The Divinity says:
“For the lily immolating herself do not wish for any other dew but that of an increasingly perfect love. Let not even the love of blood ties cause you to emerge from justice. Do not desire, then, for her anything but what is most perfect. And be joyful because the prudent virgin is fueling her lamp with her perfect love, and when the Bridegroom shows up on the way, she will be ready to go out to meet Him.”
The Lord says:
“Peace be with you, and may the Paraclete baptize you with his Fire so that you will be my witnesses and the guardians of this miracle, which I have granted to you out of love for your souls and the Order dear to the immaculate, pierced Heart of the Holy Mother of Myself, of you, and of every believer in the Most Holy Lord.
“I am not addressing my servant Romualdo or any other servant in particular who presently holds a post distinguishing him and rendering him influential in the Order.240 As in the group of apostles and disciples, as long as I was among them, I did not allow distinctions for either Myself or the others, and doctrine and love and reproach were meted out in equal measure because I did not see Peter or James, John or Matthew, Andrew or the Iscariot, Stephen or Elias, Matthias or Abel, but my Church, that Church where, though a hierarchy is necessary, it does not mean separation and difference, but always brotherhood, since the Church is the perfect, homogeneous organism where I, Christ, am the head, and all of you, members, so, now, I am speaking to the Order of the Servants of my Most Blessed Mother, to which my Charity has wanted to give a gift and a mission in these times in which anti-Christian darkness rises to blind spirits and the fevers of accursed doctrines introduce themselves to kill, while the flock on which I have mercy is fainting with hunger and cold.
“Creatures pass. Today they are here. Tomorrow they no longer are. Grass soon drying up after a brief season, they become dust and even their name is forgotten. Blessed are those whose name is written in Heaven because they have done my Will. But the Order remains. And the Order must continue what the Rule or Death may interrupt. And this is what I want. I am thus not addressing my servant Alfonso, head of the Order, or my servant Romualdo - in whom the grace gratuitously given by my Goodness creates obligations of obedience and gratitude towards the Giver so as not to change from grace into disgrace - but the Order, for which I am pointing out this way. And I am pointing it out for the sake of Wisdom, Justice, and Charity.
“My Will, expressed clearly and constantly since the beginning of the work - and Romualdo is well aware of this - is that my Word should be made known, disseminated, and used by the consecrated and the faithful, whereas the instrument must remain unknown until after her death. The pen of a writer would never be celebrated, not even on account of one of those foolish enthusiasms of the masses. But the writer is celebrated. Maria is my pen. Nothing more. I am the Writer. The Thought is mine. I can do what I want with it, then. And I want my Thought, translated into a Word through an impulse of Love, to go and vivify those who are dying on this earth, where the forces of Evil are so active.
“I remind you of the red dragon in the Apocalypse, who with his tail dragged after him a third of the stars, causing them to plunge down. And I remind you that, after laying snares for the woman - who, in solitude, in the place prepared by God for her to be nourished there for one time, two times, and half a time, was protected and saved from the hellish flood of Hatred - he halted on the sands. And I remind you that the dragon, furious over being unable to destroy her, went to wage war on those among the Women’s progeny who remained, those who observed God’s commandments and conserved the testimony of Jesus Christ. And I remind you, though, that these were seen to be seduced and disturbed by the words and wonders of the Beast and many followed him. Only the saints among them were overcome with death, but not in spirit.241
“What is it that is sanctified? The vaster and vaster knoyvledge of God, given to counterbalance the increasingly immense, active, and corrosive preaching of the Beast, provided with the means suitable for the new times, with the means penetrating where people do not. I said so: ‘The children of this age are shrewder than the children of the light.’242 They use the new means and with subtle propaganda penetrate where the static nature of the children of the light does not. Books are destruction nowadays because they represent penetration. Why not counterdestroy, then, what they, the dark ones, are building over the ruins of what was mine and they have demolished? Sow over the ruins and, by my Grace, which shall accompany your efforts, and new mustard steles shall arise from the ruins - the smallest seed, which, however, produces so much foliage that it gives shelter to birds without a nest.
“Too many souls no longer have a nest in faith simply because they are not aware, they do not know Me. The poor recollection of a God-Man dying on a Cross is not knowledge of Me. Knowledge of Me is to know all the forms of Christ’s evangelization, of Christ’s sacrifice, of the love of Christ, Man and God. Are the churches empty, half-empty? Let the houses be entered. Rise up, O sleeping ones! Rise up, O shy ones! It is not time to sleep. Do I have to be the one to shout to you sleepers while the boat is seized by waves threatening shipwreck, ‘Get up, for you will perish if you don’t’? Let that not be the case. Look at how many perish or are seduced because they have only the poisoned bread of heresies of every kind or are seduced because they are stunned by the voices of the false apostles serving the Beast. Help the Master, who has mercy on this throng and gives you bread so that it will not die in the desert. Give this bread. How? I have been telling you how for a long time and will repeat it.
1) Seek approval which will defend and ensure the Work. Seek at once and do not desist until you find it.
2) Print the Gospel cycle, which consists of three parts: firstly, the conception, birth, childhood, and marriage of Mary; secondly, my Annunciation, conception, birth, childhood, and adolescence; thirdly, the three years of Gospel life.
“I want the first two parts because the measure of God’s infinite goodness, power, and forgiveness truly began when the Immaculate One was formed in Anna’s womb. The first beat of the Good News was in the first beat of the embryonic heart of Mary of Joachim and Anna. And you, Servants of Mary, should understand more than anyone else and firmly believe that it is knowledge of Mary that prepares for knowledge of Christ. Mary is the Victor. Satan withdraws from those loving and knowing Mary. And when Satan withdraws, I enter and can act. John of Zechariah is called the Forerunner. He was. For very few years. Mary is eternally. The Twelve were called ‘Apostles.’ They were, for a longer or shorter period of time. Mary is the Apostle eternally. Mary thus precedes Christ and prepares spirits for the true knowledge of Christ.
“I would like the Work to be disseminated from this Nation, where my Grace has been poured forth so abundantly, where the Apostolic See is located, and where there is so much to be rebuilt in order for it to be saved. But Italy is a part of the Christian world; it is not the whole Christian world. And my lights - that is, the enlightened Pastors, capable of hearing the Voice of God and approving it so that it will be given - a gift of my Divine Heart to the men who are dear to Me because I came to suffer and die for them - are throughout the Catholic Christian world. The other dictations shall be reserved for the future.
“Do not use half measures. I want a secure approval. The spokesman must be completely unknown. She seeks nothing but the following (and you cannot refuse to grant her what she requests).
1) For the Work to be published with all due guarantees.
2) For the Order to assist her spiritually, and not just with the ecclesiastical assistance of a priest to administer the Sacraments, as with every other Catholic, but also with the spiritualmoral guidance of a priest - and one of the best - because the souls taken up by extraordinary missions have a twofold, threefold, and tenfold need for priestly guidance. Heaven speaks for the sake of heavenly matters. The priest must watch over the creature suspended between heaven and earth, turned into a sign traversed by darts of the divine will, of hatred and human exaltation, more defenseless than every other creature because of her mission, which excessively estranges her from the world, which absorbs her, which acutely sensitizes her, and which frightens her with its greatness, with fears of diabolical deceit and of not being able to act as God wills and of thus displeasing the Divinity.
“And let the Order help her with material assistance as well. You are faced with a continuous miracle of a finite being who nonetheless bears fruit because I so will. But my miracle must not annul your charity A displaced, atrophic, arrhythmic, shattered heart; asphyxiated, lacerated, poorly healed lungs; constant, increasing fever; tabes dorsalis, which inflames, paralyzes, and hardens nerves and vertebrae; the seraus membranes attacked, the liver attacked, the kidneys attacked - this is the wreck always writing willingly, heroically, and cheerfully, for hours and hours. This is the wreck who, after having written for as many as five hours, and dictated for five more, must correct, reread, bind it all together, and maintain correspondence, and think, and show charity....
“Sons! Who among you would do all of this for one, two, or three years? Except for dictating, she has been doing so for three years. And I have mercy on her. To the point that I slow down the visions, to give her time to rest. If things had gone as until February, the Gospel would by now have been finished. The way they have gone, we are at Elul, and the months of continuous ministry in Judea are missing, in which the pages of John’s Gospel will take on new life. For, if it is true that revelation closes with John, it is also true that many things are mysterious in John, and I alone can make them clear and acceptable, not only by faith, but through understanding.
“I thus want a priest to replace Father Romualdo here, where the spokesman lives, for the initial copy of the manuscripts, which being corrected by the spokesman, shall be sent to Rome, to Romualdo, who shall continue the work. I approve the assistance by Father Corrado for Romualdo to seek out and correct errors in copying. Bear in mind that even a small mistake can lead to a sentence going against dogma and doctrine. Read, reread, and collate, then, so as not to give adversaries the occasion to find error. And I want the correction of the three parts of the Gospel (the two pre-Gospels and the Gospel in a proper sense) to be carried out one last time, with the help of the handwritten text, by little John.
“The instrument does not want to be thanked. Her exertion is her joy; sacrifice, her bread; and my glory and the good of souls, the purpose of her immolation, which preceded her current state as a spokesman by several decades. The instrument wants one thing alone: for my Will to be done. She does not ask you for financial gain. She does not ask you for honors. She asks you for charity. In the name of God, as a sister, as a Catholic, and as a sick person. She asks you to protect her and to protect the Work. I asked you for this before she did. And I do not decree impossible things. The instrument has one desire alone: to die after being handed a volume of the Work approved by the Church through one of her Ordinaries, to die knowing that the river of light which has passed through her being to come to men is being disseminated to nourish, enlighten, and lead men to Me. The instrument does not ask for or think about future glorification. But she implores that the Lord be glorified and that her innocence - upon which Satan hurls himself to strike out at the Lord through the spokesman - be defended. Do not allow the Enemy to drag her into undeserved consternation.
“And be solicitous. The spokesman is a light that is fading out. Act. As others act. Act with justice and charity, as others act with injustice and anticharity. Act at once. From the manner and the time period in which you act to do what I want and what charity requires regarding the spokesman your preparation, your faith, and your obedience will be manifested; the true countenance of your spirit will be seen. And my Grace and Blessing will descend, in proportion to your perfection, on the Order and on individuals, for your protection and comfort.
“Remain in my peace and my union, and know Me and defend Me in my creature, whom I have used for you, for all of you, and whom I have entrusted to you.” 243
240 He is referring to the Order of the Servants of Mary, to which Father Romualdo M. Migliorini belonged. At that time the Prior General of the Order was Father Alfonso M. Benetti, who is named below.
241 Revelation 12-13.
242 Luke 16:8.
243 We omit twenty-two handwritten pages, dated June 9 and 16, 1946, containing Azariah’s commentary on the Mass for Pentecost and the Masses for the First Sunday after Pentecost and the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity.