June 17, 1978

DEATH DOES NOT INTERRUPT LIFE

Father Octavio, I am Don Sisto, write:

It was told you that death does not interrupt or destroy life, but rather, for the elect, it is perfected; this is certain. It is just like a stranger who arrives in a great city, unknown to him, and who passes through the streets, distracted by the great novelties that he begins to find, and then, the problems of his life are again presented to his memory. It is thus for the one who arrives in Paradise. It is not that he begins life ex novo but rather that he continues by remembering the affairs of terrestrial life, naturally in a completely different light, and he sees things from a most clear perspective, and also interest in earthly things is seen in a way totally modified by the new situation.

When my earthly life was taking place, I knew of the many evils that afflicted the Church, but this knowledge of mine was limited and narrow, and I could never have suspected the tremendous reality. From Paradise, by the will of God, the vision of human happenings is very different, and also the vision of the Church is very different. It would be sufficient if all the men in pilgrimage upon earth could have a vision of the world for just one instant, like the one that we have from here, so that they could verify a radical change in the bitter and most sad realities that you are living, but this is not possible, for life upon earth is a trial, and it would no longer be a trial, if that happened.

In the darkness of the night

Father Octavio, it is useless to continue with the theme of the origin of the evils brought to earth by the rebellion against God of the dark forces of Hell, and that the disobedience of our first parents permitted to enter, evils aggravated by the systems of economic and social life that injure the justice or freedom of individuals and of nations. It might seem absurd that man, endowed with such marvelous faculties, that have enabled him to discover so many secrets of nature and to make so many wonderful inventions, that if well guided could truly increase man's well being upon earth, has not succeeded in doing so, and this, not because of man's incapacity, but by the perverse will of him who is the Prince of this world, and that now has humanity as his prey, whom he has made his Prey with his lies. In reality the Prince of this world has never permitted governments of good will to be established, governments in which justice and liberty could live together, or he has trampled upon them, by reason of which the life of the nations has always been convulsive, agitated, disturbed by civil wars, revolutions, and many other evils, always proceeding from the same and only cause: the pride of Satan and of his legions.

Father Octavio, for one who uses his intelligence with the desire of finding the truth, the truth about the disorder of men upon earth emerges very clearly. But in addition to this, in the midst of the nations is the Church, that has the mandate of bringing the divine truths to all peoples, and how is it possible that even in the Church, the teacher of peace, of truth and of justice, disorder, discord and injustice always entered from the beginning? I do not answer this question; rather he, the divine Master, answers it with the parable of the sower, of that sower who had his field infested with the cockle that the inimicus hominis (the enemy of man) had sown in the darkness of the night. Meditate upon these last words: “In the darkness of the night.” He never manifests himself; he does everything in the secret of the night, in darkness.

To combat the real, great enemy of man

Father Octavio, just a little good will would be sufficient in order to understand, that the root of all the evils that afflict humanity and the Church, and that present all the same characteristics: personal ambitions, pride, envy, jealousy is always the same: Satan, and the dark forces of hell. Is it possible that men are not capable, after knowing this reality, of eliminating all these evils from their hearts, from nations, and from the Church? Well, no; it is not possible, unless individuals, nations and peoples, identifying the author of all evils, conceive the desire of combatting him, with adequate and effective means.

One would have to have patience with the non-Christian nations, but it is truly absurd that Christian nations and the Church, that have the mandate of revealing to all humanity the origin of all evils, that the Church, to which was given all the effective means to combat him and point him out to others, as the true, great enemy of man in general, and of the Christian in particular, it is absurd, I repeat, that the Church does not do it! But the Church today has allowed itself to be as if hypnotized, and for this reason, the Church itself suffers great injury, that is most grave in its consequences.

Therefore, Octavio, be convinced that a mission has been entrusted to you, of calling everyone's attention to the true, great problem, and for this reason the extraordinary intervention from on high to you exists. For this reason, we are so close to you, but in your interior you continue asking why the Almighty chose you for such a great mission. Do not ask any more, for it was already told you many times: He is the One who works, and he has need of no one. He has chosen you, not because he needs you, but rather because he has desired it, and desires it; may his divine will be accomplished now, and at every moment.

May God, One and Three, bless you. To him be given all honor and glory, for the eternal ages. And with you may he bless the Association, Father P., and all the directors and members.

Don Sisto