October 8, 1975
RIGORS OF DIVINE JUSTICE
Many do not become convinced of the eventuality of a great future punishment. Many doubt it; many others flatly deny it and say that a great punishment is to be considered as contrary to divine mercy. My apostles did not want to accept the idea of my passion and death; they did not want to accept my words. Presumption prevented my apostles from seeing clearly, thus depriving them of the gift of wisdom. Nowadays for many others the same thing is being repeated.
I, the Word of God made flesh, being God with the Father and the Holy Ghost, have been the victim par excellence of the rigor of divine justice.
Love for lost humanity determined, in the most holy Trinity, the mystery of my Incarnation, passion and death. Through the mouth of divine wisdom it was said: “Propter peccata veniunt adversa.” Because of sins, adverse things come.
Sin is a personal and social debt that both the individual and social man contracts with God; God can always ask a partial satisfaction, and I say partial, for neither an individual man nor society can cancel this debt completely, and for this reason God provided the mystery of my Incarnation, passion and death.
The same, indivisible thing
To those who say with such sureness that it is not necessary to speak of punishments but only and always of divine Mercy, I answer energetically and affirm that in God, Mercy and Justice are the same and indivisible thing.
I answer that no one mocks God with impunity. I answer that when iniquity goes above the water-line, as you say, then divine justice will pursue its inscrutable aims.
I have said and I repeat, that the cities of this incredulous and impious generation are worse than Sodom and Gomorrha; I have said that corruption has entered everywhere, that evil is extended upon earth with the force of an impetuous torrent. Not even my Church has remained immune; many of my priests have been contaminated. The rejection of God has never been so universal as nowadays.
The cup is poured out
My poor priests, how nearsighted they are, who ignore and do not see nor comprehend how God, even in his wrath, is always moved by a design of mercy.
Why do so many priests not think about my terrible agony in Gethsemani? Why do they not think that in my bloody sweat, in the abandonment by my Father, all the rigor of divine justice weighed upon Me, his onlybegotten Son, for he imposed upon Me all the sins of men? This justice was always the fruit of a design of infinite mercy.
Neither incredulity nor foolishness will be what will detain the arm of God from punishing proud and arrogant humanity. My Mother has done it; the sufferings of the good and the innocent, and the heroic offering of victim souls, have been able to mitigate and defer the punishment already decreed; but now the cup is poured out; the measure is filled to an unbelievable point. The collapse is now in progress, although blindness prevents men from seeing the prelude to the immense catastrophe.
Meanwhile divine mercy, that many of my priests do not know how to conciliate with justice, has put into movement the numerous manifestations for a purified and regenerated Church, upon new structures, and also for a newly made humanity, freed from all the madness of human pride. Mercy and justice passing together, will both make their own path.
Son, say it; it is urgent to dispose souls to prayer, to penitence and to conversion.
Have confidence! God, even in his justice, is always love, and by love all his action is directed.
I bless you. Love Me, and correspond with your love, for the offenses and for ingratitude.