Teaching, Catechism

Jesus gives his teaching to the crowd from a boat - James Tissot, Brooklyn Museum

Jesus spent his public life teaching the Truths about God, faith, Heaven, and how to reach it at our death. These teachings are explained in detail in numerous chapters of the work of Maria Valtorta.

In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

• "Teachers have only one word for all their students. How is it then that ten become righteous and ten become wicked? It is because everyone adds their own, what they have in their heart, and that is what leans toward good or toward evil. How can one then accuse the teacher of having given bad teaching if the good he seeks to instill is annihilated by the excess of evil that reigns in a heart? The first factor of success is in you."
• About the Word of Jesus: Peter says: "When you speak... I understand everything but I remember nothing. (...) The others, I mean the people who listen to you, understand you and remember what you say. How many times have we heard someone confess: 'I stopped doing this thing because you said it,' or: 'I came because once I heard you say something else that struck my spirit.'
  We, on the contrary... hum! It's like a stream of water passing without stopping. The shore no longer has that water that passed. More comes, always more, and always so much. But it passes, passes, passes..."
  Jesus replies: "(...) You spoke of the current that passes without the shore keeping any. A day will come when you will realize that each wave deposited a seed and each seed gave you a plant. You will find within your reach flowers and plants for all cases, and you will be amazed at yourself saying: 'But, what has the Lord done to me?'"
• Respective place of healing and teaching in the apostolate of Jesus:
  Martha says: "There are others who ask for healing. More healing than teaching."
  "Man is hardly a wholly spiritual being. He hears more the calls of the flesh and its needs," answers the Virgin.
  "However, many are born to the life of the spirit after the miracle."
  "Yes, Martha. And that is why my Son performs so many miracles. Out of kindness toward man, but also to attract him, by this means, to His path which otherwise too many would not follow."
• Bartholomew gives, in the presence of Jesus, the first catechism lesson in Christian history to Aurea Galla, a young slave raised in total ignorance.
• "One is not a good Master who does not know how to measure the possibilities and reactions of his disciple, and does not know how to consider the consequences that an effort beyond what a disciple can bear might produce in him.
  Even when imposing the virtues, one must be prudent and not demand a maximum that the spiritual formation and the general resources of the being cannot give. By demanding a virtue or spiritual mastery too strong, compared to the degree of spiritual, moral and even physical forces reached by a creature, one can cause a dispersion of the forces already accumulated and a breaking of the being in its three degrees: spiritual, moral, physical.
  Marziam, poor child, has already suffered too much and has known the brutality of his fellows too much, to the point of feeling hatred for them. He could not bear what my Passion will be: a sea of painful love in which I will wash away the sins of the world, and a sea of satanic hatred that will try to overwhelm all whom I have loved and to annihilate all my work as Master."
• "Every master knows these defeats. And they also serve to mortify the pride of spiritual masters and to test their steadfastness in the ministry. Defeat must not weary the will of the spiritual educator, but on the contrary push him to do more and better in the future."