REVELATION OP OCTOBER 11, 1845

DESTINED IN OUR DAY TO BECOME THE FEAST OF THE MOTHERHOOD OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, WHOSE AIM IS TO HONOR MARY'S SINGULAR DIGNITY AS THE MOTHER OF GOD ON WHICH ALL HER OTHER PREROGATIVES REST

In obedience to the Archbishop's command to pray for further communications in regard to Reparation, Sister Mary of St. Peter asks the Saviour for this favor. He then reveals to her for the first time that His Holy Face is to be the exterior object of adoration in this Work of repairing for blasphemies.

SINCE THE TIME I had my interview with the Archbishop, I have not experienced anything unusual on the subject of the Work of Reparation for blasphemy although I have fulfilled the command given me by His Excellency to pray for new lights from our Lord on the subject of Reparation.

During this period, however, it pleased God to lead me through another route. This Divine Spouse hid Himself from my soul, and when I prayed He had me reflect only on my last end. Plumbing the depth of my miserable and sinful soul, our Lord gave me vivid lights to see the abyss of my nothingness. I saw that I was only a shadow of a Carmelite, and that I was indeed very much a stranger to the real thing. After receiving these illuminations, I acknowledged my guilt and begged our Lord to have the kindness to select another instrument, not as worthless as myself, for the accomplishment of His designs.

After this our Lord allowed me to be tried by temptations.

I felt within me only dispositions to do evil, and had our Lord not sustained me I would have fallen into many faults. I feared that in this condition my soul might lose sanctifying grace, and consequently I was in agony. "Lord," I would cry out, "hold me or I will die."

At times I was afraid to receive Holy Communion, for I had but a heart of ice to offer to my Divine Spouse. I was hardly able even to praise the Holy Name of God, as this exercise of Reparation, once so dear to me, now only produced bitterness and disgust. Yet at the very bottom of my soul it seemed to me that God still demanded of me that I be faithful to this Devotion.

Now, this morning, while I was wondering whether I dared to receive Holy Communion in this condition, I said to myself that the bread of the strong will help me to keep up my courage. So during Holy Mass, taking my crucifix and recalling that our Lord had told me that by reciting the Golden Arrow His Heart would be wounded with delights, I said the Golden Arrow ten times over. After that I resolved to receive Holy Communion in reparation for all the blasphemies perpetrated against the Divine Majesty.

I needed nothing more. The heart of my Divine Spouse was touched. How good is God, how great His mercy! After receiving Holy Communion, our Lord immediately revealed Himself to me, telling me that it was still as always His divine will that I exert myself in establishing the Work of Reparation for blasphemy in spite of the vehement efforts of the demon who filled my soul with sadness and repugnance, planning by these tactics to stop me and wishing to crush and annihilate altogether the Work of Reparation if it were at all in his power to affect this.

Immediately after that our Lord carried me in spirit to the road leading up Calvary, and there He vividly showed me the pious deed of charity which St. Veronica performed towards Him when with her veil she wiped His Most Holy Face covered with spittle, dust, sweat and blood. Then this Divine Saviour told me that in our present age the wicked, by their blasphemies, renew all those outrages that disfigured His Holy Face on that occasion. I was enlightened to see that all the blasphemies which wicked men hurl against the Divinity, Whom they cannot reach, fall back like the spittle of the mob upon the Holy Face of our Lord, Who offered Himself a victim for sinners.

Our Lord then instructed me saying that I must imitate the courage of St. Veronica, who bravely broke through the mob of His enemies to reach Him, and that He now presented her to me as my protectress and as my model.

Following this, our Lord told me that by practicing Reparation for blasphemy, we render Him the same service as did the pious Veronica and that just as He looked with kindly eyes upon this holy woman during His passion, so would He regard with affection all those who make reparation. I could see from our Lord's attitude that He had a very tender love for St. Veronica.

Our Lord also told me that He wanted her to be particularly honored in our community, and He invited me to ask for whatever favor we wished through the service which St. Veronica rendered Him when she wiped His Holy Face, promising me that He would grant it.

I believe that our Lord also ordered me to tell the Prioress that she should make known to the Sisters of our community these considerations regarding the excellence of this devotion to the Holy Face. Our Saviour also made me understand how pleased He was that the nuns in our convent were at the present time reciting the "Golden Arrow" a certain number of times daily, thus making Reparation for blasphemy.

As for myself, our Lord made me see that He used me merely as a simple and ordinary instrument to introduce this resplendent devotion into the community, which, now being practiced by good souls, rendered Him a pleasing service. He added that if the Sisters continued to be faithful to this devotion, our convent would reap choice blessings through its means.