REVELATION OF DECEMBER 7, 1843

VIGIL OF THE FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

Our Lord confides to Sr. Mary that whereas He would still endure patiently the contempt shown Him by sinners, He was roused to anger by the present outrages committed against His Eternal Father. The Saviour then insists that since blasphemy is universal and public, Reparation for this crime must likewise be public, and it must be extended to all the cities.

MY SOUL is terrified at what our Lord has just made me hear during prayer this morning, charging me with the duty of transmitting His message to my superiors without any fear of being deceived. He said He was incensed with anger against our nation, and that He has sworn in His wrath to avenge Himself if Reparation to the honor of His Divine Father were not made for all the blasphemies of which the people are guilty, making me hear that He could no longer remain among men who, like vipers, were tearing at the entrails of His mercy. He said that as for the contempt shown to Himself, He would still endure it patiently, but that He was roused to anger by the outrages committed against His Eternal Father. He then declared that His Mercy was on the verge of giving way to His Justice, and that His wrath would overflow with a fury such as had never yet been heard of before.

Greatly frightened, I pleaded, "My Lord, permit me to ask You if You would grant our nation pardon if this Atonement for which You ask were made to God?"

Our Lord answered me:

"Yes, I will grant it pardon once more, but mark my word, once! And since this crime of blasphemy extends over the whole nation, and since it is public, I demand that Reparation be extended to all the cities of the nation, and that it be public. Woe to those cities that will not make this Reparation!"

Now it so happened that at this time, through a mere coincidence I learned that there already existed in Rome an Association whose aim was to atone for blasphemy and that the Holy Father had granted to it a Brief under date of August 8, 1843. This was a great consolation to me, for I now felt doubly certain that the Work with which I had been entrusted, was indeed the Work of God. Moreover, I was filled with wonder at the remarkable concurrence of dates, for it was on August 26, 1843, only about two weeks after the formation of this Roman society that to me, a poor Carmelite in France, had been revealed the great Work of Reparation.