4/16 Blessed 94th Birthday to Pope Emeritis Benedict XVI


Pope Benedict XVI

Book of Heaven; Volume 2, May 2, 1899

How the whole of Heaven is veiled in the Church.
     This morning, Jesus aroused much compassion; He was so Afflicted and in Suffering that I would not dare to ask Him a single question.  We would look at each other in Silence; every now and then He would give me a kiss, and I to Him; and He continued to make Himself seen in this way several times.  On the last time He made me see the Church, telling me these Exact Words:  “The whole of Heaven is veiled in My Church.  Just as in Heaven one is the head, that is God, and many are the saints, of different conditions, orders and merits, so in My Church, in which all Heaven is veiled, one is the Head, that is the Pope, and even in the triple tiara that covers his head is the Sacrosanct Trinity veiled; and many are the members that depend upon this head – that is, different dignities, various orders, superior and inferior.  From the littlest to the greatest, they all serve to embellish My Church; and each one, according to its degree, has the office entrusted to it; and by the Exact Fulfillment of the Virtues, it comes to give of itself a Splendor so Very Fragrant in My Church, that the earth and Heaven are perfumed and illumined, and the people are so drawn by this light and by this fragrance, that it is almost impossible for them not to surrender to the Truth.  I leave it to you, then, to consider those infected members that, instead of shedding Light, cast darkness.  How much torment they cause in My Church.”…