August 26, 1975

FRIENDS AND CO-REDEEMERS

I told you that all things belong to Me, the visible world and the invisible world. Everything and everyone belongs to Me; everything has been made by means of myself, and without Me nothing that exists has been made. But in a very special manner my priests belong to Me.

Priests are my co-redeemers, invested with mysterious and supernatural powers, and they should have relationships of great intimacy with Me; I do not call you servants, but friends.

My son, few are the priests who have understood what this gift of my royal friendship includes and yields; therefore few are the priests who are conscious and responsible about the necessary and indispensable solidarity of faith and of love that should flow between Me, Teacher and Savior, and them, my friends and co-redeemers. Only a few have understood that between Me and them there should be a reciprocal interchange of forces and energies, I give myself entirely to them; they should give themselves exclusively to Me.

If this absolutely essential and indispensable interchange is lacking, you have then the spiritual death of my ministers, and death means putrefaction that contaminates and causes the loss of souls. It seems that many do not realize the consequences that are derived from it. If the lifegiving sap is cut off, my minister, from being my friend and co-redeemer, is converted into an ally of Satan; he becomes like a demon, and plays the part of a demon.

The insensibility of many of my ministers before the scandal of the rejection of God, before the scandal of the universal apostasy, the passivity with which they behold the perdition of so many souls, are for my merciful Heart lacerating wounds that truly strike it.

You will tell Me that many are active and in movement, but they do not move in the correct direction. If only they would feel the necessity of asking Me for their conversion, that I do not deny to anyone who asks Me with sentiments of living faith and sincere humility....

They do not love me

It is very true that holy priests are not lacking, but they are few. Good confessors and spiritual directors are needed.

My son, I could make you understand profoundly how many souls there are who are scarely living, vegetating like sick plants, and they languish because of a lack of clear spiritual direction; even in convents and among consecrated souls, through lack of valid spiritual direction, there are souls who if they had been directed well, would have arrived at the highest levels of sanctity.

“Qui non diligit, manet in morte.” He who does not love, remains in death.

Many of my priests are in death, because they do not love, because they have not desired to know Me.

Saint John says: “He came unto his own, but his own received him not,” and the fact that my own beloved souls do not admit Me into their hearts  this, my son, is an enormous sin.

The fact that love is responded to with coldness and with injustice, is a great wound that is incessantly made to my merciful Heart.

I was rejected even when I rested on the bosom of my Mother, and I continue to be turned away and rejected by my chosen ministers. Through their dignity and their authority and dominion, I have placed my priests above the angelic legions. I have entrusted myself to their judgment; I have granted them the divine power of remitting sins, of transubstantiat bread and wine into my Body, into my Blood, Soul and Divinity.

Who would ever have thought that my love would reach such a point?

My son, love Me greatly so that you can atone to Me for such monstrous ingratitude; even more, give your entire self to Me, with all you have and all you are; make reparation, son, reparation for the innumerable Judases that daily betray Me.

Accept suffering

My ministers wander in obscurity, and ignorant by their own fault of what awaits them, and what they are going to find.

They have not accepted with a conscious responsibility, the numerous interventions of my Mother; rather with unmistakable clarity, they should make them known and instruct the faithful, but instead of this their presumption, their pride, their human respect and their incredulity have blinded the faithful.

What a hemorrhage of consecrated souls! How many Judases there will be!

How much blood, how much blood will be shed!

How much time they did not have; how many events they did not notice! The Spanish Civil War, the persecution in countries where Communism rules, have not taught them anything, or very little. The crisis of faith has materialized my priests to such an extent, that many have already lost the Christian sense of life.

How can these my priests, whom I desire saved at any cost, guide souls against Satan, if they themselves have been converted into lures of Satan?

They have ignored the repeated calls to attention of my Vicar on earth, and they do not love him; then, how can they teach souls to love him and to love Me?

My son, what desolation! Pray, atone, accept suffering for the salvation of these my ministers.

I bless you, my son. Love Me intensely.