601 Sale (Alessandria, Italy); November 21,
1997 Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed
Virgin Mary
a "Beloved sons, let yourselves be
carried into the heavenly temple of my
Immaculate Heart, so that I can make you more and more conformed to my Son Jesus. Your priestly life must be conformed
to all things to that of Jesus. He wants
to live in you in all his fullness. You
must become his word, lived out and proclaimed to all with courage and fidelity, in such a way
that the light
of the Gospel may brighten up the dense darkness which envelops the world.
b His merciful love wants to manifest
itself and to draw all souls into the burning fire of his divine charity,
especially those furthest away, the straying, those who are
lying prostrate under bondage to evil and
sin. Jesus works the prodigy of divine mercy, above all through your priestly suffering. For this, the
moment has come when I wish to render all of you conformed to Jesus
Crucified.
c Conformed to
Jesus Crucified, in your daily priestly ministry. The times have come when you, my beloved sons, must drink to the dregs the bitter chalice which the Heavenly
Father has prepared for you. Interior
sufferings are increasing, those caused by your own limitations, by
human misery, by feeling in life the weight of your very great weakness. Also
increasing are the intimate sufferings
caused by the misunderstanding and rejection, often on the part of those close to you. I am asking you to taste, you
also, the painful hour of Gethsemane.
d Conformed to Jesus Crucified, especially in your many exterior sufferings. I have need of
your priestly suffering. For each one of you also, I have prepared the moment
of your own particular crucifixion.
e For this reason, my little son, I have asked
of you much suffering, caused by the painful heart
operation which you have had to undergo. You
have offered everything to me with great docility and filial abandonment, and this has greatly
supported the plan of my Immaculate Heart.
f It is above all with the physical
sufferings, borne by you with docility
and love, that I am conforming you to my Crucified Son, while I am at your side with the
same motherly concern with which I stood close to Jesus in
the bloody moments of his passion and his immolation on the Cross.
g Conformed
to Jesus Crucified, beloved sons, now that you are
approaching the fulfillment of my plan, for which I have been forming and cultivating you for years with motherly
urgency and jealousy.
h
Take courage, resume the journey in trust and hope. You are approaching moments of grace in which
you will see flow out upon the world the torrents of divine
mercy. The world will then be purified by
this divine fire of love, and it will be completely renewed, so that Jesus may bring into your midst his kingdom of grace and of holiness, of justice, of
love and of peace.
i
For this, I am asking you to second, each day, my motherly action, which
seeks to make you all more and more conformed to Jesus Crucified.”
