REVELATION OF DECEMBER 21, 1846

Explaining to Sister Mary that similarly as the rich would be compelled to render an account to God showing whether they helped the poor with their surplus wealth, so would Religious, and particularly Carmelites, be required to answer how they utilized the spiritual riches at their disposal to help poor sinners. To encourage Sister Mary to persevere in her prayers which she recited 100 times each day, offering the Holy Face to the Eternal Father for the salvation of the country, our Saviour showed her these prayers as a mysterious Wall protecting the nation from the darts of Divine Justice.

IT IS hardly in my power to explain what transpired within me during the last fifteen days as our Lord poured out upon this my miserable soul torrents of precious graces. This Divine Director of my soul spoke to me as follows:

"My daughter, surrender yourself more completely to My guidance, and endeavor to have more simplicity for I Myself want to impart to you true nourishment for your soul. Your repeated fears about being deceived, as also your uneasiness and frequent disquietude, prevent Me from acting in you as freely as I desire."

I then confessed that to be my fault and our Lord hastened to wield a new power over me by disclosing to me several wonderful secrets of His infinite mercy.

Another day our Lord showed me the multitude of souls that were continually falling into hell, and He invited me in a most touching manner to help these poor sinners. He pointed out to me in particular that Religious have a most strict obligation towards these poor, blind souls who precipitate themselves into the eternal abyss, and that if other charitable souls would ask grace and mercy for these blinded ones, God's mercifulness would open their eyes.

Our Saviour also said to me that if He would require rich people to render Him a strict account to show whether they really helped the poor with the surplus temporal wealth He had entrusted to them, with what greater severity would He not demand an account from a Carmelite, who as a Religious was rich to overflowing with the wealth of her celestial Spouse. He said that such a Religious would be compelled to show what use she had made of these treasures to bring about the salvation of other immortal souls. Our Lord added:

"My daughter, I give you My Face and My Heart. I give you My Blood, and I open to you My Wounds. Draw from these and pour out their spiritual riches on others. Buy without money! My Blood is the price for souls! Oh, how painful it is to My Heart to see remedies, which have cost Me so dearly, scorned! Ask of My Father as many souls as was the number of the drops of Blood that I shed in My Passion!"

On another day our Lord showed me His Holy Cross, saying that He had given birth to all His children on this bed of pain. Then He made me understand that in carrying the Cross for love of Him, and through prayers, I would obtain eternal life for those who were dead to grace, and whose resurrection He desired so ardently. Oh, what yearnings I see in the Heart of Jesus for the salvation of sinners!

On still another day our Lord placed my soul at the brink of Eternity, or rather at the gate of Time, that I might help sinners during their last agony in that dreadful journey from Time to Eternity.

Finally, our Lord gave me a vision in which I saw a mysterious wall protecting our nation from the darts of Divine Justice. Our Lord told me that this wall which reached to Heaven was the special daily devotion which I offered for the needs of our nation, undoubtedly joined to the prayers and merits which many pious souls offered to God for the same intention. This devotion consists in reciting one hundred times each day a prayer wherein the Holy Face of our Lord is offered to His Eternal Father in honor of all the Sacred Mysteries of the Saviour's life and death to implore the salvation of our country. Our Lord told me that He gave me this vision to encourage me to persevere.