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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.
Jean-François
It was a friend who introduced me to the work of Maria Valtorta. I was captivated by the simplicity, depth, and precision of the descriptions and subsequently, I bought the volumes as they were published in France in the 1980s.
This reading allowed me to better understand the texts of The Gospel, to better understand the SITUATIONS experienced by Jesus, by the apostles, by the holy women, by the Virgin Mary. We also discover the depth of the relationships between Jesus and all those He frequents. I also appreciated the concern to give precise descriptions of nature, cities, paths taken ... a real pleasure to journey with Jesus, with the apostles, ...
A deepening of my faith, a need to read or reread the Gospels. I discovered the constant opposition encountered by Jesus, all that He suffered for us, a little more about how much God loves us.
It is a grace that is offered to us, which is not indispensable for salvation, but when it is welcomed, it brings us closer to the Lord, it shows us how much our love can still grow.
Chantal
32 years ago. Through a cousin who had read the work. I asked permission to read them from my companion at the time, a priest of the Opus Dei, who raised no objection.
Huge impact. The work allowed me to start reading the Bible regularly, something I couldn't manage to do until then despite my efforts. Step by step, I arrived at daily reading. Then to daily prayer. The work answered, through the teachings of Christ, many questions I had about the Bible and the Gospels and helped correct misinterpretations. It answered my questions and doubts about the role and place of the Virgin, for example, and women in the Church.
I have been able to enter into a more intense, more daily, more confident life of prayer. I have been able to engage in an inner dialogue with Jesus, which I did not do before. These readings have nourished my practice of the rosary. They have strengthened my fidelity to the sacraments, allowing me not to abandon the mass in terrible trials where I no longer had the strength or the desire to go because they made me understand that the Eucharist is the heart of Christian life and that without Jesus host present in me with all his life, his strength, his graces, I could not go through what I had to live. These writings have given me a great love for the Church, have made me understand the importance of rooting myself in my parish church which I did not love. They have developed in me a great love and respect for priests, even if they are sometimes failing. They have sensitized me to my duty to pray for them who give us so much.
A tree is recognized by its fruits. For me, considering the many fruits of conversions that I have received, I am sure that these writings are beneficial for my soul. They have given me decisive keys to grow in faith.
These writings also gave me keys on how to live through some very specific situations. At the time, I was in a very conflictual relationship with my father. I was able to make positive decisions to rebuild a very damaged link by relying on certain teachings and examples from the book.
Gérard Second
Through the internet, I became interested in the lives of the saints as I was searching after many years without religious practice and I stumbled upon it, I would not say by chance, the Lord uses everything to bring us back to faith.
It's hard to explain. Reading put me in front of such a strong truth that I returned to faith, and some time after, to religious practice through prayer, weekday mass as well as Sunday.
- Daily prayer and weekday mass; - On Sunday: rosary, divine mercy and recently the seven sorrows; - Volunteer chaplain two mornings a week; - A better understanding of the disease and recently life in general.
Read and you will see.
Bruno
Discovered through the internet or a friend (I can't remember), being passionate about mystics in general...
It's always the same, when we get to know, we understand and we love... with Maria Valtorta we are immersed in the daily life and the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ becomes full of good sense.
Maria Valtorta's work is a true enhancer of faith, it brings a deeper and more concrete meaning to the gospels, the parables that Our Lord Jesus Christ loves to use become full of truths and meaning... even though our priests enlighten us a lot during their homilies too!
Oh how numerous the objections are...! But holy works have always been attacked (it's a good sign) and paradoxically by our men of the Church, think of Saint Joan of Arc, Saint Padre Pio or Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Monfort, Marthe Robin recently... Read... and then you can judge.
Véronique Delorme
Mary of Nazareth: the texts of the day's mass followed by the visions received by Maria Valtorta on the gospel of the day and a deepening of faith: dictations from Christ to Maria.
I bought 3 volumes of the Writings and took ten months to read the one from 1943 (about 4 pages per day). Exceptional spiritual nourishment. These texts enlighten me on many questions I had: for example the link between love and suffering, the sin against the Spirit, the gift of the Eucharist, the struggle between Heaven and Satan, etc.
I have the feeling that Jesus himself instructs me, encourages me, enlightens me, strengthens me. What He says about his mother, the very Holy Virgin Mary makes me love and admire her more and more. Wanting to resemble her. Seeing her smile: it's one of my strongest wishes.
Read and judge for yourself. Nothing seems contrary to Catholicism to me. A very rich and beneficial read.
Sandra Martin Kantanga
Through YouTube, I once saw some clips. I then downloaded these clips into the Vitmat application and I continue to listen, it helps me enormously.
Through the episodes that are not written in the Bible.
Change in my way of understanding the faith of our Church.
Let them try.
Philippe
A patient who became a friend, gave me the first volume of "The Gospel as it was revealed to me", while I was on a spiritual quest following the global crisis, without having found until then, the support that met my expectations.
From the first ten pages, I was struck by a deep sense of truth, then nourished with the knowledge I lacked to better understand theological teaching and accept its dogmas. Finally, and above all, a teaching of Jesus to Judas about suicide, made me understand in an instant the whole story of my adult life and the reasons for the great trials to which I had been subjected.
The word of Christ has literally nourished me, enlightened my conscience, and I have seen myself a little more as I was, rather than as I had until then wanted to see myself. This "spiritual cleansing" opened my eyes, humbling my pride, and bringing me closer to God. I started praying daily for those around me, and for my enemies, which was new. I noticed changes, answers to my prayers. Since then, I go to mass every Sunday and receive the sacraments.
There is no need to hesitate, as this reading poses no spiritual risk. Either it will touch the reader, or the path for them will be different, but in all cases, it is better to read for oneself, to feel, to use one's discernment and thus form one's own opinion, rather than follow the advice of those who have not read it.
Gael
The daily reading of the Gospel on Hozanna proposes Maria Valtorta's text as a second reading. This very contemporary text illuminates the understanding of the Gospel. It feels as if Christ Himself is speaking to you and explaining. The emotion is profound.
Yes, Maria Valtorta opened a door for me to a deeper, more human faith and the Gospel seemed to come back to life.
A great help for my return to Sunday Mass and confession.
Read the 4 Gospels on Hosanna and whenever it's available, read the corresponding text in the Gospel as it was revealed to me by Maria Valtorta.
Gérard
By chance, I had bought volume 9 (on the Passion). I was moved to tears seeing the sufferings of Jesus.
The text brought me so much that I wanted to know the entire work of Maria Valtorta.
Every day, I read "Jesus Today" in its entirety and I feel closer to Him. He accompanies me.
There is everything to gain.
Marie-Jeanne HARTMANN
In 2002, a priest gave my brother, and for my attention, volume 2 of The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me. My husband and I were then leaving on an expatriation mission to northern Russia. Upon my return to France, in February 2006, when we were settling in Marseille, and I had just placed the book in our library, I read in "Pray in Church": "And what if for this Lent, you read a whole Gospel?". I opened volume 2, and from that moment I realized that it was a sacred reading. It took me 6 years to read 13 volumes. My faith has become a rock of love.
The scenes were becoming real, because coming from the country of the Volga plains, we were hiking in the rocky landscapes of the calanques of Marseille...I remember reading about the retreat imposed by Jesus on his apostles in the caves of the Judean mountain...and that Sunday when my husband and I crossed the karstic relief of Marseilleveyre. The realism of Maria Valtorta's descriptions, the delicate way of describing Jesus' tenderness fundamentally touched me.
My need to express my faith has become imperative. Therefore, I used my Facebook profile (Faith-book) for this purpose. My "spiritual steppe, where my religion was rather intellectual" before 2006 has become, through the reading of the Gospel As It was revealed to me, a source of life, of conviction that Jesus came to save us, despite the fragility of the characters of his apostles. What wonderful discoveries that were followed by graces of pilgrimages in France, Italy, Spain, Israel. My faith has become source and thirst.
I have distributed all the books countless times, as the Work has been imprinted in me... But I will only say what a Pope Pius (...) said about it: "Read and let people form their own opinion". I carry the love that I received in the visions of the life of Jesus and his holy family, like "a wounded bird", due to so many misunderstandings, and particularly from priests, bishops...
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