Let's defend the Truth

In the Blessed Cradle of the New Jerusalem, many times we have repeatedly heard the divine messages that Jesus revealed to Giuseppina Norcia to feed the people and prepare them for His return. Those words, publicly heard for many years, both with Giuseppina and with Samuele, have always helped us to understand more, appreciate and love the Work of Jesus and Mary in the course of history, along with the Gospels. Giuseppina and Samuele, with their example of life, have helped us to live those words, giving love, only love, always love, pure and selfless love that makes us live as “good, righteous, generous and authentic Christians“, just as in the prayer to the Baby Jesus (Booklet “a Cradle for Baby Jesus in the Land of Gallinaro“, p.48). This spring of live charity, leads us to give thanks to God “with our words and with our witness“. This is the heart of it all.

But what does to bear witness mean, therefore to be “witnesses”? IT MEANS TO BE MARTYRS (from Greek μαρτυς, “witness“), not necessarily meaning in the cruel sense of the bloodshed, but above all as an interior suffering, moral, spiritual, to which are subjected those who always defend CHRIST TRUTH (“Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, for great is your reward in Heaven. Thus they persecuted the prophets before you“, Mt 5,11 to 12). Also what does it mean to be authentic Christians? It means to be TRUE Christians. TRUTHFUL.

And we, for the love of Jesus, “WAY TRUTH AND LIFE” and for the love of the Blessed Virgin Mary, His and our Mother, will always defend their Work. Thus we’ll always and anyway defend the Work of Jesus Christ. Thus we’ll always and anyway defend the Work of Mary. This is our testimony, our spiritual martyrdom, in a world that increasingly is moving away from the true teachings of Jesus and Mary. Here is the Island that God, in His infinite mercy, has given to His people in this Land of Love: the White Island, where to defend the purity of faith. Faith, therefore, must remain pure, pristine, immaculate; as Immaculate is so the Heart of Mary, that we want to console, after having renewed the promise to make Her known and loved by all those who do not love Her (Booklet, p. 22). The faith in the work of Jesus and Mary, must be testified, always and however, defending it from all the contamination that in every era and historical context, have always undermined the foundations of the righteous doctrine, Testament of Christ, ETERNAL AND IMMUTABLE, which cannot adapt to the customs and traditions of the world, nor can it ever be modernized to adapt to the times, in order to reach out to those who do not have the good will to follow Christ, totally and completely.

In a message revealed to Giuseppina Norcia which was widespread and made heard publicly for many years and that many know, Jesus says: “In the Church there are several courtyards: that of the priests, that of the self-righteous, that of the traffickers. Among these courtyards of the Church, there is YOUR COURTYARD, THE WHITE ISLAND WHERE I WILL DEFEND THE PURITY OF FAITH. In this new temple, neither the Sanhedrin nor the world will have authority, because I have preserved it only for Myself, for what has to be done. His Mass, our Mass, the world will not understand”. In this regard, from the words of Jesus 2,000 years ago a warning resonates: “But when the Son of Man returns, will He find faith on Earth?” (Lk 18, 8). A question that implicitly is also an answer, because the Lord with an eye to future times, in His heart could already see that the world, in the culmination of the hard and difficult times, announced by the scriptures and the prophecies that give breath to them, would have almost completely cancelled from the lives of humankind, the true faith in the true Triune God, who revealed Himself to the world in Jesus Christ WAY TRUTH and LIFE through the Blessed Virgin Mary, His and our Mother.

History is full of martyrs who gave their LIFE rather than renounce their faith in Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary and preach the Gospel: the first martyr was St. Stephen, stoned in the presence of Paul of Tarsus, he too then struck on the road to Damascus by Christ and became “Apostle of the Gentiles”. But at all times, the martyrs, heedless of their own lives, have proclaimed the Gospel of Christ, receiving as pay from the men death and from God the crown of glory and righteousness. It is thanks to the blood of these holy brothers, united with that of Christ, that the Christian Catholic Church has continued Her earthly way, strengthened and sustained by it. But it is just praying and meditating the great gesture of these beloved brothers and not despising it, that we cannot, because of fear, now, in the hard and difficult times, give up but we have to defend Jesus. A Saint, at the beginning of his ministry, said, “Do not be afraid! Open, or rather, open wide the doors to Christ!” (John Paul II, 22 October 1978, homily of the beginning of his Pontificate). The Same, on the eve of the third millennium, in the year of the Holy Spirit, forcefully uttered these words: “And St Paul’s invitation echoes in my spirit:” I beg you before God and Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead – and who will judge you, too -: preach the word “(2 Tim 4,1-2)! To preach the word! This is my duty, to do everything possible, so when the Son of man comes, He may find faith on earth “(John Paul II, October 18, 1998, sermon of the twentieth anniversary of his Pontificate).

Very significant is the testimony of the defence of the true faith, that the great prophet Elijah gives us, all the more fitting in the hard and difficult times that we live in today, imbued with secularization and apostasy of the truth. Left alone to defend the true God against the pagan worship of Baal, he challenged 450 idolatrous priests on Mount Carmel and at the time of the offer said:

«Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, let it be known that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you are the Lord God, and can convert their hearts back to You». The fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones and the ashes, and dried the water in the trench. In this view, all fell on their faces and they exclaimed: “The Lord is God! The Lord is God!”. Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let anyone get away!”. They grabbed them. Elijah made them go down in the Kishon River and passed them with the sword. (1 Kings 18 to 36,40).

The life of our Mother Giuseppina was all a testimony of Truth to the last breath. Indeed, she was called to be as a tool for the realization of God’s promises, so that the Truth for centuries defended by the martyrs, could manifest and accomplish itself in its fullness. She remained faithful to God in every thing and every way. Always. She had to say delicate things: and She said those. She had to announce the return of Jesus in that Holy Place: As She did. Many have believed Her, others went away, but She went ahead. She had to carry out the mission that God has entrusted to Her: She said Her total and unconditional full “Yes” for all of us. She had to prepare us, bringing us together, waiting for who had the task to help Her in this “mission of salvation”, as Jesus had revealed to Her in 1974, and lead the people to Jesus Way, Truth and Life. As She did. She has entrusted us to Her spiritual son Samuele, with whom, for many years when She was still physically among us, has shared every pass and every fulfilment. This the people witness, and the testimony is true.

Giuseppina has always been humble and obedient first of all to God then to humankind. If it had, however, been for some people, at this time we would not have the Cradle of Love, we would not have the booklet “A Cradle for Baby Jesus in the Land of Gallinaro”, we would not have the stone tablet in which is spoken about this place as the “New Jerusalem”. She was violently attacked, persecuted (the story of the prophets teach us) but She, among the many physical and spiritual graces which the Lord has bestowed confirming Her in the Truth, and near to the people that, from all over the world, has come recognizing the sign of the times that in this Holy Place rises, She continued Her divine mission because “YOU MUST OBEY GOD rather than men” (Acts, 5,29). God has come and goes on with His saving action. The Project of God advances in Its dynamic conduct, not static, as some would have you believe. God calibrates and recalibrates His action based on the response of humankind, because “all things work for the good to those who love God, who are called according to His purpose” (Rom 8,28). And those children of God who, animated by good will, today, in these dark times, recognize the Light of Christ that they welcome and follow.

Samuele, with the example of Giuseppina, continues His mission for the fulfilment of salvation preannounced by Jesus. He gave His life for this Mystery, giving Himself with love to all those of good will. With His determined love He will lead the people so that no one deviates from the only Way, the one traced by Jesus, remaining true within, waiting to arrive in fullness and to live the Life, the eternal Life. In an audio message, based on a revelation made to Giuseppina, Jesus says: “Hard is the work of the prophets, because they have to tell the Truth. But people cannot stand it and turn against the prophets“. Indeed, how were the messengers of God welcomed and treated in the time of their earthly history? Were they acclaimed? Acclaimed by huge crowds cheering for a thumb up like Arthur Fonzarelli? Followed by millions of followers? No.

The world has always approved in part, only in small part. But the messenger of God has always had to struggle to make himself understood, understanding, loving, because he used weapons different from those of the world and that are used in the world. Who in history has wanted to follow the teachings and actions of Christ, Way, Truth and Life knows that the necessary path passes from the Cross. The Cross that does not express the negative power of evil and the meek omnipotence of God (J. M. Bergoglio, sept 14^th 2014); the Cross of which you should not be ashamed, hiding it in the presence of invited guests who do not profess the same belief (J. M. Bergoglio, June 08^th 2014); not an iron cross, chosen for wanting to appear humble (J. M. Bergoglio), but in fact to humiliate Christ that was hung there for us; but a Gold Cross, the virtue and holy Christian pride, glorious cross, to give glory to the One who, with that Cross, redeemed the world: “Bear in mind that cross that lights up the world, the only light of death – in the world – and of resurrection – in Christ -, there is weeping – for the “Renovation of the sacrifice of Christ” (Booklet, page 8) – and joy – only because of that sacrifice that renews we can live in Christ the eternal Life ” (Holy Mary, Booklet p. 36).

In the same revelation, that the people of Baby Jesus well know because they have countless times heard it from Giuseppina and Samuele, Jesus says: “The voice of the prophets of the past echoed by the voice of today’s prophets, call us to the conversion, to the vigilance, to the attention, to the signs of the times. He repeats to us: the Lord is coming, He is near, He is here“.

“All the forces of Heaven are with you. He invites us to welcome Him now, without hesitation, as Mary did recognizing Him in the crowd, as John the Baptist did at the Jordan River. This attention, from generation to generation, animates the impetus of those who walk towards the fulfilment of the promises, towards the encounter with the Son of Man“.

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.