November 27, 1975

WE ARE NOT DISTANT

Son, you have manifested to Me your desire of knowing and communicating with the holy martyr Octavius; here you have it:

- I am Saint Octavius, a Roman martyr. I want you to know that in Paradise we do not live an inert life, but rather an intensely active life. In Paradise one has the plenitude of life; the desire of communicating between ourselves is normal; the body is one alone; one alone is the Head, and therefore one alone is the activity of all the members, always provided that those who are still pilgrims upon earth do not turn aside to things harmful to the entire body and injure the rights of all the other members, especially those of the Head.

My brother, the assistance and help it has been permitted us to give you, has never failed since your birth, and it will not fail you until the end of your earthly days. It would have been much greater, if your desire of having received it had been more intense, and more frequent your supplications to ask it. Divine goodness has granted us this encounter; let us unite ourselves for a more fruitful and reciprocal collaboration. It is a joy for the divine goodness, and it is a joy for us to have a closer relationship, to do it more often, with more confidence and above all, more fruitful in benefits.

We are not far from all of you, brother; it is an error to think so. We are free and intelligent members of the same body. The same divine Life nourishes us and you, except that we love each other much more, and all of you love us much less; you love us so little that you even forget us.

The Communion of Saints

You know, brother, that love tends necessarily to union, to perfect union, and how can this union be made more easily? If love is unilateral, this union cannot be realized.

My brother, tell everyone that the benefits upon earth could be immense, incalculable, if all of you pilgrims could live, as we ardently desire you to live (and we live it in the measure to which you consent), the dogma of the Communion of Saints.

In Paradise one cannot become sad about anything; otherwise it would not be perfect happiness. But if something could make us sad, it would certainly be this: the fact of having lost immense possibilities of doing good, and of having neglected a marvelous source of spiritual resources and even material ones, for one's personal benefit and for the social benefit of the Church.

Through the divine goodness, may it be granted unto us to meet each other and to communicate with each other with greater frequency, for the honor and glory of our three times Holy God, One and Three.