Life, work and spirituality of Mother Clelia Merloni

Pray to the Holy Spirit that He may instruct you in Wisdom

Dearest daughter in Jesus Christ,

You must pray to the Holy Spirit, that He may instruct you in Christian wisdom; pray much until He inspires in you a love for it and the practice of it.  This wisdom, which is, after all, that of the Saints, is the life and peace of the soul, the teacher, the guardian and the directress of virtues.  Do you know, my daughter, what Christian wisdom is?

1)  It consists of proposing as the primary and principal purpose of all your actions, the glory of God and your eternal salvation.    You are to consider all creatures and all events as means ordered toward the attainment of this purpose.  Jesus Himself tells us:  “What does it profit a person to gain the whole universe if one loses one’s soul?”  Remember, daughter, that aside from eternal salvation and the glory of God, all is nothing and should not be held in any account.

2)  Christian wisdom consists of using the best means possible to attain it, not those which are offered to us by our senses or our reason unaccompanied by faith, but those which the holy and true maxims of the Gospel and the examples of Jesus Christ show us; in short, in all things we must search for the Will of God, which is the rule of all perfection.  Strive to do all you can to submit to that holy wisdom with love and obedience. The areas where the Will of God is manifested are:  to want to prefer for yourself a disdain of honors, poverty rather than riches or life’s comforts, and suffering instead of pleasure simply because that is what your divine Spouse Jesus did.

3)   You must be vigilant so as not to let escape from you occasions to put these means into practice; you must be vigilant over small occasions as well as great ones, in order to be equally faithful in all of them; be careful of your words so that you say only what is useful and always for your own good and that of others; watch attentively over your actions that they may have as their goal the glory of God, the sanctification of your soul and a holy zeal to do good for others.  Be watchful especially over yourself that the enemy may never catch you off guard.

If you call on the Holy Spirit, who is totally divine wisdom, He will come to you and fill you with His light.  When His holy light will have illumined your intellect and your spirit, then you will feel spurred on, drawn to pursue the way of holiness, and everything that surrounds you on a natural level will seem to you to be only mud and rottenness.

Christian wisdom is beautiful in the eyes of God for the innocence of life that it teaches, for the rectitude and purity of intentions that it inspires; beautiful in the eyes of people who cannot deny their esteem for it and are drawn by it to love the faith; beautiful in itself because of its noble simplicity, because of the elevation of its sentiments, because of the great virtues it inspires and the eternal glory to which it leads.    Through Christian wisdom all of us can be saved, while without it, we condemn ourselves.  In receiving Christian wisdom you will be happy in your present life.  Your heart will be at peace; your conscience, tranquil.  By means of it you will taste the delicious joys of innocence and of the friendship of God.  Without this holy wisdom you will find nothing but vanity and affliction of spirit.   You will feel flushed with remorse and unhappy with yourself.   You will feel yourself disdained, discouraged, even losing your self‐respect which is the worst misfortune that could afflict a person.

Oh, how precious is Christian wisdom!  Ask God insistently for the grace of having Wisdom preside over all your counsels, over all your judgments, over all the acts of your life.  When you write to me I will discern from your writing if you have obtained this grace which is indispensable for anyone who is to pursue the way of perfection.  Offer to God all the sacrifices which the generosity of your heart dictates in order to obtain this grace because it is of the utmost importance for the sanctification of your soul.

I bless you with all my heart and with you I bless all my good daughters there.  I ask that each of you receive Holy Communion for nine Fridays according to the intentions of your poor and  Most affectionate Mother

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As we forgive…

Dearest daughters in Jesus Christ,

Remember, my daughters, that mutual tolerance is part of the precept of charity. These two things are so bound to each other that without mutual suffering, charity would not be possible, and it would be necessary to cancel this precept from the Gospel because every person on earth has his or her own defects and imperfections. There are no angels except in heaven. If you don’t bear with the defects and imperfections of others, you break that bond and charity is destroyed.   Everyone has his or her own particular nature. Inclinations and temperaments are not all the same; judgments and ways of feeling contradict each other; wills clash with one another; tastes vary. No, among so many contrary elements, the fusion of hearts to form one heart, only one soul, as charity demands, is not possible so long as people don’t bear with one another in their weaknesses and don’t suffer in a spirit of charity and patience all that offends them, all that displeases them, all that does not meet with their tastes nor their disposition.   Without this mutual tolerance the union of hearts would be likewise impossible, no different than the fusion of water with fire, of light with darkness. There would necessarily be among them divisions, arguments, discord.

Therefore, bear with one another with great humility. This excludes sensitivities and pretensions. This will teach you how to treat your neighbor. Do it with sweetness and patience and so you will exclude murmurs and grumbling, criticisms, sarcasm, stinging barbs, antipathies and impatience with displeasures received. Do this with great charity and this will teach you to treat your neighbor as you would like to be treated yourselves… God will not be indulgent toward our defects except in the measure that we are indulgent toward the defects of our brothers and sisters. If we do not support our neighbor, God will not support us; if we do not sympathize with others, God will not sympathize with us.   We ourselves, daughters, do recognize the demand of this law, and so we say: Forgive us, O Lord, our offenses as we forgive those who have offended us. We, therefore, must be indulgent toward our own faults in the measure that we are indulgent toward the faults of others. Justice itself obliges us to mutual tolerance.   Who does not feel the need for herself of this law of tolerance, of this law, which is protective of human weakness? Now if we want it to be observed in our regard, isn’t it a real injustice not to want to observe it regarding our neighbor?   We complain about the imperfections of others, but we don’t want others to complain about ours? [We complain] about their character and of their moods, but don’t we also have some critical moments? [We complain] about their impulsiveness, or of their discourtesy, but don’t we also fall into the impulse of a language that is too pointed and rude? It is not good, daughters, in fact, it is very bad, for us to want perfection in others to the point of not supporting in them any spot, any imperfection. Seriously probe your own conscience a little bit, daughters, and see how you support the defects of your neighbors.

I remain in Jesus, Your anguished Mother

Throw oneself blindly into the ocean of Providence

Dearest daughter in Jesus Christ,

I understand. Have courage and unlimited confidence in God. You, dearest daughter, must begin [your journey] little by little and with gentleness, with unbounded trust in the divine Heart of Jesus, who calls you saying: “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will comfort you. All you who are thirsty come to the fountain.”

You, daughter, must follow this action and divine vocation; you must continue to wait for the prompting of the Holy Spirit, so that, with determination you may throw yourself blindly into the ocean of divine Providence and of the Eternal Will and beg that it be fulfilled in you so that you may be carried along by the most powerful waves of divine kindness, unable to resist, and be transported to the shore of your particular perfection and spiritual well‐being.

Having made this decision, which you should repeat many times each day, study yourself and strive, with as much certitude as you can, interiorly and exteriorly, to draw near, with all the strength of your soul, to those things that excite you and bring you to appreciate ever more the goodness, the loveableness and the infinite charity of your beloved Jesus.

These acts are to be done always without pressure and violence to your heart so that they do not weaken you or maybe even incapacitate you.

Whenever you can, accustom yourself to the contemplation of the divine goodness and of His continuous and loving gifts, and humbly receive the droplets of His inestimable goodness that will descend into your soul. Guard yourself well against forced tears or other devotions of the senses, but remain tranquil in interior solitude awaiting the fulfillment in you of God’s divine Will. And then when He may give these to you, they will be sweet, without struggle or force, and you will receive them with gentleness and serenity and above all with humility.

Remember, daughter that the key to opening the secrets of spiritual treasures is in knowing how to deny oneself always and in all things, and it is this key that closes the door to tepidity and mental aridity when it is caused by our own fault. When these come from God, they join the other treasures of the soul.

Be pleased to stand with Mary as much as you can at the feet of Jesus and listen to what He tells you.   Be watchful so that your enemies (chief among whom is you, yourself) will be unable to impede this holy silence.

For now I will say no more because I hope you will put into practice what I have written.   Now I leave you at the feet of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, so that, with His strength, you will be able to distance yourself from any shadow of sin and continue along the narrow path of the Saints!

I bless you with all my heart, Your most affectionate Mother