December 1, 1976

UNKNOWN REALITY

Write, my son:

What are they teaching in seminaries and in religious institutes? They teach a little of everything, and a distinction is not made between the sacred and the profane; I say even more: what should have an absolute pre-eminence, is. often put in the last place; this fact is sufficient to comprehend how much evil and materialism have turned aside those who are responsible and the educators, from the finality of their vocation a finality to which consecrated souls should give their lives, energies and labors.

Yesterday I told you that priests, by their very nature, are victim souls, for the divine Master is totally and completely a Victim, and with an act of love and infinite mercy, he desires to share his royal, priestly power with his beloved souls; for he wants those he has chosen to be similar to him in love, and therefore, first, in sacrifice, and afterwards, in glory.

The priesthood includes such a compendium of powers, that the very hierarchies of angels remain astonished before it. The Archangel Gabriel, who stands in the presence of the Most High, feels highly honored for having been chosen as ambassador to the most Blessed Virgin, to announce to her the sublime mystery of the Incarnation, on behalf of God, three and one; and certainly this commission realized by him was the greatest that was accomplished in the visible and invisible universe.

They do not live in a supernatural manner

But when one ponders the royal power and dignity conferred by the Word made flesh upon his priests, the very angels are in admiration and amazement; and Satan, together with his wicked legions, remains despairingly enraged and overthrown. They cannot comprehend how men, so very inferior to them, could be raised to such an exalted and sublime dignity.

All this is reality, my son, but a reality that is not understood, not accepted, not perceived, for which reason the demons laugh at human blindness and foolishness.

Why does this deplorable state of affairs exist?

How can a cleric live his vocation, according to this vision, if those who surround him as guardians, tutors, artisans and delegates of the work begun by the divine Sower, are the very ones incapable of living their vocation in a supernatural manner? How can they inculcate in others, what they themselves do not believe in, do not perceive, and do not live?

A vocation is like a small, delicate plant, and if it is surrounded by thorny brambles, they suffocate it and cause it to die. Today not a few educators in seminaries are worse than thorny brambles.

A vocation is a delicate plant that should receive light and heat, and heretical educators, marxist and materialist, refuse it light and heat.

A vocation should mature in an oasis

A vocation should not mature in the hubbub and bustle of modern life, interwoven with traumas, noise, laxity, and opposition. A vocation demands a conception and vision of life that is very different from that which the pagan world of today has.

A vocation should grow and come to maturity in an oasis; an oasis is surrounded by the desert and exists in a desert.

My son, how many vocations were lost, and how great a responsibility for those who were called to this fundamental apostolate! How is it possible, my son, to conduct these vocations step by step along unknown pathways and fields?

In the regenerated Church things will change; I desire priests who are very aware and conscious of their grandeur and priestly dignity; I desire humble priests, who are well disposed to follow Me on the way of the Cross, and not upon the ways of the world.

They should know that the world is of the evil one, and that the evil one is overcome only with the humility of the Cross. Thus did I overcome it, and only thus will my priests be able to do so.

I bless you, my son; love Me intensely, and pray.

Offer yourself, so that grace may penetrate into the minds and hearts of so many priests, who are upon the road to losing themselves eternally.