January 20, 1976

DOCILE INSTRUMENTS

How many today are called good, who say: “Lord, Lord…” but how few there are who are truly disposed to do the Will of God!

Very numerous are those who consider themselves as instruments of God; they affirm it almost with conviction, but the truth is very different; they are instruments of themselves, that is, of their own pride, which means instruments of Satan. Son, there are no alternatives; either you are of God, or you are servants of Satan.

An instrument never wields anything; it permits itself to be wielded.

If bishops and priests would permit themselves to be wielded truly, as instruments available. in the hands of God, the Church would be, for Heaven and for earth, a stupendous spectacle of sanctity and of love; my angels would be filled with admiration and the men of the earth enchanted.

But: what a sad vision! A vision that causes horror, of moral disorders, a vision of immodest passions, a vision of fights, hatreds and of evils of all kinds.

Not of words

Son, my words never change nor vary. Those who serve Me only with words do not belong to Me, but rather those who belong to Me with the full and total adhesion of their will to the will of the heavenly Father; they alone will be saved.

If many bishops of my Church see that they are not obeyed, if they find it evident that their churches are striken from their foundations, before looking for the cause in the exterior, let them look for these causes in the interior of their own lives. It is easy to speak of instruments of Providence, but for many it has not been so easy to become instruments of Divine Providence.

Yes, son; it is the history of the first sin, that repeats itself in time, but they are never learning the lesson from it.

Satan provokes the fall of man; man destroys the stupendous preestablished order, the marvellous harmony of nature and of grace.

Sin is a most grave disorder, that provokes and generates a series of more disorders, in the world of the spirit, of grace and of nature. The first parents sinned, and there followed the immediate rebellion of the senses, the rebellion of nature: “You shall labor for your bread in the sweat of your brow, and thou, O woman, wilt bring forth in sorrow.”

You can never imagine what you have lost: the admirable and jubilant harmony of grace and of nature. The first dwelling of man was called the terrestrial Paradise. Terrestrial, but a Paradise!

A series of evils

Bishops and priests should be profoundly conscious of the terrible consequences of the first sin, and they should know very well that these consequences are newly generated with the commission of every sin, and in an extraordinary way by the sin of pride.

A sin of pride, of arrogance, of presumption, committed by a bishop or by a priest, provokes in his local church a series of evils; many disorders have their origin here.

Behold why, my son, my almost exasperated insistence with you, to repeat for you that they have understood very little about a fundamental problem of my Mystical Body.

It is painful to affirm, but many bishops and priests are like the foolish man who, when he built his house, occupied himself in things of little importance, such as certain ornamental aspects, and he neglected the foundations and the structures upon which everything else would rest, and therefore the result was a beautiful house, irrevocably destined to collapse. Is not this foolishness? And now: this foolishness is governing in the Church!

I ought to repeat it to you I know not how many times, so that each one may finally decide to take this grave problem into due consideration.

Son, you realized all this, this morning in your interview with X... They do not want to believe in a reality that is so evident, but this blindness, these lying convictions that the Enemy has successfully sown in souls, cannot avoid or retard even for a moment the purification demanded by Love, that can no longer tolerate the impudent domination of Satan in the world and upon souls, that are lost in vast numbers.

My commandment to the Apostles of casting out demons is considered useless and even ridiculous, and yet, nowadays, they have opened all doors to these very demons!

I am a living person!

Son, tell everyone, and do not worry at all about their reactions, whatever they may be. It is I, Jesus, who want this, and I order it of you.

Say strongly, that there has been enough of this pseudo-prudence, with which they have become afraid of making everyone know that I, Jesus, true God and true man, am a living and real person, like all of you. Even more, more than you, with all the rights and duties of making my voice heard to whom, how, and when I desire, and in the way that I desire. Say, son, that I have the right and the power of calling whom I desire, when and how I desire, to undertake any mission whatsover in my Church.

Let them be persuaded that I have chosen them to be, priests and some of them to be bishops, and just as I have called them, I am able now, and I have the power, to choose some among my priests to entrust special missions to them, to be fulfilled in the way and at the time established by Me.

Do not tire of praying and of offering yourself; behold, the rest do not tire of offending Me. Your sufferings have increased, but you know that they are the measure of your love for Me.

I bless you, son, and with you I bless all those who with the spirit of true humility, may know how to accept this urgent invitation of the Man-God, who desires all to be saved.