REVELATION OF OCTOBER 25, 1846

Threatening further punishments to the guilty, our Saviour again urges the Sister to ask the Archbishop to establish the Work of Reparation to the Holy Face. In the meantime, He enjoins her to offer the Sacred Heart to the Eternal Father, as a Vase worthy to receive the bitter wine of God's anger.

AFTER HOLY COMMUNION our Lord told me that the cup of Divine Justice had been only partly poured out upon us as yet and I was then shown still other punishments which Divine Justice was preparing to send down to earth. At the sight of these I said to our Lord:

"Oh, sweet Jesus, if I could only drink what remains in that cup so that my brethren could be spared!"

Our Lord answering me said that He accepted my good will in this matter but that I was not able to drink the full cup, and that He Himself must drain it because He alone is able to do this.

The Divine Saviour seeing my disappointment, beckoned me to enter into His Sacred Heart. He then told me that in His excessive mercy He had given me this Heart as a Vase which alone was worthy of being presented to His Eternal Father to receive the bitter wine of His anger. Then He showed me that by passing through this Holy Channel, the bitter wine of God's anger would be changed for us into the sweet wine of His Mercy. But that since the rights of justice cannot be entirely disregarded, if I may so express myself, our Lord desires to make an alliance between His justice and His mercy, and for this end He now asks that the Work of Reparation be established. Oh, yes, our Lord will most assuredly disarm the anger of God, His Father, by offering Him from us this Reparative Work!

The following is a prayer which our Lord on this occasion dictated to me and which I now repeat continually:

"Eternal Father, look upon the Sacred Heart of Jesus which I offer to You as a Vase that it might receive the wine of Your Justice, and in passing through this Holy Channel that it may be changed for us into the Wine of Your Mercy!"

I was commanded by our Lord once more to ask His Excellency, the Archbishop, to establish this Work of Reparation. I feel that my conscience will be at peace only after I will have deposited all that appertains to this Work at the feet of the Archbishop, for I understand that this mission has been entrusted to me by our Lord.

REMARK — It was not long before we realized the truth of this communication (namely that Divine Justice was preparing to send us another kind of punishment, and that this time it would not be through the elements but through the malice of revolutionary men). Soon after this the city of Tours shook with the shocking news of a conspiracy by the Communists to seize the city government and make themselves its masters. Providentially, the bloody project of these revolutionary men was discovered in time, and although the people of the whole city were in imminent danger, yet they escaped unharmed. Without our Lord's help we would have all been lost.