Weekly program for offering our prayers and sufferings.
Our
Lord explained to the mystic and victim soul Maria Valtorta that He
wants each day of the week dedicated to a specific intention, for
which our sufferings, pains and prayers should be offered.
“And
let us look at the major groups for which suffering is needed. The
ones for which I, too, suffered in the Passion. The Priesthood,
the despairing, sinners, idolaters, and the souls waiting to return
to God – that is, for you, the souls being purged; for Me, at that
time, the just in Limbo.”
Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday,
the first three days of the week, should be dedicated to the
Priesthood. “In the Priesthood I include all
the
consecrated of every kind and category” The Priesthood is
necessary for the life
of the spirit,
for the flock
of the faithful. Priests
provide
the vital elements for souls, just like the four elements needed for
life on earth – light, water, air, and fire. But many of these
consecrated
clerics
become weaker and weaker, like stems lacking the vital elements, and
unwilling to absorb them to give them to the flock. So what mission
do many actually perform? “The one I entrusted to the Priesthood?
No. The mission of their gain and of dispersing what I have gathered
together. Oh, just a wisp keeps me from striking them […]
It
is
painful for me, the eternal Pontiff, to see that my
priestly army is full of sluggards and deserters.”
But
the best ones [the good clerics], those who were “...better than
you in faith, hope, and charity, sacrifice, chastity, and detachment
from all that was not Me…why have you struck and crucified these on
one of ‘your’ crosses? They were already on mine and remained
there willingly, for your sake as well.” You have not even wanted
to suffer “…the salutary humiliation of seeing yourselves
surpassed in heroism by these faithful servants of mine, whom I clasp
to my heart because through them the Light and the Word have been
conserved on earth, stars shining over the centuries during their
parabola, so that Heaven will always shine on men and they can find
it and say ‘God is there.’” [Although
written in the 20th
century, this
could prophetically refer to the
faithful “canceled priests” of the 21st
century.]
On
Wednesday
we
should pray and suffer for the despairing. “They
are brothers and sisters. No one should be so much of a brother or
sister for you as someone who is poor, alone, and sick. And those
despairing are poor, with the greatest poverty. They have lost
everything
in losing hope in God. They are alone. There is no solitude more real
than this. […] They are sick. An illness which produces death. Real
death. It is necessary to heal them, restore them to God, and make
them rich with God.”
On
Thursday
we should offer our prayers and afflictions for the many idolaters.
“For Me, idolatry is the worship of anything which is not the true
God.” In addition to the savages, there are “…many of the
civilized who, while knowing that there is one Triune God, worship a
thousand idols ranging from their self to the self of one of their
peers and along this way have many altars and false gods named
‘money,’ ‘power,’ ‘sensuality,’ ‘rationalistic
knowledge,’ and so on.”
[…]
“I thus include in the intentions for Thursday all
those who must know the Most Holy Name of God and my own…and those
who are ‘Christians’ but not Catholics. The Church is one: the
Church of Rome. […] On a distant Thursday evening, with the wound
of betrayal in my heart…I prayed for those who, through the heresy
of a wretch, would separate from the living trunk of the Roman
Church, that they might once again be one with it and thus with Me
and with the Father; finally I prayed for all men because I was dying
for them all. […] Pray, then, for these, who are not in Me or who
have gone out through the errors of their forebears or through the
error of their minds, made proud by the semblance of knowledge they
possess.”
Let
Friday
be dedicated to the souls in Purgatory. Suffer and offer every
Friday so that the angels of the Lord can say to many of these
spirits, “Come and possess God.”
“I
know […] the rejoicing which carried off the just in a whirlwind of
love when I appeared on a far-off Friday and said ‘The wait is
over. Come and possess God.’ […] The blessed are the gems born of
the Blood which I shed to the last drop on Good Friday. To open the
kingdom for a soul and introduce it into blessedness is to give Me
back what is mine.
Justice, then, and love for Me.”
On
Saturday,
pray and suffer with Mother Mary for the conversion of sinners. “Let
every Saturday of yours be a band of thorns surrounding your heart,
so that it will be covered with roses to offer Mary.” You place a
rose at Her
feet for every sinner who returns to God, “…a rose with which She
wipes away the tears flowing from her eyes since I made her the
Mother of the human race, so hostile to Me.”
Now
for you, the week is over, without an hour of freedom to think of
yourself. “I’ll take care of you. The Mother and I. And while
you do what you can, with difficulty, in spite of your good will, the
Mother and I act for your sake [...] for We love you and see that you
love us.”
From
The
Notebooks, 1944,
by Maria Valtorta, pp. 324-329.
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