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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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René Perret
Through the internet and by chance, if chance does indeed exist.
I really felt like I was living with the people of that era, which no longer seemed distant in time to me.
Mass and communion once, and often twice a day. This seems vital to me, which has not been the case for 58 years.
It changes everything.
VĂ©ronique Barraud
I had trouble falling asleep, and one day, a friend told me about a reading he listens to fall asleep... It was the work of Maria Valtorta. So I listened... and it worked well, I fell asleep!... At first, I looked down on it: "Blonde, blue-eyed Mary! Don't they know that people in Palestine have dark skin?!"… Then I was increasingly moved. So I researched these "20,000 details verified by science"... and there, as a scientist, I understood that this work could rationally only come from God… As a result, I changed my attitude and began to listen to it with humility and eagerness.
Born to a Catholic mother and an atheist father, God was a certainty for me as a child. As a young adult, I completely rejected the Catholic Church... I thus built my beliefs, a personal mix with a Jesus of my own making, some New Age, a bit of reincarnation,... At 57 years old, reading this work "flipped me like a pancake". It led me to know Jesus, and, as we only love what we know, I began to love Jesus more and more. My beliefs were turned upside down. For example, today I believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, in papal infallibility, in the Real Presence in the Eucharist, etc...
Concretely, I have completely reorganized my life (towards God): - I go to mass at least 4 times a week (because there isn't one every day!), I confess once or twice a month, - Every day I read the Word of God, - I pray the rosary at least 2 times a week, - I share about God (in almost every encounter that God offers me, in a cenacle, in "theological" evenings for non-believers...). - I have also detached myself from many things (zero TV or movies, disinterest in various distractions,...). - I now pray for people who hurt me,... - I read Luisa Piccarreta's writings every day, especially the Hours of the Passion.
Afraid that it might not be inspired by God? Then, take the time to inform yourself about the scientific evidence on one hand, and about the fruits on the other hand... See this page: https://edifiant.fr/maria-valtorta And read, because you yourself have a capacity for discernment. Wasting time? What is wasting a little time compared to missing out on an extraordinary gift from God, finally finding the meaning of life, the Truth?
SĂ©verine
First, I discovered Maria Valtorta's work through audios on Youtube. Then, I read the 10 volumes of The Gospel as it was revealed to me. Finally, I subscribed to Jesus Today, the email from the Marie de Nazareth association which allows me to discover other revelations of Jesus to the Italian mystic.
Maria Valtorta's work is a very good complement to the Gospel that I read every day. In it, Jesus reveals things about the meaning of certain passages (like the passage where Jesus sleeps in Peter's boat while the storm rages), some mysteries are lifted (we know precisely what Jesus wrote in the sand in the episode with the adulterous woman). This work makes us feel even more the infinite love of our Lord Jesus Christ for each one of us. We become even more aware of the phenomenal humility of the Man/God that is Jesus. We feel closer to Jesus, we have more desire to imitate him.
When I discovered the work of Maria Valtorta, I was in the midst of returning to the church and I could not find a spiritual director. While I was struggling with major personal problems (health, family, finances), I did not find serious help from the priests. None were available to guide me. The only one who agreed was elderly and he would fall asleep while I was telling him about my troubles. Jesus then became my spiritual director through his revelations to Maria Valtorta. I understood that I had to offer my sufferings to Christ, that they would bear much fruit. I do not blame the priests for their weaknesses, Jesus made me understand that I had to carry them in prayer. I feel that Jesus speaks to me through this work among others. Despite great difficulties, I remain in peace and joy. I even created a Youtube channel, Finding Peace and Joy, where I evangelize.
I would tell him that this work is a magnificent gift that Jesus gives us. A gift of love, which allows us to follow Jesus from his birth to the Ascension; a great life lesson to become better and thus gain access to Paradise where he wants to reunite us all.
Henri Cavin
Through the documentary: Miracles by Pierre Barnérias.
The incredible feeling of closeness to Him: The Gospel as it was revealed to me by Maria Valtorta is a living work, which directly touches the heart — and transforms it.
A definite return to his Church, to the practice of the sacraments, to prayer as well, and a much deeper understanding of God's love for man.
Do not let yourself be destabilized by the "they say"... Read and see for yourself, and be certain that the Lord will transform your earthly life into a stepping stone towards eternal life with Him, in His infinite love. Happy reading.
François-Michel DEBROISE
In 1990, upon my return to God, through the graces of Medjugorje, a friend told me about Maria Valtorta. I wanted to know everything about this Jesus rediscovered after 25 years of spiritual wanderings away from the Church. She first made me read the reason for her being put on the Index before lending me a first volume. The encounter with the living Jesus was immediate and dazzling. I continued this pilgrimage through time and space following Jesus with the permission of my spiritual director. This pilgrimage has not stopped since.
1. I have concretely discovered that the main purpose of all existence was the life of Faith. This feeling has grown over the past 35 years. My humanity is nourished by the example of that of Jesus to perceive the possible and concrete path of daily sanctity, in all situations. His divinity, made of Mercy, makes me understand his real help in my inevitable imperfection. 2. I had the desire to live my call as a "disciple" by committing myself to a cosmopolitan parish in popular neighborhoods where I was quickly asked to be responsible for the leading team. I carried out, by mission letter, 6 terms of 3 years. At the time, I testified in the newspaper "LA CROIX" about my wonder. 3. In parallel with the almost daily reading of the writings of Maria Valtorta, the "readings of the day" proposed by the Church, have taken on a depth, a relevance and an increased significance. Not only the "eternal" (canonical) Gospel says Jesus, but also the Old Testament and the New Testament writings.
I had the irrepressible desire to announce this living journey following Jesus. I created in 2006 a dedicated website (www.maria-valtorta.org) allowing to freely discover this work in a context of conformity to the Church: more than 100,000 links or footnotes refer to the texts of the Magisterium or the verses of the Scripture. This site receives 30,000 visits/month on average (+ over 5 million in total). I was trained in discernment by Bishop René Laurentin for 10 years (2007-2017). During our weekly work sessions, we published 3 works, the last two on the historical charisma of Maria Valtorta (with Jean-François Lavère) and on her prophetic charisma. I continued with various publications and conferences as discoveries were made about Maria Valtorta, her life and spirituality as well as the different aspects of the work. I favor the collective approach.
Adherence to private revelations is a personal act whose value the Church recognizes: "Guided by the Magisterium of the Church, the sense of the faithful knows how to discern and welcome what in these revelations constitutes an authentic call from Christ or his saints to the Church." The Magisterium guides us but it is up to the faithful to discern. Cardinal Ratzinger gave the criterion: orientation to Christ.
Christine
A minute with Mary, then Jesus Today from the association Mary of Nazareth introduced me to Maria Valtorta.
I truly got to know Jesus by visualizing the Gospels in their context. Jesus became alive for me, he entered my life.
My faith is more alive. Daily rosary, weekday mass, monthly confession. Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Reading the Word every day and of Jesus Today.
It is a treasure that opens the heart by letting us enter into the intimacy of Jesus, Mary, the apostles. I understand the Gospels better in depth.
Ilidia Da Silva
On the internet, by ordering religious objects from a site. I was given an excerpt from these works.
The work enlightened me on certain passages of the gospel and on the infinite love that Jesus carries for us. This work touched me a lot and sometimes, some words read come back to me. As if my heart had memorized them.
She teaches me to pray with the heart.
That this work does not question the teachings of the Church or the catechism. On the contrary, it reinforces them.
Emmanuel
"Seek and you shall find.." I don't remember exactly how I discovered the work. But I was in search of God's love. I wanted to know Him better, and quench my thirst. And as soon as I read the first volume, I wanted to read everything but due to lack of time I bought the audio version which I listened to every day in my car on my way to work. It was the blessed moment when God made Himself present in my day.
The reading of the Gospel simply illuminated itself page by page. How many times I told myself that God truly loves us to share such graces with us (a misunderstanding was clarified and untangled, an action of God or an explanation deeply touched my heart, ...). The discovery of Jesus' life shown to Maria truly made me encounter Christ, taught me to love Him and trust Him completely. This brought me closer to the Church, and I attend every mass if I am available, even sometimes during the week.
Alas, I will say that it somehow taught me the catechism at a time when we were taught nothing but coloring!! I was born in 1971. No one ever explained the mass and its symbolism to me, and even as an altar boy, I didn't really recognize the words before the consecration, the moment when I had to ring (I don't even know the name of the object). In short, a lost generation in a republican, freemason, therefore satanist, world where all the media were already denigrating religion. But my heart knew that Jesus really existed, and that I would meet him later, that I would become interested in him again when I was old, at 33 years old... This is the little internal promise I made to myself thinking about God. And years later, at my 33 years old, God came back into my life, and reading Maria Valtorta contributed a lot to it. I have been trying since then to think about God, to thank him, to pray to him, to meet him in communion and confession, to sing to him.
As the Pope and Padre Pio said in their time: read, and you will understand. I would tell them how much it has changed and beautified my life. And that they have nothing to lose, but everything to gain.
Anne-Bénédicte
Someone told me about it
At 53 years old, I hadn't been to church since I was 18 because I didn't like priests and I had never really understood the Eucharist. This work made me love Jesus, understand his Passion and the sacraments. I adore the details of life and especially the descriptions of the characters' reactions, their physical and psychological states. It's sometimes very funny. It seems like it's happening right before our eyes. It's a time machine that connects us live to what happened 2000 years ago. They seem very close to us. It's like a movie. The life of Maria Valtorta, her honesty, the absence of errors in dictation, the beauty of the writing and the intelligence of the texts and reflection made me want to read the gospels and return to mass. I also like the notebooks of dialogue between Jesus and Maria. Maria Valtorta made Jesus God alive and close and concerned about us and our salvation. In short, she made me understand the love of Christ who is not a distant and abstract God. I was confirmed this year thanks to Mara Valrorta and Vassula Ryden.
It is a guide in faith and life. It made me return to mass, confession, and begin adoration.
Those who read will understand. Said the pope of the time.
LoĂŻc Le Flem
I discovered the work by listening to the reading of certain passages on the site "The Word that gives Eternal Life". While I was on the wrong path, for so many years with spiritual and metaphysical readings of all kinds, I was struck by the deeply embodied nature of these readings.
The Gospels, like Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sufi texts, were all more or less equal to me, and the Gospels no more than the others. I am now convinced, through reading Maria Valtorta and rereading the Gospels, that Jesus is The Way, The Truth, and The Life.
My life of faith was empty despite intense searching. I owe to this reading my first confession (and all the following ones for the first Saturdays of the month), the understanding of what happens at the mass in which I participate as often as possible and in any case every Sunday. I owe it the joy of Holy Communion, overwhelmed as I am by the love that the Lord offers us. I owe it the rosary that I recite every day, the devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary that I would have considered perfectly ridiculous two years ago. The first Fridays, the pilgrimages, the daily prayers for the souls in purgatory and for the conversion of sinners. I owe it the urge that I have several times a week to stop in a church, a cathedral, a chapel to go and pay homage, on my knees, before the tabernacle or the Holy Sacrament, before my Lord who is there, for me, for us, in Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.
Begin and you will not stop: it is the Lord who speaks.
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