God the Father of All Mankind

On rare occasions in history, God the Father has manifested his divine love for the human family through direct supernatural contact with a chosen soul. One such chosen soul was a religious sister, Mother Eugenia Ravasio, who in the 1930’s experienced a number of personal encounters with God the Father which have been approved by her local bishop (Bishop Alexandre Caillot of Grenoble) and Imprimatured by a member of the Holy See (Archbishop Petrus Canisius van Lierde), and which contain a direct request from Abba Father himself: the establishment of a feast during the first week of August in specific honor of "God the Father of All Mankind."

Born in 1910 in Bergamo, Italy, Mother Eugenia Ravasio was an extraordinary apostle of the Father’s love. Voted Mother General of the Congregation of Our Lady of the Apostles at age 25, she was a tireless missionary, opening over seventy centers in Africa, Asia and Europe over a twelve-year period, each with an infirmary, school and church. Mother Ravasio was particularly devoted to helping those with leprosy—it was she who discovered the medicine for the cure of leprosy, extracting it from the seed of a tropical plant. She died on August 10, 1990.

How much it would please Our Blessed Mother, who is the Immaculate daughter of Abba Father, to have a renewed devotion and a designated feast day in honor of God the Father of All Mankind.

The following are the words of the Father as recorded by Mother Ravasio. – Ed.

I have already told you and now I say it again: I cannot give My beloved Son another time to prove My love for men! I am now coming among them in order to love them and to make them know this love...

Peace and salvation, He said, to this house and to the whole world! May My power, My love, and My Holy Spirit touch men’s hearts, so that all mankind may turn to salvation and come to its Father, Who seeks it, to love and to save it!

...I have chosen this day to begin My work among men because today is the feast of the Precious Blood of My Son, Jesus. I intend to bathe in this Blood the work I am beginning, so that it may bear great fruit among all mankind.

This is the real purpose of My coming:

1. I am coming to banish the excessive fear that My creatures have of Me, and to show them that My joy lies in being known and loved by My children—that is, by all mankind, present and future.

2. I am coming to bring hope to men and nations. How many have long since lost it! This hope will make them live in peace and security, working for their salvation.

3. I am coming to make Myself known just as I am, so that men’s trust may increase together with their love for Me, their Father. I have but one concern: to watch over all men and love them as My children.

The painter delights in contemplating the picture he has painted. In the same way, it is My pleasure and delight to come among men, the masterpiece of My creation!

Time presses. I wish men to know as soon as possible that I love them and that I feel the greatest happiness in being with them and talking with them, like a father with his children.

I am the Eternal One, and when I was alone, I had already thought of using all My power to create beings in My image. But material creation had to come first, so that these beings could find their means of sustenance; it was then that I created the world. I filled it with all the things I knew would be necessary to men: air, sun, and rain, and many other things that I knew to be necessary for their life.

In the end, man was created! I was pleased with My handiwork. Man sins, but it is precisely then that My infinite generosity shows itself.

In the Old Testament, I created and chose prophets to live among men. To them I told My desires, My sorrows, and My joys, so that they could communicate them to everyone.

The more evil grew, the more My goodness urged Me to communicate with just souls so that they could transmit My commands to those who were creating disorder. Thus, I was sometimes obliged to be strict in order to reprove them; not to punish them—that would only have done harm—but to take them away from vice and lead them to their Father and their Creator, Whom they had forgotten and ignored in their ingratitude. Later, evil overwhelmed men’s hearts to such an extent that I was compelled to send calamities upon the world to purify men through suffering, the destruction of their possessions, or even their death. These were the Flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, man’s wars against man, etc.

I have always wished to remain in this world among men. So, during the Flood, I was close to Noah, the only just man then. In the other calamities, also, I always found a just man with whom I could stay and, through him, I lived among the men of that time, and it has always been thus.

The world has often been purified of its corruption because of My infinite goodness towards humanity. I continued to choose certain souls in whom I was pleased, because through them I could be happy with My creatures, men.

I promised the world a Messiah. I did all I could to prepare His coming, showing Myself in the figures that represented Him, even thousands of years before His coming!

For who is this Messiah? Whence does He come? What will He do on earth? Whom does He represent?

The Messiah is God.

Who is God? God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Whence does He come? Or rather, who ordered Him to come among men? It was I, His Father, God.

Whom is He to represent on earth? His Father, God.

What is He to do on earth? He will make the Father, God, known and loved.

Did He not say:

"Do you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?"

"I have come only to do the Will of My Father."

"Whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you."

"You will pray to Him like this: ‘Our Father, Who art in heaven...,’" and elsewhere, since He came to glorify the Father and to make Him known to men, He says:

"Whosoever sees Me, sees the Father."

"I am in the Father and the Father is in Me."

"No one comes to the Father except through Me."

"Whoever is with Me is also with My Father," etc.?

Realize then, O men, that for all eternity I have had but one desire, to make Myself known to men and be loved by them. I wish to stay forever with them.

Do you want an authentic proof of this desire that I have just expressed?

Why did I command Moses to build a tabernacle and the ark of the covenant, if not to come and dwell, as a Father, a brother, a close friend, with My creatures, men? This was My ardent desire. In spite of this, they have forgotten Me and offended Me with countless sins. I gave Moses My commandments to remind them, in spite of everything, of God, their Father, and of His sole wish, to save them. They were supposed to observe the commandments and thereby remember their infinitely good Father, always intent upon their present and eternal salvation.

All this was forgotten and men sank into error and fear, considering that the observance of the commandments as I had transmitted them to Moses was too taxing. They made up other laws in accordance with their whims, in order to observe them more easily. Little by little, in the exaggerated fear they had of Me, they forgot Me more and more and heaped outrages upon Me.

Yet My love for these men, My children, never quite ceased. When I realized that neither the patriarchs nor the prophets had been able to make Me known and loved by men, I decided to come Myself.

But how could I come among them? There was no other way than to come Myself, in the second Person of My divinity.

Would men know Me? Would they listen to Me?

Nothing in the future was hidden from Me; I Myself answered these two questions:

"They will ignore My presence, even though they will be near Me. In My Son they will treat Me cruelly, notwithstanding all the good He will do for them. In My Son they will speak ill of Me; they will crucify Me to bring about My death."

Shall I stop because of this? No, My love for My children, men, is too great.

I did not stop there. Understand well that I loved you, as it were, more than My beloved Son, or rather, more than Myself.

What I am telling you is so true that, if one of My creatures had been enough to atone for the sins of other men through a life and death similar to those of My Son, I would have hesitated. Why? Because I would have betrayed My love by making a beloved creature suffer, rather than suffering Myself, in My Son. I would never have wished My children to suffer.

This, then, in brief, is the story of My love until My coming among men through My Son.

Most men know of all these events, but they fail to grasp the essential thing: that love was the guiding principle in it all!

Yes, it is love. This is what I want to impress upon you. Now this love has been forgotten. I want to remind you of it, so that you can learn to know Me as I am, so that you will not be, like slaves, afraid of a Father Who loves you so much.

You see, in this story we are only at the first day of the first century, and I would like to bring it up to the present time, the twentieth century.

Oh, how My paternal love has been forgotten by Men! Yet I love you so tenderly! In My Son, that is to say, in the Person of My Son made man, what have I not done! Divinity is veiled in this humanity; it is shrunk, impoverished, humiliated. With My Son Jesus I led a life of sacrifice and work. I received His prayers, that man might have a clearly indicated path along which to walk always in justice, so as to reach Me safely!

Of course, I can understand My children’s weaknesses! Because of this, I asked My Son to give them the means to get up again after they have fallen. These means will help them to purify themselves from their sins, so that they may still be the children of My love. They are, chiefly, the seven Sacraments. And the greatest means of securing your salvation, despite your falls, is the Cross, My Son’s Blood poured out upon you every moment, if you so wish, both in the Sacrament of Penance and in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

My dear children, I have lavished these gifts upon you with special graces for twenty centuries, but with what miserable results!

How many of My creatures, who become children of My love through My Son, have quickly thrown themselves into the eternal abyss! Truly, they have not known My infinite goodness; I love you so very much!

You, at least, who know that I Myself am coming to talk to you, to make you aware of My love, for your own sake, do not throw yourselves over the precipice. I am your Father!

Is it possible that, having called Me your Father and having shown your love for Me, you could find in Me such a hard and insensitive heart as to let you perish? No, no, do not believe it! I am the best of Fathers! I know My creatures’ weaknesses! Come to Me, come with confidence and love! I will forgive you after you have repented. Even if your sins were as repulsive as mud, your confidence and your love will make Me forget them, so you will not be judged! I am just, it is true, but love pays for everything!

Listen, My children, let us make a comparison, and you will be assured of My love. For Me, your sins are like iron, and your acts of love like gold. If you gave Me a thousand pounds of iron, it would not be like giving Me just ten pounds of gold! In other words, with just a little love, great iniquities can be expiated.

This, then, is one very light-hearted way of looking at My judgment of My children, men—all of them, without exception. You must come to Me. I am so close to You! You must love Me and honor Me so that you will not be judged, or rather, that you will be judged with infinitely merciful love.

Have no doubt! If My Heart were not like this, I would have already destroyed the world every time it committed sin! But as you have seen, at every moment My protection manifests itself through graces and benefits. You can conclude from this that there is a Father Who is above all fathers, Who loves you, and will never cease to love you, if you so desire.

I come among you in two ways: the Cross and the Eucharist!

The Cross is My way of coming down among My children, since it is through it that I caused My Son to redeem you. And for you, the Cross is the way to ascend to My Son, and from My Son to Me. Without it you could never come to Me, because man, by sinning, brought on himself the punishment of separation from God.

In the Eucharist I live among you as a Father with His family. I wished My Son to institute the Eucharist so as to make every tabernacle the vessel of My favors, My riches, and My love, to give them to men, My children.

It is always by these two means that I cause both My power and My infinite mercy to come down ceaselessly.

... Now that I have shown you that My Son Jesus represents Me among men, and that, through Him, I live constantly among them, I also want to show you that I come among you through My Holy Spirit.

The work of this third Person of My divinity is carried out silently and often man is not aware of it. But for Me it is a very fitting way of living, not just in the tabernacle, but also in the souls of all those in a state of grace, to establish My throne in them and to live there always, like the true Father Who loves, protects, and helps His children. No one has yet understood the infinite desire of My divine, paternal Heart to be known, loved, and honored by all men, the just and the sinful. These are the three gifts that I wish to receive in homage from man, so that I may always be merciful and good even towards the most hardened sinners.