefore, 
contrary to that happiness divine love gives. 
All the things of the world, therefore, stain 
the soul and that is why it is necessary to 
deprive yourselves of them, to flee from them, 
to abstain from them. The sensible pleasures 
of the senses are the broad avenues of 
sensuality and whoever does not deprive himself 
of them will perish in them. That is why Jesus 
says, "He who wishes to follow Me, let him 
deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me." 
One cannot follow Jesus without denying himself. 
Nor can one follow Him without having taken up 
his cross, after having performed self-denial. 
From this principle flows all the purity of a 
soul that wants to follow Christ, that wants 
to surrender herself to Him and to console 
His Heart.


Fifth Meditation

   Confidence

"If you wish to please Me, trust in Me; if you 
wish to please Me more, trust more; if you wish 
to please Me immensely, trust Me immensely; 
trusting souls are the robbers of My graces."

Let us meditate on these words, we souls who 
desire to console the Heart of Jesus. Let us 
meditate on the consoling truth they enclose 
– words that Jesus said to a confidant of His 
who, not so long ago, lived here below on earth: 
sister Benigna Consolata Ferrero, a nun of the 
Visitation, "the Apostle of confidence," as 
He Himself called her.

Indeed! God Our Lord seeks nothing of us as 
much as to convince us that we must approach 
Him with confidence. He always invites all of 
us, just and sinners: "Come to Me." Let us 
approach Him with the confidence of children, 
of brothers (through Christ and in Christ, 
the first-born), as friends, as espoused souls.

If we descend to the meadows of Sacred Scripture 
we will find, even in the Old Testament, that 
God Our Lord has lavished His gifts and the 
means of making us aware of His love in order 
to draw us to confidence.

The last means He employed in the divine economy 
of His exquisite Providence was to give us His 
Son, Jesus, the promised Christ, the Redeemer, 
His only-begotten Son, His Word made flesh, 
so He might speak to us with His own mouth, 
so He might tell us that He is the God of love, 
that He is our Creator, our Preserver, our 
Redeemer! He Who loves us, from all eternity and 
seeks us to bring us to His glory and to make us 
happy for all eternity. Therefore, let us not be 
afraid of the punishment He must impose on us to 
purify us and to atone to His offended Justice. 
Rather, on the contrary, He has insisted on 
convincing us that His Justice is Love. Precisely 
because He, Christ, is paying for our sins. 
This is why Divine Justice has been changed into 
mercy, into a tender compassion He has for us on 
seeing us fallen. And He wants to lift us up. 
That is why He said, "I am not come to call the 
just, but sinners." (Matt 9:13) He is the Good 
Shepherd Who goes after His lost little sheep 
to rescue it and, once He finds it, He carries 
it paternally, lovingly, upon His shoulders to 
bring it to the fold, to free it from the wolves, 
that is, from the enemies of our soul, which are 
the world, the devil and our own flesh, because 
we have inherited it with original sin and it 
wars against us, instigated by the demon so we 
might lose Heaven, for He well knows Heaven 
cannot be entered with sin. But Jesus has come 
for that and He continues crucified. He is 
crucified in the Consecrated Host, offering 
His sacrifice of the Cross, His sacrifice of 
Calvary, there on the altars, in atonement 
for us. In such a way that, what can we fear now? 
Have we sinned? Well, let us go to Him. He will 
cleanse us. Perhaps, indeed, to cleanse us He 
might impose a penance on us, because without 
penance there is no pardon. But what is to be 
feared of a God Who has made Himself a Victim 
for love of us?

Jesus awaits the greatest of sinners. He calls 
them with loving calls because He left related 
for us, "There shall be joy in Heaven upon one 
sinner that does penance, more than upon 
ninety-nine just who need not penance." (Lk 15:7)

Do we bear the burden of our sins? Do we feel it 
so heavy that it has been converted into a 
bundle that inclines us toward the abyss of 
perdition? What are we waiting for? Let us go 
to Him!

Do we bear the burden of scruples that keeps 
us away from Holy Communion? Let us go to Him! 
Whatever our burden may be and however heavy 
it may be – afflictions, sins, misery, 
misfortunes, troubles, etc., – let the person 
be who he may – pious, lukewarm, cold, 
indifferent, irreligious, impious, a heretic, 
vicious – everyone! He invites everyone, 
"Come to Me, all of you," and He says sweetly, 
"I will refresh you," without making exceptions 
– Jews or gentiles – "Come to Me."

He calls us to teach us the holy fear of God. 
He calls us to enlighten us with His light, 
to make us the object of His exquisite love.

In Sacred Scripture are these words of His 
through the mouth of the Psalmist (Ps. 33:12), 
"Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach 
you the fear of the Lord. Come ye to him and 
be enlightened: and your faces shall not be 
confounded." It is as if He were to say to us: 
Approach Me and, although you come stained by 
guilt, if you approach, trusting in Me, you 
will see that I will transform you with My 
grace. I will exchange that heart of human 
flesh for another new one that comprehends 
the great love I have for you.

You will see that I forgive everyone who 
repents and, with sincere repentance, confesses 
his sin. Solely by desiring it and by 
renouncing your perverted inclinations, I will 
forgive you, and not only will I forgive you 
but also I will fortify you with My powerful 
arm, so now you may not fall into temptation 
and will keep yourselves in My love. Because, 
inflamed in My love, you would never more 
want to separate yourselves from Me nor offend 
Me. Then you will understand that the holy 
fear of God is not to be fearful of Me, but 
to fear sin, because it makes you lose the 
immense good of My grace and My friendship 
and losing My friendship makes you lose 
everything, even in this life but, above all, 
in eternity. Because the holy fear of God 
consists in a reverential love of My 
commandments, of My divine law, which is 
above all the laws of men and above all 
human conventions.

Yes! To go to God is the principle of all 
our goods. In whatever circumstances of life 
– afflictions, desolations, misfortunes, sins, 
miseries – we repeat, the best thing and what 
we need most, is to have recourse to God and 
to have recourse with complete confidence. 
For He not only wants to, but also is able to, 
alleviate our burden, for He is all-powerful 
and He will deny us only what would hurt us 
because He is the best of fathers, of friends, 
of brothers (in Christ), and of spouses.

The worst that we can do is to flee from Him, 
to be afraid of Him. To be afraid of God is 
the greatest of man’s follies. And the devil, 
after suggesting to us the levity of sinning, 
infuses in us that fright, precisely so that, 
giving in to his temptations, we continue 
falling to the abysses of eternal condemnation.

To think that God is a chastiser Who delights 
in persecuting us is one of most lamentable 
diabolic suggestions. This is an error. 
To make us think that henceforth we have no 
refuge and to induce us to despair is what 
leads to final impenitence. It is like the 
denial itself that God exists because, if 
God exists, His love is inextinguishable. 
And even a soul burdened with all imaginable 
crimes must also have recourse to Him to ask 
His forgiveness. The only condition is to go 
humbly repentant. But the infernal serpent, 
proud, is apt to harden the heart of the 
human being, precisely to impede its 
recovery after having made it fall 
into sin.

Why, then, except to free us from this error, 
does Jesus invite us and not cease repeating, 
"Come to Me, all of you?"

To Sister Benigna Consolata He came to say, 
"I am the divine Rag-picker. Where I see 
miseries, I rejoice and I never tire of 
cleansing them."

Truthfully, what does a rag-picker do other 
than clean the stains and the garbage from 
the ground? When is a rag-picker used except 
when the floor is dirty? The good Jesus 
humiliates Himself to that degree to make us 
understand that He came to seek His sinful 
children in order to cleanse them precisely 
from their filthiness. He wants to leave 
the earth cleansed of sins! And, at present, 
by means of this miserable "portavoz," He 
said some years ago and even now continues 
repeating, "I go now, begging souls to let 
themselves be made happy that they may not 
despise My love."

Will He be able to say to us any expression 
more faithful than this? Now, not only as a 
rag-picker but as a beggar, He presents 
Himself before us and asks that we let 
ourselves "be made happy."

The happiness of the human being is not in 
the mirages the world presents him, nor in 
the satisfaction of morbid pleasures. 
Happiness is in uniting ourselves to God, 
Who knows very well what must make us happy 
and He will give it to us, not only in the 
other life but also in this one, because 
true happiness is the peace and joy of a 
clean conscience because there is no 
happiness except this. That is why first 
we must go to God and go with confidence, 
confiding as much in His mercy as in His 
justice. Thus we will enter fully on the 
path of our salvation, synonymous with 
happiness.

To trust in Divine Justice! Is it not 
certainly a mystery that surpasses our 
comprehension? He has said, "If I were 
not just I would not be merciful."

Precisely when, in a purely human sense, 
we know a person is just, we trust in him. 
Is that not so? Then, why mistrust, why 
foolishly fear, Divine Justice?

"My divine essence as a terrible God will 
always be overcome by acts of love to My 
Divine Justice in union with My human-divine 
Heart. In Its role as Victim It does nothing 
but love and praise that Justice three times 
holy. Love My Justice and make it loved. 
Look, not everyone knows how to do anything 
but fear My Justice after they have offended it. 
And that fear wounds My Victim Heart. 
Therefore I want them to know that I am a 
Victim for the world. I answer for, I pay for, 
their sins, so the world might only love and 
no longer fear. If the world would love My 
Justice it would not sin. When My Justice 
punishes the sins and faults of men, the 
wicked do nothing but protest and abhor 
My Justice. And the good become terrified 
and try to elude it, to flee from it. 
Why do they do that? Fools. How much more 
they would obtain if, praising My Justice, 
they would lovingly give themselves up to it. 
When love is given to My Justice, My Heavenly 
Father exchanges His Justice for love. I want 
them to love Me in My most Holy Trinity with 
a similar trusting love. Let them abandon 
themselves to My Justice as well as to My 
love, because My Justice will save them."

Well now, let us meditate on those beautiful 
words that, although they enclose a profound 
mystery of love, still they are within reach 
of our comprehension. When a child has 
offended his father, disobeyed him, etc., 
when his father admonishes him, if he begs 
his pardon, respectfully and with filial 
confidence so he might give him a punishment, 
but not be angry with him, not deny him his 
friendship and love, certainly that father 
will give himself to his son with a greater 
abundance of paternal love. On the other hand, 
if the son, after offending his father, 
having incurred disobedience to his orders, 
flees from his presence, will not such a 
one grieve the heart of his father? And if, 
when brought by the father to punishment or 
admonishment, the son alleges that he is 
too rigorous with him and rebels, would 
not the son make himself more deserving 
of punishment? And the father might even 
cool in his love for that ungrateful, 
arrogant and rebellious one. Thus, this 
is the reasoning God our Lord has just 
given us on exhorting us and explaining 
to us that we must trust in His Justice 
as well as in His love. Why? Because He 
loves us. That is why He calls us to 
account with every right, because He 
wants us to correct ourselves so He 
might not one day find it necessary 
to abandon us to our whims and disordered 
appetites. Everyone who loves demands that 
he be trusted in his love. How much more 
God, Who is most holy and just?

He, on punishing us, will not condemn us, 
if we humbly confess that we have sinned. 
His love of Justice is, precisely, to have 
compassion on our miserable condition, to 
pity our weakness, weakness that He Himself 
must heal in us in the measure that we trust 
in Him and that we leave ourselves in His 
hands, saying to Him, "Punish us, O Lord, 
but do not punish us as we deserve, rather 
according to Your Justice that feels pity 
and compassion for us." That is why He said 
to us recently, "If I were not just I would 
not be merciful, because My love and mercy 
are the testimony of My Justice. I am the 
unfathomable sea of love and of pardon. 
I pardon whenever they repent of their 
faults. And they offend Me again and I 
pardon them again. I know the force of 
those passions under which human misery 
groans."

And when He has given that irrefutable 
proof of His love for Justice, He adds, 
"This is My love of Justice. The soul 
that loves My Justice has found the key 
to My Heart. With love My Justice is 
disarmed."

Ah, indeed! Our Lord wants us to learn 
to trust in Him, immensely, even when 
we see that He is punishing us. If He 
punishes us, if we feel at times the 
lash of a blow from His hand, then we 
should bless Him and make acts of faith 
and trust in His love, saying, "Thou art 
just, O Lord: and thy judgments are just." 
(Ps. 118:137) Because in such cases it is 
because He is the one purifying us in order 
not to punish us as we deserve. Thus King 
David sings, saying, "He hath not dealt 
with us according to our sins: nor 
rewarded us according to our iniquities." 
(Ps. 102:10). This is the same as saying: 
God seeks us because He does not want us 
to arrive impenitent on the last day into 
His presence, because He loves us and He 
does not want to throw us into Hell, which 
is the real punishment for sin and for all 
sinners. That is why He exhorts us to 
abandon ourselves to His Justice, because 
His Justice will save us, because it will 
purify us from all our stains so we may 
enter His glory where, as we already know, 
nothing defiled will enter. That is why 
St. Augustine said, "Here, Lord, burn; 
here, cut; here, and not in eternity."

Let us not then have any fear of Divine 
Justice. On the contrary, let us have 
recourse to it, asking it to purify us, 
to lift us from our abjection in time, 
now when the Divine Victim is still 
answering for us.

If Jesus is our bondsman, what have we 
to fear? Only one thing we must fear, 
and always: sin.


Sixth Meditation 

 Final Judgment 

It is a truth of faith that this world, 
the visible universe, will come to an end, 
and that Christ will come in glory to judge 
everyone (Apoc. 20:11-15). "The dead were 
judged out of those things which were written 
in the books, according to their works." At 
that time the souls of the saved, at the 
right hand of Christ, will even witness with 
joy the condemnation of those at the left hand: 
"Depart from me, ye cursed, into the everlasting 
fire." (Matthew 25:41). 

Christ our Lord has requested souls to offer 
themselves in reparation, in order to help save 
souls from being condemned on the day of the 
final judgment.

If we obey Him, making this offering, and do this, 
He Himself will take us by the hand, on the path 
of complete surrender of victims, because He 
extends His Justice "to them that are right in 
heart." (Ps. 35:11) "For with thee is the fountain 
of life: and in thy light we shall see light." 
(Ps. 35:10) "For the Lord is just and hath loved 
justice." (Ps. 10:8) Oh, indeed! Let us prepare 
ourselves now, because on that great day, "the 
way of the wicked shall perish," says the first 
Psalm. (v. 6) And Sacred Scripture adds (on 
judgment day): "let them all be glad that hope 
in thee." (Ps. 5:12)

And if we achieve that total surrender of ourselves 
now to Divine Justice, as victims, if we form a 
part of that legion of victim souls that His Victim 
Heart begs for, oh, what great joy! Because then, 
if we persevere in the surrender until the end of our 
lives, then, on that great day, we will not only have 
confidence in Justice, but we will be most fortunate 
in seeing the consummation of Divine Justice. Because 
St. John tells us that: "In this is the charity of God 
perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the 
day of judgment." (1 Jn. 4:17)

Because he who offers himself as a victim in 
propitiation for his brothers and in atonement to 
Divine Justice, what is he doing but imitating Christ? 
Or rather what St. Paul says, "filling up those things 
that are wanting of the suffering of Christ." 
(Col. 1:24)

The victim of Justice, instead of fearing the day of 
judgment, we repeat, must ask that the times be shortened 
and, above all, the last times, for each day will be more 
foreboding. For Christ left us this charge in His Gospel: 
"And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh 
should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days 
shall be shortened." (Matt. 24:22)

Here Our Lord speaks of "His elect." Is it not clear that 
those elect must be the souls that offer themselves as 
victims to His Divine Justice? But, so we may not be in 
doubt about the judgment, let us hear His most recent 
revelations.

"If you are My spouse, if you love Me, satisfy this 
longing of your Master: seek for Me victim souls who will 
offer themselves to My Divine Justice for love. I want a 
legion of these souls. Tell My priests to give Me victim 
souls. Make known this ardent desire of My Heart, of My 
Victim Heart, that thirsts for reparatory love."

Have we heard it? Reparatory souls! From whence will we 
give these victim souls to Jesus so that, with Him and 
like Him, they may offer themselves to Divine Justice, 
if not but first from among us? We who are listening, 
by means of His confidential prodigality, to these 
intimate expressions of His mystical passion that 
consumes Him in the Tabernacles where He is no longer 
able to suffer physically. And He wants generous souls 
who will give Him their physical sufferings, to nail 
themselves with Him and like Him to the redemptive 
Cross of sacrifice, offered on the altars of love. 
Behold the chosen souls: all those to whom this 
message of the Victim Heart of Jesus arrives! And 
these souls must carry out that assignment that He 
gives in His Gospel: to ask that these sorrowful times 
that have been unleashed upon us, when Satan is taking 
prisoners in the field of combat, may be shortened. 
And we: are we crossing our arms? Will we let our 
brothers perish? Not even, perchance, to rescue our 
own souls? Why? Through lack of confidence? Through 
cowardice? Let us fling ourselves now into this 
legion of combat, if we wish to have confidence 
on judgment day.

Why does Our Lord ask for a legion of victim souls? 
Because it is necessary to fight and to defeat Satan 
and to rescue many souls. On another occasion Jesus 
told me the same thing, too, but in another way: 
"The apostolate, My spouse, is urgent! Even among 
contemplative souls! An intimate apostolate! I do not 
want My servants to live for anything except to 
rescue souls! I want the apostolate of works and of 
prayer. Those who think of nothing but saving their 
own souls are selfish: they do not give great 
consolation to My Heart. Those who appropriate nothing 
to themselves and who live until the end in 
laboriousness and in fidelity, winning treasures to 
populate My glory with souls – those are My delight."

Jesus was speaking to Me, not of missionary apostles, 
for example, but of apostles through means of prayer 
and loving immolation offered to Divine Justice to 
rescue sinners and in atonement for the sins of the
world – the apostolate of suffering!

Apostolic souls and victim souls are synonymous. 
They yield a harvest of rescued souls. Because, to 
prepare ourselves for the day of judgment, we must 
make a reality of those words of Jesus in the Gospel: 
"Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God and His 
Justice." (Matt. 6:33) And, if it seems to the apostle 
that that is the goal of his labors, the results will 
undoubtedly be superabundant because the victim works 
only in the secret of his heart and under the eyes of 
God, Who promises to reward lavishly what is done 
without ostentation. (Matt. 6:6)

That is why He says those souls form "His delight." 
We repeat: those souls will be the elect of whom Our 
Lord was speaking, those who must ask Heaven to shorten 
the final times so souls are not perverted and the 
devil may not win them with his cunning and by means 
of the contamination of scandals, of those who drag 
the rest in their swirling race to the abyss of 
eternal condemnation.

Jesus, speaking about His victim souls, and asking 
that a legion of those souls be sought for Him, says: 
"There are some just souls, My daughter, but they do 
not compensate for those that are impure. There is a 
need of meritorious works of sanctity that will 
obtain from Divine Justice a copious shower of 
blessings upon My children, as well as upon My 
enemies, so both of them may be reconciled in the 
love of My Heart. This is the reason why I desire 
that there be victim souls!" 

On a certain occasion Jesus deigned to enumerate to me 
many sins and many different types of sinners and, on 
ending such an exposition, He said to me: "These are 
the souls whom I desire to save through My love of 
Justice, by extending the legion of victim souls who 
offer themselves to My Divine Justice for all the others. 
With this legion of faithful servants and with the 
extension of the offering of victim souls in the world, 
there will be an increase of sanctifying works in just 
souls through the merits of My redemption. In the sight 
of My Divine Justice, all of these good works will be 
regarded as payment of the debt incurred by the 
wickedness of the human race and will also obtain many 
graces before the day of final judgment arrives. For, 
once the day of final judgment arrives, I, Who am now 
the merciful Victim, will then be an inflexible Judge 
of Justice without appeal!"

Jesus calls, "love of Justice," this supreme effort He 
is making now with His lavishness of mercy to save 
mankind, sinful and fallen into misery because of 
original sin. He calls it, "love of Justice," because 
He wants us souls to consecrate ourselves to His 
Justice for love, lovingly, as He does it. Love! 
Infinite charity of the Heart of Jesus, Victim, that 
invites us to nail ourselves with Him on His own 
redemptive Cross in order to have a copious reward 
on the day of final judgment. It is "love of Justice" 
that promises us to increase the value of our little 
reparatory acts with His divine and infinite merits, 
and thus to offer them to the Eternal Father, as His 
and His merits as ours! Oh, and what treasures this 
Heart offers us!

Will we ignore Him? With His hand outstretched? Let 
us meditate on it. Are we afraid because of our great 
misery? Let us remember: He will cover us with His 
power! With His fortitude! Besides, what will our 
undertaking consist of as victims? Certainly in 
nothing new. Our life can continue unchanged. Only 
in our own interior will there be a radical change. 
We will let God do with us as He wills. We will 
surrender ourselves at each moment. We will not 
bargain with Him about anything. We will give Him 
our will in such a way that it may come to be united 
with His divine will. An act of generosity now will 
bring us later an eternal reward of glory.

He promised His victims the following: "I shall be 
all love for My legion of victims." And not only for 
those who offer themselves as victims, but also He 
adds: "and for all those who will have assisted and 
supported and cooperated in their works of 
unification, according to the desire of My holy 
Mother and in keeping with the ardent desire of 
My Heart."

And to exhort us not to delay our generosity, He adds: 
"Yet for a little while longer I shall be with you as 
a Victim, but only a short time remains. My beloved 
daughter! It is necessary to make great efforts. All 
must prepare themselves and be ready, for the last 
hour is not far off." Let us consider these last 
words slowly.

Our Lord charges us with three things. First, to make 
great efforts. That is, to offer ourselves quickly to 
His Divine Justice or to seek someone who will offer 
himself – at least, to begin by doing this – so that 
grace may work in us the decision of offering 
ourselves also. Everything done to make these efforts 
will be to support His works of unification. And this 
must be done quickly, "before judgment day arrives." 
Right now, then, is that opportune time. Now is the 
time to merit and not after that Just Judge gives to 
each one according to his works. Now, when Justice is 
still manifested in mercy that forgives! And, after 
making those efforts and offering ourselves with love 
and confidence to Divine Justice, we must, He says, 
be prepared! How will we be prepared?

In the opinion of the holy Fathers and Doctors of the 
Church, those moments of Justice will be terrible! 
And from the mouth of Jesus Himself, He tells us: 
"For there shall be then great tribulation, such as 
hath not been from the beginning of the world until 
now, neither shall be."

Ah, but the terrible thing about the end of the world 
will not be the moment of judgment, but before the 
judgment, precisely, those unfortunate times that 
must precede it, and we are living in them at present. 
But, if we offer ourselves now to the service of His 
Justice, if we offer ourselves as victims, if we seek 
for Him many souls to offer themselves: ah! on that 
great day we will be surrounded by the souls we were 
able to rescue through His own merits, those of the 
Divine Lamb who takes away the sins of the world and 
that is why, precisely for that reason, on that great 
and happy day we will experience the joy of His glory! 
"There will be no judgment for victim souls of Divine 
Justice who offered themselves for love. Victim souls 
will be judged with love."

How beautiful, then, not to fear the day of judgment! 
Let us now love the Divine Justice of God, let us adore 
it, let us render it veneration and let us propagate 
its cult throughout the entire world. He has said it: 
"Daughter, when love is given to My Justice, My 
Heavenly Father changes His Justice into love!"

Let us understand these words! The Heavenly Father has 
left to His Son the power of judging us. And, if that 
Judge is our Savior and wants to save us, He asks only 
that we love Him, to give us salvation: if we have 
loved Him and suffered with Him and done the will of 
His Father in everything.

Now then, let us avail ourselves of it in time and 
prepare ourselves for judgment day, for each day it 
comes closer and closer. Because now, as He has also 
said, "Because of My wounds, all of you live in an 
indulgence of love and pardon that is prolonged with 
time; but, when this wound is closed, divine Judgment 
will fall on the world."

What does it mean, that divine Justice will fall on 
the world? That is, to fall unexpectedly, without the 
world’s being prepared? If none of us were to be 
prepared, this would be final judgment. But 
"blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he 
cometh, shall find watching. Amen, I say to you, that 
he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat 
and passing will minister unto them." (Lk. 12, 37)

That is why we must make great efforts and be prepared. 
And, when we realize that other brothers and sisters 
do not want to pay attention to the repeated divine 
calls, we must redouble those efforts and apply them 
to the unprepared brothers and sisters so, because of 
some, others may be pardoned. And thus the divine plan 
may be consummated: "that no one may be lost, that all 
may be saved."

That is why on that day, "the charity of God will be 
perfected with us," as St. John says, (1 Jn 4:17), 
if we help Jesus to redeem our brothers, because then 
the glory of the Son and of the collaborators in His 
reign will be great.

That is why in these days so many collaborators in the 
Work of Atonement have arisen: "Daughter, seek for Me 
victim souls who will offer themselves to My Justice 
and who will atone for all the sins of the world, and 
a copious shower of blessings and graces will descend 
upon souls."

Let us do so, and let us await, with confidence, the 
day of judgment! So be it!

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We have terminated the reading of these revelations of 
the divine Heart of Jesus and we pray that our readers, 
subscribers and friends of our soul will not forget 
these holy meditations. It is fitting for us to think 
a great deal of the agonies of Jesus in order to 
conform our life of sorrows and of afflictions with Him, 
the Crucified One. Let us console His Heart, so 
grievously offended and let us offer ourselves each 
day, each moment, to His love of mercy!

	May it be for the glory of God!

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