March 1, 2026
*JOB 23:10*
“But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold”.
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*PICCARETA*:
March 1. “Do not lose heart because of the difficulties and the circumstances of life; they are steps which make us go higher in the Divine Volition.”
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*BOH VOL 2 Sept. 22, 1899*
I felt a nail stuck in my heart because of the words spoken yesterday by sweet Jesus, and He, always benign with this miserable sinner, to relieve my pains, came and, all compassion for me, told me:
“My daughter, do not want to afflict yourself any longer. Know that everything I make you write, either about virtues or in the form of similes, is nothing but making you portray yourself, and the perfection which I made your soul reach.”
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“Then, while Jesus was saying those words to me, I told Him: “My good Jesus, what good is it for my soul to have so many graces, if then they embitter my whole life, especially because of the hours of your privation? In fact, understanding Who You are, and of Whom I am being deprived, is a continuous martyrdom for me. So, they serve me for nothing but to make me live continuously embittered.‟
And He added: “When a person has tasted the sweetness of a food and then is forced to take the bitter, in order to remove that bitterness he doubles his desire to taste the sweet, and this does much good to that person, because if he always tasted the sweet, without ever tasting bitterness, he would not take the sweet into great consideration.
But if he always tasted bitterness, without knowing the sweet, by not knowing it, he would not even desire it; therefore, both one and the other do good. So it is good for you also.”
And I: “My Jesus, most patient in bearing a soul so miserable and ungrateful – forgive me. It seems to me that this time I want to investigate too much.”
And Jesus: “Do not be disturbed; it is I Myself who raises these difficulties in your interior, to have the occasion to converse with you, and also to instruct you in everything.”
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*PRAYER OF THE DAY:*
“Oh! Divine Will, let us live together if You want to make me happy, and so that You may find in me the happiness of Your own life.”
*BOH VOL 33 Aug. 13, 1933*
