PSALM 121:7-8
“The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and forevermore.”
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PICCARRETA:
June 18: “In all circumstances, even painful, you will have a refuge in which to take shelter. Jesus is waiting for you with open arms to receive you and to help you to form within you the noble martyrdom of the Divine Will.”
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Book of Heaven
Vol. 14 Apr. 6, 1922
As I was in my usual state, my sweet Jesus carried me outside of myself, and showed me masses of peoples crying, homeless, prey to the greatest desolation; towns collapsed, streets deserted and uninhabitable. One could see nothing but heaps of stones and rubble. Only one point remained untouched by the scourge.
My God, what pain! to see these things, and live. I looked at my sweet Jesus, but He did not deign to look at me; rather, He cried bitterly, and with a voice broken by the crying, told me:
“My daughter, man has forgotten Heaven for the earth. It is justice that what is earth be taken away from him, and that he go wandering, unable to find a place in which to take refuge, so that he may remember that Heaven exists.
Man has forgotten the soul for the body. So, everything is for the body: pleasures, comforts, sumptuousness, luxury and the like.
The soul is starving, deprived of everything, and in many it is dead, as if they did not have it.
Now, it is justice that their bodies be deprived, so that they may remember that they have a soul.
But – oh! how hard man is. His hardness forces Me to strike him more – who knows, he might soften under the blows.”
I felt my heart being tortured, and He: “You suffer very much in seeing the world as though wanting to roll, and water and fire going out of their boundaries and hurling themselves at man. Therefore, let us withdraw into your bed, and let us pray together for the destiny of man.
In my Will I will feel your heart beating over the entire face of the earth, giving Me a heartbeat for all, that says to
Me: “Love‟.
And while I strike the creatures, your heartbeat will place itself in the way, so that the blows may be less hard, and upon touching them, may bring them the balm of my love and of yours.”
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*PRAYER OF THE DAY:*
“O my Jesus, in this wounded Heart of Yours, I will find my life again; therefore, anything I may be about to do, I will always draw from It.
I will no longer give life to my thoughts; but if these want life, I will take Yours.
My will will no longer have life; but if it wants life, I will take your Most Holy Will.
My love will no longer have life; if it wants life, I will take your Love.
O my Jesus, all of your Life is mine – this is your Will, this is my will.”
23rd Hour of the Passion