Oh, in your days, how beautiful are the feet of those who announce peace,
of those who spread the good news of salvation and of the triumph of divine
mercy! You must be these announcers of peace. You must be today vigilant
sentinels upon the mountains of confidence and hope.
--- Be vigilant sentinels in the dark time of infidelity and apostasy.
Thus you will spread about you the fiercely burning light of the Gospel,
you will give to all the strength of the Word of God and point out the road
one must travel to remain ever in the truth.
The whole world awaits your announcement with ardent hope. You are the
apostles of this second evangelization. Preach to all peoples that Jesus
Christ is the one and only Lord, your Savior and Redeemer, and that He is
now about to return to you in the splendor of his glory.
--- Be vigilant sentinels in the hour of the greatest triumph of Satan
and of all the evil spirits. Humanity is in their possession. The world is
set in the hands of the Evil One. And so souls have become slaves to sin
and are bearing the burden of separation from God, the only source of your
happiness. Thus despair is spreading; violence and hatred are reigning
supreme in the relationships between individuals and countries; and you are
becoming more and more crushed in the bloody wine-press of revolutions and
wars, of dissensions and fratricidal struggles.
You have come to the culmination of the tribulation and you are living the
years of the great chastisement, which, in many ways, has already been
announced to you.
--- Be vigilant sentinels who mark out the way of return to the God of
peace and life, of love and joy. And so you must free yourselves from the
yoke of sin, in order to live always in grace and in communion with God,
setting yourselves against the spirit of the world in which you live. You
will then be ever faithful to the promises of your Baptism.
By means of you, the light of goodness and love, of brotherhood and peace,
of trust and joy will be able to return upon the world.
--- Be vigilant sentinels who announce that the great day of the Lord is
now imminent. Make this announcement to all that they may open their hearts
to hope, in order for the Second Advent to come about in your time and so
that all may prepare to receive the heavenly dew of divine mercy, which is
now on the point of being poured out upon the entire world.
Thus, even in the indescribable sufferings of the time in which you live,
your hearts and your souls can be opened to the joy of this announcement
and to the expectation of this prodigious event which you invoke with
inexpressible groanings: 'Return, Lord Jesus!' "
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