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Easter Sunday, 11 p.m.
For Father Migliorini, Sister M. Gabriella, and me, Jesus says:
“Before the day of the Resurrection concluded, I showed Myself to the faithful women and my dearest friends so that their joy would be complete and they would all know that the trial was over and the Lord was risen and their faith would be confirmed by his peace and forgiveness. Before this day ends, I come to you, to you that have managed to turn your hearts into a Bethany and a Cenacle and have remained with Me in the Passion.
“Peace and blessing for both Marias. Peace and blessing for them and my Lazarus. Peace and blessing for those living with them in love for Me. Grow in love for Me. May the Blood and the Word create ever-new strength in you. Come without fear to the wounded Palms. You have no need to touch in order to believe. But you need caresses to receive a foretaste of Heaven, and my hands are full of caresses for my friends.
“I have wanted you with Me in the Passion, so that you would be familiar with it in order to love it increasingly. For this familiarity is strength and sanctification. Savor it to the point of becoming strong with my own strength, even in sufferings out of love for God and man. Come with Me now into the joy which the world cannot have: my joy.
“For you, the friends of my Bethanys, known to Me alone, the peace and blessing of the Risen Lord.”