With my heart afflicted by so much - too much - selfishness, which, because it is such, repays with indifference what was not indifference, I hear the dear voice saying to me repeatedly, “These obstacles, these expenses, and this lack of blessing upon an enterprise - which I cannot bless, because it is undertaken going against charity and against a word given months ago which people pretend to forget, but which I do not forget - were indicated in the dictation on October 11. I gave it more for them than for you, and they should have meditated and applied it. Now open the Bible. You will find a repetition of threats.”
I open the Bible by chance. I am presented with Isaiah, chapter 30: “Woe to you, O rebellious children, who make plans, but without Me, and weave a cloth which is not according to my spirit, and heap sin upon sin, and are heading off to go down into Egypt without consulting Me.... That is why on this I have forcefully spoken: ‘There is nothing but pride. Do not move.’ Now then, go and write this.... Record it with precision in a book that will serve as eternal testimony for the days to come, for this... provokes disdain.... They do not want to listen to the Law of God. They say to the prophets: ‘Do not prophesy,’ and to the seers, ‘Do not see the truth for us; talk to us about pleasant matters.’ ”794
Jesus says, “That’s enough. And I will not comment. It is even too clear.”
I ask, “And is there nothing for me?”
He replies, “Open further on.”
I open. It is still Isaiah, chapter 62, verses 11-12: “Behold. Your Savior is coming. He is bringing his reward with Him, and his work stands before Him.... You shall be called the city sought for and not abandoned.”
I kiss his gentle hand with laughter and tears and further ask, “And so? Is there nothing for the others?”
“When you are better. There will then be so very, very much that it will make you and your Father Director ascend to the third heaven.” And He laughs.
I kiss his hand again and think of you, that are so happy over the pages on Mary’s immaculate childhood and will receive many more....
794 Isaiah 30:1-2 and 7-10.