January 31, 1947prev home next
Prayed to and beseeched by me so that He would temper his severity - I could say, and it would be more appropriate, his disdain - and agree to respond, at least for the sake of my peace, regarding the famous “three months” which provoke the examiners, Jesus said to me this morning at 5:45:
“You shall modify the vision on March 28, 1944 with these words in the first period: ‘The two spouses head for the Temple first of all along the streets, which are already crowded for the approaching paschal feast. Joseph leaves the two donkeys in a stable after having fed them and goes with Mary to worship the Lord.’ When corrected in this way, it will give them the more precise sensation that Mary went to her cousin’s during the Passover octave to be with her while Zechariah was away from Hebron to ‘appear, as was the obligation of every male, before the Lord during the Feast of Unleavened Bread’ (Deuteronomy 16:16) - that is, about a month after the Annunciation. As for the time spent in Hebron, I will tell you - precisely because it is you, my little John, who suffer for the sake of justice - that forty-eight plus forty are exactly eighty-eight, or two days less than ninety, which add up to three months.”
Regarding original sin (dictation on March 5, 1944 in notebook 2 Q, p. 55) and the dictations of Jesus and Mary in the Pre-Gospel, following upon the Annunciation (p. 69 ff. up to p. 74), Jesus says:
“The sapiential lesson is so clear and exhaustive - suitable for instructing the ignorant and persuading those who, not having faith or having little, because of rationalism or other factors, are no longer satisfied with fables - that there is nothing to add or remove to the slightest degree. Only voluntary blindness can fail to see the wise truth contained in this dictation. You shall join the dictation on March 5, 1944 to this point so that they will have the whole lesson before their eyes, and if they are humble, they will understand the truth.”
I also took the liberty of repeating to Jesus, present and so good, a question I had been asked by a Servite Father - I don’t know exactly who, but I think it was Father Berti, and I don’t know whether it was by his own initiative or as suggested by others - concerning Jesus’ descent into Hell, which I had accidentally come across again, referred to on January 15, 1944, and which seemed to have provoked someone.
He replied.... Father Berti’s letter then arrived, asking me to write a note to be presented to the Holy Father. And Jesus, smiling, completely luminous, said to me as soon as the letter was brought to me, “This is why precisely now, after four months, I am satisfying you, and for this priest, to whom I previously told you you could communicate this point. As for the other points, you know who you must give them to and when, and how to notify them. And now listen, for I shall repeat the beginning.”
Jesus says:
“You shall give these words to Father Berti. You now know it was he who asked you about them:
“When I gave the dictation on January 15, 1944 to my Maria and said, ‘When I descended there to take those who awaited my coming out of limbo, I experienced the horror of that horror, and if something done by God were not immutable because it is perfect, I would have wished to make it less atrocious, for I am Love, and I felt pain over that horror,’ I wanted to speak of the different places in the hereafter, where the deceased were, grouped together in general and called ‘hell,’ as opposed to Paradise, where God is.
“When, in the superabundance of my joy after the consummation of the Sacrifice, I was able to open Limbo for the just and take many spirits out of Purgatory, I shook with horror, contemplating in my thought that only for the place of damnation was there no redemption or transformation of horror. But I did not enter there. It was not proper or useful to do so.
“Are you astonished that I took many souls out of Purgatory as well? Consider: if a Holy Mass can free someone from Purgatory and always serves to abbreviate and sweeten purgation, what must the real Sacrifice of the Divine Lamb have meant for those in Purgatory? As the Priest and Victim, I applied my merits and my Blood to them, and It whitened the stoles which had not yet been rendered white by the white fire of purgative charity 292
“Send him this and my blessing.”
292 An application of Revelation 7:13-14