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L'évangile tel qu'il m'a été révélé #1
L'Evangelo come mi è stato rivelato
L'opera principale, tra gli scritti di Maria Valtorta, è pubblicata in dieci volumi sotto il titolo: L'Evangelo come mi è stato rivelato.
Narra la nascita e l'infanzia della Vergine Maria e del figlio suo Gesù (scritte, in gran parte, durante lo sfollamento da Viareggio), i tre anni della vita pubblica di Gesù (che costituiscono il grosso dell'opera), la sua passione, morte, resurrezione e ascensione, i primordi della Chiesa e l'assunzione di Maria.
Letterariamente elevata, l'opera descrive paesaggi, ambienti, persone, eventi, con la vivezza di una rappresentazione; delinea caratteri e situazioni con abilità introspettiva; espone gioie e drammi con il sentimento di chi vi partecipa realmente; informa su caratteristiche ambientali, usanze, riti, culture, con particolari ineccepibili. Attraverso l'avvincente racconto della vita terrena del Redentore, ricca di discorsi e di dialoghi, illustra tutta la dottrina del cristianesimo conforme all'ortodossia cattolica.
Maria Valtorta stese quest'opera dal 1944 al 1947. Alcuni degli ultimi episodi sono del 1951.
Non sempre procedeva secondo l'ordine narrativo. A volte, per contingenti esigenze spirituali, doveva scrivere uno o più episodi fuori dalla trama, e in seguito Gesù stesso le indicava dove andavano inseriti. Nonostante la sporadica discontinuità nella stesura e nonostante l'assoluta mancanza di schemi preparatori, sia scritti che mentali, l'opera ha una struttura perfettamente organica dall'inizio alla fine.
Per giunta, Maria Valtorta la intercalava con pagine di vari argomenti, cominciate a scrivere nel 1943 (appena ultimata l'Autobiografia) e proseguite negli anni successivi fino al 1950. Esse hanno dato corpo alle opere minori, che sono pubblicate in cinque volumi, oltre a quello dell'Autobiografia. Tre volumi – intitolati rispettivamente I quaderni del 1943, I quaderni del 1944 e I quaderni del 1945-1950 – raccolgono una miscellanea di scritti su temi ascetici, biblici, dottrinali, di cronaca autobiografica, nonché descrizioni di scene evangeliche e di martirio dei primi cristiani. Un volume, intitolato Libro di Azaria, offre commenti ai testi (esclusi quelli del Vangelo) del messale festivo. L'ultimo volume è quello delle Lezioni sull'Epistola di Paolo ai Romani.
Altri scritti sparsi, rimasti inediti per lunghi anni, sono stati raccolti e pubblicati sotto il titolo Quadernetti. È stata anche iniziata la pubblicazione dell'epistolario con le Lettere a Mons. Carinci e le Lettere a padre Migliorini.
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Narra la nascita e l'infanzia della Vergine Maria e del figlio suo Gesù (scritte, in gran parte, durante lo sfollamento da Viareggio), i tre anni della vita pubblica di Gesù (che costituiscono il grosso dell'opera), la sua passione, morte, resurrezione e ascensione, i primordi della Chiesa e l'assunzione di Maria.
Letterariamente elevata, l'opera descrive paesaggi, ambienti, persone, eventi, con la vivezza di una rappresentazione; delinea caratteri e situazioni con abilità introspettiva; espone gioie e drammi con il sentimento di chi vi partecipa realmente; informa su caratteristiche ambientali, usanze, riti, culture, con particolari ineccepibili. Attraverso l'avvincente racconto della vita terrena del Redentore, ricca di discorsi e di dialoghi, illustra tutta la dottrina del cristianesimo conforme all'ortodossia cattolica.
Maria Valtorta stese quest'opera dal 1944 al 1947. Alcuni degli ultimi episodi sono del 1951.
Non sempre procedeva secondo l'ordine narrativo. A volte, per contingenti esigenze spirituali, doveva scrivere uno o più episodi fuori dalla trama, e in seguito Gesù stesso le indicava dove andavano inseriti. Nonostante la sporadica discontinuità nella stesura e nonostante l'assoluta mancanza di schemi preparatori, sia scritti che mentali, l'opera ha una struttura perfettamente organica dall'inizio alla fine.
Per giunta, Maria Valtorta la intercalava con pagine di vari argomenti, cominciate a scrivere nel 1943 (appena ultimata l'Autobiografia) e proseguite negli anni successivi fino al 1950. Esse hanno dato corpo alle opere minori, che sono pubblicate in cinque volumi, oltre a quello dell'Autobiografia. Tre volumi – intitolati rispettivamente I quaderni del 1943, I quaderni del 1944 e I quaderni del 1945-1950 – raccolgono una miscellanea di scritti su temi ascetici, biblici, dottrinali, di cronaca autobiografica, nonché descrizioni di scene evangeliche e di martirio dei primi cristiani. Un volume, intitolato Libro di Azaria, offre commenti ai testi (esclusi quelli del Vangelo) del messale festivo. L'ultimo volume è quello delle Lezioni sull'Epistola di Paolo ai Romani.
Altri scritti sparsi, rimasti inediti per lunghi anni, sono stati raccolti e pubblicati sotto il titolo Quadernetti. È stata anche iniziata la pubblicazione dell'epistolario con le Lettere a Mons. Carinci e le Lettere a padre Migliorini.
(from http://www.fondazionemariavaltortacev...)
494 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2013
About the author
Maria Valtorta
190 books40 followersMaria Valtorta was a Roman Catholic Italian writer and poet, considered by many to be a mystic. She was a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who reported reputed personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus Christ.
In her youth Valtorta travelled around Italy due to her father's military career. Her father eventually settled in Viareggio. In 1920, aged 23, while walking on a street with her mother, a delinquent youth struck her in the back with an iron bar for no apparent reason. In 1934 the injury eventually confined her to bed for the remaining 28 years of her life. Her spiritual life was influenced by reading the autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and, in 1925, at the age of 28, before becoming bedridden, she offered herself to God as a victim soul.
On 23 April 1943, Good Friday, Valtorta reported the voice of Jesus suddenly speaking to her and asking her to write. From then until 1951 she produced over 15,000 handwritten pages in 122 notebooks, mostly detailing the life of Jesus as an extension of the gospels. Her handwritten notebooks containing close to 700 reputed episodes in the life of Jesus were typed on separate pages by her priest and reassembled, given that they had no temporal order, and became the basis of her 5,000-page controversial book The Poem of the Man God. The Holy See placed the work on the Index of Prohibited Books and the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano accompanied publication of this decree with an article that called the book a badly fictionalized life of Jesus.
Valtorta lived most of her life bedridden in Viareggio, Italy where she died in 1961. She is buried at the grand cloister of the Basilica of Santissima Annunziata in Florence.
(source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Va...)
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In her youth Valtorta travelled around Italy due to her father's military career. Her father eventually settled in Viareggio. In 1920, aged 23, while walking on a street with her mother, a delinquent youth struck her in the back with an iron bar for no apparent reason. In 1934 the injury eventually confined her to bed for the remaining 28 years of her life. Her spiritual life was influenced by reading the autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and, in 1925, at the age of 28, before becoming bedridden, she offered herself to God as a victim soul.
On 23 April 1943, Good Friday, Valtorta reported the voice of Jesus suddenly speaking to her and asking her to write. From then until 1951 she produced over 15,000 handwritten pages in 122 notebooks, mostly detailing the life of Jesus as an extension of the gospels. Her handwritten notebooks containing close to 700 reputed episodes in the life of Jesus were typed on separate pages by her priest and reassembled, given that they had no temporal order, and became the basis of her 5,000-page controversial book The Poem of the Man God. The Holy See placed the work on the Index of Prohibited Books and the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano accompanied publication of this decree with an article that called the book a badly fictionalized life of Jesus.
Valtorta lived most of her life bedridden in Viareggio, Italy where she died in 1961. She is buried at the grand cloister of the Basilica of Santissima Annunziata in Florence.
(source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Va...)
Fondazione Maria Valtorta CEV
http://www.fondazionemariavaltortacev...
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April 9, 2018
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"Part 1 of a long and epic novel narrating in detail the life and teachings of Jesus Christ according to 20th century Catholic visionary Maria Valtorta."
This book is powerful and impossible to describe, you have to experience it yourself to understand. It reads as novel not as catechism, the fact that I really appreciated. Recommended to all those who are curious and want to find out more about the life of Jesus – this book tells his story in very readable and engaging way.
Note: I read this in my mother tongue, hence the review of Slovak edition
"Part 1 of a long and epic novel narrating in detail the life and teachings of Jesus Christ according to 20th century Catholic visionary Maria Valtorta."
This book is powerful and impossible to describe, you have to experience it yourself to understand. It reads as novel not as catechism, the fact that I really appreciated. Recommended to all those who are curious and want to find out more about the life of Jesus – this book tells his story in very readable and engaging way.
Note: I read this in my mother tongue, hence the review of Slovak edition
December 18, 2016
I've read it for the third time and I must admit it is always as fascinating and emotional as the first time.
July 2, 2026
In my 22 years, I have never before read a more beautiful book. In mass today, Father Tony in his homily asked us to think about someone who has shown us the love of Christ. Jessie did just that when she gathered Colleen and I together on the back porch of the Green House, and as the sun set off to the west, she read us the anointed passage of Mary’s betrothal to Joseph in the temple. What a heavenly evening that one was — the eastward breeze, the clothes gently swinging on their lines, the words of a mystic floating through the cooling air, my heart set aflame within me.
Ever since that night, this book has been my constant companion. I often bring it with me to my holy hour in the chapel, sitting in that chair by the open window with its curtains blowing in the breeze, the One who loves me gazing down on me from His monstrance.
Ever finding this book has been one of the great gifts and adventures of my life! So real, so intentional, so intricate, so beautiful, so wild, so human, so Godly is our Jesus, and so many of us never get to read about what he was truly like during his life. Oh, to be a mystic one day!!
Thank you Lord, for the gift of Maria Valtorta and the most amazing, inspiring book I have ever read in my life. AND TO THINK THERE ARE 6 MORE VOLUMES!!! A prayer: God, would you send me the next one?
📖🕊️
One of these days, I’ll start to add in all of the beautiful quotes I’ve collected over my reading!
Jesus: "Mary had deserved that 'Wisdom should precede Her and show Itself to Her first', because 'from the beginning of Her day She had watched at Its door, and wishing to be taught, out of love, She wanted to be pure to achieve perfect love and deserve to have Wisdom as Her teacher...
And when God whispered sublime words to Her in the depths of Her heart, in Her humility She considered them thoughts of pride and raising Her innocent heart to God, She besought Him: 'Lord, have mercy on They Servant!'"
Jesus: "True Ark of the Word of God, looking into Her immaculate heart, She discovered the words of eternal knowledge, which the finger of God had written there, and She remembered, as all saints do, that She had already heard them when Her immortal soul was being created by God the Father, the Creator of all living beings...
And if She did not remember everything of Her future mission, the reason is that God leaves some gaps in every human perfection, according to a Law of divine prudence, out of goodness and as a reward to creatures."
Jesus: "Mary remembered God, She dreamt of God. She thought She was dreaming. She was only seeing again what She had seen in the splendour of God's Heaven, in the instant She was created to be united to the body conceived on the earth."
... "Man was created in the image and likeness of God. One of the similarities is the capability, for the soul, of remembering, seeing and foreseeing. This explains the power to read into the future. This power sometimes comes directly, by God's will, sometimes it is a power of recollection, that rises like the sun in the morning, illuminating a point on the horizon of centuries, already seen in the vision of God.
Such mysteries are too deep to be fully understood by you. But think of them."
Jesus: "For whom would He have created the stars and planets that fly like thunderbolts and arrows, furrowing the vault of Heaven, or dash majestically in their rush of meteors, and yet seem slow, presenting you with light and seasons, eternally immutable and yet always mutable. They give you a new page to read in the sky, every evening, every month, every year, as if they wished to say: 'Forget your restriction, forsake your printed matter which is full of obscure, putrid, dirty, poisonous, false, swearing, corrupting material and rise, at least with your eyes, to the unlimited freedom of the firmament, make your souls bright looking at so clear a sky."
Jesus: "For whom would He have made the blue sea, the mirror of the sky, the way to the land, the smile of waters, the voice of waves? The sea itself is a word that with the rustling of silk, with the smiles of happy girls... with clashes and roars always speaks and says: 'God'. The sea is for your, as the sky and the stars are. And with the sea, the lakes and the rivers, the ponds and the streams, the pure springs, all of which serve to nourish you, to quench your thirst, to clean you: they serve you serving their Creator, without submerging you, as you deserve."
Jesus to Mary: "I am looking at you. And I see You as You will be, Immaculate Woman, Who are now only a spirit: the spirit in which I rejoice. I am looking at You and I give the sea and the firmament the blue of Your eyes, the holy corn the colour of Your hair, whiteness to the lily and a rosy colour to the rose, like Your silky skin. I copy the pearls from Your minute teeth, I make the sweet strawberries watching Your mouth and I give the nightingales Your notes and the turtle-doves Your weeping....
Come, My joy, have the worlds as a plaything as long as You will be the dancing light of My thoughts. Have the worlds for Your smile, have wreaths and necklaces of stars; place the moon under Your gentle feet; make Galatea Your stellar scarf."
Mary to Maria: "O My daughter, how beautiful and comforting is faith in our Eternal Good God! He holds us in His arms as in a cradle, like a boat He steers us into the bright harbor of Goodness..."
"The meadows are real soft multicolored carpets. Sheep are grazing or resting on them and they look like white spots on the emerald of the grass."
Mary: "Obedience always saves you, even if the advice given to you is not completely perfect."
Jesus: "He who goes to Mary, finds Me. He who asks Her for Me receives Me from Her. When a creature says to Mary: 'Give me Your Jesus that I may love Him', My Mother's smile causes Heaven's colors to change into a more lively brightness because of its greater delight."
"'Today, in the City of David, the Saviour has been born.' In saying so, the angel spreads out his wings wider and wider, moving them as a sign of overwhelming joy, and a stream of golden sparks and precious stones seem to fall from them: a real rainbow creating a triumphal arch above the poor shed.
'...The Saviour, Who is Christ.' The angles shines with a brighter light. His two wings, now motionless, pointed upright towards the sky like two still sails on the sapphire of the sea, seem like bright flames ascending to Heaven."
Jesus: "In that house they {the Holy Family} prayed. You pray too little in your homes, nowadays. The sun rises and sets, you start your work, and you sit at the table without a thought for the Lord, Who has allowed you to see a new day, and then to live and see a new night, Who has blessed your work and has made it the means for you to purchase the food, the fire, the clothes, the house which are so necessary for your human lives. Whatever comes from Good God is 'good.' Even if it is poor and meager, love gives it flavor..."
"But the green is still thick and beautiful on the plants and from two beehives leaning against a sunny wall, bees are flying in the bright sunshine buzzing and dancing, going from a fig-tree to the vines, and then to a pomegranate-tree full of its round fruits, some of which have already burst from excessive growth and show the strings of juicy rubies."
"12th October 1944.
A most clear dawn over the Lake of Galilee. The sky and the water sparkle with rosy flashes, not very different from the mild ones shining of the walls of the little orchards of the lake-village, where fruit-trees, with the unkempt, luxuriant foliage, seem to rise from the orchards and peep at the little lanes, bending over them.
The village is beginning to awaken: women start going to the fountain or the washing place, while fisherman unload the baskets of fish, or haggle over prices, in very loud voices..."
"We also said: 'You are calling us, Master. But we are all poor. What shall we bring You?', He replied with a smile that made us enjoy the delights of Paradise: 'I want a great treasure from you', and we said: 'But we have nothing'. And He answered: 'A treasure with seven names, which even the poorest have, while the rich may not possess it. You have it, and I want it. Listen to the names: charity, faith, goodwill, right intention, continence, sincerity, spirit of sacrifice. That is what I want from My followers, only that, and you have it."
"'Have you ever been able to count how many times this lake kisses the shore with its waves in the course of twelve moons? No, you would never be able to do so. And even less you would be able to count the loving waves that My heart pours out to kiss men. Be sure of My love, Peter.'
Peter takes Jesus' hand and kisses it. He is deeply moved."
"It is the dead of night. The sky is a starry canopy. The lake faintly reflects the glitter of the sky and, rather than see it, one guesses the peaceful lake is there sleeping under the stars, because of the gentle lapping of the water on the gravel shore."
....
A fervent prayer! He {Jesus} prays kneeling down, and then, as if He were fortified, He stands straight up, His face raised to Heaven, a face made more spiritual by the rising light of a clear, summer dawn. He prays smiling now, whereas before He was sighing, probably because of some moral grief. His arms are fully outstretched. He seems a living, tall, angelical cross, so gentle is His attitude. He seems to be blessing the whole country, the rising day, the fading stars and the lake, now becoming visible."
John the Beloved: "I mentioned it that You might not get so tired."
Jesus: "I do not get tried. I will walk so much, and I will never tire. Do you know what tires Me? Indifference. Oh! What a burden it is! It is like carrying a weight on your heart."
John: "I love You, Jesus."
Jesus to Maria: "... in order to deserve to always hear Me say to you: 'You are My loving peace'. I need comfort as well, Mary. Give Me it. My Heart for your rest."
Ever since that night, this book has been my constant companion. I often bring it with me to my holy hour in the chapel, sitting in that chair by the open window with its curtains blowing in the breeze, the One who loves me gazing down on me from His monstrance.
Ever finding this book has been one of the great gifts and adventures of my life! So real, so intentional, so intricate, so beautiful, so wild, so human, so Godly is our Jesus, and so many of us never get to read about what he was truly like during his life. Oh, to be a mystic one day!!
Thank you Lord, for the gift of Maria Valtorta and the most amazing, inspiring book I have ever read in my life. AND TO THINK THERE ARE 6 MORE VOLUMES!!! A prayer: God, would you send me the next one?
📖🕊️
One of these days, I’ll start to add in all of the beautiful quotes I’ve collected over my reading!
Jesus: "Mary had deserved that 'Wisdom should precede Her and show Itself to Her first', because 'from the beginning of Her day She had watched at Its door, and wishing to be taught, out of love, She wanted to be pure to achieve perfect love and deserve to have Wisdom as Her teacher...
And when God whispered sublime words to Her in the depths of Her heart, in Her humility She considered them thoughts of pride and raising Her innocent heart to God, She besought Him: 'Lord, have mercy on They Servant!'"
Jesus: "True Ark of the Word of God, looking into Her immaculate heart, She discovered the words of eternal knowledge, which the finger of God had written there, and She remembered, as all saints do, that She had already heard them when Her immortal soul was being created by God the Father, the Creator of all living beings...
And if She did not remember everything of Her future mission, the reason is that God leaves some gaps in every human perfection, according to a Law of divine prudence, out of goodness and as a reward to creatures."
Jesus: "Mary remembered God, She dreamt of God. She thought She was dreaming. She was only seeing again what She had seen in the splendour of God's Heaven, in the instant She was created to be united to the body conceived on the earth."
... "Man was created in the image and likeness of God. One of the similarities is the capability, for the soul, of remembering, seeing and foreseeing. This explains the power to read into the future. This power sometimes comes directly, by God's will, sometimes it is a power of recollection, that rises like the sun in the morning, illuminating a point on the horizon of centuries, already seen in the vision of God.
Such mysteries are too deep to be fully understood by you. But think of them."
Jesus: "For whom would He have created the stars and planets that fly like thunderbolts and arrows, furrowing the vault of Heaven, or dash majestically in their rush of meteors, and yet seem slow, presenting you with light and seasons, eternally immutable and yet always mutable. They give you a new page to read in the sky, every evening, every month, every year, as if they wished to say: 'Forget your restriction, forsake your printed matter which is full of obscure, putrid, dirty, poisonous, false, swearing, corrupting material and rise, at least with your eyes, to the unlimited freedom of the firmament, make your souls bright looking at so clear a sky."
Jesus: "For whom would He have made the blue sea, the mirror of the sky, the way to the land, the smile of waters, the voice of waves? The sea itself is a word that with the rustling of silk, with the smiles of happy girls... with clashes and roars always speaks and says: 'God'. The sea is for your, as the sky and the stars are. And with the sea, the lakes and the rivers, the ponds and the streams, the pure springs, all of which serve to nourish you, to quench your thirst, to clean you: they serve you serving their Creator, without submerging you, as you deserve."
Jesus to Mary: "I am looking at you. And I see You as You will be, Immaculate Woman, Who are now only a spirit: the spirit in which I rejoice. I am looking at You and I give the sea and the firmament the blue of Your eyes, the holy corn the colour of Your hair, whiteness to the lily and a rosy colour to the rose, like Your silky skin. I copy the pearls from Your minute teeth, I make the sweet strawberries watching Your mouth and I give the nightingales Your notes and the turtle-doves Your weeping....
Come, My joy, have the worlds as a plaything as long as You will be the dancing light of My thoughts. Have the worlds for Your smile, have wreaths and necklaces of stars; place the moon under Your gentle feet; make Galatea Your stellar scarf."
Mary to Maria: "O My daughter, how beautiful and comforting is faith in our Eternal Good God! He holds us in His arms as in a cradle, like a boat He steers us into the bright harbor of Goodness..."
"The meadows are real soft multicolored carpets. Sheep are grazing or resting on them and they look like white spots on the emerald of the grass."
Mary: "Obedience always saves you, even if the advice given to you is not completely perfect."
Jesus: "He who goes to Mary, finds Me. He who asks Her for Me receives Me from Her. When a creature says to Mary: 'Give me Your Jesus that I may love Him', My Mother's smile causes Heaven's colors to change into a more lively brightness because of its greater delight."
"'Today, in the City of David, the Saviour has been born.' In saying so, the angel spreads out his wings wider and wider, moving them as a sign of overwhelming joy, and a stream of golden sparks and precious stones seem to fall from them: a real rainbow creating a triumphal arch above the poor shed.
'...The Saviour, Who is Christ.' The angles shines with a brighter light. His two wings, now motionless, pointed upright towards the sky like two still sails on the sapphire of the sea, seem like bright flames ascending to Heaven."
Jesus: "In that house they {the Holy Family} prayed. You pray too little in your homes, nowadays. The sun rises and sets, you start your work, and you sit at the table without a thought for the Lord, Who has allowed you to see a new day, and then to live and see a new night, Who has blessed your work and has made it the means for you to purchase the food, the fire, the clothes, the house which are so necessary for your human lives. Whatever comes from Good God is 'good.' Even if it is poor and meager, love gives it flavor..."
"But the green is still thick and beautiful on the plants and from two beehives leaning against a sunny wall, bees are flying in the bright sunshine buzzing and dancing, going from a fig-tree to the vines, and then to a pomegranate-tree full of its round fruits, some of which have already burst from excessive growth and show the strings of juicy rubies."
"12th October 1944.
A most clear dawn over the Lake of Galilee. The sky and the water sparkle with rosy flashes, not very different from the mild ones shining of the walls of the little orchards of the lake-village, where fruit-trees, with the unkempt, luxuriant foliage, seem to rise from the orchards and peep at the little lanes, bending over them.
The village is beginning to awaken: women start going to the fountain or the washing place, while fisherman unload the baskets of fish, or haggle over prices, in very loud voices..."
"We also said: 'You are calling us, Master. But we are all poor. What shall we bring You?', He replied with a smile that made us enjoy the delights of Paradise: 'I want a great treasure from you', and we said: 'But we have nothing'. And He answered: 'A treasure with seven names, which even the poorest have, while the rich may not possess it. You have it, and I want it. Listen to the names: charity, faith, goodwill, right intention, continence, sincerity, spirit of sacrifice. That is what I want from My followers, only that, and you have it."
"'Have you ever been able to count how many times this lake kisses the shore with its waves in the course of twelve moons? No, you would never be able to do so. And even less you would be able to count the loving waves that My heart pours out to kiss men. Be sure of My love, Peter.'
Peter takes Jesus' hand and kisses it. He is deeply moved."
"It is the dead of night. The sky is a starry canopy. The lake faintly reflects the glitter of the sky and, rather than see it, one guesses the peaceful lake is there sleeping under the stars, because of the gentle lapping of the water on the gravel shore."
....
A fervent prayer! He {Jesus} prays kneeling down, and then, as if He were fortified, He stands straight up, His face raised to Heaven, a face made more spiritual by the rising light of a clear, summer dawn. He prays smiling now, whereas before He was sighing, probably because of some moral grief. His arms are fully outstretched. He seems a living, tall, angelical cross, so gentle is His attitude. He seems to be blessing the whole country, the rising day, the fading stars and the lake, now becoming visible."
John the Beloved: "I mentioned it that You might not get so tired."
Jesus: "I do not get tried. I will walk so much, and I will never tire. Do you know what tires Me? Indifference. Oh! What a burden it is! It is like carrying a weight on your heart."
John: "I love You, Jesus."
Jesus to Maria: "... in order to deserve to always hear Me say to you: 'You are My loving peace'. I need comfort as well, Mary. Give Me it. My Heart for your rest."
April 20, 2025
Vote: 4,25
Class: L-A3 (FP)
(rivelazioni private a una mistica italiana del 1900)
L'opera (in dieci volumi) della Valtorta è abbasstanza controversa, e sopratutto al momento della sua prima edizione con il titolo "il poema dell'umo-Dio" era visto con un certo sospetto da parte del Magistero della Chiesa.
Negli anni, gli scritti della mistica hanno trovato molto apprezzamento da parte di molti fedeli cristiani, la cui vita d'orazione si è potuta nutrire dei dettagli sulla vita di Gesù e dei suoi apostoli che la mistica ha riportato nei suoi quaderni.
Il probelma dell'autenticità della rivelazione è per me irrilevante, di fronte al bene che può fare questo romanzo della vita di Cristo, in cui partiamo dalla nascita della Vergine Maria e seguiamo l'avventura dell'Uomo-Dio su questa terra.
Una sorta di "The Chosen" ante-litteram se vogliamo, e come essa molto piacevole e d'aiuto.
Sicuramente non è un'opera necessaria alla Fede cristiana - poche lo sono oltre al Nuovo e al Vecchio testamento - ma sicuramente mi sta piacendo molto e continuerò a leggerla fino alla fine.
Class: L-A3 (FP)
(rivelazioni private a una mistica italiana del 1900)
L'opera (in dieci volumi) della Valtorta è abbasstanza controversa, e sopratutto al momento della sua prima edizione con il titolo "il poema dell'umo-Dio" era visto con un certo sospetto da parte del Magistero della Chiesa.
Negli anni, gli scritti della mistica hanno trovato molto apprezzamento da parte di molti fedeli cristiani, la cui vita d'orazione si è potuta nutrire dei dettagli sulla vita di Gesù e dei suoi apostoli che la mistica ha riportato nei suoi quaderni.
Il probelma dell'autenticità della rivelazione è per me irrilevante, di fronte al bene che può fare questo romanzo della vita di Cristo, in cui partiamo dalla nascita della Vergine Maria e seguiamo l'avventura dell'Uomo-Dio su questa terra.
Una sorta di "The Chosen" ante-litteram se vogliamo, e come essa molto piacevole e d'aiuto.
Sicuramente non è un'opera necessaria alla Fede cristiana - poche lo sono oltre al Nuovo e al Vecchio testamento - ma sicuramente mi sta piacendo molto e continuerò a leggerla fino alla fine.
June 24, 2026
Interesting perspective on the life of Christ. Many meditative moments. Of course this is a private revelation so Catholics are never bound to believe in private revelations as a matter of divine faith.
June 7, 2025
So much to absorb in Vol. 1. I could see myself rereading it.
June 6, 2022
Attraverso le descrizioni di Maria Valtorta si ha la suggestiva sensazione di poter osservare dal vivo le scene e gli episodi che vengono raccontati. Anche quelli che già si conoscono in virtù dei quattro Vangeli canonici, si riempiono di ulteriori dettagli e sfumature che non sembrano affatto in contrasto con la tradizione e il magistero della Chiesa ma permettono di comprendere più a fondo. Questo primo volume, in modo particolare, ci permette di conoscere da vicino quei Santi che hanno fatto parte del progetto di Redenzione e dei quali conosciamo bene poco: i Santi Gioacchino e Anna, in primis, San Giuseppe, San Giovanni Battista e gli apostoli. Non in ultimo iniziamo subito a conoscere la figura molto controversa di Giuda Iscariota. La lettura è ulteriormente edificante per gli ulteriori commenti di Gesù in persona o della Vergine che possono divenire oggetto di meditazione e di esame di coscienza personale. Intendo naturalmente continuare la serie per conoscere l'intera opera.
May 14, 2015
Pieno di sapienza!
December 10, 2023
Algo más sencillo de leer que las visiones de Ana Catalina Emmerick, se nota que es un lenguaje más moderno.
Muy interesante también sobre todo este primer tomo como documentación para mi libro.
Muy interesante también sobre todo este primer tomo como documentación para mi libro.
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