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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