June 4, 1978

KEEP WATCH AND PRAY

Brother Octavio, I am the Archangel to whom God has entrusted your guardianship.

Those who spoke to you recommended prudence, great prudence, confidence and total abandonment in him. Brother, I confirm to you everything that has been communicated to you through the divine goodness.

In the actions that develop the battle of which now you see only some aspects, and others you will know later it is necessary, indeed, to proceed with great prudence and cautiously, since the enemy, astute and malicious, is always lying in ambush to take advantage of your lack of experience, just as he does of others. You have been combatting for some years from this date, but he has been fighting for millenniums, and how many defeats you have suffered, because of a lack of prudence. It is necessary to speak little, and only with persons of proven faith, who are not many. He, the evil one, always takes advantage of your mistakes; it was told you that when you have to speak from necessity, there should always be someone put on guard, who keeps watch and prays.

Every good strategist does not trust the enemy, and therefore when he reunites his counsellors around him, his first precaution is to place sentinels in adequate positions. Behold why it was said to you, both by the Apostles and by many others, and was repeated: "Be ye prudent." Unite also to this virtue a great humility, that leads you not to trust in yourselves, and to place total and complete confidence in the Lord, who in his infinite mercy has given, is giving, and will give, much more than is necessary, so that you can proceed with complete confidence and abandonment in him, who loves you, and how much he loves you! You have no reasons for doubting; it is he who has chosen you; it is he whom you should follow faithfully; it is he who works, and for him it is enough for you not to put the stick into the spokes, as you say.

For God, nothing is great, nothing is powerful, nothing is important

Brother Octavio, you should be convinced of the following: just as one day he gave life to the Church with the mystery of his Incarnation, Passion, Death, Resurrection, and entrusted to his chosen ones, that is, to the apostles, the great mission of transforming men into children of God, and gave them everything necessary for this mission – “Go ye and baptize, preach, cast out demons”- how could the Apostles take up, develop, and complete this great and sublime mission, if they had not been armed and enriched with the necessary gifts and means? He, the Savior and divine Master, did not curtail anything, nor was he stingy. Thus he will do also for all of you now, for it is a matter of a great mission; it is a matter of reconstructing, of rebuilding the Church in ruins. The Apostles had the entire world before them, but they were not thereby frightened.

Brother, I know what you are thinking at this moment; you think about the unlimited disproportion between the greatness of the mission that is given you, and the inadequacy of the instruments that you all are, and that as such you consider yourselves. I know this is certain, in respect to yourselves, but not where God is concerned. He is outside of space and time, of finite and limited things; for him, the omnipotent and eternal one, who has within himself time and space, for him, the millenniums are less than an hour; for him nothing is great, nothing is powerful, nothing is important. He chooses whom he desires, when he desires, and how he desires; only one thing he asks and demands: the “yes,” the FIAT, or the “no,” to his divine will. He respects the work of his hands, man, and waits for and respects his decisions; and if the response is the one desired by him, then his action of grace enters, by which he realizes his designs of love.

Finality of the redemption: deliverance of souls from the slavery and tyranny of Satan

Brother Octavio, give to him your continual and generous “yes,” just as his Mother did so. Your “yes” is your FIAT; this is the only thing he asks for; he takes charge of everything else; total abandonment to his divine will in this lies the only and genuine peace of heart.

Brother, it is necessary to always have present some important things, and you know that ideas always precede actions. Therefore I consider it to be suitable for you and P. to put on paper the ideas that were communicated to you, and that will be given you, so that, considering them, you may develop your plan of action and put it into practice; before all else, in your program - which is to love, to obey and to serve - God should occupy the first place: “Seek ye first the Kingdom Of God, and everything else will be given you.” You should clarify the concept that the finality of Redemption is the deliverance of souls from the slavery and tyranny of Satan, and so many other concepts that you should clarify.

To reorder these ideas, to live them, and to have others live them by your example and your words, will be to re-build and reconstruct the Church in ruins. Courage, Brother Octavio, confidence, prudence, abandonment, and: forward!

May God, one and three, bless you, and lead you to eternal life.

St. Gabriel the Archangel