New book on Mary’s Suffering

Hi,

I just received this email from David Murray in Australia:

Dear Maria Valtorta Readers’ Group members in North America,

I’m sitting at the computer in my home in Australia, and the phone rings, it’s Ed Ford in Arizona. He starts reading an extract from Volume 5 of The Poem of the Man-God. It’s a commentary by Jesus at the end of the passages describing His burial. Ed “just happened” to pick up Volume 5 before going to visit his son, and this passage jumped out at him. It’s a trigger for this message.

Jesus says to Maria Valtorta:

“And the torture continued with periodic attacks until dawn on Sunday. In My Passion I had only one temptation. But the Mother, the Woman, expiated on behalf of woman: guilty, several times, of every evil. And Satan behaved mercilessly with infinite cruelty towards the Conqueress.

Mary had defeated him. This was the most atrocious temptation for Mary. Temptation against the flesh of the Mother. Temptation against the heart of the Mother. Temptation against the spirit of the Mother.

The world thinks that Redemption ended with My last breath. No, it did not. The Mother completed it, by adding Her treble torture to redeem the treble concupiscence. She struggled for three days against Satan, who wanted to induce Her to deny My word and not to believe in My Resurrection. Mary was the only one who continued to believe. She is great and blessed also because of that faith.

You have become acquainted also with that. A torture corresponding to My torture at Gethsemane. The world will not understand this page. But "those who are in the world without being of the world" will understand it, and they will have an increased love for the Sorrowful Mother. That is why I gave it. Go in peace with our blessing.” (Vol. 5, pp. 637-8).

Ed wanted to check that this is in our new book on Mary’s Suffering. It is, and we share our mutual wonderment that out of all the people in the world, we have been chosen to publish this book about what Mary went through, for all humanity, the likes of which fill us with awe and make us both feel very small.

The book is to be published by Ed and printed in Phoenix, where Ed lives. We’ve been working on the text now for about 3 months, and Bishop Danylak has chosen its title: “Mary, Mother of the Redeemer, Her Life, Sufferings and Mission”. It has 160 pages (same as the “End Times”), and Ed and I agree that this could well be the most important thing we’ve done in our long lives.

I’m sending the final text to the printer tomorrow, and God willing, it will be ready for our Maria Valtorta conferences in L.A. on 26th April, and in Toronto with Bishop Danylak on 3rd May. Between those two Saturdays I’ll be very happy to “drop in” to other places, if Valtorta readers want an excuse for a Maria Valtorta get-together. But please get back to me soon, so I can make the necessary plane bookings.

I wish you all many blessings and graces for this Holy week.

Yours in the Hearts of Jesus, Mary and Joseph,

David Murray