July 29, 1975

THE SACERDOTAL DIGNITY

Son, the priest belongs to Me; all creatures belong to Me, all men belong to Me, but the priest belongs to Me in a very particular and different way.

My son,

- you belong to Me by creation and conservation

- you belong to Me by redemption

- you belong to Me by vocation

- you belong to Me by reconquest.

Then you are my property, you fulfill the purpose of creation, the purpose of redemption, and the purpose of your vocation, only in one way:

Adhering scrupulously to my will.

For this purpose I have called you; you have not chosen Me; I have chosen you. I have chosen you to make of you a minister of mine, that is to say, to make of you another Christ, and it is not merely a manner of speaking or of talking, no, it is a great reality: "SACERDOS ALTER CHRISTUS."

Only the saints have had the correct vision of sacerdotal grandeur. Many of my ministers are very far from living this divine reality; they do not have the luminous vision of the mystery of which they are a part.

My ministers should be responsible and conscious of their sacerdotal dignity, accommodating to it all their aspirations and energies, all their fatigues and sufferings, day and night. In this manner have all holy priests done so, and all priests should be HOLY.

For this purpose I have chosen them to be sanctified, and then to sanctify, to give themselves, donate themselves entirely to Me, for they belong to Me; they belong to Me by so many titles, and so that I can give them, donate them without reserve, to their brethren.

But what have so many ministers of mine done?

They occupy and care for their own interests, often with a mask, but they are always their own interests, and not mine, which are those of souls; they are thirsting and hungering for worldly things.

I have said that they care for their interests, but it would be better to define them as pseudo-interests for their true interest should be one alone: GOD, the glory of God and the salvation of souls; all the rest is of no value.

They wander, disorientated, in obscurity and darkness to such an extent that they do not even recognize themselves; they no longer know who they are; they do not know where they go, and logically, they cannot open a way to care for souls.

No, souls are not saved on beaches, where Satan rules, sharing immodesty, impurity, evil with the children of darkness; souls are not saved by reading all kinds of books that poison and infect the soul and spirit; souls are not saved by repudiating the faith. They have become materialized.

Formidable inversion and change

How distant are my ministers from the central propeller of grace that is my merciful Heart.

How much I suffered for Judas; he became hardened to my love; how much I suffered for Judas, but more for the fate of his soul than for his betrayal; how much suffering for many priests of mine who betray the divine command, corrupting themselves and so many souls.

My son, a priest is not saved alone, nor is he lost alone; working for the salvation of a priest, one works for the salvation of many other souls.

What a tremendous and formidable inversion of a stupendous divine reality!

- From an ALTER CHRISTUS to a ravenous wolf who scatters the flock.

- From an angel of light to an angel of darkness

- From a minister and ambassador of God to a traitor of the purpose of Creation, Redemption and of his vocation.

- I will not now call you servants but friends

From friend of God to collaborator of Satan, to snatch souls from my merciful Heart; is this not the greatest evil that a man, and even more, a minister of mine can perform?

Essential necessity

Why have they arrived at such a degree?

My son, little by little they forsake the fountain of light and they withdraw into the shadows, then into obscurity; little by little they forsake the fountain of warmth (love), and first coldness, then indifference and insensibility to my every call penetrate into their soul.

It is necessary to unite oneself to Me, son, always more intimately and profoundly, as my Mother was and is united to Me in her offering. Therefore it should not surprise you when I ask this insistently: an act of faith, an act of hope, an act of love and of abandonment, for these will compensate Me for the offenses, injuries and sacrileges that they give Me continuously.

I desire to attract to myself the souls that I love, with the infinite power and violence of my love. I desire to bind and to raise these souls to myself. Therefore I ask them to give themselves, surrender themselves to Me totally, so that my will may be operative, efficacious in them, according to the example of my Mother and yours also; I want these souls to tend to Me day and night, in a union that should be transformed into a perfect communion.

This occurs when love for Me is true, great and ardent; then tending toward Me with acts of faith, of hope, of confidence and of offering, will come to be like a second nature, an essential necessity, as it is for a lover to tend toward the object loved, and thus one cannot live without Me, just as one cannot live without breathing.

Son, this is what I ask; do not forget that I am love, eternal, uncreated love, that from all eternity I am directed toward you; I have the right to be loved by you, for I am love, for through love I have created you; through love I have redeemed you; through love I have chosen you and through love I have reconquered you.