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In this excerpt from Maria Valtorta’s The Gospel as Revealed to Me, the Virgin Mary is in the Upper Room with Mary Magdalene on Holy Saturday, when the master of the house comes to tell her that Longinus, the Roman officer who pierced Christ's heart with his lance, wishes to see her:
Mary Magdalene goes to the Blessed Virgin.
«Mother, Longinus is out there... He offers the lance to You. »
«Let him come in. »
The master of the house, who is at the entrance, grumbles: «But he is a heathen. » «I am the Mother of everybody, man. As He is everybody’s Redeemer. »
Longinus goes in and on the threshold he salutes in the Roman way, with his arm outstretched (he has taken off his mantle) and then he greets Her saying: «Ave, Domina. A Roman greets you: the Mother of mankind. The true Mother. I would have liked it not to have been me... at... at that affair. But it was an order. However, if I serve to give what You wish, I forgive destiny for choosing me for that horrible thing. Here» and he gives Her the lance enveloped in a red cloth. Only the point, not the shaft.
Mary takes it and becomes even paler. Her very lips disappear in the pallor. The lance seems to open Her veins. And Her lips tremble as She says: «May He lead you to Himself. Because of your kindness. »
«He was the only Just Man I ever met in the vast empire of Rome. I regret I only knew Him through the words of my companions. Now... it is late! »
«No, son. He has finished evangelizing. But His Gospel remains. In His Church. »
«Where is His Church? » Longinus is slightly ironic.
«It is here. Today it is struck and scattered. But tomorrow it will gather like a tree that tidies up its foliage after a storm. And, even if there were nobody else, I am here. And the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Mine, is all written in My heart. All I need to do is to look at My heart in order to be able to repeat it to you. »
«I will come. A religion that has as its head such a hero can but be divine. Ave, Domina! »
And Longinus goes away. Mary kisses the lance where there is still the Blood of Her Son... And She does not want to remove that Blood. But She leaves it saying: «a ruby of God, on the cruel lance»...
In this excerpt from Maria Valtorta’s The Gospel as Revealed to Me, the Virgin Mary is in the Upper Room with Mary Magdalene on Holy Saturday, when the master of the house comes to tell her that Longinus, the Roman officer who pierced Christ's heart with his lance, wishes to see her:
Mary Magdalene goes to the Blessed Virgin.
«Mother, Longinus is out there... He offers the lance to You. »
«Let him come in. »
The master of the house, who is at the entrance, grumbles: «But he is a heathen. » «I am the Mother of everybody, man. As He is everybody’s Redeemer. »
Longinus goes in and on the threshold he salutes in the Roman way, with his arm outstretched (he has taken off his mantle) and then he greets Her saying: «Ave, Domina. A Roman greets you: the Mother of mankind. The true Mother. I would have liked it not to have been me... at... at that affair. But it was an order. However, if I serve to give what You wish, I forgive destiny for choosing me for that horrible thing. Here» and he gives Her the lance enveloped in a red cloth. Only the point, not the shaft.
Mary takes it and becomes even paler. Her very lips disappear in the pallor. The lance seems to open Her veins. And Her lips tremble as She says: «May He lead you to Himself. Because of your kindness. »
«He was the only Just Man I ever met in the vast empire of Rome. I regret I only knew Him through the words of my companions. Now... it is late! »
«No, son. He has finished evangelizing. But His Gospel remains. In His Church. »
«Where is His Church? » Longinus is slightly ironic.
«It is here. Today it is struck and scattered. But tomorrow it will gather like a tree that tidies up its foliage after a storm. And, even if there were nobody else, I am here. And the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Mine, is all written in My heart. All I need to do is to look at My heart in order to be able to repeat it to you. »
«I will come. A religion that has as its head such a hero can but be divine. Ave, Domina! »
And Longinus goes away. Mary kisses the lance where there is still the Blood of Her Son... And She does not want to remove that Blood. But She leaves it saying: «a ruby of God, on the cruel lance»...
Maria Valtorta (1)
Excerpt from Volume 10 of The Gospel as Revealed to Me § 614.6
https://www.maria-valtorta.org/Publication/TOME%2009/09-034.htm
(1) Maria Valtorta (1897-1961) was an Italian visionary and mystic, member of the Catholic Third Order of the Servites of Mary and author of spiritual writings, including the famous 10-volume The Gospel as Revealed to Me.