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These detailed testimonies reveal the profound impact of Maria Valtorta's work on the spiritual lives of its readers. Each account witnesses the graces received and conversions experienced.
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These detailed testimonies have been collected according to a structured methodology, allowing precise documentation of the impact of Maria Valtorta's work on readers' spiritual lives. Each testimony addresses the discovery of the work, its impact on faith, the graces received, and recommendations for other potential readers.
Esteban Vargas (23 years old)
A friend whom I admire greatly spoke to me about it as a treasure. I paid little attention to it, then one day I listened to it being read on YouTube. I immediately recognized the voice of my Shepherd.
I was already sensitive to Love. I sometimes felt strong inner movements, especially at mass. Reading the Work has multiplied them both in number and intensity. Being able to contemplate the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus so abundantly is an unimaginable grace. Everything has been multiplied in me: the love of Jesus, of His Church, of His Most Holy Eucharist, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, of the Holy Father, everything, everything, everything!
I am a convert. I was already practicing when I discovered the Work. Yet, I feel like I have been converted a second time, and in a much more powerful way. I find such luminous answers there! I thought I had great faith before. It was tiny.
Nothing to lose. Everything to gain. If it's false, it doesn't matter. If it's true, it's a Treasure. I believe it with all my being.
Derek Owens (80 years old)
Father Gino Violini received a copy from an Italian lady in Calgary. Father Violini asked me to read it to him. His reaction was, “I wish I had all this when I was a seminarian.” When I finished the last page, he asked me to start reading it again from page one.
As I read on, I knew—or something in my soul assured me—that this was an authentic record of the life of Christ. An overwhelming conviction, full of love, came over me, assuring me beyond the shadow of a doubt that this was a true exposition of Gospel events. Its penetrating wisdom filled me with awe.
It was a rich medicine for me, more effective than any spiritual retreat I had ever attended, and it compelled me to correct many things within myself and expel sleeping faults from my system. It was like a sieve, removing clumps of imperfections previously unnoticed by my conscience. The revelation was a radical reformer. It inspired justice and love in matters I had not considered before. It showed me my imperfections and steered me in the right direction. It gave me a picture of the perfect personality of Jesus, an example I wanted to copy.
It is a miracle almost impossible to imagine. It is Christianity from the Fountainhead. You will see the Gospel unfold before your eyes in bright colors. The day the Work was published, crowds should have lined up around the block to get their first copy.
If I were a priest instead of a bookbinder, I would tell my congregation to study every lesson given to us in the Valtorta revelations. It would make them all saints.
Jean-Pierre Gressin (79 years old)
About 30 years ago, a Catholic friend gave me several volumes of the first edition of the work. While reading a few chapters, I found Jesus too human and too severe and did not continue my reading. I also found this friend a bit excessive in her faith. Ten years later, the video by J-F Lavère convinced me of the authenticity of Maria Valtorta's writings. I resumed my reading and purchased all the published works, listened to videos on the web, USB key, etc...
Nothing else interests me today, except Jesus, who grants us such grace through the gift of this work to humanity. I understand the immense path I must now travel. I try to attend Mass almost every day, adore the Most Blessed Sacrament, participate fervently in my prayer group, the daily rosary, apostolate on the web and around me, and frequent confession. When one is retired, there is so much time to pray. Health trials are offered with love. Maria is also our model. The goal is to do God's will in everything and at every moment. "Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me, yet not my will but yours."
The graces... Because it is speaking to Jesus, always happy to thank him for all the graces he has already given us. Because he speaks to us with these writings but also deep in our hearts. "If he calls upon me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him, with long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation" PS 90.
Difficult when one sees the reluctance of some Catholics. For me, the scientific evidence is indisputable. I don't know how to speak to someone who lacks common sense. One must know how to set aside prejudices, demonstrate a certain holiness, a lot of love, encourage the person to read conversion testimonies, show the urgency of proclaiming the Gospel to the whole world, which is heading towards its downfall.
I would like to say that even if it was not the writings of Maria Valtorta that were the source of my initial conversion, since I owe my conversion to the Holy Shroud of Turin at the age of 33, after a life perhaps worse or at least as disordered as that of Mary Magdalene; it is undoubtedly by the immense grace of the work that I have been able to hold firm through the trials I have faced since then until today. May God be blessed.
Thérèse Lamouche (57 years old)
By chance on YouTube, my life completely changed. I feel like I'm breathing the scent of Jesus' skin when I listen to his gospel, and Jesus has become for me the present and loving God that I had lost sight of since the time of my childlike piety. It is truly a gospel for these times of darkness where the tragic battle to save every soul is being fought. For while we sleep, Evil devours souls to a degree similar to the beginnings of Christianization. Thank you Lord Jesus for this providential Gift. You have always saved us by all means, and blessed be Maria Valtorta.
It's simple, I can't do without it anymore. It has become my breath. I had never realized before the Real Presence of Jesus leaning like a mother over the wounds of her children. I thought I loved Him and had faith, but I realized that I only had a vague idea of: "I Am Who Am". It's difficult to explain, Jesus is Real, Active, Present in every detail of our lives and the destiny of the World.
Return to the church, to prayer, to the sacraments, and above all to intimate conversation with God, like a child who speaks with his Father at any time and on any occasion.
You have nothing to lose and EVERYTHING to gain. We have a Treasure in our hands!
I am aware of WHO GOD IS, as I could never have conceived.
Anonymous (41 years old)
I discovered the work through Jean Francois Lavère's video on the scientific authenticity of the gospel as it was revealed to me.
I felt like I was among the apostles, with Jesus, and loving him more and more.
Not a day goes by without me thinking about Jesus and his teachings.
Read and you will understand.
Anonymous (55 years old)
I discovered the work at a dinner with friends. One of the volumes was present on the lower shelf of the coffee table and caught my eye. I asked my friends a few questions. In the following days, I visited many websites about the work, which led me to purchase the first volume, then the others, and finally the notebooks from 1943.
I found in the work, particularly the notebooks (from which I read a passage each day on the site "the word that gives eternal life"), many answers to my questions. This gave me valuable insights on how to pray and conform to the Gospel.
Although baptized at birth and a practicing Catholic (at least I thought I was), reading the work made me realize that I was more than a lukewarm Christian and that my behavior was not in line with the Gospel. I experienced a profound conversion in 2020. I went to confession, which I hadn't done for about 30 years. And from that confession, I immediately stopped visiting pornographic sites to which I was addicted (sometimes several hours a week). It has now been 6 years and, thanks to God, I have not relapsed despite the temptations. And since then, I confess regularly. I requested the imposition of the scapular of Mount Carmel a few years later and since then, I recite the rosary every day.
Start by reading a few pages from one of the volumes, or just the daily lesson from the notebooks on the site "the word that gives eternal life". Like the witnesses of Emmaus, your heart will not remain indifferent!
Benoit (50 years old)
In 2011, during a spiritual retreat at the charity home of Château Neuf de Gallore, I confided to God this cry: "My God, after my day of work, as a father, once the children are in bed, I am more inclined to watch a movie than to pray to You. Renew my thirst for You." After 5 days in silence, on the morning of the last day, at breakfast, as we had received permission to speak again, a young man sat across from me and spoke passionately about Maria Valtorta. I listened politely and said that I would buy the first volume to form my own opinion. Done.
If the canonical gospels contain the essentials of the Christian faith, they are like a black and white film. Maria Valtorta is like a 4K DVD with movement, smell... a total immersion, which reminded me of the Jesuit methods for meditating on passages of scripture. Imagining the place, the scene, the people and living as if we were there... many passages of the gospels seemed incomprehensible, mysterious to me: the writings of Maria make them holy and luminous. I think, for example, "why does Mary, after the angel's announcement, not share this news with her fiancé?", "how can a Matthew, who has devoted his whole life to making a lot of money by betraying his compatriots, suddenly follow Jesus, following his call?", "how could Judas, after seeing so many miracles of Jesus, betray him like that?" Etc etc...
These teachings continue to be a living source of faith for me. This nourishment has driven me, in order to share this treasure, to get involved in my parish to accompany young people in their first communion journeys, and then to supervise groups of high school students... I regret not being holier with such holy readings! But I trust that the Lord works in His time! Blessed be He who leads His people to fresh pastures!
Read to form your own opinion! I have never seen such a concentration of the Holy Spirit in a work!
Stéphanie RIBOLLET (53 years old)
Through the videos on YouTube and then through the 3 books The Notebooks (1943, 1944, and 1945-50) that I bought and read in their entirety.
This reading teaches me to know the Trinity and the purpose of Creation. I discover Jesus who speaks, who speaks to us and teaches us, and all the people of the Bible. It is a reading that enriches me with words of Love, where Good reigns, and it helps me move towards God by knowing Him better and better thanks to Jesus' explanations regarding the Bible.
I was baptized, I made my first communion with the fourth-grade class. My parents had no religious practice, but my grandmother was very devout. So I spent 40 years in the desert searching for answers to my existential questions in areas related to the paranormal, occultism, and other Eastern religions... But it never satisfied me because the ego dominated. I perceived that the focus was on the Self... and little on the good of others... I had received all the answers when I was young (catechism) but there was like a veil preventing me from seeing the Truth, it took a depression and watching videos of Maria Valtorta to reopen my eyes and ears!!
Listen to videos of Jesus' explanations to Maria Valtorta (you need to listen on different subjects) and you will understand that Love is the sole and unique meaning of our life and that it gives Meaning to what we experience in this Life and what we will experience in the Other.
By reading Maria Valtorta, one understands Everything! ... The Creator and the purpose of Creation, our existence. By listening to the words of Jesus to Maria Valtorta, one feels that he Loves us like a father, he Teaches us what we need to know, he Educates us for our greatest Good.
Sabine (48 years old)
I discovered "The Gospel as Revealed to Me" by Maria Valtorta, through a very prayerful friend I met upon my return to faith and an evangelical life after a period of wandering. I gradually bought the 10 volumes.
Reading these lines was for me like a small Ignatian retreat because it allowed me to immerse myself in the landscapes, to become familiar with the apostles, so to speak, and this reading impressed many scenes from the Gospel upon me. It enriched my reading of the Gospels and brought certain insights, like when Jesus writes on the ground for the passage of the adulterous woman.
I would say that the work of Maria Valtorta, the writings, allow me movements of inner conversion at the heart of my life of faith. They help me to reform and nourish my prayer life. I find that they lead to humility.
I encourage the reading of these magnificent writings!
Alessandro Notari (57 years old)
A friend of mine who had read the work told me about it.
It has filled my faith with the ingredients and teachings of Christ, making the Gospel a human testimony in which all events appear real, concrete, almost contemporary.
I have resumed praying daily and regularly attending Mass on Sundays. I have treasured all the life teachings provided by Christ, so well explained in the testimony of Maria Valtorta.
Abandon yourself and you will be overwhelmed by the light!
"In the middle of the journey of our life," 7 years ago, I was catapulted out of ordinary life due to a terminal cancer illness. A progressively strong awakening of spirituality exploded within me: initially, the rereading of the Gospel according to Luke, then the first pilgrimage to Medjugorje, then the pilgrimage to the holy places in the Holy Land, and finally the reading of the work of Maria Valtorta. The reading of Maria Valtorta was the closing of the circle: returning from the Holy Land and finding in the work the places where I had just been gave me a granite-like concreteness about the truth of Christ's existence. It allowed me to attribute a human dimension to all the people who came into contact with Jesus, with their doubts, falls, thoughts: I could have been one of them. The work is a compendium of Christ's teachings expressed in simple and disarming language: I couldn't resist and made a small "summary" of 40 pages with all the teachings of life, which changed my existence! It is a monumental work!
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