*1 PETER 4:12-13*
“Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you… But rejoice that you share in Christ’s sufferings”.
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*PICCARRETA:*
Feb. 22. “Without the cross it would be as if we had no correspondence with our beloved Jesus, and as if He had made no design upon us… Ah, no, may Heaven save us from this misfortune!”
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*BOH VOL 3 April 20, 1900*
_The Cross gives us the features and the likeness of Jesus._
This morning, after He renewed in me the pains of the cross as many as two times, looking at me with tenderness while I was suffering the spasm of the piercings of the nails, He told me:
“The cross is a mirror in which the soul admires the Divinity, and by reflecting herself in it, she acquires the features and the likeness which most resembles God.
The cross must not only be loved and desired, but one must consider it an honor and a glory. This is to operate as God and to become like God by participation, because I alone gloried in the cross and considered suffering an honor, and I loved it so much that in my whole life, I did not want to be one moment without the cross.”
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*PRAYER OF THE DAY:*
“My Lord, I pray You to keep me always nailed to the cross, so that, having this divine mirror ever before me, I may clean all my stains and embellish myself ever more in your likeness.”
*BOH VOL 3 April 20, 1900*