Annotation

In May 1968, Padre Pio said to Primo Capponcelli: “… Everyone who will collaborate in the publication and distribution of the “Diary of Love”. will earn eternal gratitude and blessings from God and from me.”

On October 17, 1968, the first part of the “Diary of Love” fell into the hands of His Holiness Lord Paul VI. About ten days later, the Holy Father conveyed his gratitude to me through a bishop, my Friend, and, among other things, said: “This is a great mystery. What a wonderful love of father and son! Not a single word can be crossed out in this book.” This is how Padre Pio’s prophecy, expressed in front of me in June 1968, was confirmed: “The Pope will understand everything in this book.”

PROLOGUE
 

The Holy Scriptures are the Testament handed down by God to man. The voice of God was heard by people with keen hearing, chosen by the Lord, and they wrote down the will of the Father for the good of His children who inhabit the Earth.

The Lord’s Testament is the One and Trinitarian truth about the commandments of truth, merciful will and love of three equal and different Persons of the One God, the Creator and Father of men. The Third Person of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit, is the very life of Trinitarian Love, which becomes the voice and word of God in the heart of man, the son of the Trinity of God. The Voice of the Holy Spirit chooses the human heart to grant the grace of life in Love to all who will accept the gift of the Living Voice that has become “words”. The Triune Spirit wants to bestow His Voice on all people of good will in order to teach mortals the Eternal, Godly life. This Voice can and wants to unite everything and everyone in one living Body, in the single system of the Holy Trinity.

The Covenant of God is an unchanging Word written in the Holy Scriptures.

“Diary of Love” was written by my hand by the will of Padre Pio, whose living voice spoke in the name of God.

He told me: “The diary is and will be the voice of Truth and love of God’s unchanging will, expressed in His only eternal Testament.”

Discord reigns on Earth, because in the hearts of people the voice of love has not become the only one — in the knowledge of the cherished Will of God, the Holy Scriptures.

For this reason, Padre Pio assured me that it was God’s Will that the “Diary of Love” should enter every home around the world and help people to love the truth in the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.

Words from the “Diary…” will become a light that will help to better understand the truth, and people’s hearts will be able to hear the voice of God’s Love.

God’s Love will be established in hearts to unite people in His peace and harmony. The voice of our God will dispel the “black clouds” hanging over the minds of people who prevent the Light of the Lord’s Sun from giving the world its life, in which love, joy, health and wealth for all.

The Holy Spirit called me through Padre Pio to tell me how he lives with us, so I have to pass on to you everything he said to me.

The Holy Spirit speaks in everyone, the Father lives in him. The Father speaks the same Truth to all His true children. He speaks to me so that you may know that He loves you. I am just like you. He is us. In Him, we are me, just as you are, and just like Him. That is why I had to come to you, you — to come closer to me, to get to know better God’s Love in ourselves, to recognize me — in ourselves, because in Him, who is us, a part of me, I am a part of you, who is We. It is easy to know God only when we realize the connection that unites us in one common life, although it is different for everyone. He is one thing, we are another.

Our lives are happy only when we lovingly believe that the Love that unites us is Him in spreading unity with the Spirit, so that we become the Body of the Holy Spirit.

By loving God, we love our lives. If we love one another, we receive the gift of His joy. I wish to all of you, my friends and brethren in the whole world, that the voice of the Spirit of God will tear apart, scatter the clouds over your life with the thunder of Divine Love, come to each of you and shine with the Sun of Love.

Luigi Gaspari

DIARY OF LOVE
 

Only man condemns man.

Love is the forgiveness of all human transgressions.

To love is to give Love

To him who does not know Love,

To him who asks for Love,

To those who do not have Love,

To him who does not have the gift of Love,

To those who do not know how to ask for Love,

To those who know nothing about Love,

To those who do not know the power of Love,

He who considers himself unworthy to accept Love again, because he has been unfaithful to Love.

To my dear Luigi for his birthday

proof of my favor. I want to give him enough courage and strength,

so that he would carry my heart into the world…

Bologna, 8–9 April 1968

Tonight I will speak to you, listen to Me! What I will tell you is extremely important. It will be about Love, about Me. I want you to understand Me. I live in the heart of every person. My Love lives in the hearts of people. I am happy to be where I am welcomed with joy. My Heart gives you unity in Love.

Without Me, no union is strong. No union not for My sake and not in the name of My Heart can be called love.

My Love knows neither sadness nor sorrow. Mine is the purest joy. There is no joy apart from Me.

I am the One who helps you realize the worthlessness of your desires, the uselessness of your pleasures.

I want you to understand that everything you seek you will find in Me. Are you worried? What? Why?

Only come to me, and you will find the good you desire.

I am much more generous than you think and give you much more than you ask for.

What do you want from Me? Ask and you will receive.

What are you asking for? The true good? I will give it to you without hesitation.

You ask for a good that is not a good. I cannot give this, because I wish you well.

So what good do you want? I will give everything if you can receive Me with all your heart.

You never accept Me wholeheartedly. Sometimes you give Me a piece of your heart, but you leave another part for your own passions, for the search for something that is not Me.

It is useless to let you know that there is nothing without Me.

I often hide in the nook and cranny that you give to Me. I look. And what do I see?

I see you anxious, tired, disappointed and dissatisfied.

You are always anxious and don’t want to understand why.

The reason for the anxieties is that you do not know Me. I’m following you. I wait for but one sign from you, one word, to come out of the shelter in which you have placed me.

I am with you if you call, and even more so when you love me. Help you stay with Me, you only need to want Me, and I will become everything to you.

Having desired Me, you must put your full trust in Me. To trust in Me is to receive everything from My hands.

How tired I am of looking at you: you have no power that you can receive from Me, you have no Love that no one but Me will give you.

Almost all of your desires are bad for you. But often you don’t realize it. I will tell you what your true good is.

What is a blessing? This is peace of heart, this feeling of warmth, which is life.

How does this heat work? It warms you, ignites your heart, brings you the joy of life and love, gives you the strength to give this Love to others.

Isn’t that right? Yes, you know it yourself, because you have experienced it more than once. But why have we only experienced it a few times. But because at these moments I warmed you up, I did everything to give you the opportunity to know Me, to love Me.

And then? And then you failed, did not want to support Me. I have given you the freedom to choose your own paths. So what? That’s what’s with you! Now you are tired, devastated, left without Me. But I still live in you, and I miss the tiny corner you left for Me.

There I quietly await the moment of your grief, your suffering, to suffer and endure with you.

You bring trouble on yourself. I didn’t wish you that. But in times of suffering, I can go out to help you. And if you do not call me? I’ll hear it anyway and hurry to help. How? Just call Me — I will be with you right away. And if you do not call on Me directly, I will come to you in another way. Which one?

My way is a man, a man like you, a man who is not wholly Mine, but in part he is Me. And it is I who will help you through this person.

What do you do? Often you see and do not recognize Me, because I am speaking to you through a person, a person just like yourself. But in this man I live, your Lord.

What do you want from Me? I can give us everything: everything that belongs to Me, because I created all things.

Nothing is impossible for you, because with Me all things are possible. I myself belong to you, I am your property, therefore, everything that belongs to Me belongs to you too. So why are you worried?

All that I have, you also have, you only need to want it.

What am I asking you for? I ask you to believe Me, turn to Me with requests, trust and surrender to Me.

Are you afraid to give me anything? What exactly? What you give to Me is a trifle, nothing. I give you everything.

What does “all” mean?

Everything is knowledge of Me, of yourself, of everything that exists, of everything you see, of what you do not know. What you can know remains unknown to you. This unknowable you can only know through Me.

Why do I love you so much?

Because for your sake, I created the whole world and create everything that can make you happy, grateful and fill your hearts with love for Me.

Why do I long for your love? Because by multiplying your love, I will multiply your joy, your bliss. My mercy is infinite, and therefore I will infinitely increase your love for Me.

To strengthen your love, I do this: I increase your knowledge of Me. The more you love Me, the better you will know Me. I give the opportunity to know Me only to those who know how to love Me.

I respond with Love to the one who gives Me his love. I take away love from those who do not bring it to Me. And because I am Love, Love belongs entirely and completely to Me.

You cannot possess what is Mine, only Mine, unless I Myself give it. I have a gift for you — a test. I only test your will: prove that you are actually willing to love Me. All the rest I will do for you, for I will be all things to you.

My Heart is a huge lantern, always burning and knows no bounds. The flame is lit for you. My fire gives you life. Without My warmth, there will be no life. My warmth will supplant the coldness of a desolate heart. A living particle of Creation must be preserved in every heart. If your heart is devastated, dead, then this particle disappears, because everything is controlled by heartfelt Love.

And what do I do?

I warm you with My Warmth.

I fill the emptiness of your hearts with My Heart. With the warmth of My heart, I will keep you, save your life. But why do I do this?

For the sake of Love and the expectation of mutual love, I am compelled to replace you in what should have been your business.

I am an energy reserve that turns on when it is necessary to prevent a catastrophe. You bring about this catastrophe by wasting your energy reserve, but you also receive it from Me. I am a spare Heart that serves you all. Why then do you not love me? Why don’t you want to acknowledge Me? Why don’t you want to receive Me?

Because of your unstable, changing spirit, which is controlled by external impressions, messy thoughts coming from the world.

A fickle spirit cools your hearts and rejects Love.

How do you humble this spirit, how do you keep it under control? Try not to listen to thoughts that have no good, no love. You must fight impermanence, always obeying the law of Love.

If a person, a person like you, asks you for some small good, don’t ask him who he is. Give her the blessing she asks for. This good will unite her with you, and through My Love that lives in you, I will bind this person to Myself.

It is I who send people to ask you for some good and love in order to return them to Me, to My Heart, through that part of Me that is in you.

Do not reject those whom I send you, because they will become a part of you, and I will be yours in them because of the love you have managed to give them.

It is I who wanted to bring you together and unite you to keep you in My Heart. In Me you are one.

The loss of each of you means the reduction of each of you. You are all in mutual dependence, you are tied into a knot invisible to you. The knot is here inside My Heart.

Love is one. You are one when you partake of the infinite bliss contained in My Heart, which will become yours. Unite and nothing will scare you! Where I am, there is no sorrow!

Only one misfortune is your disunity. If you seek to love Me, you cannot share. I can’t break My Heart. And you, in order to enter here, to have the right to enter, you must certainly be united.

Strife deprives you of the opportunity to unite with Me in the heart alone. Be humble and affectionate, help each other and mutually correct each other, and never be separated.

Your unity is a joy to Me. I will fill you with caresses for the promise that you will love each other and never part.

When one of you tries to push the other away, I will intervene immediately. I will intervene with all my energy to prevent him.

This is My Will: let each of you take a small step towards the other, and I will put into action the power of My Heart.

In separation, remember each other, in memories give the opportunity to live with Me in you.

I will always be among you, only as you will constantly help to unite you more and more. Don’t be afraid for someone who is trying to distance yourself from you. Your love for him will help you overcome all obstacles.

In your desire to love is My Will. My Love is stronger than any confrontation.

Keep your desire for unity, your love for someone who is trying to distance himself. I know the road by which the fugitive will return to you. He will not be able to escape, and I will tell you why.

The person I sent to you was chosen by Me. You have returned it to My Heart. Now this person is bound by an invisible thread. Your will keeps in touch on this thread with My Heart.

This is how My connection with the fugitive happens, who will definitely return. This connection engenders in him patience and restlessness, which will continue until it is suddenly revealed to him that he has broken his connection with you and with Me.

I will protect your right to those you have loved and who are trying to escape from you. To flee from you is to flee from Me. I will immediately intercede for you because your unity is the fulfillment of My Will. By uniting with each other, you connect with Me.

Your separation is distant from Me.

Bologna, 9 April 1968
 

Today I turned forty-two years old. It’s already midnight. I still feel close to every heart, to the Heart of God. It was He who wished me all the best on my birthday. He is kind and affectionate to me, He wants me to stay with Him.

I’m confused and confused, I don’t know why.

In silence I listen to the beating of God’s Heart, which is overflowing with Love for me. I know that I am not worthy of such great love, but I am sure that I am not tempted.

It is He, indeed He: He looks at me, offers me His company. I do not feel alone, on the contrary: in my life I have never had such a firm conviction that I do not need anything. Tonight I have everything in my heart.

What is it, my heart, the beating heart in me? This is God, who knows my attraction to Him, my desire to get closer to Him. Without Him, I would be alone today with my many worries and would probably be sad. But things happened differently when I heard His voice encouraging me, reminding me that I should trust Him: He will give me good tomorrow too.

So tomorrow has come, and it seems to me that I have returned to the past. Into the past that I myself have forgotten, and which will forever remain present in His Heart. In the Heart of God, there is only a “now.”

It records my childhood and youth, and adulthood with Him I see again and experience every moment.

I have forgotten only those moments when I have shunned Him, I have lost the memory of those many times when I have not been faithful to Him.

How is it that I don’t remember my sins? Maybe it’s His will, a gift He brought me for my birthday? Only He can give such a generous gift: to help me forget the bad things I have done. In addition, connecting with His Heart, I hear the call to take courage, I am full of trust and confidence that He will fix everything.

What does the Heart of God expect of me?

It doesn’t ask anything from me. It is there to remind me: I must love as much as I can, I have strength, and as a result, I will feel His presence more and more. It will also teach me to recognize the places It prefers. Tomorrow I will unveil Him in a place that pleases Him. Out of grace to me, It will become tangible again, and maybe even visible.

It is tired of hiding, it wants to go out into the world to be seen, so it wished to come to me.

I don’t dare answer Him—I feel insecure. It convinced me that He was pleased to be with me. He will be offended by my answer: I do not feel worthy of such a great honor. I take His Heart in my arms and hold it to my chest as if I were a beloved friend.

What else can I give Him?

I can offer Him nothing but my sincere friendship and full unconditional trust. I have a little love, and I give Him this little, and from now on He is the one who does everything for me.

His heart is a friend whom I have been looking for all my life and have not found anywhere, now I have It, I have everything, because my friend is the Lord Himself.

God’s Heart conveys to me the warmth of this friendship. His friendship will make me a friend to all who are His friend, all those who desire to be His friend; it will make me a friend and that person who does not know that he has only one true friend: the Heart of God.

In my mind, I return to those who did not want to be my friend. Now, confident in His love, I am confident that I will be able to preserve the friendship of those to whom I am drawn. No doubt I will be able to take full possession of their love; completely, because I want to share it with them. It is He who will arrange everything for me now.

It is He who guides every step, and He will no longer tolerate those He has chosen to distance themselves from Him again, pretending as if they only want to run away from me.

His Heart is the guarantee of the return of all those whom He has called.

You can’t waste time anymore. The time has come for conversion, returning home.

It’s him. He desires it, He has decided so! By His will, His Heart triumphs in the hearts of all who love. The storm that had frightened His flock had passed. His heart is a rainbow that calls all of us to return together, listening to His will.

There are many misfortunes in the world, but the worst of all is illness. I call illness the unwillingness to understand what Love, His Love and Love for Him are capable of. It is an endless sea of blessings and joys, treasures that are open to few and that almost no one knows how to dispose of. The cure for this disease is in the same oceanless ocean in which a person can find everything and in which we have so far found almost nothing.

The blessing that we receive it comes from the fullness of His Heart, but now He wants us to learn to seek and ask. The reserves of his goods are inexhaustible, the riches given to us are limitless, and they will be given only to those who demand him and learn to ask him.

It is enough just to ask Him for help: a single ray emanating from His Heart will connect us with the source of everything, with the joy of all.

April 9, 1968. Morning
 

Sometimes love turns us into captives of someone’s heart, but I will set you free from the prison of that heart. I will deliver you, and you will lay down one heart with Me.

In My Heart you will listen to Me; in your hearts I will speak; I’ll tell you what’s good for you.

The blessing I want to bestow on you is the ability to always obey My voice. Learn to obey, and you will feel the truth take hold of you. In me you will hear the voices of all those you loved. For the love that united them with their mother, they are in My Heart. their Love for you, your Love for them — it was all Me.

The love that has been received from others and given will remain here, it lives in everything. Every one of your acts performed in love exists and continues to live in My Heart. Listen to the voices of your loved ones, this is My voice. Here you will regain everything you loved, all those you loved.

Bologna, April 9, 1968, 9 a.m.

I have known you from time immemorial — you who bring love to the world. I am the Love that you bring to the world, because you were born of Me. I was the one who demanded you: My Heart brought you into the world, because you are I, you are the being. You are My Heart, which gives warmth to the world.

He who loves you, loves Me too, who truly loves Me, will be able to recognize Me in you, because through you I reveal Myself. Those who drive you away drive Me away.

But when it comes to pass that you weep, know this: it is I who weep. And your joy will be My joy.

You will not weep out of pity for yourselves, nor, knowing My presence, you will also feel the injustice that is being done against Me, and you will comfort Me, because you will want all things to return to you for My sake, because those who return to you return to Me.

My Love for you will be a support for everyone who asks you for help or still asks. The gratitude that binds Me to you is so great that you can only ask for it, and your request will become a command for Me. I will give Myself and give Myself to all those whom you bring to Me. The people I send to you are those who have directly called upon Me for help in times of grief, having performed even a small act of love. This act gives Me the right to send them to you.

I am sending them to you, because you have come to know me, and you will call me to him who seeks me and teach him, although you yourselves do not know for sure who I am and what I can give. You only know what I can do, because you yourselves know how to do it by virtue of the bonds that unite you and Me.

Today is a great holiday — for you, for Me and for everyone. This is the holiday of My intimate conversation with you, conversations with your friends. I speak today to the whole world that seeks the truth and prays for it.

All who seek the truth will find it. All who believe in Me in the power of what I have spoken will also believe what I am about to tell you.

I am the One who chose this day to talk to you, to talk to everyone. Today is the forty-second day of your birth. On this day, I am here, next to you. I give you the strength and courage to move on, to continue looking for ways to bring peace and joy of heart. I know that has always been your greatest desire. That desire was My desire: I awakened it in your heart.

Now you know, because you really wanted it and you knew how to look for Me in the heart of every person with whom you got close.

Now I will reveal to you an idea, the foundations of which have been laid since ancient times. Don’t try to explore it: I myself will give you everything you need, and every day and every moment I will give you as something new. Thanks to Me you will see what you have not seen yet, thanks to Me you will understand what you did not understand before.

You dare not ask Me why I am doing this, You must just believe, believe firmly, that I have decided so.

Now it’s still early, the day will come and you will know the reasons for my decision. Your life will flow in the same way as the lives of many people, only one thing will distinguish you from others — the constant knowledge of My presence. What you do will be done by My will: nothing will happen by chance, I will prepare everything.

I will not allow anyone to judge what you do. It’s time to speak clearly and authoritatively. I need you to use influence, I will give you enough influence so that people can know you. Because of your authority, you will be able to explain My purpose to people. Authority is given to you so that you may love those sick whom I sent to you when they did not know Me.

This is the love I expected from you. This is what I want from all others, especially from those who claim to be in My service. But I will not serve those who desire to be served, but pretend to serve Me. In fact, these people want to make Me their slave because they know how much is in My power. They know that everything is in My hand, and therefore they bow down before Me. Their worship is a recognition of My might, My omnipresence.

But this inclination, this way of knowing Me is not at all what I want. I give preference to those who do not bow down before Me at all, because they are unaware of My might. These people are not so guilty, and with them I can achieve more if I let them know Myself.

Not everyone who bows down before Me and weeps before Me and begs Me truly loves Me. Much more often, such a person sees Me as a hostage to his own selfish aspirations. In the same way, those who have loved Me very often behave with you. These people know, they feel that out of love for you, I will not be able to refuse them, that is why they so often ask you what they have not been able to ask of Me.

In My eyes, their request was unrighteous. That is why you so often have to be disappointed in those who turn to you with feigned love.

And those whom I have listened to (solely out of love for you) believe that they have succeeded in deceiving you. They are wrong. Yes, they tried to deceive you, to steal Me from you, but I know their plan in advance. I predicted everything. And when I give them anything, it is only so that they are indebted to you who have loved them. All that they have undeservedly received from Me belongs to you, and they have it because of your constant prayer.

All good things belong to Me and you alone, and those goods that you have asked of Me for the satisfaction of these people will become a fire that will burn them if they forget to thank you and Me.

I am not vindictive, for their opposition will not take Me by surprise. I know people’s hearts. I often rebel against those who try to disrupt My plans, and I will certainly go against anyone who opposes you, who wishes to prevent you from carrying out My plan. I do not retaliate, I defend my statute against everyone and everything.

I will not allow cunning, sophisticated, malicious, corrupt people to judge even a fraction of you, those who love Me. Are you ready to serve Me? I will be a harsh judge for all those who dare to judge you. My Heart is devoted to the world. My love for you will be turned into a condemnation for all those who despise you; My Love for you will turn into compassion and love for all those who show signs of love and respect for you, even when such a person is severely guilty. I will be a friend to all those who will be your friend.

If I were not what I say I am, if you believed Me, that I love you, that I stay with you, that I protect everything you come across?

I will do much more for you than you can see or imagine in advance. I will take away all your sins. I am not affected by the desires that the world has awakened in you. I have received you into the world along with all the errors of the world; in this world I want to transform you. I know how to turn even your acquaintance with evil into good.

Your experience has given you knowledge, you will know the evil in yourself and then you can overcome it in those whom I send you.

I want you not to be afraid: fear is a sign of weakness. Your fear means that you do not believe in My power. My power conquers all the delusions of the world. My power will smooth out any fall you make.

I ask you only one thing: to accept Me into your heart and trust that My strength will balance all your weaknesses. I am your strength. Remember: I’m not going to become a judge. I want to enjoy your trust. I want to be a good advisor for you. I ask you: never doubt My goodwill towards you. I will give you everything you need for your happiness. I will save you from all sorrows. Entrust Me with your sorrow, and I will give you joy in return. I am your Good, because it was I who brought you into the world. You are placed in My Heart, and I am placed in yours.

Bologna, April 9, 1968. Evening

The good that you return to Me multiplies mercy to all people. My great Love for you makes Me more merciful to everyone. Everyone will receive their share of benefits thanks to that love that you have returned to me: because of the love for you I will not be harsh to others either.

But I will be very strict if Love is offended. That love that unites you and Me. Being united with Me means that you must give Me the opportunity to act.

If you want to right a mistake or someone else’s injustice, give Me a full

freedom of action. You yourselves often disturb Me with your manner. Your spirit remains under the influence of people who are unbelievers and distrustful. I know what they have to offer you, and I know these counselors: therefore, leave it, I will set things right for you myself.

I need your experience because My love for you increases My attention to your desires and your mistakes.

Above all, I value voluntary consent. I respect freedom of choice and often accept your choices, even if they are wrong.

I don’t care about your mistakes. I will be able to put everything in its place. I ask you to obey Me, and I leave you a choice. You should not be deprived of your agency at all because you begin to obey Me.

You can choose the path that seems best to you in life — there are many ways. If you want, I will tell you the easiest way, the least risky, the most pleasant for you. I don’t care what position in the world and what occupation you give preference to when choosing. It is important to me that you choose Me as your guide.

I will protect you from dangers that you will not be able to see with your own eyes: from the deceit of those who are hostile to Me. I know them all.

It often happens that you already possess the goods you are looking for, but you yourself do not know it; you hold them in your hands, but I must intervene to open your eyes.

Often you cannot use all that I have in store for you because your hidden enemies are hiding the good from you or trying to steal it.

Ask me, and I will tell you what belongs to you. I will not allow others without any right to appropriate what belongs to you.

When you ask Me, you must express yourself as clearly as possible, because in order to fulfill your request, I must understand it.

Your words will be reflected in My Heart as you say them. It is worth thinking hard and thinking again before turning to Me with a request; try to understand for yourselves what you want from Me. If you yourself are not sure of your desires, if you are afraid that what you ask of Me will return to your detriment later, then it is better to ask Me for advice. I will advise you to ask for what you urgently need, what will be best for you, what will make you happy, what will meet the desires of your heart.

It is easy and simple for you to listen to My answer. I will give you deep confidence in the correctness of My words. But you need to tune in so that you can listen to Me.

Do not rush, do not be presumptuous, doubt the wisdom of your desire to the end. When you doubt yourself, then you will begin to listen to Me, to feel My presence. Only then will you understand and know for sure that it is I who am talking to you. You will understand My language because it is the simplest and most persuasive. In those moments when I advise you, all doubt disappears. If you continue to doubt, then it is me again. I awaken doubts in you so that you ask Me for advice. You should always wait for the confidence that I give you after you humbly and patiently ask Me to be free from doubt.

The knowledge that you use most often, from which you become stronger, more generous, happier, will become the true treasury of your spirit, your life — learn only to resort to My guidance.

In one day, in an instant, I can give you more knowledge than you are capable of acquiring in a lifetime. Only in direct conversation with Me will you be able to know yourself.

I know you: I know who you are, where you came from, where you are going. Your life is flowing with a stream of energy from My desire to give you Myself and all that I possess.

My energy has created this flesh, which serves as the outer shell of your spirit. Your spirit existed even before it was wrapped in flesh. Your being comes from My Spirit, which was directed to the first man. The same Spirit, My Spirit, who gives life to every Jewish woman, reaches you through various channels. This is how My Spirit connects with ours through various channels. The Spirit that has connected with your consciousness guides and commands your heart, the Love that lives in your heart, this is My unceasing presence. Your heart is beautiful because of this love I feel for you.

But although My love makes your heart good, your spirit is able to draw it into countless passions that stain the soul. A spirit weighed down by passions (greed, lust, envy) leads to defilement of your thoughts. Thoughts joins the spirit in the desire to destroy the spirit of love in the soul. And having lost the spirit of love, you become a prey and a victim of carnal passions.

The passions of the flesh are at enmity and rebel against each other (envy). Only your heart can save you, it is the magnet that I have set in you. I am using this magnet to draw you back to Myself.

Even when the spirit has damaged this magnet in the pursuit of passions hostile to Love, your heart will still remain the seat of My love for you. I draw your hearts to Myself. I force the spirit to renounce disproportionate, unhealthy encroachments.

My love is stronger than all passions. With your love for someone who has fallen victim to passions, you will be able to return Me to his heart. The love that I will kindle in his heart will be a light to his spirit. The mind, enlightened by My Love, will be united with My Holy Spirit, who will give rise to understanding and fruitful thought in it, the Holy Spirit, who gives you joy and peace, a calm agreement between your mind and your heart.

Rome, April 11, 1968, Holy Thursday

I was a man, a man like you. And gave me to you to kill in order to have access to your hearts, to gain the right to give you the Love of My Heart.

My Heart belongs to you, it is always ready to help you take possession of the hearts of other people. This way I have revealed to you by My sufferings, the way into the human heart.

It is possible to somehow weave into the mind of a person, but the heart must be captured by force: when you capture the heart of a person, it will begin to rule it with the spirit and teach the spirit to want the same thing that the heart wants and commands. The power that draws people’s hearts to you is not violence. It is in humility, in kindness, in sacrifice and self-restraint, in the constancy of desires.

The only strength is the constancy of the will not to give up the desire to enter this heart. My Death on the Cross opened this door to you. I have also prepared a key for you with which you can open that door again when you find it closed. This key is My Heart, it belongs to you, whenever you ask Me to open the closed doors of the human heart. I will enter this heart with you. If I were to enter there without you, I would not be able to establish a connection between the two of you, each of you would then be bound only to Me and not to the others. I, on the contrary, want to unite you all in Me and through Me. That is why I always choose one of you and will continue to choose the person to whom I have given Myself and give in order to bring everyone together.

This choice I made on the Cross, in a moment of mortal fear. At that moment, the Father allowed Me to choose among you the most suitable, those who know how to express their thoughts better than others, in order to pass on to them the knowledge of Me and all that I have received from the Father for your good, all that you can do thanks to Me.

Your hope for the preservation of peace, your hope for a friendly and harmonious life of people together, is based on the choice I made then.

Those people who took such an important part in saving the world from ultimate destruction were among those whom I then chosen. Those of the few who now live in the world to give themselves to all, are increasingly transmitting to you the empathy and forgiveness of the Father, the empathy and forgiveness that I have begged and suffered for all of you. These people who now live among you will be filled with a strength that will be able to resist the impermanence generated by the dominance of greed and lust.

This is the power of My Love, which reaches you with all the ropes, you whom I chose at the moment of My Death, in the time of mortal fear. In Me is the source of all good things, all the treasures that you will receive. I find ways to pass them on to you. When you forget that I am the source of all good things, you have to start all over again, examining over and over again those problems that confuse you, depriving you of pleasure even when you are satisfied with what you have received for nothing, for only gratitude will allow you to constantly enjoy accepting My gifts.

You shouldn’t dig into the reasons for everything you don’t understand. You would be able to understand everything if you only managed to stop asking. You must patiently and cheerfully wait for the light that will take hold of you and become the solution to all your issues. It will shine in you when you are finally satisfied, when you rejoice in what you already know, what you already have, when you no longer want to see, receive anything and learn about it. Our whole being should be overflowing with gratitude and love. When you manage to tune in in this way, you will be able to get more than this and much more that you did not even think that you would like to see, understand or receive Your gratitude gives you all the rights, it will become our right to the one who will allow you to see everything, understand everything and master everything.

If you have to squander goods on a person who does not try to know Me, who does not seek Me, who does not love the truth, remember: it is this person who will be the instrument, and with the help of which I will try even more, to get closer to you, to bind you even more to myself. I want you to feel My presence more and more trusting and joyful every minute; I will speak to you in silence about that person who does not want to speak to you, who is not allowed to speak to you about Me. This silence will become, for you who have loved Me, the moment when you will love Me even more, because you will not find Me in that person who does not allow you to feel My presence.

This silence will become for you a moment of searching, a moment of fear, because it will seem to you that you too can lose Me, offend Me, push You away in such a way that I myself will leave you, lose the desire to convey to you My love, My plans, My will.

But I never revise My plans, I do not change the decision I have already made. My choice has been made, and I will not leave you for a moment without My attention, My care, My love.

I lead you to always maintain a lively and effective will in the search for truth, the will to seek those benefits that I have already determined to give you. I want to give you the joy of representing Me in the world. I will give you the power so that you can speak and do what the world cannot say and do.

I would like to save you so that the turmoil and chaotic ideas of a fragmented humanity do not take away from you the inspiration and joy that you so desperately need to continue your search for truth and to acquaint others with this truth.

It is only for the sake of love for you that I allow this confusion so that later you will be loved even more, so that you will unite more closely with each other and continue to love truth and justice even more.

I have chosen you to be a mirror of truth, I will keep you from untruth, and you will never be caught by the forces of deception. I deprive the deceitful spirit of the power of persuasion, because I have given us the light of truth. All false and malicious attacks on the truth are hidden in the shadows. Shadow is a lack of energy, a lack of vitality, it is death and decomposition.

Everything that lives, everything that will live, is warmed by the warmth of My rays; everything that remains in the shadows will die away.

Only he who walks in the truth who submits his whole being to the duty to achieve a greater knowledge of the truth and will try to use this knowledge. This humble quest will teach you to see that you yourself are incapable of creating your own truth. The truth that a person creates for himself and tries to impose on other people is only a trick of lies. He who seeks the truth, which has helped him to take possession of all people, destroys himself, but not the Truth.

My truth has given freedom even to untruth: falsehood falls into confusion, it calls for violence and discord, because it is afraid of the power of truth.

The power of truth lies in patiently waiting for the decay and death of one who cannot survive because he is deprived of the light and warmth of My truth.

You, who deal with human untruth, must overcome within yourselves every influence that does not come from the truth, every tendency to be fearful in the face of evil caused by the onslaught of lies. Only in truth will I be able to help you find your way back to your bliss.

Your task is to demand My intervention, which will shut you off from people full of anger and avarice, who want to rule over everyone and everything.

The disintegration of their unrighteous speculations is necessary and irreversible. I will prepare this decay when you ask Me for it for love’s sake. Your prayers will help to cleanse and strengthen all areas where unrighteousness spreads and thereby cause immeasurable losses to the whole world. The power I entrust to you is not to impose the truth on anyone, this power heals from lies. Whenever it is possible to drive away lies, the truth will find its ways.

The destruction of a single lie is already the triumph of truth, goodness and love, it is the triumph of My greatest affection and benevolence for all of you, since together with the truth I Myself appear to you.

I alone am your Lord, the Lord, who has given you comfort, peace, all treasures and joy. To fight against untruth is to spread grace around oneself; to speak of Me and discover new and new truths. If you have loved the truth, you have loved me also. He who loved the truth in the name of truth itself, he loved and knew Me. The love of truth motivates you to seek that truth, and we can only get along with it with Me. To accept the truth under someone’s influence, either out of fear or for the sake of some reward, does not at all mean to love the truth, for only love gives you the closest union with Me, and only love can lead to the truth and allow you to know the truth. The truth is only in Me. I know all kinds of lies that exist around you. The smallest untruth, as well as the greatest, turns out to be an insurmountable obstacle to your peaceful life, to the continuation of spiritual existence and to the elevation of the soul, in which there is happiness. Many good people do nothing good for themselves or for others, their kindness is limited to the fact that they do not harm anyone, and wishing to live in peace and tranquility, they do not show any resistance to the spread of errors, which they may well see and recognize. I will not call these people good. They are responsible for spreading lies and sin that will affect everyone. Their passivity contributes to the activity of spirits who bring disorder into your life.

Only he who opposes falsehood, who fights it in himself for his own sake and for the sake of others, is worthy of my help to him, and then he triumphs over all the enemies of the truth. He who is inclined to compromise with human lies will never have Me as a helper.

I will not stand next to a person who indulges lies in other people and demands My help and consent by making this covenant with falsehoods. I will not help this person because he does not believe in Me, he does not believe in the invincible power of truth. She will fight one-on-one, and the falsehood she tried to mitigate will destroy her. And even if he turns to Me with sincere, fervent prayer, he will not be able to complete the work he has planned.

I am involved in these cases. I listen to the prayers of those who wanted to stand up for only one cause — for the truth, in the name of the triumph of justice and love.

I will not listen to a prayer that is not directed to this. The goal you set for yourself should be acceptable to Me. I’m correcting your mistakes, I’m leveling the road you’ll have to walk. I will protect both you and the people dear to you from the treachery of enemies… I will remove all those who try to put obstacles in your way, lie to you and separate you from people. I will not allow anyone to injure you in your efforts to win the hearts of those who listen to you, no matter how experienced and accustomed to power your enemy may be. I will identify all those who will try to confuse you. I will overthrow the pride of all those who wish to dare to humiliate you. I myself will humiliate them And deprive of the power of those who dare to demand against you that you cease to proclaim the truth we have learned. All gossip about you, about your way of life, about your human weaknesses will remain powerless. Any gossip that is invented about you will turn into a punishment for the one who created it and repeats it. These people will bitterly repent that they have treated you as defenseless creatures who have neither the means nor the ability to fend for themselves. I will stand for you. Let this serve as a warning to everyone. They will fall victim to their mistakes, and for you they will serve as an example and confirmation of My intercession.

I want the supreme good to triumph, so that I conquer the power of evil. For the good of all, I let you know the great hope that dwells in us, so that you who have loved Me may find the right way.

This is the path that leads to true faith, where all can attain My constant presence and My constant help.

San Giovanni Rotondo, April 13, 1968, Holy Saturday

I am present in a special way where there is a desire to know Me and a will to love Me. Your desire to know Me becomes for you a gift that you yourself want and that I desire for you. Once you have come to know Me, it is the duty of your will to maintain constancy in your love for Me. From now on, your will must become My only will as long as you love Me. You must ask Me for constancy in love, always ask for will and constancy in love for Me.

Prayer will be an encounter with Me for you, a conversation in which you will give Me your hearts with all the love in them.

Your words, spoken in silence, will become an instrument of creation: they will build for you a world like Mine, for My world will be yours through the love that you wish to give Me.

My Spirit will create for you all that you ask for in love and for My Love.

My thought will turn into your thought, revealing to you all that I desire and think about: what I desire will become a desire for you too.

The light of My eyes will be reflected in your eyes.

My gaze will penetrate where you cannot see when My light is reflected in you.

In areas without light with special brightness, your light should shine. Your light will become stronger and brighter because of the sincere prayer with which you turn to Me. Sincerity and fervor in prayer increases My love for you, as well as the power of light in your eyes, and you will be able to see in the twilight and illuminate it for others.

When you understand how closely you are connected with the Creator, then you will believe that you too can create with Him, recreating spiritual life where there was no spirit.

The Word that binds you and Me will transmit light to other people. The word addressed to the Holy Spirit is an expression of man’s heartfelt love for his Creator.

This word becomes a prayer, thanksgiving, a gift of love. As a gift of love, the word of man becomes the creator and source of all blessings. When you give Me what you have and give everything for the sake of Love, I will create for you in return everything that you ask for with love, that will inspire your words. In this case, the words you say are an expression of My will. The creative power of each of your words will be a manifestation of My Spirit as it seeks to give shape to the desires expressed in your words or your thoughts.

The thoughts with which you address Me in silence become your heartfelt conversation with Me, become words that I alone listen to and keep secret of My heart and yours. All your thoughts become a secret conversation between Me and you.

Thoughts that depart from Me still cannot separate Me from you. I am always there, even when you expect that I am not with you. My presence is invisible to an embittered heart that has given itself entirely to the profit of the created or to the acquisition of those things that were created by men out of greed or the desire for dominion.

Mastery of all that I have created for you cannot for long appease the greed of your hearts. This insatiable greed of your hearts draws the very heart, draws your mind to continue to seek and acquire something else, with the hope of finally calming the heart, which still wants something.

But everything you acquire, everything that goes as your share of what has been created, cannot forever rid you of heartfelt discontent. You will never be able to fill your hearts, even when you receive all that I have created for you.

All your gains delight you, for all that I have created for you is intended only as an instrument.

All created things are instruments that I give to you, so that you may be able to find your Creator again in the creations, so that you may see Him in beings like you, so that you may love Him in those people who have been able to find Him again, so that you may love Him in everyone in whom He appears to you, in order to call you to seek, to seek Him. When you meet people who say they can do wonderfully without Me, remember that they too are essential evidence of My presence in all things. The power of My Love for you who have loved Me will convince you that I am present even in those who consider themselves ungodly.

I only wait for you to ask Me, by the joint effort of your heart and My heart, to arouse the love of all those people who have not learned to love Me or do not want to love Me; the love of those people who say that they do not know Me and have no need of Me; the love of those people who say that I do not exist, because they have not yet been touched by the warmth of your hearts, the hearts to whom I have given My Love, in order to convey through you to all people the Love given to you.

I want to unite you all in Me and I am waiting for our request to connect you with others, to give yourself and other people for your sake.

I am already present in the ungodly. I am in them, waiting for you there. I await your prayer for unity. This prayer will allow us to manifest My ancient presence where man himself denied My existence. I am already acting in this person. I hide in it and call us to a place where you can fully stand up for your love for Me.

I am not calling you to defend My existence or My presence in a dispute. I call you only so that you may love Me in this person, so that you may see and love the discovery of light, the triumph of all the joys that you yourselves will be able to prepare in Me for all of you.

You should not deliberately seek to meet atheists you do not know, you should simply love them in Me. Your business is to strive for love, seek, give it, thereby trying to satisfy the insatiable desires of your heart.

After all, the heart first of all asks for only one thing: love for people, love for Creation, love for the unity contained in one and only Heart, in a Heart that always remains satisfied and joyful, receiving everything created by Him.

The path that each of you must travel, indicated by My love, it will lead your hearts.

When you encounter strong resistance, you will try to overcome this obstacle, return it and then continue on your way. The resistance of love is the obstacle that you must overcome in order to gain knowledge. Behind every obstacle is I, ready to come to your aid if you yourself fail to overcome this obstacle.

Love always eludes you, moves forward, rises up, it calls you behind it to go further and further and look for it. The love you will find again will be greater than that which you have previously lost, and you will have a better understanding of what Love means. I’m always a few steps ahead of you. I am waiting for you ahead and above, I will allow you to see and understand everything from above.

The road of Love knows no end. Your engine is My Heart. My Spirit guides you to overcome the threshold in your heart. I draw your heart to My Heart, and your heart will enter My Heart and they will become the only engine.

When you withdraw into yourself, when you doubt, when you are in danger, I stop and wait for you to come to your aid at the first call.

I turn on My engine and move you from where you are stuck. I help you avoid new dangers.

And together with Me you will again walk the road that leads to the summit prepared for you. “No one entered heaven except the one who came down from heaven: the Son of Man! Therefore, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be exalted, so that everyone who believes in Him may live eternal life… He that believeth in Him shall not be condemned, but he that believeth not,

he is already condemned, because he did not believe in the name of the Only-begotten Son of God. And this judgment is this: Light has come into the world, but men have loved darkness more than light, for their works were evil.” —Jn. 3. 13, 15, 18–19).

San Giovanni Rotondo, April 14, 1968, Resurrection of Christ

The Creator is present in all His creations. Today I am resurrected to put your life into the hands of the Father. I have adopted each of you for Him. I have sacrificed Myself for each of you. The Father accepted the Sacrifice, and My Resurrection raises each of you from the sleep of death.

I leave you the gift and proof of My constant presence, which you will be able to find in any creation, in every person. This gift means that you and all of Creation are accepted into the Father’s Love.

My heart has bled. It died to give Life to your life. The life that My Heart has given you has renewed your union with Me and My Father.

The blood of My Heart has joined with the blood of your hearts. Through love for My shed Blood, the Father accepted My love for your life, transferred His Love to your blood. Your life now lives in the Love of God.

The Father’s love for Me has been transformed into His Love for each of you. All of His Creation has entered into His Love, all of Creation has been united with your life, with My life in you. Therefore, as long as you live in Me alone, you can achieve everything; in created things, in those things that you have chosen from all Creation, you will find Him who created them again. Only by wanting to master what you love and loving what you own can you get everything you desire. This is the law of My Heart, the law of Love. He who asks for the love of the one who already loves him will undoubtedly receive both love itself and all those things that are at the disposal of the lover; That person can be sure that he will receive all that he has created and can create love. My death and Resurrection for your sake have given you the right to ask and offer something from yourself in order to receive what you ask for: what little you possess, you can give to Me in order to receive in return the good that is not created. Having received these rights, you become with Me partakers of all My inheritance. I will share all things with you, and there will be nothing left that I do not possess and you do not possess.

I died for you on the Cross. I have suffered in your place and have been given the right to ask you for love, for the sake of the full love I have shown you. I have not risen to distance myself from you, but to help you also to be resurrected with Me. I have returned to my Father’s kingdom to send you all the best. I have taken the place assigned to Me to help you reach the place prepared for you.

I will return to you again, as I have done once, to ask you again to keep Me with you. My Blood and My Body have remained with you, they are only waiting for the hour for you to use Them.

My Spirit is occupied with only one thing: He listens to see if anyone is calling to Him for help, if anyone is ready to receive Him.

It is difficult for Me to wait for the call that I need to come to your aid; without waiting for him, I send you a man who knows how to pray to Me and keep Me in his heart. This person, whom I send to you to help you, will be able to tell about Me in the name of love, which has united us and continues to unite; the person I am sending you has already risen with Me.

So that you too may be resurrected, I send you this person who has already been resurrected, a person who will teach you how to be resurrected as soon as you give the slightest sign that you are longing for Me or My Resurrection.

My and your Resurrection means that your life will come alive again in Mine. It means that I will give you yourself again, I will keep love in our lives: love for Me will become a resurrected and renewed desire, an accumulation and triumph of all blessings, all that Risen Love can give you.

San Giovanni Rotondo, April 15, 1968

Love is care and care. She cares for everything, for everything, and for everyone she finds nourishment that strengthens love, because she longs to be known and known again.

You often do not want to recognize the gifts that are given to you by the Lord’s care. Lack of gratitude becomes an obstacle for you to know the ways in which you could maintain direct and constant communion with Me, those roads that I have foreseen from time immemorial for your good.

I cannot refuse any of what you ask of Me, for I Myself want to give you all the best. I am even obliged to give you all the goods, all the riches, if you use them to increase your ability to give Me to others. Therefore, I will take care of what you desire, if only you will learn at the same time to increase your gratitude for the Lord’s Care.

Thank Me for the scanty things you already possess.

Gratitude directed to Me will increase your satisfaction with what you already possess, because when you thank Me, My Love for you and for those gifts that you have already recognized as Mine increases. My Love, directed to those gifts, will enhance your ability to enjoy them.

Gratitude is an understanding of how great My Love is; it is the belief that I am willing to give you all that belongs to Me.

I will give you everything that you would like to possess, if in your desire to possess these goods you also manage to confirm that you want to strengthen My love for you and your love for Me, because only in love, in the recognition of the constant presence of My Love, will you be able to enjoy in peace all that My Love gives you.

Multiply your love for Me, multiply your gratitude for My Care, then you can confidently expect both My Gifts and My Care. I will give you all the gifts in bountiful abundance.

You try to give Me all the love you have, I will give you all my care and all My Love. I give you everything, because I have already given you My Heart. Everything can be done by the Love that lives in you, that lives in your heart, once Mine, and now yours… I give you your little hearts in return, if only you would give them to Me whole. WHEN YOU GIVE ME A LITTLE OF WHAT YOU POSSESS, AN IRREPRESSIBLE DESIRE IS BORN IN ME TO GIVE MY WHOLE HEART TO YOU FOR IT. I WILL BE ABLE TO FIT MY BIG HEART IN YOUR LITTLE HEARTS. Love, and you will receive all that has been created, and the very source of love will belong to you.

I love you more than you can imagine. I am constantly exposing Myself to free you from a punishment far harsher than that which you have hitherto endured. It is not I who inflict punishment on you. You yourself attract it to you, because you are abusing creation, and at the same time you are misusing your very life.

IF YOU DENY ME LOVE, YOU YOURSELF WILL LOSE LOVE, INCLUDING FOR THOSE THINGS THAT I HAVE CREATED FOR YOUR GOOD.

Only My Love gives you growth and prosperity. All things were created for you. THOSE GOOD THINGS THAT I GIVE YOU, YOU TURN INTO EMPTY ONES, MY GOOD GIFTS TURN INTO HARM TO YOU. WHAT YOU WORRY ABOUT, WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO CHERISH AND WALK WITH EVER-INCREASING LOVE, BECOMES EVIL FOR YOU. ONLY MY LOVE PRESERVES VITALITY BOTH IN YOURSELVES AND IN EVERY GOOD THAT YOU ENJOY.

When you have no or little love, that love, which is life, is forced to withdraw both from yourself and from all creation. BUT YOU WILL ALL FIND LIFE ONLY WHEN YOU BECOME UNITED IN LOVE.

I’m not punishing you. WHEN YOU SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM LIFE, YOU DEPRIVE ANY FORM OF LIFE OF ALL CREATION AND DENY IT NOURISHMENT FROM THE SOURCE THAT PRESERVES LIFE IN CREATION: MY LOVE.

When you do not accept the Love that I give you and ask of you, I am forced to distance yourself from you, to distance yourself, because you do not want Me. By driving Me away, you are driving away the One Who gave you life and Who can keep you alive if you unite in Love. WHEN THIS LOVE MOVES AWAY FROM YOU, YOU LOSE ALL THOSE GIFTS THAT LOVE ALONE CAN GIVE YOU, A LOVE THAT PRESERVES LIFE AND YOURSELF.

The surrounding nature cannot be preserved without the warmth and light of Love, which is life. YOUR LIFE WILL NOT WITHSTAND THE BREATH OF COLD, THE LACK OF THE WARMING WARMTH OF MY LOVE. You will not have peace without that Light that gives you both knowledge and love to connect you to one another. THE ABSENCE OF MY LOVE ALSO MEANS THE ABSENCE OF LOVE AMONG YOU FOR ONE ANOTHER; THE ABSENCE OF MY LOVE BECOMES HATRED THAT WILL FREEZE YOUR LIFE; WHICH WILL LEAD TO A COOLING IN YOUR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS; IT WILL STRIKE YOU AND DRINK YOUR BLOOD, AND EVENTUALLY LIFE ITSELF.

San Giovanni Rotondo, April 16, 1968

I want to teach you so that you accept My Heart and be able to live in Love. My Heart will teach you how to win people’s hearts. I will teach you to address all men with love, for this is the only way to give peace to men; the only hope to establish unity among peoples who fight each other in the name of justice — their justice — is hatred that divides and kills all; they fight for a truth in which there is no freedom, which makes them slaves to their own selfishness, which, for the sake of human passions, destroys this Freedom contained only in My Spirit, which reaches man.

MY SPIRIT IS LIFE, IT PRESERVES YOUR LIFE AS WELL. My Spirit gives you the right to freely give Me the Love that I have given to your hearts. I give you the freedom to prefer My Love over your idle vanity of dominating men; I give you the liberty to possess those goods, those gifts of the spirit, which are prepared for you; I GIVE YOU COMPLETE FREEDOM IN EVERYTHING, BECAUSE YOU MUST FREELY CHOOSE ME, and only then will I be able to reward those noble ones who have given everything to Me. These people know and believe that they have received everything only from Me.

Your faith in Me, your faith that I have given you along with life and everything else, means that you have recognized Everything in Me, you have recognized in Me your true God.

Distrust forces you to turn any of you into God, to adore your passions, to adore your untruth. YOUR “I”, WHICH WANTS TO MAKE A GOD OUT OF A PERSON, BECOMES THE CAUSE OF DISCORD BETWEEN PEOPLE, THE CAUSE OF THEIR STRUGGLES, WARS, GENERAL DEVASTATION, MISFORTUNE AND DESTRUCTION. THERE IS ONLY RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE. Justice is love for the Truth of God, who belongs to all.

I have called upon you to bring My Heart to the world, to awaken IN ALL THE REALIZATION THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUTH, ONLY ONE RIGHTEOUSNESS: LOVE FOR ME, LOVE FOR THE HEART OF GOD. ONLY IN THE HEART OF GOD WILL YOU ALL BE ABLE TO FIND THE TRUTH AND THAT JUSTICE THAT YOU HAVE SOUGHT IN VAIN AND SOUGHT ELSEWHERE. MY HEART, THE HEART OF GOD, CALLS YOU TO UNITE WITH ONE ANOTHER; ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE COME TO KNOW ME, ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE LOVED ME, ALL OF YOU WHO PROFESS TO LOVE ME. WHEN YOU CONNECT, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DRAW CLOSER TO ME SO THAT I CAN HELP ALL OF YOU TO GET TO KNOW ME BETTER, TO GAIN ME MORE EVERY HOUR, TO LOVE ME MORE AND MORE EVERY HOUR. Your trust in My Power will also increase, and you will feel that you yourself are able to win for Me the hearts of those you love, the hearts of those you love

Those who do not have Me;

Those who do not know Me;

Those who have not been able to find Me;

Those who ask you about Me;

Those who do not know what I can give them;

Those who consider themselves unworthy to find Me, because they remember their unfaithfulness.

And do not let the coldness of hearts trouble you, which do not want to pay attention to you, to listen to you, as you speak of Me, who have denied and deny Me: your willingness to love all who do not listen to you has not been in vain.

ARRIVE CONSTANT IN YOUR DESIRE TO AWAKEN LOVE IN THEM, STUBBORNLY HOLD ON, LOVING EVERYONE FOR MY SAKE. MY LOVE FOR YOU WILL OPEN MANY HEARTS FOR YOU that seemed to be indifferent to both your call and My Love. For many of those indifferent YOUR LOVE IN THEIR LAST HOUR WILL BECOME MY MERCY. My Love for you will be My Mercy for all those who have been constantly in your heart, even if they never listened to you. THEY WILL FIND LOVE IN YOUR HEART, WHICH YOU CAN OFFER ME IN THEIR PLACE. I WILL RESPECT THE LOVE THAT YOU HAVE FOREVER GIVEN TO THOSE WHOM YOU ARE TRYING TO BRING TO ME.

Your constancy in love for those who did not want to listen to you becomes My constancy in wanting to receive them into My Heart; I AM SENDING THESE PEOPLE TO YOU WITH A REQUEST TO CONVEY YOUR LOVE TO THEM. YOU PAY ME YOUR DEBT IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY. THE GIFT OF LOVE YOU GIVE TO SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT KNOW HOW OR DOES NOT WANT TO LOVE ME BECOMES THE MEDICINE THAT HEALS HIS FADING LIFE. AFTER ALL, SUCH A PERSON WAS ALREADY DOOMED TO LOSE ME FOREVER, THAT IS, TRUE AND ETERNAL LIFE.

Your love for all who do not love Me CERTAINLY EVOKES GRATITUDE IN ME. MY GRATITUDE MEANS INCREASING MY LOVE FOR YOU, MULTIPLYING ALL THE BENEFITS THAT I HAVE PLACED AT YOUR DISPOSAL. I WILL GIVE YOU AFFECTION AND YOU CAN ALWAYS FEEL MY PRESENCE IN YOUR HEARTS WITH JOY.

MY PRESENCE WILL RELIEVE YOU OF ALL THE FEARS THAT THE WORLD AND LIFE IN THE WORLD MAY GENERATE IN YOU. BECAUSE I REMAIN BY YOUR SIDE, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE CHEERFUL AND WILL NOT SUFFER FROM WORLDLY TROUBLES, TOGETHER WITH ME YOU WILL KNOW JOYS, YOU WILL LEARN TO ALLEVIATE THE SORROWS OF THE WORLD, TOGETHER WITH ME YOU WILL LEARN TO TRANSFORM THE SORROW OF YOUR NEIGHBOR INTO JOY, TOGETHER WITH ME YOU WILL GIVE HOPE TO THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE, HELP THEM TO REGAIN THEIR LOST PEACE, TOGETHER WITH ME YOU WILL TAKE UPON YOURSELF ALL THE ANXIETIES OF THE WORLD, BUT I WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO BECOME VICTIMS OF THESE INCONVENIENCES AND DANGERS.

In this Power that will allow you to escape all the traps of the world, you will know My Power, the POWER OF MY GREAT LOVE FOR YOU. This is the Power that gives you confidence in victory; it is that assurance of victory that I give to those who ask for it, to those who know how to keep My presence.

MY FAITHFULNESS IN KEEPING THE PROMISES MADE TO YOU IS FAITHFULNESS TO MY DESIRE TO SAVE YOU, YOU WHO HAVE LOVED ME, AND ALL THOSE YOU LOVE AND ALL THOSE WHO LOVE YOU, BECAUSE WITH YOUR HELP, WITH THE HELP OF THOSE WHO LOVE ME, THEY ARE ALSO UNITED TO MY LOVE. HE WHO BELIEVES YOU BELIEVES ME TOO. HE WHO THANKS YOU FOR YOUR LOVE FOR HIMSELF, THANKS ME AT THE SAME TIME. AFTER ALL, THE LOVE THAT YOU HAVE MANAGED TO RECOGNIZE IN YOU, AND I AM WHOM YOU HAVE CONSCIOUSLY AND FAITHFULLY LOVED, YOUR VICTORY IS MY VICTORY OVER YOUR ENEMIES AND MINE. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE YOUR ENEMIES AND MINE WHEN I COME TO EARTH TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT.

Keep in your hearts confidence in your victory and mine. Be assured of the goodness and faithfulness of your God, who, when He comes to earth, will be able to justly condemn the enemies of justice, the enemies of truth. My Heart will understand which of the enemies will remain the enemy. The enemies whom I will come to judge are those who have not been able to love Me because they have preferred their lies.

I WILL COME TO JUDGE THE ARROGANT. I will come to judge those who have lied to the truth and forced them to live in the kingdom of injustice, in the kingdom of lies, in the kingdom of arrogance, in the kingdom of vanity.

I WILL BRING YOU THE KINGDOM OF TRUTH, HUMILITY AND LOVE.

Sing ye the coming of my kingdom with the song of David. He sang this psalm before the chosen people, calling his people to recognize the true God, calling all the peoples of the earth to love Him.

“Sing a new song to the Lord,

for He has performed miracles.

His right hand and His holy arm

gave Him victory.

The Lord has revealed His salvation,

before the eyes of the nations He hath manifested His righteousness.

Remembered His mercy and His faithfulness

against the house of Israel.

All the ends of the earth have seen,

How our God saves.

Rejoice before the Lord, all the earth, rejoice and be glad, and sing psalms.

Sing psalms to the Lord on the harp,

on the harp and the voice of singing!

With trumpets and to the sound of the horn

rejoice before the king of the Lord!

Let the sea and its fullness sparkle, the world and its inhabitants,

Let the rivers clap their hands

And let them rejoice together –

before the Lord, for he is coming to judge the earth;

the universe will judge with justice;

Rightly so, peoples. (Ps. 98).

«… I hear these words… I understand that they proceed from the spirit of TRUTH:

“What I do for you is not so little, on the contrary, it is a mercy for which you owe Me all the more;

All the misfortunes of the WORLD happen because people have forgotten the TRUTH OF SCRIPTURE. There is no such peak in this book that would not one day appear to the world.”

And it seemed to me that I always understood it that way and that everyone else understood it in exactly the same way.

But He continued:

“Alas, daughter, there are so few who truly love Me! If they truly loved Me, I would not hide My secrets from them! Do you know what it means to truly love Me? You have to understand that everything I don’t accept is not true. What you do not understand now, you will fully understand when you feel what benefits your soul has from it.” (St. Teresa of Avila).

“BUT CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, the firstborn of the dead.

For as death is through man, so is the RESURRECTION of the dead.

As in Adam all die, so in Christ all come to life.

And each in his own order: the firstborn is Christ, then Christ’s, at the time of His coming. Then is the end, when HE will hand over the Kingdom to God and the Father, when He will destroy ALL PRINCIPALITIES AND ALL AUTHORITY AND POWER. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. When He says that all things are subject to Him, it is clear that apart from Him who has subjected all things to Him. When all things are subject to Him, then the SON Himself will also submit to the one who subjected all things, so that God may be ALL IN ALL (I Cor. 15:20–28).

“And Samuel answered,

“ARE BURNT OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES AS PLEASING TO THE LORD AS OBEDIENCE TO THE VOICE OF THE LORD? OBEDIENCE IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE AND OBEDIENCE IS BETTER THAN A CLOUD OF SHEEP…

And Saul said to Samuel,

“I HAVE SINNED, BECAUSE I HAVE DESPISED THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, AND THY WORD; BUT I FEARED THE PEOPLE, AND OBEYED THEIR VOICE. But now I have my sin with them, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord.” And Samuel answered Saul,

“I WILL NOT RETURN WITH YOU, BECAUSE YOU HAVE REJECTED THE WORD OF THE LORD. AND THE LORD HAS REJECTED YOU” (I Sam. 15:22–26).

“God, who is like you?

You sent hard and fierce trials on me,

And he gave me understanding, and brought me out of the depths of the earth again. You exalted me and comforted me.” —Ps. 71. 19–20).

«And King David came, and stood before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that thou hast so exalted me?

And even this was not enough in Thy sight, O God; You report the house of your servant, and look upon me as a great man, O Lord God..

And now, O Lord, Thou art God, and Thou hast spoken of Thy servant so good.

Begin to bless the house of Your servant, that it may be before Your face forever. For if YOU, O Lord, BLESS, he will be BLESSED forever” (1 Chr. 17:16-17, 26-21).

“Do not touch My anointed, and do no harm to My prophets.”

And he sent a famine to the land; He destroyed every stalk of bread” (Ps. 105; 15-16).

To my great regret, Padre Pio warned me that this prophecy of the 104th Psalm would be fulfilled again on those who resist the will of God’s love as expressed in this “Diary of Love”.

FROM THE MEMOIRS OF LUIGI GASPARI

“If you are a good boy, I will send you to the holy prophet as soon as you are older.”

These words always come to my mind when I think of my dear mother: this holy prophet was Padre Pio, and my mother taught me, her tenth child, to know this prophet sent by God, to recognize him and to love him.

The impressive stories of Padre Pio’s miracles and kindness became a constant theme of our conversations, loving maternal instructions, awakened in me the desire to get to know the life of the prophet better, in whom my mother foresaw for me a guide on the path to the knowledge of God.

This desire to meet Padre Pio went hand in hand with the desire to grow up faster.

I was born on April 9, 1926 in San Felice, in Panaro. My parents owned one mill (jointly owned with other people). My father, a tireless worker, was forced to live in an environment that was not conducive to acquiring or increasing the knowledge of himself by combining it with the comprehension of the Spirit.

My mother’s faith and love kept us alive at all times; Our Father’s extraordinary examples of love for neighbor and his deep humility remained in the memory of many people for a long time.

The gifts of the Holy Ghost in my father led him, because of his sincere faith, to trust too much in other people who were not at all noble and profited from everything.

The Lord’s commandment “Love your neighbor as yourself” was transformed in my father’s big heart so much that he loved his neighbor more than himself. This led to the fact that just before and for some time after my birth, my parents experienced serious difficulties. They had to start almost from scratch after they had worked hard all their lives and at the same time had to raise nine more children.

But the Providence of the Lord, which my mother, in the unshakable faith of her spirit, always loved and invoked, did not hesitate to lend them a helping hand and give them the necessary advice. The advice of the Holy Spirit found them in the form of a letter from Padre Pio. The voice of the Holy Spirit penetrated into the hospital of San Felice, where my mother was waiting for my birth, called by the father and mother of nine children who had lost the reward for their labors because of human indifference.

The Holy Spirit commanded my mother to listen to the counsel of His prophet, a humble brother from Pietralcino, who was then still little known and in the eyes of most people had not yet been recognized as a man of God.

Padre Pío’s advice was this: close the ear to the evil advisers who tried to convince my father to take the path of untruth.

The true path, indicated by Divine Providence, was as follows: to move with the whole family to Paviñano. Padre Pio assured my parents that in this village they would not be left without work and that my father would find there a reward for all the sacrifices and all the losses.

I was two years old when we moved to Paviñano. We lived there for five years, and at that time I heard the first stories about Padre Pio’s life full of miracles.

With great interest I looked at the picture of his life, so mysterious and so attractive. I learned to love Padre Pio and saw him as one of my family members, and at the same time as an invisible but beloved leader of my entire life.

In 1933, my mother received a second piece of advice from Padre Pio: part of our family, including my parents and I with them, had to move to the village of San Matteo della Decima, which belonged to the parish of San Giovanni in Persiceto.

When we lived for seven years in Decima, my mother fulfilled the promise she had made to me as a child: to send me, when I grew up, to a prophet of God.

I was fourteen years old when I first saw Padre Pio. I was expecting a lot, this expectation was awakened by my mother’s stories and supported by them, and I was not disappointed. I never understood how my mother was given so much knowledge, so much love and faith, to recognize the instrument of God, which was not recognized as such by all people.

San Matteo della Decima is located about six hundred kilometers from San Giovanni Rotondo.

My mother never met Padre Pio until 1949, when she first managed to come to San Giovanni Rotondo for a short time.

In my many trips to San Giovanni Rotondo, I have only had to find very few people from whom I have heard such wise and faithful words that my mother spoke, recognizing and glorifying Padre Pio as a prophet sent by God.

The secret was revealed to me by Padre Pio many years after our first meeting.

First trip to San Giovanni Rotondo

On March 14, 1940, I left Bologna for San Giovanni Rotondo.

Two of my sisters, Anna, Gabriella and myself, joined the group led by Tony Tonelli. The next day we arrived at San Giovanni Rotondo. Señora Clorinda, who lived in the center of the city, gave us shelter.

I was a little confused in this area, which was blown by all the winds, so unlike the landscapes I am used to.

On the second day, Señora Clorinda woke us up at three o’clock in the morning. We had to walk about two kilometers to take part in the holy mass that Padre Pio served in the small church of the convent of Santa Maria della Grazia.

I was burning with impatience to finally see the mysterious Padre Pio up close. Even in the photograph, Padre’s face gave me love and trust.

Padre Pio, whom I saw for the first time when he celebrated Holy Mass, completely attracted all the attention of the boy I was then.

The father’s gaze, penetrating and gentle, awakened filial love in the depths of my heart. People I later talked to both in church and in our boarding house described Padre Pio to me as an extremely strict mentor.

My turn to confess was approaching, and I began to get nervous. I already felt that I was captive to the heartfelt love of Padre Pio, and yet I was afraid that I would not deserve to be accepted into the number of sons of the holy brother whom I had loved all my life.

I was preparing for confession in the old part of the church, and my long-standing curiosity about history and art distracted me. Instead of remembering my sins and regretting them, I began to compare this church with an ancient Russian monastery that I had read about in a book. And then Signor Tonelli called me to the confessional of Padre Pio.

Completely carried away by the dream of getting to know my Padre better, I even forgot that I was in front of a clergyman to whom I had to tell about my sins.

Padre Pio asked me a few questions and looked me in the eye, waiting for an answer. I said in confusion: “I can’t remember well whether I committed such a sin.”

He shouted at me loudly: “Get out! Get out of here! What do you want from me? Go and get ready for confession properly! I can’t waste time with you!”

On the second day, I returned to the confessional after deep and thoughtful preparation. Unexpectedly for myself, I felt the extraordinary gentleness of Padre Pio, which completely erased from my memory yesterday’s stern shout.

Padre Pio told me: “Yes, you will be my spiritual son… And look, always be a good guy!”

He didn’t ask me anything about my occupation or what city I came from.

I returned to Bologna, glad that I had finally come to know the “prophet.”

Studies at the Aldini-Valeriani Institute resumed again. The classes did not satisfy me, but I have not discussed this problem with anyone yet. I studied little and in my heart I thought about dropping out of school. But my spiritual life was quite full. I participated in Mass with love and diligence and often took communion, but I did not pray sincerely enough to Jesus under the guise of the Holy Host. When I was eleven years old, I accidentally overheard a man whom I respected say: “I could never believe that a piece of bread during the Transfiguration could really be transformed into the Blood and Body of Christ.” Now I am sure that these were the words that constantly popped up in my mind when I began Holy Communion. On May 5, 1940, while still in Bologna, I received a letter that was very important to me, a generous gift sent to me by Padre Pio. Staying in San Giovanni Rotondo, he could read the deepest secrets of my heart through all the space that separated us: my intention to abandon my studies and my lack of faith when I prayed to Jesus when I approached the Mystery of the Holy Eucharist, and these same secrets were known only to God.

During the three days that my sisters and I lived in San Giovanni Rotondo, we managed to meet Signora Olimpia Cristallini, who stayed in the same boarding house.

Leaving for Bologna, we left our addresses to the Signor of Olympia, but I did not tell anything about myself.

To my great surprise, I received from her a letter dated May 3, 1940, the content of which, in any case, is its most important points, I will try to reproduce here:

“My dear Luigi, I have wanted to write to you for a long time, and now I do not dare to postpone this conversation with you, in which I must convey to you the words of our father. All the more must I do so, since the duty of obedience obliges me to do so: as his spiritual daughter, I cannot refuse him anything, even if he demanded that he sacrifice his life.

A few days ago he instructed me to convey to you on his behalf: he would like Luigi of Bologna to study harder, because it has been revealed to him that Luigi is not studying and will not be able to complete this school year unless he is reminded and instructed to do so. He told me this with all gentleness, and it seems to me that his gentle words fully convey the sadness with which his heart is seized by the lack of diligence in you—they have hurt me so much that I cannot put it into words.

However, he also said that he was happy with your attachment to the church and hoped that it would continue to be maintained, only that you should pray to Jesus with greater sincerity when you received Holy Communion.

My dear Luigi, take comfort in the fact that Padre Pio is trying to draw your attention to what Jesus wants from you. Our heartfelt Padre! How sad he is when his spirit children fail to keep the promises they made to him! For he will have to answer for you to the majesty of the Lord. But we’re not going to do that, are we? More than myself, I am confident in my dear Luigi, in his kind soul. He will not want our dear father, our saving sacrifice, to suffer because we do not pass our exam. Remember: he predicts your future in advance and has already determined your place in life.

I beg you, dear Luigi, after reading this letter, to try to do everything so that he does not have to, and even at such a distance, see how his son Luigi grieves his heart, drawing pure blood from his wounds. May each of us direct our desires to what our holy and beloved father so clearly desires for us.

Let us all try together to comfort his tormented heart, because his heart is truly connected to the Heart of Jesus.

I wish you, as well as yourself and all people, to accept the blessing of our holy father.

Your sister in Christ is Olympia Pia Cristallini.”

My father’s instructions and his prayer helped me to continue my studies at the technical school.

At the beginning of 1942-43. I moved to the fifth grade of the Aldini Institute. I had three years left to study before receiving my diploma.

One day in October 1942, our literature teacher, Dr. Leah Chenery, asked me: “Gaspari, why didn’t you choose a classical gymnasium for yourself?” I replied that I would have preferred to study at a classical gymnasium, but had to settle for trying to get a diploma from a technical lyceum.

Our generous and kind teacher said to me: “I am sure that you will be able to pass the exam and at least go to the physics and mathematics gymnasium. I will be specially studying Latin with you all this year.”

The enthusiasm and generosity of Señora Chenery encouraged me, and I decided to go for this test. Every evening after eight hours of classes at the Aldini Institute, I went home to our teacher and hammered Latin from the very basics.

Without a doubt, I owe it to the prayer of Padre Pio, which he offered to the Lord, to the fact that God sent me this magnanimous teacher, and at the same time the desire to learn, which I did not have before.

In the summer of 1943, I passed the exam and the following year I moved to the Augusto Riga Physics and Mathematics Gymnasium in Bologna. In 1950 he received a diploma in pharmacist.

For fourteen years, from 1940 to 1954, I never saw Padre Pio.

In September 1954 I found in the attic in the middle of old textbooks the letter I had received from San Giovanni Rotondo on May 5, 1940.

I reread again with great attention the letter, which I considered long lost, and at last I understood the meaning and meaning of so many trials.

My father, whom I loved dearly, died on November 26, 1953. My mother, who was in deep sorrow, tired and exhausted, needed my help. I hoped to help her solve a difficult problem that had arisen in our family in connection with the death of her father.

My father wanted all nine children who remained alive to always be together.

His strong will to the unity of the family contributed to the fact that our whole family lived in harmonious harmony as long as he himself lived. However, after his death, various difficulties and contradictions appeared, for under the shadow of my father, this loving and generous head of the family, there was still no common task for the different interests of those new families that my brothers and sisters managed to create. My father’s constant care kept the family together. His heart, full of love and selflessness, did not notice this problem, which invariably arises when sons and daughters are forced, as in the past, to run a common household under one roof, although their personal interests have already diverged.

In the summer of 1954, I decided to settle in San Mateo della Decima to take part in the life of my family and try to comfort my mother, our guardian angel, with all possible help and love.

I don’t really like living in a small village and even less like working in a mill, but my love for my mother and a sense of duty to my family helped me overcome the difficulties of the first period.

The bitterness of this year has taught me to appreciate more the letter found in the attic of our house in Decima. And then I decided to go again to San Giovanni Rotondo.

Second trip to San Giovanni Rotondo

As I prepared to leave, my thoughts were again turned to that first distant meeting with Padre Pio, since which more than fourteen years had passed. How could it be that for fourteen years I had not heard the call to return to San Giovanni Rotondo? At that time, I could not explain to myself the reason for this postponement.

This time he went alone. Once in San Giovanni Rotondo, I immediately felt a deep excitement. The road that led from the village to the monastery where Padre Pio lived changed a lot. A new suburb managed to grow on this place. At five o’clock in the morning, I listened again, as I had done many years ago, to the mass celebrated by Padre Pio. Time has left on the face of the beloved father and in his gaze a clear trace of the grief experienced. During the service, I felt as if guilty for being away from him for so many years, and the strong spiritual movement that I felt poured out in a stream of tears. At the end of the Divine Liturgy, I went to the altar with all the people and Padre approached a few steps away from me, returning to his cell.

I was already cheered up, and there were almost no traces of the excitement experienced during the Liturgy on my face. I was all the more surprised when Padre Pio stopped in front of me, and I realized from his gaze and from his gesture that he saw with confidence in me, an adult man, that embarrassed boy who stood in front of him many years ago.

I did not doubt for a moment that my father recognized a fourteen-year-old boy in an adult. I doubted something else: was I still worth being his son?

Padre Pio held out his hand to me with the gesture of a loving father accepting his son again. Clutching me tightly, he said to me in a fatherly voice: “My son, you are finally back! Why did you cry? You know I can’t stand crying!”

My love for my father was strengthened by his strong paternal love for me. In the love of Padre Pio, I again found the tenderness that my beloved father gave me, when I returned to heaven.

Later I realized that Padre Pio, who had always respected parental authority, wished that I live these fourteen years from 1940 to 1954 as close as possible to my beloved parents, so that I could, according to the commandment, love and respect my mother and my father and give them indivisibly all my filial love.

And only after the death of my father, Padre Pio wished to take his place and lead my spirit to the love of God and to the understanding of the problems of earthly life. Starting in 1954, I began to visit San Giovanni Rotondo frequently. In June 1956, for the sake of accuracy, on June 6, I was again in San Giovanni Rotondo. After the Divine Liturgy, Padre Pio saw me at the altar, came closer and said: “What are you doing here? Don’t waste time, go home at once!” This order to go immediately to Decima surprised me very much and alerted me, and I left for Bologna by the first train. The next day I arrived in San Mateo and found my dear mother dying, but with full memory.

When she saw me at her bedside, she lit up her face with indescribable joy and turned to me with these words: “Here you are, Luigi! How I prayed to Padre Pio to send you home. I am very grateful to the Lord and Padre Pio for fulfilling my wish. Now I leave in peace, because I know…”.

A little later, his mother asked: “Luigi, what holiday do we have today? I hear the bells ringing all the time, but I can’t remember what day tomorrow is.”

I replied that the bells did not ring, and that we did not expect any holiday tomorrow. Then I decided to look at the calendar: it turned out that the eighth of June is dedicated to the Heart of Jesus.

My mother’s physical condition was deteriorating by the hour. She was almost blind and lost the ability to speak; She couldn’t even get out of bed, but she showed us with a sign that she wanted to write something.

All the children gathered around her bed, and we were accompanied by the parish priest of Decima, Don Balestrazzi, several nuns and my mother’s old friends. Almost until the last minute of her life, her mother continued to write, as if she was supported by some supernatural force.

I transmit here some of the records that my mother kept during the hours of her joyful separation from life and the encounter with the Lord.

“My end is near, my strength leaves me, but not my mind…

Luigi, we’re breaking up. Always be kind to everyone.

I will pray for everyone. So life ended…

Is that you, Luigi? Don’t cry for me. I will be with the Lord. I will always be there for you. Providence is approaching me.

I can still hear the bells ringing before the holiday.

Your father is waiting for me. This is how earthly life ends. Not with people, but with the Lord. So it will be with you.

I command you to follow my path: love of neighbor and honesty. A moment of transition — I’m ready.

Best wishes to everyone I knew. Lord, take my breath! Peace and joy to all. With God!

Mom.”

These words, written in moments of near-death agony, no doubt confirm that the Lord’s supernatural involvement gave her the ability and gift to write before she died.

The festive bell that my mother discerned until the last moment of her life was the bell of heaven, marking my mother’s entry into the triumph of the Heart of Jesus and the return of my mother’s soul to heaven.

A few days after the funeral, I returned to San Giovanni Rotondo.

I was standing in the corridor of the monastery, where various sayings were hung on the walls. Padre Pio came out of his cell and I was able to listen to his words of comfort in my great grief that he shared. The father’s gaze, full of love for all people, could not calm the pain of my heart at that moment. I only managed to say a few words: “My mother loved you so much, Padre, she believed you and it seemed as if she had known you all her life. And she never spoke to you.”

Padre Pio continued to walk slowly down the corridor, heading towards the choirs of the small old church.

It seemed to me that he did not want to answer me, but then he looked at me intently with wide eyes, full of kindness and love. He stopped suddenly, raised his hand and pointed his finger at one of the sayings that was written on the wall of the corridor, as if he had seen it for the first time.

He read the saying, and I read it with him. It was written: “Of the saints of communion.”

God’s wisdom in Padre Pio found such an unusual way to explain to me the mystery that had worried me since early childhood, because my mother had managed to tell me so much about it.

The mystery that was revealed to me in this way allowed me to learn more about this man who, after knowing so many of God’s mysteries, became part of this great mystery himself.

By giving me this knowledge, Padre Pio helped me cope with my grief.

His answer revealed to me the love of the Lord and my mother, and I realized that Padre Pio loved her no less than I loved myself.

As a child, I heard the promise of the Lord’s love, and that was the promise that God made to my mother, now she has been filled with His Spirit through Padre Pio.

This first promise, which I had not yet realized, became partially clear to me when I read that statement. I understood well the meaning of that letter that I received in Bologna by order of Padre Pio two months after our first meeting.

The desire to love the Word, received, known, and loved through my mother, was the promise of this Word of Love, a promise that even a person can make to be faithful to his word, to keep promises for love.

The faithfulness with which my mother followed the advice of the Holy Spirit and in practice carried out what He advised her with the words of the faithful clergyman of the Lord Padre Pio, this fidelity turned into a promise of fidelity from Padre Pio himself, his promises to become a loving spiritual father for me and to teach me to discern the Spirit of God, to teach me not to receive that spirit in people, that is not of God. Those who knew how to love my father’s humble kindness but failed to recognize the spirit that moved so many of them led my father to the brink of poverty and physical ruin. And only the intervention of the spirit of love through the mediation of Padre Pio, the advice that Padre Pio gave us, saved our family from misfortune, anxiety, confusion, which always begin in the human spirit, when a person cannot recognize with certainty where this spirit comes from, which spreads evil among people.

The vow that the spirit of love made to my mother and Padre Pio is an image of that vow of love that the spirit made to man.

The counsel given to man by the spirit that opposes the Lord was, is, and will be hostile to God and to man himself until the appointed day. This is where evil comes from in the world.

The Word of God promised us victory over our enemies, to show the way of true light to all people who would accept the Word, if only they would listen to the counsel that comes from the spirit of the Word of God.

In this century, a peculiar disorder and confusion of ideas generated by evil spirits have divided people and pushed them into struggle, tearing them away from mutual love, from any desire to try to understand the will of the Word of God.

The love of the Lord sent us Padre Pio to teach people of good will, so that they would love the true knowledge of the will of the Lord as expressed in the Holy Scriptures.

“The spirit of man did not love the Scriptures enough,” so said Padre Pio. Because of the lack of love for the Word of the Lord, man is unable to accept and love the truth revealed in the Word of God. The lack of love for the Word of God leads to a decrease in grace, to a lack of knowledge, and as a result, to the domination of the spirits of hell, which seize the souls of people and fragment humanity with hostility.

Padre Pio received from the Lord the gift of discerning spirits, I personally had the opportunity to make sure that this gift of the Lord was present in him. The spirits of evil, dressed in sheep’s clothing, never once managed to confuse the spirit of Padre Pio, because he knew how to distinguish the source and origin of the spirit that moves each person.

Love holy humility, which will teach you to accept both the joys and sorrows of human life as a gift of the wisdom of the Lord: such was the lesson and instruction that Padre Pio tried to give to the world.

Outwardly, Padre Pio seemed harsh, but with special tenderness he cared for those souls who had not yet known the burden of sin. He loved the humble, who could not discern the causes of their troubles, being in the bonds of the spirit of evil and ignorant of the testimony of God’s love.

Padre Pio taught me to understand that “the humble one speaks for God, even if he knows nothing about God.” Only in humility can mercy be manifested, which is truly desired by God.

Because of the humble one who does not know how to talk about God, God puts to shame the arrogant and haughty who think they are speaking in God’s name.

With the name of God on their lips, the proud come out, reflecting on God in order to crucify again the Son of God, that is, the Lord himself, who became man through love for people. Out of love for people, God gave Himself to be crucified by those people who judged His name in His name.

Padre Pio, who sacrificed himself to love the name of God, wanted to sacrifice his whole life in a spirit of love for all those souls who sacrifice their hearts to the Love of the Lord.

If a person sacrifices his heart to God, he knows how to speak about him every time he pronounces his name: to such a heart the Lord reveals a deep secret that is hidden in His Word itself. In the Word of the Lord, the Heart of God is revealed.

My stay in San Giovanni Rotondo in June 1956 ended with an unexpected encounter: my colleague, a pharmacist from Capodimonte (Viterbo), happened to see me on the platform in front of the convent. After an intimate conversation, she invited me to go with her towards Naples and Pompeii. I did not want to accept this invitation, since it was time to return home, but during our last conversation with Padre Pio just before leaving, Padre showed me an image of the Madonna, which was also on the wall of the monastery. He expressed a desire for me to pray with him; then he said, “Go to Pompeii. Your mother is in the Heart of Jesus, now the Mother of God will be your mother.” Then I realized that my meeting with a colleague from Capodimonte and her proposal to go to Naples and Pompeii were not accidental at all. On the same day, I left with her and her friends for Naples.

The following events convinced me of the TRUTH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.

Padre Pio’s love made sure that this confidence was strengthened in me. Having strengthened myself in this faith and convinced of the love of the Mother of God, I again found the joy I had lost and the desire to share it with those who do not have it.

On Christmas Eve 1956, I came to San Giovanni Rotondo again. At one of the stations on the way, I met a pleasant elderly lady, Baroness Bianca Remy de Turique from Rome. After a short conversation, this lady felt sympathy for me, and together we continued our journey to San Giovanni Rotondo.

There I joyfully welcomed Christmas, supported by the love of Padre Pio, and with pleasure also conversing with the Baroness, who, before leaving, asked me to visit her in Rome.

A common interest in the problems of the spirit, the love of God and Padre Pio formed a bond of close brotherly love between Baroness Rémy and me. The constant search for God, marked by extraordinary joy and inspiration, gave so much liveliness to the speech and image of this seventy-year-old woman that the hours spent in her company seemed to me minutes.

On December 26, 1956, after the Liturgy, many people, gathered from all over Italy and even from abroad, rallied around Padre Pio.

I could not even approach the father, but even from a distance I managed to catch a few words from Padre’s conversation with several high-ranking clergy and laity.

I realized that these eminent people were asking Padre Pio to explain to them one extremely difficult passage from the Scriptures.

I couldn’t make out exactly what the question asked by Padre Pio sounded like. But I clearly heard the father’s answer: “You, intellectuals, complicate everything too much! I could answer your question about angels, but this answer is hidden in my heart and I cannot give it to you.”

A little later, when I was warming myself by the fireplace of the hotel in San Giovanni Rotondo, where I lived, I was approached and introduced by a senior who made a great impression: it turned out that he was a high-ranking official from Rome.

This eminent jurist asked me if I had been present at Padre Pio’s conversation with some theologians. He also informed me exactly what question they had asked Padre Pio, expecting an unequivocal answer from him.

The lawyer talked to me for several more hours, constantly returning the conversation to such an interesting and difficult question.

I tried in vain to distract him with some other spiritual problems. The next morning after the Divine Liturgy, Padre Pio explained this text of Scripture to me, although I did not ask him to do so. The Padre said to me: “The answer I gave you about the angels, you can only tell the lawyer from Rome and no one else.”

About an hour later, I met that famous lawyer again in the bar of our hotel and conveyed the words of Padre Pio, thus fulfilling his heartfelt desire to understand the matter.

My interlocutor was so excited that tears appeared in his eyes. The next morning, on his way to Rome, he invited me to visit him in his hometown.

On the first day of the new year 1957, I said goodbye to my beloved Padre Pio, returning to San Mateo della Decima.

About two months later, at the beginning of May 1957, I was waiting for him again in the corridor of the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo. I saw the father at the moment when he was busy talking with the mayor of this city and with another brother, the gatekeeper of the monastery. The mayor was just explaining to Padre Pio that the “Casa of the South” (a special branch of the Italian budget intended for economic assistance to the South of the country) refused to provide the promised assistance to the community of San Giovanni Rotondo. It was about money intended for the construction of roads and for other urgent needs.

Padre Pio turned to me unexpectedly and said: “You must go to Rome and take care of the Casa de la São Paulo. I was very surprised and confused: “Father, I don’t know Rome, and I don’t have any friends there who can help us under these circumstances.”

My father answered me decisively and briefly: “You don’t have to swim across the ocean to get to Rome. For go quickly, and the blessing of God be with you.”

The mayor and the monk-gatekeeper explained to me how to find the “Casa of the South” in Rome and what I should do and say there. On the same day, I went to Rome, guided solely by my belief in the patronage of Padre Pio. On the train I met a young lawyer, we talked for a long time about all sorts of things, and before getting off at the station in Rome, he left me his address and offered to contact him every time I needed expert advice.

It turned out that this young lawyer is well aware of how to draw up a request to the “Kasa Pivden”. He worked in the secretariat of the Ministry of Tourism. I did not know Rome at all, but I was very well received there by Baroness Remy. I went to the 2Ticket Office of the South”, and two influential officials went with me: one the one I met on the train, and the second I met on the day of my arrival.

A lot of time passed, I managed to return to Bologna, and there I received a letter from the president of the “Casa of the South” — I keep this letter to this day. The President assured me that all plans for financing the improvement of the streets and the site near the monastery and other urgent works would be accepted and supported by his bank.

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From 1957 to 1968, I went to San Giovanni Rotondo almost every month.

One day, after confession, Padre Pio told me: “Go to Rome!”.

I did not understand why I had to go to Rome, but I fulfilled my father’s wish and began to visit Rome, and with increasing desire and willingness. My permanent home remained my house in San Matteo della Decima.

Many friends from Rome and other cities visited me in this village.

In Decim, I organized a group of wonderful collaborators and assistants, including Primo Capponcelli, who later became the leader of our group. We have all tried to find and maintain a spiritual connection with our beloved Padre Pio.

Many residents of San Matteo della Decima gladly accepted my and Primo’s offer to visit the holy Capuchin Friar of San Giovanni Rotondo. Thanks to the prayer and blessing of the father, many families have come to know the grace of God, and through them all the inhabitants of San Matteo della Decima. In this regard, I remember how my family received proof of Padre Pio’s love and care, as well as proof that he still remembers our requests to pray for us and protect us many years later. From Christmas to New Year’s Eve 1968, I was again in San Giovanni Rotondo.

On this day, my confession to Padre Pio lasted longer than usual. The Padre wanted to give me many instructions, in particular, he ordered me to go not to Rome on New Year’s Eve, but to Bologna, and he added the following words: “In 1968 we have to work hard… You can’t waste time.”

Gradually, the meaning of these mysterious words that he uttered while accepting my confession became clear to me.

On the night of the eighth to the ninth of April 1968, my 42nd birthday, a REVELATION began for me, and Padre Pio began to encourage me to write down the first pages of the Diary of Love. At the end of April, I handed him a handwritten copy of the first page of the diary. He defined it as “the COVENANT and PROMISE of grace which is given by the Holy Spirit to the spirit of a man who has chosen to receive them with all the love of which his heart is capable.” He ordered me to publish this manuscript as soon as possible and send it to the Holy Father, all Church leaders, and many others. On May 25, 1968, a great feast was to be held in St. Louis in the United States in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Padre Pio wanted to send the “Diary of Love” to this holiday and asked for the help of one of his most faithful spiritual sons, the famous composer and conductor Alfonso d’Artega. For reasons unknown to me, this man could not leave for America, and therefore “Diary of Love” did not have time to get there in time. Padre Pio was saddened by these circumstances, because he saw in the words of this “Diary” “the TESTAMENT AND PROMISE OF THE HEART OF JESUS for a world full of enmity.” In June 1968, my dear friends Ugo and Cecilia Ammassari and Michele Famiglietti printed in Rome the FIRST EDITION OF THE DIARY OF LOVE (without preface). This was very important to me, because Padre Pio ordered me to familiarize Rome with this book as soon as possible. I found out why he was in such a hurry. One evening he was invited to the house of engineer P. Gaspari and read the first edition of the “Diary of Love” to a select group of people. A lady present there, who was closely connected with the religious life of the capital, was surprised to hear my passionate call to love the Immaculate Heart of Jesus, since she had just learned that just in these days some clergymen proposed to cancel the prayers to the Sacred Heart and to sever the Church’s connection with the veneration of the Heart of Jesus: they said that the commemoration that was established in the times of Jansenism, Now they no longer make any sense. After some time, another friend of mine and an outstanding spiritual son of Padre Pio, Primo Capponcelli of Decima di San Giovanni de Persiceto, took on the task of carrying out the second edition of the Diary. In the meantime, I asked Padre Pio to let me cross out a few words and publish this book anonymously, but he replied to me: “You don’t dare to cross out a single word. And why do you want to print this book anonymously? There should be not only your name, but also a photo and a preface.” Indeed, in August 1968, the SECOND EDITION was published in full, with a small preface, and was sold in a much larger circulation. This edition was prepared by the Casa Editrice Instituto Padano di Arti Grafice di Rovigo. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the appearance of the holy stigmata, Padre Pio Primo Capponcelli organized a trip for young people to San Giovanni Rotondo to greet and thank Padre Pio. He took many copies of the “Diary of Love” with him to show them to the father and ask him to bless these books. In his simplicity as a man of God, full of faith and without any outside thought, he began to distribute these books to the faithful who had gathered in San Giovanni. Suddenly, without any explanation, he was forbidden to distribute these books. In the presence of many witnesses, Capponcelli persistently defended the will and wishes of Padre Pio, but it was all in vain.

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Meanwhile, listening to Padre Pio’s advice, on September 20, I did not go to San Giovanni Rotondo, but together with my good friend Michele Famiglietti, I set off from Rome to Chianciano Terme. We stayed at the Hotel San Antonio, where at that time, among other priests and monks, Giuseppe Bo and Messerre Leoncello Barsotti from Livorno also lived. Here I also met Letizia Mariani from Bologna, who back in 1943 helped me prepare for the exams for the transition from the Aldini Institute to the Physics and Mathematics Gymnasium. I was very happy to see her again and gave her a copy of “Diary of Love”, which she was very excited about.

At about 6 p.m. that same day, Michele and I went to the spring of St. Joseph. Helena, and suddenly Padre Pio appeared in front of me and said to me: “Luigi, it is time for me to ascend to heaven to save what remains to be saved. Here on earth, people no longer listen to me, not even many of those who called themselves the most faithful of the faithful.

Don’t cry. I will watch you from the sky as well. Those words you have spoken will be believed, I mean those records that I have commanded you to call “THE COVENANT AND PROMISE OF GRACE…” What this ‘testament and promise’ could have saved in June is too late to save now, but your records will serve for the benefit of individuals.”

The next day, September 23, I stayed at the hotel, immersed in immeasurable sorrow. At about 5 p.m., lying down to rest in my room, I saw a prophetic dream: Padre Pio appeared to me in a vision, surrounded by the brilliant veneration of beautiful angels. It shone, radiating love and light.

Approaching me, he embraced me with great love and said: “My son, my son! You don’t have to mourn my death, which I told you yesterday. To comfort me, you must remain strong, courageous, and vigorous. I will bring my heavenly legions to help you, they will listen to you in everything! I, your father, will always be there, I will tell you what you must say or do for your good and for the good of all those who wish to accept my words and yours. I WILL KEEP THE MEMORY OF YOU IN HEAVEN, I LEAVE YOU THE MEMORY OF ME!” As he spoke, he gripped my head tightly with both hands and brought his face closer to mine, and the touch seemed to me as if something was flowing out of my brain, and it was filled with another substance.

At these moments, Michele Famiglietti began to knock loudly on the door of my room, and I woke up with a severe headache, pressing both hands to my head, because in a half-sleep it seemed to me that my head was about to separate from my body. I asked Michele to wait because I couldn’t move. As soon as I managed to get up, I opened the door for him and answered his anxious questions: “Padre Pio came to me once again and left a great will and promise.”

I spent the night of September 22-23 almost without sleep, I heard in my heart the gentle voice of my father, who asked me to read aloud to him the Diary, and I read my notes to him until dawn. In the morning I still fervently hoped that I had been the victim of hallucinations, but at seven o’clock I received a call from Rome informing me that Padre Pio’s big heart had stopped beating! The cardinals, priests, monks who lived in the hotel at that time did their best to comfort me, and they were surprised to find that everything I had predicted two days earlier had come true.

On the same day, I received another call from Rome. It was Señor Alfonso d’Artega, who was commissioned by Padre Pio to take the Diary of Love to America on May 25. He was deeply saddened by this sad news and asked me to return to Rome immediately, as the Bishop of Pittsburgh, Mr. Nicholas T. Telko, wished to meet me and talk about Padre Pio and the Diary of Love. He spent two days with Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo on the eve of his death. Together with my friend Michele, I returned to Rome and spoke at length with His Grace Telco at his Roman residence.

Then, together with Baroness Remy, we left Rome for San Giovanni Rotondo. There I saw for the last time a father so dear to me in the mortal shell of his holy body. In a few minutes, my whole life passed before me again, directed and covered by the wings of an eagle that follows from heaven to give help to the weak. The padre, who was such a faithful friend to me, was my help, fell silent forever, my eagle returned to his kingdom. Shortly before he returned to heaven again, this celestial eagle left to one of the sons he left on earth, a testament of love: the beloved father left me this “Diary of Love”, as a pledge, as a gift of love for his Luigi and for all his children who were waiting to embrace their beloved father again in heaven. I remembered the song of Moses:

“Hear, O heavens, I will speak;
And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
My teaching will pour like rain,
Like dew, my tongue, like a fine rain on rubble,
Like a downpour on grass.
I glorify the name of the Lord: give glory to our God.
He is a stronghold; perfect are his works,
and all his ways are righteous.
God is faithful, and there is no unrighteousness in Him,
He is righteous and true.”
 
 

I cried as I looked at my father’s mortal remains, and then it seemed to me that I heard those gentle words with which he addressed me many years ago: “Why are you crying? You don’t know that I don’t like crying!”. I dried my tears and immediately returned to Rome.

On October 17, 1968, the “Diary of Love” and other works that I managed to write almost miraculously fell into the hands of the most respected Roman theologians, who summoned me to them and questioned me for a long time, wondering that I had learned so many secrets.

Thus came true what Padre had predicted: “These notebooks must fall into the hands of His Holiness and the highest dignitaries of the Church as soon as possible; Dad and many others will be able to figure them out.”

I understand less about these recordings than many others, because I wrote them because I listened to Padre Pio, because of faithfulness and love to God, to Pope John Paul II and the Holy Church.

With the help of Padre Pio and the grace of God, the “Diary of Love” has already been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Russian, Polish and other languages and published in many countries.

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