ALEXANDRINA, TEACH ME!

PART II

“GO AND INSTIL INTO HEARTS
THE ABUNDANCE OF MY HEART”

2.

THE EFFUSIONS

 

Let us now allow ourselves to become involved by contemplating the effusions that Bd Alexandrina transmits to us from the divine Heart of Jesus.

They are divided in two paragraphs, to facilitate the reading, but the division is arbitrary, because some fragments contain elements common to both.

* These fragments had been extracted from the book “Venite a me” (ed. house Mimep-docete), edited. The chronological order of each chapter is adhered to.

 

1 - The times are grave

 

Humanity, poor humanity! Sinners, poor sinners!

You would prefer not to have eyes to see, ears to hear, heart to feel, nor reason to understand.

Prepare yourselves, prepare yourselves, if you want to be saved!

O my daughter, O my daughter, how painful is this revelation! (...)

My Father’s divine justice falls, it falls, it comes to punish. It is the punishment of crimes, of iniquities (...) S (13-4-51)

The crimes of the world have reached their limit; O, the gravity of the danger!

Justice falls, falls: my Eternal Father cannot do otherwise. S (29-6-51)

Every father advises love; every father who reprehends is correct and is faithful to the law of the Lord, so too am I faithful to the law of my Father. S (22-2-52)

The world does not listen to the Lord’s voice! Sinners do not fear the terrible threats of my Eternal Father: justice will punish them. Even in punishing, it is always my love, my infinite love. S (27-6-52)

My children, my children, love, love Jesus, love, love Mary!

Examine yourselves: it is urgent. Make reparation, make reparation to our divine Hearts!

Oh, the world, Oh the world, which offends the Lord so much! The world, the poor world cannot defy the justice of my Eternal Father with greater evil.

The times are grave, the times are grave!… S (22-8-52)

Be alert, be alert! It is Jesus who is warning you, it is Jesus who is advising you, it is Jesus who is imploring you.

Be alert, be alert, do not be neglectful, my children! You do not have time to look back!

The Father who advises you, loves you more than all the parents on earth. S (26-9-52

So many invitations, so many remonstrations! And poor humanity takes no notice!

It is a time, a day for tears, many tears, and not for joys, for false joys. S (17-7-53)

Quick, quick! Ah, if the Lord’s justice falls, the world will be struck with terror.

Even just souls will feel it. But this will be so that I can reap a harvest of reparation from them, so that many other souls can still be saved. S (23-7-54)

Never has humanity seen, never has Heaven contemplated such a conflagration of vice, wickedness and crime! Sin has never reached so great a height! S (6-5-55)

 

2 - Convert yourselves, come to Me!

 

O the world, if it does not convert! (...)

The hatred, the revenge, the pride, the ambition still continue in the men’s hearts. They think, they prepare themselves for new wars. (World War II had finished a little while before, and we know what was to come!)

I want to prostrate myself before each man and to ask him not to offend Me. S (14-6-46)

Do penance, amend your lives, men must turn toward Jesus!

If they do not do this, retaliation will be swift, there will be great destruction only a small number of people will be left.

I want a new world: a pure world! S (20-12-46)

It is Jesus who invites to prayer, to penance, to a life of purity and love! S (9-9-49)

Demand reparation for the sins of lust, for the iniquities of husbands and also of pious souls and those consecrated to Me.

Demand reparation for all vanity! Why so much wastefulness?

I can say, and with good reason, what Judas said of Me: “Why so much wastefulness?”

This wastefulness cries to the heaven! What is spent in vanity would relieve the hunger of all the starving, would clothe all the naked! S (5-5-50)

I want my tears to fall on the entire world, as they did long ago on the ungrateful city (Jerusalem). (...)

Pray, pray much and do constant penance! S (29-12-50)

Hear who it is who speaks, who it is who wants you: it is Jesus who is your life. Come to Me, all of you!

I call each of you by name, I want you in my divine Heart: come to Me, all of you! Love Me! Do not sin any more.

I am the one! Do not seek elsewhere.

Quick, Quick! This invitation is of Jesus.

Quick, quick: more prayer, more penance.

Quick, quick reform you life, your habits.

Quick, quick, my children!

Ah, for how many is this invitation too late! I called, I invited when there was still time. How many, O how many have already received the justice of my Father!

And why? Because they had not listened to the divine voice, to the invitation of Heaven.

Many have already fallen to divine justice and more will fall. (...) S (19-1-51)

The world, the world, poor world! Oh, if it would convince itself that it must return to its path and hurried to come to my divine Heart! I am a Father (because all things had been created by Him), and as a Father I gave blood and I gave life. I am a Father and, as a Father, I punish to teach and punish to save. (...) S (18-5-51)

Listen, listen! Hear the wounded voice of Jesus: let there be prayer, let there be much prayer and immense penance. (…)

Have compassion on the divine Heart of Jesus! Amend your ways, amend your ways! Jesus asks it of you: leave lust, and vanity and all sin! S (19-10-51)

Avoid, as much as you can, everything around you that could be offensive to Jesus and His Blessed Mother. Listen: do not sin more! (…)

Love, love this divine Heart surrounded by thorns, pierced by so many daggers! S (28-12-51)

Look for Jesus, His interests, his laws. Abandon sin! (...) Go and meet Jesus, because he is searching for you. (…) He is always on the move, searching for you.

(...) Jesus is among you as long ago he was among the apostles: fill yourselves of His graces, His treasures, His love. S (23-5-52)

Be alert, alert! Listen, listen! (...) Jesus is thirsting for your souls, Jesus wants to possess your hearts. I want pure hearts, I want loving hearts. (...) Leave sin, leave sin and the false illusions of the world!

I made myself your brother, I made myself like you, I lived like you, I died on a cross to give you Heaven.

And in exchange, what reward does my divine Heart receive? The spear, the renewal of my passion, continual ingratitude. My wounded chest and my pierced Hear. That is how it was on the summit of Golgotha. It continues to be the same each moment. (...) Come to Jesus who calls you, who wants you, who yearns and sighs for you! S (27-6-52)

I came to this Calvary, for the mediation of my chosen victim: this is the continuation of the work of Calvary over 20 centuries. I am here, I am here to call, I am here to implore: Come, my children, come to Me all of you. Come to my divine Heart to seek balm for all your wounds. I want to cure you and to forget that you have offended Me so much. (...)

Listen! Listen! Prepare yourself for battle. Fill yourself with Jesus to be strong. The Eternal Father, the Eternal Father is about to lay the full force of his justice upon the land.

O Poor world which does not listen to the voice of Jesus and His Blessed Mother. S (11-7-52)

The divine Heart of Jesus comes to ask you, to ask you with its infinite love. (...)

Jesus asks you, asks you with insistence: do not sin any more, do not sin any more! Crush vanities, pleasures, everything which is sinful under your feet.

It is Jesus who speaks, it is Jesus who asks this with all His love, with all the tenderness of His divine Heart: turn back, turn back, follow the Lord! S (18-7-52)

Hasten to leave the false flatteries of this world! Hasten to love Jesus, to suffer for Jesus, to give your life for Him, if necessary!

The world, the world, the poor world! The Lord’s anger awaits it (...)

Come to Me, cold hearts, come to Me, hard-hearted ones!

Come to warm yourselves, come to set yourselves on fire in the burning furnace of my divine Heart! Come to ignite yourselves, come and model yourselves on the divine model, which is Jesus! S (1-8-52)

The Lord’s mercy is great; it is very great, infinitely great.

His justice is severe, infinitely severe. He is infinite mercy, He is infinite severity.

Make reparation, make reparation. Listen carefully: Jesus pardons, He wants to pardon; the Lord wants your repentance. (…)

Be alert, alert! The Lord beseeches you: do not sin, do not sin! God’s justice is severe; it is very severe. S (28-11-52)

I see, I see the death of souls by the millions, by the millions.

Pray, do penance, amend your lives!

Jesus beseeches, Jesus implores because He loves so very much, He loves infinitely. S (26-12-52)

Glory, glory to the Lord! Listen, listen: it is Jesus who speaks. Pay attention, pay attention to what He will ask for.

I come to ask for purity and the love of hearts, I come to ask to for a perfect life in the fulfilment of your duty towards your Creator.

I come to beseech: be attentive, my children! I want the love of your hearts, I want the purity of your life.

Spread the word that I want to be loved, that I want all men to be pure, that I want all hearts to love Me and serve Me faithfully. S (2-1-53

Come to Me, come to Me, dear children of my divine blood!

Dear children, dear children – what tender words!

Dear children, dear children, loving words coming from the Heart of God, through the lips of the great victim of this Calvary, of the greatest victim who Jesus chose from this earth in this century to be immolated for the biggest vices, the biggest sins in biggest flood of iniquities.

I am sad, very sad. I am sad and I weep… S (20-2-53)

Come to Me! I want to be loved! Listen, pay attention: abandon sin, abandon vanities, come to your God!

Jesus who came down from Heaven, came down for love, speaks to you, to advise you, to save you.

I died on Calvary. I died to give life, and it was for love alone. (…)

I want to save the world, I want to save mankind, I want to save my children! S (27-3-53)

What does Jesus come to say to you? He comes to say that He loves you, He loves you, He loves you and He wants your love.

Listen to Me, listen, accept my invitation: come to my divine Heart. You are my children, you are my children! Pay attention, pay attention to the Father who invites you: abandon earthly things, leave the world, think about Heaven, live for Heaven! (…)

The Lord calls you, my children, my children! The times are grave, the hour is nigh! S (19-6-53)

Jesus comes down from Heaven to earth. He comes down for love, full of the impetuosity of love for you. Few, very few are those who profit from my graces. I came down for love and everything I do, I do for love of your souls.

Woe to them who do not profit from my divine graces! Woe to them who let my divine voice pass by like the breeze that disappears!

Stop, everybody stop your sinning! Come now, come quickly to encounter my divine Heart! S (26-6-53)

My divine Heart spills blood: the stabs and thrusts of grave sins wound it. The vanity and the dishonesty on beaches, in the cinemas and in the discos wound Me. Horrible sins are committed in the casinos and in the houses of vice. There are sins in the family, sins in all states of life. Ah, how much my divine Heart suffers!

Pay attention, pay attention to the most tender voice of your Lord! Pay attention, pay attention to the most loving plea of His Heart! Come to Me all you who have wandered, come to Me you all who are cold: I want to pardon you, I want to warm you. Come to Me, come to Me all that are sick: I want to cure you, I want to heal your souls. S (4-9-53)

Here is Jesus, the Jesus of souls, the Jesus of sinners. (...) So many, so many colloquies have been for the sinners (public ecstasies). So many teachings, so much proof of Jesus’ love.

Come to Me, my children! It is my divine Heart that calls you, it is my loving Heart that wants you. (...)

My divine Heart is crazed, crazed, crazed with pain: it suffers because it loves, loves because it suffers.

The pain, the pain, my children, pain is biting at my divine Heart.

My love is intense, My love is intense.

Hasten back, hasten back!

Listen to the tender and sweet voice of Jesus; hear the sorrowful voice, the aching voice, aching voice of the most loving Jesus! S (6-11-53)

This ecstasy, parts of which were sung, was recorded.

Learn, learn from this Calvary!

Learn from Jesus who is pure, meek and humble of Heart.

Learn, learn, my children, learn to love, learn to suffer, learn to take up your cross!

I am the Master, I am the Model that you must imitate. Learn from Me! (...)

Do you want Paradise? Follow my steps: do not sin any more. Come soon, come while it is time, come to my Heart!

I can no longer, I can no longer restrain the justice of my Father.

Hard, hard expression: He cannot, Jesus can no longer hold back the avenging justice of His Eternal Father! S (27-11-53)

Vigilance, vigilance in the Church! Vigilance, the Head, the Heads of the Church!

The Church, the Church, first the Church!

The Church, the Church! Oh, what suffering for my divine Heart and for the immaculate Heart of my blessed Mother!

Vigilance, vigilance, the Heads of Nations. What poison, what treason! Penance, penance and prayer!

A new life for the world, a new life for the sake of God! S (24-9-54)

 

3 - Aids for conversion

 

Prayer and penance are the two indispensable means of conversion, but they are not enough! We Christians have a yet stronger aid, which comes to us directly from God: the Eucharist!

In this last section some ecstatic outbursts are presented that necessarily relate to this inestimable gift of Jesus: his own Person!

 

Far from heaven, far from Jesus are those who are far from the tabernacle.

I want souls, many truly Eucharistic souls. (...)

Poor persons those who do not want to know and to love the Lord of the tabernacle! Poor persons those who do not want to see with that light that the tabernacle sheds! (...) S (11-9-53)

The Rosary, the Eucharist, my Body and my Blood! The Eucharist, the Eucharist, with my victims: here is the salvation of the world! S (29-10-54)

I am here (in the tabernacle) for love alone.

Men do not understand this love. I am here to be food and life. Men do not want to feed themselves and to live my life! S (26-11-54)

I am there in the tabernacle in this pure Host, in Body, Soul and Deity (...)

May they come with their pure hearts, pure and full of longing!

If they come to the tabernacle with a good disposition and to pray the Rosary, or a part of it, every day, nothing more is necessary to deflect the justice of God.

The Rosary, the tabernacle and my victims, the victim of this Calvary, are sufficient for the world to be given pardon and peace.

Who comes to the tabernacle lives in purity.

Who lives in the shade of my blessed Mother reflects Her purity.

This is the way humanity can live the new, pure, holy life, before this small room so often recommended by Me. S (10-12-54)

 

4– Alexandrina, the messenger of Jesus

 

In this paragraph are presented fragments that reveal the role of missionary which Jesus entrusted to His beloved Alexandrina. This role is well illustrated in the image on the cover.

 

I will put charm onto your lips, into your looks; into your heart I will put tenderness, compassion, and love.

Everything in you is transparent, everything is communicated through you.

Souls come to receive from you the things of Heaven. Rescue them, have pity on the world! S (9-1-48)

It is through you that I give myself to souls; it is through you that they come to Me.

I love you and you love Me; you live as I want you to: you live my life. S (8-12-50)

You are of Jesus, you live the life of Jesus, you give to souls what is of Jesus. S (9-3-45)

The martyrdom which you suffer is the greatest means of salvation (she is a soul-victim).

Give yourself, give your full self to souls. I give myself to them with you and through you. (…) Work so that souls know Me! Show them the love of my heart. S (5-6-45)

Dear daughter, light of the world, salvation of the world, light of souls, fire of hearts! Give yourself all through my divine love to souls, give them everything that you receive from Me. S (29-6-45)

When I appear to you showing the abundant rays of my divine Heart it is to satiate the thirst that I have for you and to give my love to you in abundance so that you can distribute the same to souls. S (3-4-45)

Receive all this divine life, give it to the hungry world, give it to the world which is in such danger.

I have offered it to you, I have entrusted it to you. S (2-2-45)

We know that just such a offering occurred during the ecstasy of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception 1944, when the Heavenly Mother was present and had said to her: I come with my divine Son to offer humanity to you and to enclose it in your heart. (…)

Dear daughter, beloved of my Jesus, receive the life by which you live

(remember that since 1942 she had fed exclusively on the Eucharistic Jesus and some drops of His Blood), receive the life of Heaven. Receive it and give it to souls. S (8-12-44)

Alexandrina lived this offering as a martyrdom. About two months later she will say:

O Jesus, look at this insanity of love, look at this martyrdom which consumes! What must I do for the world? (…) S (15-2-45)

And about one month later she will have this relief:

I am mother, but oh, what an insane mother! I am mother who cries for the loss of her children. I am mother who cannot bear to see them in so much disorder, so much misery, so much sin! (what would she say today, half century later, after the sins committed in the meantime?) Ah my Jesus, what can I do? S (6-3-45)

In May 1945, feeling herself incapable of giving the world the love it needs,  she thanks Jesus for the love she has received from Him and says:

- My Jesus, give this love of yours to all hearts, give it to all souls!

- You give out to all, dear daughter, I authorize you: you are the mistress of my divine Heart, you are chatelaine of my love.

Give it, distribute it as you want. I say ‘as you want’, because your desires are mine.

- Jesus, my heart is burning with such intensity!

- Rejoice, my beloved: it is my divine love that burns you. S (25-5-45)

Alexandrina, in her great humility, is never proud. Even the very beautiful affirmation of Jesus “your desires are mine” is not enough to let her seek repose in its implication. Let us read what she dictates in June 1950:

I saw His breast open and he opened His divine heart. From it came a shower of gold that, instead of falling to the ground, came to my heart. The more gold that left the Heart of Jesus, the more my heart was filled with light and the more intensely the fire burnt within me.

- I am burning, my Jesus. May You be blessed for having given me so much! Teach me to distribute your love so as to please You! S (16-6-50)

Jesus summerizes this mission beautifully:

Fill yourself to overflowing, burn yourself to a furnace. S (10-9-48)

Alexandrina sorely feels her own inadequacy, she allows herself to be filled. Therefore Jesus can say to her:

My daughter, We, my Father and the Holy Spirit, place Ourselves forever on the throne of royalty, the throne of your heart. The Holy Spirit will fill you with His gifts, His love, His light.

And do you know why, my beloved spouse? So that you may communicate it to souls. To fill their hearts with what yours is full of: love, grace, the divine riches. S (1-6-46)

Trust, treasurer of Jesus, storehouse of His divine treasures, trust in this Heart that loves you. Receive the fire of this Heart enraptured with love for you.

Receive it in abundance and give it those you love. Give it to them: it is a gift from Heaven, a gift that I give through you. Fill them full of my love and give to the world what is yours. S (28-12-45)

We have to realize that to receive the gifts it is necessary to desire them! Jesus says to her:

It is love, my daughter: it is the love of your Jesus. Protect it for yourself, protect it for souls, give it to them in abundance. (…)

When anybody says that he wants his sins pardoned, promise him that Jesus pardons them. When anybody says that say that he wants to go to Heaven, assure him, in silence, of salvation.

Go, my daughter, charmed one of Jesus. Go and use my charms to attract souls to Me, as you attracted Me to you. I was enchanted with you.

Many souls will become enchanted with you, because they are my enchantments you are using. S (23-1-48)

Also in the ecstasies Jesus uses the comparison of the water and the fire with Alexandrina, as it is used in the Gospel, to represent grace and love:

Give to souls the riches you receive from Me. Ask for them so that I and My blessed Mother will be loved. Communicate with them, make them drink of the crystalline water of your virtues. Enflame them with the burning fire of your heart. Smile while carrying the cross. Suffer and love, always smiling.

Courage, courage! Take my love and go in peace. Give the world my peace. S (12-5-50)

See how Alexandrina, to fulfil her mission to save souls, acknowledges that she thirsts to drink from that divine source that is her Jesus.

I feel strongly attracted to go and drink from the fountain. I do not stop drinking for one instant. S (18-10-46)

I am obliged to go to drink from this fountain that seems to me to be the source of the Jesus’ Heart. I feel obliged to drink, I feel obliged to pass on the same drink, to water souls with my lips. S (25-10-46)

I feel as if I was a well from which people don’t cease for an instant to draw water. What activity! This water that is drawn spurts upwards. Whoever wants to may drink from it. This well is inexhaustible, It never goes dry; it is always full of water.

It is in me, but it is not mine; it is under my control, but it does not belong to me. However I am very anxious to distribute it, to give it to everyone to drink: I feel that it is the water of salvation.

Oh, how much I want to spread it around! To give away what does not belong to me, and I have no scruples about it! I steal without fear of being punished by the owner!

O my God, my God, I want to give it all away, all of it, all this water. I want to plunge the whole world into it. I die, Jesus, I die with anxiety! S (2-5-47)

 

5- Alexandrina and the Eucharist

 

In this paragraph Alexandrina no longer speaks with the voice of Jesus, but she transmits directly from her heart. But it is clear that her primary source is always Jesus, because Alexandrina has been formed in His school.

These ‘effusions’ complete the preceding paragraph.

They are so presented that, contemplating the heart of Alexandrina burning with such love for her Eucharistic Jesus, we are left entranced by Him,  and impelled to imitate her!

Let the attitude of that heart be the star that guides our path. Let us always have our eyes fixed on that goal, even if our insufficiency prevents us from reaching it.

But we will always be approaching it, and be very close, with the help of this highly privileged Beata.

Today I received Jesus (In the Eucharistic). (...) I would like to hug Him with one everlasting hug. I wanted to burn and to be burnt: to throw my life into love’s flames. L (26-2-40)

I received my Jesus: I was in Him and He in me, as if we were one. O, how sweet is the life of love! What will be the life of Heaven! L (17-4-41)

After Communion. I felt my soul being flooded with His real presence. It gave me the strength to sing and to pray until late afternoon. L (2-5-41)

The following fragments had been taken from the little volume“Random Thoughts” and are not dated.

The tabernacle, my dwelling! My heaven, my heaven!

Ah, how happy I am living with Jesus in the Eucharist! (p. 48)

I want to enter in Your tabernacle and to be there always. I feel well just being alone next to You. What sweet food is Your Eucharist. (p. 49)

Jesus, I want to die of love for Your Eucharist.

O You are food, O You are life, O You are love, O you are everything to me!” (p. 51)

O my Jesus, You know well that my only desire is to be always present in Your tabernacles, I do not forget that, not for one instant. Give me the strength, my Jesus, to remember that always. (p. 58)

And finally, this extract dictated by Alexandrina, at the request of Fr Pasquale after a Communion. It is collected in Random Thoughts, p. 48.

But it is prseerved in Balasar, in a document that has the date: 6-9-44, the beginning of Fr Pasquale’s time as spiritual director of Alexandrina.

 

The All descended to the nothing.
The Mighty Lord descended to poverty.
Love descended to coldness,
to indifference, to misery, to indignity.
What a great love is that of Jesus!
You came down from the highest to the lowest.

Jesus, give me fire, give me love;
love to burn me, love to kill me.
I want to live and to die of love.
Jesus, may Your divine love be my life.
May it and only it be my death.
Jesus, I want to love You:
to love You madly,
to love You until I die of love.

Jesus, I want to be Your chosen one,
the object of Your delirium of love...
to be lost in the immensity of Your love.

 

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