Voluntas bona sufficit penitenti, dum copiam confessoris non habuerit. Hec latroni profuit in cruce et celum aperuit. Voluntas vero mala infernum fecit; Lucifer mala voluntate factus est malus.
The Sufficiency of a Good Will
When a pilgrim cannot find a confessor, the Lord reveals that a sincere good will is sufficient for salvation.
A man from the diocese of Turku came to Rome, not knowing the Swedish language. Since no one in Rome understood him and he couldn't find a confessor, he asked the Lady what he should do. Then the lady heard in her spirit Jesus Christ, the Son of God, speaking: "The man who asked for your advice is weeping because he has no one to hear his confession." Tell him that a good will is enough. For what did the thief on the cross have? Wasn't it a good will? And what opens heaven, if not the will to desire what is good and to hate what is evil?
The Peril of a Disordered Will
The Lord explains that evil originates not from creation, but from a disordered will, citing the fall of Lucifer as a warning.
What actually creates hell, if not a disordered will and affection? Wasn't Lucifer created good? Or did I—who am goodness and virtue itself—create any evil? Certainly not. But after Lucifer misused his will and moved it in a disordered way, he became disordered himself, and through that evil will, he became evil. Therefore, let this poor person stand firm and not turn back.
Counsel and Final Assurance
The Lord instructs the pilgrim to seek wise counsel and submit his will to the righteous, promising salvation even if death occurs before he finds a confessor.
And when he has returned to his own country, let him seek out and listen to what is healthy for his soul from the wise, and let him submit his own will and obey the counsel of the righteous more than his own will. But if they die along the way in the meantime, it will be for them as I said to the thief: 'You will be with me in paradise.'
Read the original Latin
Quidam de dyocesi Aboensi venit Romam ignorans ydeoma Sueuicum. Quem cum nullus in Roma intelligeret nec confessorem habere poterat, consuluit dominam, quid ageret.
Tunc domina in spiritu audiuit (Ihesus Christus, filius Dei loquitur): "Homo ille, qui te consuluit, plorat, quod non habet auditorem confessionis sue. Dic ei, quod sufficit voluntas.
Nam quid profuit latroni in cruce? Nonne voluntas bona? Aut quid aperit celum nisi voluntas volendi bona et odiendi mala?
Quid vero facit infernum nisi voluntas et affectus inordinatus? Numquid non Lucifer bene creatus fuit? Aut ego, ipsa bonitas et virtus, creaui aliquod malum? Nequaquam.
Sed postquam Lucifer abusus est voluntate et mouit eam inordinate, factus est ipse inordinatus et ex mala voluntate malus. Propterea iste pauper stet stabiliter et non retrocedat.
Et cum ad patriam suam redierit, querat et audiat salubria anime sue a sapientibus et voluntatem suam submittat, et obediat magis consilio iustorum quam sue voluntati.
Si/n/ autem interim morietur in via, erit ei, sicut dixi latroni: 'Eris mecum in paradiso.'"
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