This book brings together writings on the Church and the consecrated life, especially on priests and religious, drawn in varying degrees from all of Maria Valtorta’s works.
The major work, which illustrates the Gospel, highlights the Church as intended by its divine Founder, in whose spirit she was strengthened to the point of facing martyrdom.
The other works, which include teachings and warnings for our time, denounce the intellectual and moral corruptions that weaken the Church and are the main cause of evil in the world. This is a book of striking relevance.
Thus Jesus spoke to Maria Valtorta on April 25, 1948: “In truth, much of the population is like a wilderness. Evil, but not always by nature. Hateful, but not always by nature. Enemy, but not always by nature. Ninety times out of a hundred, it is out of ignorance.
Evil because it does not know the Truth. Hateful because it does not know Charity. Enemy because it does not know the Church. And I do not say ‘Church’ to describe what it appears, in its ministers, to too many and in too many cases.
It would be better, then, if many times it did not know it. I say that it does not know the Church as I founded it, animated by my spirit: love, brotherhood, fatherhood.”
