The Book of Heaven
—Unofficial Version—

April 21, 1923

The darkest point of the present society.

This morning my always lovable Jesus transported me outside of myself, to a place in which one could see flags being waved, and parades in which all classes of people were participating, including priests.  As though offended by all this, Jesus wanted to clasp the creatures in His hand to crush them; and I, taking His hand in mine, clasped Him to myself, saying to Him:  “My Jesus, what are You doing?  After all, they don’t seem to be doing evil things, but rather, good things.  It seems that the Church is uniting with your enemies of before, and these no longer show that aversion for dealing with people from the Church; on the contrary, they call them to bless their flags.  Is this not a good sign?  And You, instead of being pleased with it, seem to get offended.”  And Jesus, sighing and highly afflicted, told me:  “My daughter, how you are deceiving yourself.  This is the darkest point of the present society, and their union means that they all have the same color.  The enemies are no longer afraid and horrified to approach people from the Church, because since the true fount of virtue and religion is not in them – on the contrary, some of them celebrate the Divine Sacrifice without believing in my existence; for others, if they believe at all, it is a faith without works, and their lives are a chain of enormous sacrileges – so, what good can they do if they don’t have it within themselves?  How can they call others to a conduct of a true Christian by making known what great evil sin is, if the life of grace is missing in them?  With the all the unions they form, there are no more men who fulfill the precept, therefore it is not the union of the triumph of religion – it is the triumph of their party, and masking themselves with it, they try to cover the evil they are plotting.  It is true revolution that is hidden under these masks, and I remain always the offended God, both by the evil, who pretend a shade of piety in order to strengthen their party and therefore do graver evil, and by people from the Church, who, having a false piety, are no longer good for drawing the peoples to follow Me; on the contrary, it is the peoples that carry them away.  Can there be a time sadder than this?  Pretense is the ugliest sin, and that which most wounds my Heart.  Therefore, pray and repair.”