The Poem of the Man God, Maria Valtorta

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Hi Padraig,

Could you please share more details about your vision or mystical experience?

And did you meet/see St. Joseph and Our Lady at the same time or on different occasions?

Thanks!

 

The book has a curiously child like simple feed. It is enjoyable and prayerful to read. It reminds me of the time at the start of the spiritual life when things were kind of fizzing over. A kind of ferment of inner excitement. A spiritual ferment. Take off. A kind of honeymoon.

Then later on things tend to bed in. The hum drum of the daily. The lights go out and we can be plunged in darkness.

This does not mean that we love less, on the contrary we love more just that the fireworks have maybe gone out. Visions and such like are fine but I think they are kind of the cake. The actual bread is the hum drum everyday. I enjoy reading about these visions though.

 

I was in Clonard Monastery after Mass. To the right of the altar is a large shrine to St Joseph with a beautiful large stature of the saint life sized. During the mass I had noticed light below and surrounding the statue which seemed to joyfully ascend. I took it that this was souls in purgatory being released due to the intercession of the saint. Out of curiousity after mass I stood in front of the statue it appeared to come alive.

 

If anybody wants to download all of Maria Valtorta's books in a single compilation: Poem of the Man God (all volumes), her biography, all notebooks (1943–1950), and Book of Azariah, here's the link:

https://archive.org/details/the-poem-notebooks-azariah-all-2023

You can download the format you prefer (pdf, etc.). This is a large file!

 

I am currently working through the podcasts on each chapter of Poem of Man God by Zacchie Sea.
She is in South Korea. She dramatises each chapter, different voices for different characters. She is extraordinary. I'm at chapter 65 and loving it. It certainly a 100 percent more correct than The Chosen.
I had reservations about it because of things I had heard and read but now I'm loving it so far

 

I have the whole set I am willing to part with if someone is interested. In am in Indiana.

 

I’d be interested.