No, you're ridiculous. Valtorta is right up your alley given your effeminate emotionalism.
Ad hominem is the last refuge of the man who knows he's losing the argument. But it's Lent, and I forgive you for your taunts. You mistake kindness for weakness, but I have no need of childish ad hominem simply because I know the Church, Bp. Williamson and St. Pio have approved the work. Only with the first edition was there an issue. The second edition was approved and authorized by the Church for publication. That's just a fact amply docuмented in the links and articles you're afraid to read. The Vatican sent letters to Fr. Gabriel Roschini congratulating him for his work, The Virgin Mary in the writings of Maria Valtorta, where Father praises her and says he has never heard anywhere in all his research such important and edifying teachings about the Mother of God as he read in Maria Valtorta. And he has read all five volumes several times, not taken one or two pages out of context like some others have done.
"I have been studying, teaching, preaching, and writing Mariology for half a century already. To do this, I had to read innumerable works and articles of all kinds on Mary: a real Marian library. However, I must candidly admit that the Mariology found in all of Maria Valtorta's writings – both published or unpublished – has been for me a real discovery. No other Marian writings, not even the sum total of everything I have read and studied, were able to give me as clear, as lively, as complete, as luminous, or as fascinating an image, both simple and sublime, of Mary, God's Masterpiece.
It seems to me that the conventional image of the Blessed Virgin, portrayed by myself and my fellow Mariologists, is merely a paper mache Madonna compared to the living and vibrant Virgin Mary envisioned by Maria Valtorta, a Virgin Mary perfect in every way ...whoever wants to know the Blessed Virgin (a Virgin in perfect harmony with the Holy Scriptures, the Tradition of the Church, and the Church Magisterium) should draw from Valtorta's Mariology."
http://www.bardstown.com/~brchrys/Father-Gabriel-Roschini-Valtorta.htmlIf you're going to engage in absurd anti-realism like denying St. Pio praised Maria Valtorta, you may as well fully deny reality and state that Bp. Williamson hasn't done so either. That's how absurd it is. This is the book mentioned in the link which anyone who wishes can read to know the truth:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8879870718/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=8879870718&linkCode=as2&tag=httpwwwchanco-20 In times like this, St. Pio's endorsement should be decisive. St. Pio has never told another daughter of his, "I order you to" read any other book outside the Bible.
That is beside Fr. Kevin Robinson of the SSPX, Fr. Bareille who was vocations director for so many years and said this book was useful for him throughout his life, and so many other good and holy Priests and others. Fr. Kevin writes at DRBO why those of the SSPX and those devoted to Pope St. Pius X especially should defend and read this book, as Jesus explicitly said it was given in praise of His Holy Vicar Pope St. Pius X [even before the Holy Father was beatified or canonized] and intended to fight modernism, denial of the supernaturalism, the miracles of Christ, the immutability of Truth, the divine nature of Tradition etc, "they continue to edify the Church resulting in many conversions and vocations. Valtorta's writings were specially given by Christ Our Lord as a gift to His priests, to support the work of His Vicar St Pius X to combat Modernism (see The Poem. vol. 5, pp 946), and to reveal the truth of the Gospel in a special way. They fill in the gaps. They put you in the picture. They amplify the sacred text, (e.g. the Passion may be five pages in your Gospel, it is 100 pages in The Poem.) ... It is a masterpiece of sacred literature, unlike anything ever written. In some ways it is like being in the first seminary, trained by the Master Himself. A professor and sculptor friend of Maria Valtorta wrote in 1965: "(her works) have completely transformed my inner life. The knowledge of Christ has become so total as to make the Gospels clear to me and make me live them in everyday life better" (Lorenzo Ferri). All those among our parishioners who have read Valtorta say the same thing." There have been conversions and vocations because of the book. Let me cite the passage at the end where Jesus explains some of the reasons for it,
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The Reasons for the Work. Farewell to the Work. [28th April 1947.] Jesus says: “The reasons that have induced Me to enlighten and dictate episodes and words of Mine to Little John are, in addition to the joy of communicating an exact knowledge of Me to this loving victim-soul, manifold. But the moving spirit of all of them is My love for the Church, both teaching and militant, and My desire to help souls in their ascent towards perfection. The knowledge of Me helps to ascend. My Word is Life. I mention the main ones: 1. The reasons mentioned in dictation dated 18th January 1947 and which Little John will put here integrally. This is the most important reason because you are perishing and I want to save you. The most profound reason for the gift of this work is that in the present time, when modernism, (the denial of the supernatural) condemned by My holy Vicar Pius X, becomes corrupted in more and more harmful doctrines, the Church, represented by My Vicar, may have further material to fight against those who deny: the supernaturalness of dogmas; the divinity of the Christ; the truth of the Christ God and Man, real and perfect both in the faith and in the history that has been handed down on Him (Gospel, Acts of the Apostles, Apostolic Letters, tradition); the doctrine of Paul and John and of the councils of Nicea, Ephesus and Chalcedon, as My true doctrine verbally taught by Me; My unlimited science, as it is divine and perfect; the divine origin of the dogmas of the Sacraments of the Church One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic; the universality and continuity, until the end of time, of the Gospel given by Me for all men; the perfect nature, from the beginning, of My doctrine that has not been formed as it is through successive transformations, but was given as it is: the Doctrine of the Christ, of the time of Grace, of the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God in you, divine, perfect, immutable. The Gospel for all those thirsting for God."
Do you know Jesus condemns evolution in this book? Bp. Williamson has recommended it without hesitation both to Priests and Fathers.
Just one sample passage on St. Joachim and St. Anne and their sacrifice in offering the Blessed Mother wholly to the Lord as they had promised, where Christ teaches us the value of suffering to sanctify and save our souls, and other holy teaching. This is a work of God.
“Who loves her, loves life and will inherit Life” says Ecclesiasticus. This sentence is linked with Mine: “Who loses his life for My sake, will save it.” Because we are not referring to the poor life of this world, but to the eternal life, not to the joys of one hour, but to the immortal ones. Joachim and Anne loved Wisdom thus. And Wisdom was with them in their trials.
How many trials they experienced, whilst you, men, do not want to have to suffer and cry, simply because you think that you are not completely wicked! How many trials these two just people suffered, and they deserved to have Mary as their daughter! Political persecutions had driven them out of the land of David, and made them excessively poor. They had felt sadness in seeing their years fading through without a flower that would say to them: “I shall be your continuation.” And afterwards, the anxiety of having a daughter in their old age when they were certain they would never see Her grow into a woman. And then the obligation of tearing Her from their hearts to offer Her on the altar of God. And again: their life became an even more painful silence, now that they were accustomed to the chirping of their little dove, to the noise of Her little steps, to the smiles and kisses of their creature, having to wait for the hour of God, their only company being the memories of the past. And much more... Diseases, calamities of inclement weather, the arrogance of mighty ones of the earth... so many blows of battering rams on the weak castle of their modest possessions. And it is not enough: the pain for their far away creature, who was going to be left lonely and poor and, notwithstanding their cares and sacrifices, would get only the remains of Her father's property. And how will She find such remains, since they will be left uncultivated for many years, awaiting Her return? Fears, trials, temptations. And yet, loyalty to God forever! What light is left to Joachim, an invalid, and to his sorrowful wife, in the long and silent nights of two old people who feel they are about to die? Only the little dresses, the first pair of little sandals, the simple toys of their little daughter, now far away, and memories of Her, memories... And peace when they say: “We are suffering, but we have done our duty of love towards God. And then they were overcome by a supernatural joy shining with a celestial light, a joy unknown to the children of the world, a joy that does not fade away when heavy eyelashes close on two dying eyes: on the contrary, it shines brighter in the last hour, illuminating the truth that had been hidden within them throughout their lives. Like a butterfly in its cocoon, the truth in them gave faint indications of its presence, just soft flashes, whereas now it opens its wings to the sun and shows its beautiful decorations. And their lives passed away in the certainty of a happy future for themselves and their descendants, their trembling lips murmuring words of praise to God. Such was the death of My grandparents. Such as their holy lives deserved. Because of their holiness, they deserved to be the first guardians of the Virgin Beloved by God, and only when a greater Sun showed itself at the end of their days, they realized the grace God had granted them." The books can be read on archive by those interested in being taught by Christ Himself, as Fr. Kevin Robinson so rightly says, being taught by the Master is in some ways like being with the Apostles itself.
https://archive.org/details/Volume1OfThePoemOfTheManGod/page/n1
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