Family and friends

There is wanted virginity, that is the virginity of those who consecrate themselves to the Lord with the ardour of their souls. A beautiful virginity! A sacrifice pleasing to God! But they do not all persist in their purity like lilies which stand upright on their stalks, looking towards Heaven, unaware of the mud on the ground, open to the kisses of God’s sun and His dews.

Many are faithful only in a material way. But they are unfaithful in their thoughts, which regret and wish for what they sacrificed. They are virgins only by half. If their flesh is intact, their hearts are not. Their hearts ferment, boil, exhale fumes of sensuality, the more refined and reproved, the more it is the invention of a mind that caresses, nourishes and continually enlarges the images of satisfactions, illicit even for those who are free, more than illicit for those consecrated to God.

Then you have the hypocrisy of the vow. Its appearance is there, its essence is not. And I tell you that between those who come to Me with their lilies broken by the brutality of a tyrant, and those who come with their lilies materially intact, but covered with the slaver of a sensuality they have caressed and cultivated to fill their hours of solitude, I will call “virgins” the former, and “non virgins” the latter. I will give the former the crown of virgins and a double crown of martyrs, because of their flesh which has been wounded and of their hearts which have been ulcerated by a mutilation they did not want.

• Consecrated virginity
• Hypocrisy - Duplicity
• Infidelity
• Passions
• Regrets
• Sensuality - Pleasure of the senses - Enjoyment

49.4 They are near the village. Some children are playing in the road and one of them runs into Jesus’ legs and would have fallen if He were not quick in getting hold of him. The child cries just the same, as if he had been hurt and Jesus, holding him in His arms, says: «An Israelite who is crying? What should the thousands of children have done, who became men crossing the desert with Moses? And yet, the Most High Lord sent the sweet manna for them, rather than for the others, because He loves innocent children and looks after these little angels of the earth, these wingless little birds, just as He sees to the sparrows of woods and towns.»

• Children - Innocents
• Manna

Innocence does not trouble.

• Children - Innocents
• Innocence
• Jesus Christ and children

49.5 «Do You like children, Master»

«Yes, I do, because they are pure… sincere… and affectionate.»

• Children - Innocents
• Jesus Christ and children

«Have you any nephews, Master?»

«I have but My Mother… In Her there is purity, sincerity, the love of the most holy children, together with wisdom, justice and the fortitude of adults. I have everything in My Mother, John.»

«And You left Her?»

«God is above also the holiest mother.»

«Will I meet Her?»

«Yes, you will.»

«And will She love me?»

«She will love you because She loves whoever loves Her Jesus.»

• Conditions
• Purity of affection between Jesus and Mary
• The Virgin Mary

The first temple is in the heart of every man and that is where holy prayers should be said. But a prayer cannot be holy unless the heart first amends its way of living and with his heart man also amends his habits, affections, the rules of justice towards the poor, servants, relatives and God.

• Conditions
• Justice
• Love of neighbor
• Loving God
• Parents and children
• Poverty - Misery
• Words of wisdom

If you love God with all your souls, you will not sin, because sin gives pain to God. Those who love do not want to give pain. If you love your neighbours, as you love yourselves, you will be respectful children to your parents, faithful husbands to your wives, honest merchants in your trade, without any violence against your enemies, truthful in bearing witness, without envy of wealthy people, without any incentive of lewdness for another man’s wife. And as you do not want to do to other people what you do not wish should be done to you, you will not steal, or kill, or slander, or enter someone else’s nest like cuckoos.

• Adultery
• Don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to you
• Flight
• Honesty
• Husband and wife - Husband and wife
• Libel - Slander
• Lie
• Loyalty
• Lust
• Parents and children
• Sin
• Violence
• Words of wisdom

The day of the Lord (...) is to be spent with your hearts united to God in sweet prayer of love. You must be faithful in everything.

• Loyalty
• Prayer
• Words of wisdom

«Holiness does not bar obedience. On the contrary, it makes obedience perfect. Besides everything else, there is a good example to be given. What would you say of a father, of an elder brother, of a teacher, of a priest who did not give good examples?»

• Family
• Holiness
• How to perfect and sanctify yourself
• Obedience
• Parents and children
• Priests
• Words of wisdom

(...) I say to you: “Follow Me”. As My follower you will find father and children. Look up, Simon. There, the True Father is smiling at you. Look at the wide world, at the continents, at the countries: there are children and children everywhere; children of the souls for the childless. They are waiting for you, and many like you are also waiting. There are no foundlings under My Sign. There is no solitude, no difference in My Sign. It is a sign of love, and it gives love.

• Abandon
• Apostolate - Evangelism
• Cross
• Discipleship - Following Jesus Christ
• God the Father
• Loneliness - Isolation
• Sterility