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Foreword 00 .................................................................................................................................................

Introduction........................................................................................................................................... 00

1. Living Tabernacles: a Eucharistic vocation for the life of the world 00

2. Living Tabernacles: at the service of Charity and Mercy....................... 00

3. In the charism of Don Bosco: “da mihi animas, coetera tolle”....... 00

4. Paul VI and the Work of the Living Tabernacles ........................................... 00

5. Paul VI and the Work............................................................................................................. 00

Vera Grita in the “carousel of saints” ............................................................................. 00

Vera’s testimony in the context of the years from 1967-1969............ 00

Vera in the “carousel of saints”, along with Saint Thérèse of

Lisieux and Venerable Cardinal François-Xavier Van Thuân............. 00

Thérèse of Lisieux ............................................................................................................. 00

Cardinal Van Thuân .......................................................................................................... 00

A prophetic message for today’s and tomorrow’s Church ........................... 00

“Take me with you”!..................................................................................................................... 00

1. The Ark of the Covenant and the “Living Tabernacles”.......................... 00

2. “Let me deal with souls”: Jesus is outgoing....................................................... 00

3. Real presence and “Eucharistic indwelling”...................................................... 00

A biographical and spiritual profile of Vera ............................................................. 00

She went unnoticed in her short life on earth ................................................... 00

4 July 1944 the day Savona was bombed, Vera is trampled underfoot

by the fleeing crowd ............................................................................................................... 00

In the Mystery of the Cross Vera gave her “Fiat” ......................................... 00

From a distance the Lord looked down on me: “I have loved you

with an everlasting love” (cf. Jer 31:3) .................................................................. 00

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Salesian Cooperator: 24 October 1967................................................................... 00

With pen in hand and God in her heart................................................................... 00

Final years of teaching: 1967–1969 .......................................................................... 00

The experience at the Desert of Varazze ............................................................... 00

Towards her total offering.................................................................................................. 00

The introduction of Vera of Jesus’ Cause of Beatification and

Canonisation ........................................................................................................................................ 00

Biographical profile of the priests..................................................................................... 00

Fr Giovanni (John) BOCCHI SDB............................................................................... 00

Fr Bocchi and the Work of the Living Tabernacles............................... 00

Fr Gabriello (Gabriel) ZUCCONI SDB ................................................................... 00

“Beloved Apostle of my Work of Love” ........................................................ 00

Fr Giuseppe (Joseph) BORRA SDB............................................................................ 00

Fr Borra as Vera’s biographer and scholar of the “Messages” of

the Work of the Living Tabernacles.................................................................... 00

Fr Guido ROASCIO OCD.................................................................................................... 00

A personal recollection: In the footsteps of Vera and her pupils

with Father Guido Roascio......................................................................................... 00

Vera of Jesus’ notebooks ........................................................................................................... 00

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Introductory material

Vera Grita, a teacher and Salesian Cooperator, was like a

grain of wheat dropped from heaven onto earth to bear fruit. The

aim of this book is to bring together her precious legacy for us:

the contents of the 13 handwritten notebooks that make up the

Work of the Living Tabernacles, dictated to Vera by Jesus in the

Eucharist during the last two years of her earthly life (1967–1969)

are provided here.

This publication by the Centro Studi Opera dei Tabernacoli

Viventi (“Work of the Living Tabernacles” Study Centre) in Milan,

is further enriched by the presentations of two authoritative theo-

logians, Carmelite Fr François-Marie Léthel, Lecturer in Dogmatic

and Spiritual Theology at the Teresianum’s Pontifical Faculty of

Theology in Rome, and Salesian Fr Roberto Carelli, Lecturer

in Systematic Theology at the Pontifical Salesian University’s Turin

campus.

The work is further embellished by the Nihil Obstat of the Bishop

of Savona, Bishop Calogero Marino, and the letter of accompani-

ment from the Rector Major of the Salesians, Fr Ángel Fernández

Artime.

The Centro Studi Opera dei Tabernacoli Viventi was estab-

lished in February 2001 in the Salesian Province of Milan. Dedi-

cated to Vera Grita and Fr G. Zucconi sdb, it proposes to study

the spirituality and realise the message of the Work of the Living

Tabernacles, to promote the spiritual enrichment of the members

of the Work through study and prayer days, retreats, and by

proposing life models of Saints significant for their Eucharistic

and Marian charism.

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Calogero Marino

Bishop of Savona - Noli

The Nihil Obstat is granted for the publication of the book

“Take me with you!” The Work of the Living Tabernacles in the

original manuscripts of Vera Grita.

Published by the CENTRO STUDI “OPERA TABERNA-

COLI VIVENTI” (MILANO).

Savona, 25 July 2017.

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SOCIETÀ DI SAN FRANCESCO DI SALES

CASA GENERALIZIA SALESIANA

Via della Pisana 1111 - 00163 Roma

The Rector Major

Prot. 17/0297

Rome 29 July 2017

I have come to know of the Work of the Living Tabernacles,

the result of the mystical experience of Vera Grita (1923-1969),

Salesian Cooperator, and I have been informed of the new edition

of the book containing the Messages dictated to her by Jesus.

This is why I thank the Lord from the bottom of my heart for

the gift given to the Church and to our Salesian Congregation to

revive faith and love in the Eucharistic presence of Jesus who desires

to reach out and transform the lives of men and women in our time.

I bless this Work that it may respond ever better to the purpose

for which it was inspired and has come about.

I authorise and instruct our General Postulation to accompany

all the steps needed for the Work, in collaboration with the Work

of the Living Tabernacles Study Centre, to continue to be studied,

promoted in our Congregation and recognised by the Church, in a

spirit of obedience and charity. May Mary the Immaculate Help of

Christians, the First Living Tabernacle, and Don Bosco, apostle of

the Eucharist, intercede on our behalf and support us, that we may

be signs and bearers of the Eucharistic Love for the mean and

women of our time, and especially the young.

Rector Major

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A comment on the translation

“I Jesus, Holy Spirit, who has descended into your little soul, will

speak the language that the poor can speak... What others must see

is the truth of my Messages, not the ‘form’, the substance and not

the ‘style’.” Message, 25-11-1968.

Over the many years that ‘translation’ has become a discipline

in its own right, there has been much debate over whether the

translation act is one of bringing the reader to the writer or the re-

verse. In other words, do we ‘domesticate’ what we see written (or

hear spoken) or do we take an ethical stance that receives the

‘foreign’ as foreign.

This debate surely finds focus in the Messages that Vera

writes from Jesus, messages ‘dictated’ but expressed in ‘your way

of speaking, of expressing yourself to speak, to reach other souls’

(Message 26-12-1967), so suffice it to say that in this case, lending

further credence to the fact that it is Jesus speaking through Vera,

the translator has taken the ‘ethical stance’ referred to above!

This has certain implications for the English reader, of course.

Vera is writing in Italian, and her cultural baggage is largely limited

to Liguria, with its capital in Genoa and with towns like Varazze,

Savona, Alassio... lying to its west until we reach the border with

France. Real Don Bosco country! The translator, and the reader,

needs to recognise that certain expressions will sound a little

strange, even in English. For example, Jesus is often represented

(and represents himself) as Gesù Eucarestia or ‘Jesus Eucharist’.

While this appositional form would not be entirely obscure in Eng-

lish, most readers today would be more comfortable with ‘Jesus

in the Eucharist’, and that is the choice that has largely, though

not always, been made. Our Jesus in the Eucharist often uses the

verb desiderare, which could be anything from ‘craving’ to merely

‘wanting’ or ‘hoping’, but the translator has mostly been literal in

this case. To ‘desire’ is something that belongs to the language of

love and these messages are languages of love. And do we trans-

late the verb portare as ‘carry’, ‘bring’, ‘take’, ‘lead’... all of which

are possibilities? In fact it is used in pretty much all those senses

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across the entire text, but the translator has translated the title as

‘Take me with you’ rather than ‘Carry me with you’, since the

former stresses the missionary aspect of this carrying, and the

messages have a decided missionary feel to them. Jesus in the

Eucharist is to be ‘carried’ by the Living Tabernacle, but in order

to be given to others.

English readers will have heard of James Joyce and some

(perhaps few) will have read, for example Finnegan’s Wake. It can

be a disconcerting experience! Joyce uses a narrative technique

known as stream of consciousness, a flow of myriad impressions

– visual, auditory, physical, associative, subliminal, at times ben-

ding the language to accommodate this ‘stream’ in ways we are

not accustomed to. Students of Joyce will know, too, that he was

himself a student of Medieval mysticism. We are not claiming that

Vera Grita is another James Joyce! But if the reader gets a sense

of a flow of myriad impressions (a ‘river flowing’ lots of ‘pouring

forth’, colour, mainly the red or even vermilion of blood, the blue

of the firmament, the fragrance of flowers, the sound of thunder...),

then seeing this text as a whole as a kind of stream of conscious-

ness (or even spiritual pillow talk between Jesus Love and his

bride, Vera!) will not be far off the mark. The translator, then, has

not attempted to break long sections into paragraphs, as one

might be tempted to do in English.

The reader will need to pay close attention to second person

address. This is quite clear in Italian (tu/voi and their respective

conjugated forms) but much less so in English where ‘you’ could

be either. So careful attention to the context will usually help,

though even here, at times, it will not be so easy to work out who

is being addressed. Take the Message on 16-3-1969 as a good

example of this. It opens with reference to ‘humanity’ (“Write my

Words because only these can restore humanity’s confidence.”).

Here is the clue that what follows is addressed to those who make

up this humanity (the Italian here is uomini but the one accom-

modation the translator has made to modern English gender sen-

sitivity is to translate this with terms like ‘humanity’, ‘humankind’,

‘people’, just as fratelli invariably becomes ‘brothers and sisters’.)

So the ‘you’ in what follows: ‘you will recognise the fulfilment of

my revelations... be ready and do not doubt’, is a plural reference.

But do not be surprised if Jesus suddenly switches back to Vera

(before Vera is clearly mentioned further on) with ‘I gave you the

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revealing sign of the Pope’. This constant switching is a feature of

many of the Messages.

There is also the problem of occasional fragments, sometimes

indicated quite deliberately with words like ‘interrupted’, ‘resume’,

or on one occasion by reference to a telephone call! Occasionally

there is an ellipsis (suspension points, three dots...), and from time

to time Jesus seems to suddenly remember something (the

‘manuscripts’ for example, and the urgent need to get them to the

Pope to read), then switch back to what he was saying before that.

The translator has made no attempt to ‘fill in’ these gaps.

Italian as a whole, and certainly the Messages, makes con-

siderable and considered use of the subjunctive. It is an essential

mood in Italian narrative to convey certain ideas or feelings. Eng-

lish has largely abandoned the subjunctive, and where it still exists

(God save the King is one case) it is rarely recognised as such,

unfortunately... after all, our pious wish is that he save the King,

but we are not ordering him to do so! The translator has made

abundant use of ‘let’ to express the subjunctive, as well as the

obvious ‘may’.

As for the rest, if there are some little oddities that do not seem

to follow the canons of contemporary English, this is because the

translator has made little attempt to alter the text as received, with

its punctuation (a rather more frequent use of the semicolon, typi-

cal of Italian rather than English) capitalisation (‘Me’, for example,

but not always!) and emphasis (the use of bold and italics). The

Study Centre in Milan tells us that Vera used capitals (including

entire phrases!) and sometimes underlining for emphasis. Those

who transcribed her text have adopted bold and italics, and initial

capitals for certain words, but did not add or subtract from what

Vera attempted to emphasise. We would not normally use so

much emphasis (of any of those kinds) in English, but the trans-

lator has been faithful to the edited version of the original in this

regard.

Translation is really much more than answering the question

of whether to bring the reader to the text or the strange text to the

reader. The translator is not simply navigating a sea (or a flowing

river) of words, but looking at a message, and in the case of this

text, many messages, and working out how best to convey it/them.

Jesus has reminded us of this in the quotation that begins this

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comment. The translator is caught up in the hermeneutical circle!

Both versions (source and target) and their truth are present in the

translator’s mind. The writer’s culture, the translator’s culture, the

reader’s culture are all involved. The message, the real content of

the original text to be translated is the same in both languages.

The reader of ‘Take me with you’ will do well to read the introduc-

tory presentations to get a grasp of what is at stake here – and

to appreciate the challenge for translator and reader.

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Foreword

Vera Grita (1923-1969), a teacher and Salesian Cooperator,

was called by the Lord to be the “Voice” of the living God in the

Salesian Family and the Church, the voice of Jesus in the Euchar-

ist who, through the gift of inner locutions, dictated “the Work of

the Living Tabernacles” to her for the salvation of souls. The Mess-

ages have been studied by Fr Giuseppe Borra, the Salesian who

wrote the first biography of Vera.1

In 1989, at the initiative of Vera’s sisters, Giuseppina and Li-

liana Grita, the Messages were published in the book titled Opera

dei Tabernacoli Viventi,2 with the ecclesiastical approval of the

Bishop of Savona and Noli, Bishop Giulio Sanguineti. It is to the

credit of Vera’s sisters and Segno Publishers that in recent years

they have published the Opera dei Tabernacoli Viventi, an initiative

that up until the present has allowed knowledge and diffusion of

the message which Vera was the spokesperson for, as well as the

subsequent establishment of the first groups of Living Tabernacles

in Italy. Our gratitude also goes to Liliana Grita for publishing the

book titled Mia sorella Vera di Gesù,3 which contains Vera’s letters

written to the Salesian priests who gave her spiritual direction:

Fr Gabriello Zucconi, Fr Giovanni Bocchi and Fr Giuseppe Borra.

The publication of correspondence between Vera and the Salesian

priests, also containing the three priests’ letters, will be the subject

of study for an upcoming publication by the “Work of the Living

Tabernacles” Study Centre in Milan.

Vera wrote the Messages of the Work of the Living Taber-

nacles in thirteen notebooks which were entrusted to her mother,

Mrs Marianna Zacco from Pirrera, at her death, then to the Curia

in Savona where they can be found today. By kind courtesy of the

Curia, the “Work of the Living Tabernacles” Study Centre in Milan

has photocopied the original thirteen notebooks now published as

1 G. BORRA, Grita Vera. Notizie biografiche, Editrice Terzo Millennio, Caserta

1984.

2 L. GRITA (ed.), Opera dei “Tabernacoli Viventi”, Il grande dono di Gesù agli

uomini tramite Vera Grita, Edizioni Segno, Tavagnacco (UD) 2014 (1989).

3 L. GRITA, Mia sorella Vera di Gesù, Edizione extra commerciale, Scuola

Grafica Salesiana, Torino, 1999.

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a whole for the first time in this book, enriched by reports from two

authoritative theologians, Carmelite Fr François-Marie Léthel, and

Salesian Fr Roberto Carelli.4 By contrast with the earlier Segno

publication, based on the typewritten manuscript passed on to

Liliana Grita by the Salesian Rector, Fr Buttarelli, after Fr Borra’s

death, the current publication is based on the photocopies of

Vera’s notebooks, offering their entire content.

Groups of the “Work of the Living Tabernacles” have been

formed in recent years in Italy. These are made up of individuals

who have chosen to deepen their understanding of the Mystery of

the Eucharist under the guidance of a priest, starting from the

message which Vera was the inspiration for, and to conform their

spiritual lives and apostolic activity to the call they have received.

Groups have arisen in Lombardy, Versilia, Liguria, Piedmont, Sar-

dinia, Veneto. Altogether they involve more than a hundred indi-

viduals. Among them are many extraordinary ministers of the

Eucharist. On 11 February 2001, in the Salesian Province of Milan,

Salesians Fr Enrico Mozzanica, Fr Ermanno Montagnoli (1928-

2014) and Maria Rita Scrimieri, a Salesian Cooperator and con-

secrated member of the Work of the Living Tabernacles, opened

the Centro Studi Opera dei Tabernacoli Viventi (The Work of the

Living Tabernacles Study Centre) dedicated to Vera Grita and Fr

Gabriello Zucconi SDB, with the aim of studying the spirituality and

carrying out the message of the work. They promote the spiritual

formation of the members through monthly days of study and

prayer as well as an annual retreat, and propose models of life of

saints who have been particularly significant for their Eucharistic

charism.

In 1999, at the initiative of Liliana Grita, who together with

Salesian Fr Pietro Ceresa (1920-1997) began the first group of

faithful in Turin to come together around Vera’s message, the

Curia in Turin approved the Association of Living Tabernacles as

a Eucharistic Adoration group. A further step in carrying out the

Work from various aspects was taken in January 2007 at the

Archiepiscopal Curia in Milan, where the Study Centre presented

4 Fr Roberto Carelli SDB, Lecturer in Systematic Theology at the Pontifical

Salesian University, Turin Campus; Fr François-Marie Léthel, Lecturer in Dogmatic

and Spiritual Theology at the Pontifical Theological Faculty, the Teresianum

in Rome.

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the Statutes and Rule of life of the Association of the Work of the

Living Tabernacles.

The Work of the Living Tabernacles has had its headquarters

in Portugal since May 2103, at the International Centre for Salesian

Spirituality, Balasar. It came into being with the aim of studying

and spreading the message of two figures of the Salesian Coop-

erator who are especially significant today for their Eucharistic

and Marian mission in the Salesian Family and the Church:

Portuguese Alexandrina Maria da Costa (Balasar 1904-1955),

beatified in 2004, and Italian Vera Grita.

On the 50th anniversary of the first message written by Vera

on 19.9.1967, the Study Centre’s initiative to publish a complete

edition of the Work seeks to be an expression of our gratitude to

the Blessed Trinity for the gift of Vera and of the Work of the Living

Tabernacles to the Salesian Congregation and the Church.

Through this initiative we hope to contribute to the development

and full realisation of the Work in the Church for the greater glory

of God and the good of salvation of all souls.

We would like to thank all the Members of the Work of the Liv-

ing Tabernacles and friends who have sustained us in this work

through their prayer. Particular thanks goes to Fr Pierluigi Came-

roni sdb, Postulator General of the Causes of Saints of the Sales-

ian Family, who has keenly followed the initiative and has

collaborated in preparation of this book.

Fr Enrico Mozzanica sdb

Maria Rita Scrimieri

The Work of the Living Tabernacles Study Centre

Milan, 16 July 2017

The Feat of Our Lady of Carmel

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Introduction

The Work of the Living Tabernacles,

gift and mission

for the Salesian Congregation

and the Church

Maria Rita Scrimieri

“Work of the Living Tabernacles” Study Centre, Milan

1. Living Tabernacles: a Eucharistic vocation for the life

of the world

The Work of the Living Tabernacles is presented as a new way

of evangelisation based on the Eucharistic presence of Jesus the

Way, the Truth and the Life. It involves priests, sisters dedicated

to works of charity, lay people and young people called to give

themselves to the Lord in order to be his new temple, his new

dwelling in society among human beings, through Mary the first

Living Tabernacle.

This charismatic grace, corresponding to the gift of self in this

call, is the “Eucharistic dwelling” of Jesus in the soul, through

which Jesus promises to save the souls who are far from him by

pouring out divine life through his new Tabernacle.

We find an historical precedent in the lives of saints of our

time, in Saint Faustina Kowalska, who at various points in her

Diary makes reference to her experience of this Eucharistic grace:

“Today I have understood many of God’s mysteries. I have come

to know that holy Communion lasts in me until the next holy Com-

munion. God’s living and sensible presence remains in my soul.

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My heart is a living tabernacle in which the living host is pre-

served.”1 And again: “During the holy Mass I saw the Baby Jesus

in the chalice. He told me: ‘This is how I dwell in your heart, as

you see Me in this chalice.’ After holy Communion I felt Jesus’

heart beating in my heart. Given that I have known for a long time

that that holy Communion lasts in me until the next holy Com-

munion, today for the entire day I adored Jesus in my heart and I

prayed that though his grace he may protect children from the evil

that threatens them. The living presence of God, also physically

noticeable, has accompanied me throughout the day and has in no

way disturbed me from carrying out my duties.”2

We find another very significant historical precedent in the

Founder of the Claretians, Saint Anthony Mary Claret (1807–

1870), Archbishop of Santiago, Cuba, who describes in his auto-

biography the Eucharistic grace he received on 26 August 1861,

which he called the great Grace: “...at La Granja, while I was pray-

ing in the church of the Rosary, I received the exceptional grace

from the Lord of preserving the sacramental species in my breast

by day and night, so that I had the Blessed Sacrament within me

day after day.

“This miracle imposes constant and intimate recollection on

me. It obliges me – this is the Lord's word – to pray and deal with

all the evils of Spain.”3 A year later, on 16 May, when the holy

bishop considered removing from his diary what he had written

about the great Grace he had received, the Blessed Virgin pre-

vented him from doing so and “later, at Mass, Jesus Christ told

me he had granted this grace to remain in me sacramentally.”

Commenting on this immense grace, Frs Vinas and Bermejo write:

“The great grace, as he calls it, of the preservation of the Euchar-

istic species from one Communion to another, indicates his arrival

1 F. KOWALSKA, Diario di santa Maria Faustina Kowalska. La misericordia

divina nella mia anima, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 1992, p. 435.

2 Ibid, p. 597.

3 G. PAPASOGLI, F. STANO, Antonio Claret, l’uomo che sfidò l’impossibile,

Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 1983, pp. 566-568.

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at a particular degree of conformity with Christ. We should con-

sider two important aspects of it: 1) this grace was ordered to the

fulfilment of his mission, his apostolate, now more universal and

effective than ever; 2) this grace was granted him almost certainly

through the intercession of the Virgin Mary. Also, the great miracle

happened at a time that coincides with the Saint’s greatest human

prestige, but also at a time of secret and decisive preparation: the

Saint was approaching days of earthly sorrow and ruination. He

would always have the Lord in him, then, and would pass through

earthly storms as a living tabernacle.”4

All the images relating to his person depict him with the lumi-

nous Host at his breast.

The holy bishop carried out an intense missionary apostolate,

intervening to make customs moral, to form the clergy and to assist

the poor.

The Work of the Living Tabernacles also stands out for another

aspect. While having historical precedents in the Church’s history,

it takes on a new dimension in Vera Grita’s writings. In fact, among

the Living Tabernacles there are some (priests, sisters dedicated to

works of charity, prepared lay people) who are called to be also

“Bearers of Jesus in the Eucharistic Species” in their workplace,

in schools, in the mission, so that the Eucharistic Jesus can spread

his divine life and saving love to those he meets and sees through

the new Tabernacle.

We find an historical precedent along these lines in the letter

that the Servant of God, Fr Dolindo Ruotolo (1882–1970) wrote

to Pius XI on 23 December 1924 on the eve of the Jubilee in 1925.

In this letter, the priest put to the Holy Father some of Jesus’

wishes, such as an increase in holy Masses celebrated during the

day, communion of the faithful for every Mass heard, and finally

Fr Dolindo wrote: “That you would allow the bishops to carry

Jesus in the Sacrament in a pyx over their heart and thus be living

Pastors in and for Him.

4 Ibidem.

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“Your Holiness should be the first living Temple of Jesus in

the Eucharist. Pius IX took him with him while fleeing Rome on

his journey to Gaeta.

“Let Your Holiness take Him with you to spread the Euchar-

istic Life in the world. In time you could also form more devoted

priests and souls consecrated to God, the living temple of Jesus...

“Let this, Holy Father, be the Jubilee of Jesus’ love [...].”5

Vera Grita was born in Rome a year before this letter, on 28

January 1923. In 1967–1969 she would be called by the will of the

Lord to be the spokesperson of the Work of the Living Tabernacles

in the Salesian Family and the Church, a Work through which the

Lord extends to priests, consecrated individuals and suitably pre-

pared lay people what had been requested in restricted form of the

Pope in 1924 through the Servant of God Fr Dolindo Ruotolo.

2. Living Tabernacles: at the service of Charity and Mercy

The Work of the Living Tabernacles has been entrusted in the

first instance to the Salesian Congregation. This Congregation, at

the explicit wish of the Lord, must be its promoter so that it may be

realised and spread in the Church (dioceses, parishes, religious in-

stitutes...). Later the Carmelite Family was also indicated in Vera’s

writings as a beneficiary of the messages for them to be carried out.

The Work of the Living Tabernacles can be a valuable con-

tribution in the Church for tackling the challenges of the third mil-

lennium for the benefit of humanity: increasingly widespread

secularisation, the crisis of vocations, the disintegrating forces that

attack the human family and society, peace among nations and the

Church itself seem to require, today more than ever, not so much

and not only human solutions as the unifying and sanctifying

power of the divine life of Jesus Christ in our souls, the diffusion

of Eucharistic life throughout the world.

5 APOSTOLATE OF THE PRESS, Fui chiamato Dolindo, che significa dolore...,

Pages from the autobiography of Fr Dolindo Ruotolo, Napoli, third ed. 1973 p. 432.

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In the light of the changes that have taken place in society, it

is necessary to bring the source of Life, Jesus in the Eucharist and

his Word, to where people live, among them, in the family, in work-

places, in schools, through the streets: Jesus thirsts to give himself

to souls. He thirsts to give Life, divine Life, and therefore seeks

out simple souls who are ready to give themselves to Him to be,

like the Virgin Mary and, in Mary, his new Tabernacle. He needs

to renew the power of the priesthood in priests, giving them all of

Himself in the Eucharistic gift through which He will pour out

strength, light, and especially the love that saves.

Therefore, to this end, and with due authorisation from the

Pope, it is necessary to give the possibility to priests and souls

called to this mission to carry Jesus in the Sacred Species in a Pyx,

hidden and silently, to extend the fruits of the Eucharistic Gift to

all those who live far from the Lord and the Church. Through his

Eucharistic presence Jesus can extend his life-giving and liberating

action to all those he meets and on whom he casts his merciful

gaze, touching their hearts and drawing them to himself through

the power of his love. In other words, it is about allowing the

Lord’s mercy to reach souls who are far from him, through this

“new Eucharistic way” by means of priests, religious and lay

people called to more closely share with Jesus the work of redemp-

tion and the yearning to save souls. This aspect was at the heart of

all of Don Bosco’s mission and one he summed up in the famous

expression: “Da mihi animas, coetera tolle”.

3. In the charism of Don Bosco: “da mihi animas,

coetera tolle”

The Work of the Living Tabernacles has been entrusted to

the Salesian Congregation through the charism of its founder:

“The Salesian Fathers”, we read in the message of 30.11.67, “will

spread this way of love among souls to prepare them for my

League. They are the first ones called to revive Me, and through

my Priesthood and through the spirit of the Founder which per-

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vades their apostolate.” And also: “For all the Salesians their

founder, St John Bosco, will be, from where he is in my Glory, a

loving Father, a comforting protector, support... Yes, Don Bosco

ritorna (Don Bosco returns) among you because Jesus wants to

renew in you his life, his love, his Priesthood, all of himself. I in

you and you in Me, to give ‘fruits’ to my Father, to save souls, to

die for souls. I, Jesus, your Life, your Way, your Truth: to you

beloved Priests; to you, all and always Me.” Message 4.2.1968

In imitation of Jesus the Good Shepherd who gives his life for

his sheep, the Living Tabernacle is called to give all of itself to the

Lord so that he, alive and active in the soul, can make it his new

dwelling among people and his new Temple from which he constantly

offers himself to the Father for the salvation of humankind: “[...] And

I, I will lift up my hands to Heaven in the small Hosts to once again

cry out, from my Living Tabernacles: ‘Father, forgive them, for they

know not what they do.’ And the Father, through you, will see Me in

each of you: his Son; he will see Me, so many Jesuses, so many

children; he will see a spotless Lamb in everyone: his Victim, Me!

I love my Living Tabernacles; I love them now; I have loved them

from the moment I gave myself to you as food for the soul. I have

seen you, I see you, I look for you. Welcome me: I am Jesus in

the Eucharist, I am the Love that gives and gives.” Message 14.5.1968

This corresponds fully with pastoral charity, the inner and dy-

namic principle recalled in the Salesian Constitutions, that is to

animate the life of every member of the Salesian Family: “Pastoral

charity is the virtue with which we imitate Christ in the gift of self

and in his service. It is not only what we do, but the gift of our-

selves, that shows the love of Christ for his sheep. It is the uncon-

ditional availability to the action of the Spirit that consecrates the

human heart to God’s plan, the gift of self to the work of salvation

to the point of giving one’s life, the search for and building up of

communion as a gift and task of the love of Christ the Lord.”6

6 La Famiglia Salesiana di Don Bosco, Edizione extra commerciale, Roma

2000, p.19.

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The Work of the Living Tabernacles springs from the priestly

heart of Christ to bring his mercy to every part of the world. The

aim and spirit it is imbued with is well-highlighted in the Message

of 11.6.1968 sent to Pope Paul VI. Here we offer the passage where

the Salesians are given the mandate to bring this Work about, and

the invitation for Paul VI to be the first Living Tabernacle, bearer

of Jesus in the Eucharist.

Purpose: to reach out to all souls, be close to them, touch them

in the intimacy of their heart with my Fatherly love.

Goal: to prepare, down below, infinite and holy Living Tab-

ernacles to cover the earth. They will be the “Chalices” offered

to God the Father for the salvation of humanity.

Programme: I want those who must become Living Taber-

nacles to be consecrated souls. Priests of fervent love, great

charity, pure love (...)

Let it be among the Salesian Fathers that my Work of love

is born. May it develop and spread, since my Mother Mary Help

of Christians will be guide and teacher for every soul, for every

Living Tabernacle [...]

Let Living Tabernacles be chosen also among the young,

among lay people so that I can go into schools, families, and

share the life of humanity [...]

And you, Paul VI, who represent me in the Church as my

Vicar, receive my words with a spirit of deep faith [...] The

League of my Work of love in the authority of the Church –

spread it, let it go forth into the whole world. You, my first Liv-

ing Tabernacle, who go with Me to visit the furthest parts of the

Earth to give Me, see that bearers of Me, like you, increase and

grow following your secret example, and reach the earth, seas

and skies... Take me with you: it is my Voice of Love. I want to

remain with you: it is my Heart that is asking you for this. I in

you and upon you because you are in Me, can bring every

greater fruits. I through you, my Vicar, to all the Priests, to the

Salesians, to my souls, to small souls: small and humble ones.

I, through you, to all of humanity. Bless and authorise my Work

of Love... Jesus, High and Eternal Priest, to Pope Paul VI, for

his Glory and the Coming of his Kingdom of love in souls.

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The Eucharist and the Virgin Mary were the pillars in the life

of Don Bosco the priest and educator: the very heart of his educa-

tional system, the ultimate aim of which was to establish and de-

velop Trinitarian life in the souls of the young in his oratories. It

was based on frequent confession, holy communion and participa-

tion in daily Mass. Contrary to an educational system based on vi-

olence and lack of respect for the other, he embodied the kindness

of the Father who educates his children with “loving-kindness, rea-

son and religion”, and in the Heart of Christ the Good Shepherd

who gives his life for his sheep, he indicated the model of the pas-

toral and educational vocation and for those who worked closely

with him. The Work of the Living Tabernacles is based on the same

“pillars” as Don Bosco’s: the Eucharist and the Help of Christians.

Everyone knows the famous dream of the “two columns in the

middle of the sea” which Don Bosco had in May 1862, in which

the Eucharist and the Immaculate Virgin save the Church from

various persecutions after the Church, represented by the ship, an-

chors itself to Jesus in the Eucharist and Mary, the columns of the

Mystical Body of Christ. In the Message of 3.12.68, dictated to

Vera by Jesus, there is explicit reference to a prophecy given to the

Salesian Family; it is our belief that this was precisely the prophecy

of Don Bosco’s “two columns”:

[...] To you, little soul, I, Jesus, have revealed my Work of Love

in the gift of the Living Tabernacles. This Work of mine stands

on its own and must not be confused with other Works. It

must remain intact and in the light of the grace with which

I have desired and dictated it. Jesus’ Work of Love is the fruit

of my Eucharistic love. Jesus in the Word of Grace opens his

mercy to all humankind through himself in their souls. This

Work, therfore, is unique and bears my holy Name: Jesus. Turin,

in Mary Help of Christians, will be the cradle of my Work of

Love. Rome will be its Mother. Let the Salesian Superiors re-

joice in my holy Name, Jesus; let them rejoice because great

are the graces reserved for them from my priestly Heart. I want

the doubts in their hearts to vanish, and for them to see Me,

hasten to work for Me. And, my daughter, let me add this rev-

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elation. A prophecy was given to them in its own time; now the

prophecy comes true: it is Me, it is my Work. It is my Living

Tabernacles. My Word is the Way, it is Truth, it is Life because

it is Me: Jesus.

4. Paul VI and the Work of the Living Tabernacles

The Work of the Living Tabernacles came into existence dur-

ing years characterised by huge social changes and youthful protest

that burst upon society in many parts of the world around 1968.

Historically it can be located at a time of “crisis” in society and

Church: crisis of values, crisis of faith, crisis of discipline. The time

of protest was, in fact, a strong and stormy hour also for the Church

that had recently concluded the Second Vatican Council. This harsh

crisis was paid for with a significant drop in vocations and with

many priests and consecrated men and women abandoning their

vocation.

During the General Audiences over those years, Paul VI did

not fail to give voice to the anxieties and tensions of the modern

world and the Church. In the audience of 25 April 1968 he

expressed himself as follows:

Because, as you know, the Church is currently going through a

spiritual moment in its history that is not serene, especially in

certain countries. This is a cause of great apprehension and

sometimes great bitterness for the pastors of the Church and for

ourselves. It is so not only because the whole modern world,

captivated by the wealth of its scientific and technical achiev-

ements, is losing the sense of God; not only because these

achievements – to use the unfortunate expression employed by

some – demand “the death of God”, that is to say, a mentality

that is atheistic and far removed from all religion, whereas these

characteristic advances of the modern world would rather

demand a higher, more penetrating, more adoring sense of God,

a purer and more lively religion that would crown human

knowledge; This is so, we say, not only because of the practical

apostasy which is so widespread, but also and especially be-

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cause of the anxiety which troubles certain sectors of the

Catholic world and affects the sensibilities of those who have

responsibilities in the Church.

Everyone knows that after the Council the Church has experi-

enced and is still experiencing a great and magnificent revival

which We are the first to recognise and to encourage. But the

Church has suffered and still suffers from a whirlwind of ideas

and actions which are certainly not inspired by the right spirit

and do not announce that renewal of life which the Council

promised and promoted.7

And in the General Audience on 17 September 1969 he noted:

[...] not a few symptoms seem rather to prelude serious ills for

the Church itself. We have pointed out some of them ourselves,

such as a certain decline in doctrinal orthodoxy in some schools

and among some scholars. And no one can fail to see what a

danger to religious truth and to the saving efficiency of our re-

ligion it is to consider only the human and social aspect at the

expense of the primary, sacred and divine aspect, that of faith

and prayer. Thus, one cannot observe without apprehension the

ease with which the virtue of ecclesial obedience, which is a

constitutive principle in the design established by Christ for the

stability and development of his mystical and visible body,

which is precisely the Church, is contravened. Perhaps we have

gone beyond the permitted limit in the effort, laudable in itself,

to insert the priest into the social structure, completely secular-

ising his habit, his way of thinking and living, pushing him back

onto the path that is not his own of temporal competitions, thus

debasing his vocation and his function as a minister of the Gos-

pel and of Grace; his celibacy has been questioned too much;

and the vigour of Christian asceticism and the irreversible char-

acter of the sacred commitments made before God and the

Church are being weakened too much... It will take time to

extract what may be good even in these restless expressions of

Catholic life and to reabsorb them into their own harmony.

There are even those who have spoken of its decomposition; we

7 Paul VI, General Audience of 25 April 1968, http:w2.vatican.va/content/paul-VI/

it/audiences/1968/documents/hf-p-vi-aud-19680425.html

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are not of this opinion, and we once again confirm our trust in

the assistance of Christ and the help of good people.8

Paul VI holds a central place in the Work of the Living Taber-

nacles, not just because his blessing and authorisation as Supreme

Pontiff was essential for the Work to be carried out, but also be-

cause Paul VI, like Pope Pius XI in 1924, was called to be the first

Living Tabernacle, the first “stone” of the Work, just as Saint Peter

was the first “stone” of the emerging Church. In the four messages

expressly addressed to him, Jesus invites the Pope to be His first

Living Tabernacle. That is, he invites him to take him with him, in

the Sacred Species, on his apostolic voyages that the Holy Father

was about to undertake to Colombia (1968) and then Uganda

(1969). He we offer in chronological order a summary of the

4 Messages of the Work addressed to Pope Paul VI.

In the Message of 14 May 1968, Jesus the Eternal Priest ad-

dresses himself to the First Priest of his Church, Paul VI, Pontiff,

to entrust him with the message of the Work, the gift of love and

mercy for the Church and for humankind ravaged and battered by

the social storms that saw their historic beginning in May 1968:

To Pope Paul VI my beloved Pastor. Paul, my beloved son,

chosen by the Blessed Trinity, As the helmsman of my barque

amidst the storms of battered humanity, I place in your hands

my message of love and salvation for all souls. My Work of

Love directed by Me, Jesus, must be spread soon and from you

must spring those enlightenments whose light must embrace hu-

manity. I give Myself to the souls consecrated to Me, and I will

be for them. I will go through the ways of the world. I have

chosen new temples: living temples... I, Jesus, will come with

you, upon you, in you! I go under the Eucharistic Species to

seek that which is about to be lost; I go to seek the sheep that

do not want to seek my fold; I go to call those who no longer

hear me... Confirm my divine Will: give it to consecrated souls,

give it to the world, and entrust everything to her whom you

8 Ibidem.

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love so much with me. Jesus, Eternal Priest, to the First Priest

of his Church: Pope Paul VI.

A month later, on 11 June 1968, the Lord dictated his second

Message for the Holy Father to Vera. It is the Message that presents

the Work as a whole, its purpose, and the Salesian Congregation is

indicated as the initiator of the Work. Paul VI as Supreme Pontiff

is asked to give it his blessing and authorisation:

Jesus addresses himself to our Supreme Pontiff Paul VI. I am

Jesus who comes to you in his great Eucharistic Love to offer

you the Mercy of my Father’s Heart, my Heart as Priest, Friend,

Brother. It is for humanity, for the salvation of the peoples, the

nations. It springs from a source of living water from my

wounded Heart. It comes down from Heaven as a new and final

light to shed light on the darkened ways of the world. It bathes

the arid earth, renew souls in the service of the apostolate,

gathers those called to Me in the army of salvation. I am this

Light, this Water: Jesus! I come to bring a new “way” of Love

on earth for people who await me and love me. A Way based

on Truth that is my divine and human reality in the Eucharistic

Presence; a way that will lead to the life of Grace and to so

many souls who are far from Me. My Way lies in Truth and

gives My Life. This Way is Me. I am Jesus in the Eucharist ...

I pour out my Spirit of Love from the Tabernacles. Now I have

chosen new temples, new Tabernacles to guard Me. Living Tab-

ernacles to take Me through the ways of the world, to lead Me

among those people who do not think of Me, who do not seek

Me, who do not love Me... [From the Living Tabernacles] I will

pour out My Grace to a great extent so that sinners become sen-

sitive to My calls. I shall walk, as once I walked in the land of

Palestine, I shall reach the ends of the earth; to all I shall extend

my grace, to all I shall offer Salvation [...] The Work must in-

volve Salesian life and activity, because from the Work of St

John Bosco my Work of Love must blossom as a “continuation”

of the former... I through you, my Vicar, to all the priests, to the

Salesians, to my souls, to the little souls: small and humble

ones... Bless and authorise my Work of Love... Jesus, Supreme

and Eternal Priest, to Pope Paul VI, for his Glory and the

coming of his Kingdom of Love in souls.

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The Holy Father was on the eve of a new apostolic voyage that

would take him to Colombia from 22 to 25 August 1968, to Bogotà,

to take part in the International Eucharistic Congress and then to

Medellin to the General Conference of Bishops of Latin America.

It was the first visit of the Pope to Latin America and, let us recall,

in September 1965 he gave the Church the Encyclical “Mysterium

Fidei” concerning the doctrine and worship of the Eucharist. Jesus

was in a hurry for his Message to get to the Holy Father before his

departure, because he wanted to leave with him, on him, in the

Sacred Species. Fr Gabriello Zucconi, Vera's spiritual father, saw

that the two messages addressed to him got to the Holy Father, and

at the indication of the Superiors he went to Rome at the beginning

of August 1968. Here, through the parish priest at Castel Gandolfo,

who was a Salesian, he passed on the two letters, one for the Pope’s

personal secretary, Mons. Bossi, and the other for Paul VI. They

were handed over personally by the parish priest. The Vatican re-

plied by writing to the Curia in Genoa. Fr Raineri, at that time the

Provincial of the Ligure-Toscana Province, was asked to provide

news about Fr Zucconi, and sent what was requested to the Curia

in Genoa.9 Two months later, on 20 October, Jesus dictated the third

Message for Paul VI. It was a message of great spiritual value in

which the mystical priestly union between the Heart of Jesus and

the heart of Paul VI emerges, a heart wounded by love and sorrow

for humanity. From this wound in the heart of the Church that is

the heart of the Pope comes the Living Tabernacles he blessed.

Jesus to his First Bearer Paul VI Supreme Pontiff. Message

of love to my beloved Vicar on Earth, Paul. If the Living Tab-

ernacles are soon to be the expression of my tenderest and deep-

est love as Father, Brother, Friend, Spouse, you, Paul, are and

will be ever more my Heart wounded by love and pain. The

beatings of your heart are mine, and already there are no longer

9 M. R. SCRIMIERI, Relazione sull’iter seguito da don Zucconi presso i Supe-

riori ed il Papa Paolo VI per l’Opera dei Tabernacoli Viventi. Work of the Living

Tabernacles Study Centre (Unpublished).

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two hearts, but my one Heart that suffers, groans and loves in

yours. The throbbing of Eucharistic love with which I proclaim

my Death for humanity is in your heart as Pastor of souls. With

this throb of love you, Paul, will give Me to consecrated souls

so that I, Jesus in the Eucharist, may increase Grace in them.

You will give Me as I gave Myself to My Apostles at the Last

Supper so that My souls may become My new dwellings, My

new Temples through which I, Jesus, may visit all humankind...

I have brought a new Cross of Love to earth to give it to those

whom I have called. Behold, I now place it in your hands as

Pontiff. Bless it, give it to my souls so that embracing it with

gratitude and respect and love, they may be transformed by this

Cross of love and suffering into the Crucified One who goes

and seeks his souls on all the world’s roads.

The new year, 1969, began with the announcement that these

Messages would be the last. The final Message for the Holy Father

was dictated to Vera on 15 July, two weeks before Paul VI left for

his journey to Uganda for the First Pan-African Episcopal Con-

ference (31.7 – 2.8.1969). It was the first pilgrimage of a pontiff to

African lands. The Pope went to Uganda for the consecration of

the sanctuary dedicated to the 22 Ugandan Martyrs, lay people

whom he had canonised in 1964. Vera was forewarned by Jesus:

“We will soon write to the Pope, to my beloved Vicar Paul VI, be-

fore his voyage to Uganda. I want my Tabernacle to accompany

him.” Message 7.7.1969. And in fact a week later, Jesus dictated

the message for the Pope. In this message Paul VI is invited to

increase his apostolic journeys throughout the world.

Now these words of mine must reach my Vicar on earth, Paul

VI: your journeys must increase because I, Jesus the Teacher

and Redeemer, also want to visit all the peoples of the earth in

you who represent me, with My Holy Humanity, before the day

comes when God the Father will bring justice. Ask Me for the

graces that I, Jesus, have promised in My Work of Love... I de-

sire that you approve and authorise this, so that I, Jesus, may

fulfil what I have promised. Go, My beloved Paul, and I with

you: in the Cross, in the Holy Cross that I have given you, and

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with your head crowned for Me and in Me with thorns; go and

take Me, give Me, and in the Holy Eucharist spread Me. I gather

my little victims, and in Me, in my continual holocaust, I offer

them to My Father so that you may be given freedom to auth-

orise what is the beating heart of love, what is the Life, the

Truth, and the Way: Jesus in the Sacred Species in the Church

that goes out, proceeds so that it may advance and meet and

bless all before that day... Jesus, Eternal Priest, to His Vicar

on earth, Paul VI. I bless all suffering humanity you will visit

with Me, in the Most Holy Trinity, in my glorious Mother the

Immaculate, in my Saints and in my Angels. I, Jesus Crucified,

am in you.

The following year Paul VI went to the Far East, Australia

and Oceania (1970).

5. Paul VI and the Work

The Supreme Pontiff was sent the four messages addressed to

him, a summary of them first, and then the complete Work. Fr Ga-

briello Zucconi, a Salesian and Veras spiritual director, took care

of this and, obeying both his Provincial, Fr Giovanni Raineri, and

the Rector Major, Fr Luigi Ricceri, used their advice and sugges-

tions to send the Work to the Holy Father with the request for his

Apostolic blessing and the necessary authorisation.

Twice the Holy See made contact with the Curia in Genoa, ask-

ing for information about Fr Gabriello Zucconi, and a second time

with the Curia in Savona asking for information about Vera Grita

and the Work. The Bishop of Savona, Bishop Perego, sent the Holy

See a positive reply about Vera: “A worthy person of faith.”10 Fr

Formento, Canon at the Cathedral in Savona who knew Vera very

well, was her guarantor before the Bishop.

On the other hand, there are no written documents relating to

the authorisation of the Living Tabernacles “Bearers of Jesus in the

10 Cf. V. GRITA, Letter of 20.3.1969 to Fr Zucconi.

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Eucharist”, while the private audience of 22 September 1977, dur-

ing which Paul VI blessed the Work of the Living Tabernacles, is

documented in the personal diary of Fr Zucconi. It should be noted,

however, that the Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist were

instituted under the pontificate of Paul VI, in 1972, a first step to

bring and give Jesus to the sick and elderly.

Further steps would be necessary with the Holy Father to fully

realise the Work according to the wishes expressed by Jesus to Vera

and in obedience to Mother Church.

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Vera Grita

in the “carousel of saints”

Fr François-Marie Léthel OCD

The writings of Vera Grita (1923–1969) published in this book

offer us a splendid Eucharistic spirituality, one that is hugely rel-

evant and a prophetic force for the Church of the future. They are

the expression of the mystical experience she had in the final two

years of her life, an experience which is testimony to, and in some

way a “verification” of the great truth of Catholic Faith concerning

the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. In the consecrated Host

the Church recognises, loves and adores the real Body of the Son

of God, born of the Virgin Mary, crucified for us, and who died

and was risen: Ave verum Corpus natum de Maria Virgine, vere

passum, immolatum in Cruce pro homine! In the Eucharist, Jesus

calls the disciple to be a Living Tabernacle, telling that person:

Take me with you! These are the most characteristic expressions

of Vera’s spirituality.

The literary form of these writings is that they are messages,

that is, biblical prophecy in which the Lord himself speaks in first

person through someone he has chosen. This is also a classic ap-

proach of Christian mystical experience, but one that needs to

be interpreted well and in some way “decrypted”.

More precisely, we are dealing with typical “female pro-

phetism”, so important in the history of the Church in emblematic

figures like Saint Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Church, and

Saint Brigid of Sweden at the end of the Middle Ages. Through

these women mystics Jesus speaks to the Church and the world,

especially to the Pope and to pastors, and it is a strong a bold mess-

age of love and consolation, but also of conversion and the call to

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holiness (especially for priests). Brigid left the Church an extensive

collection of her Revelations, while Catherine’s main written work

was the Dialogue in which the Saint listened to the voice of God

the Father who replied to her questions on the Mystery of Christ

and the Church. The same literary form of dialogue between Jesus

and his disciple is found in the Imitation of Christ, the book that

shaped the spiritual life of many saints. Then there are so many

other examples of female prophets with this extraordinary ap-

proach of locutions and vision. We could mention the names of

Saint Joan of Arc, Margaret Mary Alacoque, Catherine Labouré,

Bernardette Soubirous, Gemma Galgani, Faustina Kowalska,

Blesseds Dina Bélanger and Alexandrina Maria da Costa (Salesian

Cooperator), Venerable Louise-Marguerite Claret de la Touche, etc.

It is important to interpret these messages well. They are of

great value when they come from individuals whose holiness has

been recognised by the Church (Saints, Blesseds and Venerables).

They make the great truths of the Christian faith shine out in love,

through their mystical experience. Even though Vera’s Cause for

beatification has not yet been opened, her writings and the testi-

monies gathered in this book lead us to a very beautiful soul, a holy

soul,1 filled with love for the Lord and her neighbour, so humble

and obedient, so marked by physical and spiritual suffering, yet al-

ways followed up by Salesian superiors and her directors. Rather

than being “Private Revelations”, these messages are Vera’s per-

sonal listening to the inner voice of Jesus, that makes itself heard

in so many different ways in the prayers of the saints, according to

the personality of each one, their sensitivity, their culture. This is

how Benedict XVI explained the message of the holy seers of

Fatima.2 In this regard, it must be added that the messages pub-

1 Fr Guido Roascio, Discalced Carmelite, who knew Vera in the final year of

her life when she was a guest at the Desert of Varazze, was not afraid to say: “Vera

was a saint!”

2 Here are his words: “In 2000, in my presentation, I said that an apparition –

a supernatural impulse which does not come purely from a person’s imagination but

really from the Virgin Mary, from the supernatural – that such an impulse enters into

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lished in this volume are the voice of Jesus heard by a typical Ita-

lian mystic (such as Catherine of Siena and Gemma Galgani) with

many words and repetitions. By contrast, French mystics are often

more concise, with few words (like Joan of Arc and Bernadette

Soubirous)!

To interpret these texts well, we need to recall the historical

context of Vera’s mystical experience at the end of her life, and

then consider it in the light of certain saints who have been masters

of Eucharistic spirituality. In fact, saints throw light on each other.

Considered together, they do not add to one another but multiply

each other. Thus we need to contemplate Vera in this “carousel of

saints” as painted by Blessed Fra’ Angelico, where the saints and

the angels give one another a hand, and also give a hand to help us

to journey towards holiness.3 Vera is close to the saints we have

just named, but with regard to her specific Eucharistic spirituality,

she is even closer to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Doctor of the

Church, and to Venerable Cardinal François-Xavier Van Thuân,

who come to confirm in full her Eucharistic spirituality of the

Living Tabernacles.

a subject and is expressed according to the capacities of that subject. The subject is

determined by his or her historical, personal, temperamental conditions, and so

translates the great supernatural impulse into his or her own capabilities for seeing,

imagining, expressing; yet these expressions, shaped by the subject, conceal a

content which is greater, which goes deeper, and only in the course of history can

we see the full depth, which was – let us say – “clothed” in this vision that was

accessible to specific individuals.” (Benedict XVI, In-flight interview during his trip

to Fatima, 11 May 2010).

3 This was the icon of the retreat I had the grace to preach at the Vatican for

Benedict XVI and the Roman Curia in 2011. Pope Benedict himself made reference

to this image in his spontaneous address to me at the end of this retreat: “You have

inserted s within the circle of these Saints and have shown us that it is precisely the

“little” Saints who are the “great” Saints. You have shown us that the scientia fidei

and the scientia amoris go together and complete one another, that great reason and

great love go together, and indeed that great love sees more than reason alone.”

(Address on 19 March 2011). The scientia fidei is the intellectual approach of the

theology of the saints (for example St Thomas), while the scientia amoris is the

mystical approach. This is how John Paul II declared Teresa of Lisieux Doctor of

the Church as an “expert in scientia amoris” (Novo Millennio Ineunte, no. 42).

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Vera’s testimony in the context

of the years from 1967-1969

Vera had this mystical experience in the last two years of her

life (September 1967–December 1969), a period that was also a

dramatic one in the life of the Church. They were years that were

most characteristic of the great crisis of the Church after the Coun-

cil, under the pontificate of St Paul VI, the main beneficiary of

Vera’s messages. For the Pope we are talking about a profound cri-

sis of faith within the Church and this is why he wanted to establish

a Year of Faith beginning 29 June 1967 on the Solemnity of the

Apostles Peter and Paul, ending the following year on the same

feast day.

Protests in society and the Church broke out in May 1968, and

a month later, Paul VI concluded the year of faith with his great

Credo of the People of God (30 June 1968). It was a clear and de-

tailed exposition of the main truths of the faith, particularly devel-

oping those that were then most threatened: Jesus in the Eucharist,

the Virgin Mary and the Church. Already in his Encyclical Mys-

terium Fidei on the Eucharist, signed on 3 September 1965 (the

feast of St Pius X at the time), shortly before the end of the Council

(8 December), Paul VI had reaffirmed the faith of the Church, cal-

ling on the bishops to promote Eucharistic worship, Eucharistic

spirituality, insisting on the inseparable elements of the sacrifice

of the Mass, the value of daily communion and its prolongation in

Eucharistic adoration. Also bound up with the crisis of faith in the

Eucharist was a deep crisis in the priesthood with thousands of

priests abandoning their ministry. Hence, in 1967, Paul VI once

more proposed genuine priestly spirituality in his Encyclical Sac-

erdotalis Caelibatus. Then, with Marialis Cultus in 1974, the Pope

would offer the Church a beautiful proposal of Marian spirituality.

Thus, in Paul VI’s magisterium, as in his personal testimony of

holiness, faith and love, Jesus in the Eucharist, the Priesthood,

Mary and the Church are inseparable, in other words Mary in the

Mystery of Christ and the Church (Lumen Gentium, VIII). Jesus’

Love has its centre in the Eucharist, and is lived with Mary in the

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Church. Authentic Catholic spirituality as witnessed by the saints

is, inseparably, Eucharistic, Marian and ecclesial.

A consecrated laywoman in the Salesian Family as a Cooper-

ator, Vera lived this spirituality at the school of Don Bosco, under

the guidance of her Salesian directors,4 also making reference to

the Marian teaching of Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort

(the “slavery of love”) and to Carmelite spirituality (above all in

her final year at the Carmelite’s “Desert of Varazze”). For de Mont-

fort as for Don Bosco, Mary is the Living Tabernacle par excel-

lence of the Incarnate Word. She is the Mother who always gives

her Son, fruit of her womb, and who teaches the faithful to receive

him and keep him with them in faith and love in the Eucharist.

Thus de Montfort’s Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin

concludes with the Eucharist: experiencing holy communion fully

with Mary and in Mary (no. 266-273). There we find the Totus Tuus

that St John Paul II constantly breathed.5

We find the same testimony in these years of crisis in Servant

of God Chiara Lubich, founder of the Work of Mary (Focolare

Movement), in Mary’s and the Church’s love of Jesus in the daily

Eucharist, in full communion with Paul VI.6 Even before the Coun-

4 Mainly Fr Gabriello Zucconi, but also Fr Giovanni Bocchi and Fr Giuseppe

Borra who would be her first biographer (1984). Then, Fr Borra would be the

spiritual father of another mystic, Teresa Musco di Caserta (1943-1976) who had

the stigmata, and who life he would write in 1986, a year before her death. These

figures of Salesian spiritual priests are important, along with the outstanding example

of Venerable Fr Giuseppe Quadrio SDB (1921-1963), a great mystic and great

theologian.

5 This is the brief formula of consecration to Jesus through Mary, to Mary to

receive Jesus. Benedict XVI recalled its importance throughout the life of John Paul

II in his homily at the Beatification on 1 May 2011: “The motto ‘Totus tuus’

corresponds to the famous expression of Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort,

in which Karol Wojtyła found a fundamental principle for his life: Totus tuus ego

sum et omnia mea tua sunt. Accipio Te in mea omnia. Praebe mihi cor tuum, Maria

– I am all yours and all that is mine is yours. I take you for my all. Give me your

heart, O Mary (L-M. Grignion de Montfort, Treatise on true devotion to the Blessed

Virgin, no. 266). These words in Latin were constantly written by Karol Wojtyła on

the first pages of his manuscripts already when he was secretly a seminarian.

6 I can also add my own personal testimony, because these last two years of

Vera’s life were also my first years of religious life. I am moved by the fact that Vera

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cil and Dei Verbum, Chiara placed the emphasis on the food that is

the Word of God, “Word of Life”, inseparable from the Eucharistic

Bread of Life.

Certainly, the Work of the Living Tabernacles begun by Vera

in these years is small and hidden, humanly speaking, but it is great

and prophetic in its profound truth. It is like a new development

and a new application of faith in the Real Presence of Jesus in the

Eucharist. It concerns preserving in oneself the Eucharistic pres-

ence of Jesus received in communion, in order to bring him to

others. This first way of being a Living Tabernacle can already be

experienced by everyone in the Church. But there is a second way

that is not yet fully possible: preserving the Consecrated Host and

carrying it on oneself among people. This would need the Pope’s

permission, and it is this that Vera asked for in her messages to

Paul VI. Vera was quietly supported by the Salesian superiors and

by some theologians (Salesians Dominicans and Carmelites) who

passed on her messages to the pope. Paul VI would bless the Work

after Vera’s death. But there are no documents relating to the re-

quested authorisation to carry Jesus in the Eucharist. However, one

positive fact is that during his pontificate, Extraordinary Ministers

of the Eucharist were instituted in 1972: men and women,lay and

consecrated whose mission is to bring the Eucharist to the sick and

elderly. These can already fully live out Jesus’ words to Vera: “Take

me with you”!

had received her first message on 19 September 1967, while I entered Carmel two

days later, on 21 September, on the feast of Saint Matthew. I made my religious

profession in 1968, and I personally experienced this great crisis of the Church,

always listening to the voice of Paul VI. Eucharistic adoration was much fought

over, even called ‘idolatry’ by some! I had to fight for two years to get permission

for an hour of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament exposed once a week, and

only optional, for a small group! There was no longer talk of a tabernacle, but of a

“Eucharistic reserve” only functional for taking communion to the sick, and no

longer as a place of prayer.

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Vera in the “carousel of saints”, along with Saint Thérèse of

Lisieux and Venerable Cardinal François-Xavier Van Thuân

With regard to Eucharistic spirituality, it is worth looking at

how Vera, in the “carousel of saint”, gives one hand to Thérèse of

Lisieux (1873–1897) and another to Venerable Cardinal François-

Xavier Nguyen Van Thuân (1928-2002).

Thérèse of Lisieux

The theme of the Living Tabernacle is very much present in

the writings of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux but, by contrast with Vera,

without any extraordinary phenomenon of messages or locutions.7

There are spiritual intuitions, profound illuminations, almost al-

ways received in a Eucharistic context, often during the time of

thanksgiving after communion. Thérèse is one of the greatest

mystics but without any mystical phenomenon.

Let us remember that the Saint lived at the end of the 19th cen-

tury when the Church had not yet expressed itself definitively in

favour of daily communion. Thus, in her Offering to Merciful Love

– the essential text published at the end of the Story of a Soul8 –

7 This is another approach, perhaps more essential, of mystical experience,

listening to the Word of Jesus in the Gospel: “It is above all the Gospel that entertains

me during prayers; I find in it everything that is necessary for my poor soul. There I

discover ever new lights, hidden and mysterious meanings. I understand and I know

from experience ‘that the kingdom of God is within us’. Jesus has absolutely no need

of books nor doctors to instruct souls. Doctor of all doctors, he teaches without the

noise of words. I have never heard him speak, but I feel that He is in me, and guides

me every instant, inspires what I must say or do. I discover, precisely at the moment

I need to, lights that I had never yet seen: most often it is not during the prayers that

are most abundant, but rather among the occupations of the day”(Ms A, 83v).

8 Published now in an authentic text, exactly as the saint had written it, the

Story of a Soul brings together the three Autobiographical Manuscripts (Ms A, B

and C, with sheet numbers), with the addition of two of her most important prayers:

The prayer on the day of her profession (Pr 2), and her Offering to Merciful Love

(Pr 6). This is Thérèse's main text that sheds light on all her other writings: Letters

(LT), Poems (P), Pious Recreations (PR) and Prayers (Pr) (It is the contents of the

Opere Complete, translated and published in Italian in 1997 by the Libreria Editrice

Vaticana, from the original French: Oeuvres Complètes, Paris, 1992, ed. Cerf/DDB).

We have recently published a new edition of the Storia di un'anima, with the Preface

by Benedict XVI (Rome, 2015, edizioni OCD).

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the Carmelite tells Jesus:

I feel in my heart immense desires and it is with confidence

I ask You to come and take possession of my soul. Ah! I cannot

receive Holy Communion as often as I desire, but, Lord, are You

not all powerful? Remain in me as in a tabernacle and never

separate Yourself from Your little victim.

This is Thérèse’s most profound “cry” regarding communion,

her desire for daily communion and to be able to keep the Eucharistic

presence of Jesus within her “as in a tabernacle”, that is, as a Living

Tabernacle! It is a most significant request faced with the mistaken

notion, widespread at the time, that this Eucharistic presence was

“fleeting”, lasting just a few moments and disappearing once the ‘ac-

cidents’ of the bread had dissolved in our body, with the ridiculous

consequence that it would be better to take communion with a large

host than with a small fragment, to enjoy a longer presence! Instead,

Jesus said: “Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide

(or dwell: menei in the Greek text) in me, and I in them” (Jn 6:56).

This is the truth that Thérèse believed and lived.

Thérèse did not have permission to receive communion every

day at the Carmel in Lisieux.9 She suffered a lot from this, with the

hope that things would change in the future. And she was not alone:

we see the same desire and suffering in many holy religious women

of her time.10 The negative influence of Jansenism, decidedly

against frequent communion, had been strong. The God of the

9 Nevertheless, there was an exception during the influenza epidemic which

resulted in he death of many Sisters: “For as long as the community was thus tried,

I was able to have the ineffable consolation of daily Holy Communion... Ah, how

sweet it was!... Jesus spoiled me for a long time, longer than His faithful brides,

because He allowed them to give Him to me without the others having the happiness

of receiving Him” (Ms A, 79v).

10 This was also the greatest suffering of Saint Joan of Arc (Thérèse of Lisieux's

most beloved saint and along with her, Patron Saint of France): being deprived of

communion during the four months of her trial. She often requested it but was

refused. Only on the morning of her death, on 30 May 1431, before being led to the

scaffold, did she receive Jesus in the Eucharist in prison.

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saints was no longer near, but on the contrary was a distant God

who did not let the faithful approach him. This was a disaster for

God’s people. However, already in the Middle Ages, while Euchar-

istic spirituality emphasised faith in the Real Presence (against the

errors of Berengar and the rationalist theologians), in the form of

adoration, frequent communion was not yet recommended. On this

point St Catherine of Siena is a happy exception, as the great

prophetess of daily communion, something that scandalised her

contemporaries.11 Thérèse of Lisieux, the other saints of her time,

picked up on and intensified this prophetic desire in the certain be-

lief that the Church would express herself in favour of daily com-

munion. This would happen a few years later with the Decrees of

Saint Pius X in 1905. So, in Thérèse’s Eucharistic spirituality, com-

munion is at the centre.

For Thérèse. the Eucharist is the sacrament of Jesus’ merciful

Love par excellence, of the Divine Love that lowers itself, makes

itself small, wants to unite itself with us, live with us and in us poor

sinful children. Put briefly, Thérèse sums up all her Eucharistic

spirituality in her final letter written for a future priest, seminarian

Maurice Bellière, her first spiritual brother. It is an image that rep-

resents the Child Jesus in the consecrated Host in the hands of the

priest, next to which Thérèse wrote these simple words: “/I cannot

fear a God who has made himself so small for me! I love him! Be-

cause he alone is Love and Mercy!/” (LT 266). In a nutshell, it is

like the Eucharistic testament of the saint. In the Eucharist, Jesus

is the God who is near, the God of Merciful Love, the God who

makes himself small, who is not frightening, but who arouses our

response of trust and love. He is the true Body born of the Virgin

Mary as a Child, He is the Crucified and Risen One!

11 In this regard we can quote the words of the Dominican Tommaso Caffarini,

Catherine's witness and biographer: “First of all we must know that, although the

custom of Christians of her time was to avoid frequent communion, Catherine also

wished to receive communion every day [...]. If she could have, she would have taken

Communion every day, since she knew that the venerable Sacrament was the only

way to be united body and soul with her eternal Spouse.” (Legenda Minor, c XII).

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In recounting her first communion, Thérèse expresses the inti-

macy of her union with Jesus as “fusion”. She describes it as “the

first kiss of Jesus in my heart.” This is already an experience of

spousal love, of total, mutual and definitive love between Husband

and bride. To Jesus, who “gave himself so lovingly to her”, Thérèse

replied, “I love You, and I give myself to You forever” (Ms A 35rv).

For the Carmelite, mystical union with Jesus, spiritual matrimony,

is none other than Eucharistic communion experienced fully with

the help of Mary.12

Thérèse said to Mary: “Give me Jesus and unite me to him”

(P 5). Contemplating her as pregnant she called her “the Tabernacle

that veils the divine beauty of the Saviour” (P 54). During the time

of communion she was not afraid to identify herself with Mary at

the Annunciation when the Son of God came down from heaven

and became incarnate in her virginal womb:

O beloved Mother, despite my littleness,

Like you I possess The All-Powerful within me.

But I don’t tremble in seeing my weakness;

The treasures of a mother belong to her child,

And I am your child, O my dearest Mother.

Aren’t your virtues and your love mine too?

So when the white Host comes into my heart,

Jesus, your Sweet Lamb, thinks he is resting in you!... (ibid).

In the same way, the priest must learn from Mary all of her

love for the Body of Jesus.13 Like Vera, Thérèse speaks inseparably

of Jesus in the Eucharist, Mary and priests. As a minister of the

12 We have an example in these words of the saint: “Heaven for me is hidden

in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace

to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day. Ah, what a

happy moment when you in your tenderness come, my Beloved, to transform me into

yourself. This union of love, this ineffable intoxication, this is my heaven!” (P 32).

13 Thus, praying for her spiritual brother, seminarian Bellière, Thérèse says to

Our Lady: “Teach him already with what love you touched the Divine Child Jesus

and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, so that he may one day ascend to the Holy

Altar and carry the King of Heaven in his hands” (Pr 8).

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Eucharist, the priest must be the first Living Tabernacle who, to-

gether with Mary, receives Jesus in faith and love and gives him

to people. In this light, the saint goes to the heart of life and the

priestly vocation when she says: “I feel in me the vocation of a

priest! With what love, O Jesus, would I bear you in my hands,

when at the sound of my words you came down from heaven! With

what love would I give you to souls!” (Ms B 2v). Thérèse is

Patroness of the Missions, always with this Eucharistic dynamic.

With regard to communion, Thérèse places the main emphasis

not on our desire to receive Jesus but on Jesus’ desire to come to

us, unite himself with us and abide with and in us. Jesus does not

want to remain locked in the cold Tabernacle of stone but wants to

come into the Tabernacle of flesh, the living Tabernacle of our heart.

She says this very clearly: “Our Lord does not come from heaven

every day to stay in a golden ciborium. He comes to find another

heaven, the heaven of our soul in which he loves to dwell.” 14

The saint had already expressed this thought when she was a

novice, in her letter of 30 May 1889 to her cousin Marie Guérin

who had ceased receiving communion because of scruples (con-

cerning chastity). Here are some of her most characteristic words:

Oh, my darling, think, then, that Jesus is there in the Tabernacle

expressly for you, for you alone; He is burning with the desire

to enter your heart so don’t listen to the devil, mock him, and

go without any fear to receive Jesus in peace and love! [...] Your

heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately; pray so

that the beautiful years of your life may not pass by in chimeri-

cal fears. We have only the short moments of our life to love

Jesus, and the devil knows this well, and so he tries to consume

our life in useless works... Dear little sister, receive Communion

often, very often... That is the only remedy if you want to be

healed [...] Have no fear of loving the Blessed Virgin too much,

you will never love her enough, and Jesus will be pleased since

the Blessed Virgin is His Mother. (LT 92)

14 Ms A, 48v. In the same way she writes: “O mystery of love! Jesus, you are

my daily bread [...] Your favourite golden pyx among all, Jesus, is me!” (P 24).

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Saint Pius X loved this letter very much. Her Cause of Beati-

fication opened under his pontificate, and it as he who foretold that

Thérèse would be “the greatest saint of modern times”! It was he

who, in 1905, spoke definitively of the value of daily communion,

following the intention of Jesus himself who had chosen bread, the

human being’s daily nourishment. According to Saint Pius X, it

was not only permissible but also advised for every member of the

faithful to receive communion every day if they did not have grave

sin on their conscience (in which case they should receive Mercy

in the Sacrament of Reconciliation). Tanks to this decisive inter-

vention of the holy Pope, almost all the saints of the 20th century,

including lay people, have been saints of daily communion. Saint

Pius X also opened up communion to little children. Thus, Vener-

able Antonietta Meo (“Nennolina”), who died at 6 years of age,

made her first communion when she was 5!

Cardinal Van Thuân

On 4 May 2017, Pope Francis recognised the heroic virtues of

Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuân. This new Venerable

is an excellent figure of holiness, a witness to Christ particularly

close to Saint John Paul II who made him cardinal in 2001, a year

before his death. The Pope had invited him to preach the retreat in

the Vatican for the great Jubilee in 2000, on the theme of hope. He

was a great mystic, witness to a stupendous Eucharistic and Marian

spirituality, fully realising in his life everything that Vera had fore-

told regarding the Living Tabernacles. This fact is so impressive

because he had probably never heard of Vera and her Work. In-

stead, he was very close to Chiara Lubich, sharing the Focolari

spirituality, but was also profoundly influenced by Thérèse of

Lisieux and Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort.

In 1967, Paul VI appointed him Bishop of Nha Trang, Vietnam.

A young bishop just thirty-nine years old, he committed himself

totally to the service of his people during the dramatic years of the

war. Highly respected by Paul VI, he was appointed Coadjutor

Archbishop of Saigon in April 1975, but immediately afterwards,

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with the communist victory, he was arrested on 15 August 1975

and without trial spent more than thirteen years in prison, nine of

them in solitary confinement, until he was freed on 21 November

1988. For him, the two Marian feasts of the Assumption and the

Presentation had a profound meaning, shedding light on all of this

dramatic period of his life. He then went through a profound mys-

tical experience with the Eucharist at its centre in all its dimensions

of sacrifice, communion, presence and adoration.

Thus, on 7 October 1976, after a year of very tough prison, he

wrote this prayer which sums up his Eucharistic spirituality:

Beloved Jesus, this evening, in the darkness of my cell, without

light, without a window, very hot, I think with great nostalgia

of my pastoral life. [...] Once I celebrated with the golden

paten and chalice, now your blood in the palm of my hand [...]

Once I went to visit you in the tabernacle, now I carry you, day

and night, with me in my pocket. Once I celebrated Mass

before thousands of faithful; now in the darkness of the night,

passing communion under mosquito nets. [...] I used to impart

the solemn blessing with the Blessed Sacrament in the cathedral,

now I do Eucharistic adoration every evening at 9 p.m., in

silence, softly singing the Tantum Ergo, the Salve Regina.15

So many other priests have celebrated Mass in similar con-

ditions in Nazi or Communist concentration camps. But I wanted

to highlight the most original aspect regarding precisely the spiri-

tuality of the Living Tabernacles, that is, carrying the consecrated

host on oneself. He experienced this as priest and bishop but,

during this same period of communist persecution, the more fer-

vent lay people went through the same experience. In fact, the

bishops in Vietnam had given the faithful, men and women,

permission to carry the Eucharist with them to give communion

in places where priests could not go. It was the same at the time of

the French Revolution.

15 Many texts have been published, others can be found, together with

testimonies, in the excellent Positio for his Cause of Beatification and Canonisation.

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This fact of carrying the consecrated host on oneself had also

struck his archbishop who, in his report sent to Rome in 1978

wrote: “He had adopted the habit of keeping a small consecrated

host on his person after Mass.” At the same time, he went through

times of extreme suffering together with Jesus in Gethsemane. Ac-

cording to his sister’s testimony, “on seeing the suffering of

prisoners with him and his own suffering, he became aware that

only the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist could give meaning and

strength in that situation of life.”

Van Thuân was not afraid to share this Eucharistic spirituality

of the Living Tabernacle with others. Another priest, the Rector of

the Diocesan Seminary who was a prisoner with him, testifies to this:

As a sign of hope he gave me another gift that I found very valu-

able. He had made a ring out of tin cans, which he gave me and

asked me what it was, and I told him it was a toy, but he told

me that it was a ring in which he had hidden a piece of the

consecrated Particle so that I would always carry Jesus in the

Eucharist with me. I found it extraordinary and am still moved

to think of what he had done for me.

This was the fulfilment of Jesus’ words to Vera: Take me with

you! Later, after he was freed, Van Thuân often testified to this

Eucharistic experience he had in prison.

He had told a group of priests how, from the beginning of his

time in prison, he had succeeded in having a little bit of wine in a

flask as “medicine for stomach-ache” as well as some small hidden

hosts. So he was able to celebrate Mass each day with three drops

of wine in the palm of one hand and a fragment of host in the other.

In the re-education camp, he celebrated clandestinely for the other

prisoners, gave out communion and distributed these humble secret

tabernacles, also by carrying Jesus in the Eucharist on himself:

We make little bags out of cigarette packet paper to keep the

Blessed Sacrament. Jesus in the Eucharist is always with me in

my shirt pocket. [...] Every week there is an indoctrination

session, in which the whole camp must participate. At break

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time, with my Catholic comrades, we take the opportunity to

pass a small packet to each of the other four groups of prisoners:

they all know that Jesus is in their midst, it is He who cures all

physical and mental suffering. At night, the prisoners take turns

in adoration; the Eucharistic Jesus helps tremendously with His

silent presence. Many Christians return to the fervour of faith

during these days; Buddhists and other non-Christians also con-

vert. The power of Jesus’ love is irresistible. The darkness of

the prison becomes light, the seed has germinated underground

during the storm. I offer Mass together with the Lord: when I

distribute communion I give myself together with the Lord to

make myself food for all. This means that I am always totally

at the service of others. Every time I offer Mass I have the op-

portunity to stretch out my hands and nail myself to the Cross

with Jesus, to drink the bitter cup with him. Each day, reciting

or hearing the words of consecration, I confirm with all my heart

and soul a new covenant, an eternal covenant between Jesus and

me, through his Blood mixed with mine (1 Cor 11:23-25). Jesus

on the cross began a revolution. Your revolution must begin at

the Eucharistic table and be carried on from there. Then you

will be able to renew humanity.

I spent 9 years in solitary confinement. During this time I

celebrated Mass every day towards 3 in the afternoon: the time

when Jesus lay dying on the cross. I am alone, I can sing my

Mass as I wish, in Latin, French, Vietnamese... I always take

the little package with me that contains the Blessed Sacrament:

“You in me and I in you.” They were the most beautiful Masses

of my life. In the evenings, from 9-10 p.m. I did an hour of ador-

ation and sang Lauda Sion, Pange lingua, Adoro Te, Te Deum

and hymns in Vietnamese, despite the noise of the loudspeaker

that last from 5 in the morning until 11.30 in the evening. I felt

a special peace of spirit and heart, and the joy, the serenity of

the company of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. I sang Salve Regina,

Salve Mater, Alma Redemptoris Mater, Regina coeli ... in unity

with the universal Church. Despite the accusations, lies against

the Church, I sang Tu es Petrus, Oremus pro Pontifice nostro,

Christus vincit ... Just as Jesus fed the crowd that followed him

into the desert, in the Eucharist it is he himself who continues

to be the food of eternal life. In the Eucharist we proclaim the

death of Jesus and we proclaim his resurrection. There are mo-

ments of infinite sadness, so what do I do? Look at the crucified

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Jesus abandoned on the cross. To human eyes, Jesus’ life was a

failure, useless, frustrated, but in God’s eyes, Jesus on the cross

fulfilled the most important action of his life, because he poured

out his blood to save the world. How united Jesus is with God,

when, on the cross, he can no longer preach, heal the sick, visit

people, perform miracles, but remains in absolute immobility!

Mary is always intimately present in this Eucharistic experi-

ence. After having given the Gift of his Body and Blood, Jesus

gave his Mother to us:

As the son of Mary, especially during the holy Mass, when I

say the words of consecration I identify myself with Jesus in

persona Christi. When I ask what Mary meant in my radical

choice for Jesus, the answer is clear: on the cross Jesus said to

John: “Here is your mother!” (Jn 19:27). After the institution of

the Eucharist, The Lord could leave us nothing greater than his

Mother. For me Mary is the living Gospel, in pocketbook

format, with the widest spread, closer to me than the lives of all

the other saints. But Mary is my mother: the one Jesus gave me.

A child’s first reaction when he is sick or afraid is to call out:

“Mummy!” This word, for a child, is everything. Mary lived

entirely and exclusively for Jesus.

He has told us that at times of extreme desolation he succeeded

only in saying the Hail Mary.16 At the worst time of his solitary

confinement he wrote this prayer of consecration and total entrust-

ment to Jesus through Mary:

Mary, my Mother, Mother of Jesus, our Mother, in order to feel

united with Jesus and with everyone, my brothers and sisters, I

want to call you Our Mother. [...] In me, O Mother, continue to

work, pray, love, sacrifice; continue to fulfil the Father’s will,

continue to be the Mother of humanity. Continue to live the

passion and resurrection of Jesus. O Mother, I consecrate myself

16 In my priestly ministry for the terminally ill and dying, I have been able to

experience this power of the Hail Mary, especially its final words “Holy Mary,

Mother of God, pray for us sinner, now and at the hour of our death.”

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to you, all to you, now and forever. Living in your spirit and

that of Joseph, I will live in the spirit of Jesus, with Jesus, Jo-

seph, the angels, the saints and all souls. I love you, O Mother

of ours, and I will share your toil, your concern and your fight

for the kingdom of the Lord Jesus, Amen.

It is the Montfort consecration itself, experienced by John

Paul II and Vera, that leads to an “identification of the faithful with

Mary in her love for Jesus, in her service of Jesus”.17 This powerful

Eucharistic and Marian spirituality is essentially apostolic: taking

Jesus with him to communicate his love to others, friend or foe.

Van Thuân left us an extraordinary testimony of love of enemies.

Speaking of his tough communist jailers, he wrote: “I had decided

to love them.” And it was not him, it was Jesus always present with

him who loved them and gradually made them friends!

A prophetic message for today’s and tomorrow’s Church

It is the same Voice of Jesus speaking to His Church through

the Magisterium and the saints. Vera’s Eucharistic message is fully

confirmed and strengthened by St Thérèse of Lisieux and the Ven-

erable Van Thuân. They are, therefore, neither illusions nor pious

exaggerations of an exalted individual but a powerful prophecy for

the Church, a “word of Life” addressed to all God’s people: the

Pope, bishops and priests, deacons, extraordinary ministers of the

Eucharist, religious men and women, and all lay people living in

marriage or celibacy. It is a wonderful way to reaffirm the centrality

of the Eucharist in the life of the Pilgrim Church. Jesus in the Eu-

charist is like the sun that illuminates and warms the whole people

of God on their way to the Celestial Homeland. St Catherine of

Siena already spoke of this.

With her theme of the Living Tabernacles, Vera invites us to

17 This is John Paul II’s expression in his important Letter to religious of the

Montfort Family of 8 December 2003 (no. 5). Following in de Montfort's footsteps,

Chiara Lubich also insisted on this aspect: “Become another Mary, a little Mary” CIT.

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rediscover the wonder of the Real Presence of Jesus in the Euchar-

ist as the great Mystery of the closeness of God who is Love to

human beings. Like Saint Catherine of Siena, Vera listens to the

voice of this God who is “madly in love” with us, and who has ap-

proached us in an ineffable and unsurpassable way in the Mysteries

of the Incarnation, the Redemption and the Eucharist. He really is

Emmanuel, God with us! It is he who tells us this most character-

istic word in Vera’s messages: “Take me with you!”

We have been focusing on the most recent period by consider-

ing the Eucharistic spirituality of Thérèse and Van Thuân, but in

reality there is an entire dynamic in the Church’s historical journey

to bring the Eucharist ever closer to the faithful, and the faithful to

the Eucharist. It is often the saints (and women saints in particular)

who have urged ecclesiastical authority to take new steps on this

path to greater closeness. For example the feast of Corpus Domini:

the first move came from Saint Juliana in Liège in the 13th century.

Then came the decision of Pope Urban IV and the work of St Tho-

mas Aquinas, the great theologian of the Eucharist. It was the re-

sponse of the faith of God’s people and true theology, confirmed by

the Pope, in the face of erroneous opinions about the Real Presence.

The other great step in this direction was daily communion, so

much desired by Thérèse and saints of the 19th century and defini-

tively approved by Saint Pius X at the beginning of the 20th cen-

tury. Then another step was the shortening of the Eucharistic fast

first to just three hours and then one hour before communion. Ear-

lier it began from midnight, which was onerous for priests and the

faithful, and made evening Mass practically impossible.

Paul VI, who had so wisely guided the Second Vatican Coun-

cil, offered the whole Church a renewed Eucharistic spirituality

in the light of the Council, faced with new widespread errors at

the time. Following the years of the great crisis there was a new

flourishing of Eucharistic Adoration in the Church along with the

Renewal in the Holy Spirit and Marian spirituality in various

Movements and new communities.

Still in the same direction of greater closeness of Jesus in the

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Eucharist, new steps were taken by Paul VI and his successors with

the restoration of the permanent diaconate, the institution of extra-

ordinary ministers of the Eucharist, community celebrations of the

Word with Eucharistic communion (in the absence of the priest)

and the permission of communion in the hand by which the faithful

can also touch the true Body of Jesus with faith and love. It is the

same loving and adoring familiarity with Jesus experienced by

Thérèse and Vera.

Today, many bishops have extended permission to keep the

Eucharist at home: for priests (in their presbyteries), for the sick,

small communities of consecrated men and women, for families

involved in service to the poor and the more afflicted, for con-

secrated members of the Ordo Virginum, hermits, though always

with careful discernment of circumstances to avoid abuses. Thus

Vera’s prophecy with regard to the Living Tabernacles is being

realised in the life of the Church, and certainly to tackle difficult

times. It was in persecution that Van Thuân was able to fully ex-

perience being a Living Tabernacle, and there is much persecution

to be found in today’s Church, under various forms.

On the other hand, there is no shortage of new difficulties and

obstacles today that again tend to drive the faithful away from their

daily encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist. The biggest problem

is evidently the insufficient number of priests, with a terrible crisis

of vocations in Europe and North America, to such an extent that

it becomes very difficult for the faithful to attend Mass every day.

Another problem is the de-Christianisation of the world’s regions

themselves and consequent widespread religious indifference.

Churches are empty and often closed because very few of the faith-

ful go to pray before the tabernacle. Added to this is the problem

of the increasingly frequent desecration of the Eucharist by satanic

sects, which results in the removal of the Blessed Sacrament in

many churches or chapels. Although profanations are a horrible

thing, the most diabolical thing is the removal of Jesus in the

Eucharist, who becomes inaccessible to those who love him! It

must be added that the risk of these desecrations in deserted

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churches is greater than in the homes of the faithful or in the small

hidden pyxes of the ministers of the Eucharist.

Another problem also comes from a theological and pastoral

current of thought that is fairly widespread today, one that suggests

a so-called Eucharistic fast to the faithful and priests, that is, that

they voluntarily abstain from the Eucharist at least one day a week.18

This current of thought rightly insists on the importance of the

Sunday Eucharist, but relativises the daily Eucharist too much, as

if it were an exaggeration. First of all, to speak of Eucharistic fast-

ing in this sense is an abuse of language, because this traditional

expression means just the opposite: giving up any food (now for

the brief time of an hour) in order to receive the Eucharistic Food!

The intention would also be to avoid the routine of daily life, but

it is enough to listen to the saints of daily communion (such as St

Gemma Galgani), to see the opposite: it is the ever new feast of

Love on a daily basis! Eucharistic hunger, the desire for daily com-

munion, is not a “spiritual gluttony” that should need mortification.

Thérèse of Lisieux showed us that it is our response to Jesus’ “great

desire” (cf. Lk 22:15) to be united with us every day, to come into

us and to be with us. Finally, this current is directly opposed to the

teaching of Saint Pius X, confirmed by the Council and Paul VI,

on the value of daily communion. This is in no way progress, but

a backward step! I think it would be important to have a fraternal

debate with the representatives of this current of thought, who are

often spiritual and committed people in the life of the Church.

Due to these problems, many faithful will experience the spiri-

tuality of the Living Tabernacles as Thérèse of Lisieux did, making

use of her prayer: “Ah, I cannot receive Holy Communion as often

as I desire! but, Lord, are You not all powerful? Remain in me as

18 I had already experienced this in the 1970s, before my priestly ordination

(1975), in one of our Carmelite communities in France, where this ‘Eucharistic fast’

was practised one day a week. But rightly so, the superior allowed me to take

communion alone. Father René Voillaume was very concerned about this current of

thought, and had told me about it at our last meeting, shortly before his death. He

had been invited by Paul VI to preach the retreat at the Vatican in 1968.

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in a tabernacle and never separate Yourself from Your little vic-

tim!” Like Thérèse of Lisieux, Vera helps us to understand not only

how much Jesus loves us, but also “how much he wants to be

loved”. This is how she explains the meaning of her Offering to

Merciful Love (Ms A, 84r) which she immediately shared with her

Sisters and then with all the baptised.

Vera’s message is relevant and valuable for everyone, and es-

pecially for priests, ministers of the Eucharist called to be the first

Living Tabernacles, in order to help them grow in love for this great

Sacrament, through daily celebration of the Mass, during long mo-

ments of prayer before the tabernacle (as all holy priests have done),

and through the mission to bring communion to the sick and elderly.

It is also a call to nurture priestly fraternity, something Pope Francis

insists so much on, among young and older priests, among the more

conservative and the more innovative. The Eucharist, the sacrament

of Jesus’ Love, is the sacrament of fraternal Love, of the Church’s

unity; it is, par excellence, the sacrament of priestly fraternity.

It is also a strong message for religious and the laity so that

they may experience daily Eucharist better through participation

at Mass (or only in communion when there is no priest), and to

pray each day before the Blessed Sacrament. There is no doubt that

the Pope and the bishops in communion with him will know how

to take new steps to bring the faithful closer to Jesus in the Euchar-

ist, each day, in communion and adoration.

The proposal of the Living Tabernacles, then, is very relevant

for this direction, and already finds completion in the ministry of

the extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist, with Vera’s profoundly

mystical and apostolic intention: Take Jesus with you to give him

to your brothers and sisters. It is a broad proposal open to all, to

“little souls” who want to be on the path to holiness. There again,

Thérèse and Vera clasp hands to fully experience the Eucharist as

the great Sacrament of Jesus’ Love.

Avon, 6 July 2017

on the feast of Saint Maria Goretti

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“Take me with you”!

Theological and spiritual notes

on the spirituality of the Living Tabernacles

Fr Roberto Carelli SDB

Without prejudice to the unquestionable decrees of God, whose

thoughts are not our thoughts and whose ways are not our ways (cf.

Is 55:8), there is much that is reasonable in the fact that God chose

to entrust the inheritance of Vera Grita’s mission to the sons of Don

Bosco. On Vera’s part the request was more than explicit, but the

theological convenience is equally recognisable. The theological

and spiritual architecture of the messages received by Vera is in fact

manifestly Eucharistic and Marian, that is, articulated on the core

beliefs of the Church, that which assures its personal and eschato-

logical profile, and character of holiness and fruitfulness. In this re-

spect, Vera’s messages seem to be the prolongation and realisation

of the famous dream of the “two columns”. It is true that the Eu-

charist-Mary axis has always, and especially in modern times, been

the main cornerstone and most unmistakable mark of Catholicism,

but its twofold nuptial and apostolic projection belongs to our

own days. The interest of Vera’s testimony is in this sense already

recognisable in the fact that the very timbre of the messages is

intimate without being intimist, spiritually demanding but apostoli-

cally oriented; and it is a message that asks a lot of those near to

her, but aims at those far from her. There is something beautiful and

promising in the spirituality of the “tabernacles”: because, one

understands, it is one thing to think of Our Lady as the Bulwark of

faith, and yet another to think of her as the Star of evangelisation.

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Our intention in these introductory pages is to offer some theo-

logical room to the theme of the “Living Tabernacles”, seeing in it

an extension of the redemptive work that is suited to the time of

new evangelisation, and in this way able to expand the potential

of the Salesian charism. In practical terms, we see three orders of

consideration inspired by Vera's messages, in tune with the indica-

tions of the most recent pontiffs, and in line with our personal con-

victions. Here is the summary:

1. The Church can only redeem her face as Bride and Mother

if she develops the theological and pastoral conviction that Jesus

and Mary together are a single principle of redemption, and thus

free herself from the ballast of a predominantly institutional, doc-

trinalistic and moralistic image (without giving in to the contrary

temptation to blur the contours of her reality as Mystical Body and

of the Truth and Life of which she is the bearer).

2. Under the impulse of Evangelii Gaudium, the invitation to

interpret all of the Church’s activity in missionary terms seems

clear, both ad intra and ad extra. The overcoming of the Church’s

entrenchment and its potential for missionary extroversion find

their focus in the theological and practical development of what

John Paul II laid down in his Encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia,

the understanding of the Eucharistic mystery as the source of evan-

gelisation and the first step of mission.

3. The mystical intuition of a reality such as the “Living Tab-

ernacles” asks sacramental theology to explore a possible devel-

opment of the delicate theme of the “real presence”, capable of

subtracting its hermeneutics from the shoals of physicalist inter-

pretations and apologetic imputations, in order to show that in

the mystery of the Eucharist, the real and the symbolic are not

excluded but mutually implied, are not alternatives but rather do

they co-participate and co-determine each other.

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1. The Ark of the Covenant and the “Living Tabernacles”

The importance of the “two columns” of the Eucharist and

Mary for Christian life was something Don Bosco pondered day

and night, and it undoubtedly found extraordinary pastoral empha-

sis in him. But the two pillars are nothing less than the real foun-

dation of the Church as a new humanity founded on the personal

archetypes of Jesus and Mary as the new Adam and the new Eve,

the two who have been raised and in whom every human being can

find redemption and resurrection. And this is a fact widely shared

by many spiritualities.

Every human being needs God’s Grace and the ability to accept

it and make it fruitful. Hence there is this need for Jesus and Mary

who are inseparable: Jesus is Grace and Mary the fullness of Grace,

the Mother of Grace and Mediatrix of all graces. In relationship to

Grace, Mary never loses her personal prerogatives as Virgin,

Spouse and Mother which together characterise the Church in her

ways of being and acting. In Mary, they are already present in her

fiat at Nazareth, they mature painfully in her stabat at the foot of

the Cross, are fulfilled in her Assumption into Heaven and are dis-

tributed with a mother’s heart to every person who seeks God or

who has found him or lost him. In the Church, starting with Mary,

the same prerogatives are respectively the integrity of faith, the

obedience of faith and the fruitfulness of faith. And here it is good

to recall how, in Vera’s writings, Our Lady is invariably, from time

to time, the Immaculate, Our Lady of Sorrows, and Help of Chris-

tians, precisely the titles that correspond to her virginal, marital

and maternal stance on which Jesus modelled the Church and to

which he wants to conform the heart of every believer.

From another angle, Mary, as Mother of the High Priest, fully

realises the common priesthood of the entire Church. If in fact the

priesthood is to bring God to people and people to God, Mary real-

ises the priestly ideal in her femininity, and therefore in a virginal,

conjugal and fruitful way, that is, conjugal and fruitful for the faith,

precisely for the Eucharistic faith, the faith in the real and active

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presence of the Lord in history. In this framework, one understands

the density of the “take me with you” that expresses Jesus’ desire

and request of Vera and those who would follow in her footsteps.

This is where the mystery of the Eucharist is at stake in feminine,

Marian, ecclesial terms: “carrying” Jesus in oneself and bringing

him to others. The masculine, Christological, apostolic approach

is different: Jesus, the one who has always existed in the bosom of

the Father, does not want to work alone, but with us, and he does

not simply want to “come” into the world or “go” to us, but he

wants to be “carried”, kept, displayed, taken, placed and exposed.

God never acts in a solitary way but in a Trinitarian way, just as

man cannot act fruitfully without woman. And in fact, Jesus is car-

ried first by Mary, Ark of the Covenant, carried each time by the

Apostles in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, kept in the tabernacle,

exposed in adoration, carried in procession, placed in hearts and

displayed in charity.

When carefully reading Jesus’ messages to Vera it becomes

immediately clear – and it is important to stress this – that the “take

me with you” is not immediately apostolic but above all it is in-

separably nuptial: it is keeping him on oneself in order to bring

him to others. And the Marian counterpoint to this Eucharistic re-

quest is timely: the dispositions of mind, fundamentally the humil-

ity and charity necessary to bring Jesus in full transparency and

without opacity, are not things that are improvised, and without

Mary’s help we would never be able to give everything in order to

receive everything and give everything back without reserve. Thus

says Jesus to Vera:

You represent fragile humanity, poor in virtue, in tribulation and

suffering; wretched humanity that yearns for God, but could

never rise without me, without my Mother [...] Gifts of my

Mother’s Heart, and you will unite them with your miseries,

your nothingness, your too-small heart. I will take everything.

It is only thanks to Mary that the Church and Christians can

realise in ever more perfect form the fundamental dynamic of sal-

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vation history, that is, the forms of the polarity which is God’s

grace and man’s correspondence: the concentration that is Christ-

mas and the radiating out from the Epiphany, the obnoxiousness

and glory of the Cross, the life-giving dedication and the life-giving

Resurrection, abiding in Jesus and bearing fruit in Him, the systole

and diastole of discipleship and apostolate, consecration and

mission, chastity and charity, purity and transparency.

What we see brought about in Jesus’ messages to Vera is the

Christological and Marian ideal from Grignion de Montfort to

Chiara Lubich, that outlines the marvellous reciprocity of the ad

Jesum per Mariam through the per Jesum ad Mariam. Jesus is ex-

plicit and direct with Vera regarding this reciprocity:

I have told you that I speak to you in the Heart of My Mother,

and my Voice comes to you through that sword that pierces her

Motherly Heart. Listen to me from “Her” [...]. For “this work”

you must entrust yourself to my Mother, in particular to Our

Lady of Sorrows. I want “you to be the humble slave of Mary

Most Holy.” I entrust you to her, and you must abandon yourself

to her with the tenderness of a daughter.

Similar terms are used when Jesus refers to the Living Taber-

nacles that will follow:

I now point out my way. Through Mary, my Mother and theirs,

let them abandon themselves into her maternal arms and learn

with docility the “slavery of Love” of this sweetest Mother. Let

them allow themselves to be worked on by her; let them be

formed by this admirable Mistress of souls. She will prepare

her children for me, so that they may be imbued more and more

with my Grace, my Love so that, as my Apostle Paul said, it is

no longer they who will live, but I, Christ in them.

So far, it is nothing but the confirmation of a fully ecclesial

faith. The new element of the spirituality of the Living Tabernacles

is, in our opinion, what we might call a shortening of the distance

between the Eucharistic heart of Mary and the Eucharistic heart

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of the Christian. It is true that Mary’s special quality is that she is

a woman of the Eucharist already by reason of the incarnation (cf.

Ecclesia de Eucharistia, 53-58), and that her physical union with

Jesus is what makes her inimitable. It is also true that the Chris-

tian’s Eucharistic union is mystical and sacramental instead. But

this first and elementary consideration cannot and should not create

an excessive distance between us and our Blessed Mother. Mary’s

privilege is not to our disadvantage, but is advantageous for us: in

her faith we too can have faith, in her way of being united to Jesus

we too can be united to Him, and in her motherhood we too can

find fruitfulness.

Jesus’ own words encourage us. Surprisingly, Jesus does not

spend a single word mitigating the “scandal” of his Eucharistic of-

fering: his Body is true food and his Blood is true drink; his Body

and His Blood are Bread of Life and Bread of the Way, and the Eu-

charistic Bread is really his Body and His Blood (cf. Jn 6). We also

need to consider that on the one hand the Incarnation of the Word

takes place in Mary’s heart before it does in her body – prius mente

quam ventre, St Augustine said – and that this makes her imitable.

On the other hand, it should not be underestimated that the specific

nature of Eucharistic grace, compared to the other dimensions of

the life of grace, is precisely Communion with the Lord in all its

paschal fullness, inclusive of body, blood, humanity and divinity.

In this sense, the ideal of “Living Tabernacles” becomes an em-

phasising and deepening of the Eucharistic realism that integrates

the biblical figure of the Ark of the Covenant and the sacramental

figure of the Eucharistic reserve with the personal and affective,

historical and practical sensibility that is proper to our time.

Jesus’ messages to Vera attest on every page to this supernatu-

ral realism of the life of grace as the indwelling of Jesus in the be-

lieving soul and of the believing soul in Jesus. And first and

foremost this means being a “living tabernacle”. It is not about

mental or moral union that does not involve somatic intimacy. By

implication, the mystery of the Incarnation must fully unfold.

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2. “Let me deal with souls”: Jesus is outgoing

As has been noted, at the heart of the work of the Antichrist is

a misunderstanding of God in the flesh (cf. 1 Jn 2:22; 2 Jn 7). And

indeed, in modern times, the Evil one's attacks have taken the form

of protest regarding incarnational aspects of the faith; in practice,

as Pope Francis would say, we are dealing with a combined attack

on the “three white loves”, Mary, the Eucharist and the Pope, or in

other words, denial of the “Body of Christ” in its historical, sacra-

mental and ecclesial form. It is significant here that the time of the

messages and the time of Vera’s death were concomitant with this,

around 1968, when things in the Church and the world would no

longer be as they were before. The dictatorship of “one way of

thinking”, which prolongs and exacerbates the previous dictator-

ships of rationalism and relativism, seeks in every way to neutralise

the meaning of bodies, and aims to make them indifferent to any

kind of difference: one can speak of God, but not of Jesus Christ;

speak of man, but as if God were not there and as if man himself

were God; speak of bodies, but not as sexed, or of affections, but

without ties, or of justice, but without mercy, and of mercy, but

without justice. Even the boundaries between man, animal and ob-

ject have thinned out. Many scholars interpret our use of the cat-

egory of “post-human” as the end of man’s claims to excellence

over all other creatures, the end of man as the image and likeness

of God. Man is merely an “ingenious animal” who does not have

to answer to any God, for he is simply “a self-experiment”.

Vera Grita, inspired by the Lord Jesus, responds with a lumi-

nous indication to this wave of “disincarnation” or “excarnation”

resulting in widespread apostasy with its corresponding psychic

discomforts and globalised social conflicts: “Living Tabernacles”!

Such a revival of Christian Eucharistic realism does not seem in

keeping with the signs of the times, at least without some aspect

of novelty to it. It is the realisation that the Eucharist cannot be of

worth only as a confirmation of identity, but must be recognised as

a source of mission: given the current level of confrontation be-

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tween Christ and Satan, it must be recognised that it is no longer a

time for offering signals that are predominantly apologetic in na-

ture, but is a time for radiating a welcoming presence. Jesus himself

wants to be brought closer to those who have turned away, because

words and explanations, but often also gestures and testimonies,

are insufficient and ineffective. As we know, evangelisation takes

place first and foremost as presence and proximity, by diffusion

and contagion of holiness, but our times require something more,

something like the presence and diffusion of Jesus himself, the

source of all holiness in the Church.

Around this apostolic expansion of the Eucharistic mystery,

Jesus’ words to Vera are abundant, and their fundamental message

is a real deepening of that closeness of God which the Fathers

called ”divine condescension” and which radically qualifies the

face of the Christian God. In other words, the logic underlying the

spirituality of the Living Tabernacles is the divine willingness to

share Jesus becoming our neighbour with the most sensitive and

willing believers. It is, in our opinion, a deepening of the redemp-

tive work in its Eucharistic realism that is in continuity with the

slow and prudent historical advances that tend more and more to

Eucharistic “exposition” rather than “repositioning”: a centrifu-

gal mystagogy as a necessary integration of a centripetal mysta-

gogy, an approaching of the mystery as a development of the

approaching to the mystery.

So the idea is to extend the fruits of the Eucharistic gift from

those who are near to those who are distant. It is thinking of the Eu-

charist not only as food for the strong, but also as bread for the poor.

It is to remove Jesus from isolation in the name of his will for Com-

munion. This was well expressed by Card. Parolin on the occasion

of the Diocesan Eucharistic Congress in Cesena (May 30, 2016),

Jesus, alive and present in the consecrated bread and wine, does

not intend to remain isolated. Yes, central in tabernacles and in

churches, but almost peripheral and unknown to the world. On

the contrary, he wishes to go out into the streets to be met and

served with a commitment and devotion that cannot be limited

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to the intimacy of one’s conscience, but should translate into

practical action of charity and mercy.

In this respect, the novelty inherent in Jesus’ impassioned

pleading to Vera “to take me with you” expresses first and foremost

the desire to expose and extend Eucharistic grace from those who

recognise it to those who still cannot and will not. It is the shift

from “bringing to Jesus” to ”bringing Jesus”. For example:

O my child, I have established my dwelling in you: I want to

make a living tabernacle of you to go to souls... I go under the

Eucharistic Species to seek what is about to be lost; I go to seek

the sheep who do not want to seek my fold; I go to call those who

no longer listen to me... let me return among souls, let me deal

with souls... Behold, I return to the world, I return among souls,

to speak to them, approach them, deal with them directly, until

the “veil falls” and they recognise me in every brother and sister.

The Father’s merciful heart finds full expression in Jesus’

messages to Vera:

None of the souls far from Me welcomes Me spontaneously

because they do not seek Me, because they have excluded Me

from their lives. I am Father and I love, I love all my creatures;

I want to return to this earth in search of the souls who do not

seek, do not think of My fold.

Indeed, the “take me with you” does not represent any reversal

of Eucharistic logic from intimacy to extroversion, but a desirable

and necessary deeper understanding. Indeed, Jesus’ desire confided

mystically to Vera is the desire to radicalise the faith of those who

are close to him in order to reignite the faith of those far from him.

For it takes much purity and much faith to be transparent of Jesus

and to arouse or rekindle faith in others. Here is the programme

in general terms:

Now I have chosen new churches, new Tabernacles that will

watch over Me. Living Tabernacles to take Me through the ways

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of the world, to lead Me among those people who do not think

of Me, who do not seek Me, who do not love Me [...]. I want to

pass, through humble and willing souls, to other souls still in-

sensitive to my calls [...]. through self-denial, that I may live

and act in them. May their goal be to disappear in order to make

room for Me who wants to be at work in their souls and in other

souls through them.

The confirmation of the Eucharistic logic of repose and

exposition, of intimacy and fruitfulness, is unequivocal:

It is I, Jesus, who want the Living Tabernacles, my new Euchar-

istic dwellings. I want to live in you for two reasons: First for

yourselves, so that I may be the Guide, the most intimate Master

of your soul, educator of your heart, to instil in you that con-

fidence in Me which I desire from every creature of mine. Sec-

ond so that I may go out to the world, to other souls in you and

upon you The Living Tabernacle must learn to give Me, for I

will be in that person for other souls.

The need for souls nourished by the Eucharist, for the Euchar-

ist to reach souls, is understandable. It takes very specific disposi-

tions of mind, which only Jesus can communicate and Mary

educate, to be “bearers” of Christ to our brothers and sisters. This

is the style of mercy which concretely involves identification with

the poor as an implication of identification with Jesus (cf. Mt 25):

Do not look for the sceptics, the presumptuous, heavy-handed

and obstinate. Sometimes it will be enough for them to feel

loved by “one” of these souls for My Grace to fulfil its effects.

Here we have a mystical union that demands considerable

ascetic work:

I will use your way of speaking, of expressing yourself to speak,

to reach other souls. Give me your faculties that I may meet

with everyone and everywhere. In the beginning it will be a

work of attention, vigilance for the soul, to discard everything

that poses an obstacle to my dwelling in her.

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3. Real presence and “Eucharistic indwelling”

Speaking to Vera and referring to the future Living Taber-

nacles, Jesus expresses himself thus:

The soul must know this, however, because I want her adher-

ence to my Eucharistic abiding in it; I want this soul to also give

me her voice to speak to others, her eyes so that mine may meet

the gaze of her brothers and sisters, her arms so that I may

embrace others, her hands to caress the little ones, the children,

the suffering.

In this respect, too, if the Christian miracle is already the “pres-

ence of mystery,” and if its eminent historical form is the “real pres-

ence” of Jesus in the Eucharist in the hearts of Christians and in

tabernacles in churches, we now seem to discern a noteworthy

advance. In the light of the messages received from the mystic

of Savona taken in their entirety and detail, we seem to discern an

invitation to think about the real presence by shifting the emphasis

from “reality” to “presence”. The theological weight of such an

invitation is entirely in line with the inclination of contemporary

thinking, to rethink metaphysics in more personalistic terms, sub-

stance in terms of relationship and, in theology, to rethink Christian

activity from a Trinitarian perspective. Indeed, the anti-gnostic

function of Eucharistic realism is an inheritance now acquired from

the time of the early Fathers and confirmed at the time of the

Counter-Reformation, but the development of real union with Jesus

in terms of presence, however much it finds its roots in the Gospel

and ecclesial experience, is only in its infancy.

In this area, it is precisely the experience of the saints and

mystics that is our textbook. We need to listen to their testimony

to unfold the full implications of Jesus’ invitation to his disciples

to abide and work in him in order to find joy, experience the effi-

cacy of prayer, and bear much fruit (cf. Jn 15:4-11). Contemporary

anthropology, for its part, confirms what even common sense

experiences, namely, that presence, and especially the quality of

presence, really does make a difference. The presence of love,

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sometimes even in the absence of specific words and gestures, is,

per se, communicative and operative. The physical presence of the

mother and the authoritative presence of the father consolidate the

child’s confidence, developing the child’s ability to assert and give

of itself. Simple presence, then, is the basic nourishment of friend-

ship. The loving, vigilant and industrious presence of educators is

the unfailing element of Don Bosco’s preventive education. The

prayer of simple presence and gaze is not inferior to discursive

prayer, and it is the antechamber to contemplative prayer.

Now, if presence is already in human relationships the thing

that makes the difference compared to other forms of relationships

which otherwise easily lapse into the functional, welfare-type ac-

tivity, pedagogy and didactics, the paternalistic and the maternal-

istic, all the more will it be necessary to grant that the presence

of Jesus in his Eucharistic fullness can have a specific efficacy

for those who enter his sphere of presence. Through the Living

Tabernacles, Jesus thus wants to reach the farthest hearts, those

who would otherwise be unreachable because of too many inner

or outer resistances that distance them from an encounter with God.

The idea is the extremes of God’s mercy in the sense of succeeding

with those who are distant, those who neither come to him nor

allow themselves to be brought to him: it is to these who do not

recognise him, worship him or feed on him that Jesus wants to be

brought!

Here, then, looms the element of novelty that Vera’s mystical

experience seems to suggest: the Living Tabernacles, similar to yet

differently from other tabernacles, realise and deepen a form of the

Lord’s presence particularly suited to the times of the new evan-

gelisation, where the impact of novelty of the first evangelisation

is now exhausted and neutralised by the weight of historical judge-

ment and ideological prejudice, by the deforming lenses of pro-

gressivism and conservatism which corrupt the authentic sense of

the Christian tradition. This element of novelty is the deepening of

the real presence of Jesus not only in the charity he communicates

to the believer, but in the presence of his own Charity, thus not only

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in the apostolic fire that flows from communion with Him, but in

the thirst for souls that burns in his own Heart.

From this perspective, real presence is understood more fully

as the efficacy of Jesus’ “indwelling” and “proximity” as such.

Ultimately, this is an explication and concretisation of the Council’s

dictate where it affirms that by virtue of his Incarnation, and a for-

tiori of his Paschal and Eucharistic diffusion, ‘Christ has united

Himself in some fashion with every man” (cf. GS 22). The direc-

tion that theological and pastoral reflection could take in this re-

spect is to deepen the Eucharistic characterisation of Christian

life, drawing a line between the celebratory sacramental gift and

the charitable ecclesial action through the direct action of the Lord,

which in any case is inseparable from the co-activity of those who

believe in Him.

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A biographical

and spiritual profile of Vera1

“I have given you my holy Name,

and from now on you will call yourself

and will be

Vera di Gesù”2

Vera Grita, Salesian Cooperator, born in Rome on 28.1.1923

and who died in Pietra Ligure on 22.12.1969, is one of the grains

of wheat whom heaven let fall on earth to bear fruit, over time, in

silence and concealment. Father Giuseppe Borra wrote of her:

“Vera’s soul with her messages and letters enters that band of char-

ismatic souls called to enrich the Church with flames of love of

God and Jesus in the Eucharist for the spread of the kingdom.”3

Vera belongs to that band of “little” and “humble” souls whom

Saint John Paul II recalled in his Apostolic Letter Divini Amoris

Scientia: “The ccience of Divine Love, which the Father of mercies

pours out through Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit, is a gift granted

to the little and the humble so that they may know and proclaim

the secrets of the kingdom, hidden from the learned and the

wise; for this reason Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, praising the

1 Already published contribution: M.R. SCRIMIERI, Vera Grita e l’Opera dei

Tabernacoli Viventi, Edizione extracommerciale, Milano 2000, pp.13-29 and updated

here with Vera’s act of offering her life, and the testimonies of Frs G.Roascio and

G. Bocchi, and the contribution by Fr P. Cameroni regarding Vera’s Cause of Beati-

fication and Canonisation.

2 Jesus to Vera, 3.12.1968.

3 G. BORRA SDB Grita Vera. Notizie biografiche, Ed. Terzo Millennio Caserta

1984, p. 112.

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Father who graciously willed it so (cf. Lk 10:21-22; Mt 11:

25-26).”4

It is precisely in Vera’s fragility and humility that the Mystery

of God’s Gift takes place. It becomes a “Voice” in her, a “Voice”

of the Spirit to dictate the messages that make up the Work of the

Living Tabernacles during her final two years of life on this earth.

She went unnoticed in her short life on earth

Vera did not do anything “great” in her life from a human per-

spective. She did not build schools, hospitals, nor was there any-

thing in her mystical experience which would have drawn the

attention of the mob. She went unnoticed in her short life on earth,

She taught in schools in villages in the Ligurian hinterland, where

she earned the respect and affection of her pupils and school prin-

cipals for her exemplary teaching skills and her good, meek char-

acter that never changed over years that were increasingly marked

by physical suffering. She lived simply and in fidelity to the com-

mitments of her daily life, including the extraordinary event that

burst into her life: the divine Master was calling her and preparing

her for the mission for which she had been chosen from eternity:

to be the messenger, the spokeswoman of Jesus for the Work of

Living Tabernacles. Even her death was marked by simplicity and

"poverty": she died, at the age of 46, in a small room at the Ospe-

dali Riuniti di Santa Corona (Combined Hospitals, Santa Corona)

in Pietra Ligure (Savona), on 22 December 1969: her mother was

by her side, and her funeral took place on a gray December day,

involving her loved ones and a few close friends.5

Let us go back over the main stages of her life. The second of

four sisters, she spent her early childhood in a family known for

its peace and strength of family affections, but troubled by the

4 JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Letter Divini Amori Scientia, 19 October 1997.

5 G. FORMENTO, Letter to Fr G. Zucconi, in Grita Vera. Notizie Biografiche,

op. cit. p. 19.

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economic crisis that struck Europe in the 1930s plunging many

families into financial collapse. Vera’s was also affected, and her

father Amleto, a photographer for generations, and her mother,

Zacco Marianna della Pirrera from a noble family, decided to move

from Rome to Savona.

The loss of economic well-being caused a further change in

Vera’s life: at the age of twelve she experienced separation from

her family:she and her sister Liliana went to join her paternal aunts

in Modica, Sicily, who were unmarried and affectionately willing

to care for their nieces. A short time later Pina, the eldest, also

joined her sisters; Rosa, the youngest, remained at home with her

parents. Vera spent five years with her aunts, during which she con-

tinued her studies and completed her religious formation. “The

aunts were very careful,” recalls her sister Liliana, “to pass on

values and principles of true faith to us. In the evening, when the

family was all together, we prayed Holy Rosary and in the morn-

ing, prayers together. In Modica, Vera and I made our First Com-

munion and Confirmation at the Institute of the Sisters of Mary

Help of Christians. We received the Holy Eucharist frequently, but

first the aunts always made us go to confession. They prepared us

for Easter by having us participate in a retreat. May, then, was all

about Our Lady; Vera was particularly devoted to Mary Help of

Christians.”6

In 1940, by then seventeen years old, Vera joined the family

in Savona again and it was there, the following year, that she gained

her teacher’s certificate at the Teachers College in the city.

Before long Vera experienced a further loss far more painful

than the previous ones: the death of her father on 23 September

1943, after suffering from an incurable disease over a long period.

Vera had to interrupt her university studies to help her family

financially by working as a clerk at the Savona military district.

After affecting her financial situation, family stability and con-

tinuity of affection, and her aspirations for study, Vera also experi-

6 L. GRITA, Mia sorella Vera di Gesù, op. cit, p. 40.

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enced dispossession of a physical kind which deprived her forever

of her health in a traumatic way. This occurred on the day the city

of Savona was bombed.

4 July 1944 the day Savona was bombed, Vera is trampled

underfoot by the fleeing crowd

Europe experienced the tragic hour of World War II. On 4 July

1944, Savona was bombed during a sudden air raid on the city.

Vera ran to a nearby tunnel with her work colleagues to seek

shelter; at the same time, on the street, a flood of terrified people

fled to the same tunnel. In the confusion, Vera tripped and fell and

was trampled underfoot by the fleeing crowd: she lay on the ground

for long hours among many injured and dead people. By evening,

when she was brought home by the Red Cross she had “her face

swollen, her dress in tatters, barefoot but alive.”7 She was later

found to have severe lumbar and back injuries.

Vera was 21 years old, and from that time on, no treatment

could cure her physical ills, which began to be part of her ordeal;

moreover, she often could not use any medication, the logical relief

for her, because she suffered from drug intolerance. “She was bed-

ridden for quite some time with bilateral exudative pleurisy,” re-

calls her sister Liliana, “and the fever did not leave her for a single

day. From then on, it was all a succession of hospitalisations, op-

erations, tests, excruciating headaches and pain all over her body.

Terrible diseases were diagnosed, a variety of treatments were at-

tempted. The affected organs did not respond to treatment and, in

that inexplicable disorder, one of her attending physicians, declared

with amazement, “We do not understand how this patient could

possibly could have found her balance.”8

7 Ibid., p. 41.

8 Ibid., p. 11.

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In the Mystery of the Cross Vera gave her “Fiat”

The hour of the encounter with Jesus on the Cross had struck

for Vera. It prepared her, through the mystery of the Cross, for her

mission: to write what Jesus would dictate to her in the following

years through the gift of inner locutions. And in the mystery of the

Cross Vera gave her “fiat” through Mary’s “fiat”. “She took refuge

in lengthy meditations,” her sister continues, “in prolonged ador-

ation before the Blessed Sacrament – Thy Will be done, Thy King-

dom come. Vera’s desire, by now, was only to be before Jesus,

adore Jesus, contemplate His Cross... Everything was in readiness

now for her give herself to him in sublime love, in offering and re-

nunciation, and this was several years before the ‘Voice’ revealed

itself to her.”9

At the feet of the grotto at Lourdes, where Vera made several

pilgrimages, she did not ask for healing but offered her suffering,

and herself, for the conversion of hearts. “I still remember how

much my friend did for the salvation of souls,” recalls her friend

and work colleague, Maria Mattalia. “One day she confided in me

at the Santa Corona hospital in Pietra Ligure where she was re-

peatedly hospitalised that she had generously offered her suffer-

ings, an heroic offering of herself for someone’s conversion.”10

Despite her precarious physical condition, Vera wanted to enter

a competition to teach in elementary schools. She won it and left

the military district to begin teaching in the small villages of the

Ligurian hinterland, subjecting her already suffering body also to

the fatigue of the travel required to travel to school sites far from

Savona. She taught in elementary schools in Rialto, Erli, Alpicella,

and the Desert of Varazze.

9 Ibid.

10 G. BORRA, Grita Vera. Notizie biografiche, op. cit., p. 104.

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From a distance the Lord looked down on me:

“I have loved you with an everlasting love” (cf. Jer 31:3)

In Alpicella, a hamlet of Varazze, on October 6 1959, Vera

heard the “Voice” dictating the first message to her for the first

time: the Father’s merciful gaze had looked upon her through the

Sacrifice of his Son in the Holy Mass, and in the immensity of his

Love had rested on her to draw her to himself in the gift of the call.

There is a call from Heaven: Heaven bending over one of his

creatures to give her the greatest Grace in her sadness. There is

God the Father, pure Spirit, who in his perfection turns his Mer-

ciful Gaze on the most bewildering imperfection and looks upon

it through a Golden Lake: the Sacrifice of the innocent Victim,

the Holy Mass. Heaven, sweet and tender mantle of Mary Most

Holy, opens and attracts a soul. And up there, meanwhile, it is

the great vigil of a feast, the feast of Love, for nothing triumphs

on high that does not come from Love. A poor soul senses this

ineffable gift and feels lost. From afar, and yet nearby, it draws

near, the Divine approaching is distinguished. The poor soul

trembles in her misery – so strong and immense is her God who

awakens her and draws near to her. Nothing else knows the im-

perfect but this sweet force that has taken her today more than

yesterday, that calls her and leads her there where he is on this

earth, that leads her to look up, look up there. And it is from up

there that the Father emanates, his strength mighty but unde-

fined. His Call. Infinite as he is, infinite his language. He digs

into the soul and leaves his Sign. The soul knows nothing of

what it is: it knows that her Father has seen her worthy, has

looked upon her. Here is the overwhelming point. Suspended

at his call the soul knows not how to look but there where the

mysterious language, made of unspeakable motives, has come

down to her. Then it would like to say, What is all this, My

Father? “It is love, Daughter, Love promised to you by my

Son.” Why do you look at me like this, My Father? “Because

in the Lake of Gold I saw your soul.” Why do I live, Lord? “To

die twice in my Son. I am He who was, is and will be; whoever

keeps my law and follows Me will have eternal life that is Eter-

nal and the Eternal is I. I am your Father, your God, I am the

Voice that speaks in you, shakes you, saves you. Blessed is the

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One who comes in my Name and in the Name of my Son: I will

open my Arms to him and call him Son and set him at table with

Me. He shall be humble and pitiful, poor in himself and rich

only in Me. He will have to present himself as a poor man be-

cause poor he is. I will cleanse him and give him a new robe

and introduce him into my Glory. Then it will be the great feast.

Today only the vigil has begun. Humble yourself and lift up

praises to Heaven that great grace is coming to you in the Name

of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, in the Name of Her

who wept so much for you.

For the first time, Vera has the experience of feeling that she

is looked upon and loved by God the Father, and in the encounter

with the divine gaze that reveals to her the love of predilection and

the dignity of being a daughter, the vigil of the feast begins for her

that will usher her into the great feast of the eternal wedding with

the immolated Lamb. In bewilderment and confusion over the gulf

that Vera feels between her own misery and the immensity of God

who has come so close to her, there remains indelibly in her soul

the certainty of that look of love that from now on will bind her

definitively and in a special way to her Lord and her God.

To be is to be seen by God, wrote Cardinal Martini. This gaze,

he continued, is creative, like that of the origins which makes

the goodness it loves and loves the goodness it makes. If one

exists to the extent that one is in the eyes of the other, to be is

to be seen by God. In all the vocation scenes the Evangelist

Mark places Jesus’ gaze before his word (Mark 1:16,18; 2:14).

This gaze, which triggers the dynamic of following him, is the

gateway to the Kingdom. Only those who meet and welcome

this gaze can know who the Lord is, love him with all their heart

and follow him, because they discover that they are a wonder

in the eyes of the one who loves him because he made him.

Otherwise, like Adam, he runs far away and hides from him. At

the origin of every response to the call to the Kingdom is always

the discovery of the precious pearl (Mt 13:45), the Lord’s love

“for me,” his eye in which I see who he is for me, seeing

who I am for him. This alone is able to snatch me from “my”

righteousness, and put me in the Lord’s following. This is what

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the sinner Levi saw (Mark 2:14) and Paul testifies to us, “he

loved me and gave himself for me.”11

A long silence followed this first mystical experience that Vera

had and kept in the secret of her heart: this first message was only

the announcement of the call for a mission that began to take place

8 years later, in September 1967, when Jesus began to dictate to

her the Work of the Living Tabernacles.

Salesian Cooperator: 24 October 1967

Her life continued without change, except for the gradual de-

terioration of her health. This did not take away her passion for and

commitment to teaching, to which she devoted her whole self with-

out sparing any effort, despite considerable physical suffering.

When she was in Savona, before going to school Vera always

attended morning Mass at the Church of Mary Help of Christians

run by the Salesians, getting up at 5:30 a.m. just to be able to attend.

In 1963, Salesian Fr Giovanni Bocchi was appointed rector of this

church: every Saturday Vera went to confession to him. At that time,

whenever it was possible for her, she attended meetings of the Sales-

ian Cooperators, sometimes also attending meetings of Catholic

Action and ADMA (The Mary Help of Christians Association.

It was, however, in the summer of 1967 that Vera’s choice

turned definitively towards the Salesian Family, entering it as a Co-

operator. It happened in July, during the week of retreat in Finale

Ligure, led by Salesian Fr Gabriello Zucconi and organised by Fr

Bocchi. In those days Vera expressed to Fr Bocchi her decision

to become a Salesian Cooperator, and her certificate of enrolment

in the Association, then called the Pia Unione, bears the date

24 October 1967. At the same time she asked Fr Gabriello Zucconi

for his spiritual direction.12

11 C.M. MARTINI, Le virtù del cristiano. Meditazioni per ogni giorno, Piemme,

Segrate (MI)1988, pp. 295-296.

12 From the testimony of Fr G. Bocchi, in Vera de Jesus e a Obra dos Sacrarios

Vivos, ed. M. R. SCRIMIERI, Edizioni Salesiane, Porto 2000.

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In the light of subsequent events, we could say that from afar

the Help of Christians had prepared this meeting and had brought

together for the first time those whom in the following months the

Lord would call into the Work of the Living Tabernacles: Vera, Fr

Bocchi and Fr Zucconi, all belonging to the Ligure-Toscana Sales-

ian Province. They would also be joined by Salesian Fr Giuseppe

Borra, then rector in Lombriasco (Turin) who was called to study

the message of the Living Tabernacles. The summer passed, and

in September Vera heard the “Voice” again. It would now not leave

her until her death two years later.

With pen in hand and God in her heart

On 19 September 1967, Vera heard the “Voice” again while

she was in Church, before the Blessed Sacrament exposed on the

altar: “Jesus: The wine and the water are us: I and you, you and I.

We are one. I dig, I dig to build me a temple; let me work, do not

put obstacles in my way.” (The soul now invokes the Holy Spirit).

“Jesus: And My Father’s will is this: that I abide in you, and you

in Me. Together we shall bear great fruit.”

This was the first of the messages that Vera wrote over a period

of about two years, which she faithfully transcribed and submitted

to Fr Gabriello Zucconi. From that time on, struggling with fears

of deception and obeying her spiritual father, Vera served the Lord

by making herself totally available to him, humbly accepting his

Voice and writing down what was dictated to her for herself, for

priests and for souls.

Jesus. Easter, Resurrection! [...] I give you My Love, My

Wounded Heart, My Hands...; give Me yours so that I may join

them with mine. I, Jesus Crucified and Resurrected, will sanc-

tify your poor hands; I will bind them with Love and gift to the

Church, to Me. You will write for the Church, for Me, for souls.

Yes, this is the Voice of Jesus in the Holy Spirit. I give you these

enlightenments. I draw the soul to Me so that you may hear Me.

There will still come days of sadness, of pain for you, that your

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soul may be purified in this washing. Gather yourself in my

Heart as a nest of Love and comfort and solace. While you wait,

write for your Jesus. I wish to speak to my Salesian priests I de-

sire the dawning and flourishing of my Work of Love from

them. I desire that they come to know my Messages of Love,

for I, Jesus, will bestow spiritual graces on those who meditate

on my Words. Therefore, let them pray for the Holy Father to

bind you to my Work of Love. I want my outpouring of Love

to pass from priests to souls; I want the Salesians to give Me to

youth; I want to make a dwelling in them also, even if it is brief;

for whoever will have carried me with a spirit of Love, of rep-

aration, of self-giving to their brothers and sisters by my Means,

will receive the wound of My Love. When the “manuscript”

will be known by my priests, I will communicate myself to

whomsoever I wish by means of you, through my Hands in you.

Then you will disappear, my child, for my Word lives on. Now

offer yourself to Me in my Immolation. I will receive you.

Jesus in Vera, Vera in Jesus, “one heart and soul,” a single hand

writing for the Glory of the Father and the good and happiness of

souls. With pen in hand and God in her heart, Vera faithfully cor-

responded to the Lord’s wishes: she continued to write, hidden

from everyone in humble service. She followed the Lord’s will

through a vow of obedience to her spiritual father, Fr Zucconi, ac-

cepted the detachment from family, and lived first with the Canos-

sian Sisters and then the Carmelite Hermitage so she could attend

better to the inner silence needed to write down what Jesus dictated

to her. She accepted the triple crown of thorns that Jesus offered

her on the Feast of Christ the King in October 1967, dealing with

the physical, moral and spiritual suffering she encountered, sus-

tained only by her faith in the Lord God who called her as part of

his plans, and by the hope that He who had begun this Work would

lead her to its fulfilment. She was also sustained by the love that

wrapped her in the fire of Love and transformed her into a living

host, a little victim in the one and only Victim, Jesus Christ.

This is what she wrote to Father Gabriello Zucconi sdb in

her letter of 2 March 1968: “In His Priestly Hands I renew the vow

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of a little victim in Jesus13 for His Priests and offer Him the obedi-

ence of the copied dictates. Like water and wine: one in the chalice

offered to God the Father. I have nothing to give Jesus but his own

gifts, for the vows of obedience are but the expression of Jesus’

love for his unworthy sinner. Jesus has given me all of himself and

I give him all of me.”14

Throughout the asceticism that transformed her more and more

into a Eucharistic soul, a Living Tabernacle, Vera remained simple

and humble, kept her mystical experience in silence, sharing the

secret of her call only with the priests called to the Work. None of

her family members, in fact, were made aware of her experience

and the suffering that accompanied it. Only Rosa, her younger

sister, later shared Vera’s secret, living intensely the spirituality of

the Living Tabernacles and helping her sister to transcribe the

messages when Vera’s health deteriorated. Vera shared the Euchar-

istic message, partly with her friend and work colleague, Maria

Mattalia, revealing Jesus’ desire to her friend to find souls willing

to give themselves totally to him to be his new dwelling place

among human beings. Around this desire, Vera gathered the com-

mitment of her friend and other souls inwardly ready to bring this

about.15 She sketched out the first programme for them, calling the

Work a “League of souls who live in grace and carry Jesus in their

hearts.”16 its aim being “a loving response to the request for love

that comes from Jesus himself.”17

13 She had taken the vow to be a “little victim” in the years immediately before,

during Fr Bocchi’s spiritual direction.

14 L. GRITA, Mia sorella Vera di Gesù op.cit, p.88.

15 On 21.10.1967 Jesus had dictated to Vera: “I want to pass, through humble

and willing souls, to other souls still insensitive to my calls. These souls must purify

themselves to receive Me; they must offer themselves in Me to my Heavenly Father,

that I may live in them. I will return to souls, I will still seek souls so.”

16 G. BORRA, Grita Vera. Notizie Biografiche, op. cit., p.72.

17 Ibid.

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Final years of teaching: 1967–1969

During the 1967–1968 school year, Vera taught at Casanova di

Varazze, and each day she had to face up to the journey from Savona

to Casanova and back. In addition to physical fatigue due to her pre-

carious health, Vera also felt the difficulty of conserving the necess-

ary recollection and inner silence when she returned to her family.

In December, providentially, she was able to move to the Canossian

Sisters in Casanova di Varazze and here, in the silence of her room

and in the atmosphere of the religious community, she was able to

attend to the task of writing down what the Lord communicated to

her: “Jesus: I am calling on you to fulfil a mission. Do not be afraid,

you have My Strength. I will lead you along rough and winding

paths, but in the end you will recognise Me because I will be there

waiting for you... I want you for Me alone, I will remove you from

the world, from your affections. Place everything and everyone in

My Fatherly Hands and I will think of them; but you are to think

only and always of Me. You will have to ‘depart’ from this world,

leave it for Me, detach yourself for Me. A Bride does not belong to

the Bridegroom if she is not crucified with him. I draw you to the

madness of the Cross. See, I am giving you the gift of my riches,

of my passions: passion of Love, of Sorrow; sacrifice, offering,

immolation of my Blood.” Message 16.11.1967

“Yes, in the Holy Mass there is the divine encounter, the

Union. I draw you to Me, I immerse you in my Holy Sacrifice and

you finally cease to live for yourself, but you live, more alive than

ever, for Me.” Message 15.7.1968

The following year, 1968–69, she was assigned to the school

at the Desert of Varazze, at the Hermitage of St Joseph belonging

to the Discalced Carmelites, where the municipality had rented a

room for the primary school children. Vera moved to the Hermit-

age, returned to her family at weekends and on Sunday evenings

returned to the Desert, a guest of the Carmelite Fathers. This was

the last year of Vera’s life and the Messages from September 1968

to June 1969 refer to this period..

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The experience at the Desert of Varazze

Vera got to know Father Guido Roascio18 at the Desert of Va-

razze, a young discalced Carmelite and spiritual assistant to the

children. In the Message of 28 February 1969, Jesus indicated the

Carmelite Family as well as the Salesians, for the first time, as

beneficiaries of Messages of the Work. Vera spoke about the Work

to Father Guido Roascio and gave him a manuscript with the mess-

ages she had received.

What Vera’s experience at the Desert was can be understood

from the letters she wrote to Fr Gabriello Zucconi that year. The

Desert was indeed sacrifice, solitude, it was physical suffering, it

was total dedication to the children; it was the encounter with the

goodness and availability of the Carmelite Fathers, Father Bene-

detto Cecconi and Father Guido Roascio. It was a place of peace

and prayer, but above all it was the profound encounter with the

Crucified Jesus, the heart of Vera’s mystical experience in this

period and which in the miraculous Crucifix of the Hermitage had

a visible source made alive and vital by the “Voice” that spoke to

her heart to draw her to Himself and lead her into God’s “desert”:

the agonising priestly Heart of Christ, victim of love to return the

lost children to the Father and to give a Father to the “orphans” of

all times. Vera was often seen by Father Guido Roascio kneeling

at the foot of the miraculous Crucifix at the Hermitage of St Joseph,

heedless of the cold, spending much time in recollection and

prayer. At the foot of the Crucifix, the “little martyr of the Word”,

as Jesus liked to call her, received further light on the redemptive

significance of his Wounds, together with the invitation to partici-

pate with Jesus and in Jesus in the Work of Redemption in the ways

that the Lord Himself indicated to her from time to time. Under

the guidance of Jesus the Eternal Priest, Vera realised her spiritual

motherhood through the gift of self lived in communion with the

Immaculate and Sorrowful Virgin, the “root and nourishment” of

18 Father Guido Roascio OCD (1937-2015).

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all spiritual motherhood. In this regard, the 5 messages on the

Wounds which Jesus dictated to Vera from 26 September 1968 to

10 January 1969 are enlightening. We have called them Luminous

Wounds because in these Messages, the Grace which flows from

the Wounds themselves through adoration, prayer and participation

in the work of salvation is emphasised above all. Jesus, through

the gift of himself in the Most Holy Eucharist, performed the last

miracle of His priestly Love in Vera’s fragile humanity: to make

her the bride in him crucified for the return of priests who had

abandoned the Priesthood, for the birth of the Work of the Living

Tabernacles and for its diffusion in the world. Significant mile-

stones and dates in the spiritual journey of this period are 5 No-

vember 1968, 3 December 1968 and 6 March 1969.

On the first date, 5 November, Jesus dictated the beautiful

prayer of her offering of her life to the Father for Jesus’ triumph

over souls, “for the Living Tabernacles, and for the spread of the

Work of Jesus’ love throughout the world”:

O most clement Father of ours, I am a poor thing without you,

I am all in your Jesus. I am your creature and I belong to you, I

am only to give you honour and glory. O Father of ours, through

the hands of Jesus, your only Son and our Lord, before my

sweetest Mother, Mary Help of Christians, before the nine

choirs of angels, before St Joseph, spouse of the ever Virgin

Mary, before all the Christian Martyrs, before all the Saints, and

especially before my patron Saints, I offer myself to you, Al-

mighty God, in your only Son Jesus, in the only Victim worthy

of you, in the only Offering pleasing to you: again I humbly

offer myself to you for your greater glory, for the triumph of the

love of Jesus in the Eucharist, for the Living Tabernacles, for

the spread of Jesus’ Work of Love throughout the world. When

you, good and merciful Father, call me to you, remember that

in the Name of Jesus I have given myself to you, my God. Re-

ceive me, O Father, in the shadow of your wings, so that even

the death of the poorest and most unworthy and miserable of

your creatures may, in the holy Name of Jesus, render to you,

my God, One and Three in one, all honour and glory, and so

that people of good will may bear witness to the truth of your

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word. The least of your creatures, to you, my God, our Creator

and Lord, through the Holy Wounds of Jesus in which I hope,

through your paternal goodness, to see and understand myself,

as you allow your beloved Jesus to act for your glory and the

salvation of souls. O Father, in Jesus I pray to you, in Jesus hear

me, in Jesus forgive me my sins; in Jesus bless this very poor

instrument that offers you her life in Life so that Jesus may give

it to all souls because he has given it to me, and I offer my

earthly life to you in the Life of Jesus.19

A month later, on 3.12.1968, Vera received her new name from

Jesus, for her fidelity and love: “I have given you my holy Name,

and from now on you will call yourself and will be Vera of Jesus.”

And in the third stage, on 6.3.1968, by the will of Jesus Vera

was in Rome to offer herself in him to the Father, and to climb

the Holy Stairs, a prelude to joining Jesus in his Passion, climbing

Calvary.20

And finally the “Desert” was the agony of Vera’s soul, which

only in the Holy Mass found its resurrection in Jesus, Life and

Flame of Love: “Through desolating darkness where I am (it seems

to me) outside the intimate life of Jesus and outside the world, now

and then there is a little light during some dictation where every-

thing seems unreal. There remains the flame of the Holy Mass, the

divine spark that animates me, gives me life, then work, the

children, the family, the impossibility of finding a quiet little place

there where I can isolate myself to pray, or physical tiredness after

school all overcome me and I feel my soul groaning, suffocated.

As Jesus asked me, I offer Him everything, but this is truly a

‘desert’... On Sundays, when the rest is over, I return to the desert

to take up the Cross from here”..21

19 Message of 5.11.1968 dictated at the desert before the Blessed Sacrament

(the message written in the semi-darkness of the Church in the flickering candle-

light).

20 Cf. Message of 6.3.1969 and others following it.

21 L. GRITA, Mia sorella Vera di Gesù, op. cit.,p. 146.

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Towards her total offering

The mystery of the Holy Mass brought about the death of the

old creature and the resurrection of the new each day: the new Liv-

ing Tabernacle. During her final hospitalisation (June 1969), hav-

ing been informed by the doctors of the need for surgery for an

intestinal tuberculoma, Vera expressed herself thus in a letter

written to Fr Gabriello Zucconi: “This is the gift of Jesus’ love with

which he prepares the ‘poor girl’ and purifies ‘her’ squalid taber-

nacle. I am happy to no longer belong to myself, to feel that he dis-

poses of me according to his immense Mercy. It comforts me to

think that the Golden Temple of the Holy Spirit, the Immaculate

One, looks charitably on this poor ‘living tabernacle’ and intercedes

with her Son so that it may be purified. I am serene and even more

so also because Jesus, every now and then, says these words to me:

Vera of Jesus, Daughter of Jesus. Then he falls silent, but I embrace

him strongly, strongly.”22

Vera suffered everything and offered everything to the Lord

for the recognition of the Work by the Ecclesiastical Authorities

without seeing this desire crowned in her lifetime. She died on

22nd December 1969, in the little room of the hospital where she

had spent the last stretch of her ordeal, remaining there during the

last six months of her life. In addition to intestinal tuberculoma,

Addison’s disease and adenomesenteritis, there was an abscess in

her stomach which, when incised, caused a terrible haemorrhage

and led to her death.23 The “little martyr of my Word” as Jesus had

22 L. GRITA, Mia sorella Vera di Gesù, op. cit., p. 149.

23 Vera Grita’s time spent in hospitals and clinics:

Ospedali Civili di Genova: from 20.2.49 al 1.3.49; from 5.11.49 to 29.11.49;

from 27.10.51 to 28.10.51; from 8.4.57 to 12.4.57; from 25.10.57 to 20.11.57; from

6.10.60 to 27.10.60 for suspected Addison’s disease and hypersurrenalism.

Clinica Villa dei Pini di Anzio: from 22.8.55 to 23.11.56 (Addison’s disease).

Istituto ospedalieri Santa Corona - Pietra Ligure (SV): from 31.1.58 to 10.8.58;

from 14.7.59 to 20.8.59; from 7.11.60 to 20.2.61 diagnosis: genital morbid process

having long-standing pleural lesion as a starting point.

Ospedale Civico S. Paolo di Savona: February 1959 surgical intervention for

laparatomia.

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called her, had completed her mission: to write down what the

“Voice” had dictated to her in the Holy Spirit.

Fr Borra, who studied Vera’s messages, said in her biography:

“I meditated somewhat on the Messages and saw wonderful doc-

trine in them. How many souls will benefit greatly from this read-

ing. The Messages are an affirmation of the genuine values and

traditional truths of the Church. The manner of exposition, on the

other hand, is new. Such a wonderful pearl could not and should

not have remained hidden any longer.” “The Spirit,” Fr Borra con-

tinues, “dwells in the Church and in the hearts of the faithful like

a temple and prays in them and bears witness to filial adoption

(1 Cor 3:16; Gal 4:6). The Holy Spirit distributing his gifts to each

one as he pleases (1 Cor 12:11) dispenses special graces among

the faithful of every order, by which he makes them fit and ready

to take on various tasks and missions useful to the Church and its

development. These charisms, whether extraordinary or even

simpler and more widely experienced, are appropriate to the needs

of the Church and therefore are to be welcomed with gratitude and

joy (Lumen Gentium 12). Vera’s soul, with these messages and

letters, enters the ranks of those charismatic souls called to enrich

the Church with flames of love for God and Jesus in the Eucharist

for the expansion of the Kingdom.”24

Vera’s life even as a Salesian Cooperator was short, but the ray

Ospedale Carlo Forlarini di Roma: for brief periods in summer 1961, April

1962, always for Addison’s disease, and intolerance to drugs.

Clinica Due Riviere di Savona: In February 1967 her wisdom tooth was re-

moved because it was impacted and her jaw was broken. Her mouth was tied but

she could feed herself with a straw. She wanted to receive Holy Communion and,

no one knows how, the ligaments that welded her teeth together during the night had

broken. She received Holy Communion and then they made her a plaster helmet.

When they took it off her jaw had welded so that she could no longer open her mouth

and, therefore, chew. Thus more suffering to be able to feed herself normally.

Ospedali Riuniti di S. Corona - Pietra Ligure (SV): December 68 to February

69 (operation) June 69 to 22 December 69 (operation to remove fluid from the knee);

on the latter date Vera died after repeated operations. An abscess in the centre of her

stomach opened a hole that would never close again and caused incessant bleeding,

despite every transfusion.

24 G. BORRA, Grita Vera. Notizie biografiche, op. cit., p. 112.

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of Salesian spirituality was already reflected in the spirit that ani-

mated her work, life and prayer. We can recognise this in the rec-

ollection of her colleague Maria Mattalia:

We saw each other for the first time in the classroom of a small

school in the Ligurian hinterland and we immediately loved each

other. We were together with our pupils, the children that Vera

loved so much. She devoted herself to them with every care for

their learning and especially for their religious, moral and social

education. Vera had faith in the children and gave them con-

fidence, especially the less gifted. With her love, she was always

at the side of the child in difficulty, the child who suffered from

a delay in intellectual development, a difficult family situation,

an illness or even some small worry that the teacher knew how

to soothe with a caress, her sweet smile, her affectionate delicacy.

I followed and admired Vera in her humble but very precious

life, I saw her strength of will in the sacrifice with which she

faced her worries, her work, her sufferings every day. I particu-

larly noted how the centre of Vera’s entire spiritual life was the

Eucharist, Mass, daily communion; the Eucharist was everything

for her, it was the immense love of Jesus who remained with

us and who gives himself to our souls.25

The Eucharist was always, in fact, the source from which Vera

drew daily strength to spiritually sustain a situation that was dif-

ficult to sustain with human strength alone. Her love for Jesus in

the Eucharist and for Mary Help of Christians, for whom Vera had

a predilection since childhood, are thus also recalled by Fr Bocchi:

It was in the confessional that I got to know Vera Grita’s spirit:

she was very pious, simple, serene, humble, passionate about

Jesus in the Eucharist, zealous in her duty as a teacher, devoted

to the Virgin Mary, faithful to her religious commitments. When

she was in Savona, she attended morning Mass first thing every

day: I could see her in her usual place and pew, left side of the

entrance to the Church, composed, absorbed, contemplative,

sometimes with her eyes closed, often with the rosary beads in

25 G. BORRA Ibid, p. 103.

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her hands. She always went to confession once a week, on Sat-

urdays. During the three years I stayed in Savona (1963-66),

Vera always attended our church (Mary Help of Christians): I

was thus able to know her love for Jesus in the Eucharist and

her devotion to the Virgin Mary Help of Christians. Vera’s

health was very precarious, but I never heard her complain; on

the contrary, I did not know the ordeal she had been experienc-

ing in her body for more than 20 years. [...] She often went on

pilgrimage to Lourdes and each time she would bring me a

small souvenir: rosary beads, medals, pictures of Our Lady.26

And finally we recall the testimony of Carmelite Fr Guido

Roascio. During the spirituality days organised by the Study Centre

he never failed to say : “Vera was a saint!”

I got to know Vera Grita during the 1968–69 school year at the

Desert of Varazze where there was a State Primary School cam-

pus within the Convent. Here Vera taught during the last year

of her life. I had come from the community at the Desert in April

1968, after completing my Theology in Rome. Since she did

not have a driving licence and lived in Savona, Vera would stay

at the Desert, in the guest room, from Monday to Friday evening

or Saturday morning, then return to her family for the weekend.

I can immediately say that Vera was a saint. I have a very posi-

tive memory of her in terms of the manifestation of her faith.

More than just small in stature she was petite, slender. Her eyes

were serene and bright, even though so much suffering some-

times transpired from them. Her language was gentle, never

impetuous. When speaking, she was never psychologically ag-

gressive. She was calm, soothing, capable of softening every-

thing with a smile. I never saw her laugh immoderately, perhaps

because there was little to laugh about at the Desert. She was

very thoughtful and five minutes of conversation were enough

to reveal her as amiable, well-disposed, attentive and interested

in the problems of others; sincere, open, available for com-

munion with all. She was very respectful of others; I never heard

her speak ill of anyone, and neither did I hear her introduce them

26 M.R. SCRIMIERI, Vera de Jesus e a Obra dos Sacrarios Vivos, Edizioni Sales-

iane, Porto 2000, pp.170-171.

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harshly. Gentle in temperament, she argued in honeyed terms. I

am convinced that during the year she spent at the Desert of Va-

razze she suffered a lot from the cold and loneliness, especially

during the winter period. She was very discreet; she did not go

looking for someone to talk to. She kept to herself, no doubt at-

tending to her lessons and prayers. Frail, anaemic and infirm as

she was, she seemed devoured by the cold. Yes, she had an elec-

tric heater in her little room, but that could do little against the

winter frost. And then? Was it always working? And was the

food suitable for her given her condition? I really can’t say, but

I have my doubts. Yet she never complained. Prayer was her

daily bread. She used to pray for long periods before the Blessed

Sacrament or at a beautiful miraculous crucifix which is vener-

ated at the Desert of Varazze: it is made of ivory, carved by an

anonymous Indian artist; it sweated blood and was brought to

Italy by the missionary Father Michelangelo of the Genoese re-

ligious province. The centre of her piety was Holy Mass with

the reception of Jesus in the Eucharist. She loved all children.

She devoted herself passionately to teaching them. She instilled

a deep love for her friend Jesus in their hearts, nourished con-

cretely and psychologically through a personal notebook that

each child had as a diary, and through conversation with Him.

I never heard any shouting coming from the classroom where

she was teaching, as happens just about everywhere when the

children make their teachers lose even the last bit of patience.

In conclusion, I remember that year at the Desert with much

pleasure, because Vera’s humble presence still continues, after

so long, to do me good.27

There are many of the faithful who hope and pray that one day

the Church will be able to pronounce on Vera’s holiness. We are

grateful to her for her heroic “yes” to the Father’s will, sealed with

the offering of her life for the Work of the Living Tabernacles to

generate in Mary Most Holy, the first Living Tabernacle, many

other living Tabernacles, Eucharistic souls who will imitate her in

her life of communion and self-gift to the Lord for the good of the

27 CENTRO STUDI OPERA DEI TABERNACOLI VIVENTI, Magnificat! Anno 2 - N.1

“Vera era una santa!” by Fr Guido Roascio ocd p. 2.

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Church and her brothers and sisters. Vera is the “grain of wheat”

that, having fallen to the ground, will not remain alone but will

generate many other “Veras”, new “poor brides” of Jesus:

“Jesus in the Eucharist to you, little bride promised to Me. Fol-

low me!... And I now seek, I will seek ‘poor brides’ like you. Say

that I seek these brides who, in time, will take faith and trust from

you. You will be the first example I will reveal to people. It will be

a greater grace when you will be but a representative figure for the

world who other souls will be able to reflect on and come to Me

confidently, for your God has revealed an inexpressible Love for

creatures who cannot rise from the earth to Me, without Me, Jesus

in the Eucharist, ‘falling’ with them to lift them up, to make them

come to Me.” Message 7.8.1968

Vera’s ody lies in the cemetery at Zinola, Savona, and for the

Bride of Eucharistic Love, there are not flowers on the grave but

ears of wheat as Jesus wished: ‘Then the wheat, the golden ears,

will be the symbol of my predilection; and for you, not flowers on

your graves, not flowers near the lifeless body, but ears of wheat,

wheat that produces bread, raw wheat flour that produces the

sacred particles: those which you will have humbly borne upon

you, and received into your soul.” Message 7.8.1968

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The introduction of

Vera of Jesus’

Cause of Beatification

and Canonisation1

Vera Grita’s testimony of Christian life, the mission Jesus

called her to and the Work of the Living Tabernacles that has spread

over these 50 years from the initial Message dictated by Jesus to

Vera, have always been accompanied by a significant reputation

for holiness in Vera Grita’s regard, even though until now no offi-

cial steps have been completed regarding the opening of her Cause

of Beatification and Canonisation.

However, it should be noted that over time, a great deal of tes-

timonial and documentary evidence has been collected about Vera

Grita and the Work of the Living Tabernacles, which is a valuable

starting point for the potential opening of the Cause. Also deserving

special attention is the new set of circumstances in the process of

canonisations, introduced by Pope Francis on 11 July 2017 with

the Motu proprio Maiorem Hac Dilectionem, on the offering of

life. With this act, Pope Francis opened the way for the beatifica-

tion of those faithful who are motivated by charity to heroically

offer their lives for their neighbour by freely and voluntarily ac-

cepting a certain and premature death with the intention of follow-

ing Jesus: “He laid down his life for us — and we ought to lay

down our lives for one another.”(1 Jn 3:16).

Vera Grita, too, inspired by the example of Christ and moti-

vated by the mission to which she was called, freely and willingly

offered and sacrificed her life for her brothers and sisters in a su-

1 Contribution by Fr Pierluigi Cameroni, Postulator General of the Salesian

Congregation.

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preme act of charity, which was the direct cause of her death. In

the ordinary exercise of Christian life, she grew to the point of a

free and voluntary decision to give her life in a supreme act of

Christian love, imitating Christ, who offered himself to the Father

for the world, on the cross.

In Vera’s case, her offering of life, and her death which oc-

curred within a short space of time, is striking. The act of offering

her life took place on 5.11.1968 at the Desert of Varazze at the Dis-

calced Carmelites’ St Joseph’s Hermitage: from the following

month, December, Vera alternated teaching with a series of increas-

ingly prolonged hospital stays. A brief interlude was in March

1969, when by the Lord’s will, she went to Rome to the Holy Stairs

with her notebooks with the messages clutched to her heart. “You

had to be here to offer yourself to my Father in my precious Blood,

to receive the blessing that my holy Pontiffs bestowed on you.” In

June 1969 Vera was hospitalised and never left the hospital again:

she was operated on twice during the summer. An abscess formed

which was incised and caused her death by haemorrhage on

22.12.1969, about a year after she had offered her life. She was 46

years old. During the long hospital stay Vera had also offered her

freedom to the Lord: “How long will I stay at Santa Corona? Only

God knows! [...] I would be happy to offer him my freedom.”2

This act of offering is also to be understood in terms of

the meaning that Jesus himself explains to Vera: “I have set you

as a sign of proof of my Word, and you will see your most intimate

desire for union with Jesus, the Eternal Priest, fulfilled in Me.”

Message 5.11.1968.

The act of offering follows these words. She explicitly asks in

the same prayer that even her death may render God all honour and

glory and men of good will bear witness to the truth of his word

(the Work of the Living Tabernacles). And it is for this end that she

offers her life. It is interesting to note the harmony with Jesus’

2 Letter to Fr Zucconi of 12 August 1969, in Mia sorella Vera di Gesù, op. cit.,

p. 151.

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priestly prayer: “I have given them your word, and the world has

hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do

not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of

the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. They do

not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. Sanc-

tify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you have sent me into

the world, so I have sent them into the world.” (Jn 17:14-21).

Certainly it will have to be demonstrated with testimonial and

documentary evidence that Vera sealed her life with an heroic

act of charity and therefore can be considered a perfect disciple

of Christ and, as such, deserving to be proposed as a model of

Christian life, if God Himself guarantees her authenticity and

exemplarity through the reputation of holiness, the proof of mir-

acles and the favourable judgement of the supreme authority of the

Church. The papal document very appropriately states in Article 2:

“The offer of life, in order that it be valid and effective for the

beatification of a Servant of God, must respond to the following

criteria: a) a free and voluntary offer of life and heroic acceptance

propter caritatem of a certain and untimely death; b) a nexus

between the offer of life and premature death; c) the exercise, at

least as ordinarily possible, of Christian virtues before the offer of

life and, then, unto death; d) the existence of a reputation of holi-

ness and of signs, at least after death; e) the necessity of a miracle

for beatification, occurring after the death of the Servant of God

and through his or her intercession.”3

It is hoped that this publication, the spread of knowledge about

Vera Grita and the Work of the Living Tabernacles, and the growth

of her reputation for holiness and signs, will help to take the necessary

steps so that the Cause of this Salesian Cooperator can be set in

motion.

3 Holy See, Apostolic Letter in the form of the Motu Proprio “Maiorem Hac

Dilectionem” on the offering of life, Vatican City, 11.7.2017.

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Biographical profile

of the priests

Fr G. Bocchi SDB, Fr G. Zucconi SDB,

Fr G. Borra SDB, Fr G. Roascio OCD

Salesians Fr Bocchi, Fr Zucconi, Fr Borra and Carmelite Fr

Guido Roascio were the priests who not only knew Vera over the

years of her mystical experience, but were also the first ones called

by the Lord to accept and bring about the Work of the Living

Tabernacles.

Fr Guido Roascio had to be the first among the Carmelites to

know of the Work’s “Message”, meditate on it and store it away in

silence and prayer.

Difficulties and lack of understanding were not lacking in the

lives of these priests. Such things always accompany the realisation

of God’s works: “My Work of Love enters the world through the

narrow way, the holy way. Wait for me: I will return to support you

because I am with you,” Jesus had written to Vera in the message

of 28.9.1969. The Lord had predicted suffering and crosses for Fr

Zucconi and Fr Bocchi: they were both victims for the birth of the

Living Tabernacles and for the spread and authorisation of the

Work in union with other souls who were victims for the Work.

In this section we offer a brief biographical profile, well aware

that each priest deserves an in-depth study which we reserve for

the near future.

We present them in order of “entry” into Vera’s life, in the be-

lief that each at different times and with different functions, per-

formed a unique and unrepeatable task both in helping Vera to fulfil

God’s will and in welcoming the Work of Living Tabernacles by

responding to a personal call.

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Vera’s gratitude to these priests was always great: the letters

she wrote them are testimony to how Vera never failed to recognise

the Lord’s supernatural activity in the priest; therefore she could

only but be grateful to them for the gifts of grace she received

through them. At times gratitude and joy becomes song, as in the

Virgin Mary’s Magnificat, and Vera expressed herself this way in

a letter to Fr Bocchi : “And my ‘thank you’ is never ending because

it is a ‘thank you’ that begins with Jesus, passes on through Him,

and returns to Jesus in a song of love and glory that I cannot put

into words but Jesus can understand and hear it.”1

Fr Giovanni (John) BOCCHI SDB

Pugliano di Minucciano (Lucca) 8.3.1929

Pugliano di Minucciano 1.5.2016

Fr Bocchi was born on 8 March 1929 at Pugliano di Minuc-

ciano (Lucca) high up in the Apuan Alps, in beautiful and unspoiled

nature.

He entered the Salesian house at Collesalvetti (Livorno) at 13

years of age with the help of the parish priest, without “knowing

the Salesians at all”.2 After completing secondary school he was

admitted to the novitiate at Varazze and made his first profession

there on 28 August 1947.

Then he completed his study of philosophy in Rome at the

“San Callisto” community, his practical training among the boys

at Alassio and in 1952 he consecrated himself definitively to the

Lord. His priestly formation involved theological studies at Bol-

lengo, Ivrea, where he was ordained priest on 1 July 1957. As a

priest, Fr Bocchi worked in a number of communities: as a teacher

in Salesian and State schools, then in Pisa in via dei Mille (1958–

1 M.R. SCRIMIERI, Report “Cara figlia della Croce” – Unpublished correspon-

dence between Fr Bocchi and Vera of Jesus, the “Work of the Living Tabernacles”

Study Centre, Milan 2008.

2 Salesian Work at La Spezia, Lettera mortuaria, La Spezia May 2016.

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1959), but he was particularly active in the Oratories: Livorno

(1960–1963), Sampierdarena Genoa (1968–1970) and in parishes.

He became Provincial Delegate for Social Apostolates. He fol-

lowed specialisation courses in catechetics at the Pontifical Salesian

University in Rome in 1969–1970.

From 1964 to 1966, Fr Bocchi was rector at Savona, and then

at Canaletto La Spezia (1970–1976); still in La Spezia he was rec-

tor at Nostra Signora delle Neve (Our Lady of Snows) (1981–82).

Then came the call to go to Africa. Fr Bocchi was among the

founders of the mission in Africa as rector and parish priest in

Cameroon: at Sangmelina (1982–1983), Ebolowa (1983–1989) and

then Yaoundè in his second period as a missionary.

In December 1989, Fr Bocchi returned to Italy due to serious

health problems; he was operated on for a heart attack, recovered

and was then asked to be rector first at Livorno (1990–1992), then

Pietrasanta (1993–1995). But he soon returned to Africa to the

mission in Yaoundé (1995–1996) where he was appointed parish

priest (1996–1999). Fr Bocchi returned for good to Italy in 1999:

the job had become too heavy for him and his generous heart could

no longer keep up with the missionary pace. He first went to help

out at Canaletto, La Spezia, then briefly at Prato, and again as rec-

tor and parish priest in Pisa CEP 2000–2004.

Fr Bocchi finally returned to “San Paolo” La Spezia in 2004,

helping out in the Parish and Shrine of Our Lady of Snows, where

he placed himself at the service of the community in all simplicity

and joy, constantly being available for penitents in the confessional.

He died on 1 May 2016 at 87 years of age.3

Fr Bocchi and the Work of the Living Tabernacles

Fr Bocchi came to know Vera at Savona over the years he was

rector of the Sanctuary of Mary Help of Christians (1963–1966),

3 Biographical information taken from the mortuary letter of the Salesian com-

munity of “Nostra Signora delle Neve”, La Spezia, May 2016.

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shortly before Vera’s mystical experience began. He was her con-

fessor and spiritual director over those years.

It was during Fr Bocchi’s spiritual direction that Vera made the

vow as a little victim, thus giving value to all her suffering which

up to that point she had accepted and lived in a Christian way.

The mostly unpublished letters that Vera and Fr Bocchi began

to exchange some months before this Salesian priest was trans-

ferred to Sampierdarena (1966), are significant and enlightening.

There are not many of them but they are of great value since they

allow us to understand how Fr Bocchi, during this phase, wisely

guided Vera to accept herself in her fragile suffering humanity and

helped her to see the value of her cross by anchoring herself in love

for the crucified Jesus to the point of receiving the charism of suf-

fering through her vow to be a little victim. It is no coincidence

that Fr Bocchi’s letters all begin with the words: “Dear daughter

of the Cross”, or “Vera crucified with Jesus”.4

The value of Fr Bocchi’s priestly ministry during this phase of

Vera’s spiritual journey focuses on this important aspect of suffer-

ing which prepares Vera for the mystical experience that is about

to break into her life: accepting the new cross from Jesus, his

“Voice” dictating the Work of the Living Tabernacles to her in her

inmost being. It would then be up to Fr Gabriello Zucconi, who

would take Fr Bocchi’s place in spiritual direction, to help Vera ac-

cept the extraordinary gift of the Lord in the Word given to her,

and to “bear” this new cross out of love and gratitude for Jesus.

The seed sown by Fr Bocchi would develop fully from there in

good time under Fr Zucconi’s spiritual direction as the faithful

“guardian” of the Lord’s Work of Love and Mercy.5

The Lord drew up what was almost a personal programme for

4 The correspondence between Vera and Fr Bocchi concerns the years 1966–

1969, meaning the period in which Fr Bocchi was no longer rector in Savona but

had been transferred to Canaletto, La Spezia.

5 M.R. SCRIMIERI, Report “Cara figlia della Croce” – Unpublished correspon-

dence between Fr Bocchi and Vera of Jesus, “Work of the Living Tabernacles”,

Study Centre Milan 2008, Unpublished.

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Fr Bocchi in the message of 4.2.1968: “Father John Bocchi, it is

I who am writing to you, me, Jesus. Place your trust in Me and I

will reveal myself to you. I want you to begin My Work of Love

in Sampierdarena among the souls of the priests. I want you to

make my messages of Love known to your confreres; I want them

also to bring Me, so you will all be transformed into Me. I want

my league of souls to become stronger, I want it to become great

and to go beyond the borders of Italy. I want it to be formed in

mission lands, and there where my beloved John Bosco founded

his works, there where in him I established the kingdom of Love.”

Message 4.2.1968.

And indeed Fr Bocchi would depart as a missionary to Came-

roon in 1982, where he would found the Salesian mission, leaning

solely on Jesus in the Eucharist whom he always carried with him,

and from whom he received strength, courage and love in the long

lonely nights spent in the forest: “If I did not have Jesus... I would

not have survived the fatigue and discouragement!”6 He lived the

spirituality of the Living Tabernacles intensely: “I have already

given him my Heart,” Jesus dictated to Vera in another message,

“so as to give it to souls.” “I gave him my own thirst of love, for

my love is never exhausted, and in him I continue to thirst for souls.

Let him seek me among sinners, for among these I suffer and weep.

Let him give me souls, seek my souls, for I expect a great harvest

from him.” Message 25.1.1968.

On the occasions he returned to Italy, he established the first

cenacle (group) of lay people in Versilia (1994), guiding them to

love the message of the Living Tabernacles. When he returned to

Italy for good, he established another group of lay people in his

final years, based on the spirituality of the Living Tabernacles. This

was at the Salesian Work in “San Paolo” La Spezia.

In January 2017, the “San Paolo” Salesian community at La

Spezia dedicated a room to him in which a large mural depicts him

6 M.R. SCRIMIERI, Vera de Jesus e a “Obra dos Sacrarios Vivos”, Edizioni

Salesiane, Porto, 2000 p.173.

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during three significant moments of his priestly life: as a Salesian,

with Don Bosco beneath the gaze of Mary Help of Christians, guid-

ing new vocations for the Church; as a missionary in Africa bring-

ing the good news of the Gospel and the joy of the Risen Christ;

and finally, in adoration before the Tabernacle. An inscription has

a thought of Jesus from the Work of Living Tabernacles encapsu-

lating the union of Jesus the Priest with His priests. It was Fr Boc-

chi’s spiritual programme. “I in you, and you in Me, to bring ‘fruits’

to My Father, to save souls, to die for souls” Message 4.2.1968.

Fr Gabriello (Gabriel) ZUCCONI SDB

Pistoia 11 May 1919 – Rome 5 February 1980

Vera of Jesus’ spiritual director

Fr Gabriello Zucconi was born in Pistoia on 11 May 1919, but

lived first in Novara and then in Genoa where the family moved

to. After obtaining his Teaching Qualification he enrolled in

the Teaching faculty. In September 1940 he was admitted to the

Salesian novitiate in Varazze, finishing with his first three-year

Profession. From 1946 to 1949 he attended the Theology studentate

in Bagnolo and the following year in Bollengo for the fourth year,

when he took perpetual vows.

As a priest he would be Prefect of Studies at the hostel in Pisa,

then teacher at Borgo San Lorenzo, La Spezia, Valle Crosia,

Livorno, Florence and Alassio from 1965 to 1967, when he was

transferred to Florence. In 1969 he moved to Bova Marina where

he was parish priest at Condofuri. He remained there until October

1976 when he returned to the “Sacred Heart” community in Rome

and, from 1977 until his death in 1980, he was at “Don Bosco”

helping out in the parish.

“Beloved Apostle of my Work of Love”

Fr Gabriel was Vera’s spiritual father from September 1967

when, for the first time, Vera became aware of the divine “Voice”

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dictating the Work. It was thanks to Fr Gabriel’s wise and en-

lightened direction that Vera continued to write down what Jesus

dictated to her; filled with doubts and the fear of being deceived,

Vera was tempted not to write things down, but Fr Zucconi asked

her to do so out of obedience to and love for Jesus. So decisive was

this indication, that on the first page of the first notebook of manu-

scripts Vera wrote “Written out of obedience to Jesus in Father

Gabriel, Salesian priest”. Throughout the unfolding of the mystical

experience, Fr Zucconi supported her in carrying the cross of the

“Voice”, showing her his faith in the Messages she received, his

joy at a God who was so close and who spoke to his priestly heart

through Vera, and his sorrow at not being able to correspond to

such a great gift.

At the Lord’s explicit wish, Fr Zucconi was the “guardian” of

the Work of the Living Tabernacles: when Vera died he collected

and typed up all the Messages, then sending them to the Superiors

and various confreres. He took it upon himself to see that the Mess-

ages addressed to the Pope reached the Holy Father Paul VI and to

see that the Work was complete. More than 150 letters of Fr Zuc-

coni written to Vera remain, and we see from them the spiritual

grandeur of this priest. From the first moment he embraced and es-

poused Jesus’ Work of Love and Mercy, holding to it with every

fibre of his human and priestly being.

Fr Giuseppe Borra, who for a time was Fr Zucconi’s spiritual

director, wrote of him, “The figure of the spiritual father stands out

by reflection both in Vera’s letters and in the Messages. Just as on

the stage it is difficult to portray a character because he is too big,

but he stands out because others speak of him and from various

angles bring him to life, so Fr Gabriel emerges from Jesus’ words

and Vera’s letters to an extent that makes him shine out for his

qualities as a priestly soul and guide despite the human aspect.”7

So who was Fr Zucconi? Fr Borra goes on to say:

7 G. BORRA, Grita Vera Notizie biografiche op.cit., p 73.

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A priest living his vocation without deviation in the interests of

God and souls alone: such was Fr Zucconi. Whence did he draw

the thirst for souls that so distinguished him? From his family

formation in his youthful years, from the study of Don Bosco

whose anxieties were also his, so much so that the young men

who encountered him found in Fr Gabriel a friend, a valid di-

rector of conscience. He had gifts from the Lord that made him

sensitive to the problems of anxious spirits on the path to per-

fection. He lived in various Don Bosco colleges: his special

love, besides school, [was] parish work. Fr Gabriel was a victim

for the Work, along with Vera, for its birth and spread. Jesus

often turned to Father and encouraged him to not only spread

the “Messages” but to obtain the proper permissions for the

Living Tabernacles from the ecclesiastical authorities. Fr Gabriel

faced difficulties and especially lack of understanding in his re-

gard arising from unbelief and suspicion. His path was fraught

with stumbling blocks. Nevertheless he wrote to his Superiors,

wrote to and met with the Bishops.8

When the dark night of the spirit began for Fr Gabriel, the night

of trial and the cross due to the incredulity and uncertainty he met,

Jesus encouraged him, dictating two Messages for him which until

now have not been published but are of great spiritual value. Jesus

called all the Messages he dictated to Vera especially for Fr Gabriel

and priests “letters of love”.

We reproduce the first one in its entirety, written by Vera on

the eve of the feast of St John Bosco: Jesus manifests his Priestly

Love for all priests and his predilection for Fr Gabriel for believing

unwaveringly in Vera’s mystical experience. He encourages him

to speak about the Work to Salesian superiors, bishops, and to

persevere until he sees the Glory of God:

Varazze 30 January 1968

Jesus, Eternal Priest, For Father Gabriel.

I have come to you with my open and wounded Heart to

introduce your soul to my Wounded side. Now I draw you to

8 Ibid. p. 67.

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Me and you come to Me, close to my Heart. Your suffering, Ga-

briel, comes from Love, from my Love for you. Listen to Me,

yearn for Me and my Heart will open, wounded still by Love to

introduce your soul, your heart.

Thus will I communicate my Love, my Sorrow, my Desires,

my Will.

I bring you to Me, Gabriel, hide you in Me and suffer with

you, rejoice with you; I hide myself in you and with you go

through the streets, walk with you. I am with you Gabriel.

If only you knew the immensity of MY LOVE for you, for

the Priests who serve me, who struggle with Me and for Me.

If only you knew what your Priestly soul was for me!

I care for you, go before you, caress you, guide you. I pour

into you the fragrances of my Holiness, while your love con-

soles me.

Yes, I seek consolations, Gabriel! Give them to Me, give

Me many for you, for those Priests who still do not know how

to love Me... Your love, Gabriel, is a strength, a strength that I

have given you: ask it for your Confreres, for all My beloved

Priests... Come, come Gabriel to the Love of your Father, of

your God, of your Jesus, and you will always find My hands

wounded, yes, but because of this full of “graces”.

Come to Me Gabriel and I will speak to you of My Work

of Love, of “our” Work of Love.

I will send souls, souls who sacrifice themselves as victims

so that my Work may flow, like a river of mercy through the

world and you will not fail to spread Me, to spread Me to souls.

Go to Pistoia, go to Siena, go to the Superiors and present

my Name, Jesus. I will enlighten you. Have I not said that “you

will see my Glory?” You who are called by My Father, you My

beloved and holy Priests, go, do not hesitate: I am with you,

it is Jesus who wants to go, it is Jesus who wants to “speak”,

it is Jesus who wants to say: I want to leave the Temple, I no

longer want to wait for the souls who will never look for Me.

I am the good Shepherd, I will go in search of the “sheep”

that do not come back my fold.

It is Jesus who desires to walk, seek...

Go, Father Gabriel, in My Name, immerse yourself in Me,

in My Grace, in My Life so that in you there is only Me speak-

ing, persuading and touching those who will listen to you with

My Grace.

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Gabriel, My son, My Father embraces you in Me, blesses

you, draws you to Himself.

I will comfort you, I will sustain you in your struggles, in

your uncertainties. I will write to you and you will be comforted

by My Words. You are the one who had greater faith in the

miserable human hand; you believed and I will reciprocate your

faith in Me, in My Words, with these letters. Wait for Me.

Gabriel, wait for me. I want to return to live in you and in you

immolate myself for My Father, for the Kingdom of My Souls.

With these words, Gabriel, I bring you a spring of Graces:

they flow from my Heart wounded with Love for you, for

my beloved Priests and I want to communicate my Love, my

Words to them, my embrace as Spouse, as Brother, as Eternal

Priest.9

In the second Message dictated to Vera two months later, Jesus

encourages the priest to persevere without getting discouraged:

I see you in pain, in sorrow for my Glory... These are the doubts,

the uncertainties of the moment because “my Work of Love”

will see the Light through trials and sufferings, it will require

“victims”, will be bathed in my Blood because I, Jesus in the

Eucharist, was immolated in order to give myself to you. You

“carry” the Immaculate Lamb sacrificed to My Father so that

your souls would come to the Light and “see” the Light.

Whoever “carries” Me shall resemble the Lamb and be

immolated with It. The Lamb immolated for you has now re-

deemed you, but you in Me will have to be meek and trusting

“little lambs” who in Me allow themselves to be led to the Sac-

rifice. “Yours” is beginning now. Father Gabriel, go in My Name

to Siena, Pistoia, go to Sampierdarena and knock - I will make

you open the door of priestly souls. Do not be discouraged

by unbelief, do not be afraid... for I will be with you always.

You give me glory, and I will not remember your offence. I

remember your sufferings, your love, your sacrifices... I see

your love.

I, Jesus, have spoken to you about “night”. You are entering

9 Unpublished Message – Archives of the General Postulation for the Causes

of Saints of the Salesian Family – Rome.

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the night and I, in my Eucharistic Love, will be your only

“Light”. [...] I will write to you, I will support you and like a

“little boy” I will take you by the hand in the “night”. Your Jesus

taking you into his Father’s Heart, God’s Heart!”10

In the summer of 1969, invited by the Bishop of Reggio Cala-

bria, Bishop Ferro, to work in his diocese, Fr Zucconi was given

permission by the Salesian Superiors to move to Bova Marina near

the Salesian house, and was entrusted with the parish of Condofuri

in October the same year. In his meetings with Fr Zucconi, the

bishop had shown a good acceptance of the Work of the Living

Tabernacles, seeing the possibility of it being established after

having studied how it worked.11

Three months after Fr Zucconi moved to Bova Marina, Vera

passed away in a room at the Ospedali Riuniti di Santa Corona on

22 December 1969.

Fr Zucconi carried out his priestly ministry at Condofuri

for seven years and at the end of these seven years asked to return

to community. These were not easy years; it was mission territory.

Returning to Rome in October 1976, a year later he was en-

trusted with being assistant parish priest at Cinecittà, where he

began his ministry on 8 September 1977. Shortly afterwards, on

22 September, he was received in private audience by Paul VI.

Obeying the indications that the Lord had given through Vera, Fr

Zucconi had seen that the Messages addressed to the Pope, and

subsequently the entire Work, had reached the Holy Father. On 22

September, Paul VI blessed the Work of the Living Tabernacles.

Suffering a heart attack, Fr Gabriel underwent several periods

in hospital. After his last hospitalisation on 26 November 1979,

which lasted until 14 January 1980, he returned to the parish, and

on 17 January he wrote the following letter to a confrere in which

10 Ibid.

11 At the moment we have no documentation on the activities carried out by

Fr Zucconi at Condofuri, including what pertains to the Work. This research is the

next to be undertaken.

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he gave his “fiat” in union with Jesus Crucified, for the success of

the Provincial Chapter:12

Very Rev. Confrere,

As if it came to me from God, I joyfully accept the invita-

tion you have given me to offer prayer and sacrifices for the

success of the Provincial Chapter.

Personally, there is little that I can offer, nevertheless I unite

all of myself to the intentions of the crucified Jesus, and I invoke

every divine blessing on everything you have recommended to

me. Please keep me in your prayers.

With fraternal affection in D. Bosco,

Yours devotedly, Fr Gabriel Zucconi

Fr Zucconi’s earthly mission was over. The Lord was pleased

with his offering and two weeks later, on 5 February 1980, Fr Ga-

briel went on to eternal life to continue to be involved in the full-

ness of grace of the Work of the Living Tabernacles with Vera of

Jesus for the salvation of souls, for the good of the Church and the

Salesian Family. His body lies in the Verano cemetery in Rome.

The figure of Fr Gabriello Zucconi deserves to be studied sep-

arately, a study to bring out all the value and richness of his priestly

ministry exercised in difficult years, as well as his ability to under-

stand the mystical life in souls and the gifts he received for the

Lord during his spiritual direction of Vera of Jesus.

The more than 150 letters written to Vera in 1967–1969, now

available at the Living Tabernacles Study Centre in Milan, are a

very rich and significant source for future work on this grand and

holy son of Don Bosco.

12 Centro Studi Opera dei Tabernacoli Viventi. Letter discovered among the

ones donated to us by his brother, Mr Augusto Zucconi.

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Fr Giuseppe (Joseph) BORRA SDB

Bene Vagienna (Cuneo) 5.10.1914 – Rome 8.7.1987

Fr Borra was born in Bene Vagienna (Cuneo) on 5.10.1914

to Antonio and Agnese Borgogno, who gave their children the

example of a hard-working and upright life rich in faith.

Having finished secondary school and having shown a desire

to consecrate himself to the Lord in Salesian and priestly life, Jo-

seph began to follow the usual formation path: novitiate at Monte

Oliveto ending with his first profession (1931); philosophy at Fog-

lizzo (1931–33); practical training at Valsalice and Valdocco

(1933–39), during which he consecrated himself definitively to the

Lord through his Perpetual Profession (1937) and attended the

State University, gaining an Arts Degree (1939); he then did the-

ology in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University and in Turin

at the “Crocetta” International Studentate (1939–1942), culminating

in his ordination to the priesthood. In 1954 he was made a rector,

a role he fulfilled in the spirit of a pilgrim missionary in a number

of the Italian Provinces: Faenza (1954–1960), Alassio (1960–

1966), Lombriasco (1966–1968), Caserta (1968–1974) and finally

at “Don Bosco” in Rome (1982–1987) and after a short time at

“Sacred Heart”, also in Rome, as principal and economer.

Fr Borra loved Don Bosco as a father and model to imitate with

all his strength: like Don Bosco, he based his life on the values of

the Gospel; like Don Bosco he followed the obedient, poor and

chaste Christ in order to more strictly participate in the Paschal Mys-

tery; like Don Bosco, he dedicated himself entirely to the motherly

and Immaculate Heart of Mary in order to be all hers for the re-

demption of the world, and especially for the salvation of the young.

Many souls who came to know of his enlightened value as

priest chose him as their spiritual director.

He wrote in his Diary: “May I always carry the desire for holiness

in my heart and radiate it beyond myself into the world around me!”13

13 Biographical information taken from the Mortuary Letter – Fr Ilario Spera

– “San Pietro” Roman Province, Rome, July 1987.

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And again: “Only love can save souls. We are a poor canvas, a no-

thing on which Jesus paints Himself. We must let ourselves be pos-

sessed by Him and love souls with Him: then we can save them,

united with Jesus. We must pay dearly for souls, accepting the

physical or moral suffering he permits...” (ibid.) And he concludes:

“Jesus, I adore you and I love you: even for those who do not adore

you and do not love you...You see my heart, the thorns and pains

of my life.” (ibid.)

“And precisely along these lines,” the Provincial Fr Ilario

Spera wrote of him, “to imprint more clearly and more deeply

in his minister’s heart the redemptive seal of the Cross, in the last

nineteen years of his life the Lord put him in contact with privi-

leged souls.

“In January 1968, there was the meeting with Vera Grita,

a wonderful creature, ‘...suffering, but full of love for Jesus,’

Fr Borra wrote in his diary.

“Shortly afterwards, another significant meeting with a former

miracle worker from Lourdes, Maddalena Carini, founder in

San Remo of the Ave Maria Family.

“A third great encounter in Caserta with Teresa Musco, who

bore the stigmata, a martyr for love, crucified with the Crucifix.

He became her spiritual director and wrote her biography.

“On 8 July 1987, sitting on the seashore at Torvaianica, he

looked intently at the sky of this land. Suddenly, there was a sudden

flash of lightning..., and he found himself contemplating the sky

of Eternity....

The Lord was punctually waiting for him...”

Fr Borra as Vera’s biographer and scholar of the “Messages”

of the Work of the Living Tabernacles

Fr Borra got to know Vera in January 1968 while he was the

rector at Lombriasco. At the explicit wish of the Lord, Vera copied

down for him all the messages written from September 1967 to

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February 1968 in 4 exercise books that she sent to Fr Borra:14

“Send what I have dictated to the priests I address myself to. I am

speaking for them, for others, for many, for everyone. Father Borra

must read all the libretti (booklets) and will be enlightened by Me

to see.” Message 25.1.1968.

During the same year he was transferred to the Salesian Insti-

tute at Caserta.

From the letters that Fr Borra and Vera wrote to each other, al-

though not numerous and mostly unpublished, not only his gift of

dealing with Vera’s mystical experience emerges, but also his deep

spirituality and his greatness as a priest in living the Mystery of

Christ’s Sacrifice in the Holy Mass: almost every letter from Fr

Borra to Vera indicates the Salesian priest’s deep yearning to be

united with Christ crucified, with his Heart wounded with Love

for the salvation of souls.

Like Fr Gabriello Zucconi, Fr Borra was the consoler of Jesus’

Heart in agony over priests who had abandoned their priesthood,

and Jesus did not fail to reach out to him through Vera with en-

couraging words for his beloved priest: “For Father Borra, to you,

my beloved Priest, the throbbing of my Eucharistic love; to you

the beating of my Heart. Come and rest on my breast. It is your

Jesus who listens to you.” Message 6.2.1969.

The move from Lombriasco to the Salesian Institute at Caserta

in autumn 1968 caused him more than a few problems and con-

siderable suffering. Jesus did not fail to confirm to Fr Borra that

everything was part of his will and through Vera he sent him the

comfort of his word to support him in his labours:

Write for Father Borra: I want him to pray, to offer himself

and his suffering for the triumph of my holy Work of love. Then

I, Jesus, will reveal myself to him, will communicate with him

and make my dwelling in him.

I want him to embrace my holy Cross of love so that he may

14 Vera’s letter to Fr Borra on 24.2.1968 in L. GRITA Mia sorella Vera di Gesù

op.cit., p. 84.

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soon be espoused to my Cause through holy suffering. This suf-

fering, which he bears with torment, will become joyful when

his priestly soul lives for my triumph. He is in Caserta by my

will.15 My holy Mother will guide him on the way to espouse

Me in the Work of Love. Then I will be lavish with special graces

for him. Jesus to his beloved priest. Message 17.10.1968

In the letters that Fr Borra wrote to Vera during his stay in Ca-

serta, he confided to her his sorrows, his daily labours in dealing

with people, his constant concern and care not to lack patience and

charity in their regard.

Jesus, once again, did not fail to console his priest and dictated

to Vera for him while she was hospitalised at Santa Corona Hospital:

Write to Fr Borra that Jesus knows all his afflictions, his sor-

rows, and that he desires holy resignation for his own miseries

because it is these that adorn his soul with so many virtues,

including humility.

For the rest he must surrender himself confidently to Me,

to My divine mercy.

His priesthood is dear, pleasing, precious to Me, but I desire

that his soul rest in Me, even amid crosses.

He has my Mother as Mother and Protectress. He has the

greatest gift I can give to a friend: my own Mother. Let him take

refuge in Her, and She will welcome him always in My holy

Name, Jesus.

The “distant” Priests are part of the Cross that I have of-

fered him. You too [Vera] pray for them. I, Jesus, love them!

Message 9.11.1969

15 Unpublished Message. “He is in Caserta by my will.” In Caserta Fr Borra

met mystic Teresa Musco, (1943–1976) and became her spiritual director. In 1951

the Blessed Virgin had predicted to Teresa Musco, a child at the time, and got her to

write it on a small sheet of paper, that she would leave the family in 1968 and live

alone, and that she would meet Fr Giuseppe Borra and have him as her spiritual di-

rector. She should show him the note she had written as a child. This is what hap-

pened, and in 1968 Teresa Musco moved from Caiazzo to Caserta where she met

Fr Borra.

Regarding the Virgin Mary’s prophecy to Teresa as a child, see: G. ROSCHINI –

T. MUSCO, Mistica del XX secolo, Ed. Ancora p. 62-63.

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A month after this message, Vera went to Eternal life.

In Caserta, Fr Borra dedicated himself especially to the spiri-

tual direction of Teresa Musco with the stigmata, and wrote her bi-

ography. When he re-entered “Don Bosco” in Rome in 1982, he

received the letters that Vera had written to Fr Gabriello, who had

died in 1980, from one of his penitents:

Having seen their contents and going back over days long past

when I knew Vera Grita, and having also read the Messages,

I became aware of Vera’s spiritual personality and felt an im-

pulse, indeed a duty, to dedicate myself to her.

I meditated a little on the Messages and saw the wonderful

doctrine.

Such a wonderful pearl could not and should not have

remained hidden any longer.16

Thus, what Jesus had prepared years earlier when he had dic-

tated to Vera: “Fr Borra must read all the booklets”, and with the

priests called to the Work, he would be “enlightened to see” came

to fruition.

Fr Borra had “seen”: the precious pearl given by the Lord to

the Salesian Congregation and to the Church for the good of hu-

manity was there in his hands and he set to work writing Vera’s bi-

ography, where he also presented a first and precious study on the

concept of the Living Tabernacle and the spirituality outlined in

the set of the Messages of the Work.17

Three years later, in 1987, his earthly mission concluded,

he died on the seashore while contemplating the infinite horizon.

Just beforehand he had written:

Today

I left

my heart

swimming in the infinite:

16 G. BORRA, Vera Grita, Notizie Biografiche, op.cit., p. 7.

17 G. BORRA, Grita Vera, Notizie biografiche , op. cit.

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a sea covered me with warm sands

on the shores of time.18

His heart, wounded by the love and pain of Christ and united

to Him, passed on to contemplate, for eternity, the infinity of God,

now in the bright and radiant Heart of the risen Christ.

Fr Guido ROASCIO OCD

6.9.1937 – 28.10.2015

Father Guido Roascio was born in Murialdo in Savona’s hin-

terland on 16 September 1937. He entered the minor seminary at

the Desert of Varazze, and after a year of novitiate at Loano (Sa-

vona) he made his first temporary religious profession on 23 Au-

gust 1955 and his perpetual profession at Sant’Anna, Genoa on 7

October 1958. After graduating from the Arecco Institute in Genoa,

run by the Jesuits, he began a course in Theology at the Pontifical

‘Teresianum’ Faculty in Rome, where he was ordained a priest

on 5 April 1964 and where he graduated cum Laude in Dogmatic

Theology in 1968.

On his return to Liguria he was rector of the Seminary at

Arenzano for 6 years, teaching Latin and Mathematics.

For the three years from 1975–1978 he was prior of the

Convent of Sant’Anna. From 1978 for twelve years he edited the

monthly magazine of the Sanctuary of the Child Jesus in Arenzano,

including a course in journalism in 1981–1982 in Milan.

In 1990 he was the Superior of the Mount Carmel Convent in

Loano, and held this role for three years. In 1991, at the request of

the Bishop and with permission of the Superiors, while still living

at the Convent he was also parish priest at Ranzi di Pietra Ligure

(Savona). From 1999 he was Superior and parish priest of the

convent and parish of St Peter’s in Savona.

18 Fr I. SPERA, Lettera mortuaria, “San Pietro” Roman Province, Rome, July

1987.

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He was in Arenzano from 2011 until his death on 28 October

2015 from a heart attack. His body lies in the friars’ chapel in the

cemetery in Arenzano.

It was during the 1968–69 school year that Father Guido Roas-

cio got to know Vera at the Desert of Varazze where she was teach-

ing the primary school children at the Discalced Carmelite

Hermitage and Fr Guido was the young assistant to the children.

It was during the months of his stay at the Desert that the Lord

for the first time also named the Discalced Carmelites as recipients

of the Work of the Living Tabernacles, and pointed to Father Guido

Roascio as the one who was to be aware of the Work at the time,

to meditate on it and to guard in silence this gift received.

In the various annual meetings held in Savona with Father

Guido, and organised by the Study Centre on the anniversary of

Vera’s birth to Heaven, sympathetically and with a touch of humour

inherent in his character, he showed how he had kept to what the

Lord had instructed him to do, especially with regard to “keeping

silent”. With great care and affection he had kept the original folio

that Vera had given him and where she had written down what

Jesus had dictated to her for him and for the Discalced Carmelites.

Father Guido was happy to donate a photocopy of the original

message to the Study Centre, which we reproduce now in full:

Sv. 28.2.1969

Long live Jesus in the Eucharist!

Write, my name is Jesus!

... My Work of Love will then also have to be extended to

the Discalced Carmelites, since I, Jesus, have come to give my

Love to everyone.

With the submission that you owe to the Priest, receive his

consent to speak of “my Eucharistic Gift” to Father Guido.

For now, he must listen, meditate and keep my Words,

words of Jesus for the poor, in his priestly heart.

Tomorrow, when you will be far away, everything will

serve to glorify ME.

They must be partakers of ME, through MY WORK OF

LOVE at the time appointed and willed by ME.

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For now it is sufficient that One among them knows until

the end and...keeps silent. This is the Will established by My

Father.

After the consent, and in obedience to the Priest, prepare

Father Guido and, finally, get him involved by means of a type-

script.

During these few months in the Desert you must “give

ME”, entrust ME....

Father Guido retained a very vivid and intense memory of

Vera, even though their meeting was brief, just a school year; but

Vera’s presence at the Hermitage and her mystical experience had

left a mark on the young Carmelite that he liked to remember as a

touch of grace and holiness received at the Desert of Varazze,

which did his soul good every time he remembered Vera.

A personal recollection: In the footsteps of Vera and her pupils

with Father Guido Roascio19

Father Guido Roascio had no doubt regarding Vera’s holiness

and hoped and expected that one day her Cause for beatification

and canonisation would be opened.

One day we went together to Casanova di Varazze and Alpi-

cella, on the trail of Vera’s pupils. It was not difficult in these small

villages in the Ligurian hinterland to get out of the car, ask about

Vera Grita the teacher and immediately find someone to help us

reconstruct the map of Vera’s pupils. So it was at Casanova where

Father Guido and I were accompanied to the home of former pupil

Piero Molinari, who welcomed us together with his mother Ida by

interrupting his work in the fields.

Both still had a vivid memory of Vera when she was still alive.

With her simple and welcoming humanity she knew how to “make

19 Testimony of Maria Rita Scrimieri taken from: Vera Grita, la “maestrina di

Savona”: testimonianze dal mondo della scuola. Magnificat! Notiziario del Centro

Studi Opera dei Tabernacoli Viventi, Anno 2, N.1 2002 p. 5.

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herself a gift” at school, in meetings with the children’s mothers,

with colleagues.

Ida kept the rosary which Vera had given to Piero and which

she kept with her on her bedside table and with which she still

prayed. When we asked what struck her most about the teacher,

Ida answered immediately and without hesitation: “Her humility...

and her eyes. The eyes had something that told you how to go on,

that gave you courage. She was very humble, she made you feel

good when you were there talking. She was not awe-inspiring, she

was simple and suffering, she had a lot of faith. I always pray to

her and remember her.”

In Alpicella, on the other hand, where Vera taught in the 1959-

1960 school year, it was the parish priest, Fr Lorenzo Caviglia,

whom we met as soon as we got out of the car, and who told us

about her: he too remembered Vera very well, he had not forgotten

the teacher, especially for a detail that attracted his attention and

amazement as a child: during the Stations of the Cross that all

the children made with the teacher, Vera cried. “At the time, I was

amazed by this fact and it seemed even exaggerated... Later,

I understood,” Father Caviglia confided.

Little Lorenzo Caviglia, who became a priest, was the best we

could have encountered as a testimony to conclude our day track-

ing down Vera’s pupils: Vera loved priests very much and in order

to mystically accompany them in their apostolic labours Jesus had

given her a special love. For them, she accepted and offered up all

suffering and discomfort at school, and Jesus guided and led her

to the wound in his side, to mystically unite her with Him, the Eter-

nal Priest, in the ultimate immolation, the offering of her own life

for the birth and development of the Work and for the return of the

priests who had abandoned the priesthood during the heated years

of protest. This matured during Vera’s stay at the Desert of Varazze,

in the last year of her life and teaching.

Returning to Savona, we recalled all this with Father Guido,

who had known Vera in this last year of her life and teaching.

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Vera of Jesus’

Notebooks

“These words are light and,

because they are Mine, they must shine

and they will not remain hidden.”

Jesus to Vera, Message 6.3.1969

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BOOKLET 11

Begun 19 September 1967

Ended 24 November 1967

Written out of obedience to Jesus in Father Gabriel,

Salesian priest

For the greater glory of God, the Blessed Trinity

“May Your holy and adorable Will be done”

“Oh my Jesus, your Kingdom come!”

1 Primo Libretto or First booklet: term used by Vera for the notebooks she used

to write down the Messages. In total, there are 13 original booklets and thanks to

the Curia at Savona they were photocopied by the Work of the Living Tabernacles

Study Centre and are now published in full in this new edition.

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19-9-1967 11:05 (Before the Blessed Sacrament)

J.2: “The wine and the water are us: I and you, you and I. We

are one. I dig, I dig to build me a temple; let me work, do not

put obstacles in my way.” (The soul now invokes the Holy Spirit).

J.: “...And My Father’s will is this: that I abide in you, and you in

Me. Together we shall bear great fruit.”

20-9-’67 11:30 am

J.: “Take me with you, take me to Pina, to everyone. Let us go

‘together’, let us always be together. If you are in doubt, make the

sign of the Cross again and say: ‘Jesus’.”

22-9-’67 (in church)

J.: “I will keep you in the shadow of my wings. You are in the

world but not of the world. Here, in the Tabernacle, I want prayers,

I want consolations from all souls. Take me with you: into your

heart.”

22-9-’67 (11:00 am, at home)

Jesus: “I am with you, my daughter. I have not left you. Now

it is you who will not leave me, not leave me in my loneliness: the

loneliness of the Tabernacle, the loneliness of souls. Write down

once more: I want to be loved, I want to be known by everyone. I

want to give, give, give myself to souls. Speak to them about Me;

take me, give me to souls. My little daughter, how small you are,

you are nothing without Me. Let Me speak, let Me act: I want souls,

small souls, very small souls. I want to win them over to my Love.

I am seeking them out in the world, gathering them beneath my

wings. Come with Me through the world.”

2 ‘J’ Stands for Jesus

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Soul:3 Lord I want to obey you, I will come, run to You, but

you know that I can do nothing without you: Order me. I offer you

my hand, take it in yours, let us go together wherever you wish.

Strip me of everything so I may have nothing but You.

Jesus: “Yours is this Name, yours is my Love, yours is my

Cross, my Sufferings, my Wounds, my Blood: take my riches, my

Gifts, they are for sinners, for souls. Hide yourself in these riches,

in these Gifts and offer yourself to God the Father according to the

desires of my Heart. Together let us go out into the world to gather

souls. Behold, you are in Me in each of My Immolations, on the

whole face of the Earth. I in you and you in Me, as wine unites

with water, as I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, as the

Holy Spirit, Love, shines in Us. I give you the free gift of every-

thing. Are you happy? It is Cross; it is Love: it is My Cross, it is

My Love. Come, follow me! O My child, I have established My

dwelling in you: I want to make you a living tabernacle to go to

souls. Give me everything.”

Soul: O my Jesus, I have nothing to give you, I find nothing

but your own Gifts and I offer them to you, I intend to offer them

to you through the Heart of your and my sweet Mother together

with my poor will. O Jesus, do it, destroy me but so that I may not

resist You make me humble, take my whole heart: let it beat only

for You and may I tell You in every beat that I love You, that I detest

sin. My life, may I have no life but Yours, no sigh but Yours, no

breath but Yours.

Jesus: “In the holy name of obedience listen to My Voice: it is

Cross, it is Love. My Love and my Cross will never forsake you,

so shall be MY VOICE. Accept it out of obedience, out of love and

in a spirit of humility and penance. Behold, I am in you in love and

sorrow, sorrow love. This Voice, my Voice, will be the fire that will

purify you. I want MY TEMPLE to burn, to burn, to be consumed

3 ‘Soul’: stands for Vera

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for Me. Thank Me, My child, that My Father’s love is great for

you. Tomorrow, at Holy Mass, you will bring My Gifts, the Gifts

of My Mother’s Heart, and you will unite them to your miseries,

to your nothingness, to your too small heart. I will take everything.

Remember: the wine and the water. In this mystery is union, dona-

tion. Only with Me does the offering rise to God the Father. O my

child, immerse yourself in my love. Only my grace will sustain

you. Look at Me on the Cross, love Me on the Cross, gaze upon

the Cross: I draw you to Me, Jesus. Do everything in my Name

and for my Love. When weariness crushes you, invoke Me: I will

help you!”

Soul: O my Jesus, bless me!

22-9-’67 (4 pm)

Jesus: “I have united you in Me: Fr Gab. (Gabriel)4 and Fr B.

(Bocchi)5 in the Father’s bosom, in his sufferings, in his Crosses.

I will seek other souls, I will gather you beneath my wings, and

I will bring you to the feet of the Holy Father. I want many victim

souls: seek them out!”

The Soul: My Jesus, how can I go and find them? Help me.

Command me because I want to obey you.

Jesus: “Ask my Mother.”

4 Fr Gabriello Zucconi, Salesian (Pistoia, 11 May 1905 – Rome, 5 February

1980). Vera got to know Fr Zucconi in July 1967 during the Retreat preached

by him. On that occasion Vera asked Fr Zucconi for his spiritual direction and also

decided to become a Salesian Cooperator.

5 Fr Giovanni Bocchi, Salesian (Pugliano, 8 March 1929 – La Spezia, 1 May

2016), Rector of the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Savona. Delegate for

the Salesian Cooperators, was Vera’s confessor. Together with Fr Zucconi he

belonged to the Ligure Toscana Procince, today part of the Central Italy

Circumscription. He founded the Salesian work in Cameroon, as the Lord had

predicted in the Message of 4.2.1968.

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Soul: I will obey you, Jesus. I offer you my poor suffering, my

will, everything, all of me, accept me as I am!

Jesus: “Give me more.”

Soul: I can find nothing to give you, but if You see something,

take it, it is yours.

Jesus: “Let every action be performed out of obedience and

love; you must not belong to yourself, but to Me through your

neighbour. No more desires, no more affections that are not Mine;

you must die to earthly life hour after hour in order to advance in

Me. I, Jesus, promise never to abandon you.”

4 October, St Francis6

Jesus: “Write to Father Gabriel. I am with him, and he is in

Me. He carries the torch of my Love to the souls who await him. I

give myself to souls in him, and he gives himself to my Father in

me. I want him to burn with this divine Love. He is in my Heart as

the consoler of my agonies, as brother, as friend. He is the Bride-

groom who goes to meet the Bride. I hide in him to seek my sheep,

to gather my flock. I speak, act, suffer and, above all, love in him.

I have gathered you under my wings (Father Gabriel, you, poor

creature, Fr Bocchi); other souls I will gather from my pastures

and make them a force: my Force. You will fight as soldiers, you

will suffer and as my soldiers you will fall in the field, but your

victory will be written in heaven. Tell Father Gabriel that his Jesus

loves him so much, and that he would not hesitate a moment to

give him all his Blood again. Behold, I am sending him into the

world as I once went into the world. He must take Me, he must

6 In the Letter of 5 October 1967 to Fr Zucconi, Vera writes: “Yesterday,

St Francis day, I begged Jesus to deign to tell me as much as He could concerning

it and I offered Him, many times, the humility of the Saint to repair my pride. I felt

that He was in me and, on my return I sought the solitude of my room. Again I prayed

for you and then... I wrote ”, in L. GRITA, Mia sorella Vera di Gesù, op. cit., p. 69.

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give Me because he, Father Gabriel, is in Me. Report what I have

told you. Behold, I have spoken to you now that I may be heard.

It is not these words that will bring him joy, but the Grace I put

into these words, for they are, they will be Me. My daughter, wait

for me, I will come to you.”

16 October ’67

Jesus: “Gift of God, Gift of Love. My Love has no boundaries,

no barriers. It is not your miseries that impede My Grace in you

because My Grace is LOVE. It is your doubts, your uncertainties,

the limits that you place on your abandonment in ME: Jesus! How

fragile you are, My child! Come to ME: I am the STRENGTH,

your strength. Think of the Tabernacle. You believe in MY PRES-

ENCE in the Tabernacle. Believe in ME, your Jesus does not de-

ceive you. It is I, Jesus! I would speak to any sinner if he had faith

in Me, if he believed in Me, in My Love. I would show Myself to

him as I once did, even in My Holy Humanity, but he still would

not believe because he has no Faith. If Faith has grown in you,

know that it is My Gift! Believe Me who am speaking to you and

ask no more, no explanation why: it pleased MY FATHER, so it

pleases Me. Receive My Voice in humility and gratitude. Return

to Me, abandon yourself to My Love. Feel My Cross, feel My

Yoke! Let yourself be permeated by Me.”

20 October ’67 Friday

Jesus: “I have given you light in abundance, walk in it, you

will not be lost: seek Me, seek Me alone. O my daughter, daughter

of the Cross, of my Cross, listen to me: the path is short and long,

it near and far. Do not think of anything, do not think of others,

think of Me. Detach yourself from yourself, from all worries, think

of Me. Close the windows of the world. Write, My child, so that

you do not forget how much I love you. Do you still not see Me in

you? Do you not see Me? I am in the Cross, I am in Sorrow, I am

in your nothingness: a suspended thread that I hold with Love. My

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Voice does not rise up clearly to you because you lend your ear to

your troubles.”

Soul: Help me. My Jesus, help me!

Jesus: “Seek Mary, seek my sweet Mother, seek her Love, seek

her motherly arms. Yes, I am weighing you down, I am a burden,

but you will not be able to do without it, and I will then be your

Weight: Jesus! O Vera, Vera, how much do you love me to accept

me so? You are far from true LOVE. Yet I, Jesus, want this Love

from you. I want it in your every breath, in the day and in the night,

in the calm and in the storm. Come to Me, surrender yourself to

Me. Tomorrow I will help you carry the Cross, but you must not

detach yourself from My CROSS because it is bread, light, joy,

martyrdom for you. Give Me your company: I, Jesus, am alone!

Precisely because you can give me nothing I want to be with you.

I will give you EVERYTHING: ME. Bring MY messages, bring

MY words, they will come with MY GRACE. Today is Friday, and

you must suffer so much for My Voice. Write to Father Gabriel.

Tomorrow, at the same time, I will wait for you here. You must die

to everything to hear Me. Do not fear, do not be afraid, I am Jesus,

Jesus. Pray, My daughter, pray for Me to come into you, for you to

disappear and for me to live in you.”

Soul: I am not capable, Jesus, I am not capable: everything

disturbs me and every little noise is enough to distract me from

You. Help me, help me. You know how it is impossible for Me...

But if it is YOUR WILL, I say to you with your Mother: FIAT. Not

alone, I can’t, I can’t do it...

Jesus: “Write, yes, write out of obedience, out of penance. O

holy souls in Me, come to MY HEART, come into this Heart of

Father, Spouse, Friend, Brother, into the HEART of GOD. My

souls, bathed in the dew of My Grace, purified by a Fountain that

gushes forth without ceasing from My Heart. My souls, souls of

Jesus, souls of my love, come to Me, I want to give you much,

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much more: I, Jesus, always with you, you always with Me. No-

thing separates the Father from the Son except exile and the flesh,

nothing separates Me from the soul because I immerse it in Me,

unceasingly, in My love. I cover miseries, afflictions, I purify, I

sanctify so that the soul remains in Me, and I in it. No, no relief to-

night for you, and you hardly recognise My Voice, yet I have

spoken to you, and also for you. Fear not, you have done My Will.

I remain in you.”

Soul:O Jesus, give me sorrow for my sins, a pure and holy

LOVE; give me the gift of humility and obedience. O Jesus give

me “everything” for I have nothing. Thank you.

21-10-’67

Jesus: “Tomorrow, Fr Gabriel will be in Communion with Me,

I will enlighten him in your regard and you will receive my Orders.

I will speak with you in silence and the voices of the world will not

draw you away from Me. I want to work in you with My Grace.

Draw closer to Me, ever closer to Me. I know how to wait... the

hour of Grace is approaching... it is near. Wait for it with humility.

Pray, suffer, offer in communion with Me, with souls, with My

PRIESTS. Suffer for My Voice, suffer in writing, suffer. I do not

promise you consolations, but sufferings. You will write only out

of obedience.7 I, Jesus, will sustain you in your innermost being. I

did not come into the world to rejoice, but to suffer, to do the will

of My Father. I will not return in ‘certain’ souls who... to suffer

with Me, to do, like Me, the will of My Father. So I go through the

world... and I search for souls. Let us go, let us go together, let us

seek souls ‘together’. Make room for me, clear your heart of every-

7 “You will write only out of obedience...”. Vera wrote the Messages in

obedience to Fr Zucconi who supported her in carrying her cross of doubts,

uncertainty, darkness. In the Letter of 10.11.1967 to Fr Zucconi, Vera writes: “...still

other Messages even though my poor soul is in the very depths of darkness.” In L.

GRITA, Mia sorella Vera di Gesù, op. cit., p.73.

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thing: let me come into you. Give Me everything, everything so that

You do not exist, just be for Me. I, your Jesus, bless you. Now go!”

Soul: Glory to God!

29-10-1967 “Feast of Christ the King”8

After invocations to the Holy Spirit, Mary Help of Christians,

Alexandrina,9 my Guardian Angel, I read these excerpts from the

Holy Gospel, having opened the Holy Book randomly: (St John)

“I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little

while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because

I live, you also will live.” An image of Padre Pio of San Giovanni

Rotondo, which was on that page, was followed by a call to my

Guardian Angel from Padre Pio’s Guardian Angel. Then again I

asked for a Word of Jesus in the Holy Gospel to support my frailty.

So I read: “Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion, Look, your king is

coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!” St John. After the Holy Sign

of the Cross and pronouncing the Most Holy Name of Jesus, as

Father Gabriel told me, I said: “Speak, O Lord, that your servant

may hear you.”

8 Feast of Christ the King. From Vera’s letter to Fr Gabriel on 1 November

1967: “On the day of Christ the King, Jesus dictated to me roughly as follows: ‘Do

you want to accept My triple crown? It is made of moral, spiritual and physical

suffering.’ Yes I accepted it, but how weak I am and how immediately another

suffering loomed on the horizon! [...].” In the Message of 7.11.1968 Jesus further

explains the offering of her head for the crown of thorns: “This offering can be issued

by ‘my soul’ in many forms. For example, humbly bow your head in the face of all

pain, offer your head for a crown of thorns, so that roses of graces may flourish in

the thoughts of human beings... I need leaders who know how to humble themselves

and with me, with their King, wear the same crown that I wore for all people, that I,

Jesus, wore for love of you so that, freely willed and loved, my Thought could

dominate in you.”

9 Alexandrina Maria da Costa (1904-1955), Portuguese mystic, Salesian

Cooperator beatified by John Paul II on 25 April 2004. Fr Bocchi had given Vera

the book Tu sei amore che tutto vince, written by Salesian Fr Umberto Maria

Pasquale, Blessed Alexandrina’s second spiritual director.

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Jesus: “I want you, my child, to obey me, I do not want inter-

ference, for now. My Voice is an order, a command, it is the voice

of the soul, it is the Voice of God! It comes to you through the dark-

ness of your being, and I seek a humble heart willing to hear me.

Do you wish to receive me in Love? I do not impose myself but I

want to be sought, ardently desired. I am Jesus, Jesus in the Voice,

Jesus in Holy Grace. Draw near to Me, do not fear, receive the

warmth of My Heart. ‘My ways’ are infinite, unpredictable, and I

cannot implement them if you do not have faith in Me. Believe in

My Name, Jesus, believe in the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, in

the Name of the Holy Spirit, believe in the Name of My most sweet

Mother, the ‘Immaculate Conception’. Father Gabriel suffers, he

needs so much Love, so much of My Love, and I, Jesus, will give

it to him in connection with your suffering. I want you to accept

‘My’ pains, and let yourself be penetrated by them. They will come

to you like the dew on the flowers, like the dawn that precedes the

morning, like the ‘death’ that precedes true Life. And Life is what

I want to give, Life, Life, all my Life. I want to pass, through

humble and willing souls, to other souls still insensitive to My

calls. These souls must purify themselves to receive Me, they must

offer themselves in Me to My Heavenly Father that I may live in

them. I will return to souls, I will still seek souls like this. O my

beloved daughter, what can you give me? Give me your heart!

Father Gabriel is there, waiting for Me, for My Words. I will lead

him to the Sacred Mountain and tell him of My Beauty: Light of

Love, Light that burns and inflames, Light for his soul, Light for

other souls: My Light, Light of God! A Blazing Fire shall penetrate

you, I shall penetrate through you into souls, I shall reach souls, I

shall return to you, I shall return among you and unite you from

one end of the world to the other, and you shall be My LEAGUE,

My ARMY. Father Gabriel will have afflictions and sorrows, he

will have pains and trials, but he will have only and all Me as rec-

ompense. I love him, oh how I love him! And love is what I ask of

him, ‘pure and holy’ love, so much love for Me, for my Things,

for my Souls. His Jesus honours him with his Priesthood, invests

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him with his MINISTRY. There I am in him, but he must become

like Me. I want to make use of him, of My Priesthood in him, for

I ‘must work’ for My Kingdom, for My Souls. Let him be a pliable

reed in My Hands, easy to bend to My will but not to the world. I

will soon make a permanent dwelling in him. He shall feel My

Power, and the Holy Spirit shall speak to him with a tongue that is

not human. Be docile under the Hand of God, and trust in Me:

Jesus, Eternal Priest. To you, poor child of the Cross, may my re-

turn be marked by the wounds of my wounded and bleeding Heart.

Jesus in His Glory bless you!”

10-11-1967 Friday

Jesus: “Write: I am your Jesus. Yes, write again for yourself,

for others, for everyone. My souls, holy souls, blessed souls of my

Father, where are you going? My Love reaches you, pursues you.

Stop, listen to my Voice: I am Jesus, I am your Jesus! I open my

arms, I extend them over the Cross, I extend them over all hu-

manity, and I gather you up, I take you to My Heart and unite you

to Me. How much pain and how much love in this embrace! Who

gives Me so much pain? Who gives me so much love? And My

Heart bleeds, groans, suffers and rejoices and does not cease to re-

ceive you, to welcome you. Who will lead souls to my Heart? Who

will lead them to the Wound in my Side? The Priest suffering in

Me. From him I accept all souls, from him I allow my Wound to

open again by suffering, by dying in Me. When he is all Me, I will

receive him into My Side with ‘his’ souls, he will cross through

my Breast and immediately my Heart will receive them. Who will

be able to separate Me any more from him, from ‘our’ souls? You,

too, teach the ‘way’ of love to everyone: big and small, good and

less good. Suffering Jesus calls you to his martyrdom: be strong.

You will write greater things than these, and you will suffer, you

will suffer in My Name, in the Name of your Jesus; you will think

you have gone mad and even more so... My Grace will not abandon

you and will be with you. Trust, My daughter, in the Love of your

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Jesus. Open your arms too, extend them on the Cross with Me, and

learn to embrace all humanity with Me. I do not promise you help,

except what is necessary, but a Father will always understand you,

for someone will always speak to you in My Name. Father Gabriel

will receive ‘these words’ in My Name; he will see Me, because in

these words I, his Jesus, will speak to him. My Grace will reach

him with these messages and he will read them as in My Heart. It

will not be you who will ‘give’ My Words, but there will be those

who will ask you for them: then obey. Before the Blessed Sacra-

ment give Me your heart always, and leave it in the warmth of My

Heart. Yes I will return to you with the water of suffering, with the

Blood of My Sacrifice, with the fruits of My Grace. Give me every-

thing, everything, because I, Jesus, have given and give everything

to you. Amen.”

12-11-’67

Jesus: “Write, my child, a message of Love, of Light and of

Love. I, Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God, love ‘my’ souls

with a special love. For them I give ‘my graces’ in superabundance.

They are not my servants but ‘my friends’. In them I dwell with

my Grace, and the Grace is me, I am Jesus. Behold: my ‘League‘

is increasing, ‘my little army’ is about to advance and is advancing

with Me and for Me. We are going together, you come with Me

and you are in Me. Abandon the calls of the world, lay them down

before My Altar. You who are still in the world, never be of the

world. That is why you still live in the world: that you may be for

Me, that you may come to Me: Jesus! Your soul is now immersed

in Me, but soon the darkness will cover it with its greyness. Look

at Me then, look at Me more and fix your gaze on Me on the Cross.

Write, my child, write again for yourself and for all. Confide your

heart in Mary, my Mother. Narrate to her the joys and the sorrows,

the miseries and subjugations; raise your hands to her, that they

may work only with her; your mind to her, that you may think only

with her and like her; your soul to her, that belonging to her it may

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be hers, immersed in her. Finally, your heart. Offer yourself to me,

all of you and your heart, in the Heart of my Mother, Mary Im-

maculate. My child, then make me suffer in you, make me return

among souls, make me deal with souls. Will you? Bend down...

and receive my Cross! Your Jesus.

Soul: O Jesus, Life of my soul, I accept everything in Mary

Most Holy and since I am nothing and evil, I hide myself in the

Immaculate Heart of Mary. Thank you, O my good Jesus.

12-11-1967

Jesus: “I draw you to Me, do you not see! Do you feel the im-

mensity of My Love? I welcome you into My Home,10 beneath my

very own ROOF. I remove you from the world, you are under My

Wings and My Shadow protects you. Here with Me you must learn

to suffer and love as I wish; to seek Me, to speak to Me, to tell Me

everything. I am here, with you. I am in the Chapel, I am here while

you write, I am in your poor soul. They are my tears, I have given

them to you! They are tears of love, of sorrow, they are tears that

flow from Me, from My Love. Here, in this House you are loved,

and I have placed you close to ‘my souls’. Together you serve

My Glory. Yes, you are in the world but no longer for the world,

and from this I will always remove you. I want to build myself

a Temple of Love, and I have chosen you because you are ‘nothing’

too nothing. I want you humble, most humble. You will obtain

this virtue, dear to My Heart, from My Mother, but do not cease

to invoke it. I want you at the ‘service of all’, ready to obey all,

10 This was the Institute of the Canossian Sisters in Casanova di Varazze where

Vera had moved in the first days of November: '“I asked Him [Jesus] for a quiet little

place for me to attend to my work, which is ‘His work’, and to school, calmly. On

17 October I found a little room at the Canossian Sisters in Varazze. In the Institute

there is the Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows and Holy Mass is celebrated every day

at 4 p.m. Travelling makes me too tired and at the beginning of November I will

settle in with these Sisters, returning to the family on Saturdays and some days of

the week to look after my nephew at school.” Letter 1 November 1967 to Fr Zucconi,

in L. GRITA Mia sorella Vera di Gesù, op. cit., p. 71.

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serve all, for in this way you will serve Me. I want you ‘merciful

and prudent’ with everyone. I want you ‘good and generous’.

I want you ‘martyred’ for My Love, for My Glory. I want you

to be a ‘martyr’ of Me. My Blood will purify you, and in your

martyrdom the Blood shed will still and always be Mine. Then

you will be consumed for Me, and in Me, the Sacrifice will be

offered to My Father and consumed. Fear not, you have and will

always have Me.”

Varazze 16.11.67

Jesus: “Now, My child, listen to Me: it is My Father’s will that

you be recollected, humbly awaiting Me. I am calling on you to

fulfil a mission. Do not be afraid, you have My Strength. I will lead

you along rough and winding paths, but in the end you will recog-

nise Me because I will be THERE waiting for you. Yes, it is Jesus

of the Tabernacles who speaks, who calls: ‘I am’. You have nothing

to do, for now, but wait for me. I am preparing ‘my ways’ by which

you and many other souls will set out. I want you for ME ALONE,

I will remove you from the world, from your affections. Place

‘everything and everyone’, your family members, in My Fatherly

Hands and I will think of them, but you are to think only and al-

ways of Me. You will have to ‘depart’ from this world, leave it for

Me, detach yourself for Me. A Bride does not belong to the Bride-

groom if she is not crucified with Him. I draw you to the madness

of the Cross. See, I am giving you a ‘gift’ of my riches, of my

passions: passion of Love, of Sorrow; sacrifice, offering, immola-

tion in my Blood. My poor daughter, you still see nothing of all

this! I, Jesus, the Way, the Truth, the Life will announce many

things to you in due time. Remain in humility, in my Love, in my

Grace. With the forgiveness of your sins I have redeemed you, in

the washing of My Blood, I have purified you yesterday, today, al-

ways. You need this baptism of Blood every day and only in My

BLOOD does this happen. Prepare yourself, My child, soon I will

come to you. It pleased My Father so, it still pleases Him to use

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the poorest and most despicable creatures, but redeemed by My

Blood, for His will. You are too ‘nothing’ and this is why you are

afraid. I have told you that I am speaking to you in the Heart of my

Mother, and my Voice is coming to you through that sword which

pierces her Motherly Heart. Listen to me from ‘Her’. Now pray,

pray to my Father that he may be pleased to fulfil your prayers.

When they reach the Throne of My Father they must have the fra-

grance of incense. Ask Me for incense in your prayers and then

unite them to those of the Church, of the Pope; take them to Father

Gabriel for him to offer them to Me. Ask for My Kingdom, My

Will, My Love, My Grace, My Blessing on all humanity. Towards

evening, I will descend into the world among souls and look at

them, seek them... Yes, I will descend with My Grace into the souls

who have served Me, infuse peace and serenity into their hearts:

they are ‘My treasure’ on earth. Father Gabriel will speak to the

souls by My mouth, and My Voice will pass into their hearts. For

this your heart must suffer, it must bleed. Send it to Father Gabriel

so that he may offer it to Me in the Heart of My Mother of Sorrows.

Write this so that he may know My Desires. will tell of My Love

to other souls, I will use them to embrace everyone. Conclude with

this particular Blessing of Mine: I want you all, I want you saved,

I want you in My Kingdom. Yes, My child, I am your beloved

Jesus, yes, yes, it is I: Jesus.”

20.11.’67

Jesus to the soul: “Remain in Me, fixed on Me, as one, one

Soul, and live by Me. Now I say to you: the soul that lets itself be

taken up by Me alone is not of earth but of Heaven because it is

immersed in Me. Then I will leave it alone, I will have it walk alone

so that it may understand that Love, Holiness, Humility, Grace,

come from Me. No, I will not let you fall because My Mother sup-

ports you but you must always experience your miseries for My

sake and for your good. Stay in Me and wait for Me. Soon I will

return to speak to you, prepare your heart. Jesus, your Life.”

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21-11-’67 “With Mary Help of Christians”

Jesus to the soul: “You do not find me, you do not hear me,

you experience your nothingness, your limitations, your inability

to do anything. Follow me in the dark, in the shadows because you

know the ‘way’. I will leave you for a while. Fear not, you are not

alone: there is one who is guiding you. Obey, obey all, and so you

will obey Me. Leave it to My Love and increase your faith, your

hope. I will give you a reward: My Love! You need Me, My Love

in you to love Me with My Love, to love Me in others, in souls; to

love Me in Creation, to seek Me as Creator, to raise to Heaven your

praises, to adore God, your Father, My Father, our Father in a pure

spirit. Suffer in silence, in abandonment; offer in Mary Most Holy,

my Mother, your Mother, our Mother. Write as my command; if

you doubt...know how to suffer with humility, if you fear, know

how to trust in ‘HE who’ guides you and loves you; if you go

astray, seek Her and seek Me: your Jesus. Stay united with Me. Do

you want My Love? Do you want Me to grow in you? Know how

to wait for Me in humble and hidden sorrow, in the abandonment

of yourself to My Mother; know how to thank Me and bless Me

in tribulations, in crosses, for it is I who send them to you.”

Jesus to the soul: (After commending Fr B. (Bocchi) and Fr

G. (Gabriel) to Jesus, according to the wishes of Mary Help of

Christians Jesus says: “I will make two great priests of them. Con-

sole me, my daughter, for how much they and others like them

suffer because of me. There are those who offend Me in them, there

are those who persecute Me in the good, in the righteous. Repent,

offer yourself for Me, for My priests, for they are others of Myself.”

O Jesus, you will help them in their crosses, won’t you? And

you, my Jesus, you will love them very, very much, won’t you?

But I insist: much, much more will you love Father Bocchi and

Father Gabriel.

Jesus: “Receive, receive My Grace, My child, do not limit

yourself in Love. Ask for much Love, and, as you said, ‘much, much

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more’, not only for the two of them, but, likewise, for others.

A Father does not love one son less than the other. The time will

come when you will ask Me for ‘priestly souls’ detached from Me.11

24-11-’67 5:20 pm

Jesus to the soul: “It is Friday. My Passion is reflected in you.

My Heart groans in you, I still suffer in you. Different sufferings,

unequal sufferings, which I unify and transform into Me. Work of

Love, work of Grace. Marvellous work that the human mind can

barely grasp, but the soul that already lives by Me, knows, knows

this mystery of faith, of purification, of the ‘entity’ of pain. ‘Crucified

Bride’ in Me. This is My ‘Way’ for you, this is ‘our goal’, this is ‘our

Union’. See only Me in sorrows, work only for Me, think only of

Me, love everyone in Me, annihilate yourself for Me so that you al-

ways encounter Me. I am more for you, as you see, than for my

Brides (the Sisters), for small souls like yours have more need of

Me. With you I am going through the world, I am working in you to

bring other souls closer to Me, I am preparing a particular way which

I will speak about, I will approach and... I will love souls so that they

feel that I love them. For ‘this work’ you must entrust yourself to

my Mother, in particular, to Our Lady of Sorrows. I want you to ‘be

the humble slave of Mary Most Holy’. To Her I entrust you, and you,

with the tenderness of a daughter, are to abandon yourself to Her.

Yes, my daughter, may everything be for my Kingdom of Love. And

always repeat with Me: FIAT. IT IS ME, JESUS.”

11 “You will ask Me for ‘priestly souls’ detached from Me.” Reference to the

priests who abandoned the priesthood in large numbers in the years immediately

following the Council, and to Vera’s offering as a victim soul for their return. This

happened about a year later, during Vera’s stay at the Desert of Varazze at the

Hermitage of the Discalced Carmelites. At the foot of the miraculous Crucifix kept

in the Hermitage, Jesus dictated to her: “Now go to my feet. You must bring me my

souls. It is the priests who have abandoned me. They lack the knowledge of divine

love, that is, of Me. Purity of spirit gives My knowledge, but they do not see, My

child, the deception and error for this very reason. My separated priests have reopened

all My Wounds, and I, Jesus, seek and desire small, humble and generous souls who

offer themselves in Me for the return to My priestly Love of these souls of mine whom

I have always loved and ardently awaited.” (From the Message of 5.10.1968).

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BOOKLET 2

“Adveniat Regnum tuum”

FIAT VOLUNTAS TUA

For my Jesus “everything”, for me nothing

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29-11-1967 I am writing “Through Mary, with Mary, in Mary, from

Mary... O my Mother and Queen, I am all yours and everything

I have is yours!” Your most unworthy slave of love, Vera.

29-11-1967

Jesus to the soul: “My conversation with you is a preparation

of your soul to receive and hear Me. You are now in Me. The act of

faith and abandonment in Me conquers Me. Tell the good Father Ga-

briel that the ‘League of My Souls’ is ready. It is a question of gather-

ing it together. It will take place at the feet of the Holy Father in

Rome. You will not be there, but I, Jesus, will be with them, with

my souls as one, one soul. You are an arm [hand] that writes, a poor

instrument that serves to give me glory. Detach yourself from your-

self and give me all of yourself. It does not matter, for now, that you

understand all my words. What matters is that you obey me, my

Voice. I make you feel barren and dry so that you do not become in-

solent, but, at the same time, I give you my Mother. There is no con-

solation for you but my Grace. I will come to you in many guises,

but the Blessed Virgin will help you to recognise me. Everything

will serve for my Glory, for my souls. Father Gabriel is not afraid: I,

his Jesus, will inspire him, I will guide him. If you did not suffer in

writing these words, you would have no merit. I am Jesus! I would

like to find you willing to receive me more often. Remain recollected

in Me, and make every effort not to disperse the inner spirit that I,

Jesus, give you. Soon I will give you a comfort, a fleeting comfort

so that your faith may grow, so that your poor soul may open itself

to my Love, to my Grace, and be disposed to receive Me. You must

suffer, you must suffer much so that my thoughts may be communi-

cated to others, so that Father Gabriel may know them. I see you as

such a little thing, but for all that you lack, I, Jesus, make up for it.

Dispose yourself to recollection, cultivate your inner spirit, I will

help you. May my Blessing be the pledge of my love for you. Yes,

I will give you a consolation, as fleeting as it may be, with my

Eucharistic Presence. Yes, give me, give me glory! It is I, it is Jesus.”

Gloria tibi Domine.

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30-11-1967 St Andrew, pray for us!

Jesus to the soul: ‘I am in you in sorrow, I am in your anguish,

I am in your barrenness, in your doubt. I am, I am and I know... I

know your meagreness, your nothingness, I know your bewilder-

ment. I know that you love me, but I know that you are so afraid. I,

your Jesus, am not enough to defend you! O Vera, my daughter, if

you knew my cry of love and pain that I address from the Cross to

all souls, how unafraid you would be to fight for Me! I need your

meanness, your nothingness, your limitations in a humble and de-

voted heart. It is the work of My Love to draw all things from no-

thing, and to create, to form beautiful works that give glory to God.

I am the divine Restorer who never ceases to renew souls to make

them His own to unite with Him, to offer to the heavenly Father for

the souls themselves. Draw near to my Source and drink the purify-

ing water, you are renewed for in it. I, Jesus, want humble souls

who, having passed through the world, are converted to Me by my

Grace. Be they people of humble or high social class, it matters not,

I look within, to the heart. These souls, because they have been tried

by life or by their own errors which are forgiven and forgotten by

Me, will know through My love how to approach other souls who

have turned away and are distant from Me; they will know how to

understand, love, help, pity. I want souls who reproduce My attitude

before the adulteress. None of the souls far from Me spontaneously

welcome Me because they do not seek Me, because they have ex-

cluded Me from their lives. I am a Father and I love, I love all My

creatures; I want to return to this earth in search of the souls who

do not seek, who do not think of My fold. I want to seek them

through ‘my souls’, small, hidden, insignificant to the world. They

must have ME. I now point out my way. Through Mary, my Mother

and theirs, let them abandon themselves to her motherly arms and

learn with docility the ‘slavery of Love’ of this most sweet Mother.

Let them allow themselves to be worked on by Her, let them be

formed by this admirable Mistress of souls. She will prepare her

children for Me, that they may be penetrated more and more by My

Grace, by My Love so that, as my Apostle Paul said, it is no longer

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they who live, but I, Christ, in them. Behold, I return to the world,

I return among souls, to speak to them, to approach them, to treat

them directly, until the ‘veil falls’ and they recognise Me in every

brother and sister. All this is accomplished by charity, by heroism,

by martyrdom. Follow me, dear souls redeemed by my martyrdom;

remember the Blood I have given you, the martyrdom that came

down on you as a second baptism: my Blood! Do not close your

hearts to selfishness, do not think only of your own souls, but look

to the souls of your brothers and sisters. Let me return to the world,

among you, in you. I give you my help, my Love in the highest

degree so that your hearts may burn with charity. I give you, soul

by soul, my most tender, special, unique Mother. O souls who listen

to me, open wide your souls to my Grace, to my return to the world,

to hide myself in you, to blend into Humanity. Come, my soul, your

Bridegroom awaits you!”

The soul: Glory to God in the highest, and peace to people of

good will.

30-11-1967 9:30 pm

Jesus to the soul: “All souls are called to this Work of Love

but, in particular, those who have received the gift of faith to a

greater degree. They are those who would have perished without

My direct intervention, and I have brought them back from ruin by

My Mercy. They are more grateful to Me now, more faithful than

many souls who have followed Me and, above all, they are more

in love with My Love. Called to this Work are all souls who yearn

to die to themselves to be transformed in Me: Jesus in you, and I,

through you, to other souls. The Gospel will indicate to each soul

its attitude when faced with a sinful brother or sister. The soul that

assumes Me must annihilate itself, conscious of its limitations, its

miseries. It must strip itself of itself, of everything that is an ob-

stacle to My dwelling in it. It must not lose contact with the world

and society, but while living in it, it must deal with people, speak,

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love, animated by an inner spirit that reflects my Spirit. Do not

look for the unbelieving, the presumptuous, heavy-handed and ob-

stinate. Sometimes it will be enough for them to feel loved by ‘one’

of these souls for My Grace to have its effects. How will the soul

called to this Work have loved? To the extent that it will have made

room for my Love in itself, it will have allowed me to take up resi-

dence in its heart, in its soul. This which I have indicated is a mys-

terious Way, a subtle thread that will unite Me to the soul called to

the ‘League’. Yes, ‘League of Charity’ and ‘Way of Love’. The

Salesian Fathers will spread this ‘Way of Love’ among souls to

prepare them for My League. They are the first ones called to re-

vive Me, and through my Priesthood and through the spirit of the

Founder which pervades their apostolate. You will always be a poor

creature saved by My Love, by My Mercy. Fear not, you have my

Grace. Jesus, the Way, Truth and Life.”

2-12-1967 First Saturday. “O Mary conceived without sin pray for

us who come to you!”

Jesus to the soul: “If you dispose yourself to recollection I

will come. Believe, My child, believe, believe in Me. Now write,

write for Me, write for souls. If a soul hears ‘My Voice’ it is already

My delight to speak to it, it is already consolation for My Heart.

Who listens to Me, who follows Me? If I seek consolation among

people it is because while I seek, I give. My Love is without

measure, without equal. Would that the soul, free from the lure of

the world, would let itself be penetrated by the splendour of my

Grace! How bright and happy and holy it would be down here too.

Do not go away, resist temptation and listen to Me. No, My Voice

is not a consolation for you. I told you it was a ‘cross’ and evermore

it will be a cross: my Cross. This is a new Cross for you, different

but so salutary to your soul because it will give me glory. Yes, you

saw me, you saw me with the eyes of your soul... Now you know

it was me because I myself come, I return to dispel doubts. You

recognised me in yesterday’s ‘Way of the Cross’... Look at my

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Tunic, look at my robe, it must become familiar and dear to you,

precious, beloved, desired, because I will clothe you in my own

robe. I will give you an enormous but holy burden: my Tunic

soaked in Blood. Fear not, my daughter, for I, Jesus, will not aban-

don you and will give you the strength that you lack, I will sustain

you with my consolations, I will purify you with dryness. But ac-

cept everything, everything from Me, for you must see Me and rec-

ognise Me in the days of your life, as if I were sensitively present

to you. Now go, and then meditate on My Words, hold them to

your heart because they are Mine, of Me, of your Jesus. I will place

Grace in these words, also for you, so that they may become the

food of your soul. Hold me close to your heart because I seek, I

desire so much love: love of souls, love of human beings. Rest in

me, blessed daughter of my Cross, and find in me what you seek:

my love, my peace. I am Jesus, and Jesus is for everyone, but very

much for you, the Way, Truth and the Life.”

Savona 20-12-1967

Jesus to the soul: “The one who fears does not listen, the one

who believes adheres to Me. I have not given you roses and con-

solations, I have given you thorns, uncertainties, darkness. I have

not left you nor forsaken you, but your miseries overwhelm you. I

extend My Hand to you to lift you up, to draw you to Me. Let My

Light return to you! Like the dawn, like the day, My Light is ad-

vancing, but...it will soon return in the evening. Wait for Me at

every hour of the day and night, for always I am: Jesus!”

Savona 21-12-1967

Jesus to the soul (while I was writing to Fr Gabriel): “Yours is

not to warn, call to awareness, but to obey. You must take me to

souls. If you have forgotten the task I have entrusted to you, know

that I will provide you with Grace. You shall write down the practice

of ‘my way of Love’, and the enlightenment I will give you comes

and will come only from Me. I have sown the ‘seeds’ in you, and

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now they must sink into the soil of your soul, rot and take root. Little

by little, you will understand. Why have I chosen you? Because you

represent fragile humanity, poor in virtue, in tribulation and suffer-

ing; wretched humanity that yearns for God but could never rise

without me, without my Mother. I will bring forth My Glory. The

distrustful will be able to draw near to Me. All souls, and every soul

that receives Me under the Eucharistic Species can become ‘Living

Tabernacles’. Behold, I am in the soul that receives me in humility,

in charity with its brothers and sisters. Now, this soul makes other

souls partake of my gift: of Me, of my Grace. I am in the soul, also

to give myself to other souls. Let this soul take me beyond the walls

of the church, and give Me to every brother and sister with whom

it deals. Yes, let it smile for Me, with Me, speak with charity and

prudence for Me, and do everything with Me. Let the day of this

soul, in whom I wish to dwell as a ‘Living Tabernacle’, be imbued

with Me more and more every hour. In the evening I will console

this soul who has made so much room for Me in it and has let Me

work through it among other souls so that I may reach them, pursue

them and speak to them. They must see me, they must know me,

and you, you souls blessed through me by my holy Father, are the

‘branches’, you are the ‘seeds’, you are the ‘bearers of Jesus’. One

prepares oneself for this school every day, hour by hour, but the soul

that wishes to receive me not only for itself but also to give me to

other souls must become ‘little’ and similar to a child that trustingly

abandons itself into its Father’s arms. How much humility there

must be in this soul! Charity, love, humility, obedience to my de-

sires. These virtues are fundamental pillars in the ‘Bearer of Jesus

in the Eucharist’. I will make up for the rest, for all that the souls

lacks. Yes, Florence, Turin, Rome... here a furrow is traced where

the ‘seeds’ of my Word will fall.

Varazze 22-12-1967

Jesus to the soul: “Now my gaze is upon you. I watch in sor-

row... Few souls follow me, few await me. Let me cry out my sor-

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row to you, let me, looking at you, weep for the lost souls, the

hearts that do not love me, the minds shrouded in darkness: ma-

chines that manufacture ideas, thoughts that fight and exclude me.

Who seeks me? Who waits for me? I gave my life for ‘those whom

I called’, for my chosen ones. They have fled, they continue to

flee.1 O souls who listen to me, who follow me, unite yourselves

in my Name, unite yourselves in me, Jesus; make room for me in

your heart, in your soul, so that I may always dwell in you. Re-

member Me, my Eucharistic Presence in your soul. Be My Living

Tabernacles and make Me go out to the souls of your brothers and

sisters. Keep Me present in you in all My divine and human real-

ity; then speak to Me, make Me partake of you, of your things;

converse with Me, yes, with Me, with Jesus. What friend, what

confidant, what love more desirable than mine? I promise you my

Word in your soul, I promise you ‘conversation’ with Me; I come

down to dialogue with the soul that makes room for Me. This soul

will always have Me, and every day I will renew My Eucharistic

Presence in it, I will increase it through Holy Communion. If the

soul partakes of Me, of all Me, I too yearn to partake of it so that

there may not be two separate beings, Creator and creature, or

united for a few moments, but one Being, one Soul. Who will make

such a place for me? Oh, my League! I see it. It rises from pain

and love, it rises from the hearts that suffer and love, it rises from

the souls that are waiting for me. Gather them from every end of

the world, and my Father will keep them under his wings, for his

only Son, Jesus, will dwell in them, among people, on Earth. Be-

hold, the grains of wheat fall in my Church among my souls. The

grains are my Word; I am the Good Sower, the souls the soil. I will

send down my Word into every soul that will make room for me,

and it will be renewed and gain more and more strength to the ex-

tent that the soul makes itself mine, lets itself be purified, pen-

etrated by Divine Love. I am Jesus, Jesus, Love of the Holy Spirit,

1 Clear reference to the great number of priests who abandoned the priestly

ministry.

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Jesus who blesses, Jesus who suffers and loves, Jesus among

human beings, Jesus with human beings, Jesus here with you. Jesus

who calls you, who pursues you, who seeks you, who abandons

you to your miseries; Jesus who returns, Jesus who waits for you,

Jesus who penetrates and wounds you, Jesus who has chosen you

solely because He loves you. If you fulfil little of my desires, others

will succeed better, better than you. You serve the Glory of my

Father. You must give Me obedience, your efforts, your will, and

accept this sword that is My Voice for you, My Word in you. Now

rest and hide yourself in Me. Your Jesus blesses you in His Glory!”

Savona 26-12-1967

Jesus to the soul: “Tomorrow will be a day of celebration on

earth and in heaven. My Work will have its cornerstone. Here is

‘my Temple’, here is my Living Tabernacle in you. We shall thus

go together towards all souls. I shall not remain ‘closed’ nor for-

gotten, because you will carry me in the fullness of my Grace. The

soul that encloses the Living Tabernacle within itself must behave

thus towards another Living Tabernacle: let one greet the other,

adoring Me, Jesus, ‘together’ and giving thanks for so much ‘gift’.

Let each soul remain in the deepest humility, renounce itself to

make way for Me. I will be in each soul to the extent of the place

she leaves for Me. My Grace will accomplish great things. I, Living

and Present in the soul, enter into families, into your home, I re-

main with you. This morning I told you to take Me into the bosom

of your family; your kiss was My kiss for each of them. Then there

will be ‘words’, and they will be your words. I will use your way

of speaking, of expressing yourself, to speak, to reach other souls.

Give me your faculties, that I may meet with everyone and every-

where. In the beginning it will be a work of attention, of vigilance

for the soul to discard everything that poses an obstacle to my

Dwelling in her. My graces in the souls called to this Work will be

gradual. Today you will bring My kiss into the family; another

time, something more, until almost unbeknown to the soul itself, I

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will do, act, speak through it, love as many as will approach this

soul, that is to say, Me. There are those who act, speak, look, work,

feeling guided only by my Spirit, but I am already the Living Tab-

ernacle in this soul and it does not know it. The soul must know

this, however, because I want her adherence to my EUCHARISTIC

ABIDING in it; I want this soul to also give me her voice to speak

to others, her eyes so that mine may meet the gaze of her brothers

and sisters, her arms so that I may embrace others, her hands to ca-

ress the little ones, the children, the suffering. However, this Work

has love and humility as its basis. The soul must always have be-

fore it its own miseries, its own nothingness, and never forget of

what dough it has been kneaded. What I give to the soul is a gift,

a gift of Love from my Heavenly Father, through me to souls. It is

still my Father who sends me to you, among you, to mingle among

you, as once in Bethlehem, to call you to the things of Heaven.

Give everything, everything of yourself, and whatever may oppose

you is never my doing. Now discern the assaults of the enemy. Be

careful. I, Jesus, will give you my strength. Yes, my Words are

seeds and must soon fall into ‘my furrow’. The sowers are my

Priests. You will deliver my Words to Father Gabriel. He knows

what to do. It is necessary to immediately initiate the souls called

by Me into this school. I am giving you a Teacher: my Mother. Let

each soul pass itself through her Soul, and deposit prayers, offer-

ings, consecrations, graces in her Heart as the Mother of God and

of human beings. I will receive everything from my Mother. Let

each soul consecrate itself to Her in the complete giving of itself

to Me through her. Then speak to me through the Heart of my

Mother. Deposit the souls you are meeting, whose salvation you

desire most ardently in the Heart of the Immaculate. I will read

these names in my Mother’s Heart: vow of obedience, deepest hu-

mility, stripping of one’s ego, purity of spirit, purity of intentions,

simplicity and abandonment. All this germinates in Love, from

Love, with Love, for Love. Father Gabriel will receive my Words,

he will work for my Work. I will enlighten him, and he will write,

speak, fight for Me, for My League. His Jesus grants his supplica-

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tions and I am with him because he does My will. In him you must

obey Me, for it is I who speak to you in him. I will ask what I desire

of you through Father Gabriel. Obey, obey: it is the easiest way by

which you will find peace, it is the way by which I will bring you

closer to my Cross. Come, my soul, come, and we will ascend the

Mount of Calvary together: I and you, you and I, so that nothing

may divide us on this earth, but that everything, through love, may

unite us and make of us one Cross, one suffering Crucified One,

so that one may no longer distinguish the human and miserable

creature from his Love, from his God: Jesus. My beloved Bride,

I lead you to this marriage. Do you accept it? Tomorrow, Tomor-

row... O my daughter, tomorrow, tomorrow... you and I, you and

I and the Priest. Tomorrow I will place my stone in the first Priest

of my Work. Rejoice, daughter of Zion, your King comes to you,

your Bridegroom advances. Do not leave me without your love,

without your breath, without you.”

Tomorrow: 27 December 1967. For goodness sake stop writing

and go. I give you Me and take me there...

28-12-1967

Jesus to the soul: “O my daughter, soon, soon I shall be with

you. Behold you already share in My joy, you are already united

with Me in a singular way. O my soul, nothing shall ever separate

us: I and you, you and I, one, one Love. Now our eyes meet, and

you receive the immense wave of My Love from the Tabernacle. I

await my Bride at the foot of my Altar, I will come to her in mys-

tical union. You do not know what will happen. My poor, little, li-

mited, imperfect soul... My Mother will be near you, and I will

receive you from Her, I will come to you through Her, I will dwell

in you with Her. Give thanks to My Father, and in this unite your-

self to all creation, to My Saints, to the Angels, to the nine Choirs,

to the Church in Purgatory, to the Church Militant; unite yourself

to My Priests, to Pope Paul VI. Then come to Me by the “way of

love and pain”, then we will go together through the world. For

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Father Gabriel: he is already working for Me, for my Work, re-

nouncing his will, the apostolate he desires. He is in Florence by

My will.2 He is in the period of trial, so he will sow the seeds of

my Word among his Confreres, among those who make him suffer.

He must renew the Salesian Work in Florence through me. He must

give his Confreres Me: copy my attitude, draw example from the

Gospel, that is from Me; love, suffer, pray for his Confreres. He

has this mission in Florence. He must germinate my Word there

where he lives, and with those with whom he shares the day, with

those with whom he sits at table to eat, with those who touch my

Eucharistic Species. May he humbly endure for love of Me and

may My Passion always be before him as a teaching, a school, a

lesson. Only through this purification will his Confreres come to

Me and into the union for which they have been called. So with

the permission of his Superiors, he will spread my Work of Love

so that my League of Priestly Souls may arise in Florence among

priests. I will assist him, I will console him, In due time I will send

him a helper, a collaborator. He must first pass by the ‘way’ that I

have indicated to him. Do not doubt his Jesus, He is and always

will be in him. He will travel this way, assisted by my Mother.

Therefore turn to Her and place yourself in Her hands; abandon

yourself to Her like a humble, obedient, loving, pure and innocent

child. I also want the ‘slavery of love’ of Mary Most Holy from

Father Gabriel, for in this way she will be, besides being a most

tender Mother, a Mistress, guide, comfort, rest for him. He will re-

ceive my inspirations from my Mother. All are called to my Work

of Love, for they will belong to my League of Souls: no one ex-

cluded. They must come to this after a careful preparation that leads

the soul to Me, I will draw it to My Love with My Grace. There

are priestly souls ready for my Work. They must be prepared, and

I will do the rest. All and always in the love of the Virgin Mary,

who I give each soul as ‘Teacher’ as well as Mother under three

2 Fr Gabriello Zucconi was transferred from the Salesian Institute in Alassio

to the one in Florence.

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guises: Immaculate Conception, Mary Help of Christians, Our

Lady of Sorrows. That is, purity, chastity for the bearers of Jesus

in the Eucharist; purity for all; help and support in struggles, in dif-

ficulties; pain and suffering for all. My Work will have its victims

in Me, and for many Souls there will be a sword that will pierce

their hearts. Go to her, my beloved souls, for I, your Eucharistic

Jesus Christ, promise you unspeakable love and for many, my word

for comfort and support in trials, in tribulations. Father Gabriel will

convey my messages to priestly souls, but act with prudence. My

Work of Love is almost all revealed. I, Jesus, will announce the

other furrows. Ask for prayers, pray, offer yourself in Me to My

Father for My Work. I want victim souls for My Return in the daily

lives of people. I must go, I must walk the ways of the world. Yes,

the world: for I came to earth for all souls, and I gave my life for

all of them. Yes, there will be many struggles before arriving to the

Pope in Rome. The enemy will hinder us, and ‘my souls’ will

suffer. Father Gabriel, entrust my Work, my souls, to the Blessed

Virgin in her triple semblance. She will open the ways for you. The

Pope awaits you, the Pope will approve, the Pope will be with you:

for I am in him and he is in Me. Jesus blesses you from all his Tab-

ernacles! Yes, to Father Gabriel my Words, my priestly Love, my

abode in him. You abide in Me, and let no breath be lost without it

being for Me.

Savona 1-1-1968

Jesus to the soul: “Nothing escapes the Heart of your Jesus,

and I come to tell you that love is suffering, cross, aridity, holiness.

Crucified in Me is My Bride, and the one who carries Me carries

My Cross. Now let each one reflect on these thoughts to themself,

meditate on them and recognise how much my Bride already shares

with Me, how much she must share to attain union with Me. To

Vera I make an exhortation: persevere in humility and obedience,

do not be discouraged, no, no... To Lucia an admonition: be cau-

tious and prudent. To Father Gabriel: let ‘my Gift’ bear copious

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fruits of priestly souls. My Mother will hold him as a most tender

child in her holy arms. To all my Brides, my kiss of love and for-

giveness. To you, my daughter, to you who suffer and groan under

the crushing weight of your frailty, to you my Strength each day

more and more; to you ‘my Gift’ so that you may always remember

that he who loves you is with you and never abandons you.

Varazze 4-1-1968

Jesus to the soul: ‘Now I am with you, Living Tabernacle of

My Love. I want to instruct you, prepare you for a mission... Your

soul must therefore live by Me immersed in Me. I will loosen it

from earthly bonds, I will purify it. I await you at the Baptismal

Font for another purification, that of the blood. Every gift brings

with it a suffering, an offering, a renunciation. Every soul that ‘puts

on’ Me must disappear in Me, must give Me everything, must fol-

low Me in My ways, made of paths or shortcuts, but always ‘My

ways’. Let the soul surrender itself to Me, and I will be trust, com-

fort, guidance, support for it. Why do you still not do this? Yes,

you are being tested, a trial of love. Proof is your barrenness, proof

is your incapacity, your confusion, proof is your rebellion, proof

is your frailty. Persevere in my Love, love me in the silence of your

soul. Are you afraid of my words, Vera? Write them down, they

are of your Jesus, of your Jesus whom you no longer feel to be

either near or far, yet so much in you... No, my daughter, I want to

remain with you, do not fear.”

Savona 6-1-1968

Jesus in the Eucharist: “You wrote correctly: I am Jesus in the

Eucharist, alive, present in the holy Tabernacle; alive and present

with you, above you, and in you with my Grace. No, I do not leave

you, I do not abandon you, I am there, I have not fled because of

your miseries because these too will serve for my glory. Lean on

Me, on your Jesus: do not fear, I want to give you trust, strength,

light. You will come, you will come to Me by the way that I have

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chosen for you. Let Me guide you, for I am the Way, your Way. The

time is not far away when we shall walk together in the ways of

love. Now it is suffering and tribulation, discouragement, sorrow.

What then will your Jesus not give you?! Yes, acts of love, many,

many of them. This morning I explained it to you. In your neigh-

bour, in your nearest neighbour you meet Me. Therefore patience,

love, courtesy, understanding towards everyone. All will be resolved

through acts of love directed towards Me, through your neighbour.

For now, occupy yourself with what I have said and explained to

you, for at times I teach you how to put on My ‘Robe’. I will wait

for you, I will wait for your weaknesses. I have given you a sorrow

that will serve you not to forget my Eucharistic Presence in you. It

will increase more and more because I do not want to be forgotten.

It will be pain and comfort, it will be increasing pain that will invest

your whole body so that you will not move any member of your

body without Me. The soul will receive great good from this suf-

fering and will prepare itself to come to Me. There is no ascent of

soul and spirit without suffering in loving union with Me. Yes, as

with the blind man of Jericho I will give you the sight of heavenly

things. Fear not, fear not, for I, your Jesus, will not leave you alone

a moment. Return...I am waiting for you...your Jesus is waiting for

you because He wants to ‘dictate’.”

Savona 7-1-1968

Jesus in the Eucharist. “In small things as in great things, I

always work with My Grace. I gather you, I bring you together, I

divide you, but I always keep you united in Me under the shadow

of My wings. It is My Work that advances, I who descend among

people, I who go among people, I who stay in your families, I who

call you. Jesus loves Father Gabriel very much. He gives me glory,

and in him I am consoled, loved, and... not forgotten. Father Ga-

briel must not be discouraged, he has My Grace, he has Me. If the

struggle crushes him, let him lean on Me, love in Me, suffer with

Me. He will feel My embrace as Father, Brother, Spouse. I am

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Jesus who came down from heaven to be among people, to share

your life with you, to live from you so that you might live from

Me. Like the first Christians, you are the first bearers of Jesus, the

first Living Tabernacles. Yes, a new era of Me, of Christianity, of

Christ has begun in you. For you too, then, the struggles, the tribu-

lations, but also for you the victory, for I, Jesus in the Eucharist,

will conquer, will triumph. Yes, the threads woven with my Grace

in your souls are beginning the stupendous work of sensitive and

visible unification. The threads of my Grace have now met in the

plan of divine Providence, and my secret of Love is being revealed

to many, to those called by my Father. Yes, Father Gabriel will re-

ceive many graces from Me. Tell him that his trust in Me must be

without limit, for Mine is a Work of Faith and Love. I, the Euchar-

istic Jesus bless him, keep him, immerse him in my precious Blood

so that his soul may remain in Me, here, in my side. His Jesus, suf-

fering Jesus, eternal Priest Jesus, brother Jesus, bridegroom Jesus,

dictated this to his poor Vera so that my love for Father Gabriel,

my predilection, might also be revealed to him through the obedi-

ence and frailty of the poorest of his creatures. If this one was su-

premely unworthy, she is now purified by my Blood, my Passion,

my Grace. She is a bride in Jesus in suffering, for Sister Suffering

will be my constant Love for her. Let each of you draw a reason

for love for Me, for everything is always the Work of my Mercy. I

chose Vera because she was the ‘World’ with sorrows, sins, suffer-

ing, distrust... My Mother saved her, in my precious Blood her soul

was washed. Now this one presents to God’s eyes the scars of the

past. Yes, she is in suffering and of this I will never deprive her,

for she is married to my Passion. She knows that suffering has been

and will be the first Gift of Me. I will say more only to her, that in

Me alone she may find comfort. Not others, but only I for her, that

she may have only Me. Jesus, the Triune God embraces you and

blesses you. Mary Most Holy, my sweet Mother, loves you, blesses

you, awaits you. Jesus.”

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BOOKLET 3

“League of souls” directed by Jesus,

through Mary, in Mary, with Mary.

O Mary conceived without sin,

pray for us who have recourse to You.

“WORK OF LOVE”

DIRECTED BY JESUS

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Varazze 8-1-1968

Jesus in the Eucharist for Fr Gabriel. “His Confreres will

love him in Me. I want them to be good, holy priests; he shall be

Me among them, that is, he shall behave like Me among My

apostles and disciples and teach with kindness and gentleness: he

shall love and understand and show compassion. I am in him to

live among them, to share every hour with them. I want to take on

his likeness to speak to my other priests, for I desire all their hearts,

all their love. He, Father Gabriel, is my victim, the victim in Me

of my Priests. I am in him for them also, for I love them with the

same love. He is in Me there on the Altar, in my Sacrifice offered

by him to God the Father. Nothing divides us because I have hidden

myself in him with my Divinity and Humanity. Now he must pour

it out upon others, for through this branch I wish to renew the fruits

of My Priesthood. They are Priests dear to Me, beloved by Me,

they are other Mes. Father Gabriel must strip himself of self, that

is, of personal, human feelings which I, Jesus, do not possess. He

must therefore free himself from these last human chains so that I

may live and work in him with my Grace. This is my victim in the

spotless Victim, in the Lamb of God. Great will be my consolations

for him who out of love wants to be all of Me and disappear with

regard to himself. Tell Father Gabriel that I await him in the night,

in the streets in search of souls, for I am the Good Shepherd who

goes in search of the lost sheep. Even if it is only one soul, I cannot

rejoice if I do not have it in My fold. Courage, I will sustain your

strength, I will nourish your faith. Each one of you, Living Taber-

nacles, has already begun my work, for despite the little you know

about how to put my new teachings into practice, I now live close

to so many other souls, and through you I place my merciful eyes

upon so much humanity. We shall call more souls to make more

Living Tabernacles and Vera will meet the other Priest prepared by

Me for this Work. She will receive great joy and fruit, for she will

believe that He who dictates to her was, is, and always will be her

Jesus. Pray for this ‘encounter’ desired by my Father, that He may

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be pleased to hasten it. Work in love and holiness, pray, suffer with

humility, I have come in you to ‘repeat’ my life. I ask everything

of you out of love because only love made me Man, made me

Crucified, made me Eucharistic. Only out of love do I accept a sac-

rifice, a renunciation, a tear, an offering. The love of the Creator

and his creature live by my light, they share in the glory of my

Father. It is the Holy Spirit who fuses the Divine and the human,

and to God, through me, Jesus, rises honour and glory from every

soul here below. Where are you, my child, when you go astray?

You are in the arms of the Father, the Bridegroom, Friend, Brother.

Why are you still afraid of me? Trust me, trust me. I wished to

write to Father Gabriel, and your obedience, sustained by my

Grace, became a meritorious work very pleasing to me, to my most

sweet Mother. I will bring you together under My Roof, I will have

you meet together, bearers of Me, of Jesus, and I will reveal Myself

to you and each one will speak by My mouth to the other so that

you may recognise that in you, with you and for you there is all of

Jesus. Courage! My sweetest Mother helps you, blesses you, is

with you. It is She who leads my Work of Love, it is She who forms

the League of my Souls: the Living Tabernacles. Know how to wait

in prayer and in humility for what Divine Providence, in its mer-

ciful plans, is preparing and unveiling. Yes, the Pope knows, the

Pope suffers, the Pope is waiting, and together with him you are

waiting for my return among you to the world, as I have told you.

Yes, it is madness for your poor humanity, a trial that crushes you...

No, you will not go mad from that, but from my Love yes, from

my Love, from the Love of your God, of your Jesus. The night vigil

is Love and I permit it and often will permit it because I do not

want to be forgotten. If daily occupations have distracted you from

Me, know that I will seek consolations and vigils in the night. Let

each one give what they can, but with love, for I will take your

every breath. Be humble, be submissive to Me. I am Jesus, Jesus

with you.”

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Varazze 9-1-1968

Jesus in the Eucharist: “Write, write and obey Me, and offer

obedience to My Mother. I want the Living Tabernacles to increase,

to spread throughout the world, throughout humanity. I want to go

far, through the streets of the world, from one point to another of

the earth, of the seas. Pray that My Mercy may multiply, that My

Love may spread in souls. Go, seek souls prepared by Me for My

Work of Love. Speak this evening of Me, of my Work of Love to

the other soul who is near you, ask for prayers for this purpose: I

will unite her in spirit with you, my Tabernacles, so that you may

all serve my cause. Tell Father Gabriel that I approve of his apos-

tolate in the bosom of his family and that I will draw great fruits

with my Grace from his relatives. The Work must be taken to Turin,

to the Salesian priests under the protection of my Mother ‘Help of

Christians’ so that she will not fail to give you the celestial aids that

must assist you so that I, the Eucharistic Jesus, may mingle with all

kinds of souls in your midst. Pray, pray that the souls prepared by

Me may receive Me. I want my Work to spread among Salesian

priests in Turin, and they will know how to prepare other souls who

live in the world, but not of the world, to receive Me. These will

take me into the streets, into homes, into families, so that I may live

close to other souls who are far from Me, so that they may con-

stantly feel my Eucharistic Presence: the rebellious will fall, wrong

ideas will yield to the ‘Truth’, obstinacy to evil, lies and falsehood

will fall. All this will happen because unbeknown to them, I will

stay close to them, and my Grace will knock with loving insistence

at the door of their soul until it opens to my love, to faith. Other

souls will have to leave Turin to take me elsewhere and everywhere.

Everywhere: that is, to towns, to other provinces and cities. From

Florence, to Liguria and then to Rome. Yes, the Pope is waiting for

you, the Pope knows. Let priestly souls be prepared for this Work

which I want to spread throughout the world. Go to Turin.1 Present

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‘my Work’ to the Salesian Work. I want it to begin there soon, begin

immediately. Send these messages to Father Gabriel, Father Borra,

I will inspire them for what they must do. You will leave everything

for Me, for my Work, and this wound will accompany you as long

as you live. I will then give you the wound of my ardent love. When

the time comes, know how to give Me your Fiat, in the Fiat of My

Mother and to My Eternal Father. Pray, pray that you may recognise

and meet the Priest I will send you to work, for a while, together.

Ask for prayers, offer sacrifices, mortifications, and what, in your

miseries, you know how to give. The furrows must widen, so that

‘my Life’ may flow there and always find paths prepared, ready to

welcome me. These messages that you, my daughter of the Cross,

will transmit to Florence and Lombriasco are sufficient for now.2

The two Priests I have just recalled will be inspired to go where I

will send them in My holy Name, for My Glory among you, My

well-spoken souls. Now go, and ask for prayers. Mary, my sweet

Mother, does not leave you, will never leave you. Mary, my

Mamma, forgives you. She will help you, she will draw you from

the depths where you still are, but through suffering, and you know

that suffering is Jesus, that Jesus, your Jesus, is all in suffering, in

the Cross, in the Cross of Love, in the union of the Cross. I live by

you, and I yearn for you to soon live by Me. Yes, of course, not only

my greeting for Father Gabriel, for Father Borra, but to them my

Heart of the eternal Priest wounded, bleeding with Love for them,

for all my Priests. Behold, I now hide them in Me and envelop them

in the Light of My ardent Love. Jesus loves you, Jesus is happy to

be with you, Jesus is consoled because He is with you.”

Mother House of the Salesian Congregation. In 1972 the Generalate moved to Rome

to via della Pisana, 1111.

2 Florence and Lombriasco were where Fr Zucconi and Fr Borra were sta-

tioned, the latter as the rector there. By the will of the Lord and in obedience to her

spiritual father, Vera copied out the Messages and sent them to Frs Zucconi, Borra

and Bocchi, the first Salesians called to the Work.

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Varazze 10-1-1968

Jesus in the Eucharist. “I want you to read, to be instructed

in my doctrine, in my Mercy, in my Works. I will give you the

books that you must read and consult. This sacrifice is necessary

for you, and you will understand why later. Your work must be di-

rected more and more to Me, for you, in your smallness, serve the

glory of My Father. You must concern yourself for now with obey-

ing Me, My Voice. What worries you will be resolved by My

Mercy. I want you to make an ever increasing act of faith because

your life must be founded on Faith. It is by the extra Faith that I

have given you that you have been called to work in My Work of

Love. Hold fast to Me because I will not abandon you and I keep

My promises. Always be humble and this virtue will be given to

you by my Mother: ask her always, frequently. Do not look at the

world, for you should only be interested in it as ‘souls’. Do not let

yourself be taken in by mistrust because you do not know what to

do. This nothingness of yours is part of My plan of love, for I will

use it to attract other souls tomorrow. Am I not enough for you?

Yes, I am Jesus, Jesus who reminds you that He is also upon you.

I am ‘One’ in many Particles, I am One in one Particle. You will

perceive Me. My child, if only you knew where I wish to lead you!

But I cannot if you do not adhere completely to My Will. I need

your Fiat. In a very special way, I give you My Mother so that,

through her, you may come to Me, by the way that I wish. As a

humble and devoted daughter of my Mother, as of now tell her that

you desire to place yourself in her arms, tell her to take you soon,

tell her that her Jesus desires this. Call on her like this: Mother of

Jesus, Mother of beautiful Love, give love to my poor heart, give

purity and holiness to my soul, give will to my character, give holy

light to my mind, give me Jesus, give me your Jesus forever. Go to

Her in My Name, and present yourself to Her in My Love, and then

remain in Her so that She may fix Her holy eyes on your soul, and

through Me, through Me who is upon you, and may She never take

them away from you. Copy this invocation of mine on another

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sheet of paper, and say it many times in a day and you will feel its

holy efficacy.”

O Holy Virgin, tear this poor heart of stone from me and give

me the Heart of Jesus that I may love with the Heart of your Jesus.

I ask you humbly in the Name and for the Love of your Jesus.

Thank you, Mother of Jesus, Thank you my Mother.

Varazze 12-1-1968

Jesus in the Eucharist: “I seek souls, humble and ardent souls

for the Glory of my Father. I seek you that my Mercy may triumph.

I alone can give you eternal glory, draw you from the miseries,

from the tribulations that still afflict your soul. I want to make a

Sanctuary where your soul will be in contemplation of the Blessed

Trinity and in this Sanctuary that I will form in you, you yourself

must not enter it alone, but preceded and accompanied by my

Mother so that you may be received and admitted to the divine

Presence. This must be the goal of your soul. What a Work of Love

I have prepared for you! Thank me, thank me in my Mother, in my

Saints, in my Angels who see so much glory prepared for you, for

the Bride of my Martyrdom, for the Bride of the ‘Living Taber-

nacle’. Do not fail to invoke my Angels in Heaven and those who

are beside you on earth, my Saints in Heaven so that they may pray

and intercede for you before the Heart of my Mother so that my

plan of love may be fully fulfilled in you and in other souls. My

Grace brings you light, gives you light, and though in darkness you

are already walking in the light. Towards Me, towards My love

which is the ‘exodus’ of your soul. Come out of your subjection

and come to Me, come to the Land promised to you too: I, Jesus.

Sink the roots of your soul in Me. I will give water in abundance

that the roots may sink and be nourished by Me; I will feed you, I

will sustain you in the winter, in the darkness of the spirit. The

Light will come to enlighten you, and then you will see the new

plants, buds, flowers, abundant fruit. Which of you wants to die in

the world to be plunged into this darkness? I call everyone, every-

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one, but the first called are you, for you are my first Living Taber-

nacles. You have no strength, no virtue to be immersed in darkness.

But I love you so much, too much to deprive you of such Grace. I

will provide for your deficiencies, I will fill the unfathomable voids

and abysses of your soul. What can Love not do? I want, I want

you to burn for Me. Yes, for Me alone, and I am jealous of your

little love because in this I have placed Me, all of Me. Yes, I want

you to write so that you may read again and not forget Me. Yes,

that ‘habit’ is also a subjection, it is a chain that clutches your feet.

Without Me you will not succeed. I want perseverance in prayer

with the intention of asking Me for your deliverance. You will ob-

tain it only if you persevere, for every grace must be preceded by

virtue. Yes, my Mother will always save you. No, you do not sin,

you do not offend Me but you are not all Mine, you are not all for

Me because that ‘thought’ turns you away. I see your incapacity in

the struggle because I know its causes, and therefore I tell you once

again: you will not succeed without Me. I want this deliverance

from you and do what I told you before, through my Mother. The

time has not yet come for you to go to Genoa. A little longer, a few

more days of waiting and then we will go together to those who

are waiting for us. I would like to dictate for Father Gabriel but I

see your weariness and I have pity on you, for my messages will

always make you suffer. My daughter, my daughter of the Cross, I

am happy with your obedience. Keep yourself always ready for

my desires, always willing, so that I may make my Voice of Love

come through you. Yes, you are my ‘spokesperson’ for my Voice

to spread over humanity. You must be silent. I will teach you to be

silent, and I will lead you to places where I am always near you,

always around you, and there I will speak. I will speak as long as

you have breath, for you will speak only for Me, of Me, in Me. My

Voice in the world, my Voice for all humankind, my love for you,

for all humankind. You will have no voice but my Voice, you will

have no words but my words, for I will make a voice of you: my

Voice. This is gift, gift of love, gift of Crucifixion. But then on the

Cross we shall be together, you and I one Being, one Victim, one

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Heart, and through you, again to my Father the words of that time

on the scaffold: ‘Father, forgive them for they know not what they

do.’ On the scaffold my Fiat in your fiat, on the scaffold of the

Cross my last breath in you, my Spirit to God the Father in you.

The Bridegroom loves the bride, and his gifts are shared by the

bride; the Bridegroom transforms his bride into Himself so that

there are not two entities, but only one, for Jesus is one, for it is al-

ways Jesus who gives Himself, who immolates Himself and, in

Him His victims, in Him His little victim, His poor True One where

He has established His divine dwelling. From this holy abode I

raise my Voice and it will run over land, seas and gather souls, it

will embrace them with one embrace, it will renew them, it will

love them with a Love that the soul does not yet know, with the

love of a God alive and present in it forever, already from this life

as a foretaste of the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus loves you, Jesus is

pleased with you, Jesus is pleased with the Living Tabernacles.

Jesus desires that you say to him many times: ‘I am happy, O Jesus,

that you deign to be with me, I am happy and I love you, I love

you. O Jesus, teach me to love you, to love with your Heart.’ Jesus

caresses you.”

Varazze 15-1-1968

Jesus in the Eucharist. “Give me your soul, give me your soul,

I will hide it in the safe haven of my Heart. I want to defend it from

the assaults of the enemy. Jesus in the Eucharist blesses you, He

does not turn you away from Himself as you deserve, He does not

want to inflict chastisements on you because He is good. Mary, my

sweet Mother, comes to you to support you so that you do not fall

again, do not fall any more. Rise up, my daughter, in your motherly

love, in your Mercy. Do not come to Me in weeping, but in joy, for

today is a day of joy in Heaven. A mother of earth has ascended into

Heaven, and now she contemplates My Glory. My Mother gave her

the garment of Jesus, of her Jesus, the garment of innocence. Now

she is happy with my Saints, with my Angels, in Me. I have also

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called you to my Kingdom, and from you I await every renunciation

for my Glory. Even if I have to crucify you, I want everything,

everything from you. Do not torment yourself over what I have not

yet asked of you. For now I want your soul from you, through my

Mother the Immaculate; I want you to have recourse to Her as often

as a child who does not know how to walk nor how to stand upright,

and calls out for fear of falling, ‘mamma, mamma’. Your soul will

grow in Grace only through Her. I want you to depend on Her and

let Her teach you. I want you to be a humble and devoted daughter

of Her. In this submission She will change your heart, and your de-

sires for love will be fulfilled. Yes, Saturday and Sunday and today

too you doubted Me, My Love, My Mercy.3 Fear has made you de-

liberately forget Me. What a mistake, my child! The desert of your

soul was the natural chastisement that I did not want to give you.

Yes, Jesus is strong in love, strong in the pain He inflicts, Jesus

weighs you down in His Divinity. And I am bent over you with my

Cross, breathing from your soul the pain of my love. I would like

to free you from the clutches that suffocate you, but for this mar-

tyrdom you must live and suffer, for this martyrdom you must die

to the world, to yourself, to your devious and overbearing ‘ego’. I

am working in you with a chisel, for I have a Temple to prepare for

Me. The barrenness, the large and small crosses are My hammer.

So, the blow will come, My blow at intervals. I must take many,

many things away from you: resistance to My love, distrust, fears,

selfishness, useless anxieties, non-Christian thoughts, worldly ha-

bits. Write, write what Jesus is demanding of you; write, write, it is

my will that you write to the last.”

3 Vera had received a Message contrary to the new direction of the Church

after the Council. “In Church, in the explanation of the Holy Gospel, I had confir-

mation that what the Priest was explaining was the opposite of what I had written.

It was the collapse. At the end of Mass I went before Mary Help of Christians with

my booklet in my hand, ready to read to her ‘that part that was contrary’ to the new

direction of the Church. I told Mother that I would not move from there unless she

enlightened me. And so I leafed through the booklet to find that ‘excerpt’ but I never

found it again...” Letter to Fr Borra, 2.2.1968, in L. GRITA Mia sorella Vera di Gesù,

op. cit., p. 80.

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Varazze 19-1-1968

Jesus in the Eucharist. “I look at you, my daughter, in my

Mother’s eyes: they are looks of love, of trust, of confidence.

Fear not, you are not crushed by Me. Your Jesus does not want

to oppress you. You are in trial. Trial of faith, of love, of persever-

ance. She is with you because I am with you, and where I am, She

is: my Mother. If you think you are falling, faltering in the trial,

She will support you, for I have given you my own Mother. Give

me yours, that she may be drawn to Me. Come, Vera, come to Me

with a heart filled with joy, with My joy. Then you will be happy

because you will possess Me, but now you must believe without

feeling; love, without feeling that you love; take refuge in Me while

you know that you will find neither comfort nor consolation, for

you will feel that you do not find Me. Faith in Me, in your Jesus,

must be your strength. No, speak not if you are not questioned: I

will reveal Myself to you by the way established by Me. You have

not drawn, nor will you draw comfort. You must return serene so

that you may be docile to My Voice, to what I am inspiring in you

when you begin to write. Only then will I resume speaking of my

Work. I want you to be all and only for Me. Do not be dismayed if

the Divine bends down, humbles Himself over his poor creature

and descends upon you, for I seek every delicacy so as not to dis-

turb your littleness. And I, Jesus, need precisely your littleness for

other souls. Yes, I know, you preferred to love me in normality, in

tranquillity, but it is not you who choose, it is I, it is the Father who

chooses you, and the soul must lovingly obey. Here is your new

vow: obedience. Obedience to Me, through the Priests, my Priest,

for I will manifest My will to you, the way you must follow,

through this. I will not do violence to your nature because I act

gently, and you will see... entrust yourself to Me, you will no longer

be afraid because this does not come from Me. Write to Father Ga-

briel. He is in pain for you, in pain for Me, for My desires. Now I

have set a period, albeit brief, of silence for My Work; now I want

your serenity, your trust, your abandonment because only by

throwing yourself into My Fatherly arms will you find your way.

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And your way is My Way, for you must walk in My Way, in the

way of Jesus. Outside of Me you will find neither comfort nor

peace nor joy; and if you do not feel that you find this in Me, re-

double, intensify your acts of abandonment in Me until your poor

little heart has conquered Me. And above all believe in Me, believe

that Jesus is with you, that Jesus, even if forgotten by you for so

many hours, is with you, for no, He never forgets you. O Vera, my

little bride, do you not hear what I am saying to you? Is this not a

beautiful love letter that the Beloved writes to his Beloved? You

have given me your arm, your hand to write, but I have given you

my Heart to dictate this time only to you and for you. But are you

not happy to have such a great Bridegroom? I make myself small

for you, I unite myself to you in so many things so that you have

no fear of the Bridegroom, but only of God. I am Jesus, the same

Jesus who ravished the heart of the Magdalene, yet she was not

afraid of Me; I am Jesus who manifested Himself visibly to Mar-

garet Alacoque: she too was not afraid of Me. I am Jesus of Beth-

lehem, of Nazareth, of Galilee, of all Palestine, yet whoever loved

Me was not afraid because I hid My Divinity. Now, I do not conceal

it from you, but in the Mystery of Faith in which I have veiled my-

self you have known me for a long time, and why not serenely wel-

come the Voice of Love? Behold, I make myself small, so small

for you, behold I make myself a ‘child’ and in the likeness of a

child I come to you to speak to you. Will you welcome me as a

child? Yes, I want to love you like a child, and talk to you like a

child, and play with you as children do. Do you prefer to think of

me like that? Then seek me among the children, among pure and

humble hearts, for among these I will manifest myself to you. Seek

me, I am playing; seek me, I am hiding; seek me until you discover

where I am hidden. Your child Jesus.”

21-1-1968

Jesus: “I want your soul to serve Me, glorify Me: it is mine

and it belongs to Me. Therefore, have the fervent intention of

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glorifying Me in all your actions. You will glorify Me if you are

not afraid and if you flee your fears; you will glorify Me if you

love Me, you will glorify Me if you think of Me, if you remember

Me. I have made you for my Glory, and you must give me this

Glory from down here, from this valley of tears. You will glorify

Me if you do not let yourself be troubled, if you increase your faith

and trust in Me. You will glorify Me if you serve Me in dryness, in

abandonment. And are you then certain that I abandon you? Are

not your prayers said close to Me the sign of My Presence? Yes,

when have I ever left you, truly abandoned you? Never. Yes, now

go to those who wait for Me, for I will be among you, and you

humble ones, you My children, you My brides, make yourselves

small, be and become small for Me, for I desire to grow in you. I

am already speaking to the heart of my Priest: Father Bocchi. You

have known for some time that I am in him, in his Priesthood with

the fullness of Grace because he is humble, because he loves Me,

because he seeks My glory. He bears witness to Me, he is strong

in Me, and you are always so fragile. Your frailty gives you suffer-

ing but I want to draw good for you from this: complete abandon-

ment in Me. Take refuge in Me, in My Fatherly Heart, and you will

find comfort. I will wait for you there today, for you will see Me

in My Love of Father, Brother, Bridegroom. Today, My Gift will

be manifested to your lowliness and your soul will exalt in the Soul

of My Mother, for nothing comes to you without passing through

Her, and nothing I receive from you without passing through My

Mother and the Priest. You must always be submissive to the

Priests and in particular to those I make use of for my Work. You

are subject to Me, Eternal Priest in them, in my Priests. Therefore

write to Father Gabriel, for I want to bring serenity to him through

the letters I dictate to you, for I inspire you. Yes, it is my Spirit,

and he blows where he wills... I want you obedient, docile; I want

you pure, I want you to be a girl to play with your Child Jesus. Be

patient, humble among my pupils, divest yourself of your ‘ego’,

and think of them as mine. Every pupil is a Child Jesus: for so

many children there is always only one teacher: Me. So become

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and return to being a ‘girl’ if you want there to be only one Teacher

for you too. No, loving reproach not chastisement; follow my sug-

gestions, and not... those counsels. I want your pupils in my Heart:

give them to me! Why do I go with you? Why am I with you? For

souls, for little ones, so that they do not become... ‘adults’, so that

they grow up in Me. The Child Jesus will now be at school in every

school child... Let the Divine Teacher guide you, and come to Me:

see Me and deal with Me in every child. Begin a new life at school

now: a life of love, of encounters, of union. Your barrenness will

find strength and support in this renewed encounter among the

children. Yes, the Child Jesus once came close to you, for your soul

saw him. I want to be with children. I come with you in the guise

of a child, of a boy. Vera, give me love, give me your labours, give

me everything in those little children, for while human life wanes,

the life of the soul goes towards the Light. Today we will meet

there, and I will be Jesus of Love, Jesus the Bridegroom. Tomor-

row, instead, at school, I shall be the Child Jesus and Divine

Teacher. Remain in Me through Mary, Queen of Hearts. I embrace

you in my most precious Blood. Your beloved Good comes. returns

to you, my poor creature, for Mary’s holy Eyes are fixed upon your

soul. I, Jesus, embrace you with Her, with my Mother, and I receive

you from Her. This, Jesus of Love, to the most miserable of crea-

tures who have ever existed in this world! This, Merciful Jesus, for

her soul, for all poor souls, poor in every virtue. This, Jesus of

Love, for this creature who writes out of obedience for herself and

for all souls who are and will be in the world. These Words of

Mine, filled with My grace, will always be new, always mine, al-

ways a source of light, trust, rebirth, love for hearts of good will,

for I write them for each soul that seeks Me, that hopes to be loved

by Me (yet it is already so loved by Me) and seeks Me. I will satiate

you with My Love, and each one will find the words it expects

from Me in these words. Behold, O my souls, I spoke to you before

you sought Me, before the Earth welcomed you into its womb; I

spoke to you, I speak to you as you now seek Me in this world, and

I answer you. May my Voice soon reach the ends of the world, for

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I am speaking, I am seeking you in your miseries, I am calling you,

and whoever seeks me after having forgotten me does not know

that I have called them, just as I have called Vera to this task and

her docility, her obedience and her poor hand to which I have given

my Hand to write. The one who writes is Jesus, Jesus who is Love,

Jesus who is Brother, Jesus who is Bridegroom, Jesus who is Father

to all. What would a Father not do to save his children in danger!

Let not the hand of the creature surprise you, for I am writing with

her, for her; for she, truly nothing, is all in Me, all in her Jesus. I,

Jesus, for all souls, for those who love Me, for those who seek Me,

for those who want to follow Me. Bring My Words, bring My Voice

today. Your Jesus, your Child Jesus who is waiting for a girl to

‘play with’: you, my little soul.”

Varazze 22-1-1968

“Jesus, Love. the Child Jesus, or Jesus the Teacher? Jesus

Crucified, or Jesus Risen? If you had to choose, how would you

want me to come to you? Yes, I come to you as you desire me: a

child. I want to make you smile, I want to take you far away among

gardens full of flowers, shady trees, delicious scents... Come, child,

with Me. A host of souls await us, maiden souls. I am with you in

the garden of Love. No, do not worry; you ‘see’ and I will write, I

will write for you. (I see so many ‘Jesuses’ in their eyes, and my

soul sees no more). Come, let me lead you higher, among my An-

gels. Come, let me make you beautiful with my Grace. Here I am

the little King, the child King and these Angels play with Me.

Come, let me take you elsewhere. Here are little soldiers: they have

fought for Me and I am their little leader. Let me bring you where

there are many little ‘flowers’: they give off perfume for Me: I am

the Flower for whom they humbled themselves, for Me. Where do

you want to go? Come, come, I will show you my gardens. Let us

go to the garden of ‘roses’. Which roses do you prefer? (Me to

Jesus: that rose with the dewdrop). Here it is, here is the pearl that

they all drip from their petals: the pearl of purity; here is the rose

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colour made of love, delicacy, a generous impulse towards Me.

Smell the perfume! It is their holiness. I am He who gave them

holiness: now they give off perfume for Me. Le me bring you

among the ever white and spotless, ever fragrant lilies. Draw near

to them. They are watching you and waiting for you. And then av-

enues, long, tree-lined avenues, and perfumes and twittering birds.

All are singing praise to their Creator. Come, come with Me, and

breathe these fragrances into your soul, for... your body cannot.

No, you are not yet a little girl to play with Me; but I will teach

you to enjoy My gardens, and then I will hide myself there for you

to look for Me... Then I will leave you as an ‘adult’ for the world,

but always as a little girl for Me, so you can see Me as the Teacher,

your Divine Teacher. Then, at times, we will ascend Golgotha with

My Mother. See, we shall do everything together until My Heart

is all in yours. For now let me lead you by the hand; come and play

in my gardens, among my Angels, come where my flowers are,

come where you breathe my Perfume. Come, let Me take you far

away with Me, and be reborn in Me. Only thus will you return as

a ‘little girl’. Your child Jesus.”

O Jesus, how dear you are! What delicacy, what inexpressible

love! O Jesus, let me learn from You to be “reborn” as a little girl:

the girl that You want. I, too, long to play with You.

Varazze 23 January 1968

To Mary, Mother of Jesus, the Immaculate,

To Mary, Mother of Jesus, the Help of Christians,

To Mary, Mother of Jesus, Our Lady of Sorrows, at the foot of

the Cross I humbly offer the obedience of this “dictation” out of

love for her Jesus.

Jesus: “Write, my daughter, the river of words that gushes

forth from my Heart. Behold, my Heart is open for you to pour into

you, my beloved creatures, my thoughts, my desires. Receive them

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with deep humility, with jubilation, with gratitude. I speak to all

the Living Tabernacles that are in the world, to those Tabernacles

that will be in time until eternity. You are my Temples of Love be-

cause you guard Love. You carry me, you give me. No, not your

thoughts for now, but mine, for I speak not for you for now, but for

everyone. Yes, ‘my Tabernacles’ are my refuge among people, my

delight, and they already know how to guard me. Now I say to you

who bear me: love me, love me for I have chosen my dwelling

place in you already from this earth. Do not fear the crosses, the

barrenness, the trials, for these are efficacious for your sanctifica-

tion. One day you will be reborn in Me, for your soul will be in-

vested with My Light, and you will come to love with My Heart,

for I will take everything of you. Let each Priest, living Tabernacle,

patiently and humbly prepare other Priests to carry Me. I will in-

spire them, for I choose souls, but let them be obedient to my in-

spirations. I am addressing Father Borra and Father Bocchi, other

Priests who already bear Me.4 Father Gabriel already knows his

mission. I want ‘my League of Souls’ to extend also among ‘con-

secrated’ souls, for it is time for it to grow. Father Gabriel moves

inspired by Me, and his failures are for now My Glory. But I will

show him the way, for he and I are together.”

25-1-1968

“Jesus, Love, wants your soul to rest in Me; wants My WORK

to spread. Prepare My paths where My Grace can descend. There

are souls, beautiful souls ready and prepared to receive Me. Go,

go to the Superiors, go to Turin, go to Milan, go, prepare my ways,

and let everyone submit to the Pope. He expects you, he is waiting

for you and praying with you, praying with Me. I have explained

to Father Gabriel what ‘night’ is, what it means to wait for Me in

the night, in the streets... I have chosen him as a victim in Me, for

my priests, for my Confreres; but My reward for him will be great.

4 Bearers of Jesus in the Eucharist.

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Let Father Bocchi seek me among the souls entrusted to him, notice

me, see me, and I will reveal myself to him among the humble, the

meek, the little ones. Let him seek me among sinners, for among

these I suffer and weep. Let him give me souls, seek my souls, for

I await a ‘great harvest’ from him. I have already given him my

Heart to give it to souls. I have given him My own thirst for Love,

for My Love is never exhausted, and in him I continue to thirst for

souls, in him I have established Me and in him I shall live again.

Send ‘my dictations’ to Father Gabriel, all of them, so that he may

know that Jesus still speaks, that Jesus speaks to you, and to you

for so many souls who are and who will be. Send what I have dic-

tated to the priests I address myself to. I am speaking for them, for

others, for many, for everyone. Father Borra must read all the

libretti (booklets) and will be enlightened by Me to see. Be serene

and calm for your work will increase. This small sacrifice is the

act of love that you can offer Me because you know that you are

so poor. But I love you so much, I love you so much that I cover

your miseries. Behold, I, Jesus, call you, I call you even though

you are nothing. No, my Love does not cease in the face of ‘no-

thingness’, for I overcome nothingness. Don’t you think so? Come,

my daughter, the crucified Jesus forgives you, embraces you and

always fixes things up for you, for all of you... It is with my Blood

that I baptise you, with the Blood of my Side. Do you not see me?

My whole Body is bloodied, I pour Blood from every pore. Take

it, this Blood of mine is yours, it is yours, it is of my Priests, it is

for all souls. When I immolate Myself on the Altar, to My Father,

you, together with Me, receive the Baptism of Blood so that My

Father in Heaven may see you in Me, in my Blood, and receive

you into His Fatherly Breast. Do not fail to adhere to Me, to My

Immolation; do not lose My Gifts of Love. Come and immolate

yourselves in Me. I seek little victims; come and offer yourselves

in Me: I offer Myself for you. Come and give yourselves all to Me,

for I have given it, given all to you. Love, love one another, forget

yourselves in Me: Jesus, your Brother, Eternal Priest, Victim im-

molated for you. Through you I send my beloved Priests my gaze

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of Love, of tenderness. Write, write to them for I wish to write to

them, for I long to speak to them. Will it not be pleasing to them to

receive a letter from their Love, from their Jesus? Jesus writes

through you and those who love me always welcome and await my

letters, as long as I have this poor medium that is you to write. You

live in this world to write for Me. Obey Me, listen to Me, do not

fear: I am your Jesus.”

28-1-1968

“Jesus, true God and true Man, speaks to his little bride.”

(Jesus “dictates” and I listen).

“I am looking at your soul. I am purifying it. I am pouring My

graces into it. I am penetrating it, and it Me, I am in you and I want

you to live by Me. I have chosen poverty: you, your soul, and I want

to give you everything, and everything I will give you with my

Blood. With My Love I want to detach you from the earth, so that

you, My spouse, may journey towards Me, towards My Light, to-

wards the Highest. What I could tell you, truly, is divine, is Paradise.

But even if I speak to you of Paradise, you remain disturbed, and

then, without my help, you cannot return serenely to your meagre-

ness. I will prepare you for Paradise... The sufferings of the past

days are now a memory. You have given them to Me because now

all of you is Mine. Do not try to understand the reasons for the trials

for you must become a ‘little girl’. Others will understand, but you

must care about loving Me and obeying Me. Yes, I am here, I am

with you, I am in your soul and I am happy to live near you. I, Jesus

look at you and would show myself to you were you not suffer so

much from that for now. This human frailty of yours is the means

that will win other souls, many souls, to Me. I want to communicate

my ‘thirst’ for souls to you. I will pour drops of the Water and Blood

from my Side into you, for I want you to think of souls. When we

ascend Calvary you will give me your barrenness, your thirst, and

I will give you my thirst. Thus we will meet in my Father. Yes, trust

and faith in your Jesus. Trust in my words, in my Dictations. Faith,

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faith, faith! I, Jesus, Eternal Priest, confirm my wishes through

Father Gabriel, and from this Priest chosen by Me for My Work of

Love you will receive Me. Soon we shall write to him, for I wish to

communicate myself to him in writing. We will write to Father

Borra, Father Bocchi. We will write a lot because I want to pour out

so much love, so much comfort, so much warmth for my beloved

Priests: the warmth of my Heart of the Eternal Priest. For them, too,

Jesus performs a unique Work of Love: Jesus writes to His Priests,

to His ‘Himself’ on earth. They will feel me so, very, very close,

and my increasing Grace in them, my letters, will be of comfort, of

joy, of peace. Yes, my daughter, I love them so much, and if you

wish to make me an acceptable gift, pray for them: for all my

Priests. I have chosen you, little victim in Me, for them and you are

for them as they are for Me. Wait in trusting prayer for the meeting

with the Priest from Savona: he will come. I will send him to Sa-

vona for my Work of Love. I would dictate much more but you are

submissive to your duty, and this you must do with love, as long as

I allow it. That is why I want you to stop writing but do not distract

yourself from Me. I want you to remain immersed in Me so that

you receive strength, love, warmth from Me. I want your soul in

Me and to imprint my Resemblance on it, through My Grace. Love

Me, love Me and rest in Me. Your Jesus: Love.”

Varazze 2-2-1968

Speak, O Lord, that your servant may listen.

Jesus: “Write for Me, write, My child, for My Glory. Let My

‘ways’ spread among you, in the world, among ‘My’ souls. The

Work must develop among you who know Me and, through you, it

must reach the souls who live in the world. It is time for the souls

called by Me to be instructed in the purpose of my ‘Message’. To

this end it is necessary that this be known as soon as possible by

the Salesian Superiors, and they will think of presenting my Work

to the Pope. It is a Work of Love, of infinite and merciful Love that

I, the Eternal Priest, pour into my Priests, and through them, into

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souls. All dictations are messages of Love; all words, all letters ad-

dressed to you are messages of Love, of my Love for you, for all

souls. In each of My Words there is a doctrine of Love to be read,

to be more deeply understood, and I have given it to those who

know how to make fruitful the branches that are united to Me.

Gather yourselves together in my Name, invoke and have Mary, my

sweet Mother, as Mistress of your souls to guide your steps, be light

in your uncertainties. Hope and faith that I am, I want the Work of

Love, I want it spread. These booklets must be neatly copied into a

single booklet and given to Father Borra, who must read, must read

everything.5 You will remain in the shadows, in My shadow: in Me.

You will always be the hand that will write what I will dictate to

you under My guidance. I want you to begin; I want you to fight

for Me, for the triumph of My Mercy. Fight for Me you who carry

Me. Do not hesitate. Do not fear defeat, for I, Jesus, will triumph.

The priests who will become part of the ‘League of Jesus’ Souls’

must prepare the youth to ‘live’ from Me, to be for love, Me, so that

the youth may give Me to other youth. The young people who will

be part of the League, according to the judgement of the Priests who

guide their souls, will be able to carry Me, that is, to become Living

Tabernacles. If these young men are called by Me to another path,

such as marriage, they will deliver Me at the foot of the Altar to the

Priest: it is certain that I will remain spiritually more imprinted in

their souls, in their countenances. For those who will have carried

Me and will no longer be able to do so for this or other reasons will

always have Me imprinted in their souls more profoundly. The same

applies to young women. Let them establish groups of young

people, let them meet to love one another in Me, and let them strive

to know who is their true Master of life, holiness, joy. I have chosen

the Salesians because they live with young people, but their life of

apostolate will have to be more intense, more active, more heartfelt.

This work must also extend to other priests, to the parishes of towns

5 Vera copied all the dictations she received from September 1967 to February

1968 into 4 notebooks for Fr Borra, and sent them to him.

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and villages, for there the priest and souls must form a place of

peace and rest for me, tired, thirsty and hungry because of my long

pilgrimage in search of souls. The priest and the souls of a village,

however few, must be a ‘Bethany’, that is, a place of peace, con-

solation and rest for My Heart. From these souls I desire consola-

tions, prayers, offerings and the gift of their hearts. I will come to

them to find these consolations; I will leave my ‘tears’ with them

to resume my journey in search of souls outside the fold. With them,

like a wayfarer, I will refresh myself, for in them I wish to find the

love that is not given me by other creatures. Then I will depart, but

they are to await me ready and joyful because the Bridegroom re-

turns to the Bride. The Work must arise in groups in the city, but it

must quickly take on a unified nature for I want you to be united, to

know each other and to visit each other, for you must love each

other greatly in Me. Each Tabernacle is more than ever a sibling to

the other, therefore let each think of itself this way and act as a sib-

ling. Let each one have this programme of spiritual ascent: take on

Me, My Resemblance, so that each one of you may be Me, be Jesus.

What I have dictated from the beginning (September-February)

must be read, studied and interpreted in My Light of faith and truth

in order to be dealt with and put into action. Turin and Florence

must be linked by a path: the Pope who establishes you in his auth-

ority and who belongs as the Bearer of Jesus, as the Living Taber-

nacle already in your midst, in my League because he, Paul VI, is

the first soul of my League of souls. He has already founded it in

his life as Pastor of souls; he already spreads it, but he is still alone,

too alone and that is why he waits for you. He knows, he knows

you in Me, and he prays for you to come to him. Pray and make

people pray so that the hour of my Mercy may not be late in coming,

but may come soon, for all souls. I am Jesus, Eternal Pontiff. Im-

maculate Victim for the souls given to me by my Father: Victim for

all Humanity that was, is, will be. I am Jesus, Divine Master: I am

the Way, the Truth, the Life. I am One and Three in one: I am the

Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. I am Jesus: infinite Love.”

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Varazze 4-2-1968

“Jesus comes to you with his Love. Priestly Love. Go to my

Priests, bring them my Messages of Love; fill their hands with my

words: they are in Grace, in my Grace. Let them seek Me, discover

Me in these Messages, in the living Love that I want to bring

among them, among souls. Go to Father Bocchi, and lay my last

dictations in his hands. I will work with my Grace in him so that

the truth may also be manifested to him, and he will also receive

me through the writings. He is a path of my Way chosen by my

Father through whom ‘my word’ must pass, spread, extend. Prepare

the ‘copies‘ for him also, and I, Jesus, bless you in the very act of

you disposing yourself to write for Me because you are in obedi-

ence. Yes, speak to him directly, and in all humility write. Father

John Bocchi, it is I who am writing to you, me, Jesus. Place your

trust in Me and I will reveal myself to you. I want you to begin My

Work of Love in Sampierdarena among the souls of the priests; I

want you to make my messages of Love known to your confreres;

I want them also to bring Me, so you will all be transformed into

Me. I want my league of souls to become stronger, I want it to be-

come great and to go beyond the borders of Italy. I want it to be

formed in mission lands, and there where my beloved John Bosco

founded his works, there where in him I established the kingdom

of Love. Therefore, many young men must be prepared, many

priests who will bring, add to my Love, given in the world through

John Bosco who is other Love, other Gift which will help you to

take on Me, to become Me.

I, Jesus in the Eucharist, wish to reach my souls in the world,

to communicate with souls through you; I have chosen another

Temple: dwellings, streets, wherever you go. I have chosen other

Tabernacles, not in masonry, but ‘living’: you! This ‘gift’ must be

known by my beloved Priests, by the Salesians first, and my

League will grow with you; and melt your souls in the Fire of my

Love with other souls, with the youth so that my League may be

strong, healthy, glorious.

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Father John Bocchi, Jesus has called you: listen to him. Father

John Bocchi, I have called you to my Work: work, work among

the priests, work among the young. Meditate on these words in the

Light of the Holy Spirit: they are mine, of the Divine Master, of

the Eternal Priest. I will make you understand more than I have

had written. In the fervent gift of Love I to you and you to Me, I

am reviving in you, and it is for you that I wish to reveal myself to

the other Priests. You have the same mission entrusted to Father

Gabriel. Seek the maternal assistance of my Mother: Mary Help

of Christians. Seek that intimate and secret love that I give to you

in these words for you; seek me in truth, because these messages

of love are Truth, they are Me, they are Jesus. For all the Salesians

their founder, St John Bosco, will be, from where he is in my Glory,

a loving Father, a comforting protector, support. Yes, Don Bosco

also wants to return to live among you through my Work of Love.

Yes, Don Bosco ritorna (Don Bosco returns) among you because

Jesus wants to renew in you his life, his love, his Priesthood, all of

himself. I in you and you in Me, to give ‘fruits’ to my Father, to

save souls, to die for souls. I, Jesus, your Life, your Way, your

Truth: to you beloved Priests; to you, all and always Me.”

Varazze 9-2-1968

“I leave it to you to write in my Name: Jesus.”

[Vera] Jesus unites us in His Holy Name. He desires that the

League of His Souls make one soul with Him. The prayers, the of-

ferings, the merits that each soul can acquire in Jesus, are not only

for its own soul, but for all the souls of the League; thus the emp-

tinesses of a weaker soul are filled with the virtues of the stronger

soul. What one soul united with Jesus suffers is so that another soul

may receive the particular graces it needs from Jesus.

“Behold, I adorn you with the sadness of My Passion. The soul

suffers in Me in this sadness because it shares in the cross of

another soul. And I purify you in this suffering, I make you one

soul, I make you one heart in Me. Behold, the League merges, and

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I merge you in Me, and I purify you, and it is I, Jesus, who with

My Love am working in you, I am transforming you into ‘living

tabernacles’ You will be given a special guidance to practise with

love and fidelity so that I, Jesus, in the sacred Species, may receive

love, honour and glory from you who carry Me. I will give you all

that is dear to me, but I want humility from you, even more humil-

ity, pain and suffering. Yes, I come to ask you for your fiat. Place

it in the hands of My Mother and She will sustain you. She will

unite it to Herself and give it to Me. Then I will speak to you and

tell you how you must honour Me, love Me, carry Me. Each of my

graces will spring forth as a gush of pure, fresh water from the rock,

but each grace will have suffering, and from suffering will grow

love. My Love has redeemed you in my Blood, and I have given it

to you by suffering unto death. You receive my Baptism of Blood

through love and suffering. O my blessed souls, I clasp you to my

Heart that you may be one soul and one heart. Thus I offer you to

my Father in Me. Receive My Gifts, the Gifts I have told you

about, and in these you will receive Me more and more. You suffer

for your failures: you poor, frail little ones. Go, persevere, sink into

Me; love one another in Me, and I, Jesus, I, your Bridegroom, your

Brother, your Priest, your Missionary, will work, I will seek...

whoever will listen to Me. I will open human hearts to My Love,

their minds to Me, that the honour and glory of those called from

earth to Heaven before the Throne of God may ascend to My

Father. Behold, I am with you. The tree of Life is in your soul, and

I pour My Grace into your soul. Behold, I purify it, I enlighten it,

I prepare it to be received into my Father’s bosom when Love and

Sorrow have given you the robe of innocence, and my Blood has

given you my Martyrdom: my last Baptism. Yes: Love, Incarna-

tion, Purification, Light and Darkness; Darkness and Light,

Passion, Resurrection, Glory. Strength of spirit. Faithfulness.

Trust. Abandonment. Obedience. Humility. Patience. Inno-

cence. I have made Myself small for you that you may ascend and

come to Me. There is no other way but Love. Disappear into the

abyss of My immense Love. Jesus has spoken. From Vera’s soul

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He poured out His Word here that it might be known. I am Jesus

in the Word.’

Varazze 11 February 1968

“I am Jesus. Write, write: I have opened a channel for my

Grace, for my words to flow in you. You know that I am in you,

that I speak from you. Yes, it is My Voice: it rises from your soul

because My Word has established a dwelling in you. You will be

strong in Me, and faith in My Word will grow in you. You will sleep

and I will be silent. Your rest is dear to Me because you are My poor

and frail creature who in love and obedience shall serve Me until I

take you from the world so that your passing away may be the wit-

ness of My Word for people. Rest in Me. Today your Jesus has been

glorified in the bosom of My Father for you, for what you do for

Me is glory to God, and I promise you that henceforth your every

action, your every invocation performed with purity will be united

and bound to Me. Now I begin to live in you. Bride of Blood, of my

Blood, abandon yourself to Me: my Heart is open; it awaits you...

Your Jesus, Divine Love, gave Himself entirely to the poorest of

His creatures. Rest in Me. Tomorrow I will return with My Word,

but My Love will watch over you. Now your obedience is Mine;

now it ascends through Me, into Heaven... Now you are in Me,

in My obedience. Jesus embraces you, Jesus blesses you.”

15-2-1968

“Jesus, in the Abyss of his Love. I am burning, burning away

the impurities, the defects, the resistance to My graces. I am burn-

ing, and in this fire I draw the soul to Me. When it receives this pu-

rification, a gift of my Love, it suffers because it is drawn to the

Divine. The soul yearns for Me, the soul anxiously seeks Me, My

Love, and is never satiated as long as it is here below. Thus began

the ‘Martyrdom of Love’. I want your wounded soul: I immerse it

in Me, I renew it in My Blood, I make it pure, shining, white. My

Blood will descend on your soul and the stains will be ‘mine’: those

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that I give you. I join my Passion, your suffering to Mine; your heart

to my Heart until there is only one Sufferer, only one Heart: me,

Jesus. Receive Me, for I come to you as I have told you. I have initi-

ated the gift of Love, for which the Beloved must be incarnated by

the Beloved. It is the Bridegroom who prepares the Bride for Mys-

tical Union; it is the Bridegroom who gives, while the Bride waits

for the Bridegroom to come to her. You are too small to understand,

but it does not matter. It is enough for Me that you obey Me out of

love, and always remain very humble in your smallness. Abandon

your ‘ego’ because it is of the world, and you are no longer of the

world; let yourself be lifted up by My Love, and love only in Me,

in My Love, so that all human affection may be pure, holy affection

through Me, may be My Love. And thus I detach you from the

world, thus I prepare my Temple, thus I lead you to Me. Not a year

will pass, not two years, not three years, before my Words will be

manifest to all. Whoever bears witness to my Word on earth shall

find in heaven, before my Father, the testimony of my Love.

Whoever who bears witness with their life shall have the crown of

the Martyrs of my Word in Heaven. Whoever bears witness to me

in the apostolate, sowing my Word, will have Me, the Eternal Priest,

in heaven, in the glorious vision of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Therefore I tell Vera, my poor and humble bride (there was no

poorer one on earth) to bear witness before people to my Word, re-

ceiving in humility and obedience what the Holy Spirit dictates to

her by the will of God; to bear witness to my Word with faith and

trust that her Bridegroom supports her, sustains her, defends her; to

bear witness to my Word, accepting in obedience what I, Jesus, de-

sire her to do for Me, for my Work of Love, accepting every mock-

ery or slur, every joy and pain, every pain and sacrifice, out of love.

Write, obey, love, wait for... the Bridegroom. I, Jesus, have accepted

your life from my Mother and if I will soon take it for my Glory,6

know that this will be transformed for you into the Life that I give:

6 “this one [...] I will soon take her”: Vera died on 22.12.1969.

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Life in Heaven. Now work: write, carry and send My Messages,

until I have revealed the immensity of My Love to My beloved

Priests. We, you and I, must support them, encourage them in the

struggles that await them so that my Work may be known. I will

dictate my letters, you will write and I will pursue my Priests until

my Grace is gratefully received by them. You are here in this little

room to write for Me. I will take care that you are always assigned

a quiet place to listen to Me. I have told you that you now live for

Me, to write. This is your task and when it is finished you will bid

farewell to earth for heaven. I will give you the strength to copy

things, but I, Jesus, want to remain with you even in suffering, for

you must become My bride of Blood in Me. One day I will receive

you as the bride of my Passion, a day will come when I, the Eternal

Priest, will offer to my Father, in my Blood, the blood of the crea-

ture7 for whom I gave every drop of My Blood on the Cross. The

creature in Me will be My Bride, and My Father will receive her in

Me. “I beseech You, My Father, to receive her in Me, for I offer her

to You in Me for Your Glory. I beseech You to acknowledge in Me

the soul whom I have washed in My Blood, and that poor means

which I have used to make My message of Love to the world mani-

fest to human beings. My Father, I gave her everything because she

was poor; I gave her my graces and my Word. My Father, receive

her in Your Glory, for in Me she has given Me obedience, humility,

she has given Me her poor arm. My Father, now I beseech You to

receive her in You, for I offer her in Me, with Me, for Me, to You,

My Father, that this offering may give Glory to You and witness to

my Word here below to priests, to people, to nations, to the whole

world. Receive her in Me, My Father, for Your greater Glory and

the coming of My Kingdom of Love among souls. I, Jesus, thank

you for having heard me.”8 I, Jesus, have revealed My Love for

7 “The day will come that I, the Eternal Priest, will offer to my Father, in my

Blood, the blood of the creature...” Vera bled to death during the incision of an

abscess in her stomach, a year and a half after this message.

8 Beautiful prayer of Jesus to the Father to accept Vera’s life offering in His

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you. Trust in my Words, and dispose yourself to write, to copy

things down for love of me. You will not be alone in the effort but

will always have My Mother near you who will guide your life,

bringing it more and more to Me. Remember:

Trust in your Jesus, trust in my Mother, trust in my word.

Start copying for Father Borra. I desire no other sacrifice than

these, and they are offered out of love and obedience. Other sacri-

fices will be spared you as you serve Me, in this way, for the Glory

of My Father and the salvation of souls. I will write to the Priests

soon. When I immolate myself on the Altar, offer me your writings:

my dictations, together with obedience and love. Tell the same to

Father Borra, Father Gabriel, because I receive everything from

my beloved Priests. You must tell them thus: ‘It is Jesus who de-

sires it, and I desire it as much as He does. Recollect yourself in

Me, in My Love, so that I may defend you from yourself, from the

world, from temptations. Remain in the divine arms: do not be

afraid because I am strength, courage, serenity, trust, truth. Soon

I will send you a comfort: my beloved Priest, as a gift of Love.

Jesus who loves you and blesses you.”

Offering, for the Glory of God the Father and for the testimony of His word in the

Work of the Living Tabernacles.

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BOOKLET 4

I offer my obedience to the Blessed Virgin,

Mary Help of Christians

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Savona 18-2-1968

Jesus: “Write my Name! I am speaking to you, I am speaking

my Word in this holy name, Jesus. I have guided you along rugged

paths, I have sustained your frailty; I have nourished you with My

Grace, I have protected you from yourself, I have helped you to

walk towards Me. All was accomplished in My Name: Jesus! Now

you have seen the ‘Light’ in my Words; always receive them in my

Name: Jesus. My Words must now fall into the furrows as seeds

that must rot in the soil of your souls. Therefore, I have called pre-

pared souls capable of understanding my Word. The ‘manuscript’

must be prepared soon and sent to Father Borra. In the same way,

another must be prepared for Father Bocchi. He will receive my

grace with the manuscript. I would have much to dictate but I want

you to copy and give this work to Me, this work which serves and

will serve for the greater Glory. You are with the family by My

will. I will help you carry the Cross, for it is a time of reparation,

renunciations, offerings. My Work has its victims in Me, but it will

see the light among sinners, it will give peace to the humble, com-

fort to the afflicted, relief to the suffering, strength and courage to

the weak, confidence to the oppressed. But I say to you that

whoever accepts these Words, accepts Me, Jesus. I am the ‘Sower‘

and the ‘seeds’ that come from Me are the Word of God. Now it is

time for you who are called to listen to Me, receive Me, welcome

Me. I want you to copy, My child, for time is short. I want you to

take leave of Me to copy. I will remain in you with My Grace. This

is My desire: carry it out by obedience, and I will give you Me,

Jesus. I bless you in My Name, Jesus.”

Varazze 27-2-1968

Jesus: “I have wanted to dictate for so long... But you have

eluded me. Now I am acting in you more directly, and my calls

will be more continuous, more frequent. Do you not see how I pur-

sue you? Now my grace, now my disapproval. Now I want to run

to other souls in you, visit them, and only late in the evening... see,

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see the truth. See Me in you running, unbeknown to yourself, and

going to your suffering sister. You don’t know why you are there,

you don’t know why you are at her bedside kissing her, while you

were ignorant of everything. And still you do not see, you do not

see Me acting through you. When you guessed, for fear of being

mocked, you did not say: ‘It was Jesus who brought me to Pina.’

You referred to yourself and took the Glory away from Me.1 O

miserable, poor creature! What shall I do with you? Now write lest

you forget! I will give you pain, burning pain to purify you. And

my Voice shall be a sword that shall pass through your soul. Write,

write on your knees and show your unworthiness to the Priests.

Close with these words: I, Jesus, do not want many prayers but

works, works of love. From Vera I want humility, kindness. I want

her to humble herself and give an account of her deeds to Me, to

Father Gabriel by confessing in writing. I will raise her up after

she has performed this act of humility. Offended Jesus.”

Varazze 28-2-1968

Jesus: “Write anyway, even if you do not hear me. I come to

you in the humility of your heart. I have seen it and now I am con-

soled. Now you have understood that your faults are your miseries.

You will never be able to correct yourself without Me! Focus your-

self on this monosyllable that is everything: Me! Me, that is, My

Grace. I have enlightened you in confession, I have spoken to you

by pouring My Light into your spirit. Now you know what you

must ask for: my Grace. You must ask for it as the thirsty man seeks

water, the hungry man, bread, the suffering man, relief, the blind

man, light, the wayfarer, rest. O Vera, my beloved daughter, only

my Grace will save you, only my Grace will give you the strength

to write, to obey; only my Grace will transform my Gift into an act

of love lived and practised; only my Grace will imprint Me on your

1 Reference to the episode when Vera went to the hospital to her sister Pina’s

bedside guided by Jesus. She did not tell her sister that it was Jesus who led her to

her and showed her the place and the room where she was.

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soul. Then I will live in your soul. I will strip you of yourself so

that, with my Grace, my Dwelling in you may be complete. Do

you know what My Grace is? It is the Love of the Father, of the

Son, of the Holy Spirit. It is God descending into ‘his’ soul that is

a prisoner of the body, and He dwells there and draws it to Himself,

to His Love, to His Holocaust. You do everything by asking for my

Grace. Oh! I suffer in mistreating you..., but I love you too much,

and I do not want to renounce the Gifts I have established for you!

Come my soul, come little soul, and rest upon my Heart. Oh, yes,

I see your suffering...and it is dear to me! What is it that you seek?

Yes, it is my Love, it is my Glory, it is your Jesus.”

(9:30 pm) Jesus: “I am calling you to your task. There is a dis-

tant horizon I want to reach to immerse my Wounds in you, to pour

out my Blood: Blood of the Immaculate Lamb. My Blood must be

shed where there is hatred, rivalry, ambition. People shed their blood

on people, sacrificing their lives, and hatred is not quenched. I,

Jesus, will visit those places in ruins, those afflicted people. I want

to give them, too, the Blood of the Immaculate Lamb. We will go

before God the Father and offer ourselves to Him for Peace among

peoples. If human beings have woven their leagues to nourish hatred

and unleash wars, if they fight and destroy each other, I pity, I pity

the poor, the unfortunate who suffer the tyrannies of the leagues. I

want to establish the ‘League of Souls’ in opposition to these, I will

gather you, my blessed souls, around Me, and you in Me will offer

yourselves to my Father for Peace among peoples, among Nations.

You will always be my army of Love that I want to set in opposition

to the army of men: you are the army that advances in Me before

my Father, and I, as the Immaculate Lamb, want to implore Peace

with you, with my League of Souls, as a message of Love to the

humble, the poor, the disinherited of goods, to those who love and

hope in Me. My League is an army, an army that fights and struggles

with Me, and I will always be with you as your Commander. The

boundaries of the Earth are extensive, and I comprehend and contain

them all in My Mercy. I, Jesus, as God and Father, address My voice

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to the world, to the peoples, to brothers and sisters. I will soon visit

you from one end of the Earth to the other, so that My message of

Love may be addressed to everyone, so that souls may turn to Me

who am the Author of Life. My Life will still pass among you as a

thrill of Love and Forgiveness. Oh! prepare my ways that you may

wait for me, receive me, welcome me! My blessed souls, what are

you waiting for to make my Words known? Take my Message of

Love to the Pope, and be consecrated by the Pope, let him establish

you in the Order that is the Order of Grace, of Salvation; Order of

Peace and Love. Behold, I will send you then as I once sent my

Apostles among the nations, among the peoples, that the new Mess-

age may come to them: the Gospel, the last message of Jesus’ Love

through the Living Tabernacles. Behold, I will send you, and in you,

with you, for you I will go forth to accomplish the Work of Re-

demption for all humankind. Lent is beginning, the time that will

lead me to the Immolation. I seek victim souls, many victim souls,

so that my League may grow, the army increase, so that in Me you

may be offered to God for the redemption of humanity. Soon even-

ing will come, then night, and we will be left alone to fight: me and

my League, Jesus with his army, my Mother with the souls con-

secrated to me through him. Soon it will be dark, and while there is

light I seek souls, victim souls: I seek you who wait for me, who

seek me. I give Myself completely to you, and you to Me, and to-

gether we will offer ourselves in the Love of the Father, of the Son,

of the Holy Spirit. Yes, I give My Grace in these Words: the Grace

of Jesus in the Eucharist who wants to become the Food of all souls

contained in the world; the nourishment of the soul, the comfort

and peace of the world. Jesus has spoken, the Eucharistic Jesus

who wants to be known, loved, carried. Jesus, King of souls; Jesus,

King of hearts. Jesus King of creatures.”

Savona 2-3-1968

Jesus: “And now write. I will reply to Father Gabriel in par-

ticular. I want his perfect adherence to my Holy Will. I am Jesus

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who guides you, who remains with you so that you may always be

moved by Me. I am in Father Gabriel to speak to souls, to my souls:

the priests. Abandon yourself to Me in My Immolation, that I may

draw your soul and invest it with my Grace. In the offering of Me

to my Father, let him give Me his whole self, and the souls that

graze in my Heart through him. Let him offer me poor Vera, offer

me my priests and victim souls. I will wash your souls in my

Blood, and in this Baptism of Grace I will offer you to my Father

for his Glory, for my Work of Love. Then Father Gabriel will re-

main in Me, in my Heart of the Eternal Priest, and I will guide his

steps, I will move the children of my wounded Love so that they

may approach the Light of my Calling. Let him speak, speak in my

Name, as he confidently places his soul of Priest, Apostle in the

luminous Soul of my Mother. The Mother of the Children will be

close to him: Mary Help of Christians. My Saint John Bosco will

be an example to him, he will infuse him with confidence. I will

support him with my Grace, and my Spirit, Spirit of Love, will be,

by my will, like a dove on his Priestly heart. Let him speak then,

speak... and speak of Me, that I seek and want souls who are ‘vic-

tims’ in Me, priestly souls who will increase My League. Say what

I have dictated, let it all be read, for My will, My desires are not

manifested in one ‘dictation’, but in their continuity they all contain

and express My Message of Love for all souls, for priestly and con-

secrated souls, and through them, to the world. I have wanted the

poor creature chosen by Me in obedience to write the dictations,

to copy what I have gradually said to her in chronological order,

because whoever reads, must read everything: meditate, reflect and

ask for my Enlightenment in holy humility. Father Gabriel must

have his own manuscript, without which he cannot fully manifest

my Divine Desires. I will ask Vera for this Lenten sacrifice. Do not

be surprised by the simple and puerile form of my Words. I, Jesus,

spoke to a poor creature, and I brought myself to her level.

Whoever comes to Me in faith can see the depth of My doctrine of

Love. And whoever sees will be the humble, the child, the pure,

who already has a place in My Heart. I, Jesus, Eternal Priest, will

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dictate still more, so that my Voice may reach the ends of the

World. Yes, I will write to Father Gabriel and soon. I will write to

Father Bocchi so that my voice may shake him up, draw him to

Me. I, Jesus, will write, I will dictate through the least creature that

exists, because she too in her poverty already serves, and will serve

for my Glory. My Voice suffers when the soul is in darkness. Come,

my daughter, let us climb that mountain of sorrow together, so that

my Cross may radiate its Light of Grace into the world. Jesus loves

you in the Gift, forgives you in the Gift, embraces you in the Gift.

With my Mother I bless your obedience, and by this I draw your

soul to Me: Jesus.”

Varazze 3-3-1968

Jesus: “I am speaking of my Living Tabernacle: I am Jesus in

the Eucharist! All the Words that I have dictated are my ‘seeds’,

but the soils capable of receiving them do not have sufficient grace.

I ask for offerings, victim souls, so that my Grace may descend

abundantly in the ‘ones who are called’. Whoever accepts the

Words of my Message and sacrifices themself in Me, for my Cause,

is invested with my Grace, and these in turn pray that all priestly

souls may receive and adhere to my Work of Love. I address the

Salesian priests, those in authority, for they must receive Me in hu-

mility, in gratitude, in praise of God the Father through Me: Jesus.

I will pour forth the Light of the Holy Spirit from the Tabernacles

so that your minds may see. My furrows are and will remain the

same, for such is the Will of my Father. God the Father has looked

through me at Turin, Florence, Sampierdarena, Rome. Other paths,

other ways must open from these places; but whoever is called

must not resist my Grace. I, Jesus, will write to you, I will reassure

you, and when I come to knock on your heart, do not reject Mine:

it is the Heart of your Jesus! Pray, pray instead, that I may reveal

Myself more and more to you, that you may know all My desires

of salvation for all humankind. I, Jesus, the Eternal Pontiff, to you

my beloved Priests: on this Easter of Passion, Death and Resurrec-

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tion, I will renew my holocaust for you to the Father, and I will ac-

cept, and unite in Me the victim souls in Me, those that my Mother

offers me. This is Easter, the Sacrifice, the immolation of Priests

for Priests. Soon I will come to you, I will come and I will be the

suffering Jesus, Jesus crowned with thorns, covered with spit, with

scourges, Jesus with the Cross, Jesus on the Cross, Jesus expiring,

Jesus dying, Jesus with His opened side... for you, beloved Priests.

I want your love, I want to be in you, I want you to carry me, to

give me, for I have made you My other ‘selves’, that I may reach

all my souls. Read, meditate on all My Words and see Me, see

Jesus in His divine and human completeness. Carry Me, give Me,

make room for Me in your heart, let Me act in your Priesthood. I

long to make a permanent dwelling in you, so that My Purifying

Fire may always warm you, that Eternal Priest and Priest may be

one Being, one heart, one Priest. Pray, my souls who wait for me,

that my Priests may see the Abyss of Love of their Divine Master,

their Bridegroom, their Eucharistic Jesus whom they offer, con-

secrate, immolate. This poor creature will disappear. But my words,

God’s words, will not pass into eternity like my Love for you.

Suffering Jesus!”

Varazze 4-3-1968

Jesus: “You have looked at the night. It has descended upon

human beings. You have looked at the sky: it is night, it is dark,

but the stars are shining like flames of love. The stars, the sky, the

night are Order: they are Me. My Living Tabernacles are stars on

earth, they are Order: they are Me. They will go into the ‘night’ as

flames of love, for they will bring those who are Love and the night

of the spirit will pass in the Light that I give you. You are in the

night, in the starry night. You abide in Me, abandon yourselves to

Me, and give Me trust, ever-increasing, blind trust, because this is

what you place in your Jesus, Jesus in the Eucharist. Why, then,

have I desired to come to you? Why have I desired to make you,

my blessed souls, ‘my Tabernacles’? So that you, the first to begin

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the ‘Gift of Jesus’ Love’ in these times, may receive my light, my

comfort, my warmth that purifies you, inflames you with Me. I

have come to you without preparation, for I will prepare you. I will

be your Master, your Friend, your Father and day by day I will

make you understand what I desire of you, what I accept of you,

and what I reject of you. I will make you sensitive to my desires,

to my calls, for I desire to form my Temple in you. Other souls,

later on, will receive a special preparation, but for the first ‘Bearers’

of Jesus, I am offering and giving everything, for I wish to do

everything with my Grace. For now, this is how it begins. My Work

will have its victims in Me. I repeat the invitation made at the be-

ginning of the ‘dictations’: I desire little souls, victims, and many

of them. Seek them, ask them of my Mother, Mary Help of Chris-

tians. Do not fear human derision, for I permit it and it serves my

Glory. Give me everything: I, your Jesus, will comfort you. Others

like you will suffer the same pain, but it is then that I will triumph.

I repeat: not a year, two years, three years will pass before my Work

sees the light. Yes, you are in the night, My Living Tabernacles,

but it is a night with stars, for you have Me as your Gift of Love.

No, I will not leave your bosom, for my Divine Presence wishes

to pour my Grace into your soul, each day and each hour; for I wish

to transform your hearts and to bestow the wound of my Love upon

them. Go, go and give my Words. I, Jesus in the Eucharist, promise

you Me and the power of the Holy Spirit. All your poor sufferings

are pleasing and dear to Me: they are already in Me, in my Sacri-

fice, in my Blood, and I purify them and offer them to my Father

in Me. They are little flowers that are fragrant with Me. My Father

pleases them, and unites you with the Priests for whom you offer

them in Me. I and the Father will come in the Holy Spirit to ask

you for more flowers so that the little victim may be immolated in

the Immaculate Lamb. You are a bride of blood and do not know

it! Jesus the Eternal Priest blesses you. Jesus asks, Jesus gives,

Jesus loves you too much!”

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Varazze 7-3-1968 Jesus:

I want him (the Provincial) not to look at the creature but to

‘see’ only my Mercy. The creature is weak, she is defective, but I

am communicating my Thought, my Word to her; I am revealing

and will continue to reveal my Love for you, for all souls to her.

The human creature is expressing my Eucharistic Love as well as

she can. I am pouring it out with fullness in her so that she may re-

veal it to you, my Priests. I, Jesus, have given the poor creature no

ability: she is always poor. I, Jesus, bend down to her, and, to her,

as a breath of life, comes the grace of my Word. She suffers when

she writes because my Thought is God, and she does not know how

to translate it... Yes, it is I, I am Jesus in the Eucharist, who work

in you, in the contrast between the Divine and the Human, between

the Perfect and the imperfect. I, Jesus, harmonise everything, unify

everything by virtue of my Love. She has written out of obedience

to Me in the Priest. I will make, I will draw reasons for mercy for

other souls from her miseries, her inabilities. Vera will be trust, My

Trust, for other poor souls. I, Jesus, Eternal Priest, desire that you,

Salesian Priests, meditate on this creature’s words and read the

Abyss of my Love in them and recognise, through the human, the

way that I, the Eucharist, have opened and given you. My beloved

Priests, put into practice my Message of Love for souls.”

I am Jesus in the Eucharist speaking from the Tabernacles:

“I want to go out of the churches, I want to go into the streets, into

your families, to approach, to seek out those souls who do not seek

Me, who do not come to Me, who do not come to My House. I

want to reach these souls through my priests, through consecrated

souls. Take me with you, take me out: let my Eucharistic Presence

pour out Faith, Love, Peace to humanity. You in Me will be strong,

you with Me will love more, you will love better, you will be holy

Temples for Me. Only My Grace will reveal to you the depth of

My Eucharistic Love. Always seek Me in the poor, the wretched,

because I give all of Me to the poor, to the wretched. I, Jesus, have

given you the example. Jesus in the Eucharist.”

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Varazze 8-3-1968

Jesus: “Write, do not fear, do my will. Let me speak in you.

Let me repeat my Love for you, for souls a thousand thousand

times. Come into the ‘night’. It is almost night, but the stars are

shining. My light remains in the night: the Light is above you. The

night is necessary so that the light of dawn may come to others.

Lean on Me, and abide in My Love. I will confirm your obedience

through Father Gabriel and in obedience you will be united with

Me forever, for eternity. Jesus wants the proof of your love in

obedience from you now. Be serene, be humble, be always ready

for Me. I have given you and will give you My consolations be-

cause I come to you and your soul sees Me. Is this not enough for

you? Now rest in Me and love My Word made easy for you; love

My thoughts of Love repeated for you, for all souls; love Jesus who

does not tire of seeking, of calling through you, His souls. My

Mother will help you: I have given her to you. My Mother smiles

on you: go to Her! I, Jesus, bless you. I give you my Peace: the

Peace of my Eucharistic Heart. Your love for Me is the ‘Gift’ that

I make and increase in you. Jesus loved by you.”

Varazze 12-3-1968

“Jesus and His Holy Will. I want another manuscript, a unique

one, to be sent to Father Gabriel. It will be the last one handwritten

by you.”

Varazze 13-3-1968

Jesus in silence. “Write, Begin. I will help you to overcome

human barriers. My Grace breathes in the stormy sea. I come from

the sea to you who are shipwrecked in the storm of the soul. Now

I descend into your soul with Grace, and I infuse you with Light

and Warmth. In the journey of the night I will lead you to the Love

of the Father. Immolation, purification, redemption in the Living

Tabernacles to host Me. Now My Word for souls goes in the lan-

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guage of Love, and breathes like a breath of wind where it rests...

I am Jesus hidden in the Beloved Heart, and in you I seek rest.

Jesus does not speak to your afflicted hearts, but He remains in

you: flame that burns, illuminates, blazes. It is Jesus who builds

the Temple! Jesus to the Living Tabernacles in the silence of the

’night’. Look at Mary!”

Varazze 14-3-1968

Jesus: “Write, my child, I am here. Be silent and listen to me.

I am giving you my heart: my Heart, my life. You must write what

you feel. You partake of Me. I will guide you. Courage, trust... it is

Jesus! The Holy Spirit is here in the Light and in Love. You must

write, you must... I am pouring My Grace into you, I am nourishing

and feeding your soul with Me, and I am drawing it to Me. I am

drawing you to me, I am taking you to Me. I am detaching your

soul from the flesh and it will bleed. I want you to be here, in Me,

in My Flesh and in My Blood: one Soul. Poor little victim immo-

lated in Me: victim for you, for my souls! Surrender yourself to

Me, to your Jesus. The Holy Spirit comes to you, He descends from

Heaven and My Father gives Him to you. You no longer think of

the world, of the life of the world, but of the life of Heaven. Live

for my Love and for my Kingdom until I have said everything. I

am here with you, and the soul ‘sees’. I have come to you from the

sea. I remain with you now: Light of Love, Message of my Father

to you, to you, to souls. I abide in you in the Light of the Holy

Spirit. Now you will burn. Everything will be changed. Now every-

thing will change. I abide in you, and you will be taken to Me.

There is no farewell, for I will not leave you, I will not depart from

you. I in you, and you in Me: the Wine and the Water. Jesus and

the soul. One offering, one Immolation, one sacrifice.”

Varazze 15-3-1968

Jesus: “I want you to write, to obey Me, to suffer the Love of

your Jesus in Me. I am Fire, fire of love. I want My Temple to burn,

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to burn with My own Love. I want to take you from the world,

from worries, from thoughts, for I want you for Me: in the world

but not of the world! I come to you as Light, as Strength, as Fire

that burns: Love that consumes. Yes, I enrapture you that your soul

may come to Me. I, Jesus, have immersed your soul in my Side....

and I will soon introduce you into the wound of my Heart. I will

sustain you in the Love of My Mother. Soon I will come to you:

wait for Me. Jesus on fire for you.”

Varazze 20-3-1968

Jesus: “My child, write my Name: Jesus. Seek rest and peace

in my Name, seek my Grace, seek abandonment. Now is the time

for you to suffer this, and love me, serve me and glorify me in

abandonment. I will come to you from time to time: it is proof for

you, proof for priestly souls. Yes, I want you to read my Messages,

meditate on them, for they will produce ‘graces’. Return to read,

to meditate... until I, Jesus, return to you. Love must be desired to

be received. The Love that descends on you is waiting for Me, for

My Word. The Love that I seek in you is continuity of thoughts,

works, sacrifices, joys given by Me to you, and through you to

souls. Write to My priests that Jesus in the Eucharist puts His souls

to a test of love which they will pass through: a test of Faith. You

will not be excluded either, but Faith and Love with my Grace will

be light in the darkness, a safe harbour where you must already

take refuge as paternal arms outstretched to you, to souls in trial,

which will welcome you in the difficult hours. I am going now. It

is a time of Passion, of Penance. But with Me, behind Me come

you, my souls, so that you may be partakers of Me in my Euchar-

istic Love, be partakers of my Passion. I have not told you that I

will not return, but it is good that you, that my priests, should rec-

ognise Me in the travails, struggles, obstacles and pains that you

encounter, receive and experience because, as I told you before,

my Word for you, for souls is pain and love. Now live what I have

announced to you so that you may recognise Me. You, my

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daughter, will yearn for my Word, and it will return to you after

the trial, like water upon the scorched earth, like a long-desired

tear. Now is the time for silence, for recollection, prayer. When

you yearn for my Word, remember that I have given you many:

many for you, for everyone. When I return to you, beloved Priests,

I will lavishly pour out My Spirit so that you ‘see’ Me. Pray, pray

that I, Jesus, may reveal Myself to you. Pray for the ‘poor girl’ who

is writing so that My mercy and My love may not fail; pray for all

humanity, for peace, for the weak, for the good and for the ‘sad’;

pray for yourselves that you may love, understand and forgive one

another. We shall remain alive in the Immolation, Victim and Priest

and Soul: union of Love, of Sacrifice. Union of Souls, union and

fusion of Father with his children through his only Son. Heaven

and earth in the arms of my Father: moments of Love in which God

is in souls, and souls in God for Me. This is the outpouring of my

Heart that Jesus, the Eternal Priest, leaves to you, to ‘Living Tab-

ernacle’ Priests and to Eucharistic Jesus-bearing souls. I am going

now, and I am leaving Vera a Message of Love. Take yourself to

my Heart with humility, and wait at the door until the Bridegroom

opens. I, Jesus, will rejoice if you know how to await the arrival

of the Beloved with trust. I said to you this morning at the foot of

the Cross: ‘Where is your faith?’ You must base everything on

faith. Courage, courage! I am waiting for you, each day, in My Of-

fering; I receive you, I unite you to Me through My Priest. Cour-

age! I am with you, upon you. Tell me, my child, when has Jesus

ever left you alone? Never! Now evening has fallen. Now it is

night: night for you, for the Living Tabernacles. Always be lighted

lamps before Me. Lamps of Love. Jesus in the Eucharist.”

Varazze 25-3-1968

Jesus: “I have announced sorrow to you and not joy. Here is the

sign of My Love for you, little soul; here is the wound in your heart:

wound of Love, Eucharistic wound. You will see Me in this wound,

and I will take this to My Heart, for I want to draw you to Me in the

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pain that purifies, that inflames... You, Living Tabernacles, are the

‘victims’ of the triumph of Me: of the triumph of Me! I, Jesus, reveal

My ardent desire: I want to ‘be carried’ by priestly and consecrated

souls. I, Jesus, want to go through the streets of the world. I, Jesus,

want souls to give everything for Me, that I may live in them, and

through them seek, love other souls. Jesus in you and upon you!

I will reveal Myself again. My Message is on earth and I want it to

be accepted so that new light may radiate from it for humanity.”

Speak about the Blessed Virgin: “I am Mary, the Mother of

Jesus; I am the Blessed Virgin: the Immaculate Conception. Go to

confession and be confirmed in obedience to the Voice and inspi-

rations of the Holy Spirit. Put yourself in authorised obedience,

without which my Son’s thoughts and desires of love and salvation

for you will not be revealed. Jesus in the Eucharistic Species will

return to you..., and the Church will turn to Jesus made human in

the soul: in the soul transformed into my Jesus. Tabernacles will

multiply for the salvation of souls; Tabernacles will be sacred

temples through which my Jesus will visit other souls. Tabernacles

will not live for themselves, but to carry and give Jesus to souls;

and therefore they will no longer belong to themselves but to the

Father, to God, through my Jesus. I, Mary, the Immaculate Con-

ception, have given you a gift as a ‘sign’ of my Love and my predi-

lection for you who have borne my Jesus under the Eucharistic

Species. An Angel from Heaven has descended upon you, and now

your soul is gladdened by the pure presence of two Angels: the

Guardian Angel and the Angel of Eucharistic Love. This, for all

the Living Tabernacles. Today I, Mary most holy, your Mother,

have given you a comfort, a guide, a sign of my motherly love. Re-

main in my sacred Temple. Rest assured, my child, I am Mary: the

Mother of Jesus. I am the Immaculate Conception. I bless you, I

bless you all. Trust, my daughter, I am your Mother: the Mother of

your soul. You will find strength and trust in me, and I will call

you to correspond to God’s Thought. Before Easter Sunday go and

present yourself in confession because obedience has value when

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bound by the Priest. I will open the way for you. I am Mary, the

Mother of Jesus. The Immaculate Conception, for the glory of God

and the Redemption of souls.”

[Vera] Writing to Fr Gabriel

29-3-1968 “Perhaps it would be good to say the Blessed Vir-

gin’s Magnificat and unite ourselves with Her in praise and thanks-

giving because She is always with us in this charity. Perhaps when

we say it, let us say to Her that we wish to unite ourselves with the

souls who have borne Her Eucharistic Jesus so that all souls may

be, in Her Hands, a single Soul that praises, thanks and magnifies

the Lord with Her, with Mary, because these souls have already

seen the ‘new Light’ for the humanity of today, of tomorrow. If

you, as a priest, would like to communicate this to the Living Tab-

ernacles in Carmagnola, so that they are always one soul with the

Blessed Virgin before God through her Son Jesus. I will begin this

evening. We must remain united through the Blessed Virgin and

completely offered to Jesus in the Eucharist, through the Hands of

the Immaculate, so that Jesus’ Work (the Living Tabernacles) may

see the light soon. Yes, Father Gabriel, the Magnificat, for this is

the song that must be raised from our hearts to God! Inform Car-

magnola and Father Borra. Yes, him too: he will be delighted. I

will tell Father Bocchi. And when you are sad, when you suffer the

most, when you retire alone and watch... in the night with the stars,

sing with the Blessed Virgin: ‘My soul magnifies the Lord and my

spirit rejoices in God, my Saviour...’ Jesus will be with you more,

much more. Jesus loves you very much and this love comforts him

because Jesus is in you, always in you. You must offer Jesus in the

Holy Mass, through Mary Most Holy, all the Living Tabernacles,

‘victims’ in the one and holy Victim, as you offer Me because we

are the ‘League of Souls’ and that is one soul. Get consent in writ-

ing from these souls and then do it. In the meantime we will pray.

We are not ten or eleven souls but one in Jesus in the Eucharist and

sacrificed in Him. Jesus is love that gives, that asks; Jesus is love

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that draws to the Fire. Let us go to this Fire, together, Father Ga-

briel, it is Heaven, it is Paradise, it is pain, it is exile, it is Jesus.

Jesus helps us. He will help us because He knows that we are small,

little ones and He does not want us to trust ourselves but only Him

and His Mother. His Mother is beautiful, she is so beautiful: she

has the beauty of God! The Blessed Virgin is God’s Love. It is she

who helps us, she who intercedes: we will recognise the Blessed

Virgin in events. For now let us unite through the priests! Praise,

honour and glory to God through the holy Immaculate Conception!

God, I humbly praise and thank you with all creation and the saints

and angels because you are good.”

Varazze 18 April 1968

“Follow me! Write, do not fear. I am here, I am Jesus with you.

I made you suffer for My glory, for My triumph. My Cross is

heavy, but it is a Cross of Love: I want to give it to you, who are

nothing without Me because I rejoice in filling the poor with goods,

with riches. You are now a partaker of Me. Receive all suffering

from Me out of Love. I have continued and will continue to build

My Temple in you because I desire to return to you. All of you, wait

for Me... in acceptance of suffering, of renunciation. Wait for Me

in trusting prayer, wait for Me in the offering of you to Me. My

Work will have its victims, little victims in Me. I welcome you in

my Immolation to the Father for His Glory, that from Heaven my

Blessing may descend abundantly for the Living Tabernacles. This

outpouring of Love from my Father to souls through me must

travel the earth, the seas, the skies... It must reach my souls

wherever they are. My invitation goes out to the Pope, to the Holy

Father Paul VI to whom Jesus communicates His grace, His fa-

vours, His desires. The Pope is prepared to receive my Message.

Pray! I repeat: pray! Yes, this evening I will reveal other desires

to you; desires that you do not know.”

Preparation of the Soul aspiring to become a “Living

Tabernacle”.

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“The Soul consecrated2 to Me will receive a particular Love,

an attraction to Me which is all of my own. Alive and Present in

the Altar. The Priest who follows up this soul will detect a sign of

a calling and will therefore bring it by degrees to knowledge of the

‘Gift’. He will begin the soul’s preparation with detachment from

the things of the world and creatures. He must attend to a work of

purification that will lead the soul to Me, prepare it for Me, for My

sensitive dwelling in it. The period of preparation varies according

to the soul and love. At first the soul will carry Me for a few hours,

then the length of time will vary. The soul that by My Grace has

become a Living Tabernacle will carry Me for many, many hours

of the day and sometimes, as the case may be, of the night. Th soul

will place me in the Tabernacle in the Church at other times of the

day. But I wish to share every work, every occupation with the

soul, that I may be the guide of the soul that gives itself wholly to

Me. The agony of the Tabernacle, the agony of solitude in which I

am abandoned by so many souls, must be shared by the soul that

loves Me and desires to become My comforting, consoling angel.

‘Bearers of Jesus in the Eucharist’ are Angels who never abandon

Me; and I will not abandon them. Later, in secret and with special

approval, when consecrated souls increase they will become my

Temples, they will place me in their dwelling with incense and

prayer.3 No, my Gift has no limit in time: I desire it to be forever.

When I descend from Heaven with all my Glory, with my Heart

wounded with Love for all humankind I will seek my Living Tab-

ernacles through whom I, Jesus in the Eucharist, will have given

myself to many, many other souls. They, the Living Tabernacles,

will be those Chalices in which I will offer Myself for the salvation

2 “The consecrated soul...”. Reference to the soul of the priest aspiring to be

a Living Tabernacle, so there is an alternation of masculine and feminine terms

in the message [more noticeable in Italian than in English] depending on whether

Jesus is referring to the soul or the priest. Furthermore, ‘consecrated soul’ is also to

be understood in a general sense as referring to all consecrated men and women.

3 “In secret and with special approval...”: the work must be brought about

through ecclesiastical approval.

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of souls, of humanity, until the end. Have you now understood Me,

Vera? Do you understand my Message of Love, of salvation for

souls? No, my Message is not projected in time: I speak of the pres-

ent hour. You who work for Me, unite, I want you united: one soul

in Me. Pray, offer, suffer for the sake of my Kingdom, that my

Mercy may triumph. I want you to wait for Me with trust, humility,

abandonment. I will come to you because my Father sends Me into

your soul in the Love of the Holy Spirit. Obey the call as I, Jesus,

always obey my Father. Yes, I have taken your poor hands in Mine.

I took them from you, from Father Gabriel. I still desire other

hands, consecrated hands to unite them with Mine, to place My

Gifts in them. What you have suffered in the recent past has been

permitted by My Father. Yes, you did My Will even though you

did not ‘see’ Me. Everything now is as I have desired for you, for

your serenity. I want you to follow Me to the end. Now, I in you,

you live by Me. Jesus through Vera for all my little, little souls, to

whom I give more because they have nothing: give everything. I

open my arms to these souls if they run to Me like a little child

who doubts himself and seeks his Father, his Strength, his Love,

and abandons himself to his heart, certain that he knows and can

give him everything. Little souls, as small as you are, come to Me:

My arms are extended to you to welcome you. Come, little soul,

come: feed on Me, and I will live eternally in you. Jesus who loves,

loves ‘his little ones’ without end.”

Varazze 19-4-1968

Jesus: “I give you my Enlightenment for you to write. The two

loaves are symbolic of the two confessions. The grey one, similar

to ashes, refers to the first confession and now no longer exists.

The bread that I mould is the symbol of the second confession. The

latter lives in My Heart, and I have united you to Me in the obedi-

ence of My Word. Now you are bound to Me in the Sacrament, and

I will still use you to ‘speak’ through you to the priests, to ‘my’

souls. Always welcome Me with humility. You must communicate

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My favours to people of good will, and you will live only for this.

There are many Priests chosen by Me and the happy announcement

will come to them. Carry me in sorrow and joy within you, carry

me in everyday life, take me to other souls. Take me to the Priests

in My Messages that they may wait for Me. I triumph where I am

defeated, I go where they do not seek me and do not wait for me.

Where there is unbelief, I will give the Faith that I AM. I will guide

your soul that it may go by the paths traced out by Me, and follow

Me over cliffs and along level paths. I will give My Strength to

your soul. Come, My child, follow Me, for the journey has begun

and we are already going together. I lead... you follow me! Jesus.”

Varazze 22-4-1968

Jesus: “Easter, Resurrection! Now you rise with Me to the new

life of Grace, suffering and love. My daughter, My Love is blind:

it does not see the creature’s faults and miseries. It is My Love that

overflows, and wants to give...to give. I give you my Love, my

wounded Heart, my Hands...; give me yours so that I may join them

with mine. I, Jesus Crucified and Risen, will sanctify your poor

hands; I will bind them with Love and Gift to the Church, to Me.

You will write for the Church, for Me, for souls. Yes, this is the

Voice of Jesus in the Holy Spirit. I give you these enlightenments.

I draw the soul to Me so that you may hear Me. There will still

come days of sadness, of sorrow for you, so that your soul may be

purified in this washing. Gather yourself in My Heart as a nest of

love, comfort and solace. While you wait, write for your Jesus. I

wish to speak to my Salesian priests because I desire the dawning

and flourishing of my Work of Love from them. I desire that they

come to know my Messages of Love, for I, Jesus, will bestow spiri-

tual graces on those who meditate on my Words. Therefore, let

them pray for the Holy Father to bind you to my Work of Love. I

want my outpouring of Love to pass from the Priests to souls; I

want the Salesians to give me to youth, I want to dwell in them

too, even if it is brief; for whoever will have taken me with a spirit

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of Love, of reparation, of self-giving to their brothers and sisters

by my Means, will receive the wound of my Love. When the

‘manuscript’ is be known by My Priests, I will communicate My-

self to whomsoever I wish by means of you, of My hands in you.

Then you will disappear, my daughter, so that my Word lives on.

Now offer yourself to Me in My Immolation. I receive you.”

Varazze 26-4-1968

Jesus: “You must not do anything without Me. I will warn you

when I want to speak to you and to souls. Now you have My per-

mission, My consent to write. No one will come to you and ask for

My word except someone who is inspired by Me. The Holy Spirit

guides you and my souls. You must turn to Me in your afflictions.

I see, I know... Trust in Me! All around you must be silence. Not

light, not comfort, not anything but Me. It is Jesus who isolates

you from everyone so that you seek My comfort, My help, My for-

giveness, My love. I want you to seek Me! You are not alone; I

have not left you alone. (After a pause). Write, write my child. Do

not look around at those who listen to or believe in Me. I want your

faith, your trust. Enter into Me, into My thoughts of Love. You

need not grieve if My Words do not flow like river water. Have

you ever seen the earth rise up and go up? The world reaching up-

wards, and the seas, and nature? Have you seen the sky bend down

to stand on the earth? And the stars and planets and the sun? If this

happened the harmony of creation would be broken. But that does

not happen because everything follows an order: God’s order.

Everything obeys a voice: God’s Voice. Everything obeys God. In

you the harmony of the soul is confused: you do not know how to

obey the voice of the Church, and therefore Me. You must accus-

tom yourself to trials, for through these you will see Me. You must

fight against yourself, your doubts, your temptations so that you

may run to Me. Yes, emptiness is around you. No, nothing is fin-

ished because I am beginning to build...in you, outside of you. I

want to form a Temple in your poor heart where you feel that you

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always welcome Me. When it is empty: seek me, pray for me to

come and occupy it. When I am in you, take care to seek the com-

pany of Angels so that they may make up for the adoration that you

do not know how to do. When the Beloved speaks to the little be-

loved, listen with humility and gratitude, and do not let the world

penetrate and disturb our conversation. If you receive me in this

way I can manifest my Love because I want only soul alone in my

Heart, without disturbance, without fear. Then it will be the true

encounter: the soul and I and the soul receives my Light from Me.

Propose this programme for yourself each day: I must live for

Jesus. Therefore seek, procure the circumstances that can leave you

free and dedicated to Me alone. Ask Me for time so that you may

give it all to Me: for My Glory. Ask, insist until I grant it to you.

Offer me your intentions, so that they may become immolation to

the Divine Will with Me. Now wait for Me, work in your heart to

prepare a place for Me made of so much love. I will return.”

Varazze 3 May 1968

Jesus: “You must write out of love for me. You must speak to

people with my Words. I am the messenger of Peace within you

and beyond you. I desire you to take up this cross that I offer you

with my Wounds, so that you may be regenerated to new life by

them. Only through my Wounds will you reach my Heart wounded

with love for you and for all souls. Lay your faults your vices and

your miseries in each Wound. I will take everything in your effort.

I must work hard in your soul so that you see the Light. You are

still in the darkness that is prolonged for you because of the purifi-

cation that your soul needs. You must trust only in Me and in My

Mother, for Good, Strength, Love and Light will come to you from

Me, from My Mother. Do not stop along the way and do not get

lost because of obstacles; they are permitted by Me, and you must

struggle to overcome them with My Grace. I want you good,

humble, patient. Be silent with people and speak with Me. I want

confidence, confidence from you. You must tell me everything: be

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assured that I will always listen to you. I recommend meeting with

my Mother. Deal with my Mother in every creature, speak as if

you were speaking to my Mother, give as if you were giving to my

Mother. It will be difficult to begin with but She will tenderly come

to your aid. Anchor yourself in this way: the way of Mary, the

Mother of God. Begin at once, and She will help you to fulfil those

tasks that Heaven has established for you. I will come to you

through Her so that you may trust and believe that Jesus loves you,

inspires you, speaks to you. I would not leave you in error after so

many trials; I would not allow your ruin: I who love you to an im-

possible degree, humanly speaking. If you are writing today it is

because I want it, I desire it, I allow it. Come, my soul, come to

your Jesus: the Eucharistic Bridegroom promised to you, to my

Tabernacles. You will be the Chalices that I will come to fill; you

the Members of my own Body. I am Jesus, and in my holy Name

receive my Gift: receive Me. Pray, even without fervour, without

light, without relief. I always listen to you. Be still, for I give you

My Peace. It will come through consolations, but these are fleeting,

and you must pass through other trials. Then, you and I will speak,

and I will have no more secrets from you. Now go to Mary, go to

my Mother and begin her Way where you will always meet with

her. My gift to you is my Mary, the Way of Mary. I promise you

my Grace. Walk with Her: think, believe, have faith in meeting

Her, but deal with Her in every person until the day comes when

you will live for my Mother, with my Mother. Jesus, Love of the

Holy Spirit, has spoken to you and now accept these Words of mine

in the Name of my Mother, the Mother of God. The Immaculate

Conception is close to you and it is She who has dispelled your

fears. One day you will see her because she is your Mother. I, Jesus,

want your love, so much love. I want everything from you. I am

waiting for so much love. Your Jesus.”

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BOOKLET 5

8 May 1968

I humbly offer it to the Blessed Virgin Mary:

Please enjoy it and take this booklet

into your Mother’s Hands.

O Mary, my mother,

help me out of love for Jesus!

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8-5-1968

Jesus: “I want you to tell Fr Gabriel the following: do not be

carried away by facile enthusiasms, but pursue the goal with loving

effort and patience. The trials are not over, but beyond these the

light will arise. He must not desist, but persevere. I must urge him

to be even more cautious, because for now it is My Will that the

eyes of many are closed. He must focus on Me, he must be certain

that I have willed the trials, the uncertainties, so that your faith may

triumph. Vera too, you have suffered the same shock, but if you

trust in Me, you will triumph with Me. I will come to you with My

Word, and you will write, for this is My Will. For both of you there

will be no comfort, for you are the victims of My Work. Vera will

write because I will dictate, and Gabriel, be reassured: my Word

will come to you so that you may keep it. Act this way for now.

Finally I will open my Ways and you will be happy with My

triumph, happy to have served me in trials. Gabriel, be reassured:

Jesus has spoken to you. I bless you and await your love, your faith

in Me. Vera will write, she will write to you because I want her to,

for my Glory. Jesus the Priest to you, Gabriel.”

8 May 1968

Jesus: “For you, my daughter! Yes, I am a Father and I take

pity on you who are my creature. I want to make you happy, so

happy in My Kingdom. It is good for now that you suffer the

agonies of My Heart, that you share with Me the pain caused by

sin. Now you must suffer for yourself, for the purification of your

soul. Tomorrow you will suffer the same agonies for other souls,

but then you will be stronger and you will know how to see My

face, even amid crosses and barrenness. Indulge in Grace for I am

FATHER for you, first and foremost. Why am I speaking to you,

yet not speaking to other souls, though they are beautiful and pure?

I have come for the poor, for the sick, for sinners. Is there any point

which you feel excluded from? You are poor, you are sick, you are

a sinner. My Love is so immense that it has sought out those most

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in need of my care in this wounded world. I am the Physician of

your soul: I want to cure it! I am rich, and I want to make you par-

taker of my Riches, of my Gifts, for you have nothing. I am the

Holy Victim who can erase your sins with my own Blood. Now

you know why I have sought you without any merit on your part,

and everything has been given to you and is given to you as a free

gift. I entrust you to my Mother. I will bring you ever closer to Her,

and you, Vera, you, my daughter, love Me and trust in Me: learn to

trust Me. I will not deceive you because these words flow from the

river of my Grace. My Work will arise: I promise you. It will arrive

in every part of the world because it is part of my Redemption, be-

cause it is my Will. Rest, my poor little soul. While you are at rest

I will guard your soul as a father guards his creature. Now Jesus is

with you: rest my soul, poor little one! I am with you: I will not

leave you during this month for I always obey my Mother. I am

sending you to Her, and She will give you Me. Love her, love her

much, honour her, make her known and loved: she will love you

more. I bless you from the Cross, from the Holy Tabernacle, from

the hand of the Priest, so that you may come to Me.”

9 May 1968

Jesus: “And I promised ‘I will not leave you’! Now, even

amidst the pain and suffering you are more serene, you are less

weak, you feel that I am watching over you. I will guide you, you

be docile to my calls. Let your Angel also guide you and I will pour

so much love into your soul for the Angels. They will infuse you

with strength in trials, they will defend you in dangers. The Angel

who is near you speaks to you in My Name and reveals to you what

I want you to do for Me: obey with love. You will come to Turin:

I will wait for you with my Mother where we will meet through

her maternal mediation. I will be there and you will recognise Me...

Trust, faith, love in Me! Now rest: I have accepted your obedience

to my inspiration. You will write much and complete your task: the

time for you is not long and you still have much to do. Trust in Me

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and in Her: my Mother! Now rest: I will remain with you! Jesus,

Life for you! And Life I give you: my Life! Give me yours: I desire

it. Give it to me: day by day, hour by hour... Learn to give your life

to Me in this way and I will pour My Life into you. Life for you is

Jesus: Gift.”

14 May 1968

Jesus: “The Living Tabernacles multiply in my Thought. They

are before you in my Vision and await my word. I will await you

in Turin, in the blessed land, and there you will draw strength and

faith among my Martyrs.1 Go to them so that each of them may

give you faith, courage, holiness. They are rich in Me! Then take

my words to my Priests, take the announcement of my Gift so that

it may not be delayed. The Living Tabernacle, soon, must be Jesus

among people, Jesus in your daily life, so that you do not forget

Me but communicate Me to other people. I in you, in your soul;

I on you, in constant communion with your soul! When there are

many of you I will send you far away so that my Gift may reach

all people. Make a careful selection of my Dictations and send

them to the Holy Father. I will be with you with my Grace.”

To Pope Paul VI, my beloved pastor.2 “Paul, my beloved son,

1 “I will wait for you in Turin, among my Martyrs...”: reference to Valdocco

in Turin (valley of the slain) and the Martyrs Adventor, Octavius and Solutor who

suffered martyrdom in Valdocco, Turin. They were part of the Theban legion and

were martyred in the 3rd century. It was here that the Basilica of Mary Help of Chris-

tians and the Salesian Work arose. On a night in 1845 Don Bosco dreamt of the Vir-

gin Mary who told him: “I want God to be honoured in a very special way in this

place where the glorious Martyrs of Turin, Adventor and Octavius, suffered their

martyrdom, on these grounds that were bathed and sanctified by their blood.” (Bio-

graphical Memoirs) After that She took a step forward and with her foot she indicated

to Don Bosco the exact spot where the martyrdom took place. It is interesting to

note the link between Jesus’ invitation to Vera to go to Valdocco, to the land of the

Martyrs, and the message of 7.6.1968 in which Jesus also indicates, among the aims

of the Work, the aim to “create new Martyrs of the Faith who know how to prepare

and await my descent from Heaven”. Message 7.6.1968.

2 “To Pope Paul VI, my beloved pastor...”: this is the first of the four Dictations

addressed specifically to Paul VI.

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chosen by the Blessed Trinity, As the helmsman of my barque

amidst the storms of battered humanity, I place in your hands my

message of love and salvation for all souls. My Work of Love di-

rected by Me, Jesus, must be spread soon and from you must spring

those enlightenments whose light must embrace humanity. I give

Myself to the souls consecrated to Me, and I will be for them. I

will go through the ways of the world. I have chosen new temples:

living temples. I cherish the little soul that it may console Me and

love Me and give Me. I yearn for the strong soul that it may die in

Me and be Me alone. I form new Temples, new Churches that live,

that leave, that work together with Me: for I am always the Master,

the Guide, the Redeemer. I am Saviour and I want to save all souls.

Every soul who will carry Me will have ‘My way’ open to holiness.

I, Jesus, have given you a vocation: fishers of souls. You do not

fish far-off souls without Me. I, Jesus, will come with you, on you,

in you! Jesus, One and Three in one, spreads out in the immensity

of His Love. I go under the Eucharistic Species to seek what is

about to be lost; I go to seek the sheep that do not want to seek my

fold; I go to call those who no longer listen to me. May ‘my

Temples’ soon be formed, that I may take up residence in them.

You, my first Living Tabernacle, establish my League of Souls,

that with you it may be the strength and the army that fights for

my Glory and the salvation of humanity. Behold, I return among

you as the beginning of the hour that will precede my coming to

earth. Confirm my divine Will: give it to consecrated souls, give it

to the world, and entrust everything to her whom you love so much

with me. Jesus, Eternal Priest, to the First Priest of his Church:

Pope Paul VI. In the Father, in the Son, in the Holy Spirit, may

my Will also be done on Earth.

Angels who offer Chalices to God3 so that Jesus dwells in you,

offer them with Him to God the Father before His most high

Throne that I, Jesus, may never be separated from My creature:

human creature and divine creature. Let love be founded, let grace

3 The Living Tabernacles.

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be spread, let the earth be covered with Mercy, for I, the Immacu-

late Lamb, have covered humanity with Temples, with Me. And I,

I will lift up my hands to Heaven in the small Hosts to once again

cry out, from my Living Tabernacles: ‘Father, forgive them, for

they know not what they do.’ And the Father, through you, will see

Me in each of you: his Son; he will see Me, so many Jesuses, so

many children; he will see a spotless Lamb in everyone: his Vic-

tim, Me! I love my Living Tabernacles; I love them now; I have

loved them from the moment I gave myself to you as food for the

soul. I have seen you, I see you, I look for you. Welcome me: I am

Jesus in the Eucharist, I am the Love that gives and gives. I am

Jesus, and I look at my flock through my Pastor Paul VI.

Jesus, High Priest, to you who read Me and know Me and wait

for Me and you know... Look at Me: I am Jesus in LOVE, in

MERCY, in GRACE, in FORGIVENESS. Look at me: you are

wounded by Me; and in you I am to give Myself; look at me: I am

Jesus and to you I ask your ‘Yes, Lord!’ For the Glory of the Father,

of the Son, of the Holy Spirit who are all a Work of Love. Mother!

invoke her: Mother! Mother! Her open arms are extended to you:

call upon her! I give you my Mother, for this Work of Love I give

you My Mother, Mother of lost children as She has ever been for

humanity, and who were found, saved, redeemed through Her.

Jesus to you, my beloved Tabernacles, through my Mother to you,

through your beloved Pope, for he will bind on earth what in

Heaven is the will, love, forgiveness of God, Creator and Father

for all His creatures. Amen.”

14 May 1968

“Jesus smiles at you, looks at you, loves you...; He draws you

to Himself. He wants you to meet His eyes, His gaze. He extends

His hand to you: take it and let Him guide you. He craves only

this... He met you in the Valley of Love where you were wounded

and humiliated. Now He has taken you with Himself, now He

wants you in His breath, in the beating of His heart, in the day, in

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the night, in time, for eternity. Now you have ‘seen’ each other,

you have recognised your Jesus: He whom your soul ‘sees’. Now

you see him, now you know that it was Jesus. Do not doubt. (Here,

the writer notes in brackets: ‘I asked who was dictating’). I am

Jesus in the voice of the Angel who is near you: He reports to you

for Me. Trust, you will come to Turin: I am waiting for you there.

I want you there because you must get used to knowing Me, to rec-

ognising Me. I defend you from dangers. Trust! Yes, you will come

to Turin: I promise you! You will come for Me, and at the foot of

My Mother’s Altar you will meet Me! In My Gift is your strength,

your life; in My Gift is the wound of love that I will bestow upon

you. Yearn for my Gift, empty yourself in my wounds. I bring you

my Cross, this new and holy Cross for you: the book of dictation,

of copying; the book of my Love for souls. In this book I will place

my Name, Jesus, if you have written it with love and patience.

Many flowers will be gathered from this book: meadow flowers

for little souls; garden flowers for souls cultivated in my service.

You must still receive much Light, much intelligence. The Holy

Spirit will shower you with good things because of my Work. Now

you are where my Saints, with my Mother, have seen you, and you

are also in their thoughts, for I am Thought in them. Live with my

Saints, with my Martyrs and from them receive strength and cour-

age. Learn to love them more so that their Martyrdom may be the

wealth they offer you. Where they are, there you remain: I want

your soul to be a martyr of My Love. Remain in them to come to

Me. Come to the Blessed Land: the Blessed Virgin awaits you!4

Ask this unique favour for yourself in my name from the Blessed

Virgin, the Holy Martyrs, St Tarcisius. Wait for me. I will not leave

you any longer... So great is my Love that I will not leave you any

longer in darkness. I will give you other Saints as you see, other

help, other intercessors in Heaven for you. Love Jesus, you have

met Him as He promised you. Still we shall meet in different forms,

4 New invitation to go to Valdocco, Turin, to the Basilica of Mary Help of

Christians.

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until you do not take your gaze from Me, for Mine will always be

upon You. The Father looks at the little one and holds him up that

he may fall no more. Now He embraces him because he was dis-

couraged, perhaps he had considered himself an orphan, without

the love torn from his breast. Now I will give you two more gifts

so that they may be wings to prepare you for the flights that precede

the return of the Eucharistic ‘Gift’.5 Hold Me close to your heart.

I am in you! Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!”

Turin 17 May 1968 (In the Sanctuary of Mary Help of Christians).

(Before the painting of the Sacred Heart). Jesus. “Do not be afraid:

I am with you.”

Turin 18 May 1968 (In the Chapel of Relics: at the foot of the painting

of the Apparition).

“Tell the crowds of people that times are grave. They will be

saved only through my intercession. I have come to propagate and

spread devotion to my Motherly Heart and love for my Son in the

Most Holy Eucharist. My Son Jesus gives Himself to souls so that

they may live of Jesus. Tabernacles will see the light in my

Motherly Heart. Open yourselves to Love, to Grace, to the Gift

of God to become Temples of my Jesus. The way to the Living

Tabernacles is me: the Help of Christians. May the Work arise from

Turin, in the Work of St John Bosco! From the Pope, light and

approval. Let prayers and vows be made that I may soon come

upon you for ever. Mary Help of Christians to Vera through the

intercession of St John Bosco, in this Chapel of the Apparition.”

18 May 1968 Close to the Crucified Jesus and his holy martyrs.

Chapel of the Relics.

5 Eucharistic Gift. Vera would have Jesus in the Eucharist with her in the last

months of her earthly life during her hospitalisation at Santa Corona, where she

would die.

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Jesus: “And here is the cradle of my Message, of my triumph,

because the Salesian Work will bring my light to the world. The

first Living Tabernacles will start from here with ecclesiastical ap-

proval: martyrs of the Faith and of Me! I, Jesus, have said it all.

Write, write before you leave, for the Holy Father: ‘May Rome be

given and offered to Me, in the Eucharistic Sacrifice, and from you,

Pontiff Maximus, may the flames of my Love, my Bread of Life,

alive and present in every corner of the earth, depart and multiply

in the streets of the world. Let Turin send its Missionaries, its

young people, there where I suffer, where I groan under injustice.

Prepare my Temples so that I, Jesus, may go to visit, to console, to

suffer with you in love. Jesus in the Soul, with His Grace, Jesus

upon you that you may offer your body to Me: union of human and

divine creature to Jesus Master, to Jesus in the Eucharist. May

every Living Tabernacle say at the end of its earthly exile: “it is

no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives and works in my

soul, who moves my heart to the consummation of charity; it is

Christ whom I bring to others, whom I give to my brothers and

sisters, whom I communicate. I have given Him my heart and soul,

I have lent Him my poor body as a temple which He has erected

from eternity for His dwelling among humankind.” It is a little

Church that goes, but the whole church for I, Christ, am your Head

and each soul is part of my Body. My Martyrs...

To you, Vera. When the notebook is completed, it will be de-

livered and placed in the hands of a Superior for the ‘choice’ of the

most Eucharistic means to take to the Pope. I will reveal myself in

my Will, because every priest who will know my Work will love

me with ardent love. I, in the grace of the Word, of intimate com-

munion with the soul.”

(12:30 pm, I have to leave because the Chapel of the Relics is

closing)

(Before the painting of the Sacred Heart, before leaving the

Basilica): “You are here by my will and desire. Tomorrow the fruits

of grace will arise for my Glory. Jesus blesses you and follows

you...”

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21 May 1968

Jesus: “Come to Me because I draw you to Love, to Grace.

You are in Me. Trust in your Jesus! My soul beloved by My Blood,

we will soon have the same wound of Love. Look at it: it will be

yours with the Cross that I offer you. Will you take it with Me? We

will carry it together, for we will do everything together: you, me

and souls. Tell Me that you love Me, that you wait always and only

for Me. Obedience saves you from fears, from scruples. It will be

a powerful weapon of defence. I have given it to you because I am

obedient. Be serene, be content. Jesus is with you, he dwells in you

through his Mother. I will help you to copy: do not fear, you will

never be alone. Jesus, your life, promises you this. Tomorrow, and

soon, the light will come, the dawn of ‘our day’ will come. Recol-

lect yourself, pray, wait: Jesus will come to visit you. Wait for Love

in the humility of the Mother of Heaven. Stay close to Her and She

will guard you for Me, for you. Jesus who loves what was lost!”

Varazze 23-5-1968

Jesus: “My son, [Fr Gabriel] I have listened to you. What you

tell me in the heart of ‘little’ Vera is kindness, humility, patience.

If I make use of her, make use of the same poor instrument. I, Jesus,

place this instrument in the Heart of my Mother; you, through her,

in my Sacrifice, that in me it may be offered and consumed for my

Glory in the triumph of my Work of Love. Now to you, Gabriel,

my son, loved by the Father, by the Son, by the Holy Spirit in great,

great measure. After the Novena to the Holy Spirit, dedicated to

the following end, you will make a choice with Vera from the ‘dic-

tations’ she will have collected in the notebook. You will be guided

by a wise Teacher: Mary Help of Christians! Do nothing without

Her, but attend to my Work with Her. Be patient and act with Me.

Turn to your Confreres with love, with my love, and give it to them.

Offer it in the meekness of My Heart and wait with Me, in prayer,

that they may ‘see’. I will send you to your other Confreres with a

humble heart, and filled with love, for the great, powerful weapon

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that conquers is Love. Even wrong ways have been permitted by

Me for My purposes, and your other Confreres have been different

but useful means for My Work. May the Love for which I have

called you to work in My furrows always save you, that you may

follow Me along the paths I have prepared for you. I promise you

the Message for the Pope, I promise you my help. It is I, Jesus,

who desire the Living Tabernacles, I am in Heaven, in my Glory

with my Saints and my Angels; I am always with my Mother. I am

with you, on earth, I am in your souls, I am in the Tabernacles in

the Churches. My new dwelling place will be you, souls who await

your salvation and that of your Brothers and Sisters in my Father’s

Love. I desire to dwell on you also, and for two reasons; first, for

yourselves, that I may be Guide, the most intimate Master of your

souls, the educator of your hearts, that I may inspire you and instil

in you that confidence in Me which I desire from every creature of

mine. Second, that I may go out to the world, to other souls in you

and upon you. O Gabriel, how I long for this union with the soul,

how I long to reveal to my souls this ardent desire of mine! To how

many souls will I say, from my Living Tabernacles: ‘Take me with

you!’ To how many will I say, after Holy Communion: ‘Make a

place for me in you, that I may dwell in your soul, that I may make

of you a small and great Church that goes and walks through the

ways of the world, that I may be taken into your dwelling and be

made to be involved in your day, wherever you go and whoever

you meet.’ ‘Take me with you’: this is what I have been asking

Vera since last September. And through her I will ask this of my

souls. Take me with you Gabriel! Do not be discouraged by the

struggle and do not allow your soul to be troubled. This is my

Message of Love. Take me with you: you, the chalice where I de-

sire to be, you the ‘host’ given to Me in the Host that is all and only

Me. You see, My Love is so immense that it wants to keep nothing

for itself but wants to give everything. The little Host in the great

Host: little Victim in the great and only Victim. Its soul, in my Soul,

its heart, in my Heart. How then not to dwell in it? Why not draw

this little soul, who desire to be all Mine, with the divine power of

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my Permanence also upon it? Why not help it in the harshness of

the day, why not infuse it with trust and love with the reality of my

divine Presence! Oh, yes I dwell in her soul, but how often she for-

gets my Presence! I, with my sensitive Dwelling, defend you, in-

fuse you with strength, draw you and transform you into Me. Yes,

Gabriel, you know and acknowledge My Love: and so fight, fight

for Me, for My Triumph. I am, I will always be with you. When

you renew my Sacrifice on the altar of the Cross, place my Work

in the Heart of Mary Help of Christians, and all the little victims.

It is not important for you to know who they are: I know them.

You, with Vera, in one offering: life, suffering, pain, work. Give

me all this with love. Give me your hearts that they may live only

of my Love, that they may live of my heart. I want to give you the

wound of my Heart: it is a gift, it is Myself in your heart, and you

in Mine. The offering to My Father in Me is renewed: Heaven is

open to welcome you, the Holy Spirit to give you His gifts, My

Father to love you in His Fatherliness. I have already spoken to

Gabriel for now. To you, my daughter, a reminder from Heaven

through the Basilica of Turin: this Church welcomes you with its

arms, my Saints, it takes you to its heart and introduces you into

the Heart of God, Jesus. You will always be in this Church, and in

every Sacrifice there will be an Angel who will say to Me: ‘Take

Vera with you so that You may give her to others. Take Vera with

you so that You, Jesus, may say again to many, many souls what

You said to her: take me with you.’ Come in spirit there where my

Mother will receive the Offering so that the Angels, the Martyrs

may repeat for you in the Offering: ‘O Father, I give myself wholly

to you, in your Jesus, so that Jesus may be of souls, and make them

also hear and welcome the Voice of Jesus: take me with you.’”

Savona 25-5-1968

Jesus: “You will have all my help, my support. Jesus will dic-

tate the words for the Holy Father. In the name of holy obedience

bound in Heaven as on earth by my Priest, you will write the mess-

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age that I, Jesus, will address to the Holy Father. I give you my

Peace, the serenity that comes from my Love: I give you Myself.

You are protected by my Angels, succoured by my Saints, you are

loved by my Mother. Now my Cross comes to you: take it! I raise

it upon the Altar of my Sacrifice, and I invite you, my daughter,

come to Me: you need not fear, you cannot fear for I am and will

be with you. Yes, I will bless you with the arm of my Mercy. Write,

write that I love you, and in you, like you I love all my creatures,

all souls. I want them to know how much I know how to love. Will

you give me your life, Vera? Give it to me hour by hour, give it all

to me: for Me, for My glory, for My triumph, for My Work of Love.

When you go to the Holy Father, you will sing the Miserere, and

gathered and united in Me you will await ‘my hour’. Trust in my

Love, My daughter: I will save you! Jesus, Jesus from the Taber-

nacles who desires to go out, who seeks other Tabernacles, who

seeks you, who seeks poor souls desirous of Me. Jesus will speak

to you again because He wants you alone and forever with Himself.

Love me, Vera, love me to the point of heroism, love me in the

Shroud of the Cross where you will find all the Blood that I have

given to your soul. Now rest and know that in Turin you received

grace, great grace. In Heaven you will see. I have finished for now.

Jesus with the Cross, with Love, to his poor Bride.”

Varazze 29-5-1968

Jesus: “Come, come to my Love... I surround you with care, I

bend over you. Write, my daughter, dear to my Heart, write, and

in obedience I will be more with you: in you. My Work of Love

will flow from My Heart and all My desires will be fulfilled. I have

called you to Me on this path and you must follow it readily, gen-

erously. You will see others ‘called’ to Me, and I will now begin to

reveal Myself through My promises. Give Me your work, your la-

bours, your troubles, your burdens; give Me your little crosses,

give Me those little things that cost you and I will receive every-

thing like the little flowers that now stand before the holy Taber-

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nacle. You see, I have accepted them. Your love is made of little

things, but with Me it becomes a great, great love.

Yes, now I want to speak of my Work. Those who have already

been Living Tabernacles must gather and pray ‘together’ for the ac-

complishment of my Work. They must raise fervent prayers to God

the Father, through Me, with triduums of adoration to Me in the Eu-

charist. I await the offerings of the little victims who give themselves

to Me, so that my Message and my Work may reach the Holy Father.

Let those ‘called’ prepare themselves to receive my Message that I

give to the world as the last salvation offered to it and bestowed by

my Mercy. The called are many and few. The army of Faith led by

Me must prepare itself soon. You are already a ‘League of Souls’

that is all Mine, but I want only one soul in My Love. Yes, I will re-

turn to knock at the heart of My Heart: My Priest! I will go to him,

I will visit him. Pray for him to recognise me. Today I have called

another Priest to my Work. My Spirit of Love has visited his soul.

Wait trustingly. Trials and sufferings will come for you so that those

called may hear, distinguish my Voice, but this time you will be less

weak than before. Father Gabriel will also be visited by sorrow, and

together you will offer everything to Me. Everything, all in the Hands

of Mary Help of Christians, your powerful intercessor St John

Bosco; your recourse: the Good Pope; your purity and humility: the

Immaculate Conception; your comfort in sorrow: my Mother in her

unique Sorrow. And you, Living Tabernacles, prepare the Temple,

the Church for your Jesus! I will return, I promise you. Jesus will

speak to you and explain. Live with my Mother, I desire it. Jesus to

you, and through the poor means that is you, to all those called.”

Varazze 7-6-1968

Jesus: “I am speaking to you: Jesus! I am so very, very sad-

dened! Alive and present in you, I seek souls who will pray and

unite themselves to Me. I want to prepare you to receive Me

through other graces. You know little, but I will make you a par-

taker of My divine plans, that they may be revealed to many. You

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must pray, and in Me pour yourself out in the love I bestow upon

you. Nothing is for you alone, but for all souls. I have seen them

and I see them through you. Yes, my daughter, I cannot repeat your

nothingness enough. And you see it, you feel it and it weighs on

you in difficulties. O Vera, only your Jesus in you knows how to

smooth every path. Come to Me, and I will open My Fatherly arms

to you. I have come to you for all souls; I have come for Father

Gabriel: he waits for Me, he waits for Me! I will go to him, I will

succour him, and my Love, which is the Holy Spirit, will guide my

thoughts until I reach him, to enfold him in my Love. Here he will

draw faith, confidence, strength, and I will renew in him my

mission as the Apostle of souls. You must be humble and know

how to wait for me. I must enlighten you on my mission so that

your little soul may be enlightened by my Divine Spirit. I must pre-

pare you to accomplish the last mission for Me, and in this month

you will have a Gift of love that comes from My Heart as Priest

for My beloved, beloved Priests. I will never cease to love them,

to melt into them if they are generous, patient, humble. I love you,

I love you my beloved souls; I consume my holocaust in your

priestly hands and I am all yours. Will you all be for Me, as I am

for you? Vera will speak to you in My name, and you will receive

Me in My Messages, in the words that will come to you. Do not

forget that I seek you by many ‘ways’, I call you through many

‘voices’, I pour out my graces on you in unthinkable, unbelievable

but true forms, because they start from Me who am the Truth; they

give you life for a new apostolate that is Life, a growing life of

Grace; they show you a new ‘way’, even if it is still My Way. We

must reach out to all humankind so that not a part of the earth, the

seas, the heavens remains without Me. I, Jesus, want to cover the

earth with Me, and for this mission I have called you to a generous

renewal of apostolate among the peoples of every country.

My goal is to create new Martyrs of the Faith who know how

to prepare and await my descent from Heaven.

My goal is to sanctify the soul that ‘bears me’ so that I may

renew the holocaust with it to my Father.

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My goal is for the soul that bears Me: it will constantly draw

strength, courage, an everlasting motive of love from Me. It will

draw everything from Me, it will receive everything so that

the mystical union may be a ‘prelude to the life of My Heaven’ for

that soul.

My goal is the love I wish to spread through the ‘bearers of

Me’. I repeat that I, with my divine Presence, will sanctify the

dwellings in which I shall be received. I shall draw the souls I shall

meet and with whom I shall be to My Love through my Bearers: I

shall pour out Peace by degrees, I shall appease distraught souls, I

shall radiate the light of Grace upon those whom I shall see through

you. ‘Take me with you, and for you, and for other souls.’ Other

goals? There are many. But not all will be revealed for now. I will

give more to you. Be tranquil, be serene. I live with you! Do you

not know it yet?! Long have I remained in you, and you, therefore,

are in Me. I am not deceiving you for I am Jesus whom you love,

seek, see with your soul, because from time to time I love to appear

to it, so that, besides the Divine that eludes you, you may glimpse

my humanity: Jesus, Master, Priest, Brother; Jesus Love, Love of

God, Love that saves, that forgives, Love that gives. We will tell

Jesus to lead us into his blessed Kingdom through his Eucharistic

Love. We will say it together every moment; and when you forget

this, I promise to do the invocation for you. It is the voice of God,

it is the voice of the Holy Spirit: do not fear. Jesus is near you.

Jesus makes himself your companion to help you, to do what you

do not do, what you forget, what you neglect... It is Jesus, it is al-

ways Jesus, Jesus alone and all Jesus. We will speak, I will speak,

I will prepare you for my coming, where the Spirit of the Lord will

lead you, and souls, to salvation. I will come. I will lead you with

my Word to the Pope. I will prepare you. I want you in my Mother,

in her Heart I desire to see you, to meet you here because I will

speak to the Pope from Her wounded heart. Jesus, in the Love of

the Holy Spirit, to you, to all souls. Jesus, to Father Gabriel, to my

beloved Priest for my Work. Tell him that I love him, I love the

one that trusts in Me! I am with him. I want to return to him. Open

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your heart to me, that I may come to you for ever Gabriel, Jesus

has spoken to you.”

11 June 1968

Jesus addresses himself to our Supreme Pontiff Paul VI. “I

am Jesus who comes to you in his great Eucharistic Love to offer

you the Mercy of my Father’s Heart, my Heart as Priest, Friend,

Brother. It is for humanity, for the salvation of the peoples, the na-

tions. It springs from a source of living water from my wounded

Heart. It comes down from Heaven as a new and final light to shed

light on the darkened ways of the world. It bathes the arid earth,

renew souls in the service of the apostolate, gathers those called to

Me in the army of salvation. I am this Light, this Water: Jesus! I

come to bring a new ‘way’ of Love on earth for people who await

me and love me. A Way based on Truth that is my divine and

human reality in the Eucharistic Presence; a way that will lead to

the life of Grace and to so many souls who are far from Me. My

Way lies in Truth and gives My Life. This Way is Me: I am Jesus

in the Eucharist. Yes, I am Jesus among people in the Sacred

Species, but only for those who seek me, who love me. I ardently

desire to be present in my Divine and Human Reality, in all the

places of the earth; I desire to travel the ways of the world, to ply

the skies and the seas and to go out to meet people: go to those

who do not seek me, do not love me, do not know me. The Church

keeps my Eucharistic Species in the holy Tabernacle. I dwell in it,

I dwell in the soul with my Grace. I pour out my Spirit of Love

from the Tabernacles. Now I have chosen new Churches, new

Tabernacles that will watch over Me; Living Tabernacles to take

Me through the ways of the world, to lead Me among these people

who do not think of Me, who do not seek Me, who do not love Me.

I, in the soul called by Me, given to Me; I will reach other souls

with it, in it, on it, I will live close to them, I will share the labours

of their life; I will reach them through My Living Tabernacles.

From these I will pour out My Light day by day, hour by hour, that

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they may learn to recognise God. I will pour out my Grace in great

measure that sinners may become sensitive to my calls. I will walk,

as I once did in the land of Palestine, I will reach the ends of the

earth and I will visit everyone. I will extend my Grace to everyone,

I will offer Salvation to everyone. Purpose: to reach out to all

souls, be close to them, touch them in the intimacy of their heart

with my Fatherly love. Goal: to prepare, down below, infinite and

holy Living Tabernacles to cover the earth. They will be the ‘Chal-

ices’ offered to God the Father for the salvation of humanity. I,

Father, I in the Love of the Son, I in the Fire of the Holy Spirit,

will be in those Chalices raised to Heaven, the cry of Love for my

Brothers and Sisters, the everlasting Holocaust pleasing to God the

Father. I, consumed in my souls, I, carried and enclosed in the Liv-

ing Tabernacle... When I descend from the Heavens in my Glory

my Father will see my Tabernacles, and the souls drawn, saved by

my divine Presence through my new Tabernacles. Oh, cover the

earth with Living Tabernacles: cover yourselves with Me! Pro-

gramme: I want those who must become Living Tabernacles to be

consecrated souls. Priests of fervent love, great charity, pure love.

Let it be among the Salesian Fathers that my Work of love is born.

May it develop and spread, since my Mother Mary Help of Chris-

tians will be guide and teacher for every soul, for every Living Tab-

ernacle. She will teach inwardly how to love, adore, carry and give

Jesus. May she be proclaimed Mother of the Work, mother of every

soul, Mother of Victory so that with her every soul may fight and

overcome; may every Living Tabernacle triumph over itself, over

the snares of the enemy; may she be proclaimed Mother of Victory

that precedes my return, my Triumph, my coming among you. May

the Living Tabernacles be prepared with extreme humility for the

call, through self-denial, that I may live and act in them. May their

goal be to disappear in order to make room for Me who wants to

be at work in their souls and in other souls through them. Let Liv-

ing Tabernacles be chosen also among the young, among lay

people so that I can go into schools, families, and share the life of

humanity. Those called to my Work will receive a special fervour

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for my Eucharistic Love, which will characterise them as the be-

loved ones of my Love. The furrows through which I desire to go

must be opened: Turin, Rome, Florence, Genoa, Savona.

From here other paths, other destinations, countries, villages;

other nations, other continents... will receive the increasing gift of

My Love with Me, the Living Tabernacle, and for many, the

wounding of My Heart. The one who shares the Divine Bread will

find all comfort in the struggle, all detachment from the world, all

completeness in Me. I will open the way to holiness to the Living

Tabernacle, and, in the ascent, he will be more than ever with Me.

The Living Tabernacle will never work without Me, but will seek

help, enlightenment, counsel from Me, for I shall be in him and

upon him to work together, to act together; we shall go, we shall

speak, we shall deal with one another. I in him for the sanctification

of his soul, I on him, for other souls. Let souls thus arise to form a

League: a ‘League of Souls’ where each in Me gives what he

knows how to give with poverty of spirit and deepest humility. I

will unify everything, I will fuse it all in My burning Heart. I, Jesus,

will come to console those who suffer, I will visit the sick in their

hearts... I will say, even in silent language, that God is Love, He is

forgiveness, He is goodness to all. Out of my wounded Heart

springs my Work of Love for sinners, for those who do not see Me,

do not want Me, do not wait for Me. To them I, Jesus, will go

through my souls, priestly souls, consecrated souls. The Work,

therefore, must develop among the young, in parishes, in institutes,

but it must assume all respectful silence, the reserve that is the

badge that characterises the Bearer of Me. The Work must involve

Salesian life and activity, because from the Work of St John Bosco

my Work of Love must blossom as a ‘continuation’ of the former.

Let the Priests strive with fervent love to prepare those called to

my League. May my Priests give me the consolation of reviving

me in them. In every Living Tabernacle I, Jesus, will place my

‘stone’, and this will be my new Church that goes, that will go

everywhere, for I will go, I will be everywhere. And you, Paul VI,

you who represent me in the Church, receive my Words with a deep

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spirit of faith as my Vicar. I, Jesus, Master of souls, have given my

Thought to the poor person who has nothing of himself but only

of Me. I have revealed my Message of Love, my last Message to

humankind, through a creature who is poverty, frailty, nothingness,

who is...poor, desolate, afflicted humanity. She will be trust for

small and generous souls, an example of trust, confidence, aban-

donment in Me. She will say in her poverty, in her misery that I

seek little souls, little souls who are victims in Me, in whom I pour

out My heartbeats of love. Union and immolation in Me, so that

Eternal Priest and little soul may be one as Wine, I, and Water, the

soul, offered to the Father in one holocaust. All that you have

bound on earth, shall be bound in Heaven. You, My Vicar in the

Church, bind My Work of Love in the authority of the Church;

spread it, let it emanate throughout the world. You, my first Living

Tabernacle, who go with Me to visit the farthest parts of the Earth

to give Me, make the bearers of Me increase, grow, who, like you,

following your secret example, reach the earth, the seas and even

the heavens. O My beloved Son, hear My Message of Love! To

you, who suffer the pain of humankind with Me, I place the last

throb of love for all human beings in your hands as Pontiff. There

is all my holy Grace in my Words: there is Me, there is the purify-

ing fire of the Holy Spirit. To you my Voice, through an image of

that poor humanity that always awaits Me; to you my Voice made

poor so that it may come to you from the poor who hope and be-

lieve in Me, to you my Word made human in little souls. Receive

everything in Me, Jesus, and enclose My Voice in your heart as

the first Shepherd. Let it reach my sheep, my lambs, for they will

know how to recognise my Voice. They will follow it if you make

the voice of their divine Shepherd reach them. O my soul who carry

me with humility and love, you know me, your hear my Father’s

accents, you see how much I am Saviour and Redeemer in my

message. You see me. You know that it is I, Jesus! Gather those

who are called in your right hand that blesses, trace out the estab-

lished furrows, confirm my souls in the order established by God

through you, pour out the grace that through you, I, Jesus, will be-

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stow upon all souls. Seek Me in my Messages of Love; seek the

Way, the Truth, the Life in those outpourings of Love that the

Holy Spirit has bestowed on the poor for all the poor.

Seek me in the Messages that come to you, that you, as my

Vicar, may give me to humanity: to the poor, the rich, the strong,

the weak. Night has fallen, but I watch with you and over you. O

Peter, helmsman of my barque, lead my souls to Me, form my

Army that fights with you and triumphs in Me. My hour is not far

off in time: I desire to be with you, I do not want to leave you, I

will be with you to the last. ‘Take me with you,’ is My Voice of

Love. ‘I want to stay with you,’ is my Heart asking you. I in you

and upon you, so that you may always bear great fruit in Me. I for

you, my Vicar, to all the Priests, to the Salesians, to my souls, to

small, little and humble souls. I for you, to all humanity. Bless and

authorise my Work of Love, and gather ‘My souls’ at your feet, be-

fore my Father, so that through you they may be offered up in Me

to my Father in the Love of the Holy Spirit. Ask, ask, and I, Jesus,

will give you those signs of grace that will bear witness to my

Word. It is Truth, it is Mine. May the Spirit of Love descend in its

fullness in my Message, that in Me you may receive, bless all that

comes from Me. I am Jesus, Truth, Life, to you, My Vicar on

Earth. To you, consumed in my love as an everlasting holocaust

before my Father; to you, to whom the Heavens and the Earth turn

so that you may say to them: Yes, Father! Yes, my children, I give

you Jesus as he ardently desires to come to you for your sanctifi-

cation and the salvation of other souls. And I, Jesus, will be able

to ask of many, many other souls as I have asked of one: ‘Take me,

take me with you’. Jesus in you, with you, on you, blesses you, and

in the wound of Love that makes our hearts one Heart, He pours

out His Love and His Sorrow. Jesus, High and Eternal Priest, to

Pope Paul VI for His Glory and the coming of His Kingdom of

Love in souls.”

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BOOKLET 6

O Mother mine in Heaven, I humbly offer you

this “booklet” and the obedience received

as the “will of God” and promised to you.

Give me the holy Grace to obey Jesus

with every more profound humility,

and do his will to the utmost.

Give me the “gift” to love, love, love Jesus

purely and everyone, everyone in Jesus.

Thank you.

Your servant Vera.

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Varazze 15-6-1968

Jesus: “And write, write in my holy Name: Jesus! I want to

console you because I live in you and you take me into your soul,

into your heart. I live in the Light and Love of the Holy Spirit, and

I nourish your soul with my Grace. I speak to you, I offer you my

Love, I guide you, I call you, I suggest things to you. I am the Shep-

herd, you my little sheep whom I often pick up from the ground

and carry in my arms. While you think you hold me close to your

heart, I am the one who embraces you, I hold you close to my Heart

with Fatherly tenderness. But you do not resist this spiritual joy,

this outpouring. When the forces of your spirit prevail over those

of your nature, you feel that you are lacking in something and I

veil my outpouring. No, I do not turn you away from Me. I have

desired and do desire to make My abode in you. Tomorrow this

immense goodness of Mine will save, will gladden many more

souls. Fear not if you do not comprehend all of My Work. For now

I want it this way. My Work goes ahead by degrees, and only over

the space of three years will it be fully manifested to people. For

now I wish it to begin, and that those who are called prepare them-

selves not only to receive me as food for their souls but also to

carry me, to give me. The Living Tabernacle must learn to give me,

for I will be in that person for other souls. The mission of the Tab-

ernacle is apostolate, it is an intimate and constant work of spiritu-

alisation, it is complete self-giving to others through me. Look at

my Cross, I want it to inspire you with so much love, all the love

that led me to embrace it. By this holy and beloved Cross I give

myself always to you, I renew my Sacrifice, I offer myself to the

Father for souls. By this holy Cross I am with you and will come

upon you. Whoever bears Me will bear My own Cross. Now I want

the soul called by Me to be conscious of my holocaust in it and to

adhere to it with love. I desire that, receiving Me, she lovingly em-

brace the New Cross that I give her. We will then unite the heart-

beats of love and offer them to the Father for the hearts that do not

yet love. Yes, I renew My Passion and Death in the Holy Sacrifice,

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and give Myself to you as at the Last Supper to My Apostles. I re-

main among you in the Eucharist and come to you. For the souls

called to my Work to be established in the goal that is willed by

Me, they must ‘bring Me’. Every soul receiving Me in the sacred

Species should give Me to other souls, but human beings are poor,

human beings forget, human beings are weak and, even if they

know my new commandment – love of neighbour – they allow

themselves to be diverted by their thoughts and anxieties. I will

have this Voice in and on the soul: give me to others, take me to

others, let me act in you so that others may be partakers, albeit to

a lesser degree, of those spiritual fruits that derive from the Sacri-

fice of the Holy Mass, for which the symbol, the Host that you

carry, is now all and only Me because it is consecrated. Voice of

Love, voice of God humanised for my little souls, voice that gives

trust, confidence, hope for itself of holiness, redemption and sal-

vation for all souls. Now go, your Jesus has spoken to you and

blesses you. I remain in you to help you come to Me. I am thinking

of Father Gabriel: do not fear his silence. Trust, trust, trust. I will

triumph! Never doubt Me, My Fatherly graces. I see, I receive your

sorrows, your offerings, your company. I live in you, and this is a

Gift that I have given you in advance because without Me you

would not have written. Yes, you are in the Chalice that the Priest

offers, you are with Me, in the water and wine, you are in My

Cross, you are in My Love. Give Me your hand, Vera, that You

may be carried by Mine. Come, follow Me, walk with Me to the

goal. I will never abandon you! Believe and increase your faith in

Me: in your Jesus, in Him who wants to make you a bride, a bride

of Blood. Jesus in you.”

Varazze 23-6-1968

Jesus: “Your soul is visited by holy Grace, by my Light. I see

the ‘little ones’ in you, my little ones and I take them to my Heart.

You are among them. I direct my tenderness to them because they

are little, that is, in need of care. I want to hold them in My arms

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to defend them so that they may remain in Me. Now you see why

I have shown you such love, so much gentleness. I go in search of

little souls, and I call them through you. Therefore, My Words must

be known, they must run through the ways of the world. I have

given you Myself, now give Me all of yourself without reserve.

We must ‘all’ work ‘together’: you and I, Jesus and the little soul;

God the Father and Creator and his poor creature. In My Father’s

bosom there is Love for all, and all exist in Him. He redeems souls

in Me, He draws you to Himself through Me, He looks upon you

with Me, because together we are a Unity: Christ Jesus in hu-

manity. Now I will initiate you into greater understanding. Look

with Me: a poor man is seated in a boat, the winds drag his ship

adrift. He groans, he considers himself alone... If he sinks it is be-

cause he has not believed in My Almightiness, has not hoped in

My goodness, has not sought Me, has not invoked Me. Yes, he is

a Christian, he is baptised but he does not believe in Me. Do you

see now where my Work of Love wants to go? To this poor man,

to all the poor. The means, the branches united to the vine, to Me,

will be you: the Living Tabernacles. I, Jesus, promise the follow-

ing in the Glory of My Father, in the outpouring of Love of the

Holy Spirit:

A) I will shed the holy Grace of my divine Presence upon those

who happen to be near Me through you.

M) The dwellings that will be visited frequently by Me, will

receive the divine Guest in their hosts.

O) The essential graces that I will bestow on the souls who

host me under the same roof will be: increase of faith, conversion

of sinners, serenity and peace.

R) None of them shall die without Me, for I shall be with them

at the hour of their final call.

E) I will draw their human hearts to my divine Love. Before

they receive Me as their divine Guest, I want this family to be con-

secrated in its members to the Immaculate Heart of my Mother so

that I, Jesus, may always find and meet my holy Mother. She will

purify your souls, make up for your miseries and lead you to Me.

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When you go with Me along already established ways be very

humble, be very humble because great, immense is the honour you

poor people receive. You who were once dead to Me have now been

saved by Me. This is My forgiveness: to make you now partakers

of Me, to ‘give and take’ Me to other poor people. I in you, upon

you, will always be the Good Shepherd in search of the sheep who

want to be outside my fold. I will seek them out, I will go towards

them so that they too may hear my Voice and follow me. ‘Take me

with you’: this Voice that is mine, Jesus’ Voice for my priestly souls,

for my little ones, for my little victims, this Voice will echo in many

souls. Now you ask me: ‘Jesus, take me with you.’ You would not

have asked this if I had not given you this desire of mine. While

you, in your misery, can carry Me by My grace and My will, think

about the fact that it will never be you who will carry Me, but I,

Jesus, who will carry you. So I want the humble soul sensitive to

my calls and preferences; I want it to surrender itself trustingly to

Me, and above all to my divine Heart of a Father. Yes, ask, ask me

from now on: Jesus take me with You! And I will answer: give me

yourself that you may walk and tread the paths of Heaven with Me

already from this life. Give me your will, give me your heart, give

me all the faculties of your soul, give me your hands that they may

be bound to Me. Give me the days, the hours, the minutes, the mo-

ments, all the time that I leave you, that I still grant you. Give Me

the suffering, give Me the pain, give Me your life, so that in the end

it may be, for Me, a gift of Love to My Father. I, Jesus, promise that

I will give the joy of suffering to you, my Living Tabernacles, as

I gave it to my Apostle Paul. Tomorrow, afterwards I will come to

you. Be strong in Me. Jesus in His Holy Grace.”

Savona 30 June 1968

“I am the Way, the Truth, the Life. I am he who gives and re-

ceives souls in his everlasting Immolation. I am Jesus who re-

deems! I want my souls to come to the holy Altar to offer me their

gifts: the life of the soul, their soul, their life, their heart, their will,

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their thoughts and afflictions, their groans and their consolations.

Many, many souls in this union of love, work, prayers, offerings. I

await you, I stretch out my hands to give and to receive, so that

the union with Me, the only Victim, may be perfect and irreplace-

able in Me; may it be Grace that saves, Grace that pours out upon

others; may it be Glory that rises from Earth to Heaven. Let me list

those ‘called’ to carry Me through the ways of the world, and I am

still calling them with more Voice, with more Grace. They are Re-

ligious, Priests, Sisters dedicated to works of charity in the midst

of the world; souls consecrated to Me; pure and prepared youth;

‘poor sinners‘ reborn in Me. Let a small tabernacle made of wood,

the symbol of My holy death on the Cross, be prepared for con-

secrated lay people, where they may keep Me in their dwellings

for appropriate needs. I, Jesus, will spend longer in the Living Tab-

ernacle, and just a few hours in the wooden one. Two candles will

be lit there to call some of the family to adoration. My holy Angels

will crown me and make up for any loneliness. Every evening the

Living Tabernacle will have to say with Me to My Father: ‘I wish

to be consumed in Your beloved Son Jesus, as an eternally lit

candle before the Blessed Sacrament of Love, in thanksgiving for

such an inexpressible Gift.’ This offering, this immolation of Love

in Me to My Father, must draw the goodness of God upon suffering

humanity so that from you, with Me and in Me, flames of charity

will travel the streets, the paths. The heartbeats of my Love as a

Father, Brother and Friend shall be brought and given to everyone

You will love with Me, for you will learn what love is from Me,

charity for your brothers and sisters. You must resemble Me, Jesus,

and disappear in Me... I will give you another face, Mine; other

hands, Mine; I will give you another heart, Mine. I will give you

Myself: Jesus! I will be for you first of all: a Friend, Brother,

Spouse, most tender Father... Give Me your heart and your will.

Do not fear those who make you suffer because of me, but give

glory to God, who in the new Pentecost has called you to a new

and holy martyrdom: the Martyrdom of Eucharistic Love. Do not

fear, and guard me jealously on yourselves so that my holy Pres-

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ence may be the ultimate testimony of Love for you, for humanity,

that I come to give to my children all through you. Bear witness to

me before my Father and humankind. Thus will I send my souls

through the streets of the world, thus will I scatter my graces; thus

will I, Jesus, go, thus will I, Jesus, go with the soul that is dear to

me, with the heart that loves. Thus ‘we will go’: Jesus and the soul.

I, God in the Three Persons of the Most Holy Trinity, Creator and

creature in search of ‘my creatures’: all of them! I do not want My

Work to serve only Priests, but many souls chosen by Me.

I do not want words but deeds permeated with love. Go, go to

the Holy Father. I, Jesus, am preparing his holy soul for the Light

that I am about to bring into the world. I, Jesus, am preparing my

Vicar for the encounter with my Work of Love. I am with you I am

already acting with you. The Holy Spirit has spoken to you, He

will still scatter His Word in the furrows so that, like seeds of

wheat, they may sink into the earth, take root and bear abundant

fruit. The Holy Spirit in Love with the Father and the Son, Christ

Jesus, gives His graces to the poor, the little ones and, for them,

manifests Himself to the Great to affirm that God is Love, is For-

giveness, is Peace. The Holy Spirit gathers up the children who

were lost, purifies them, saves them and makes them little victims

of Eucharistic Love.

When the Holy Father has approved my ardent desire and I

will be and go in ‘my’ soul and on ‘it’, I will spread my Spirit and

(interruption...).”

Savona 1 July 1968

Jesus: “You must be more cautious, and utter my holy Name

Jesus several times a day so that my name, Jesus, may be a rem-

inder to you of the task I have entrusted to you. My Spirit of Love

must cover all souls, and I want you to spread it and make it known.

This is the Will of God, and you must bend to His divine Will.

Therefore you must shun distractions. These are vain and lead you

away from interior recollection, that is, from Me. Fear not, I, Jesus,

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will make up for your miseries! I only want to find you ready for

Me. I want you to read my Passion and meditate on it... for you

will meet Me on the Via dolorosa (Way of the Cross). You must

draw near to Me, to My sorrow, because with this weapon of love

I will purify your soul, other souls and, in particular, the souls of

those I have called. We will read together. You must write to Father

Gabriel in my name Jesus, so that your letters may be ‘mine’. You

must always be a docile medium in my holy Hands, serving the

glory of God and his divine plans. Have nothing of yourself, but

everything of Me. We shall write other letters and, so as not to dis-

turb the priestly soul, I, Jesus, will veil Myself in your name.

Therefore, every letter of yours will immediately bear this inscrip-

tion: ‘Jesus comes to you’. You must live for Me, you must serve

Me in others, you must seek Me, My Mercy lavished on you and

on souls. Deal with Me, receive Me, serve Me in others, so that the

union may be constant, so that I may live in you with My Grace

and My Love. Only thus will we arrive together, on high, every-

where. May my Word henceforth comfort you and may my Light

penetrate you. Ask my Mother for spiritual help, for temporal help,

so that you are not afflicted by unnecessary burdens which should

not be there. These waste the time that I have appointed to pour

out my Grace and my Words upon you and all souls. My daughter,

obey Me and I will reward your obedience with much Love. Now

reread and meditate. Jesus is guiding you, instructing you; Jesus is

teaching you how you give yourself to Him in others day by day

and hour by hour. I bless you in my Holy Mother, I help and protect

you. Jesus, servant of souls. Why ‘Servant’? Am I not ready to

serve my souls in their needs? Do I not come to you in your

struggles, in your travails, in the harshness of your resistance to

my Grace? If I, Jesus, Master, did not serve my souls, how would

you ever be able to serve Me for your eternal salvation, for my

Work of Love? I serve you so that you may serve My Father with

Me; bear witness to Him with your faith, your charity, that you may

be instruments of salvation in Me. If I, Jesus, your Father and

Master, still make myself your Servant through my holy Humanity,

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all the more may you be the servants of God, and for him of all

souls. May this divine service teach you true humility: I, Jesus, in

you through an act of Love of my Father; you in Me and for Me to

my Father through an act of Love of Mine. You are for Me. Outside

of Me you are nothing. Let nothing disturb you, for he who lives

by Me is in the Light, is in the Life, is in the Truth. Let me lead

you to My Pastures. Listen to My Voice and follow Me. I am Jesus.

I reveal Myself to you, and through you to all souls. Send My

Messages far away. Spread my Word, my Love before humankind

is tested yet again by hunger and chastisement. Hurry, time is short

for you. I remain in you. We shall meet in the holy Tabernacle, in

the holy Mass. Come, bring me your offerings and I, Jesus, will

accept everything, I will purify and sanctify and unite it all to Me,

and make it all Mine. My Blood redeems you, and I prepare my

Brides with my Blood. You, in my innocent Blood, will be my first

Bride gathered from among the poor. Live of Me, Vera; live for

Me, my daughter; live in Me, in my eternal Sacrifice. Jesus to you,

to all the souls who are, who will be in time and whom I see and

love and wait for. Jesus to Father Gabriel and all his Priests; Jesus

to his Called ones; Jesus for all so that all may be in Me, in the

Love of the Holy Spirit one soul glorifying My Father. The Holy

Trinity lives, forgives and redeems in the souls saved by my Blood,

in humility and charity. I am Jesus, the hope of the good, the con-

fidence of those who love. I am Jesus and I live in Vera’s soul for

her and for other souls. Jesus, most loving Spouse of souls.”

Savona 5 July 1968

Jesus: “You must tell Father Gabriel that My Work of Love

must be carried out by him. Let no one else be a promoter for Me.

For now I want it to be so. He must entrust My Work to Me because

My Ways must flow from Me. Go with sure steps to the Diocese,

to the Bishop, to the Superiors, until you meet Me in the Holy

Father: Paul VI. I will be waiting for him there and he will see Me,

for I, Jesus, will reveal Myself to him in the fullness of My Grace

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and Love. I have so far dictated the first part of my Work, and I de-

sire that it be known, studied, received with immense gratitude. I

will guide my souls, and when they are ‘Living Tabernacles’ for Me

I will instruct you further. Then I will begin the second part of My

Work that will reveal more of My desires to you. In the practice of

daily life the Living Tabernacle will receive new guides and special,

almost individual programmes: case by case (I was interrupted...).”

Savona 8 July 1968

Jesus: “You are not alone when you write and therefore you

need not be afraid. Think of me, as I told you before, as a good

Father, so that as your God I will not make you afraid. Now, my

child, you must write my thoughts of Love. I want the Bearers of

Jesus in the Eucharist to receive Jesus after a Holy Mass in which

they will have given themselves totally to Me. The Sacred Euchar-

istic Species that they will carry must be consecrated in the same

Sacrifice. The ciborium must be filled with hosts to be consecrated,

and those consecrated hosts that remain will be little souls and big

souls that I will call to bear Me. May the Holy Sacrifice be repeated

every month to renew the sacred Offering and the mystical Union

of Me, True Life, with Me, with My Soul, in the Priest who cel-

ebrates. Prepare my ways now. Work with trust because I, Jesus,

am and will always be with you and in you for other souls. Little,

little bride of my Eucharistic Love and of my Eucharistic Martyr-

dom, you will follow the way that I, Infinite Goodness, have es-

tablished for you. You will come to Me, I promise you, by this way,

and not even your miseries will be able to divert you from Me.

Now you are in Me and I am in you. Now give Me, My Heart, My

Voice to souls; now give what I have given you to all souls. I am

here and you already bear Me. I love your humble labours. I will

love them more if you veil them with silence. I love your prayers

because you seek Me in them. I take pity on your impatience that

reminds you of your nothingness. To Rosa, to the child, you must

say that I love them, and very much, and that the three of you are

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together in My wounded Heart of Love. Yes, I will save him: I will

save Silvio so that no one in your family will perish.1 Your mother

will come to Me. Your mothers will help you in Heaven. Fr Gabriel

is blessed, and I send him to you in My Name, Jesus, and listen to

him from Me. Yes, My embrace as Father and Bridegroom. Now

copy so that you may see in My Words that I am in you to dig and

prepare My Temple of Love. Jesus in your soul. I am Jesus, I am

Love. I am Jesus in Word and Grace. I am Jesus the Way, the Truth

the Life. I am Peace, I am Forgiveness.”

Savona 15-7-1968

Jesus: “I am the Source of living water. In Me you will draw

holy Grace. Behold, I pour into your soul this Water that it may

quench your thirst, purify you. Bathed in my divine Blood is the

Bride whom I lead to my Altar, and there we are united, we are

[but] one Soul and one Heart. This is my Gift for you, for my ‘little

victims’. Thus we prepare ourselves for the great Offering, for the

final immolation. I, Jesus, in you! No, I will not leave you; you

will always be mine. Father Gabriel is my faithful servant. I, Jesus,

find my pleasure in him and I work in the Mystery of my Love in

him. Now he goes with the new Cross that I have given him. I am

there in this Cross of salvation. Carry it, Vera, with him, with love

and gratitude. It is yours, it is Mine. Carrying this cross, you will

carry Me, and I will be with you in this union, in this slow Calvary.

And you in Me, to the end! I give everything to you. I give every-

thing so that you may serve my Work. Ask, ask for suffering and

love, love and suffering, so that these privileges of my Heart, lover

of souls, may be identified. Carry me with love. Keep me in the

depths of your being. I am in you! You are carrying Me, con-

1 To Rosa, to the child...”: Rosa is Vera’s sister, the youngest of the four sisters;

the child is the son, Fabio, and Silvio the husband. By the Lord’s will, Rosa was the

only sister with whom Vera shared her mystical experience. She lived the spirituality

of the Living Tabernacles intensely and died in Savona on 29.9.1974 at the age of

43 from an incurable illness.

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secrated hosts in Me. You, my Tabernacles, are my new Temple.

You have Me. My Spirit of Love descends upon you to give you

Fortitude. Receive My gifts in humility. Now give Me, give My

Words of Love and Peace. Give My Proclamation of further Love

to the peoples, to the nations. I want my Army to be prepared and

soon: with it I, Jesus, will triumph. My little blessed soul, My

Father draws you to Himself in My Name. He blesses you, He

blesses you. Give the obedience to the Priest that I will demand of

you. To Me, to My Priests, you will be My poor and little Bride of

Blood: I have united you in Me.

(After an interruption by the writer, the ‘dictation’ resumes as

follows):

Always Jesus with you. You must deepen my Message of Love

in order to realise it. You must carry Me and give Me with humility

and simplicity. Fear nothing: I, Jesus, will protect you. I am a

Father and I know how many graces you need to do My Will. Fol-

low Me, seek Me, and when you have met Me...embrace Me in the

Likeness in which I reveal Myself to you. Receive Me as My

Mother did at the foot of the Cross. Learn from her, receive her

Spirit of Love and Immolation from her for your own and for all

souls. Let us go together now. Father Gabriel will go for my Work

of Love, and you in spirit, you in Me and with Me will go with the

Priest; for we will go together. Let him offer all of you, and place

the total donation of yourself upon the Altar in each of my Holy

Sacrifices renewed by him so that I may make use of your offering.

I want you to be consumed by my Fire of Love so that other souls

may be kindled by the same purifying desire. Love Me in silence.

Receive Me from everyone and in every way. Yes, in the Holy

Mass there is the divine encounter, Union. I draw you to Me, I im-

merse you in My holy Sacrifice and you finally cease to live for

yourself, but you live, more alive than ever for Me. Ah! Vera, I

want to lead you to this Union because no bride belongs to the

Bridegroom unless she does so. A continuous Holy Mass that has

no end in time and which began with my Incarnation. I will lead

my ‘called ones’, my Living Tabernacles to the Holy Father Paul

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VI so that He, in my Holy Name, Jesus, in the glorious name of

the Most Holy Trinity, may bless my souls, and make of them a

crown of glory to offer to my Father.

Then He will entrust them to Me, to Jesus the Divine Master,

to the Holy Spirit the Consoler, that I may guide my souls, instruct

them hour by hour, govern them one by one, and that I may give

Myself to other souls through each soul. You Living Tabernacles

shall go; and the whole earth shall be inhabited by Me. Vera, give

me your poor heart; I want it only for Me. Jesus is asking, asking

the poor that He may give them His riches. Now He goes and

brings them My Peace, My Forgiveness. Behold, I offer them My

wounded Heart. Let them receive Me. I, Jesus, Guide of my souls;

I, Fire of Love that is never extinguished. Now go. I am and will

be with you; now go in my holy Name, Jesus, and tell them that I

will be lavish with graces because I, Jesus, will save you. Jesus

blesses you. Jesus for you, Jesus for Father Gabriel, Jesus for all

souls. Go! I will return to speak to you. I, Jesus, will dictate to you

so that my Word may be the new Light with which I want to

enlighten the world. Jesus in your soul!”

Savona 20 July 1968

Jesus: “Tell my consecrated souls that I, Jesus, desire a Holy

Mass celebrated for my Work of Love. Let the souls who are close

to Father Gabriel adhere in a spirit of love and offer themselves to

Me in the celebrating priest for the same end. I want to make a

Crown of consecrated souls to offer to My Father in My Sacrifice

when the Priest arrives at the feet of the Holy Father. This crown

of holy souls in Me will be formed by those who were My first

Living Tabernacles, for My Father already sees Me, His Divine

Son, in you. Let Father Gabriel obey Me and I, Jesus, will comfort

him. I assure him that he is guided and supported by my Spirit

of Love in all the work he does for Me. He must not fail to keep

my Eucharistic Love within himself which I have given him as a

reward and consolation, as the consummation of himself in Me to

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my Father. I will come to speak to souls to draw them to Me, so do

not be surprised if others hear My Voice of Love. You must write

for Me, for My Work of Love as long as I leave you alive. You

must tell Rosa that I, Jesus, have accepted her prayers. I want her

to learn to know Me, to love Me. I want her not to forget Me, but

seek Me always and everywhere. I will also lay my holy Hand on

her head, but then she must accept my Will with immense love so

that she may live in Me. I wish to come into her soul to seek my

Eucharistic abode in it. Now Rosa will be consoled because she

knows that her Jesus loves her very, very much. Write with humil-

ity. Do not be afraid, do not fear my Gifts: I will give you the

strength to receive and guard them. This year will bring the signs

of my Grace in my Eucharistic Love. The year will end with the

beginning of my Work of Love by which you will be empowered

to carry Me. With this grace of Love the first part will be finished.

The second part will begin in the manner and the way that I, Jesus,

Master of souls, will indicate to you. I will then trace the Way for

each soul, for I want to lead you through the ways of the world to

Me. You will write, I promise you, to the last, to the end... Be

strong! Jesus to his souls, to his poor soul, Vera. Jesus in you, in

His holy Grace.”

Savona 23-7-1968 11:05 pm

Jesus: “I come to you in the light of holy grace, and I call you

to your task. Write! Small souls must suffer small but profound

sorrows. You are in these sorrows. I, Jesus, will deliver you from

this anguish when you have learned to give Me all of you, moment

by moment. Now you have other trials; now you must serve Me

more zealously and generously for you know that despite your mis-

eries I will not leave you. Trust in Me. Trust in Jesus! Come, My

poor bride, and with Me embrace the cross that I give. Jesus who

suffers in your soul to you! Tomorrow pick up on the opportunities

for small trials that I will present you with: these are the gifts that

I offer to you for now. I will assist you with My Grace. Now rec-

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ollect yourself in Me, and I will give you strength and patience.

Love Me and seek Me, seek Me, call on Me, repeat My holy name,

Jesus, many times, and I will be in you more and more. Fear not,

my daughter, if you do not hear me: I am living with you and in

your soul. Jesus remains with you! Yes, I bless you from my Cross.

Jesus to the poor!”

Savona 24-7-1968

Jesus: “Repeat with me: ‘O God, our Father, Creator of the

universe, of all your creatures, we beseech you! Send your Spirit

of Love, of universal brotherhood upon humankind. Unite your

creatures in your Fatherly Love, and give us your Jesus in our

hearts today and always, today more than ever. Let Him be the

Guest of Love to whom every brother and sister aspires... Let Him

be among us as the rays of the sun warm the earth and shed light

on our days; as the rays penetrate our dwellings to give us life and

warmth, let Jesus be the Life and Light that gives life to our hearts,

light to our minds, sun that envelops our afflicted souls in its light.

Let Him come into our souls, come into our homes; come with us

to share joys and sorrows, labours and hopes. Grant, loving and

forgiving Father, that in every building, old or modern, the Light

may shine, that Light which you have given us in the Church from

heaven: Jesus, Eucharistic Love! Make Him come among us, in us

as Father, Friend, Brother. Grant that we poor souls may know by

His merits how to love Him, console Him, honour Him. Let us

know how to offer Him everything. Grant that every day, every

hour, every minute, every moment, we may know how to offer

You, our most clement Father, our will, our heart, our life in Jesus

Your Divine Son. Thus, when you call us, we shall know how,

through Your Mercy, to give You the last beatings of our heart in

the beatings of Love of Your Divine Son, our life in the Life of

Your Jesus, our Fiat in Jesus. Good Father, look upon us, help us!

In Jesus we lift up our poor hands, and You unite them in those of

Jesus that they may work for You, for Your glory, for the Love of

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Jesus. Father in heaven, forgive the world that knows not, that

understands not. Forgive the rich and the poor, forgive your crea-

tures in Jesus, our Brother. Hear us, we pray. We: Jesus and his

poor souls whom he has united to Himself, out of his great Love,

in his immolation of Blood. Jesus and the souls the wine and the

water; Union, Offering and Consummation in Jesus: for the repar-

ation of all of groaning humanity, of the poor who watch and await

Your Forgiveness from you Father, now and for ever. Jesus seeks

little souls, He seeks His little victims to offer in Him to the Father.

Those who love me follow me. I await you in my Immolation.

Vera, do you love me? Follow me! I, Jesus, Life, Truth, Way, await

the poorest: you!”

Savona 26-7-1968

Jesus. “Write to my faithful servant.2 Gabriel, my son, I am

speaking to you from this poor Tabernacle. My hour has come. You

must climb a slow and tiring Calvary with Me. Share your cross

with Me. I will go with you, I will accompany you and Vera and

the little souls will all be with us. My Mother gives them to Me,

and in Me and for Me, you will be, and already are, partakers of

holocausts in Me: sole Victim of Love! Direct yourself confidently

to the Superiors in Turin, for St John will open My Ways to you.

May my holy Mother cover you with her Mantle of Love, and offer

all things, consecrate all things to her. Take your steps with her,

speak with her, confide in her. Make yourself her faithful slave. I

desire that Mother and son be one Heart, one Soul, one Love to

work together. Heaven and Earth are united only through Her. Thus

my Work of Love will have the way open and traced only through

Her. Thus will Heaven bow down to Earth for Her. I, Jesus, in you

and with you; my Mother, Mary Help of Christians, with you to

2 This message for Fr Zucconi was not written in the notebook but is part of

correspondence between Vera and Fr Zucconi and was published in the previous

edition: edited by L.GRITA, Opera dei Tabernacoli Viventi, op.cit., p.107.

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guide you, enlighten you, comfort you. For you an Angel to support

you. For you a consoling Angel. Time is short: short for you. For

Me it is the present. Go, espouse My Cause of Love, espouse My

Work of Love. Behold, I, Jesus the Eternal Priest, place it in your

hands as a Priest: it is My Cause, My Gift of Love. It is Me!”

[At this point Vera notes]: “interrupted, I leave the task to obey

Jesus in my mother.” [She then takes it up again] “Jesus, again for

Fr Gabriel: my coming among you, my souls will begin on the day

that bears my holy Name: Jesus. This foretaste of my Grace is a

Gift I make to you, Gabriel, so that you may be sustained by this

faith, in my own holy Name, Jesus. Go now in my Name. May my

Name be imprinted on your heart, on your soul as a Priest: Jesus.

Now go, now let us go together, for I am with you! Yes, you shall

go by the paths marked out by Me. And remember that on every

path you must go and invoke my sweet Mother: yes, the Help of

Christians for you, for all the souls of those called. On each path-

way it will be sweet and consoling for me to meet Her with you.

Each way will be my way, and all of them will lead you to the last

meeting of my Work of Love; from my Vicar, Pope Paul VI.

Do not forget the Crown of My Souls: these must go with you, and

you with Me, with My Mother. Entrust this Crown of Souls to My

Mother so that She may present it with Her pure love to My Father

in My Love and in My Name. Prepare it, and offer it to Me in the

Holy Sacrifice, unite it to Me, and I, in the Love of the Holy Spirit,

will bathe it with my precious Blood. I have spoken to you,

Gabriel, and my Heart, lover of souls, has sought and will always

seek yours as a Priest. Give it to me more and more, I want to live

again in you. Jesus the Priest, to the heart of his Priest”.

Savona 28-7-1968

Jesus: “You will find peace and security only in my Name,

Jesus. I have given you my holy Name, Jesus, that it might be for

you the strength of spirit that you lack. If recollection is becoming

more and more difficult for you, I want you to accept this suffering

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with patience, with humility, and then offer it to Me: place it in the

chalice that the Priest offers, place it in Me, so that I may take it to

My afflicted Heart, and raise it up with Me to My Father. Do not be

afraid if you cannot write, I have let this be the case so that you

might burn with desire for My Word. I told you once and so it will

be: my Word is life for you, without my Word you will feel ex-

hausted. My Word is Me, it is Jesus, it is love, it is pain, and you

cannot do without Me: Me in you. Be patient and humble, I will

help you, I will come to you, to your poor soul, with more light; I

will pour out a river of Words: grace for you, grace for my souls.

Seek Me in every way but our meeting, our union begins, continues,

and is without end in My Sacrifice. When you participate and unite

with Me through my Priest, then ‘our Mass’ has no beginning and

has no end: continuous union with Me, with souls, with Heaven,

with Earth. I embrace you and contain you in Unity. Now you are

in Me, and I in you with Holy Grace, and through Me you are in

the Father and the Holy Spirit. You, in Me, are with all the souls of

the living, those in Purgatory. You are in Heaven, you are on earth,

you are everywhere, for I am everywhere. (Interrupted).

I am in you to bless you and give you strength and persever-

ance. Offer me this suffering (interruption) so that I may make you

a soul full of fervour. Do not fear and let Me guide you. Return to

the Holy Mass, to my Sacrifice: there you will draw my Grace,

there it will grow, there I draw you and immerse you in my Love,

in my Blood. You and Rosa wait for Me and while waiting seek

my Love. Follow Me. Your Jesus will tell you many things when

the trials are over. Ask for My Grace and My Strength so that your

soul may shine tomorrow with My Light. I receive you in my Heart

of a Father, my daughter, I embrace you, I forgive you, I comfort

you. Hope in your Jesus always, always. I will not leave you, I will

‘test’ you. Jesus who loves, Jesus who is compassionate with the

poor. Be this with others. Jesus for all souls.”

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BOOKLET 7

“O Blessed Virgin, Mary Help of Christians,

grant that my offering may be sincere

in the Most Holy Name of Jesus,

for the triumph of his Love and

his Eucharistic Gift.”

“O my Queen and Mother, grant that I may be

ever more yours and of Jesus.”

Your poor servant Vera

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Savona 31 July 1968

Jesus: “Write, my child, I am here. You must still endure other

‘trials’, but I do not want your discouragement during these: it is

detrimental to you, to souls! Your ‘suffering’ is enough for me for

now. Fear not, your offering will be pure, it will be sincere in Me.

I, Jesus, will give you the holy Grace of loving all souls: I promise

you this, and you will come, you will come to My Love as I wish.

Tomorrow I will comfort you. Father Gabriel is guided by my

Spirit of Love. He must trust in Me, even if, for now, everything

seems impossible to human beings. Heaven is with you, and I am

with you, Gabriel! Go, on my Word and in my Holy Name, Jesus,

you too cast your net: I will give you Grace. For now just a few

words. Entrust yourself to Mary’s Rosary on the way, so that She

may show you the way. Vera, go on the way that leads to my most

holy Mother, and only with Her will you not go astray. I will

measure your strength. I see Gabriel coming to Me, and My

Fatherly Heart is consoled by his zeal and his love. I see you fall...

under the Cross, and I feel pity for you, my poor child! You are the

‘world’ and you portray it in its misery and suffering. Even so I,

Jesus, love you. I love all souls, and those like yours have been the

price of all my divine Blood. Arise, my daughter, for this is my de-

sire, and live of my Love, of my Mercy. Jesus, who always loves

and forgives. I bless you, I bless you with my Holy Mother Mary.”

Savona 3-8-1968

Jesus: “Have I not told you that if you believe in Me you will

see My Glory? Now believe in my Love, in your Jesus! My Grace

is like a yeast that ferments and dilutes my Spirit of Love in your

soul, as if to increase my divine Life in you. Father Gabriel must

knock on other doors, he must reach the Pope: quickly! I want him

to wait, wait for them to open the door for him. He will have help.

Unexpected help. I want him to give the Pope my Message, I desire

and want him, the Pope, to receive it and read it before he leaves

for Colombia. I desire that he, the Pope, take Me, leave with Me,

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work with Me: I, Jesus in the Eucharist, in Him and on Him. I de-

sire that the Pope, Paul VI, come to know this Message of mine.1

There is no time for delay. Write, write for my Glory. Do not hesi-

tate! The 9th and 11th of this month must bring my announce-

ment. Hurry! Let Father Gabriel listen to me, trust Me: I, Jesus,

am and will be more with him and in him. He will meet me, he will

recognise me because Jesus, his Jesus, never abandons him. Now

obey, copy my Words. Let them leave and arrive in time. Now you

have found Grace in Me through My Mother. Go, hasten, I, Jesus,

am with you. Jesus the Redeemer.”

Savona 4-8-1968 6:20 pm

“Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Write in my Name: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!

The sweetest and most blessed Trinity: God One and Three in one,

enjoys the outpourings of Love of His ‘little ones’, and visits them

in their tribulations with greater Grace. What I have said and say

to you serves and will serve for all other souls. I, Jesus, have never

spoken for you alone, but for everyone. The tribulations, the afflic-

tions, the discouragement due to My apparent absence are the fruit

of My Love and My Sorrow. You share with Me, share My Sor-

rows because My Love for you is great. However, it is not your

soul that is the call of My Love, but it is the holy Grace that you

receive in increasing measure through Her who chose you and pre-

ferred you through My Love. I, Jesus, see the tears of my Mother

in your soul and these pearls of Grace attract my wounded Heart.

Do you see what pure love invokes Mine? O wonderful Love of

my Mother, who prepares everything, thinks of everything! What

Abode do you not prepare, O tenderest Mother, for your Son Jesus,

1 “... be aware of this message of mine”: Fr Zucconi went to Rome, and on 6

August he handed over two letters to the parish priest of Castel Gandolfo, a Salesian:

one for the Pope’s secretary and one for the Pope. “Work of the Living Tabernacles”

Study Centre, Milan.

The Holy See responded in autumn, asking the Curia in Genoa for information

about Fr Zucconi and the Work.

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and for my soul! A Dwelling Place purified by Your tears of a Mar-

tyr, a Virgin, so that my divine Blood might not have been shed in

vain. O my daughter, let us thank our beloved Mother together, for

I see you, meet you always in her Motherly Heart. Now you must

have no doubts about my Work of Love. You must be certain that

I, Jesus in the Eucharist, will triumph... You are too small to under-

stand, but you must increase your faith, your trust in the One who

comes to you in extreme simplicity: I, Jesus! Let Father Gabriel

not be afraid! I, Jesus, will hasten the times. Pray, pray that the

Holy Father may recognise my ‘envoy’ in him. It is time for prayers

which you will raise to Heaven in the Heart of my Mother, Mary

Help of Christians. She is your guide for the Holy Father. I, Jesus,

will then gather you together to thank Her, my Mother. Heaven and

Earth will meet in the person of the Holy Father, the Pope, and I

will reveal Me to his spirit as Pontiff. My Hour has come, the Hour

that will still give humankind Peace and Forgiveness, and this will

happen through the multiplication of the Living Tabernacles. Let

my Work of Love cover the Earth and envelop humanity in my

Mercy. Now write and send my Message of Love to my beloved

Priests so that they may pray, wait for me, prepare themselves. I

will go to them. Let Father Gabriel trust! I, Jesus, am with him.

May my Father’s blessing descend upon you, upon your loved

ones. I give my Heart to little Fabio: Heart of Jesus, Heart of Priest,

Heart of Eucharistic Love for my beloved innocent. Let Rosa not

fear the love of Jesus: I give and will give if faith, trust, love, filial

abandonment reside in the hearts of those I have called. Speak of

my love, bestow my love: I, Jesus, desire it! I remain with you in

my holy grace. Jesus who blesses.”

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Savona 7-8-1968 2

Jesus: “I have fallen on your behalf, to lift you up in faith and

trust in Me, Jesus! Believe, Vera, believe in the Love of your Jesus,

even though you are so little and nothing without Me, without your

Jesus. I have fallen on earth, on you in the Holy Species of the Eu-

charist, to lift you up and bring you to Me. Now you are more in

Me! Jesus will not leave you! In Rome you will fight for Me,

and you are one in Me and with them: My Priests. These are

the ‘hours of agony’. You are in the first of these with Me: you,

a sinner for yourself, a sinner for your brothers and sisters, and I,

Jesus in the Passion, with you. Abandon yourself to Me: do not

think of anything else. The others struggle and will struggle for My

triumph of Mercy, you hide in Me: in My Martyrdom of Love.

Jesus in the Eucharist to you, little bride promised to Me. Follow

me: the way for you is renunciation and love. Then it will be re-

nunciation but never of your Jesus for he loves the ‘poor’ too much,

and I now seek, I will seek ‘poor brides’ like you. Say that I seek

these brides who, in time, will take faith and trust from you. You

will be the first example that I will reveal to people. It will be a

greater Grace when you will be but a representative figure for the

world who other souls will be able to reflect on and come to Me

confidently, for your God has revealed an inexpressible Love for

creatures who cannot rise up to Me from the Earth without Me,

Jesus in the Eucharist, falling with them to raise them up, to make

them come to Me. Then the wheat, the golden ears, will be the sym-

bol of my predilection; and for you, not flowers on your graves,

2 In her Letter to Fr Gabriel on 9.8.1968, Vera writes in this Message: “The

last message of 7 August relates to a painful episode that happened by chance during

the distribution of Holy Communion at the end of the Holy Mass celebrated at 6 pm

in the Salesian Church... At the moment of the distribution of the Eucharist, Jesus

fell from the hands of the priest. What I felt at that moment I cannot explain. I cried

without knowing how to restrain myself and I felt that He was saying to me: ‘I fell

for you, to give you faith...’ My soul was on the floor and remained there with

Him until He, my beloved Jesus, spoke to me and told me to write.” Letter to Fr

G. Zucconi, 9.8.1968 in L. GRITA, Mia sorella Vera di Gesù, op. cit., p.110.

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not flowers near the lifeless body, but ears of wheat, wheat that

produces bread, raw wheat flour that produces the sacred particles:

those which you will have humbly borne upon you, and received

into your soul. I in you in the mystery of the Bread where my

Sacred Body is veiled; I in the Wine the fruit of the vine, and you

my branches through which I have made my life-blood flow: my

innocent Blood. You shall all drink, with my Priests, even from the

Chalice my Blood, for with the Priests you shall be my Priestly

Souls with whom I shall go through the ways of the world so that

the world may come to Me, Jesus! You, my Brides, you espoused

to my Cause, you will be other priests who will go far with the

Priests who are ‘called’, to touch every strip of earth, every strip

of heaven. This is my Love which I am giving to you, to the world

and for yourselves and for all souls. Come, my soul, my wounded

Heart opens for you now. Tomorrow I will call you where you do

not want to go, but you will come because you can no longer live

without breathing with Me. I, Jesus in the Eucharist, make you

mine: for my immense Love, for my Glory. You will welcome my

desires in Father Gabriel, and give him the obedience that soon, in

my name, he will ask of you. This is a first call to which others

will follow, and I will unite you in Me in the same offering that he,

Gabriel, will offer with himself in Me and in the sublime love

of the Holy Spirit, to God the Father. I will unite you, unify you

with Me in My Holocaust, and My Blood will wed you to Me the

Crucified One, to Me the Apostle, to Me the pure Victim, to Me

the Redeemer. Jesus bent over and prone on the earth to raise His

creatures, to bring them to His Eucharistic Heart. Jesus in perma-

nent Immolation for you and with you that he may also come upon

you. Take me with you, Vera, my poor bride; take me with you,

Gabriel, faithful priest; take me with you: I desire it. Jesus to those

he has called. Glory, Glory, Glory to God in the highest. Peace to

people of good will. Peace and forgiveness to you, little victim of

my immense Love, infinite as I am: your God! My Mother, Mary

Help of Christians, is close to you, she blesses you. Jesus for you,

for all souls.”

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Savona 16-8-1968

Jesus: “Here is the announcement of My Glory: I, Jesus, am

in the Pope and My Work of Love and Mercy is already manifested

to Him through your writings, through which He has ‘seen’ Me:

Jesus Love! Now you must tell Father Gabriel to confidently await

the call. The Vatican Secretariat will call him to a private audience

with the Holy Father.3 While waiting: prayers, humility, love and

Eucharistic adoration, intimate union with Me in filial abandon-

ment to God the Father through Me, Jesus!

Write for yourself. Jesus.

O little soul, my Cross is upon you and with you, and I am al-

ways in the Cross. My Cross is silence, so that your suffering may

be pure. My Cross is what you are experiencing. This road is nar-

row, winding. This is the way that leads to Me. In the silence of

suffering I excavate my Temple, I prepare the place, my divine

Dwelling Place, and I imprint my holy Name on you: Jesus!”

(Thank you Jesus for having deigned to dictate to me before

the Blessed Sacrament).

Savona 16-8-1968

Jesus. “To my beloved priests. The hour of holy grace is

coming upon you! You are and will increasingly be the repositories

and custodians of the Goods of the holy Church. You wisely and

lovingly distribute the treasures of grace which the almighty and

merciful Hand of my Father gives to souls through you. You pour

out and spread my Message of Love; you gather and assemble

those ‘called’ under the authority of my Vicar, and then go and

bring me, and give me to your brothers and sisters. From Rome,

from the heart of Christendom, from the heart of the Holy Father,

go in the four directions (East, West, North, South) which form the

3 Fr Zucconi met Pope Paul VI in a private audience on 22 September 1977.

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Cross, that Holy Cross by which I, Jesus the Victim and Redeemer,

have saved you and will save you. May my Message of Love come

to you from the love of the Holy Father, with the holy Graces and

the holy Blessings, which I, Jesus, will send down from Heaven

upon you through him, my Priests, and upon all those called by

me. I gather you into my Father Heart and prepare you. I desire

love from you, much, much more love from you charity, gener-

osity, from you who immolate me, who offer me to the Father, who

give me; from you, all of you: as I, Jesus, give myself to you, as I,

in your priestly hands, you Priests in my hands as the Eternal

Priest! Docile to My invitation, obedient in your Fiat, humble for

Me for you have been chosen by God to console and to give and

to bring Him who is the Way, the Truth, the Life. Behold, I come

to you to go with you and upon you, everywhere, so that all

brothers and sisters may come to Me! Jesus Saviour! Jesus Eternal

Priest! To the ‘called’ who accept my invitation I repeat the words

I spoke to the first ones called: ‘Whoever wishes to come after Me,

let him renounce himself, take up his cross and follow Me.’ Jesus

asks: love, trusting surrender to Him, faith that grows, that shapes,

that strengthens under the action of His grace. Therefore He asks

for docility from us so that He can work in our souls according to

the desires of His Heart. Jesus desires that each soul learn to speak

to Him, for Jesus ardently desires to speak to each soul. Let the

soul say to Jesus: Jesus, speak! Jesus, teach me to speak with you,

of you, that I may live only of you! These are the caresses of Jesus.

Glory to God!”

Savona 17-8-1968

Jesus: “Love My Name, Jesus; love My Name, Vera, for I give

it to you. Love all of Me, all for Me, and love all in Me. Yes, it is

Jesus who speaks to you... I do not leave My creatures, My souls.

You cannot yet understand how happy I am to find a soul willing

to listen to Me. From where does My Voice come to you? My Voice

is Grace. A special Grace that I wish to give to all My souls if they

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will humbly listen to it. My Voice is the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Where does it come from? It is in you, it is Thought, it is Word, it

is Love, it is Jesus in your soul. If you cannot explain it either to

yourself or to others, when you are questioned, use the words of

the Holy Gospel: ‘... and the Word became flesh and dwelt among

us.’ Others will understand. For I, Jesus, have made myself human

for you and continue to make myself human for you, for all souls.

I descend into you with My Grace and fill you with Me and the

soul then comes to be immersed in Me. My Word is bathed in My

Light in your soul; My Word is in your thoughts, and your poor

heart vibrates with My supreme Love. I, Jesus, made human in my

poor creature so that she may receive what she lacks from Me. This

is how I want to descend into all my souls so that every creature

may feel its Creator within itself; every humble and trusting child,

the love of its Heavenly Father who caresses it, guides it, watches

over it. No one, no one must feel like an orphan. For the one who

considers himself such I will go to him with my Living Tabernacle

so that I may embrace him with your arms, may have him rest upon

my Heart. I seek my lost children, lost through you; I seek my

children far from Me but all still alive in Me as long as I, Jesus,

continue to love them. Through you I have already begun to seek

the souls who do not know how to seek me. Now it is more and

more I who will go to them as long as the world exists. I am already

coming to visit you, to call you, and my silent Voice touches your

souls. Open to me. It is I, Jesus, who knocks. I am Grace, Forgive-

ness, Comfort. I am the Father who does not forget his own son. I

am Love, the same Love of old which made me accept the most

bitter Passion. I am the Love of God the Creator. I am the Love

that I gave and manifested to Abraham and the Prophets. I am the

Love for which I created you, redeemed you. I am the Love that,

without interruption in time, offers itself to the Glory of God for

you, my brothers and sisters! I am Jesus, and Jesus alone is Love.

Now you know how I speak in you. Now they will understand how

I ‘speak’ to you. Thus it will be for the poor and humble souls who

will learn to seek Me in their souls, to encounter Me in their

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brothers and sisters, to see wherever I manifest My Goodness, My

Beauty, My call of Love. Whoever truly seeks Me, knows in how

many ways and in how many paths they can meet their Jesus, be-

cause I cast My gaze everywhere and upon all. Seek Him! It is the

gaze of Love.”

Savona Sunday 18-8-1968

Jesus: “Prepare your heart to receive Me more intimately. I,

Jesus, am in you to the extent that you love Me. I want this

‘measure’ to increase and for your heart to become a chalice over-

flowing... with love for Me. Then I will imprint My holy Name:

Jesus on this new chalice! I want you to perform every action with

Me, to learn to consult Me before making your every decision. Each

soul must resolve to live its day with Me, moment by moment, if it

truly desires to be in My company. Only thus can I be the Master of

her life, the shepherd of her soul. Only thus can I lead her along the

path laid down by the divine Will. The soul that trustingly sur-

renders to Me is never alone, for I am with her. Let human beings

learn to speak with their God. Let them learn to speak with their

Jesus, their Brother. I also desire the prayers that spring from your

heart: outbursts, feelings expressed in your language, thoughts ad-

dressed to Me continually. I am a loving Friend to every heart that

seeks Me. Come, come to Me who waits for you, I love you. I,

Jesus, will no longer remember the time when you never thought

of Me; the time when, while living in My House, you did not know

how to love either Me or your brothers and sisters; the time when I

called you... and you did not come. I will forget as soon as you seek

Me with purity of spirit, and I will forget again and always as soon

as the soul trusts in Me and learns, even if stammering, the first lan-

guage of intimate love addressed to Me: Jesus in the Eucharist.

Speak to your Jesus, keep nothing for yourself, but turn your every

thought to Me. You must tell Me everything, so that I may live in

you, so that you may not exclude Me from your day even for a mo-

ment. This is a Union of Father with Son, of Brother with Brother,

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of Friend with whomsoever seeks their friend. O Vera, what im-

mense joy comes to you from this union! Already from here you

can taste the joys of Heaven. Then your difficulties will not appear

to Me as a symbol of a painful Cross, but of a joyful Cross; your

sorrows will be the object that will make you grateful to Me who

have blessed you with My treasures; peace, serenity will be the

fruit of your living together with Me.”

Porto Maurizio 22-8-1968

Jesus: “Today I leave My Word to the Immaculate Heart of

My Mother! I give you My Mother, I give you Her Heart. Jesus

for all souls.”

Porto Maurizio 22-8-1968

“I am the Mother of Jesus: the Immaculate conceived without

sin to ‘carry Jesus’. To you who will soon be the ‘Bearers of my

Jesus in the Sacred Species’ I, Mother of Jesus and your Mother,

turn to beg you to adhere to the measureless grace that He has pre-

pared for the salvation of the world. Called and promised to God

the Father through Jesus, gather in trustful prayer and expectation.

I, Mary Most Holy, have intervened and will intervene much more

so that the Love of my Jesus may triumph. I, Mary Help of Chris-

tians, will guide the Work of Love to the Holy Father, and will give

him and then others inward and outward signs so that they ‘see’

that the One who is at work is Jesus in the Eucharist, His Mercy. I,

with my Mother’s Heart, will show the truth. I, Mother, want to

give the One who is Salvation and Peace: Jesus, to the distraught

world. Do not be afraid, my daughter: I will listen to you, I will

follow you, I will see you. I know that you fear error, deception,

but I, the Immaculate One, will crush the head of the enemy. Be

strong in Me, your Mother; increase your faith and trust in this

Mother of Heaven who always rushes to your groans with pity. The

Work of Love of my Jesus costs, and my Son asks of each one

called how much they know how to give. And whom does Jesus

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ask first? Father Gabriel, faithful servant of my Jesus. You, poor

creature, for you listen to the Voice, receive the thoughts of my

Son. You have received much from God, through my Jesus and

through my motherly intercession. Now He, Jesus, has espoused

you and Father Gabriel to His Work of Love. Others will come,

and at the word of the Holy Father the seed of the new Mercy will

be sown in the earth: the Living Tabernacles. Then the furrows here

below, those established in Heaven, will be traced out. You will be

received under the authority of the Pope so that Jesus, who is the

Way, may traverse the ways of the World. Let the crooked paths

be straightened, let the dark alleys be cleared, let souls be purified

in prayer and repentance. My Jesus comes to you with immense

grace, such as has never before been given to humankind. Jesus in

the Eucharist will come upon you to seek and save that which was

lost. Then the world will be purified by a Visitation of God, and I,

your Mother too, will be with you and with my Son, Jesus in the

Eucharist, to receive God the Creator with you in the revelation of

His Love and Justice. For where Jesus is, there am I, his Mother,

the Pure and the Holy, the Immaculate by the will of God. Jesus,

my Son, will dictate to you about his Work. It is up to Me to guide

you, to encourage you in your trials and to grant you more: what

is lacking because of your miseries, and especially yours, my

daughter. I, the Immaculate conceived without sin by the will of

God, bless you in this little community that you now form. I bless

the priests, I bless Father Gabriel and his apostolic activity. I bless

you with my Heart as Mother of Jesus and as your Mother. Now

my Spirit of Grace will unite you more closely to my Jesus, for I

have the mission to prepare your poor heart to receive Jesus; only

I can prepare this dwelling place for Him: an intimate Tabernacle

where my Jesus is loved, ardently loved. This mission is fruit of

the love of my Mother’s Heart addressed to you and to Father Ga-

briel. Abandonment, trust, faith, love: I am with you!

I unite you in my Immaculate Heart, and I offer you to my

Jesus. Your Mother: the Immaculate one, because she is the Mother

of Jesus, because she is the true Mother of God.”

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Jesus: “... And I will go to him and make my abode in him.

You call on Me and I, Jesus, come to you, I pour the holy grace of

My divine Presence into you, and your soul is enlightened by Me.

Yes, I hear the cry of my souls as the good shepherd hears and dis-

tinguishes the bleating of his sheep and hastens to them and suc-

cours them according to the need they have, or the love of which I

am the object of their seeking, their rejoicing and dying, of which

I am the Subject in the Subject. Jesus the Subject: Life in the life

of ‘his soul’, and the soul, the subject that allows itself to be pen-

etrated by the Subject of Life: Me. The soul does not always sen-

sitively feel my divine Presence. I veil myself for various reasons:

trials, trials! For whoever follows Me in trials glorifies Me,

whoever perseveres in the blind trust placed in Me, consoles Me,

whoever believes in Me when night has fallen and the one star of

My divine Reality, the most holy Eucharist, remains shining, is in

Me, and I am in them. If only all souls were sensitive to my calls!

I speak of souls who know me, who love me..., but do not distin-

guish my Voice: voice of the soul, voice of me! Yes, my child, I

want the soul to perceive the sound of my Voice. Mind you, I, Jesus

said the soul, not the ear! This gift, for now, is for you and by your

poor means for all souls so that they may know my Love in the

intimacy of its effusion. I, Jesus, would speak to all my souls if

they would learn to distinguish my language. Many do not believe,

have no faith, and refuse the true comfort of the Friend. Many are

in a hurry, they do not know how to gather in silence and humility.

Here, in the Temple of Love that I, Jesus in the Eucharist, am build-

ing each day for my sacred Dwelling Place, I am. I pour out Life

in it, and I am the Good Shepherd of it. I speak to the soul in hu-

mility, and I am the Divine Master for it. Who guides you, keeps

you upright, exhorts you, admonishes you, consoles you? He to

whom you have opened your soul to be its absolute Master: I,

Jesus! Tell my souls, tell the world that I seek ‘stable dwellings’

where I am not only the Guest, but the Master. For have you not

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given Me your soul completely? Therefore I, Jesus, am the Master

of your soul. And the Master is free to give as much as he pleases.

I, Jesus, am free to give My voice a sound. Yes, Vera, call it the

voice of the soul. Oh, if only this humanity, so much in a rush,

would learn to perceive this Voice, the Voice of my Love! If at least

‘my’ souls will learn to seek me in humility, within themselves,

they will discover my divine, real, human Presence: Me, Jesus!”

Sv. 27-8-1968

Jesus and the poor. “You meet them everywhere: the child

who demands respect for his innocence; the old man who can see

Me; humble humanity that follows Me with a faithful heart. I

would like my souls to learn to ‘see’ with Me, to distinguish my

‘poor’ ones. With their eyes they cannot, for these souls, though

dear to Me, embrace everything and everyone but they do not know

how to meet Me in the poor whom I have placed near them. You

have a veil that clouds the sight of my spiritual realities: pride, pre-

sumption... You think you embrace and contain all human beings

in the spirit of your apostolate, of your prayers, and then you do

not know how to welcome the smallest among you: the poor. I said

before: poor is whoever is deprived of gifts, of inner riches. I give

to the poor man whose trust and love have given him heavenly

wings, because he is generous, because he is grateful to God. This

poor man has found his treasure in simplicity: Me. I am wealth for

him, I clothe him with grace like the lilies of the field. I provide

him with the soul’s food with which to nourish his spirit: my

Words. He knows how to love others who are poor and he knows

how to recognise them, for his eye ‘sees’ with my eye. He respects

everyone, he knows how to keep himself in his place as a poor man

without aspiring to anything else but to possess Me more and more.

And you, my souls, can you distinguish these poor people? O

priestly souls, stop the race. Do not chase the times! Follow Me,

seek Me, see Me. I, Jesus, am in my poor. Jesus to a poor little

woman.”

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Varazze 27-8-1968

Jesus: “I want charity among my priests! Let them love one

another as people chosen by my Love for the Glory of the Father

in equal measure of predilection. I love the faithful and fervent

Priest; I love the Priest who does not know or does not want to give

in the same way. One is a cause of glory, of reparation, of consola-

tion for my Priestly Heart; the other is a cause of suffering for other

Priests, of glory not elevated to God through me. But I, Jesus, con-

tinue to love, to offer opportunities to return to my wounded Heart.

My infinite Love extends to each of My Priests with ineffable ten-

derness. I am the Good Shepherd who suffers with my faithful

sheep to contain the sheep within my fold who plot abandonment,

flight. There is no fold in this humanity where there is truth except

for the Catholic, Apostolic Church. There is no Pastor in my

Church but my Vicar: Paul VI. Whoever hears and puts their word

into practice is with Me. Whoever does not follow the Church in

the Pontiff’s word is outside of Me and therefore against Me. You

priests who wish to abandon My Way in the name of supposed jus-

tice, watch your steps: when they have taken false directions it is

you who will have brought about the schism. Then humankind will

be subjected to scourges and ruin as God will gather the ‘just’ to

form the Priestly Heart of His new Church with the Pope. Come

to Me, to Jesus; come to your Shepherd, draw near to my Love,

and draw from the infallible sources of my Gospel message for

this: it is the Way, it contains the Truth, it brings you my Life.

Nothing has changed in its values and nothing will change,

for these are as eternal as I am eternal. I, who will have passed

them on to you out of my Father’s love. Let the ‘new’, modern

Priest be formed on the example of the ‘old’ Priest. Let him jeal-

ously guard the infallible truths in the light of the conservative

thinking Priest’s practice of spirituality, lest he himself run the

unconscious risk of being overwhelmed by modern Catholicism.

Let him know how to make a careful selection of the ‘new’ in order

to integrate it with the ‘old’. Let the conservative priest be the

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humble, patient, hard-working guide of the young priest. Accept

the good of the renewal of the Church. Let all your thoughts, which

will translate into practical apostolic activity, have two beacons of

light that come from Me: the Holy Gospel and the Word of the

Holy Father. The rest leads to error. And love one another, love one

another if you want Me to be with you to the last. Jesus, to his

Priests.”

Sv. 1 September 1968

Jesus: “Let there be charity, forgiveness, understanding for all

in your words. When you love those who have wounded you, I,

Jesus, exult in you. When you forget the wounds of the past to love

Me, I revive My holy Grace in you. When they speak unjustly

about you, and you, for love of Me, keep silent to die in Me, I will

live in you and the world will disappear for you. The soul that gives

itself to Me, victim in the Victim, is like a soldier in battle. Every

day he must gain ground while he must defend himself against the

assaults of the enemy. As he advances he must leave behind part

of himself each day, part of the old man who still survives in him,

and when I in him and he in Me are one Soul, he will have revived

Me in his humanity. You are not alone in this ascent, no one is

alone, for I give you Me. Read, read love in human hearts: love

contained, hidden, unconscious. Read in that song of love in hu-

mankind for which I created it. Every human being is the most con-

crete manifestation of my Omnipotence, the most sublime

revelation of my Father’s love, having given him or her my image.

The Son resembles the Father, but you deform my likeness with

sin... Write, write again, do not stop: I am Jesus. I want you to love

those who do not love you. I want you to pray for them. You will

recognise these souls by the way they present themselves to you:

ingratitude, injustice, abandonment... I, Jesus, give you these souls:

open your heart and receive them. Each soul that you embrace in

suffering and love will receive what it lacks from Me: My Love.

This is the first consignment that I give to you, my little soul. You

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know that you are not alone because I, Jesus, tell you again, I have

never left you and I will never leave you. I am preparing My con-

tinuous abode in your soul, so that My Father may be glorified in

Me with the Holy Spirit in your soul. I want souls, I want my souls

arrayed like an army against the enemy. You have a banner of

glory: my holy Cross; a name that will make you strong, Jesus; a

hope that is certainty because it is truth: to possess Me. I am the

Truth, I will be your glory. Do not be dismayed by the struggle.

None of you is alone, for I am renewed in you, I live again in you,

I become flesh in you. Let me come into you and give me a place

there. Prepare a lamp that burns in your heart: where it is lit, I will

go and pitch my tent, so that the world may know that I prefer the

poor and the humble, the patient and the persevering, the suffering

and the merciful. For them I return to renew Myself in their hu-

manity that they may be one in Me. Now is the time for the poor

to know that I come to them, and that I have established My divine

dwelling-place among them. Jesus.

You, Vera, have written by the will of my Father, by the out-

pouring of the Holy Spirit, and I, Jesus, have given you ‘my

Thought and my Word’. For you: you have a call.4 Be ready, be

4 “You have a call... Together let us prepare the ‘gift’ to our Mother, Mary most

holy”: this is about the new school site, the Desert of Varazze, assigned to Vera in

the 1968–1969 school year, the last year of her earthly life. In her Letter of 5 Sep-

tember to Fr Gabriel, Vera writes: “In the first message Jesus speaks of a ‘call’ for

me, and I did not understand until yesterday. I saw the Desert, the name of my place

of work, the many hardships and work ahead of me. I was depressed about my ill

health. On the way back, in my desolation, I heard: ‘It is for Me, for My Work.’ A

few days later, for the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, 8 September, Vera

offered the Virgin Mary the Desert, her new school, in the spirit of reparation as

Jesus had taught her: ‘Offer Her the Desert to console Her for the desert of souls

and She will think of My Work of Love.’ Moreover, always in the spirit of reparation,

Jesus teaches Vera the prayer that accompanies the offering: ‘As you offer the “De-

sert” to my Mother with me, She will help you in this task, in this intention. Every

day speak to my Holy Mother thus: ‘It is for You, to repair the “desert” of your souls

with Jesus so that they may return to You. This work, these children are for you, and

you, Mother of Love, think of the Pope, of the priests, make them become “little

children” once more for the glory of your Jesus. Make them become “little children”,

for in my Father’s House there is room only for little ones’, like the school children

whom I, Jesus, have entrusted to you’.” (Message, 5.10.1968).

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good, be merciful. Be ready. ‘Together’ let us prepare the ‘gift’ to

offer to our Mother, Mary Most Holy. Join your hands in prayer,

give them to Mary ever Virgin, that they may work for the highest

Good. Jesus, who loves you, is waiting for you...”

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BOOKLET 8

JESUS

Beginning of the second part

of the Work of Jesus’ love

3–5 September 1968

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Sv. 5 September 1968

Jesus: “I want a House all for me, for my Work of Love. It

must arise in Rome as a beacon of light that pours out into the

whole world. My House must welcome those who are called to

prepare to become ‘Bearers of Me, of Jesus the Eucharist’. This

House, ‘mine’, will be a place that will host the Living Tabernacles

for series of retreats to be held throughout the year. Souls called to

go to mission lands will be instructed here. Here the spirituality of

the Living Tabernacle will be strengthened and refined in the light

of the Holy Gospel. My ‘dictations’ will have to be integrated with

my Gospel Message and become, in their unity, an object of medi-

tation and a current rule of life for all souls. Each will find Me if

they strive to meet Me in the Messages of Love addressed to the

poor. For each soul I, Jesus, have opened the wound of My Heart

so that the soul may discover, see the intimate, personal way that

leads to Me. I, Jesus, am the Way in the outpouring of Words to

you who are consecrated to Me. I am in the Word given to you by

my Father for souls who sincerely seek Me and wish to follow Me

in the sunset of the corrupt world, in the squalor of suffering hu-

manity. Write: let my House be a place of prayer, of fervent and

spontaneous prayer; let it be a gathering of souls in conversation

with Me. I will gather you here, I will unite you, and the Holy

Spirit, the Spirit of God, will keep you in the shadow of His Wings,

in the divine warmth of His Love. This will be the founding House

of my Work. Others will follow in Italy and then in Europe, and

everywhere else, and they will have the same ends, the same goals:

to prepare the souls of those called to take on Me in their souls, in

their hearts, in the spirit of immolation, to bring and give Me to

their brothers and sisters, to all brothers and sisters. Prepared

priests will attend to this exalted task. They will receive the great

commission from Vicars, Bishops and senior Prelates so that what

will be bound on Earth will also be bound in Heaven. Then the Liv-

ing Tabernacles will be sent to the four directions established by

God in the sign of my Holy Cross: North, South, East, West. I will

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raise up many, many souls so that my Houses will be full. Many

Living Tabernacles will live in their families, many will serve the

House; many will go in the aforesaid directions. I want the earth

to be covered with Me, with My Mercy. My House will be born of

My Father’s Providence, and I, Jesus, promise great graces and fa-

vours for those who will ask of Me through the maternal interces-

sion of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Whatever you will ask of Her,

according to the will and greater glory of God, I, Jesus, will grant

to you through My Mother. I want everything to pass through the

hands of the Help of Christians, everything united with the tears

of Our Lady of Sorrows, everything purified in She whom God

preserved from every shadow of sin: the Immaculate Conception.

Let faith in my Mother be revived, let love, trust and abandonment

be nourished in Her who can do all things in my Heart. Let charity

between brothers and sisters be established on the basis of the ma-

ternal charity of Mary Most Holy. Let us pray with Her, let us work

with Her, let us entrust ourselves to Her. And what you have done

to the least of your brethren you will have done to Her. Let hearts

be freed from all human narrowness, for your heart will be able to

love, very, very much, when you have learned to live with Mary

most holy. She will be rich in special graces for you, rich for those

who will think of building my House, the House of my Work, of

Jesus’ Work of Love. Jesus, in the fullness of Love and the light of

the Holy Spirit, to a poor little girl”.

Sv. 14-9-1968

Jesus: “Love, only and all Love pours the sweetness of my

call into your soul. I am in you, My daughter, it is I, Jesus, who

visit you and bring you My strength so that you will write and are

not afraid. My Messages must be revealed so that I may manifest

Myself to you for other souls, for your brothers and sisters. Do not

be afraid of those who must lead my Work of Love. A Sign will be

given to them by which they will believe. I will reveal it to you

and I will give it so that you may not be seized with the torment of

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doubt. What does the opinion of others matter to you? You have

my word, the word of Jesus. They need to believe, to touch to be-

lieve. Surrender yourself to Me, and put everything into My hands:

give Me complete trust. I need this to continue to speak to you. I

will give the message of My visit, of My coming, of My return

among you to you, as to the Magdalene. Tell my souls of the new

‘Gift’ that I bring you; shout it to all that I, Jesus, seek the dwellings

of my creatures, that I, Jesus, want to live their lives and no longer

be excluded or forgotten. Oh, that ‘my voice’ would soon resound

in humankind! Open your hearts to Me, Jesus. I love you, I will

give you peace, my peace. I renew myself, I immolate myself in

my souls because I, Jesus, am Saviour. Take me with you. Jesus,

made Man, descends into the poor soul and manifests his love of

Father, Brother, Friend, Spouse to it. The soul is in Jesus, and it

lives in him. The creature forgets him because she is miserable and

weak, defective. I, Jesus, will come upon her, like the mother to

the little one, and I will say to her: ‘also carry me on you’. I will

be light to your doubts, strength to your weaknesses, I will be a

reminder of ‘our’ covenant of love. I do this for the weak. ‘Give

me to others, give me to all souls’: I will say this later to her ‘and

treat your brothers and sisters with the gentleness with which I,

Jesus, have treated and treat you’. Vera, take me with you! My little

soul, I give myself to you, for without Me, you can do nothing. I

in you and upon you, so that I, Jesus, may conquer and triumph in

you. Jesus in your ardent love. Yes, you will have permission from

Pope Paul VI to carry Me. I, Jesus, will grant this permission to

you and to Father Gabriel, because where my Voice comes, there

must be my dwelling place, my tent.”

Turin 18-9-1968 12:20 pm

Jesus: “My Name is Jesus, Son of the Most High and of Mary

Most Holy, ever Virgin. I, Jesus, take you into my divine Heart, so

that yours may be nourished, fed by my supreme good: Love! You

have not chosen Me, but I have looked upon you, and My gaze of

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love has reached you, has wounded you. The wound of my love is

the wound that seeks my Glory. It is a bloodless wound, but a wound,

and you bear it. I, Jesus, have given it to you. Now ‘our’ hearts

communicate better because you live of Me, of My desires of love,

salvation, forgiveness, peace. I am waiting for you, come back!

Now you are in my peace, for I, Jesus, free you from turmoil.

My Mother is with you and we do not abandon our souls, our

children, to themselves. It is precisely the poor who are most in

need of the master’s riches. It is precisely for the small and weak

like you that I return to humble myself and ‘forget’ that I am God.

Live in Me, Jesus, Brother for his brothers and sisters, Friend,

Bridegroom, Father. I baptised you in the Sacrament of Penance

with my divine Blood and gave you a new Light: light of grace that

grows, grace that strengthens. Now I have espoused you to my

Work of Love, and as a sign of this union of Grace, you will receive

my Cross. You will call it Jesus’ Cross of Love. It leaves Turin

through the hands of my sweetest Mother. She is and will be along

this painful and joyful way: Mary Help of Christians, in succour,

help, comfort; the Immaculate for the purity with which I wish my

Cross of Love to be carried. You will meet my Mother along the

‘way’, and she will give comfort, joy to you too. You will meet her

Motherly Heart very often. What I say to you applies to Father Ga-

briel, faithful servant in whom I have placed my trust. Another

message will be addressed to him, so that not only my grace but

also my word may strengthen his priestly spirit. Behold, I am in

you and of you. From my holy people I serve to spread love, lots

and lots of love. I have chosen the poor to confound the mighty, I

have chosen the weak to pour my strength into them, I have chosen

the frail to reveal to the strong that they, in Me... (interrupted)”.

Turin 18-9-1968 (4 pm in in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians)

Jesus: “Write in my Name: Jesus! The Work is here, in the

hands of the Superiors. My triumph will start from Turin. I promise

you! Will you write in my holy name, Jesus? Write my holy name

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three times: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. When they request a sign from

Heaven, I, Jesus, will give them tangible proof of my truth in the

Work of Love.”

Savona 19-9-1968

“Jesus for you, Jesus for souls, Jesus for Father Gabriel. The

consoling Spirit will come to comfort the aching soul of my ser-

vant. I, Jesus, descend into the depths of his Priestly Heart and in-

fuse peace and confidence, fortitude and humility, knowledge and

intellect. The Holy Spirit will be light, guidance, comfort for him.

Father Gabriel is my soldier fighting for my cause, and I, Jesus,

have given him a great Angel. He will learn and experience the

pure love that I always desire from him: humility of spirit, and the

gentleness with which he must move in my Holy Name: Jesus.

Such virtues are and will be increasingly revealed to him by his

Guardian Angel. Let yourself be guided like a child by this lumi-

nous Guide, so that I, Jesus, in God the Father, may look upon my

priestly soul in purity of spirit, angelic spirit, spirit of God. Trust

in my mercy. Accept with faith and humility the trials necessary

for my Work of Love to see the light on earth. It will start from

Turin, from the Help of Christians, as a beacon of salvation for hu-

manity living in anguish,1 it will spread through the earth, through

the heavens, through the seas. I, Jesus, Son of the Almighty and of

the Blessed Mary ever Virgin, promise you this. My Cross of Love

leaves Turin and because it is a Cross, it will be Salvation. The

Memorial of my Passion and Death is my divine Presence in the

Most Holy Eucharist. There is no Blessed Sacrament of my Love

without my Sacrifice renewed by the Priest on the altar. Without

the offering, there is no Sacrifice. There would not be my bloodless

Immolation, if I, Jesus, had not given Myself to the last, even to

1 Cf. Don Bosco’s Dream known as the “Dream of the two columns”: the

Eucharist and the Immaculate save the Church and humanity from the storm of

persecution after they have anchored themselves to them as if to two pillars.

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death on the Cross. Therefore there will be no triumph without my

Cross. There will be no Living Tabernacles without immolations

of victims, little victims in Me, the only Victim accepted by God.

Therefore I say to you: let each one called accept the Cross of Love

that I, Jesus, give them, and clasp it to their heart with gratitude

and sincerity. It is a sign of predilection for my souls. My souls,

come to Me: take this sign of Love with Me and let this Cross of

Love mould you, purify you and prepare you to come to Me. After

the sacrifice, the freedom of spirit, after death, the resurrection,

after the last breath rendered to God the Father in my own breath,

I, Jesus, will stand before you with my sweet Mother, not to judge

you but to introduce you into the Glory of my Father. Blessed by

my Father, come: you have borne witness of faith and love to Me

before human beings, I, Eternal Priest, Jesus, acknowledge you be-

fore my Father, and you are no longer servant but master in Me in

the heavenly home. You were faithful to me in the mission I en-

trusted to you, now you will partake of my Glory, and there you

will see what a feast is made in Heaven for sinners who are con-

verted, for the poor who have encountered Jesus in their brother

and sister, for the far-off ones who have been visited by Me through

the most holy Eucharist brought by you. You, Gabriel, priestly soul

who are reading me, are that means, that dwelling place that I have

chosen from heaven to go to other souls. Will you offer me a tent,

your tent? I am Jesus, God One and Three in one, Son of the Im-

maculate Conception. As I became human to save humankind, and,

as such for your redemption, I need human beings, their witness,

to pass on the Message of salvation, the Gospel to you all, so, as

long as the world will be, to bring and bestow the last Mercy, I

need the person who has died to the world, the soul consecrated to

Me, the victim in the Victim. My soul, will you carry your Jesus

forever? Do you want Me to come upon you too, and for you and

for other souls? Make room for me, prepare yourself, receive me.

Accept my new Cross of Love generously. I am Jesus, take me with

you! Jesus in holy grace, to the poor little soul. Jesus gives, Jesus

gives. Come to Me!”

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“Mother of Mercy” Sanctuary, Savona 22-9-1968

“I am Mary, the Mother of Jesus, the Mother of your souls, of

all souls. You are under my Mantle. Father Gabriel is wrapped in

my Mantle. Do not fear, do not doubt. I, Mary Most Holy, will con-

duct my Jesus’ Work of Love: where there are shortcomings I will

bring perfection; where there is doubt, I will bring certainty; where

there is confusion, I, divine mercy, will bring order. Let not your

hearts be troubled, but trust in me, Most Holy Mary ever Virgin,

who am Mother, and desire glory, love, honour, triumph for my

Son Jesus, salvation and redemption for all souls. I, Daughter of

the Almighty God, Immaculate Conception, Mother of the Only-

Begotten, Jesus, promise the triumph of Jesus’ Work of Love for

the greater glory of God: the Living Tabernacles approved and

authorised by the Holy Father Paul VI. To you Gabriel, son of the

Holy Cross of my Jesus, my call for the Holy See, where you, by

my grace, will be introduced and received, and there you will speak

through my inspiration. I, Mother of Good Counsel, will be with

you. You and Vera, receive my motherly blessing with which I,

Mary most holy ever Virgin, remain praying at your side. My

mercy is with you! Mary Most Holy.”

Savona 25-9-1968 (in the morning)

Jesus: “My holy Name is Jesus, I have given it to you!

Daughter, My daughter of the Cross! I want souls, little souls, cruci-

fied in Me and for Me. Little ones crucified, crucified for My love.

You are on the way to Calvary with my Mother and my Cross of

Love; you are crucified in Me in this. I therefore want ‘crucified

ones’ who go, who advance along the way. I am the Way! The way

of the Cross is for you, for the first called, the way of my Work of

Love. Come forward on this way of Love and I, Jesus, will be more

and more in you, for I am the way! Whoever is espoused to My

Work is crucified for Me, for My Glory. I wish I could lift from the

earth all fallen crucified people, and give them the Holy Cross of

Love. On the way to the Work, gather up the ‘fallen ones’, and by

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the holy Cross of Love that I have given you, ask, ask for the...

‘crucified’ fallen ones. When I give you more strength to receive

my Spirit of Love, I will manifest other desires for redemption. I

will give you strength to receive me. Soon I will come to you. Jesus

who loves. Jesus who does not leave you. Jesus in suffering for you,

for many souls. Jesus blesses you, absolves you, forgives you. Jesus

in the little ones and for the little ones. Now write: long live Jesus!”

Savona 25-9-1968 (7 pm)

Jesus: “I want to speak to the suffering. The sufferer in the

world is the one who smothers my Spirit of love in their innermost

being. You see these everywhere now. You meet them in the dull

eyes of the despondent, in the sarcastic attitude of the conceited,

and in those who want to do things themselves. The depressed

suffer because they are alone, they do not seek Me, the believers

suffer because they do not see Me, and they suffer and err who

only trust in themselves. There are other sufferers, but for now I

turn my thoughts to these creatures. These are the most common

‘crucified fallen’ ones. Salvation is more difficult for them because

they are wounded by a grave sin: pride. My Work of Love wants

to reach them through ‘my crucified ones’. I also want to go ‘cruci-

fied’ in the Living Tabernacle to approach these sinners. Therefore,

my Tabernacle must live in society in the most mystical silence be-

cause I, Jesus, want my Divine Presence among people. Let the

Tabernacles not be excessive in ‘number’ but be those who have

been ‘called’ and not those who have not received my invitation.

Let them be of deep spirituality even if they are poor. I, Jesus, will

provide what is lacking. Let them know that they receive My Cross

with Me, and in this, crucified for Me, for their brothers and sisters.

This Cross is now on you, on Father Gabriel. Bear it with love and

gratitude, and ask for this gift of love for the crucified fallen ones!

Do not doubt: you have written down My Thought.

Now I, Jesus, say to you: The ‘fallen’ are crucified because of

the greatest sin. They are the ‘sickest’, for their souls are all sores

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and they have neither physician nor medicine. I want to go among

these sufferers, I want them to sense who I am. I want them to be-

lieve, to see the deception and recognise the error. An act of hu-

mility will be enough for me to reveal myself as their Father. So

there will be those ‘called’ who will go where there is government,

where there is discussion for the good of the peoples, where agree-

ment and harmony are sought. There is discussion, I said, but dis-

order grows, it grows in the world. O people of little faith, what

can you do without Me? I, Jesus, am PEACE. My peace is for the

humble, for those who follow Me to the end. Be humble, be

humble and merciful if you want my Father to show Mercy to you.

I, Jesus, in my holy Cross of love, seek the ‘fallen ones’ through

my Tabernacles by my infinite mercy to give them the Cross of my

love: salvation and redemption! This invitation is addressed to

those called who are the strongest in Me. Jesus in Holy Grace!”

Sv. 26-9-1968

Jesus: “I want you to write, I want you to obey me. Approach

my Side, and there you will receive strength and grace, and all the

warmth of my Love. You have seen Me crucified. I showed my

Feet nailed to the Cross of Suffering. Not so much of the suffering

was visible to you as GRACE, the grace of salvation and forgive-

ness that I, the Crucified Jesus, give to those who invoke me and

adore my Wounds. Spread this adoration among souls. No one now

remembers or ponders the depth of love that led me to be nailed.

The Right Foot fixed to the Cross showed my vermilion Blood;

the light with which the Foot was illuminated came from my Blood

and therefore was red. The left Foot showed a large precious stone

instead of the nail: the holy Grace that you receive through these

most holy Wounds, the comfort of forgiveness when you gather at

my Feet with a humble spirit. Such is the light of Grace, that it veils

the light diffused by my Blood: that Blood which I made you see

in the other Foot. Holy Grace is like a precious stone that illumi-

nates and flashes shining reflections in all directions. Living light,

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light that comes from Heaven and brings the clear blue reflections

of the firmament to your souls. I, Jesus, do not want to pursue hu-

manity by reminding them of My suffering love in my passion, but

of the grace that I, Jesus, want to bestow upon them all. Let the

soul who follows Me learn from Me. Every suffering remains

veiled if Grace lives and grows in it. Suffering is fleeting, but Grace

remains. Suffering is the source of Life in Me, and it generates holy

Grace. Come to My Feet with humility, I will give you what your

soul needs. Kiss those holy Feet, crucified for love, and dwell there.

I will then bring forth contrition, forgiveness, love from the

Wounds of my Feet. Through the holy Wounds of my Feet, I, Jesus

Crucified, will give you, give all my souls, the grace of becoming

the true Children of my Passion and of my Cross of Love.

Now you have revealed My Thought, after your soul has seen

it and suffered it in Me. These last words are dictated by Me: Jesus.

I bless you, I remain in your soul with My Divine Presence. Now

copy, I will manifest Myself to you again. Wait for your Jesus.”

Varazze Desert 2-10-1968

Jesus: “Write in my holy Name out of obedience and love.

Offer me your sacrifices, your sufferings: I see them and they are

dear to my Heart. My Heart is that of the Bridegroom who awaits

the loving embraces of the bride. When you seek me with humility

and suffering I receive consolation from the Cross I am nailed to.

You suffered abandonment, the same that I receive from my souls.

This was to repair my desolate Heart. When you are stronger, the

abandonment will be deeper or more prolonged until my souls re-

turn to Me. There is no life without Me, and you will be as good

as dead when I, Jesus, perceptibly abandon your soul. Only this

certainty will be a comfort to you: I remain always in you with

holy Grace. Without my Divine Presence you would be in agony.

This is the agony that my Love wants to give you here. Await my

return with trust and humility. Without lacking in confidence,

never! I have many revelations to make to you about My Work of

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Love. I want these to be preceded by this suffering. Your body, also

fragile and poor, will be sustained by my Grace. Your daily tribu-

lations will be alleviated by my Mother’s maternal love.

Your labours, more burdensome now, bear the sign of my holy

Cross and are blessed by it. Fear not, I, Jesus, will help you to do

my will to glorify my Father together. You will not fail, nor will

your life end before you have fulfilled your task with Me, Jesus,

with My Mother, Mary ever Virgin. You are on earth and in the

school for this reason, to sacrifice your life to Me in the innocent

Victim. Trust now and even more so. I see you, I saw you before

in Church, and your prayers have consoled the abandonment in

which My Heart is left. Now go, seek the children in my name,

Jesus. I bless you from the holy Tabernacle. Jesus who ‘sees'.”

Desert of Varazze 5-10-1968

Jesus: “My blessed daughter, write in humility and simplicity.

Write for Me, for My supreme Glory. Come to my Cross, gather

yourself at the foot of it and, immersed in my most holy Wounds,

listen to me. I want to carry your soul to the wound of my divine

Heart through the suffering and grace that I am giving you through

the most holy Wounds that I have suffered for your sake. Now go

to my Feet, you must bring my souls to me. It is the priests who

have abandoned me. They lack humility. They lack the knowledge

of Divine Love, that is, of Me. Purity of spirit gives them knowl-

edge of Me, but for this very reason they do not see deception and

error, my child. My separated priests have reopened all My

Wounds, and I, Jesus, seek and desire small, humble and generous

souls who offer themselves in Me for the return to My Priestly

Love of these souls of mine, always so dear to Me, always so much

loved by Me and ardently awaited. I will give all of Myself to my

little victims and I will come to dwell in their hearts, for I, Jesus,

find My consolation in the humble and persevering, in the ‘poor’.

This is the time of the wretched who live for Me in my Grace. No,

it is no longer the time of heroic and strong souls. It is the time of

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the wretched who live for Me in my grace. It is the time of the

‘poor’, that is, of ears of corn that have sprung and sprouted from

barley seeds.

These have given and give what they can, and I, Jesus, accept

it all, even if it is miserable and poor. I give and provide for what is

lacking: Jesus! Therefore I say to you: come to Me, poor and little

souls, for I, Jesus, am rich and generous for all My creatures. I want

you to pray for the Holy Father with special offerings. Yes, the Holy

Spirit, through the intercession of my Mother, the Blessed Mary

ever Virgin, gave you new knowledge when your soul saw. Now,

tell this story: ‘I saw with my soul (as Jesus says), the Holy Father

with white sacred vestments as if he had to celebrate the Holy Mass

or had already done so. He stood in front of the pews where the

children were seated, and behind him, the statue of the Blessed Vir-

gin seemed to dominate the scene. The Pope smiled at the children

and spoke to them with moving affection. I did not understand the

words, but I guessed from the Pope’s expression that he kept raising

his arms, as if he wanted to caress all my pupils.’”

Jesus. “Priests must be like children who let themselves be

guided by their father. They must thus conform to the Will of God,

clinging with loving obedience to the voice of my Vicar: the Pope.

I wish to see humility, obedience, purity in my Priests as the seal

of their Sacrament; love as continual communion between Me and

the Priest and, through him, among other souls; the search for my

Doctrine of Love in the light of the Holy Spirit. I have given you

a guide, I have given you a voice that comes from Me, that is Me,

that is God the Father, that is God the Son, that is God the Holy

Spirit in the Person who represents Me: the Supreme Pontiff, Paul

VI. Let the priests return to the Pope, and, like trusting children,

allow themselves to be guided; and through the Pope, and only

through him, will they receive my word of faith. The Pope suffers

from the deep wounds of my holy Church. You have children with

you. In your heart call them ‘the Pope’s children’, and then offer

whatever you do assisted by my Grace: work, work and prayer. All

in love, in a love of spiritual motherhood which must find its roots

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and nourishment in the purest motherhood that is and will be: that

of My Mother, the Immaculate Conception. As you ‘offer’ the De-

sert to My Mother with Me, She will help you in this task, in this

intention. Every day speak as follows to My holy Mother:

‘It is for You, to mend the desert of your souls with Jesus, that

they may return to You. This work, these children, are for you; and

you, Mother of Love, think of the Pope, of the priests... make them

return as “little children” for the Glory of your Jesus; make them

become “little children” because in the House “of my Father,” says

Jesus, “there is room only for little ones, like the school pupils

whom I, Jesus, have entrusted to you.”’

Now I bless you and promise you a new visit in the revelation

of the Holy Spirit. For now I want serenity in you, in Father Ga-

briel, and therefore I will not speak of My Work of Love. Suffer in

Me and rejoice. I unite you in Me to My Wounds, to the Wounds

renewed in My Holy Church. This prayer, offering, consecration,

consummation must live in Me and prepare access to my Work of

Love with the Holy Father. Let Father Gabriel work in the new la-

borious tasks that come to him from my holy Cross of Love. Soon

I will point out a particular path for him to follow. Pray, pray and

get him to pray so that my Heart may increase my divine Mercy. I

am with him. I bless you with a fatherly hand. Jesus who never

leaves you!”

Desert 9-10-1968

“Long live Jesus, long live Jesus, long live Jesus! Speak my

Heart! For the Glory of God, for the Glory of My Father, for you,

for others, write these Words: I am Jesus, Jesus in His New Cross

of Love; Jesus for His ‘Called Ones’, for His ‘Living Tabernacles’.

I am Jesus, and I go to My souls, to those who await Me. My Heart

of Father, Friend, Brother, Bridegroom, knocks at your human

hearts, emits a new Light that brings a purifying Fire, and pours

forth a river of Grace. It springs from my divine Heart and flows

into your hearts, irrigates your flesh with my Blood so that you

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may be drawn to divine Love. I go to "my hearts" and one by one

give them my own beating so that the day does not die without

your heart, which has become mine, beating in unison, even if only

for a moment, with my Heart. In one of these beats in which there

are no longer two hearts but only one Heart, mine, I, Jesus, will

say, and already I say to my souls: ‘Take me with you!’ These

hearts are already waiting for me, but they do not yet know how

they are to carry me. They are still waiting for me. The manu-

scripts! Yes, let them be done soon, very soon! I, Jesus, ardently

desire the ‘living tabernacle’ and to find My Tent, My new Dwell-

ing Place there. Write, write to the Pope to be quick, to be inter-

ested, to read my love. Take Words to him, the Words of Jesus in

the Eucharist. He will see Me because I, Jesus, am in him, and the

Pope ‘sees’ Me. Send my Words, then... the opinions of the theo-

logians will come to him. For now, may My Love be manifested

to the Pope. Let him be My ‘first bearer’ and receive you in My

Holy Name: Jesus. Let it be done quickly and let there be no delays

in Turin, in Genoa. Let the Holy Spirit be invoked, for I, Jesus, am

merciful to those who invoke Me in the Person of the Holy Spirit.

Peace will come from devotion, from the love that the whole

Church will nourish towards the Holy Spirit. In the form of a pure,

white dove He carries a Cross on His breast. It is a golden Cross

because it is the Cross of Salvation, but beneath the golden feathers

is My Blood. I shall soon descend upon human beings, upon those

who invoke my divine Blood to wash humanity, and I shall again

cause rivers of blood to flow upon souls that they may be redeemed

and have my Peace in my precious Blood. Behold again the Holy

Spirit come to you in my Blood to bring you Peace. From my Peace

in your heart, human beings will find peace in the world. Behold,

I have revealed to you the source from which to draw, that human-

kind may return to God. The Living Tabernacles will bear Me and

be enlightened and guided by the Holy Spirit, for each bearer of

Jesus will act and speak under the guidance of this consoling Spirit.

I desire that My bearers be guide, light, comfort for other souls.

Often, so that they remain in humility, they will not be aware of

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the ‘Gifts’ that I, Jesus, will give them, for He who will act in them

will always be my Grace, namely, Me, Jesus! Now make haste.

Then I shall reveal My other desires. Jesus for you, for Father Ga-

briel. Jesus for those called, that is, for the Superiors in Sampier-

darena and Turin. I repeat with you, for the Glory of my Father:

‘Long Live, Long Live, Long live Jesus!’”

Desert 14-10-1968 (in church)

“I am the Blessed Ever Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Write

his holy Name: Jesus! I, Mary Most Holy, the resplendent light of

my Carmel [trans. Note: the reference here is to the Carmel that is

the Carmelite Hermitage, the Desert of Varazze], bless you. There

is no heart that seeks me that I do not listen to, that I do not succour.

Call on me, invoke me. In serenity I will return to you, and for you

and for my souls. The Mother of Divine Love, Mary Most Holy

Immaculate.”

Later in the bedroom. “It is my Mother, the Blessed Virgin

Mary, speaking to you. I am Jesus. Jesus in Body, Blood, Soul and

Divinity telling you: Jesus the Eucharist. ‘I am Mary Most Holy,

the Immaculate Conception. I am beside you. I descend into your

little soul and I visit it and comfort it and give it strength, enlighten-

ment, peace. I give you my Jesus. It is I, Mary Most Holy, who

gives him to you, to my souls. I prepare you to receive Him in the

Sacred Species. I receive Him and I communicate Him. I, Mother

of Beautiful Love, am preparing in you, in my souls, the Living

Tabernacles sacred to God because they will house the Holiest of

Holies: my Jesus. O my daughter, I will give you Jesus, I will give

you Jesus, but struggle, pray, suffer, love and seek my Motherly

Heart so that I may be the Mother of Jesus’ Work of Love. I, by

the will of God, have given it to people. By the mercy of my Jesus

and the glory of Almighty God I will give it to souls and with my

grace I will make holy temples that will ‘see’ Jesus renewed in the

poor, in the humble. They will love and carry my Jesus so that be-

fore the world comes to an end He may have passed through all

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the streets of the world and visited all humanity. Fear not my

daughter, it is God’s will. Now the hour of Mercy must not be de-

layed, and this is very important even if it is not given to you to

know why. Therefore I desire that in the name of holy obedience,

Father Gabriel prepare the work of Love for the Superiors in Samp-

ierdarena, and they should not delay any longer in reading the Word

of my Jesus made poor for the poor with humility and gratitude.

Let the Messages of the Living Tabernacles be sent to the Holy

Father. The entire Work of Love, that is. Before this holy Christmas

the Pope, Paul VI, must be aware of the Work of Jesus. Afterwards,

the ‘Messages’ will be studied in the light and in the Love of the

Holy Spirit. This is the Salvation that starts with me: Mary Help

of Christians. From the Founder, St John Bosco, you will receive

the impetus he asks of his Salesians for the triumph of my Jesus.

St John Bosco will be revived in the spirit of the priests when every

Salesian priest has embraced and espoused the holy Work of Love.

I, Mary Help of Christians, will be there, now and forever, Mother,

Guide, Teacher, Dispenser of Graces. I bless you and I exhort you:

make haste for the love and glory of my Jesus, make haste for the

salvation of souls. Time is short and my Jesus is seeking his new

dwellings. I am preparing you and with Jesus I bless you. Mary

Most Holy, Ever Virgin, Mother of Jesus, your Mother.”

Jesus to Vera in the Heart, in the love of his most tender

Mother.”

With my Guardian Angel and with the Guardian Angels of

Father Gabriel and those called to you, I thank you, O my Jesus,

in the Heart of the Blessed Virgin and with her I join the nine

Choirs of Angels, and the Saints to repeat together, Heaven and

earth: “Holy, Holy is the Lord, God of the Universe!”

14 October 1968 Desert

Jesus “and I will come to him and I will make my abode in

him.” “Come, my child, the hour is near: the hour of love, Cruci-

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fixion, Consummation. I will come up on you too. Prepare yourself

to bring love: Me, Jesus! Believe! Believe! Believe! Await me with

trust and humility: Jesus Redeemer.”

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BOOKLET 9

JESUS

Reveals himself to the “little ones” and the “poor”

(As dictated by Jesus!)

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Desert 15-10-1968

“Write my holy name three times: Jesus to the Glory of God

the Father, Jesus to the Glory of God the Son, Jesus to the Glory

of God the Holy Spirit.

Love to God the Father, Love to God the Son, Love to the Holy

Spirit the Revealer of Love, of Me, Jesus. Soon I shall return to

you for my Priests. Wait for Me in humility, prepare yourself. I am

Jesus in the Holy Passion. I offer you my Cross of Love, embrace

it with Me. Jesus for you, for His ‘called ones’. Write, do not fear,

I am Jesus and My Word is Grace!”

Desert 17-10-1968

Jesus: “I am Jesus! With one hand I offer my holy graces, with

the other I give my Cross of love: suffering. The suffering lived

and brought through Me. My arms, stretched out on the Cross that

I, Jesus, had previously embraced and carried for love of you, now

open to my little victims in this embrace of union. Take, receive

the great grace that I grant you through the holy wound of my right

hand: mercy, forgiveness for your miseries. I, the Crucified Jesus,

bend down to gather my souls, and with My Blood I purify them,

raise them up, bring them to Me. When they are in My Love, that

is, in Me, I open the riches of the holy Wound of My Left Hand. I

offer my Cross out of love. Accept everything for my sake. Thus

my arms, stretched out on the Holy Cross, embrace the ‘little’ souls.

And in this divine embrace I invite my little victims to the Euchar-

istic Table of their Bridegroom Jesus. A great Host: I, Jesus; Many,

many little hosts: my little souls. So you are in Me and I, Jesus, am

in you; you already know each other in Me because you are one

with Me: Jesus. I invite many, many souls to this Table and I await

them with patience and kindness. I am waiting for Rosa, I am wait-

ing for other souls. You will know them in Me. This invitation is

answered only out of love, for this is a special invitation from my

Bridegroom’s Heart. Yes, I choose the poor, and the persevering,

those who love with humility, and in truth. I, Jesus, am also and

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above all the ‘Father of the Poor’ and it is always for these that I

still return take special care that no empty place remains in my

Father’s House, and the poor as rich as well as the rich serve to

glorify God and love him eternally. Now you have written my

thought of love: Jesus’ thought. I, Jesus, enlighten your poor soul

for the glory of my Father and the good of souls. I told you, ‘If you

believe you will see my Glory.’ The day is not far away, but while

waiting I desire patience, perseverance, humility, love from you. I

will help you: Jesus! Write in my holy name: Jesus. Keep in your

heart what I told you before in Church. Now rest in Me: Jesus. And

finally write: ‘Heaven and earth will pass away, but my Words will

never pass away.’ Write, write again, my daughter: ‘Long live the

holy Name of Jesus.’ ‘Long live Jesus in you, in his souls, in those

he has called. Long live Jesus in humanity!’ Jesus.”

Desert 17-10-1968

Jesus: “Write for Father Borra: I want him to pray, to offer

himself and his suffering for the triumph of my holy Work of Love.

Then, I, Jesus, will reveal myself to him, communicate myself to

him, and make my dwelling in him. I want him to embrace my holy

Cross of love that he may soon be espoused to my Cause through

holy suffering. This suffering, which he bears with torment, will

become joyful when his priestly soul lives for my triumph. He is

in Caserta by my will.1

My holy Mother will guide him on the way to espouse Me in

the Work of Love. Then I will be lavish with special graces for him.

Jesus to his beloved priest”.

1 Unpublished Message: “He is in Caserta by My Will.” At Caserta Fr Borra

would be the spiritual father for Teresa Musco, who bore the stigmata.

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Savona 20-10-1968

“My daughter, write, write and do not fear: I am Jesus in Holy

Grace!

Jesus, to his first Bearer, Paul VI Supreme Pontiff.

Message of love to my beloved Vicar on earth: Paul!2

If the Living Tabernacles are soon to be the expression of my

tenderest and deepest love as Father, Brother, Friend, Spouse, you,

Paul, are and will be ever more my Heart wounded by love and

pain. The beatings of your heart are mine, and already there are no

longer two hearts but my one Heart that suffers, groans and loves

in yours. The throbbing of Eucharistic love with which I proclaim

my Death for humanity is in your heart as Pastor of souls. With

this throb of love you, Paul, will give Me to consecrated souls so

that I, Jesus in the Eucharist, may increase Grace in them. You will

give Me as I gave Myself to My Apostles at the Last Supper so that

My souls may become My new dwellings, My new Temples

through which I, Jesus, may visit all humankind. I, Jesus, want

love, seek love, always give love to My poor. Give Me to the world

as I, Jesus, have told you so that my little ones, my poor, nourished

and enriched by Me, may spread over the earth like stars in the fir-

mament dropped from the vault of Heaven by the will and mercy

of my Father. Behold I, Jesus, live in you, Paul, and in you, my

soul, I guide my flock, my Church. In you I gather my souls and

form a league, a league of souls, and prepare it as an army that will

depart from the Holy See, the Vatican, blessed by Me in you in the

sign of the Holy Cross facing all directions: North, South, East,

West. I will reveal Myself to you in all the holy Work of Love that

I, Jesus, have dictated, and the Holy Spirit will descend on you. I

2 On 25 October 1968 Fr Zucconi sent a letter to Pope Paul VI containing the

messages addressed to the pontiff up to that time, with the request for the Apostolic

Blessing for the Work. In November, the Salesian parish priest of Castel Gandolfo

confirmed for Fr Zucconi that the envelope for the Pope had been delivered. “Work

of the Living Tabernacles” Study Centre, Milan.

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have brought a new Cross of Love to earth to give it to those whom

I have called. Behold, I now place it in your hands as Pontiff. Bless

it, give it to my souls so that embracing it with gratitude and respect

and love, they may be transformed by this Cross of love and suf-

fering into the Crucified One who goes and seeks his souls on all

the world’s roads. You, in Me, beloved Paul, embrace the cross of

all humanity and I live, suffer, rejoice in you. You know the lan-

guage of my Love, you know the love for the poor, for the

wretched. You know that I, Jesus, use the poor to speak to and seek

other poor people. I, Jesus, have therefore still made myself poor

in the word so that the humble ones, the man in the street might

understand Me and become familiar with his brother: Jesus. You,

Paul, understand this language of love because I live in the fullness

of my love in you. You know, you know everything and you were

waiting ... you are waiting. Here is my message of love to you, of

your Jesus, of Jesus ‘made Word’ . May my Word, the Word of the

Triune God, soon become a Work, the Work of Love of Jesus. For

without works, my Words would remain in vain. I place My Work

in your hands and I desire that it be completed as soon as possible.

Then receive Me in that outpouring of Love that I want to give to

My children, so that with them I may return to travel through the

world and visit and save it before this... comes to an end. With this

message of love addressed to you as My Vicar, I, Jesus, have

opened the way for you to request My messages. The Most Holy

Trinity, in the gift of the Wisdom of the Holy Spirit, will be your

Teacher, and I, Jesus, say to you: ask my Mother, Mary Most Holy

Help of Christians, for the revealing sign of my Word, and I, for

the Glory of my Father, in the love of the Holy Spirit, will give it

to you and to all my Church. I, Jesus the High Priest in you, Paul,

that you may be one with Me for the Glory of my Father and the

Kingdom of my Love and Mercy down here among human beings,

my brothers and sisters. Word of Jesus, Way, Truth, Life.”

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Desert 28-10-1968

Jesus: “Write my holy Name: Jesus! It will give you comfort!

O Vera, my daughter, do not be afraid, you have Me, Jesus. No one

will be able to harm you as you think: I, Jesus, will not allow it. En-

dure these sufferings for Me, for my Glory, for my holy Work of

Love. The Living Tabernacles must see the light, and in this hour of

trial and decision you must suffer in hiding whatever, little or much

I, Jesus, allow, since in Me you are a living part of my Work. My

Light grows and advances in this darkness of the Desert, in you and

around you, in this disesteem. You are a poor soldier fighting, stuck

in one place with no weapons other than my mercy. Others fight

strongly with Me, Jesus. You are little, you are nothing without Me;

you are all in me. You will see my Glory when you come out of the

desert of your soul, and you will be happy for having suffered and

resisted for the sake of my Glory, of my triumph. Do not be afraid,

you are my poor sheep and you know my Voice. It is the voice of

your Shepherd, Jesus. Now rest and let it be. I, Jesus, will defend you

so long as you don’t try to justify yourself. I alone know the truth,

because only I, Jesus, am the Truth. I, Jesus, will guide you, I will

inspire you in your work so that you have to address it only and al-

ways to Me, to your Jesus. This union of souls, life, work, actions,

thoughts, is a gift from your Jesus. Everything is a gift and everything

will be a gift. Wait and hope for the greatest gift that I can still give

you down here: Me! Then I will be with you, upon you, and you will

fear less, less and less, until you fear no more at all, because you will

come to understand, to feel that whoever possesses Me in their soul,

whoever carries Me as a Living Tabernacle, becomes a real soldier

capable of any fight and any immolation for their king. I, Jesus, am

your King, and you are my poor bride of blood, My Blood, Blood of

your Jesus. Jesus to Vera, crushed by the torment of the school. Jesus

blesses you, Jesus blesses your poor work, your effort; he supports

your efforts, he comes to the aid of your inabilities. Trust, my

daughter, I have always saved you. Trust in your Jesus: Love.”

Thank you, my Jesus!

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Desert 29-10-1968 Long live Jesus

Jesus: “Yes, write ‘Long live Jesus’! I am in you in the love

of the Holy Spirit. Write everything that I say, everything that you

hear. I have come this evening because, I, Jesus, promised you.

Now you are in me, poor little thing. See how you are nothing with-

out me! What does this teach you? That you exist, you are, live and

work only because I, Jesus, wish it. Without Me you are in a void,

you are in your nothingness. Now that you have known Me, my

apparent absence is the most burning pain for you because you re-

main alone, lost. And I want you never to rest in my silence, but to

seek me in prayer and suffering, and until I am moved by your tears

you will not rest because for you there is no rest except in Me. I

am jealous, oh, how jealous I am of the love of my souls! Even

their breathing, when it exhales outside of my thought, hurts me.

It is true, I am a jealous Bridegroom but I have given you all my

Blood. Look at my Wounds: I have suffered them for you, and now

I give them to you. Look at the Crucified one without the Cross:

He comes to you to give you all his Wounds. Take them, Vera, they

are yours, and learn from Me to give them to other souls. I will

teach you because I am a teacher and you are to teach and act in

humility with other souls by the way I teach and act with you. You

will learn through mystical experience. Now Rosa will be consoled

by my Words since these are also for her, they are for Father Ga-

briel, they are for the souls who desire and yearn to embrace my

hoy Cross of Love. I bring suffering, suffering of love because

there is no love that grows except in pain, and no pure and holy

pain that is not written in love. In my Eucharistic Heart there is

room for everyone. Come, my soul, and rest on my Heart. Your

Jesus is calling you, waiting for you. Come my soul, little soul. I,

Jesus, have looked at you from eternity, I have loved you, I have

waited for you. Do you still want me to wait? Tell me that you are

waiting for Me, tell me that you want to live only for Me, tell me

that you want to die for Me as I, Jesus, did for you. Tell me that

you want Me as the King of your little heart. Behold, I choose a

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small and modest kingdom and make myself small for you so that

you may contain me.

I treat you as a brother, as a friend; I speak to you as a Bride-

groom in gentleness and goodness. Tell me, my soul, if you are

waiting for your Bridegroom, tell me if you want to prepare the

place in you, on you for your King. Behold my Court of Angels

crowns me, but I descend into my soul in silence, unseen but sur-

rounded by my Messengers. Here is my temple: I will make it

sacred and this new dwelling will become my Church where

everyone will go, meet, and I will be visited and will go visiting. I

will be with you, and you will be closer to Me. O Vera, o little soul,

o little souls: take Me, take Me with you. I, Jesus, Son of the

Father, desire it in my Father, and together we will give love and

peace in the Holy Spirit. The first grace for you will be the peace

of your soul since nothing will disturb you any more. The first

grace for my faithful Gabriel will be patience. Pray, hope, fight for

the triumph of your King, Jesus. I will want to come upon you in

the Grace of my holy Name: Jesus. Jesus was here, with you. Be

sure. He told you this on behalf of others. Jesus also visited this

little room.3 He has blessed everything, and everything and every-

one will bear the fruit of goodness as long as the branches bound

to Him start from the Vine. You are a small branch dearly loved by

the good Jesus because He is good to you, to everyone. The Holy

Spirit, the Spirit of Love has spoken to you. These Words will be

written in the holy sign of the Cross and given to everyone, and in

this holy Sign they will triumph. Jesus to you, to Rosa, to the little

souls who love him, await him. Jesus to Father Gabriel, to the

Priests, Jesus to Father Borra, Jesus to Father Bocchi, Jesus to his

Salesian Priests, and through them, one day not far off, to the young

people he has ‘called’; Jesus to people of good will; Jesus to his

souls in his Vicar Paul VI. Jesus in the Pope, for all humanity. Jesus

Life, Jesus Life, Jesus Life. Jesus lives in the holy Tabernacle, Jesus

will also live in his Living Tabernacles. Long live Jesus in you,

3 Small room” – Vera’s room at the Carmelite Hermitage at the Desert of Varazze.

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long live Jesus on you, long live Jesus with you. One and Three in

one in the glory of the Father and the Holy Spirit forever. Long

live Jesus!”

5 November 1968 Before the holy Tabernacle in the Desert (it was

almost dark). Long live Jesus!

Jesus: “I want to speak to people of good will, I want to remind

them that I, Jesus, go to souls so that they will come to Me. That is,

I go and I will go to distribute my gifts, my graces so that all souls

may share in them. Therefore, living with my holy Eucharistic Pres-

ence also over those called to me means looking for my sheep, those

of my fold who are lost at the moment. Being carried by you, my

souls, means going along the streets and roads of the world where

my Church does not yet exist. Bringing Jesus in the Eucharist means

immolation with Jesus, for Jesus in the life-giving Work of Redemp-

tion. I, Jesus, do not come to you for your souls alone since for this

the sanctifying grace that you receive in Holy Communion is

enough for you. Carrying Me means giving Me. This is your goal,

your programme. May each of you strive to ‘give’ in the way I will

be Master of each soul, and in the light of the holy Gospel. Strive

to give Me in the environment in which you live. To other souls I

will give the wings of Heaven to spread myself in humanity. I want

not a strip of earth to remain without Me: Jesus. Let the ‘little one’

allow itself to be led by the ‘big one’: that is, let the little soul allow

itself to be formed and guided by Me, because truly I, Jesus, with

my blessed hands will be able to make each Bearer of Me a Church

that walks around, that is to say I, the divine Master who returns to

your streets to meet you. Today my blessing has descended from

Heaven on my Work. It is now in the heart of my Church. Now the

long awaited meeting between Me, Jesus, and my Vicar takes place.

Now he ‘sees’ my love, my mercy and... he weeps. My daughter, I

am in Rome, I am here with you, I am with Gabriel, I am with the

souls making reparation who await me. I live in my souls so that

they can live of Me: Jesus. I am the Vine and you are my branches,

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you are my channels through which my Grace will pass to other

souls. Do not fear. You are here before Me, before the Holy Taber-

nacle and what you write comes from Me, from Jesus in the Eu-

charist. I have set you as a sign of proof of my Word, and you will

see your most intimate desire for union with Jesus, the Eternal

Priest, fulfilled in Me. This too is a gift of my immense Eucharistic

Love. Come, my fragile creature, supported only by my grace, by

my love, come pray with Me like this: ‘O most clement Father of

ours, I am a poor thing without You, I am all in your Jesus;4 I am

your creature and I belong to you; I am only to give you honour and

glory. O Father of ours, through the hands of Jesus your only Son

and our Lord, before my sweetest Mother, Mary Help of Christians,

the nine Choirs of Angels, Saint Joseph, spouse of the ever Virgin

Mary, all the Christian Martyrs, all the Saints, and especially my

patron saints, I humbly offer myself to you, Almighty God, in your

only Son Jesus, in the only Victim worthy of You, in the only Of-

fering pleasing to You: again, humbly I offer myself to You for your

greater Glory, for the triumph of the love of Jesus in the Eucharist,

for the Living Tabernacles, for the spread of Jesus’ Work of Love

throughout the world. When you, good and merciful Father, call me

to you, remember that I have given myself to you, my God in the

holy name of Jesus. Receive me, O Father, in the shadow of your

wings so that even the death of the poorest and most unworthy and

miserable of your creatures may, in the holy Name of Jesus, render

to You, my God, One and Three in one, all the honour and glory,

and to people of good will, testify to the truth of your word. The

least of your creatures, to You, my God, our Creator and Lord,

through the holy Wounds of Jesus in which I hope, through your

4 “O most clement Father of ours...”: the prayer with which Vera sealed her

path as a victim soul and bride of Jesus’ blood with the offering of her life in union

with Jesus the Victim, for the greater glory of God, for the Living Tabernacles,

for the diffusion of the Work in the world, for the triumph of Jesus the Eucharist.

It was Vera’s last act of love, of the “little martyr of my word”, as Jesus called her.

She who would die shortly after 6 months of uninterrupted hospitalisation at Santa

Corona Hospital.

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fatherly goodness, to see and read me, just as you leave it to your

beloved Jesus to arrange for your glory and the salvation of souls.

O Father, in Jesus I pray to you, in Jesus hear me, in Jesus forgive

me my sins; in Jesus bless this very poor instrument that offers You

her life in Life, so that Jesus may give it to all souls because He has

given it to me, and I offer my earthly life to You in the Life of Jesus.’

May My grace descend upon you, and may you live by Me,

by your Jesus. Soon I will come (interrupted because called on the

telephone). Resume. Write ‘Jesus’, write ‘Long live Jesus’! Now

it is I, Jesus, in the consoling Spirit, but always Jesus in life-giving

Grace, in the Word, in patience, in goodness. You have written thus

because I have willed it so: do not fear, do not let yourself be

caught up by disturbances. It is I who act and not you. Do you

understand? Now wait for me, I will return more often. I will re-

turn, I must return and dictate again. I will help you in school, and

you will work for Me, for My Glory.5 You are here for Me, to write,

to work, to be of Me even if you do not seek Me in the Word. O

My child, fear not, fear not: you are not deceived! Instead, wait for

Me, wait for Me more and more until I am always with you. Place

yourself in my Father’s holy hands; entrust yourself to me and let

me dispose of you according to my immense love for you and for

all souls. Your crucified Jesus!”

Desert 6 November 1968

Jesus: “I am Jesus, I am here with you. You wrote my Name,

Jesus, because I wanted it. I want to announce my peace to you: the

peace that comes from my Heart. I want to give it to the world, to

afflicted humanity, for my Work of Love. When the Holy Father,

Paul VI, will have given Me to my souls and I will go through the

5 “I will help you in school...”: Due to her very poor health and because she

was always feverish, Vera found it very difficult to teach and to copy down the Mess-

ages to be sent to Fr Zucconi, Fr Borra and Fr Bocchi. Jesus supported her during

her teaching hours, as witnessed by the class registers and the excellent judgements

of her school directors.

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streets of the world, I, Jesus, will give Peace, the Peace of love. This

is a gift that will come from Me to people through the prayers and

sufferings of my Vicar. I will make this gift, to him, to the Holy

Pontiff, and through him to humanity. This will be my loving thanks

addressed to Pope Paul VI for having given me to souls. This is

what I wanted you to write for the love of your Jesus. And now I

am satisfied with saying to you: ‘Long live Jesus’ in you, my blessed

soul. Now you have obeyed, and I will give you grace, love and pa-

tience with everyone. Yes, write: I am in Rome in my Work of Love

and in the hands of the Holy Father. Pray, pray because he now

suffers more in Me. Our conversation has now opened, and soon he

will see Me. Be close to him with prayer, offering, work and in Holy

Mass tomorrow offer yourself to Me, Jesus, for my Vicar. I, Jesus,

will purify everything and turn it into incense for it to ascend to

Heaven, before my Father. Yes, there will be more revelations, wait

for them. For now I am in you and outside you; close to you as it

will be when you take me into your soul and upon you. And it will

be so for every soul of mine. I will give Silvio the light of my holy

grace in the Most Holy Eucharist. This will be the gift for your

family. Ask nothing for yourself but love, love, love and forgiveness

and peace. Ask only for Me, and you will have Me more and more.

Wait for Me in every way so that I can take you where I intend. Dur-

ing this week you are in Me, in my holy Work of Love in Rome,

and you will live of Me and of the pain that torments the pastoral

soul of my beloved Vicar. It is I, Jesus, who carry you. Follow me:

now the path is shortened. Soon I will come to tell you: ‘Take me

with you.’ Write to Father Gabriel. ‘Jesus said: take me with you.’

Receive me from the hands of the Holy Father Paul VI. This is my

will. Jesus in the Eucharist.”

Desert 7 November 1968

Jesus: “Look at my Hands, I will show them to you. Look at

my Wounds. These shed light for minds darkened by worldly pleas-

ures. I would like to lay my Hands on the heads of human beings to

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dispel the darkness produced by matter. There is a means, and this

is why I am looking for souls who offer Me, Jesus, crowned with

thorns, their heads. This offering can be issued by ‘my soul’ in many

forms. For example, humbly bow your head in the face of all pain,

offer your head for a crown of thorns, so that roses of graces may

flourish in the thoughts of human beings. If the mind is not en-

lightened, the spirit languishes. If earthly thoughts dominate in the

person, the heart remains closed and the soul continues an intimate

struggle in the stormy sea since the mind and reason do not accept

these things. I need leaders who know how to humble themselves

and with me, with their King, wear the same crown that I wore for

all people, that I, Jesus, wore for love of you so that, freely willed

and loved, my Thought could dominate in you. Now give me your

head, my daughter, so that I, Jesus, your Bridegroom, your Friend,

your Brother, may arrange things according to my desires. I will

always help you, and my Grace, my ardent love will never fail in

you, even if it will seem to you that you are left alone without Me.

Know that I am silent out of an even greater and more fervent love.

I want humility from you, from Father Gabriel to the highest degree,

and simplicity. See my hands: I, Jesus, offer them to you. Come to

Me as I desire, so that I may bring you to my Heart as Bridegroom

and Eternal Priest. Yes, my Robe is now white, and you don’t know

why. I will tell you another time. Now I am glad that you have

obediently written me down promptly. I have told you, I have re-

minded you, that I bless you in the very act in which you start writ-

ing for Me. This evening, therefore, I have the graces that come

from the Wounds on my Hands for all people in the world: Light

for hands closed to the ‘things of Heaven’. I desire that my Light

be asked for through the Wounds in my hands, and, as your soul

now sees, I am not the Crucified before you but the Risen One, since

I want humankind to know the riches of my Passion and the gifts

of the Resurrection and Redemption. I am the Risen Jesus, do you

understand? I did not show my Wounds, except to Thomas, because

he needed to believe. I show the world the gifts of my ongoing stig-

mata like my Love, eternal like Me, for all souls. Now I seek my

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souls; those who wish to remain with Me like the Apostles on the

streets of Palestine. I am looking for Apostles, Martyrs, Victims for

our distant ‘brothers and sisters’. Who wants to come with Me on

this way of love? I am asking your for your head, my daughter. Give

it to me in Holy Mass, give it to me through the Priest who will re-

ceive it from Me, and will give Me to you. Now, Vera must be cruci-

fied in Me according to my wishes, since she is the bride of my holy

Work of Love. To you. Gabriel, the same invitation of love from

your Risen Jesus. It is now evening, but the dawn of my day will

come, and when I, Jesus, will triumph, you will descend into the

mystery of my Coronation. Courage, my daughter, time is short for

you, and everything must take place quickly, as quickly as my Work

of Love must progress and triumph. Now I bless you again to give

you strength and courage and so much love for your Jesus, for souls,

so that you don’t forget me. I am jealous, and I don’t want to be

forgotten by you who are small and poor and need Me. Jesus who

loves you and awaits you soon...”

Desert 12 November 1968 “Long live Jesus”

“Yes, my daughter, your God in the Word: Jesus! May this

holy Name which I give to souls for consolation in their tears fill

you with joy. The poor soul, the little soul in my Soul, that is, in

Me. I know how to do this with you, the little ones who make an

effort to come to Me, to follow Me. To these I have opened the

door of my Heart. I am the Door through which my sheep are en-

tering my Fold: those who are called. May consecrated souls pre-

pare to receive me in groups in the various Dioceses. Let the Work

extend from the Salesians into the parishes where there is spiritual

life, intense zeal for God and dedication to their brothers and

sisters. I want my Work to be a fceful breath of grace that shakes

the souls of priests who have settled into habit. I want them to be

reborn to my Grace, to the vocation of their ministry: of my

priestly ministry. Soon, during the new year, the Work will extend

through the Italian peninsula. It starts from Rome, from the hands

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of my Vicar Paul VI and branches out in all directions from the

Salesians to the country parish priests, to Convents where the

priestly and mystical life is now barren. I will make fruits of grace,

of fervour, blossom. I want Religious to have profound preparation.

From lay people I want exemplary behaviour, sepulchral silence

since no one in the world must guess my Eucharistic Presence in

the Living Tabernacle, but must receive my Light of grace through

it. Then it will go beyond this nation, and the preparations made in

Italy will go to Europe, Asia, America, and wherever there is a

human creature, it is there that I want to arrive. The Tabernacles in

the families will serve to sanctify them. Let each one remember to

become a Church: my Church of Love. Now I am in the hands of

senior Prelates with my Work of Love in Rome. Let them read, dis-

cuss, meditate, and I, Jesus, in the most unexpected simplicity, will

penetrate the souls of the Advisers and remain in them with my

new grace. The moment is difficult, but I can, with my little vic-

tims, reveal myself to whoever I want. The Holy Father awaits their

opinion, but has not kept his Jesus waiting in his heart. He has al-

ready said to Me: ‘Yes, Father’. Now give me your ‘yes’ in what I

asked you in church before my Eucharistic Presence. Like the Holy

Father say ‘Yes, Father’. Now I bless you, I bless you, and may

this blessing reach my little souls, my ones called to Love, to the

Eucharistic Nuptial Banquet, and gather you in my holy Name,

Jesus. To you, poor Eucharistic Bride, a Cross of love and pain that

will bear the name of your Bridegroom Jesus: Eucharistic Cross

of Love. May it descend upon you as a sign of my predilection and

my mercy. Go now and help Father. I will keep you in Me Jesus.”

Father Guido, assistant to the children.6

6 Fr Guido Roascio, Discalced Carmelite, assistant to the children in the Car-

melite Community, the Desert of Varazze, Savona.

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Glory to God in the Heavens, peace to the just,

hope for the poor, rejoicing for the “strong”.

Jesus!

I am alive in you with my holy Grace,

My Eucharistic Love,

My unfathomable Mercy

so that souls may come to Me

to the happy banquet of God’s love!

Jesus for you, Jesus for all souls.

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Desert 13 November 1968

“You are in my holy grace. Write: Jesus, long live Jesus in you,

poor little soul! Jesus comes to you. Write for my beloved Priests.

I am from one end of the earth to the other. I am reawakening their

apostolic spirit, but those closest to Me are still tied to belief in an

unfamiliar ‘Jesus’, a ‘Jesus’ who does not descend into his creature

and especially in the Priest, to be incarnated and relive in him. Yes,

Jesus comes, Jesus descends into the soul of the pilgrim who al-

ways goes in search of Me. I make my home in the soul, and I

transform actions into prayers, words into instruments of truth and

peace. If only my soul were to believe in the power and mercy of

my Love... Jesus in tears... for the Priests who do not know how to

accept my invitation of love. Jesus offers his tears to the Father be-

cause he is still not believed by his closest friends. Jesus will

triumph, but the Priest who has resisted my call will suffer a lot,

because I, Jesus, came to knock on his friend’s heart and asked

him: ‘open up to me, I am Jesus’. Now is the time for offerings,

sacrifices, renunciations for those I have called. Let each one now

give as much as I ask. My daughter, the Father is in the Son: I am

the Father, Jesus. Thus, abandon yourself into the arms of the

Father and let yourself be ‘carried by me’. My Priests ‘will see’

but I suffer because some of them are not yet grateful for so much

love because they are sceptical. I should also lay my holy hands

on their head so that the holy Grace which comes from my Wounds

may give Light: my Light, the Light of Jesus in the Eucharist. I

wait for my little victims like little white sheep close to the Im-

maculate Lamb. I, Jesus, will choose. Now I want you to spare

yourself no effort, even if it seems onerous to you. Give, always

give as you can. Give Me, because I, Jesus in the Eucharist, am

upon you spiritually. Beloved bride of my Eucharistic Love, bring

your Jesus in spirit. This is a gift that my Heart offers to you and

to Father Gabriel. Yes, I have chosen my Dwellings but how many,

how many my Heart sees and contains! I will come to pick you up

at 8 to take you to Church with Me. Jesus in tears for his beloved

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Priests. Write: Jesus in the Eucharist wants love, fervour, he wants

his friend the Priest to abandon himself into his Father’s arms. He

wants trust, confidence, zeal and lots and lots of humility. Love

seeks love. Those who truly love Me seek Me and follow Me. Jesus

waiting.”

“Long live Jesus!”

8:35 pm Desert 13 November 1968

“I am Jesus in his holy Grace, in the Word. Jesus in the Eu-

charist in his holy Tabernacles, to the Priests who have been called.

I live with you in the Sacred Species: divine-human and mys-

tical reality. I am looking for you, I am looking for a totally re-

newed, lively, fervent love in you. I want your hearts to light up

with love to inflame the souls of other priests, the souls of the faith-

ful. You do not achieve so much love and mysticism because you

live in sad and difficult times. You too, like the people of the world,

are weak and you let yourselves be distracted by my thought, by

that thought of continuous communion with Me. Let Me help

you. I, Jesus, desire to come upon you so that you do not forget

your Spouse, your true Master, so that you let yourselves be guided

by Me, take you by the hand and lead you along those paths of

grace and predilection which, for a long time and always, I, your

Brother and Friend, want to give to you. Now it is I, Jesus, the Eter-

nal Priest, who knocks at the heart of his Priest. Once again I say

to you: ‘Open up, I am Jesus the Eucharist who speaks, who asks,

who requests: take me with you, in you, on you. My Spouse’s

Heart always overflows with ardent love for you, my friends. Do

not wound my Heart with your disbelief or indifference.’ This I ask

out of love. My eyes are filled with tears as few love me with pure

love, few accept me in this unexpected Gift of Love. Be pure, be

chaste, be mine so that I may always be in you, live in you. Now

open your mind to the beauties of Love and gaze upon God in the

firmament. From this celestial vault your Spouse will descend at a

time that is not far off, and there, where He will be, you will be if

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you have followed me to the end. I, with my Priests, with my souls,

want to visit all of humanity. I, Jesus, want to be the ‘Church’ that

goes out, walks and seeks generous souls, pure and little souls,

souls in love with my Love. I will make an army of you, a ‘League

of souls’ through which I will be able to meet and embrace all

human beings. My invitation is addressed first to my Priest friends

and first of all the Salesians, because my Holy Mother, Mary Help

of Christians, is and will be your help, support, Teacher and indi-

vidual guide in your life; because St John Bosco will guide the

souls of young people to my Eucharistic encounter and will prepare

these young people to ‘carry Me’; because youngsters must be en-

trusted to St John Bosco, and, through my holy Mother, the choice

of those called is up to him. My invitation is addressed to all the

Priests who yearn for a continuous union, communion and con-

summation in Me. Through them I will then pass on to the souls of

all my children. I have invited everyone to my Wedding Banquet.

Who will make excuses for not accepting the invitation of love? I,

Jesus, am patient and humble. I know how to wait for ‘those I have

called’. Jesus, Eternal Priest, Jesus who invites his friends to his

table. Jesus who no longer wants to remain alone and abandoned

in Churches, in stone Tabernacles. Jesus looking for the new Tab-

ernacle, his Tabernacle: you! Vera, shout it out to my souls: Jesus

wants to come with you and on you, Jesus no longer wants to be

neglected. Jesus wants to live with us!”

O my Jesus, come, we are waiting for you, come!

Desert 19 November 1968

“Jesus in Holy Grace. Long live Jesus! My Angels sang it for

Me, it is the choir of love that unites Heaven and earth: the soul of

the little one to its Father creator and the soul vibrates because a

musical Note, the divine one, has touched it. And so that the soul

may find its God, it finds Jesus within. ‘Find’ because it looked for

it. But the soul looked for me anxiously and fervently because I was

looking for ‘my’ soul. You seek Me because I, Jesus, look at you

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with deep tenderness. I leave you so that you will seek Me, I leave

you so that you will recognise your nothingness more and more, the

emptiness that remains in you without Me. What are you without

Me? Poor little soul, what will the Father do for this poor thing? He

will double his care, his attentions so that you do not stumble over

large rocks. Even gravel is enough to make you fall. Now you know

how to love Jesus. I would like all little souls to let themselves be

led by Me: day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. How I

would be consoled if they learned to experience the fatherliness of

their Jesus! They would always be by my side, always close. I guide

you, I correct you, I take you back, I caress you, I abandon you, and

then I return to you, my daughter, with more grace than before. So

do not be surprised if you ‘feel’ that I am here with you, near you:

why can’t a Father go to his child? It is I, Jesus, who comes to ask

you to come to the church, to pause before the Tabernacle where I

am even more. I, Jesus, cancel out time: an hour is like a moment,

a moment is like an hour when you are in Me. Come, come every

evening to see Me before nightfall. I, Jesus, will come back to get

you every night. I will take you there where I am alone and abandoned

without souls to pray and adore me.1 I seek comforters, I seek the

hearts of people for whom I, Jesus in the Eucharist, remain alive

and present in the Church. Who remembers Me? Who thinks of

coming to Me? I am looking for my new Tabernacles with infinite

and deep love. Now do you understand why I crave them too? I no

longer want to be abandoned, neglected or forgotten. My souls must

always have Me, their Spouse, the Eucharistic love who is

preparing God’s new Church. I want to announce this gift to you in

my holy Name Jesus, a gift without measure that overflows from

1 “I will take you there where I am alone and abandoned...” Vera wrote to Fr

Borra in the Letter of November 20, 1968: “I am returning from the Holy Tabernacle

where Jesus remains for a long time alone, alone. I felt all the pain of Jesus for this

abandonment. Jesus also makes you feel this pain as he wrote to me. [...] Jesus suffers

a lot from the indifference of his Priests, he makes me feel this pain so much that it

makes me cry. I apologise because perhaps they have not known the true love of

Jesus and I pray that he gives them this gift: his Love.” L. GRITA Mia sorella Vera

di Jesus, op. cit., p. 121.

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my Heart: the holy grace of the call from Rome. Jesus gives this

announcement to you all, to you, to Father Gabriel. My children,

the Word of the Pope is my Word: I, Jesus, now give it to you in

the authority of my Church. Whoever waits for Me will rejoice in

Me, and I will soon go to those who have had faith in Me. Soon I

will make my abode in my souls. Everything must be done quickly

because humanity cannot wait... and I sacrifice myself and consume

myself and, with Me, my souls, so that Mercy saves, forgives,

redeems. Tell my souls not to leave me alone in the Tabernacle

while they wait. If you love me so much I will come in you and

upon you, and I will dwell with you. Yes, Jesus with people, Jesus

with his brothers and sisters and his friends, Jesus in his souls, Jesus

in your hearts. Jesus waiting, Jesus coming.

Write, my daughter! Let me teach you ‘Jesus’ Net’. Jesus’ Net

is my ‘Messages’ of Love, my Holy Work of Love. You are the

fishers who cast this holy net in my holy Name, Jesus, into the sea

of humanity. Whenever you spread a message of love you have

cast the net. When My souls do this among human beings you will

be like those fishers whom I invited to follow Me to become

‘fishers of souls’. In my holy Name, Jesus, cast the net, pull in the

net and welcome my new ones called into the bosom of the new

Eucharistic family. This Family will be composed in the bosom

of the Holy Family where Mary Most Holy, the Immaculate, the

Pure, will be the Mother of every soul and of all Eucharistic souls,

and St Joseph the humble protector. Both will teach you how to

carry and keep Me in your families. Both will make of my Living

Tabernacles the sacred divine and human family which will have

to attract graces from Heaven to many Christian families. Now I,

Jesus, have explained to you the vision of your soul. I will reveal

its meaning only when the time is right. Many days have passed,

it is true, but I will imprint Me, the Messages, the revelations, on

your soul as at pleases Me. Receive them, thank Me for them, re-

main humble and submissive, similar to a child who accepts and

welcomes everything from his father, even if he doesn't understand

everything. It is enough for you to obey, to love, love, love and...

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in silence and humility, to live, suffer and die for Me. I will increase

this desire out of love, giving you thirst for souls. Receive this di-

vine Message with the increase of grace. Cast my net in Florence

and let Gabriel accept with humility and joy my Words addressed

to him in the same way and, through him, to my beloved Priests,

to my souls. Pray, pray for the whole Work to be spread, and in a

short time. Pray for my Mercy to reach everyone. Jesus from the

Tabernacle to his new Tabernacles.”

Desert 25-11-1968

“I bless you in My holy Name: Jesus!

Do not worry, you are not deceived. I would not have allowed

this error to continue for such a long time. I give you the truth be-

cause I am the Truth. You are in the truth because you are in Me:

Jesus. The small consecrated hosts are near Me and in Me. Think

of the holy Tabernacle. Near the large Host there are many small

particles: I, Jesus the Eucharist with my little souls, spouses of my

nourishment of love. I am in every little host, Jesus and my soul.

I in all souls. I for all and with all souls. The torment of my dicta-

tions will follow you everywhere. I, Jesus, will not take it away

from you because of the humility into which your soul must sink.

In return, my beloved daughter, I will give you my own wishes.

You will ardently desire the Living Tabernacles and the diffusion

of my Work of Love together with Me. You will yearn to unite

yourself to Me, the highest Good, as your poor sacrifice is accom-

plished in mine: Sacrifice of Jesus the Priest for his Priests, for his

souls. You will carry Me, you will have Me, but my Words will be

joy and pain, comfort and anguish. This is because of your mis-

eries, for the benefit of humility. I will not explain further how my

Word is in your soul. It would no longer be needed. When you are

called, be reassured that my holy grace is within you. Answer only

in my holy Name, Jesus. Always be sincere, do not omit to do so

out of fear. I, Jesus, Father, will be beside you, I, Jesus, Teacher,

will teach you. I, Jesus, Holy Spirit, who has descended into your

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little soul, will speak the language that the poor can speak. What

must triumph is my Love, my Mercy, everywhere and always.

What others must see is the truth of my Messages not the ‘form’,

the substance and not the ‘style’. No, my daughter, I never repeat

my Love for souls enough because they do not listen to it. My

Love, my Thought for you in these booklets is like a river of clear,

refreshing water, and has its source in the rock, Me, Jesus! Come

little soul, do not be afraid to repeat my love, my message of love:

it is from Jesus, from your Jesus. Do not be afraid if I speak at

length: such is the thirst to speak to my consecrated souls. Tomor-

row these will bless me for the abundance of my Grace. Do not be

afraid of your Superiors, Gabriel: they will come to Me, to Jesus.

Little martyr of my Word, now Jesus returns to silence and awaits

you in the holy Tabernacle. Jesus in the Eucharist.

To Rosa.2 Her Jesus awaits her at the foot of the altar, with her

child. Jesus calls, calls her soul. Tell Rosa ‘I want her to live from

Me. I have chosen her poor heart and I want to dwell there. Re-

assure her that I, Jesus, have never left her alone and I promise my

holy grace growing in her soul for every act, for every thought of

love addressed to Me in the holy Tabernacle, so that out of love I

may always live in her. Jesus (write it down) embraces her, Jesus

embraces his poor souls, Jesus belongs to poor souls. Rosa is in

me: reassure her! Jesus who loves, Jesus who waits.’”

Long live Jesus, may Jesus triumph for the glory of his holy

name, Jesus!

Savona 3-12-1968

Jesus: “Write in love and in the abandonment of your soul to

the Spirit of grace, to the consoling Spirit, Holy Spirit, Love! It is

not you who is speaking but I in you, in your soul. It is certainty of

faith to invoke the Holy Spirit, it is a free gift made only out of love,

to manifest myself to the soul, to deal with it, to speak with it as I do

2 Rosa, Vera’s sister.

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with you. Do not be afraid, little soul, because it pleased God the

Father to go to the humble, to the sinner through me, Jesus, and give

himself to you in the light of the Holy Spirit. You, the little sheep

that I have gathered among the brambles, you, the little flame that I

have kept burning with my nourishment of love. My daughter, how

many times has your Jesus attracted your soul and made it rest on

his Heart! Write, I want you to write now out of love. All the Love

that I, Jesus, have given and I am increasing, making grow in you, I

want to pour it out and pour it into my souls. Simplicity and aban-

donment are the easiest ways. You must say that I, Jesus, manifest

myself to the soul only if it leaves these two ways open to Me where

I desire to encounter ardent love and exquisite humility. Then it is

the Bridegroom who goes to meet the bride and does everything with

her, does everything, loves everything, accepts everything, welcomes

and sacrifices because the Bridegroom already lives in her. Many

souls await Me, the word of Jesus, the call. It will come down to you

and to my souls from God the Father, through Me, but the time is

short. To you, little soul, I, Jesus, have revealed my Work of Love in

the gift of the Living Tabernacles. This Work of mine stands on its

own, and should not be confused with other Works. It must re-

main intact and in the light of grace with which I have desired

and dictated it. Jesus' Work of Love is the fruit of my Eucharistic

Love. Jesus in the word of grace opens his mercy to all humankind

through Himself in his souls. This Work is therefore unique and

bears my holy Name: Jesus! Turin, in Mary Help of Christians, will

be the cradle of my Work of Love. Rome will be its mother. Let the

Salesian Superiors rejoice in my holy Name, Jesus; let them rejoice

because great are the graces reserved for them by my priestly Heart.

I want the doubts in their hearts to vanish, and for them to see Me,

hasten to work for Me. And, my daughter, let me add this revelation:

a prophecy was given to them in its own time, now the prophecy

comes true: it is Me, it is my Work, it is my Living Tabernacles.3

My Word is the Way, Truth, Life because it is Me: Jesus.

3 “Prophecy”: our view is that this is Don Bosco’s dream of the two columns.

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Vera of Jesus, I have called you to my Work of Love, I have

made you the Bride of my Work. Do not worry, I have chosen you.

Now come more and more to Me. Approach your Bridegroom,

Jesus in the Eucharist. Come little soul, I will come to meet you.

Tomorrow, when my light of grace is spread throughout the world,

you will rejoice in my Glory. Vera of Jesus, always wait for your

Bridegroom, he wants to come to you, make his home in you.

I gave you my holy Name, and from now on you will be called and

you will be “Vera of Jesus”.4 Write this dictation down on the

sheet of paper and cast my net in Florence in my holy Name, Jesus,

and in the Heart of my Mother.”

Savona 13-12-1968

Jesus: “May my Cross give you comfort. My daughter, lean on

it and go with it. You are with Jesus, you are with Me. I, Jesus, will

not leave you, will not abandon you. You are being tested, it is time

to ‘give’ in Me. All suffering is a sign of love, and I, Jesus, your Bride-

groom, am leading you on the path of my love.5 At the end of the

journey, you will ‘see’ Me, and there I will be waiting for my poor

thing. Courage, my daughter, this journey is neither long nor short,

but close to you. I call you, I call you to suffer with Me. Here, in my

4 “I have given you my Holy Name...”... In the Letter to Fr Zucconi dated 1

December 1968 Vera describes the mystical experience in which Jesus changed her

name: “Jesus was near me yesterday, he always shows himself to my poor soul. He

always wears the sacred vestments of a priest, yesterday they were red. He came

near my bed, holding the Pyx full of consecrated particles. I felt that my soul was

receiving his Sacred Body. Then He told me ‘I want to give you my Name, Vera of

Jesus.’” Letter in L. GRITA Mia sorella Vera di Jesus, op. cit., p. 124.

5 “Every suffering is a sign of love...”: Vera is suffering from knee pain and has

difficulty walking. She would have to go to hospital during the Christmas holidays

to be operated on. In the Letter to Fr Zucconi of 12.16.'68, she writes: “I am going

back to school after a period of treatment, I went through a period of great suffering.

As I write, I remember that Jesus, yesterday next to my bed, placed his hands on the

blanket. I asked him what he wanted to tell me and after a while he said: ‘I want to

help you, we will do everything together.’ A few days ago Jesus told me: ‘You have

a coin, spend it, give it to Me.’ It‘s a minor but painful operation in one knee. I thought

I could improve with rest and treatment, but nothing has changed, I really have to

have surgery.” Letter 6.12.'68 in L. GRITA Mia sorella Vera di Jesus, op. cit., p. 126.

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wounded Heart, there is room for everyone. Come to my Heart, show

me your love: I want to see it, I want to hear it, I want to receive it.

The ‘Messages’, Word of Jesus given to the poor, must reach

the Holy Father. He must know the design of Love of all the

Work of Jesus. Salesian Priests must pray and offer supplications

and novenas so that I, Jesus, come to them and among their young

people as an invisible lamp that gives everyone light and warmth.

I, Jesus, am the lamp, and you are that Temple where I wish to live.

You the window open to the world through which I will see.

Write to Father Gabriel: ‘I am coming to you in grace, in love,

in simplicity. Remain in Me, in my call of love for this to fulfil

the apostolic call. The fruits of love come from Me. Your suffering

is the fruit of my priestly love for you. Keep your gaze fixed on

Me, Jesus. I will hear you, I will call you. Set aside your doubts

and uncertainties and receive my strength, my suffering, my peace.

I, Jesus, will soon be with you. Jesus with you!”

Savona 24-12-1968

“Long live Jesus! Yes, my daughter, it is like this: Long

live Jesus! Jesus is dictating now, he is speaking now. Write in my

holy Name: Jesus! So much silence in the notebooks! But not

for you. While you were suffering I kept you in my Fatherly Heart,

I gave you the manna of the desert. But you are more alive

than before in Me, and every day you advance in my Cross of love.

This silence is a symbol of the mystery in which the Eucharistic

soul who incarnates Me must live. This silence precedes my

coming upon you. In generous recollection you await my Hour.

Father Gabriel must write down my Messages to send them

urgently to the Holy Father. Let them be sent to Rome through

the person I had him meet.6 I, Jesus, am the Way, I will go to the

6 “The person I had him meet”: this is the Dominican Fr Colosio. In February

1969 Fr Zucconi forwarded a presentation of the Messages of the Work to the pope,

accompanied by a request for blessing and authorisation through Fr Colosio,

indicated to him by the Salesian Provincial Fr Ranieri. Fr Colosio would send the

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Pope, I, Jesus, will manifest myself even more in the Word. Get

the ‘poor little things’ to pray for the grace you are waiting for. You

too pray with the suffering with which I cover you like a bride. Ac-

cept everything for my love, and be certain: I am and will always

be in you and with you. Yes, I will give the light of my grace to

those I have called; I will also give you more light, more strength,

but you and other little souls will have to suffer a lot. I will make

you a gift of Me Crucified. The light will come through the revel-

ation of Me found in my Messages, and after the trials I will mani-

fest myself in the spirit of truth, and what I have announced

through the mouth of the prophet, I will do. My grace will have no

borders on earth. People, the poor things, will live of Me and with

Me. I, Jesus, will announce myself to the Holy Father with another

Message of love.7 Live recollected in prayer, suffering, humility,

and wait. I will give you strength to write, poverty of spirit to re-

main in Me, sensitivity to my Voice so that Vera of Jesus is always

that little instrument Jesus can use to write. Do not worry, you did

not write by my will. Silence is a voice that speaks. If you loved

me very much you would understand this silent language. To whom

will I speak my love if not to you, to the poor, the miserable, the

innocent who live only for Me! ‘If you loved me very much, I

would reveal myself to you. Well, I will make a gift, because my

Heart is full of love. I will give the Gift of capacity for more fervent

love so that ‘my’ 8 soul is immersed in Me. Jesus teaching in si-

lence. Jesus who attracts, Jesus who gives his Light. I will come

to you, soon, with my Word.”9

typescript to one of his confreres in Rome, Fr Lenzetti, a specialist in theological

subjects who would personally deliver the letters to the Holy Father on Ash

Wednesday 1969, after examining the contents and expressing his positive opinion

(M.R. Scrimieri, Relazione sull’iter seguito da don Zucconi presso i Superiori

Salesiani ed il Santo Padre per l’Opera dei Tabernacoli Viventi, Centro Studi,

Unpublished).

7 Message of 15.7.1969 for Pope Paul VI.

8 “My soul”: Vera specifies in a note in the notebook: “the soul of the One

called.”

9 After this Message Vera has a mystical experience that she speaks about in

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Santa Corona 6-1-1969 Long live Jesus!

“Yes, my daughter, write, write my holy Name: Jesus! It is not

you who speaks, who thinks, but I, Jesus, give my light in you, in

your soul: this is the Word, the word of Jesus for poor people like

you... Let Father Gabriel, continue on the path he have taken, and

persevere in my holy Name, Jesus. I repeat: persevere with con-

fidence. This is the ‘night’ of trial, and I, in silence, wait for him to

come to Me on the way that lies before him.” * From this point,

while I was copying the dictation onto the page, Jesus dictated the

following:10 “This is the expectation. I, Jesus, wait in silence for

the one called. I detach myself from my Cross and I go towards

him. My soul, my priestly soul, come to Me: I, Jesus, am ready to

embrace you. Come, abandon yourself to Me, to Jesus in the Eu-

charist, to Jesus Eternal Priest in you, my brother! May the strength

of my yearning love conquer you! Free yourself, strip yourself of

earthly thoughts and come to Me. Look at me, I want you to dis-

cover me, see me in the Eucharistic messages that I have addressed

to you. Come, leave aside all the things that worry you and follow

me, follow your master, Jesus. Love me in the holy Gospel. Fulfil

the mandate I have entrusted to you and seek me in the Words that

I, Jesus, have now wanted to give to the poor. You will make them

known, you will give Me in an intimate light which will place souls

in a relationship of union and trust such as has never been except

her Letter to Fr Zucconi on 29.12.’68: “After this message I saw two things with

my soul: the aurora was observed by me from a window in the mountains. The sun

rose and its light hurt my eyes, but soon the light moved away so I was able to reopen

my eyes. I had asked Jesus: ‘Oh Jesus, what is the Holy Father doing, is he doing

nothing for your Work?’ We were in a majestic church. I saw a long table, a sort of

altar with a white tablecloth and on one side was the Holy Father seated and in front

of him, many Monstrances with the Holy Host: it was an unending line. Jesus

explained a little to me but I think he will say more. You tell me, Father, reflect on

the meaning of the Monstrances. To you, dear father, happy new year with Jesus and

may Jesus give you the precious gift: ‘Take me with you’. Letter dated 12.29.1968

in L. GRITA, Mia sorella Vera di Jesus, op.cit., p 128.

10 At times while Vera was copying down the Messages to send to Fr Gabriello

Zucconi, Jesus intervened, dictating further thoughts to add to the Message, as in

this case.

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for the Saints. I want to give this ‘Gift’ to you first. Come, and like

John, rest your head on my breast: you will feel my heartbeat of

love. I will give it to you if you, my son, my brother, my friend,

will abandon yourself with trust, with faith to Me.”

“These are Jesus’ words for his Salesian priests who have been

‘called’. This is what Jesus has dictated.”

“Now continue copying from where I, Jesus, left off from what

was being copied to dictate and expand on my love. So let’s start

again from this point. For now, let him attend to his mission, the

mission that I, Jesus, Master of life, have entrusted to him. I want

him to take care of it in holy humility, and I will manifest Myself to

the others who are called. To Vera, Jesus promises the love of his

Mother, Mary Most Holy ever virgin. Vera of Jesus, get up! It is I

who am telling you this: your Jesus. And wait confidently for Me.

I will come upon you, I, Jesus in the Eucharist, will soon be upon

you. All of you, believe, believe, believe! My Word is grace, it is

light, it is relief for everyone. Wait with humble and grateful love.

Vera of Jesus, do not be afraid: I am with you. I am with you even

in silence. Vera of Jesus, your love, your life, has never abandoned

you, and this is why you are Vera in Me, Vera in Jesus, Vera for

Jesus. Now I bless you, and in you I remain Eternal Priest for my

Priests and the Priests who are called. I bless you, I bless you and I

give you my Mother, the holy Virgin Mary, so that you may be com-

forted in trials and in expectation of for her loving Maternity. Obey

Father Gabriel and write what your soul sees for Me, Jesus. This is

what I want.11 Jesus for all souls! I will join you soon.”

11 “Write what your soul sees through Me.”: This is a mystical experience that

Vera describes as follows: “Here is the obedience that Jesus desires. This morning

after about 15 minutes of receiving Holy Communion in bed, I ‘saw’ Jesus near my

bed with the black chasuble. He pulled aside the celebrant’s vestments and showed

me the wound in his side. This was first closed, but then it was open and after the

Blood, the water that came out shone. He asked me to approach this wound.” Letter

from Santa Corona dated 6.1.1969 in Mia sorella Vera di Jesus op. cit., p.129. Santa

Corona: The hospital where Vera had been hospitalised. She would spend around

two months there and all the Messages from this period indicate Santa Corona as

the place where Vera was writing.

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Santa Corona 10-1-1969

Jesus! “I, Jesus, want you to write again. We have to ‘talk’,

‘deal’ with our Priests. I still want to manifest Myself to them in

the announcement that I give you. Write, my beloved daughter,

write that I want it this way: it is not you but I, Jesus, in you who

act, speak, give life, do... accept the Holy Cross of love. I will in-

spire you as moved by a thrill of Grace, Forgiveness and Light.

Everything I give to you I want to give to ‘my’ souls, to ‘my called

ones’. I have to open the wound of my divine Heart, it must still

be lacerated for my living Blood to flow. I will reopen it soon to

attract priestly souls to a newer, more lively, more Eucharistic love.

My Precious Blood will drip from this Wound to enliven my Priest.

I want him to be new, holy, all mine. Whoever wants to receive

this divine balm, hasten to Me: I am awaiting him! I want to attract

little souls, the great souls to me form a single soul, a single heart

in Me. Be prepared for this announcement of grace which moves

from Heaven, from my Father’s House, travels through the uni-

verse and descends to earth. I assure you that my Angels in Heaven

tremble with joy and glorify the Father with hosannas while the

Angels on earth eagerly await this Hour: the hour in which I will

reveal Myself to my Priests. Then order will come: my order in

houses, in parishes, in lay assemblies. Then you will see that no

one is master of themself and of others unless they have been my

true disciple. Then open the Gospel, read it and meditate on it be-

cause there I am a teacher. Seek me in truth alone, follow me in

obedience, take on your mission in humility. You will only arrive

at this through love, and pure love, love of Jesus. Now my Heart

is ready to renew the wound of Love so that all my Wounds are

complete in the offering to my Father and in the gift of Love for

my troubled, poor and suffering children. Now the Crucified Jesus

has renewed the graces of his Wounds for you. Now pray and have

others pray because whoever asks will receive, whoever knocks

will find the door ajar, whoever knocks will see a hand that will

open the door. During the dictations I revealed the graces of my

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Wounds and I want you to pray and invoke as I said. My messages

must arrive in Turin, all the Work of Love to the Holy Father.

I am: Jesus! Now Jesus blesses you from his Heavenly Home.”

Santa Corona 11-1-1969 Long live Jesus!

Jesus: “My daughter, daughter of my Cross of love, daughter

of Jesus in the Eucharist, daughter of my Mother, Mary Most Holy

ever Virgin. It is not you who loves, but I am loving in you, and

with this divine love I uproot your soul from the earth and raise it

up. Only by purifying yourself, only by transforming yourself into

Me, will you know what true, pure love is. I want to give you the

joy of loving, I want to communicate this delight of the saints to

you. Do you want, Vera, Vera of Jesus, to love your Eucharistic

Spouse with pure love? Let yourself be carried by ME. Father Ga-

briel, I repeat, acted on my inspiration: now do not be afraid be-

cause I am with him. Franco from Mondovì12 write to Vera so that

she is confirmed in the faith, in my Word. Vera, pray for the suf-

fering and the dying that they desire me at least in spirit. Let Rosa

be united with Me in the Eucharistic Sacrifice because only from

Me will she draw light, comfort and grace. Let her not fear, but

pray and trust because I, Jesus, see her. Liliana, Pina, Raffaella13

are the souls in which I would always like to live, Silvio is a rem-

inder of my renewed Sacrifice. For souls like his I, Jesus, look for

little souls, victim souls. Now, this message is about you, but let

Gabriel see that I am, always, I am, I am Jesus and not someone

else. Not you, poor creature, no interferences, because I will not

allow it (you are too fragile!); not your thoughts. I in you, as well

as in the holy Sacrifice, the water united with the wine: one thing

only. When my Word descends into your soul it is impossible to

separate it from you, just as it is impossible to separate the water

and the wine which have mixed together forming a single whole:

12 Franco Mondino, Padre Pio’s spiritual son.

13 Liliana, Pina: Vera‘s sisters. Raffaella: Vera’s niece.

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Me. Wait for my Hour, the hour of my Grace. I will not announce

anything else so as not to upset the weak, but to all those who are

waiting for Me I say: trust me, Jesus. I will triumph. To Vera pa-

tience in trial. In suffering she will be in Me and more for Me, then

my Wounds will shine. My daughter, daughter of the Crucified

Jesus, now my embrace descends from the Cross. Wait for me, I

will come in the Word, I will purify you in suffering and in I will

remain as I told you before, the water and wine of the holy Sacri-

fice. I will come to you because I wish to address the Priests I have

called individually. Be good, humble and trusting. Padre Pio pro-

tects you, be sure of it. Jesus in you blesses you and remains in

you. Vera of Jesus, fear not: you are with Me because I live in you

and on you. Your Jesus.”

Santa Corona 20-1-1969

“Write my Holy Name three times to the Glory of the persons

of the Holy Trinity: Jesus in the Father, Jesus the Son, Jesus in the

Holy Spirit. I come to you, my blessed soul, and I instil my Peace

in you. I want the Salesians who are ‘called’ to be the Temples of

the Holy Spirit. I want them to carry Me, Jesus Eucharist, on them-

selves in the Pyx to give Me to everyone. I have listed the graces

that I will pour out through my Living Tabernacles. I would like

them to be meditated on because in this ‘Eucharistic Gift’ I, through

you, will meet, deal with, embrace all the poor. The time will come

when many Particles will be carried in the blessed Pyx; the time

when I will go looking for souls to give myself to, to be received

by them. My Work of Love must begin soon, immediately, but its

developments will certainly not be far off. Prepare yourself. I come

down from Heaven and I am already with you so that My Father’s

Hour is prepared. I am guiding the Work, I am guiding your steps

towards the light. Father Gabriel should contact Father Colosio to

forward the Work to the Holy Father. Let him pray for the poor per-

son writing for her to be strong, pure and holy. I have dictated new

things and old things to Vera so that they may be integrated into my

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plan of Love. I, Jesus, desire the slavery of love for my holy Mother

for little souls, for victim souls.14 I have gathered the holiest and

easiest fruits in my Work so that you may find something to feed

your spirit. From my Wounds I have given you more light of Grace

since my Mercy wants to embrace everyone. Now go, and with the

holy Gospel spread the fraternal language of love among the poor

for whom I, Jesus, am speaking, dictating. My Words must reach

Rosa. My blessing to Silvio. An invitation of love to little Fabio:

come, pure soul, Jesus in the Eucharist wants to descend into you!

Let Father Gabriel work with serenity and trust. He will soon be

immersed in Me, in my Work, and through this holy Cross of Love

he is sacrificed in Me. We will go to the Pope, we will go and my

Tabernacle will be as I, Jesus, desire it. Now you are here by my

will. I will reveal myself to you to the extent that you have loved

the poor. Emilia Massoleni15 is in Me, so tell him that. Ask Father

Gabriel’s approval for her to be a participant in my Plan of love.

My daughter, detach yourself, come to Me. My daughter, Vera of

Jesus, offer Me everything: your poverty, your sickness, your mis-

ery. Everything shines in Heaven in my Sacrifice, everything is

Glory in Me to my Father. Be ready for every call, because I, Jesus,

want you to accept my will day by day and hour by hour. Get ready,

Jesus is near you. More messages for the Holy Pontiff, for the

Priests: the last. Write, write again: Jesus is coming to you. Vera of

Jesus, I draw you to Me. Jesus who loves.”

Santa Corona 2-2-1969

Jesus: “Write my Holy Name, Jesus. Write that I, Jesus, love

all my souls, that I see, that I suffer... and I sacrifice myself with

you and with you I offer Me, Jesus the victim, to my Father. Write

that the flames of love consume me in the eternal Sacrifice. Write

14 Reference to L.M. Grignon de Montfort, Treatise on True devotion to the

Blessed Virgin.

15 She wrote to Vera in Padre Pio’s name.

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that suffering humanity, plagued humanity, rebellious humanity

will be saved only through Me, through my Sacrifice, where my

Blood renewed and offered to God the Father for you descends

upon these whom I call and still love as brothers and sisters. Reveal

this inexhaustible love of mine with which I want to immortalise

your souls in my holocaust. I will feed the poor, I will soothe the

suffering of the sick, I will pour out grace, forgiveness and peace

on the stubborn. I, Jesus, will come upon you and for you, and for

you I will want to go as a Church that goes and walks everywhere.

From the hands of the Holy Father I will place myself on my Tab-

ernacles and I will form my temple in these living temples. Now it

is dark, but soon it will be dispersed by the light. I, Jesus, am the

light of the world and in you, with you and for you, we will give it

to our brothers and sisters. Let the Tabernacles be prepared for this

Gift so that my coming among you may be manifest to the good

by this mystical union for which we are preparing to await the

‘Hour of God’. I will reveal this inexpressible love to those I have

called and I will reveal this mystery of faith and love to them. My

Mother will intervene in this plan of love with the Holy Father and

she will give all of you Me, through Paul VI. Wait for these events

with trust, with patience, with humility. Trials are useful for my

Work, they strengthen you; the sufferings sustained by my grace

serve to purify you. Abandonment is healthy because it makes you

realise your nothingness and the impossibility of serving Me with-

out Me. Therefore, I want you humble and merciful, I go back to

saying to you: in the world but not of the world. Be prepared to

welcome my every call which comes to you in various forms but

always springs from Me, Jesus. Let everyone welcome it with pro-

found love because it is a Gift, a Gift of my Heart for everyone

called by Me, and it serves to open the way to my Messages, it

serves to reveal Me. When I have manifested myself I will have

given people Me in their daily life and they will walk in my way,

for I, Jesus am the Way. Jesus to his brothers and sisters.”

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Santa Corona 6-2-1969

Jesus: “Write: my Work of Love flows from the wound in my

Side. It is merciful love, it is Salvation, it is Redemptive Work.

Write that Jesus wants, desires his Work established, authorised by

the Holy Father. Tell your Superiors that it is Jesus who desires,

who wants his Living Tabernacles. It is I, Jesus, who want to give

Me, the Light, to the world through me. It is me, Jesus in the Eu-

charist, the light that dissipates and makes the darkness flee. When

I will also go upon you, as well as in you under the Sacred Species,

I will bring light to other souls. This seems to be a mystery to you

now, and for now accept it in faith. Tomorrow this leap of faith will

give innumerable graces. Prepare the ways of the Lord, my ways

so that I may live with you and teach you the precept of my love

and, through you, our brothers and sisters. Prepare to welcome me

because I, Jesus, will come... God’s hour is drawing near and I de-

sire to be with you and upon you so that where I am, and my Father

is, my servant may also be. Prepare to welcome me with love. To

each and for each one I am and will be your friend, your brother,

your Redeemer. Do not let your hearts be disturbed by these pre-

dictions: the good will wait, trusting and humble, sinners will re-

pent, distant ones will return to Me, to my Table. I, Jesus in the

Eucharist await you. A promise to Vera of Jesus: in accepting my

will, the offering will become pure and sincere and humble. To

Vera of Jesus my strength and my love. To Vera of Jesus my Heart

in my beloved Priests for whom I, Jesus, Eternal Priest, wed my

little soul. Now silence returns to you but my voice, the voice of

Jesus, will return in the gratuitous love of the Holy Spirit, and the

Father and the Son will be in you for our glory, for the revelation

and manifestation of my love for my Priests. I will come, I will

come, poor and little soul, for you and for all souls. I will come to

embrace you, to embrace you all. I, suffering Jesus, look at you

from the Holy Cross and unite you to Me. You have nothing and

you have everything in Me. Abandon yourself to Me and let your

Jesus bring his bride, Vera of Jesus. Now I have blessed you, and

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you will live in joy, love, in Me, Jesus. This thought is also ad-

dressed to Emma16 and to you. I descend into the depths of your

spirit and in you I remain in the light of the Holy Spirit. I am in

you, I am in all of you, I remain in you: I, Jesus!”

Continuing. “Speak, my Jesus, and your poor servant will listen.”

“Jesus: Ask, because I, Jesus, wish to ‘speak’. Speak, my

daughter, of my Love, speak of my Mercy. I want you saved, I want

you redeemed in Me. Write, write for my Priests, write for your

Superiors in Turin, Sampierdarena, on whom you now depend. I

want my Messages of Love to be meditated on in Mary Help of

Christians, in Turin. Ask the assistance from Heaven of my Mother

Mary Help of Christians, so that she may be your Teacher and teach

you the simplicity and grandeur of my Work. I want you to invoke

and have great veneration for your Holy Founder, Saint John

Bosco. He must be a loving Father to you who guides you on the

path of humility to see Me, Jesus, in the Will of my Father through

these writings. My hand writing in this poor woman is a sign of

union between Me, Jesus, and the poor souls. Who is writing? It

does not matter. What is written comes from Me, from Jesus, and

therefore it is truth, it is life, it is the way of salvation. Let the writ-

ings be meditated upon in humility in Turin. Invoke my Father to

renew a new Pentecost in you all, and may the Paraclete, the Spirit

spread the light of grace, light of intellect, light of wisdom, of love.

Now, may the Rector and Vice-Rector entrust this great and uni-

versal mission to my Martyrs, to the Apostles and, I remind you

16 Emma, the last name is unknown. She was a patient, hospitalised in S.

Corona. Vera writes about her in a letter to Fr Zucconi dated 31.1.1969: “Emma... is

getting worse: she is the victim soul who offered herself to Jesus, the only

Immaculate Victim for love. She is already in the peace of Jesus! Emma thanks you

and returns her greetings. She begs you to remember her in your prayers as she will

do for you. Emma remembers you from having heard you preach at the Capuchins

in Alassio, and sometimes at the Salesians.” Letter of 31.1.1969 to Fr Zucconi in G.

BORRA, Grita Vera Notizie biografiche, op., cit., p. 129. A few days later Jesus will

dictate to Vera for Emma: “To Emma these words of the Bridegroom: ‘He will come,

he will manifest himself and he will be joy, he will be light, he will be eternal

happiness.’” Message 13.2.1969

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again, to St John Bosco. Make triduums to this end with the inten-

tion that I reveal myself and that my will be done. The triduums

must be triduums of Eucharistic adoration, as a group and individ-

ually, as I, Jesus, will give all graces through my Eucharistic love.

The more you honour me in the holy Tabernacle, the more you will

remain in my company, the more I, Jesus, will come to you and

descend upon you.

For Father Borra. To you, my beloved Priest, the throbbing

of my Eucharistic love, to you the beating of my Heart. Come and

rest on my Breast. Your Jesus listening to you.

Write, write again. In holy obedience you honour Me. In holy

obedience you glorify Me with my creatures and My saints. In holy

obedience I am in you and with you.

To Gabriel, favourite apostle of my Work of Love. I support

him, help him, comfort him and enlighten him. For Gabriel my

wound of love, so that the same love, the same thirst for good, the

same zeal for souls will consume us ‘together’.

To Father John Bocchi I will reveal my love and the mandate

of love that I want to place in his consecrated hands. He too should

say with Vera: “Speak, O Lord, reveal your Will that I may obey

you out of love.”

And then again we will write to the Superiors, and the Heart

of Jesus will knock, it will insistently knock on the hearts of those

called, to tell them: ‘Open up to me, I am Jesus! Look at me, rec-

ognise me: I am your Jesus!’”

Santa Corona 13-2-1969

“Jesus, for you, for all. Write, be strong in Me.

Now my Eucharistic Thought is given and revealed to

people. Now it must be welcomed by those called to me: they will

be the Chalices that I, Jesus, will fill with my Blood, with Me.

Rome will be a Mother in my Mother, since all light is given to

people by the Most Pure Virgin. She who conceived the Son of the

Most High through the love of the Holy Spirit, she, the Immaculate

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Conception, has carried and carries in her Heart the Work of my

Mercy and of my Love. She, the Mother who will still and always

give Light to the world, she will give and reveal Me, her Jesus, the

Word of Jesus, through her Divine Maternity: the Maternity of

Mary Most Holy ever Virgin. This is the maternity of Jesus’ Work

of Love, since nothing is given to humanity by the Most High, un-

less through Mary Immaculate. In Rome my Mother will reveal

Me, but in Turin Mary Help of Christians will form the Cradle of

the Work, where my Tabernacles will be born, from where they

will leave to go throughout the world. They will go, and I, Jesus in

the Eucharist, will be in them and on them, and while they will

carry and give Me, Light of the world, Light for other souls, I,

Jesus, will carry them as lovingly as a father carries his creature in

his strong arms. O souls who hear and listen to me, prepare the

cradle of your heart for your Infant Jesus, and learn from Her

whom I have given you as the Spiritual Teacher of my Living

Tabernacle! My daughter, Vera of Jesus, everything comes from

Me! Trust, fear not. I will still use your miseries to give mercy, to

draw hearts to confidence and trust. Then Jesus will free you from

the tangle of human anxieties, he will untie you from the snares

that suffocate your spirit and then you will live of Me, of spirit, of

my peace. Bear with yourself and do not be bitter. Your misery is

a cross, a heavier cross as you come and proceed along my way, a

cross useful for your sanctification, your humility. Father Gabriel

must trust Me more. I live in my Priest, and he must ‘abandon him-

self to Me’. Write, write down all my words. Write and obey Father

Gabriel, and do as he tells you. My Work will soon be examined

in Rome and the Pope will order it after my merciful intervention.

If you persevere in faith, in trust, I will let you know the reasons

why the Holy See has remained silent. Now I, Jesus, will intervene

in my Mother. What do I want from Vera of Jesus for this? Believe

without fear, for I will not allow you to write what does not come

from Me. What is in the writing is truth because Jesus is in what is

written. Obedience, fidelity, perseverance, humility and acts, acts

of continuous love bearing in mind that I, Jesus, am in your heart

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and never, ever leave you. To Emma these words from her Bride-

groom: ‘He will come, he will manifest himself and he will be joy,

he will be light, he will be eternal happiness.’ Yes, Vera of Jesus,

write, speak to your Jesus, and go ahead, and as you advance

by my Grace show me your wounded heart. I will transform these

wounds into wounds of love, of my Eucharistic Love. This booklet

is finished and you will offer it to the Glory of the Most Holy Trin-

ity, and for each individual Person, so that the Son, Jesus, may

be glorified in the Father and generate Love, the Holy Spirit, in

the divine Unity which descends lightly as the flight of a dove on

your souls, ardent like my Heart in love, pure in the thoughts with

which I desire to penetrate your minds. Behold, I, Jesus, send my

Spirit of Grace upon you again and in this gift receive Me, Jesus

in the Eucharist, in you, on you, for you. I want to remain in my

Tabernacles until the end. Jesus dripping Blood.”

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BOOKLET 11

And you who are reading...

Pause here... meditate on Jesus’ words.

Do not be in a hurry!

Jesus to souls

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Savona 24-2-1969

Jesus: “I am in your breast, in your soul. Write down in holy

obedience what I am about to dictate. You are too afraid, a sign of

your weakness and misery. If you write it is because I, Jesus, want

you to. It is not you who think, who act, but I in you with my Grace.

And Grace also means light, God’s light, heavenly light, love of my

Heart outraged by human beings but always loving their hearts, their

love. Thus I come to you and conquer the smallest heart that exists

among all my children. Do you see, my child, what your Jesus does

in you? Do you feel how the Eucharistic Jesus permeates this poor

human heart with Himself, with His love? My love, as you can feel,

is also pain, the pain of love. If you suffer it is because I, Jesus, love

you, and this love is the flame that must consume my new dwell-

ings. Now do not be afraid, and above all do not doubt my words.

The revelations that I, Jesus in the Eucharist, have given you in my

holy Grace, must see the light. They must shine forth as a beacon

of salvation for my Church. The Pope’s silence. It is one of prayer,

recollection, of trustful waiting for the revelation of Me, Jesus, and

that is the Truth. Paul VI awaits the sign from Heaven of my Eu-

charistic Love, and I, Jesus, will give it through the Immaculate

Heart of my Mother so that you will understand more and more that

I do nothing without Her. The Redemption of human beings is en-

trusted to her Mother’s Heart. Always have recourse to Her... Now

my Saints pray and in the Most Holy Trinity they see my Work of

Love. You have recourse to them, unite yourselves in the Com-

munion of Saints. I want my souls to also live of the love of the

Saints so that Heaven and Earth may be one in invoking my Mercy.

You have written in my holy name, Jesus, in the obedience con-

firmed to you by the Priest, in the obedience that I, Jesus, Son of

the Most High, always renew to you as I renew my Sacrifice of

Love on the altar. This morning in church, during the celebration,

my Mother interceded for you, and your fragility gave me pain. No

bride will ever be weak and fragile like you: I assure you! Fear not,

the Queen of Heaven will help you fulfil your mission for which

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you must live. I announce pains and sufferings for you and, above

all, much love. Yes, I will give you this flame of love that already

burns within you but will grow as you come to Me. When you are

mocked, console yourself and rejoice in Me, for it is a sign that I,

Jesus, make you similar to Me. When I, Jesus, will triumph you will

be hidden and neglected; enjoy my Glory at that time. It will all be

over for you soon. Now is the time for trials, for the contradictions

that herald my Eucharistic Triumph. The Pope believes, rest assured,

but my revelation is necessary to give my souls the sacrament of

love. There is little interest in my Cause in Turin, but in my Mother,

Mary Help of Christians’ house, many priestly hearts will be ‘com-

municated’ to by the Blessed Virgin Mary. Write, Vera, Vera of

Jesus, write and obey. My Wounds will pick you up and keep you.

Write for the love and glory of your Jesus. Tomorrow these words

will bring much, much comfort to the hearts of our afflicted brothers

and sisters. The agony from which Gabriel suffers and in which he

lives is consolation for Me. Tell Gabriel that I need these sufferings

of his, the fidelity of his priestly soul, for my Work of Love. Tell

Gabriel that Jesus came on earth in the name of holy obedience and

was crucified. Therefore, in my holy obedience, I have called the

least soul that exists to obey Me, Jesus, by writing my revelations,

my Word, in the current usage it usually employs. In my Holy

Name, Jesus, doubt no more, doubt no more. I had announced trials,

difficulties and more... Be strong and do not be afraid. My Will will

be done on Earth as it is done in Heaven. Jesus, your Father.”

Savona 28-2-1969

“Write, my Name is Jesus! My poor soul, I empty you of your-

self and fill you with Me, with Jesus, with my ardour. The call is

mine, it comes from Jesus: you will recognise it by its fruits. I want

you to discover Me and recognise Me in events be they happy or

tempestuous. However, remember that after the thunderstorm, calm

follows. For now my Work of Love is loved only by a few Priests,

while I, Jesus, have desired and continue to desire that many of

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those I have called be prepared to receive me, while in Rome they

read, discuss, meditate and await my revelation. If it had been be-

lieved that I, Jesus, would have revealed my particular plan of love

to each individual called, I would have spoken to him like this,

heart to heart, and ours would have been an intimate conversation

of Eucharistic love. Why do not you believe me? Why don’t we

believe in so much inconceivable fatherly love? O people of little

faith, how long will I, Jesus, pity you? Now go to the Scala Sancta

(Holy Stairs)1 and take on the face of the little victim in Me, in My

Precious Blood. Then I, Jesus, will offer you to my Father, so that

He will always see you in Me. I in you, and you in Me in the

Passion which I will soon give you to adorn you as a bride prepar-

ing for her Lover’s most mystical wedding. (Interruption...)

Do you want me to reveal my love to the ‘little ones’ as I,

Jesus, reveal it to you? Make yourselves one in Me, be united, be

humble, and let the brother love himself in his brother. I want to

give you a comfort, a constant consolation: the flame of my Eu-

charistic Love. Every soul who continues to feed on my Eucharistic

Flesh with pure intention will be awakened to a new Life, to a Life

of Union and mystical intimacy with Me through the work of my

holy Grace. You will feel the Holy Spirit working within you to in-

crease your faith and charity towards your brothers and sisters. Be

certain that what I, Jesus, give to a soul, I will give to all souls if

they know how to follow me. My Work of Love will then also have

to be extended to the Discalced Carmelites, since I, Jesus, have

come to give my love to everyone.2 With the submission that you

1 “Now go to the Scala Sancta (Holy Stairs)...”: Vera would go to Rome a few

days later, and would climb the Scala Sancta carrying the booklets with her that she

had written up until that moment. She would receive the grace of union with Jesus

the Victim and would offer herself to the Father so that all those who were called

would receive the grace and gifts bestowed on her: the grace of Eucharistic indwell-

ing in the soul, the Eucharistic gift, the inner word.

2 The Carmelites are indicated for the first time as other addressees of the

Messages of the Work, as well as the Salesians. Fr Guido Roascio was assistant to

the children at the St Joseph’s Hermitage at the Desert of Varazze where Vera was

teaching.

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owe to the Priest, receive his consent to speak of my Eucharistic

Gift to Father Guido. For now he must listen, meditate and keep

my words, words of Jesus for the poor, in his priestly heart. To-

morrow, when you are far away, everything will serve to glorify

Me. They must be partakers of Me through My Work of Love at

the time appointed and willed by Me. For now, it is sufficient that

one among them knows until the end and keeps silent. This is the

will established by My Father. After the consent and in obedience

to the Priest, prepare Father Guido and, finally, get him involved

by means of a typescript. During these few months in the Desert,

you must ‘give Me’, entrust Me (interruption...).”

Rome 4-3-1969 Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

“My Word has descended into you as the fruit of great grace

that ‘your Jesus in the Eucharist’ gives you. You are here in my

service, for my Cause. I, Jesus, have called you, now you are here

because I have willed it. You are in my holy Grace. We will walk

back over the path that was taken: the one that leads to Calvary.

You are here to receive more Grace, more inner strength; you are

here because I, Jesus, desire to see your soul in Me again, passing

by the ‘way’ that I once sprinkled with Blood for you. Now by this

precious Blood of mine, you can come to Me and take the same

road again, ‘my’ road. You are here for Me, for yourself, for the

little souls, for the souls of my Priests. Heaven is assisting you: be-

lieve it! Word of Jesus. My daughter, My beloved daughter, there

is no deception, believe it! I have seen you with My Words clasped

to your breast, and thus I have received you in Me in the acceptance

of My Will, of the mandate that I have entrusted to you. Now,

Vera of Jesus you must defend the Gift of the Beloved. You will

soon have an Angel to guide you along the way.3 I have chosen

3 “You will soon have an Angel”: it would be Raphael the Archangel who

would remain by Vera’s side in the final months of her earthly life while she was in

hospital, and when by the Lord’s will Vera would be a Living Tabernacle, bearer of

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him for you to support your weakness, and you will soon be part

of him. After that, tell the Priest what will happen to you. This gift

is necessary to dispel the doubts that form the object of your dis-

may. Then you will firmly and calmly put up with the other trials

and vicissitudes that you will have to encounter. Do not be afraid,

remain in Me, in your Jesus, for I have conquered the world. To-

morrow an intense day awaits you, all at ‘my service’, and you,

poor thing, will be able to honour my Father with Me. Surprises

will be reserved for you, surprises of love. Treasure them for your-

self and for other souls. I will let you rest now. I remain in you, I,

Jesus, live in you. Copy this down and send it in the holy name of

obedience for which I, Jesus, unite you and marry you to my Cross

of Love. Suffering Jesus.”

While I was copying Jesus added: “and I am marrying you”,

that is “I am uniting and marrying you to my Cross of Love.”

Rome 6-3-1969 Long live Jesus in the Eucharist

“My beloved daughter, write: it is Jesus who wants it! I am

here with you, before you, in the Sacrament of Love. There is no

deception, but Jesus: the Truth. My Work of Love, in his Cross,

advances. In Heaven my Angels, my Saints pray to my Father in

Me so that the hour of my revelation is not delayed. A great grace

was granted to you this morning in the Vatican, in the Holy City.

My Apostles Peter and Paul, and John XXIII and Pius XII, have

given you their protection. No one has recourse to them in vain, if

you go to my Saints with profound faith and humility. My will is

this: I, Jesus, will give small and generous souls the same gifts that

I am bestowing on you. None of these souls will have to feel alone

and lost because they will have Me deep inside them. They will

bring Me to their brothers and sisters in the Sacred Eucharistic

Species. I will speak to these little and humble souls, docile to the

Jesus in the Eucharist. It would be in her that Jesus would renew his holocaust for

the birth of the Work. Message 27.1.1969.

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action of my sanctifying grace, and guide their steps. I will help

them overcome the uncertainties, the difficulties, since we will do

‘everything’ together: me, Jesus, and the humble soul. We will be

but ‘one’ like the water and the wine in the holy Sacrifice. I give

my Graces without measure to the poor people who seek Me with

purity of spirit. You are the first soul upon whom I work with my

sanctifying Grace and realise my Plan of Love. You know why I

have chosen you: because of your miseries and weaknesses. It is

not your sins, for I, Jesus, no longer remember them; it is your

anxieties, your inabilities, your afflictions, the nothingness of your

being that drive you to Me and make you a soul wholly ‘mine’. I

have revealed to your little heart the immensity of my Heart and

now also my wound of love. And I, Jesus, bend over you and open

my Heart to you. Now I am speaking to you, tomorrow I will speak

to other pure, holy and strong souls. Soon Jesus will be with you

in the Word, so that the inner conversation may be for each of my

souls a revelation of Jesus the Master who guides, teaches, leads

the soul to holiness that wants and desires to give everything to the

Bridegroom. O souls small and weak but all Mine, O souls strong

and great in Me, I give you Me in the inner Word as the Holy

Spirit’s gift of love. Vera of Jesus, do not be afraid of the silences.

The Superiors will speak, they will understand.4 The Pope will

call... I am not specifying the dates so that your peace may be com-

plete. I, Jesus, will give you a sign. This will tell you that Rome,

in its Mother Church, opens the door. When it descends on you,

rejoice in the tribulation for I, Jesus, absorb you, complete you in

Me. Jesus in the Eucharist makes you a gift of Himself, of His

merits and makes you a partaker of His Immolation. The offering

is now in Heaven, before the throne of My Father, and My Mother

accompanies it with her sighs of love. My Angels tremble and re-

4 “The Superiors will speak, will understand...” Prophetic words: the letter of

the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández, published in this book for the first time, opens

the door of the Salesian Congregation to the Work of the Living Tabernacles for it

to be realised and spread.

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joice, my Saints praise and thank the Creator, God the Father, for

such immense love for you, for humanity today. Let Father Gabriel

be patient and prudent. His Jesus loves him very, very much and is

happy with his ministry.

Write, Vera of Jesus. To the sceptics, to the doubters write that

Jesus says: you have not chosen Me, but I, Jesus, have chosen you.

It is not you who chase pious illusions, but I, Jesus, who tell you my

word: God’s word for the ‘poor’. Here, before Me, in the Most

Holy Sacrament of my Love where I am alive and true, true God and

true Man, I confirm my word, Jesus’ word, and my will. And my

will is this: to spread my Work of Love, to make it known to little

souls because they are waiting for Me. These words are light and,

because they are Mine, they must shine and they will not remain

hidden. The world needs Me, and I go to the world in my Living

Tabernacles. I want to embrace the whole world, because humankind

does not know me, does not love me, does not want me. I seek my

temples, my churches that will walk, and carry and give Me. And

this is the Will of my Father: that the Bridegroom rests on the breast

of the Bride. ‘The Bride as a Living Tabernacle’ and Jesus in the Eu-

charist, consoled, loved, glorified, because He finds his delights by

living, suffering, struggling, loving with ‘his’ creatures. Creator God.

Living Tabernacles, light of my eyes, ardent flame of love that rises

to God in Me, invoke my mercy, give yourselves to Me for the ad-

vent of my Kingdom. I am the light that dispels the darkness. I am

the Way, I am the Truth, I am the Life: Jesus!”

Rome 7-3-1969

“I am Jesus in the Eucharist. A final farewell from this city that

has been a merciful Mother to you in its Church. Now go and con-

tinue your task until it is completed. You have done as much as I,

Jesus, have wished. Not all goals are apparent to you now, but let

this certainty be in you: you had to be here to offer yourself in Me

to My Father in My precious Blood, to receive the blessing that

My holy Pontiffs bestowed on you from Heaven. Now continue

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your journey and bring ‘my mandate’ to fulfilment. Yes, my words

are these: I await you up there with my Saints, with my Angels

when you have fulfilled all my Will. This is how I greet you from

this Holy City: ‘we will see each other again in Paradise!’ Jesus

who loves the little ones. May the Most Holy Trinity always live

in you, in my souls, for I, Jesus, desire it out of love. Repeat often

and invoke me thus: ‘Long live Jesus in the Eucharist!’ May it com-

fort you to say these words of mine that express all my Work of

Love. Tomorrow I will come, and you will wait for me and follow

me. Jesus.”

Savona 10-3-1969

Jesus in the Eucharist

“The obedience that I have entrusted to you is the fruit of the

holy Grace that you did not deserve. O Vera of Jesus, if you under-

stood what and how much my love is for you, for poor souls! O

my daughter, be blessed again in my Holy Name: Jesus! With you,

I abundantly bless Gabriel and those who believe in this inexplic-

able love of mine for the little ones and the poor. Blessed therefore

be Father Borra who believes in Me; blessed are those Priests who

adhere in silence, in humility to my Plan of love. Blessed be Rosa,

your sister, since she believed and still believes in Me. I, Jesus, will

increase this faith so that when the hour of my call has come from

the Vatican, your joy will be complete in Me. You belong to my

Work: this is my Will, the Will of Jesus the Eternal Priest. Write,

my daughter, be strong! The Holy Father believes, he believes in

Me, in Jesus, in my words, in my Messages. Vera of Jesus, be

humble and patient, and wait for me. Patience in waiting for my

Word, patience in the family, patience with your neighbour. Write

For your brothers and sisters, for the souls who will draw faith and

enthusiasm of Eucharistic fervour. Patience while waiting for the

Angel that I, Jesus, promised you. Yes, he will come. He will come

from Heaven sent by my Father so that my Will may be fulfilled

to the last in you. Patience in waiting for the revealing ‘sign’ of my

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Love and Will to the Holy Father. The patience I ask of you will

be a virtue acquired by you with suffering, but it will be meritori-

ous. Be patient and humble like Me! I, Jesus, am with you and in

you: I guide you, I sustain you, I encourage you, I teach you. If

you invoke Me with faith and love I shall not fail to make Myself

felt in you, so that your peace, though disturbed, may return to you

by My Consoling Spirit. Behold, I will not leave you, I am with

you in holy sanctifying Grace; I am with you in my word to the

end. I am the Good Shepherd who does not abandon ‘his’ sheep.

Vera of Jesus, Gabriel, my beloved Priest, my souls, listen to Me,

follow Me. The soul who lives of Me and for Me in my mystical

Sacrifice must submit to my Church, to the Supreme Pontiff. The

soul must give itself to my Father through my Mother. It must give

itself to its brother and sister in Me. May each of you embrace me

in your daily circumstances, in charity towards your brothers and

sisters. The constant effort is to see Me, Jesus, in everyone and

everything. This is how I come down among you, this is how I

come and reveal myself to you. Then you will carry Me within you,

and you will also have Me upon you. Yes, I want my Living Tab-

ernacles because they will be the light in humanity for brothers and

sisters who are far from my Being, God, their Father and Creator.

Vera of Jesus, commit your strength and efforts for Me, for your

brothers and sisters. In these words of mine, in these Messages of

mine, there is all the charity you can give to your neighbour, by

living, suffering, writing for them. You, for the glory of my Father,

you for your brothers and sisters. Tell the souls, tell the whole

world of my love as their Saviour, my grace. Repeat with Me, with

my Angels:

‘Long live Jesus in the Eucharist. May the Kingdom of God’s

love come soon for Jesus in the Eucharist. O Mary, Mother of

Jesus, teach us to incarnate Jesus in the Consecrated Host, to bring

Jesus, to give Jesus. Mary Most Holy Help of Christians be our

Mother, our Teacher, our Queen. We choose you together with your

Saints, before the throne of the most holy Trinity, in the adoration

of the Angels to God the Father, to God the Son, to God the Holy

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Spirit as Mother of our Eucharistic soul so that you may prepare it

and ready it to become that Living Tabernacle desired and wanted

by your Jesus. We place ourselves in your hands as Queen of

Heaven and Earth. Have mercy, Mary, on our weaknesses, our mis-

eries, our incapacities. Raise us from the earth so that from here

we live and are for Heaven, for the Kingdom of your son. Our

small offering is in your hands: wash it with your tears, immerse it

in the precious Blood of your Jesus and unite it to that of your

Saints, of all the souls in purgatory, of all souls living on earth.

Then in your Fiat, O Mary, let our fiat go up; let it be pure, let it

be holy, let it be worthy of Jesus. Now, most holy Mary our Mother,

ready us to accept what God the Father, in Jesus Christ, has estab-

lished for us, so that his will may be manifest to the Holy Father,

so that the Work of love of Jesus, sprung from the wound of his

divine Heart, may be manifest to those He has called, through that

sword of sorrow that pierced your soul. O Mary, hear us, O Mary

hear us, O Mary help your children. To you our life, that you may

put it in Jesus and, in him, it may be life that saves souls, be life

that renews and transforms the lives of people here below. To Jesus

who is Life, we humbly offer our life through Mary Most Holy in

union with our beloved Saints, in the one, the only Victim Offering

that is Jesus Christ Our Lord.’

You are in my Holy Grace, you have written in my Holy Name:

Jesus! Obedience comes from Me, Jesus, and is united to my obedi-

ence to my Father, in my Mother’s fiat. Jesus to Vera, to reassure

her that everything comes from Me: Jesus!”

Savona 12-3-1969

“Write in my Holy Name, Jesus!

Obedience, charity, love! Three flowers of Holy Grace with

which ‘my’ soul must come to Me.

These are three garments, among the most resplendent, with

which I love to see my Bride adorned. Vera of Jesus, these gar-

ments are not just worn but are taken on until you become a pray-

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ing soul that prays with Me and in Me, obeying the Father until

you become Me, for nothing is now left in the ‘old‘ soul, until you

become a ‘flame’ that burns and burns because I, in the fullness of

my love, live eternally in you. Walk the path of your past life again,

and you will suffer the pains of agony that I, Jesus, suffered for

love of you. Now, little by little, your soul will be immersed in

your sinful past because I, Jesus, so desire it for the sake of you

and other souls. Now that you know my love, you will see all your

sins in my atrocious Passion and Death, and my Flesh tortured for

love of you, and my Blood, especially my precious Blood, which

I shed on earth, namely on you. I said to you in Rome: ‘We shall

walk the path of the Holy Cross and my Calvary together.’ I now

will immerse you, though in My light, in that creature you were

before. If your sorrow and repentance was sincere and deep in the

past, today it must lead you to agonise with Me, for you and for

your brothers and sisters so that they too may be partakers of Me.

Take courage, Vera of Jesus, I am with you. Receive Me as I wish

to unite you, poor little soul, to Me in My Passion. This renewal

will give you that virtue of humility that I wish to see shining in

you like a precious pearl. Therefore I bring you back to relive, in

suffering, the long time when you did not love me and were in the

world, besmirched by the world. So let us ascend Calvary together,

and let the Cross of this painful suffering be renewed for you by

my Sacrifice, the atonement here below for your sins. Vera of

Jesus, little Host consecrated to Me by the Priest: there is no holo-

caust without atonement, there is no offering without pain, pain

that grinds down and destroys every shadow of the past. I, Jesus,

have forgiven, I, Jesus, have forgotten, and I remember nothing

but your loving heart. You would not suffer my Passion except by

suffering for your own faults. This is why I reopen the wounds of

your past in you. When your soul finds relief in Me, reveal to

Father Gabriel what I have allowed your soul to see. Not now be-

cause you are immersed in the agony of my Passion. I confirm my

Words to Vera by that obedience with which she, poor thing, is

united to Me in the Holy Cross, in the Cross of Love of her Jesus.

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Vera of Jesus wrote by my Will, for herself and for other souls. I

am the Door through which my souls enter my Father’s Kingdom.

I am the Life: remain in Me, in Life so that earthly life is extin-

guished in mine and you may give fruits of Grace, give my Life to

human life. Other souls did all this for you, in Me; now you in Me,

for my Priests and forever. Jesus blesses you, Jesus the Victim in

you, now little Host. Jesus loves you so, so much. Jesus loves you.

Jesus for everyone!”

Sv. 16-3-1969 Long live Jesus in the Eucharist.

“Write my Words because only these can restore humanity’s

confidence. My Work will see the light if it is able to wait trustingly

and calmly. The time will come when you will recognise the ful-

filment of my revelations. Be ready and do not doubt. Why do you

doubt? Who on earth do you doubt! My Work is launched and I,

Jesus, open the Way of Love. Before the local call I gave you the

revealing sign of the Pope. I know you believed it and you waited.

I know that Gabriel suffers from uncertainties. Vera of Jesus, if you

were left alone to believe and fight would you follow me to the

end? I will give you love, much love to give to Me, Jesus, to my

souls, to all souls. Come, poor little bride, and rest in Me: on my

Eucharistic Heart. The typescript had to be prepared in its own

time. But I, Jesus, will always be the Divine Restorer. Do not be

afraid, and trust Me, Jesus! I am with you. I will be with you until

the end!”

Savona 20-3-1969

Jesus: “Vera, Vera of Jesus, write. You must proclaim My Di-

vinity and Humanity enclosed in the Sacred Species to the world:

the Eucharist! By this Bread I want to nourish your souls, by this

Bread you will live, for it is Me: Jesus. Persevere in my Word, in

my precept of love, and nourish yourselves with Me. I, Jesus, trans-

form you into Me! Yes, those called to My Table are many but few

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take up the invitation of their King. Think, Vera of Jesus, he is a

King who invites you because he is Sovereign and has his King-

dom in Heaven. He is a King veiled in his splendour, humble for

you, small for you here below. This Eucharistic King is Jesus, he

is God, he is the Most Holy Trinity, he is the Holy Spirit, Love.

Now I am in you, in your soul, One and Three in one, and towards

my Grace. The more the soul is empty of self, free of the world,

the more I descend into it and dwell in it. Dwell in you, therefore,

the King, the King of the Universe and, above all, the King of your

soul. But I seek not subjects but heirs of my Kingdom which I give

to you through my Cross of Love. My Cross of Love is now the

Work of the Living Tabernacles. I will spread it in my souls, I will

arouse Eucharistic ardour in those I have called since many will

be invited. How many will accept the invitation of their King? And

yet by way of my Work of Love, I, their King, desire to make them

more sharers in Me, heirs of my Kingdom of Heaven. Vera of

Jesus, how many will follow me? How many will embody me? If

my souls abandoned themselves more trustingly to my Fatherly

love, how I would cover their miseries with my riches, my Gifts!

The Living Tabernacle does not fear the nothingness of its being.

I ask, I would almost say demand abandonment, trust in Me, and

whatever is lacking from my miserable tabernacle I, Jesus, will

provide! I ask for humility, generosity, love, love, love. I have

chosen a tabernacle that is perhaps contemptible to the world but

not to Me. I make it beautiful with my Grace! I am giving every-

thing to her because I, Jesus, enjoy giving. Empty your heart of

yourselves so that my love can descend on you. I want to seek and

find rest in you, my daughter, in your poor heart. Why are you

grieving if you do not know how to love? You must isolate your

soul, detach it from the earth so that it may be immersed in Me.

Then you will feel that you love Me a little. You will feel that you

love Jesus with pure love. Even this love would be limited because

I draw the soul to the completeness of pure love. Therefore, for

now, to love Me means to suffer, to suffer not knowing how to love

Me. This too is love. Now, pure love is like a drop of honey that I

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pour into the soul through the Eucharist. Coming into you, I do the

work of purification, work of redemption, work of sublimation of

the soul in Me. Now no one will arrive at this sensitive love without

Me, that is, without the Eucharist. Now take refuge in Me, in your

Eucharistic Jesus: I will prepare your soul to ‘carry Me’. Trust and

do not be troubled! I am Jesus!”

Desert 25-3-1969 11:45 pm

“Vera of Jesus, write, write out of obedience, obedience of love

and faith. I am Jesus, son of the Most High, incarnate in the womb

of the Virgin Mary. I give you an announcement of peace and good

for your soul: the Angel of the Promise will come down, and you

will call him the Angel of the Cross of Love of Jesus. He will help

you to carry my Cross, and together you will come to Me. I have

promised, I, Jesus, will keep this promise. Word of Jesus to his

poor bride. Jesus”

Desert 28-3-1969

“Vera of Jesus, write, I am Jesus in the Eucharist! Write that

there is Love in my Grace. I give you peace, I give you serenity, I

give you Me: Jesus! Now I am consoled because you have heard

my voice! You are ‘my’ sheep that I hold in my Father’s arms. You,

poor and suffering, are in My Love. You do not yet know how I

bring you to Me, how I draw you, nor will you ever know here

below. You must not be afraid for the one who defends, you, who

protects you is Jesus. I will bring light where there is darkness, I

will provide for everything and everyone. These present tribula-

tions are the balm of my suffering. See, I receive them in my

precious Blood, and along the sorrowful way of Calvary you will

accompany me with your poor crucifixion. I looked at you then as

a soul to be redeemed, I looked at you again as a soul to be con-

quered. You are now among ‘my’ Marys. That is how I, Jesus, see

you in my heartfelt way. Come, my soul, I will always offer you

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my Cross of Love. It is yours, it is for the souls consecrated to Me,

it is for the souls who seek Me, Jesus, my intimate, mystical life,

fusion of soul with Me, in purity of heart, in generous humility. I

saw you, my souls, on the way to Calvary, and since then your love

has consoled me. Now I am looking for this love that I paid for

with my Blood, I ask for this offer in my own Immolation to the

Father. Remember, my soul, and do not forget that today you can

love the Father in Me, be consumed for Me, for My Glory, because

I have consumed myself for you. Now look at your brothers and

sisters, our distant brethren, and do not wish to deny them what I,

Jesus, have freely given to you. Do not wish to deny the Eucharistic

joy that comes from receiving Me, and the outpourings of love and

graces that I know how to give to my broken and troubled children.

In the Eucharistic embrace they will see Me, they will assume Me

and they will be saved. My daughter, I will pour out treasures of

Grace for those whom I have called, for my Tabernacles, if they

want to follow Me, Jesus”.

Savona 30-3-1969 Palm Sunday.

“Eucharistic Jesus in you.

Write, Vera of Jesus, I am Jesus in the Eucharist in you! I live

in your soul, I live in it and I have fixed my abode here. Yes, it is

true, you carry Me because you have Me. Together we must go to

visit our brothers and sisters to attract them to thoughts of peace

and eternity. Write, Vera of Jesus, I manifest myself. I have visited

this house with holy grace. I, Jesus, have taken up residence in the

Sacred Species in this Tabernacle but there are those who resist

me. I, Jesus, have looked at you and am looking at you because

you are in my Thought. Now, my Mother Mary Most Holy will

persuade each of your souls so that you understand God’s lan-

guage! Let Rosa follow with you, with her gaze fixed on the goal.

Rhere will be limitations to be patient with, but let her clear her

mind and heart of earthly thoughts. Let her raise her mind to Me,

to her Jesus, through my Eucharistic Grace. I, Jesus, want to draw

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it from the tribulations that suffocate the spirit. I want her to come

to Me the way I taught you. Therefore, with the help of my grace,

let her firmly remove the obstacles that prevent her from coming

to me, Jesus in the Eucharist. If she yearns for Me, she will seek

Me, and if she seeks Me, Jesus, I will be found. The effort made to

reach the goal will be greatly rewarded by Jesus. You must say that

I, Jesus, have conquered even death. Whoever abides in Me and

perseveres to the end will overcome in Me, for together we will

overcome the spirit of this world. Then, like Lazarus, this soul that

is dear to you and dear to Me will rise again. But all this will not

happen unless Rosa’s soul is in Me, lives only for Me, for the glory

of My Kingdom. Now Rosa has an intimate guide to follow, one

that her Jesus reveals to her to pour waves of tenderness, filial love,

comfort and light into her. I want her to walk in the Light; I want

her to see that I, Jesus, love her so much because, although she is

in misery, I love her so much. O Vera of Jesus, write again! Take

me with you, Vera. Take me to the little ones, take me to those who

die without Me! Take me in your sorrow, take me in humility and

charity. I, Jesus, remain with you always. Jesus in you.”

Desert 1-4-1969

Jesus: “Daughter, my daughter, it is Jesus who is speaking to

you. I come to you, I descend into you and my Divine Presence,

like in the holy Tabernacle, is real. Now, right at this moment you

are carrying me, and becoming my holy Tabernacle to host Me,

Jesus in the Eucharist. This happens when I speak to you, dictate

to you, reveal myself to you. In my sacred Temple I seek my soul

to draw it to Me, lift it up, I give it consolations so that its spirit

may find strength in Me, the strength it can draw only from my

love. On Good Friday I will give you some hardship out of my

love. Do you want the Bridegroom to deprive the bride of himself

on that very day? Wait for me in humility and in silence. This will

benefit your soul and will be of consolation to Me. You must praise

God who covers you with graces in Me, fruit of my Mercy. When

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I make a permanent home in you I will send you my Angel: the

Angel of the Cross of Love of Jesus! It will be soon, because I,

Jesus, want to form my tabernacle with my own hands: a poor tab-

ernacle for the poor, a tabernacle of my own in which to dwell to-

gether with the poor, a small, very small tabernacle to go and visit

the little ones. Take comfort, my soul, because I will soon come

for you and for those who suffer, who need Me. You must ‘give’

Me, you must ‘carry’ Me, because this is my Will. Wait for me con-

fidently! Now you are not alone: you have Me, you have the Angels

who adore Me. I will still remain in you, in your soul, in a way that

you can feel. Prepare to welcome me in the Sacrament of the Eu-

charist, in my Gift of Love to souls. Write, Jesus in you for souls,

to save souls, to seek souls. Jesus is waiting for you, Jesus is wait-

ing for you all. Come to Me, my soul, I, Jesus, seek you, seek you

with love. These words, Jesus’ words for the poor, will spread

everywhere and bring my joy. No, do not worry, you will not be

there because I, Jesus, will protect you from yourself. I will take

you away from the world as I told you, and your life will be con-

sumed in Me. I have promised this much, and I, Jesus, will keep

that promise. The same words addressed to you, Vera, Vera of

Jesus, are valid for Gabriel. I am with you! Jesus in the Eucharist.”

Savona 6-4-1969 5

“I am Jesus, Jesus in Holy Grace. Write. Write what I said.

My Eucharistic Presence in you is wanted by God who covers his

poor creatures with the mantle of my Mercy. So do not be afraid:

you are in my holy grace and in obedience. Now the pain ceases,

and I, the Risen Jesus, will rise again in your soul to draw it from

oppression to joy, to my joy: joy of Jesus in the Eucharist! Now

you are sick. You have suffered in Me, but the old man finds it

hard to die. Trust, Vera of Jesus! Write, write, my beloved daughter,

it is I who pour out the Grace of my words. If my Living Taber-

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nacle exists,6 I am alive in my Work of Love. Let this in no way

induce others to extend this advance permission, for it is only for

you that I, Jesus, make an exception. The others will [need to] wait

for authorisation from the Holy See. Father Gabriel and you are

my poor ‘stones’ on which I intend to raise the Work of Living Tab-

ernacles. If these stones do not carry Me, they will not build my

Work of Love. I repeat: it is a privilege for you poor ones who work

for Me, and in Me. I am consoled in you, and you may be consoled

in Me: in Jesus in the Eucharist. This Gift of love is for Vera, so

that she is no longer upset, and that she can believe that her Jesus

has never left her and will never leave her. Jesus now with you,

with poor and weak souls to draw them to himself. I bless, yes I

bless everyone, even those who do not love me. I bless and wait

for all your hearts to come to Me, to Jesus in the Eucharist. The

Risen Jesus gives you Peace, the Peace that I have acquired with

my Blood. Behold, I give it to you: let it spread through your spirit

to see Me, to seek Me, to make you happy in Me. Risen Jesus with

His Grace in you. Resurrected for you, for all souls. Go in peace.

I remain in you to draw you, hour by hour, to Me. Jesus.”

Sv. 12-4-1969

Jesus in the Eucharist “Write my love for you, for all souls.

I reveal Myself to the little ones because they need Me. I teach the

little one how to love his brother and sister, and I help him carry

the burden of his own miseries. If he listens to Me, he will find the

way in Me that will make him rise up to Me: Love! From human

love, felt and experienced through Me, he will be caught up in Di-

vine Love. Then he will be free, he will be happy, he will be all in

Me. Let the little one therefore embrace his little ones with tender-

ness, even if they make him suffer, and seek Me alone in them al-

6 “If my Living Tabernacle exists...”. As the foundation stones of the Work,

Fr Gabriello Zucconi and Vera carried Jesus in the Holy Species for a time. They

were an exception. For all others called to the Work, the authorisation of the Holy

See is required.

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ways. This is the only means of coming to Me, of still remaining

in the world yet not being of the world. I once told you that I am

giving you a new commandment: ‘love one another’. I am lovingly

reminding you, with insistent love, of the same commandment be-

cause you are the chosen souls of my Eucharistic Kingdom. I have

chosen my dwelling place among the poor, and I want you to dwell

here in peace and charity. I am here for this, to help you in love, to

unite you in love so that you may all become ‘mine’ as I, Jesus, am

of the Father. I am here for you, I am here for your family

members, and my Graces, Graces of the soul, will come, for the

fruits will ripen in their time. I come to you out of love and I em-

brace you and bless you. I bless your soul, I bless the souls of your

brothers and sisters in the same way. I bless the poor and the rich,

the righteous and the sinner because now is the hour of my Mercy.

Such and so much mercy, that here is living Bread descended from

Heaven to regenerate you in my Grace constantly. The fruit of love

is my eternal consummation in souls. I want to immortalise it

within domestic walls so that my Life, my Light will never be

lacking for you, and you will never lack it again. Vera of Jesus,

write, write: you have this task. You must do it because it is I who

said it, your Eucharistic Jesus. I see the pain you offer me. I will

teach you, Vera of Jesus, to accompany me, to go along with me,

to let yourself be carried by Me. You will not be able to do anything

without Me. Let yourself be guided even in silence, and humble

and trusting, wait in silence for Me. In silence to serve Me, you

must trust Me more, and remain in humility. If you are barren, look

to Heaven with more love: this is your homeland, the homeland

that awaits you. May this promise comfort you in the darkness that

will now come for you. Then it will be the light, the light of my

immense Eucharistic Love. See, Vera of Jesus, how I look at you,

follow you! See how much and how I love you! Now go in peace,

I am in you, with you, and I will not leave you. I promised, and es-

tablished this covenant of love with you: Jesus and the Eucharistic

soul. I will renew this covenant of love for every soul that feeds

on Me, and this will be until the Universal Judgement. Jesus in the

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Eucharist and the soul will be merged in this covenant. Do not for-

get, wine and water. Thus, every soul in Me, and I in each soul, to

the last. My hand of blessing is now upon you, upon the poor of

this house, upon the poor of the street. Jesus for everyone!”

Desert 14-4-1969

“Jesus in holy grace, Jesus in love, is dictating to you, poor

one. Write, my love is Eucharistic Love, it is Eucharistic Gift. I am

revealing it to you for all souls. I want ‘poor’ souls who will follow

Me, who will carry Me. I am look for them among the poor, the

dejected, the slandered, the offended, the pure, the simple. I want

them to have the certainty of my great Fatherly love, since I, Jesus,

do not intend to leave these little ones orphans either. How many

times have I repeated and explained my suffering love for the poor!

I will not get tired of repeating it while my children need Me, until

they have Me. The night will descend upon you again, but you

know how to wait for Me: I, Jesus in the Eucharist, will return for-

ever. The current year will also give consolations to you who are

waiting for Me, and the light of my Work of Love will be in you,

it will be in those I have called. Rome, in St Peter’s, will bless the

first stone of my great Eucharistic Building because the year of

great Grace is near. The first approval of the Holy See will come

this autumn when my Work, in its content, is drawing to a close.

Yes, my daughter, accept me on the Cross, accept me in pain,

welcome me in love. Your Jesus who lives in you.”

Sv. 18-4-1969

“My name is Jesus, son of the Most High Almighty God! Sec-

ond Person of the Most Holy Trinity, living Bread descended from

Heaven to feed the poor, to feed the doubtful with the treasures of

truth, to bring to completion the work of salvation of the people,

my brothers and sisters, entrusted to me by my Father. I, Jesus, in

Heaven in my Glory: One and Triune God, with my Most Holy

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Mother the Immaculate Virgin, my Saints, my Angels. I, Jesus here

with you, in you, on you, for the thirst for souls that is in Me. I am

Jesus in the Eucharist. I speak from a new and miserable Taber-

nacle. I would like it to become part of Me, giving itself totally to

my Mother. She is the Golden Tabernacle capable of ‘bearing Me’.

Bring your soul, bring your heart, bring this tabernacle to Mary.7

She will receive you in my love, in the love of her Son, Jesus. She,

your Mother and mine, will remedy, make up for, purify and with

her pure love she will prepare my Eucharistic Nest. You will come

to Me in Her, you will carry Me in Her and I, Jesus, will let myself

be cradled by the sweetest of mothers: my Mother, the ever Virgin

Mary. The longer Mary Most Holy lives in the Living Tabernacle,

the more I will be loved, praised and glorified. If you love me, Vera

of Jesus, you will become the slave of love for my Mother. She

will be able and will know how to be your mother, teacher and

queen of your soul, of your earthly life. Grant that my Work bears

the name of Mary Most Holy. Let me live in my Work with Her,

the Immaculate Conception. Every soul, Temple of the Holy Spirit,

can have Mary Most Holy as a Tabernacle that is pure and pleasing

to God, if the soul becomes her humble handmaid of love. Then I

will rest like a child in the arms of my Mother. You will arrive at

all this through my great Grace, through the suffering you experi-

enced, through the filial piety of She who loved and loves you so,

so much. Now she sees you, now she is looking at you, now more

than before she is assisting you. Gather up all your efforts and put

them at her service: She will govern them and guide them to

Heaven. The Tabernacle will be holy, it will be pleasing to God in

that pure and radiant Tabernacle that welcomed the Word. I am

now in you in the Word guarded by my Mother. I desire that this

may always be guarded by the Source of all grace so that I, Jesus,

the Incarnate Word, will give myself to the world always through

Her. Live the life of love and union with my Mother and you will

7 “She will receive you...”: From here to the end of the message has not been

published.

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live of Me and for Me; nullify yourself in the golden Tabernacle

that is my Mother and you will know how to ‘guard Me’. Devotion

to my most precious Blood must be spread in the Eucharist because

my Flesh and Blood are my Sacrifice for you to the Father, they

are my love for you, they are my Gift of love. I love to give

you my Blood, I love to see you seek, desire, honour the Blood I

give you. Invoke it as a loving blessing upon your souls: I will give

them the splendour of my Grace, the fervour of the impulse that

makes you rise up to me, to the wound of my Heart. I have spoken

in you and in my Blood, Blood of Jesus Christ, I bless, bless, bless.

Let my love triumph, triumph through my most precious Blood.

Jesus living in you!”

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BOOKLET 12

“Long live Jesus in the Eucharist”

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Desert 20-4-1969

“My Holy Name: Jesus! I give you my Strength, my Blessing.

Jesus in the soul, present in you, poor bride of Jesus. Now rest,

obedience to my word is over for now. Jesus in the Eucharist!”1

Savona 27-4-1969 2

“I am Jesus. Long live Jesus in the Eucharist! Father Colosio

must ensure my complete Work of Love reaches the hands of the

Holy Father. I want it to be personally delivered to him and then

read and vetted by others. The Holy Father Paul VI will lead my

Work from Rome and will guide ‘my Tabernacles’. He is the

Helmsman of my Barque and amidst the raging storms that batter

it, he will lead my children who are ‘Called’ out to sea in calm

waters. With my Messages of Love I, Jesus, intend to place the des-

tinies of the Church of tomorrow, of the new Church, in the hands

of my Vicar on earth. He, Paul VI, is filled with Me, with the Holy

Spirit; He ‘sees’ and ‘will see’ and we will recognise each other in

my words. Now prepare the way for Me, that is, work hard and

soon give the Word of life that I have given you to the world, to

my souls. Do not keep them just for yourself, they are for everyone.

Work so that my Work of Love is soon handed over to the One

who, by my will, will bind and authorise and spread this new Cross

of Love which is my Living Tabernacle in my Church.

To Vera, my Angel: St Raphael, Archangel of God, so that she

may be guided on the way by an ‘envoy of God’ with whom she

may complete the task assigned to her by God the Father through

me, Jesus. This Angel will guide you, will protect you until the

end of your earthly life, until he leads you to Me: to the Homeland,

My Dwelling Place in Paradise.

Behold,3 you, Vera of Jesus, have received this privilege for

1 Unpublished Message.

2 Unpublished Message.

3 From “Behold...” to “Holy grace”: unpublished Message.

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the Glory of God so that His will may be done to the very end. He

has replaced your previous Guardian Angel who now, with Me, is

in adoration of the Most Holy Trinity wherever I am in the Sacred

Eucharistic Species. Now understand, read and meditate... Raphael

does not speak like your previous Angel. Raphael leads you, guides

you, teaches you by inspiring you with My Desires, My Will. Do

not seek his words, they will be rare, but make yourself docile to

good and mystical inspirations: they come from Raphael. Now he

is with you, on your path and he will remain here at your side. I,

Jesus, promise and fulfil my promise. Then the Light will come,

then I will give you My Light which you will understand because

the Light is sacred, it is holy, it is Me. I promise you my word more

often. Love Me, Vera of Jesus, I want to be loved, very, very much.

Love Me and be forgotten in Me. I, the Eucharistic Jesus, want to

remain in you. It is I, Jesus, who desire it. You have my word,

Jesus’ word. My child, I bless you! Jesus in Holy Grace.”

Sv. 30-4-1969

“Write, my beloved daughter, it is your Jesus speaking to you!

Come, my daughter, approach my Side. Here is love, true love.

Yes, you are writing out of obedience, and in the name of this holy

obedience you will come to Me. Draw ever closer to love, to pure

love through obedience and humility. Now abandon yourself to

Me. Do not wish to see anything but Me, through Me, in the world.

I, Jesus, will give you grace: to see everything and everyone in Me.

I must form my new Temple, I must purify it, but my Blood will

be worth it. Write, it is I, Jesus, who guide your soul. I, Jesus Eter-

nal Priest, Shepherd of souls. I build my Temple with my Grace

from your littleness and on this I build my Church. It is I, Jesus,

who form it, adapt it according to the times and according to the

truth. I am always the Way, the Truth, the Life.

Gospel of life, for the life of tomorrow where I, Jesus, will con-

tinue to teach how it is always possible to come to Me. You are a

poor example on which My Father was pleased to begin. Rosa your

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sister will be another example. And there will be other examples

to convince souls that I, Jesus, am the One who shepherds His

sheep in the love and action of the Holy Spirit. I guide you, I follow

after you and if you know how to be sensitive to My Voice you

will never walk in darkness because you will have Me as the Light.

What you have written comes from Me, do not think of others.

Think only that you have pleased Me by obeying. I do not want

this concern in you; serve Me as you are, serve My Work of Love.

There will be no understanding, no guidance, no spiritual refuge

for you beyond obedience to Superiors, to the Priest. Refer every-

thing to Me, to My Glory, and convince yourself that already from

this earth you have begun to live for Heaven with Me. If you do

not see it I am still preparing it for you, for my souls in particular.

Take courage and trust! Vera of Jesus, My Heart wounded with

love is a Bridegroom’s Heart, therefore it is also jealous of the poo-

rest and most miserable bride which you are for Me. Carry Me and

I will carry you and together we will approach the heavenly abode.

Remain in Me, Bride of My Blood! I, Jesus, wanted to reveal My

Divine Presence through My Word, to witness to people of good

will that, through the sanctifying grace of the Most Holy Eucharist

I, Jesus, give My Word to poor little ones. Jesus, One and Three in

one, in the Sacred Species.”

Desert 6-5-1969 Long live Jesus in the Eucharist!

“Vera, it is I, Jesus, do not be afraid! You know me? Now write.

My encouragement for the work undertaken must reach Gabriel. I

am supporting him with my Grace, I am directing him according

to my will which is the desire to express my love to him and to my

souls. I am a prisoner, a prisoner of love. No, I do not want to leave

you, leave any of you, I want to stay with you, with souls, always.

For now it is like this: silence, silence, silence. Walk with Me. I

am the light that guides your soul even if you don't see, don't hear,

don't know any more that I live, live in you. My love made of char-

ity forgives you, lifts you up, attracts you. Hope in Me, hope in

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Jesus! Come back, I will wait for you, I will give you strength, I

will help you, and do not be afraid. Jesus to you, little Eucharistic

soul!”

Desert 9-5-1969 4

“Write my Holy Name, Jesus! Write because I am dictating. I,

Jesus, guide your hand as I guide your soul. I will always want to

speak to the poor and the little ones because it is for them that I

speak and manifest myself. O Vera of Jesus, I want to write to my

souls through you. I want to address the Priests who await Me.

They are: Father Colosio, Father Borra, Father Bocchi. Like you,

they have Me. Write for Father Colosio: ‘You are the path where

my Work of Love must walk. You are the shortest way to get to

Rome. Father Colosio is my relay: Jesus’ relay! Take me to my

Work of Love in Rome, to the seat of Peter. Jesus who uses you.’

Jesus says to Father Borra: ‘you are the advocate for my souls

with My Mother’s Heart. Plead for salvation, my light for priestly

souls. Your Jesus prefers you in the continuous immolation of the

Cross for the priestly Cause. Jesus in you always.’

A greeting to Father Bocchi, a reminder that comes from the

depths of my Heart: ‘I am Jesus in the Word to the little ones and

the poor, I am Jesus in your little ones, in those you are giving to

Me, are forming for Me, in those you are preparing for Me.5 I am

Jesus in the mandate of love that I renew to you. This is my

Father’s will: accept me.’

‘To you, Franco, my Word, my Blessing. You will have to go

a long way with Me, but I will live in you and I will conquer.’ You

must tell Franco that I, Jesus, love him very, very, very much; I am

in him as he is in Me. This certainty is faith that grows, strength

that animates him, courage that moves him to greater things. Jesus

in the Holy Cross and in Love.

4 Unpublished Message.

5 Fr Bocchi had formed a cenacle (group) of children preparing for First

Communion whom he would continue to follow up.

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We will write again, Vera of Jesus, again and to all the Priests

before my Work of Love is concluded in Me. Jesus caresses you

today. Go, my daughter, I will stay close to you. Jesus in Holy

Grace.”

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Mercy, Savona 11-5-1969

“Write, I am dictating: I am Jesus in my Most Precious Blood,

in my Immolation to the Father for you all, to inspire good thoughts

and desires in you of love, charity, purity. In the Sacred Species I

am the Eternal Victim who offers himself and restores things for

you. Today my Mercy extends through She who pleads before God

on your behalf, on behalf of all souls: Mercy. I will spread a veil

with which (interrupted).”

Desert 12-5-1969

“Write: Jesus in the Eucharist is speaking. Long live Jesus in

the Eucharist! Long live Jesus in the Eucharist, One and Three in

one! I am here in my Word of love to console you, to console you

all. You must tell Rosa that I, Jesus, love her very, very much. That

my messages of love are addressed to her, to souls especially like

hers. You must say that I have chosen her in my immense goodness

as my Eucharistic Bride. Vera, Vera of Jesus, I am looking for souls

who will embrace my holy Cross with Me. I am looking for this

love in the little ones through constant offering in Me. I am looking

for you, I am looking for your pain, your squalor, I am looking for

someone who loves Me; I seek the afflicted, the suffering, the op-

pressed; I seek those who have been disinherited from worldly

goods, I seek these souls. Which army will I, Jesus, fight the enemy

of souls with? With you, my beloved children, the league of souls:

it is your tears, your pains; it is the acceptance of my Will, it is Me

in you on the Holy Cross! Let silence not oppress you, not discour-

age you. I, Jesus, am with you. Vera of Jesus, I do not abandon

souls because of their miseries, because I came for you and I want

to stay with you. The Living Tabernacles are the boldest revelation

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of my Love: the Father who never abandons his son, the Bride-

groom who does not know how to detach himself from his bride,

the Friend who wants a friend with whom to converse and spread

his friendship. While humanity is being lost, I move ahead with

my Poor, and with them I, Jesus, will conquer, will triumph. I will

teach you that it is the Cross, the Cross accepted with love, that of

the Tabernacle. The experience is tougher now than in the past, but

you, through the inspirations of your Angel, will learn. It is pain

for you to ‘carry Me’ and it will be for a long time. I have sent you

an Angel, the Angel of Jesus’ Cross of Love, to help you carry Me:

the Eucharist! They adore, they restore, they guide you. My blessed

daughter, come to Me. Your Bridegroom awaits you! Our meeting

is in my Holy Sacrifice. Here I, Jesus, immerse you in Me, here

you are in Me and in my holy Grace, I offer you in Me to my

Father. Come my souls, the Bridegroom is waiting! Vera of Jesus,

it is I, I am your Jesus: do not fear, do not be a victim of depression,

offer it to Me, offer yourself in Me. I will accept everything, I will

take everything and purify everything. Offer yourself for Gabriel’s

work, offer yourself for my Work so that it may soon reach the

hands of the Holy Father. After the ‘offerings’ you will write, we

will write, we will work together: you and I. Be humble and patient

and be grateful to Jesus who also spreads the grace of suffering in

your life. I remain in you, and I pour out the perfumes of my Love

on you. My blessed daughter rest in Me. Jesus who sees!”

Desert 13-5-1969

“It is I, I am your Jesus in your soul. I want to stay with you, I

want to converse with you. I speak to your soul and you answer

me. Vera of Jesus, write my love, what I give to you. Who takes

you, who leads you to green pastures? – You, my Jesus. Who sup-

ports you in uncertainties? Now let me answer: my Grace. In the

darkness where I leave you, how do you walk? Now you answer.

– I am not walking, I feel still and suffocated. Instead you are walk-

ing and going forward despite your miserable falls, because I, the

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Crucified One, am offering myself for you to my Father, and I am

praying, and restoring you. If you falter, Vera of Jesus, I will bend

down and pick you up. In temptations, when restlessness assails

you, I lead you back to prayer. If you don’t know how to teach, I

look at you and I suffer from this love that you are unable to give.

O Vera of Jesus, how nothing you are, how little you are and how

much I, Jesus, love you! I renew and purify you every day; I always

prepare you for Me. This Gift is the beating of my Eucharistic

Heart. So you must know how to listen for my tenderness to per-

vade your heart. Do you want to write for Me again? – Yes, Jesus,

immediately. Write to a Salesian who is very close to my heart, like

this. Do not think about who it is because I will reveal his name to

you at the end. ‘You represent me in the Church, by my will you

have Ecclesiastical Authority, therefore, your every word reflects

on my other beloved Priests.’ Vera of Jesus, write these words,

words of Jesus, in obedience. ‘Let those who do not open their

minds and hearts to my Work of Love refrain from making negative

comments. Therefore I tell you: it is better to keep silent than to

express thoughts contrary to my Will. Now I, Jesus in the Euchar-

ist, tell you: the words addressed to the poor in my messages of

love will not pass away because, like those of the Holy Gospel they

come from Me, from my Eucharistic Love. I want you and the

others to pray so that my Light descends upon you; I want you to

turn to my Mother to achieve this end. I want you who have been

Called, the first chosen ones, to come to Me through the Way of

Love that I, Jesus in the Eucharist, have given you. Now pray, pray

and be humble, profoundly humble like Me, Jesus. My Will will

be done in Rome but I desire that on that day my joy will be com-

plete in you too. Whoever has waited for Me, whoever has believed

and prayed will be more in Me, will be one, one that I will no

longer separate: the water and the wine of my Sacrifice. Let every

Priest who knows my messages see these loving messages as re-

ferring to himself and come to Me, return to Me in humility. I will

satisfy him if he is sincere. I will call you again, I will wait for you.

Jesus of the poor.’”

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Desert of Varazze 15-5-1969 Jesus’ Ascension.

“Come my blessed soul, come to my Eucharistic Love. I am

in you, I inspire you and I speak to you. Today I draw my souls to

Heaven. Today I, in my Glory, take you up into Me and, as small

Eucharistic hosts, in the consecrated Host your are but one Host,

one Offering before my Father’s Throne: here and in Heaven. This

is why you already live the life of the Saints with Me. Today is a

great celebration! My Father is glorified in Me, and with broad

hands We pour out the Spirit of Love upon you: receive it with joy,

with humility. I am in you to communicate my Thoughts to you so

that you can address yours to Me, to Heaven, to the Eucharistic

Table and to the Father’s Abode where We await you. A little

longer, Vera of Jesus, a little longer and then we will have arrived

at the goal, because I, the Crucified Jesus, will embrace you from

my Cross of Love. The Salesians will come to Me! Heaven prays

that my Will be done on earth as well. I in my Saints, and they in

Me, in a single prayer addressed to the Father. I in you, in my poor

Eucharistic brides, in a single prayer – offering – consummation

to the Father: ‘Your Kingdom come, Eucharistic fusion (Jesus and

the soul) in the Gift and in the light of the Holy Spirit.’ When my

Kingdom of Love has spread like this I will descend upon the har-

dest hearts because my souls will have been consumed in Me. Now

go and give my Messages of peace, love and forgiveness to the

world. Live the life I offer you, and tomorrow everything will be

transformed into joy. Now go with Me and always because,

through you, I want to confirm my Will: the one I have explained

in my Work of Love. They are the Living Tabernacles, the light of

the Church that will rise again in Me the Eucharist. You are the

first paths, the first stones but they will soon multiply by virtue of

my Mother who will lead everything to the Holy Father. Then I

want your joy too to be complete in Me. Jesus in Heaven, Jesus

here with you: in the soul, in the mind, in the heart, in the Most

Holy Eucharist. I bless you, I bless you, we bless you with my

Mother! Jesus.”

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Desert 20-5-1969

“Write, Vera of Jesus! I am the Almighty and good Father. I

forgive you your sins and place you back into the Wound in My

Son’s Sacred Side. I want you pure because the world no longer

belongs to you, I want you in my Jesus and in his Heart wounded

for love. Here your soul must stay as long as it is a pilgrim on earth.

Then you will not fear, and my own Jesus will be your rock. Now

you have wept, and I, your God, have cleansed you, I have blessed

you. Walk safely because the hands of the Holy Virgin will guide

you on the way desired by Me, God the Father. The earth’s shadow

is fleeting, for I send light from Above. Now follow my beloved

Son in his Passion; draw strength, virtue and merits in Him. After

the Passion comes Death and true Life. After the journey of hope

and waiting there will be victory. I am the Father of my Son, and I

give him to you in the Most Holy Eucharist so that you may love

him more and more, so that you may be transformed by holy grace,

by his continual Presence, into his souls: Eucharistic souls! Carry

Jesus and carry Me, the Father, and let the Holy Spirit pour out in

your Spirit. I am speaking to you, Vera of Jesus, in the name of the

Father on whom you depend. You spring from his infinite love and

you return to him for Me, for Jesus. It is the provident Father, the

bestower of Graces, who gives you ‘trials’. It is the Son who

washes, purifies and intercedes with the Father. The Comforter

Spirit descends because He is comfort, relief, love. What work

Jesus does in your soul! My blessed daughter, blessed in the Father,

in the Son, in the Holy Spirit, for I Jesus am Love.”

Desert 20-5-1969

“Write my holy Name three times out of love and obedience:

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Then go back to bed. I will give you an

announcement of peace: the souls you are praying for are in the

Thought of God the Father and are alive in God. Your Jesus!”

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Desert 21-5-1969

“Yes, long live Jesus in the Eucharist! It is Me: Jesus for Ga-

briel! I am working with you, I am living with you and suffering

with you! You have Me, and I have you in your priesthood where

I make you holy for Me, for the Kingdom of my Eucharistic souls.

I have given you my Cross of Love for this Kingdom: embrace it

with heartbreaking love to the end. Courage! I repeat: I am living

in you and I am renewed, consumed and given in your priesthood.

Through you I pass to souls, and through Me you draw near to the

Father. May my Grace descend to communicate my Gifts to you

with which I will renew you at Pentecost not far away. Go to Mary,

go and ask for light for the Superiors: this will be a gift from her

Immaculate Heart. Pray, beseech her! I want you to turn to Her,

the Mother of the soul, to be honoured. Jesus for you!”

Desert 1-6-1969 Blessed Trinity 6

“My daughter, my daughter beloved by my Cross, and Cross

of Eucharistic Love, write in the holy name of the Most Holy Trinity

and in the obedience with which you are bound to Me, to my Eu-

charistic Gift in my bloody Passion. Your soul is in the state of pu-

rification, and your inner sufferings will deepen. Do not be afraid,

your soul comes to Me more, it advances even if in darkness, in

the Light. I am giving you a sign: when you will love all creatures

in Me and the world will not belong to you because you will have

left it freely for love of Me; when, while still a living creature, you

will live only of Me and of Heaven, then my Work of Love will be

almost complete in my Living Tabernacle. My little Temple will

be purified and offered, victim in the only Victim, in the ultimate

sacrifice. Understand well, little Eucharistic bride, the purification

of the Tabernacle. It is sacred, it is God’s Dwelling, it is God. Work

of Love, in my Tabernacle; Work of Love, my writings, my mess-

ages. I am in my Work of Love as I am in the Sacred Eucharistic

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Species, for one soul and for all souls. I give myself in the Word to

a single soul as to all souls. I descended into the Word in a soul to

comfort it, assist it and transform it into Me. This Fatherly love

will be renewed in all the souls who will come to Me in the Eu-

charistic embrace and in the Most Holy Eucharist they will give

Me honour, glory and love. I have a Bride, I already have many

Eucharistic Brides prepared by my Mother, but I want to lavish

my graces on others, on many, very many souls. Now Jesus shows

you his ardent desire: to always remain with you, to always remain

with his creature, in his Tabernacle, even if it is poor and squalid.

I, Jesus, the Way – the Truth – the Life, am and will be in the con-

secrated Host that you carry. This sacred Particle will tell my souls

how much and how I want to unite my Divinity and Humanity also

to their life. It will tell them that Jesus in the Eucharist is infinite

Love, he is a Gift, he is a promise of peace, he is Peace. Oh, how

many things my Divine Presence will say in this consecrated Host!

Keep this always for Me, out of love for Me, out of obedience. Put

all your trust in Me, in your Eucharistic Bridegroom, and believe

in Him who is in you: Jesus! I am the Father, I am the Holy Spirit,

I am your God. Jesus in His holy word to Vera, little Eucharistic

Bride.”

Desert 3-6-1969

“Write, my beloved daughter, I am Jesus: consecrated Host. I

want to descend upon you and lift you up. I ease the Cross for you

out of love. I sanctify you with my Word and I give you Light.

Today’s sufferings are permitted by my Father, and in Me they will

soon be transformed into a light of mercy. You are in my holy and

pierced hands, and I now have you, your intimately Eucharistic

life. Yes, you listened well to what I said the day before yesterday.

The arm, you are my arm! Let me do things and I will work for

you, through you. You are a humble, poor but great instrument in

my hands and you serve Me, my Work of Love. Trust Jesus, and

more and more. I, Jesus, will lift you up from your prostrations,

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drawing your soul ever more to Me, to my Heart. O Vera of Jesus,

do you not seek this in order to love Me? My Side is also opening

for you and one day your poor heart will see mine! This will be

our encounter, our union. Now give me your poor arm, give it to

me in silence because this is how I work, and be humble and do

not ask me – as you have done so far – how this serves the Lord. I

repeat: it serves Me, your Eucharistic Jesus, his triumph. Now in

Heaven we are praying for you, for Gabriel, for the Salesians. We

are praying for you and with you so that you may obey and cor-

respond to my Grace. Do not fear the thorns that pierce you here:

these too are precious in my Eucharistic Blood. Accept all suffer-

ing, I allow it, so give it to me at my Altar, in my Blood. Then wait.

Jesus is here, he is with you, he is close to you, and your soul sees

Me because I show myself to you. I will help you finish school, I

will help you, I will help you all. Be generous and give me what I

asked for. Vera of Jesus, I want to talk to you again. Write out of

love and out of obedience. The water that I pour from my Side in

the Holy Sacrifice is for suffering souls like yours, the Blood that

flows from it draws you to the intimate gentleness of my Heart.

With the one, I wash, purify, lift, instil trust, with the other I call

you to Love, to Union. Now, if you give Me your soul after the

elevation, I will also do with your will what I already do with Me.

Come, come to Me, My souls, for I give to all, I am for you here,

but I am for all. Do you understand? I will help you! Jesus Father.”

Savona 8-6-1969

“Write, my beloved daughter, it is Jesus who is telling you.

The dawn of a new day is not far off; the darkness dissipates and

gives way to the first lights, the first flares of a great day: that of

‘my own’ predestined to fulfil the new age of Christianity in Me

and with Me. Just as I give you the sun among the thickest clouds,

and I show you the blue of my sky, so among the darkness of the

times my light will come, almost suddenly but expected, for every-

one. I am the sun that I gave to you this morning; I gave you the

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sky in its blue because you asked Me with filial love. Ask for the

light of my Work for souls, ask me for Eucharistic souls and be the

flames of my Tabernacles. A little longer, my daughter, a little

longer and then you will come to Me, you will be entirely of your

Jesus. I want you good and obedient and patient. Be calm, I am

acting, I am at work in you! Vera of Jesus, you are already crucified

with Me, and what you suffer is now mine. Be happy with my Gift.

This is the first gift of your Eucharistic Bridegroom. There will be

others of equal size, but the last one is in my Heart, in my heartbeat

of life for you and for souls. Be blessed by Me, by my Father, by

the Paraclete Spirit so that He may be your Consoler and Support.

I have no more immense love than that of gathering my Eucharistic

brides under my wings, what I ardently desire is my Tabernacle, it

is the union of Me with the soul: the fusion of the Water and the

Wine of the Holy Sacrifice. I burn to live on you too, to transform

you more into Me, to capture your hearts for My Love, unceas-

ingly. I am burning, Vera, I am burning! I have a fire that burns

your miseries. I have a flame that envelops you and wants to pen-

etrate you...I am burning in My Tabernacle, and so it will be for

you as it purifies. I am burning and I am waiting... Now, Vera of

Jesus, always be in Me: in love, in the cross, in suffering, in sor-

rows, in consolations, in the intense unions that I give you, in the

small manifestations of fatherly kindness with which I gladden

you, in praise, in sleep, in rest, in work and in time. Be always with

Me, Vera of Jesus, now and always. I, Jesus, desire it, want it. Jesus

Christ your God!”

Sv. 14-6-1969

“Vera of Jesus, write: I am Jesus, Jesus in the Eucharist! Write:

I am here for you, for Rosa, for Silvio, for Fabio. I am here for

your mother, I am here for my souls, so as not to leave them any

more, but to live with them, defend them, guard them, open my

paths of grace for them. I am Father, I am pure Spirit, I am God,

God with you. Vera of Jesus, you are now married to Me, to my

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Cross of Love, and you are living by it. A little longer, a little longer

in your Crucified Jesus... You are in Me, in My Passion, in My Suf-

fering, in My Love. Then you will be in my Side, in my Heart. Be

calm, trusting, trusting in your Jesus. I will come soon, I will mani-

fest myself soon to support and comfort you. I will come to you,

in a new and different way, inwardly. I will take you with Me, then

I will lead you to Me. Come My soul, Jesus embraces you and

blesses everyone. Long live the Eucharistic Jesus for everyone!”

Desert 18-6-1969

“Yes, my daughter, I am speaking to you who are in tribulation

out of love of me, I am speaking to you to give you strength,

strength. I am with you, I am living with you, and I, Jesus, am

carrying you within Me. You are in my Side, near the wound of

my Heart: soon I will let you know the treasures of my divine

Heart. I will give you serenity, I will give you Myself more inti-

mately and I, Jesus in the Eucharist, am preparing you for this day.

Come to Me, to your Jesus, my blessed soul, I embrace you and

hold you close to Me. Do not leave me... Vera of Jesus, how much

Love there is in Me for you, for my blessed souls. You cannot even

imagine it! I would like to manifest it to everyone, if they truly

thought of Me. I give these words, my words, to everyone. I am

speaking to you, little souls, I am speaking to you, great souls, I

am speaking to the sinner and the righteous. I await everyone,

everyone, and for this end I have sought my new abodes. I long for

the Living Tabernacles to be approved by the Holy Father. I long

for the hour when I shall be with all the graces promised in my

Bearers. We must still struggle and suffer for this purpose, but the

trial will soon be overcome through the intervention of my Mother

Mary Help of Christians. She will defeat the enemy forces, she will

defend, as a mother, her creature, my Work and the New Taber-

nacle. Therefore She will have to be proclaimed ‘Mother’ of my

Work of Love. Now Jesus embraces you, Jesus blesses you, Jesus

awaits you. Eucharistic Jesus.”

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Savona, 23-6-1969 “I will tell you the moment of conclusion.”

Santa Corona 7-7-1969 7

“Long live Jesus in the Eucharist! I, the Suffering Jesus, unite

you to Me and I receive you in my Side as you suffer. I bless you

from my Holy Cross of Love and with it I bend over you to absolve

you and bless you. I will write soon to the Pope, to my beloved

Vicar Paul VI, before his journey to Uganda. I want my Tabernacle

to accompany him and be...”

(Interrupted to undergo a radiological examination)

Santa Corona 15-7-1969

“Vera of Jesus, write: I am Jesus in the Word. ‘And the Word

became flesh and dwelt among us.’ That’s right, my child. In you

too, in my poor creatures, for I, Jesus in the Eucharist, dwell in

your soul and hold it in my suffering and wounded Hands. Do you

feel, my soul, this love of your God? It is I, I am Jesus, who carry

you and accompany you to a happy abode. Let me lead you, and

accept this in my Name: Jesus! Let me lead everything and every-

one. My Work of Love also has its guide. Fear not, Vera of Jesus,

it is already in good hands, in the right hands.

Now these holy words of mine must reach my Vicar on earth,

Paul VI: ‘your journeys must increase because I, Jesus the Teacher

and Redeemer, also want to visit all the peoples of the earth in you

who represent me, with My Holy Humanity, before the day comes

when God the Father will bring justice. Ask of me the Graces that

I, Jesus, have promised in my Work of Love. Ask me for the new

Church, renewed in my Sacrifice, purged in my Blood. Ask me for

the small and new dwellings that I, out of love and mercy, have

7 After a break of three months, during which Vera had resumed teaching, she

was back in the Santa Corona hospital again in June, where she would undergo more

than one surgery and would die on 22 December after being hospitalised for

6 months.

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chosen for myself: the Living Tabernacles. I desire that you ap-

prove and authorise this, so that I, Jesus, may fulfil what I have

promised. May the Salesian priests be confirmed in my Message

of Love, and tomorrow may their scepticism be cause for profound

interior renewal for the good and love they owe to Me, Jesus. Go,

My beloved Paul, and I with you: in the Cross, in the Holy Cross

that I have given you, and with your head crowned for Me and in

Me with thorns; go and take Me, give Me, and in the Holy Euchar-

ist spread Me. I gather my little victims, and in Me, in My continual

holocaust, I offer them to My Father so that you may be given free-

dom to authorise what is the beating heart of love, what is the Life,

the Truth, and the Way: Jesus in the Sacred Species in the Church

that goes out, proceeds so that it may advance and meet and bless

everyone before that day. This poor tabernacle chosen by my

Father because it is the most miserable, now accompanies you in

my Cross of Love.8 I, Jesus, want to remain with you until the end.

Jesus, Eternal Priest, to your Vicar on earth, Paul VI. I bless you,

and in you and with you I bless all suffering humanity you will

visit with Me, in the Most Holy Trinity, in my glorious Mother the

Immaculate, in my Saints and in my Angels. I, Jesus Crucified, am

in you.’ Jesus in the Eucharist.”

Santa Corona 21-7-1969

“Jesus, long live Jesus in the Eucharist! There is little to write

for the Work, but [there is much] to reflect and meditate on, and

then to work. Now I confirm you in holy obedience, for you are

fearful. Reassure yourself, I am Jesus close to you. Do you want

to write these words of mine, these words of Jesus to Gabriel?

Be reassured, despite the trials, even hard ones, my Living

Tabernacles will be approved by the Holy See. I ask you for hu-

mility and simplicity, especially with sceptical confreres. Your

word will not be as persuasive as events and my Grace. I demand

8 “This poor Tabernacle”: Vera of Jesus who had been hospitalised.

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trust in my Words, in my promises from you, even if they will be

late in coming. It is the hardest hour for My Tabernacles, and each

of you in Me must give their part in the way and on the day and

hour that I, Jesus, have appointed. Now you no longer belong to

yourselves but to Me. Espoused to My Work of Love you are im-

molated in Me, each one in the manner willed by Me. Vera will

write for a little while longer, the conclusion is near.9 I will speak

to Vera, I will make use of her because I have made use of her pov-

erty, but the ‘dictations’ are coming to an end. They are sufficient

for my doctrine of Love aimed at the practice of the life of the soul,

at the profound and confidential meditation to which I, Jesus, wish

to arouse my Eucharistic souls. I wanted to reach the hearts of

many beloved Salesian priests, but tomorrow their scepticism will

be cause for profound humility. May Fr Formento10 soon be a Liv-

ing Tabernacle, for I ardently desire to make my Abode in him. Be-

hold, I give him the Holy Cross, my Holy Cross of Love, for I,

Jesus in the Eucharist, love him so much. He believes in Me, and

I, Jesus, will soon go to him. Now you have obeyed Me, Jesus, you

are in the obedience conferred upon you in the Name of God by

the Priest. You have done My holy will. Jesus, suffering in you,

lives in your innermost self with you. Love me, Vera of Jesus, love

me, love me. Jesus, in the consecrated Host you carry! Long live

Eucharistic Jesus forever.”

Santa Corona 25-7-1969

“It is I, Jesus! Write now and always: long live Jesus in the Eu-

charist, in ‘my’ souls, consecrated souls! I would like a song to rise

from your souls, a hymn of love capable of reaching Heaven, and

to hear the echo of love from you before my Father that you raise

from earth to Heaven. ‘Jesus alive in our hearts, in our spirit, rest

9 The messages came to an end on 9.11.1969.

10 A Canon of the Cathedral Savona who knew Vera and was her guarantor for

the Bishop of Savona to respond to the Holy See that had asked for information

about Vera and the Work of the Living Tabernacles.

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on our breast. Long live Jesus, Jesus in the Eucharist who re-

deemed my soul.’ I, Jesus, will be consoled by the intensity and

fervour of your love, in my Vicar Paul VI, for the outrages received

in my Church. Whoever offers himself in Me for sinners and for

himself consoles my Heart, and I communicate Graces of fervour

for himself and salvation for other souls. Whoever offers himself

in Me to the Father for my beloved Priests, is not only a friend, but

a Son of Love which overflows from my Side in the two external

signs: Blood and Water. What shall I do with this poor Son of

mine? I will give him Myself, my Heart, my Passion, my Cross

and immediate resurrection in Me. Let him seek Me out of love for

Me and for souls alone, for my Glory alone. The rest will always

be given to you all in addition. Vera of Jesus and spiritual daughter

of Padre Pio, Heaven assists you and I forgive you, I take pity on

you, I see you and yet I love you. Courage, you will have to suffer

but I will be with you until the end. Write tomorrow, write while

you can. Jesus in the Eucharist allows it. Say with the Angels:

‘Long live Jesus in the Eucharist’ five times, as many times as my

holy Wounds are known to you. Take refuge in them and seek rest

there. Jesus suffering in you.”

Santa Corona 26-7-1969

“Vera of Jesus, my child, write. I promised that I would dictate

and speak. You have obeyed, and I rejoice in revealing myself to

you. You will not remain long where you are. Soon you will dwell

elsewhere. For now take me this way. On Monday you will put me

down. I will send you my envoy.11 Write: Jesus is also in you, in

your soul. Your fear will cease when he has given you Grace... I,

Jesus. Jesus tells Father Gabriel to pray a lot for Vera of Jesus. My

Work must conclude with My Eucharistic triumph. I, Jesus, urge

you to persevere and give your Eucharistic Jesus the suffering that

purifies you and unites you to Me. Then, from the suffering that you

11 Fr Formento.

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serenely accept you will pass to the offering of your life in my Life

so that my Eucharistic Words may flow like rivers over the earth.12

Vera of Jesus, I am in your soul and I have never abandoned

you. Be humble and patient. Wait with faith for Jesus to conclude

the Work of Love of the Living Tabernacles with his Merciful

Love. Yes, I will still dictate. For a while longer... then I will talk

to you. Jesus the Eucharist in your soul with Holy Sanctifying

Grace. My Mother, the Immaculate, follows you and is close to

you. She is protecting you and you will have the welcome comfort

of discovering and feeling her Divine Motherhood in the circum-

stances and events that are being prepared for your soul. Every-

thing must serve for my beloved Priests, for my Paul; everything

must contribute to completing my divine yearning: the Living Tab-

ernacles. Always say this: ‘it is for you my Jesus, for your greater

glory!’ Talk, talk to me. I am listening to you even if you think

I am silent, that I don’t want to listen to you. Jesus is Love, he is

Life, and I am the Vine that communicates the sap: my Life. Vera

of Jesus, never fear, I will remain in you. Jesus in your soul.”

Santa Corona 14-8-1969

“Write, it is Jesus speaking. You are in Me, I immerse you in

Me, I absorb you in my love which is Light, it is Grace, it is Life.

Keep walking and my Grace transfused into the Work of Love will

go far, far away. Such is my Father’s Will, so immense is my Mercy

that I wish to embrace and visit everyone before everything is ac-

complished. Therefore you will have joys and pains, thorns and

crosses, because you, because Gabriel are crucified in my Cross of

love. Courage, I will always be with you until the end, and your

days will be numbered and holy in Me. Now inform Father Gabriel

that I am working and acting in him. Do not be afraid, he is fulfil-

ling my wishes and fulfilling my Will. We will see sceptical priestly

12 Vera offers her life in the life of Jesus so that the Work may be born and

spread (see her act of offering her life on 5.11.1968).

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souls ‘returning’ to Me, to my Eucharistic Love with generous en-

thusiasm. Your every suffering united with Me bears great fruit and

the fruits that I long to see ripen from my branches are my souls,

my Priests. Now the Work is launched, and the channels need to

multiply, so that my Grace, like sap, flows among humanity. Pray,

and be close to and united with my Vicar Paul VI. I, Jesus, bless

you in him. Jesus the Priest!”

Santa Corona 2-9-1969

“I am Jesus in my holy Word. I give more than they deserve to

the poor because my love is pure and holy and looks to eternity. I

give you sublime gifts that you will only see in my Heavenly

Abode. I carry you in my Heart as a small and precious thing, and

you owe this to your divine Mother. I go with Gabriel, I walk with

my Priest, and I transform myself and act and work in him. I am

with you all by dwelling in your heart as well as with my real Di-

vine and Eucharistic Presence. Now, this has to become completely

mine. I address myself, above all to you, and you will thus be

chosen as my bride forever. Gabriel is waiting for the decisions of

the Holy See with trust and patience. You, my first Tabernacles,

will still be tried, but I, Jesus, will give you so much grace and

strength. Be prudent, Vera of Jesus, in carrying the Pyx, and the

Angel Raphael will also assist you in this. I have given you two

Angels to guard you and to accompany you in the task and on the

journey the Church is taking... You have received extraordinary di-

vine help, and it will never fail, but depending on the circumstances

it will increase. Everything must be accomplished according to the

will of my Father, and the salvation of many, many of my children.

Accept trials patiently and humbly. The suffering that you feel due

to the impossibility of recollecting yourself and attending to

my Word is permitted by God so that you will love and adore

my Words, the Words of Jesus eve more. This is how it is for now.

Tomorrow you will be free, you will be for Me, for your Euchar-

istic Bridegroom. But then your banishment will be almost over.

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I will talk about the work that Father Gabriel will have to start in

Calabria.13 I, Jesus, desire that under the authorisation of the

Church he form ‘my Tabernacles’.14 This mission must not be li-

mited to a single centre, but these Eucharistic centres from which

Living Tabernacles will emerge must rise in all the towns of Italy.

That is why I repeat to Gabriel: you will not only go to Calabria

but to many regions when the Holy Father makes the first conces-

sions. Remain with Me in suffering and in love. I, Jesus, have pre-

ferred you because I have given you my whole Life. Now, Vera of

Jesus, do not hesitate to give Me yours as I ask of you. I bless you

with Gabriel, with my Living Tabernacles. I bless you with those

I have called – and you know who they are – I bless you where

you are, with those with whom you live and for whom I, Jesus,

wish to remain. My Mother blesses you, Padre Pio blesses you,

Pope John blesses you. All the Saints intercede for you and the An-

gels also adore my Divinity for you. Jesus has satisfied Father Ga-

briel out of love, dictating to his poor servant Vera of Jesus. I am

with you, I am with you, I want to remain with my creature. I re-

main with you forever. Jesus who is madly in love.”

Thank you, my Jesus, thank you! Glory to You!

Santa Corona 5-9-1969

“Jesus to you, to my consecrated souls. I want my Eucharistic

love to reach the ends of the earth. I want to save my children.

Therefore I tell you, my souls, be ‘my’ Bearers because I have es-

tablished my Eucharistic Triumph through you, for which many

souls will come to Me and will pass from death to Life. Embrace

my Cross of Love with love and prudence, that is, Me in the

Eucharist upon you! Come to Me along the paths that will be

marked out for you, and in profound humility and gratitude receive

13 At Bova Marina.

14 Archbishop Giovanni Ferro (1901–1992), Archbishop of Reggio Calabria-

Bova Marina, Servant of God, had called Fr Zucconi to his Diocese.

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the ‘Eucharistic Mandate’ in obedience to Holy Mother Church, in

obedience to my Vicar, the Pope. Now let me add: the day will

come when my Church on earth will be you, the Living Taber-

nacles. The time will come when my Eucharistic Sacrifice will be

offered to God the Father together with you, on the streets, along

the ways and everywhere where there is a Priest prepared to cel-

ebrate. This will be more possible if I, Jesus, will be with you in

the Sacred Species, and through my Divine Intervention there will

be wine and water. The wine will always be my Blood shed for

you, the water will be my consecrated soul, which out of love for

me has become a tabernacle, a temple of the Holy Spirit. If the Eu-

charistic soul is a victim in Me, the Sacrifice will be concelebrated,

and through Me the elements will be found which will be transub-

stantiated: wine and water. You understand how dear and precious

my soul is to Me, offered in Me, with Me and for Me. Look for

little, suffering souls, victim souls. You understand how dear and

precious is my soul offered in Me, with Me and for Me. Seek out

little, suffering, victim souls. The most precious thing I want is to

save my children, all my brothers and sisters, all human beings.

Eucharistic souls, prepare my ways. I will be lavish with graces

and consolations for you. Vera of Jesus, you have obeyed and I

bless you. I am in you and close to you. Now we will go together

to visit the sick. It will give you fervour and strength. Vera of Jesus,

tell Father Gabriel that Jesus Master blesses him and will give him

much... sea!15 Jesus, Son of the Most High and Almighty God and

of the Blessed Virgin Mary.”

Santa Corona 28-9-1969 16

“They are the trials of Love, of my Love for Father Gabriel.

They are predilections gushing forth from the wounds of my Side.

15 Fr Gabriel, from Liguria, loved the see very much and Bova Marina, where

he moved to, is a seaside city.

16 This Message is not found in the notebook, but Vera wrote it down directly

in her Letter of 28 September 1969 addressed to Fr Gabriel.

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Wounds that are renewed, reopened for my Priests... (He, Jesus,

was happy to give these trials...)... he will go, he will go in my holy

Name. I want him, I desire him. His ardour and his pain glorify

Me. Tell him. He must continue to trust in Me who remain Cruci-

fied so that he may go, walk and work in Me and with Me. I will

draw a reason from the doubts, the uncertainties of his confreres

to pour out My Grace on those called. O My children so loved and

consumed in Me, carry Me for your brothers and sisters and do not

doubt My Eucharistic Love. At the moment of the institution of the

Most Holy Eucharist, at My Last Supper, you were present in Me

and already with Me. You were the future burning lamps that al-

ready guarded Me, and the light of My Mystical Body and Blood

blotted you out... I saw you shining with My Light, with My Grace

because I, Jesus, loving you to the point of consuming you in Me,

transformed you into those flames of love of Heaven and Life that

I now wish to spread on earth. With what will this earth be illumi-

nated if not with Me, Eucharistic Light? With what fire will I burn

the sins of humanity if not with My fire of love? Who will give

himself to Me? Who will freely accept to become my ‘arm’? O my

Eucharistic soul, O Gabriel, my beloved priest, go, prepare my

souls, unveil my paths. May trials not afflict you, but believe in the

One who espoused you to his divine Priesthood: Jesus, your Eternal

Priest. Go, my son, my Fatherly love accompanies you, follows

you, blesses you, inspires you. Accept this setback with faith and

humility. Others will follow, but you will conquer in Me. I repeat:

everything is needed for my Glory. My Work of Love enters the

world by the narrow way, by the holy way. Wait for me, I will come

back to support you because I am with you, and together we will

do everything. I entrust poor Vera to you, lead her by the hand to

my altar and give her to Me. My voice is here, I am here and I dic-

tated almost unbeknown to the writer. She is poor, she is weak:

help her! Write that I love these poor people. You are poorer

than before, Vera of Jesus, you are rich in Me, only and all of Me.

Yes, I have dictated, I have absorbed you in my Grace, therefore

your senses were annihilated. I give you so much because this love

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for you, for my souls, is incomprehensible. Remain in Me, seek

Me in growing humility.

I will come to you, I will isolate you from others to listen to

Me, the Bridegroom of your soul. Again I bless Gabriel, my faithful

priest, and the mission that awaits him. He will bear my holy Name

every day, every night, so that I, Jesus, will work, love, manifest

myself! Jesus, Jesus, Jesus! Rejoice: I am with you, I shall be with

you to the last, and for all eternity.

Write, write, write to those I have called. I will do everything,

defer to Me, Jesus. Reassure and comfort Gabriel because these

Words of Mine, of the Eucharistic Jesus, will bring him My Grace:

an increase in faith and confidence that I, Jesus, have conquered

and will conquer. Peace, my Peace be with you always.”

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Santa Corona 5-10-1969

“Jesus in his holy Side guards ‘his’ souls. This is the case for

Father Gabriel, for his followers, for those who embrace and will

embrace this sublime Cross of Love that is my Work of Eucharistic

Love lived, loved, suffered by my ‘Bearers and Givers of Me’ to

souls. Now Heaven opens up and already lets the light of my divine

mercy penetrate the earth. While here my Eucharistic Love is be-

ginning to spread for you, in the Holy See I, Jesus, relive and renew

my Passion of sorrow in the one who represents Me, Paul VI. He

is my beloved victim who, like Me, offers himself freely in Me to

the Father so that my Will may be fulfilled, my Mercy may be

manifest, my Message of Love may reach the ends of the earth.

Therefore I, Jesus, urge you to persevere to the end. Dark days may

mislead your faith. Remain steadfast in Me, for it is good that My

Work of Love be born, take life from suffering. I will remain in

you, with you, on you to help you overcome difficulties, for you,

poor things, are my beloved creatures. Yes, Vera of Jesus, the trials

will be short-lived, but intense. You will suffer both in body and

in spirit, but your soul will remain here, in Me, in my side. I will

give Gabriel trials, trials of love together with so much grace.

Grace that grows, which identifies him to Me. I will make my

things arise from nothing, I will inspire Eucharistic Love in little

souls. He will gather my sheep into my Fold, and I will give myself

to them through him. Know that it is time to reunite, to gather you

in my Father’s House because the army with which I, Jesus, will

fight is you. You will have many surprises from Rome, but as the

stars appear timidly and tremulously in the firmament, so will ap-

provals come gradually, and only my holy Grace will give vigour

to the first concessions. For every consent given to you by the Holy

Father, I will have blessings to bestow and fruits to ripen. They

will be the ones who will mercifully reveal Me, Jesus in the Eu-

charist, and who will say that I, Jesus, want the Living Tabernacles

for the salvation of souls. We are in the third part of my revelations

which will end with the approval of Holy Mother Church. My

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Work of Love begins to live, with ecclesiastical permission, in this

month dedicated to my Mother. Everything must bear the Name

and the blessing of She who assists you from Heaven. And now, it

is time for my Living Tabernacles! It is time for my Kingdom to

expand, it is time for me to go with you to seek our lost brothers

and sisters ‘together’. Jesus, to the little consecrated Hosts. Jesus

blesses you, blesses you all.”

Santa Corona 21-10-1969

Long live Jesus in the Eucharist. While I was writing to Fr

Gabriel.

“Tell Father Gabriel these words: ‘I am the Good Shepherd

who watches over his sheep so that the wolf does not bite them. I

am in him and with him to work together. Vera of Jesus, write for

my glory. Say, repeat that the night is long and short for you too. I

have united you to my sweet Eucharistic Passion. The wind scatters

your thoughts because you are poor, but I, Jesus, remain in you and

upon you. Do not fear, my little flock, because this is how God the

Father likes to choose those who will spread Me from among you.

You are in my Way, you are in Me. Angels and Saints assist you in

fulfilling my mandate. Each of you glorifies me if they accept my

Cross of love as I offer it to them. Gabriel in the apostolate, you in

suffering that is dear and pleasing to Me. I have anointed you with

the chrism of suffering. Be strong, Gabriel, be humble, be poor in

Me. I will come, and with Me the graces desired, longed for and

promised. Jesus blesses you and all who work to spread my Eu-

charistic Kingdom of Love. You are in Me, a living part of Me and

I consecrate you in my Priesthood. Vera of Jesus, be strong. You

must live of Me, only of Me. Write that only love, love enlivens

you, saves you, unites you to Love, and makes you Me: Jesus!

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.’”

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Santa Corona 26-10-1969 Feast of Christ the King

“Write, Vera of Jesus, I will give you light. The tree that

blossomed in the spring has borne fruit. Many trees will have to

blossom again in the appropriate season for the fruit to be plentiful.

It is therefore necessary that you and other consecrated souls of

mine give what I am asking of you. Do not be afraid, poor soul,

this sacrifice is permitted by My Father, and already it lives by Me,

by Jesus. Be strong and good, patient and humble. I will assist you

with my holy Grace. So that Gabriel may walk and advance carry-

ing my Cross of Love, my Eucharistic Message, it is good that

you be still, suffering in Me. This is my way by which you will be

purified and, thus advancing, you will come closer and closer

to my Altar. Everything here is the Cross. I ask you to accept

each trial, each pain in faith for Me. You will see the fruits, the first

fruits of the new blossoming. I am Jesus, King of your heart, I am

Jesus, King of the Word, I am King, your King: Jesus. Peace,

peace, peace!”

Santa Corona 9-11-1969

“I am Jesus! Long live Jesus in the Eucharist my small and

weak souls like you, Vera of Jesus. I, Suffering and Crucified Jesus,

embellish you with My sorrows and make you a partaker of Me.

You are in my Cross of love, in my Holocaust offered by Me in the

celebrating Priest to my Eternal Father. Now I look upon you from

my Cross, and I send you my glances of love and sorrow. You have

already met My eyes, and you see them because I continue to show

them to you. You will read in My gaze, and I will speak to you in

this. I will hold you close to Me. Then you will see My eyes, and

the painful past will disappear. You will see My gaze reflecting the

glory of the Heavens, of My Father. For now, Vera of Jesus, I, Suf-

fering Jesus, continue to look at you from my Cross of Love. We

will part for a little while, for I will return to you soon. Have con-

fidence, and you will recognise my divine intervention. I live on

you in the Sacred Species. In the depths of your soul I am forming

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and purifying my Temple, and the light you see is the reflection of

my Grace, of my Divine Presence. I am in you and with you. Love,

my daughter, love this immense love that I am giving you. Love

my Salesians, my priests, love them all as they are. They are part

of Me. Write to Father Borra that Jesus knows all his afflictions,

his pains, and that he desires holy resignation for his miseries be-

cause it is these that adorn his soul with so many virtues, including

humility. For the rest he must surrender himself confidently to Me,

to My Divine Mercy. His Priesthood is dear, pleasing, precious

to Me, but I desire that his soul rest in Me even amid the Crosses.

He has my Mother as Mother and Protectress, He has the greatest

gift I can give to a friend: my own Mother. Let him take refuge in

Her and She will welcome him always in My Holy Name, Jesus.

The ‘Distant Priests’ are part of the Cross that I have offered him.

You too pray and offer for them. I, Jesus, love them! Now stop

writing and offer this renunciation to Me. I will place it in My Chal-

ice. When you are disturbed by your surroundings you must leave

it aside so that your soul may hear My Word in silence. Jesus

blesses you. Jesus is with you and lives in you!

Your Jesus in the Eucharist!”

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