The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are

perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the

power of God.

Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom,

and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.

1 Corinthians 1:18, 20

Listen to me on the Cathedral of the Cross, which I have

placed in your heart so that I may live my life in you as

a pilgrim, crucified in this world. You shall see me in your

Spirit, crucified on the bare cross of poverty, crucified in

your body with the weakness of sickness, crucified in your

spirit in your aridity, dereliction, and melancholy,

your weariness and bereft of any consolation.

And I shall bring this about in such a way that everything

will be for you both a cross and peace

as also for me, a pilgrim.

Jesus speaking to Maria Celeste Crostarosa

Dialogues #9