June 15, 1978

THE FINALITY OF CREATION

Write, brother; I am Dominic Savio.

To the choir of angels and of saints that spoke to you, and to the choir of those who will speak, I also unite my voice, a small saint of Paradise. In Paradise there exist only saints, because thrice holy is he who has willed the existence of Paradise, from all eternity, so that it could be the fatherland, the dwelling of the angelical legions, who for his glory, fought, and now fight, and so that Paradise could also be the fatherland and dwelling of the sons of men who, following the example of the angels, and with their help, being faithful to their Creator and Lord, clashed in a fierce battle, for the glory of him to whom all honor and glory is due, for all the ages of eternity.

Brother Octavio, I now see what is in your mind, and I answer: I also cannot cease talking about the most important problem of life of men upon earth, for you thought: At least you, tell me something new. And I could truly tell you many new things, but I can only inculcate what those who preceded me said in their colloquies with you. Yesterday you were reminded of the admonition of the Gospel: “Of what value is it for a man to acquire the esteem, the glory, the riches of the entire world, if then at the end he loses his soul?”

Brother Octavio, what is the finality of the creation of man, except to know, to serve, and to love God upon earth, so that afterwards he may go to rejoice with him in Paradise? And can it be said that this genuine and exalted finality is loved, sought, and pursued today by the great majority of men, especially by youth? Can it be said that today humanity is conscious of the reason of its existence, and of the reason of its pilgrimage upon earth?

The measure is full

Do you not see the disorder of nations, of persons individually, and the disorder of youth in general? It is a formidable disorder for those who, ignoring the true path that should be taken, have become lost, and who lose themselves in darksome labyrinths of the most base degradation, spiritual, moral, and material. Men, for not having desired the light, have not sought it, and have cast themselves, and now lie, in the most horrible darkness, produced by the unrestrained concupiscences of the spirit and of matter. Do you not see, Brother Octavio, how the most base, the most abject, and the most criminal things, are accepted and admitted by this materialistic humanity, even to the point of having totally lost the awareness of good and of evil, of justice and of the most formidable injustice, the sense of truth and of error? They praise abortion, crime; they praise corruption, violence, the glorification of brute force; they praise everything that is against the divine law, and against the natural law. To such a point the fierce enemy of humanity and of God has brought humanity, and he is now pushing it toward the darksome abyss, in which it will be annihilated, in vast numbers.

THE MEASURE IS FULL; THE CUP IS POURED OUT; BY ITS PERVERSION, HUMANITY WILL BE ITS OWN JUDGE.

Brother Octavio, the insanity of materialism and of rationalism, that has entered so deeply into the Church, is now about to harvest its bitter fruits, of temporal and eternal perdition.

The Church must suffer its tremendous passion

They say that man does not need God, and in this climate of nearly total materialism and of rationalism, they have prepared, and are preparing, in the most insane competition among the great ones of the earth, a vast deposit of death-dealing weapons, ready to destroy the earth, not only once, but many times. Brother Octavio, you have here the bitter fruits that humanity, without God and against God, is preparing for this insensate generation, that remains deaf to all the calls from heaven. This affirmation of mine is not to be understood as including everyone, but it does mean nearly everyone.

And the Church, placed in the world as a Teacher and Guide of the nations? Oh the Church! The Church of Jesus, that issued from the wound of his side she also has been contaminated and infected by the poison of Satan and of his wicked legions, but it will not perish; in the Church is present the divine Redeemer; it cannot perish, but it must suffer its tremendous passion, just like its invisible Head.

Afterwards, the Church and all of humanity will be raised up from its ruins, to begin a new path of justice and of peace, in which THE KINGDOM OF GOD WILL TRULY DWELL IN ALL HEARTS, THAT INTERIOR KINGDOM THAT UPRIGHT SOULS HAVE ASKED FOR AND IMPLORED FOR SO MANY AGES.

Brother Octavio, I also tell you: Courage! There will arrive a moment, in which you will need great courage, bravery, faith and love, but do not fear. May God, the supreme Lord of all things, to whom is due all honor and all glory for eternal ages, bless you, and may he remain and dwell with you always.

Dominic Savio