November 30, 1976

SACERDOS ALTER CHRISTUS

Write, my son:

I desired to explain to you more clearly what a victim soul is, before telling you that every priest should be a victim soul.

This affirmation will arouse surprise in many and amazement in others, incredulity in others, that is to say, this affirmation will arouse different reactions, that will correspond to the various spiritual states of those who will read these messages.

Nevertheless, with great firmness I ratify, that every priest should be a victim soul.

In reality, my son, have I been, yes or no, the victim par excellence? Tell Me, son, am I not the pure, holy and immaculate victim who appeased divine wrath and who gave satisfaction to divine justice? And what is the priest, except an "ALTER CHRISTUS"?  What  are  my  priests,  except  my  natural co-redeemers, and what co-redemption will be possible, if they do not become victims, just as I became a victim for your salvation?

Was I not the High Priest, and at the same time, the Victim, who immolated Myself for the life of the world?

Son, in a previous message I clearly explained what part the priest should have in the celebration of Holy Mass, and I said: Woe to the priests who one day will discover that in the Holy Mass they were unconscious protagonists, passive and only materially present, instead of having been consciously present and actively co-participants with Me.

My most holy Mother and St. John were present beneath the Cross, and they are present with Me, in every Mass!

To fuse oneself with the divine victim

If a priest is not present in the holy sacrifice of the Mass with the firm and efficacious will of offering himself, united with Me, to the heavenly Father for the remission of sins, the reason for the Sacrifice that is offered, the priest practically nullifies his priesthood of its essence, depriving it of its nature, of its sacerdotal character, mutilating his priesthood from its purpose. In fine, this priest makes sport of and mocks his royal priesthood, that I imparted to him. Imagine rather an assassin who makes sport of his victim, while tearing his body in pieces.

Son, what were pastors and educators doing, if they were not capable, if they did not know, how to impart to their seminarians the knowledge of the nature, essence and finality of the sacerdotal character?

Are not two spouses, who go to matrimony without knowing its nature and purpose, two unfortunate persons? A cleric who receives the priesthood, without knowing its essence in depth, its nature and its purpose, is much more than an unfortunate person, since he not only puts his own soul in danger, but a great number of souls, who are bound and linked to his priesthood in the design of the divine economy.

The priest should not only be victim, but rather he has been converted into a victim by the very nature of his priesthood; therefore if he rejects this, his condition of being a victim, he becomes a traitor of the mystery of the Redemption, like Judas.

The priest: a victim by nature of his very priesthood

Blessed is he who knows his magnificent and sublime vocation and priestly mission, and who with docility submits before the infinite Love of God, who deigned to raise him up from the dunghill and from the dust of the earth, to lift him and to elevate him to the greatest and most sublime dignity that any creature could aspire to.

Blessed is he who, conscious of having been made a vessel of election, makes an effort, with Me, to follow Me to Calvary, in order to fuse his sufferings with those of the divine Victim, in order to be afterwards three times holy with the Victim, a liberator of such a great number of souls, freeing them from the yoke and tyranny of Satan.

Blessed is that priest who does not accept pacts nor compromises with the enemies of God, with the enemies of the Church, and with the enemies of his soul and his conscience.

Blessed is that priest who rejects all collaboration with the obscure forces of hell, and who walks upon the path of perfection and of holiness, according to my precept: “Be ye holy;” for if this precept of holiness is for everyone, it is clear and evident that it is thus in a very particular way for my ministers, for they should be holy and saints, in order to sanctify the others.

Then what is to be said about the formation imparted in the seminaries of today?

My son, what a frightful distortion, in the name of progress and of a subversive evolution, that is in clear contrast to my examples and teachings!

O pastors, who have yielded and who do yield passively, to so much spiritual perversion, do not think that you will escape from your most grave responsibilities; your sophisms are of no value, to shut the eyes of God.

Soon you will see with your own eyes, and soon you will pay out of your own pocket, for all the evil that you have not known how to prevent, nor desired to prevent, and for all the good that you have not realized.

I bless you, my son.