## CONSECRATED APOSTATES
Consolata tells us: Jesus revealed to me His intimate sufferings caused by the infidelity of consecrated souls
(November 9, 1934). He said to me: "Behold the betrayal of sacrilegious consecrated souls—that is, of your brothers and sisters; with few exceptions, it is due to sins against purity" (October 26, 1935).
On October 14, 1935, while Consolata was praying before the Blessed Sacrament, solemnly exposed, she heard Jesus say: “Consolata, do you know the pain caused to My Heart when a voice makes Me descend into impure hands, into sacrilegious hearts? I am infinite purity, and I am forced to descend into impure hands and filthy hearts” (referring to the Mass).
On July 31, 1936, He insisted: “Look, Consolata, go in search of every consecrated brother and sister and bring them to Me, and I will forgive them by the blood I have shed for all.”
Jesus entrusted to her the souls of all consecrated brothers and sisters who had prevaricated and gravely offended God. He also told her: "From today until your last breath, consecrate every prayer and sacrifice to the well-being of your consecrated brothers; do everything for them. I will take care of other intentions. Pray, suffer, atone, and make reparation for your brothers—for all your brothers and sisters who have sinned gravely until the end of time. Bring them to Me in your prayer during Holy Mass. Submerge them in My divine blood. Bring them all to the foot of the monstrance when I am exposed or within the tabernacles, and pray for them."
One day, while Consolata was weeping for her own sins, Jesus told her: “Weep for the betrayal of your brothers and sisters. I will unite your tears to Mine and offer them to the Father to intercede for their forgiveness, but do not weep for yourself. I immolate you for all the souls in the universe, but your special mission is for your consecrated brothers.”
Another day, speaking to her of Judas Iscariot, He said: “I loved him so much... He was one of My own. I did everything to save him, but I could draw nothing—not even the smallest sign—from his hardened heart. Judas was the first link in an endless chain that has lasted twenty centuries. Consolata, if you give yourself as a victim and accept all suffering, I will unite your passion to Mine, your blood to Mine, and I will offer it for them—traitors and apostates—and I will redeem them. Consolata, must I then condemn them all, curse them eternally? On My part, I am ready to forgive them and convert them as I have done with you. They can love Me again. But a victim is necessary. Your brothers and sisters betray Me with their vices: pride, greed, gluttony, ambition. They trample upon their three holy vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.”
On November 2, 1935, Jesus told her: “Consolata, every time you attend Mass, offer the consecrated host and the chalice of divine blood at the Elevation to the Eternal Father through the hands of the Virgin. Only she, with her immaculate hands, can repair the outrage I receive upon contact with impure hands.”
On November 6, 1935, He assured her: “Consolata, I will turn apostates into apostles of My Heart. I can do it, and I will do it.”
One day in September 1936, a former religious woman named Lucia visited the parlor. She had abandoned religious life eight years prior and remained obstinate in her erroneous ideas. On September 13, during Communion, Jesus said: “Consolata, My Heart is yours; choose whatever you wish.” She asked for Lucia. Jesus replied: “I give her to you, and she will be your first (saved) sister.”
Toward the end of July 1936, a Superior asked her monastery for prayers for the salvation of one of its members—a man who was very intelligent but lacked piety and, above all, humility, and who was at risk of becoming an apostate. He was due to make his perpetual vows and had been advised to do a month-long retreat. The Capuchin sisters, especially Consolata, took the task of praying for him seriously. On July 31, while offering a discipline for the conversion of this brother, Jesus said: “Consolata, I give him to you, and he will be your first brother; but besides your incessant act of love, what will you give Me? Accept his darkness so that I may give him divine light. I will convert him, and later I will make him a saint.” On August 15, a letter arrived at the monastery announcing the conversion of that religious brother. Jesus had kept His first promise; the second, to make him a saint, remained.
### THE WAR
During the Italo-Ethiopian conflict, as Sister Consolata prayed for military chaplains—to ensure they all remained worthy of their mission—Jesus replied (August 27, 1935): “Look, most of these boys (the soldiers) would have been depraved at home. Instead, in the war, far from occasions of sin and with the assistance of the chaplain, they will die and be eternally happy.”
He repeated the same regarding the economic crises overwhelming the world before the recent war (November 15, 1935): “The current misery reigning in the world is not the work of My justice, but of My mercy.” How many fewer sins for lack of money! How many more prayers rise to heaven during financial hardships!
“Do not think that the sorrows of the earth do not move Me; but I love souls, I want to save them, and to achieve this, I find myself forced to use rigor. But believe it, it is to show mercy.”
“In abundance, souls forget Me and are lost; in misery, they turn back to Me and are saved. That is how it is—know it!”
During the tremendous global conflagration, specifically on December 8, 1940, the following dialogue took place between Jesus and Sister Consolata, who was groaning and pleading for peace:
“Look, Consolata, if I were to grant peace today, the world would return to the mire; the ordeal endured would not have been enough.”
“But Jesus, all this youth is going to the slaughter.”
“Is it not better to have two or three years of bitter, intense, and unheard-of suffering and then an eternity of joys, than an entire life of dissoluteness and then eternal condemnation? Choose. Today, to save the world, this is necessary. How many young people will eternally thank God because they perished in this war that saved them forever. Do you understand?”
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