Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Chapter 8

Prayers directly to Jesus, or to Mary? Problem with the Hail

Mary and Rosary prayer 26th April 1840

[1] Behold, all your duty is, was and will be eternal love, that is, the pure, divine love in you towards Me and in the same way also towards all your brothers and sisters.

[2] According to the degree of this My love in you will be given to you by Me, who in all My Being I am Love itself. You are, if you love Me with all your strength, all of you dear children of My Love – which also impregnated Mary, the Mother of My earthly body. But this earthly body being (Jesus as a human being) is a true brother to you and strong enough to carry you all as little brothers and sisters with all patience and gentleness and to lead you all as adult brothers and sisters. And who wants to go to the father, he only turns to me as the great darling of the father, who is the only true brother to you, full of the highest love and wisdom. And so you have no need to turn to anybody else than to me in all your concerns and needs!

[3] Behold, the greeting to Mary came (at the time of the Annunciation) from the very highest level of the holiness of God in all the fullness of the power and strength of His Spirit, so that the love in the Father may become a true brother to you all. – Now, ask yourselves what else do you 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 is brighter than hers; also that My Love, My humility and My meekness diminishes the love, humility and meekness of all, even the most blessed spirits of heaven.

[4] Verily, your ignorance and your gross error only caused you (Mary, the editor) grief if I did not, out of My exceedingly great love for you, always obliging you, would take upon Me what is addressed to them or to another blessed brother of yours. Behold, therefore I make the ears of the blessed deaf (against such inappropriate worship) and their eyes blind so that their happiness may not be clouded by your great folly.

[5] Whoever seeks me, in him Mary will also have joy, and so will all the blessed. And they will always be willing to serve him according to my love in them, from which it will be made known to them where and what you lack. That is why it is also useless to want to reach grace elsewhere than just through me. Because I alone am the door to the father because all grace dwells within. The one who does not go through Me does not reach there.

[6] You can indeed remember with reverence and love all that is related to My Incarnation and thus demonstrate to yourselves all the destinies of My great mercy love for you. And such things will be pleasant for me. – But when you want to form chattering prayers out of it, then you have become fools or have been made fools by the great blindness of the leaders of the blind and are deceived by the swindlers.

[7] But I have now shown you from me in the very highest truth how things are. And so you are also to do 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.