September 9, 1975

LOVE AND HATRED

My son, if I am love that by its very nature tends to union, Satan is hatred, hatred born of pride and that leads to disunity. From love springs humility; from the rebellion of Lucifer is born hatred. Since its origin humanity knows the love of God, and since its fall it knows the hatred of Satan. Cain was the first one intoxicated by this hatred and thus he was its first victim. Hatred is vomited forth from its infected and putrid source without ceasing; woe to the men who do not know how to be careful in respect to this! God saves men of good will with love; Satan leads them to perdition with hatred and division.

God transforms man and makes him Christian, that is to say, a child of God, elevating him to his divine nature, “consortes divinae naturae,'” participants of the divine nature. Satan also tends to transform man into a demon of pride, of hatred and of rebellion.

Precious fruits of the love of God are: faith, hope and charity. From these are derived respect for personal and social freedom, respect for justice that unites and harmonizes men and makes their earthly pilgrimage more serene and desirable.

From pride, from hatred and division are born personal and social injustices, slavery, oppression that exasperates the spirit of individuals and nations, even to the point of desperation.

Fruits of faith, hope and love are: peace in consciences, in families and among nations. The just, the saints and the upright men are those who make men civilized; they are the ones who help the arts to flourish, of noble art that does not pervert, but helps man in his ascent toward the conquest of the good, the true and the beautiful.

Fruits of pride, of hatred and of division are violence, wars, the degradation of human nature, corruption in all sectors, the perversion of art in pornography and sensuality.

In the most profound obscurity

All this, my son, is clear and evident; experience, both far and near, confirms it, but men forget easily; now it is as if a curtain of thick clouds covered humanity, which now walks without orientation and groping in the most profound obscurity. And the fact that in this obscurity also walk many of my priests, with so much harm and danger for the salvation of many souls, is easy to guess.

You cannot comprehend and compass with your mind the vast amount of evil that my Church now suffers. Divisions, resentment, and even hatred; divisions in parishes, divisions in religious orders and congregations, in convents and public rebellions, wound and lacerate my Mystical Body.

A filthy torrent vomited by hell upon the earth in a multitude of heresies, obscenities, scandals, violence, private and public injustices, causes grave damage, even in consecrated souls.

Oh, yes! The men of today are not better than the men of the time before the flood; the cities of today are not even better than Sodom and Gomorrha.

The many calls and interventions of myself and of my Mother have not been of any use.

The many partial punishments have not been of any use. The men of this century have filled the measure, they have hardened their hearts in iniquity, and the total punishment would already have come, if it were not for the intervention of my Mother, and yours also, interposing herself between divine justice and yourselves.

And also if it had not been for the generous and heroic victim souls, that have sacrificed themselves as living lamps before my altars....

The inhabitants of the corrupt Ninive believed; they repented and did penance in the presence of the warnings of the prophet, but the men of this perverse generation that rejects God, will not remain immune to the punishments of divine justice.

"Non praevalebunt."

Yes, the just will see that God is faithful to his promises; they will see how my Father, even in his justice, will make shine forth his designs of love for the salvation of humanity and of my Church.

I bless you, my son; love Me greatly, and offer Me your sufferings; remember that my Heart is merciful and inexhaustible in its riches and desires ardently to be able to give them to you.