The mystery of suffering

My life!… My royal palace! How small and mean they are! Do you know where I will be a King? When I will be proclaimed King? When I will be raised up, upon an ill-famed piece of wood and My own blood will be purple, and My crown will be a wreath of thorns and My insignia a mocking poster and the curses of all the people, of My people, will be the trumpets, the tambourines, the organs, the citherns saluting the proclamation of the King. And do you know by whose deed all this will happen? By the deed of one who did not understand Me. One who will have understood nothing. One, whose heart was a hollow piece of bronze, that pride, sensuality and avarice had filled with their humours, which will generate coils of snakes that will be used to chain Me and… and to curse him. The others are not so well aware of My destiny. Please do not tell them. Let us keep this to ourselves.

• Announcement of the Passion
• Betrayal of Jesus Christ
• Cross of Jesus Christ
• Passion of Jesus Christ
• Passion of Jesus Christ - Coronation of thorns
• Passion of Jesus Christ - Crucifixion and death of Jesus
• Passion of Jesus Christ - Ecriteau INRI
• Redeemer
• Sauveur

«Thanks to these citizens whose hearts have honoured the Word of the Father, and the Father Whose Word I am. Because You must understand that thanks and honour are due not to the Son of man, Who is speaking to you, but to the Most High Lord, for this time of peace during which He re-establishes the broken paternity with the sons of man. Let us praise the true Lord, the God of Abraham Who had mercy on and loved His people and granted them the promised Redeemer. Glory and praise not to Jesus, the servant of the Eternal Will, but to the loving Will.»

• Divine Will
• Giving thanks to God
• Humility of Jesus Christ
• Jesus Christ - Son of Man
• Jesus Christ - Word of God
• Praise to God
• Redeemer

God, the King of kings, elected one person only: His Son, to build His house in the hearts of men. And He has already prepared the materials. Oh! How much gold of charity! and copper, silver, iron, rare wood and precious stones! They are all gathered in his Word Who makes use of them to build God’s abode in you. But if man does not help the Lord, the Lord will build His dwelling place in vain. One must reply to gold with gold, to silver with silver, to copper with copper, to iron with iron. That is, love is to be given for love, continence to serve Purity, perseverance to be loyal, strength to be steadfast. And one must carry stones today, wood tomorrow: a sacrifice today, a deed tomorrow and thus build. You must always build the Temple of God in your hearts.

• Constance
• Continence
• Force
• Goodwill
• How to perfect and sanctify yourself
• Jesus Christ - Son of God
• Jesus Christ - Word of God
• Love
• Loyalty
• Purity
• Sacrifice and immolation
• Spiritual wealth

There is no death, that is parting from life, for those who died in the Lord.

• Death
• Death and loss of a loved one - Bereavement
• Deceased
• Life
• Life and death
• Words of wisdom

You either must bear to be torn to pieces and become a heap of shattered flesh, so useless, as flesh, as to be rejected and kicked aside by their cruel feet, or you must die under their blows.

If you can bear that martyrdom, then Mercy will come, the Only One who can still have mercy on that revolting misery, which the world, one of the masters, now loathes and at which the other master, Satan, throws the arrows of his revenge. And Mercy, the Only One, passes by, bends down, picks it up, doctors it, cures it and says: “Come. Do not be afraid. Do not look at yourself. Your wounds are but scars, but they are so numerous that you would be horrified, as they disfigure you. But I do not look at them. I look at your goodwill. Because of your good- will, you are marked. Therefore I say to you: I love you. Come with Me”. And He takes it to His Country. You then understand that Mercy and the friendly King are the same person. 

• Cruelty
• Fighting temptation
• God's mercy and forgiveness
• Goodwill
• Kingdom of God - Kingdom of Heaven
• Martyrdom
• Mercy and forgiveness

«You raise us by wanting us to be with You in this redemption.»

• Co-editors
• Pain and suffering
• Sacrifice and immolation
• Sanctification
• Soul-victim
• The fruitfulness of suffering

I must snatch two souls from Satan. It can only be done by penance. I ask you to help Me. It will be training for you. You will learn how to snatch victims from Mammon: not so much with words but with sacrifice… Words!… The satanic uproar prevents one from hearing them… Every soul which is a prey of the Enemy is enveloped in a turbine of infernal voices…

• Mammon
• Penance
• Sacrifice and immolation
• Slavery to Satan

And here I experienced the weariness of the hero and of the ascetic who in an hour of forewarning realise the uselessness of their efforts… I cried… Sadness… a lure for Satan. It is not a sin to be sad in painful circumstances. It is a sin to go beyond sadness and fall into inertness and despair. 

• Apostolate - Evangelism
• Co-editors
• Defeat
• Discouragement
• Fighting temptation
• Heroism
• Lassitude
• Pain and suffering
• Soul-victim
• Test

My first contacts with the world had sickened and depressed Me. It is too ugly. My soul has now been nourished with the lion’s marrow: the union with the Father in prayer and solitude. And I can go back to the world and take My cross upon Me once again, the first cross of the Redeemer: the cross of the contact with the world. With the world, in which there are too few souls called Mary, called John…

• Redeemer
• Suffering and pain of Jesus Christ

• Jesus Christ
• Judas de Kérioth (apostle)
• Lazare
• Location - Near Jerusalem
• Pain and suffering
• Sacrifice and immolation
• Simon the Zealot (apostle)
• Summary of EMV
• The cry of Jesus Christ