Message # 516

Capoliveri (Livorno), April 1, 1994

Good Friday

"Draw near to the Throne of Grace to obtain mercy on this day of the redemption. Look, with love and immense gratitude, upon Him whom today they have pierced.
He is the eternal Word of the Father who has become Man.
He is the Son of God offered for your ransom.
He is the true Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
He is my Son Jesus, born and brought up by me, assisted and accompanied, contemplated with the happiness of a mother, in the rhythm of his human growth.
He is my Son, comforted and encouraged by me in the face of every official rejection, followed by me and listened to in the desert of so much unbelief, consoled by the voices of the little ones, of the poor, the sick and the sinners.
He is my Son, whom I meet today, as He carries the heavy weight of his gibbet on his wounded shoulders. Live with me the indescribable moment of this encounter.
My motherly love is placed like a balm on each of his wounds. The immense pain of the Son falls upon the heart of the Mother, pierced by his very suffering. And the Cross crushes Son and Mother, now united in this one single offering.
Stay with me, beloved sons, beneath the Cross, together with your brother, John.
There is such need for comfort. For Jesus, who is nailed to the gibbet, raised up from the earth and who is living through the bloody hours of his agony. And for me, his Mother, intimately associated in his redemptive passion.
There is such need for faith. Behold Jesus crushed like a worm. All the sins of the world weigh upon his immolated body. His Heart is overwhelmed by human ingratitude and by such a profound lack of faith. 'He saved others and he cannot save himself. Let him come down from the cross if he is the Son of God, and we will believe in him.' With me, with John, with the devout and faithful women, with the penitent centurion, you too must say: 'Truly this is the Son of God!'
There is such need for love. On Golgotha, love appears to be defeated. There is only hatred, bitterness, wickedness and inhuman savagery. Darkness descends and obscures the world. Love is all gathered together in Christ Crucified, who prays, pardons, bows to the will of the Father and docilely abandons Himself to Him. Love descends from Him upon the Mother, called to open her heart to a new and spiritual motherhood and upon John, who represents you all, in receiving this supreme gift of the divine Heart of the Son.
There is such need for hope. Now the lifeless body of Jesus, from the Cross, is placed in my motherly arms. I cover it with kisses and tears and, with the help of the faithful women, I wrap it in purest linen and we place it in his new sepulchre. And a large stone closes it. But the door of hope opens. The hope that Jesus cannot remain in death, because He is the Son of God. The Son of God who will rise because He had foretold this many times. The Son of God who will meet his disciples again in the joyful and fertile land of Galilee.

In the sorrow of this Good Friday, your heavenly Mother asks you to open your hearts to hope. The bloodied Cross, which you contemplate today in tears, will be the cause of your greatest happiness, because it will be transformed into a great bright Cross.
The bright Cross, which will extend from east to west and will appear in the heavens, will be the sign of the return of Jesus in glory.
The bright Cross will be transformed from a gibbet to a throne of his triumph, because Jesus will come upon it to establish his glorious reign in the world.
The bright Cross, which will appear in the heavens at the end of the purification and the great tribulation, will be the door which opens the long and dark sepulchre in which humanity is lying, to lead it to the new reign of life which Jesus will bring with his glorious return."

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