June 9, 1976
THE MYSTICAL BODY
Son, I consider the action of my Church extended to all men as pastoral, so that all may adhere spontaneously and firmly to Christian principles. To promote and guide this action belongs to the hierarchy, without excluding the just and due collaboration of good laymen, “vocati ad hoc”, called to this.
I have given the indications for the efficacy of pastoral action; therefore I said: you are the light of the world; you are the salt of the earth; I also said: may your good works shine and glorify the Father who is in the heavens; I said: you are the leaven that ferments the dough.
A priest, if he does not shine with supernatural light, if the light of grace does not make his soul transparent, in such a way that all may see through him clearly (this includes loyalty, simplicity and no duplicity); he will see that his actions are fruitless.
I, Christ, have overcome the world potentially; everything has been given to Me; for Me everything was made, but my complete victory will be realized at the consummation of time, at the Last judgment. I, Christ, will manifest before everyone, before heaven and earth, my complete victory. I, God made man, have realized and will realize my Mystical Body, that is, my Church, with which I am one.
This is the real reason for the retardation of my total triumph: I have desired my Mystical Body to be a participant in this triumph.
Head and body are only one being: those who wonder and are surprised that my total triumph was not verified at my Resurrection and ascension into heaven, have understood very little about the mystery of the Incarnation.
Upon calvary
I, Jesus, united myself intimately to human nature and immolated myself for its deliverance and victory. I associated human nature to all the human and divine events of my temporal and eternal life; therefore the Church, my true Body, although Mystical, should follow Me upon Calvary, so that it may follow Me into glory.
“He who wishes to come after me, let him take up his cross and follow me”; and where is he going to follow Me with his cross, except to Calvary?
The great battle that I began with the mystery of my Incarnation, Passion and death, continues and will continue until the end of time, with intensity and diverse degrees; there will come moments of unheard of violence, as will happen in this proximate enemy offensive that has already been unleashed.
Has this genuine vision of the Church been given to the baptized souls, a Church in perennial battle against its veteran enemies: Satan, the world and the passions?
Pastoral practice should make souls adhere to Christian principles, to accept God spontaneously, to accept his law, his truth and his mysteries.
Pastoral practice made only with structures, is useful for nothing, if the above mentioned foundations are lacking; the present happenings demonstrate this.
Battle and pilgrimage
Your oratories are deserted, and your parish cinema halls are filled with instruments of poison; in your meetings they speak a language that is not Christian.
Many institutions have collapsed; the so called institutional pastoral practice is in a state of disintegration. It is useless to follow illusions; materialistic conceptions of life have become rooted in Christians, and they are gravely ill with spiritual anemia.
Promiscuous groups of young men and women who through excessive freedom, through indecent styles and through the evil influence of erotic readings and motion pictures, cannot keep themselves chaste, have only the label of Christianity; but essentially they are pagans.
These are the vices of an institutional pastoral practice that is of no use, for it lacks the fundamental vision of life. Christian life should he conceived of as a militia, that is, as an incessant fight against Satan and his allies; it should he conceived of as a pilgrimage.
The institutions for an effective pastoral practice were valid when Christians were good, but today when they are pagans, the traditional structures are frequently occasions of evil.
I bless you, son.