Chapter One
The Father Speaks to His Children
THE FATHER SPEAKS TO HIS CHILDREN
PREFACE
GOD IS MY
FATHER
“God is my Father!” This cry is being heard ever
more frequently in today’s world: people are coming to recognize that God is
indeed their Father. Consequently, we feel it our duty to publish a message, given to
the world by God the Father through one of His creatures who loved Him so much,
Sister Eugenia Elisabetta Ravasio,
and recognized as valid by the Church. We consider it appropriate to
introduce this work by quoting the testimony of a former Bishop of Grenoble,
the Right Reverend Alexandre Caillot.
In 1935 he set up a board of experts,
drawn from various parts of France, to conduct a diocesan enquiry, which lasted
ten years. Its members included the
Bishop of Grenoble’s Vicar General, Mgr Guerry, theologian; the Jesuit
brothers, Fathers Albert and Auguste Valencin-Amons, who ranked among the
foremost authorities in the field of philosophy and theology and were expert in
evaluating such cases; and two doctors of medicine, one of whom was a
psychiatrist. This message will help people
to understand the deep tenderness the Father has for each one of us, and we
hope that it will receive the widest possible circulation.
Father Andrea D’Ascanio
OFM Cap.
Short Biography of
Mother Eugenia Elisabette Rayasio
Who is Mother Eugenia, whom God the Father called “My beloved daughter”, “My little plant”? In our opinion, Mother Eugenia is one of the greatest lights of
our times, the little prophet of a new Church, in which the Father is the centre
and apex of all mankind, and in which unity is the highest ideal of
spirituality. She is a light given by the Father to the world at this time of
chaos and darkness, so that we may see the road that has to be followed. She was born in San Gervasio d’Adda (now Capriato San Gervasio), a
small town in the province of Bergamo, Italy, on 4 September 1907, in a family
of peasant background. She received only an
elementary education. After a few years working in a factory, she entered the
Congregation of Our Lady of the Apostles at the age of 20 years. It was here
that her great charismatic personality developed, leading to her election as
Mother General of the Congregation at the age of only 25.
Quite apart from her spiritual qualities, her work in the
social field alone would suffice to ensure her a place in history. In twelve
years of missionary activity she opened over 70 centres - each with infirmary,
school and church - in the remotest spots of Africa, Asia and Europe. It was she who discovered the first medicine for the cure of
leprosy, extracting it from the seed of a tropical plant. This medicine was
later studied and developed further at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. She encouraged the apostolate of Raoul Follereau, who, following
in her footsteps and building on the foundations laid by her, is regarded as
the apostle of the lepers.
During the period 1939-41 she conceived, planned and
brought to fruition the project for a “Lepers’ City” at Azopte (Ivory Coast).
This was a vast centre, covering an area of 200,000 sq.m., for the care of
leprosy sufferers.It remains even today one of Africa’s and the world’s leading
centres of its kind. In recognition of this
achievement, France conferred the Couronne Civique, the highest national honour
for social work, on the Congregation of Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the
Apostles, of which Mother Eugenia was Superior General from 1935 to 1947.
Mother Eugenia returned to the Father on 10 August 1990. Her most important legacy to us is the Message of the Father (“The
Father speaks to His children”), the only private revelation made personally by
God the Father and recognized as authentic by the Church after ten years of the
most rigorous examination. We reproduce at the beginning of the text the statement
issued by Mgr Alexandre Caillot, Bishop of Grenoble, following the
investigation. It is noteworthy that the
Father (in 1932) dictated the Message to Mother Eugenia in Latin, a language
totally unknown to her.
In 1981 this Message came to our notice, and in 1982, its
fiftieth anniversary, we published it in Italian. The many miracles of grace worked by the Message have led us to
disseminate it gratis, especially in prisons, barracks and hospitals. In
addition to English, it is available in French, Italian, Spanish and German and
other languages.
Father Andrea D’Ascanio
OFM Cap.
Testimony of
The Right Reverend A. Chaillot
Ten years have passed since,
as Bishop of Grenoble, I decided to open an enquiry into Mother Eugenia’s case.
I now have enough information to bring my testimony as Bishop before the
Church.
1. Mother
Eugenia’s Virtues.
The first thing to emerge with
certainty from the enquiry is that Mother Eugenia’s considerable virtues are
well established. From
the beginning of her religious life, the sister had attracted her superiors’
attention because of her piety, her obedience and her humility. Her superiors, perplexed by the extraordinary nature of the events
which occurred during her novitiate, had not wanted to let her stay on in the
convent. After some hesitation, they were forced to abandon their plan when
faced with the nun’s exemplary conduct. During the enquiry, Sister Eugenia showed great patience and the
utmost docility in submitting without complaint to all the medical tests,
answering the theological and medical commissions’ often long and distressing
questioning, and accepting contradictions and trials. Her simplicity, in
particular, was praised by all the investigators.
A number of circumstances also showed the nun to be
capable of practicing virtue to a heroic degree. According to the theologians,
an especially striking feature was her obedience during Father Auguste
Valencin’s enquiry in June 1934, and her humility on the sad day of 20 December
1934. I can attest that, while she
was Superior General, I found her very devoted to her duty, dedicating herself
to her task - which must have seemed all the more difficult to her as she was
not prepared for it - with great love for souls, her Congregation and the Church.
Those close to her are struck, as I myself am, by her strength of spirit in
facing difficulties. I am impressed not only by
her virtues but also by the qualities she displays in exercising her authority.
Also striking is the fact that a relatively uneducated nun should come to fill
her Congregation’s highest office. In this there is already something
extraordinary and, from this point of view, the enquiry conducted by my Vicar
General, Mgr Guerry, on the day of her election, is very significant. The answers
given by the Chapter members and by the superiors and delegates of the various
missions showed that they were choosing Mother Eugenia as their Superior
General - in spite of her youth and the canonical obstacles which would
normally have caused the idea of her nomination to be rejected - because of her
qualities of judgment, balanced temperament, energy and firmness. Reality would
seem to have far surpassed the hopes that her electors placed in her.
What I especially noticed in her was her lucid, lively
and penetrating intelligence. I said that her education had been inadequate,
but this was for external reasons over which she had no control: her mother’s
long illness had compelled her, at a very early age, to look after the house
and be absent from school very often. Then, before she entered the convent,
there were the hard years she worked in industry as a weaver. Notwithstanding
these basic gaps, the consequences of which are evidenced in her style and
spelling, Mother Eugenia gives many lectures in her community. It is worth
noting that she herself compiles her Congregation’s circulars and the contracts
with municipal authorities or administrative councils regarding the hospital
institutes of Our Lady of the Apostles. She has also compiled a long directory.
She sees every situation
clearly and correctly, as if it were a matter of conscience. Her instructions
are straight-forward, precise and very practical. She knows each of her 1400
daughters personally, and also their attitudes and their virtues; hence she is
able to select those who are most qualified to perform various tasks. She also
has an accurate personal knowledge of her Congregation’s needs and resources.
She knows the situation in every house and has visited all her missions.
We wish to emphasize also her spirit of far-sightedness.
She has taken all the necessary measures for every hospital or school to have
qualified nuns and whatever they need to live and develop. I find it
particularly interesting to note that Mother Eugenia seems to possess a spirit
of decisiveness, a sense of reality and a creative will. In six years she has founded 67 institutes and
has been able to introduce very useful improvements in her Congregation.
If I single out her qualities of intelligence, judgment
and will, and her powers of administration, it is because they seem to me to
rule out definitively all the hypotheses about hallucinations, illusions,
spiritism, hysteria or delirium. These
were examined during the enquiry but proved incapable of giving a satisfactory
explanation of the facts.
Mother Eugenia’s life is a constant demonstration of her
mental and general equilibrium, which, to the observer, seems to be the
dominant feature of her personality. Other hypotheses, about suggestibility and
manageability, led the investigators to wonder whether they might be dealing
with a very impressionable temperament, like a multi-faceted mirror which
reflects all influences and suggestions. These hypotheses were also rejected
for reasons of everyday reality. Although Mother Eugenia is gifted with a
sensitive nature and an emotional disposition, she has shown that she has never
favored anyone and that, far from letting herself be influenced by human
considerations, she has always been able to determine her own projects and
activities and to gain the acceptance of others through her personal insight.
2. Objective of the Mission.
The object of the mission which would appear to have been
entrusted to Mother Eugenia is precise and, from the doctrinal point of view, I
see it as legitimate and timely. Its precise object is to make God the Father known and honored,
mainly by the institution of a special feast which has been requested of the
Church. The enquiry established that a liturgical
feast in honor of the Father would be quite in keeping with Catholic practice
as a whole. It would accord with the traditional thrust of Catholic prayer,
which ascends to the Father, through the Son, in the Spirit, as shown by the
prayers of the Mass and the liturgical oblation to the Father during the Holy
Sacrifice. However, it is strange that
there is no special feast in honor of the Father. The Trinity is honored as such, the Word and
the Holy Spirit are honored by their mission and external manifestations. Only
the Father has no feast of His own which would draw the attention of the
Christian people to His Person. This is the reason why a fairly extensive
survey of the faithful has shown that, in the various social classes and even
among many priests and religious, “the Father is un-known, no one prays to Him,
no one thinks of Him”. The survey reveals, rather surprisingly, that a large
number of Christians remain distant from the Father because they see Him as a
terrifying judge. They prefer to turn to Christ’s humanity. And how many ask
Jesus to protect them from the Father’s anger! A special feast would thus have the effect firstly of re-establishing
order in the spirituality of many Christians and, secondly, of leading them
back to the Divine Savior’s instruction: “Everything
you ask the Father in My name...” and again “You will pray like this: ‘Our Father...’”
A liturgical feast dedicated to God the Father would also
have the effect of raising our eyes towards the One Whom the apostle St. James
called “the Father of light, from Whom
every gift comes...” It would accustom souls to consider God’s goodness and
His fatherly providence. They would realize that this providence is truly that
of God the Holy Trinity, and that it is because of His divine nature, common to
all three Persons, that God spreads through the world the ineffable treasures
of His infinite mercy. It would seem, at first
sight, as if there were no special reason to honor the Father in particular.
But was it not the Father Who sent His Son into the world? If it is supremely right to show devotion to
the Son and the Holy Spirit because of their external manifestations, would it
not be right and proper to give thanks to God the Father, as the Prefaces of
the Mass require, for the gift He sent us, His Son?
The real object of this special feast thus becomes plain:
to honor the Father, to thank Him, to praise Him for having given us His Son;
in a word, as the message states, as the Author of our Redemption; to thank Him
Who loved the world so much that He gave His only-begotten Son, so that all men
might be brought together in the Mystical Body of Christ and, together with
this Son, become His children.
At a time when the world is troubled by secular
doctrines, atheism and modern philosophies and no longer recognizes God, the
true God, would not this feast make known to many the living Father, the Father
of mercy and goodness, Whom Jesus has revealed to us? Would it not contribute
to an increase in the number of those who worship the Father “in spirit and in truth”,
to whom Jesus referred?
Now, when the world is being torn apart by deadly wars,
when it feels the need to seek a solid principle of union to bring the peoples
closer together, this feast would bring a great light. It would teach men that
they all have the same Father in heaven: the One Who gave them Jesus, towards
Whom He draws them as members of His Mystical Body in the unity of the same
Spirit of Love! When so many souls are weary and tired of the tribulations of
war, they may well be hungering for a deep spiritual life. Might not such a
feast call them, then, “from within”, to worship the Father Who hides Himself,
and to offer themselves in a filial and generous oblation to the Father, the
only source of the life of the Holy Trinity in them? Would it not preserve that
fine movement of supernatural life which naturally draws souls towards
spiritual childhood and - through confidence - towards filial life with the
Father, towards abandonment to the divine will, towards the spirit of faith?
On the other hand, a problem of doctrine arises, quite
apart from the question of a special feast and regardless of what the Church
may decide on this matter. Some eminent theologians believe that the doctrine
of the soul’s relationship with the Trinity needs to be examined more deeply,
and that it could be for souls a source of enlightenment on the life of union
with the Father and the Son, about which St. John speaks, and on the sharing in
the life of Jesus, Son of the Father, especially in His filial love for the
Father. But, apart from these
theological reasons, what I wish to underline here is this: a poor young woman,
unversed in theology, declares that she is receiving messages from God, and
these may be very rich in doctrine.
The works of an imaginary visionary are poor, barren and
inconsistent. However, the message that Mother Eugenia says the Father
entrusted to her is fertile. There is a harmonious interaction of two different
characters which tends to confirm its authenticity. On the one hand, it is presented
as something traditionally held by the Church, without any suspicious
innovations, for it incessantly repeats that everything has already been said
in Christ’s revelation about His Father, and that everything is in the Gospel.
But on the other hand, it declares that this great truth, concerning knowledge
of the Father, needs to be reconsidered, studied deeply and experienced. Does not the disproportion between the weakness of the instrument,
incapable of discovering a doctrine of this nature by itself, and the depth of
the message being conveyed, reveal that a superior, supernatural, divine cause
has intervened to entrust the sister with this message?
I cannot see how, humanly speaking, one could explain the
nun’s discovery of an idea, the originality and fecundity of which the
theologians conducting the enquiry were able to perceive only gradually. Another fact seems to me equally significant: when Sister Eugenia
made it known that she had been receiving apparitions of the Father, the
investigating theologians replied that apparitions of the Father were in
themselves impossible and that they had never occurred before in history. The
sister held out against these objections, declaring simply: “The Father told me
to describe what I saw. He asks His sons, the theologians, to search.” The nun
never changed her testimony in any way. She maintained her statements over many
months.
It was not until January 1934 that the theologians discovered in St.
Thomas Aquinas himself the answer to their objection. The answer given by the great doctor of the Church about
the distinction between apparition and mission was enlightening. It removed the
obstacle which was paralyzing the whole enquiry. Challenged by wise
theologians, the uneducated little nun proved to be right. How, humanly
speaking, could we explain, in this case too, the nun’s in-sight, wisdom and
perseverance? A false visionary would have tried to adapt herself to the
theologians’ explanations. The nun, however, held her ground. These are the
additional reasons why her testimony seems trustworthy to us.
In any case, what I find worthy of note is her reserved
attitude towards the miraculous aspects of the case. While false visionaries
give pride of place to extraordinary phenomena and even see nothing but these,
Mother Eugenia, on the contrary, puts them second, as proofs, as means. There
is no state of exaltation, but there is a balance of values which makes a favorable
impression.
I will refer only briefly to the theologians’ enquiry.
The Reverend Fathers Albert and Auguste Valencin are highly esteemed for their
philosophical and theological authority, and for their deep knowledge of the
spiritual life. Their intervention was required in other, similar enquiries. We
know that they acted with great circumspection, and that is why we selected
them for this work. We are grateful for their devoted and conscientious
collaboration. Their testimony in favor of the sister and of a supernatural
explanation of the facts as a whole is all the more remarkable as they delayed
their judgment for a long time, being at first hostile and skeptical, and then
hesitant. Little by little, they became convinced, after raising all kinds of
objections and imposing hard tests on the nun.
Conclusions
Following the dictates of my soul and my conscience, and
with the keenest sense of my responsibility to the Church, I declare that
supernatural and divine intervention seems to me the only logical and
satisfactory explanation of the facts.
Isolated from all the surrounding features of the case,
this essential fact seems to me to be noble, lofty and supernaturally rich:
that a humble nun has called souls to true devotion to the Father, such as
Jesus taught and the Church has enshrined in its liturgy. There is nothing alarming
in this, only something that is very simple and in accordance with solid
doctrine.
The miraculous facts which accompany this message could
be separated from the main event and its value would still be preserved in its
entirety. For doctrinal reasons, the Church will declare whether the idea of a
special feast can be considered separately from this particular case involving
the sister. I believe that the
fundamental proof of the authenticity of the nun’s mission is shown by the way
in which she puts into practice in her life the beautiful doctrine which she
was apparently destined to remind us of.
I deem it proper to let her
continue her work. I believe that the hand of God is in all this. After ten
years of research, reflection and prayer, I bless the Father for having deigned
to choose my diocese as the place for such touching manifestations of His love.
+ Alexandre Caillot
(During
the apparitions Bishop of Grenoble)
THE FATHER'S MESSAGE
Book One - Part I
July 1, 1932
Feast of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Here, finally, is
the day, blessed forever, the day the celestial Father promised! Today the long
days of preparation are over, and I feel close, so close, to the coming of my
Father and the Father of all men. A few minutes of prayer, and then what
spiritual joys! I was overwhelmed by the desire to see Him and hear Him! My heart, burning with love, opened up with
such great confidence that I realized that, until then, I had never been so
trusting with anyone. The thought of my
Father made me, as it were, madly happy. Finally I began to hear singing.
Angels came to announce this glad arrival! Their songs were so beautiful that I
decided to note them down as soon as possible. This harmony ceased and then
came a procession of the elect, the cherubim and seraphim, with God, our
Creator and our Father. Prostrate, with
my face to the ground, sunk in my own nothingness, I said the Magnificat. Immediately afterwards, the Father told me to
sit close to Him and write what He had decided to say to men. The entire heavenly court who had accompanied
Him vanished. Only the Father remained
with me and, before sitting,
He said:
I have already told you and now I
say it again: I cannot give My beloved Son another time to prove My love for
men! I am now coming among them in order to love them and to make them know
this love, assuming their image, their poverty. Look, now I am putting aside My
crown and all My glory to take on the appearance of an ordinary man!
Having assumed the appearance of an ordinary man by
placing His crown and His glory at His Feet, He took the globe of the world and
held it to His Heart, supporting it with His left Hand. He then sat next to me. I can say but a few
words about His arrival and about the appearance He deigned to assume, and
about His love! In my ignorance I do not have words to express what He revealed
to me. He said:
Peace
and salvation to this house and to the whole world! May My power, My love and My Holy Spirit touch
men’s hearts, so that all mankind may turn to salvation and come to its Father,
Who seeks it, to love and to save it! Let
My Vicar Pius XI understand that these are days of salvation and blessing. Let him not fail to take this opportunity to
call the attention of the children to their Father, Who is coming to help them
in this life and to prepare their everlasting happiness. I have chosen this day to begin My work among
men because today is the feast of the Precious Blood of My Son Jesus. I intend to bathe in this Blood the work I am
beginning, so that it may bear great fruit among all mankind.
This is the
real purpose of My coming:
1) I am coming to banish the
excessive fear that My creatures have of Me, and to show them that My joy lies
in being known and loved by My children, that is, by all mankind, present and
future.
2) I am coming to bring hope to men
and nations. How many have long since lost it! This hope will make them live in
peace and security, working for their salvation.
3) I am coming to make Myself known
just as I am, so that men’s trust may increase together with their love for Me,
their Father. I have but one concern: to watch over all men and love them as My
children.
The painter delights in
contemplating the picture he has painted. In the same way, it is My pleasure
and delight to come among men, the masterpiece of My creation! Time presses. I wish men to know as soon as possible that I
love them and that I feel the greatest happiness in being with them and talking
with them, like a father with his children. I am the Eternal One, and when I was alone, I
had already thought of using all My power to create beings in My image. But material creation had to come first, so
that these beings could find their means of sustenance; it was then that I created
the world. I filled it with all the
things I knew would be necessary to men: air, sun and rain, and many other
things that I knew to be necessary for their life. In the end, man was created!
I was pleased with My handiwork. Man
sins, but it is precisely then that My infinite generosity shows itself. In the Old Testament, I created and chose
prophets to live among men. To them I
told My desires, My sorrows and My joys, so that they could communicate them to
everyone. The more evil grew, the more My
goodness urged Me to communicate with just souls so that they could transmit My
commands to those who were creating disorder. Thus, I was sometimes obliged to
be strict in order to reprove them; not to punish them - that would only have
done harm - but to take them away from vice and lead them to their Father and
their Creator, Whom they had forgotten and ignored in their ingratitude. Later, evil overwhelmed men’s hearts to such
an extent that I was compelled to send calamities upon the world to purify men
through suffering, the destruction of their possessions, or even their death.
These were the Flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, man’s wars against
man, etc. I have always wished to remain in this world among men. So, during
the Flood, I was close to Noah, the only just man then. In the other calamities, also, I always found
a just man with whom I could stay and, through him, I lived among the men of
that time, and it has always been thus. The world has often been purified of
its corruption because of My infinite goodness towards humanity. I continued to
choose certain souls in whom I was pleased, because through them I could be
happy with My creatures, men.
I promised the world a Messiah. I did all I could to prepare His coming,
showing Myself in the figures that represented Him, even thousands of years
before His coming! For who is this
Messiah? Whence does He come? What will He do on earth? Whom does He represent? The Messiah is God. Who is God? God is the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit. Whence does He come? Or rather, who ordered Him to come among men? It was I, His Father, God. Whom is He to represent on earth? His Father, God. What is He to do on earth? He will make the Father, God, known and loved.
Did He not say: “Do you not know that I
must be about My Father’s business?” (“Nesciebatis
quia in his quae Patris mei sunt oportet me esse?” St. Luke, ch. 2, v. 49).
“I have come only to do the will of My Father.” “Whatever you ask the Father in My name, He
will give you.” “You will pray to Him
like this: ‘Our Father, Who art in heaven...’, and elsewhere,
since He came to glorify the Father and to make Him known to men, He says:
“Whoever sees Me, sees the Father.” “I am in the Father and the Father is in
Me.” “No one comes to the Father except
through Me” (“Nemo venit ad Patrem nisi
per me” St. John, ch. 14, v. 6) “Whoever is with Me is also with My
Father”, etc.?
Realize then, o men, that for all
eternity I have had but one desire, to make Myself known to men and be loved by
them. I wish to stay for ever with them.
Do you want an authentic proof of this
desire that I have just expressed? Why
did I command Moses to build a tabernacle and the ark of the covenant, if not
to come and dwell, as a Father, a brother, a close friend, with My creatures,
men? This was My ardent desire. In spite of this, they have forgotten Me and
offended Me with countless sins. I gave
Moses My commandments to remind them, in spite of everything, of God, their
Father, and of His sole wish, to save them. They were supposed to observe the commandments
and thereby remember their infinitely good Father, always intent upon their
present and eternal salvation. All this
was forgotten and men sank into error and fear, considering that the observance
of the commandments as I had transmitted them to Moses was too taxing. They made up other laws in accordance with
their whims, in order to observe them more easily. Little by little, in the exaggerated fear they
had of Me, they forgot Me more and more and heaped outrages upon Me. Yet My love for these men, My children, never
quite ceased. When I realized that
neither the patriarchs nor the prophets had been able to make Me known and
loved by men, I decided to come Myself. But
how could I come among them? There was
no other way than to come Myself, in the second Person of My divinity. Would men know Me? Would they listen to Me? Nothing in the future was hidden from Me; I
Myself answered these two questions: “They will ignore My presence, even though
they will be near Me. In My Son they
will treat Me cruelly, notwithstanding all the good He will do for them. In My Son they will speak ill of Me, they will
crucify Me to bring about My death.” Shall
I stop because of this? No, My love for
My children, men, is too great.
I did not stop there. Understand well that I loved you, as it were,
more than My beloved Son, or rather, more than Myself. What I am telling you is so true that, if one
of My creatures had been enough to atone for the sins of other men through a
life and death similar to those of My Son, I would have hesitated. Why? Because
I would have betrayed My love by making a beloved creature suffer, rather than
suffering Myself, in My Son. I would
never have wished My children to suffer.
This, then, in brief, is the story
of My love until My coming among men through My Son. Most men know of all these events, but they
fail to grasp the essential thing: that love
was the guiding principle in it all! Yes,
it is love. This is what I want to
impress upon you. Now this love has been
forgotten. I want to remind you of it,
so that you can learn to know Me as I am, so that you will not be, like slaves,
afraid of a Father Who loves you so
much. You see, in this story we are only
at the first day of the first century, and I would like to bring it up to the
present time, the twentieth century. Oh, how My paternal love has been
forgotten by Men! Yet I love you so
tenderly! In My Son, that is to say, in
the Person of My Son made man, what have I not done! Divinity is veiled in this humanity, it is
shrunk, impoverished, humiliated. With
My Son Jesus I led a life of sacrifice and work. I received His prayers, that
man might have a clearly indicated path along which to walk always in justice,
so as to reach Me safely! Of course, I
can understand My children’s weaknesses! Because of this, I asked My Son to give them
the means to get up again after they have fallen. These means will help them to purify
themselves from their sins, so that they may still be the children of My love. They are, chiefly, the seven Sacraments. And the greatest means of securing your
salvation, despite your falls, is the Cross, My Son’s Blood poured out upon you
every moment, if you so wish, both in the Sacrament of Penance and in the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass.
My dear children, I have lavished
these gifts upon you with special graces for twenty centuries, but with what
miserable results! How many of My
creatures, who become children of My love through My Son, have quickly thrown
themselves into the eternal abyss! Truly,
they have not known My infinite goodness; I love you so very much| (A favorite
expression of Mother Eugenia, often repeated in the text) You, at least, who
know that I Myself am coming to talk to you, to make you aware of My love, for
your own sake, do not throw yourselves over the precipice. I am your Father! Is
it possible that, having called Me your Father and having shown your love for
Me, you could find in Me such a hard and insensitive heart as to let you
perish? No, no, do not believe it! I am
the best of Fathers! I know My
creatures’ weaknesses! Come to Me, come
with confidence and love! I will forgive
you after you have repented. Even if
your sins were as repulsive as mud, your confidence and your love will make Me
forget them, so you will not be judged! I am just, it is true, but love pays
for everything!
Listen, My children, let us make a
comparison, and you will be assured of My love. For Me, your sins are like iron, and your acts
of love like gold. If you gave Me a
thousand pounds of iron, it would not be like giving Me just ten pounds of
gold! In other words, with just a little
love, great iniquities can be expiated. This,
then, is one very light-hearted way of looking at My judgment of My children,
men, all of them, without exception. You
must come to Me. I am so close to you! You must love Me and honor Me so that you will
not be judged, or rather, that you will be judged with infinitely merciful
love. Have no doubt! If My Heart were not like this, I would have
already destroyed the world every time it committed sin! But as you have seen, at every moment My
protection manifests itself through graces and benefits. You can conclude from this that there is a
Father Who is above all fathers, Who loves you and will never cease to love
you, if you so desire.
I come among you in two ways: the
Cross and the Eucharist! The Cross is My
way of coming down among My children, since it is through it that I caused My
Son to redeem you. And for you, the
Cross is the way to ascend to My Son, and from My Son to Me. Without it you could never come to Me, because
man, by sinning, brought on himself the punishment of separation from God. In the Eucharist I live among you as a Father
with His family. I wished My Son to
institute the Eucharist so as to make every tabernacle the vessel of My favors,
My riches and My love, to give them to men, My children. It is always by these two means that I cause
both My power and My infinite mercy to come down ceaselessly.
Now that I have shown you that My
Son Jesus represents Me among men, and that, through Him, I live constantly
among them, I also want to show you that I come among you through My Holy
Spirit. The work of this third Person of
My divinity is carried out silently and often man is not aware of it. But for Me it is a very fitting way of living,
not just in the tabernacle, but also in the souls of all those in a state of
grace, to establish My throne in them and to live there always, like the true
Father Who loves, protects and helps His children. No one has yet understood the infinite desire
of My divine, paternal Heart to be known, loved and honored by all men, the
just and the sinful. These are the three
gifts that I wish to receive in homage from man, so that I may always be
merciful and good even towards the most hardened sinners.
What have I not done for My people,
from Adam to Joseph, the adoptive father of Jesus, and from the time of Joseph
up to the present day, so that man should give Me the special honor due to Me
as his Father, Creator and Savior! However,
I have not yet received this special veneration which I have so much hoped for
and which I desire so much! In the book
of Exodus you read that God must be held in special veneration. The psalms of David, especially, contain this
teaching. In the commandments which I
Myself gave to Moses, I emphasized: “You
will worship and love perfectly only one God.” Well then, loving and honoring are two things
that go together. As I have lavished so
many benefits on you, I must be honored by you in a very special way! Giving you life, I wished to create you in My
image! Your heart is therefore as
sensitive as Mine, and Mine as yours! What
would you not do if one of your neighbors did you a small favor to please you? The most insensitive man would be grateful to
such a person for ever. Anyone would try
to find something that would give the greatest pleasure, in recompense for the
service performed. Well, I will be much
more grateful to you, assuring you of eternal life, if you will do Me the small
favor of honoring Me as I request.
I
recognize that you honor Me in My Son and that there are those who are able to
offer everything to Me through My Son, but they are few indeed! Do not believe, though, that in honoring My
Son you are not honoring Me! You do,
certainly, honor Me, as I live in My Son! Thus, everything that is to His glory is also
to My glory! But I would like to see man
honoring his Father and Creator with a special devotion. The more you honor Me, the more you will honor
My Son, since, according to My will, He became the Word Incarnate and came
among you to make known to you the One Who sent Him. If you come to know Me, you will love Me and
My beloved Son more than you do now. See
how many of My creatures, who became My children through the mystery of the Redemption, are not in the pastures which I
have prepared for all men through My Son. And how many others, and you know it, are
still unaware of the existence of these pastures. And how many creatures of My Hands, whose
existence I know of but of which you are ignorant, do not even know the Hand
Which shaped them! Oh, how I would like to let you know what an almighty Father
I am for you and would also be for those creatures, through My benefits! I would like their lives to be made sweeter
through My law. I would like you to go
to them in My name and speak to them of Me. Yes, tell them that they have a Father who,
having created them, wants to give them the treasures He possesses. Above all, tell them that I think of them, I
love them and want to give them eternal happiness. Oh, I promise you, men’s
conversion will come sooner.
Believe Me, if you had begun to honor
Me with a special devotion from the times of the early Church, after twenty
centuries few men would remain living in idolatry, in paganism and in so many
false and evil sects, in which man is running blindly towards the abyss of
eternal fire! And see how much work
remains to be done! My hour has come! I must be known, loved and honored by men, so
that, having created them, I can be their Father, then their Savior and finally
the object of their eternal delight.
Until now I have talked about things
that you already knew. I wished to
remind you of them so that you would be more and more convinced that I am a
very good Father, not a fearsome one, as you believe; and also that I am the
Father of all those living now and of those whom I shall create until the end
of the world. Know, also, that I wish to
be known, loved and, above all, honored. May everyone recognize My infinite goodness
towards all men, and especially towards sinners, the sick, the dying, and all
those who suffer. Let them know that I
want only one thing: to love them all, to give them My grace, to forgive them
when they repent and, most of all, to judge them not with My justice but with
My mercy, so that all may be saved and numbered among My elect.
To conclude this brief account, I make you a promise which will have an
eternal effect. It is this: call Me by the name of Father, with confidence and love,
and you will receive everything from this Father, with love and mercy. I
wish My son, your spiritual father, to be able to work for My glory and to set
down, sentence by sentence, what I have dictated to you, so that men may find
it pleasing and easy to read an account of what I wish them to know, without
any additions. Day by day I will talk to
you about My wishes for men, about My joys, My sorrows, and most of all, I will
show men My infinite goodness and My tender and compassionate love. I would also like your superiors to allow you
to spend your free time with Me, so that you can console Me and love Me for
half an hour each day. You will thereby
ensure that men’s hearts, My children’s hearts, are well disposed to work for
the spread of this devotion which I have just revealed to you, so that you may
achieve great confidence in this Father who wants to be loved by His children. So as to permit this work to be extended among
all nations as quickly as possible, without allowing those entrusted with its
propagation to commit the slightest imprudent act, I ask you to spend your days
in a spirit of recollection. You will be
happy not to talk much to others. In your
heart, even when you are among them, you will talk to Me and listen to Me. This is what I want you to do also: when sometimes I talk to you, you will write
My confidences in a special little diary. But through it I intend to talk to everyone.
I live with them more intimately
than a mother with her children. Since
man’s creation, I have never for one moment stopped living beside him. As his Creator and Father, I feel the need to
love him. It is not that I need him, but
My love, as Father and Creator, makes Me feel this need to love man. Thus I live close to man, I follow him
everywhere, I help him in all things, I supply everything. I can see his needs, his toils, all his
desires, and My greatest happiness lies in helping him and saving him. Men
believe Me to be a terrifying God Who is going to cast all mankind into hell. What a great surprise it will be when, at the
end of time, they see so many souls they believed lost, enjoying eternal bliss
among the elect! I wish all My creatures
to be convinced that there is a Father Who watches over them and Who would like
them to enjoy, on earth, a foretaste of eternal happiness. A mother never forgets the little creature she
has brought into the world. Is it not
even more wonderful that I remember all My creatures? So if a mother loves the
little being I gave her, I love him more than she does, because I created him. Even if it happens that a mother loves her
child less because of some defect, I, on the contrary, will love him still
more. She may later on forget him or
think of him rarely, especially when because of his age he is no longer in her
care, but I will never forget him. I
will always love him, and even if he no longer remembers Me, His Father and
Creator, I will still remember him and love him.
I have already told you that I want
you to enjoy eternal happiness even here, on earth, but you still have not
understood the real meaning of what I said. It is
this: If you love Me and call Me by the sweet name of Father, you will begin to
live, here and now, in the love and the trust which will make you happy in
eternity and which you will sing in heaven in the company of the elect. Is this not a foretaste of the happiness of
heaven, which will last forever? I
therefore desire man to remember often that I am right there, where he is, that
he could not live if I were not with him, living just as he is. In spite of his
unbelief, I always remain close to him.
Oh, how I wish to see this plan of
mine realized! Until now man has never
thought of giving God, his Father, the pleasure I am about to speak of: I would like to see great trust established
between man and his heavenly Father, a true spirit of familiarity and delicacy
at the same time, so as not to take advantage of My great goodness. I know your needs, your desires, and
everything in your hearts. But how happy
and grateful I would be if I saw you coming to Me and confiding in Me your
needs, like a son who has total trust in his father. How could I refuse you the smallest or biggest
thing if you asked Me? Even if you do
not see Me, do you not feel Me very close to you in the things that happen to
you and around you? How you will be
rewarded, one day, for having believed in Me, even without having seen Me! Even now that I am here, in person, among you
all, talking to you, repeating ceaselessly, in every way, that I love you and
want to be known, loved and honored with a special devotion, you cannot see Me,
apart from a single person, the one to whom I am dictating this message! Only one among all of humanity! Yet I am talking to you, and in her whom I see
and to whom I am talking I see you all and am speaking to each and every one of
you, and I love you as if you could see Me!
I want men to be able to know Me and
to feel that I am close to each one of them. Remember, o men, that I wish to be the hope of
humanity. Am I not already? Man would be lost if I were not his hope. But it is necessary for Me to be recognized as
such, so that peace, confidence and love may enter men’s hearts and put them in
contact with their Father in heaven and on earth! Do not think of Me as that frightening old man
whom men depict in their pictures and books! No, no, I am neither younger nor older than My
Son and My Holy Spirit. Because of this
I would like everybody, from the youngest to the oldest, to call Me by the
familiar name of Father and Friend. For I am always with you, I am making
Myself similar to you so as to make you similar to Me. How great would be My joy to see parents
teaching their children to address Me often by the name of Father, as indeed I
am! How I would like to see infused into
these young souls a trust and a filial love for Me! I have done everything for you; will you not do
this for Me?
I would like to make My home in every
family, as in My domain, so that all can say with absolute assurance: “We have a Father who is infinitely good, infinitely rich
and greatly merciful. He thinks about us
and is close to us. He looks after us,
supports us. He will give us everything
we need if we ask Him. All his riches
are ours, we will have everything we need.” I am there precisely in order that you should
ask Me for what you need. “Ask and you will receive.” In My fatherly goodness I will give you
everything, provided that all regard Me as a true Father, living among His
family, as I indeed do. I also desire that every family prominently display the
picture I will later show to My “little daughter”. I wish every family to be able to place itself
under My special protection in this way, so that they can honor Me more easily.
There, every day, the family will share
with Me its needs, its work, its sorrows, its sufferings, its desires, and also
its joys, because a Father must know everything that concerns His children. I do know it, of course, because I am there,
but I love simplicity. I know how to adapt Myself to your condition. I make
Myself little with the little ones, I make Myself an adult with adults, and the
same with the elderly, so that all may comprehend what I wish to tell them for
their sanctification and My glory. Do
you not have the proof of what I am saying in My Son, Who made Himself small
and weak like you? Do you not still have it now, seeing Me talking to you here?
And have I not chosen a poor creature,
like you yourselves, so that I can talk to you and make you understand what I
wish to tell you? And now, am I not
making Myself like you?
See, I have laid My crown at My Feet
and held the world to My Heart. I have
left My glory in heaven and come here, becoming all things to all men, becoming
poor with the poor and rich with the rich. I want to protect the young people as a tender
Father. There is so much evil in the
world! These poor, inexperienced souls
are letting themselves be seduced by the attraction of vice which, little by
little, leads to total ruin. You who especially need someone to take care
of you in life, so that you can avoid evil, come to Me! I am the Father Who loves you more than any
other creature will ever be able to do! Take
refuge close, very close to Me, confide in Me your thoughts and your desires. I will love you tenderly. I will give you graces for the present and
bless your future. You can be sure I
will not forget you after fifteen or twenty-five or thirty years, having created
you. Come! I see that you greatly need a sweet and
infinitely good Father like Me.
Without going into many other
relevant matters which I can speak about later on, I wish to talk now
particularly to those souls whom I have chosen, priests and religious, to you,
dear children of My love. I have great
plans for you!
THE FATHER'S MESSAGE
Book One - Part II
July 1, 1932
Feast of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ
To the Pope
I turn to you, My beloved son, My
Vicar, before all others, to place this work in your hands. It should rank
first among all your tasks and, because of the fear inspired in men by the
devil, it will be accomplished only at this time.
Oh, how I would like you to know the
range of this enterprise, its greatness, its breadth, its depth, its height. I
would like you to understand the immense wishes that I have for mankind, now
and in the future! If only you knew how much I desire to be known, loved and honored
by men with a special devotion! I have had this desire for all eternity and
since the creation of the first man. I have expressed this desire to men at
various times, especially in the Old Testament. But man has never understood
it. Now this desire makes Me forget all the past, if only it can become a
reality now, in My creatures all over the world. I am stooping down to the
poorest of My creatures to talk to her, and through her, to all men, even
though she cannot realize the grandeur of the work I wish to accomplish among
them. I cannot talk of theology with her, I would be sure to fail, for she
would not understand Me. I am doing this in order to realize My plan through
simplicity and innocence. But now it is your turn to examine this work and
bring it to a speedy fulfillment.
To be known, loved and honored with a special devotion, I do not ask for anythiing extraordinary. I desire only this:
- I desire that one day, or at
least a Sunday, be dedicated to honoring Me in a special way under the
title of Father of all Mankind. For this feast, I would like a special
Mass and Office. It is not difficult to find the texts in the Holy
Scriptures. If you prefer to offer Me this special devotion on a Sunday, I
choose the first Sunday of August. If you prefer a weekday, I would like
it to be always the seventh day of that same month.
- I desire that all the clergy
should undertake to promote this devotion and, most of all, to make Me
known to men as I am and as I will always be for them, that is to say, the
most tender and the most lovable of all fathers.
- I desire them to bring Me
into all families, hospitals, laboratories, workshops, barracks,
conference halls of the ministers of nations - in short, wherever My
creatures are, even if there were only one of them! I desire that the
tangible sign of My invisible presence be a picture to show that I am
really present. Thus, all men will carry out all their actions under their
Father’s gaze and I Myself will have before Me the creature that I have
not only created but adopted. In this way, My children will be, as it
were, under their tender Father’s gaze. Even now I am everywhere,
certainly, but I would like to be represented in a tangible way!
- I desire that during the
year the clergy and the faithful should perform some acts of piety in My honor,
without detriment to their usual occupations. Let My priests go fearlessly
everywhere, among all nations, to bring the flame of My fatherly love to
men. Then souls will be enlightened and conquered, not only among
unbelievers, but in all those sects which are not of the true Church. Yes,
I want these men also, who are My children, to see this flame shining
before them, to know the truth, to embrace
it and to put all the Christian virtues into practice.
- I would like to be honored
in a very special way in seminaries, in novitiates, in schools and homes
for the elderly. May everyone, from the youngest to the oldest, be able to
know and love Me as their Father, Creator and Savior.
Let priests set about
seeking in the Holy Scriptures what I said in former times and what has
remained un-known up to now concerning the worship I wish to receive from
men. May they work to make My desires and My will known to all men,
specifying what I wish to say to people in general and to priests, monks
and nuns in particular. Those souls are the ones I choose, more than
others in the world, to pay Me great homage.
Of course, it will take time to
realize completely these desires that I have for mankind and which I have
revealed to you! But one day, through the prayers and sacrifices of generous
souls who will give themselves for this work of My love, yes, one day I will be
satisfied. I will bless you, My beloved son, and I will reward you a
hundredfold for all that you will do for My glory.
THE FATHER'S MESSAGE
Book One - Part III
July 1, 1932
Feast of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ
To the Bishops
I also want to say a word to you, My
son Alexander, so that My desires may be realized in the world. You must join
with the father confessor of this “little plant” (Mother Eugenia) of My Son
Jesus, in promoting this work, that is, the special devotion I expect from men.
To you, My sons, I entrust this work and
its future, which is so important. Talk,
persist, make My words known, so that I may be known, loved and honored by all
My creatures. If you do this, you will have done what I expect of you, that is,
My will, and you will have fulfilled the wishes that I have so long cherished
in silence. For everything that you do for My glory, I will do twice as much
for your salvation and sanctification. In
the end, in heaven, and only in heaven, you will see the great reward that I
will give you in a very special way, together with all those who have worked to
this end.
I created man for Myself and it is
right that I should be ALL for him. Man will not enjoy true happiness except
with his Father and Creator, because his heart is made for Me alone. For My part, My love for My creatures is so
great that I have no greater joy than that of being among them. My glory in heaven is infinitely great, but My
glory is still greater when I am among My children, men all over the world.
Your heaven, My creatures, is in paradise, together with My chosen ones,
because it is there that you will contemplate Me in an everlasting vision and
will enjoy eternal glory. My heaven is on earth with you all, o men! Yes, it is
on earth and in your souls that I look for My happiness and My joy. You can
provide Me with this joy and it is also your duty towards your Creator and
Father, Who desires and expects this of you. The joy I feel in being with you
is no less great than that which I felt when I was with My Son Jesus during His
mortal life. My Son - it was I Who sent
Him. He was conceived by My Holy Spirit, Who I Myself am; in a word, I was
always I. Loving you as I loved My Son,
Who am I Myself, I say to you, My creatures, as I said to Him: you are My beloved children and in you I am
well pleased. Because of this I rejoice
in your company and I desire to stay with you. My presence among you is like the sun on the
earth. If you are well disposed to receive Me, I will come very close to you,
enter into you, light you up and warm you with My infinite love.
As for you, souls in a state of sin,
or who are ignorant of religious truth, I will not be able to enter you;
however, I will be close to you, because I never stop calling you, inviting you
to desire to receive the benefits I bring you, so that you may see the light
and be healed of sin. Sometimes I look
at you and feel compassion for your unhappy state. I sometimes look at you with love, to dispose
you to yield to the charms of grace. I
spend days, sometimes years, close to some souls to be able to ensure their
eternal happiness. They do not know that
I am there waiting for them, calling them every moment of the day. However, I never become weary and I still feel
joy in remaining close to you, always hoping that you will return to your
Father some day and that you will at least offer Me some act of love be-fore
you die.
I will give you an example of a soul
who is facing sudden death; this soul has always been for me like the Prodigal
Son. (Note by Mother Eugenia: “I saw this example as fact, exactly as
our Father dictates it and I write it.”) I lavished benefits on this soul, but he
wasted all these benefits, all these gifts that his most loving Father provided
for him. More than this, he offended Me gravely. I waited for him, I followed
him everywhere, I gave him more favors: health and wealth, that I caused to
result from his work, to the point of superfluity. At times My providence granted him further
gifts. He therefore had plenty of
everything, but he saw it all in the sad light of his vices, and his whole life
was a fabric of errors because of habitual mortal sin. But My love never tired. I followed him all the same. I loved him and, most of all, in spite of his
rebuffs, I was happy to live patiently close to him, in the hope that maybe one
day he would respond to My love and return to Me, His Father and Savior. At last his final day is approaching: I have sent him an illness in order to make
him come to his senses and return to Me, his Father. Time passes and My poor son - he is 74 - is at
his last hour. I am still there, as
always: I talk to him with even more
kindness than usual. I persevere, I call
My chosen ones and ask them to pray for him, so that he may ask for the
forgiveness I am offering him... And
now, before breathing his last, he opens his eyes, admits his errors and
understands how far he has strayed from the true path that leads to Me. He recovers his senses and in a weak voice,
which none of those around him can hear, he says: “My God, I can now see how great Your love for
me has been and I have offended You continually with such a bad life. I never thought about You, my Father and Savior.
Now You see everything and I beg forgiveness for all this evil which You see in
me and which I now discern in my confusion. I love You, my Father and my Savior!” He died at that very moment and now here he
is, before Me. I judge him with a
paternal love: he called Me Father and he is saved. He will spend a period of time in the place of
expiation, and after this he will be happy for all eternity. Having taken pleasure during his life in the
hope of saving him when he repented, I now rejoice even more, together with My
celestial court, at having realized My desire to be his Father forever. As for the souls who live in justice and
sanctifying grace, I show My happiness by living in them. I give them Myself. I transmit to them the use of My power and through
My love they find a foretaste of heaven in Me, their Father and their Savior!
THUS ENDS THE FIRST PART OF THE
MESSAGE
THE FATHER'S MESSAGE
Book Two
August 12, 1932
The second part begins on 12 August 1932
The day the devil took it ans slashed its cover with a pair of scissors
I have just opened up a fountain of
living water which will never dry up from now until the end of time. I am
coming to you, My creatures, to open My paternal Breast, filled with love for
you, My children. I want you to be
witnesses of My infinite and merciful love. It is not enough for Me to have shown you My
love; I also want to open up My Heart to you, whence a refreshing spring will
issue and where all men will quench their thirst. They will then experience joys they have never
known until now through being so weighed down by the exaggerated fear they had
of Me, their tender Father. Since the
time when I promised men a Savior, I have let this spring gush forth. (Mother Eugenia’s note: “I have been
able to see this spring every day since He first talked about it.”) I made it pass through My Son’s Heart to reach
you. But My immense love for you makes
Me do even more, opening My Breast from Which this water of salvation will gush
for My children, and I permit them to draw freely whatever they need for time
and for eternity. If you wish to test
the power of this spring about which I am talking, first learn to know Me
better and to love Me to the extent that I desire, that is, not only as a
Father, but as your Friend and Confidant.
Why
are you so surprised by what I am saying? Did I not create you in My image? I did this so that you should find nothing
strange when you talk on familiar terms with your Father, your Creator and your
God. For you have become the children of
My fatherly and divine love through My merciful goodness. My Son Jesus is in Me and I am in Him, in our
interchanging love which is the Holy Spirit, Who keeps us united in this bond
of love so as to make us ONE. My Son is
the vessel of this fountain, that men may go and draw from His Heart, Which is
always full to overflowing with the water of salvation! But you have to assure yourselves of the
existence of this fountain which My Son opens up for you, so that you can
convince yourselves that it is fresh and pleasing! So come to Me through My Son and, once you are
close to Me, confide your desires to Me. I will show you this fountain, making Myself
known to you as I really am. When you know Me, your thirst will be quenched,
you will be revived, your ills will be cured, your fears will vanish. Your joy will be great and your love will feel
[more] secure than it has ever been before.
But, you will say to Me, how can we
come to You? Oh, come by the path of
confidence, call Me your Father, love Me in spirit and truth, and this will be
enough to make this refreshing and powerful water quench your thirst. But if you really want this water to give you
all you need to know and love Me, and if you feel cold and indifferent, call Me
by the sweet name of Father and I will come to you. My spring will give you love, confidence and
everything you need to be loved forever by your Father and Creator. As I desire most to be known by all of you, so
that you can all enjoy, even here on earth, My goodness and My tenderness, make
yourselves apostles to those who still do not know Me and I will bless your
toil and efforts, preparing great glory for you with Me in eternity! I am the ocean of charity, My children, and
this is another proof of the paternal love I feel for all of you, without exception,
regardless of your age, your status or your country. Nor do I exclude different societies, sects,
believers, unbelievers, the indifferent. I enfold in this love all the rational
creatures who make up humanity.
Here
is the proof of this: I am the ocean of charity. I showed you the spring which pours from My
Breast to quench your thirst, and now, in order to let you see My goodness
towards everyone, I am going to show you the ocean of My universal charity,
that you may dive into it blindly. Why? So that, diving into this ocean, souls
rendered bitter by faults and sins may lose that bitterness in this bath of
love. They will emerge from this ocean
better, happy at having learned how to be good and charitable. If, because of ignorance or weakness, you yourselves
happen to fall again into this state of bitterness, I shall still be an ocean
of charity, ready to receive this bitter drop, transform it into charity and
goodness and make you holy as I, your Father, am. My children, do you want to live your life on
earth peacefully and joyfully? Come and
cast yourselves into this immense ocean and remain in it for ever. As you work and live your normal life, this
life will be sanctified through charity. As for My children who do not follow the
truth, I wish all the more to enfold them in My fatherly predilection, so that
they may open their eyes to the light which now shines more clearly than ever. This is the time of graces, foreseen and
awaited since the beginning of time!
I am here personally to talk to you.
I come as the most tender and loving of
fathers. I stoop down, forgetful of
Myself, to raise you up to Me and ensure your salvation. All of you who are now living and you, too,
who are in the void, but who will live century after century until the end of
the world, remember that you are not alone: a Father thinks of you and offers you a share
in the unfathomable privileges of His love. Approach the spring which will gush for ever
from My fatherly Breast. Taste the
sweetness of this health-giving water, and when you have felt all its delicious
power in your souls satisfying all your needs, come and cast yourselves into
the ocean of My charity, so as to live only in Me, to die to yourselves and to
live eternally in Me.
Mother Eugenia’s note: Our
Father told me in an intimate dialogue: The spring is the symbol of My knowledge; the ocean is that
of My charity and of your trust. When you wish to drink from this spring, study
Me in order to know Me and, when you know Me, dive into the ocean of My
charity, trusting in Me with a confidence so deep as to transform yourselves:
this I shall be unable to resist. I shall then for-give your errors and lavish
the greatest favors upon you.
Continuation
of the message: I am among you. Happy
are those who believe this truth and who take advantage of this time about
which the Scriptures have spoken thus: “There
will come a time when God must be honored and loved by men as He desires.” The Scriptures then go on to ask: “Why?” and answer: “Because He alone is worthy of honor, love and
praise forever!” Moses received from Me
as the first of the ten commandments, this command to be communicated to men: “Love and worship God!” Those who are already
Christians may say: “We have loved you since we were born or since our
conversion, as we often say in the Lord’s Prayer: ‘Our Father, Who art in
heaven!’ ” Yes, My children, it is true, you do love Me and honor Me when
you say the first part of the ‘Our Father’, but continue with the other
requests and you will see: “Hallowed
be Thy name!” Is My name being
blessed? Continue: “Thy kingdom come!” Has My kingdom
come? You honor very fervently the
Kingship of My Son Jesus, it is true, and in Him you are honoring Me! But will you deny your Father this great glory
of proclaiming Him ‘King’, or at least, of letting Me reign until all men can
know and love Me? I desire you to
celebrate this feast of the Kingship of My Son in reparation for the insults He
received before Pilate and from the soldiers who scourged His holy and innocent
humanity. I ask you not to suspend this
feast, but, on the contrary, to celebrate it enthusiastically and fervently;
but in order that everyone may really know this King, they must know His
kingdom as well.
Now, to achieve this dual knowledge
perfectly, it is also necessary to know the Father of this King, the Maker of
this kingdom. Truly, My children, the
Church - this society I entrusted My Son to found - will complete its work by honoring
Him Who is its Author: your Father and
Creator. Some of you, My children, may reply: “The Church has grown continuously. Christians are more and more numerous: this is sufficient proof that our Church is
complete!” Know, My children, that your
Father has always kept watch over the Church since its birth and that, along
with My Son and the Holy Spirit, I wanted it to be infallible through My Vicar,
the Holy Father. However, is it not true
that if Christians knew Me as I am, the tender and merciful, good and liberal
Father, they would practice this holy religion more fervently and sincerely? My children, is it not perhaps true that, if
you knew you had a Father Who thinks of you and loves you infinitely, you would
in your turn make an effort to be more faithful to your Christian duties, as
well as to your duties as citizens, to be just and to render justice to God and
to men? Is it not true that, if you knew
this Father Who loves you all without distinction and Who, without distinction,
calls you all by the sweet name of children, you would love Me as affectionate
children, and that this love, under My impulse, would become an active love,
extending itself to the rest of humanity who still do not know this Christian
society and who know even less Him Who created them and is their Father?
If somebody went and talked to these
souls, abandoned to their superstitions, or to so many others who call Me God
because they know I exist but not that I am close to them; if somebody said to
them that their Maker is their Father as well, and that He thinks of them and
is concerned with them, that He surrounds them with intimate affection in their
sorrows and dejection, this would obtain the conversion of the most stubborn
ones, and these conversions would be more numerous and firm, that is, more
persevering. Some of you, examining this
work of love I am carrying out among men, will find cause for criticism and
will say: “But don’t the missionaries,
after arriving in those distant countries, talk to the non-believers about God,
His goodness and His mercy? What more could they say about God, since they
speak of Him all the time?” The
missionaries have spoken and still speak of God as far as they know Him, but I
assure you, you do not know Me as I am, because I am coming to proclaim Myself
the Father of all and the most tender of fathers, in order to transform your
love, which has become distorted by fear. I come to make Myself similar to My
creatures, to correct the idea you have of a terrifyingly just God, as I see
men spending their whole lives without confiding in their only Father, Whose
only wish is to make their earthly life easier and then give them a divine
life, in heaven. This is a proof that
souls do not know Me any more than you do, not having overcome the idea you
have about Me. But now I am giving you this light. Remain in the light and bring it to everybody,
and it will be a powerful means both to obtain conversions and to shut, if
possible, the gates of hell, for
I now repeat My promise, which will
last forever: All those who call me by the name of Father, even if only once, will
not perish, but will be sure of their eternal life among the chosen ones.
And to you who will work for My
glory and commit yourselves to making Me known, honored and loved, I give the
assurance that your reward will be great, because I will count everything, even
the smallest effort you make, and I will reward you a hundredfold in eternity. As I have told you, it is necessary to bring
to fulfillment in the holy Church the devotion which honors in a very special
way this society’s Author, the One Who came to found it, and the One Who is its
soul, God in three Persons: Father, Son
and Holy Spirit. Until the three Persons
are honored by a special devotion in the Church and the whole of mankind, there
will be something lacking in this society. I have already made some souls aware of this
lack, but most of them, too timid, have not responded to My call. Others have had the courage to speak about it
to the appropriate people, but, in the face of their failure, they have not
persisted. Now My hour has come. I Myself am coming to make men, My children,
know what, until today, they have not understood completely. I Myself am coming to bring the flame of the
law of love so that, by this means, the enormous layer of ice that surrounds
mankind can be melted and destroyed.
Oh, beloved humanity, oh, men who
are My children, set yourselves free from the bonds in which the devil has
chained you until now, inspiring in you fear of a Father Who is pure love! Come, come closer to Me, you have every right
to approach your Father; open up your hearts, pray to My Son that He may help
you to know even better My goodness towards you. You who are prisoners of superstition and the
laws of the devil, leave this tyrannical slavery and come to the truth of
truths. Recognize the One Who made you
and is your Father. Do not try to claim
your rights, paying worship and homage to those who have led you to spend your
life uselessly until now, but come to Me, I am waiting for you all be-cause you
are all My children. And you who are in
the true light, tell them how sweet it is to live in the truth! Say also to those Christians, to those dear
creatures, My children, how sweet it is to think that there is a Father Who
sees everything, knows everything, provides for everything, Who is infinitely
good, Who forgives easily and Who punishes only reluctantly and slowly. Tell them to come to Me: I will help them, I will lighten their burden
and sweeten their hard life. I will inebriate them with My fatherly love, to
make them happy in time and eternity.
And you, My children, who have lost
the faith and live in the darkness, raise your eyes, you will see shining rays
coming to illuminate you. I am the sun
that shines, warms and re-warms. Look,
and recognize that I am your Creator, your Father, your one and only God. It is because I love you that I come to make
you love Me, so that you may all be saved. I am speaking to all men, the world over,
making this appeal of My fatherly love ring out, this infinite love that I want
you to know is a permanent reality. Love, love, love always, but also show
others how to love the Father, so that from today on I will be able to show you
all the Father Who loves you so passionately. And you, My beloved sons, priests and monks, I
exhort you to make known this fatherly love that I have for men, and for you in
particular. You must work so that My
will may be accomplished in all men and in you. It is that I should be known, honored and
loved. Do not leave My love inactive for
a long time, because I am thirsty in My desire to be loved! This century is privileged above all others. Do not let this privilege pass, for fear that
it might be withdrawn! Souls need a
certain divine touch, and time presses; do not be afraid of anything, I am your
Father; I will help you in your efforts and your work. I will sustain you always and make you enjoy,
already here below, peace and joy of soul, making your ministry and your
zealous works bear fruit. This is an
inestimable gift, since the soul which is peaceful and joyful already has a
foretaste of heaven while awaiting its eternal reward.
I communicated to My Vicar, the
Supreme Pontiff, My Representative on earth, a very special predilection for
the missionary apostolate in distant countries and, most of all, a great zeal
to spread throughout the world the devotion to the Sacred Heart of My Son
Jesus. Now I am entrusting him with the
work that this same Jesus came on earth to accomplish: to glorify Me by making
Me known as I am, just as I am telling all men, My creatures and children. If men could penetrate the Heart of Jesus in
all Its de-sires and Its glory, they would realize that Its most ardent desire
is to glorify the Father, the One Who sent Him, and, most of all, not to let
His glory be diminished as it has been until now. He desires the complete glory that men can and
must give Me, as their Father and Maker, and still more as the Author of their
Redemption!
I am asking of man what he is able
to give Me: his confidence, his love and
his gratitude. It is not because I need
My creature and his adoration that I desire to be known, honored and loved; the
only reason why I am stooping down to him is to save him and give him a share
in My glory. Further, in My goodness and
My love I realize that the beings I have drawn from nothing and adopted as My
true children are falling in great numbers into eternal unhappiness with the
devils. They are thus failing to fulfill
the purpose of their creation and are losing their time and their eternity! If
there is something that I desire, above all now, it is simply to see more fervor
on the part of the just, a smooth path for the conversion of sinners, sincere
and persevering conversion, and the return of the prodigal sons to their
Father’s house. I am referring in
particular to the Jews and to all others who are My creatures and children,
such as the schismatics, the heretics, the freemasons, the poor infidels, the
sacrilegious, and the various secret sects. I want this whole world to know that there is
a God and a Creator. This God, Who will
address their ignorance twice over, is un-known to them; they do not know that
I am their Father.
Believe Me, you who are listening to
Me as you read these words: if all men
who are far from our Catholic Church heard people talking about this Father Who
loves them, Who is their Creator and their God, about this Father Who desires
to give them eternal life, then many of these men, even the most obstinate
ones, would come to this Father of Whom you had spoken to them. If you cannot go to them and talk to them
directly, look for other means: thousands of direct and indirect ways. Put them into effect with the true spirit of
disciples and with great fervor. I
promise you that your efforts will soon be crowned with success by a special
grace. Make yourselves apostles of My
fatherly goodness and, because of the zeal I will give you all, you will be
strong and powerful in your work among souls. I will always be close to you and in you: if there are two of you talking, I will be
with you; if there are more, I will be among you; thus you will say what I
inspire you to say and I will put your listeners in the right frame of mind to
hear you. In this way, men will be conquered by love and saved for all
eternity.
With regard to the means of honoring
Me as I desire, all I ask of you is great confidence. Do not think I want austerities or
mortifications; I do not want you to walk barefoot or to lay your faces in the
dust, or to cover your-selves with ashes. No, no! My dearest wish is that you
behave as My children, simply and trusting in Me! With you I will become everything for
everyone, the most tender and loving Father. I will be on intimate terms with you, giving
Myself to you all, making Myself small so as to make you great for eternity. Most of the unbelievers, the impious and
various communities remain in their iniquity and unbelief because they think
that I am asking the impossible of them, that they have to submit to My
commands like slaves of a tyrannical lord, whose power and pride keep him
distant from his subjects, to oblige them to show Him respect and devotion. No, no, My children! I know how to make Myself small, far smaller
than you can imagine. However, what I do
require is the faithful observance of the commandments I gave the Church, so
that you will be rational creatures and will not be like animals because of
your lack of discipline and your evil inclinations, so that you will preserve
the treasure which is the soul I gave you, clothed in the fullness of its
divine beauty! Then, according to My
desire, do what I have already instructed you to do: honor Me with a special
devotion. May this make you know My will
to give you many benefits and to let you share in large measure in My power and
My glory, simply in order to make you happy and save you, and to show My sole
desire: to love you and be loved in return by you.
If you love Me as faithful children,
you will also have loving and obedient respect for My Church and My
representatives. Not a respect such as
you show now, which keeps you distant from Me because you are afraid of Me. This false respect that you have now is an
injustice to justice, it is a wound you cause to the most sensitive part of My
Heart; you are forgetting, scorning, My fatherly love for you. What most grieved Me about My people, Israel,
and what most afflicts Me still about present-day humanity, is this
ill-conceived respect you have of Me. Man’s
enemy has, in fact, used it to lead him to fall into idolatry and schisms. He is still using it and will continue to use
it against you to keep you distant from the truth, from My Church and from Me. Oh, do not allow yourselves to be led any
longer by the enemy; believe in the truth that is being revealed to you and
walk in the light of this truth.
You, My children, who are outside
the Catholic Church, should realize that you are not excluded from My fatherly
love. I am making this tender appeal to
you because you too are My children. If
you have lived up to now in the devil’s snares, acknowledge that he has cheated
you. Come to Me, your Father, and I will
receive you with joy and love!
And you, who only know the religion
in which you have grown up, and that religion is not the true one, open your
eyes. Here is your Father, He Who
created you and Who wants to save you. I
come to you to bring you the truth and salvation. I can see that you do not know Me and do not
realize that all I want is for you to know Me as your Father, Creator and Savior.
It is because of this ignorance that you
cannot love Me. Understand, therefore,
that I am not as far from you as you think. How could I leave you alone after having
created you and adopted you through My love? I follow you everywhere, I protect you always,
so that everything may become a confirmation of My great liberality towards
you, in spite of your forgetfulness about My infinite goodness. This forgetfulness makes you say: “Nature
provides us with everything, it makes us live and die.” This is the time of
grace and light. Recognize, then, that I
am the only true God!
In order to give you real happiness
in this life and in the next, I want you to do what I am suggesting to you in
this light. The time is propitious, do
not lose this love which is being offered to your hearts so tangibly. I ask everyone to take part in the Holy Mass
according to the liturgy; this pleases Me greatly! Later on I will suggest some short prayers to
you, but I do not want to overburden you! The most important thing will be to honor Me
as I told you, by establishing a feast in My honor and serving Me with the
simplicity of true children of your God, Father, Creator and Savior of the
human race.
Here is another proof of My fatherly
love for men. My children, I will not
speak to you about the whole greatness of My infinite love, because you have
only to open the holy books, to look at the crucifix, the tabernacle and the
Blessed Sacrament, to realize the extent to which I have loved you!
Nevertheless, in order to show you that you need to satisfy My will for you and
to make Me better known and loved, I wish, before ending these words, which
only set out the basis of My work of love among men, to point out to you some
of the innumerable proofs of My love for you!
As long as man does not live in the truth,
he cannot taste real freedom. You, My
children, think you have joy and peace, you who are outside the true law, for
obedience to which I created you. But
deep in your hearts you feel that you have neither true peace nor true joy and
that you do not enjoy the true freedom of the One Who created you and is your
God and Father! But you, who abide in
the true law, or rather, who have promised to follow the law that I gave you to
ensure your salvation, have let vice lead you into evil. You have strayed from the law by behaving
badly. Do you think you are happy? No. You
feel that your hearts are not at ease. Do
you suppose that, looking for pleasure and other human joys, your hearts will
finally be satisfied? No. Let Me tell you, you will never feel truly
free nor truly happy until you recognize Me as your Father and submit to My
yoke, to be true children of God, your Father. Why? Because
I created you for a single purpose, to know Me, love Me and serve Me, as a
simple and trusting child serves its father!
Once, in the Old Testament, men
behaved like animals, they did not preserve any sign of their dignity as children
of God, their Father. So to make them
realize that I wanted to raise them to the great dignity of God’s children, I
some-times had to show Myself as dreadfully severe. Later, when I saw some of
them were endowed with sufficient reason to understand, eventually, that it was
necessary to distance themselves from the animals, I then began to lavish
benefits on them, to give them victory over those who were still unable to
recognize and preserve their own dignity. And as they were increasing in number, I sent
My Son to them. He was adorned with all
the divine perfections be-cause He was the Son of a perfect God. It was He Who showed them the ways to
perfection. Through Him I adopted you in
My infinite love, as real children. Since then I have never called you simply
“creatures”, but “children”. I clothed
you in the true spirit of the new law which not only distinguishes you from
animals, like the men of the old law, but raises you above those men of the Old
Testament. I raised you all to the
dignity of children of God. Yes, you are My children and you must tell Me that
I am your Father. But trust in Me as
children do, because without this trust you will never be truly free. Everything I am saying to you is intended to
make you realize that I come to carry out this work of love, to give you
powerful help to cast off the tyrannical slavery which imprisons your souls,
and to let you enjoy real freedom, whence real happiness comes. Compared with this freedom, all earthly joys
are as nothing. Raise yourselves to the
dignity of children of God and learn how to respect your own greatness. I will then be your Father more than ever, the
most lovable and merciful of fathers.
I have come to bring peace with this
work of love. I will let a ray of peace
fall upon anyone who honors Me and trusts in Me, so that he will be relieved in
all his troubles, all his worries, sufferings and afflictions, especially if he
calls Me and loves Me as his Father. If
families honor Me and love Me as their Father, I will give them My peace together
with My providence. If workers, businessmen
and artisans invoke and honor Me, I will give them My peace and My strength, I
will show Myself to be the good and merciful Father. If each Christian community invokes and honors
Me, I will give it My peace, I will show Myself to be a most loving Father, and
through My power I will ensure the eternal salvation of souls. If all mankind invokes and honors Me, I will
bring down upon it the spirit of peace like a benevolent dew. If all nations, as such, invoke and honor Me,
there will be no more discord, nor wars, because I am the God of peace and
where I am, there no war can be. Do you
wish to gain victory over your enemy? Call upon Me and you will triumph over
him. Finally, you know that I can do
everything because of My power. Well, I
am offering this power to all of you, to use now and for eternity. I will always show Myself to be your Father,
provided that you show yourselves to be My children. What do I desire to achieve with this work of
love, if not to find hearts able to understand Me? I am the holiness of which I possess the
perfect and full expression; I offer you this holiness, of which I am the
Author, through My Holy Spirit, and I instill it in your souls through My Son’s
merits.
It is through My Son and the Holy
Spirit that I am coming to you and into you, and it is in you that I seek My
repose. To some souls, the words “I am
coming into you” will seem a mystery, but it is not a mystery! Because, having instructed My Son to institute
the Holy Eucharist, I intended to come to you every time you receive the Sacred
Host! Of course, nothing prevented Me
from coming to you even before the Eucharist, as nothing is impossible to Me! But receiving this Sacrament is an action that
is easy to understand and it shows how I come to you! When I am in you, I can more easily give you
what I possess, provided that you ask Me for it. Through this Sacrament you are intimately
united with Me. It is in this intimacy
that the outpouring of My love makes My holiness spread into your souls. I fill you with My love, then you have only to
ask Me for the virtues and perfection you need and you can be sure that in
those moments when God is reposing in His creatures, nothing will be refused
you. Since you know My favorite place of
rest, are you not going to offer Me it? I
am your Father and your God; will you dare refuse Me this? Oh, do not let Me suffer because of your
cruelty towards a Father Who is asking you for this one favor for Himself.
Before ending this message, I want
to express a wish to numerous souls who are consecrated to My service. You, priests and religious, are those souls. You are dedicated to My service, whether in
the contemplative life or in charitable and apostolic works. For My part, this is a privilege granted
through My goodness; for your part, it is faithfulness to your vocation,
together with your good will. This is My
desire: you who find it easier to understand what I expect of mankind, pray to
Me, so that I will be able to accomplish My work of love in all souls. You know all the difficulties that have to be
overcome to win a soul! Well, this is
the effective means of helping you to bring a great number of them to Me: this means is that of making Me known, loved
and honored by men. I want you to be the first ones to start doing this. What joy for Me to enter first the houses of
priests and religious! What joy to find
Myself, as Father, amid the children of My love! With you I will converse as with intimate
friends! I will be for you the most
discreet of confidants! I will be
everything to you, I will satisfy all your needs! Most of all, I will be the Father Who receives
your requests, Who lavishes His love, His benefits and His universal tenderness
upon you. Do not refuse Me this joy
which I desire to enjoy with you! I will
give it back to you a hundredfold and, since you will honor Me, I will honor
you too, by preparing great glory for you in My kingdom!
I am the light of lights: where it penetrates there will be life, bread
and happiness. This light will illumine
the pilgrim, the skeptic, the ignorant. It
will illumine you all, o men who live in this world of darkness and vice. If you did not have My light, you would fall
into the abyss of eternal death! Finally, this light will lighten the ways
which lead to the true Catholic Church for its poor children who are still
victims of superstition. I will show
Myself as a Father to those who suffer most on earth, the poor lepers. I will show Myself to be the Father of all
those who are abandoned, the outcasts of every human society. I will show Myself as a Father to the
afflicted, the sick, and above all, to those who are in agony. I will show Myself as a Father to all
families, to orphans, widows, prisoners, workers and the young. I will show Myself as the Father of kings, the
Father of their nations. You will all
feel My goodness and My protection, you will all see My power!
PRAYER OF MOTHER EUGENIA
My Father, Who art in Heaven!
Per Ipsum, Cum Ipso et in Ipso
GOD IS MY FATHER
My Father in Heaven, how sweet it is to know that You are my
Father and that I am Your child! Especially
when the skies of my soul are cloudy and my cross weighs more heavily, I feel
the need to repeat to You: Father, I believe in Your love for me! Yes, I believe that You are a Father to me at
every moment of my life, and that I am Your child! I believe that You love me with an infinite
love! I believe that You are watching
over me night and day and that not a hair falls from my head without Your
permission! I believe that, in Your
infinite Wisdom, You know better than I what is good for me. I believe that, in Your infinite power, You
can bring good even out of evil. I
believe that, in Your infinite goodness, You make everything to the advantage
of those who love You; even under the hands of those who strike me I kiss Your
hand which heals! I believe, but
increase in me faith, hope and love! Teach
me always to see Your love as my guide in every event of my life. Teach me to surrender myself to You like a
baby in its mother’s arms. Father, You
know everything, You see everything, you know me better than I know myself; You
can do everything, and You love me!
My Father, since it is Your wish that we should always turn to
You, I come with confidence to ask You, together with Jesus and Mary... (here request the favour that you desire). For this intention, and uniting myself to
their Most Sacred Hearts, I offer You all my prayers, my sacrifices and mortifications,
all my actions, and greater faithfulness to my duties. (If this prayer it to be recited as a novena, add: “I promise to be
more generous, especially during these nine days, in a given circumstance, to
such and such a person....”).
Give me the light, the grace and the power of the Holy Spirit! Strengthen me in this Spirit, that I may never
lose Him, never sadden Him and never allow Him to become weaker in me. My Father, I ask this in the name of Jesus,
Your Son! And You, Jesus, open Your
Heart and place in it my own, and, together with Mary’s, offer it to our divine
Father! Obtain for me the grace that I need! Divine Father, call all men to Yourself. Let
all the world proclaim Your fatherly goodness and Your divine mercy! Be a tender Father to me and protect me
wherever I am, like the apple of Your eye. Make me always a worthy
son/daughter; have mercy on me!
Divine Father, sweet hope of our souls,
may You be known, honored and loved by all men! Divine Father, infinite goodness poured out on
all peoples, may You be known, honored and loved by all men! Divine Father, beneficent dew of humanity, may
You be known, honored and loved by all men!
Mother Eugenia
Partial indulgence::
+ Jean Cardinal Verdier
Archbishop of Paris
Mai-8, 1936
+ Mgr. Girard,
Apostolic Vicar Cairo (Egypt)
October-9, 1935
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