The recent document from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
(DDF), issued as a “press release,” makes the unsubstantiated
claim that Maria Valtorta’s writings are simply “literary forms”
used by the author, and are therefore not supernatural. However the
DDF fails
to provide
any proof or documented facts that her works are just literature.
Further
the DDF fails
to provide
any attempted refutation of the many proofs and documented facts that
show that her works must be of supernatural origin.
Therefore
the DDF press release can be described as the mere personal opinion
of its author(s), since it lacks any supporting evidence. As such it has no binding force on anyone.
No
human being, without divine inspiration, could have known so many facts that were presented for
the very first
time
in The
Gospel as Revealed to Me
(written in the 1940’s), that have since proven to be true by
scientists, geologists, Israeli archaeologists, astronomers,
historians, ecologists, geographers, linguists and so on.
To
dismiss off-hand in a few paragraphs the 15,000 pages written by a
bed-ridden Roman Catholic victim soul is an insult to the possibly
hundreds of thousands of Valtorta readers throughout the world.
This
untruthful and false official Vatican declaration and judgment that Maria's works are not supernatural and divinely inspired, but are simply literature, cannot go unchallenged. Therefore I hereby petition that this declaration be revoked.
DICASTERY
FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH
Press
Release
Regarding
the Writings of Maria Valtorta
The
Holy See frequently receives requests from both clergy and laity for
a clarification about the Church’s position on the writings of
Maria Valtorta, such as her work, Il
poema dell’Uomo Dio (The
Poem of the Man-God),
now known by the title, L’Evangelo
come mi è stato rivelato (The
Gospel as Revealed to Me),
and other publications.
It
should be reiterated that alleged “visions”, “revelations,”
and “messages” contained in the writings of Maria Valtorta—or,
in any case, attributed to them—cannot be regarded as having a
supernatural origin. Rather, they should be considered simply as
literary forms that the author used to narrate the life of Jesus
Christ in her own way.
In
its long tradition, the Church does not accept as normative the
Apocryphal Gospels and other similar texts since it does not
recognize them as divinely inspired. Instead, the Church refers back
to the sure reading of the inspired Gospels.
In
the latest statement from the Vatican, dated February 22, 2025, the
Dicastery for Doctrine of the Faith declares that Maria Valtorta’s
The
Gospel as Revealed to Me cannot
be considered of supernatural origin, but is rather is simply a
literary work by the author. This is the same work that was once
entitled The
Poem of the Man-God.
(The
statement comes from the Dicastery that also issued Fiducia
Supplicans, which
has been interpreted in practice as the blessing of same-sex
relationships.)
At
least it is a step forward compared to the Vatican’s placing The
Poem of the Man-God
on the now defunct Index of Forbidden Books in 1960 for being
published without an Imprimatur, and describing it then as a “badly
fictionalized” life of Jesus.
Thus,
while it is no longer condemned and forbidden to be read, according
to the Dicastery, one can now safely read it as long as it is
considered a mere literary creation. A tiny step forward. But the
assertion that it “cannot be considered of supernatural origin”
nor of “divine inspiration” is not entirely truthful. The part
that is true is that the Vatican can make those considerations and
judgments. The part that is false is the assertion that her work is not of
supernatural origin and of divine inspiration.
In
fact The
Gospel as Reveled to Meis
of divine inspiration, and was willed by the Lord to be written by
Maria Valtorta. I have
100% human faith upon
this belief. In her other works, when she specifies that certain
revelations
are from the Lord, the
Father, the Holy Spirit,
His Blessed
Mother,
various saints or angels, I also accept the truth of them. I
have more faith in the writings of Maria Valtorta than in the
writings of Dicasteries of the Vatican.
Therefore,
I encourage people to read not only The
Gospel as Revealed to Me,
but the three “Notebooks”
and the other works written by Maria Valtorta. In fact I consider
herNotebooks
to be only one tiny notch of lesser importance than The
Gospel as Revealed to Me.
Feb.
22, 2025. Doctrine of Faith reiterates that Valtorta's writings
not supernatural but a literary production of hers. Translation
below from Google.
DICASTERY
FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH Communiqué About the writings of Maria
Valtorta:
The
Holy See often receives requests from both clergy and lay people for
clarification regarding the position of the Church regarding the
writings of Maria Valtorta, such as the work Il poema dell’Uomo
Dio, today known as L’Evangelo come mi è stato svelato, and other
publications. In this regard, it is reiterated that alleged
“visions”, “revelations” and “communications” contained
in the writings of Maria Valtorta, or in any case attributed to them,
cannot be considered of supernatural origin, but must be considered
simply literary forms used by the Author to narrate, in her own way,
the life of Jesus Christ. In its long tradition, the Church does not
accept the apocryphal Gospels and other similar texts as normative,
as it does not recognize their divine inspiration, referring to the
safe reading of the inspired Gospels. Vatican City, February 22, 2025
The following article by Austin Ruse appeared on February 28 on the website of Crisis Magazine. It is entitled The Trumpian Pope. It pretty much summarizes what I personally would like to see happen in the Church.
A
meme is making the rounds:
a bull in a china shop has destroyed every plate, saucer, and cup. We
are asked, “Is this what you voted for?” As a matter of fact, it
is.
It
is also what I voted for in 2016. The problem in 2016 was that
politicized Democrat Deep Staters in the FBI, DOJ, military, CIA,
federal judiciary, and Congress were in that china shop and illegally
prevented the bull from doing his work. And they were cheered on by a
thoroughly corrupted gutter press.
This
time around, however, the bull has neutered and/or taken over all
those agencies, including the media, and hired a lot of lesser bulls,
but bulls who know precisely what to do. These bulls have a plan, and
they are moving fast and breaking things, and, in the words of Pope
Francis, making a mess.
And
as we pray for the Holy Father in his final agony, we wonder who the
next pope will be and pray he will be a Trumpian pope, a bull in the
china shop who will “make a mess.”
Recreate
the Pontifical Council for the Family the way it was created.
Recreate the Pontifical Academy for Life in the way it was intended.
The
rise of Francis and “who am I to judge” gave courage to heterodox
professors, especially on the gay thing at pontifical universities.
They giddily identified themselves. We know who they are. Fire them
all within days of the conclave.
This
will get a lot of attention. Ignore the shrieks from the usual
suspects around the world. Proceed with your work with all due
dispatch.
There’s
more, much more.
Synodality?
It’s over. Thanks for your work.
Any
bishops must be chosen from those ordained to the priesthood in the
last 10-15 years.
Abrogate
the motu proprio that gutted personal prelatures, restoring the
harmony and existence of personal prelatures as they existed when
Francis became pope. Make the prelate of Opus Dei a bishop again.
Immediately
rehire the very talented holy men the pope fired, including and
especially Cardinal Müller, Cardinal Burke, and Cardinal Sarah. Give
Burke back his stipend and Roman apartment. Give them all their old
jobs immediately.
Take
the boot off the neck of the Knights of Malta and Communion and
Liberation.
Immediately
begin an investigation—inquisition?—into the homosexuals in the
Vatican. Fire them. Laicize them.
Turn
your attention to the wider Church.
Reestablish
the Traditional Latin Mass everywhere. Everywhere. No priest needs
permission. It is open to all priests and all dioceses.
Immediately
cancel Amoris
Laetitia.
Immediately cancel same-sex blessings. Immediately take
“inadmissible” out of the catechism on the question of the death
penalty. What did that mean anyway? Excommunicate a number of
politicians who support abortion.
While
you are at it, cut the USCCB in half.
Make it clear that the committees of the USCCB do not speak for the
Church. The USCCB is not in the hierarchy. Let the bishops speak to
us once or twice a year when they meet as a body.
Expand
the number of dioceses in the United States. We need 400 of them or
more. How can a bishop be a shepherd to 500,000+ souls? For instance,
four hundred would still be far fewer bishops per Catholic than in
Italy.
Close
any office or program called “Justice and Peace.” Justice is
good. Peace is good. But together, not so much.
Institute
an annual collection for pro-life. Make it two.
Close
some seminaries in the United States. Any whiff of the gay thing, or
other heterodoxies, close them down. Send some of our seminarians to
Africa. Bring 1,000 African priests to the United States.
Fire
every bishop who ignored credible reports of priest sex abuse. We all
know of at least one who would qualify.
I
am out of breath just writing this. I wake up every morning in
Trump’s America, and it’s Christmas every day. He fired the head
of the Kennedy Center. Whoa! Who even thought of that? He appointed
Dan Bongino as number two at the FBI. I don’t even like Dan
Bongino, but it’s fantastic.
What
Trump understood was that there was a permanent bureaucracy lying in
the deep weeds, waiting to stop any and all reforms. The only way to
beat them is to move fast, flood the zone, make everything so fast
and furious that they cannot catch their breath, cannot really mount
a response. Make a mess.
Who
would be able to do such things? Who
would be a Trumpian pope? I am not a prognosticator. Others are. We
have a small pool of cardinals who would be considered. Maybe the
conclave needs to go beyond the College of Cardinals. I don’t know,
but whoever thought Trump would be president? Hardly anyone. Pick a
bishop hardly anyone knows. Pick Msgr. Shea from University of Mary
in North Dakota. Don’t know him? Look him up.
I
remember when the last conclave met. I was at a Holy See meeting at
the U.N. when the white smoke rose. As we sat around a conference
table, our phones started to buzz. I caught the eye of the Nuncio. We
exchanged meaningful glances. Later, in the U.N. cafeteria, all the
lefties were in a tizzy about who this Bergoglio might be. Early
reports were that he was solid on gay and marriage.
None
of us were prepared for what happened. We spent years explaining the
pope. “Well, he may have said something like that, but what he
meant was….” Some of us gave up after a few years. I tried to
adopt the role of a 13th-century peasant: There is a pope somewhere
far off. I love and pray for him, but I don’t know what he does or
says. I have my priest and my bishop.
Many
of us are still confused about certain things that happened under the
reign of Francis. Do we really have to give religious assent to the
scientific claim of “climate change?” How is it possible that
something that was a sin on Monday—taking Communion in a sinful
relationship—becomes perfectly fine on Tuesday? How is it possible
that something perfectly fine on Monday—the death penalty—becomes
a sin on Tuesday? None of this really affects me, but it is
confusing.
Pray
for two things: That our beloved Pope Francis experiences a holy and
happy death and is welcomed into the Beatific Vision. And pray for
the coming of a Trumpian pope.
Austin
Ruse is a contributing editor to Crisis
Magazine.
He is president of the Center for Family and Human Rights in New York
and Washington DC. He is the author of several books including, Under
Siege: No Finer Time to be a Faithful Catholic
(Crisis Publications). He can be reached at austinruse@c-fam.org.
The Right Rev. Mariann Budde, Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Washington
St. Paul the Apostle
was right: “For God is not the God of dissension, but of peace: as
also I teach in all the churches of the saints. Let women keep
silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak, but
to be subject, as also the law saith. But if they would learn any
thing, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for a
woman to speak in the church. First Epistle of St. Paul to the
Corinthians, Chapter 14, 33-35.
From the pulpit of the Washington National Cathedral, "Bishop" Budde addressed President Trump directly.
Expecting spiritual refreshment from the Lord after the first sleepless nights of the start of his Presidency, Trump was personally and cruelly rebuked in front of his family. This disrespect has been celebrated by his antagonists.
This post is from someone who is very active in the Divine Will movement, and she was disappointed that she did not die and enter heaven because of her cancer diagnosis!
Hello,
Dear Divine Will Family!
It has been a long time, and I have
missed each one of you very much. I have kept you in my prayers
as much as i was able, but God knew you were there every second!
I pray all of you and your families are healthy and happy.
I
am pretty sure you are aware that I am in remission from brain cancer
and I only have God, His actions and your prayers guiding the doctors
to thank for my recovery. He is so very good and merciful to
all His children.
When I found out that I had brain
cancer, I can't tell you the joy that I experienced, believing at
that time, I would be dying. I was filled with joy and
expectations of seeing Jesus and Mary! I couldn't wait, I was
so excited! Of course, as It turned out, it was not God's time
for me to leave this body. His timing is always perfect and, as
disappointed as I was, I knew He knew better than I when the time
would be perfect. Fiat always, His Will alone be
accomplished!!
What have I learned lying in bed, it seems
constantly, for the last 6 months or so? Love and
Forgiveness!! These two words are extremely important for us
who want to live in the Divine Will as God lives in It, deeply and
passionately! To LIVE and understand deeply what
love and forgiveness is
is to become
them....to
love and to forgive every soul,
from
the beginning of time til the end of time! We are all human and
we all make mistakes, we are not perfect and no one ever will be
perfect until God ordains it so. We must, and this is a must,
love everyone as deeply as God loves us,
if that is ever possible on earth. We must try our vert best to
live as God desires us to live with our brothers and sisters.
I
have had a hard time loving souls who are what I consider evil, but
God helped me a lot by showing me how to wipe away the evil that they
do, and just put God's love in their place....see them restored and
made new in and with His Holy Will! I can love all of them and
love them with a passion because they are now clean, made whole and
beautiful, as God desires us all to be! We can then offer them
all up to God for His Glory!! Its imperative to pray for all
souls! Who are we to exclude anyone? We are nobody!
We are nothing if we don't love all souls, past, present and future,
no matter who they are and what they have done!! That's how God
loves and until we become another little "god" by His
Grace, loving as He loves, forgiving as He forgives, we will not give
Him the glory and love that is due Him. He loves all of us most
tenderly, most passionately, most ardently!
Loving every
soul with tenderness and compassion as God loves is giving God the
glory we owe Him. May all be done for love of Him Who loves us
so much!
As a side note, I have several impairments from
this gift that God gave me which may help you understand why I have
not written to you or answered anyone's emails, or letters. It
is very difficult for me to see. My eyes have been affected by
the chemo or cancer, which the doctors said may clear up later.
It is all up to God....Fiat always! I have to have some one
read the letters to me and help me write back to them. I am
most happy to continue writing the emails as long as I have help, but
if not, it will be another Fiat! Praise God for the Fiats...how
much peace and joy the Fiat brings to all who love God's Holy
Will.
I know there are
beautiful and very great and knowledgeable souls out there now who
are learning so much about God and His Holy Will and are spreading
the knowledge rapidly, praise His Holy Will! I am excited for
all of you learning so much!
I hope you all know how much
I love each of you and keep you all in my daily prayers! Fiat
always! May His Holy Will come quickly!
Jesus
comments on the Our Father and the Hail Mary prayers.
“The
Our
Father is
the
prayer
to your Father.
The Hail
Mary
is the
prayer to your Mother.”
Jesus
is Speaking:
You
are all so weighed down by your humanity that you never know how to
pray by rising above the human, and you give the words of the prayer
only a relative sense. But prayer opens up infinite horizons, O sons.
Those horizons will be your dwelling, after returning to God — if
you have known how to keep your spirit in God and god in your spirit.
Even when you reflect on what you say — and it is
already much if you do this — you give yourselves the limited range
of the Earth and the flesh. With much difficulty do you raise your
mind beyond the present moment and your daily needs.
Do
not shut your spirit up within the opaqueness of material things.
Your spirit is of God. And it should see God, know God, live from
God, in God. He is Life for your spirit. And if you separate yourself
from God with a fault, you kill your spirit;
if you keep it far from God, you make it feeble and quench it like a
lamp deprived of oil.
There is nothing that can keep your
heart saintly if it is not fused with the Saint of Saints. Science,
country, affections, works, become discouraging things which are
served with wretched service, if you take away from yourselves that
agent which makes you perfect in your sentiments and in your labors:
union with God. As
inhabitants of this globe—who come from only a single stock and
from only one Creator — you hate each other among yourselves. As
citizens of a single Fatherland you are hostile among yourselves —
as if you were of a different race. As relatives and spouses you are
egotistical and unfaithful. And why? Because you have forgotten God,
Who does not crush you under the avalanche of your copious human laws
and human instruction, but Who summarizes all His law and His perfect
instruction in these words only:
"Love God with your whole self and your neighbor as yourself"
[Mt
22:35-40].
This is the summary of the whole Divine Law and the font of every
good of earth and beyond the earth. But you do not put it into
practice. And from that come the chastisements which strike
you.
Maria [Valtorta] — you who love the Divine Light
more than yourself, and feel you are happy the more it penetrates
into you—today I want you to know the supernatural meaning of a
phrase that you say, but do not understand well.
As thePater
[Our
Father]
should
be said with supernatural reference — and foolish would he be who
said it while applying to it only a human meaning and human request —
so theAve
Maria
[Hail
Mary]
should be said, not with your mind fixed on the Earth and on your
flesh — which is dust that will return to dust — but should be
said with your spirit lifted toward Heaven, beyond life, beyond the
Earth.
It
is where Most Holy Mary, My Mother and yours, lives in body and soul
after having lived on Earth with Her soul always soaring into
Heaven.
The
Our
Father is
the
prayer
to your Father.
The Hail
Mary
is the
prayer to your Mother.
The first part of theOur
Father
is praise of God. The first part of the Hail
Mary
is praise to Mary.
The second part of the Our
Father
is
a request — to the Father — for all your needs as sons
of God, in your temporary stop on Earth, but destined for Heaven. The
second part of the Hail
Mary
is a request — of your Mother — for your needs as mortals and as
immortals in your
spirit.
Your Mother should be invoked like your Father.
You should not think that She is without Mercy and Power and cannot
help you in your battles, in your pains, and in your needs and
temptations.
One must know how to pray. And one must know
how to pray in moments of peace, in order to invoke help in the hours
of struggle.
He is a fool who says:
"When the time comes I will do it." Do you know if you will
be able to do it then? If God will give you time to do it?
Necessities, misfortunes, and even death, often come like a sudden
lightning flash. Death is sometimes like a thunderbolt that strikes
unexpectedly.
The Mercy of God is infinite. But it is said
in the words of the Law:
"Do not tempt the Lord your God" [Deut
6:16].
And, truly, you do tempt Him when you lead a life completely
human,
without thinking of what awaits you in the Beyond, in which you will
be judged for your actions.
In the
Hail
Mary it
is said:
"Pray
for us now and in the hour of death." Here, Maria. Let us read
together these words which many, too many, say with their mind lifted
by only one degree from the mud of Earth. With their heart they worry
about the unknown only at their last moment — a moment which makes
them fear because they are not sufficiently "sons of God".
If they were and perfectly so, death would cause no fear.
Death
is the last trial. And it merits all your attention, so that it
becomes a "death in the Lord". For you, a death in the Lord
merits every pardon, gives eternal life in the Lord, and with its
power annuls the consequences of even a culpable existence. So you
have done well up till now to invoke My Mother and yours for that
hour, and in that hour. But know how to pray better. Not just from
fear
of that
hour, but for so many other hours in which true
death looms over you.
I
have already explained to you many times, Maria, what that true
death is. It is that of the spirit. And you all kill your spirit so
often, if not always by your direct will,
certainly through indifference toward that most select part of
yourselves:
the soul.
In
the Our
Father
I instructed you to say: "Lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from the Evil
[one]". In
the Hail
Mary
I make you say: "Pray for us now and in the hour of
death."
Now:
this is the
present, which lasts but a moment of eternity. It is the life of the
flesh waylaid by sickness, accidents, by the very course of time
itself which brings you to the "mouth" of your life as men,
and sends you into eternity.
"In
the hour of death":
that
hour which stops your heart, and that hour — always threatening —
which paralyzes your spirit and leads it to death.
I want
you to think of thistrue,
eternal
death,
when you invoke Most Holy Mary. From the first death you will rise
again if you have died in Christ. But from the second you will never
rise again.
Do not cause the infernal Enemy, the
fascinating Serpent, the roaring Lion who always prowls around you to
knock you down — do not cause him to seize hold of you like sure
prey. So that even though you are now alive, you are already of those
dead in spirit.
Mary is the Conqueress of Satan, and
the
gleam of Her smile suffices to put him to flight. Against the snares
of Satan and the weakness and appetites of the flesh, call on
Mary.
If you invoke Her for that sleep from which you
immediately awake, or about heavenly peace or infernal damnation —
both these latter two being eternal — why should you not invoke Her
about
this
atrocious sleep which brings death:
the death of the fallen spirit — a sleep which, if not conquered,
extinguishes you in the arms of Satan?
When death prowls
around your spirit, let these invocations, made to Mary with the
fullness of their significance, rise up as a defense. Every time the
hour of spiritual death looms over you, pray to the universal Mother:
for all Her poor children;
for the spirit of these Her poor children;
for that
spirit made and given to creatures by that same God Who had created
and chosen Her for His Spouse and Mother.
Pray for that spirit made and given in order to make these
creatures Her children, and subjects of His eternal Kingdom.
Upon
all of you there is the most pure and beloved Blood. That Blood which
came from Her Immaculate Heart, and which has been the Seed for the
Flower born of the love of God with the Virgin, and of Her perfect
obedience to the Divine Will. It is the Seed of Me, the Word, become
flesh in order to be Master and Redeemer, whence to be able to wash
you in His Blood, wholly poured out for you all. And upon all of
you there is also all the weeping of Mary, My Mother and yours:
another washing of
Her co-redemption.
Through
Her nature as Mother of the Savior, She has the power of salvation.
Invoke Her with true faith and She will save you:
now, and at the hour of death.
Based
on an English translation made especially for the entry of Nov. 8,
1944 in Maria Valtorta’s Little
Notebooks [The Quadernetti].
Jesus personally addresses His
Father in the Lord’s Prayer. “Forgive
Your Son, o Father, if I wronged You in any way. I may also seem
imperfect to Your Perfection, I, Your Christ, burdened by flesh.”
The
evening of the Wednesday before Passover. Last Teachings to the
Apostles:
«And
now let us pray together. This is the last evening we can pray thus,
all united like grapes to the bunch supporting them. Come. Let us
pray. "Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy
Kingdom come. Thy will be done on Earth as it is done in Heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive
them that trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from evil. Amen. "
"Hallowed
be Thy Name." Father, I have hallowed it. Have mercy on Your
Son.
"Thy
Kingdom come." I am dying in order to establish it. Have mercy
on Me.
"Thy
will be done." Support My weakness, You Who created the flesh of
man and clothed Your Word with it, that I may obey You down here as I
have always obeyed You in Heaven. Have mercy on the Son of man.
"Give
us our Bread"... A bread for the soul. A bread not of this
Earth. I do not ask it for Myself. I need only Your spiritual
comfort. But I, the Beggar, stretch out My hand for them. Before long
it will be pierced and nailed, and it will no longer be able to make
a gesture of love. But it can still do it now. Father, grant Me to
give them the Bread that daily fortifies the weakness of the poor
children of Adam. They are weak, Father, they are inferior, because
they do not have the Bread that is strength, the angelical Bread that
spiritualizes man and leads him to be deified in Us.
"Forgive
us our trespasses"...»
Jesus
Who has spoken standing and has prayed with His arms stretched out,
now kneels down and raises His arms and face to Heaven. A face made
wan by the effort of the supplication and by the kiss of the moon,
furrowed by silent tears.
«Forgive
Your Son, o Father, if I wronged You in any way. I may also seem
imperfect to Your Perfection, I, Your Christ, burdened by flesh. To
men... no. My conscious intellect assures Me that I have done
everything for them. But forgive Your Jesus... I also forgive. I
forgive, that You may forgive Me. How much I have to forgive! How
much!... And yet I forgive. Those who are present here, the disciples
who are absent, those whose hearts are deaf, My enemies, mockers,
traitors, killers, deicides... Here. I have forgiven the whole of
Mankind. With regard to Me, o Father, consider remitted all debts of
man to the Man. I am dying in order to give Your Kingdom to
everybody,
and I do not want the sin against the Love incarnate to be imputed to
them as condemnation. No? Are You saying no? It is My grief. This
"no" is pouring the first sip of the bitter chalice into My
heart. But Father, Whom I have always obeyed, I say to You: "Thy
will be done".
"Lead
us not into temptation". Oh! if You want, You can drive the
demon away from us! He is the temptation that incites flesh, minds,
hearts. He is the Seducer. Turn him away, Father! Your archangel in
our favor! To put to flight him who lays snares for us from our birth
to our death!... Oh! Holy Father, have mercy on Your children!
"Deliver
us, deliver us from evil!" You can. We are weeping here...
Heaven is so beautiful and we are afraid of losing it. You say: "My
Blood cannot lose it". But I want You to see the Man in Me, the
Firstborn of men. I am their brother. I pray for them and with them.
Father, mercy! Oh! mercy!. ..»
Jesus
bends with His face on the ground. He then stands up. «Let us go.
Let us say goodbye to one another this evening. It will no longer be
possible tomorrow evening. We shall be too upset. And there is no
love where there is perturbation. Let us kiss one another with the
kiss of peace. Tomorrow... tomorrow each of you will belong to
himself... This evening we can still be one for all and all for one.»
And
He kisses them, one by one, beginning from Peter, then Matthew,
Simon, Thomas, Philip, Bartholomew, the Iscariot, His two cousins,
James of Zebedee, Andrew and last John, on whom He leans while
leaving Gethsemane.
Chapter
597 in the Gospel
as Revealed to Me:
The Night of the Wednesday before Passover. Last Teachings to the
Apostles.
