ISAIAH 46: 9–10
“Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’”
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PICCARRETA:
April 10: “As far as the future, don’t worry about it either, because it is not ours, but belongs to God.”
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BOH VOL 29, May 27, 1931
“Do you think that everything I did while being on earth has all been taken by creatures? Not at all – how much of it is still left. But, with this, one cannot say that it is not good. Centuries and centuries will pass, and the time will come in which all the good I did will have life in the midst of creatures; what is not taken today, other creatures may take tomorrow, in other epochs.
Therefore, the true life of good does not tire of waiting; and with an air of triumph they say: “We are not subject to dying, therefore, with certainty, the time will come in which we will give our fruits, which will make many other lives that resemble us rise again.
Do you think that, because you do not see any effect of all your acts in Our Divine Fiat, there will be nothing good? Not at all. Today it seems so, but wait for the times, and they will tell the great good that will come.
Therefore, continue and do not draw back. In fact, you must know that the prolixity of good is alone the most certain proof, which assures God and the soul of the state she is in.
A prolonged state of patience in the sufferings and painful encounters of life, a repeated prayer without ever tiring of repeating it, a faithfulness, constancy and sameness of manners in all circumstances, form a sufficient ground, watered by the blood of one’s own heart, in which God feels called by all the acts of the creature as though by many assurances that He can fulfill His greatest designs; and the creature herself feels in the prolixity of her acts the dominion of herself and the assurance that she will not waver.
The good of one day says nothing; a good that is today- yes and tomorrow-no says weakness and volubility – all fruits of the human will. An inconstant good says that that good, that virtue, is not the creature’s own property, and therefore, not being in her power, good changes into evil, and the virtue into vice.
See, then, how in order for the soul to be sure that she possesses a good, a virtue, she must feel within herself the life of that virtue, and with iron constancy of years and years, and for her whole life, she must exercise herself in that good. And God feels assured to place His own and operate great things in the constancy of the creature.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“Oh! Holy Volition, You be the Life, the Actor and the Spectator of all my acts, so that, all of them rising again in You, they may be the call of all the acts of creatures, to make them rise again in your Fiat, so that Its Kingdom may extend in all creatures.”
Adapted from
BOH Vol 29, May 27, 1931