March 29 - Good Friday - Our Lady of Hope (Italy, 1755)

Judas could still have been saved if he had repented

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In volume 9 of The Gospel as Revealed to Me (1), on Good Friday, after Jesus' arrest and sentencing, Judas, distraught and horrified by what he has done, returns to the high priest:

"He throws the purse in Caiaphas’ teeth and goes away howling, while the coins tinkle spreading out on the floor after striking Caiaphas’ mouth and making it bleed. No one dares stop him. He goes out. He runs along the streets.

He finds himself in front of Mary, Who is standing at the door of the room where Jesus left Her. Hearing a noise, She has looked out, hoping perhaps to see John, who has been away such a long time. She looks as pale as if She had lost all Her blood. Grief has made Her eyes resemble even more those of Her Son. Judas meets those eyes that look at him with the same sorrowful conscious knowledge with which Jesus looked at him in the street, and uttering a frightened "Oh!" he leans against the wall.

Judas! says Mary, Judas, why have you come? The same words as Jesus’. And they are spoken with sad love. Judas remembers them and shouts. Judas repeats Mary, what have you done? To so much love have you replied by betraying? Mary’s voice is a trembling caress.

Judas is about to run away. Mary calls him with a voice that should have converted a demon. Judas! Judas! Stop! Stop! Listen! I am telling you in His name: repent, Judas. He forgives…’ Judas has run away.

Mary’s voice, Her appearance, have been the coup de grace, or rather of disgrace, because he resists Her. He goes away precipitately."

Excerpt from The Gospel as Revealed to Me, by Maria Valtorta, vol. 10 (605.10)

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Maria Valtorta was a Catholic Italian mystic and writer; a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary. She reported personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus Christ, gathered mainly in the 10 volumes of The Gospel as Revealed to Me.

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