Jesus says:
""The Lord is with you".
The Lord is always with the one whose soul is in grace. God does not turn away even when the Tempter approaches. God withdraws only when the creature yields to the Tempter and corrupts his soul. Then God withdraws 'for He cannot cohabit with the Enemy. He withdraws and like a Father, not angry but sorrowful, waits for repentance to come to the heart of the creature and for the creature to resume the bond of love with the Father.
God would like to be with you always. If all your angels, as numerous as the stars in the sky, could greet you with the words: "The Lord is with you", the joy of your Lord would be complete because We desire to be with you and for this we have created you.
Mary was with God and God was with Mary. The two perfections were attracted and united with an incessant movement of affections. The infinite Perfection of God descended, with a joy inconceivable to you mortals, to possess this creature. The human perfection of Mary - the only one of the children of man who has always been perfect - was launched to meet the divine Perfection in order to be able to live.
Yes, to be with God was Mary's life, and at the hour of the terrible pain of Calvary and the Sepulcher, when the Heavens closed over the Dying and the Pierced One, the deprivation of God was, of the seven swords, the most inflamed and penetrating, an insurmountable touch for the edifice of pain required by Redemption.
I have touched the apex of complete pain from Gethsemane to the ninth hour; Mary has touched the apex of pain, also complete in Her even though She has not been materially crucified, from Calvary to the moment of the Resurrection. And the reason for such immense pain is only one: to be deprived of union with God.
It should be so for you too. But man now finds union with Us burdensome and does not feel how miserable he is when he is deprived of Us. Misery, blindness, insanity, death - this is the loss of union with your Lord, and you never hear about it!
If you lose some coins, an object, health, a job, an animal, you set out to find them and use all human and supernatural means to achieve this end. Yes, to find something limited and outdated you know how to pray. But when you lose God, you do not seek Him. You do not turn to my Saints to help you find the way of God, you do not use human care to restrain your impulses. It seems a small thing to you to lose your union with God. And that is the essential thing.
Mary never separated herself from God. The spirits remained fused in an embrace of love that had its coronation in Heaven. This union was Mary's main strength, as a daughter of Adam, because in it she found the armor to become untouchable before the sting of the Tempter.
He who is with God does not fail to see the evil which, like a filthy garment or repugnant disease, covers so many creatures. He sees it, indeed, more clearly than many others, but his vision corrupts nothing. Evil does not enter through the eyes to excite the instincts concealed in the flesh or the evil movements of the mind. This happens only in those who, separated from God, have the Enemy as their host.
He who is united with God is full of God, and anything other than God remains on the surface, a wind that slightly curls the surface of the mind and does not enter to disturb the interior. And not only this. He who is united with God, truly united with God, instead of absorbing the exterior in himself, diffuses the interior to his neighbors: he diffuses, therefore, the Good, to God.
Yes, it is just so: he who is with God has a radiant power, much more potent than that of many bodies in the universe, over which man has wearied his mind and raised a monument of pride. And above all, he has a supernaturally useful power, because he who carries in himself the Holy of holies, and lives of Him, communicates Him to others. It is what makes one say: "This is a saint".
Mary has possessed union with God to perfection, she has tended with all her strength to merge herself more and more with Him. One could say that Mary annulled herself in God, as much as she lived only for Him.
I said: "Mary found here the main strength to become untouchable". Do not understand things backwards. Mary, the most humble, did not dare to think, not even remotely, that she was the perfect creature. She was ignorant of her destiny and her immaculate condition. She knew the mystery through the words of Gabriel and in the nuptial embrace with the Eternal Spirit. But during her youth, an age full of stalking, I repeat: she found strength in union with God. He wanted to find it at all costs because he would have preferred to die a hundred times rather than leave God's halo for an instant.
I would like that, more than fulfilling so many precepts, more or less pious, especially my beloved ones, and also the others, would tend to this sovereign precept of union with me. Simple, and truly prayer, this prayer, inflamed heart, chaste body, honest thought, everything in you would become holy and good, and the earth would know the new days in which the angels could greet men with the words: "The Lord is with you"".
Maria Valtorta: Notebook 1943