Tears, To Weep
Blessed are the mourners, for they shall be comforted.[1]
The 12 works of mercy of the body and of the spirit: To be merciful towards those who mourn.[2]
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
- Blessed are the mourners, for they shall be comforted.[3]
- The 12 works of mercy of the body and the spirit: To be merciful towards those who mourn.[4]
- Jesus talks about the Beauty of Chorazin, a former prostitute who became leprous, whom He healed: "There was in this Heart a true humility, a true sincerity, a perfect pain. I read in this Heart. Her body was still leprous, but her Heart was already healed by the balm of years of tears, of repentance, of atonement. (...) She came out of the lake pure also in her flesh, but even more pure in her Heart."[5]
- I wept before the tomb of Lazarus and these tears were given so many names […] three ideas surfaced at that hour, more vivid than ever, which like three nails had always driven their points into my Heart […] The realization of the ruin that Satan had brought to man by leading him to evil […] The conviction that even this miracle would not have convinced the Jewish world of the truth I had brought them, and that no miracle would have made the world to come a convert to Christ […] The mental vision of my death Neighbore.[6]
- In the parable of the lost sheep, which Mary Magdalene listens to, Hiddene: "Oh! poor little deluded Soul! But tell me: if I forgive you, will you love me still? But tell me: if I open my arms to you, will you throw yourself into them? But tell me: do you thirst for a good love? And then: come and come back to life. Return to the holy pastures. You cry. Your tears mixed with mine wash away the traces of your sin, and I, to nourish you, since you are exhausted by the evil that has burned you, I open my chest, I open my veins and I say to you: 'Feed yourself, but live!'"[7]
- Repentance, patience, constancy, heroism and then, oh sinners, I promise you that you will be your own liberators. Truly I tell you there is no Baptism that counts, nor rite that serves, if there is not repentance and the will to renounce sin. Truly I tell you that there is no sinner so great that they cannot bring back to life by their tears of repentance the Virtues that sin has torn from their Heart.[8]
In Other Works of Maria Valtorta
In the Notebooks
- Catechesis of August 1, 1943: Your Pride prevents your Heart from crumbling in the pain of having offended God, and from being torn, in pain, by the Water of tears that purify.[9]
- Catechesis of October 2 and 3, 1943: "I never fail my promises. I am with you and I do not even say: 'Do not weep,' but on the contrary, I say to you: 'Weep in my arms.' There are pains that demand tears and I do not prevent what is just. Never. Weep and listen. Your tears will dry in the warmth of my words."[10]