Most Holy Mary— “Mother of the Eucharist”
Rubbio (Vicenza) 8th August, 1986; No. 330 (after the recitation of the Holy Rosary, message given orally to Fr. Stefano Gobbi (Fr. Gobbi was born in Italy, March 22, 1930; died June 29, 2911). Fr. Gobbi received messages from Our Blessed Mary, from 1973 to 1997) "Beloved sons, how My Heart is filled with joy at seeing you here, on a priestly pilgrimage of adoration, love, reparation and thanksgiving to Jesus, my Son and my God, present in the Eucharist, in order to console Him for so much emptiness, so much ingratitude, so much indifference with which He is surrounded in His real presence of love in an the Tabernacles of the earth, on the part of so many of my children, particularly on the part of many sons of predilection, the Priests. Thank you for the joy which you give to the Heart of Jesus, Who smiles on you with delight, while trembling with tenderness for you. Thank you for the joy which you give to the deep sorrow of the Immaculate Heart of your Heavenly Mother. I am the Mother of the Most Holy Sacrament. This I became with My 'Yes' because, at the moment of the Incarnation, I made it possible for the Word of the Father to plant Himself in My virginal womb and, although I am also truly Mother of God, because Jesus is truly God, My cooperation yet took the specific form, above all, of giving the Word His human nature, which allowed Him, the second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, the Son co-eternal with the Father, to become in time also Man, truly your Brother. Through His assumption of human nature, it was possible for Him to carry out the work of the Redemption. As I am the Mother of the Incarnation, I am also Mother of the Redemption, a Redemption which was carried out from the moment of the Incarnation right up to the moment of His death on the Cross where, through His assumed humanity, Jesus was able to carry out that which was not possible for Him to do as God: to suffer, to endure, to die, offering Himself as a perfect ransom to the Father and giving a worthy and just reparation to His justice. Truly He has suffered for you all, redeeming you from sin and opening up to you the possibility of receiving that divine life which was lost to all men at the moment of the first sin committed by our first parents. Look at Jesus as He loves, works, prays, suffers, sacrifices Himself, from His descent into My virginal womb until His ascent onto the Cross in that perennial priestly action of His, in order to understand how I am, above all, the Mother of Jesus the Priest. I am therefore also truly Mother of the Most Holy Eucharist, Not because I still generate Him to this mysterious reality on the Altar. This is a task reserved for you alone, My sons of predilection. It is however a task which assimilates you very much to My motherly task because you too, during the Holy Mass and through the words of Consecration, truly generate my Son. For Me, it was the cold manger in a poor and bare Cave which received Him; for you, it is now the cold stone of an Altar which welcomes Him, but you too, like Me, generate My Son. For this reason, you cannot be anything other than sons of a special, indeed most special predilection on the part of Her Who is the Mother, truly the Mother of Her Son Jesus. But I am also truly Mother of the Eucharist, because Jesus becomes really present at the moment of the Consecration, through your priestly action. With your human consent to the powerful action of the Spirit, Who transforms the matter of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, you make this new and real presence of His among you possible for Him. And He becomes present in order to continue the Work of the Incarnation and the Redemption and to accomplish in mystery the Sacrifice of Calvary, which He was able to offer to the Father because of His human nature, assumed with the Body which I gave Him. In this way, in the Eucharist, Jesus becomes present with His divinity and His Glorious Body, that Body given to Him by your Heavenly Mother, truly the Body born of the Virgin Mary. Sons, His is a glorious Body, but it is not a different one, that is, we are not speaking of His having a new birth. It is in fact the same Body which I gave Him; born in Bethlehem, died on Calvary, placed in the Sepulchre and risen from there, but yet assuming a new form, His divine form, that of glory. In Paradise, Jesus with His Glorious Body remains the Son of Mary. In this way, He Whom, with His divinity, you generate at the moment of the eucharistic Consecration, is always the Son of Mary. Therefore, I am Mother of the Eucharist. And, as Mother, I am always at My Son's side. I was so on this earth; I am now so in Paradise, through the privilege of my bodily Assumption into Heaven; I am also where Jesus is present, in every Tabernacle on the earth. Just as His glorious Body, being outside the limitations of time and space, allows Him to be here before you in the Tabernacle of this little mountain church, but, at the same time, allows Him to be present in all the Tabernacles scattered in every part of the world, so your Heavenly Mother, with Her glorious body which allows Her to be here and everywhere, is truly beside every Tabernacle where Jesus is kept. My Immaculate Heart offers Him a living, throbbing, motherly Tabernacle of love, adoration, thanksgiving and unceasing reparation. I am the joyful Mother of the Eucharist. You know, beloved sons, that where the Son is, there is also the Father and the Holy Spirit. Just as, in the glory of Paradise, Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father, in intimate union with the Holy Spirit, so also, when called upon by you, He becomes present in the Eucharist and is placed for safe keeping in the Tabernacle surrounded by My Motherly Heart, there is always beside the Son the real presence of the Father, the real presence of the Holy Spirit, there is always the divine and Most Holy Trinity. But, as happens in Paradise, so also beside every Tabernacle, there is also the ecstatic and joyful presence of your Heavenly Mother. Then there are all the Angels, arrayed in their nine Choirs of light, to sing the Omnipotence of the Most Holy Trinity, with different modulations of harmonies and glory, as if to cause His great and divine power to shine forth at different levels. About the Angelic Choirs, there are all the Saints and Blessed Ones, who receive a continuous increase of their eternal and ever greater beatitude from the light, love, unceasing joy and immense glory which streams from the Most Holy Trinity. To this height of Paradise there also arises the deep sighs, the purifying sufferings and the unceasing prayer of all the souls in Purgatory. They tend towards it with a desire and a charity which becomes increasingly great, whose perfection is in proportion to their progressive liberation from every debt incurred through their weakness and their faults, until the moment in which, perfectly renewed by Love, they can be associated with the heavenly song which is formed about the Most Holy and divine Trinity, which is in Paradise and within every Tabernacle where Jesus is present, even in the most remote and scattered regions of the earth. For this reason, at the side of Jesus, I am the joyful Mother of the Eucharist. I am the sorrowful Mother of the Eucharist. To the Church triumphant and suffering, which throbs around the centre of love, which is Jesus in the Eucharist, there should also be gathered the Church militant; all of you should be gathered, My beloved sons, religious and faithful, in order to form, with Paradise and Purgatory, an unceasing hymn of adoration and praise. Instead, today Jesus in the Tabernacle is surrounded by so much emptiness, so much abandonment, so much ingratitude. These times were foretold by Me at Fatima, through the voice of the Angel, who appeared to the children, to whom he taught this prayer: 'Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly, I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, present in all the Tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference with which He is surrounded... This prayer was taught for these times in which you live. Today, Jesus is surrounded by emptiness, which is particularly formed by you Priests who, in your apostolic action, go uselessly about, and very much on the edge of things, going after things of lesser and more secondary importance, forgetting that the centre of your priestly day must be here, before the Tabernacle, where Jesus is present and is kept above all for you. He is surrounded also with indifference by so many of my children, who live as if He were not there and, when they go into a church for the liturgical occasions, have no regard for His divine and real presence among you. Jesus in the Eucharist gets placed in a remote corner, while He should be placed at the centre of the Church, should be placed at the centre of your ecclesial gatherings, because the Church is His temple which was constructed first for Him and then for you. My Motherly Heart suffers bitterness at the way in which Jesus, present in the Tabernacle, is treated in so many churches, where He is placed in a corner, as if He were any old object to be used for your ecclesial gatherings. But above all it is the sacrileges which today form a painful crown of thorns about My Immaculate Heart. There are so many Communions; and so many sacrileges committed in these times! It can be said that now there is no eucharistic celebration where sacrilegious Communions are not made. If you could only see with My eyes how great this wound is, which has contaminated the whole Church and is paralyzing it, bringing it to a halt, making it impure and so very sick. If you could only see with My eyes, you too would shed many tears with Me. Then My beloved ones and sons consecrated to My Heart, you must be today a powerful call for the complete return of the whole Church militant to Jesus present in the Eucharist. Because it is only there that there is the fountain of living water, which will purify its aridity and will renew the desert to which it has been reduced; only there is the secret of Life, which will open up for it a second Pentecost of grace and light; only there is to be found the fountain of its renewed holiness: Jesus in the Eucharist! It is not your pastoral plans and your discussions, it is not the human means in which you place your trust and so much security, but it is only Jesus in the Eucharist Who will give the entire Church the strength for a complete renewal, which will bring it to be poor, evangelical, chaste, stripped of all the supports in which it trusts, holy, beautiful, without spot or wrinkle, in imitation of your Heavenly Mother. I desire that this message of mine be made public and included among those contained in My book. It is My desire that it be spread throughout the world, because I am calling you today from every part of the world to be a crown of love, adoration, thanksgiving and reparation on the Immaculate Heart of Her who is truly the Mother - the joyful Mother, but also the so sorrowful Mother - of the Most Holy Eucharist. I bless you in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
Why The Sun And The Moon Look The Same Size?
A Love Story Between God and Man: God’s Desire to Honour Jesus and Mary
Above All His Creation; “the light of the moon shall become like the light of the
sun” (Isaiah 30:26)! * let us be nourished with the milk of Mary, as Jesus was!
Have you ever noticed that the Sun and Moon appear the same size from our perspective?
And why are their angular diameters 0.5 degree each, so that when the Sun and Moon are side by side their total angular diameter becomes1? And too,
why do we experience total solar eclipses, which happen when the Sun and the Moon join as1? This phenomenon occurs only with our moon, for out of
200 moons in our solar system, only our Moon is capable of completely blocking the Sun.
We all should feel a certain closeness with our moon, for scientists tell us that it was once a part of the Earth, and that
if it wasn’t for the Moon, life on Earth as we know it, could not exist.
Some other interesting numbers are 400; 110; 30; and 3 – Adam, Woman, Man and Eve, are all 3-letter words in
Hebrew, hinting a code, and for codes, translation is forbidden, making Hebrew the exclusive language for
decoding the Bible!
The Sun is about 400 times larger than the Moon, but 400 times more distant; Total eclipses of the Sun are seen only
once every 400 years at any given spot on Earth; The Moon is about 110 Moon diameters away from the Earth, or 30
Earth diameters. Are all these relationships coincidences, or do they hold some deeper meanings?
From God's Perspective: To The Chief Musician, A Psalm Of David (19:1-6):
� : “The heavens declare the glory of God;
and the firmament sheweth his handiwork.
Day unto day uttereth speech,
and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
There is no speech nor language,
where their voice is not heard.
Their line is gone out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world. In them hath He set a tabernacle for the sun,
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
His going forth is from the end of the heaven,
and his circuit unto the ends of it:
and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.”
So, what can we gather from the Psalm? From my perspective, if the Sun symbolizes the bridegroom, then the
Moon his bride; the two halves coming together to become one, echoing the story of creation, Genesis 2:24
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
The passage from Psalm 19:1-6 tells us that God's creation is also a language by which God communicates. He writes His messages, not with ink and
paper, but through His timeless and dynamic creation. This enables each generation to see and understand His greatness.
In the New Testament, Jesus as well, speaks of himself as a Bridegroom (Mark 2:19-20). And in Matthew 26:64-65, He testifies of himself as God-Man,
a seemingly blasphemous claim, that leads to his condemnation and death. Therefore Jesus as God, pre-exists creation. And like the Sun, is
extraterrestrial, impossible to look at, and the source of all life; everything revolves around Him, and nothing can be hidden from Him. But as Man, He
made himself small, necessarily through His Mother Mary; and Mary like the Moon, ‘the Bride’, reflects His greatness as the New Eve, the helper fit for
Him (Genesis 2:18), for through Mary, like the Moon, our nights are not too dark, and our world not too parched.
Going deeper, when Adam and Eve sinned, God cursed the ground (Genesis 3:17-19). As a result, you and I are all made of cursed ground. This
explains why we, along with all of creation, age and eventually die (Romans 8:19-24). This is what is meant by Original Sin. Yes, we have inherited
Adam's sin, and yes, God's curse too. This is why Jesus' baptism (His death and resurrection), was and is necessary for us too. For in baptism, we
submerge ourself under water as a symbol of our death and burial with Jesus, and too, a death to ourself and to the world; we then resurface out of the
waters as a new creation, ‘born again’, so as to walk and live for Jesus, in the hope to share in His resurrection and glory for ever: “We were buried
therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness
of life” Romans 6:4.
Going further, when Adam and Eve sinned, the Sun and the Moon were already existing. This would indicate that Jesus and Mary were also already
existing. Now, according to the Holy Bible, Jesus is Firstborn of all creation (Colossians 1:15-16), and according to Venerable Maria of Agreda (see
note-1, back page), Mary is Secondborn of all creation next to Him, both serving as prototypes of mankind; they were ‘born’ in the sense of being
“brought forth,” as their actual earthly births occurred much later, as it did. However, they were foreknown and “foreordained before the
foundation of the world, but was (were) manifest in these last time for you” (1 Peter 1:20). This is why both Jesus and Mary were born without
Original Sin! (Jesus Himself said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.” (John 8:58).
Next time we look into the heavens, bask in the Sun or find our way through the night, let us remember, and give thanks to Jesus and Mary; for without
them, life would not exist (“He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him”; John 1:10); and God, to
honour His Son Jesus and His Mother Mary, encoded their symbol in the sky, and in God’s equity: “the light of the moon shall become like the light of
the sun” (Isaiah 30:26); (‘as symbols’: see also: Venerable Maria of Agreda, the Conception, page-126). *(For note-1, see back page...)
(Note-1): Pages: 62-74: Venerable Maria of Agreda; THE MYSTICAL CITY OF GOD, THE CONCEPTION; from Book of Proverbs;
PROVERB 8: 22-31:
Verse 22. "The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways before He made anything from the beginning."
23. "I was set up from eternity and of old, before the earth was made."
24. "The depths were not as yet and I was already conceived: neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out."
25. "The mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established: before the hills I was brought forth."
26. "He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the earth."
27. "When He prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and compass He enclosed the depths."
28. "When He established the sky above and poised the fountains of the waters."
29. "When He compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when He balanced the foundations of the earth."
30. "I was with Him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before Him all the times."
31."Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men."
54. This is the portion of the Proverbs, of which the Most High gave me an understanding. I understood at first, that it treats of the ideas or decrees, which were in the
Divine Mind before the Creation of the world; and that, in its literal sense, it speaks of the Person of the Incarnate Word and of his most holy Mother, while in its mystical
sense it refers to the holy angels and prophets. For before decreeing or forming the ideals of the rest of the material creation, He formed and decreed their prototype,
the most sacred humanity of Christ and of his purest Mother, and this is indicated by the first words.
55. "The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways." In God there are no ways, and his Divinity does not need them: but He made use of them, in order, that by them
we may know Him and that all of us creatures, who are capable of knowing Him, may tend toward Him. In this beginning, before He formed any other ideal in his mind,
because He desired to create paths and open ways in his mind for the communication of the Divinity, He decreed, as a beginning, the formation of the humanity of the Word,
who was to be the highway, by which the other creatures might come to the Father (Joan. 14, 6). Joined with this decree was that of his most holy Mother, through whom his
Divinity was to enter into the world, becoming man and being born from Her as God and man; therefore it is said: "God possessed me" since both were possessed by his
Majesty: for as to his Divinity, He was the possession, the property, and the treasure of the Father without possibility of separation, because Father and Son are One, of the
same substance and Divinity with the Holy Ghost; and also as to his humanity, the Father possessed the Son; because He himself knew and decreed the plenitude of grace
and glory, which He was to bestow upon it at the moment of its creation and its hypostatical union. Moreover, as this decree and possession was to be brought about by the
mediation of the Mother, who was to conceive and bring forth the Word (since He did not decide to create it out of nothing, nor form his soul and body out of any other
material), it followed that He possessed Her, who was to give Him the human form. Thus He possessed and claimed Her as his own in the same instant, providing with
solicitude, that in the order of grace neither the human race nor any other, should have at any time a right or a part in Her. He alone retained the full right in Her as his
portion, and so much his portion as the dignity of Mother required. She alone was to call Him Son, and She alone was to be called Mother, a Mother worthy of having an
incarnate God for a Son. Now as all this far surpassed in dignity the whole creation, so did it also take the precedence in the mind of the supreme Creator. Hence He says:
56. "Before He made anything from the beginning, I was set up from eternity and of old." We, in our present state, conceive this eternity of God as an interminable time.
But what were the things "of old," since none had been created? It is clear that the three Persons are here spoken of, namely, that She was foreseen from the eternal ages of
the Divinity, by the Beings, which alone are ancient, namely, the indivisible Trinity (since all the rest, having a beginning, are recent), that She was foreseen when only the
ancient Uncreated was, and before any ideals of the future creation were formed. Between these two extremes intervened the ideal of the hypostatic union which was to be
verified ad extra through the intervention of most holy Mary. Both were ordained together, immediately next to God and before any other creature, and it was the most
wonderful decree ever passed or ever to be passed. The first and most admirable image in the mind of God, next to the eternal generation, was that of Christ and next to it,
that of his Mother.
57. And what other order could there be in God, in whom all that pertains to Him is present at one and the same time, so that no part of His being must await the perfection
of another, or one perfection ever need succeed upon others? All is well ordered in his eternal nature, and so it was and will be forever. The new ordainment, however, was
that the person of the Son should become incarnate and that from his deified humanity should begin the order of God's desires and of his decrees ad extra. He was to be the
Head and Ideal of all other men and creatures; for this was the most appropriate order and harmony to be instituted among creatures, that they have One, who is the first and
the highest, and that from Him should descend the order of all nature, and in a special manner, of the mortals. First among them all, however, was the Mother of the Man-
God, as the Supreme among mere creatures, following immediately upon Christ, and, through Him, upon the Divinity. Thus the conduits, which led the crystalline fountains
of the Divinity from the eternal throne, meet first in the humanity of the Word and immediately thereafter in his holy Mother in the degree and in the manner, as it was
possible for a mere creature, and as it was proper for the Mother of the Creator. It was equitable, that all the divine attributes should exert themselves in Her, without reserve,
so far as She was capable; and that She be inferior only to Christ our Lord. She was to be superior in the degree of his incomparable graces to all the rest of the creatures,
that are deserving of graces and gifts. This then was the order, so well instituted by the eternal wisdom: that all was to commence with Christ and his Mother. Therefore the
text adds:
58. "Before the earth was made; and the depths were not as yet and I was already conceived." This earth was that of the first Adam; for before his creation was decreed, and
before the abysses of the ideas ad extra were formed in the divine mind, the likenesses of Christ and of his Mother were already conceived. The forms are called abysses,
because there is an infinite distance between the being of God and that of creatures. This distance was measured (speaking according to our own way of understanding),
when the ideals of the creatures were formed; for then these very abysses were formed. Not only was the Word conceived before all these by eternal generation from the
Father, but His temporal generation from the Virgin Mother full of grace, had already been decreed and conceived in the divine mind. Inasmuch as no efficacious and
complete decree of this temporal generation could exist without at the same time including his Mother, and such a Mother, the most holy Mary, was then and there conceived
within that beautiful Immensity, and Her eternal record was written in the bosom of the Divinity, in order that for all the ages it should never be blotted out. She was stamped
and delineated in the mind of the eternal Artificer and possessed the inseparable embraces of his love.
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59. "Neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out." The images and ideals of creatures had not yet sprung from their source and origin; for they had not yet broken
from the fountains through the channels of God's goodness and mercy, through which the divine will was to be moved to create the universe and to communicate his divine
attributes and perfections. In respect to the entire rest of the universe, these waters and fountains were still repressed and detained within the bounds of the immense ocean of
the Divinity; in his own Being there were as yet no founts or currents for outward manifestation, not having until then met their proper object, namely, men. But when these
were encountered, the sacred humanity of Christ and his Virgin Mother had already furnished proper objects of benevolence. And therefore it is added:
60. "The mountains with their huge bulk had not been established," for God had not as yet then decreed the creation of the high mountains, the Patriarchs, Prophets,
Apostles and Martyrs or the other saints of great holiness, and this was not yet exerting its full weight and force in the mighty and sweet manner (Sap. 8, 1) in which God
executes his counsels and great works. And not only before the mountains (which are the great saints) but also "before the hills I was brought forth," which are the orders of
the holy angels. Before them the divine Mind had conceived the most holy Humanity united hypo-statically with the divine Word, and the Mother, who bore it. The Son and
the Mother were conceived before the hierarchies of the angelic hosts, so, that, what David said in the eighth psalm, becomes intelligible: "What is man that Thou art
mindful of him, or the son of man, that Thou visitest him? Thou hast made him a little lesser than the Angels, Thou hast crowned him with glory and honour! Thou has set
him over the works of thy hands; Thou hast subjected all things under his feet." Let all understand and know, that there is a Godman, who is above all angels and men, and
that all are his inferiors and his servants, for being the first of men, He is God at the same time. He is the first in the divine Mind and in the divine Will, and with Him is
associated and inseparably connected, one Woman and Virgin, his Mother, the exalted Queen of all creation...
Who is the woman of Genesis 3:15?
Assume you know nothing of the New Testament; based only on the following six verses, who is the woman of
Genesis 3:15?
Genesis 3:12: And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Genesis 3:13: And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Genesis 3:14: And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;
upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Genesis 3:15: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel.
Genesis 3:16: Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring
forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Genesis 3:20: And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Answer: the woman of Genesis 3.15 cannot be Eve. Since the woman of Genesis 3:15 and the woman of Genesis 3:16
received different judgments, they cannot be the same person; the first received enmity between the serpent and her, the
second did not; additionally, ‘enmity between’, goes two-ways. And though they share the same name ‘woman’, they are
not the same person!
This means that Genesis 3:15 is a prophecy pointing to another ‘woman’ who, together with her seed, will be in enmity
with the serpent and his seed. She will bruise the serpent’s head, and the serpent will bruise her heel. (Note: I chose the
pronoun ‘she’ to refer to the one doing the bruising because in Hebrew it is unclear, and for other reasons.) The central
example of this new ‘Woman’ in the New Testament is Most Holy Mary, whom Jesus, the new Adam, never calls
Mother nor Mary, but always ‘Woman’, the Name that was coined by the first Adam!
Going deeper:
In Hebrew, the name stands for the essence of the person. Therefore, the name Woman coined by Adam, tells us that his
wife at first, was sinless, a virgin, fitting for Adam, and bone of Adam’s bone and flesh of Adams’s flesh (a ‘genetically modified clone’ of Adam).
So similarly, when Jesus calls his mother Woman, it means all of the above: that Mary is sinless, a virgin, fitting for Jesus, and bone of their bone
and flesh of their flesh; Jesus was cloned from ‘three drops of Mary’s blood, from her heart’ (see, note-1 at back; Venerable Maria of Agreda,
Mystical City Of God, The Incarnation, page 110).
But later-on, Adam called his wife Eve, which means the ‘Mother of all living’ (Genesis 3:20). In Hebrew, any name change means a change of
mission. So now, Eve is a sinner, no longer a virgin, and ‘mother of all living.’
Going further: Mary went ‘with haste’ to Visits Elizabeth: Why ‘with haste’?
“And behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren ... Now
Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah, and entered the house of Zachariah and greeted Elizabeth. And it
happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Then she spoke
out with a loud voice and said, ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! But why is this granted to me, that the mother of
my Lord should come to me?’ (Luke 1:36-43)... And Mary remained with her about three months, and returned to her house.” (Luke 1:36-56).
This event fulfills, in Jesus, God’s prophecy to Moses: “I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in
His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.” (Deuteronomy 18:18), but goes much further. For God’s greeting, 'Blessed are you
among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb' (Luke 1:42), is a formula that diametrically opposes ‘cursed are you among all the animals
and wild beasts ... and your seed' (Gen. 3:14,15). Now the blessing becomes God’s metaphor for welcoming the New Adam and New Eve back to
the Garden. In this New setting: Zachariah-the-priest’s home serves as the New Garden, and he as its god; Old Elizabeth and the Old baby John serve as
the Old Eve and Old Adam, respectively; Young Mary and the Young Baby Jesus ‘are’ the New Eve and the New Adam, the New Stream that moves
'with haste' towards the Old Stream to cleanse it of its ‘Original Sin’. The return to the Garden is also highlighted by the infilling of the Holy
Spirit that all Old Zachariah’s family receives from Jesus through Mary—the New Ark— the Word of God made Flesh in Her; God-Jesus being that
Tree of knowledge of Genesis 2:17, whose fruit is the Holy Spirit. This event mirrors the Old Ark's presence in the house of Obededom: “And the Ark
of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months, and the LORD blessed Obededom and all his household.” (2 Samuel 6:11).
How Mary Becomes the New Eve:
On the cross, Jesus says to John, the disciple whom Jesus loved: “Woman, behold thy son,” and to the disciple, “Your mother” (John 19:27). By
these words, Jesus points towards His authority as ‘Father’ and ‘the New Adam’, and makes Mary the Mother of a new sequence, namely of John
and of his brother James, but also of all those who love Jesus and His Mother, being those who choose to be ‘born-again’ both Spiritually and Physically;
Spiritually, through the Sacrament of Baptism and Reconciliation; Physically, through the eating of Jesus’s flesh and blood, by which Jesus, as God,
makes himself present beneath the veiled Sacraments of Bread (the Host) and Wine, and takes on our DNA. This, all of the Apostles did at our first
real Supper, that is, at ‘the Last Supper’ (except Judas Iscariot see note-4 at back). Genesis 2:9,17; 3:22, is the source of all these actions, where Mary
is the Tree of Life and Jesus Her Fruit (the edible Host), while Jesus is the Tree of Knowledge, whose edible Fruit is the Holy Spirit, present also
in the Host! Now we have the three terms in the sequence that define Eve: ‘woman’, ‘mother’, and ‘all living’! Mary now becomes the New Eve,
while Jesus is the New Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45)! So, in the beginning, we had Adam and Eve, both sinners, but now we have the New Adam and the
New Eve, Jesus and Mary, both sinless! Moreover, Mary’s seed is not only Jesus, but also all those who through their ‘I do!’, choose Her Son Jesus as
their Spouse, and Mary as their Mother; ceremonially: through their death and rebirth in the waters of Baptism, and Eucharistic Communion,
for “Love demands communion; love leads to unity. Jesus brings about a very profound unity with you, even to the point of becoming flesh of
your flesh and blood of your very own blood. As Jesus is in the Father and the Father is in Him, so too, by means of the Eucharistic
Communion, you are in Him and He is in you.” But why is this of singular importance? For by this unity of flesh, we become sharers in his
Divinity and inheritance. Jesus and Host would still be, for the fruits of ‘trees’ preexisted, and were independent of Adam’s sin, to be eaten in
their proper time) (note-5,6); more on this Sacrament, see also notes-1,2 and 3 at back). Now, looking back at Genesis 3:15, we come to realize that
the enmities of the serpent and his seed with the Woman and Her seed, are directed against Mary, Jesus, and the Christians! Continued...at back!
(Note-1): THE MYSTICAL CITY OF GOD; THE INCARNATION: Venerable Maria of Agreda, Pages 110-111.
137. (P-110) Therefore this great Lady considered and inspected profoundly this spacious field of the dignity of Mother of God (Prov. 21, 11) in order to purchase it by
her fiat; She clothed Herself in fortitude more than human, and She tasted and saw how profitable was this enterprise and commerce with the Divinity.
She comprehended the ways of his hidden benevolence and adorned Herself with fortitude and beauty. And having conferred with Herself and with the heavenly messenger
Gabriel about the grandeur of these high and divine sacraments, and finding Herself in excellent condition to receive the message sent to Her, her purest soul was absorbed
and elevated in admiration, reverence and highest intensity of divine love. By the intensity of these movements and supernal affections, her most pure heart, as it were
by natural consequence, was contracted and compressed with such force, that it distilled three drops of her most pure blood, and these, finding their way to the
natural place for the act of conception, were formed by the power of the divine and holy Spirit, into the body of Christ our Lord. Thus the matter, from which the
most holy humanity of the Word for our Redemption is composed, was furnished and administered by the most pure heart of Mary and through the sheer force of her true
love. At the same moment, with a humility never sufficiently to be extolled, inclining slightly her head and joining her hands, She pronounced these words, which were the
beginning of our salvation: "Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum" (Luke1, 31).
138. (P-111) At the pronouncing of this "flat," so sweet to the hearing of God and so fortunate for us, in one instant, four things happened. First, the most holy body of
Christ our Lord was formed from the three drops of blood furnished by the heart of most holy Mary.
Secondly, the most holy soul of the same Lord was created, just as the other souls. Thirdly, the soul and the body united in order to compose his perfect humanity.
Fourthly, the Divinity united Itself in the Person of the Word with the humanity, which together became one composite being in hypostatical union; and thus was formed
Christ true God and Man, our Lord and Redeemer.
This happened in springtime on the twenty fifth of March, at break or dawning of the day, in the same hour, in which our first father Adam was made and in the year of the
creation of the world 5199, which agrees also with the count of the Roman Church in her Martyrology under the guidance of the Holy Ghost. This reckoning is the true and
certain one, as was told me, when I inquired at command of my superiors.
Conformable to this the world was created in the month of March, which corresponds to the beginning of creation. And as the works of the Most High are perfect and
complete (Deut. 32, 4), the plants and trees come forth from the hands of his Majesty bearing fruit, and they would have borne them continually without intermission, if sin
had not changed the whole nature, as I will expressly relate in another treatise, if it is the will of the Lord; now however I will not detain myself therewith, since it does not
pertain to our subject.
139. In the same instant, in which the Almighty celebrated the nuptials of the hypostatic union in the womb of most holy Mary, the heavenly Lady was elevated to the
beatific vision and the Divinity manifested Itself to Her clearly and intuitively. She saw most high sacraments, of which I will speak in the next chapter.
(Note-2): Mystical City of God; THE CORONATION: page 132 ( Mother Mary to Venerable Maria of Agreda):
Observe also that which thou hast added thyself in order to do reverence to the sacramental flesh and blood as coming from my womb and as having been nourished and
grown from my milk. Ever keep up this devotion; for the truth thou hast perceived, that this consecrated body contains part of my own blood and substance, is in fact real.
(Note-3):Mystical City of God: THE TRANSFIXION: pages 460-463 (Venerable Maria of Agreda):
They understood more profoundly, how, in the species of the bread, was contained his body and in those of the wine, his blood; how in both, on account of the inseparable
union of his soul with his body and blood, was present the living and true Christ; how with the Person of the Word, was also therein united the Person of the Father and of
the Holy Ghost; and how therefore, on account of the inseparable existence and union of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the holy Eucharist contained the perfect humanity
of the Lord with the three divine Persons of the Godhead.
All this was understood most profoundly by the heavenly Lady and by the others according to their degree. They understood also the efficacy of the words of the
consecration, now endowed with such divine virtue, that as soon as they are pronounced with the intention of doing what Christ did at that time, by any priest since that
time over the proper material, they would change the bread into his body and the wine into his blood, leaving the accidents to subsist in a new way and without their proper
subjects. They saw, that this change would take place so certainly and infallibly, that heaven and earth would sooner fall to pieces, than that the effect of these words of
consecration, when pronounced in the proper manner by the sacerdotal minister of Christ, should ever fail.
482. The heavenly Queen understood also by a special vision how the most sacred body of Christ is hidden beneath the accidents of bread and wine without change in
them, or alteration of the sacred humanity; for neither can the Body be the subject of the accidents, nor can the accidents be the form of the body. The accidents retain the
same extension and qualities as before, and each of their parts retain the same position after the host has been consecrated; and the sacred body is present in an invisible
form, also retaining the same size without intermingling of parts. It remains in the whole host, and all of it in every particle of the host, without being strained by the host, or
the host by the body. For neither is the extension of his body correlative with the accidental species, nor do they depend upon the sacred body for their existence.
They therefore have totally different mode of existence and the body interpenetrates the accidents without hindrance.
Although naturally the head would demand a different place than the hands, or these a different one from the breast or any other part of the body ; yet by the divine power,
the consecrated body places itself unimpaired in its extent one and the same place, because it bears no relation to the space which it would naturally occupy, having thrown
aside all these relations though still remaining a quantitative body.
Moreover it need not necessarily remain in one determined place only, or in only one host, but at the same time it can be present in many innumerable consecrated hosts.
483. She understood likewise, that the sacred body. although not naturally depending upon the accidents as above declared, yet does not continue to exist sacramentally in
these accidents after the corruption of the species of the bread and wine; and this for no other reason than because it was so willed by Christ the Author of these
wonders. The co-existence of the sacred body and blood of our Lord with the incorrupted species of bread and wine therefore rests upon the arbitrary and voluntary
disposition of the Creator of this Sacraments. As soon as they deteriorate and disappear on account of the natural process destructive of these species (for instance, as
happens in holy Communion with the sacramental host, which is changed and corrupted by the heat of the stomach, or when this is effected by other causes) then God, in
the last instant, when the species are ready for their last transformation, again creates another substance. This new substance being now devoid of the Divinity, nourishes
the human body and finally coalesces with the human form of existence, which is the soul. This wonderful creation of a new substance for the assumption of the changed
and corrupted species is consequent upon the will of the Lord, who wishes not to continue the existence of his body in the corrupted accidents, and this process is demanded
also by the laws of nature; for the substance of man cannot grow except by some other substance, which, being newly added, prevents the accidents from continuing to
exist.
484. All these and other wonders the right hand of the Almighty perpetuated in this most august sacrament of the holy Eucharist.
All of them the Mistress of heaven and earth understood and comprehended profoundly. In like manner saint John, the Fathers of the ancient Law, and the Apostles who
were present, perceived these mysteries each in their degree.
Aware of the great blessing contained therein for all men, Mary foresaw also the ingratitude of mortals in regard to this ineffable Sacrament, established for their benefit,
and She resolved to atone, with all the powers of her being, for our shameless and ungrateful behaviour. She took upon Herself the duty of rendering thanks to the eternal
Father and to his divine Son for this extraordinary and wonderful benefit to the human race. This earnest desire dwelled in her soul during her whole life and many times
did She shed tears of blood welling forth from her purest heart in order to satisfy for our shameful and torpid forgetfulness.
(Note-4): 488. Knowing that it was the divine will, that She should make use of her power as Mother and Queen, She commanded the holy angels to extract from the
mouth of Judas the consecrated particles as well of the bread as of the wine and replace them from whence they had been taken.
(Note-5): (Mother Mary to Don Stefano Gobbi; To The Priests; 1992, page: 1207
(Note-6): Mother Mary to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, Marian Movement Of Priests, Page 777: “Eucharist Jesus makes Himself one with you, and becomes flesh of your very
own flesh, blood of your very own blood, to communicate to you, earthly creature that you are, the precious gift of his divine life: - 'I am the living bread come down
from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will have life and I will raise him up on the last day (John 6:51,54).’”
Know Your Enemy
A Commentary On Genesis 2,3; The Devil, and The Fall Of Man
God called the devil a serpent. Why?
Snakes are generally known to be poisonous and forked tongued; a metaphor we assign to crooks!
How was the devil able to deceive Adam and Eve, our first Parents?
Below, the simplified dialogue between God and the devil, given by the narrator.
The Serpent Said: God Said:
1. “You will NOT surely die” Gen. 3:4. 1. “you WILL surely die” Gen. 2:17
2. “your eyes will be opened” Gen. 3:5. 2. “the eyes of them both were opened Gen. 3:7
3. “you will be as gods” Gen. 3:5. 3. “the man is become one of Us (God)” Gen. 3:22
4. “knowing good and evil.” Gen. 3:5. 4. “to know good and evil” Gen. 3:22
From the above parallel structure, we can see that out of four things that the devil said, one was a lie, and three
were true!
The devil is a fallen angel of light (called Lucifer before the fall, satan after), that fits God’s metaphor of snake; forked tongue, speaks
truths mixed with poisonous lies; a hater, killer and a deceiver of man! If he was able to deceive both of our parents, what of us?
An example of his workings of deception, is by looking at two similar coffees, in one, he placed one drop of poison; looking at their
similarities, they are almost the same, but looking at the difference, it will kill us!
Same parallel in religions today; exist side by side; almost the same; all good and prayerful people; but deceived never-the-less! For it is
easy to be wrong, but difficult to be right; the model that best fits the pieces is the better model; so revisiting our premisses, is a must!
THE EXPLANATIONS OF THE 12th. CHAPTER OF REVELATION; (From Venerable Maria Of Agreda 1662-1665 A.D; The Mystical City
Of God; The Conception; Pages 116-124):
120. (P-116) "Woe to the earth, and to the sea, because the devil is come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time." Woe
to the earth, where so many sins and such wickedness shall be perpetrated! Woe to the sea, which refused to pour forth its floods and annihilate the
transgressors at the sight of so great offences against its Creator, and to avenge the insults against its Maker and Lord! But more woe to the profound and
raging sea of those that follow the demon, after he had descended in their midst in order to war against them with great wrath and with such unheard of
cruelty! It is the wrath of the most ferocious dragon, and greater than that of the devouring lion (I Pet. 5, 8), who attempts to annihilate all creation
and to whom all the days of the world seem a short time to execute his fury. Such is his hunger and thirst to do damage to the mortals, that all the days of
their life do not satisfy him, for they come to an end, whereas he desires eternal ages, if possible, in order to wage war against the sons of God. But
incomparably greater than against all others is his rage against that most blessed Woman, who was to crush his head (Gen. 3, 15). Therefore the
Evangelist says:
121. (P-117) "And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the Woman, who brought forth the Man-child." When the
ancient serpent saw the most unhappy place and state to which he had fallen, and that he was hurled from the empyrean heaven, he broke out in so much
the greater rage and envy, like a wild beast tearing its own entrails. Against the Mother of the Word incarnate he conceived such a furious rage, as
no human tongue or intelligence can ever describe or understand. But to a certain extent this anger can be surmised from that which followed
immediately after that dragon found himself hurled with his hosts to the infernal regions. I will describe this event, as far as I can, and as far as it has been
made plain to my understanding.
122. During the whole first week of the creation of the world and its contents Lucifer and the demons were occupied in machinations and projects of
wickedness against the Word, who was to become incarnate, and against the Woman of whom He was to be born and made man. On the first day, which
corresponds to Sunday, were created the angels; laws and precepts were given to them, for the guidance of their actions. The bad ones disobeyed and
transgressed the mandates of the Lord. By divine providence and disposition then succeeded all the other events, which have been recorded above, up to
the morning of the second day, corresponding to Monday, on which Lucifer and his hosts were driven and hurled into hell. The duration of these days
corresponds to the small periods, or delays, which intervened between their creation, activity, contest and fall, or glorification. As soon as Lucifer with his
followers entered hell, they assembled in general council, which lasted to the morning of Thursday. During this time Lucifer exerted all his astuteness and
diabolical malice in conferring with the demons and concocting plans to offend God so much the more deeply, and to obtain (P-118) revenge for the
chastisement, to which he had been subjected. They came to the conclusion and resolved that the greatest vengeance and injury against God would
be to impede the effects of the love, which they knew God bore toward mankind. This they hoped to attain by deceiving men, and persuading
them, or even, as far as possible, compelling them to neglect the friendship of God, to be ungrateful toward Him, and to rebel against his will.
123. "This we must strive to do," said Lucifer, "toward this end we must apply all our forces, all our solicitude and knowledge. We will subject the
human creatures to our influence and will, in order to destroy them. We will persecute this race of men and will deprive them of the reward promised to
them. We will exert all our vigilance, to prevent them from arriving at the vision of God, which was denied us unjustly. I will gain great triumphs over
them; I will destroy them all and subject them to my designs. I will sow new sects and errors, and set up laws contrary to those of the Most High in all
things. I will raise up from among men false prophets and leaders, who will spread these doctrines (Act 20, 30) and I will scatter this seed through
them and afterwards I will assign to them a place in these profound torments. I will afflict the poor, oppress the afflicted, and persecute the timid. I
will sow discord, excite wars, and stir up nations against each other. I will raise up proud and haughty men to extend the dominion of sin and after they
shall have executed my designs, I will bury them in this eternal fire, and in so much the greater torments, the more faithfully they followed me. This is
my kingdom and this is the reward which I will give to those who follow me.
124. (P-119) "I will wage fierce war against the incarnate Word, for although He is God, He is also man, and therefore of a lower nature than mine. I
will exalt my throne and my dignity above his; I will conquer Him and will humble Him by my power and astuteness. The Woman who is to be his
Mother shall perish at my hands. What is one Woman against my power and greatness? And you, ye demons, who were injured together with me, follow
me and obey me in the pursuit of this vengeance, as you have followed me in disobedience! Pretend to love men, in order to destroy them; serve
them, in order to ruin them and deceive them; help them, in order to pervert them and draw them into these my hellish regions." No human
tongue can explain the malice and fury of this first council of Lucifer and his hosts against the human race, which although not yet in existence, was to be
created. In it were concocted all the vices and sins of the world, thence proceeded lies, sects and errors; all iniquity had its origin in that chaos and in that
abominable gathering, and all those that do evil are in the service of the prince of this assembly. (continued on back page)...(P.T.O.)
CONTINUED EXPLANATIONS OF THE 12th. CHAPTER OF REVELATION:
125. Having closed this meeting, Lucifer sought permission to speak with God, and his Majesty, for his own exalted ends, gave him permission. This
was allowed in the same manner in which satan spoke to God when he asked permission to persecute Job (Job 1, 6), and it happened on the day which
corresponds to our Thursday. He addressed the Most High in the following words: "Lord, since Thou hast laid thy hand so heavily upon me in chastising
me with so great cruelty, and since Thou hast predetermined all that Thou desirest to do for the men whom Thou art to create; and since Thou wishest to
exalt and elevate so high the incarnate Word and enrich the Woman, who is to be his Mother, with all thy predestined gifts, be now equitable and just;
(P-120) as Thou hast given me permission to persecute the rest of men, give me also permission to tempt and make war against Christ, the Man-God
and the Woman, who is to be his Mother; give me freedom to exert all my powers against Them. Other things Lucifer said on that occasion, and, in
spite of the great violence occasioned to his pride by the humiliation, he humbled himself nevertheless in order to ask for this permission. His wrathful
anxiety to obtain what he desired was so great that he was willing to subdue even his arrogance, thus forcing one iniquity to yield to another. He knew too
well that without the permission of the omnipotent Lord he could attempt nothing. In order to be able to tempt Christ our Lord, and his most holy Mother
in particular, he was willing to humiliate himself a thousand times, for he feared the threat, which had been made, that She should crush his head.
126. The Lord answered: "Thou must not, satan, ask such a permission as due to thee in justice, for the incarnate Word is God and Lord most high and
omnipotent, though He is at the same time true man, and thou art his creature. Even if the other men sin and subject themselves to thy will, this will not
be possible in my Only begotten made man. Though thou mavest succeed in making men slaves of sin, Christ will be holy and just, segregated from
sinners. He will redeem them, if they fall. And this Woman against whom thou hast such wrath, although She is to be a mere creature and a true
daughter of man, is to be preserved by my decree from sin. She is to be altogether mine forever and on no account or title shall any one else be allowed
to have part in Her."
127. To this satan replied: "But what wonder that this Woman should be holy, since no one on this earth (P-121) will be allowed to draw Her to the
contrary, or persecute Her and incite Her to sin? This cannot be equity, nor just judgment, nor can this be proper and praiseworthy." Lucifer added yet
other blasphemies in his arrogance. But the Most High, who disposes all things with wisdom, answered him: "I will give thee permission to tempt
Christ, so that He will be an example and a teacher in this to all the rest of men. I also give thee permission to persecute the Woman, but thou
must not touch Her in regard to the life of her body. It is my will, that Christ and his Mother be not exempt from temptation, and that They be
tempted by thee like the rest of men." This permission was more pleasing to the dragon than that of being free to persecute all the rest of the human
race. In this he resolved to use more care than in the pursuit of any other project, as afterwards really happened. To no one else than himself was he
resolved to confide its execution. Therefore the Evangelist proceeds to say:
128. "He persecuted the Woman, who brought forth the man-child." For with the permission of the Lord, he waged unheard of war and persecution
against Her, whom he thought to be the Mother of God incarnate. But since these persecutions and battles will be described later (No. 692-697, Part II
340-71; III 451-528), I will only say here, that they were beyond all conception of man. Equally admirable, was her glorious resistance and victory over
them. Therefore in order to describe the manner in which She defended Herself, he says: "There were given to her two wings of a great eagle, that she
might fly into the desert unto her place, where she is nourished for a time and times." These two wings were given to the most holy Virgin before She
entered upon the combat, for She was prepared by (P-122) special gifts and favours.' The one wing was an infused science, which revealed anew to Her
vast mysteries and sacraments; the other was a new and sublime humility, as will be explained in its place (Part ll; 335-339, Part III 448-450). With these
two wings She took her flight to the Lord, her proper habitation, for in Him alone She lived and in Him was centred all her attention. She flew like the
royal eagle, without ever directing her flight towards the enemy, being alone in her flight and living in seclusion from all earthly things, solely in
communion with her last End, which is the Divinity. In this solitude She "was nourished for a time and times," for though this nourishment lasted all her
life, yet it was more abundant in the times of her great battles with satan. In those times She received favours more proportioned to the greatness of the
conflict. By "time and times" is also understood the felicity, by which her victories were rewarded and crowned.
129. "And half a time from the face of the serpent.” This half a time was that, in which the most holy Virgin was free from the persecution of the dragon
and far from his sight during this life; for, having conquered him in her battles, She was, by divine providence and as Victress, freed from them. This
freedom was conceded to Her in order that She might enjoy the peace and quiet, which She had merited after having conquered the enemy, as I will
describe farther on Part III, 526). Concerning the time of the combat the Evangelist says:
130. "And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman, water, as it were, a river, that he might cause her to be carried away; and the earth helped
the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the (P-123) river, which the dragon cast out of his mouth." All his malice and all his forces
Lucifer exerted and directed against the Mistress; for all those, who were ever tempted by him, seemed to him of less importance than most holy Mary.
With the same force as the current of a great swift river, so the malice, and the lies, and the temptations flowed from the mouth of that dragon against Her.
But the earth helped Her; for the earth of her body and of her inclinations was not cursed, nor did the sentence and punishment, which God hurled against
Adam and Eve, touch Her in any way. For in it our earth is cursed and produces thorns instead of fruit. It is wounded in its very nature by its
inclination to sin—"fomes Peccati" (Gen. 3, 17), which continues to assault us and causes opposition. The devil avails himself of these inclinations for
the ruin of men, for he finds within us arms for his offensive warfare; and catering to our evil inclinations by his false representations and
apparent sweetness and delight, he draws us toward sensible and earthly things.
131. But the most blessed Mary, the holy and sanctified earth without touch of bad inclinations or evil dispositions, was free from all danger of
corruption arising from the earth. On the contrary, since all her inclinations were most orderly, composed and obedient to grace, the earth of her body was
in perfect harmony with her soul.
Thus this earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the stream of temptations which the dragon raised up for Her in vain; for he found that material
indisposed and unfomented for sin, unlike the other offspring of Adam. Their terrestrial and disorderly passions are more adapted to produce the floods of
temptation, than to absorb them, since our passions and our corrupt nature are always in opposition to virtue. (P-124) On account of the futility Of his
efforts against this mysterious Woman, Scripture says:
132. "And the dragon was angry against the Woman: and he went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God, and
have the testimony of Jesus Christ. The dragon, having been gloriously overcome in all things by the Queen of all creation and dreading the furious
torments of his own confusion and the ruin of all hell power, fled from Her, determined to make cruel war against the other souls belonging to the
generation and race of the most blessed Mother. These are the faithful, who are marked with the Testimony and the blood of Christ in Baptism as
keepers of his commands and constant witnesses. For all the wrath of the demon turned so much the more toward the holy Church and its members, when
he saw, that he would be unable to gain any advantage over Christ and his most holy Mother. Especially does he war against the virgins of Christ, and
with a more particular hatred does he seek to destroy the virtue of virginity or chastity, this being the seed And the inheritance of the most chaste Virgin
and Mother of the Lamb. On account of all this the Evangelist says:
133. "And he stood upon the sands of the sea. This is the contemptible vanity of the world, on which the dragon feeds and which he eats like hay. All
this passed in heaven and many mysteries were made manifest to the angels in the decrees of the divine Will regarding the privileges reserved for the
Mother of the Incarnate Word." I have been short in describing what I saw; for the multitude of the mysteries has made me poor and halting in the words
needful for their manifestation.
WILL I BE SAVED?
WHO WILL BE SAVED IN THE END
•Revelation 21:27 (provided you are clean)
Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
•John 8:36 (provided Jesus sets you free)
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
••Matthew 24:12-13 (provide you endure to the end) And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
•Mark 13:13 (provided you endure to the end)
And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
•Matthew 10:21-22 (provided you endure to the end): Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
•Mark 16:16-18 (provided you believe and are baptized)
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
•John 10:9 (provided you choose Jesus)
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
•Romans 10:9-10 (provided you believe and confess...)
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
•Romans 10:12-13 (provided you call on Jesus) For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
• Luke 9:23 (provided that every day you deny youself and cary your cross)
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
•Mathew 26:41 (provided you don't fall) Watch and Pray that you may not enter into temptation, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
• Luke 6:49 (provided you build with christian values)
But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.
•Matthew 7:13-14 (provided you endure life's hardship)
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
•Romans 8:12-17 (provided you control the flesh): So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.)
•Romans 11:22 (provided you continue in God's kindness): Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
•Hebrews 12:12-17: (provided you don't sell your birth right, eg. through sexual immorality): Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed. Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.
•Hebrews 10:26-29: (provided you do not trample underfoot the blood of Jesus): For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
•2 Peter 2:20-22 (provided you don't go back to your old ways) For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them:“The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
•1Corinthians 10:12-16 (provided no temptation overtakes you): Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
•Matthew 12:31-32 (provided you don't sin against the Holy Spirit)
Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
•Matthew 6:12 The Lord's Prayer:(provided you forgive others)
and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors. Matthew 6:15
but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
•Ezekiel 33:17-20: (provided you don't fall back to your old ways) “Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just,’ when it is their own way that is not just. When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it. And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this. Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just. ’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.”
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Our Christian's duty: Romans 8:4: ( be adorned with good deeds): ... "that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh."
To understand the above verse, St Chrysostom (c. 349-407 AD, Archbishop of Constantinople) writes: ... what means this word, righteousness? Why, the end, the scope, the well-doing. For what was its design, and what did it enjoin? To be without sin. This then is made good to us (κατώρθωται ἡμἵν) now through Christ. And the making a stand against it, and the getting the better of it, came from Him. But it is for us to enjoy the victory. Then shall we never sin henceforth? We never shall unless we have become exceedingly relaxed and supine. And this is why he added, to them that walk not after the flesh. For lest, after hearing that Christ has delivered you from the war of sin, and that the requisition (δικαίωμα) of the Law is fulfilled in you, by sin having been condemned in the flesh, you should break up all your defences; therefore, in that place also, after saying, there is therefore no condemnation, he added, to them that walk not after the flesh; and here also, that the requisition of the Law might be fulfilled in us, he proceeds with the very same thing; or rather, not with it only, but even with a much stronger thing. For after saying, that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us that walk not after the flesh, he proceeds, but after the Spirit.
So showing, that it is not only binding upon us to keep ourselves from evil deeds, but also to be adorned (κομᾅν) with good. For to give you the crown is His; but it is yours to hold it fast when given. For the righteousness of the Law, that one should not become liable to its curse, Christ has accomplished for you. Be not a traitor then to so great a gift, but keep guarding this goodly treasure. For in this passage he shows that the Font will not suffice to save us, unless, after coming from it, we display a life worthy of the Gift. And so he again advocates the Law in saying what he does. For when we have once become obedient to Christ, we must use all ways and plans so that its righteousness, which Christ fulfilled, may abide in us, and not come to naught.