keithr said:
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Just reading the beginning of the introduction was enough to tell me that that writing is not in harmony with the Bible.
Because?
Well, I'll include the start of the introduction here, so others can make their minds up too. It's obvious to me and I'm sure it will be obvious to others who are familiar with the Bible too. One big clue is the mention of "The Most Holy Trinity", which is unscriptual, as are refering to Jesus' mother Mary as "Mother of God" and "Queen of Heaven".
1. Introduction.
22nd August 1944.
Jesus orders me: << Take a completely new notebook. Write down on the first
page what I dictated on August the 16th. She will be spoken of in this book. >>
I obey and I write.
16th August 1944.
Jesus says:
<< Today write only this. Purity has such a value, that the womb of a creature can
contain the Uncontainable One, because She possessed the greatest purity that a
creature of God could have.
The Most Holy Trinity descended with Its perfections, inhabited with Its Three
Persons, enclosed Its infinity in a small space. But It did not debase Itself by
doing so, because the love of the Virgin and the will of God widened this space
until they rendered it a Heaven. And the Most Holy Trinity made Itself known
by Its characteristics:
The Father, being once again the Creator of the creature, as on the sixth day of
Creation, had a real, worthy daughter fashioned to His perfect image. The mark
of God was impressed so completely and exactly on Mary, that only in the First-
bom was it greater. Mary can be called the Second-bom of the Father because,
owing to the perfection granted to Her and preserved by Her, and to Her dignity
of Spouse and Mother of God and Queen of Heaven, She comes second after the
Son of the Father and second in His eternal thought, which ab aetemo took
delight in Her.
The Son, being also “Her Son”, did teach Her, by the mystery of Grace, His
truth and wisdom, when He was but an Embryo, growing in Her womb.
Some more from Wikipedia, which says:
In 1992 Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, directed the publisher of the work to state clearly at the beginning of each volume that the "visions" and "revelations" referred to in it "cannot be held to be of supernatural origin but must be considered simply as literary forms used by the author to narrate in her own way the life of Jesus". His directive, communicated by letter 324/92 of January 6, 1992, was made at the request of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. His letter also recalled the notes about the matter that appeared on
L'Osservatore Romano of January 6, 1960, and June 15, 1966.
In 1993 Cardinal Ratzinger wrote to Bishop Raymond James Boland of Birmingham, Alabama, that his Congregation had made that request to the Italian Bishops Conference to ask the publisher to have a disclaimer printed in the volumes that "clearly indicated from the very first page that the 'visions' and 'dictations' referred to in it are simply the literary forms used by the author to narrate in her own way the life of Jesus. They cannot be considered supernatural in origin."
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