The great sorrow of my Immaculate Heart is consoled by you and many of its wounds are closed by the sweet balm of your filial love. I am always with you. I unite myself to your prayer; I am building up amongst you a greater capacity for communion and mutual love; I am giving you peace of heart and the joy of being, today, priests of my Son Jesus. I want to make you into instruments of my motherly tenderness; the apostles of my triumph; the gift which I am making to the Church, in these times of her purification and her great tribulation.
It is above all a gift of love and of mercy.
You see, my beloved sons, how great is her abandonment, how deep her desolation!
The Church is today climbing Calvary, bearing a heavy cross. The spirit of the world has penetrated into her interior and has spread everywhere. How many are the priestly and religious lives dried up by secularism, which has possessed them completely.
The faith, in many of them, has been extinguished, because of the errors which are increasingly taught and followed; the life of grace has been buried by sins which are committed, justified and no longer confessed. Their hearts have become enslaved by many disordered passions and no longer have the capacity to feel joy and peace.
You, O priests consecrated to my Immaculate Heart, be the expression of my motherly love and my great mercy. Love these brothers of yours by good example, by prayer, by advice and by welcoming with love, for them, all the sufferings which the Heavenly Father sends you.
Then the whole Church will feel the comfort which the heavenly Mother is giving her through you, and in this way she will be helped to carry her great cross towards Calvary.
It is also a gift of consolation and of hope.
Through you, the Church will feel, in an increasingly powerful way, the presence of the heavenly Mother. And the presence of the Mother will bring to the Church the grace of her total renewal, causing her finally to emerge from the long night in which she finds herself, towards the bright day of the new times which are about to come. Thus the Church will be consoled at seeing the faith again flourishing everywhere, hope being renewed, charity expanding and a great holiness spreading.
You, O beloved sons, be the flowers which come to maturity on the tree of your life of consecration to my Immaculate Heart, in order to cause the heavenly dew of hope and of my motherly consolation to come down upon the immense desert of today.
It is above all a gift of salvation.
How many are my children today who run the risk of being lost! How numerous are those far off, the atheists, the sinners, the victims of evil, of egoism, of violence and of hatred!
Look at the millions of innocent babies who are being killed in the wombs of their mothers; at the young people set upon the evil experience of impurity and drugs; at the families which have been destroyed; at the sick, the poor, the abandoned and those in desperation.
Through you, my beloved ones, my tender and anxious motherly help must come to all of them, to bring them to salvation. Gather up with your priestly hands these fallen, lost and scattered children of mine, and bring them all into the motherly sheepfold of my Immaculate Heart.
Be light and security for all those who form part of other Christian confessions and point out the harbor into which they must enter in order to fulfill the will of my Son Jesus: the holy and catholic Church, which has the Pope as its foundation and sure guide.
I confirm to you that, after the triumph of my Immaculate Heart, there will remain in these countries of yours, solely this one and only true Church.
Leave this cenacle with joy. I am with you. Bear everywhere the charism of my presence and the light of my glory.
With those who are dear to you, with all the souls who are entrusted to you, I bless you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
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