The complete life of Jesus Christ revelead by visions a Maria Valtorta for all of us! This book it's the best book about the life of Jesus Christ! Volume 4 of 5
Maria 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...)
Una lunga raccolta di episodi della vita pubblica di Nostro Signore: insegnamenti, miracoli, esorcismi, conversioni e nuovi incontri. Molto intensa, travagliata e delicata la conversione di Maria Maddalena che dimostra grande determinazione, coraggio, umiltà, passione e desiderio di espiazione della propria vita passata. Non mancano momenti edificanti con Maria Santissima, le Sue stesse meditazione sulla preghiera e sull'abbandono alla divina volontà. Assistiamo inoltre all'ulteriore dimostrazione della fedeltà e della sincera amicizia di Lazzaro. Non mancano episodi raccontati nei quattro Vangeli ma con la penna dell'autrice che non manca di soffermarsi in descrizioni dettagliate dell'ambiente, dei gesti e degli sguardi del Signore, nonché le emozioni dei personaggi. Ogni singolo brano offre bellissimi ed edificanti spunti di meditazione per la propria preghiera personale e per l'esame di coscienza.
I am working my way through Maria Valtorta's Poem of the Man-God for a second time. It's a new adventure; one that brings the stories of the Bible to vivid color again and leads to a more personal relationship with Jesus. While we Catholics are not obliged to believe in private revelation, there is nothing in her writing that contradicts what we believe, rather it helps explain and support the tenets of our faith. The Blessed Mother, the apostles, and all the characters we read about in the New Testament will become your friends as you grow in faith by accompanying them along their journey.
A must read for all Christians. I am reading through for the third time, and feel blessed to have "found" these books. Amazing, awe-inspiring. Will bring you to a level of love for Jesus and God you may have not found possible before.