"Contemplate Mary and receive my peace. Nothing else is needed to be happy"

In the Notebook of 1943, Maria Valtorta (1) recorded these words of Jesus concerning his Mother :

"Mary has attracted millions of creatures to Herself with these gentle arms of hers. She evangelized before I did with her reserved Silence and her indescribable smile. It was enough for Her to appear in order for harsh or impure words to be hushed, resentments to collapse, and pains to be soothed.

Her gaze purified, her silence uplifted, and her smile instructed. Nazareth remained perfumed by Her for a long time after her departure. The nascent Church was consolidated by virtue of her silence and her smile, more eloquent than all words, for from it there showed through the face of God and the truth of her mission.

I ask you only to look at and imitate my Mother and Yours. Grow in spiritual beauty to resemble Her; from Her learn the silence which speaks to God and of God and the smile which teaches faith, generosity, and charity.

Always look at my sweet Mother so as to see Her clearly at the hour of death. Whoever dies in Mary immediately has Jesus.

Contemplate Mary and receive my peace. Nothing else is needed to be happy."

Jesus to Maria Valtorta 

Notebook of 1943 - September 8, 1943 

(1) Maria Valtorta (1897-1961) was a Catholic Italian mystic and writer. She was a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who reported personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus Christ. She lived much of her life bedridden in Viareggio in Tuscany where she died in 1961.

Valtorta wrote 122 notebooks, totalling almost 15,000 handwritten pages, describing visions and revelations received mainly between 1943 and 1951. Her main work is The Poem of the Man God, published in 10 volumes in English under the title The Gospel as Revealed to Me, which Pope Pius XII encouraged to be published ("Publish it, whoever reads it will understand"). The Church has made no official statement on the subject, but the Servites of Mary distribute the writings of Maria Valtorta, who is buried in a chapel in the Basilica of Florence.