| The Father's message
July 1, 1932
Feast of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Here, finally, is the day, blessed for ever, the
day the celestial Father promised!
Today the long days of preparation are over, and I feel close, so close, to the coming of
my Father and the Father of all men.
A few minutes of prayer, and then what spiritual joys! I was overwhelmed by the desire to
see Him and hear Him!
My heart, burning with love, opened up with such great confidence that I realized that,
until then, I had never been so trusting with anyone.
The thought of my Father made me, as it were, madly happy.
Finally I began to hear singing. Angels came to announce this glad arrival! Their songs
were so beautiful that I decided to note them down as soon as possible.
This harmony ceased and then came a procession of the elect, the cherubim and seraphim,
with God, our Creator and our Father.
Prostrate, with my face to the ground, sunk in my own nothingness, I said the Magnificat.
Immediately afterwards, the Father told me to sit close to Him and write what He had
decided to say to men.
The entire heavenly court who had accompanied Him vanished. Only the Father
remained with me and, before sitting, He said:
"I have already told you and now I say it again: I cannot give My beloved Son another
time to prove My love for men! I am now coming among them in order to love them and to
make them know this love, assuming their image, their poverty. Look, now I am putting
aside My crown and all My glory to take on the appearance of an ordinary man!"
Having assumed the appearance of an ordinary man by
placing His crown and His glory at His Feet, He took the globe of the world and held it to
His Heart, supporting it with His left Hand. He then sat next to me.
I can say but a few words about His arrival and
about the appearance He deigned to assume, and about His love! In my ignorance I do not
have words to express what He revealed to me.
'Peace and salvation," He said, "to this
house and to the whole world! May My power, My love and My Holy Spirit touch men's hearts,
so that all mankind may turn to salvation and come to its Father, Who seeks it, to love
and to save it!
Let My Vicar Pius XI understand that these are days of
salvation and blessing. Let him not fail to take this opportunity to call the attention of
the children to their Father, Who is coming to help them in this life and to prepare their
everlasting happiness.
I have chosen this day to begin My work among men
because today is the feast of the Precious Blood of My Son Jesus. I intend to bathe in
this Blood the work I am beginning, so that it may bear great fruit among all mankind.
This is the real purpose of My coming:
1. I am coming to banish the excessive fear that My creatures have of Me, and to show them
that My joy lies in being known and loved by My children, that is, by all mankind, present
and future.
2. I am coming to bring hope to men and nations.
How many have long since lost it! This hope will make them live in peace and security,
working for their salvation.
3. I am coming to make Myself known just as I am, so that men's trust may increase
together with their love for Me, their Father. I have but one concern: to watch over all
men and love them as My children.
The painter delights in contemplating the picture he has painted. ln the same way, it is
My pleasure and delight to come among men, the masterpiece of My creation!
Time presses. I wish men to know as soon as possible
that I love them and that I feel the greatest happiness in being with them and talking
with them, like a father with his children.
I am the Eternal One, and when I was alone, I had already thought of using all My power to
create beings in My image. But material creation had to come first, so that these beings
could find their means of sustenance; it was then that I created the world. I filled it
with all the things I knew would be necessary to men: air, sun and rain, and many other
things that I knew to be necessary for their life.
In the end, man was created! I was pleased with My
handiwork. Man sins, but it is precisely then that My infinite generosity shows itself.
In the Old Testament, I created and chose prophets to live among men. To them I told My
desires, My sorrows and My joys, so that they could communicate them to everyone.
The more evil grew, the more My goodness urged Me to communicate with just souls so that
they could transmit MY commands to those who were creating disorder. Thus, I was sometimes
obliged to be strict in order to reprove them; not to punish them - that would only have
done harm - but to take them away from vice and lead them to their Father and their
Creator, Whom they had forgotten and ignored in their ingratitude. Later, evil overwhelmed
men's hearts to such an extent that I was compelled to send calamities upon the world to
purify men through suffering, the destruction of their possessions, or even their death.
These were the Flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, man's wars against man, etc.
I have always wished to remain in this world among men. So, during the Flood, I was close
to Noah, the only just man then. In the other calamities, also, I always found a just man
with whom I could stay and, through him, I lived among the men of that time, and it has
always been thus.
The world has often been purified of its corruption because of My infinite goodness
towards humanity. I continued to choose certain souls in whom I was pleased, because
through them I could be happy with My creatures, men.
I promised the world a Messiah. I did all I could to prepare His coming, showing Myself in
the figures that represented Him, even thousands of years before His coming!
For who is this Messiah? Whence does He come? What will He do on earth? Whom does He
represent?
The Messiah is God.
Who is God? God is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Whence does He come? Or rather, who ordered Him to come among men? It was I, His Father,
God.
Whom is He to represent on earth? His Father, God.
What is He to do on earth? He will make the Father, God, known and loved.
Did He not say: "Do you not know that I must be about My Father's business?"
("Nesciebatis quia in his quae Patris mei sunt oportet me esse?" St. Luke, ch.
2, v. 49).
"I have come only to do the will of My Father."
'Whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you."
"You will pray to Him like this: 'Our Father, Who art in heaven...', and elsewhere,
since He came to glorify the Father and to make Him known to men, He says:
"Whoever sees Me, sees the Father."
"I am in the Father and the Father is in Me."
"No one comes to the Father except through Me' ("Nemo venit ad Patrem nisi per
me" St. John, ch. 14, v. 6)
"Whoever is with Me is also with My Father", etc.?
Realize then, 0 men, that for all eternity I have had
but one desire, to make Myself known to men and be loved by them. I wish to stay for ever
with them.
Do you want an authentic proof of this desire that I have just expressed?
Why did I command Moses to build a tabernacle and the ark of the covenant, if not to come
and dwell, as a Father, a brother, a close friend, with My creatures, men? This was My
ardent desire. In spite of this, they have forgotten Me and offended Me with countless
sins. I gave Moses My commandments to remind them, in spite of everything, of God, their
Father, and of His sole wish, to save them. They were supposed to observe the commandments
and thereby remember their infinitely good Father, always intent upon their present and
eternal salvation.
All this was forgotten and men sank into error and
fear, considering that the observance of the commandments as I had transmitted them to
Moses was too taxing. They made up other laws in accordance with their. whims, in order to
observe them more easily. Little by little, in the exaggerated fear they had of Me, they
forgot Me more and more and heaped outrages upon Me.
Yet My love for these men, My children, never quite ceased. When I
realized that neither the patriarchs nor the prophets had been able to make Me known and
loved by men, I decided to come Myself.
But how could I come among them? There was no other way than to come
Myself, in the second Person of My divinity.
Would men know Me? Would they listen to Me?
Nothing in the future was hidden from Me; I Myself answered these
two questions:
"They will ignore My presence, even though they will be near
Me. In My Son they will treat Me cruelly, notwithstanding all the good He will do for
them. In My Son they will speak ill of Me, they will crucify Me to bring about My
death."
Shall I stop because of this? No, My love for My children, men, is
too great.
I did not stop there. Understand well that I loved you, as it were,
more than My beloved Son, or rather, more than Myself.
What I am telling you is so true that, if one of My creatures had
been enough to atone for the sins of other men through a life and death similar to those
of My Son, I would have hesitated. Why? Because I would have betrayed My love by making a
beloved creature suffer, rather than suffering Myself, in My Son. I would never have
wished MY children to suffer.
This, then, in brief, is the story of My love until My coming among
men through My Son.
Most men know of all these events, but they fail to grasp the
essential thing: that love was the guiding principle in it all!
Yes, it is love. This is what I want to impress upon you. Now this
love has been forgotten. I want to remind you of it, so that you can learn to know Me as I
am, so that you will not be, like slaves, afraid of a Father Who loves you so much.
You see, in this story we are only at the first day of the first
century, and I would like to bring it up to the present time, the twentieth century.
Oh, how My paternal love has been forgotten by Men! Yet I love you
so tenderly! In My Son, that is to say, in the Person of My Son made man, what have I not
done! Divinity is veiled in this humanity, it is shrunk, impoverished, humiliated. With My
Son Jesus I led a life of sacrifice and work. I received His prayers, that man might have
a clearly indicated path along which to walk always in justice, so as to reach Me safely!
Of course, I can understand My children's weaknesses! Because of
this, I asked My Son to give them the means to get up again after they have fallen. These
means will help them to purify themselves from their sins, so that they may still be the
children of My love. They are, chiefly, the seven Sacraments. And the greatest means of
securing your salvation, despite your falls, is the the Cross, My Son's Blood poured out
upon you every moment, if you so wish, both in the Sacrament of Penance and in the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass.
My dear children, I have lavished these gifts upon you with special graces for twenty
centuries, but with what miserable results!
How many of My creatures, who become children of My love through My Son, have quickly
thrown themselves into the eternal abyss! Truly, they have not known My infinite goodness;
I love you so very much!
You, at least, who know that I Myself am coming to talk to you, to make you aware of My
love, for your own ,sake, do not throw yourselves over the precipice. I am your Father!
Is it possible that, having called Me your Father and having shown your love for Me, you
could find in Me such a hard and insensitive heart as to let you perish? No, no, do not
believe it! I am the best of Fathers! I know My creatures' weaknesses! Come to Me, come
with confidence and love! I will forgive you after you have repented. Even if your sins
were as repulsive as mud, your confidence and your love will make Me forget them, so you
will not be judged! I am just, it is true, but love pays for everything!
Listen, My children, let us make a comparison, and you will be assured of My love. For Me,
your sins are like iron, and your acts of love like gold. If you gave Me a thousand pounds
of iron, it would not be like giving Me just ten pounds of gold! In other words, with just
a little love, great iniquities can be expiated.
This, then, is one very light-hearted way of looking at My
judgement of My children, men, all of them, without exception. You must come to Me. I am
so close to you! You must love Me and honour Me so that you will not be judged, or rather,
that you will be judged with infinitely merciful love.
Have no doubt! If My Heart were not like this, I would have already destroyed the world
every time it committed sin! But as you have seen, at every moment My protection manifests
itself through graces and benefits. You can conclude from this that there is a Father Who
is above all fathers, Who loves you and will never cease to love you, if you so desire.
I come among you in two ways: the Cross and the Eucharist!
The Cross is My way of coming down among My children, since it is through it that I caused
My Son to redeem you. And for you, the Cross is the way to ascend to My Son, and from My
Son to Me. Without it you could never come to Me, because man, by sinning, brought on
himself the punishment of separation from God.
In the Eucharist I live among you as a Father with His family. I wished My Son to
institute the Eucharist so as to make every tabernacle the vessel of My favours, My riches
and My love, to give them to men, My children.
It is always by these two means that I cause both My power and My infinite mercy to come
down ceaselessly.
... Now that I have shown you that My Son Jesus represents Me among men, and that, through
Him, I live constantly among them, I also want to show you that I come among you through
My Holy Spirit.
The work of this third Person of My divinity is carried out silently and often man is not
aware of it. But for Me it is a very fitting way of living, not just in the tabernacle,
but also in the souls of all those in a state of grace, to establish My throne in them and
to live there always, like the true Father Who loves, protects and helps His children. No
one has yet understood the infinite desire of My divine, paternal Heart to be known, loved
and honoured by all men, the just and the sinful. These are the three gifts that I wish to
receive in homage from man, so that I may always be merciful and good even towards the
most hardened sinners.
What have I not done for My people, from Adam to Joseph, the adoptive father of Jesus, and
from the time of Joseph up to the present day, so that man should give Me the special
honour due to Me as his Father, Creator and Saviour! However, I have not yet received this
special veneration which I have so much hoped for and which I desire so much!
In the book of Exodus you read that God must be held in special veneration. The psalms of
David, especially, contain this teaching. In the commandments which I Myself gave to
Moses, I emphasized: "You will worship and love perfectly only one God."
Well then, loving and honouring are two things that go together. As I have lavished so
many benefits on you, I must be honoured by you in a very special way!
Giving you life, I wished to create you in My image! Your heart is therefore as sensitive
as Mine, and Mine as yours!
What would you not do if one of your neighbours did you a small favour to please you? The
most insensitive man would be grateful to such a person for ever. Anyone would try to find
something that would give the greatest pleasure, in recompense for the service performed.
Well, I will be much more grateful to you, assuring you of eternal life, if you will do Me
the small favour of honouring Me as I request.
I recognize that you honour Me in My Son and that there are those who are able to offer
everything to Me through My Son, but they are few indeed! Do not believe, though, that in
honouring My Son you are not honouring Me! You do, certainly, honour Me, as I live in My
Son! Thus, everything that is to His glory is also to My glory!
But I would like to see man honouring his Father and Creator with a special devotion. The
more you honour Me, the more you will honour My Son, since, according to My will, He
became the Word Incarnate and came among you to make known to you the One Who sent Him.
If you come to know Me, you will love Me and My beloved Son more than you do now. See how
many of My creatures, who became My children through the mystery of the Redemption, are
not in the pastures which I have prepared for all men through My Son. And how many others,
and you know it, are still unaware of the existence of these pastures. And how many
creatures of My Hands, whose existence I know of but of which you are ignorant, do not
even know the Hand Which shaped them!
Oh, how I would like to let you know what an almighty Father I am for you and would also
be for those creatures, through My benefits! I would like their lives to be made sweeter
through My law. I would like you to go to them in My name and speak to them of Me. Yes,
tell them that they have a Father who, having created them, wants to give them the
treasures He possesses. Above all, tell them that I think of them, I love them and want to
give them eternal happiness. Oh, I promise you, men's conversion will come sooner.
Believe Me, if you had begun to honour Me with a special devotion from the times of the
early Church, after twenty centuries few men would remain living in idolatry, in paganism
and in so many false and evil sects, in which man is running blindly towards the abyss of
eternal fire! And see how much work remains to be done!
 
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