Dear William,

Many thanks.

Your appreciation of Maria Valtorta's POEM spot lights moments of love of Jesus and Her Mother.

The POEM, seeming long hand of the prose simply halt me to stop.

The flow is just stoppable to to pause, long pause, in the embracing presence.

How do we have to sort out prose, verse, poetry?

I keep puzzling into the mysteries of language.

While not understanding, the spirit is enriched - inspiring!

Thank you for so entering on this glorious sounding board.

At the moment I should be taking the lesson we had from the Tuesday Night Reading, "the Seven Weeks of Lent are over, Easter Week has the Seven Days of Rest - awaiting the rest of Heaven."

God love.

fr. Donald

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Fw: Christ's appearance to Mary, and Maria Valtorta

On Wednesday, 23 April 2014,

William ...> wrote:

Dear Father Donald,

If I delight in following connected links in thought and in reading, how much joy you will have experienced on this trail from browsing your Chronicle > Latroun > guests > Maria Valtorta > to your own library for 'The Poem of the Man-God'. Superb!

The abiding meditation that remains with me from reading these beautiful words is, "You will never be alone. These past days you have been alone" - which had truly been the suffering of the Passion for Mary - "You will no longer be separated from Your Son". In those words, on their own, rests justification for belief in Christ's appearance to Mary His Mother. How beautifully Maria Valtorta describes their meeting!

And there are passages towards the end that fixed my attention intensely: "as real as when you carried me" on the miracle of the Sacrament; of how Mary's sorrow was 'required for My Redemption' (and of our participation, 'much is continually to be added to Redemption', explaining Col 1:24 where Paul writes of completing Christ's sufferings).

I am enthralled! A little research reveals the cautious hesitation of the Vatican authorities when presented with such mystical visions and inspirational writings, but I have found encouragement regarding this theme presented so exquisitely by Maria Valtorta, in Pope John Paul II's audience on 'Mary was witness to whole paschal mystery'

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/audiences/1997/documents/hf_jp-ii_aud_21051997_en.html

There is so much 'out there' to discover! Great explorers of this earth lived for their endeavours but died before they could fulfil their desire: we, on the other hand, whilst we too live for our endeavours, willingly will die in them for the fulfilment that was promised. Thus I console myself as I stand before so great a vista....

Thank you for such a treat!

... in the Risen Lord,

William

Note:

The Risen Christ appears to His Mother

"Rejoice, my most worthy Lady Virgin Mary, that the very moment thy Son rose from the dead, He wished this to be known to thee, His most blessed Mother, because He at once appeared in person to thee, then showed to others that He was risen from the dead, who underwent death in His living body" – St Bridget of Sweden.