June 8, 1978

THE WORKS OF GOD HAVE THEIR ORIGIN IN PERFECTION, BUT THEY ARE DEVELOPED IN IMPERFECTION

Brother Octavio, I am Mama Nina.

How much joy it gives me, to know of your good relations with the House of Divine Providence of Carpi; how many blessings for it and for you. Their diverse vicissitudes and yours have not broken your relation; all this is good and very beautiful, and for this you should thank and praise God.

Brother Octavio, your personal experience has shown you how even the works of God that are born upon earth, are not, and cannot be, perfect; it is true that they have their origin in perfection, but they are developed in the imperfection of those who were chosen as instruments of God, to realize his designs of love, and although they make an effort to give the best of themselves, they do so only with their natural energy and strength, not reinforced with the riches of divine help and favor, and these are ever lacking in the works that are of God, but the intensity and kind or these helps and favors being always from God, depends in part or the prompt generous, persevering and at times heroic, correspondence of those that he chooses for his works.

Why, Brother Octavio, do I address these words to you? Because you, with the brother founders of the Association Hope, with the members of the Council, with D. and with others, are the instruments chosen from eternity, for the work that is starting and that is clearing the way for the benefit of many souls. And it is for this reason, Brother Octavio, that he wanted to associate you to the Work of Providence; therefore he wanted you to see it from its birth, and to follow it in all its years, and although the Work of Providence is still very young, its development will be seen afterwards, in the crucial hour of the purification.

Brother Octavio, you know how sorrowful it was for me, and above all for those who were with me in those difficult and severe moments, the birth of the Work of Divine Providence. You know in part, how much suffering, both interior and exterior, it cost me, how many humiliations, how many tears. You know how admirable are the ways of God; and also now for you the hour of giving birth is near. Let not this word surprise you, for the works that are of God could not come into existence, if there were not creatures united to God, to give life to his divine designs in this manner.

Have D. read and re-read this message, and also the other founders and the members of the council.

He who is not in the light, is in the shadow of death

Many times it was repeated to you that the forces of Hell will not prevail, provided that your correspondence is as I said it should be: prompt, sensitive, generous, persevering, and at times, heroic. In everything and through everything, you should always see the hand of God. You have been cast out and treated like a malefactor. What does this fact mean? It means that you are united to him, and that he asks you to participate in his Passion, ascending Calvary with him. It also means that you are going upon the right path and, therefore, you should not fear anything; the heavenly Mother also said this in her message.

Brother Octavio, it is not necessary for me to tell you with how much joy, confidence and hope I follow you, R, and the others, now that you find yourselves in the most disturbing moment of the battle for the triumph of love over human egotism, for the triumph of justice and of truth, for the triumph of God over the obscure forces of darkness, today so impudent and so sure of themselves, so bold and daring, because they found not only consent, but even collaboration, in those who, according to God's plans, should have been the ensigns of God in the battle now taking place, but let this not astound you; he was, is, and will be, stronger, he who is the conqueror, together with his most holy Mother, and our most tender Mother.

Brother Octavio, he who is not in the light, is in the shadow of death. And this very morning it was explained to you why these souls bring death, in time and in eternity, for they are, as you well know, the proud, the presumptuous, those who thirst for power, those who desire to surpass everything and everyone. And those who are in the shadow of death cannot see, only a great miracle could save them.

May God bless you. May God and his most holy Mother bless all of you. We are with you. You already know that the Communion of saints is a sublime reality. We will converse again.

Mama Nina