Of interest, Our Lord tested her with regards to this.
February 28, 1878 - Our Lord had said to Marie-Julie: “Why don't you say in a loud voice, everywhere: 'authority keeps me in iron chains, depriving me of Holy Communion?'
Marie-Julie Jahenny replied: "My good Master, they are the authority. ”
We see Our Lord tested her very obedience to His Church authorities, even when they were in the wrong. Eventually, Pope Leo XIII overturned the unjust ruling and Marie-Julie was allowed the Sacraments again.
But notice, Marie-Julie never complained against the unjust treatment because the authority of the Church had spoken. This is the mark of a true mystic – OBEDIENCE, even when the Church itself seems to attack Heaven's work with regards to visions at times.
Marie-Julie was told that we would know a work truly comes from God when it suffers all kinds of attack, especially from the Church itself, which she was told is the 'Persecution of the Enlightened' (See post #65 click here) – it is the greatest persecution and the most meritorious she was told.
A work from God will be persecuted from BOTH the Church and the world she was told. If it is not, it is not a work of God.
When a work seems dead and buried, if it comes from God, it will again spring forth to show it is indeed from Heaven, nothing will be able to stop it, even the Church. If a work seems to flourish without any crosses, persecutions and attacks or hindrances, it does not come from God.
St. Francis de Sales told Marie-Julie he had to witness the first building of his order fall before his very eyes due to superiors' orders, and he accepted the setback – it was God's test.
We have also seen this happening through history, such as St. Louis Marie de Montfort predicting his book 'True Devotion to Mary' would be lost in a chest for nearly 100 years before it would be discovered and spread, which came to pass. St. Benedict had a sorrowful vision showing his famous monastery of Monte Casino would one day be reduced to ashes, and indeed it was nearly completely destroyed. St. Padre Pio was silenced for many years. Our Lord told St. Faustina that the revelations of His Divine Mercy would nearly be completely suppressed, but when they would seem buried and finished they would burst forth again – proof that they did come from God. The same for Marie -Julie: she has relatively gone unnoticed until now. Our Lord foretold 'the secret' i.e. her revelations, would only begin to spread at the 11th hour – I.e. before the chastisements would come.
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