Maria Valtorta in the Work

Maria Valtorta in 1943.

On numerous occasions, Jesus speaks of the Mission of Maria Valtorta, or the dispositions of her Soul. These dispositions are changeable and are either acclaimed by heavenly interlocutors or repressed insofar as they move away from His will.

Maria Valtorta in "The Gospel as Revealed to Me".

• The redeeming role of Maria Valtorta: You will not stop suffering: you are a victim. But a part of your sufferings will end. Then will come the day when I will say as to the dying Mary of Magdala (Magdalene): "Rest. It is time for you to rest. Give me your thorns. It is time for roses. Rest and wait. I bless you, blessed one."    
• Jesus often calls Maria Valtorta by the nickname "Little John" in reference to the beloved apostle.
• The Temptations of Satan against Maria Valtorta: "He does what he can, to the best of his ability, to trouble me and lead me to anxiety, to Revolt, to the persuasion that prayer is useless and that everything is lies."
• Her personal ethic: "I assure you that I still prefer contempt for Maria Valtorta rather than idolatry of my person […] Contempt hurts me less if it is directed at Maria Valtorta, provided it does not harm the "dictations" and does not make them appear as a joke and madness..."          
• Her Passion: "I assure you that I live my passion […] All the sufferings to suffer in me what He suffered. A complete agony which bows me down under the weight of His agony. But let this be known to Him alone, to you who guide me, and to me. That is enough."    
• One by one fell those who usurped my place in you. And your God alone became again your King to whom you sang the Miserere of your wise repentance.          
• Unable to take me otherwise, Satan takes me like this: he insinuates that it is I who write and not Jesus who shows and dictates. He knows that if he could persuade me, I would retreat into desolation and into the terror of having sinned and that I would have fear of death and Judgment? Oh! if he tortures me! He stuns me so much with his uninterrupted words that when Jesus ends the vision and His words, I lose all possibility of joy in what is my life, that is to say the supernatural that envelops me and makes me a "spokesperson".  
• Maria Valtorta, like Jesus, toils in vain to convince the unbelievers.
• Why she was chosen: In the mystical Body it is precisely these members, despised by the world of the proud, that act the most. [...] But to this small member, I gave the Mission to indicate to you the Light and to call you to the Light. The Light that wants to rekindle you, O lamps made smoky by the vapors of rationalism, or extinguished for multiple causes.          
• Maria Valtorta sees, hears. She also smells odors.

In Other Works of Maria Valtorta

In the Notebooks

• Catechesis of April 22, 1943: "When I have reached the limit of all human human resistance and I give the impression, to anyone who sees me, of being nothing more than a poor creature unable even to think, it is precisely at that moment that I have, so to speak, illuminations […] The vision also tells me that the flower (the violet of Calvary = Maria Valtorta) can attract other gazes to the cross, can bring other creatures to bow under the rain of its blood. This is the task of the flower towards God and its Neighbor. Reparation of love towards Jesus and attraction to Jesus of many hearts, accepting to live for this purpose in an arid desert, alone with the cross."
• Catechesis of May 13, 1943: "Physical effort is nothing compared to the moral effort I must accomplish to lift the veils beyond which the supernatural is hidden. Why? For many reasons […] And now that I have shared with you the reasons why I do not like to speak about it, I will tell you those that make me feel that I am not a naive person who takes delirium fantasies for supernatural truths and demonic words for divine words […] It would be impossible for me to now repeat these words exactly […]" The beginnings of the visions of Maria Valtorta.
• Catechesis of June 7, 1943: As Maria Valtorta, I am very human, with all that this humanity entails of susceptibility, Pride, passions, etc., and to keep alive the Maria of the Cross, I must reduce myself to ashes at every moment to then be able to be reborn.
• Catechesis of August 23, 1943: Regarding the dissemination of the work (unfinished at the time): "Not an open and resounding dissemination, but a slow ever-increasing expansion, and which remains unnamed [...] When your hand is still in Peace awaiting its resurrection in glory, then, and only then, will your name be mentioned" (page 256).
• Catechesis of December 2, 1943: And do not be insolent with my spokesperson if he tells you this. Bless him, on the contrary, since he makes you know the truth and gives you the means to examine the wounds of your Soul and remove all the dust that soils it. If the truth is bitter and displeases you, consider that it is your fault if you are told it. You should not have deserved it. That would have been better. But since you deserved it, do not rebel against my spokesperson who tells you this in tears. If I have chosen him for this task, it is because I love him and I see in his spirit a dwelling where I am always received with the respect of a subject for his King and the simplicity of a child with his father.
• Catechesis of September 24, 1944: What place for the works of visionaries and what role for them? Mission of the visionaries. Various recommendations for the dissemination of private revelations. Announcement of tribulations that the work of Maria Valtorta would undergo.

In Fundamental Christian Texts

The Charism of Prophecy in the Bible

• "And having received the Grace that God has granted us, we have received different gifts. If it is the gift of prophecy, let it be in proportion to the message entrusted."
• "Strive to attain charity. Eagerly seek spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy."
• "For you know this first of all: no prophecy of Scripture can have a private interpretation."

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church

• "If Revelation is complete, it is not yet fully explicated; it remains for the Christian faith to gradually understand its full meaning over the centuries." "Over the centuries there have been so-called 'private' revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. However, they do not belong to the deposit of faith. Their role is not to 'improve' or 'complete' the definitive Revelation of Christ, but to help live it more fully at a certain time in history."

Notes and references

Note: Quotations from the work of Maria Valtorta on this page currently use machine-translated text and will gradually be replaced by the official English translation. Until then, the official translation may be consulted through the reference link provided with each quotation.