Call

Call of Zacchaeus, perched in the tree to better see Jesus - James Tissot, Brooklyn Museum

The Call of God can refer either to an invitation to follow Him in a dedicated ministry, the vocation, or more broadly an invitation to conversion. In the writings of Maria Valtorta, it is specified that if one misses the Call of God, voluntarily or because of a Blindness caused by personal negligence, it sometimes does not present itself again ^{[Citation needed]}.

In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

• Truly, I tell you, when I Call someone to God, there is no higher obedience than responding to this Call.
• "Matthew, son of Alphaeus, the hour has come. Come. Follow Me!" (Matthew 9:9-12)
• I will love you the same, even if you tell me: "I do not have the strength, Lord, to defy the whole world for You".
• "God Calls and passes. Tomorrow you would no longer find your Heart of today and the invitation of God. Come. Go announce the Kingdom of God." – to Elias of Korazim leaving to bury his father.

In other works of Maria Valtorta

In the Notebooks

• Catechesis of June 28, 1943: "it is noted that often those who have been Called neglect my Call, lose interest, prefer to occupy themselves with human things instead of dedicating themselves to supernatural things. So I let in the poor, the Confessors, the lame, the deformed".
• Catechesis of October 29, 1943: Before the Blindness of your spirits is total, come to the Physician and the Light.(...) Gather your meager capacities to love and turn them toward God. Love will forgive you for these crumbs of love, remnants of what the flesh and Satan have stolen, that you offer Him.
  
  It is to God that the first fruits and the entirety of the Goods must be offered. But supposing you have not been able to do so, O children who have cost me my life, give the great, compassionate, powerful Lord what still remains to you.(...) I know it costs one of my Beloved less to sacrifice his life than it costs you to sacrifice a Kiss. And for your effort, disproportionate to the offering, I will give you a reward disproportionate to the gift. I will give it to you, provided that you come.
• Catechesis of November 28, 1943: "The Light found many masters on earth, but the Light became a Call only for masters desirous of God. It is always like this. The Grace operates where there is the desire to possess it and, the more vivid the desire to possess it and to be possessed by it, the more it operates, until it becomes Word and Presence".
• Catechesis of December 5, 1943: "Always obey the Call, promptly and with confidence. Surrender yourself to the wind of love. It sustains you, does not oppose you. It blows to carry you to me from whom it emanates. Lose yourself, drop of Water, in my infinite ocean, lose yourself, spark of light, in my immense splendor."
• Catechesis of March 20, 1945: "You no longer understand the great, the greatest mercy of God. You therefore Call hardness, terror, threat what is love, counsel, Call to repentance to obtain Graces. You want words of mercy. Do you claim to want them to have the strength to rise again? Do not lie! They would please you because they are gentle. But you would remain as bitter as poison on the lips of God."
• Catechesis of August 18, 1945: "You preach that it is not right to oppose a son's vocation. That is what you say to parents, even if they find in him their comfort and support, because you say that God is worth more than a parent. That is right, and I have said it as well. But then, why do you quarrel with me over these creatures? If you were enlightened by the Holy Spirit and in union with Him, you should see in this Call all my mercy. You should recognize all my power if, from two fAngels united to procreate in sin, a flower is born that I claim for my altar."