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Maria Valtorta (Itália, ano 1897-1961) - Obra: "Notebooks 1944" Jesus says
[to Maria Valtorta]:
[...] "Those of you that live for the spirit – how do you want to regard things according to the flesh? What have you asked God for? To make you spiritual creatures.
In what time do spiritual creatures, like God, live? In God"s time. What is God"s time? An eternal present. An eternal "now." For your Eternal Father there is no past or future in Heaven. There is the eternal instant.
"God does not experience birth or death, dawn or sunset, beginning or end. The angels, spiritual, like Him, know only "one day." A day which began the instant in which they were created and which will have no end. The saints, from the moment of their heavenly birth, become possessors of this immutable celestial time, which does not pass and is fixed in its splendor as a diamond inflamed by God, in the eras of the world, which revolve around its immutable fixity, like the planets around the sun, which form and dissolve, reign and disintegrate, while it is always the same and will remain such. For how long? Forever.
"Consider, Maria. If you could count all the grains of sand which are in the seas of the whole world, at the bottom and on the banks of the lakes, pools, rivers, torrents, and brooks, and you said to Me, "Turn them into as many days," you would still have a limit to this number of days. If I joined to them all the drops of water which are in the seas, lakes, rivers, torrents, and brooks and which tremble on fronds wet with rain or dew and also added all the water which is in Alpine snows, wandering clouds, and the glaciers robing mountain peaks in crystal, you would still have a limit to this number of days. And if I also added all the molecules forming the planets, stars, and nebulae and all that flies through the firmament and fills it with Melodies which only the angels hear-for every heavenly body in its race sings the Creator"s praises, like a shining harpist gliding his hands over azure harps, and the firmament is filled with this concert of a huge organ-you would still have a limited number of days. And if I added the dust buried in the earth, dust which is the earth of men who have gone back with their matter to nothingness and which for hundreds of centuries has been awaiting the command to become man again and see the triumph of God – and there are billions of billions of atoms of man – dust belonging to billions of men who thought they were so much and for ages and ages have been nothing, and the world does not even know they lived – you would still have a limited number of days.
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The Kingdom of God is eternal, like its King. And eternity knows only one word: "Now." You, too, and, with you, all those consecrated to the holocaust, must know this word alone to measure the time of pain.
""Now." How long have I been suffering. Since now. When will it cease? Now. The present. For spiritual creatures there is only this which is God"s. Time as well. Learn, before the time comes, to calculate time as you will possess it in Paradise. Now.
"Oh, blessed is that time, which is immutable possession, immutable contemplation of God, immutable joy! "Life is the blinking of an eye; earthly time lasts a breath. But my Heaven is eternal." This is the chord which must govern your song as creatures who are martyrs and blessed.
"You read in the life of my martyr Cecilia
[Saint Cecília]: "Cecilia was singing in her heart." You as well-sing in your hearts. Sing: The "now" of God, who awaits me. I already find myself enveloped in the abyss of this eternal "now," and this abyss draws me closer and closer to the center of its perfection. I am thus seeing I his dust fall away, where every atom is a day, and a grain is a month; I see it fall, blown away by this whirlwind, which, inhales me into God, and it is the love of God, who wants to give me "his" time. He wants to give me his eternal present, where to every second of earthly time there corresponds a receiving into myself of the blessedness of having God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, in an embrace that is always new, always desired, always wanted, without weariness, rich in ever-new splendors, ever-new savors, and ever-new love. And I am born with every new arrival as at the first moment when I enjoyed Him-this Triune God, my only Love; and with every new arrival I reach the perfection of Life and am then reborn to my joy as a blessed one to love Him on and on and on, and to be loved by Him on and on and on. Not more.
For there, in Paradise, everything has reached Perfection and is not capable of increases
or decreases, but with ever-the-same, fresh rejoicing. Mine as a blessed one embracing God. His, as God, who can pour his love, his
essence, over a creature of his whom He created out of love, to receive that person"s love and give and give and give that person love."