Dear Readers,

In the message that I will share with you, Saint Raphael the Archangel invites us to contemplate the face of God to receive His Light and power and reveal it to everyone. He wants to remind us that the entire creation is waiting for the manifestation of the children of God, as Saint Paul points out in chapter 8 of the letter to the Romans.

I hope that you will seek and find the face of God, full of love and kindness, so that you may be happy and make all your loved ones happy, and to help our humanity, which is so thirsty for the love of God and yet so unable to seek it.

I greet and bless you in Christ. God may give you peace.

Stefania Caterina

Message of Saint Raphael the Archangel of 2 July 2013

“Dearest brothers and sisters of the Earth! You are in a time of great confusion. There is confusion in the hearts, in families and among populations. Your humanity is walking on a slippery and uncertain path. Despite many repeated calls from Heaven, people do not convert to God; on the contrary, they move further away from Him. Why is this? Because most people seek many things, but they do not seek God and do not want to contemplate His face.

The face of God is the only mirror in which humans can see themselves because you have been created in the image and likeness of God. Therefore, seeking the face of God means forgetting the image you have of yourselves or the one that others have fitted on you, to find the pure image of your true selves as formed by the Creator’s hands. You can achieve this only by standing face to face with God without hiding yourselves, taking away, or adding anything to who you are. In God’s face, you find your true identity and the uniqueness of your person. When God looks at you, He does so with love. Remember the episode of the rich young man who turned to Jesus; the Gospel reads, “Jesus looked at him and loved him” (Mk 10, 21). God’s gaze is always a loving gaze. Even when He reveals your misery, His gaze never hurts nor humbles you but shows you what you are and what you could be. He does so because He desires to raise you to the dignity of children of God.

God’s face is radiant and on it shines the light of the truth. Therefore, those who live in darkness do not want to approach the face of God. Those who do not love God run away from the truth of His face. They do not want God to look at them and shut their hearts to His Love. So did Lucifer, the deceiver and prince of falsehood: he rebelled against God and rejected His gaze. That is why Lucifer can no longer see the face of God. He does not have access to the dimension of pure spirit; he cannot cross the Great Barrier of Heaven. After his terrible fall, Lucifer encountered the face of God only once, namely, in the face of Jesus Christ. He stood face to face with Him to tempt Him in the desert; he insulted Him during the Passion and believed he had overcome Him on the Cross. Yet, Jesus rose, and Lucifer will only see Him again at the end of time, on the day when He stands again face to face with Jesus Christ to be judged by Him.

This is the greatest punishment for Lucifer: to be no longer able to see the face of God, he, who had initially been a powerful angel of light, and the closest to contemplate God’s face. In the same way, those who are not with God but follow Lucifer cannot see God’s face, mainly within themselves, as they no longer see their image and likeness of God, nor can they see it in others. The more man refuses to see God, the more he stops seeking Him, and the circle closes. People become prisoners of their selfishness and put themselves under the gaze of evil: Lucifer knows how to inflate pride and ambition, and he knows how to use a selfish person. Therefore, seek God and pray to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy!

God wants the humanity of the entire universe to be recapitulated in Christ. This is the programme of these times, which are the last. These times precede the glorious return of Christ. Much has been said to you about this. However, no one can be reunited with Christ before seeing His face: those who do not want to see the face of Christ will not enter the new creation at the end of times as promised by God. The face of Christ is the visible face of the invisible God (Col 1:15), and the mirror in which human beings see their reflection and find themselves.

Creation too is waiting for the manifestation of the children of God, as the glorious Apostle Saint Paul reminds you in his letter (Rom 8:19-23). Creation needs to see the face of God, in its own way, of course, since the living beings that are different from humans do not have the spirit but only the vital breath. It is still an emanation of the Spirit of God, and therefore the living beings deserve respect; however, they do not have the image and likeness of God. Nevertheless, creation seeks the face of God because it is the source of life.

Looking at the face of God is not just a nice phrase, but rather a deep need of all creation. Creation can see the face of God only through God’s children. Look at what happens on Earth instead: most people no longer reflect the face of God but that of Satan. This corrupts creation and generates disasters, as nature rises up against humanity. Nature no longer recognises in humans the face of God, who is the source of life, but a face that generates death.

What does God expect from His children? He expects them to fully reveal His face and His image so that, through them, He may touch all creation. The first great task and the first great testimony of the faithful is this: to fully reveal the face of God. Only people who continually reflect the glory, the power and the beauty of the face of God will inhabit the new creation. The whole creation will absorb that power and, in turn, reflect it upon humanity; it will be a continuous and mutual exchange of power and splendour.

The face of Christ is the incarnated face of God, not only for the humanity of the Earth but also for all other human populations in the universe. In His infinite goodness, God wanted to incarnate His face in Christ to reveal it so that the people of all nations could see it. In the new creation, Jesus will be in the midst of His people and everyone will constantly see His face. The beauty and light of the Son of God will reflect upon all humans and living beings, and Jesus will continually offer the splendour of both His people and all creation to the Father; it will be the eternal sacrifice of praise.

God desires that all Christians of the Earth emanate His power; in this way, He will be able to heal your humanity. Unfortunately, this is difficult on Earth: most people neither love nor seek the face of God. On the contrary, God is continuously disfigured, just as He was on the Cross, where God’s face was disfigured in Christ’s face. What great sins weighs upon the humanity of the Earth! It has struck, offended, and bloodied the face of God until it was disfigured. And not only that, humanity continues to do so to the children of God, who are offended and despised just as Christ was. Nevertheless, the suffering face of Jesus on the Cross was transfigured in the Resurrection into a shining face when He rose. The face of the Crucified and the face of the Risen Christ are the two faces of God that continually manifest themselves on Earth.

Creation suffers, too, when it sees the face of God crucified and afflicted in the children of God. Creation rejoices when it sees it rising. I invite you to manifest more and more the power of the face of God, even when you are crucified, so that your face, too, may rise as Jesus’ face did and be as radiant as His. The living beings around you will feel it. They take part in your suffering and absorb much of it: in a way, they sacrifice themselves even though they cannot be aware of it. This is a great mystery of the power of God: He allows an animal or a plant to feel the suffering of a person and make it its own, at least in part. In this way, the living beings drive away part of your suffering. Often they are real shields that turn away the hatred of evil and protect you. Think about this when you look at your dog or cat, when you walk in the woods, and when you look at the beauty of nature. Offer to God the sufferings of all living beings and implore protection for them so that you may be protected as well. Ask God to forgive the humanity of the Earth for the cruelty it inflicts on living beings and the environment. Always remember that human beings and creation together form the marvellous work of God: together, they will enter the new creation.

The manifestation of God’s face to all creation is a mission you must not neglect. You are not asked to become fanatics towards animals or the environment, as happens frequently on Earth. You are asked to have a just and balanced understanding of your responsibility as children of God towards creation. Man was called to govern creation, which means that God entrusts all living beings to you to guard them and nurture their life by immersing them in the glory of God. You are called to this; therefore, the place where you live and the living beings around you should reflect your beauty as children of God and perceive your constant blessing.

I tell you once again: those who do not seek the face of God cannot receive the Spirit of God, nor can they possess Him. The Spirit of God cannot be possessed by anyone, much less by those who despise God. The Spirit of the Lord is free; it cannot be caged, exploited, or trampled. Could the Holy Spirit possibly obey man? If the Holy Spirit obeyed man, He would no longer be God. If God obeyed man, it would be catastrophic for humanity! Yet, there is no limit to man’s pride; often, people try to possess God to obtain what they most desire. The Holy Spirit, however, does not obey people but blows where He wills. He descends where the Father and the Son send Him, and where He desires to descend. No one can give orders to the Holy Spirit on behalf of any system, investiture, or formula. Be well aware of this so that you do not sin as Lucifer did.

When people are closed in their selfishness, God cannot act in their spirit. Not infrequently, the human spiritual level is almost as low as that of the animals. In those cases, the image and likeness of God remains inactive in the human being and produces no fruit. Animals, as such, are limited, as they have no spirit; therefore, the Holy Spirit cannot act in animals as He does in humans. Humans have a spirit, which is unlimited, as the Holy Spirit can act limitlessly in the human spirit, on the condition that humans allow Him to act. Unfortunately, they often place a limit before which God halts, not because of an objective limit as with animals, but out of respect for human freedom. Many times, people place a limit on God’s action; they obstruct His path. That is why I told you that they remain at a level so low that they are no longer distinguishable from animals. That is what your forefathers experienced after committing original sin. Animals are not to be blamed for their limits; humans, however, are, as they consciously decide to reject God, and they oppose His action. Humans often become worse than animals because they bear original sin, which animals did not commit.

The brothers and sisters of the universe who are faithful to God perfectly reveal the face of God, even though they are penalised by the sin of the rest of humanity, which prevents them from reaching even higher, more sublime levels. Out of Divine Justice, the limit that part of humanity sets for itself also affects the faithful humanities. However, the spiritual levels of these humanities are so superior to yours that their mere presence reveals the face of God. That is why the nature of their planets is different, and why, when these children of God land on other planets, even devices stop working because of the great power they manifest. For this reason, Lucifer deeply fears these brothers and sisters; not only for their spiritual level and incorruptibility but also for their power, which is capable of thwarting his strength and that of his followers.

Lucifer fears that the coming of the faithful brothers and sisters may alter the laws he has established as the foundation of his kingdom. Lucifer’s kingdom has its laws with which he enslaves both people and nature. Particularly on Earth but also on other planets of the low universe, Lucifer seeks to overturn the Divine order, imposing laws that are contrary to the life of God – deception, fear, injustice, violence, servility, trickery, dishonesty, and so on. You can see how these laws operate perfectly in your political, economic, social, and even religious systems. If the faithful brothers were to come to Earth, the kingdom of darkness would be shaken.

Prayer, too, is contemplation of the face of God. I ask you: do you contemplate the face of God when you pray? Are you able to absorb His power to be similar to Him and pass on divine power to others? If your answer is no, it means that your prayer is a sterile exercise. Perhaps no one has ever explained this to you. For many of you contemplating the face of God is a romantic phrase, detached from daily life. Nevertheless, Jesus said that the pure in heart will see God (Mt 5, 8). I tell you that this can occur not only in Paradise but also on Earth. While it is true that you do not see God physically, however, that does not mean you cannot see Him in your spirit. God is truly present in the spirit of the person who seeks Him, and the human spirit can and must contemplate the face of God; however, the spirit of the person must be pure.

The new creation will not descend magically from Heaven. The new creation is the Kingdom of God that grows within you, a seed that develops and leads you to contemplate more and more the beauty and power of the face of God. The new creation grows together with you; it is prepared by the faith of the people of God, by men and women who want to welcome divine life and be transformed, from glory to glory (2 Cor 3, 18), into the image that shines on the face of Jesus.

In light of all this, I invite you all to stand before the face of God. I primarily ask you, parents and educators, to ensure that children and young people see the reflection of the image of God in you and receive the right orientation in life. Imprint the power of Divine Love in them, and teach them to seek the face of God, which will save them from the world’s confusion and protect them from sin.

I call upon the Pope, all shepherds, and all those who are invested with positions of responsibility within the Church to contemplate and reveal to the people the face of God, not the face of an organisation called ‘Church’. Manifest the merciful face of God as well as His power, which does not derive from your scholarly knowledge or your beautiful sermons but from an intimate and filial relationship with God, namely from prayer, which is often lacking. Stand before the face of God and let Him look at you; let Him search your inmost place, and you will understand what you need to correct within yourselves. Then you will be able to help the faithful and be credible. May it never happen that you see the speck in your brother’s eye before you see the plank in your own eye (Mt 7, 4-5).

Confusion on Earth will increase in proportion to humanity’s distancing from God. Now more than ever, Christians are called to look at God face to face so that they may receive the Light of His Face and reflect it onto a world increasingly shrouded in darkness. I will pray for you.

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