[Sundaycommunity] 624. The Incredulity of Thomas. Warning to the "Thomases" of Today

[Brian Shaughnessy]

"Little John [what He often calls Maria Valtorta], the cycle is over.
After this you will put My Apparition to Incredulous Thomas.

I forsee the remarks of too many Thomases and of the too many scribes of
the present day on a sentence of this dictation, which seems to be in
contrast with the sip of water offered by Longinus.

Oh how happy the deniers of the supernatural, the rationalists of
perfection contrariwise, would be, if they could find a fissure in the
wonderful complex of this work of divine bounty and of your sacrifice,
little John, to make it all collapse, by prizing open such fissure with the
pick of their lethal rationalism.

Instead of kneeling down and blessing God, who granted you this knowledge,
the only thing to be done, the majority will take books, new ones and old
ones, will check, measure, look against the light, hoping, hoping, hoping.
What?  To find discrepancies with other similar works, and thus demolish,
demolish, demolish.  In the name of (human) science, of (human) reason, of
(human) criticism, of the three times human pride.  How much of holy works
is demolished by man, to build with the ruins edifices that are not holy.

You have removed the pure gold, poor men.  The simple and precious gold of
Wisdom.  You have put the stucco and plaster, badly painted with gilt dust,
that the impact of life, of people, of human storms washes away at once,
reducing *your* knowledge to nothing.

Oh poor Thomases, who believe only what you understand and what you feel in
yourselves!

But bless God and try to ascend, because I will give you a hand!  Ascend in
faith and in love.

I wanted the mortification of the apostles, so that they may become capable
of being the "fathers of souls".  I beg you, and I speak in particular to
you, My priests.  Accept the humiliation of being placed after a layman, in
order to become "fathers of souls".  This work is for everybody.  But this
Gospel is dedicated to you in particular, as in it the Master takes His
priests by the hand and leads them through the rows of the people, so that
they, the priests, may become teachers capable of guiding the pupils, and
in it the Doctor takes you among the sick people -- every man has his
spiritual disease -- and He shows you the symptoms and the treatment!.

So take heart.  Come and look.  Come and eat.  Come and drink.  And do not
refuse.  And do not hate little John.

The good among you will receive a holy joy from this work.  The honest
scholars a light.  The absent-minded, who are not wicked, a pleasure.  The
wicked a means to give vent to their evil science.

But little John has had only sorrow and fatigue, so that, now, at the end
of the work, he is like a person languishing with a disease.

So what shall I say to his friends and Mine: to Mary of Magdala and John,
to Martha and Lazarus and Simon, to the angels who have watched over him in
his work?  I will say: 'Little John, our friend, is languishing.  Let us go
and take the water of the eternal rivers to him and say: "Come. little
John.  Look at the Sun and rise.  Because many would like to see what you
see.  But only the favourites are granted to know, in advance, the eternal
Lord and His days in the world. Come. The Saviour, with His friends, is
coming to your abode, while waiting for you to go, with Him and them, to
His Abode." '

Go in peace  I am with you."
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aptYLJC,Twbd,ttM

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