Teaching, Catechism

Jesus gives his teaching to the crowd from a boat - James Tissot, Brooklyn Museum

Jesus spent his public life teaching the Truths about God, faith, Heaven, and how to reach it at our death. These teachings are explained in detail in many chapters of the work of Maria Valtorta.

In "The Gospel as Revealed to Me"

• "Teachers have only one word for all their students. How is it then that ten become righteous and ten become wicked? It is because each adds from himself, from what he has in his Heart, and that is what inclines toward Good or toward evil. How then can one accuse the teacher of having given bad teaching if the Good he seeks to instill is destroyed by the excess of evil reigning in a Heart? The first factor of success is within you."
• About the Word of Jesus: Peter says: "When you speak… I understand everything but I do not remember anything. (...) Others, I mean the people who listen to you, understand you and remember what you say. How many times have we heard someone confess: 'I stopped doing this thing because you said it,' or again: 'I came because once I heard you say something else that struck my spirit.'
  We, on the contrary... hum! It's like a current of Water that passes without stopping. The shore no longer has that Water which has passed. More comes, always more, and always so much. But it passes, passes, passes..."
  Jesus answers: "(...) You spoke of the current that passes without the shore keeping any of it. A day will come when you will realize that each wave has dropped a seed for you and that each seed has given you a plant. You will find at your reach flowers and plants for all cases, and you will be amazed at yourself saying: 'But, what has the Lord done to me?'"
• Respective place of healing and teaching in the apostolate of Jesus:
  Martha says: "There are others who ask for healing. More than teaching, healing."
  "Man is hardly a fully spiritual being. He hears more the calls of the flesh and its needs," replies the Virgin.
  "However, much after the miracle new life is born of The Spirit."
  "Yes, Martha. And that is why my Son performs so many miracles. Out of goodness towards man, but also to attract him, by this means, to his way that otherwise too many would not follow."
• Bartholomew gives, in the Presence of Jesus, the first catechism lesson in Christian history to Aurea Galla, a young slave raised in total ignorance.
• "One is not a good Teacher who does not know how to measure the possibilities and reactions of his disciple, and does not reflect on the consequences that an effort beyond what a disciple can bear may produce in him.
  Even in imposing the Virtues, one must be prudent and not ask for a maximum that spiritual formation and the general resources of the being cannot provide. By demanding too strong a virtue or spiritual mastery, compared to the degree of spiritual, moral and even physical forces, achieved by a creature, one can produce a dispersion of already accumulated forces and a breaking of the being in its three degrees: spiritual, moral, physical.
  Marziam, poor child, has already suffered too much and has known too much brutality from his peers, to the point of feeling hatred for them. He could not endure what my Passion will be: a sea of painful love in which I will wash the sins of the world, and a sea of Satanic hatred that will try to submerge all those I have loved and destroy all my work as Master."
• "Every master knows these defeats. And they also serve to mortify the Pride of the spiritual masters and to test their steadfastness in ministry. Defeat should not weary the will of the spiritual educator, but on the contrary push him to do more and better in the Future."