January 3, 1977

WHAT FAITH?

Let us continue the previous message, my son:

Why is it, my son, that many bishops and so many priests, nearly all of them, do not give blessings?

It is because their faith is simply human, just as their virtues are only human; consequently their blessings, if we admit that they give them, would be simply human acts, deprived, therefore, of their genuine soul of faith; consequently, they are sterile and ineffective.

I told you repeatedly in preceding messages, that the hour of laying the axe to the root has arrived; but to be able to realize this inward act of fructification, it is necessary to recognize the roots and to cut them out. For this reason, I explained to you yesterday with greater clarity, who the enemy is who should be fought, without truce and without hesitation, without fear nor timidity, without mercy.

Satan, who is pride personified, and his diabolical legions, have contaminated the world with this very evil; they have contaminated all of humanity and my Church. All physical, moral and spiritual evil has only one, single root: Satan.

Satan, who is wickedness, with his legions, superior in nature to human nature, with deceit and cunning, goes growling about the souls of men, giving particular attention and care to the souls of the consecrated, to bishops and priests, to religious men and women, so as to sow greater destruction in the Church, and to cause the loss of a vast number of souls.

In fact and in reality, the perversion is greater and more intense in the christian nations, than in the non-Christian ones!

They seem to be alive, but they are not

These petty demons are incomparable teachers, because of the superiority of their nature, because of their mastery in lying; it is relatively easy to lead christians astray, and even priests and bishops, off the right path, in the name of dignity, in the name of a good reputation, and often in the name of duty; they fill them and saturate them with falze zeal, with an ardent desire of activity; and thus they neglect piety, the interior life, and they always put great emphasis on exterior activity; little by little they end in forgetting God, whom they substitute with their own ego.

Exteriorly you think they are alive, like mannequins in store windows, but in reality they are not so; they seem good to you and even holy, but they are neither good nor holy; they substitute Me, the eternal Word of God, and they behold Me sketched in the depths of the centuries, but they do not perceive Me as one who is alive, genuine and real, present in the person of my Vicar, whom they love very little, whom they rarely listen to, and they almost never transmit his wise words to their priests and their faithful.

In preceding messages I told you that to exorcise and ward off such great wickedness, I traced out with my earthly life, with my words, with my examples, a most secure path of humility, of poverty and obedience, of prayer, of mortification; they did not want to take this path, and they became lost in the tortuous labyrinths of pride and of ambition.

For this reason alone, son, they have remained deaf to my calls; for this reason they have resisted, and they do resist, my warning and my invitations to conversion.

They, great masters of the spiritual life ... in need of conversion?

Nevertheless, I indicated the remedy for their extremely grave evil: pride can be overcome only by the opposite virtue: humility.

I have given you an example

I, Jesus, true God and true man, have preceded you with examples: I am a mystery of infinite humility, present in the Eucharist.

Are bishops and priests ignorant of this?

If it is so, it is a confirmation of the darkness in which they are submerged; if it is not, then how can one explain their absurd and paradoxical behavior, in strident opposition to Me, the Word of God, the Savior and Redeemer of humanity?

How can one explain, son, the collapse of all the spiritual fortresses in my Church: seminaries, orders, religious congregations, convents, monasteries?

How can one explain professionalism, that I already pointed out to you in another message? How can one explain their diplomacy, copied from the world, that may be defined as the art of lying and of hypocrisy, even to the point where they say that a good diplomat should convince his listeners of the very opposite of what he says?

My son, we are in the faction that is the very opposite to what I taught: my diplomacy was that of the truth, even when the truth carried Me to the Cross.

They have completely forgotten what is said in my Gospel: if it is yes, Yes! If it is no, No! This is my diplomacy.

I repeat: it is the diplomacy of truth, removed from all personal interest; it is a component of genuine love, not apparent; of the genuine love that tends to the well being of the others, and not to safeguard one's own prestige or personal dignity.

My son, how could they have reached such perversion, covered with the cape of zeal and sanctity?

The answer to these questions I already repeated so many times: pride, and the open, or even worse, tacit, rejection of God; this is the greatest of all sins.

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