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Thursday 9 November 2017

#90 St. Vitus – You Are Not Alone – A Warning About Those Who Place All Their Trust in Science without God


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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