Listen at least to the voice of your heavenly Mother!

On this night, while the greater part of my children spend the last hours of the year in amusement and dissipation, watch with Me, my beloved ones, in silence and more intense prayer. Prayer of thanksgiving—for all the graces which, in this period of time, have been granted to you by the Father, in the Holy Spirit, by means of my Son Jesus and through the unceasing intercession of my Immaculate Heart.

This world is at the mercy of my Adversary, who is ruling it his spirit of pride and rebellion, and who is leading an with immense number of the children of God along the road of pleasure, of sin, of disobedience to the laws of God, and of contempt for his Will… but Nothing can resist the power of the merciful love of God, which wants to transform this poor world into a new creation.

See how hatred and sin have burst all bounds. Today the majority of mankind no longer observe the Ten Commandments of the Lord. Your God is Publicly ignored, denied, offended and blasphemed. The day of the Lord is more and more profaned.

Daily an attack is being made upon life. Each year, throughout the world, by the tens of millions, innocent children are being slaughtered in their mother's womb and the number of murders, robberies and acts of violence and kidnappings are increasing.

Immorality is spreading like a flood of filth and is being propagated by the means of social communication, especially the cinema, the press and television. By means of this last-mentioned, a subtle and diabolical tactic of seduction and corruption has found its way into every family. The most defenceless victims are children and youth, whom I look upon with the tender preoccupation of a Mother. Only the powerful force of prayer and reparative penance will be able to save the world from what the justice of God has prepared because of its obstinate refusal to accept every demand for repentance. Listen at least to the voice of your heavenly Mother!

Excerpt from To the Priests, Our Lady’s Beloved Sons by Don Stefano Gobbi, an Italian priest (Messages from Mary received by interior locution), December 31, 1982