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GRM 2.4 · Volume 1

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

We must continue to hope. God can do everything. While we are alive, the miracle may happen, especially when we love Him and we love each other.

GRM 3.4

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

We shall gain our favour from God by our faithful love.

Detail

Joachim and Anne ask the Lord for mercy, and Mary's future father declares:

GRM 5.9

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

And He continues to give you so much on account of Her, at Her request, for Her joy, because Her joy flows into the joy of God and increases it with flashes that fill the light, the great light of Paradise with brilliant sparkles and every sparkle is a grace to the universe, to mankind, to the blessed souls who reply with a jubilant cry of alleluia to each generation of divine miracle, created by the desire of the Blessed Trinity to see the sparkling smile of joy of the Virgin.

Detail

Jesus speaks of the Virgin Mary.

GRM 5.10

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

Forget your restriction, forsake your printed matter which is full of obscure, putrid, dirty, poisonous, false, swearing, corrupting material and rise, at least with your eyes, to the unlimited freedom of the firmament, make your souls bright looking at so clear a sky. Build up a supply of light to take to your dark prison. Read the word that we write singing our sidereal chorus, which is more harmonious than the one drawn from a cathedral organ. The word that we write while shining, the word that we write while loving, because we always bear in mind He Who gave us the joy of existing. And we love Him for giving us our existence, our brightness, our movement, our freedom, our beauty in the midst of the gentle azure, beyond which we can see an even more sublime blue: Paradise. And we fulfil the second part of His commandment of love, by loving you, our universal neighbours, loving you by giving you guidance and light, warmth and beauty.

Detail

The stars and planets could tell us this:

GRM 5.10

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

Without confusion or discontinuity the Supreme Mind has always known that the king created to be demigod at Its side in Heaven, heir of the Father, reaching His Kingdom, as an adult after living in the house of his mother — the earth, with which he was made — during his childhood, as child of the Eternal Father for his day on earth. The Supreme Mind has always known that man would have committed against himself the crime of killing Grace in himself and the theft of robbing himself of Heaven.

GRM 6.1 · Volume 1

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

“Let little children come to Me because the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs, and those who do not become like them will not have any part in My Kingdom”

GRM 9.5

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

Because of their holiness, Anne suffered no pain in giving birth to her child: it was the ecstasy of the bearer of the Faultless One. Neither of them suffered the throes of death, but only a weakness that fades away, as a star softly disappears when the sun rises at dawn. And if they did not have the consolation of having Me present, as Wisdom Incarnate, as Joseph had, I was invisibly present, whispering sublime words, bending over their pillows, to send them to sleep, awaiting their triumph.

Someone may ask: “Why did they not have to suffer when generating and dying, since they were children of Adam?” My answer is: “If the Baptist, who was a son of Adam, and had been conceived with original sin, was presanctified by Me in his mother’s womb, simply because I approached her, was no grace to be granted to the mother of the Holy and Faultless One, Who had been preserved by God and bore God in Her almost divine spirit, in Her most pure heart, and was never separated from Him, since She was created by the Father and was conceived in a womb, and then received into Heaven to possess God in glory forever and ever?” I also answer: “An upright conscience gives a peaceful death and the prayers of saints will obtain such a death for you”.

Annotation

Challenge: "Anne gave birth without pain".

Anne did not experience the pains of childbirth. In a typed note, Maria writes: "This is a fact admitted even by some theologians in the material sense of the pains of childbirth; in reality, the ecstatic joy of giving birth to Mary prevailed over the natural suffering for any woman, to the point that Anne gave birth without the usual anguish and suffering in this case".

Contestation emitted: Mary was created from all eternity (eternity is reserved for God).

In speaking of Mary, the Work says that she "never separated herself from the Father from the moment he thought of her". This confirms that Mary's soul is thought of by God from all eternity (as is every one of us). But this is to be distinguished from her actual existence (2000 years ago).

GRM 10.6

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

How much Blood the Saviour will have to shed to redeem us! How much indeed! From the thousands of wounds that Isaiah saw on the Man of Sorrows, a stream of Blood is falling, like dew from a porous vase. May this divine Blood not fall where there is desecration and blasphemy, but into chalices of fragrant purity that may receive it and gather it for the purpose of spreading it amongst the diseased and leprous souls and amongst those who are dead to God. Give lilies to wipe with their pure petals the sweat and the tears of Christ! Give lilies for His keen desire of Martyrdom! Oh! Where is the Lily that will bear You? Where is the Lily that will quench Your parching thirst, that will become red with Your Blood, will die for the pain of seeing You dying, and will cry over Your bloodless Body? Oh! Christ! Christ! My desire!…»

GRM 13.10

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

Which faith is greater than this one that believed without seeing the miracles of the Messiah?