INTRODUCTION

Why did God choose me?

Who am I? I am less than a speck of dust in relation to the universe; I am less than an invisible drop compared to the ocean; I am less than a vile worm that creeps in the mud of the earth. I am a poor priest, the least educated among many, the least learned, the most unprepared; a poor priest rich only in innumerable miseries of all kinds.

Why did God choose me? So that it may be understood that I am only a poor instrument in his hands, so that it may be understood by everyone that I am only a pencil transcribing; my very handwriting is a symbol of my immeasurable poverty and nothingness.

Why did God choose me? To confound the proud, inflated with pride in their knowledge, that have filled the Church with error and heresies, poisoning souls.

Yes, foolishness, errors, heresies about God, about the Church, about the Blessed Virgin, about revelation. God is infinitely simple, and he wants us to be simple and humble.

"Amen, amen I say to you: if you do not humble yourselves as one of these little ones, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven."

It is enough to transform the most simple things into things more complicated, even coining new words, new phrases, to demonstrate one's knowledge and attract to oneself, at this moment, the attention of others.

I consider this short introduction useful, if not necessary, so that the reader, to whom this book is directed, and I, the instrument, may establish a spiritual contact with each other. May this contact, wrapped in the designs of the love of divine Providence, facilitate the realization of the divine will.

Father Octavio Michelini