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07.01.2022 Why Suffering ? A Conversation with Peter. (It is late at night, shortly before Jesus' Passion and Death. Alone and praying in a friendly household, Jesus is vi...sited by Simon Peter, who has something on his mind. He says to Jesus:) "I think that the greatest wisdom consists in loving, following and serving You wholeheartedly. But you send me here and there. And people ask me questions and I must reply to them. I think that what I ask You, other people may ask me. Because the thoughts of men are alike. Yesterday You say that innocent and holy people will always suffer, nay, they will be the one who will suffer on behalf of everybody. I find it difficult to understand that, even if you say that they will wish it themselves. And I think that as it is difficult for me, it may be difficult for other people. If they ask me, what shall I tell them? In this first journey a mother said to me: "It was not fair that my little girl should die with so much pain, because she was good and innocent." And as I did not know what to say, I repeated Job's words:" The Lord has given. The Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." But I was not convinced myself. And I did not convince her. The next time I would like to know what to say..." "Listen. It seems an injustice, but it is a great justice that the best should suffer on behalf of everybody. Now tell me Simon. What is the Earth? All the Earth?" "The Earth? A great, a very great expanse, made of dust and water and rocks, with trees, animals and human beings." "And then?" "Then, nothing else Unless you want me to say that it is the place of punishment and exile for man." "The earth is an altar, Simon. A huge altar. It was to be the altar of everlasting praise to its Creator. But the Earth is full of sin. Therefore it must be the altar of endless expiation and sacrifice, on which the victims are consumed. The Earth, like the other worlds with which the other Creation is strewn, ought to sing psalms to God Who created it. Look!" Jesus opens the wooden shutters, and through the wide open window comes in the cool of the night, the noise of the torrent, a moonbeam, and one can see the sky studded with stars. "Look at those stars! They are singing the praises of God with their voices, that are light and motion, in the infinite spaces of the firmament. Their song, which rises from the blue fields of the sky to the Heaven of God, has lasted for thousands and thousands of years. We can imagine stars, planets and comets as sidreal creatures - like sidereal priests, levites, virgins and believers - that are to sing the praises of the Creator in an unlimited temple. Listen, Simon. Listen to the breeze rustling among the leaves, and to the noise of the stream in the night. Listen to the Earth, which like the sky, sings with the winds, with the water, with the voices of birds and animals. But if the luminous praise of the stars that people the sky is sufficient for the vault of heaven, the song of the winds, water and animals is not sufficient for the temple that is the Earth. Because on the Earth, there are not only winds, waters and animals unconsciously singing the praises of God, but there is also man, the perfect creature, superior to all beings living in time and in the world. He is gifted with matter - like the animals, minerals and plants - and with spirit. Like the angels of Heaven, he is destined - if faithful to the trial - to know and possess God, through grace at first, and in Paradise later. Man - the synthesis comprising all natures - has a mission that no other creature has. And it should be for him joy, besides being his duty: to love God; to give God a cult of love intelligently and voluntarily; to repay God for the love that He gave man by granting him life, and Heaven in addition to life. To give an intelligent cult. Consider this, Simon. What benefit does God get from Creation? What profit? None. Creation does not make God greater, it does not sanctify Him, it does not make Him rich. He is infinite. He would have been so, even if Creation had never existed. But God-Love wanted to have love. God can get only love from Creation, and that love - which is intelligent and free only in angels and in men - is the glory of God, the joy of angels, the religion for men. The day that the great altar of the Earth should cease to give praises and entreaties of love, the Earth would cease existing. Because once love is extinguished, expiation would cease also, and the wrath of God would destroy the Earth that had become an earthly hell. So the earth must love, in order to exist. Also the Earth must be the Temple that loves and prays with the intelligence of men. But which victims are always offered in the Temple? The pure, spotless, faultless victims. Those are the only victims agreeable to the Lord. They are the early fruits. Because the best things are to be given to the Father of the family, and the first fruits of everything, the choice things, are to be given to God, the Father of the human family. I say that the Earth has a double duty of sacrifice: that of praise, and that of expiation. Because Mankind that has spread over the Earth sinned in the First men, and continuously sins by adding - to the sin of estrangement from God - the other countless sins of his consent. These are to be the voices of the world, of the flesh and of Satan. A guilty, very guilty Mankind that, although he has the likeness to God - have his own intelligence and divine help - is more and more sinful. Stars obey, plant obey, elements obey, animals obey - and they praise the Lord as best as they can. Man do not obey the Lord, or praise the Lord, enough. Hence the necessity of victim-souls, that may love and expiate on behalf of everybody. They are the children, who, innocent and unaware, pay the bitter punishment of sorrow, for those who can do nothing but sin. They are the saints, who willingly sacrifice themselves for everybody..." "But children" "You mean those who cannot yet offer themselves And do you know when God speaks in them? The language of God is spiritual. A soul understands it, and a soul has no age. Nay, I tell you that a child's soul - as it is without malice, with regard to its capacity of understanding God - is more adult than the soul of an old sinner. I tell you, Simon, that you will live so long as to see many children teach adults, and even yourself, the wisdom of heroic love. But in those little ones who die for natural reasons, God acts directly, for motives of so high a love that I cannot explain to you... We have let the moon set, Simon... It will soon be dawn and you have had no sleep...." "It does not matter, Master. I have lost a few hours of sleep and I have gained so much wisdom. And I have been with you. But if you allow me, I will now go. Not to sleep. But to think of your words again." He us already at the door, about to go out, when he stops, pensively, and says: " One more question, Master. Is it right for me to say to someone who suffers, that sorrow is not a punishment, but a .. grace, something like like our vocation, beautiful even if it may seem an unpleasant and sad thing to people who do not know?" Yes, you can say that Simon. It is the truth. Sorrow is not a punishment, when one knows how to accept it and use it rightly. Sorrow is like a priesthood, Simon. A priesthood open to everybody. A priesthood that confers great power on the heart of God. It is a great merit. Sorrow that was born at the same time as sin, can appease Justice. Because God can also use - for good purposes - what Hatred created to give sorrow. I did not choose any other means to cancel out Sin. Because there is no means greater than this one." Poem of the Man-God Vol. 5 123-6

04.01.2022 DARKNESS AND HOPE (Azariah says:) "After the darkness the light. Always. In the creation of the world. In the birth of the day after the night. In the succession of epochs and eras. Corruption generates elements of life from death "Like the grain cast in the furrows, and covered with manure in the gloomy winter months. That grain seems degraded, buried under layers of dirt and the stench of dung. It seems lost to the sun, and the sun to it. But precisely because it is there ...below, mortified, pressed down, and overwhelmed by the dust and the wheat, it can take root. It is no longer a tenuous grain which the passer-by can crush with his foot, the wind carry elsewhere, or the bird swallow. It may become a stable, cheerful, useful, prosperous plant, multiplied in value and power, beneficial, and victorious under the intense sun of the loveliest months. "Light seems to grow dark, and death comes. Corruption spreads, and overflows with its burdensome waves. Fear not. It’s what’s needed to rouse the drowsy, and make them desirous of voices from on high. Struggle is useful to keep the athlete strong. The nausea of corruption prompts the desire for what is pure. Darkness spurs people to seek the light "The era of the spirit will return after this time of materiality. The era of the Light will return after the current concealment. The era of Life will succeed the almost mortal agony. The era of God will arise to be a force in the final struggle. The era of God will reign over that of Satan. "On your feet, O Christians, in the fullness of your charity for God, for your neighbour, for yourselves. God has sent you His Son and your Brother, through the Mother, so that He would be your Master and Redeemer, and you would be Children of God. And since you are children, God has infused the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, and through you He cries out, ‘Abba! Father! "Man, even the most perfect man, would never be able to pray with that loving violence which obtains miracles, all miracles. And so it is, then, that the Spirit of God prays in you, through you, to obtain what is useful and necessary for you, and what as holy is suitable for sanctifying you "What, then, are you afraid of? Courage then, and do not be afraid of the things that pass" (AZ: 304-5) (Mary says:) Have faith. Be at peace. There is no misery which My Son cannot turn into riches, there is no solitude which He cannot replenish, and there is no fault which He cannot cancel. The past no longer exists, once love has cancelled it. Not even a dreadful past. Are you going to be afraid, when Disma, the robber, was not? Love, and be afraid of nothing. (Vol. 3: 133) See more