Mary says:
“Do not be afraid. God provides divine aid.
“Among the many who had loved me, only one was with me at my death. But that pause between earthly and heavenly life which was my Dormition was not solitary. The angels watched over my sleep as so many mothers watch over a cradle. And when I was born to Heaven, like mothers they took me to carry my weakness up to the breeze which abolished humanity in its laws of weight and made me similar in my body to my beloved Son in glory.
“You have rightly called them. They are the ‘friends’ of faithful souls. And, created with an angelic nature, they are able to understand what their earthly friends intuit with difficulty, and not always.
“The priestly angel512 who was your comfort has been taken away from you. The friend who understood you has been taken away. Your parents and people from whom you received solace, though imperfect, have been taken away from you. But you still have some people left. And We remain for you. Be sure of this. Only a sin by you could empty the place in which you live of these beings, who experience no inconstancy in love and who all of Us are in Heaven.
“Do not weep, my daughter. Consider that every passing hour brings you closer to joy.
“Now sleep. Your spirit is in a darkness inhabited by golden visions sent to you by eternal Goodness and words of Truth sent to you by the divine fount itself, just as mine was in its final sleep on earth. In my final sleep. This stay of yours in darkness and human silence is longer. But it will cease in the light and the songs of Heaven.
“Do not weep, for We are with you.”
511 This dictation is preceded in the Italian edition by a vision of the Assumption of Mary which was written again in definitive form in 1951 for the Glorification cycle.
512 Her being evacuated to St. Andrea di Compito had deprived her of the constant care of Father Migliorini. See note 312.