Virgins, Virginity
See also: The Consecrated Virgins, Chastity, celibacy.
"It will be the virgins who will support the Apostles, who will wash the defiled world by clothing it and perfuming it with their purity. They will be the Angels who will sing praises to cover the blasphemies. And Jesus will be happy, and He will give Graces to the world, and He will give His mercies Grace to these little lambs scattered among the Wolves..."[1]
In "The Gospel as Revealed to Me"
Mary Always Virgin
- The Virginity of the Virgin! ... Come. Meditate on the depths of this virginity whose contemplation gives the vertigo of the abyss![2]
- Life choice in virginity for Mary.[3]
- Joseph, Nazirite, shares the vow of virginity of his young wife.[4]
- Virginity of Mary and Chastity of Joseph, proofs and presumptions.[5]
- ... to put a full stop to a disrespectful question about my condition as the Only Son of Mary, and about the Virginity of my Mother, before and after childbirth, on the spiritual and divine nature of the union from which I received life. I say it again, my Mother knew no other unions and had no other children. Inviolate Flesh, which I myself have not torn, closed on the mystery of a tabernacle-breast, throne of the Trinity and of the Incarnate Word.[6]
- Early virginity of Mary – Her chastity.[7]
- Portrait of the "Holy Virgin": You know Mary as "mother", some as "wife". But no one knows Mary as "virgin". For my Mother, before Me, must be transfigured in the eyes of those who deserve it most, to show her as she is.[8]
Consecrated Virgins
- Definition of consecrated virginity, given by the very young [[Virgin Mary|Mary]: "It means not to know the love of man, but only of God. It means to have thoughts only for the Lord. It means to remain child in the flesh and angel in the Heart. It means to have eyes only to look at God, ears only to listen to Him, mouth only to praise Him, hands only to offer oneself as a host, feet only to follow Him swiftly, heart and life only to give to Him."[9]
- But, my John (the apostle)! It is the host that can be imitated by all categories of those who love me: virgin, martyr, confessor, evangelizer, servant of God and of the Mother of God, active and contemplative, it is an example for all.[10]
- Annaleah makes the choice of consecrated virginity.[11]
- The parable of the ten virgins commented by Jesus at Bethany: so it will be in the Kingdom of Heaven as with ten virgins who went out, carrying their lamps, to meet the bridegroom. ([12]) and [13]
- The "brides of the Christ".[14]
- Mary explains the new vocation of two young girls, the daughter of Jairus and the other daughter of the apostle Philip: "It will be the virgins who will support the Apostles, who will wash the defiled world by clothing it and perfuming it with their purity. They will be the Angels who will sing praises to cover the blasphemies. And Jesus will be happy, and He will give Graces to the world, and He will give His mercies Grace to these little lambs scattered among the Wolves..."[15]
In other works of Maria Valtorta
The Notebooks of 1943
- Catechesis of September 25: Chastity is not the monopoly of virgins. Virginity is the quintessence of chastity, and it is placed in the heart of those who have been chosen to follow the Lamb and to speak a language accorded only to them.[16]