Limbo dos patriarcas (dos justos) antes de Cristo e Limbo das crianças que morrem sem o batismo
       SUPLEMENTO: Revelações privadas de videntes católicos sobre o Limbo dos Patriarcas (Não reconhecidas oficialmente pela Igreja)
             Revelação da vidente Maria Valtorta

 Após a morte, Jesus desceu ao Limbo para resgatar os justos

Jesus says:
^[...] "It is I who have overcome death and Death, I who have called back to Life the dead in Limbo.
They were sleeping. Like Lazarus, whose resurrection veils this truer one. I called them. And they rose again. I, born of a woman who was the daughter of Adam, but without the original stain — that is, as all the children of Adam should have been — am thus the Firstborn, in the natural order, of Adam, born alive in the midst of those begotten dead of Adam.
"I am the ‘Firstborn’ in the divine order because I am the Son of the Father, the Begotten One, not created by Him.
"To beget means to produce a life. To create means to form. I can create a new flower. The artist can create a new work. But only a father and a mother can generate a life.
"I am, then, the ‘Firstborn’ because, born of God, I am at the head of all those born (according to the grace) of God.
"When by my Death I violently shook the gates of the hereafter and drew those sleeping out to the first resurrection, I also opened the sluices of the mystical lakes in whose washing the sign which kills is cleansed away, the Death of the spirit dies, the real Death, and the Life of the spirit is born, real Life.

  Vide também Vida e Obra de Maria Valtorta

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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.

Jesus says:
^[...] "But the weakness of man is so great that on his own he would be unable to comprehend and act, repent and be saved. The weaker man is – and sin is weakness for the spirit, a weakness which, the more serious or numerous and repeated sins are, grows more and comes to kill the strength of the soul by consumption – the less he is able to comprehend, act, repent, and be saved. Through the Communion of the Saints, the infusion of supernatural strength then comes to him, which makes him able to comprehend, act, repent, and be saved.
"Elihu says, "If an angel speaks on his behalf, God will have mercy on him. " In Job"s time Heaven was populated only by angels. The just were waiting for Christ in their stay in Limbo in order to become citizens of the Heavens. But now the processions of the saints in Heaven and the saints on earth join with the angels.
"O what a sweet chain joins and locks together Earth and Heaven and the saints in Heaven and the just on Earth with its golden links of charity, to surround the poor of the Earth in an embrace whose fruit is help and salvation – the real poor, those who are deprived of or endowed very little with Grace!
"This sublime Communion of the "living" spirits on Earth and in Heaven is too little known in its truth; its purpose is to communicate the Life they are filled with in being one with Me as Life to their poor sick, dying, and sometimes already dead brothers and sisters.
Prayers to obtain an even more forbearing patience from God, prayers to obtain thunderbolts from Him, not of punishment, but of love, which will convert sinners, as Saul was converted on the road to Damascus, offerings for them, and secret, never sufficiently blessed acts of immolation which flow like the surge of an immense river to pour into the basins of the heavenly graces, whereby the more treasures are drawn out of these basins, the more they overflow with them, for all the just who are alive and all the saints who ascend nourish this ocean, initially formed by my Blood, with which I associate your tears and your merits, so that you may be "one with Me" in redeeming and in loving, in suffering and in enjoying.
"There was someone who asked you how and through what light the indulgences which are not confirmed by an evident miracle are granted. This is one of the rocks against which the spirits that are not wise in Faith founder or get stuck. As the good Teacher who want you to be wise and not ignorant – for to know is to love, to know is to be saved, and I, the King as well as the Teacher, want you to be saved because I am the good King, and a good king loves his subjects and wants them safe within the confines of his realms, not a prey to pain, indigence, and death – I thus instruct you in this truth.
"The indulgences are applied by drawing the means for them out of the treasuries of the Communion of the Saints – from the coffer of the Holy One among the saints, I, Jesus, to that of the just. Like meadows in the springtime after a tepid nocturnal downpour which present themselves to the sun"s kiss entirely covered with flowers, so, under the dewfall of Grace, I see just souls blossoming on the arid fields of the earth and living, smelling sweetly, and dying with their corollas stretching towards Heaven, into which they pour their life and fragrance, which, fused with the luminous life and fragrance of the blessed, then come back down to sanctify the earth.
The sod that receives them and is able to bring a new spirit to blossom as a child of God on the arid flintstone is fortunate.
"Are you perhaps afraid that the millions and millions of days of indulgences will not be covered by the sum of merits? Oh, do not fear! I infinitely multiply the merits of the saints because I fuse them to mine, which are infinite. Even if every man were to benefit from them every day, and for the total sum of all the days of indulgence of all the prayers on earth, the treasures of merits are so great that they would not be seen to diminish.
"But do you fear that the one applying them applies them mistakenly? I said to Peter, "What you release on earth shall also be released in Heaven." If I, then, have given my Peter and those succeeding him the authority to absolve people of their sins and thus release them from the knot of the Evil One, it is logical for Me to have also given him the authority to take from among the treasures of Heaven those riches which remit your debt as well, or part of it, which remains after absolution from condemnation. If it is possible for the person invested with my spirit to judge and absolve, why should it not be possible to apply unquestionable wealth?
"A sin may be judged personally This happens only rarely at my Tribunal ^{[for example, when the Priest does not forgive a specific sin of the person]}, for I make up for the gaps in my judges and enlighten their vision. I leave only those who are not worthy to be such without light. But there is no danger for souls in this, for I compensate in their regard with my mercy, guiding them to other priests worthy to orient them. I am always vigilant. A sin may be judged personally.
There are thus numerous differences among judges in severity. But the merits of the saints are certain and sure in their vastness. There is, then, no reason to fear that the Head of the Church and the heads of dioceses, in drawing from them abundantly, will one day seek to apply what no longer exists ^{[the merits are not exhausted]}. Be assured, then.
"I hear the objection "But is it proper to associate one indulgence or another with a certain prayer, practice, or festivity?"
"Do not worry. Even if it were not proper – but I have you note that in matters of worship my Pastors are divinely guided – even in this case, I would never allow souls to be deceived in their trust. One prayer, practice, or festivity or another, then, will give souls the indulgence applied to them through the merit of the faith of souls, a merit and faith which I never overlook, but reward without fail.
"Let us, then, take into consideration as well the case where a Pastor grants an indulgence to something ^{[a sin]} which does not deserve it.
Even more, to something which is an error. Even more, when the Pastor is devoid of light because he is spiritually dead through mortal sin. Are souls for this reason deprived of the time of indulgence granted for that thing? No. Never. They, the good souls, carry out that thing for an upright, holy purpose. Their action thus starts from a holy point to arrive at an even holier one: the Communion of the Saints. If in the middle of the journey the tower of an error rises up, it does not block their coming, for their action flies and does not crawl, surmounting and passing high over the obstacle and coming to dive directly into the heavenly treasures, with no impairment of any kind.
"I reward true faith. And remember a great truth: every act of faith is the fruit of love. Love is by itself the total indulgence canceling out a multitude of sins. Even if an indulgence has been applied without any authority, for the soul that out of love for Me seeks to acquire it, the indult of my infinite love is reserved and applied, which will free it from every shadow of spiritual death so as to live and see the Light.

^{[Maria Valtorta says:]} I also took the liberty of repeating to Jesus, present and so good, a question I had been asked by a Servite Father — I don’t know exactly who, but I think it was Father Berti, and I don’t know whether it was by his own initiative or as suggested by others — concerning Jesus’descent into Hell, which I had accidentally come across again, referred to on January 15, 1944, and which seemed to have provoked someone.
He replied…. Father Berti’s letter then arrived, asking me to write a note to be presented to the Holy Father. And Jesus, smiling, completely luminous, said to me as soon as the letter was brought to me, "This is why precisely now, after four months, I am satisfying you, and for this priest, to whom I previously told you you could communicate this point. As for the other points, you know who you must give them to and when, and how to notify them. And now listen, for I shall repeat the beginning."
Jesus says:
"You shall give these words to Father Berti. You now know it was he who asked you about them: "When I gave the dictation on January 15, 1944 to my Maria ^{[Maria Valtorta]} and said, ‘When I descended there to take those who awaited my coming out of limbo, I experienced the horror of that horror, and if something done by God were not immutable because it is perfect, I would have wished to make it less atrocious, for I am Love, and I felt pain over that horror,’ I wanted to speak of the different places in the hereafter, where the deceased were, grouped together in general and called ‘hell,’ as opposed to Paradise, where God is.
"When, in the superabundance of my joy after the consummation of the Sacrifice, I was able to open Limbo for the just and take many spirits out of Purgatory, I shook with horror, contemplating in my thought that only for the place of damnation was there no redemption or transformation of horror. But I did not enter there. It was not proper or useful to do so.
"Are you astonished that I took many souls out of Purgatory as well? Consider: if a Holy Mass can free someone from Purgatory and always serves to abbreviate and sweeten purgation, what must the real Sacrifice of the Divine Lamb have meant for those in Purgatory? As the Priest and Victim, I applied my merits and my Blood to them, and It whitened the stoles which had not yet been rendered white by the white fire of purgative charity.[An application of Revelation 7:13-14]
"Send him this and my blessing."