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The First Saturday, 1:30 a.m.
Mary says:
“I am the Mother. Write.
“Every Saturday observe the Hour of my Desolation. I shall bless you for spending the night between Friday and Saturday in this way. The first point and the third point are easy for you. You do nothing but reread visions and dictations which you have received. But the second point is painful for you because you must observe it on your own. In your description you said, ‘Mary with the group ...returns to the house a short distance away.’ And if this suffices in the description - and in your weakness you could not offer anything else - it does not suffice for your prayer now. Write, then, for your guidance, what I suffered at that time....”409
Mary then says, “Do you know why I have given you these words only today? Because you no longer have the notebook in which Judas’ desperation is described.410 I speak about it here. And this, too, is a proof that these are true matters, for someone inventing them on his own gets mixed up, without any way to remember, and falls into a lie. And you, exhausted and weak as you are, do not remember from one hour to the next. Have the priest who directs you, my servant,411 take note of this.”
You in fact carried off the notebook on May 27.412
409 The vision alluded to here and the text which Mary dictates immediately afterwards were rewritten in 1945 to form the episode involving “The Return to the Cenacle” in the Passion cycle.
410 See note 297.
411 Father Migliorini, who belonged to the Servants of Mary. See note 1.
412 The Italian edition at this point includes a vision of the Apostles after Pentecost (June 3), which was later completed for the Glorification cycle.