Vision
of St. Bonaventure to Marie-Julie Jahenny. His lessons on LOVE OF THE
CROSS. He gives advice to the 'victims' - i.e. the faithful following
Marie-Julie's visions in her time and her mission to spread the Great
Work of the Cross. The message is also for future generations of
'victims' who continue her mission and who will suffer persecution and
crosses, for the Glory of the Cross will bring about the restoration of Christendom.
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(June 25, 1878)
“I am the messenger of God. May the peace of God be in your soul and in the heart of the victims. I am St. Bonaventure.
I come to speak a word with you. We are all in the Way of the Cross. We must all taste the Cross and savour It with delight. That the Cross is precious and few souls relish it! THE TRUE FRIENDS OF GOD ARE THOSE WHO HAVE THE MOST CROSSES. This mark must be a great consolation for them.
As for the victims and friends of the Cross, God predestined and destined great things and great graces (for them). Victims of the Cross go by another name. Our Lord calls the soul of the victims of the Cross, suns destined and designed for greatness, high, to a profound destiny, impenetrable and hidden from God. This is how He treats them: they are a hidden sun to the world and the earth, and known (only) to God and including the designs He has for them. It is necessary the victims of the Cross are broken, crushed. The tearing, breaking, they give God honour and glory that takes shape in the soul of the victims and gives them a large share in grace.
Victims of the Cross must be regenerated, they must shake off their first life to enter the Secrets of the Love of God, that is to say, that there must be a transformation in the soul, in strength, the resignation of the victims.
God withdraws the rays of His glory that marked His designs over the persecutors of the victims and He turns His grace onto the victims who suffer and are burdened under a load of pain but who are innocent.
Here is a word for the victims of the Cross. GOD GIVES TESTS THROUGH ALL SORTS OF PAINS, KNOWN TO HIM ALONE. For the victims there will be only one joy, it will be in contempt, insults and humiliations, that is were the glory of God (is). The victims have already entered these pleasures.
There are a lot of correspondences and lights (i.e. enlightenment) for them. God makes a mixture of pains with His tenderness and His love, and this mixture passes through the suffering parts of the victims. That is why they suffer quietly.
Those on earth who do not have neither cross nor pains are to be pitied. They do not enter the road to God, in the road where He spreads His graces and blessings.
SHUN THOSE WHO DO NOT SUFFER, for God our Father DOES NOT ADMIT THEM TO THE SOURCE OF HIS WEALTH. THEY ARE LIKE A WEED AND THE SMELL THEY CARRY IS NOT THE SCENT OF THE VIRTUES OF JESUS CHRIST.
That is why the victims are called to a high predestination. It is the Cross from which commences the predestination that God will complete. The Cross begins in all our work and God nourishes it, in us, by His Power. There is no work more worthy than the work of the Cross.
Our Lord, to accomplish all His grand designs and His great wonders, had the Cross first present in His mind. OUR LORD COMMENCED ALL WITH THE CROSS AND EVERYTHING ENDS WITH THE CROSS. I say this for the victims of the Cross. We all carry a cross in our souls, our minds, in our hearts. Which is more profitable?
They all are, but the most profitable operates the greatest work in the soul, for the soul is the mother and the source of all other parts that bear the Cross. That is why God loves to perfect us by the Cross.
The cross of our body is the most painful, most sorrowful, the most desperate. It is our body that is the cross. God, who wants to render this cross perfect, will be challenged. (Or, it is a challenge.) God will put forth His hand. He will polish, use the plane to make everything sweet and pure. This cross will be so polished that it will be like a gentle oil that is found perfect when you run your finger (through it).
We have much to suffer on account of the rebellions of the spirit, the revolt of the flesh that do not bend under the plane of God.
God is at work and at the same time, He prepares and opens the path of predestination and of destination. I speak for the victims of the Cross: Perfection and destination in the glory of God, it costs much to reach the final degree of perfection, I know, I was there myself. But after this work, we are all God's.
ALL LEGIONS OF THE DEVIL ARE AGAINST US, armed with pikes and hooks made by hell, they are like lions devouring, they hate us and curse us. But I smile with happiness to have seen you resist.
God in His love, rests and watches over you. So victims of God, if you are torn, it is that the devil has passed his rage into the hearts of those who insult you; do not be frightened, do God's work all the same. There is but one goal: GOD ABOVE ALL.”
Marie-Julie: “Bless me, good saint, you who so loved Jesus Christ in the Holy Tabernacle.”
St Bonaventure: “I will pray for you and for the victims.”
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Notes: St. Bonaventure was born in 1221 at Bagnorea, near Viterbo. His baptismal name was John, but the name Bonaventure (good fortune) was given to him by St. Francis of Assisi who cured him miraculously when he was a small child as he exclaimed, 'O buona ventura!' At the age of 20 he became a Franciscan and a minister-general of the order at 36. He was nominated Bishop of York, but refused the honour. Finally, he was created cardinal archbishop of Albano in 1273. He died during the general council of Lyons. A disciple of Alexander of Hales and a friend and admirer of St. Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure is known as the "Seraphic Doctor" and was officially given the title Doctor of the Church by Sixtus V. Besides theological and philosohical works, he wrote ascetical treatises, and a biography of St. Francis of Assisi written with the aim of promoting unity among the Friars Minor. He died in 1274, and was canonized in 1482. He appeared several times to advise Marie-Julie Jahenny, who was a Tertiary of the Franciscans.
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(June 25, 1878)
“I am the messenger of God. May the peace of God be in your soul and in the heart of the victims. I am St. Bonaventure.
I come to speak a word with you. We are all in the Way of the Cross. We must all taste the Cross and savour It with delight. That the Cross is precious and few souls relish it! THE TRUE FRIENDS OF GOD ARE THOSE WHO HAVE THE MOST CROSSES. This mark must be a great consolation for them.
As for the victims and friends of the Cross, God predestined and destined great things and great graces (for them). Victims of the Cross go by another name. Our Lord calls the soul of the victims of the Cross, suns destined and designed for greatness, high, to a profound destiny, impenetrable and hidden from God. This is how He treats them: they are a hidden sun to the world and the earth, and known (only) to God and including the designs He has for them. It is necessary the victims of the Cross are broken, crushed. The tearing, breaking, they give God honour and glory that takes shape in the soul of the victims and gives them a large share in grace.
Victims of the Cross must be regenerated, they must shake off their first life to enter the Secrets of the Love of God, that is to say, that there must be a transformation in the soul, in strength, the resignation of the victims.
God withdraws the rays of His glory that marked His designs over the persecutors of the victims and He turns His grace onto the victims who suffer and are burdened under a load of pain but who are innocent.
Here is a word for the victims of the Cross. GOD GIVES TESTS THROUGH ALL SORTS OF PAINS, KNOWN TO HIM ALONE. For the victims there will be only one joy, it will be in contempt, insults and humiliations, that is were the glory of God (is). The victims have already entered these pleasures.
There are a lot of correspondences and lights (i.e. enlightenment) for them. God makes a mixture of pains with His tenderness and His love, and this mixture passes through the suffering parts of the victims. That is why they suffer quietly.
Those on earth who do not have neither cross nor pains are to be pitied. They do not enter the road to God, in the road where He spreads His graces and blessings.
SHUN THOSE WHO DO NOT SUFFER, for God our Father DOES NOT ADMIT THEM TO THE SOURCE OF HIS WEALTH. THEY ARE LIKE A WEED AND THE SMELL THEY CARRY IS NOT THE SCENT OF THE VIRTUES OF JESUS CHRIST.
That is why the victims are called to a high predestination. It is the Cross from which commences the predestination that God will complete. The Cross begins in all our work and God nourishes it, in us, by His Power. There is no work more worthy than the work of the Cross.
Our Lord, to accomplish all His grand designs and His great wonders, had the Cross first present in His mind. OUR LORD COMMENCED ALL WITH THE CROSS AND EVERYTHING ENDS WITH THE CROSS. I say this for the victims of the Cross. We all carry a cross in our souls, our minds, in our hearts. Which is more profitable?
They all are, but the most profitable operates the greatest work in the soul, for the soul is the mother and the source of all other parts that bear the Cross. That is why God loves to perfect us by the Cross.
The cross of our body is the most painful, most sorrowful, the most desperate. It is our body that is the cross. God, who wants to render this cross perfect, will be challenged. (Or, it is a challenge.) God will put forth His hand. He will polish, use the plane to make everything sweet and pure. This cross will be so polished that it will be like a gentle oil that is found perfect when you run your finger (through it).
We have much to suffer on account of the rebellions of the spirit, the revolt of the flesh that do not bend under the plane of God.
God is at work and at the same time, He prepares and opens the path of predestination and of destination. I speak for the victims of the Cross: Perfection and destination in the glory of God, it costs much to reach the final degree of perfection, I know, I was there myself. But after this work, we are all God's.
ALL LEGIONS OF THE DEVIL ARE AGAINST US, armed with pikes and hooks made by hell, they are like lions devouring, they hate us and curse us. But I smile with happiness to have seen you resist.
God in His love, rests and watches over you. So victims of God, if you are torn, it is that the devil has passed his rage into the hearts of those who insult you; do not be frightened, do God's work all the same. There is but one goal: GOD ABOVE ALL.”
Marie-Julie: “Bless me, good saint, you who so loved Jesus Christ in the Holy Tabernacle.”
St Bonaventure: “I will pray for you and for the victims.”
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Notes: St. Bonaventure was born in 1221 at Bagnorea, near Viterbo. His baptismal name was John, but the name Bonaventure (good fortune) was given to him by St. Francis of Assisi who cured him miraculously when he was a small child as he exclaimed, 'O buona ventura!' At the age of 20 he became a Franciscan and a minister-general of the order at 36. He was nominated Bishop of York, but refused the honour. Finally, he was created cardinal archbishop of Albano in 1273. He died during the general council of Lyons. A disciple of Alexander of Hales and a friend and admirer of St. Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure is known as the "Seraphic Doctor" and was officially given the title Doctor of the Church by Sixtus V. Besides theological and philosohical works, he wrote ascetical treatises, and a biography of St. Francis of Assisi written with the aim of promoting unity among the Friars Minor. He died in 1274, and was canonized in 1482. He appeared several times to advise Marie-Julie Jahenny, who was a Tertiary of the Franciscans.
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