November 19, 1975

EVEN CLOSE TO ME

Write, my son:

I have already spoken to you of my Mother, the Co-redemptrix; she was so in reality from the moment in which she consecrated herself to God, offering her entire being, her purity, her will. This offering always became more living, more luminous and more conscious; grace increased in her with the increase of her age. Officially she became the Co-redemptrix at the moment in which she pronounced her FIAT, thus producing within herself the virginal conception of Me, the Word of God.

She intensified her action of Co-redemptrix each day and each moment of her life, making a practical reality the initial offering of her will.

Co-redemptrix in her seven dolors, she was the Co-redemptrix in a sublime way when she accompanied Me upon Calvary, when beneath the cross she also pronounced her FIAT (FIAT VOLUNTAS TUA) accepting and offering Me and herself also, as a victim to the Father for the deliverance of humanity, that had fallen under the dominion of Satan.

She was a Co-redemptrix, she is now, and will continue being one for ever.

The presence of the mother

The mystery of the cross is renewed and perpetuated in the mystery of the Mass; therefore my Mother's presence in the holy Mass is real; just like her presence upon Calvary, certainly not present in the Host but close to the Host, as she was close to Me beneath the cross.

My son, close to my Mother upon Calvary was John, and the presence of John is continued in the holy Mass, with the presence of the celebrating priest. Unique and real was, is and will be always the presence of my Mother in the Holy Mass; the presence of the priest in the Holy Mass is real and will remain so, but this presence of the priest can be very diverse, because the dispositions with which priests celebrate are different.

There are priests, not many, but there are some, who are present like John, with a holy and active participation, with a clear, generous and courageous offering of themselves to my Father in union with Me. Think, my son, about these Masses! What a sublime, stupendous and marvelous unity in love and in suffering (which is the soul of love) in a sublime and marvelous trinity! Unity and trinity of love, offered to my Father who, satisfied, is reconciled with humanity, through the new Adam, the new Eve and the people of God in the person of John, that is, of the priest.

Immense damage

I told you, son, that nearly all my priests are ignorant, by their own fault, of this their rank in the most exalted mystery of faith and of religion, and in this way they deprive themselves and the people they represent, of innumerable graces, mutilating and killing, as far as they can, this design of infinite love of the divine Trinity, also killing the unity and trinity of the love of Calvary, because their presence is only material, and the participation of the people that the priest represents begins to fail, although they are physically present. By this fact you can deduce the gravity of the unconscious presence of many of my priests in the holy Sacrifice of the Mass; by this fact you can comprehend the immense damage caused to the people of God, defrauded of so many gifts destined for them by means of the priest, mediator and depositary of the redemption.

The priest, and there are so many, my son, who should be a channel through which my grace should flow, is converted into a dike raised up between my Pierced Heart and the people that he represents. Think, my son, about the shame that some priests will experience at the Last judgment, when they see their grandeur, their royal dignity and the power that they never wanted to understand, through their own fault, which they abdicated in favor of other things of no importance, that filled their lives with smoke and obscurity, but never with light.

I am embittered

Son, shout loudly; shout to all those priests, who are outside the design of salvation, who are not instruments of redemption but rather will-o’-the-wisps.

My priests do not find even five minutes to prepare themselves for the Holy Mass; they do not find five minutes for a little thanksgiving. It is logical that it should be thus. What can they thank Me for, if they have not received any fruit from the Holy Mass? Afterwards they spend their entire day, and even part of the night, in fruitless, useless and often sinful things. Do you think Satan would not take advantage of this frightful reality?

Tell everyone, without reticence, that the catastrophic results are due in great measure to my priests. It will not be extraordinary if, tomorrow, their blood tinges the earth with red!

I told you: the situation in my Church would have been very different, if my priests had cultivated the interior life of their souls.

I am embittered.

It is not to Me that they should impute the great sufferings of the present hour that draw near.

I bless you, and with you, I bless those who are dear to you.