Joy, happiness

Joy.

The work of Maria Valtorta deepens the theme of supernatural joy, which surpasses all joy of the earth.

In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

"To see Mary is to possess joy" (said Maria Valtorta).^[1]
He who believes in my word must not be sad like those who do not believe.^[2]
I can be happy despite this, from the holy and spiritual happiness of those who have obtained liberation from the sorrows of the Earth because they have embraced the will of God as their only spouse. I can because I have surpassed the human concept of happiness, the anxiety of happiness, as men conceive it. I do not pursue what, Saltan the man, considers happiness; but I place my joy precisely in what is the opposite of what man pursues as such.^[3]

Catechesis of July 30^[4]: Blessed are those who know how to live in the Spirit. Their life on earth is an anticipated beatitude of love with me. They are those who proceed in justice and truth, who do not seek riches obtained by fraud and usury, by cunning and Slander, who have no thirst for vengeance and hunger for vice; those whose hands, thoughts and Heart are pure. The dwellings of the Kingdom of the Father are reserved for them and, from this life, the Grace of the Lord girds them as a fortress of rocks. They are ‘in safety’. Only their will, if it becomes perverted, can break this security whose cornerstone is the will of God and theirs, the word of God and their obedience to the Law.
Dictation of December 2^[5]: The supernatural joy […], this security and this peace that makes us strong in the vicissitudes of life, because man does not feel alone, even if he is in a desert, even if he survives in a destroyed country, for he feels upon him and around him the love of a Father and the presence of immaterial forces, but perceptible to his spiritual senses. Blessed are those who live in this joy! They possess the eternal riches.