>>13368412"These Churches, although various in number, will not be
different in thought, but will be one thing only with the Church, as with their individual
parts they will form the great building, greater and greater, the great new Temple, that
with its pavilions will reach all the corners of the earth. Not different in thought, nor
contrasting with one another, but united, brotherly to one another, all subjected to the
Head of the Church, to Peter, and to his successors until the end of time.
And those that for any reason should separate from the Mother Church, would be
members cut off, no longer nourished with the mystic blood that is Grace coming from
Me, the divine Head of the Church. Like prodigal sons, separated through their own will
from the paternal house, in their short-lived wealth and constant and graver and graver
misery, they would be blunting their spiritual intellects by means of too heavy foods
and wines, and then they would languish eating the bitter acorns of unclean animals
until they returned to the paternal house, saying with contrite hearts: “We have sinned.
Father, forgive us and open the doors of your abode to us.” Then, whether it is a
member of a separated Church, or an entire Church – oh! if it were so, but where, when
will so many imitators of Me arise, capable of redeeming these entire separated
Churches, at the cost of their lives, to make, to remake only one Fold under only one
shepherd, as I ardently wish? – then whether it is only one person or an assembly that
comes back, open the doors to them."
TPOTMG 5.630
