November 24, 1978
“PRAYER”, ARROW THAT PENETRATES AND CRACKS DARKNESS
Write, my son, I am Jesus.
In my preceding messages I told you that every medal has a positive face and a negative one, the same is also in my Church even if it’s so rich of spiritual goods. Now this morning I want to talk to you about one of these in particular, about prayer which is:
powerful weapon with which we can obtain everything from God;
impressive weapon with which also the weakest can become strong at the point of making themselves invulnerable to all the attacks of the enemy;
weapon that if used wisely always succeeds in letting the combatant prevail on the enemy;
it is the weapon constantly used by the saints. I, eternal Word of God, have widely talked about it in the Gospel.
Then prayer is the weapon entrusted to my Church by me as a “garantia” of safety and of “covering”; it is an infallible weapon if it is used with humility, faith, hope and love, that’s to say if it is used in the condition of perfect spiritual health insofar as he who uses this weapon must be in the grace of God, as grace links us to God with a “pact of friendship” essential to all the effects either for the single victories or for the final victory.
Among the so many shadows and the thick obscurity that wraps up my Church, prayer is like an arrow that penetrates and cracks darkness, as a brillant ray, as an unrestrainable arrow; it is a powerful weapon that always stops the haughtiness of the enemy and puts him to flight.
… Pray … otherwise you shall all perish
My son, today the situation of the Church is very uncertain, it is like the one of a great empire at the eve of its fall but a still stranger thing is that humanity feels the gravity of the moment without finding the force to rouse and collect itself using the infallible weapon capable of arresting the defeat already in action and of saving it from the extreme ruin.
Once again, son, I remind you that the Church should have accepted the loving and authoritative invitations of my Mother at La Salette, at Lourdes, at Fatima and in so many other places, invitations with which the common mother of ours with simplicity and clarity placed the Church and mankind on notice, to remove them from the tremendous ruin of the purification. She said: “Do penance; pray, say the holy Rosary, otherwise, you shall all perish”.
How many times did she say it, but how did my Church answer?
Few, very few in comparison to the very great majority of men have paid attention to the invitations of Heaven;
pride and haughtiness haven’t permitted to the christians and to the men of this unfortunate century, fallen among the snares of the slimy infernal powers, to believe our common mother!
They haven’t taken in the right consideration the words full of love and of mercy of the heavenly mother; they haven’t given her the answer expected with anxiety, that’s to say the answer of repentance, prayer and penance, on the contrary they have continued to do all to send away God from the heart of the man, to unchristianize the Church letting it sink more and more in the materialism to make it forget its great divine mission.
Oh, the men, how easily they forget how many times they have been saved by the divine Mercy, either as individuals or as social bodies!
The Church and with it the christian civilization hasn’t they been saved at Lepanto from the powers of the Crescent ?
Such salvation however has come to the Church and to the single souls always and only through the “prayer”!
The believers will save themselves as Noah saved himself
Christianity is full of wonderful sanctuaries and of magnificent churches scattered evrywhere to remember the power of the Holy Rosary and of the prayer in general, but the materialism of these last times, using all the means, has done everything to let the man forget his dignity of son of God and, always disguised in so many different ways, has tried to kill the faith in the man, making him so completely deaf to the warnings of God’s love.
The men of this 20th century have been submerged under all the material realities so that they could forget the only great reality, foundation and basis of all the others, that is God.
The stubborn wickedness of Satan has arrived to that!
My son, my Church shall not perish and it will not perish just for the power of the prayer of the few good people and for the humble prayers of those who have not let themselves be deceived by the poisonous snares of Hell.
These are already pre-selected and they will save themselves as Noah with the sons of his sons saved himself in the Ark so mocked of by the foolishness and blindness of those who didn’t believe.
My heavenly Father will never send away from Him those who lifted up their fervent prayer to Him with great faith and humble and sincere heart.
That’s enough, son, we will start again soon, for now I bless you and with you I bless all those who cooperate to the spreading of my messages.