2 TIMOTHY 2:10
“Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus with its eternal glory.”
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PICCARRETA:
Aug. 6. “How happy you will feel, thinking that your sufferings serve to save souls, to console Jesus, to kiss His wounds, to tell Him that you love Him! In every pain you suffer, tell Jesus to bring you His Love. Love Him always, and Jesus will be wounded by your love and will love you more.”
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Book of Heaven
Vol. 12 July 18, 1917
The soul who lives in the Divine Will lives in Jesus, and at His expense.
Continuing in my usual state, I was trying to pour all of myself into the Holy Will of Jesus, and I prayed Him to pour all of Himself into me, in such a way that I would no longer feel myself, but the whole of Jesus. And blessed Jesus came and told me:
“My daughter, when the soul lives in my Will, and everything she does, she does in my Volition, I feel her everywhere. I feel her in my mind, and her thoughts flow within mine; and as I diffuse the life of intelligence in the creatures, she diffuses herself together with Me in the minds of the creatures; and as she sees Me being offended, she feels my pain.
I feel her in my heartbeat – even more, I feel one heartbeat for two inside my Heart; and as my love pours into creatures, she pours herself together with Me, and she loves with Me; and if I am not loved, she loves Me for all to requite Me in love, and she consoles Me.
In my desires I feel the desire of the soul who lives in my Will; in my works I feel hers – in everything. Therefore, one can say that she lives at my expense.”
And I: “My Love, You do everything by Yourself, and do not need the creature. Why, then, do You love so much that the creature live in your Will and of your Will?‟
And Jesus: “Indeed I have need of nothing and do everything by Myself, but love, in order to have life, wants its outpouring. Imagine a sun, which has no need of light – it is sufficient for itself and for others; but, still, since there are other little lights, even though it does not need them, it wants them within itself for company, to pour itself out and to enlarge the little lights. What wrong would the little lights not do, if they refused?
Ah! my daughter, when the will is alone, it is always sterile; love, when isolated, languishes and dies down. And I love the creature so much that I want her united with my Will, so as to render her fecund, to give her life of love; then do I find my outpouring, because I created the creature only to pour Myself out in love – for nothing else; and therefore this is all my commitment.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My Jesus, In the pains which you send me, it seems that You send me the chalice in which I must place the fruit of those pains. These pains, suffered with love and resignation, will turn into a most sweet nectar for You. In every pain I will say:
“Jesus, You are calling me around You to be Your angel. You want my comforts, so You make me share in Your pains.
My love, Jesus, in my pains I look for your Heart to rest, and in your pains I intend to give You shelter with my pains, so that we may exchange them, and I may be your consoling angel.”
Adapted from
17th Hour of the Passion
Reflection and Practices