November 4, 1976

EGOTISM JUST LIKE THE DEMON'S

Fr. Octavio, I am L., who speaks to you:

Do you remember that I told you in a previous message that in Heaven one cannot become irritated? It is not even possible to suffer for the mistakes one made upon earth, through a lack of faith or through a refined, interior egotism that knows how to hide itself in the most profound recesses of the human heart, so it cannot be discovered by the very ones who are the victims of it. For egotism means: the demon.

The "St. John" project failed, by reason of human calculations; instead of faith there were calculations; I mean that in our case egotism triumphed. But his mercy, truly infinite, knows human fragility and weakness, and he furnishes the remedy in the way that you saw.

There will be other desertions! Man is a child of sin, and this is what succeeds in making him sin more intensely, for in order to assist him in this wicked action of desertion and rebellion, a spirit of evil is always next to him.

Behold the reason why, Fr. Octavio, it is necessary to give adequate importance to the way in which one can confront, humbly but bravely, the perfidious powers of evil, that have been unleashed in this last part of the century, for the terrible confrontation, that will soon be in its culminating phase.

Intimate union with God

The first condition for counteracting the powers of evil, is the intimate union with him who has defeated Satan, with the immolation of his own self.

He who is humbly united with him, in carrying the cross, becomes invulnerable.

Holy Mass, the holy Rosary, also the different blessings, are good and useful means to confront the enemy, and to keep him far from your souls and your houses.

May holy things be always used and treated in a holy manner; blessings are also sacramentals, holy things to be used with faith and with the due interior dispositions. Fr. Octavio, the work that you are assigned to realize, will be an object of rage; be attentive and vigilant, and being with him, you will not have a reason to be afraid.

Never abandon confidence; you are on the right path. Courage! Faith, faith, faith; and you know that with faith goes hope and also love. Fr. Octavio, confidence and abandonment; you are an instrument in his hands; do not prevent him from making use of you, in the way he wishes.

Courage; we await you

Courage, we await you; never forget that we are members of the same family. If any of you had a relative in America or Japan, you would not consider him less a relative, on account of the distance that separates you from him; we are immensely closer to you than America or Japan; do not forget it.

What was said by FR. B. about the Communion of saints is most beautiful; it is necessary to cause this dogma to be lived, in all its sublime reality. You will not regret; insist; the drop of water that falls with constancy and continuity upon a rock, ends by making a hole in it; it is a question of time and of perseverance.

Courage; we are next to all of you; we are truly in glory; now you cannot understand, but one day you will comprehend it.