A-7 you do feel that all has been given in the Bible?” I responded: “Yes. That is why I do not see the reason of all this. I mean nothing is new.” Then the angel said: “God wants these messages to be given.” I said: “Is there a special reason why me?” The angel responded: “No. God loves you all. These messages are just a reminder to remind you how your foundations began”(07.08.1986). A Protestant minister once said to me that there is no reason why God would want to speak to us now that we have the Holy Bible. Confused, I said to Christ: “Lord, there are some ministers who refuse to hear or believe that You can manifest Yourself like this, through me; they say that You, Jesus, have brought us all the truth and they need nothing else but the Holy Bible, in other words all these works are false.” The response of Christ was the following: I have said to you all that the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name, will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you. I am not giving you any new doctrine, I am only reminding you of the truth and leading those who wandered astray back to the complete truth. I, the Lord, will keep stirring you up with Reminders and My Holy Spirit, the Advocate, will always be among you as the Reminder of My Word. So do not be astonished when My Holy Spirit speaks to you – these reminders are given by My Grace to convert you and to remind you of My Ways. (20.12.1988) Another passage 11 years later our Lord asked me to write the following: All of these messages come from on high and are inspired by Me. They can profitably be used for teaching and for refuting error. They can be used for guiding the Church into unity and for guiding people’s lives and teaching them to be holy. They are given to you for a better explanation1 to the Revelation2 given to you. They are an inexhaustible source of amazing grace for you all to renew you. (30.07.1999) I believe that there is but one Revelation and I never said the contrary, nor do you find this in the writings. I do not expect the readers of TLIG to take the messages for more than Holy Scripture and I am sure that nothing in the TLIG books can induce all those who hear and read me to think in another way. In fact in my witnessing I quote all the time many passages from the Scriptures, sometimes even more than the messages themselves. Within the messages there is a clear and continuous insistence of focusing on the Holy Bible and of living by its truth. The writings are an actualisation and a reminder of the one and only Revelation in Christ, held in Scripture and Tradition, transmitted through the church; they are but an appeal to this Revelation. In fact, these writings never affected readers to take them above the Scriptures, but testimonies shed that they helped them to understand much better the Word of God. Yet, we know that God can remind us of His blessed Word when He knows it is necessary for the benefit of the Church. Favours of this kind, for a favour it is, illumine or make manifest a truth already known, giving a better understanding of it. One could ask then, why did God call someone so limited and unworthy, totally disinterested and ignorant in church matters, who never aspired for God, to receive a “reminder of His Word”? Are not the priests and theologians called to do the same? Yes, I believe they are, and I, in no way ever intended to compete with the priests and theologians that God has called to do their duty; yet, I do believe that God has called me unexpectedly by a direct action from His part. I have recently learnt that the second Vatican Council has underlined how important it is that the laity contributes to spreading the Good News through the various gifts God bestows upon His Church. In Lumen Gentium, the Council clearly states that the laity participates in the prophetic office of Christ 1 I heard at the same time the word “understanding”. 2 The Holy Bible.
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