The Passion of Christ Meditation Booklet

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Table of Contents

Imprimatur

Introduction

Jesus dictates to Catalina:

Jesus Prepares Himself

The Last Supper

Jesus Prays in the Garden

Jesus Institutes the Holy Eucharist

Jesus Does the Will of the Father

Jesus Looks for His Disciples, Who Are
Asleep

Judas Delivers Jesus

Jesus Is Taken before Caiaphas

Peter Denies Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Prison

Jesus Is Taken before Herod

Jesus Is Taken Again before Pilate

The Scourging of Jesus

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

Jesus Is Crowned with Thorns

Barrabas Is Set Free

Jesus Forgives Even the Greatest Sinners

Jesus on His Way to Calvary

Jesus Is Helped to Carry the Cross

Jesus Is Nailed to the Cross

Jesus Pronounces His Last Words

The Resurrection of Jesus

God the Father dictates to Catalina

The Blessed Mother dictates to Catalina

Chaplet of Divine Mercy

Appendix - Additional Books Available

EDICATION

To my husband, my parents, my children, and my

brothers: “look at the poor rejected Christ and follow
Him.”

To Carlos, Neiza, and Betty, beautiful instruments of the

Lord.

To Lili, who stirred up my love of the Cross.
To Silvia, my sister in the sweetest pain.

To Inés and Charo, for their love of evangelization.
To Mary Queen of Peace Center, in their true and

wonderful way towards the Lord, through Mary.

To Marcos, Stanis, and Ricardo: mentors, companionways,

and beams of this poor secretary of the Lord.

Catalina

MPRIMATUR

Translated from the original Imprimatur in Spanish:

Archbishop of Cochabamba
Casilia 129
Cochabamba - Bolivia

IMPRIMATUR:
We have read Catalina's books and we are sure that their only
objective is to guide us all on a journey of authentic spirituality,
founded on the Gospel of Christ. The books likewise highlight
the special place occupied by the Blessed Virgin Mary, our role
model in loving and following Jesus Christ, our Mother to
whom we should offer our complete trust and love.
In renewing the love and devotion to the Holy Catholic Church,
the books enlighten us on the actions that should characterize a
truly committed Christian.
For all this, I authorize their edition and distribution, and
recommend them as texts of meditation and spiritual orientation,
with the purpose of answering Our Lord's calling to save many

souls, showing them that He is a living God, full of love and
mercy.
+ Mons. René Fernández Apaza
Archbishop of Cochabamba
April 2, l998

NTRODUCTION

his booklet is part of a larger collection of books (see list on last
page), dictated in large part by Jesus and the Virgin Mary to Catalina

(Katya) Rivas. The books reflect traditional Catholic teaching and
spirituality and are available at “www.LoveAndMercy.org” for reading
and printing at no cost. People are encouraged to copy these texts without
change and distribute them in support of the beloved Pope John Paul II’s
call to a New Evangelization.
These books of “The Great Crusade” are part of a growing collection of
now more than twelve publications in Spanish containing teachings that
transmit the spirituality of the Apostolate of the New Evangelization
(ANE), which is based upon the Sacred Scripture and the Catechism of the
Catholic Church. The books are progressively being translated into
English and other languages. An Imprimatur or recommendation by
Catholic Church authorities can the found at the beginning of each
publication.
The ANE is a Catholic movement of lay people that arises as an answer to
Pope John Paul II’s insistent call to those baptized to commit to the task of
promoting the Good News that Christ has died and risen for our salvation
from sin.
As Catholics that we are, we completely submit to the Teaching of the
Church concerning “Private Revelations” as stated in Canons 66 and 67 of
the Catechism of the Catholic Church, published in English in 1994:

Canon 66: “The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and
definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is
to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Yet even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made
completely explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full
significance over the course of the centuries.
Canon 67: Throughout the ages, there have been so-called “private”
revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the
Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not
their role to improve or complete Christ's definitive Revelation, but to help
live more fully by it in a certain period of history. Guided by the
Magisterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and
welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of
Christ or his saints to the Church.
Christian faith cannot accept “revelations” that claim to surpass or correct
the Revelation of which Christ is the fulfillment, as is the case in certain
non-Christian religions and also in certain recent sects which base
themselves on such “revelations”.
If Jesus speaks to your heart as you read this book, please share these
words with people who want to open their hearts to the call for a New
Evangelization. Invoke the Holy Spirit so that It guides and grants you the
gifts that you need for a good personal conversion and grants the same for
those with whom you share this booklet.

Love and Mercy Publications

January 2007

“Love Him totally, He who totally surrendered

Himself for your love.” - Clare of Assisi

JESUS

y little daughter, let yourself be embraced by My most ardent desire
that all souls come and purify themselves in the water of penance,

and that the feeling of confidence, and not fear, may penetrate them,
because I am a God of Mercy and I am always ready to receive them in
My Heart.
Thus, day-by-day we shall be uniting ourselves in our secret of love. A
tiny spark and then a great flame… Only the real Love is not loved today!
Make Love be loved! But before that, pray little daughter, pray a lot for
the consecrated souls who have lost their enthusiasm and happiness in the
service. Pray also for those priests who accomplish that miracle of
miracles on the altar and whose faith is weak.
Lose yourself in Me like a drop of water in the ocean… When I created
you, I kissed your forehead signing you with the sign of My predilection.
Look for souls, because there are few who love Me; look for souls and
imprint in their minds the vision of the pain in which I consumed Myself.
Men, without knowing it, are about to receive great gifts.
When you do what I ask, I am near you; it is as if you quench that flaming
thirst which on the Cross dried even My lips.
I will make Myself present each time that you invoke My Passion with
love. I will permit you to live united to Me in the pain that I experienced
in Gethsemane when I knew the sins of all men.
Be conscious of that, because I call few creatures to this type of Passion,
but none of them understand the predilection I have placed on them by
associating them to Me in the most painful hour of My earthly life.

ESUS

REPARES

IMSELF

here are souls who consider My Passion, but very few who think
about My preparation for My public life: My loneliness!

The forty days which I spent by the side of the hill were the most
distressing hours of My life because I spent them completely alone,
preparing My Spirit for that which would come. I suffered hunger, thirst,
discouragement, and bitterness. I knew that for those people My sacrifice
would be useless, for they would deny Me. In that solitude I understood
that neither My new doctrine nor My sacrifices and miracles could save
the Jewish people who would become God-slayers.
Nevertheless, I had to do My duty, the Divine Mission. I had to first leave
My seed and die later. How sad this is, looking at it from the human point
of view!
I was also a man and felt sadness and anguish. I found Myself very alone!
I mortified My Body by fasting and My Spirit by prayer. I prayed for all
humanity that would deny Me, that would sacrifice Me so many times…
I was tempted as any other mortal, and Satan was never more curious to
know who the man was that remained in such loneliness and
abandonment.
Think about everything that I had to go through to save man, to be able to
reign in his heart, to make possible his entrance into My Father’s
Kingdom.

AST

UPPER

ow let us go to the story of My Passion…The story that shall give
glory to the Father and holiness to other chosen souls…

The night before I was betrayed was a night full of joy because of the
Paschal Supper, the inauguration of the Eternal Banquet at which human
beings must sit to feed themselves of Me.
If I were to ask Christians, “What do you think of this Supper,” surely
many would say that it is the place of their delight but few would say that
it is My delight… There are souls who take Communion, not for the joy

that they experience but for the joy that I feel; they are few because the
rest only come to Me to ask for gifts and favors.
I embrace all the souls that come to Me because I came to Earth to expand
the Love in which I embrace them. And since love does not grow without
sorrows; little by little I take away the sweetness, to leave the souls in
dryness. Thus, they fast from their own joy to make them understand that
their focus should be on another desire: Mine.
Why do you talk about dryness as if it were a sign of a diminishing of My
Love? Have you forgotten that if I do not give happiness, you must taste
your dryness and other sorrows?
Come to Me, souls, but know that it is only I who wills everything and
who incites you to look for Me. If you only knew how much I appreciate
unselfish love and how it will be acknowledged in Heaven! O, how the
soul who possesses it shall rejoice!
Learn from Me, dear souls, to love only to please the One who loves
you… You shall have sweetness, and much more than what you leave; you
shall enjoy so much of whatever I have made you capable. It is I who
prepared the Banquet. I am the nourishment! How then, can I let you sit at
My table and let you fast? I promised you that whoever feeds on Me shall
not go hungry again… I serve Myself as these things to reveal My Love
to you. Listen to what My priests say, for they use this Paschal feast to
lead you to Me, but do not stop at that which is human, otherwise, you
shall nullify the other purpose of this feast.
Nobody can say that My Supper has become their nourishment when they
only experience sweetness… For Me, love grows in as much as they deny
themselves.
Many priests are so because I wanted to make them My ministers, not
because they truly follow Me… Pray for them! They should offer My
Father the sorrow that I felt when in the Temple I knocked down the
benches of the merchants and I reproached the ministers of that time for
having turned the house of God into an assembly of moneymakers.

When they asked Me under what authority had I done that, I felt an even
greater sorrow in proving that the worst denial of My Mission came
precisely from My ministers.
For that reason, pray for the priests that treat My Body with a sense of
habit and, therefore, with very little love.
You will soon know that I had to tell you this because I love you and
because I promise the remission of all temporal punishment owed those
who pray for My priests. There shall be no Purgatory for those who grieve
for the lukewarm priests, but rather they will go to Paradise immediately
after their last breath.
And now, let Me embrace you again in order for you to receive the life
that I, with infinite joy, made you part of.
That night with infinite Love, I washed the feet of My Apostles because it
was the culminating moment in which to present My Church to the world.
I wanted My souls to know that even when they may be weighted down
with the greatest sins, they are not excluded from graces. They are with
My most faithful souls; they are in My Heart receiving the graces that they
need.
I felt such sorrow at that moment knowing that, represented in Judas, My
Apostle, there were so many souls gathered at My feet and cleansed so
many times with My Blood, yet they were to be lost! At that moment, I
wanted to teach sinners that just because they have sinned, they should not
distance themselves from Me thinking that there is no recourse and that
they will never be loved as much as before they sinned. Poor souls! These
are not the feelings of a God who has poured out all His Blood for you.
Come to Me all of you and do not be afraid, because I love you. I shall
cleanse you with My Blood and you shall be as white as snow. I shall
drown your sins in the water of My Mercy and nothing will be able to
snatch from My Heart the Love that I have for you.

My beloved, I have not chosen you in vain, respond to My election with
generosity. Be faithful and firm in the faith. Be meek and humble so that
others may know the greatness of My humility.

ESUS

RAYS IN THE

ARDEN

obody really believes that I perspired blood that night at
Gethsemane, and few believe that I suffered much more in those

hours than in the Crucifixion. It was more painful because it was clearly
revealed to Me that the sins of everyone were made Mine and that I should
answer for each one. Thus I, being innocent and pure, answered to the
Father as if I were really guilty of dishonesty and of all the impurities
committed by you, My brothers. You dishonor God who created you to be
instruments of the greatness of Creation and not to stray from the nature
given you with the purpose of gradually taking that nature to lead you to
behold the pure vision of Me, your Creator.
Therefore, I was made thief, murderer, adulterer, liar, a sacrilegious
person, blasphemer, slanderer, and rebel to the Father whom I have always
loved.
It was precisely this contrast between My Love for the Father and His Will
that caused My perspiration of blood. But I obeyed until the end and for
Love of everyone, I covered Myself with the guilt so that I could do My
Father’s Will and save you from eternal damnation.
Consider how many more than human agonies I had that night and,
believe Me, nobody could alleviate such anguish because, on the contrary,
I was seeing how each one of you devoted yourself to making my death
cruel at every moment that was given to Me because of the offenses whose
penalty I have paid in full. I want it to be known once again how I loved
all men at that hour of abandonment and sadness without name….

ESUS

NSTITUTES THE

OLY

UCHARIST

he desire that all souls be clean when they receive Me in the
Sacrament of Love, led Me to wash the feet of My Apostles. I also did

it to represent the Sacrament of Penance, in which the souls that have had
the misfortune of falling into sin, can wash themselves and regain their
lost purity.
By washing their feet, I wanted to teach the souls that have apostolic tasks
to humble themselves and treat with tenderness the sinners and all the
souls who have been entrusted to them.
I wrapped Myself in a cloth to teach them that, in order to be successful
with souls, one has to girdle oneself with mortification and self-denial.
I wanted them to learn mutual charity and how the faults they observe in
their neighbor should be purged, concealing them and always forgiving
them without ever disclosing their faults. The water that I poured over My
Apostles’ feet was a reflection of the zeal that consumed My Heart in
desiring the salvation of men.
At that moment the Love that I felt for men was infinite and I did not want
to leave them orphans… In order to live with you until the consummation
of time and to show you My Love, I wanted to be your breath, your life,
your support, your All! Then I saw all the souls that, in the course of
time, would be nourished by My Body and Blood, and I saw all the divine
effects that this nourishment would produce in many souls…
That immaculate Blood would engender purity and virginity in many
souls; in others, it would light the fire of love and zeal. Many martyrs of
Love gathered at that hour before My eyes and in My Heart! Many other
souls, after having committed many and serious sins and weakened by
force of passions, would come to Me to renew their strength with the
Bread of the strong!
How I would like to make known the feelings of My Heart to all souls!
How much I desire that they know the Love I felt for them at the Cenacle

when I instituted the Holy Eucharist. Nobody could penetrate the feelings
in My Heart during those moments - feelings of love, joy, tenderness…
But greater was also the sorrow that invaded My Heart.
Are you perhaps good ground for the construction of a magnificent
building? Yes and no… Yes, because of the gifts that I have given you
since birth; no, because of the use that you have made of them. Do you
think that your ground is of suitable proportion to the structure of the
building that I raise? O, it is paltry! Then, in spite of all the opposing
elements that exist in you, My calculations will not fail because it is My
handicraft to choose that which is poor for the intent that I set Myself. I
never make a mistake because I use artistry and love. I construct actively
without your realizing it. Your own desire to know what I am doing serves
Me to prove to you that you cannot do or know anything without My
desiring it… It is time to work, do not ask Me for anything because there
is someone who thinks about you.
I want to tell My souls the sorrow, the tremendous pain that filled My
Heart that night. Even though My joy was great in becoming the Divine
Nourishment of souls and man’s companion till the end of time, and of
seeing how many would render Me homage of adoration, love, and
reparation, great was the sadness that caused Me to contemplate all those
souls that were to abandon Me at the Tabernacle and the many that would
doubt My presence in the Holy Eucharist.
O, how many hearts stained, dirty, and torn by sin I would have to enter!
And how My profaned Flesh and Blood, would become the reason for the
damnation of so many souls! You cannot understand the way in which I
contemplated all the sacrileges, offences, and tremendous abominations
that would be committed against Me… the many hours that I would spend
alone in the Tabernacles. So many long nights! How many men would
reject the loving calls that would be directed to them.
For love of souls, I remain prisoner in the Holy Eucharist, so that in your
sorrows and sadness you can go to console yourselves with the most
tender of Hearts, with the best of Fathers, with the most loyal friend. But

that Love, which is consumed for the good of mankind, is not going to be
returned.
I live amongst sinners to be their salvation and life, their doctor and
medicine; yet they, in return, in spite of their sick nature, will distance
themselves from Me. They offend Me and scorn Me.
My children, poor sinners! Do not distance yourselves from Me. I wait for
you night and day at the Tabernacle. I will not reproach your crimes; I will
not throw your sins in your face. What I will do is to wash you with the
Blood of My wounds. Do not be afraid, come to Me. You do not know
how much I love you.
And you, dear souls, why are you cold and indifferent to My Love? I
know you have to attend to the needs of your family, your home, and of
the world that constantly calls for you. But, do you not have a moment to
come and give Me proof of your love and gratitude? Do not let so many
useless worries pull you away; reserve a moment of your time to visit the
Prisoner of Love. If your body is sick, can you not find a few minutes to
look for a physician to cure you? Come to He who can give you the
strength and health of the soul. Give alms of love to this Divine Beggar,
who calls you, wants you, and waits for you.
These words will produce the effect of a great reality in souls. They will
penetrate in the families, schools, religious congregations, hospitals,
prisons, and many souls will succumb to My Love. My greatest pains
come from the souls of priests and nuns.
At the moment that I instituted the Holy Eucharist, I saw all the privileged
souls that would be nourished with My Body and Blood and the effects
produced in them.
To some, My Body would be a remedy to their weakness. To others, a fire
that would succeed in consuming their miseries, inflaming them with love.
Ah!… Those souls gathered before Me will be an enormous garden in
which every plant produces a different flower, but all delight Me with their
scent. My Body will be the sun that brings them back to life. I shall come

to some to be consoled, to others to hide, in others I will rest. If you only
knew, beloved souls, how easy it is to console, to hide, and to give rest to
God.
This God, who loves you with infinite Love after freeing you from the
bondage of sin, has planted in you the incomparable grace of the religious
vocation. He has brought you in a mysterious way to the garden of His
delights. This God, your Redeemer, has become your spouse. He Himself
nourishes you with His Body so pure, and with His Blood, He quenches
your thirst. In Me you shall find rest and happiness.
O, little daughter! Why is it that so many souls, after having been filled
with so many blessings and caresses, have to be the cause of such sadness
in My Heart? Am I not always the same? Have I changed for you? …. No!
I will never change, and I will love you with predilection and tenderness
till the end.
I know you are full of miseries, but this will not keep from you My most
tender looks and I wait for you anxiously, not only to ease your miseries,
but also to fill you with My blessings.
If I ask for your love, do not deny it to Me. It is very easy to love He who
is Love itself. If I ask for something dear to your nature, I give you both
the grace and the strength necessary so you can be My comfort. Allow Me
to come into your souls and, if you do not find in them anything that is
worthy of Me, tell Me with humility and with confidence: “Lord, you can
see the fruit that this tree produces. Come and tell me what to do, so that
from now on it may bear the fruit that You desire.”
If the soul tells Me this with a real desire of proving its love, I shall
answer: “Dear soul, allow Me to cultivate your love…”
Do you know the fruits that you will obtain? The victory over your
character will repair offences; it will atone for faults. If you are not upset
when you are corrected and you accept it gladly, you will bring about a
change in those souls blinded by pride who will humble themselves and
ask for forgiveness.

This is what I will do in your soul if you allow Me to work freely. The
garden will not flourish immediately, but you will give great comfort to
My Heart.
All this passed before Me when I instituted the Eucharist and I was ignited
with desire to nourish the souls. I was not going to stay on Earth to live
with perfect beings, but rather to hold the weak and nourish the children…
I would make them grow, invigorate their souls, and rest in their miseries,
and their good desires would console Me.
But within My elected ones there are souls that cause Me sorrow. Will
they all persevere? This is the scream of pain that escapes from My Heart;
this is the moan that I want the souls to hear.
The Eternal Love is looking for souls who may say new things about the
old truths already known. The infinite Love wants to create in the bosom
of humanity a tribunal of pure Mercy, not of Justice. That is why the
messages are multiplying all over the world. Whoever understands this
admires its work, takes advantage of them, and helps others profit from
them as well. Whoever does not understand, keeps on being a slave of the
spirit that dies and is condemned.
To these I direct My word of condemnation, because they hinder My
Divine Work and they become accomplices of the Devil.
When they condemn, cover-up, and repress that which comes not from
mere creatures but from the Creator, their cleverness produces pressure
over their childlike minds. To those whom I have called little ones, I reveal
My knowledge, which on the other hand, I hide from the proud.
Soul, allow Me to pour Myself in you. Become a valve of My Heart
because there is always someone who stifles My Love…

ESUS

OES THE

ILL OF THE

ATHER

f My Passion I want you to consider above all, the bitterness that was
caused by My knowing the sins, that darkening the mind of man,

lead him to aberrations. Most of the time these sins are accepted as a fruit
of natural inclinations that, it is said, cannot be opposed by one’s own will.
Today, many live in grave sin, blaming others or fate, without the
possibility of getting rid of them. I saw this in Gethsemane and I knew the
great evil that My soul would absorb. So many are lost like that and how I
suffered for them!
Thus by My example, by washing their feet and becoming their Food, I
taught My Apostles to mutually support each other. The hour was
approaching for which the Son of God had been made man and Redeemer
of the human race; for which He was going to spill His Blood and give His
Life for the world.
At that moment I wanted to be in prayer and give Myself to the Will of My
Father… It was then that My Will as a man conquered the natural
resistance to the great suffering prepared for Me by Our Father, who you
see was hurting more than Myself. Then, among those lost souls, I
surrendered My Own Soul in order to repair that which had already
become corrupt. My Omnipotence can do all, but wants littleness upon
which to add of the other, and this littleness, I Myself offer it with infinite
Love.
My Passion… what a bottomless abyss of bitterness within which it
enclosed itself!
How mistakenly remote is he who believes he comprehends it, yet only
thinks of the terrible sufferings of My Body.
My daughter, I have reserved for you other scenes of the intimate tragedies
that I lived and I wish to share them with you because you are one of those
whom the Father gave Me in the Garden.
Dear souls, learn from your Model that the only necessary thing, even if
your nature rebels, is to submit yourself with humility and to surrender
yourself to fulfill the Will of God.
I also wanted to teach souls that all-important acts must be prepared and
revitalized through prayer. In prayer the soul is fortified for the most

difficult things and God communicates with the soul, gives it advice, and
inspires it even when it (the soul) is not aware of it.
I withdrew to the Garden with three of My Disciples, in order to teach
them that the three Powers of the soul should accompany and help them in
prayer.
Remember, from memory, the divine benefits, the perfection of God: His
Kindness, His Power, His Mercy, and the Love that He has for you.
Afterwards, look with understanding on how to correspond to the marvels
that He has done for you… Through prayer, in your retreat and silence,
allow your will to be moved to do more and the best for God, and to be
consecrated for the salvation of souls, whether by means of your apostolic
work or by your humble and hidden life.
Prostrate yourselves humbly as creatures in the presence of their Creator,
and adore His designs over you, whatever they may be, committing your
will to the Divine One.
In this way I offered Myself to fulfill the work of redeeming the world.
Ah! What a moment it was when I felt all those torments come over Me,
the torments I was to suffer in My Passion: the slander, the insults, the
scourging, the kicks, the Crown of Thorns, the thirst, the Cross…
All that passed before My eyes at the same time that an intense pain hurt
My Heart; the offenses, the sins, and the abominations that would be
committed in the passing of time. And I not only saw them, but I felt
reinvested with all those horrors, and in this way I presented Myself to My
Celestial Father to implore Mercy.
My little daughter, I offered Myself as a lily to calm His anger and
appease His wrath. Nevertheless, with so many crimes and so many sins,
My human nature experienced a mortal agony to the point of sweating
blood.
Is it possible for this anguish and this Blood to be useless for so many
souls?… My Love was the origin of My Passion. If I had not wanted it,

who would have been able to touch Me? I wanted it and to accomplish
this, I used the cruelest amongst men.
Before suffering, I knew in Myself all suffering and I could evaluate it
entirely. But then, when I wanted to suffer, in addition to full knowledge
and appraisal, I had the human sensation of all sufferings. I took all of
them
Speaking of My Passion, I cannot go into so much detail. Other times I
have done so and you cannot understand it. Because of your human nature,
you could not begin to understand the enormous extent of the pains that I
have suffered.
Yes, I illuminate you, but I stay within a limit beyond which you cannot
advance. Only to My Mother did I make known all My pains, that is why
she suffered them more than anyone.
But today the world will know more than I have allowed up to now,
because My Father wants it this way. For that reason, a ray of love
flourishes in My Church because of all the changing circumstances that
took Me from the Garden to Calvary. More than to anyone else, I manifest
My Passion to the loved ones I had in the Garden. They are able to
mention something that adapts to the mind of present-day travelers. And if
they can, they should do it. That is why you should write all that I tell you,
little one, for you and for many others, in comfort for the souls and for the
Glory of the Holy Trinity who desires that My suffering in Gethsemane be
known.
My soul is sad until death. While the sadness of not being physically well
could be the cause of death, I wanted to experience the sadness of the
spirit, which consisted of the complete absence of the influence of the
Divinity and the heartbreaking presence of the causes of My Passion.
In My Spirit, which was agonizing unto death, were present all the reasons
that impelled Me to bring Love to earth. Foremost were the offenses made
against My suffering Divinity as a man, yet with the consciousness of
God. You cannot find anything like this type of suffering because the man

who sins understands, with My light, the part that corresponds to him and
many times, imperfectly, he does not see what sin is like in front of Me.
For that reason, it is clear that only God can know the importance of an
offense done to Him.
Nevertheless, humanity should be able to offer complete knowledge, true
sorrow, and repentance to the Divinity, and I can let humanity do so
whenever it wishes. I do this in fact by offering My knowledge that has
worked within Me, a man, a human who bore the offenses against God.
This was My wish: that through Me, the repented sinner would have the
way of presenting to his God the knowledge of the committed offense, and
that I, in My Divinity, could also receive the full understanding of what he
has done against Me.
Enough for today, you do not know how much you console Me when you
give yourself to Me with entire abandonment… Not everyday can I talk to
souls… Let Me tell you, for them, My secrets!… Let Me make use of your
days and nights!
I was sad unto death because I could see everywhere the huge
accumulation of the offenses committed. And if for one I experienced a
death without comparison, what could I have experienced for the
combination of all the offences? “Sad is My Soul unto death…” a sadness
which produced in Me the abandonment of all strength; a sadness which
had as a center in Me the Divinity towards which would converge the tide
of the faults and the stench of the souls corroded by all types of vices. For
that reason, I was at the same time target and arrow - as God, the target,
and as man, the arrow. As soon as I had absorbed all sin, I appeared before
My Father as the only offender. Greater sadness than this could not exist,
and I wanted to take all of it, for the Love of the Father, and for Mercy to
all of you.
If he does not pay attention to this matter, man ponders in vain over the
meaning of these words, which include all My essence as God and Man.
Look at Me in this gigantic prison of spirit. Do I not deserve love if I
struggled and suffered so much? Do I not deserve for creatures to count on

Me as their own, knowing that I give Myself entirely without reserve?
Drink all of you from My inexhaustible fountain of goodness. Drink! I
offer you My sadness in the Garden; give Me your sadness, all your
sadness. I want to make of your sadness a bouquet of violets, whose
perfume is constantly directed toward My Divinity.
“Father, if it is possible, take this Cup away from Me, but let not My Will
but Yours be done.” I said this in the height of bitterness, when the load
that weighed upon Me had become so bloody that My Soul found itself in
the most unbelievable darkness. I said it to the Father because, upon
assuming all the blame, I presented Myself before Him as the only sinner
against whom all His Divine Justice was discharged. And feeling deprived
of My Divinity, only humanity appeared before Me.
Take from Me, O Father, this extremely bitter Chalice that You present to
Me, and that I accepted for Your Love when I came to this world. I have
arrived at a point in which I do not even recognize Myself. You, O Father,
who loves Me, have made sin My inheritance and this makes My presence
before You unbearable. The ingratitude of human beings is known to Me
but how will I endure seeing Myself alone? My God, have pity of the great
solitude in which I find Myself. Why do even You want to abandon Me?
What help shall I find then in such great desolation? Why do You also
strike Me this way? Yes, You deprive Me of You. I feel like I am going
down into such an abyss that I do not even recognize your hand in such a
tragic situation. The Blood that oozes out of My Body gives You
testimony of My annihilation under Your powerful hand.
Thus, I cried; I fell. But then I continued: It is just, Holy Father, that You
do of Me what You want. My life is not Mine, it belongs totally to You. I
do not want that My Will be done, but rather Yours. I have accepted a
death on the Cross, I accept also the apparent death of My Divinity.
It is just. All this I should give You and, before everything, I should offer
You the holocaust of My Divinity which unites Me to You. Yes, Father,
with the Blood that You see, I confirm My donation and My acceptance:
Your Will be done, not Mine…

ESUS

OOKS FOR

ISCIPLES

SLEEP

n spite of everything, the enormous weight and the terrible fatigue,
together with the sweat of Blood, I had been hit in such a way that

when I went to look for My Apostles, I felt tremendously exhausted.
Peter, John, James! Where are you that I do not see you alert? Wake up,
look at My face, see how My Body trembles in this tribulation that I
experience! Why do you sleep? Wake up and pray with Me; I have
sweated Blood for you!
Peter, My chosen disciple, do you not care about My Passion?… James, to
you I have given so much preference, look at Me and remember Me! And
you John, why do you let yourself sink into sleep with the others? You can
bear more than they… Do not sleep, keep watch and pray with Me!
This is what I obtained: seeking comfort, I found bitter affliction. Not even
they are with Me. Where else shall I go?… It is true, My Father gave Me
only that which I asked for, so that the judgment to all humanity would fall
upon Me. My Father, help Me! You can do all; help Me!
I prayed again as a man for whom all hope has been destroyed and who
seeks comprehension and comfort from on high. But what could My
Father do if I had freely chosen to pay for everything? My election had not
changed. Nevertheless, the natural resistance had come to such an
excessive degree that My humanity was overwhelmed.
Again I fell to the ground on My face because of the shame of all your
sins; again I asked My Father to take away that Chalice. But He answered
that, if I did not drink from it, it would be as if I had not come to this
world and for Me to console Myself because many creatures would take
part in My agonies in the Garden.
I answered: Father, do not let My Will be done, but Yours. This Angel has
assured Me of Your Love, and this brief joy that You have sent Me, has
done a good deed even with My natural resistance. Give Me My creatures,

those I have redeemed. You Yourself take them because for You I have
accepted. I want to see You content. I offer You all My sufferings and My
unchanging Will, that in truth is not in disagreement with Yours, because
We have always been One… Father, I am destroyed but thus Our Love
will be known. Your Will be done, not Mine!
Again I returned to wake My Disciples, but the rays of the Divine Justice
had left Me in a permanent rut… They became filled with fright when they
saw Me like a mad man, and the one who suffered the most was John. I,
silent… they stunned… Only Peter had the courage to speak. Poor Peter, if
he had only known that part of My agitation had been caused by him.
I had taken My three friends so that I could rest in them and in their love,
so that they could help Me by sharing My anguish, and pray with Me…
How do I describe what I felt when I saw them asleep?
How My Heart suffers even today and, wanting to find relief in My souls,
I go to them and find them asleep. More than once, when I wanted to wake
them and take them out of themselves, away from their worries. They
answer Me, if not with words, with deeds: “Not now, I am too tired; I have
too much to do; this is bad for My health; I need a little time; I want some
peace.”
I insist and gently tell that soul: Do not fear. If for Me you leave your rest,
I shall reward you. Come and pray with Me, only one hour! Look, this is
the moment when I need you! If you stop, will you now be behind
schedule? How many times I hear that same answer!
Poor soul, you have not been able to keep watch one hour with Me. Soon I
will come and you shall not hear Me because you are asleep. I will want to
give you the Grace but since you are asleep, you shall not be able to
receive it. And who will make sure that later you will have the strength to
wake up?… It is possible that deprived of food, your soul will be weak
and you may not be able to come out from that lethargy.
Many souls have been surprised by death in the middle of a deep sleep
and, where and how have they awakened?

Dear souls, I also want to teach you how useless and vain it is to look for
relief in creatures. How often they are asleep and, instead of finding the
relief that I look for in them, I leave with bitterness for they do not
correspond to Our wishes nor to Our Love.
When I prayed to My Father and asked for help, My sad and abandoned
soul was suffering the anguish of death. I felt overpowered with the
weight of the worst ingratitude.
The Blood that poured out of all the pores of My Body and that in a short
time would gush forth from all My wounds, would be useless for a great
number of souls that would be lost. Many would offend Me and many
would not know Me! Later I would spill My Blood for all and My merits
would be applied to each one of them. Divine Blood! Infinite merits! And
yet, useless for so many, many souls.
But by then I was already going to encounter other things, and My Will
was bent to the fulfillment of My Passion.
Men, if I suffered, it has certainly not been without fruit nor without
reason. The fruits that I have obtained have been Glory and Love. It is
now up to you, with My help, to demonstrate to Me that you appreciate
My work.
I never tire! Come to Me! Come to He who vibrates in Love for you and
who only knows how to give you the real Love that reigns in Heaven and
that transforms you now on earth.
Souls that taste My thirst, drink from My bitter and glorious Chalice, for I
tell you that the Father wants to reserve some of the drops of this Chalice
precisely for you. Think about these few drops taken from Me and then, if
you believe, tell Me that you do not want them. I have not set limits and
neither should you. I was destroyed without mercy. For love, you should
allow Me to destroy your self-esteem.
I am He who works in you, just as My Father worked in Me when in the
Garden.

I am He who gives you sufferings so that one day you may be happy. Be
docile for a time; be docile in imitation of Me because this helps you
greatly and it pleases Me a great deal. Do not lose anything, but rather
acquire the love. How could I allow My beloved ones to suffer real losses
while they try to show Me love?
I wait for you. I am always waiting and I shall not tire. Come to Me;
come as you are, it does not matter as long as you come. Then you shall
see that I will adorn your foreheads with jewels, with those drops of Blood
that I spilled in Gethsemane - those drops are yours, if you want them.
Come, soul, come to Jesus who calls you.
I said: My Father; I did not say: My God. This is what I want to teach you:
when your heart suffers most, you should say “My Father” and ask Him
for consolation. Show Him your sufferings, your fears, and with moans
remind Him that you are His children. Tell Him that your soul can no
longer bear it! Ask with a child’s trust and wait, for your Father will help
you; He will give you and the souls who trust, the necessary strength to go
through your tribulations…
This is the Chalice that I accepted and drained to its last drop. Everything
to teach you, dear children, not to ever believe again that suffering is
useless. If you do not see results always attained, yield your judgment and
allow the Divine Will to be fulfilled within you.
I did not retreat. On the contrary, knowing that it was in the Garden where
they had to apprehend Me, I stayed there. I did not want to flee from My
enemies…
My daughter, tonight allow My Blood to irrigate and strengthen the roots
of your littleness.

UDAS

ELIVERS

ESUS

fter having been comforted by My Father’s messenger, I saw that
Judas, followed by all those who would apprehend Me, was

approaching Me. They had ropes, sticks, and stones… I stepped forward

and told them: “Who are you looking for?” While Judas, with a hand on
My shoulder, kissed Me…
So many souls have sold Me and will sell Me for the wretched price of a
delight, for a momentary and passing pleasure… Poor souls, those that
look for Jesus, as the soldiers did.
Souls whom I love; you, who come to Me and receive Me in your bosom,
who tell Me so many times that you love Me… will you hand Me over
after you receive Me? In the places that you visit there are stones that
wound Me, there are conversations that offend Me, and you, who have
received Me today lose the beautiful whiteness of Grace there.

Why do the souls who know Me, hand Me over this way when on more
than one occasion they boast of being pious and practicing charity? All
things that truly could help you acquire greater merits… What are they to
you but a veil to cover your crime of treasuring goods on earth?
Be watchful and pray! Fight without rest and do not let your bad
inclinations and defects become habitual.
Look, it is necessary to cut down the grass every year and possibly even
during the four seasons. You have to work the land and clear it. You have
to make it better and take care to pull out the weeds that sprout up in it.
You also have to take care of the soul with much diligence and you must
straighten out the twisted tendencies.
Do not believe that the soul who sells Me and gave itself to grave sin,
started with a grave sin. Usually the great fall started with something little:
something the soul enjoyed, a weakness, an illicit consent, a pleasure that
is not forbidden but that is not very convenient… In this way, the soul
starts blinding itself, it diminishes in Grace, the passion strengthens, and
lastly, it conquers.
Understand this: if it is sad to receive an offense and ingratitude from any
soul, it is more so when it comes from My most beloved, chosen souls.
However, others can do reparation and console Me.

Souls, you whom I have chosen to make My resting place, the garden of
My delights, I expect from you greater tenderness, more gentleness, and a
lot more love.
I expect you to be the balm that heals My wounds, to clean My face made
ugly and dirty; to help Me give light to so many blind souls that in the
darkness of night apprehend Me and bind Me to give Me death.
Do not leave Me alone… Wake up and come, for My enemies are
arriving!
When the soldiers came close I said: “I am!” These same words I repeat to
the soul who is about to fall into temptation: ”I am,” there is still time and
if you want, I shall forgive you. And instead of you tying Me up with the
ropes of sin, I am He who shall tie you up with the bond of Love.
Come, I am He who loves you; the One who has so much compassion for
your weaknesses; the One who is anxiously waiting to receive you in His
arms.
The episode of My capture, well examined, has a lot of importance. If
Peter had not given that blow to Malchus, I would not have had the
opportunity to call to your attention the method I want you to use in
fighting for Me.
Then I made use of a proverb to admonish Peter and I restored Malchus’
ear because I do not like violence, being that I am the Lord of liberty. But
notice that apart from doing this, I expressed to Peter the firm desire that
My Passion be completed and I made him contemplate the fact that if I
wanted, the Father would defend Me with His Angels.
See how many things in just one episode? But the main thing is precisely
the lesson that I had to give to all of you about fighting your enemies.
Whoever is like Me does it thus: he allows himself to be taken where they
want to take him, because he will have strength in the moments which are
not those sought by the world (by man), by human experience, and by the
astuteness of self-love.

No, whoever is like Me shall stay in the situation where he is placed and
will receive unknown but vigorous strength to dominate his suppressors.
My true disciple does the most improbable things without interrupting in
the least My designs for him. The world pleases itself with singularities, in
excelling, and showing its own superiority. This is the spirit that I have
fought and conquered. That is why I told you all to take courage, because
having conquered it, that world can now do nothing to cut its unity with
Me provided that you do not unite with it. If you do, you would have to
suffer the consequences with the added difficulty that since I Myself
oppose its victory with the weapons of the world, many times you will
have as adversaries the world and Me - the world because of its selfish
love, and Me for pure Love, for Love of your true well- being.
Therefore, no blows like Peter’s to the ears of your enemies without full
acceptance of the Chalice that I offer you. A Chalice in which you should
see My Will as I saw that of My Father when I asked the beloved Peter:
“Do you not want Me to drink from this Chalice that My Father gives
Me?”
Always meditate on My Passion, but penetrate intimately into My Spirit
and obtain the impressions that are wholesome and incite you to imitate
Me. Naturally, I am He who works these things in you but you must apply
yourselves and, later, you will attain what I say.
Ah! If man could only understand this aspect of My Passion! How much
easier it would be to yield and relive My Life!
Go ahead, My children, everything is a question of love, not of anything
else. Of love and My work that I want to accomplish in you, and of you
always loving Me more. Stop reasoning in a human way; open your mind
to My world, to the one that I have with you. This is important!
You are Mine for three reasons: because I created you from nothing;
because I redeemed you; and because you shall receive part of My Crown
of Glory. That is why you must remember that I care for you for these
three reasons, and that I could never lose My interest in whom I have
created, have saved, and in whom shall be My Glory.

You are driven to this path and you must travel it all. As it was for Me, it
will not only be good for you but also for many of your brothers who
should receive from Me, through you, Grace and Life.
Advance, because I delight Myself in it; learn, because Love wants to
possess you completely.
I give you My Blessing, full of promise. I give it to all of you with the
power that I enjoy as a man, power that is yours, and joy that I shall award
with the prize, which shall confirm My infinite Love for you.
My hour had come; the hour in which I had to consummate the sacrifice,
and I surrendered Myself to the soldiers with the meekness of a lamb.

ESUS

AKEN BEFORE

AIAPHAS

was taken before Caiaphas, where I was received with jeers and
insults. One of his soldiers struck My cheek. It was the first blow I

received and in it I saw the first mortal sin of many souls who, after
having lived in grace, committed that first sin… So many other sins
followed that first sin, serving as an example so that other souls would
also commit them.
My Apostles abandoned Me and Peter remained hidden behind a fence,
amongst the servants, spying, moved by curiosity.
With Me were men only trying to accumulate crimes against Me,
accusations that could further incite the anger of such wicked judges.
There I saw the faces of all the demons, of all the bad angels. They
accused Me of disturbing the order, of being an instigator and a false
prophet, of being blasphemous, and profaning the Sabbath. And the
soldiers, overexcited by the slanders, shouted and threatened Me.
Then My silence cried out, shaking My whole Body. Where are you,
Apostles and disciples who have been witnesses of My Life, of My
teachings and of My miracles? Of all those from whom I was expecting

some proof of love, there is no one left to defend Me. I am alone and
surrounded by soldiers who want to devour Me like wolves.
Contemplate how they mistreated Me: one deals Me a blow against the
face, another thrusts his dirty saliva at Me, another twists My face to make
fun of Me; another pulls My beard; another wrings My arms between his
fingers; another hits My genitals with his knee, and when I fall, two of
them pull Me up by the hair.

ETER

ENIES

ESUS

hile My Heart offers to suffer all these ordeals, Peter, whom I had
named “Leader and Head of the Church” and who hours before had

promised to follow Me unto My death, denies Me in response to a simple
question that is asked of him and which could have served him in giving
testimony of Me. And as fear seizes him even more, when the question is
repeated, he swears that he has never known Me nor has he been My
disciple. Questioned for the third time, he answered with terrible curses.
Little children, when the world protests against Me and, turning towards
My chosen souls, I see Myself abandoned and denied, do you know how
great is the sadness and bitterness in My Heart?
I shall tell them as I told Peter: Soul, whom I love so much, do you not
remember the tests of love that I have given you? Have you forgotten that
many times you have promised Me to be faithful and to defend Me?
You do not trust yourself because you are lost; but if you come to Me with
humbleness and firm trust, fear nothing; you are well sustained.
Souls, you, who live surrounded by so many dangers, do not enter into
occasions of sin through vain curiosity; be careful that you could fall like
Peter.
And you souls who work in My vineyard, if you feel moved by curiosity
or by some human satisfaction, I shall tell you to run away. But if you

work for obedience and are propelled by zeal for souls and for My Glory,
be not afraid. I will defend you and you shall depart victorious.
My beloved, I am educating you little by little and with much patience. I
am consoled with the thought of having a pupil eager to learn. Thus, I
forget your negligence and mistakes. If I look in creation for the most
beautiful names to call you, be not afraid. Why do you suppress them?
Love has no limits.

ESUS

AKEN TO

RISON

et us go on with this painful story, which you will manage to take to
as many people as you can. I will enlighten you in the way in which it

should be done.
When the soldiers took Me prisoner, Peter was half hidden in one of the
patios amid the crowd. Our looks crossed; his eyes were disoriented, it
was only for a fraction of a second and yet, I told him so much!… I saw
him cry bitterly for his sin and with My Heart I told him: “The enemy has
tried to possess you but I do not abandon you. I know that your heart has
not denied Me. Be ready for the battle of the new day, for the renewed
battles against spiritual darkness and ready yourself to take the good news.
Goodbye, Peter.”
How many times I look into the soul that has sinned, but does it look also?
Not always do our eyes meet. How many times do I look at the soul and it
does not look at Me; it does not see Me; it is blind… I call it by its name
and it does not answer Me. I send it a sorrow, a pain, so that it can come
out of its sleep, but it does not want to wake up.
My beloved ones, if you do not look at Heaven, you shall live as beings
deprived of motive. Raise your head and contemplate the Home that
awaits you. Search for your God and you shall always find Him with His
eyes fixed upon you, and in His look you shall find peace and life.

Contemplate Me in prison where I spent a great part of the night. The
soldiers came to insult Me with words and deeds, pushing Me, hitting Me,
making fun of My condition as a man.
Close to dawn, fed up with Me, they left Me alone tied up in a dark, humid
and foul-smelling room, full of rats. I was tied in such a way that I had to
be standing up or sitting on a pointed rock which was what they gave Me
as a seat. My aching body was soon numbed with cold. I remembered the
thousands of times that My Mother covered My Body, wrapping it up
when I was cold… and I cried.
Now let us compare the Sanctuary with the prison and, above all, with the
hearts of men. In prison I spent one night… how many nights do I spend
in the Sanctuary?
In prison the soldiers, who were My enemies, injured Me; but in the
Sanctuary I am badly treated and insulted by souls who call Me Father. In
the prison I was cold, sleepy, hungry, ashamed, sad, aching, lonely, and
abandoned. I could see, over the course of time, how in so many
Sanctuaries I would not have the coat of love. So many frigid hearts would
be for Me like the rock in the prison!
So many times I would be thirsty for love, thirsty for souls! So many days
do I wait for such a soul to visit Me, to receive Me in its heart because I
have spent the night alone and have thought about that soul in order to
quench My thirst! So many times I hunger for My souls, for their fidelity,
for their generosity!
Do they know how to calm this longing? When they have to undergo some
suffering, will they know to tell Me: “this will help to ease Your sadness,
to be with You in Your loneliness?” And, O! If at least united to Me and as
long as you would console My Heart, you would endure it all with peace
and be strengthened.
In prison I felt shame when I heard the horrible words that were said about
Me, and that shame grew when I later saw that those same words would be
repeated by beloved souls.

When those dirty and repugnant hands struck My face and hit Me, I saw
how many times I would be hit and struck by so many souls who, without
purifying themselves from sin, without cleaning their house with a good
confession, would receive Me in their hearts. Those habitual sins would
strike Me repeatedly.
When they would make Me get up by pushing Me, being without strength
and because of the chains that bound Me, I would fall to the ground. I saw
how so many souls, tying Me up with the chains of ingratitude, would let
Me fall upon the stones renewing My shame and prolonging My
loneliness.
Chosen souls, contemplate your Spouse in prison. Contemplate Me this
night of such pain and consider that this pain is prolonged in the solitude
of so many Sanctuaries, in the coldness of so many hearts.
If you want to give Me proof of your love, open your heart so I can make
it My prison. Tie Me up with the chains of your love. Cover Me with your
gentleness; feed Me with your kindness. Quench My thirst with your zeal.
Console My sadness and abandonment with your faithful company. Make
My shame disappear with your purity and honest intentions.
If you want Me to rest in you, avoid the tumult of your passions and in the
silence of your soul, I shall sleep peacefully.
Now and then you will hear My voice that softly tells you: Spouse of
Mine, now that you are My rest, I will be yours through eternity. To you,
who provide Me the prison of your heart with so much dedication and
love, I promise that My reward shall have no limits, and the sacrifices that
you have made for Me during your life will not weigh you down.

ESUS

AKEN BEFORE

EROD

ilate ordered that they take Me to the presence of Herod… He was a
poor corrupt man who only searched for pleasure, allowing him to be

driven to disorderly passions. He was glad to see Me come before his
tribunal because he hoped to amuse himself with My words and miracles.

Consider, My children, the repulsion that I felt in the presence of the most
repulsive of men, whose words, questions, and affected gestures covered
Me with confusion. Pure and virginal souls, come to surround and defend
your Spouse.
Herod expects Me to answer his sarcastic questions but I do not utter a
word; I keep the most absolute silence before him. Not answering was the
greatest proof of My dignity that I could give him. His obscene words
were not worthy to cross with My pure ones. In the meantime, My Heart
was infinitely united to My Heavenly Father. I was consumed with desire
to give up even the last drop of My Blood for souls. The thought of every
man, who later would follow Me, conquered by My example and
generosity, ignited Me in love and, not only did I enjoy that terrible
interrogation but I wanted to run to the torture of the Cross.

ESUS

AKEN

GAIN BEFORE

ILATE

allowed them to treat Me as a mad man and they covered Me with a
white tunic as a sign of their ridicule and their making fun of Me. Later,

in the middle of furious mocking shouts, they took Me again before Pilate.
Watch how this bewildered and very confused man does not know what to
do with Me. And to quiet the fury of the mob, he commands that they have
Me scourged.
Represented in Pilate, I saw the souls that lack the courage and generosity
to break away once and for all from the demands of the world and from
their own nature. Instead of nipping the dangers of what their conscience
tells them about not being of the world and of nature, their conscious mind
tells them not to be of the good spirit. Then they give in to a whim, enjoy
themselves in a passing satisfaction, and surrender in part to what their
passion demands. And to silence the guilty feelings, they tell themselves:
“I have already deprived myself of this or that, and that is enough.”