GALATIANS 5:1

“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”

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PICCARRETA:

Apr. 8. “Unshakable firmness in good. Interest yourself in nothing but Jesus.”

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BOH VOL 22 July 26, 1927

_How the Divine Will has two characters: incessant act and unshakeable firmness._

I was lamenting because of the privation of my sweet Jesus, and pouring out my intense sorrow, I said to myself: “How hard His abandonment is – I feel as though I am under a press, squeezed drop by drop. Oh, Jesus! where are your promises? Where is your love? Where is the triumph of your Divine Will in my poor soul? I feel as though betrayed by You. How bitter my end is. It is not the beginning that one must look at – it is the end that says everything!‟

But while I was pouring myself out, my beloved Good, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, my Divine Will has Its triumph in you, and this is why It squeezes you, drop by drop, under Its divine press, so that not even a drop of your will may be left in you. Poor daughter, it is a Divine and unshakeable Will that works you in order to lay Its Kingdom in you, even in your littlest acts.

Therefore, patience, do not lose heart. My Divine Will has two characters: unshakeable firmness and incessant act. This is why, when the soul has given herself to It, Its work is incessant. Don ‘t you feel Its continuous motion within yourself?

And when I manifest to you a truth about It, with a mastery which is all Its own and divine, It places Its incessant motion in attitude, and It repeats it continuously within you; and while repeating it, It triumphs, because It does in you what It does within Itself of Its own nature. Is this not, then, the triumph of my Will?”

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PRAYER FOR THE DAY:

“My dearest Jesus, as my thanksgiving for having received Holy Communion, I want to offer It to all and to each inhabitant of Heaven, to each soul in Purgatory, to all the living who are and will be.

And not only to them, but I would like to give my Sacramental Jesus to the starry heavens, to the flowery fields – in sum, to each created thing, in order to give Him the glory and the triumph of all His works.”

BOH VOL 22 July 4, 1927