*2 CORINTHIANS 4: 8-10*
“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies”.
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*PICCARRETA:*
Apr. 26. “It seems to me that dear Jesus surrounds you with these pains in order to give you strength, and with tender and loving voice, He says to you:
_“My child, give these pains to Me, that they may form my arms, my heart, my steps – my whole Life, to be able to live within you.”_
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*Book of Heaven
Vol. 35 Nov. 29, 1937*
_Our pains, united with the pains of Jesus, form His Life within us. There is no good which doesn’t come from them._
My poor mind swims in the sea of the Divine Volition. I feel that It breathes, palpitates
and circulates, more than blood, inside the veins of my soul, saying:
_”I am here, inside and outside of you – more than your own life. I run within each one of your acts. With my Love I
make everything easy for you, and I make you happy.”_
In the meantime, He was showing me all the pains that I suffered, invested by light –
holding them tightly close to His Heart as many conquests of His Will. I remained preoccupied, and my always adorable Jesus, visiting me, said:
“My little daughter of my Divine Will, know that all the pains which my Most Holy Humanity suffered on earth – every tear I shed, every drop of my Blood, every step and motion, and even my breath – were and still are invested by one single voice, with which they speak and shout continuously:
_”We want the Kingdom of the Divine Will to reign and dominate in the midst of the creatures. We want our divine rights to be placed in force!…‟_
And they pray, speak and moan around our Supreme Throne, without ever ceasing, that the Will of Heaven and of the earth may be one.
Now, whoever unites with my sufferings, with my heartbeats, breaths, steps and works -prays, speaks and moans together with all I did and suffered on earth. There is no good which does not arise from my sufferings. United with those of the creature, my sufferings form the depository – the hosts which receive her pains, forming one single prayer together, one single voice – one single Will.
Even more, my pains carry the pains of the creature and everything she does before our Majesty, in order to make her want and do what I did. The pains of the creature kidnap my pains on earth in order to involve all the creatures in both my pains and her own, to dispose all the creatures to receive the Life of my Divine Will.
The union with Me – of her pains with my pains – produces the great prodigy of my Life in the creature; a Life which operates, speaks and suffers as if I were on earth again. So, I animate the whole being of the creature with the power of my acts. My Life flows even in the most tiny trifles, so that all may be mine, animated by my Creative Power, and she may give Me the Love and the Glory of my own Life.”
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*PRAYER OF THE DAY:*
“My Jesus, may I always be in Your Will: to have the first place over Your Sacramental Heart. May You feel my heart palpitating in Yours, with Your own love and pain. May You feel my will in Yours, which, multiplying in everyone, may give You, with one single act, the reparations of all and the love of all; and Your Will in mine, which, making my poor humanity Your own, may elevate it before the Majesty of the Father as Your continued victim.”
Adapted from
*Book of Heaven
Vol. 12 July 4, 1917*