REVELATION OF MARCH 12, 1846

In this communication our Saviour points to one of the least known among the Saints, the Good Thief, St. Dysmas, who through a last-minute public act of Reparation obtained forgiveness. He is to be a model for priests who now imitating His bold, open defense of the Saviour's cause on Calvary, must openly from the pulpit preach and defend His cause of Reparation.

OUR LORD revealed Himself to me this morning after Holy Communion and He made known to me that two persons had rendered Him a particular service during His Passion. The first of these was the pious Veronica (already mentioned), who honored His Sacred Humanity by wiping His adorable Face on the road to Calvary. The second person was the Good Thief, who, from the cross as from a pulpit, openly defended the Saviour's cause, confessing His Divinity, and glorifying Him while He was being blasphemed by the other thief and by the mob.

Our Lord made me understand that these two persons were presented to the members of the Association of Reparation as models. St. Veronica is the model for persons of her own sex who are called to serve Him, not by preaching sermons, but by wiping His Holy Face in a spirit of reparation for blasphemies through their prayers, their praises and adoration.

The Good Thief, however, who so openly and boldly defended the Saviour's cause on Calvary, is held up more especially as a model to priests who must now imitate him, and through their public preaching defend the Cause of Reparation.

After telling me this, our Saviour invited me to notice what magnificent rewards He had immediately bestowed on these two persons for their services in His behalf. To the first, that is to St. Veronica, He gave a Picture of Himself, by impressing the divine features of His Sacred Face on her veil. As for the other, that is the Good Thief (St. Dysmas), our Lord conferred upon him that very day the gift of eternal blessedness, admitting him into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Then our Lord promised me that all who defended His cause in the Work of Reparation, whether by their words, their prayers or by their writings, He would Himself defend before His Eternal Father, and that He would give them His Kingdom. Then it seemed to me that our Lord urged me to extend this promise in His Name to His priests, who through a crusade of preaching would advance the cause of Reparation.

As for His spouses who would strive to honor and wipe His Holy Face in a spirit of atoning for blasphemies, our Lord promised that at their death He would purify the face of their souls by effacing the stains of sin, and that He would restore to them their original beauty.

After that our Lord said to me:

"Write down these promises for they will make a greater impression on souls than all that you have already said regarding this Work, because these promises which speak of eternal rewards will greatly stimulate the interest of the faithful, which interest I do not condemn since I have given My life to merit the Kingdom of Heaven for sinners."

Then our Lord added:

"You will be guilty of an act of injustice if you do not make known these revelations!"