Verba Domini ad sponsam, indicancia, qualiter quidam ante eius tribunal venerat iudicandus, et de terribili et horribili sentencia illata a Deo et ab omnibus sanctis contra eum.
The Eternal Perspective
God reveals to the bride that His eternal nature transcends human time and perception.
The bride saw God as if He were angry, and He said, "I am without beginning and without end." There is no change in Me, nor years, nor days. But all the time of this world is to Me as if it were one hour or a single moment. Everyone who sees me sees everything that is in me as if in a single point, and understands it. But because you, my bride, are physical, you can't perceive and know things the way a spirit does. Therefore, I will explain to you what has happened.
The Tribunal of Judgment
The Father, Son, and Spirit pronounce judgment upon a soul that has turned away from divine love.
I sat as if in judgment, since all judgment has been given to me, and someone came to be judged before the tribunal. The voice of the Father sounded to him, saying, 'Woe to you, that you were ever born'—not because God regretted having made him, but just as someone is accustomed to grieve for another out of compassion for them. Then the voice of the Son replied: 'I poured out my blood for you and endured the most bitter suffering for you; yet you have completely turned away from this, and it has no part in you.' The voice of the Spirit says: I searched every corner of his heart, hoping to find some softness and love there, but he’s as cold as ice and as hard as stone; he has nothing to do with me. These three voices weren't heard as if there were three gods, but they were made for your sake, my bride, because you couldn't understand this mystery in any other way. Then those three voices mentioned before—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—immediately merged into one single voice. And that voice thundered, saying: 'The kingdom of heaven is in no way yours.'
The Witness of the Saints and the Damned
The saints, the souls in purgatory, and the voices of hell confirm the justice of the soul's condemnation.
The Mother of mercy remained silent and did not offer her mercy, because the one to be judged was unworthy of it. And all the saints cried out with one voice, saying: 'This is divine justice, that he should be an exile forever from your kingdom and your joy.' Then everyone in purgatory said, 'No pain is as bitter as ours, yet it isn't enough to punish your sins.' You are bound to endure greater torments; therefore, you'll be separated from us.' Then the one being judged himself cried out in a horrific voice, saying: 'Woe, woe to the seeds that came together in my mother's womb, from which I was formed.' A second time he cried out, "Cursed be the hour my soul was joined to my body, and cursed be the one who gave me this body and soul!" A third time he cried out, "Cursed be the hour I came forth alive from my mother's womb!" Then three horrible voices came from hell against him, saying: 'Come to us, you cursed soul, for you are flowing toward eternal death and endless life!' Secondly, they cried out: 'Come, cursed soul, empty, to our malice!' For there won't be anyone among us who won't fill you with their malice and torment.' A third time they cried out: 'Come, cursed soul, heavy as a stone that is always sinking and never reaches the bottom where it might find rest!' So you will descend deeper into the depths than we have, so that you cannot stand firm before you reach the very bottom of the abyss.'
A Call to Fidelity and Humility
The Lord uses the example of the condemned soul to exhort the bride to greater love, detachment, and trust in His mercy.
Then the Lord said: 'Just as a man with many wives turns away from one when she falls, and turns instead toward the others who remain, rejoicing with them, so I have turned My face and My mercy away from him, and I turn Myself toward My servants and handmaids, and I rejoice with them.' Since you have heard of his fall and misery, serve me all the more sincerely, in proportion to the greater mercy I have shown you. Flee the world and its cravings! Do you think I took on such a bitter passion for the sake of the world's glory, or because I couldn't have finished it more quickly and easily? I certainly could have. But justice demanded that, just as humanity had sinned in every member, it had to make satisfaction in every member as well. Because of this, the Godhead, feeling compassion for humanity, burned with such love for a single virgin that He took on human nature from her, and in that human nature, God endured every penalty that humanity was bound to suffer. Since I took your punishment upon myself out of love, stand in true humility just as my servants do, so that you have nothing to blush for and nothing to fear but me. Guard your tongue so that, even if it were my will, you would never want to speak. Don't be distressed by worldly things, because they are fleeting, and I have the power to make rich or make poor whomever I choose. Therefore, my bride, place your hope entirely in me!
The Lesson of a Wasted Life
A brief historical account of the man whose judgment was witnessed, serving as a warning against worldly ambition.
This man was a nobleman, a canon, and a subdeacon who, having obtained a false dispensation, married a wealthy virgin. But, overtaken by sudden death, he didn't get what he had desired.
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Videbat sponsa Deum quasi iratum, qui dicebat: "Ego sum sine principio et sine fine. Nulla immutacio est apud me nec anni et dies. Sed omne tempus huius mundi est apud me, quasi esset una hora vel momentum.
Omnis, qui videt me, omne, quod est in me, videt quasi ad punctum et intelligit. Sed quia tu, sponsa mea, corporalis es, ideo non sic potes percipere et cognoscere sicut spiritus. Ideo indicabo propter te, quod actum est.
Ego sedi quasi in iudicio, quia omne iudicium datum est michi, et venit quidam iudicandus ante tribunal. Cui vox Patris sonuit, dicens ei: 'Ve tibi, quia umquam natus fuisti', non quia penituit Deum fecisse eum, sed sicut aliquis dolere solet pro alio compaciendo ei.
Deinde respondit vox Filii: 'Ego fudi sanguinem meum pro te et suscepi amarissimam penam pro te; ab hac enim tu omnino alienatus es nec habet aliquid tecum.' Vox Spiritus ait:
'Quesiui omnes angulos cordis eius, si forte inuenirem aliquam molliciem in corde eius et caritatem, sed frigidissimus est quasi gelu, durissimus sicut lapis; non est aliquid michi cum eo.'
Hee tres voces non ideo audite sunt, quasi sint tres dii, sed propter te, sponsa mea, facte sunt, quia tu non poteras hoc misterium aliter intelligere. Deinde iste tres voces predicte, scilicet Patris et Filii et Spiritus sancti, conuerse sunt statim in unam vocem tantum. Que vox sic intonuit, dicens: 'Nullatenus tibi debetur regnum celi.'
Mater misericordie siluit nec aperuit misericordiam suam, quia iste iudicandus indignus ea erat. Et omnes sancti una voce clamabant, dicentes: 'Hec est diuina iusticia, ut perpetuo exul sit a regno et gaudio tuo.'
Et tunc omnes illi, qui erant in purgatorio, dixerunt: 'Nulla pena est tam amara nobiscum, que sufficiat ad puniendum peccata tua. Maiora enim tormenta teneris portare; ideo a nobis sequestraberis.' Tunc autem et ipse iudicandus clamabat voce horrenda dicens: 'Ve, ve seminibus, que conuenerunt in ventre matris mee, de quibus formatus sum ego.'
Secundo eciam clamabat: 'Maledicta', inquit, 'sit hora, in qua anima mea cum corpore coniuncta fuit, et maledictus sit, qui dedit corpus et animam!' Tercio clamabat: 'Maledicta sit hora illa, in qua viuus de matris utero processi!'
Tunc contra eum venerunt tres horribiles voces de inferno dicentes: 'Veni ad nos, maledicta anima, quasi es fluens ad mortem perpetuam et vitam interminabilem!' Secundo clamabant: 'Veni, maledicta anima, vacua ad nostram maliciam! Nullus enim erit ex nobis, qui te malicia sua et pena non impleat.'
Tercio clamabant: 'Veni, maledicta anima, ponderosa quasi lapis, qui semper mergitur et numquam attingit fundum, in quo quiescat! Sic tu in profundum profundius nobis descendes, ut non possis subsistere, antequam veneris in yma abyssi.'
Et tunc ait Dominus: 'Ergo sicut homo, habens plures uxores et videns casum unius, auertit se ab illa et vertit se ad alias, que stant, et gratulatur cum eis, sic ego auerti faciem meam ab illo et misericordiam, et verto me ad famulos et seruos meos et gaudeo cum illis.
Propterea cum tu audisti casum illius et miseriam, ideo serui michi eo sincerius, quo maiorem misericordiam tecum feci! Fuge mundum et concupiscenciam eius! Numquid ego passionem tam amaram assumpsi propter gloriam mundi, vel quia celerius et leuius non potui consumare eam? Poteram utique.
Sed sic exigebat iusticia, ut, sicut homo in membris omnibus deliquerat, sic in omnibus satisfaciendum erat. Propter quod deitas, homini compaciens, tanta caritate exarsit ad unam virginem, ut de illa humanitatem susciperet, in qua humanitate sustineret Deus omnem penam, quam homo teneretur habere.
Ideo si ex caritate penam tuam suscepi in me, sta, sicut stant famuli mei, in vera humilitate, ut nichil erubescas, nichil timeas nisi me! Custodi os tuum, ut, si esset voluntas mea, tu numquam velles loqui. Non contristeris de temporalibus, quia caduca sunt, et ego ditare, quos voluero, et depauperare possum. Ideo, sponsa mea, pone spem tuam totaliter in me!"
Hic homo fuit nobilis et canonicus et subdyaconus, qui, optenta falsa dispensacione, desponsauit virginem diuitem. Sed preuentus morte subita non optinuit, quod concupiuit.
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