My mum has been reading it every day since 1989 and was in tears with me in Medjegorje last month after hearing Fr Leon talk about it beautifully, mentioning that Our Lady is reported to have referred to it as the truth, in one of the reported apparitions there. She has spent more than my lifetime encouraging people to read it and been ignored or mocked throughout that time. It was a great moment of joy, relief and reassurance for her. God Bless brother.
Robert, I’m currently re-reading my copy of “The End Times” as revealed to Maria Valtorta (by the Paulines). Years ago I read the 5 volume set of the Poem of the Man God. I loved it and only stopped reading the very end when a Catholic friend discouraged me. Since watching you I have been reunited to my love of this reading. The smaller book about the end times is heart breaking. Please keep up your good work. Your friend in Iowa, USA - Mary
Robert thank you for reading that piece from the Poem of the Man God between Jesus and Judas. Satan the deceivers biggest deception is that he does not exist! And unfortunately many fall into the trap of believing this. My mother gave me the 5 volumes of Poem of the Man God about 20yrs ago which I've never read. You have enkindled the desire in me to dust them off and read them. God Bless your work 🙏
Thank you for this presentation and the highlighting of the writings of Maria Valtorta. I was introduced to her when reading the word seemed so overwhelming and I must say that I fell in Love. You as an academic are able to bring to the table points that I cannot, what I can say is that although difficult to accept, it has shaped my life, my mind, my all, it is hard to describe. Thank you again for presenting this work, I know it is undervalued and one day we will know. Great works have been hidden on purpose because of how many souls They would bring back. He knew we would hunger and He gave us nourishment for this time.
We have all been blessed with the gift of free will. So we can pray that people will decide to choose God even in the moment of death no matter how hardened a sinner they are. What a gift you can give someone is to pray for their soul that God's grace will touch them to choose Him. If you find it hard to pray for sinners just think they will thank you when you and them get to heaven. We will all be saints when we reach Heaven. Your prayer might be the only prayer that person ever receives to help get them to heaven. Powerful🎉
Hell exists and it is not empty. Belief in a non empty Hell is not a requirement for being cast therein. This is part of the Perennial Binding Public Revelation of the Church. The Roman Catechism of St. Pius V, draws heavily on St. Matthew's account of the last judgement in Chapter 25 of his Gospel, verse 31 on. The Holy Father has undermined the Dogmatic teaching of the Church on Hell by his words on a live broadcast. It is an egregious misuse of the Petrine Office. Let us pray for him.
Yes, these are important issues to call out, but once we know the dire situation we're in - and we DEFINITELY are - we must get on our knees, trust in Our Lord and Our Lady, and NOT despair. If there is one thing that the devil wants second to apostasy, it is for those of us trying to remain faithful to fall into despair. Do NOT despair, pray and trust in the Two Hearts. Jesus, I Trust in You!
Expect things to get even worse...the more we pray the Rosary, the closer we will be to Our Lord and Our Lady and the less fazed we will be by the Passion the Church is undergoing. Things are going to get worse BEFORE they get better. Thanks again and God bless you!
Thank you, Robert! Many good and important points here, and I very much look fwd to reading Maria Valtorta. We are there: our Most Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church has a cancer within it that is causing some "practicing Catholics" to become entirely non-Catholic. And the saddest part is that they don't even know it. It is up to us to pray and offer sacrifices for these souls and for the Church - She will be fine, but we need as many souls as possible to follow Our Lord...even as we seem to be well on our way to Our Church's own crucifixion, death and resurrection. God bless, Ave Maria.
Robert, thanks to you I bought and am reading with great interest "Heaven in a Room, Life of Maria Valtorta" by Fr. Ernesto Zucchini. An easy & very informative read.
It was the commandment of Pope Pius XII to publish the work as is when asked if they should remove the words "vision and dictations", he answered no, as the contents were deemed very good to his judgement, with no need for opinion on the supernatural origin, because we will understand. Also, Pope Leo X stated at the 5th Lateran Council, "when there is a question of pophetic revelations, the Pope is the sole judge.”
Judas is endured again and again. No doubt it aids the formation of the other 11. Loved the video, please do more POTMG. Imho hell does not exist to satisfy the virtuous, it is the only place left for those who persist in one or more rebellions against the gospel.
Unfortunately every sin is a rebellion against God and we all need to properly form our conscience as we are all inclined to sin as a direct consequence of our first parents sin. The importance of repentance in the sacrament of confession is not emphasised enough that it brings us back in line with the Lord. Judas was proud and unrepentant. St.Peter gives us great hope - all the times he denied Jesus or came out with statements where Jesus had to rebuke him but Peter wasn't proud in these moments and accepted he was wrong. Our God is so forgiving when we turn to Him in humble sorrow and if we fall due to our human weakness we can turn to Him for forgiveness in the sacrament of confession again and again and again. ❤
I was able to pick up the 5 book set pretty cheap online and it looks unread. Thank you for bringing her work to my attention in your previous video. God bless you Robert. Thankful for all you do on this channel.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger then in the Congregation for doctrine and faith said the books had no supernatural origin and were simply a story. There are plenty of solid orthodox spiritual books and lives of Christ and the saints you could read instead. The four Gospels have enough spiritual wealth for any believer.
No such Notification has ever been issued by the postconciliar CDF regarding The Poem of the Man-God. I've yet to see any proof the Cardinal Ratzinger did or didn't support the work. But as head of the CDF he certainly didn't use the office to condemn or prohibit the work. But I back your comment "The four Gospels have enough spiritual wealth for any believer." that is 100% correct. my Thesis as I said is that many today don't believe sacred scripture or the miracles..
In his own writings he dismisses it as "a story" with no supernatural basis. Most of those who find it so useful no doubt imagine it is of divine origin of some sort . Ratzinger delivered a rather underwhelming verdict. He as CDF chief and a major theologian in his own right, more than anyone else, had a birds eye view of authentic christology and various all too often dubious revelations.
@@colmoneill191it's not a coincidence that the same logical justification is projected as the assumed motivation for people who believe this. That doesn't happen organically, as someone who was forced to go through almost every kind of cognitive therapy their is. subconsciously building walls to protect beliefs is blatantly obvious to me now, and it perfectly explains why you think a "supernatural" explanation is the common denominator that links the believers who value this work. Are you even a Catholic since you find "supernatural" explanations as hard to believe?
It scares me that the Pope would think that he hopes hell is empty.. Just because he is the "leader" of the church does not believe in hell doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The scriptures are fill of the reference to Hell. Pray for all. I have read the books of the poem of the man God, They are right on track.
The old CATHOLIC TEACHING I WAS BOUGHT UP WITH. HEAVEN AND HELL ARE REAL. 🙏🙏🙏💯💯💯 BUT CHILDREN ARE NOT TOLD THIS TODAY FOR MANY YEARS AND THATS WHY THE WORLD IS THE WAY IT IS .
In the Fatima prayer we are asking for his mercy to bring all souls to heaven so in hoping that hell is empty there is nothing wrong with that opinion. I on the other hand think it’s filled to the brim - but if the Pope actually said that can you imagine the backlash!
I don’t think he was saying people will not go to hell ..it sounds like to me he is hopeful God will redeem them some how ..I was taught there is no earthly means of salvation outside of Jesus Christ .. but God can save whomever he chooses..because he is God ….and yes I am a Roman Catholic for 60 years
We would all hope I'd imagine that hell is empty but realistically some people choose to be devoid of God in life and in eternity. Being in a state of mortal sin is instant cut off from God. I think that statement from the Pope tho being of good sentiment was a missed opportunity for him to go further and teach of the reality of hell and how sin can lead us there but repentance can bring us back in unity with God by His grace.
Thinking of an empty hell is a "pleasure", for the same reason that calvinists think that they can never lose their salvation. Both ways of thinking mean that the way we live has no eternal consequences. The problem is that they are lies. Better to believe an uncomfortable truth than a pleasant lie.
The Diary of St. Faustina has the same status at one stage, it was even place on the index of Forbidden books. Was Bishop Wotyla wrong to read it and promote it when it wasn't approved?
I’m no expert but POTMG seems a lot more consistent with the Church’s traditional teachings than Faustinas diary. I don’t know how to reocncile or make sense of that with the traditional teaching that dying with mortal sin = hell. Maybe you can do a video on that? Or how we should test private revelation?
Good point. For me Valtorta is wonderfully true and beautiful and, despite her martyrdom, Maria has a wonderful sense of humour. My Mum always thought that Faustina's Divine Mercy took away from Devotion to the Sacred Heart. I've always found Sr. Faustina's writings heavy going while all Maria's writings are delightful.
Most beautiful book ever written. Not so well known because the forces of evil hate it just as they hated Jesus. This fact sums up many things. Pope John XXIII was canonized. Maria Valtorta never.
I was wondering if someone can make a video explaining why 10 commandments from the Bible don't match 10 commandments from the Cathehism of the Catholic Church. Why was the 2nd commencement removed and the 9th was split in two?
Nothing was removed. All the commandments are in the catechism. It's simply a question of numbering the commandments. There are actually more than 10 do's and don'ts, but Scripture tells us there are 10. The Church decided to separate coveting things from coveting another man's wife, which involves a very different sin. Catholic Answers did an article on this. Look it up, they explain it better than I can.
Here is a prophecy from Jesus in the Poem. ( not his words exactly ) He compares Israel to an old struggling Fig tree which suddenly begins to revive and show new vigour and it will have become Christian. He will wait for this to happen before time will cease to exist.
No. He said "Read it and make up your mind" which is what you should do. Pope John XXIII put it on the index and if you want to follow anything that John XXIII said, good luck to you. He damaged the Church more than Martin Luther.
Are they over feeding the Pope now that he is not so able to get around to exercise? I’m concerned with his health issues that he has gained so much weight in the last year.
The Pope's poor health is the least of his worries. At his age he should be thinking of the judgement to come and I wouldn't like to be him when he meets Jesus.
Wow ! I just watched you read a section from this God awful book. The true Gospels are to be replaced with this inane drivel! 😏 As for the current occupant of the chair of St Peter the less said the better.
I was a little concerned reading the Poem of the Man God, because it was not approved, but it had been bought to our family my someone I considered very holy. I read volume 1 as provided and was hooked, I bought all the volumes and was consistently reading them continually for well over 10 years. The books are beautiful and full of God's Love, and Mercy but also enlightened parts of the New Testament that had confused me. I guess you would say I am a Conservative Catholic at least I believe in the Catechism and following the Magisterium of the Church. The stories explaining the meetings between Jesus and Mary Magdelaine and his gently bringing her to repentance are particularly insightful and also beautiful. God's love is truely unfathomable.
Hi. Moreover, it was commandment of Pope Pius XII to publish the work as is when asked if they should remove the words "vision and dictations", he answered no, as the contents were deemed very good to his judgement, with no need for opinion on the supernatural origin, because we will understand. Also, Pope Leo X stated at the 5th Lateran Council, "when there is a question of pophetic revelations, the Pope is the sole judge.”
My mum has been reading it every day since 1989 and was in tears with me in Medjegorje last month after hearing Fr Leon talk about it beautifully, mentioning that Our Lady is reported to have referred to it as the truth, in one of the reported apparitions there.
She has spent more than my lifetime encouraging people to read it and been ignored or mocked throughout that time. It was a great moment of joy, relief and reassurance for her. God Bless brother.
Robert, I’m currently re-reading my copy of “The End Times” as revealed to Maria Valtorta (by the Paulines). Years ago I read the 5 volume set of the Poem of the Man God. I loved it and only stopped reading the very end when a Catholic friend discouraged me. Since watching you I have been reunited to my love of this reading. The smaller book about the end times is heart breaking. Please keep up your good work. Your friend in Iowa, USA - Mary
Robert thank you for reading that piece from the Poem of the Man God between Jesus and Judas. Satan the deceivers biggest deception is that he does not exist! And unfortunately many fall into the trap of believing this. My mother gave me the 5 volumes of Poem of the Man God about 20yrs ago which I've never read. You have enkindled the desire in me to dust them off and read them. God Bless your work 🙏
Of course he likes to think of hell as being empty because then there's no consequences for any of his actions.😢
Thank you Robert🙏
Thank you for this presentation and the highlighting of the writings of Maria Valtorta. I was introduced to her when reading the word seemed so overwhelming and I must say that I fell in Love. You as an academic are able to bring to the table points that I cannot, what I can say is that although difficult to accept, it has shaped my life, my mind, my all, it is hard to describe. Thank you again for presenting this work, I know it is undervalued and one day we will know. Great works have been hidden on purpose because of how many souls They would bring back. He knew we would hunger and He gave us nourishment for this time.
There are so wicked people walking the earth that I can't imagine hell will be empty. Yes, God is merciful but he is also just.
But Christ calls us to love, pray and sacrifice for those people. Every soul is deeply precious to God.
@@thecatholicman I know, I know... but I'm not so holy yet that I'm able to pray for all evil people. I'm still a work in progress...
We have all been blessed with the gift of free will. So we can pray that people will decide to choose God even in the moment of death no matter how hardened a sinner they are. What a gift you can give someone is to pray for their soul that God's grace will touch them to choose Him. If you find it hard to pray for sinners just think they will thank you when you and them get to heaven. We will all be saints when we reach Heaven. Your prayer might be the only prayer that person ever receives to help get them to heaven. Powerful🎉
@@mariaesmeralda2452praying for you, We all need prayers to help us on our journey to Heaven. Sending prayers and love 🙏🏼🤗❤️
@@mariacolon5266 Thank you. 🙂
Robert, you are a brave man who loves the truth. God bless you. Keep preaching brother 🙏
Thank you for teaching the work of Maria Valtorta, it’s a most edifying treasure for intimate knowledge of our Lord!
Hell exists and it is not empty.
Belief in a non empty Hell is not a requirement for being cast therein. This is part of the Perennial Binding Public Revelation of the Church.
The Roman Catechism of St. Pius V, draws heavily on St. Matthew's account of the last judgement in Chapter 25 of his Gospel, verse 31 on.
The Holy Father has undermined the Dogmatic teaching of the Church on Hell by his words on a live broadcast. It is an egregious misuse of the Petrine Office.
Let us pray for him.
Padre Pio once said to someone who questioned the existence of hell " You will believe in it when you get there "
Yes, these are important issues to call out, but once we know the dire situation we're in - and we DEFINITELY are - we must get on our knees, trust in Our Lord and Our Lady, and NOT despair. If there is one thing that the devil wants second to apostasy, it is for those of us trying to remain faithful to fall into despair. Do NOT despair, pray and trust in the Two Hearts. Jesus, I Trust in You!
Expect things to get even worse...the more we pray the Rosary, the closer we will be to Our Lord and Our Lady and the less fazed we will be by the Passion the Church is undergoing. Things are going to get worse BEFORE they get better. Thanks again and God bless you!
Thank you, Robert! Many good and important points here, and I very much look fwd to reading Maria Valtorta. We are there: our Most Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church has a cancer within it that is causing some "practicing Catholics" to become entirely non-Catholic. And the saddest part is that they don't even know it. It is up to us to pray and offer sacrifices for these souls and for the Church - She will be fine, but we need as many souls as possible to follow Our Lord...even as we seem to be well on our way to Our Church's own crucifixion, death and resurrection. God bless, Ave Maria.
Many, many thanks!!!
Robert, thanks to you I bought and am reading with great interest "Heaven in a Room, Life of Maria Valtorta" by Fr. Ernesto Zucchini. An easy & very informative read.
It was the commandment of Pope Pius XII to publish the work as is when asked if they should remove the words "vision and dictations", he answered no, as the contents were deemed very good to his judgement, with no need for opinion on the supernatural origin, because we will understand. Also, Pope Leo X stated at the 5th Lateran Council, "when there is a question of pophetic revelations, the Pope is the sole judge.”
Judas is endured again and again. No doubt it aids the formation of the other 11. Loved the video, please do more POTMG. Imho hell does not exist to satisfy the virtuous, it is the only place left for those who persist in one or more rebellions against the gospel.
Unfortunately every sin is a rebellion against God and we all need to properly form our conscience as we are all inclined to sin as a direct consequence of our first parents sin. The importance of repentance in the sacrament of confession is not emphasised enough that it brings us back in line with the Lord. Judas was proud and unrepentant. St.Peter gives us great hope - all the times he denied Jesus or came out with statements where Jesus had to rebuke him but Peter wasn't proud in these moments and accepted he was wrong. Our God is so forgiving when we turn to Him in humble sorrow and if we fall due to our human weakness we can turn to Him for forgiveness in the sacrament of confession again and again and again. ❤
I was able to pick up the 5 book set pretty cheap online and it looks unread. Thank you for bringing her work to my attention in your previous video. God bless you Robert. Thankful for all you do on this channel.
Do we love GOD do we trust GOD
Do we know GOD
THEN WE KNOW CHRIST AND THE TRUTH ! ITS EASY
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger then in the Congregation for doctrine and faith said the books had no supernatural origin and were simply a story. There are plenty of solid orthodox spiritual books and lives of Christ and the saints you could read instead. The four Gospels have enough spiritual wealth for any believer.
No such Notification has ever been issued by the postconciliar CDF regarding The Poem of the Man-God. I've yet to see any proof the Cardinal Ratzinger did or didn't support the work. But as head of the CDF he certainly didn't use the office to condemn or prohibit the work. But I back your comment "The four Gospels have enough spiritual wealth for any believer." that is 100% correct. my Thesis as I said is that many today don't believe sacred scripture or the miracles..
In his own writings he dismisses it as "a story" with no supernatural basis. Most of those who find it so useful no doubt imagine it is of divine origin of some sort . Ratzinger delivered a rather underwhelming verdict. He as CDF chief and a major theologian in his own right, more than anyone else, had a birds eye view of authentic christology and various all too often dubious revelations.
@@colmoneill191 which writings ?
@@colmoneill191it's not a coincidence that the same logical justification is projected as the assumed motivation for people who believe this. That doesn't happen organically, as someone who was forced to go through almost every kind of cognitive therapy their is. subconsciously building walls to protect beliefs is blatantly obvious to me now, and it perfectly explains why you think a "supernatural" explanation is the common denominator that links the believers who value this work. Are you even a Catholic since you find "supernatural" explanations as hard to believe?
@@colmoneill191👋👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
This is recommended by Our Lady in Medjugorje, I got my copies there back in early 2000's. Fr Leon also speaks about this book too, excellent.
Jesus Jesus Jesus 🙏❤️
It scares me that the Pope would think that he hopes hell is empty.. Just because he is the "leader" of the church does not believe in hell doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The scriptures are fill of the reference to Hell. Pray for all. I have read the books of the poem of the man God, They are right on track.
The old CATHOLIC TEACHING I WAS BOUGHT UP WITH. HEAVEN AND HELL ARE REAL.
🙏🙏🙏💯💯💯
BUT CHILDREN ARE NOT TOLD THIS TODAY FOR MANY YEARS AND THATS WHY THE WORLD IS THE WAY IT IS .
More please 🙏🏻
In the Fatima prayer we are asking for his mercy to bring all souls to heaven so in hoping that hell is empty there is nothing wrong with that opinion. I on the other hand think it’s filled to the brim - but if the Pope actually said that can you imagine the backlash!
He forgot that is pope about Fatima and what the blessed Virgin show to the children
❤
God does not send us to hell...we send ourselves to hell by living a sinful life refusal to repent and try to avoid sin.
I keep meaning to get reading it, but keep putting it off. It’s definitely on my to do list 👍
I found the audio books that are free on RUclips amazing. Especially when I was driving
I don’t think he was saying people will not go to hell ..it sounds like to me he is hopeful God will redeem them some how ..I was taught there is no earthly means of salvation outside of Jesus Christ .. but God can save whomever he chooses..because he is God ….and yes I am a Roman Catholic for 60 years
We would all hope I'd imagine that hell is empty but realistically some people choose to be devoid of God in life and in eternity. Being in a state of mortal sin is instant cut off from God. I think that statement from the Pope tho being of good sentiment was a missed opportunity for him to go further and teach of the reality of hell and how sin can lead us there but repentance can bring us back in unity with God by His grace.
Thinking of an empty hell is a "pleasure", for the same reason that calvinists think that they can never lose their salvation. Both ways of thinking mean that the way we live has no eternal consequences. The problem is that they are lies. Better to believe an uncomfortable truth than a pleasant lie.
Do you have the link to the original video of the SSPX priest talking about POTMG in that previous video you shared?
The Poem of the Man-God by Maria Valtorta is a gift for our time.
ruclips.net/video/TMShprHzEf4/видео.html
Totally unapproved, oh but I cried so it must be true. You have become your own Pope, wonderful you are now Protestant.
The Diary of St. Faustina has the same status at one stage, it was even place on the index of Forbidden books. Was Bishop Wotyla wrong to read it and promote it when it wasn't approved?
I’m no expert but POTMG seems a lot more consistent with the Church’s traditional teachings than Faustinas diary. I don’t know how to reocncile or make sense of that with the traditional teaching that dying with mortal sin = hell. Maybe you can do a video on that? Or how we should test private revelation?
Good point. For me Valtorta is wonderfully true and beautiful and, despite her martyrdom, Maria has a wonderful sense of humour. My Mum always thought that Faustina's Divine Mercy took away from Devotion to the Sacred Heart. I've always found Sr. Faustina's writings heavy going while all Maria's writings are delightful.
If Jesus instructs someone to write messages for everyone else to read. How can that be called private revelations ?
Most beautiful book ever written. Not so well known because the forces of evil hate it just as they hated Jesus. This fact sums up many things. Pope John XXIII was canonized. Maria Valtorta never.
I was wondering if someone can make a video explaining why 10 commandments from the Bible don't match 10 commandments from the Cathehism of the Catholic Church. Why was the 2nd commencement removed and the 9th was split in two?
Nothing was removed. All the commandments are in the catechism. It's simply a question of numbering the commandments. There are actually more than 10 do's and don'ts, but Scripture tells us there are 10. The Church decided to separate coveting things from coveting another man's wife, which involves a very different sin.
Catholic Answers did an article on this. Look it up, they explain it better than I can.
Are the volumes in English or will I have to learn Italian? 😅
You can buy them in English but they are also available for free on the internet
Here is a prophecy from Jesus in the Poem. ( not his words exactly ) He compares Israel to an old struggling Fig tree which suddenly begins to revive and show new vigour and it will have become Christian. He will wait for this to happen before time will cease to exist.
Wasn't condemned pope Pius x11 condon writing of M Valtorta
No. He said "Read it and make up your mind" which is what you should do.
Pope John XXIII put it on the index and if you want to follow anything
that John XXIII said, good luck to you. He damaged the Church more than
Martin Luther.
Indeed you have forsaken public revelation for private revelation and hunting for the latest apparitions, is it any wonder your faith is so weak.
Who has forsaken ? Cardinals or Bishops ?
Robert's faith is weak? Compared to who? You? Irish Bishops and priests?
@@thecatholicman YOU.
@@thomasbyrne770 no. Public revelation and private revelation are different. Sacred scripture has a power that private revelation can’t have
Are they over feeding the Pope now that he is not so able to get around to exercise? I’m concerned with his health issues that he has gained so much weight in the last year.
The Pope's poor health is the least of his worries. At his age he should be thinking of the
judgement to come and I wouldn't like to be him when he meets Jesus.
He talked like pope Francis
In the mid 90’s I read Agreda & Emmerich’s accounts of the life of Christ, however…I fell in deeply in Love with Jesus after Poem of the Man-God.
Wow ! I just watched you read a section from this God awful book. The true Gospels are to be replaced with this inane drivel! 😏 As for the current occupant of the chair of St Peter the less said the better.
I was a little concerned reading the Poem of the Man God, because it was not approved, but it had been bought to our family my someone I considered very holy. I read volume 1 as provided and was hooked, I bought all the volumes and was consistently reading them continually for well over 10 years. The books are beautiful and full of God's Love, and Mercy but also enlightened parts of the New Testament that had confused me. I guess you would say I am a Conservative Catholic at least I believe in the Catechism and following the Magisterium of the Church. The stories explaining the meetings between Jesus and Mary Magdelaine and his gently bringing her to repentance are particularly insightful and also beautiful. God's love is truely unfathomable.
Hi. Moreover, it was commandment of Pope Pius XII to publish the work as is when asked if they should remove the words "vision and dictations", he answered no, as the contents were deemed very good to his judgement, with no need for opinion on the supernatural origin, because we will understand. Also, Pope Leo X stated at the 5th Lateran Council, "when there is a question of pophetic revelations, the Pope is the sole judge.”
It is the most edifying treasure for intimate knowledge of our Lord
Where can we get a reliable copy without breaking the bank? Disillusioned convert.
Just google it, it’s all online and you can listen to it for free on YT