Help, Aid
See also: Providence, To Save.
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The help of God the Father never fails His children, including the one who asks for it through prayer with humility, trust, and persistence. Man is also Skilled at helping his Neighbor in need, according to his abilities.
In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"
- God gives us His help, hour by hour, if we remain humble and faithful.[1]
- I lean over you and nothing is more painful to me than being unable to intervene because you refuse my help, preferring to act on your own or, worse, asking for help from Evil.[2]
- I point out to you two essential elements to have God on your side to help us in righteous endeavors. The first: faithfulness, the second: humility.[3]
- In the one who serves you, God is present and, consequently, Homele respects every Good deed without claiming it, without saying: "I will do nothing because someone thinks of me." [4]
- Peter: In the things of God, I only admit the help of God... - ... His judgment is very close to perfection that, in matters of God, one must resort only to His supernatural help, without begging for human help that is interested or utilitarian.[5]
- Help from Mary: Her spiritual childbirth spiritual suffering: She says: "But, believe me, my daughter, that there has never been and there never will be a childbirth torment like my childbirth of the Martyr of a spiritual Maternity fulfilled on the hardest of beds: that of my cross, at the foot of the gibbet of my Son who was dying.
What mother is forced to beget in such a way, and to mix the torment of her gut that was tearing apart hearing the rattling of her agonizing Creature with the inner ripping apart to have to overcome the horror of having to say: "I love you. Come to me who am your Mother" to the murderers of her Son (...)."[6] - All suffering is soothed on the bosom of Mary: Elizabeth said to her: "Let me place my hands on your bosom." "Oh! if in your pain you would always ask me that!" (...) "And all pain calms down and all hope blossoms and all Grace flows for whoever comes to me and lays their head on my bosom."[7]
- Our Mother in Heaven never ceases to pray for us: "I pray for you. Remember it. The blessedness of being in Heaven, living in the radiance of God, does not make me forget my children who suffer on earth. And I pray. All Heaven prays, for Heaven loves. Heaven is living charity. And Charity has mercy on you.
But if it were only me, it would already be a sufficient prayer for the needs of those who hope in God, since I never cease to pray for all of you: saints and depraved alike, to give joy to the saints, to give the wicked the repentance that saves."
"Come, come, O sons of my sorrow. I await you at the foot of the Cross to grant you Grace."[8] - In all things of life, Good does not come from wealth, power or other causes, but from the help that comes from Heaven. And it comes because one asks for His help for good things, for our lives and our laws, the Maccabee also says. But when one turns to God for evil or impure ends, it is vain to Call on His help.[9]
In other works by Maria Valtorta
Notebooks
- Catechesis of June 7, 1943: Yes, help me, my good Master. Do not let me fall. All the pain you want, Lord, but always near you. I know, I believe that it is for a Good that I suffer this moral torment; I know, I hope it is not without some use; I know that if I suffer peacefully, on your Heart, Peace will remain in me and the rage of the demon will not be able to disturb it. So I tell you: here I am, out of love for you, ready to do your will...[10]
In the Bible
- Let your conduct not be guided by love of money: be content with what you have, for God Himself said: I will never leave you nor forsake you. Therefore we can say with full confidence: The Lord is my help, I shall not fear! What can a man do to me?[11]