To instruct, to educate

Jesus instructs the Apostles and gives them his recommendations - James Tissot, Brooklyn Museum.

Let us sanctify the day with a page from the Gospel. For my Word is sanctification. Look, Maria. Because to look at the days of the Christ on the earth is sanctification. Write, Maria. Because to write about the Christ is sanctification. Because to repeat what Jesus says is sanctification. Because to preach Jesus is sanctification. Because to instruct the brothers is sanctification.^[1]

In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"

The 12 works of mercy of the body and of the spirit: Instructing the ignorant^[2]
Tell me, Master, You who teach how to live as a hero, how to raise him to be both in your Kingdom? What words, what Actions to teach him?...^[3]
But love is not proportional to instruction, nor to education. A Heart virgin loves with all the strength of her first love. The same applies to the virginity of thought. And love is impressed more deeply in a virgin Heart and thought than where other loves have already existed. But if God wills...^[4]

Notes and references

Note: Quotations from the work of Maria Valtorta on this page currently use machine-translated text and will gradually be replaced by the official English translation. Until then, the official translation may be consulted through the reference link provided with each quotation.

[1] EMV 364.1

[2] EMV 275.13

[3] EMV 531.15

[4] EMV 70.5

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