October 28, 1975

INSTRUMENT OF PERDITION

I told you, speaking of confession, that the way this sacrament is administered, does not correspond to the plan of my Mercy and of my Love, but rather to a perverse design of the Malign one.

He has attempted to do everything in order to transform this sacrament, a means of resurrection and of life, into a deadly instrument of perdition, and thus the prince of darkness obscures this precious fruit of my Redemption.

I told you in a recent message that I have constituted my priests as judges of consciences, and am I not the eternal Priest?

When you who were called by Me, and were consecrated to Me, I made you participants of my priesthood, that is to say, I called you to be part of my priesthood, just as with the others I share my supernatural life with other sacraments.

I am the infinitely simple being; in Me there are not distinct attributes and perfections. I am the infinitely perfect being, and in Me exist all perfections. I am the eternal Priest; I am the eternal judge; I am eternal love and eternal justice; I am eternal mercy.

To Me, the Judge, is reserved the particular judgment of every man, a judgment without appeal, irrevocable, that will have its final conclusion at the last judgment, and this will be for humanity and for the angelic nature.

I, the infinitely just Judge, judge every man with justice. To be a Judge means to absolve or to condemn with justice the faults of him who sinned. Each priest should be an upright, just and impartial judge, and this power does not come from them, but from Me, the Eternal Judge.

A great many exercise this power as if it came from them; they administer this supernatural power with a lightness, facility, carelessness and lack of integrity that makes them tremble who have a little spiritual awareness.

Sacrilegious confessions

The Mercy of God is not only great but infinite, but this does not authorize anyone to abuse it in such a shameful way.

This is important, son, and therefore I repeat it to you: “Do not change from administrators of divine justice into accomplices of the demon; from instruments of salvation into instruments of perdition.”

No one can laugh at God with impunity; the words with which I instituted this means of salvation are of an unmistakable clarity: to retain or to forgive sins.

There cannot be a valid confession without sincere repentance; there cannot be a sincere repentance without a serious and efficacious resolution of not wanting to sin again.

Many confessions are null, and many are doubly sacrilegious; he who confesses without having the required dispositions and he who absolves without determining that these required dispositions are in the penitent, profanes the sacrament and commits a sacrilege. This prodigious means of salvation is debased, and the priest changes it into a means of perdition, who becomes an accomplice of the wicked design of Satan; he does not seek God nor the good of souls, but rather he seeks himself, and in reality it is terrible to prefer oneself to God.

- Well then, O Lord...

- Yes, my son; it is not foolish rigor, but uprightness and justice.

Why did I say to the Apostles and to their successors: "Receive the Holy Spirit; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven, and who sins you shall retain, they are retained"? It is evident that with these words they are asked to make a serious and balanced judgment that does not permit compromises with anyone, neither with one's own conscience nor with the penitent, nor much less with Me.

Now nothing is a sin

My son, I willingly repeat many things to impress better upon the souls of my priests this focal point of present pastoral theology; yes, everything and everyone is absolved, without any discrimination.

Moreover, for many priests it is so easy to absolve, for now nothing is a sin.

Purity is no longer a virtue; responsible paternity, that correctly understood is a good thing, has been turned into a case and reason of every kind of license in marital relations.

With the pretext of favoring culture, the most prejudicial readings are authorized, in which the seeds of lust and of philosophical and theological errors are sown with rapidity.

Today everything is based upon fraud in theft; justice demands that the confessor assures himself of the certain and efficacious resolution of restoring what was stolen. So many times the penitent is not even told of this strict duty.

In the name of progress, to convince the penitent that the confessor is a modern man," and that he is "up to date," they both shut their eyes to the reality of confession.

These things are passed over very much, by him who has the responsibility of combatting evil from its roots, always and everywhere, without truce nor rest, in order not to be overcome (as in reality you will be), in this obscure and tremendous hour that you are about to live.

I bless you and with Me, my Mother and Saint Joseph bless you.