Biblical facts and elements in the New Testament

Quotation

«Is pain not always evil?»

«No, My friend, It is evil from a human point of view, but from a supernatural one it is good. It increases the merits of just people, who accept it without despairing or rebelling and they offer it, as they offer themselves with resignation, as a sacrifice to expiate their own imperfections and the faults of the world, and it is a redemption for those who are not good.»

«It is so difficult to suffer!» says the farmer, who has been joined by his relatives, about ten people in all, adults and children.

«I know that man finds it difficult. And knowing that he would find it so difficult, the Father had not given His children any sorrow. It came due to sin. But how long does sorrow last on the earth? In the life of a man? A short time. It is always short, even if it lasts a whole lifetime. Now I say: is it not better to suffer for a short time rather than forever? Is it not better to suffer here than in Purgatory? Consider that time there is multiplied one thousand fold. Oh! I solemnly tell you: you ought not to curse pain, but bless it, and you should call it “grace” and “mercy”.

Keywords

• Atonement - Reparation
• Co-editors
• Consequences of Fault - Original sin
• Despair
• Earthly paradise
• How to perfect and sanctify yourself
• Original sin
• Pain and suffering
• Please
• Purgatory
• Redemption
• Revolt - Rebellion
• Sanctification
• Soul-victim
• Thanks
• The fruitfulness of suffering
• The righteous
• Time
• Words of wisdom

Quotation

«You are crying, Master, because someone has hurt You. For several days Your face has been like the sun darkened by clouds. I have been watching You. Your goodness hides the wound, that we may not hate him who wounds You. But the wound is a painful and abhorrent one. But tell me, my Lord: why do You not remove the source of Your pain?»

«Because it would be useless from a human point of view and it would not be charitable.»

«Ah! You are aware that I am speaking of Judas! It is because of him that You are suffering. How can You, the Truth, tolerate that liar? He lies shamelessly. He is more deceitful than a fox and more closed than a rock. He has now gone away. What for? How many friends has he got? I am sorry to leave You. But I would like to follow him and see… Oh! My Jesus! That man… send him away, my Lord.»

«It is useless. What is to be, shall be.»

«What do You mean?»

«Nothing special.»

«You were pleased to let him go, because You were disgusted with his behaviour at Jericho.»

«It is true, Simon. I tell you once again: what is to be, shall be. And Judas is part of this future. He is to be there, too.»

«But John told me that Simon Peter is very frank and full of ardour… Will he put up with Judas?»

«He must stand him. Also Peter is destined for a part, and Judas is the canvas on which he must weave his part, or, if you prefer so, Judas is the school where Peter will learn more than with anyone else. Also idiots are capable of being good with John and understanding souls like John’s. But it is difficult to be good with people like Judas, and to understand souls like Judas’ and to be a doctor and priest for them. Judas is your living teaching.»

«Ours?»

«Yes. Yours. The Master will not be on the earth forever. He will leave after eating the hardest bread and drinking the most sour wine. But you will stay to continue Me… and you must know. Because the world does not end with the Master. It will last longer, until the final return of Christ and the final judgement of man. And I solemnly tell you that for every John, Peter, Simon, James, Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, there are at least seven Judases. And many, many more!…»

Keywords

• Jesus' omniscience
• Peter and Judas
• Prophecies of Jesus Christ

Quotation

Some people may think that what I am saying is useless, human, impossible. They are the usual people who deny the human phases of Jesus’ life and they make of Me a being so remote from human life as to be only a divine being. What happens then to the most holy Humanity, to the sacrifice of the Second Person in becoming flesh? Oh! I was truly a Man amongst men. I was the Man. And that is why I suffered in seeing the traitor and ungrateful people. That is why I rejoiced on account of those who loved Me or were converted to Me. That is why I shuddered and cried before Judas’ spiritual corpse. I shuddered and cried before My dead friend. But I knew that I would call him back to life and I rejoiced seeing his soul already in Limbo. Here… I had the Demon in front of Me. And I will say no more.

Follow Me, John. Let us give men also this gift. And then… Blessed are those who listen to the Word of God and strive to do what it says. Blessed are those who want to know Me in order to love Me. In them and to them I shall be a blessing.

Keywords

• Incarnation
• Jesus Christ - God-Man
• Jesus Christ - Son of Man
• Modern self-righteousness (quibbling and bickering)

Quotation

Oh! I was truly a Man amongst men. I was the Man. And that is why I suffered in seeing the traitor and ungrateful people. That is why I rejoiced on account of those who loved Me or were converted to Me. That is why I shuddered and cried before Judas’ spiritual corpse. I shuddered and cried before My dead friend. But I knew that I would call him back to life and I rejoiced seeing his soul already in Limbo. Here… I had the Demon in front of Me. And I will say no more.

Keywords

• Betrayal of Jesus Christ
• Conversion
• Ingratitude
• Lazare
• Lazarus and Judas
• Limbo - Sheol
• Traitor - Treachery

Quotation

«Whom are we in Israel expecting, but You?»

«And do you believe that I am the Expected One?»

«Simon has never lied, neither is he a boy that gets excited over nothing. Age and sorrow have made him as mature as a wise man. In any case… even if he had not recognised Your true nature, Your deeds would have spoken and said that You are a “Saint”. He who accomplishes the deeds of God, must be a man of God. And You accomplish them. And You do things in a way that says how truly You are the Man of God. My friend came to You because of the fame of Your miracles and he received a miracle. And I know that Your way is strewn with miracles. Why, then, not believe that You are the Expected One? Oh! It is so sweet to believe what is good! We have to pretend to believe as good, many things which are good, for peace sake, because it would be useless to change them; many dubious words that seem adulation, praise, kindness of heart, and instead are sarcasm and blame, poison concealed by honey, we must pretend we believe them, although we know they are poison, blame, sarcasm… we must do so because… it is not possible to do otherwise, and we are weak against a whole world which is strong, and we are alone against a whole world which is hostile to us… why, then, should we have difficulty in believing what is good? On the other hand the time is ripe and the signs of the time are here. What might still be missing to make belief certain and beyond all possible doubt, should be supplied by our anxiety to believe and to appease our hearts in the certainty that the expectation is finished and that the Redeemer has come, the Messiah is here… He Who will give peace to Israel, and to the children of Israel, Who will let us die without anguish, knowing that we have been redeemed, and will enable us to live without that nostalgic feeling for our dead ones… Oh! the dead! Why mourn their death, if not because, as they have no longer any children, they have not yet the Father and God?»

«Has your father been dead long?»

«Three years, and my mother seven… but I no longer lament their deaths… I also would like to be where I hope they are awaiting Heaven.»

«In which case you would not have the Messiah as your guest.»

«That is true. Now I am in a better position than they are, because I have You… and my heart is calmed by this joy.»

Keywords

• Messiah
• Redeemer

Quotation

The time is ripe and the signs of the time are here. What might still be missing to make belief certain and beyond all possible doubt, should be supplied by our anxiety to believe and to appease our hearts in the certainty that the expectation is finished and that the Redeemer has come, the Messiah is here… He Who will give peace to Israel, and to the children of Israel, Who will let us die without anguish, knowing that we have been redeemed, and will enable us to live without that nostalgic feeling for our dead ones… Oh! the dead! Why mourn their death, if not because, as they have no longer any children, they have not yet the Father and God?»

Keywords

• Limbo - Sheol

Quotation

Oh! the dead! Why mourn their death, if not because, as they have no longer any children, they have not yet the Father and God?

Keywords

• Death and loss of a loved one - Bereavement
• Deceased
• Purgatory
• Words of wisdom

Keywords

• Apostolate - Evangelism
• Damnation - Perdition - Hell and the damned
• Love of neighbor
• Master of souls
• Mercy and forgiveness
• Remorse
• Repentance and contrition
• Sin
• Softness
• The guilty man

Keywords

• Creation - Quicksand
• Jesus' omniscience
• Olympe
• Prophecies of Jesus Christ

Keywords

• Jesus Christ - Word of God
• Words of wisdom