Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Chapter 7

Ave Maria

26 April 1840, Sunday morning

On request:

[1] See, your full duty is, was and will be eternally – love, i.e. pure, divine love in you to Me and the same also to all your brothers and sisters.

[2] According to the degree of this love for Me in you, it will be given to you by Me Who is love Itself in My whole being. All of you are, if you love Me with all your strength – dear children of My love – which has also fertilized Mary, the mother of My earthly body existence. But this earthly body being is a true brother to you and strong enough to carry you all as little brothers and little sisters with all patience and gentleness and to lead you as adult brothers and sisters. And whoever wants to go to the Father, let him turn only to Me as the Father's great favorite, who is the only true brother to you, full of the highest love and wisdom. And so you do not need to turn to anyone else but to Me in all your concerns and needs!

[3] Behold, the greeting to Mary came once from the very highest height of God's holiness in all the fullness of the power and strength of His Spirit, so that love in the Father may become a true brother to you all. Now ask yourselves, what do you still want with this greeting? Mary does not need it, nor does she thirst for it. And she also knows best of all of you that My ear is sharper than hers and My eye brighter than hers; also that My love, My humility and My gentleness nullify the love, humility and gentleness of all, even of the most blessed spirits of heaven.

[4] Truly, your ignorance and your gross error would only cause her grief, if I did not, out of My great love for you, always take upon Myself what is addressed to her or to another blessed brother of yours. Behold, therefore I make the ears of the blessed deaf to such misplaced [adoration] and their eyes blind, so that their blessedness may not be clouded by your great folly.

[5] Whoever seeks Me, Mary will also have joy in him, and likewise all the blessed. And they will always be willing to serve him according to My love in them, from which they will know where and what you lack. Therefore it is also useless to want to reach grace elsewhere than just through Me. For I alone am the door to the Father, where all grace dwells. Who does not go through Me, does not get there.

[6] You can indeed most reverently and lovingly remember everything that has to do with My incarnation and thereby demonstrate to yourselves all the providence of My great merciful love for you. And it will be pleasant for Me. But if you want to form chattering prayers out of it, then you have become fools or have been made so by the great blindness of the blind leaders and are deceived by the deceived deceivers.

[7] But I have now shown you out of Me in the highest truth how the matter is. And so you shall do also accordingly, if you want to be true children of one and the same good Father and true brothers of the son of Mary, who loves you, as you love Me. Amen.