The mysterious silence of God

Yes, I'll compare some text. Absolutely. The link however you gave doesn't work. But I'm using my mobile network, and sometimes it doesn't allow certain links.
When I get home, I'll try on my home network. In addition I'll look at the publisher, someone said certain publishers arent as good as others.
Your passion for this book encourages me to pay the extra money, and get it. Yes, I think I will...

 

Thanks Jackzokay.

There is a good list of supporters of this work in this link:
http://translate.google.fr/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://www.maria-valtorta.org/ValtortaWeb/MariaValtorta14.htm





Father Laurentin's last words in this quote are good to keep in mind as well:

Still, the story of Maria Valtorta is not a 5th gospel.​

No, it is not "another" gospel, but it helps so much to read the Scriptural gospels, and to know Jesus better.

 

I've found a very interesting feature to supplement the reading, since there is so much constant travel of Jesus over the three years of public ministry: maps of the places -with the number of the corresponding chapters where the visits are mentioned.

Here are the links to all the maps -14 of them for the whole work (10 volumes in the recent last edition)- in PDF.

And this is a small size example of one of them:

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I know little about Maria Valtorta but I have just quickly scanned this thread and have a few suggestions/questions which you (and others familiar with her work) may be kind to address.

I definitely think this topic deserves its own thread - maybe you could simply copy and paste some of the more relevant posts.

I hate reading on a computer screen or tablet so which are the best hard copy English translations of her work? I had a quick look at amazon and they list so many editions (many apparently incomplete) its confusing.

Does her book cover Our Lord's "missing years" - the period roughly between ages 12 and 30? If it does could you sum it up very briefly?

Does the book mention any relevant characters not mentioned or perhaps just briefly mentioned in the gospels?

Thank you!

 

Thank you Blizzard. You are right.

I apologize to Garabandal, for shifting the focus of the thread. It was not intentional. It was the title of this thread what triggered for me the "need" to share what I consider a renewed Gospel for our times. I felt I needed to say "God is silent and is not -both at the same time". And to show one more way to hear Him.

I think that when we are feeling that God is silent -as if far away from our reality, we need to look for Him in Scripture.

It is interesting to see how much the Church wants us to do so since she grants us a Plenary Indulgence for just 30 minutes of reading Scripture. We can benefit from one Plenary Indulgence every day.
It is the same benefit -Plenary Indulgence- attached to 30 minutes of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament Exposed.

Anyway, I'll try to copy the relevant posts to a new thread, which I'll link here when I have it.

 

This is the link to the new thread:
The Gospel as Revealed to Me - Maria Valtorta

 

That’s a sign you are growing in deeper prayer. Perhaps, contemplative prayer. Silence is so powerful.

 

The silence of God is the instrument through which the saving virtue of faith is revealed. We recognize the existence of faith through the opposing force of disbelief that stands against it, even in many moments of our Christian lives. Just as we recognize light because we also know darkness, and we recognize truth because error exists to be confronted.

Wishing everyone on the forum a Merry and Holy Christmas. May Christ sustain our faith and that of our families until the very end.

 

Thank you, Luan! The Mantle of Mary be over each and everyone here!