New Book

Our Lady keeping vigil in her grotto just outside Lanherne, as the sun sets.

Dear Friends and Family,

A blessed Passion Sunday to you all! We are now in the home stretch of one of the most grace-filled times of the year. Today I had the wonderful joy of baptizing a little girl, while another young mother went into the hospital this morning to give birth. So hopefully there will be another Baptism before Easter. It is such a joy to baptize little babies, especially when the parents take the Faith and their role as parents so seriously. May God grant their little girl to grow up to be a saint one day.

For those of you who struggle with insomnia, I have just the thing. Click on this link to see it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maria-Valtortas-Life-Christ-Treasured/dp/0986115126/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=maria+valtorta%27s+life+of+christ&qid=1554663926&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull   . It is my JCL thesis, in a condensed form and with various elements added to make it more accessible to all readers: especially the testimonies of Mother Teresa, Blessed Gabriel Allegra, and Blessed Maria Ines Teresa Arias. I hope it will help many people discover this great treasure.

What a few people have said:

“When in the 1980s I commenced reading The Poem of the Man-God, I was cautioned by overscrupulous well-wishers concerned for my spiritual welfare against reading a book which had been placed on the Index of Forbidden books. Father Anthony Pillari in Maria Valtorta’s Life of Christ has banished for good and all any lingering doubts as to the orthodoxy of her visions and writings.”

—Cardinal Thomas Williams, Archbishop Emeritus of Wellington, New Zealand

“Fr. Anthony Pillari and Stephen Austin deserve to be commended for this precious work which will, God willing, open up for the Church the great treasure that is The Poem of the Man-God. Valtorta’s great work, like St. Louis de Montfort’s priceless True Devotion to Mary, has been a hidden treasure at times despised and rejected even by those in the Church. With the witness of these saints who have profited from Valtorta’s incredible insights into the life of Christ, may the whole Church awaken to the riches of an intimate knowledge of the life and times of Our Lord.”

—John-Henry Westen, Editor in Chief and Co-Founder of LifeSiteNews

"Fr. Pillari and Stephen Austin’s text on The Poem of the Man-God makes clear the canonical legitimacy for all faithful Catholics to read and appreciate this great mystical work.  The positive spiritual discernment of St. Teresa of Calcutta and other recently declared 'Blesseds' of the Church testify to its inspiring and authentic contents. The sublime Mariological theme of Mary as the 'Co-redemptrix' with and under Jesus, the divine Redeemer, accurately embodies the best and richest Mariology of the last millennium. Rather than a threat to Scripture reading, the Poem makes the superior Word of God come alive and move souls to repentance, conversion, and peace.

"The time has come for The Poem of the Man-God to be universally appreciated as the contemporary mystical classic that it is. Thank you, Fr. Pillari and Stephen Austin for this outstanding articulation and defense of the pearls of the Poem for today."

—Dr. Mark Miravalle
St. John Paul II Chair of Mariology
Franciscan University of Steubenville
President, International Marian Association

May Jesus and Mary watch over each of you and grant you a joyful preparation for Holy Week.

In Cordibus Iesu et Mariae,
Fr. Pillari