Wednesday, August 2, 2023

War is Hatred

In December of 1943 Our Lord spoke a few short but concise words to Maria Valtorta, while WWII was raging in Italy. 

 

He told her that another sign of His coming to be born on earth was peace. “The world was entirely at peace when I was born. I was God, and God is Love. War is hatred.” Jesus, our Redeemer was the true Prince of Peace, and He could not come to us unless there was peace on earth at his birth. 

 

Jesus is the New Adam, who established a new generation among men, annulling by His martyrdom the perverse generation of the earlier one. As the first of the new generation, He was “born to life [...] when there was no fighting in the world.” Even though because of the influence of Satan, “the massacre of the animals carried out by man and among the animals themselves still continued […] men were at peace among themselves. At least among themselves, they were at peace.”

 

But before the fall of Adam, “not even those two forms of slaughter existed,” − men did not kill animals, and animals did not kill each other!

 

Bombed out railroad station in Maria Valtorta’s hometown of Viareggio, Italy. WWII photo.

 

“War is hatred, and God is not present where there is hatred. To merit God, one must be without hatred. Towards anyone. Any means is useless if God is lacking. […] The first condition in order to emerge from this hell is for you first to emerge from the hatred which robes you and for you to extirpate from yourselves the hatred which is like marrow of your bones.

 

“Now I say to you, ‘Pray.’ Among you there is still a minority capable of heeding Me, of praying and suffering for the world. To these I say, ‘Pray.’ It is time to divert the severity of the torment which has begun with prayer and immolation... 

 

“While the world blasphemes and kills, sing hosannas to the Lord and love. Love is more powerful than strength and defeats even hell. Love overcomes everything, O my beloved ones. [...] And not only this, but the good you do will attract Heavenly Good in an ever-increasing measure, for God asks for nothing except to pour Himself out upon you in love, and you would experience the era of peace promised to good men at My birth.”

 

Maria Valtorta, The Notebooks 1943, December 21 and 22. Her works are available from the Maria Valtorta Readers’ Group, https://www.valtorta.org.au/



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