The Sweet Guest says,
«As God gives predestination to Grace to all men and predestination to glory to those amongst men who remain faithful to Grace, so too, does He justify those with a firm will who know in themselves how to activate gifts freely received, or abandoned, or given back, through Jesus Christ. And being Christians not only in name and for having received some signs that are no longer vital in them - because sins in grave matters and their persistence have destroyed them - but true Christians for their voluntary faithfulness to the spiritual law, they are re-born in spirit and through the Holy Spirit and through water, the sign of Grace which cleanses and buries the dead man by restoring the new man, and also through the Spirit of Love and Blood which purifies and cleanses of the sins into which they may have fallen.
With their wills, these [people] carry out their second creation or "recreation" in Christ and through Christ, indefatigably, without discouragements or weariness. They form themselves and model themselves on the example and likeness of Christ, Head of the Body of whom they are His members. Nor, by humbly and sincerely acknowledging themselves as weak or even ignoble members, do they stop forcing themselves in assuming the orderly beauty which shines from the Mystical Body and especially from the Head of It, Jesus; rather, exactly because they recognize themselves as such, do they incessantly work at imitating Christ by taking on, ever more so, the likeness of the perfect Man, who in His perfection, was the true image and likeness of God to the point of being able to say, "He who sees Me, sees my Father."
United to Him, faithful to Him, willing out of love for Him of "not walking according to the flesh", you, true Christians, are justified by Him, and your actions, even if they are still imperfect, become good because He clothes them again with the abundance of His infinite merits.
More still: through the spirit of God which dwells in you and which returns to dwell again in you every time the divine Blood reconsecrates you temples in which Grace-God can dwell, you become renewed, recreated, resuscitated and healed, after having died or been wounded by an actual more or less grave sin.
Therefore, everything comes to you by Him and through Him who has given everything and who has suffered everything out of love for you, and together with His innocent Flesh, made into a pure host, holy and immaculate, He crucified and consumed Sin on the Cross.
(Parenthesis. I was interrupted at this point by a more intense weakness; I had flopped on my pillows and the divine Dictator let me rest. However, as soon as I recovered a little, the Holy Spirit recounts a thought to me that I, in a moment of laziness consequent to my state of langour, do not force myself to write by saying, "I will remember it."
That was at 12:00. It is now fourteen o'clock [2p.m.] and I search for it in vain. Lost! It was so deep! I suffer in the spirit. I become upset at the fruitless search of that which, through my own fault, I have lost. For the first time, I hear the Holy Spirit, severe in His voice, say to me, «It is quite some time now that you have become lazy. When you are interrupted by a charitable inspiration or by some other disturbance, We come to your aid. But when you lose a pearl through you own laziness, We do not come to your aid. Remain in your sorrow. And do not seek. You would not find those words of mine not even if you searched through all the books of the Earth. May this suffering be your punishment.»
He is right. But I was so tired! So weak that the pen would fall from my fingers and I was falling over on all sides. I was not able to keep my eyes open, nor did God transmit His strength to me in order to serve Him, as He often does when He wants. And yet... I should have written how and where I could have, safe then for it to be recopied again. Now it is done and there is no way to remedy the situation. If a gap remains here, it is my fault.
It is true. I am so sick by now that I have become lazy. Up to today, God has had pity. Today, He punishes. Patience! Something deserved, and a just punishment.)
Continuing the dictation of June 12th, today the 14th of June.
And He has expiated all sins on His most holy Body. And so that you could clothe yourselves again with the wedding garment, with a cleansed and ornate garment, He clothed Himself with wounds, piercings, bruises and blood.
The wrath of God brought itself down upon Him, the wrath for your infinite sins, from the first Sin, father of every other, to the last which will be committed, and Justice nailed every sin and extinguished it on His innocent Body. Like a fawn that is being chased by a crowd of archers, so too was He pursued by the arrows of God so that every sin could be expiated with His Blood.
From His head where there had not been but holy thoughts and from which there had not come but words of wisdom, justice and love, to His meek feet as the Messenger of peace, of He who in order to come, had crossed distances and descended into valleys in which no man will ever cross and descend - having crossed the abysmal distance between His divine nature and His human nature; and He descended as far as to the deepest, narrowest, darkest and contaminated valley of sin and sorrow which is the Earth, so different from the endless Empyrean that is all light, purity, harmony and joy beyond all human concept, in order to find the Cross on it [Earth], after many trials, hardships and sufferings - He was from His head to His feet no more than one whole [great] wound.
And if the stars scattered in the immensity of the heavens cannot be counted, neither could the wounds scattered upon the Immense One be counted, He who had defined Himself in an expiatory Flesh. Because every wound and bruise was the sum total of the many wounds and blows suffered by He, who through His divine nature, was not subject to sorrow and death, but who had made Himself Man in order to take away the sins of the world, to make offerings which redeem every impurity, to know sorrow and death and to give Himself up to them in order to give Life to those who died in grace, and to give the peace of the children of God on Earth and the most joyous glory in Heaven to Its faithful.
God could have been satisfied with other sacrifices of His beloved Son that would not have been those atrocious and infamous ones of the flagellation and of the cross, the tortures of criminals and of slaves. The sole mortification of the Word in a Flesh, His life subjected to the needs of man, His life amongst sinners, blasphemers and false worshippers of God who were lustful, violent and liars, solely by sanctifying them with His passage amongst them, would have satiated the Father.
The conversion of man from the disorder of sin to the order of the Law could have come, yes, it could have come solely through the teachings of Christ. The foundation of the Christian religion could have come about only because of the Emmanuel's permanence in Palestine. Others have founded religions which have been able to withstand the centuries, and they were simple men. All the more reason that the foundation of the Christian religion could have been had through Christ, the Word of God who became Man, during His stay amongst men, because no one was more of a Master than He. God could have even chosen amongst men, the most just one from them, and could have temporarily joined to him the Spirit of His Word so that the new religion could be, through His justice and truth, truly divine.
Original Sin and all other sins could have been wiped out and men could have been redeemed even with a single drop of the Blood of Jesus Christ. The blood that had poured out in the circumcision of His sacrificed prepuce would have been more than enough, so far as the Son of man, being the Innocent One born of the innocent and immaculate Virgin, had not been bound to the rite imposed upon the descendants of Abraham who were part of the Hebrew people. There was no need for an alliance between the Son of Mary and God the Father because He was not the son of adoption, but the Only Begotten Son of the most holy Father.
Christ was Man. However, the Flesh He took upon Himself did not abolish the Divinity in Him even though the two natures had joined themselves in His one Person without any of the two undergoing mutations to their true substance. Therefore, Man-Christ and God, throughout time, was still and always God, One with the Father and Holy Spirit, as He was before the Incarnation, and He was truly Man for having been made of a Woman, through the power of the Holy Spirit, without any concupiscence of the flesh and without any subjection to original Sin or to any other sin.
Oh! If only those drops of divine Blood were to have been enough to redeem Humanity without adding so many martyrs to Its total effusion. However, in the true union of the two natures in one sole person, in the annihilation of a God first in a flesh, and in a total immolation later, lies the degree of the immensity of divine love and of the gravity of the Sin, just as in the Resurrection lies the undeniable proof of the true personality of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, the Emmanuel, Son of God and Son of Man, without any possibility of doubt or error. Because only a God could have by Himself resurrected Himself in His human part, after such an awful death and burial, and risen gloriously, without any traces of wounds other than those beneficial ones of the Five Wounds made most beautiful - He who already was the most "Beautiful amongst the sons of men" not only for having inherited maternal beauty and for being free of flaws consequent to the Sin, but also through a divine gift necessary for His mission and for His end - made most beautiful, even more majestic and powerful than the beauty of glorified bodies.
Everything could have been enough for the Father in order to reach the goal of being able to deliver Grace to the fallen man, and the Father could have done anything without reaching that abyss of annihilation and that summit of sorrow which He had wanted for His Son so that Sin could be wiped out and Heaven re-opened to the adoptive children of God. However, what consequences would have resulted? Those of new sins of rebellion, of disorder, of pride, of harshness and of denial which would have precipitated
Humanity once again into the abyss drawn out from it by the Redeemer, and His work as Master, Founder and Sanctifier of men would have all been for nothing.
Would proud Humanity, and that of Israel more than any other, have perhaps bowed its forehead before the doctrine, the justice, the declarations of a man, and a man of the people, of the son of a carpenter of Nazareth, if it did not even yield to the prodigies of His miracles and of His Resurrection and Ascension? Would the power of a man even if most holy, whom God had temporarily joined, have attained its purpose of making a religion acceptable so contrary in its doctrines, to the triple concupiscence which bites, burns and renders men insane? Was it convenient and just that the most perfect Religion should be preached and founded through the sole permanence of the Emmanuel in Palestine? Is one to think of a world converted [solely] by the teachings of a man even if very wise?
None of these things can have an affirmative answer. It would not have been possible, neither just, nor convenient. Because man would have rendered it useless and impossible to follow with his quibblings, incredulity, unjust scandals, and foolish and irreverent ironies.
Because the Religion of Christ was to be universal, and it had always been contemplated as such by the divine Thought; for this reason, it was to be sustained, backed and acknowledged as unique and perfect, everlasting till the end of the centuries, worthy of being followed by all nations, not only by the Palestinian nation already the "People of God" who mutated themselves, however, over the course of the centuries, and especially in the last three years of the earthly life of the Incarnate Word, into the "People of the anti-god".
Because the disproportion between sin and expiation would have been too great, between the ocean of past, present and future sins of the whole of Humanity, from Adam to the last living being, and the extent of the sacrifice, if this had not been that of a total immolation.
Because the proof of the true Personality of Jesus Christ would have indeed been too weak for the many incredulous if He had returned to the Father after having accomplished His mission as the Master, Founder and Sanctifier without having first been tortured and killed in that manner and in the presence of the multitudes of every nation who had gathered in Jerusalem for the Passover, so that both the prevaricating and deicidal Israelites and the Gentiles ignorant of the true God had become, in spite of themselves, the witnesses and the testifiers of the true Personality of Jesus Christ, God and Man; He who by Himself rose from the dead and appeared to many after the resurrection, after having been captured, tortured and killed by those of His own People and confirmed dead by the spear of the Roman, and who ascended into Heaven through His own power, again in the sight of many who had rushed back to Jerusalem for the imminent harvest festival or of the seven weeks, later called Pentecost, from every part of the Diaspora, be they pure Israelites or proselytes, or mixed families made up of Gentiles and Hebrews.
Nothing is without reason in the things established or permitted by God. And the reason is perfect and good. Thus Christ was immolated on the Friday of the Passover, arose while the crowds of the Passover remained, and ascended forty days later when the city was once again crowded by pilgrims who were returning for the Pentecost or who had stopped in order to perform the two-fold rite of presentation of every male in the Temple, for the two feasts of spring.
Those pilgrims, by scattering afterwards in order to return to the cities of their own Diaspora, and also elsewhere, would have spread the story of the prodigies seen wherever they lived, and unbeknown to them, they would have served to divulge the truth to the world that Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God, the One Foretold by the Prophets, the [long] awaited Messiah, Saviour and Redeemer; as to the same purpose Pontius Pilate served in his relationship with Gaius Tiberius Caesar on the trial and condemnation of "a Hebrew from Nazareth of the name Jesus, killed by the will of the people because He was accused of subverting the nation and of instigating the people not to pay tributes to Caesar since there was only one king upon the Earth and that man was Him: Jesus"; as Longinus and the other legionaries served, who saw the meekness and the shining majesty even under the garment of wounds that disfigured the Martyr, who heard the solemn words in the interrogation of the Proconsul, and who along the way to Calvary and from the cross were witnesses to the prodigies that accompanied His Death.
Everything and everyone served to testify that Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God.
Observe and meditate, oh men, in what times the principle events of Christ occurred. The Birth occurred when the edict of a Caesar called back the Hebrews scattered throughout the Earth to their city of origin in order to be registered. The Death, Resurrection and Ascension occur when the commands of the Mosaic Law gather the scattered children of Israel around the Holy of the Temple in the Holy city.
It is Humanity who must be saved by that Infant crying in a manger. And Humanity, represented not only by Palestinians but also by Hebrews exiled in other nations, assembles itself, during that time, in the nation where He is born.
It is Humanity who must be redeemed by the innocent Lamb of God dying on the Cross, who assembles itself in the deicidal and homicidal city during that time in which He is immolated so as to be present at the crime carried out at the time and in the manner foretold by the Prophets for the Messiah King: Man-God.
It is Humanity once again who is shaken with perturbations and remorses, by doubts and assertions, and who must be confirmed in Faith, who is present when, between the shaking of the second earthquake, the Man who was killed rises as the Sepulchre empties itself of the Living One vainly killed and who has the reply of the God One and Trine, a placating or distressing reply on the Man from Nazareth.
And it is Humanity once more, who is still doubtful because it is always proud and arrogant, who is present in the radiant morning of Nisan when He who was not wished to be acknowledged for that which He was, nor listened to, but rather is put to death in the hope of extinguishing His voice, ascends to Heaven, the eternal Word and Love who will always speak, who will always inflame men of good will out of love for Him, and it is Humanity who sees Him ascending into the light of the sun, brighter than it [sun] on account of the luminous beauty and properties of the glorious bodies.
And in the end, it is Humanity, still hesitant after so many proofs, who is present at the pentecostal miracle, at the epiphany of the teaching Church, the Church which, not through its own capacity but for having been filled with the Holy Spirit, of the incorporeal Third Person of the Eternal Triad who had descended upon the Earth - as the Second Person had said before completing His sacrifice and before ascending into Heaven, the Heaven from which He had descended through the will of the First Person, and for a sole trine love who wills, in One, that which the other Two will, They being a sole Unity in three Persons - begins its wise and infallible teachings in the truths of Religion.
The works of God are works of truth and light. They are performed in the light and are affirmed in the truth. Truth loves and seeks light. Light makes the truth shine even to the pupils (of the eye) that wish to be blind. And this is so they cannot say, "We did not see" and it is so that the condemnation which will be given to them by the divine Judge will be a condemnation motivated by their wicked will, voluntarily deserved for having made themselves obstinately blind in order to not acknowledge the truth.
God, in His loving will, acts in a manner in which everyone can see the Truth in order to have a way of saving themselves. The desire of God is the salvation of everyone. Glory for all is His supreme sigh. The refusal of salvation and glory on the part of too many is His infinite sorrow.
In order that all those who are of good will could have justification, salvation and glory, He sent His Word amongst men and clothed Him with a pure, holy and immaculate Flesh so that the wisdom of God could speak to the crowds and teach them, and so that the Lamb of God could be immolated and thus be able to redeem Humanity from the Sin which had deprived it of Grace; and also so that men recreated for supernatural life could walk along the way of Christ and reach the celestial Kingdom, the knowledge and vision of God, and the eternal and glorious Life for whose end the Creator had created them.»