I HAVE FAITH

I have faith… And I believe in the only true God, He who is Himself, by Himself and for Himself His very eternal subsistence and infinite self-sufficiency; and in His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, the One He sent, Yahweh’s Anointed, the One expected by the nations, the One promised to our holy Fathers and longed for by the Prophets; “God from God, Light from Light,” of the same substance and nature of the Father and of the Holy Spirit.

And therefore, I can say with the Apostle Saint Paul: “I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given himself up for me.”

I have faith… And I “believe in the Holy Spirit… who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son He is worshipped and glorified.”

One only God and three persons, equal in their being and different in their persons.

And my life of faith, full of hope and aflame in love, makes me know, penetrate and savour this ineffable, marvellous and transcendent reality, beginning and foundation of that same faith that I possess, and light that clarifies all the mysteries that it contains, and that have been manifested to me in loving wisdom, specially from the 18^th of March of 1959, so that I may communicate them, with the command of: “Go forth and tell it…!”; “This is for everyone…!”

“I know that God is Himself –I wrote on the 23^rd of January of 1960–.

And I know it, without knowing, in His eternal understanding; even though what I know, God is, for having got into His very knowing, and into His understanding I know it.

And even though what I know, God is, I infinitely remain without knowing what God is, in His being Himself being; but, only to know that my God is Himself, leaves me in love for Him who Is…

And how greatly my faith has been strengthened when knowing that God is…! because this is the root of our faith: to know that God is Himself and how He is Himself so and why He is Himself so.

And if I know the dogmas without knowing that God is Himself, and that God has His being in Himself, everything shakes, because the reason for my faith is in that God is Himself.”

“Should God were not Himself, nothing would be, because in Him and through Him, through His being, ‘in the Word were created all things, by and under the impulse of the Holy Spirit.”

God Himself, by virtue of a design of His infinite will on me, countless times has taken me into His bosom, for being Catholic, Apostolic Church and founded under the See of Peter, so that I might come out singing to everyone, in my mission of Echo of the Church, the essential richness of our life of faith, received from this Holy Mother.

That is why on the 6^th of April of 1959, as on so many other days of that month, and of the previous month and of other consecutive months, at the contemplation of His mystery, with irresistible power He made me exclaim:

“God’s being… that awe-inspiring being of God, so infinite and awe-inspiring, with a sovereign majesty, with a awe-inspiring awe-inspiringness, with an overwhelming immensity… that being so infinite and awe-inspiring is by essence peace… calmness… silence… All eternity in one immutable silence… in a for us incomprehensible calmness…!

All of God’s life is one act; one infinite, fruitful act of being! and so infinitely fruitful and infinite, that the Father contemplates Himself in a silence silently awe-inspiring… And the Word, who is the jubilant and loving Song of the Infinite Being, comes forth, without coming forth, from the Father’s bosom, and sings to Him, in a loud cry of being, all the awe-inspiring, immense and fruitful being, in one sole and silent Word: one sole Word that is the whole Being in Expression… Yes, one sole and silent Word, one sole and loving Word, one sole and inexplicable Word… Inexplicable to us, but to God it explains without any noise and in one act all the Father’s infinite and finished being… It is the adequate Expression that expresses, in perfect and infinite expression, the whole being without beginning and without end.

This Father, so fruitful, so silent, so loving, who contemplates Himself in an endless and beginningless contemplation, utters Himself –in one sole act– all His endless being, in one sole Word that comes forth from Him for being so fruitful… And that Utterance is the Word, the sole adequate Expression of God in His being and in His persons.

The Holy Spirit has to proceed from the Father and from the Word, because there is nothing in God the Father that is not in God the Son; and the Holy Spirit is the personal Love who, bursting into a silent love out of the bosom of the Father and of the Word, comes forth from the Father as the loving being loving the Word, and from the Word as the loving being loving the Father… The Holy Spirit is the Love who, bursting, comes forth from the Father and from the Word in the Person-Love.

There is only one life in three persons, one sole being that the Three equally possess. None of the Three has more or has less, or is more or is less His being. None of the Three is before or after. The Holy Spirit is not after the Word or after the Father. He is the Love, the Love of the Father and of the Word, who is neither before nor after. God is one most pure and infinite act, and so perfect and fruitful, that it is all the endless and fruitful life of the adorable Trinity. There is only one God who, in one sole eternal moment, contemplates, sings and loves Himself. One God who, because He is God, cannot be otherwise. Yes, the life of God… the only life…! All that is not God is death…”

“And what a joy…! And what happiness…! How I see Him…! What a joy does God have for being Himself in Himself Song of eternal jubilation…! What a joy does my soul have to see God as He is…! What a joy…! What a joy…!”