24 August 2010

Dearest Readers,

I am pleased to be with you again. We will continue together on our path towards an increasing comprehension of God’s life within us. This month I share a message of the Holy Spirit in which He speaks of the need to decide for the truth and of the consequences that arise from avoiding this decision. I believe that this message deeply concern us all, as we have to face daily the need to decide between good and evil, truth and falsehood. Life seems to force us to play an endless chess game, where choosing the right piece and direction is vital: the path to God, our personal desires, or, worse, the one suggested by Satan through countless temptations. We have no choice but to offer ourselves to God, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to be gradually guided towards the right decision, which will also lead us to the transformation of our life.

I will not dwell on this point, as I have developed it at length in my books “Beyond the Great Barrier[1] and “Riscrivere la storia – Vol. I – Nel pensiero di Dio”.[2] As I leave you to the words of the Holy Spirit, who is the true guide of our life, I greet you warmly and remain united with you in prayer.

Message of the Holy Spirit of 23 May 1999

“I have spoken to you about the intimacy of your soul that God respects. There is an intimacy in good and an intimacy in evil according to your choice. However, you must know that God respects both of them and never forces you to do anything. I enlighten your intimacy, your innermost place, so that you become aware of what is not working properly in you. There are many mechanisms you do not understand, but I can show them to you if you entrust yourselves to Me. It is a moment of great grace when you recognise your misery and, at the same time, understand what to do to overcome sin, misery and darkness.

However, this is also the source of your suffering. When I place you before the truth, it is painful for you because you realise that you have to die to yourselves, that is, to your selfishness. Here the path divides in two directions: some decide for God and their suffering becomes purification, producing fruit and leading them to be reborn to new creatures; others refuse God and suffer when they face the truth. Yet, this pain is not purification but anger, refusal and aggressiveness. Even though they suffer like the others, they do not suffer for good but for evil, for having become enemies of God. Those who fight against God will experience suffering. It is not God causing their suffering, but the truth they refuse that screams in them.

If you knew how much those who consciously reject God suffer! Their soul screams because it wants to live the truth it senses within itself but cannot. You must understand that God has placed the seed of truth in you because you are children of God, created, redeemed and sanctified by Him. That seed can never be entirely suffocated; no matter how many times one attempts to do so, it will always spring up again. You have been created to live in the truth. Therefore, those who refuse God experience suffering, but also prevent themselves from growing. They refuse to change their lifestyle and to die to themselves – that is, they reject the Cross.

I can do nothing but show you the way; I cannot make the decisions for you. Therefore, people who ask God to convert the souls are wrong. Many blasphemies heard in the world arise from this: God does not convert the wicked; He does not change this or that person. God could do it because He is omnipotent, but He lets you free so that you may choose freely your path for better or for worse, accepting all the consequences that the choice entails. However, this does not only affect you but everyone because everything you say, do and think has repercussions on the entire humanity.

Man is free from the moment of conception until the last day of his life, and that is not all: God also respects this freedom in the afterlife. In Purgatory, the soul takes everything with it and relives all blockages and indecisions it experienced while on Earth, just as the souls in Hell keep and relive their total rejection of God.

Man refuses truth because it costs sacrifice. The truth that is lived will never leave people indifferent, nor will it leave their situation unchanged. Indeed, living in the truth means being ready to be transformed every day and every moment. That is often painful when it is necessary to abandon false affections, advantageous choices, compromises and betrayals. All this is tiresome and the basic reason for the rejection of the truth. Whoever rejects the truth always seeks justifications for his rejection to silence the inner cry, which remains forever, even in the damned. This yearning for truth remains because it is impressed in your being, created in the image and likeness of God, who is the Truth. For this reason, man seeks to justify himself in order to silence his soul.

Justifications always take one direction, which is that of blaming others. The most extreme justification goes as far as blaming God. God is held responsible for the suffering that arises from the rejection of the truth. Thus, those who have chosen Satan, consecrating themselves to him (and there are not few who do), often affirm to have rejected God because He has done nothing for them. None of them will admit having rejected the truth by free choice. However, you may hear such affirmations even from Christians, who say they believe and do great charity works, but, when struck by some misfortune, they blame God, reminding Him even of the works they did in His name. Therefore, the greatest justification for people consists in blaming God.

I want to tell you that obstinately opposing the truth, distorting it, pretending not to see it by putting the blame on God is a grave sin against the Holy Spirit.

I work within each one of you to enlighten and guide you towards Jesus Christ, who is the Way, the Truth and the Life, and to remind you of His teachings. If you open yourselves and entrust yourselves totally to Me, you will be able to understand and choose the truth, always and in all circumstances. Therefore, there is no justification for those who reject God, because I distribute grace to every person, enabling them to take the right steps in proportion to their structure, capacity, and mission. I would not leave a single soul without My help, without clarity and impulses; doing so would mean leaving My work unaccomplished.

Complying with the truth leads you to realise yourselves fully, as every impulse I transmit to your soul leads you to make progress. As you progress, My impulses become stronger and clearer; they intensify in line with your response. However, if you are not ready to grow and instead remain spiritually lazy, you hinder your own progress, as you do not allow Me to guide you further and to increase My impulses in you.

Your unwillingness to decide to live the truth also causes suffering to those who sincerely desire to walk towards God. In truth, you are in communion and all people are connected with each other; the indecision of one causes stillness and hinders the progress of others. If all responded to My impulses, humanity would certainly be at a very different level.

I never abandon you; I am always with you and I count on you. I want to show you the path towards the Most Holy Trinity in whose life the full realisation of the mystery of Love is accomplished.

I bless you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”

[1] Stefania Caterina, “Beyond the Great Barrier”, 2008, Luci dell’Esodo, available on the online shop, https://www.lucidellesodo.it/en/

[2] Stefania Caterina, “Riscrivere la storia – Vol. I – Nel pensiero di Dio” (Rewriting History – Vol. I – In the Mind of God), 2010, Luci dell’Esodo, available in Italian and soon in English.