Tears, To Weep
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The Tears of Saint Peter.
Blessed are the afflicted, for they shall be consoled.[1]
The 12 works of mercy of the body and the spirit: To be merciful towards those who weep.[2]
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
- Blessed are the afflicted, for they shall be consoled.[3]
- The 12 works of mercy of the body and the spirit: To be merciful towards those who weep.[4]
- Jesus speaks of the Beauty of Chorazin, a former prostitute who became leprous, whom He healed: "There was in this Heart a true humility, a true sincerity, a perfect pain. I read in this Heart. Her body was still leprous, but her Heart was already healed by the balm of years of tears, repentance, and atonement. (...) She came out of the lake pure also in her flesh, but even more pure in her Heart."[5]
- I wept before the tomb of Lazarus and so many names were given to these tears […] three ideas surfaced at that hour, sharper than ever, which, like three nails, had always pierced their points into my Heart […] The recognition of the ruin that Satan had brought upon man by leading him into evil […] The conviction that even this miracle would not have convinced the Jewish world of the Truth I had brought to it, and that no miracle would have made the world to come a convert to Christ […] The mental vision of my death.[6]
- In the parable of the lost sheep, which Mary Magdalene hears, Hidden: "Oh! poor little deluded Soul! But tell me: if I forgive you, will you still love me? But tell me: if I open my arms to you, will you throw yourself into them? But tell me: do you thirst for good love? Then: come and return to life. Return to the holy pastures. You weep. Your tears mingled with mine wash away the traces of your sin, and I, to feed you, since you are exhausted by the evil that has burned you, I open my chest, I open my veins and I say to you: 'Feed yourself, but live!'"[7]
- Repentance, patience, perseverance, heroism, and then, O sinners, I promise you that you will be your own liberators. Truly I say to you, there is no Baptism that counts, nor rite that serves, if there is no repentance and will to renounce sin. Truly I say to you that there is no sinner so great that he cannot make the Virtues that sin has torn from his Heart be reborn by his tears of repentance.[8]
In other works of Maria Valtorta
In the Notebooks
- Catechesis of August 1, 1943: Your Pride prevents your Heart from crumbling in the pain of having offended God and from being torn away, in pain, the Water of tears that purify.[9]
- Catechesis of October 2 and 3, 1943: "I never fail my promises. I am with you and I do not even say to you: ‘Do not weep,’ but on the contrary, I say to you: ‘Weep in my arms.’ There are pains that demand tears and I do not prevent what is just. Never. Weep and listen. Your tears will dry in the warmth of my words."[10]