Ascent of Mt. Carmel - St. Patrick's Basilica

Me to speak to him or reveal aught to him, would in a sense be asking Me for Christ
again, and asking Me for more faith, and be lacking in faith, which has already been
given in Christ; and therefore he would be committing a great offence against My
beloved Son, for not only would he be lacking in faith, but he would be obliging Him
again first of all to become incarnate and pass through life and death. Thou shalt find
naught to ask Me, or to desire of Me, whether revelations or visions; consider this well,
for thou shalt find that all has been done for thee and all has been given to thee -- yea,
and much more also -- in Him.
6. If thou desirest Me to answer thee with any word of consolation, consider My
Son, Who is subject to Me, and bound by love of Me, and afflicted, and thou shalt see
how fully He answers thee. If thou desirest Me to expound to thee secret things, or
happenings, set thine eyes on Him alone, and thou shalt find the most secret mysteries,
and the wisdom and wondrous things of God, which are hidden in Him, even as My
Apostle says: In quo sunt omnes thesauri sapientiae et scientiae Dei absconditi. 403 That
is: In this Son of God are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge of God.
These treasures of wisdom shall be very much more sublime and delectable and
profitable for thee than the things that thou desiredst to know. Herein the same Apostle
gloried, saying: That he had not declared to them that he knew anything, save Jesus
Christ and Him crucified. 404 And if thou shouldst still desire other Divine or bodily
revelations and visions, look also at Him made man, and thou shalt find therein more
than thou thinkest, for the Apostle says likewise: In ipso habitat omnis plenitudo
Divinitatis corporaliter. 405 Which signifies: In Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the
Godhead bodily.
7. It is not fitting, then, to enquire of God by supernatural means, nor is it
necessary that He should answer; since all the faith has been given us in Christ, and
there is therefore no more of it to be revealed, nor will there ever be. And he that now
desires to receive anything in a supernatural manner, as we have said, is, as it were,
finding fault with God for not having given us a complete sufficiency in His Son. For,
although such a person may be assuming the faith, and believing it, nevertheless he is
showing a curiosity which belongs to faithlessness. We must not expect, then, to
receive instruction, or aught else, in a supernatural manner. For, at the moment when
Christ gave up the ghost upon the Cross, saying, Consummatum est, 406 which signifies,
'It is finished,' an end was made, not only of all these forms, but also of all those other
ceremonies and rites of the Old Law. And so we must now be guided in all things by the
law of Christ made man, and by that of His Church, and of His ministers, in a human
and a visible manner, and by these means we must remedy our spiritual weaknesses
and ignorances, since in these means we shall find abundant medicine for them all. If
we leave this path, we are guilty not only of curiosity, but of great audacity: nothing is to
be believed in a supernatural way, save only that which is the teaching of Christ made
man, as I say, and of His ministers, who are men. So much so that Saint Paul says
these words: Quod si Angelus de coelo evengelizaverit, praterquam quod
evangelizavimus vobis, anathema sit. 407 That is to say: If any angel from Heaven
403 Colossians ii, 3.
404 1 Corinthians ii, 2.
405 Colossians ii, 9.
406 St. John xix, 30.
407 Galatians i, 8.
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