Maria Valtorta
Maria Valtorta – Notebooks -13 Jun. '43:
For the Holy Spirit to descend and work in a heart
Maria Valtorta - Notebooks -
June 13, 1943: In order for the Holy
Spirit to descend and operate freely in a heart, one must cultivate in
oneself charity, fidelity, purity,
prayer and humility.
Jesus says: «Because the Holy Spirit can descend and operate freely in a heart, one must
cultivate charity, fidelity, purity, prayer and humility in oneself. My
Apostles prepared for his coming with these virtues combined with intense
recollection.
To learn the same, as to learn
the other virtues, they had only to look at Mary, my Mother. In It the spirit of recollection was very intense.
Even in the occupations of her life she knew how to live recollected in God, and her great joy was to be able to isolate herself
in contemplation, in silence, in solitude. God
can speak anywhere. But his word
reaches you, mortals, whose powers of reception are limited, much better when
you can be alone than when around you the neighbor speaks, moves, agitates
often in human pettiness. Double merit and double grace if you can hear God
even amidst the tumult. But also double, triple effort. But you, Mary, do not
contravene holy charity and holy
patience for the idea of hearing Me. Then you would mutilate the fruit of these
lessons. Nothing, not even the thought of hearing my Voice, should make you
unwilling to exercise condescension and patience with your neighbour.
Do you think you lose the
thread of my saying? Do you regret because you understand that you have
forgotten some gem of my saying? Oh! trust me! I will let you find it again,
and more beautiful than before, because it is bound with the gold of charity and surrounded by the pearls of patience broken into infinite acts, but all, all precious. Remember
that "everything you do to your neighbor… you do to Me, Jesus". Therefore know how to come
out of your conversation with Me to listen to the needs, even sometimes very
useless, of your neighbour, always with a smile and with good will. You will
have the merit of the charity
exercised and they will not be scandalized by seeing you irritated for having
had to leave the prayer. Maria Ss.
knew, without getting upset, to get out of meditation, prayer, gentle
conversations with God - and you can
think of what heights they reached - and take care of others without losing
sight of God and without making
others understand that she was disturbed. Maria
be your role model.
Even in prayer, my Apostles had
only to look at Mary to learn how to pray to obtain from God.
And likewise for all the other virtues necessary to prepare for the descent of
the Paraclete. Even now the Comforter descends with greater vehemence the more
a spirit is prepared to receive him. Mary,
full of grace, needed no preparation. But she gave you the example. She is your Mother,
and mothers are living examples for children. Mary was already filled with the Holy Spirit. She was she her Bride
of him and of her Groom she knew all the secrets. But in Mary nothing was
supposed to appear different from the others. I myself, who was God, subjected myself on Earth to the laws of nature: I was hungry, thirsty,
cold, tired, sleepy; but I Myself, who was God,
subjected myself on Earth to the laws of morality: I felt tedium, fear,
sadness, joy of friendship, horrified by the betrayal, I trembled until I sweat
blood at the thought of what I had to suffer, I prayed like a humble man in
need of everything. Mary too
therefore received, in an open form, the Holy
Spirit.
Even the greatest souls must follow the path that everyone follows -
in external manifestations, of course - without singularities, without taking poses which are nothing
but pride cloaked in hypocritical
humility. Simplicity always so that
the Spirit comes to you with pleasure. And then, knowing how to hold back the Holy Spirit with a very lively purity.
He does not stop where there is impurity. Finally fidelity to his inspirations.
He is, so to speak, the eternal and divine Apostle who tirelessly preaches
to souls the doctrine of Christ, who
enlightens and explains it to you. But if he is ill received, if the doors of
hearts are closed before him, if he is received with anger, he does what I told
my Apostles: he goes away and his peace returns to him, while you are left
without it.
God does not impose himself, except in special cases. He is always ready to come to your aid. But he wants from you the desire to receive him, the will to listen to him, the courage to follow him, the generosity to confess him. Then He embraces you, penetrates you, lifts you up, ignites you, deifies you, makes you change your poor animal nature into a wholly spiritual one, and like a flying eagle takes you high up, into the realms of Light, into regions of purity, he brings you closer to the Sun of charity and warms you with it, until he opens the doors of his Kingdom for you for an eternity of bliss.
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