## Message of February 2, 2002, First Saturday of the Month
### Prado Nuevo (El Escorial)
**The Virgin:**
My daughter, here I am again as Mother of the afflicted, Mother of sinners. I know, my daughter, that your heart is afflicted, for you have been left orphaned of a director who has helped you so much throughout so many years, my daughter; but he has prepared you and, from Heaven, he will continue to help you and will continue to help this Work, which he loved so very much.
**Father Alfonso María:**
God allows you to see me, my daughter; what a difference between Heaven and Earth! Here, titles and appointments are worth nothing; here, everything is done in God's way. What grandness there is in Heaven, and to see the face of God! How many souls arrive here, through that place, with a perfect life, because men call themselves practicing Catholics, but how do they live the doctrine?...
What wonders there are in Heaven! How I have longed for this place and this moment! You are not left alone; from here I will watch over you. Struggle, everyone, so that we may all come to join together. How can men deny the existence of Heaven and Hell?! And many pastors who deny the existence of Hell do not know the harm they do to souls; when they find themselves before the Judgment Seat of God... Brothers, be sincere in preaching the Gospel just as it is written; let men know the truths. Do not be afraid to explain the truths to them, because how many miss out on arriving here for not having been told clearly of the existence of Heaven and Hell!
What grandness there is here! What a difference on Earth compared to this place! On Earth, everything attracts man except God, and here, only God attracts you. Do not lose this infinite grandness, my children. How do you dare not to explain the truths?
**Luz Amparo:**
Oh!... Oh, what grandness, my God! Oh, Father, help me!
**Father Alfonso María:**
I have now arrived here to see the face of God; what joy my whole being feels, because I am imbued with the divinity of God, participating in this grandness. What grandness, and how much I have desired this moment! This is the infinite grandness for which man must struggle; there is no other grandness on Earth greater than this.
Leave aside flatteries, live for God, and do not make yourselves the center, for men are very prone to making us the center; and do not let yourselves be tricked by a few pats on the back, for it is easy—if you do not reflect—for the devil to conquer you through pride and vanity. Struggle—God alone suffices!—love creatures, but God above all things. How many fail to arrive here, my children, because they believed themselves to be gods, and everything they did, they did for their vanity and their own self! Do not let yourselves be conquered by men; conquer men for God and let God conquer your heart!
Live a devoted life, love this Work very much. In this Work, you will go along the path of perfection, but, oh, if you let yourselves be flattered and patted on the back!; do not make yourselves the center, my children. How much this served me, although I loved my God very much, but how much good it has done me.
Oh, my daughter, struggle so that one day we may be together! I have directed your soul, my daughter, the very best I could, to guide it to God; continue along the perfect, detached path, and humble yourself, my daughter, for everyone who humbles himself will be exalted. Do not forget everything I have taught you, and I also thank you for all the goods I have received from you. Creatures who have given yourselves to God: it is the best path, the most perfect and secure. Let no one confuse you, no one. Be always united, and let none be greater than another. Love one another. How many souls are in this place participating in this same grace, but they had to be humbled and trampled upon to reach so high! Be very humble, my daughter, do not forget my advice.
**The Virgin:**
Other souls are in this place. This soul is going to speak because God allows it.
**A Soul in Purgatory:**
I am here, in Purgatory; I am a soul who gave myself to God, but I was not faithful to my vocation and I had another place to go, a dark place, a place where peace did not exist, where love does not exist, but, by the mercy of God, here I am. Thanks to your prayers, I am waiting to leave this place from one moment to the next. Although it is a place of purification, we are so happy purging our debts! We would not exchange anything on Earth for Purgatory, because we have seen God, from afar; He has opened a tiny ray of Heaven to us and we have seen Him, and His most holy Mother comforts us. We want nothing, nor do we aspire to anything that is not God, that is not eternity: to be with the Divine Majesty of God.
We would exchange nothing for this place, even though we suffer to purify our faults. I have been here a long time, though my time is not your time, but time does not matter, the place where I am going to go matters. And many others are purifying themselves; although it is a place of pain, it is also a place of joy.
**The Lord:**
Look at the damned.
**Luz Amparo:**
What horror!
**A Damned Soul:**
We want to know nothing about you or about God; we would not exchange the penalties or the pain to go to Heaven. Our mission is hatred, destruction, lack of love; it is a torment that will never end and will never consume us; it is a devouring fire that devours our insides; but we are accursed of God because we did not want to love Him. But I do want you to warn men of the torments so great that are in this place, so that they do not come to it; so the voice of God commands me... But for my part, I would drag everyone to this place where they would be consumed by the fire, where hatred, where destruction do not cease to exist. Everything is bitterness, and our mission is to destroy souls.
**Luz Amparo:**
What horror!
**A Damned Soul:**
Many of us arrive here because no one wanted to tell us the truth and we did not want to understand it either; it was easier to live in comfort, in abundance, in everyone doing whatever we feel like, without doing the will of God. This is our pay, they pay us for whom we have worked; we feel hatred, contempt. If God let us, we would destroy the world. We only feel desires to drag all men so that they may participate in this pain.
**The Virgin:**
My daughter, do you see what a difference between love and hatred? Notice the peace that is in this place, and the hatred, the contempt, the resentment that is in the other. Struggle, my children, and do not let yourselves be conquered by words that flatter your ears, by comforts for your body. Be faithful to the will of God, love our Hearts, my children. Good souls enjoy the mercy so great that God has had with them, because they have been able to struggle, to detach themselves, to not accept vanities, or resentments, or envies, to be poor, humble, sacrificial, to imitate Jesus on the Cross and Mary in Nazareth.
Have you not seen your spiritual father, my daughter, how joyful he is in the presence of God? His whole life given to God from a very young child; from nine years old he already began his path, my daughter.
**The Lord:**
He gave his all; that is why I gave the reward to him and to you; to him, of being your spiritual director, and to you, of learning from him. That is why I ask men: draw near to the sacraments, my children, do not abandon yourselves in prayer, leave the world and all the vanities that are in the world, and lead a straight and secure path. In the world there is a crisis of faith, which men have lost, because they see everything as fine. Man has lost morality and the world is filled with an immorality, where nothing is a sin, they carry the flesh in triumph, and I repeat to you, my daughter, that men want to change the laws, not accepting themselves each as they are, on the path of holiness, but in immorality and adulterating their body: men with men, women with women.
But, how far are you going to go, creatures, who do not respect the Law of God?! God created man to procreate, and woman; not for enjoyment nor for pleasures nor passions. Man has forgotten it; I repeat to you, my daughter: this looks like Sodom and Gomorrah. How long must God be ashamed of men?! Pray, my children, pray, so as not to fall into temptation.
Come to this place, my children, for I only come to teach you to fulfill the Gospel just as it is written, and do not make laws each to your own whim. Pray, sacrifice yourselves, my children, draw near to the sacrament of Confession and the Eucharist to strengthen your souls; for men are in a lukewarmness, because they have left God and each day the devil is taking greater possession of souls, and the guides do not see the situation of the world. Blind ones, whose pride does not let you see or accept that God manifests Himself to the humble to confound the proud and those who believe themselves to be great and powerful. Pray, my children, for them.
**The Virgin:**
Raise up all the objects; they will all be blessed with special blessings for poor sinners…
I bless you, my children, as the Father blesses you through the Son with the Holy Spirit.