Vice, Vitiated, Corruption, Corrupt

Whitish mold on a willow tree leaf (Robbie Hannawacker).

It happens that the small fault, perhaps a simple omission, a simple weakness, grows ever stronger, turns into habit to end in a capital vice.

In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

• The vitiated feeling is simply a morbid deviation of feeling and, like all that is "disease", feels the need and desire for drugs that are not the simple food sufficient for life, for Good living. The vitiated feeling wants extraordinary things to be stirred and to experience the thrill that pleases.
• For know this forever, God chooses whom He wills and He takes away from those who are undeserving having corrupted their will by Pride and disobedience.
• But gold... but gold... Key that opens, means of corruption, it is the alpha and omega of ninety-nine Actions out of a hundred for men. For bread and Woman, man becomes a thief. For power he goes as far as homicide. But, for gold, he becomes an idolater.
• It happens that the small fault, perhaps a simple omission, a simple weakness, grows ever stronger, turns into habit to end in a capital vice.
• The guilty man realizes that by comparison with one who is without sin, his guilt stands out more so, with his vices, and in spite he takes vengeance by making suffer the one who is good (Bartholomew).
• And how does it happen then that a Woman who leaves ten men indifferent who look at her as a creature like themselves, who even see her as a beautiful work of Creation, but without feeling risen in them attraction and obscene imaginations, disturbs the eleventh man and leads him to unworthy desires? It is that the eleventh has corrupted his Heart and his thought and where ten see a sister, he sees a female.
• Jesus actualizes for his Apostles the prophecy of Genesis 3:15, speaking of Judas who later will betray Him, but without telling them his name:

  "The most cunning demon has merged with the most corrupt man who can approach the Woman (Mary) and thus, treacherously, bite her (...)"

In other works by Maria Valtorta

The Notebooks of 1943

• Catechesis of June 7: I instinctively feel that one and the other die three days after us and that only the goodness of God and a great, very great will on our part, an indefatigable, prompt, vigilant will, can render them harmless and sterilize them Against each new wave of corrupting germs.