Detailed Testimonies
Discovery of the work
In the U.O.P.C. bookstore (Union and orientation for Christian promotion).
Impact on love for the Gospel
It is the work of God and not of man. A magnificent work that wants to enlighten us and complete the Gospels. God never ceases to extend His hand to save us from eternal death. To believe in Him, to love Him and to love others with a true and respectful love, is to save our soul. Too many idols, falsehoods, attachments to earthly goods disturb our souls in these times and distance us from God. Jesus, the incarnate Word, shows me God's love for His poor creatures who have received His Soul. God does not want our death, He wants our life in Him forever. That is why He gives us once again a path of holiness. Learning to know and love God more and more through this work is a blessing. Thank you, Lord.
Concrete impact on faith life
I realize my poor love towards God and my neighbors. May God help me to have an ever more perfect love.
What would you say to someone who hesitates to discover this work?
Do not hesitate, it will be a joy for your heart if you read with an open and welcoming mind.
Discovery of the work
It was my wife who introduced it to me; She is very curious about everything and she told me about it during a shared breakfast several years ago.
Impact on love for the Gospel
Every morning, I read the Gospel of the day on the "Marie de Nazareth" website, then the Gospel according to Maria Valtorta and the "Deepen" text. This illuminates the Gospel text and goes further; I feel even closer to Jesus. When a Gospel is more difficult to understand, Jesus explains it through Maria. I feel more of Jesus' humanity (reading the Passion made my wife and me cry).
Concrete impact on faith life
My wife and I talk about it almost every morning, and it strengthens us in our prayers and in our life; we can't help but talk about it to those around us whenever the opportunity arises.
What would you say to someone who hesitates to discover this work?
Firstly, I explain how Maria Valtorta was led to write to make it understood that it is not possible that she could have invented it. My wife or I, we offer to send them the text of the day.
Additional testimony
As a community servant in my parish, I had the opportunity to introduce Maria Valtorta during an evening in the Lenten season with the agreement of our pastor who was of course present. My pastor asked me to lead another evening on "the sharing of the Word". I was able to illuminate the chosen Gospel with the corresponding text from Maria Valtorta. I feel the need to introduce Maria Valtorta and Jesus himself asks us to do so.
Discovery of the work
Through a friend who already knew the work well and who advised me to delve into it while I was returning from a pilgrimage in the Holy Land.
Impact on love for the Gospel
Maria Valtorta's work allows us to see how Jesus lives, reacts, looks, touches, loves. It has helped me to get closer to Jesus, to embody him in my faith, to love him better. The events follow logically, we can make connections between the events, the encounters, the places, the characters, and what teaches me a lot are the teachings that Jesus gives on certain passages. He explains why He reacts as He does, how He wants us to live, He draws our attention to particular points, He truly guides us.
Concrete impact on faith life
I have subscribed to "Jesus Today", and thus I receive the daily reading as related in the Gospel every day. I supplement my reading with the same story related by Maria Valtorta, sometimes I go to read what follows or precedes on the Valtorta.fr site to better understand the context and better experience the passage. This makes my faith life more vibrant and deepens in me the desire to better know Jesus and the will of God, it also helps me to become more aware of my sins, to desire to confess.
What would you say to someone who hesitates to discover this work?
I would tell him "Go ahead, dive in! Read... and you'll see!"
Discovery of the work
I discovered Maria's work through the HOZANNA website.
Impact on love for the Gospel
Maria's work makes me live and understand the texts of the Gospels. I feel, I no longer try to imagine (this was sometimes very arduous) the unfolding of a scene, I live it. I cry, I smile, I am moved. I am present, I observe and everything becomes clear.
Concrete impact on faith life
I feel closer to our Lord, I can address him without restraint because I know, through this reading, what he thinks of our human feelings. He understands them, explains them to us, and gives us simple explanations, those that we should follow to continue to follow him on his path of life. There is no complacency in what he dictates, just simple truth.
What would you say to someone who hesitates to discover this work?
Reading the work of Maria VALTORTA is to live the Gospel as close to the events as possible, to understand them, to feel them and to emerge from them spiritually grown.
Additional testimony
Reading this work is a great joy, I discover Jesus, Mary, and the apostles in their daily lives. The details of the places, the feelings of each one, the description of each scene allows me to understand and discover the texts of the Bible in a different way. Reading it, I feel close to each of them, moreover, the recitation of the rosary is enriched by it.
Discovery of the work
For about fifteen years, thanks to the internet, I discovered the writings of Maria Valtorta.
Impact on love for the Gospel
Every day, after my morning prayer, I read and reread the chapter of the day. This allows me to get closer to Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the apostles, the disciples, and all those who accompanied Jesus during the three years of his public life.
Concrete impact on faith life
These readings allow me to strengthen my faith.
What would you say to someone who hesitates to discover this work?
I will tell him the good that the discovery of this work has brought me in terms of faith.
Discovery of the work
My father, a deep believer, lent me one by one the 10 books of M Valtorta.
Impact on love for the Gospel
Some of the most striking texts for me, which I meditated on and did not always understand the essence of, became clearer and more comprehensible with the narratives of Maria Valtorta and Jesus became closer than ever.
Concrete impact on faith life
Indeed, Faith in my head became Faith in my heart, a more intense desire to receive the Eucharist, and the sacrament of reconciliation, to go to Mass during the week as soon as possible, with a sincere heart and rooted in prayer.
What would you say to someone who hesitates to discover this work?
Read. It's a wonder to discover, but take your time and pray over the passages that touch you deeply.
Additional testimony
Discover a Jesus so human, in his context of the time, with his feelings, his desires, his sufferings his friendships, in short a Jesus who resembles us and who loves us personally deeply. This is for me the essence of this work... Thank you Maria Valtorta. Jesus, Love and Life.
Discovery of the work
It was my father who first spoke to me about the writings of Maria Valtorta in the 1980s. At the time, I didn't pay much attention to it and above all, I was scared by the reading of the many long volumes. At 35, my faith was not firmly rooted. In 2015, a friend introduced me to the WhatsApp application which provides the correspondence between the Gospel of the day and the text in the writings of Maria Valtorta. Since that day, I regularly read one chapter or another of Maria Valtorta's work.
Impact on love for the Gospel
These writings allow me to dive into the heart of Jesus, and to understand very deeply, his doctrine and his actions. It's a kind of wonderful spiritual sweetness to find oneself alongside Jesus.
Concrete impact on faith life
This gives my prayer time an unparalleled depth.
What would you say to someone who hesitates to discover this work?
My own wife refuses to read the Work. I tell her that "it's not serious, the Gospel is enough. For me, it helps me to go further and to love Jesus more. The day you feel a desire rising within you, let it happen. "Read and you will understand" as a Pope said (Pius XII I believe).
Additional testimony
I believe that this Work is a miracle before our eyes of the 21st century. Just like in the time of Jesus, everyone is free to believe or not to believe. The scribes and the Pharisees saw and heard Jesus. Some believed. Others constantly ask for new signs, always with the aim of putting Jesus to the test, because they did not believe, or did not want to believe. For the writings of Maria Valtorta it's the same thing. Some are seized as Jesus seized the 12 apostles, others refuse because they do not want to believe.
Discovery of the work
Through a friend who had the 10 volumes at her house and I borrowed one.
Impact on love for the Gospel
Through daily reading of this work, the Gospel becomes alive. Similarly, we can follow Christ in his daily life and see that he lived poorly with the apostles. His goodness is on every page.
Concrete impact on faith life
Maria Valtorta's work has "boosted" my faith without a doubt and has sanctified me to a certain extent. I have become more vigilant not to sin, Maria Valtorta is in a way a guardrail. This is a daily spiritual nourishment, a vital breath.
What would you say to someone who hesitates to discover this work?
I do not miss the opportunity to talk about it when the occasion arises, pointing out some aspects of this work and testimonies from church people such as Pope Francis, Pius XII, John Paul II. As well as Padre Pio and Mother Teresa.
Additional testimony
The couple's faith has progressed through daily rosary, daily prayer together, and weekday mass when possible.
Discovery of the work
My mother had spoken to me about it as a child; more recently, I received an email from a site promoting the work, probably following a purchase of a mailing list.
Impact on love for the Gospel
Having recently become a reader of Maria Valtorta's work: "The Gospel as It Has Been Revealed to Me", I am eager to express how much I regularly enjoy getting to know it. Being with Christ during his public life amidst the landscapes and scents in which he evolved, with a multitude of details that are not mentioned in the Gospels, seeing him live, move, speak to the apostles and interact with them is a joy at all times. Thanks to her writings, Maria Valtorta has made Christ extraordinarily alive and present for me, life with the Apostles, more animated. We are led to love the Lord both more naturally and more strongly. The richness of this content makes me long for the encounter with Christ with an enhanced joy and impatience.
Concrete impact on faith life
Even though I was already practicing before receiving "Jesus Today", the evangelical texts — sometimes difficult to understand — that I regularly heard at mass, they took on a whole new depth and became clearer thanks to "The Gospel as it was revealed to me". In addition, and in my opinion this is the major contribution of this text, the warnings against the powers of darkness and sin, very sharp and often more detailed than in the Gospels, seem to me to be beneficial. The Lord has given us an ineffable gift. Let's thank Him by making this gospel entrusted to Maria Valtorta known and loved.
What would you say to someone who hesitates to discover this work?
Let this person read a few paragraphs; it's not tedious and it will allow them to form a personal opinion.
Discovery of the work
Via internet with "Jesus Today".
Impact on love for the Gospel
I had just lost my husband and could no longer read the Bible. The writings of Maria Valtorta comforted me and helped me through this difficult period without losing faith.
Concrete impact on faith life
I was able to deepen my understanding of the Bible and I rediscovered the joy of reading it.
What would you say to someone who hesitates to discover this work?
I will tell him that whoever is thirsty may come and drink.