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Maria Valtorta (Itália, ano 1897-1961) - Obra: "Notebooks 1943" Jesus says:
"There is a baptism and a baptism, daughter whom I love.
All of you that are Catholics have the Baptism which washes away original sin and which ought to have the same consequence of holiness for all, if all of you looked to Heaven instead of being nailed into the mire of the Earth with the eyes of your spirit and the roots of your being.
"Baptism, a sacrament instituted by Me in place of the baptism of John the Precursor, contains in itself all the elements to lead you to holiness. It gives you Grace, and whoever has Grace has everything.
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But it is you that do not take Grace into account and cast it aside as a useless gift. Between severe duty to be faithful to this Grace, which is nothing but God in you with all his gifts, and easy compromise with flesh and blood, money, and Evil, just for enjoyment, or in the belief of obtaining enjoyment, during those few instants of eternity which are your lives on earth, you prefer compromise.
"When the Son of God, the One who loves you, comes into the midst of the multitudes
marked with his indelible sign, that sign which is more glorious than a royal crown because it gives you a heavenly royalty as sons and daughters and heirs of the Most High, He finds that few have fought against instinct and Satan or washed away the stains of Satan and instinct by repentance so as
to have that sign of predestination clean and active. To those few, the beloved of my Heart, I, the Son of God, to whom all power of judgment is handed over by the Father, come to impart a baptism of burning fire, which blazes and consumes all humanity in them to make their spirits free and render them capable of receiving the Spirit, who speaks.
"A severe selection and a painful election in its joy. For whoever is not clean, whoever is not kept or rendered clean by love and repentance, cannot be accepted for my wheat. The sterile, empty chaff, the darnel, the harmful dodder, and the useless parasitic tendrils will be separated by my rigorous examination.

 

 
Vide também Vida e Obra de Maria Valtorta
Nota sobre a fonte: Maria Valtorta foi uma mística católica italiana. Durante sua vida, ela foi agraciada com revelações de Jesus Cristo sobre o Evangelho, e também de Nossa Senhora, do Espírito Santo e de vários santos e anjos.