November 19, 1976

THE MOST SUBLIME ACT CONTAMINATED

I respond to your desire, my son:

I know that you ardently desire further clarifications about your resolution, that you are so laudably keeping, of abolishing as far as you can, the so-called alms, bound and connected with holy Mass.

How much St. Gabriel, Padre Pio, Luigina and others, have told you; it is clear and comprehensible by all those whose spirit is opened to the light, that is, to the wisdom of the Holy Ghost, but unfortunately the others, who are closed to the light of the Holy Ghost, will never understand it.

Just to imagine it, is foolishness and madness

Now, my son, it is your Jesus who asks you this question:

Do you think that if someone, upon the eve of my Passion, would have presented himself to Me saying: “Here is this money; I am giving it to you, so that you may sacrifice yourself upon the Cross for the remission of my sins.” Do you think, my son, that I would have accepted such an offer?

It would be foolishness and madness, just to imagine it!

What led Me to the Cross, and what leads Me to renew the sacrifice of the Cross in holy Mass, is, and always will be, only one thing: LOVE!

My son, pay close attention: What difference is there, if today persons present themselves to you, offering you some coins for the celebration of a holy Mass?

Son, can your intention as a minister of mine, as a participant of my Eternal Priesthood, be any different from my most pure intention?

Tell Me: Is Holy Mass the same sacrifice of the Cross, or is it not?

To eliminate every mercenary tie

In Holy Mass, should you not perhaps unite yourself to Me, in the offering of your will, an efficacious offering that includes the annihilation of your own ego, and with the same most pure intention with which I, Jesus, and my most holy Mother, always present as Co-redemptrix, offer ourselves to the Father?

You do well, you do well, my son, in not debasing the greatest act that is realized upon earth; eliminate and separate from this act every mercenary tie.

Is it possible to condition your participation, the participation in general of the celebrating priest, to the payment of a sum of money?

My son, I said: to make it a condition. And I do not say this about all priests, but about many: no money, no holy Mass. Behold to what a point the absence of love and the absence of faith can lead!

For so many who celebrate holy Mass in sin, what does purity of intention and the co-redeeming action matter to them? These priests, since they are separated from Me, add nothing, nor can they add anything, to holy Mass, of which they are merely material protagonists, not united to Me, but rather united to him, on whose account I am immolated, that is, united to Satan, neither more nor less than Judas was.

Persevere: it will be an important reform

Son, it was said to you that you should persevere in your resolution, and should not yield to the repeated attacks of the evil one; I, Jesus, repeat it; insist; persevere; this will be a precious pearl, an important reform in my regenerated Church.

Pretexts and arguments are of no value in justifying an action that bears witness to the spiritual poverty of these times and of the crisis of faith. Am not I, Jesus, the Word made flesh, and therefore true God and true man, the protagonist of the holy Sacrifice?

How is it possible that I, the God and Lord of all things, could ignore the just necessities of those who, together with Me, offer themselves in a disinterested manner to the Father for the brethren, living and dead, in a great act of love?

Am I not the only-begotten of the Father, and have not all things been made through Me? Have I not given sufficient proofs of my generosity? Have I allowed Myself, perhaps, to be overcome in generosity by all of you? My son, also in this affair you are my instrument for my plan of Love.

I bless you, and with you I bless all the priests who will humbly follow you in this path, and I promise to all of them graces and particular gifts.