TOTUS TUUS MARIA !

SIN AND FORGIVENESS

Revelation granted by the Most Blessed Virgin Mary

to Myriam van Nazareth

on Sunday, May 21, 2006

(the present text is the description of a vision,
complemented by Mary’s explanation of the images seen)

I see a soul, and Love flowing through it continuously, carrying the soul’s true vital force. This stream of vital force is flowing uninterruptedly from God towards all souls. I perceive this stream of Love like waves of whirling, colourful light. Thus the soul is nourished in a way similar to the way our body’s tissues are nourished by the blood stream.

With each vice and sin that is committed the flow of Love is blocked abruptly: this stream continuous to flow to the soul, yet inside the latter it is as though a sudden contraction occurs, by which in a specific place (or places) the flow of Love is no longer assimilated and hence no longer transferred to other places.

The damage caused by this is greater in proportion as the committed sin is heavier. In the event of a mortal sin I can see an effect which looks like a building torn up as a result of an earthquake.

In the place(s) where the stream of Love was blocked I can see how an 'injury' is inflicted. For the flow of Love through the soul to be restored in its perfect state, this injury must heal first. I can see how a succession of vices and sins causes an increase in the number of blockings and injuries, so that the soul gradually begins to look like a landscape with craters, and eventually like a shapeless mass which seems to be consumed, similar to a piece of fruit rotting away.

The further the decaying process within the soul progresses, the more the soul loses her shine: she no longer transfers the beams of God’s Light on account of her own increasing impurity (as though a layer of dust or even mud were formed upon her surface, spreading and growing from the injuries).

The injury can only be healed by an effusion of Divine Mercy into the soul.

I see Divine Mercy like an influx of Light of a different kind from that of 'ordinary' Love. I see that Divine Mercy is laden with an incomparable force which seems to re-create (convert, change altogether) the injuries with which it comes into contact. I also see that this flow of re-creating force emanating from Divine Mercy can only be produced by two powers: the Sacrament of Confession, and the Intermediary of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary followed by the effusion of a re-creating grace.

This flow only unfolds its full effect after the injury is 'unclosed' through a deep and sincere repentance. I see how, in a manner of speaking, genuine repentance clears the 'access paths' to the injury for the influx of the re-creating force emanating from Divine Mercy. Subsequently, I see the injury is set healing, but a trace remains, which could be compared with the scar in body tissue healing from an injury. This trace ('scar') in the soul can only be removed through expiation by the soul herself. This process can be speeded up by acts of expiation and prayers offered by other souls (charity as a starter of Divine Mercy, either directly or through Mary’s intercession). After this entire process is completed the soul is truly and entirely free from any trace of the initial injury.

Furthermore Mary says this also explains why a 'collective confession' is of no value at all: it does not call down any re-creating, healing force upon the soul.

Maria gives the following five directives to continuously purge the soul:

  1. trying to actually live all virtues

  2. receiving the Sacrament of individual Confession regularly, and speaking a life confession at least once

  3. keeping well alive the faculty of repentance

  4. frequent and fervent prayer to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary to receive the grace of repentance and of being able to forgive unconditionally

  5. willingness to make atonement

Myriam, May 2006