"For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men who detain the truth of God in injustice." To the Romans, chp. 1 v. 18.
The most holy Author says,
«In the prior lesson, I invited to defend the religious Idea in order to have salvation and peace, for when people fall into "ungodliness and injustice" - and the greatest ungodliness and the greatest injustice is to offend God, and to deride Religion, by attacking her [Religion] and extinguishing her in minds, by knowingly disobeying her, premeditatedly, in all her commands - then the wrath of God manifests itself from Heaven.
There is no need for thunderbolts for it to be manifested. Nor cataclysms. Nor floods. It is sufficient that God just abandon you to yourselves so that you can give death, anguish and desperation to yourselves. The wrath of God, the true immutable wrath, more than manifesting itself with chastisements, will manifest itself by abandoning you to yourselves. What you all call the wrath of God - wars, atrocious means of destruction, cataclysms, and pestilence - are still not a wrath without mutation, an absolute wrath. They are the reproaches and reminders of an offended Father who is still solicitous, however, to give aid and forgiveness to His guilty children.
But when every "ungodliness and injustice" will be in the heart of ninety-nine percent of humanity, when mental and material ungodliness and injustice will have invaded every social class, and even abomination will have penetrated the house of God - the abomination of the desolation of which the prophet speaks, and the Word confirms it, nor have you still given the right meaning to the word "desolation" of which it is said will be the sign of the end, and it will be - then God will no longer reprimand with paternal chastisements - which regretfully, it is true, save only a few, because most, however, are already the servants of Satan - but He will leave you to yourselves. He will withdraw. He will no longer act. Until the moment in which a flash from His Will will order His angels to open the seven seals, to sound the four trumpets, and to free the eagle of the three woes, and then, horror, a breath will be given to the fifth trumpet, and the Judas of the end times will open the bottomless pit in order to issue forth that which man will have desired more than God.
When? When? Are you already in this hour or are you about to enter into it? You fear. You ask yourselves...But you do not repent. You will not be told when. It is written in the hearts of the present prophets, "but what the seven thunders told them is sealed, and they will not tell anything."
And then, as a peaceful star upon the horror and terror of waves in a storm - the whole Earth upturned like the sea during a storm, and all the men shipwrecked like the sea during a storm, minus the servants of God gathered onto the boat of Peter, faithful to the Nautical saint - then the aurora of the Star of the Sea will come, precursor to the rising, to the last apparition of the Morning Star.
In His second and final coming, the Lamb of God, the Redeemer, the Saint of saints, will have as a precursor not the repentant of the wilderness, salted by the mortifications, and salting sinners in order to cure them of their heaviness and make them quick-moving in receiving the Lord, but He will have as a precursor our Angel, She who, though having flesh, was the Seraph, She in whom we have made our dwelling place, neither sweeter nor more worthy could we have had Her, the most beloved Ark of pure gold who still contains us just as She is contained by us, and who will fly across the heavens, radiating Her love in order to prepare a perfumed and regal road for the King of kings and to prepare - in order to generate and to give birth, in a last maternity - as many living seeds as there are and who will want to be given birth to the Lord.
Look over there, to the east of the times... Already upon the darkness which covers the Earth more thickly and cursedly, there is an outline of a dawn, none sweeter than You. It is the time of Mary that rises. The utmost mercy that our Love has thought for you all.
Great will be the length of Her walk. Opposed by Her eternal enemy, who on account of having been defeated, [Satan] is no less obstinate in grieving Her and fighting against Her. He dulls the intellects of men so as to not let them know Mary. He extinguishes faiths of men in Her. He creates fogs. He throws mud. However, the Star of the Sea is too far above the polluted waves. She will pass by, and neither will the mud dirty the hem of Her dress. She will only descend, as swiftly as an archangel, to put Her seal upon the foreheads of the faithful, next to the mark of the Tau, of those saved for the eternal Kingdom. And strength and peace will enter into their spirits under the touch of Her hand, Mother of Life and Fountain of Salvation.
Bless the Lord who has granted to the purest Star the beginning of Her walk in order to attract you to God with the sweetness of Her love, merciful Co-Saviour, extreme, She who compensates for the good spirits of the ever deeper distancing of God disgusted by the sins of men.
This withdrawal of God ought not to seem unjust to you. One reads in the Maccabees that when with Antiochus Epiphanes, corruption entered into Israel and Israel distanced itself from the Law for having subjugated itself to the many rulers of Israel, "children of iniquity", to the "neigbouring nations", as far to the point of them doing the same perverse customs of the same neighbouring nations "by selling themselves in order to do evil", the sanctuary remained desolate like a desert, the solemn festivals turned into mournings, the sabbaths into reproach and its glory was destroyed. Not only, but "the cult of the idols" was also accepted. And this provoked the persecution of the few who had remained faithful, and death, ruin, violence and sorrow became the heritage of the people who had provoked the wrath of the Lord. Make the comparisons. Meditate. Choose.
Jesus once again says to you what He said at the last Tabernacles, "For a little while yet I am with you... and then I will go. And you shall seek me, but you shall not find me."
Yes, oh sleepers. I speak to you more than to open enemies. To you who could defend the Idea and your own good if you were only to awaken. To you who sleep while the others work, and who lull yourselves with the illusion that God is your servant, that Jesus is your servant, and a foolish servant, who after having been neglected, not sought and not followed, as far as persuading Him to leave given the futility of His remaining amongst you, may He be ready and prone to your needs when you are about to sink and at last, but not in time for all, you will awaken.
Seek the Saviour while He is still amongst you, before the hatred will drive Him out beyond your limits... to Ephraim, amongst the people who are rising towards the light while you sink into darkness. Amongst the darkness which "suffocates the truth by obscuring it and not letting it be seen, by raising the wall of tepidity, of apathy where they don't raise the one of ungodliness and injustice.»
Before being left by the most holy Voice, I say to Him, «Oh most Divine One, now that You speak more often again, they will say that this is bad. Because F.B.1 told me that he has persuaded them that You now, Oh most Divine One, speak only every now and then.»
He answers me,
«I do as I please. I have shown that I come either daily or I do not come for tens of days, nor do you fill those empty gaps with your own words. And this is a lesson for them. I have done everything to persuade them. But it is as it is said, "We piped to you and you did not dance; we sang laments, and you did not mourn."
However, these pages are not for them. Rather, I order you to remove them from here and to make of them a separate booklet to be given as it is and to whom I have told you. For whatever was necessary to have the approval of the Work of Jesus, they have had it. The rest is a treasure that in order to have, one needs to merit it. And there is one who has merited it for having done Our Will towards you in perfect charity and without having made any claim of his work towards you. And there is still another motive of divine providence from which this divine order originates.»
So loved do I feel, so blessed for the return of Mary of Lourdes who came yesterday (from 17:00 onwards, and so... powerfully that I was out of my senses, and Martha2 can testify to this), that I ask in merit to the event at St. Paul's3 and of the most Blessed Virgin Mary's words last night, "If they will have faith, I will work prodigies of grace;" and the Most Divine One replies to me, "In 4 of the Kings, chap. 7. v. 19, it is said by the one on whose arm the king rested, "Even if the Lord should make the flood gates of grace in the sky, could this ever come to pass that which you say?" I tell you that many are those who, even if the Lord should make the flood gates of grace in the sky and of a miracle in order to spill them onto the earth, many would be those who would continue to say, "Can this be? No."
A miracle presupposes faith. God gives the sign. It manifests itself. It is a continual epiphany in order to call back spirits to faith, hope, charity, to God. But He then leaves you free to believe or not to believe.
I tell you that the river of grace is ready to flow; however, if men create a barrier there with their incredulity, it will turn elsewhere. This is why the Most Blessed Virgin places the condition of "if they will have faith" in order to promise to "work prodigies of grace".
The hour of grace comes, halting in expectation. But if man does not invite it, "It remains with Us," passes and does not return.»
1 F.B. Reference is being made to Father Corrado M. Berti of the Order of the Servants of Mary, Professor at the "Marianum" Faculty of Theology in Rome. He became Maria Valtorta's spiritual counsellor following Father Romualdo M. Migliorini's departure from Viareggio after having spent four years as the infirm author's spiritual guide.
2 Martha - Marta Diciotti was born in Lucca in 1910. She lived aside Maria Valtorta and lovingly assisted her from 1935 up until the infirm writer's death on October 12, 1961.
3 St. Paul's - Maria Valtorta's parish church, at Viareggio, where some believe to have noticed an exceptional stain on the statue of the Virgin Mary.