St.
Vitus visits Marie-Julie Jahenny and corrects details about his Martydom – Every Christian is a
martyr either by blood or by suffering – God Guides the soul: you
are not alone or abandoned, even when priests seem indifferent –
Unbelief in the Divine Tenderness a sign of a lack of Faith –
Without Faith Man cannot make any progress whatsoever or make a
single act pleasing to God – A Warning about those who place all
their trust in Science alone.
Ecstasy
date October
28, 1878
“I
am St. Vitus, brother of St. Modestus, Martyr. I was tortured
at a time when Christian blood flowed so abundantly at the hands of
barbarian emperors who made so many martyrs and who made the Holy
Religion and the Holy Church suffer. I fell under their treacherous
hands. I did not run away. I waited quietly for the hour of my
martyrdom without fear. Nothing moved me.
I
was martyred for having supported firmly and with faith the
Sacraments instituted by Our Lord. For this reason I shed my blood.
The Emperor was angry, cursed and condemned all that God had
established. I supported with strength and courage the infallibility
of my God. I was stabbed, stoned and torn. My whole body was in
tatters. My arms and chest were bare and without fear, without regret
and without losing courage, I could contemplate with my mortal eyes,
my flesh all torn to shreds. My torturer ordered them to cut off my
head. The order was executed. But I kept my eyes open and alive
though my body was separated from my head. I saw with my mortal eyes,
all the torments that they made my body suffer. I saw my flesh thrown
in pieces on the blood-covered paving stones. I saw, until the end,
the last shred of my flesh before my eyes closed forever. Nothing
could turn my eyes, nothing could close my eyes before the hour of
the Lord had arrived … (I.e. miraculously, his head was kept alive
until God decided the moment of death.)
Now
a word on behalf of Our Lord.
Oh!
How we carry in our hearts a valuable field and
a garden enriched with the most heavenly gifts!
This field, this garden, is the soul of a brother Christian or sister
Christian. Our Lord
designates every Christian a martyr on earth, not one martyr is the
same. God wants from some their blood and the others a martyrdom of
suffering, anxiety and depression.
But what should make us rejoice on earth is that we exist by the
Divine Will and that we are planted on earth of the Lord to be made
fruitful in the holy virtues (that are so ) necessary.
Our
adorable Lord gives us all, from the heights of Heaven, a thread to
His most Divine Tenderness. It is through this thread that God
directs us, to make us walk and lead us. When people say 'I walk
alone on earth', no, dear brothers, you do not walk alone! The thread
of the immense love of God and His love leads you, guides you and
follows you everywhere. No one walks alone. Every soul has this
thread of love to guide and direct. Our Lord, from the height of
Heaven, is our driver and our guide. The heart and the power of
man are small compared to the immense power of God. The heart of man
is good. It is generous, sensitive. But none of this goodness, nor
his feelings, nor his mercies, come close to the Divine Heart of Our
Heavenly Father as He is good, as He is tender, as He is full of
love! Do not consider yourself as being on the earth alone,
neglected and abandoned. If a pastor moves away and seems to be
indifferent to some of his sheep, will the Divine Shepherd of souls
leave it there? No, He collects it, He caresses it, He consoles it.
Why is this pastor (I.e. priest / religious) indifferent? He has, in
his heart, a ray in which lives and reigns charity, where it stays
and grows. But love has faded, collapsed with sorrow. A vein in in
his heart broke and it is perhaps most necessary for himself and for
his own good and for his graces.
God
is not indifferent. God wants the pastor to love all the sheep of His
flock, because God is not indifferent. He protects it, He retains the
ungodly, He gives him all His goods. He makes to grow in his field
that (which) grows in the field of Christian faithful. God is just
and He announces this justice to all the hearts on earth. Let us live
His justice! Let us imitate His love!
(I.e. by being kind to those who are evil as well as with those who
are good as God does). You,
brothers of the Cross, who are called on earth
to bear the immense treasures of God's blessings, these treasures, it
is the cross that the Lord gives you. You are not crushed. You do not
even feel the weight because you are called to bear the burden, you
are counted as His true disciples. That is why the burden is light.
The soul that is not required to bear the burden is crushed, it is in
anguish because it is not required to enter the home of the chosen
disciples of the Lord.
(An
interpretation: since St. Vitus points out that God is good to the
evil as well as to the just, this is the 'burden' and the cross
spoken of in this passage, for Christ's disciples are known by love
for one another, loving enemies and doing good to those who
persecute them. Those who are not Christ's disciples, possibly indicated
by the phrase 'the soul not required to bear the burden', cannot
understand this and therefore are crushed under the burden of the
cross. It is not a source of treasure for them but confusion. They
cannot understand the 'Gospel of Suffering', or how a 'tender and
loving God' could allow suffering, and this becomes the reason for their
lack of Faith, as we see in the following paragraphs)
St.
Vitus: The path of our life on earth, which seems so painful, so
sorrowful and sometimes so dark in the eyes of our body, is, by the
eyes of our soul, filled with stars and lights. It is brighter than
the day in summer, illuminated by the sun.
There
is on earth, many souls who do not believe these Divine tenderness
and Divine kindnesses. These souls have a Faith so weak that if they
had to enter the depths of their souls, we find that pale ray of the
Faith nearly wiped out, almost consumed with desires and incredulous
thoughts produced by this lack of Faith and confidence. It is the
lack of Faith, it is Faith eroded, it Faith tarnished and
extinguished by a hardened and rebellious mind that makes them
believe that the Faith does not (lead to) progress in the life of
man.
Without
faith, it is forbidden for man to progress, (even make) a single act
pleasing to God. Faith is the treasure. The lack of Faith is a dark
hell. There are incredulous minds that shape in the mind of man
the idea that God does not really exist in all His power or that He
uses His power in the sun, the stars or anything else. They make them
believe that God, existing in both parties, the sun and stars, no
longer exists on earth or in power. It is all in these two objects. (i.e. a reference to atheistic 'men of science' who disbelieve in God and turn only to that which they can see, like the study of physics, cosmology, the search for knowledge, that the universe and everything in it like the sun and moon created themselves according to 'natural laws', but that there is no God, etc. ... As St. Vitus reminded us: WE ARE NOT ALONE: there is a God! To think we are alone in this universe is dangerous to our salvation. See the quote below by the infamous English occultist and magician Aleister Crowley, inventor of the 'Thelema' occult religion that inspired the infamous occult 'Spirit Cooking' performance art rituals presented by Marina Abramovic.)
St.
Vitus: What nonsense! What lightness! What madness! Since God is
everywhere at once! Carry your cross and follow the path of death
that is established on this earth. In leaving this earth, we enter
into life. The crosses are so precious, they are so rich, they
contain so much love,happiness,
that once the soul has entered such tenderness,
you can not take it away or pull it out of the huge furnaces that you
find it in. The Cross raises the soul to heaven, quickly, lightly.
The cross gives the soul great benefits, huge favours, because all
souls that are inflamed with this love are regarded mercifully
through the Divine eyes of Our Lord. The arrival in Heaven is a joy
for them. God rewards doubly when they arrive (to be with) Him
forever. You who have the experience of suffering and pain of the
Holy Cross, you will see, one day, if my word sent to your souls will
not be full of sweetness, charms and delights in the Supreme Court of
the Lord.
Now
I am leaving. Courage, dear brothers and sisters of the Cross, your
portion is beautiful because you have the Cross that has been the
portion of all the elect, of all the Saints who reign in glory!
Persevere through all times and until death! I wish you peace and
courage ...”
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Notes:
St.
Vitus is also known as St. Guy. His feast day is celebrated June 15
with St. Crescentia and
St. Modestus. According to tradition, these saints were Sicilians,
St. Vitus is described as a child, St. Crescentia his nurse, and St.
Modestus her husband. St. Vitus is patron of those who suffer
epilepsy. He was martyred during the persecution of Diocletian in
303, in Lucania (Southern Italy).
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