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Repentance and contrition

Theme: Fruitfulness and the fruit of suffering · Page 2 of 10

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GRM 69.2

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

A humble man understands and forgives, even if he suffers for the offence received. A proud man does not forgive. He is proud also because he is not capable of lowering his head and saying: “Father, I have sinned, forgive Your poor guilty son”. But do you not know, (...), that the Father will forgive everything, if one asks to be forgiven with a sincere, contrite, humble, heart willing to rise again to new life?»

GRM 77.7

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

«My Lord!»

«Woman.»

«Your Name, my Lord.»

«Jesus.»

«I never heard it. I am a Roman: a mime and dancer. I am an expert only in lust. What is the meaning of Your name? My name is Aglae and.. and it means: vice.»

«Mine means: Saviour.»

«How do You save? And whom?»

«Those who are anxious to be saved. I save by teaching to be pure, to prefer sorrow to honour, to desire good at all costs.» Jesus speaks without bitterness, without even turning towards the woman.

«I am lost…»

«I am the One seeking who is lost.»

«I am dead.»

«I am the One who gives Life.»

«I am filth and falsehood.»

«I am Purity and Truth.»

«You are also Bounty, You do not look at me. You do not touch me, You do not tread on me. Have mercy on me…»

«First, you must have mercy on yourself. On your soul.»

«What is the soul?»

«It is what makes a god of man and not an animal. Vice and sin kill it, and once it is killed, man becomes a repulsive animal.»

«Will it be possible for me to see You again?»

«Who looks for Me, finds Me.»

«Where do You live?»

«Where hearts need doctors and medicines to become honest again.»

«In that case… I will not see You again… I live where no doctor, medicine or honesty is wanted.»

«Nothing prevents you from coming to where I am. My name will be shouted in the streets and will reach you. Goodbye.»

«Goodbye, my Lord. Allow me to call You “Jesus”. Oh! Not out of familiarity!… But that a little of salvation may come to me. I am Aglae, remember me.»

«I will. Goodbye.»

Detail

Dialogue between Aglaia, a prostitute, and Jesus.

GRM 79.6

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

79.6 «But perhaps that woman wants to redeem herself and she needs to be taught…» Judas objects once again.

«There are already in her so many sparks capable of starting a fire which will burn her vices and purify her soul and repentance will render her innocent once again. A few minutes ago I spoke to you of the yeast which is mixed with the flour and turns it into holy bread. Listen now to a short parable.

That woman is the flour. A flour in which the Evil One has mixed his hellish powders. I am the yeast. That is, My word is the yeast. But if there is too much chaff in the flour, or if sand, or little stones or ashes are mixed in it, is it possible to make bread with it, even if the yeast is good? It is not possible. It is necessary to patiently remove the chaff, the ashes, stones and sand from the flour.

Then Mercy passes by and offers the first sieve… The first one: made from short basic truths, which may be understood by one entangled in the net of total ignorance, vice and Gentilism. If the soul accepts it, the first purification begins. The second takes place by means of the sieve of the soul itself, which compares its own being with the Being that revealed Itself. And the soul is horrified. And it starts its work. By means of a more and more particular operation, after the stones, the sand and the ashes, it reaches the point of also removing that part of the flour consisting of grains too heavy and too coarse to make good bread. The soul is now ready. Mercy then passes by once again and penetrates into the flour now ready — that is a preparation too, Judas — and raises it and turns it into bread. But it is a long operation: an operation of the “will power” of the soul.

That woman already has within herself the minimum which was fair to give her and which may be used by her to accomplish her work. Let her do it, if she wishes to, but we must not disturb her. Everything upsets a soul which is working: curiosity, unadvised zeal, intolerance as well as excessive compassion.

Detail

Jesus gives a parable about Aglaia.

GRM 80.8

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

After My Baptism I came here: I was clean, but one is never clean enough with regards to God, and the humility in saying: “I am a man and a sinner” is already a baptism which makes the heart clean.

Detail

After John’s baptism, Jesus made the following statement.