Maria Valtorta (Itália, ano 1897-1961) - Obra: "O Evangelho como me foi revelado" (1944-1950) [Jesus says to his cousin James:] And you, James, My brother, are lying in that corner as if you had lost all blessings. Why?»
[James says:] «Because I was hoping that… So, do You feel Your Wounds? Do You still feel them? I was hoping that all sorrow had come to an end for You, that every sign had been cancelled. Also for us. For us sinners. Those Wounds!… How grievous it is to see them!» «Yes. Why have You not effaced them? No sign was left with Lazarus…
[who also resurrected]
[Bartholomew says] They are a… a reproach those Wounds! They shout in a dreadful voice! They are more dazzling and frightening than the lightning on Sinai» says Bartholomew.
[Philip says] «They shout our cowardice. Because we ran away while You were receiving them…» says Philip.
[Thomas says] «And the more we look at them, the more our consciences reproach us and throw cowardice, foolishness and incredulity in our faces» says Thomas.
[Andrew says] «For the sake of our peace and that of this people of sinners, as You have died and risen to forgive the world, o Lord, cancel those charges against the world!» begs Andrew.
[Jesus says] «They are the Health of the world. It is in them that there is Health. The world that hates, opened them, but the Love has turned them into Medicine and Light. Through them Fault was nailed. Through them all the sins of men were suspended and supported, so that the Fire of Love might consume them on the true Altar. When the Most High ordered Moses to make the ark and the altar of incense, did He not want them pierced with rings [Exodus 25:12-15; 30:4; 37:3-5.27], so that they could be lifted and carried wherever the Lord wanted? I have been pierced, too. I am more than ark and altar. I am by far more than ark and altar. I have burnt the incense of My love for God and for My neighbour, and I carried the weight of all the iniquities of the world. And the world must remember that, to remember how much it cost a God. To remember how a God loved it. To remember what is brought about by sin. To remember that in One only there is salvation: in He Whom they pierced. If the world did not see the redness of My Wounds, it would really soon forget that a God sacrificed Himself for its sins, it would forget that I really died in the most cruel torture, it would forget which is the balm for its wounds. Here is the balm. Come and kiss it. Each kiss is an increase of purification and grace for you. I solemnly tell you that purification and grace are never sufficient, because the world consumes what is infused by Heaven and it is necessary to counterbalance the ruins of the world by means of Heaven and its treasures. I am Heaven. All Heaven is in Me, and the celestial treasures flow from the open wounds.» He stretches out His Hands to be kissed by His Apostles. And He has to press His wounded Hands against the eager timid lips, because the fear of increasing His pain prevents those lips from pressing against those Wounds.
[Jesus says] «This is not what causes pain, even if it gives stiffness. The pain is a different one!…»
«Which, Lord?» asks James of Alphaeus.
[Jesus says] «That I died for too many in vain…

 

 
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.