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Words of Love: Revelations of Our Lord to Three Victim Souls in the 20th Century
Revelations of Our Lord to three Victim Souls in the 20th Sister Josefa Menendes (1890-1923); Sister Mary of the Trinity (1901-1942); Sister Consolata Betrone (1903-1946) Compiled by Father Bartholomew Gottemoller, O.C.S.O. It is with coal that I make diamonds. What would I not do with a soul, however black she might be, who would give herself to Me. You are the echo of My voice, but if I be silent, what are you then? Most souls do not give their measure of generosity and love because no one asks it of them. It must be asked of them without being exacted; but it must be asked for, asked for on My behalf. When it is asked for Me, souls give; they give even more than is asked of them. It is My joy to help you. I can do great things for eternity with a soul who unreservedly gives herself to Me. To the question . . . Why do You love me, Jesus replied, Your misery attracts Mewhat would you do without Me? I have many souls who love Me and belong to Me. A single one of them can purchase pardon for a great many others who are cold and ungrateful. You must never forget that I always am, and love to be, kind and merciful towards My creatures. Yes, work is a joy and a great dignity for man; but what I desire is no merely your work, but yourself. You dishonor Me when you leave Me to think only of your work. My kingdom is not of this world. That is why I do not seek to make My Royalty resplendent in this world of matter. I dominate matter and merely lend Myself to it. That is why I see, by preference, an appearance of poverty, where matter is very little honored. Thus I am within reach of everyone. Thus you will be able to understand that it is by freeing yourselves from matter that you will discover the world of the Spirit. Give, give, make yourself poor, so that there may be in you and around you only one beauty, your Jesus. These are but a few examples of the wealth of insight into the mind and heart of Our Divine Saviour as contained in these words of love spoken by Our Lord personally to three privileged nuns who lived in the 20th century. Under thirty-four major headings, a monk from the Abbey of the Holy Trinity in Huntsville, Utah has painstakingly compiled this rich selection of gems from the revelations of Jesus to Sister Josefa Menendez (1890-1923), Sister Mary of the Trinity (1901-1942) and Sister Consolata Betrone (1903-1946). There is no reader who will not garner a new and profound understanding about the seemingly mysterious ways of Our Lord toward souls by a thoughtful reading of this unique book.
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First published January 1, 1985
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January 7, 2021
This is a collection of private revelations made to three different nuns in different orders at the turn of the last century. As private revelations, they offer no binding doctrines. They are simply pious reflections that can serve as a jumping off point for deeper meditations.
Unless otherwise noted, the quotes will have come in a revelation from Christ Himself.
(Madeleine-Sophie Barat) "I come to tell you this from Him...Jesus Himself is arranging everything, and difficult as it may appear to creatures, He ordains each event in the way best for His plans." (p. 1)
"You must think only of loving Me! I will think of everything else, even to the smallest details." (p. 2)
"Of, if you would leave Me to act; I would splendidly transform each one of your lives. But you oppose Me by your desires, your tastes, your resistance. My omnipotent Love is limited by the limit of your generosity." (p. 5)
"Remember this: the value of your existence is not in what you have done, or said, or suffered: it is in the part of your being that you have given to your Saviour; in what you have allowed Me to do with you. Give Me your heart - and your heart is your whole life!" (p. 6)
"Most religious give Me their work and their talents - I have sufficient talents at My disposal; what I desire is the soul, to make it My place of rest and of work, to live anew in it in humanity. Yes, My place of work, because a soul that would give herself to Me without reserve, how I would use her for the glory of God and of the Church, for the salvation of other souls, to a degree that you cannot imagine." (p. 6)
"Be charitable, above all in your thoughts: the rest will follow spontaneously of itself." (p. 9)
"If their infidelities would Me deeply, their love consoles and delights My Heart to such a degree that I, so to speak, forget the sins of many others on their account." (p. 11)
"Did you enter the religious life in order that I might fulfill your wishes or in order that you might strive to fulfill Mine?" (p. 12)
"The religious life is so great a thing that even if a postulant were to die after only a few days of postulancy, she would have for all eternity a degree of charity far greater than if she had stayed in the world; only a few days separate her from the world, but already in her soul, an abyss separates her, because she has made that interior act of giving Me her liberty." (p. 12)
"Let them give themselves up to thoughts of confidence, not fear, for I am a God of pity, ever ready to receive them into My Heart." (p. 13)
"When you have all that is necessary, you deprive Me of the joy of taking care of you." (p. 13)
"It is My joy to give you hour by hour sufficient strength, to have you entirely dependent on My love." (p. 16)
"It is not what you give Me that glorifies Me; it is when, by your confidence, you give Me the opportunity of showing you what My love is capable of devising for you." (p. 17)
"If you should happen to commit some fault, do not grieve over it, but come and place it quickly within My heart; then strengthen your determination to strive for the opposite virtue, but with great calmness. In that manner your every fault will become a step in advance." (p. 22)
"I will raise up the humble, and make little of their frailties, and even of their falls, provided they have humility and love." (p. 22)
"I do not say that by the fact of My choice, a soul is freed from her faults and wretchedness. That soul may and will fall often again, but if she humbles herself, if she recognizes her nothingness, if she tries to repair her faults by little acts of generosity and love, if she confides and surrenders herself once more to My Heart...she gives Me more glory and can do more good to other souls than if she had never fallen. Miseries and weaknesses are of no consequence; what I do ask of them is love." (p. 24)
"When a soul is generous enough to give Me all I ask, she gathers up treasures for herself and others and snatches great numbers of souls from perdition." (p. 25)
"It is not sins that injure your purity, it is your pride, which so often, does not wish to acknowledge them." (p. 31)
"Remember, Consolata, that I am kind; do not distort this fact! You see, the world likes to represent sanctity by pictures of austerities, flagellations, chains...But it is not like that. If sacrifice and penance do enter into the life of a saint, they are not on that account the whole of his life. The saint, or the soul who gives herself to Me with generosity, is the most fortunate being on earth, for I am kind, altogether kind." (p. 31)
"He who never needs forgiveness is not the most happy, but rather he who has humbled himself many times." (p. 33)
"Lift the veil and tell Me all about your sufferings, miseries and falls with complete confidence." (p. 36)
"Let Me enter into you, work at you, consume and destroy you, so that it is no longer your will that acts, but Mine." (p. 37)
"When I see those who love Me obey with difficulty, it humiliates me; when prayer, when virtue costs them something, it humiliates Me; I who have said that My yoke is easy and My burden light! Serve me with a heart that sings!" (p. 40)
"To bear monotony, the tediousness of the same work coming round regularly, the absence of novelty, while keeping a joyful heart, is to honor Me - that is to conform oneself to My hidden life. To be joyous simply because I am with you, when you have no other reason for being so, that is to prove to Me that you love Me." (p. 41)
"See My wounds! Who has suffered for love of you as I have?" (p. 43)
"As I am happy, yes, happy to show you the marks of My Passion - see how your God has loved you! - will you not also be happy to show Me the marks of your love...? Oh, if you knew how I long for you! Not to reproach you, but to overwhelm you with joy in showing you the marks of My love..." (p. 44)
"I ask only for love. Ah, what are you doing about it...?" (p. 47)
"When two people really love each other, they never offend each other. That is precisely the way it ought to be between the Creator and His creatures." (p. 49)
"But always remember that if I love you it is because you are little, not because you are good." (p. 52)
"Understand this well, Josefa: when a soul loves Me, she can make up for many who offend Me, and this relieves My Heart." (p. 54)
"See, in the Cribs they place Me not on My Mother's lap, but on the straw; because she did not keep Me for herself; she gave Me to the human race even before My birth." (p. 58)
"Never does My Heart refuse to forgive a soul that humbles itself, especially when it asks with confidence." (p. 59)
"I make little account of all that, provided souls come to Me with confidence and love. I Myself make up for their frailty." (p. 61)
"Jesus is not a tyrant, and if He forgives an entire lifetime of crime in return for one act of love, then tell Me, how could it be that He would take notice one day of some useless thought on which you had dwelt involuntarily?" (p. 61)
"It is because you are so little that you are able to creep so deeply into My Heart." (p. 64)
"I have drawn you to My Heart that obedience may be your very breath...know this, that if I should ask one thing of you and your Superiors another, I prefer you to obey them rather than Me." (p. 69)
"Obedience is charity in action. It covers all your sins." (p. 69)
"In the same way as you try to please your Spouse, strive to please your Superiors; anticipate their desires; do what they like, that they may feel themselves loved by you, loved in a special way." (p. 69)
"When you have all that is necessary, you deprive Me of the joy of taking care of you." (p. 72)
"The attachment to passing goods which one desires to possess and to hold, hates My Spirit and wishes to destroy It. Avarice is the work of death." (p. 72)
"Tell Me, what more beautiful prayer do you want to offer Me? 'Jesus, Mary, I love You! Save souls!' Love and souls! What more beautiful prayer could you desire?" (p. 73)
"When a soul prays for a sinner with an intense desire for his conversion, his prayer generally obtains the sinner's conversion, though sometimes only at the last moment, and the offence given to My Heart is repaired. But in any case, prayer is never lost, for on the one hand, it consoles Me for the pain sin has occasioned, and on the other, its efficacy and power are applied, if not to that sinner, then to others better disposed to profit by it." (p. 74)
"Alas! The world offends Me, but it will be saved by the reparation of My chosen souls." (p. 78)
"A great number of souls consecrate themselves to My service - very few live My life - most of them live their life while working for Me. It is not thus that I glorified My Father - it is not thus that you glorify Me. Think of the sacrifices that human love demands: a wife makes the tastes of her husband her own, she gives way to his habits, adopts his ways, even his thoughts...And their children bear the features of one and of the other. Should divine love remain below that standard?" (p. 82)
"Your life is very great. My little daughter, the least act of obedience, because it is done in union with Me, the least fidelity to your Holy Rule, has its repercussion on the entire Church. Would you believe it? In the same way your failings, the smallest of your acts of cowardice, has its repercussion on the entire world - by its consequences; would you believe it?" (p. 85)
"One opportunity of forgiving, of overcoming evil by good, is a great present on My part." (p. 91)
"Each soul is a matchless treasure to Me." (p. 93)
"Remember that those who are vowed to My service receive encouragement in the measure that they love souls. If you have a great love for souls, you will discover many consolations which will escape you if you have but little love for souls. This is the secret of barren and radiant lives. For the aim of the religious life is 'God in souls.'" (p. 94)
"A little act of generosity, of patience, of poverty...may become treasure that will win a great number of souls to My heart..." (p. 95)
Unless otherwise noted, the quotes will have come in a revelation from Christ Himself.
(Madeleine-Sophie Barat) "I come to tell you this from Him...Jesus Himself is arranging everything, and difficult as it may appear to creatures, He ordains each event in the way best for His plans." (p. 1)
"You must think only of loving Me! I will think of everything else, even to the smallest details." (p. 2)
"Of, if you would leave Me to act; I would splendidly transform each one of your lives. But you oppose Me by your desires, your tastes, your resistance. My omnipotent Love is limited by the limit of your generosity." (p. 5)
"Remember this: the value of your existence is not in what you have done, or said, or suffered: it is in the part of your being that you have given to your Saviour; in what you have allowed Me to do with you. Give Me your heart - and your heart is your whole life!" (p. 6)
"Most religious give Me their work and their talents - I have sufficient talents at My disposal; what I desire is the soul, to make it My place of rest and of work, to live anew in it in humanity. Yes, My place of work, because a soul that would give herself to Me without reserve, how I would use her for the glory of God and of the Church, for the salvation of other souls, to a degree that you cannot imagine." (p. 6)
"Be charitable, above all in your thoughts: the rest will follow spontaneously of itself." (p. 9)
"If their infidelities would Me deeply, their love consoles and delights My Heart to such a degree that I, so to speak, forget the sins of many others on their account." (p. 11)
"Did you enter the religious life in order that I might fulfill your wishes or in order that you might strive to fulfill Mine?" (p. 12)
"The religious life is so great a thing that even if a postulant were to die after only a few days of postulancy, she would have for all eternity a degree of charity far greater than if she had stayed in the world; only a few days separate her from the world, but already in her soul, an abyss separates her, because she has made that interior act of giving Me her liberty." (p. 12)
"Let them give themselves up to thoughts of confidence, not fear, for I am a God of pity, ever ready to receive them into My Heart." (p. 13)
"When you have all that is necessary, you deprive Me of the joy of taking care of you." (p. 13)
"It is My joy to give you hour by hour sufficient strength, to have you entirely dependent on My love." (p. 16)
"It is not what you give Me that glorifies Me; it is when, by your confidence, you give Me the opportunity of showing you what My love is capable of devising for you." (p. 17)
"If you should happen to commit some fault, do not grieve over it, but come and place it quickly within My heart; then strengthen your determination to strive for the opposite virtue, but with great calmness. In that manner your every fault will become a step in advance." (p. 22)
"I will raise up the humble, and make little of their frailties, and even of their falls, provided they have humility and love." (p. 22)
"I do not say that by the fact of My choice, a soul is freed from her faults and wretchedness. That soul may and will fall often again, but if she humbles herself, if she recognizes her nothingness, if she tries to repair her faults by little acts of generosity and love, if she confides and surrenders herself once more to My Heart...she gives Me more glory and can do more good to other souls than if she had never fallen. Miseries and weaknesses are of no consequence; what I do ask of them is love." (p. 24)
"When a soul is generous enough to give Me all I ask, she gathers up treasures for herself and others and snatches great numbers of souls from perdition." (p. 25)
"It is not sins that injure your purity, it is your pride, which so often, does not wish to acknowledge them." (p. 31)
"Remember, Consolata, that I am kind; do not distort this fact! You see, the world likes to represent sanctity by pictures of austerities, flagellations, chains...But it is not like that. If sacrifice and penance do enter into the life of a saint, they are not on that account the whole of his life. The saint, or the soul who gives herself to Me with generosity, is the most fortunate being on earth, for I am kind, altogether kind." (p. 31)
"He who never needs forgiveness is not the most happy, but rather he who has humbled himself many times." (p. 33)
"Lift the veil and tell Me all about your sufferings, miseries and falls with complete confidence." (p. 36)
"Let Me enter into you, work at you, consume and destroy you, so that it is no longer your will that acts, but Mine." (p. 37)
"When I see those who love Me obey with difficulty, it humiliates me; when prayer, when virtue costs them something, it humiliates Me; I who have said that My yoke is easy and My burden light! Serve me with a heart that sings!" (p. 40)
"To bear monotony, the tediousness of the same work coming round regularly, the absence of novelty, while keeping a joyful heart, is to honor Me - that is to conform oneself to My hidden life. To be joyous simply because I am with you, when you have no other reason for being so, that is to prove to Me that you love Me." (p. 41)
"See My wounds! Who has suffered for love of you as I have?" (p. 43)
"As I am happy, yes, happy to show you the marks of My Passion - see how your God has loved you! - will you not also be happy to show Me the marks of your love...? Oh, if you knew how I long for you! Not to reproach you, but to overwhelm you with joy in showing you the marks of My love..." (p. 44)
"I ask only for love. Ah, what are you doing about it...?" (p. 47)
"When two people really love each other, they never offend each other. That is precisely the way it ought to be between the Creator and His creatures." (p. 49)
"But always remember that if I love you it is because you are little, not because you are good." (p. 52)
"Understand this well, Josefa: when a soul loves Me, she can make up for many who offend Me, and this relieves My Heart." (p. 54)
"See, in the Cribs they place Me not on My Mother's lap, but on the straw; because she did not keep Me for herself; she gave Me to the human race even before My birth." (p. 58)
"Never does My Heart refuse to forgive a soul that humbles itself, especially when it asks with confidence." (p. 59)
"I make little account of all that, provided souls come to Me with confidence and love. I Myself make up for their frailty." (p. 61)
"Jesus is not a tyrant, and if He forgives an entire lifetime of crime in return for one act of love, then tell Me, how could it be that He would take notice one day of some useless thought on which you had dwelt involuntarily?" (p. 61)
"It is because you are so little that you are able to creep so deeply into My Heart." (p. 64)
"I have drawn you to My Heart that obedience may be your very breath...know this, that if I should ask one thing of you and your Superiors another, I prefer you to obey them rather than Me." (p. 69)
"Obedience is charity in action. It covers all your sins." (p. 69)
"In the same way as you try to please your Spouse, strive to please your Superiors; anticipate their desires; do what they like, that they may feel themselves loved by you, loved in a special way." (p. 69)
"When you have all that is necessary, you deprive Me of the joy of taking care of you." (p. 72)
"The attachment to passing goods which one desires to possess and to hold, hates My Spirit and wishes to destroy It. Avarice is the work of death." (p. 72)
"Tell Me, what more beautiful prayer do you want to offer Me? 'Jesus, Mary, I love You! Save souls!' Love and souls! What more beautiful prayer could you desire?" (p. 73)
"When a soul prays for a sinner with an intense desire for his conversion, his prayer generally obtains the sinner's conversion, though sometimes only at the last moment, and the offence given to My Heart is repaired. But in any case, prayer is never lost, for on the one hand, it consoles Me for the pain sin has occasioned, and on the other, its efficacy and power are applied, if not to that sinner, then to others better disposed to profit by it." (p. 74)
"Alas! The world offends Me, but it will be saved by the reparation of My chosen souls." (p. 78)
"A great number of souls consecrate themselves to My service - very few live My life - most of them live their life while working for Me. It is not thus that I glorified My Father - it is not thus that you glorify Me. Think of the sacrifices that human love demands: a wife makes the tastes of her husband her own, she gives way to his habits, adopts his ways, even his thoughts...And their children bear the features of one and of the other. Should divine love remain below that standard?" (p. 82)
"Your life is very great. My little daughter, the least act of obedience, because it is done in union with Me, the least fidelity to your Holy Rule, has its repercussion on the entire Church. Would you believe it? In the same way your failings, the smallest of your acts of cowardice, has its repercussion on the entire world - by its consequences; would you believe it?" (p. 85)
"One opportunity of forgiving, of overcoming evil by good, is a great present on My part." (p. 91)
"Each soul is a matchless treasure to Me." (p. 93)
"Remember that those who are vowed to My service receive encouragement in the measure that they love souls. If you have a great love for souls, you will discover many consolations which will escape you if you have but little love for souls. This is the secret of barren and radiant lives. For the aim of the religious life is 'God in souls.'" (p. 94)
"A little act of generosity, of patience, of poverty...may become treasure that will win a great number of souls to My heart..." (p. 95)
October 28, 2022
This book opens one's eyes to all the wonders of Jesus Christ. It's transforming, A must read. I am going to buy another to keep one with me everywhere I go and one to stay home.
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