I consider that this year I missed the occasion for the absolutions and general Franciscan and Servite blessings of the Nativity of Our Lady of Sorrows and of the Stigmata of St. Francis, and I regret it.
And Jesus then says to me:
“And all that flows upon you from Me - doesn’t it have the power of absolution and benediction? Like a river of grace, words and love flow from my lips, my heart, and my hands upon you. You are entirely bathed in it, O my violet of the Cross.700
I give you my charity. I told you701 that the greatest of indulgences is that of charity, which covers a multitude of sins. For all Christians, who, however, must make an act of continuous faith and continuous charity to believe they can enjoy this indulgence and to deserve it. But you! You have your Lord before you, who loves you, and you hear his word, which assures you of his love. You have only to remain facing Him, lovingly, to be certain that the complete indulgence descends upon you from minute to minute and makes you clean.
“To love Me is very easy for someone who has Me like this. Isn’t it true? Now then, what do you regret?
“I want you humbly to follow the common way and turn to my ministers to receive those indulgences and absolutions which I have handed over to them to give in my name. But when some difficulty precludes this means for you, do not be afflicted. You have the desire to receive them, humbly recognizing your needs as a poor creature. Sincere desire, you know, has almost the value of the reality and sometimes does completely.
“And then you have Me. Your God, your Jesus, your Master, your Love. This God of yours, this Jesus and Master and Love of yours, is the Eternal Priest, begotten as such by the Father. He is the Priest of priests. Every spiritual good which comes to you on earth descends from my chair as the Supreme Pontiff.
“It is I who work, I who apply, I who give. I am Jesus, God the Son of God, Redeemer of the world. I am. From my open chest, my members broken and perforated by scourges, thorns, and nails, and my heart, broken by a delirium of love for you, there comes what cleanses: the Blood and Love. It is I who reign. It is I who love. It is I who absolve. I, to whom the Father has handed over all judgment.
“And you have Me. Be joyful, then. Here, I raise my pierced hand and bless and absolve you, my little voice. I absolve you and bless you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
699 We omit the episode involving “The Miracle of the Jordan in Flood,” written on September 17 and included in the cycle on The Third Year of the Public Life.
700 See the vision on April 22, 1943, in The Notebooks. 1943.
701 At the end of the dictation on August 4.