At the end of most chapters in the complete book of the Mystical City of God, Blessed Mary includes Her Divinely inspired teachings and guidance for living our mortal lives to attain eternal life. Although some paragraphs are specifically addressed to Sr. Mary of Agreda to assist in her discipleship, these messages are also meant for everyone's instruction and guidance.
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Love and guide your children in the faith from birth through adulthood
Because Lucifer, the proud angel rejected God’s decrees, and would not bow his neck in obedience, he conceived this hatred against God and His creatures. As he cannot vent it upon the Omnipotent God, he executes it upon the works of His right hand. Besides this, possessing the nature of an angel, he resolves irrevocably and never ceases to strive after what he has once determined to attain; hence, although changing the means to attain his end, he never changes his will in regard to persecuting mankind.
On the contrary his hatred has increased and will increase in proportion to the favors lavished by God upon the just and upon the holy children of His Church, and in proportion to the victories gained by the seed of that Woman, his Enemy, Blessed Mary in whom God had threatened to crush his head, while he should be able to do no more than lie in ambush at her heels (Gen. 3, 15).
Moreover, this fiend is a pure spirit and is not fatigued or ever in need of rest. Therefore he is so vigilant in persecuting us, that he commences the combat from the very first instant of our existence in the mother's womb and he does not abate his fury and strife against the soul until it leaves the body. The saying of Job is verified: that the life of man on earth is a warfare (Job 7, 1). This battle does not consist merely in our being born in original sin and therefore subject to the "femes peccati" and the disorderly passions inclining us to evil; but, besides fomenting the continual battle within our own selves, the demon wages war against us on his own account, availing himself of all his own astuteness and malice, and, as far as his power goes, of our own senses, faculties, inclinations and passions. Above all he seeks to make use of other natural causes to deprive us of salvation together with our life.
And if he does not succeed in this, he misses no chance of causing us damage or leading us into sin and robbing us of grace, even from the moment of our conception until that of our death. Hence so long must last also our defense.
All this, especially with the children of the Church, happens in the following manner. As soon as the demons suspect that the conception of a human body is to take place, he first notes the intention of the parents, and whether they are in the state of grace or not, or whether they have committed any excess in the act of generation; he studies also the complexion of the humors of their bodies, for ordinarily these humors influence also those of the body generated. The demons also take note of the particular, as well as of the general natural causes and conditions of nature, which unite in bringing about the generation and the organization of the human body. From these different concurring elements of generation, the demons, with their vast experience, judge as much as possible of the complexion or inclinations of the human child conceived and they are wont to layout great plans for future action.
If they fear good results, they seek to hinder as much as possible the last generation or infusion of the soul, waylaying the mother with dangers or temptations to bring about an abortion before the creation of the soul, which is ordinarily delayed forty or eighty days.
But as soon as they see God create or infuse the soul, the wrath of these dragons exerts itself in furious activity to prevent the creature from issuing to light, and from attaining Baptism, if it is to be born where this Sacrament can easily be administered. For this purpose they suggest and tempt the mothers to many disorders and excesses, whereby the parturition is forced and a premature birth or the death of the child in the womb might be caused; for among Catholics and heretics, who still administer Baptism, the demons content themselves with depriving children of Baptism and thus withholding them in limbo from the vision of God. Among pagans and idolaters they are not so solicitous, because among them damnation is in certain prospect.
Instructions from our Queen, the Mother of God, Blessed Mary:
"The Most High, who in sheer goodness and bounty has given existence to all creatures and denies His providential care to none, faithfully supplies all souls with light, by which they can enter into the knowledge of Him and of eternal life, provided they do not of their own free will prevent and obscure this light by sin or give up the quest of the kingdom of heaven."
"To the souls, whom, according to His secret judgments, He calls to His Church, He shows himself still more liberal. For with the grace of Baptism He infuses into them not only those virtues, which are called essentially infused (faith, hope and love of God) and which the creature cannot merit by its own efforts; but also those, which are accidentally infused and which it can merit by its own labors and efforts."
"These the Lord gives freely beforehand, in order that the soul may be more prepared and zealous in the observance of His holy Law. In other souls, in addition to the common light of faith, the Lord in His clemency grants supernatural gifts of knowledge and virtue for the better understanding of the evangelical mysteries and for the more zealous practice of good works. In order that you may be well instructed and informed, I wish to warn you as a solicitous and loving Mother, of the cunning of satan for the destruction of these works of the Lord."
"From the very moment in which mortal children begin to have the use of their reason, each one of them is followed by many watchful and relentless demons. For as soon as the souls are in a position to raise their thoughts to the knowledge of their God and commence the practice of the virtues infused by Baptism, these demons, with incredible fury and astuteness, seek to root out the Divine seed; and if they cannot succeed in this, they try to hinder its growth, and prevent it from bringing forth fruit by engaging men in vicious, useless, or trifling things."
"Thus they divert their thoughts from faith and hope, and from the pursuit of other virtues, leading them to forget that they are Christians, and diverting their attention from the knowledge of God and from the mysteries of the Redemption and of life eternal."
"Moreover the same enemy instills into the parents a base neglectfulness and carnal love for their offspring; and he incites the teachers to carelessness, so that the children find no support against evil in their education, but become depraved and spoiled by many bad habits, losing sight of virtue and of their good inclinations and going the way of perdition."
"But the most kind Lord does not forget them in this danger and He renews in them His holy inspirations and special helps. He supplies them with the holy teachings of the Church by His preachers and ministers. He holds out to them the aid of the Sacraments and many other inducements to keep them on the path of life. That those who walk in the way of salvation are the smaller number, is due to the vice and depraved habits imbibed in youth and nourished in childhood. For that saying of Deuteronomy is very true : "As in the days of your youth, so also shall be your old age" (Deut. 33, 25)."
"Hence the demons gain courage and increase their tyrannical influence over souls in the early years of man's life, hoping that they will be able to induce men to commit so much the greater and the more frequent sins in later years, the more they have succeeded in drawing them into small and insignificant faults in their childhood."
"By these they draw them on to a state of blind presumption; for with each sin the soul loses more and more the power of resistance, subjects itself to the demon, and falls under the sway of its tyrannical enemies. The miserable yoke of wickedness is more and more firmly fastened upon it; the same is trodden underfoot by its own iniquity and urged onward under the sway of the devil from one precipice to another, from abyss to abyss (Ps. 41, 8) : a chastisement merited by all those, that allow themselves to be overcome by evildoing in the beginning."
"By these means Lucifer has hurled into hell so great a number of souls and continues so to hurl them every day, rising up in his pride against the Almighty. In this manner has he been able to introduce into the world his tyrannical power, spreading among men forgetfulness of death, judgment, heaven and hell, and casting so many nations from abyss to abyss of darkness and bestial errors, such as are contained in the heresies and false sects of the infidels."
"Therefore beware of this terrible danger, and do not let the memory of the law of your God, His precepts and commands, and the truths of the Catholic Church, and the doctrines of the Gospels, ever fail in your mind."
"Do not let a day pass in which you do not spend much time in meditating upon all these; and all those who listen to you, to do the same. For your enemy and adversary is laboring with ceaseless vigilance to obscure your understanding in forgetfulness of the Divine law, seeking to withdraw your will, which is a blind faculty, from the practice of justification. This, you know, consists in acts of living faith in Christ, trustful hope for eternal life, ardent love of God, all coming from a contrite and humble heart"(Ps. SO, 19).
"It is an act of Justice due to the Eternal God that the children coming to the use of reason, direct its very first movement toward God. By knowing, it should begin to love Him, reverence Him and adore Him as its Creator and only true Lord.”
“The parents are naturally bound to instruct their children from their infancy in this knowledge of God and to direct them with solicitous care, so that they may at once see their ultimate end and seek it in their first acts of the intellect and will. They should with great watchfulness withdraw them from the childishness and puerile trickishness to which depraved nature will incline them if left without direction. If the fathers and mothers would be solicitous to prevent these vanities and perverted habits of their children and would instruct them from their infancy in the knowledge of their God and Creator, then they would afterwards easily accustom them to know and adore Him.”
“My holy mother, who knew not of my wisdom and real condition, was most solicitously beforehand in this matter, for when She bore me in her womb, she adored in my name the Creator and offered worship and thanks for His having created me, beseeching Him to defend me and bring me forth to the light of day from the condition in which I then was.”
“ So also parents should pray with fervor to God, that the souls of their children, through His Providence, may obtain Baptism and be freed from the servitude of original sin. And if the rational creature has not known and adored the Creator from the first dawn of reason, it should do this as soon as it obtains knowledge of the essential God by the light of faith. From that very moment the soul must exert itself never to lose Him from her sight, always fearing Him, loving Him, and reverencing Him.”
“Thou, my daughter, owes this adoration to God from the beginning of your life; but now I desire you to practice it in a more perfect manner, as I shall show you. Direct the eyes of your soul toward the essence of God, which is without beginning and without limit, contemplate His infinite attributes and perfections. Consider that He alone is the true holiness, the highest Good, the most noble object of creatures, that He alone gave being to all things and without having need of them, sustains and governs them. He is consummate beauty without defect, He is eternal in His love, true in His words and most faithful in His promises. He it was who gave His own life and subjected Himself to sufferings for the good of His creatures without waiting for any merits on their part.”
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..”lamentable and inexcusable is the ignorance of men in so knowingly forgetting the eternal glory, which God has prepared for those who dispose themselves to merit it. I wish that you bitterly bewail and deplore this pernicious forgetfulness; for there is no doubt, that whoever willfully forgets the eternal glory and happiness is in evident danger of losing it."
"No one is free from this guilt, not only because men do not apply much labor or effort in seeking and retaining the remembrance of this happiness; but they labor with all their powers in things that make them forget the end for which they were created."
"Undoubtedly this forgetfulness arises from their entangling themselves in the pride of life, the covetousness of the eyes, and the desires of the flesh (John 2, 16); for employing therein all the forces and faculties of their soul during the whole time of their life, they have no leisure, care or attention for the thoughts of eternal felicity. Let men acknowledge and confess, whether this recollection costs them more labor than to follow their blind passions, seeking after honors, possessions or the transitory pleasures, all of which have an end with this life, and which, after much striving and labor, many men do not, and can never attain."
"How much easier is it for mortals to avoid such perversity, especially for the children of the Church, since they have at hand the easy means of faith and hope for attaining the truth! Even if to gain eternal happiness were as difficult to obtain as honors and riches and other apparent advantages, it would be very foolish to labor as much for the false as for the true advantages for eternal punishment as for eternal glory."
"This abominable foolishness you will perceive and bewail with tears. If you will consider the world in which you live: how it is disturbed by wars and discords; how many unhappy ones it contains, who seek death in exchange for a short and vain honor, vengeance and other most vile advantages, while they do not think or care for eternal life (any more) than irrational animals. It would be a blessing for them if like animals they could end altogether with the temporal death; but as the most of them act against justice, and others, who still seek to be just, live in forgetfulness of their end, the ones as well as the others incur the eternal death."
"This is a sorrow beyond all sorrows, and a misfortune without equal and without remedy. Afflict yourself, lament and grieve without consolation over this ruin of so many souls bought by the blood of my divine Son."
"I assure you, my dear, that, if men would not make themselves so unworthy of it, my charity would urge me, in the celestial glory where you know me to be, to send forth a voice through the whole world exclaiming: Mortal and deceived men, what are you doing? For what purpose are you living? Do you realize what it is to see God face to face, and to participate in His eternal glory and share His company? Of what are you thinking? Who has thus disturbed and fascinated your judgment? What will you seek, if once you have lost this true blessing and happiness, since there is no other? The labor is short, the reward is infinite glory, and the punishment is eternal.” (Mt 7:13-14)
"In connection with this sorrow, which I am trying to excite in you, seek to labor assiduously in order to evade the danger. A living example you have in my life, which was a continual suffering such as you have known; but when I came to my reward all of it seemed as nothing, and I forgot it as if it had not occurred."
"Resolve, my dear, to follow me in my labor; and though your labor seem to exceed that of all the mortals, look upon it as most insignificant; let nothing seem to you difficult or hard, or bitter, even to passing through fire and sword. Extend your hand to great things, and shield your domestics, the senses, with double vestments (Prov. 31, 19, 21), against hardships and sufferings to the utmost of their powers. At the same time I wish you to be free from another error, that of men who say: let us secure salvation: greater or less glory does not matter; we shall all be together in that life.
By this false principle, my daughter, eternal life is not made secure but rather put at hazard; since it arises from great foolishness and want of Divine love."
"Who seeks to make such a bargain with God, offends Him, and tempts Him to permit such souls to live in continued danger of perdition. Human weakness always tends to do less good than it desires to do; and when this desire is small, then it will execute very little, and hence risks losing all. He who contents himself with the mediocre or lowest in virtue, always leaves in his will and in his inclinations an opening for earthly affections and love of the passing things. Such an opening is contrary to divine love and therefore unavoidably causes the loss of the latter and the ascendency of the former."
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When the creature resolves to love God from all its heart and with all its powers, as He commands, God overlooks its human defects and shortcomings and is pleased with their resolve to reap the highest rewards. But to despise them or willfully undervalue them shows not the love of children or of true friends, but the base fear of slaves, who are content to live and be let alone."
"If the saints could return to merit some additional degree of glory by suffering all torments to the day of judgment, they would doubtlessly return; because they have a true and perfect knowledge of the value of the reward and they love God with a perfect charity. It is not proper that this privilege be granted to the saints; but it was conceded to me, as you have recorded in this history; and my example confirms this truth."
"It also reproves the foolishness of those, who, in order to avoid suffering and the cross of Christ, are looking for a curtailed reward, one which is contrary to the inclination of God's goodness and contrary to His desire of seeing souls multiply their merits and gain copious rewards in the eternal felicity.”
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“My daughter, weep with bitterest sorrow over the stubbornness and blindness of mortals in not understanding and acknowledging the loving protection, which they have in My Divine Son and in me as a relief from all their troubles and necessities."
"My Lord spared Himself no exertion and left no means unemployed in order to gain for them inestimable treasures of heaven:
He garnered up His infinite merits in the holy Church, the most important fruit of His Passion and Death;
He left the secure pledges of His glorious love; and procured for them most easy and efficacious means in order that all of them might enjoy and apply them for their use and for their eternal salvation;
He offers them moreover His protection and mine;
He loves them as children;
He cherishes them as His chosen friends;
He calls them by His inspirations;
He invites them by His blessings and graces;
He awaits them as a most kind Father;
He seeks them as their Pastor;
He helps them as the most Powerful;
He rewards them as One possessing infinite riches, and governs them as a mighty King."
"All these and innumerable other favors, which are pointed out by faith, offered by the Church and presented before their very eyes, men forget and despise; as if blind, they love the darkness and deliver themselves up to the fury and rage of those cruel enemies."
"They listen to Lucifer's lies, obey his wicked suggestions and confide in his snares; they trust and give themselves up to the unquenchable fire of his wrath. He seeks to destroy them and consign them to eternal death, only because they are creatures of the Most High, who vanquished and crushed this most cruel foe."
"Guard yourself, therefore, my dearest, against this deplorable error of the children of men and disengage your faculties in order that you may clearly see the difference between the service of Christ and that of Belial. Greater is that difference than the distance between heaven and earth. Christ is Eternal Life, the true light and the pathway to Eternal Life; those who follow Him He loves with imperishable love, and He offers them His life and His company; with it, an eternal happiness, such as neither eyes have seen, nor ears have heard, nor ever can enter into the mind of man (John 14, 6).
Lucifer is darkness itself, error, deceit, unhappiness and death; he hates his followers and forces them into evil as far as possible, and at the end inflicts upon them eternal fire and horrid torments."
"Let mortals give testimony, whether they are ignorant of these truths, since the Holy Church propounds them and calls them to their minds every day. If men believe these truths, where is their good sense? Who has made them insane? Who drives from their remembrance the love, which they ought to have for themselves? Who makes them so cruel to themselves?"
"0 insanity never sufficiently to be bewailed and so little considered by the children of Adam! All their life they labor and exert themselves to become more and more entangled in the snares of their passions, to be consumed in deceitful vanities and to deliver themselves over to an inextinguishable fire, death and everlasting perdition, as if all were a mere joke and as if Christ had not come down from heaven to die on a Cross for their rescue!"
"Let them but look upon the price, and consider how much God himself paid for this happiness, who knew the full value of it."
"The idolaters and heathens are much less to blame for falling into this error; nor does the wrath of the Most High enkindle so much against them as against the faithful of His Church, who have such a clear knowledge of this truth. If the minds of men, in our present age, have grown forgetful of it, let them understand that this happened by their own fault, because they have given a free hand to their enemy Lucifer. He with tireless malice labors to overthrow the barriers of restraint, so that, forgetful of the last things and of eternal torment, men may give themselves over, like brute beasts, to sensual pleasures, and unmindful of themselves consume their lives in the pursuit of apparent good, until, as Job says (Job 21, 13), they suddenly fall a prey to eternal perdition."
"Such is in reality the fate of innumerable foolish men, who abhor the restraint imposed upon them by this truth. Do you, my daughter, allow me to instruct you, and keep yourself free from such harmful deceit and from this forgetfulness of the worldly people."
"Let the despairing groans of the damned, which begin at the end of their lives and at the beginning of their eternal damnation, ever resound in your ears: O we fools, who esteemed the life of the just as madness! O how are they counted among the sons of God, and their lot is among the saints ! We have erred then from the path of truth and of justice. The sun has not arisen for us. We have wearied ourselves in the ways of iniquity and destruction, we have sought difficult paths and erred by our own fault from the way of the Lord. What has pride profited us? What advantage has the boasting of riches brought us? All has passed away from us like a shadow. O had we but never been born!"
"This, my daughter, you must fear and ponder in your heart, so that, before you go to that land of darkness and of eternal dungeons from whence there is no return, you may provide against evil and avoid it by doing the good. During your mortal life and out of love do you now perform that of which the damned in their despair are forced to warn you by the excess of their punishment.”
Horrible ingratitude and forgetfulness of men
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“My daughter, through the whole course of my life is evident how gratefully I kept in mind the works of the Redemption, the passion and death of my Divine Son, especially after I had actually seen Him sacrificed on the Cross for the salvation of men."
"But in this chapter particularly have I wished to draw your attention to the care and the continual exercises, by which I renewed in me, not only the remembrance, but the sufferings of the Passion."
"I desire that the knowledge of this cause men to feel reproach and confusion at their monstrous forgetfulness of the incomprehensible benefit of the Redemption. 0’ what a shameful, what a horrible and dangerous ingratitude of men is this! Forgetfulness is a clear proof of contempt, for one does not forget so easily, what one holds dear. What reason or excuse then can there be, that men forget the eternal blessings they have received? That they should despise the love, with which the eternal Father has delivered over to death His only begotten Son?"
"The charity and patience with which His and my Son accepted it for them (John 3, 16.) The insensible earth responds to the efforts of those that cultivate it; wild beasts become tame and domesticated in return for benefits. Men among themselves are beholden to their benefactors; and when such thankful feelings are not forthcoming, they resent it, condemn it, and call it a great offense."
"What is the reason then, that only toward their God and Redeemer they should be ungrateful and forget what He suffered in order to rescue them from eternal damnation? And in view of this very evil return, they complain of not receiving His assistance as they desire."
"In order that they may understand what fearful guilt they load upon themselves by their ingratitude, I will remind you, my daughter, that Lucifer and his demons, seeing so many souls oblivious of the sufferings of Christ, draw the following conclusions and say of such souls: "This soul does not remember or hold in esteem the benefit of God's Redemption and we are certain of gaining it over to our side; for the soul that is so foolish as not to remember such a blessing, will certainly not detect our wiles. Let us proceed to tempt and destroy it, since it is deprived of its strongest defense."
"Having in their large experience found their reasoning on this point to be almost infallible, they zealously seek to blot out the memory of the Passion and Death of Christ and to excite a contempt for the preaching or discoursing about it among men; and they have succeeded to a great extent, causing dreadful damage to souls."
"On the other hand, they are wary and fearful of tempting those who have accustomed themselves to the meditation and the remembrance of the sufferings of Christ; for from this source, they feel issuing against them a force and influence, which often prevents them from approaching those who thus piously cherish the memory of the Passion."
"I desire you then, my dearest, not to detach from your bosom and heart this bouquet of myrrh (Cant. 1, 12) and to imitate me closely in the contemplation and the exercises of the Passion. For thus must you keep alive the memory of the sufferings of my Divine Son and satisfy for the injuries and blasphemies inflicted upon His Divine Person by His enemies who crucified Him. Seek as long as you shall be upon earth, to compensate for the ingratitude and forgetfulness of mortals. And in order to do it as I desire, never let your remembrance of Christ crucified, afflicted and blasphemed be extinguished. Persevere in your exercises, never omitting them except in obedience or in a just cause; for if you imitate me in this, I shall make you a participant in the effects I myself felt."
"In order to dispose yourself day by day for Holy Communion, you should apply whatever you perform in these exercises; imitate also the other works and practices, which you have come to know of me. If I, the Mother of Him whom I was to receive, deemed myself unworthy of Communion and by so many means sought the purity necessary for such a Sacrament, consider what you must do, so poor and subject to so many miseries and imperfections! Purify the temple of your interior, scrutinizing it by the Divine light and adorning it with great virtues, since it is the eternal God, whom you are to receive; One, of whom nobody but Himself is worthy. Invoke the intercession of the angels and saints to obtain grace from the Lord."
"Above all I exhort you to call upon me and ask me to help you; for you must know, that I am the special Advocate and Protectress of those who desire to arrive at great purity for receiving Holy Communion. Whenever they invoke me for this purpose, I present myself before the throne of the Most High, and, as one well knowing the disposition required for harboring God Himself, I ask His favor and grace for those who are about to receive Him in the Holy Sacrament. I have not lost in heaven the solicitude and zeal, which I exhibited upon earth. Having asked me, proceed to ask also the intercession of the angels, for they also are very anxious to see souls approach the Holy Eucharist with great devotion and purity.”
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Instructions from our Queen, the Mother of God, Blessed Mary:
“My daughter, by no power of human words will you in this mortal life ever succeed in describing the envy of Lucifer and his demons against men, or the malice, astuteness, deceits and ruses, with which in his wrath he seeks to bring them into sin and later on to the eternal torments."
"Lucifer tries to hinder all good works, and such as are performed he tries to minimize, or to destroy and pervert as to their merits. All the malice of which his own mind is capable, he attempts to inject into the souls. Against these attacks God provides admirable protection if men will only co-operate and correspond on their part. Hence the Apostle (Paul) admonishes them to walk carefully amid all these dangers and conflicts; not like the foolish, but as wise, redeeming their time; because the days of mortal life are evil and full of dangers (Ephes. 5, 15). Again Saint Paul exhorts them to be fixed and constant in good works, because their labor shall not be in vain before the Lord (I Cor 15, 58)."
"The truth of this our enemy Lucifer knows and dreads, hence he seeks with deepest malice to cause dismay in the souls at the commission of one sin, in order that they may ruin themselves by despair and leave off all good works; for thus would they throw aside the weapons with which God's angels can defend them and do battle with the demons."
"Although these works in the sinner have not the life of charity or of merit for grace or glory, yet they are very useful. Sometimes it happens, that on account of the habit of doing good the Divine clemency furnishes efficacious help for performing these works with greater fervor, or with sorrow for sins and true charity, by which the soul regains justification."
"By all our good deeds as creatures, we open up ways to the blessed for defending us and for asking the Divine mercy to look upon us and snatch us from sin. The saints also feel obliged to come to the assistance of those that sincerely invoke them in danger and that show them a special devotion. If the saints in their charity are so inclined to favor men in the dangerous conflicts with the devils, you must not be surprised, my dearest, that I am so merciful with the sinners who take refuge in my clemency; for I desire their salvation infinitely more than they themselves."
"Innumerable are those whom I have saved from the infernal dragon because of their devotion to me, even though they have recited only one Ave, or have said only one word in my honor and invocation. So great is my love for them, that if they would call upon me in time and with sincerity, none of them would perish."
"But the sinners and the reprobate do no such thing; because the wounds of sin, not being of the body, do not distress them, and the more often they are committed, the less regret or sorrow do they cause. The second sin is already like wounding a dead body which knows neither fear, nor defense, nor sensation. The result of this torpid insensibility of sinners to eternal damnation, and to the deceits of the devils in fastening it upon men, is dreadful. Without knowing upon what they rest their false security, the sinners are asleep and perfectly at ease as to their ruin, when they ought justly to fear and take heed of the swiftly approaching eternal death; or at least seek help by praying to the Lord, or to me, or the saints. But even this, which costs them so little, they do not know how to begin, until the time, in which the conditions of their salvation can be realized, has, for many of them, passed away (with their mortal death)."
"If for some of them I still procure salvation in the last agony, this privilege cannot be common to all. Hence are lost so many children of the Church, who in their ingratitude and foolishness despise the many and powerful helps given by the Divine clemency in most opportune time."
"Therefore also it will increase their confusion, when they shall see, that, with the mercy of their God, my own kindest wishes to save them, and the charity of the saints before their eyes, they have robbed God of the glory of their conversion; and not afforded me or to the angels or saints the joy of saving them in answer to their heartfelt invocation."
"I wish, my daughter, to manifest to you still another secret. You already know, that my Son and Lord Jesus in the Gospel says: "That the angels have joy in heaven whenever any sinner does penance and is converted to the way of life through His justification" (Luke 15, 10). The same happens when the just perform works of true virtue and merit new degrees of glory. Now that which happens among the heavenly inhabitants in the conversion of sinners and in the increase of merit of the just, has a counterpart in what happens with the demons at the sins of the just and the deeper falls of sinners; for no sin is committed by men, however small, in which the demons do not take pleasure; and those that attend to the business of tempting mortals immediately give notice to the demons in the eternal dungeons of their successes. There they enjoy them and record them for further use, both in order to press their claims before the Divine Judge, and in order that their greater dominion and jurisdiction over sinners according to the measure of the offense may be publicly known. In this manner they show their treacherous hate of men, whenever they succeed in deceiving them into sin by some momentary and apparent pleasure."
"But the Most High, who is just in all His works, ordained that also the conversion of sinners and the good works of the just should redound to the torment of the envious demons, since they rejoice so much at the perdition of man. This sort of chastisement therefore causes great torments to all the demons; because by it they are not only confounded and oppressed in their mortal hatred of men, but by the victories of the saints and the conversion of sinners they are deprived of a great part of their power over those, whom they have drawn into sin by their plots. The new torments thus caused to them they seek to vent upon the damned in hell; and just as there is new joy in heaven at the penance and good works of sinners, so, for the same reason, there arise new confusion and misfortune in hell at the good works of the just. On such occasions, amid howls of despair, the demons inflict new accidental torments upon all that live in those dungeons of dismay and horror."
"Thus heaven and hell are affected at the same time in contrary ways by the conversion and justification of the sinner. Whenever the souls justify themselves through the Sacraments, especially by a truly sorrowful confession, it often happens that the devils for a long time dare not appear before the penitent, nor for many hours even presume to look at him, if he himself does not again encourage them by losing the Divine favor and returning again to the dangers and occasions of sin; for then the demons quickly cast off the fear inspired by true penitence and justification."
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In heaven there can be no sorrow or pain; but if there could be, then the saints would feel it on account of nothing in the world so much as to see the justified souls falling back and losing grace, and the sinner drawing away further or making it impossible for him to regain Divine favor. Sin of its own nature is just as powerful to move heaven to sorrow and pain, as penance and virtue are to torment hell."
"Consider then, my dearest, in what dangerous ignorance mortals ordinarily live, depriving heaven of its joy in the justification of souls, hindering the external glory connected therewith, holding up the punishment due to the demons, and affording them on the contrary the joyful triumph of the fall and perdition of men."
"I desire that you, as a faithful and prudent handmaid, be guided by your higher knowledge, labor in compensating for these evils. See that you always approach the sacrament of Confession with fervor, esteem and veneration, and with a heartfelt sorrow for your sins; for this Sacrament inspires the dragon with great terror and he exerts himself diligently to hinder souls by his deceits, in order to cause them to receive this Sacrament lukewarmly, out of mere habit, without sorrow, and without proper disposition.
Lucifer is so eager in this matter not only because he wishes to cause the loss of souls, but also to avoid the fierce torments of being oppressed and confounded in his malignity by the true penance and justification of his escaped victims."
"Besides all this, my friend, I wish to remind thee, that, although the infernal dragons are indeed the authors and masters of lies and although they deal with men only in order to mislead and ruin them by their deceits, yet these enemies, whenever in their meetings they confer among themselves in regard to misleading men, are forced to admit certain truths, which they know and cannot deny. They understand them, yet they communicate them to men, not in good faith, but obscured and mixed with their own errors and falsehoods for the promotion of their own malicious designs."
"Since you have in this chapter, (Vol 4 Bk 1 Chap 15) and in the whole course of this history, laid bare so many of their counsels, meetings and secrets, they are highly enraged against you; for they flattered themselves, that these secrets and all their machinations would never come to the knowledge of men.
Therefore they are furious to take vengeance upon you; but the Most High will protect you, if you call upon Him to crush the head of the dragon. Do you also beseech the Divine clemency, that this advice and instructions may help to undeceive mortals, and by the Divine light redound to their benefit.
On your own part do seek faithfully to correspond, as being under greater obligations to Him than all others living in the present age. For if, understanding their malice, you do not exert yourself to vanquish them with the assistance of the Most High and of His holy angels, your ingratitude and the triumph of hell will grow in proportion to the favors you have received.”
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Instructions from our Queen, the Mother of God, Blessed Mary:
“My daughter, when mortals, having run the short course of their lives, come to the end at which God expects them to merit eternal life, then will they also by their own experience, see the finish of all their errors and deceits."
"Then the just will see in what consisted of their real salvation and happiness, and the reprobate, wherein lay their lamentable and everlasting perdition. 0 how happy, my daughter, is the man, who during the short instant of his life seeks to anticipate the Divine science, which he is so soon to possess by experience!" (Mt 7:13-14)
"This is the true wisdom, not to wait for the end until knowing that end, but look to the end in the beginning of the course, and enter upon it, not with so many doubts whether we shall attain the end, but with some security of attaining it. Consider then, with what sentiments those must be animated, who, at the beginning of a race, see a great prize, which they can attain by pressing on their course for a time with great diligence (I Cor. 9, 24). Certainly, they will set out with all speed, without turning aside or permitting themselves to be detained by any cause whatsoever. And if they press not on, or if they cease to look to the prize at the end of their course, they will be held either as foolish, or as ignorant of what they were losing."
"Such is mortal life of men, a short course, the end of which shall bring to the runner either eternal glory or everlasting torment as a reward or punishment. All men are born to run this race by the use of their reason and free will; and no one, much less the children of the Church, can plead ignorance as an excuse. Hence, where is the judgment and good sense of those in the Catholic faith? Why does vanity still retain its hold upon them? Why do they ensnare themselves in the love of what is only apparent and deceitful? Why do they ignore the end to which they shall come so soon? Why will they not understand what there awaits them?"
"Do they perhaps not know that they are born but to die (Ps. 138, 49), that life is but momentary, death infallibly certain, the reward or punishment unavoidable and eternal? (II Cor. 4, 1i). What can the lovers of this world answer to these questions? Those that consume all of their short life (for even the longest lives are very short), in accumulating honors, or riches, in wasting their strength and powers in the enjoyment of corruptible and most vile pleasures?"
"Alas, my friend, consider how false and treacherous is the world in which you are born and which your eyes behold. In it I desire you to show yourself as my disciple, my follower, a child of my desires, and a fruit of my prayers."
"Forget it entirely with a heartfelt abhorrence: do not lose sight of the end toward which you run so swiftly, the purpose for which your Creator formed you out of nothing; sigh for it continually, and direct toward it your anxious solicitude; do not permit yourself to be drawn away by the fleeting, vain and deceitful things of the world; let the Divine love alone dwell in you and engage all your forces; for that is not a true love, which permits any part of them to be diverted to other things, or which does not free them and mortify them entirely from passing things, and subject them to the one great end. Let this love be in you strong as death (Cant. 8, 6), so that you may be renewed entirely as I desire. Do not hinder the will of my Divine Son in all that He wishes to accomplish in you, and be assured of His fidelity, which rewards a hundredfold (Matth. 19, 29).”
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Instructions from our Queen, the Mother of God, Blessed Mary:
“My daughter, although you have only very briefly summed up my lengthy battle against temptations, I wish that from what you have written and from what you know otherwise concerning these things, you learn the manner of resisting and overcoming the powers of hell.”
“The surest way of fighting the demon is to despise him, looking upon him as the enemy of the Most High, who has lost all fear of God and all hope of good; who, in his stubbornness has deprived himself of all means of recovery and is without sorrow for his wickedness.”
“Relying on this indubitable truth you should show yourself far superior to him, exalted and unflinching in your thoughts, and treat him as a contemner of the honor and worship of His God. Knowing that you are defending so just a cause, do not let your courage sink; but resist and counteract him with great strength and valor in all his attempts, as if you were fighting at the side of the Lord himself; for there is no doubt that His Majesty assists all those that enter loyally into His battles. You are truly in good hope and in the way of eternal life glory, as long as you labor faithfully for your Lord and God.”
“Remember then, that the demons detest and abominate that which you desire and love, namely the honor of God and your eternal felicity; and that they are striving to deprive you of that which they cannot restore to themselves.”
“God has reprobated the demon, while He offers to you His grace, His virtues and His strength in order to overcome His and your enemy and to procure for you the happy end of eternal peace; only you must work faithfully and keep the commandments of the Lord. The arrogance of the dragon is great (Is. 16,6), yet his weakness is greater; and he does not represent more than a weak atom in the face of the Divine power.”
“Yet as his cunning and malice far exceed that of mortals (Job 41, 21), it is not advisable to allow the soul to bandy words with him, whether he is present invisibly or visibly; for from his darksome mind, as from a smoking furnace, issue the shadows of confusion, obscuring the judgments of mortals; if they listen to him, he will fill their minds with deceits and darkness, so that they will neither recognize the truth and the beauty of virtue, nor the vileness of his poisonous falsehoods. Thus the souls will be made unable to distinguish the precious from the worthless, life from death, truth from error (Jer. 15, 19), and they easily fall into the clutches of this fierce and wicked dragon.”
“In temptation let it be your invariable course not to attend to anything which he proposes, not to listen, not to argue with him concerning aught. If you can withdraw and place yourself at a distance, so as not to perceive or recognize his wicked attempts, so much the more secure you will be for thus looking upon him only at a distance. The demon always seeks to prepare the way for his deceits, especially in souls which he fears will resist his entrance unless he can thus facilitate his approach.”
“He is accustomed to begin by causing sorrow or dejection of heart, or he makes use of other trickery or snares, by which he diverts or withdraws the soul from the love of the Lord; then he comes with his poison, concealed in the golden cup in order to diminish the horror of the soul. As soon as you notice in yourself any of these signs, (for you have your experience, obedience and instructions for a guide), I wish that with the wings of the dove you direct your flight to the high refuge of the Almighty (Ps. 54, 7), calling upon Him for aid and proffering the merits of my most holy Son. To me also should you fly for protection as I am your Mother and Teacher, and to your devoted angels, and to all the rest of your advocates in the Lord.”
“Quickly close up your senses and consider yourself as dead to them, or as a soul already belonging to the other life, whether the jurisdiction and the exacting tyranny of the serpent does not reach. Occupy yourself so much the more earnestly in the exercise of the virtue contrary to the vice to which he tempts you, and especially in acts of faith, hope and love, which dispel cowardice and doubt, and weaken the influence of discouragement and fear in the human heart.”
“The arguments for overcoming Lucifer you must seek in God alone; and do not disclose them to your enemy, lest he meet you with fallacies and confusing pretense.”
“Besides knowing it to be dangerous, esteem it as unworthy of you to argue with him openly, or to pay particular attention to him, who is not only the enemy of your Beloved but also of you. Show yourself superior to him and highmindedly apply yourself to the practice of all virtues. Be content with this treasure and withdraw yourself; for the most skillful battle of the sons of God consists in flying farthest from evil.”
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The devil is proud and is deeply hurt by contempt; in the presumption of his arrogance and vanity he desires above all the attention of men. On this account he is so persistent in pursuing us step by step; for in his deceitfulness he cannot rely upon the force of truth, but on his persistent counterfeiting of the good and the true. As long as this slave of wickedness is not despised, he never believes himself discovered and he continues, like an importunate fly, to buzz about the spot tainted by the greatest corruption.”
“Not less warily must you conduct yourself, when your enemy makes use of other creatures for your destruction. This he does in two ways: either leading them on to immoderate love, or to undue dislike or hatred. As soon as you notice a disorderly affection in those with whom you converse, observe the same precaution as in flying from the demon; yet with this difference, that while you hate him as your enemy, you consider the others as God's creatures to whom you must not deny the consideration due to them on account of His Majesty.”
“But in as far as withdrawing from them is concerned, act as if they were your enemies; for in regard to the service, which the Lord requires of you and in regard to your present condition, it is the devil who operates in these persons toward separating you from your God and from your duty.”
“If on the other hand they hate and persecute you, answer them with meekness and love, praying for them with intimate affection of your heart (Matth. 5,44). If it should be necessary, soothe the wrath of your persecutors with sweet words, and undeceive those who are led astray by false reports. Do this not in order to excuse yourself, but in order to pacify your brothers and for their inward and outward peace; thus you will at one and the same time conquer yourself and those who hate you.”
“In order to be well practiced in this way of acting it is necessary to cut off the very roots of the capital sins, to tear them out, and to die to the movements of the appetites. For in these appetites the seven capital vices to which the devil leads men, are rooted, and in these disorderly and undisciplined passions he sows the germs of the seven sins.”
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Instructions from our Queen, the Mother of God, Blessed Mary:
"My daughter, from the very beginning of this history of my life you were made to understand, that among other purposes, the Lord wished to call the attention of mortals to the debt contracted by their unfeeling forgetfulness of His Divine love and of mine toward them."
"It is true that all His love is included and made manifest in His having died on the Cross for them, for this was the extremity of His immense charity (John 3, 16). But many ungrateful men are loath to remember even this blessing. "
"For such and for all others the knowledge of what He did for them during the thirty-three years should be a new incentive and spur of love; since each of His acts was worth an infinite price and merited our eternal gratitude."
"The Almighty set me as a witness to all of them: and I assure you, that from the first instant of His conception in my womb, He ceased not to clamor to the Father for the salvation of men. From that moment He began to embrace the Cross (Heb. 10, 5), not only in desire, but also as far as was possible in effect, placing Himself in the position of one crucified from His infancy and continuing these exercises during His whole life."
" I also imitated Him in this, joining Him in His prayers and labors for mankind and in the very first acts of His most sacred humanity by which He rendered thanks for the salvation of men."
"Let therefore mortals beware, lest I, who was a Witness and Co-operatrix of this salvation, be not also a Witness and Co-operatrix in the day of judgment, proclaiming how well justified is the cause of God with men. If on that day I most justly refuse my intercession to those, who have foolishly despised and forgotten so many and so great favors and blessings, the results of the Divine love of my Son and my own: what answer, what excuse or evasion shall those then bring forward, who have been so well informed, so much admonished and enlightened by the truth? How can these ungrateful and pertinacious mortals expect mercy of the most just and righteous God, when He has given them sufficient and opportune time, invited them so often, called them, waited and worked for them, and conferred upon them immense blessings, while they abused and wasted all of them in the pursuit of vanity?"
"Fear, my daughter, this, the greatest of all blindness. Refresh ever the memory of the most holy works of my Son and of me, and imitate them with all your fervor. Continue the exercises of the Cross under the guidance of obedience, in order to keep yourself mindful of what you must imitate and give thanks for. Take notice at the same time, that my Son and Lord could have redeemed the human race without suffering so much and that He wished to increase His sufferings only on account of the immensity of His love for souls. The return for such condescension should be, that the creature content not itself with little, as is ordinarily the case with ignorant men. Add virtue to virtue and seek thereby evermore to meet all your obligations, imitating the Lord and me in our labors for the salvation of the world. All your merits offer up for souls, uniting them with His merits in the presence of the eternal Father."
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Instructions from our Queen, the Mother of God, Blessed Mary:
“If I was the model to be imitated, in the way I responded to the coming of God into the soul and into the world, by showing due reverence, worship, humility, and thankful love, it follows that if you, (and in the same way the rest of the souls), are solicitous in imitating Me, the Most High will come and produce the same effects in you as in myself; though they may be not so great and efficacious.”
“For if the creature, as soon as it obtains the use of reason, begins to advance toward the Lord as it should, directing its footsteps in the path of life and salvation, His Most High Majesty will issue forth to meet it, (Wis. 6, 15), being beforehand with His favors and communications; for to Him it seems a long time to wait for the end of the pilgrimage in order to manifest Himself to His friends.”
“Thus it happens, that by means of faith, hope and charity, and by the worthy reception of the Sacraments, many Divine effects, wrought by His condescension, are communicated to the souls. Some are communicated according to the ordinary course of grace and others according to a more supernatural and wonderful order; and each one will be more or less conformable to the disposition of the soul and to the ends intended by the Lord, which are not known at present. And if the souls do not place any obstacle on their part, He will be just as liberal with them as with those who dispose themselves, giving them greater light and knowledge of His immutable being, and by a Divine and exceedingly sweet infusion of grace, transforming them into a likeness of Himself and communicating to them many of the privileges of the beatified.
"For after He is found He allows Himself to be taken possession of and enjoyed by that hidden embrace, which the Spouse felt, when She said: "I will hold Him and not dismiss Him" (Cant. 3, 4). Of this possession and of His presence the Lord Himself will give many token and pledges, in order that the soul may possess Him in peace like the blessed, although always only for a limited time. So liberal as this will God, our Master and Lord, be in rewarding the objects of His love for the labors accepted by them for His sake and fearlessly undertaken to gain possession of Him.”
“In this sweet violence of love the creature begins to withdraw from and die to all earthly things; and that is why love is called strong as death. From this death arises a new spiritual life, which makes the soul capable of receiving new participations of the blessed and their gifts; for it enjoys more frequently the overshadowing of the Most High and the fruits of the highest Good, which it loves."
"These mysterious influences cause a sort of overflow into the interior and animal parts of the creature, producing a certain transparency and purifying it from the effects of the spiritual darkness; it makes it courageous and as it were indifferent to suffering, ready to meet and endure all that is adverse to the inclinations of the flesh. With a certain subtle thirst it begins to seek after all the difficulty and violence incident to the attainment of the kingdom of heaven (Matth. 11, 12); it becomes alert and unhindered by earthly grossness, so that many times the body itself begins to feel this lightness in regard to its own self; the labors, which before seemed burdensome, become easy."
"Of all these effects you have knowledge and experience, my daughter, and I have described and rehearsed them for you, in order that you may dispose yourself and labor so much the more earnestly; so that the Divine activity and power of the Most High, in working out His pleasure in you, may find you well disposed and free from resistance and hindrance.”
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Instructions from our Queen, the Mother of God, Blessed Mary:
“My daughter, I see thee astonished at the information, which I give thee concerning the mysterious works of my most holy Son and concerning my own share in them. For you see on the one hand, how powerful they are for making an impression on human hearts, and on the other, that many of them have remained hidden until now."
"Your wonder should not be that men have not known these mysteries, but that, having been informed of so many others concerning the life and activity of their own and my Lord, they have held them in such contempt and forgetfulness."
"If they were not so ignoble of heart, and would lovingly contemplate the Divine truths, they would find in my Son's and in my own life, as far as it is known to them, most powerful motives for thankfulness. By the Articles of Faith and by the many other truths taught and preached in the holy Church, many worlds could be converted. For these truths exhibit clearly, that the Onlybegotten of the eternal Father clothed Himself in the mortal flesh of sinful man in order to redeem the human race by the frightful death of the Cross (Philip 2, 7), acquiring for them eternal life by the loss of His own, and recalling and liberating them from everlasting death."
"If this blessing were taken at its true value and mortals were not so ungrateful to their God and Savior and so cruel toward themselves, none would lose their chance of salvation or bring upon themselves eternal damnation. In your amazement then, my dearest, weep ceaselessly over the terrible loss sustained by so many insane and thankless souls, who are forgetful of God, of their duty and of their own selves.”
“On former occasions I have already told you, that the number of those foreknown as doomed, is so great, and of those that save themselves is so small, that it is not expedient to say more in particular.” (Mt 7:13-14)
"For if you have the sentiments of a true daughter of the Church, the spouse of Christ, my Son and Lord, you would die at seeing such misfortune. What you may know, is, that all the loss and misfortune apparent in Christian nations and governments, as well among chiefs as among subjects of the Church and of the secular state, all originate and flow from the forgetfulness and contempt of the works of Christ and of the works of His Redemption."
"If there were a way of rousing them, to a sense of thankfulness and to a sense of their duty as faithful in Christ, and acknowledged children of their Creator and Redeemer, and of me, who am their Intercessor, the wrath of the Divine Judge would be appeased, and there would be some diminution of the widespread ruin and perdition among Catholics.”
“The eternal Father, who is justly zealous for the honor of His Son and rigorously chastises the servants, who know the will of their Lord and refuse to fulfill it, would again be reconciled.”
“The faithful in the Church make much of the sin of the infidel Jews in taking away the life of their God and Master. They are right in doing so, for it was a most heinous crime and merited the punishments decreed against that people."
"But Catholics forget, that their own sins are rendered heinous by other elements of guilt surpassing that of the Jews; for although their error was culpable, they esteemed it as truth in the end; then also the Lord delivered Himself up to them, allowing them to follow the counsels of hell, by which they were oppressed for their sins (Luke 22, 53)."
"In our days the Catholics are not in ignorance, but in the fullness of the light, by which they know and understand the Divine mysteries of the Incarnation and Redemption. The holy Church has been founded, spread out, made illustrious by miracles, by saints, by holy writings, by the knowledge and proclamation of truths unknown to the Jews. In spite of all these multiplied advantages, blessings, truths and enlightenments, many live like infidels and as if they had not before their eyes so many inducements to draw them on and oblige them, nor so many chastisements to fill them with dread."
"How can Catholics then, under these circumstances, imagine that the sins of others were greater or more grievous than their own? How can they presume that their punishment shall not be more lamentable? O my daughter, ponder well this doctrine, and be filled with a holy fear!"(Mt 7:13-14)
"Humiliate yourself to the dust and confess yourself the lowest of the creatures before the Most High. Look upon the works of your Redeemer and Master. Imitate them and apply them sorrowfully to satisfy for your own faults in sorrow and penance.”
“ Do imitate and follow me in my ways, as far as you are enlightened from on High. And I wish that you labor not only for your own salvation, but also for the salvation of your brethren. This you must do by praying and suffering for them, charitably admonishing those you can, and eagerly doing for them more than is your duty. Show yourself even more anxious to benefit those who have offended you, be patient with all, and humiliate yourself below the most abject. According to the directions given you before, be solicitous to assist, with fervent charity and firm assurance, those that are in the dangers of death.”
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Instructions from our Queen, the Mother of God, Blessed Mary:
"Guard yourself, my dearest, against those living in darkness and the lovers of the world more than against fire; for the wisdom of the sons of this world is carnal and diabolical, and their ways lead to death. In order to walk the way of truth, even at the cost of the natural life, it is necessary to preserve the peace of the soul."
"Three dwelling-places I point out for you to live in, from which must never intentionally come forth. If at any time the Lord should bid you to relieve the necessities of your fellow creatures, I desire that do not lose this refuge. Act as one who lives in a castle surrounded by enemies, and who perchance must go to the gate to transact necessary business. He acts with such wariness that he will pay more attention to safeguard his retreat and shield himself, than to transact business with others, being always on the watch and on guard against danger. So must you live, if you wish to live securely; for doubt not, that enemy is more cruel and poisonous than asps and basilisks surround you."
"Your habitations shall be the Divinity of the Most High, the humanity of my most holy Son, and your own interior. In the Divinity you must live like the pearl in its shell, or like the fish in the sea, allowing your desires and affections to roam in its infinite spaces. The most holy humanity shall be the wall, which defends you; and His bosom shall be the place of your rest, and under His wings shall you find refreshment (Ps. 16, 8). Your own interior shall afford you peaceful delight through the testimony of a good conscience (Cor. 2, 12), and it will, if you keep it pure, familiarize you with the sweet and friendly intercourse of your Spouse."
"It is also certain that ordinarily the demons have no power over souls, unless they gain entrance by some venial or mortal fault. Mortal sin gives them a sort of direct right over those who commit it; while venial sin weakens the strength of the soul and invites their attacks. Imperfections diminish the merit and the progress of virtue, and encourage the enemy. Whenever the astute serpent notices that the soul bears with its own levity and forgets about its danger, it blinds it and seeks to instill its deadly poison. The enemy then entices the soul like a little heedless bird, until it falls into one of the many snares from which there seems to be no escape."
"Admire then, my daughter, what you have learned by Divine enlightenment and weep in deepest sorrow over the ruin of so many souls absorbed in such dangerous tepidity. They live in the obscurity of their passions and depraved inclinations, forgetful of the danger, unmoved by their losses, and heedless of their dealings. Instead of fearing and avoiding the occasions of evil, they encounter and seek for them in blind ignorance. In senseless fury they follow their pleasures, place no restraint on their passionate desires, and care not where they walk, even if to the most dangerous precipices. They are surrounded by innumerable enemies, who pursue them with diabolical treachery, unceasing vigilance, unquenchable wrath and restless diligence.
“What wonder then, that from such extremes, or rather from such unequal combat, irreparable defeats should arise among the mortals?"
"And that, since the number of fools is infinite, the number of the reprobate should also be uncountable, and that the demon should be inflated by his triumphs in the perdition of so many men? May the eternal God preserve you from such a misfortune; and do weep and deplore that of your brethren, continually asking for their salvation as far as is possible."
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Instructions from our Queen, the Mother of God, Blessed Mary:
“My daughter, none of the faithful should be ignorant of the fact, that the Most High could have drawn and converted saint Paul without resorting to such miracles of His infinite power. But He made use of them in order to show men, how much His bounty is inclined to pardon them and raise them to His friendship and grace, and in order to teach them, by the example of this great Apostle, how they, on their part, should cooperate and respond to His calls."
“Many mortal souls the Lord wakes up and urges on by His inspiration and help. Many do respond and justify themselves through the Sacraments of the Church; but not all persevere in their justification and still a fewer number follow it up or strive after perfection: beginning in spirit, they relax, and finish in the flesh.”
“The cause of their lack of perseverance in grace and relapse into their sins is their not imitating the spirit of saint Paul at his conversion, when he exclaimed: Lord, what is it Thou wish with me, and what shall I do for Thee? "
"If some of them proclaim this sentiment with their lips, it is not from their whole heart, and they always retain some love of themselves, of honor, of possessions, of sensual pleasure or of some occasion of sin, and thus they soon again stumble and fall.”
“But the Apostle Paul was a true and living example of one converted by the light of grace, not only because he passed from an extreme of sin into that of wonderful grace and friendship of God; but also because he cooperated to his utmost with the call of God, departing at once and entirely from all his evil dispositions and self-seeking and placed himself entirely at the disposal of the Divine will and pleasure for the Lord Jesus.”
“This total denegation of self and surrender to the will of God is contained in those words: "Lord, what do Thou wish to do with me?" and in it consisted, as far as depended upon him, all his salvation. As he pronounced them with all the sincerity of a contrite and humbled heart, he renounced his own will and delivered himself over to that of the Lord, resolved from that moment forward to permit none of his faculties of mind or sense to serve the animal or sensual life into which he had strayed. He delivered himself over to the service of the Almighty in whatever manner or direction should become known to him as being the Divine will, ready to execute it without delay or questioning. And this he immediately set about by entering the city and obeying the command of the Lord given through the disciple Ananias.”
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As the Most High searches the secrets of the human heart, He saw the sincerity, with which saint Paul corresponded to his vocation and yielded to His Divine will and disposition. He not only received Him with great pleasure, but multiplied exceedingly his graces, gifts and wonderful favors, which even Paul would not have received or ever have merited without this entire submission to the wishes of the Lord.”
“Conformably to these truths, my daughter, I desire thee to execute fully my oft-repeated commands and exhortations, that you forget the visible, the apparent and deceitful. Repeat very often, and more with the heart than with the lips those words of saint Paul: "Lord, what does Thou wish to do with me?" For as soon as you begin to do anything of your own choice, it will not be true, that you seek solely the will of the Lord.”
“The instrument has no motion or action except that imparted to it by the artisan; and if it had its own will, it would be able to resist and act contrary to the will of the one using it. The same holds true between God and the soul of His mortal creatures: for, if it entertains any desire of its own independently of God, it will militate against the pleasure of the Lord. As He keeps inviolate the liberty of action conceded to man, He will permit it to lead man astray, as soon as he decides for himself without reference to the direction of his Maker.”
“And since it is not proper that the doings of creatures in this mortal life should be miraculously governed by the Divine power, God, in order that men might not advance false excuses, has implanted a law into their hearts and also constituted his holy Church, in order that they might know the Divine will and regulate their conduct in the fulfilling of it. Moreover, for additional security, He has appointed superiors and ministers in His Church, in order that hearing and obeying them, men might obey the Lord in them.”
“All this security you, my dearest, possess in fullness, so that you should neither admit of any movement, thought, desire of your own, nor fulfill your own will in anything independently of the will and direction of him who has charge of your soul; for him the Lord sends to you, just as He sent Ananias to saint Paul.”
“Moreover you are in a particular manner obliged to this obedience, because the Most High looks upon you with an especial love and grace and desires to use you as an instrument in His hands, assists you, governs you, and moves you directly as well as indirectly through me and His holy angels; and all this He continues to do faithfully, as is well known to you.”
“Consider then, how much reason you have to die to your own desires and live only for the will of God, and that it alone should give life to all your actions and operations. Cut short therefore all your reflections and self-reliance and remember, that, even if you should have the wisdom of the most learned, the counsel of the most prudent, and the natural intelligence of the angels, you could, with all this, know how to execute His will far less perfectly than by resigning and leaving all to His Divine pleasure. He alone knows what is suitable to you and seeks it with an eternal love; He chose your ways and governs you in them.”
“Permit yourself to be guided by his Divine light, without losing time in doing your duty; for in this delay lurks the danger of erring, and in my doctrine lie all security and success. Write it in your heart and fulfill it with all your strength, in order that thou mayest merit my intercession and, through it, to be brought near to the Most High.”
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Instructions from the Great Queen and Mistress of the Angels
"I give you this advice; that with the Divine favor, you renew yourself in the imitation of my life and in putting into practice, as far as possible, what you know of me. This is the will of my Divine Son.
Hear then my teaching and gird yourself with fortitude (Prov. 3 I, 17).
Resolve with all the powers of your will to be attentive, fervent, constant, eager and diligent in seeking to please your Lord."
"Accustom yourself never to lose Him out of sight, even when you descend to converse with creatures and engage in the works of Martha. I shall be your Teacher. The angels shall stand by you, so that with them, and by means of their enlightenments, you continually praise the Lord. The Most High will lend you His strength, so that you may fight His battles with His and your enemies. Do not make yourself unworthy of such great blessings and favors."
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On this occasion of the choice of the first disciples, Blessed Mary was favored by a new revelation of the Most High, in which She was informed again of His holy and eternal decree, concerning the Redemption of man and of the manner in which it was to be executed in the preaching of His most holy Son.
The Most High said to Her: "My Daughter and my Dove, chosen out of thousands, it is necessary that Thou accompany and assist My Only begotten and thine in the labors which He is about to undertake in the work of the Redemption. The time of His suffering is come, and I am about to open up the stores of wisdom and goodness in order to enrich men by My treasures. Through their Redeemer and Teacher, I wish to free them from the slavery of sin and of the devil, and to pour out the abundance of My grace upon the hearts of all the mortals who prepare themselves to know My incarnate Son, and to follow Him as their Head and Guide upon the way of eternal salvation. I wish to raise from the dust and enrich the poor, cast down the proud, exalt the humble and enlighten the blind in the darkness of death (Is. 9, 2). I wish to set up My friends and chosen ones, and make known the greatness of My name. In the execution of this, My holy and eternal will, I wish that Thou, My cherished and chosen One, cooperate with My Son, that thou accompany Him, follow and imitate Him, and I will be with Thee in all that Thou shalt do."
"Supreme King of the universe," most holy Mary answered, "from whom all creatures receive their being and preservation, although I am but vile dust and ashes, I will speak in Thy presence according to Thy condescension (Gen. 18, 27). Accept, 0 most high Lord and God, the heart of Thy handmaid, which is prepared to sacrifice itself for the accomplishment of Thy pleasure. Receive the holocaust, not only of my lips, but of my inmost soul in obedience to the orders of Thy wisdom manifested unto Thy slave. Behold me prostrate before Thy presence and supreme Majesty: fulfill in me entirely Thy will and pleasure. I desire, 0 almighty God, if it is possible, to suffer and to die either with or instead of Thy and my Son. This would be the fulfillment of all my desires and the excess of my joy, that the sword of Thy justice strike rather me, since I am closer to guilt. He is sinless as well by nature as also by the prerogatives of the Divinity. All creatures are infinitely distant from His dignity; yet it is also true that any of the acts of Thy Onlybegotten is abundantly sufficient for the Redemption, and that He has done much for men. If on account of this it is possible for me to die in order to save His priceless life, I am prepared to die. But if Thy decree is unchangeable, grant me, highest God and Father, if possible, that I pour out my life with His. But in this also will I submit to Thy will, just as I am ready to obey Thee in following Him and in sharing His labors. Do Thou assist me with the power of Thy right hand in order that I may hasten to imitate Him and fulfill Thy pleasure and my own longings."
Instructions from our Queen, the Mother of God, Blessed Mary:
“My daughter, all the doings of my most holy Son prove His Divine love toward men and how different this love is from that which they have among themselves.”
“Mortals are ordinarily so small-minded, niggardly, avaricious and sluggish, that they are usually not moved to love anyone unless they see some advantage in the objects of their love. Hence the love of creatures is founded upon the good thought to be in that which they love. But Divine Love, having its fountain within itself, and being capable of effecting its own wishes, does not seek the creature because it is worthy, but it loves creatures in order to make them worthy of love.”
“Therefore, no soul must despair of the Divine Goodness. Yet no one must on that account have a vain and presumptuous trust, expecting Divine Love to work in it effects of grace of which he is altogether unworthy; for in these gifts of His love the Most High follows a course of equity most mysterious to the creature. Although God loves them all and wishes all to be saved, yet in the distribution of these gifts and effects of His love He undeniably applies a certain measure and weight of His sanctuary, by which He dispenses them.”
“ Now, as man cannot penetrate or comprehend this secret, he must take care not to forfeit or lose the first grace and first vocation; for he does not know whether he will not lose the second by his ingratitude, and he can be certain of not losing the second only by making use of the first grace.”
“The soul can know for certain only this: that grace will not be denied if the soul does not make itself unworthy. These workings of Divine Love in the soul are accompanied by interior enlightenment, so that in the presence of this light, men are reproved for their sins and convinced of their evil state and of the danger of eternal death.”
“But human pride makes many of them so foolish and base of heart that they resist this light; others are hard to move and never fail to have some vain excuse for their negligence; whence they counteract the first effects of the love of God and make themselves unfit for future graces. Now, without the help of grace, men cannot avoid evil, nor can they do the good, or even know it; thus many cast themselves from abyss to abyss. For, since they counteract and repel grace, and thus are unworthy of further help, they inevitably draw upon themselves ruin by falling from sin to sin.”
“Be attentive, therefore, my dearest, to the light which has excited your heart to the love of the Most High; for by the enlightenment which you have received in the history of my life, even if you have no other light, you are placed under such great obligations that if you do not correspond with them in the holiness of your life, you shall be more reprehensible in the eyes of God and in mine, and in the presence of angels and men, than all the other human born.”
“Let also the conduct of the first disciples of my most holy Son, and the promptitude with which they followed Him, serve you as an example. Although His forbearance and kind instruction were a special grace, they faithfully corresponded to it and followed the teachings of their Master. Their human nature was weak, yet they did not make themselves incapable of receiving further blessings of God's right hand and they set their desires toward much higher aims than their weak strength would be able to attain. In order to bring this faithful love in you to its greatest perfection, I wish that you imitate me in all the works which I have performed on this occasion, and in the desire to die for my Divine Son or with Him, if it had been permitted.”
“Prepare your heart for what I shall yet reveal to you of the Death of the Lord and of my own life in order that you may in all things do what is perfect and holy. Consider, my daughter, that I have a complaint against the human race, of which I have spoken to you at other times, and which applies to nearly all men: that they neglect and forget to inform themselves of what I and my most holy Son have done for them; that they do not weigh gratefully the blessings of each hour, nor seek to make a proper return.”
“See that you do not thus offend me, since I have made you a sharer in these exalted secrets and sacraments, wherein you find so much light and instruction and the practice of the highest and most excellent virtues. Raise yourself above yourself, labor diligently in order that you may receive more and more grace, and, by corresponding with it, gather much merit and eternal rewards.”
“All the works which I have performed on this occasion, and in the desire to die for my Divine Son or with Him, if it had been permitted. Prepare your heart for what I shall yet reveal to you of the Death of the Lord and of my own life in order that you may in all things do what is perfect and holy.”
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