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GRM 174.20 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

Absolute respect, to be able to speak, to be silent, to ponder to act, are the virtues of the true disciple in order to make proselytes and serve God.

GRM 174.20 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

You are gifted with the faculty of reason and, if you are just, God will grant you all the light to make a better use of your reason.

GRM 174.21 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

I have told you much, My children. Listen to My words; he who listens to them and puts them into practice, can be compared to a thoughtful man, who wishing to build a house, choses a rocky place. He certainly worked hard to lay the foundations. He had to work with pick and stone chisel, he got callous hands and broke his back. But he was able to put lime in the fissures of the rock and lay bricks one close to the other, like the wall of a fortress, and the house was as solid as a mountain. The house was exposed to the inclemency of the weather and to downpours, the rain caused the rivers to overflow their banks, the winds whistled, the waves beat it, but the house resisted everything. Such is he who has a sound faith. Instead he who listens superficially and does not strive to engrave My words in his heart, because he is aware that to do so he would have to work hard, suffer and extirpate too many things, is like a man who out of indolence and foolishness builds his house on sand. As soon as the inclement weather comes, the house quickly built, quickly collapses and the forlorn fool contemplates the rubble of the house and the ruin of his capital. And in that case the ruin can be repaired with expenses and work. But if the edifice of the spirit crashes, because it was badly built, there is no way to rebuild it. One cannot build in future life. Woe to those who present themselves there with rubble!

GRM 175

The Gospel as revealed to me

Detail

Chapter title: The leper healed at the foot of the Mountain. The generosity of the scribe John.

Date of vision: Wednesday, May 30, 1945

Calendar: Friday, February 18, 28 (5 Adar)

Location (map):Horns of Hattin

Cycle: Sermon on the Mount

Summary: A leper approaches the crowd and Jesus as they descend the mountain. The crowd is terrified, but Jesus calms them and the sick man begs Christ for mercy. He heals him, and as the poor man possesses nothing, the crowd offers him some of their possessions from afar: sandals, a cloak... The miraculous man then goes to present himself to the priest, and Jesus asks him not to tell the priest that it is He who has healed him.

The Sabbath begins and the apostles are worried because they have nothing to give the crowd to eat. But Jesus is calm and confident, and assures them that the Father will not fail to help his Messiah. Indeed, the scribe John comes to see the Master and tells him that he left the day before to prepare bread for the crowd. The Lord accepts his gift and John withdraws without telling him who he is. Someone in the crowd gives it to him later. Once the conversation with the people is over, Jesus takes the Twelve aside and reproaches them for their lack of faith. He then goes off to pray to the Father, thanking him for his kindness.

Chapter contents: 175.1: Healing of a leper lost among the flowers. 175.2 : The crowd showers the leper with charity. 175.3: As evening falls, the remaining crowd has run out of food. 175.4 : The scribe John offers to feed the crowd by himself. 175.5 : Jesus reproaches the apostles for their unbelief and retires to pray.

Previous edition: Volume 3, chapter 35

GRM 175.1-2 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

Amongst the many flowers which perfume the earth and delight our eyes, I see the horrible spectre of a revolting, corroded leper, completely covered with sores.

The crowds shout with fear and rush back to the lower slopes of the mountain. Some of them gather stones to throw at the rash man.

But Jesus turns around with His arms fully stretched out and shouts: «Peace! Stay where you are: be not afraid. Put the stones down. Have mercy on a poor brother. He is a son of God, too.»

The crowds obey, overwhelmed by the power of the Master, Who moves forward through the tall grass in bloom to a few steps from the leper, who, as far as he is concerned, has understood that Jesus is protecting him, and has come nearer.

When he reaches Jesus, he prostrates himself, and the blooming grass wraps him like cool scented water. The flowers undulate and gather together, forming a veil over the miserable man concealed amongst them. Only the mournful voice that can be heard reminds people of the wretched creature lying there. It says: «Lord, if You want, You can cure me. Have mercy on me too!»

Jesus replies: «Raise your head and look at Me. A man who believes in Heaven must be able to look at it. And you do believe, because you are asking for a grace.»

The grass is shaken and opens out once again. Like the head of a shipwrecked person emerging from the sea, the head of the leper appears, stripped of hair and beard. His head is a skull not yet entirely deprived of all flesh.

And yet Jesus does not disdain touching that forehead with the tips of His fingers, where there are no sores on the skin. But the skin on that spot is ashen-grey, scaly, and lies between two putrid erosions, one of which has destroyed his scalp, and the other has opened a hole where his right eye was, so that I could not say whether the ball of his eye is still in the huge socket, which, between his temple and his nose, lays bare his cheek-bone and his nasal cartilage, full of corruption. And Jesus, holding the finger-tips of His lovely hand there, says: «I want it. Be cleansed.»

And as if the man were not eaten away and covered with sores, but only covered with dirt on which cleansing waters were poured, the leprosy disappears at once. First the wounds heal; then his skin becomes clear, his right eye appears between fresh eyelids, his lips close around his yellowish teeth. Only his hair and beard are missing, that is, there are only scanty tufts of hair where previously there was only a tiny piece of wholesome skin.

The crowds shout in amazement. And their joyful shouts tell the man that he is cured. He lifts his hands, so far concealed by the grass, he touches his eye, where the huge hole was; he touches his head, where the large sore showed the skull and feels his fresh skin. He stands up, looks at his chest, his hips… He is all wholesome and clean… He collapses once again on the flowery meadow weeping out of joy.

«Do not weep. Stand up and listen to Me. Go back to life according to the rite and do not tell anybody until you have accomplished it. Show yourself to the priest as soon as possible, make the offering prescribed by Moses as evidence of your miraculous cure.»

«It’s for You that I should witness, my Lord!»

«You will witness for Me by loving My doctrine! Go.»

Detail

Healing a leper.

Annotation

Exposing the zygoma: Maria Valtorta was a nurse in her youth, so she knows a thing or two about anatomy.

I want it. Be purified. This miracle, reported in Matthew 8:1-3, is often confused by biblical scholars with the healing of Abel the leper (Mark 1:40-42; Luke 5:12-13), which is described in EMV 63.1/5.

"Can I tell the priest that you healed me?

- No, you mustn't. Just tell him: 'The Lord had mercy on me. "That's the truth. Nothing else." From now on, Jesus' notoriety grows, and He wants to avoid any conflict with the temple notables for as long as possible.

Gospel of Matthew 8:1-4

Mt 8, 1-4 : When Jesus came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him. And behold, a leper came to him, bowed down before him and said, "Lord, if you are willing, you can cleanse me." Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him and said, "I am willing, be cleansed." And immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy. Jesus said to him: "Be careful, don't say anything to anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest. And give the offering that Moses commanded: it will be a testimony to the people."

Gospel of Mark 1:40-45

Mk 1:40-45: A leper came to him, begged him and, falling to his knees, said, "If you are willing, you can cleanse me." Seized with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him and said, "I am willing, be cleansed." Instantly, the leprosy left him and he was cleansed. With firmness, Jesus immediately sent him away, saying: "Be careful, don't say anything to anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest, and give for your cleansing what Moses prescribed in the Law: it will be a testimony to the people." Once he had gone, this man began to proclaim and spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but stayed away in deserted places. But people came to him from everywhere.

Gospel of Luke 5:12-14

Lk 5:12-14: Jesus was in a town when a man covered in leprosy came up to him; when he saw Jesus, he fell face down and begged him, "Lord, if you are willing, you can cleanse me." Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I do, be cleansed." Instantly, the leprosy left him. Then Jesus ordered him not to tell anyone: "Instead, go and show yourself to the priest and give for your cleansing what Moses prescribed; it will be a testimony to all."

GRM 176

The Gospel as revealed to me

Detail

Chapter title: During Sabbath break, the Last Sermon on the Mount: loving God's will.

Date of vision: Friday, June 1, 1945

Calendar: Saturday, February 19, 28

Location (map): Plain of Gennesaret (near the Horns of Hattin)

Cycle: Sermon on the Mount

Summary: Jesus has gone to pray and is joined by his apostles. When they question him, the Master tells them that his strength is nourished by prayer, and that he has prayed for John and the Precursor's disciples. His friends want to console him, for Jesus is distressed, and he asks them to love him, above all to love God's will. Thomas points out that if everything comes from her, the errors themselves will come from her, and Jesus replies that this is not the case. But they go to meet John, the scribe, who is feeding the crowd, and then, at his request, he speaks to those present.

After declaring that it is right to keep the Sabbath holy, Jesus points out that all of Creation can be a place of prayer. Then he returns to Thomas's remark and declares that a father cannot want his child to err and be guilty. If the father is just and shows the good to be followed and the evil to be avoided, he is not responsible if his children do not listen to him and are guilty of wrongdoing. So it is with God, who advises but does not force. And those who know God's will but act contrary to it are not doing what the Father desires.

Jesus then returns to the Kingdom of God, stating that not everyone will enter. Not everyone who says "Lord! Lord!" who will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and to follow this up, Christ speaks of the end of the world. He will then be a Judge, who will gather together the sheep steeped in truth, those who have mixed truth and error, and those who have wilfully willed error. And when they say to him, "But Lord, have we not prophesied and acted in your name?", he will reply that they have dared to return to his name to make themselves appear holy, but that they will in fact have been satanic. His true servants are not like that, but bring God to souls and do the Father's will, being humble, gentle, peaceful and orderly. He will therefore send away these servants of iniquity.

His discourse ends, with John the scribe at his side, and the cycle on the mountain is thus complete.

Chapter contents: 176.1: Jesus prayed all night for his disciples ... and for himself. 176.2: Children flutter around him. Scribe John arrives with his food. 176.3 : Creation is also a place of prayer where we can praise God. 176.4 : It is not those who say to me, "Lord! Lord!" who will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but those who do my Father's will. 176.5 : There will come a day when I will be Judge. 176.6 : The cycle of the Sermon on the Mount is complete.

Previous edition: Tome 3, chapter 36