**Message of December 3, 1988, First Saturday of the Month**
**Prado Nuevo (El Escorial)**
**The Virgin:**
My daughter, today I am going to make an appeal to all praying and suffering victims; to those little crucifixes that my Son chooses as spokespersons for Humanity:
My children, continue to pray and do penance for your brothers and sisters, for those souls who have pierced the vault of heaven with their sins. Heaven has turned red with shame because of so many, many sins of lust, pride, hypocrisy, and attachment to material things that they have committed…
Continue to pray, little spokespersons, so that these poor souls may be saved; but, woe to those who load their guilt onto the shoulders of their brothers and sisters! Their suffering will be terrible, because many of you, my children, want to remain exempt from your guilt—without pain, without reparation. Your pride continues to lead you into evil, into sin, into envy, into pride, into hypocrisy, into the lack of charity. Woe to you who do not listen to my spokespersons! Your pain will be terrible.
Do you wish, my children, to reach the summit without pain? And if, for the innocent sacrificed Victim, His Father closed the Heavens so that none of His pain would be seen, so that it might be fulfilled unto the sacrifice of the Cross, how is it that you, hardened sinners, are able to lift your eyes to Heaven without repenting of your sins? Do not tempt the divine Justice of God with your sins, with your pride. Humble yourselves, my children; it is written: *"He who humbles himself shall be exalted."*
My Son shed His Blood in many parts of the Earth to leave many places sanctified. He shed it before the judges; He shed it in the Temple; He shed it before the scourging soldiers; He shed it before the men of science, so that they would apply science keeping their eyes on the divine, not on the human; because if science were applied according to human understanding, they would not speak the truth.
All the streets of the city were stained with blood to purify them, even knowing that many men would commit atrocious crimes and most grave sins against God, their Creator. He shed His Blood before the soldiers, to give them an example of humility, so that their hatred might be transformed into love; He shed His Blood in the Temple, so that the high priests would abide by His Laws; He shed His Blood before the rulers, so that they would govern with justice and with love; He shed His Blood before kings—earthly kings—so that they would teach men and exercise their monarchy according to the Law of God. But so that they would not become conceited, because one day my Son would come to take away their crown and make Himself King of kings, and punish all those who did not apply it according to the written Laws.
He shed His Blood for all Humanity, even knowing that for many of those for whom He had shed His Blood, this shedding of blood would serve for their damnation.
Yes, my daughter, as my Son was left without even a drop of Blood, because He was the slaughtered Lamb, you are sacrificed victims of reparation to save Humanity, my children.
He also shed His Blood on the Cross, so that men would accept it with love and with humility. And men have mocked all this pain! And if for the Son of the living God the Heavens were closed until after His death, when they were torn open so that the day of His Resurrection might enter, how do you, ungrateful ones, think that without pain you can reach Heaven?
I was a victim at the same time as my Son, because I was Coredemptrix with Him of the human race.
Repent, do penance, pray.
Soon the Son of Man will come and will call each one to account according to their works. And He will come with great power and great majesty. And many of you will remain astonished in His presence, and not even at that moment will you be ashamed of your guilt, my children. Do not provoke divine Justice any longer with your sin. You attach yourselves to material things and forget divine things, my children.
Kiss the ground, my daughter, in reparation for so many, many sins as are committed in the world... And continue to be that little crucifix, shedding your blood for the salvation of souls, my daughter. Love with all your heart! And let no one afflict you, my daughter, and let nothing disturb you.
Continue to come to this place trodden by my virginal foot.
Only the ingratitude of men is capable of gravely offending God. If God had endowed any of the animals with reason, it would be praising God from morning till night, and you, creatures who have received everything, even the Blood of the slaughtered Lamb, do not cease to gravely offend God! How far your pride goes, my children, how far your hypocrisy!
But my Son, even knowing that by shedding His Blood many would be damned, shed it for them, for those holy and just souls who today find themselves in Heaven as witnesses to His death. Look what a great number, my daughter, witnessed the death of the Redeemer. But look, my daughter, at those who remained and were damned in the Abyss because of their lack of humility, because of their lack of love.
They allow themselves to be tempted, like Eve, by the enemy, instead of asking God for counsel before speaking and entering into conversation with Satan. Her malice was already taking steps toward the enemy and entered into conversation, because her pride did not allow her... *(In a very low voice she says a few words in an unknown language)* ...to see with truth that only God could reign; rather, her pride made them see that they would be gods like God, and she went to enter into conversation with the enemy.
Then her lust and her pride were seen; but she did not even ask God for forgiveness at that moment, nor did she call out to ask who that voice was and where it came from; instead, she rejoiced. And not content with rejoicing herself, she called Adam and provoked him to fall. And instead of humbling himself when he heard the voice of God, Adam excused himself saying that it had been Eve, and Eve excused herself saying that it had been the enemy. He did not see his pride.
That is what happens to you, my children, that instead of rejecting the enemy, you converse with him and allow yourselves to be dragged along by him. My Son was tempted, but in His temptation He did not want conversation with the enemy and lifted His eyes to Heaven, praying, praying, and communicating with the Father so as not to fall into temptation. But you, my children, instead of praying when a temptation comes to you, fall and rejoice in it. Woe to you! I repeat that you want to remain exempt from your guilt and you load your sins onto the shoulders of your brothers and sisters so that they may repair them. You flee from the cross and from pain. The cross is salvation, my children. Neither I fled from pain, nor did Christ, my children.
May your sins be made clean as snow through your sacrifice and your penance. But do not become proud by becoming conceited. Think of Peter, who when he sinned did not lift his eyes from the ground; he only raised them to ask the Father for forgiveness of his sins. His gaze remained fixed to the ground and his cheeks were sunken from sorrow and tears. How are you able, my children, after making the heavens turn red and shaming the angels, to lift your heads without pain or repentance? Humble yourselves, my children, and ask God for forgiveness of your faults.
And you, little crucifix, continue sacrificing yourself for the salvation of souls. Victims must be praying and sacrificed. Love human beings with all your heart, and withdraw from that which harms you, my daughter; I will protect you, my Immaculate Heart will watch over you. Man thinks only of earthly affections and cares little for divine ones.
Kiss the ground again, my daughter, in reparation for so many, many sins as offend our Hearts…
Only with penance and prayer will souls be saved. Men have forgotten this. Without pain there is no redemption.
Continue coming to this place, from which my Heart will pour out many graces for the salvation of souls.
And you, awaken, for my Son is pouring out fountains of graces upon you. How you waste them, my children! Love one another, as my Son has loved you. And you, my daughter, continue repairing the sins of others; think that you are a victim, and the victim must sacrifice herself.
Pray the Holy Rosary every day; draw near to the Eucharist, but first wash your conscience, for many of you do not attach importance to sin. You are afraid of sin and you are not afraid of the offense... You are afraid of sin because you do not see it—you do not want to see it as grave, my children—but when you enjoy the sin, you are not afraid to gravely offend God.
Lift up all the objects; all will be blessed with special graces, so that many of you may keep your eyes on the divine, which you have completely forgotten, my children. Your heart is dry of love for God. And he who does not love God, his love toward men is not pure. If you love God with all your heart, with all your strength, and with all your five senses, you will love man with all your heart.
You, my daughter, be humble, very humble, and conduct yourself with fortitude, with energy.
Peace I leave with you, my children.