Answers to God's Mysteries
By Cicily Sunny
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The Redeeming Value of Jesus' and Mary's Sufferings

In a vision Jesus appears to the author and says, "All those who want, who ask the Lord God to make them 'saviors' must thoroughly consider that Mary and I are the model and that those are the tortures they must share in order to save….You have seen my sufferings. They have been applied to make amends for your sins. No part of my body was excluded from them, because nothing in man is free from sin…."

"My hands were wounded and imprisoned, after they had become tired carrying the Cross, to make amends for all the crimes committed by the hands of man….The feet of your Savior, after becoming tired and bruised on the stones of way of my Passion were pierced and immobilized, to make amends for the evil you do with your feet, making them means to go to your crimes, thefts, and fornications. I marked the streets, the squares, the houses, the steps in Jerusalem, to purify all the streets, the squares, the houses, the steps of the earth from all the evil that had grown on and in it, sown in past and future centuries by your bad will, obedient to Satan's instigations."

"My flesh was bruised, contused, torn to punish in me the exaggerated cult, the idolatry that you give to your flesh and to the flesh of those whom you love out of a sensual whim or also out of fondness, which is not blameworthy in itself, but you make it such by loving a parent, a husband, a son, a brother more than you love God….I turned my flesh into one sore to remove from your flesh the poison of sensuality, of lack of modesty, of lack of respect, of ambition and admiration for the flesh destined to become dust again."

"My head was tortured with countless tortures: with blows, with exposure to the sun, with shouts, with thorns, to make amends for the sins of your minds….And in my head, my eyes, my mouth, my nose, my tongue, each had their torture, to make amends for your glances, so anxious to see what is evil and so forgetful of seeking God, to redress the too many, too false, filthy and lustful words that you utter, instead of using your lips to pray, to teach and to console; My nose and my tongue suffered their tortures to make amends for your gluttony and your sensuality of olfaction, through which you incur imperfections, which are the ground for graver sins, and you commit sins through the eagerness for superfluous food, without taking pity on those who are hungry, food which you can afford very often by having recourse to unlawful means of profit."

"My organs were not exempted from suffering, not one of them, suffocation and cough for my lungs, contused by the cruel scourging, and suffering from edema because of the position on the cross, breathlessness and heart trouble as my heart was out of its place and had been injured by the merciless flagellation, by the moral grief that had preceded it, by the ascent under the heavy weight of the cross, by anemia, the consequence of all the blood shed, liver congested, spleen congested, kidneys bruised and congested…."

"That was the suffering of your Jesus in his innocent body. And I will not mention the tortures of my love for my Mother and for her sorrow. That sorrow was required. But for me it was the cruelest torture. Only the Father knows what His Word suffered in his spirit, his morale, and his physique! Also the presence of his mother, even if it was what my heart most wished, as it needed that comfort in the infinite solitude that surrounded it, infinite solitude coming from God and from men, was a torture….Her Jesus needed her virginal veil on his innocent body, to defend his decency….She is the Spouse of god. It is she who conceived through union with God…. The Church, like a new-born baby, needs the care and milk of a mother. Mary will give it to the Church supporting the Apostles, speaking to them of the Savior, praying for it….John possessed the love of compassion as no other person, except my Mother, possessed it. He is the head of those who love with such love." (V. 5, Ch. 609, P. 666- 672). 

I understand that the piece of cloth wrapped around Jesus' waist is the virginal veil of Mary, the veil Mary wore under the top veil. When Jesus was forced to strip completely, he hesitated. When he was about to strip completely out of no choice, Mary took of her virginal veil and passed it on to him in a rush.

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