ROMANS 5:3-5
“Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
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PICCARRETA:
Aug. 18. “Abandon yourself to the Divine Will. Let Its Divine Life rise again in all your sufferings.”
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BOH VOL 36 Sept. 27, 1938
After this, I followed my Jesus in His pains, uniting mine to His and receiving their strength to sustain mine which kept me crushed. Then my dear Jesus added with unspeakable tenderness: “My blessed daughter, I suffered unheard-of pains; but close to these pains, seas of joys, of endless happiness were flowing. I could see the good they were going to produce. I could see, enclosed in them, the souls that were going to be saved; and since my pains were filled with love, they matured with their heat the most beautiful sanctities, the most difficult conversions, the most astonishing graces.
In my pains I felt excruciating sufferings, which gave me the most ruthless and cruel death; but also seas of joys that sustained me and gave me life. If I were not sustained by the joys contained in my sufferings, the torment was so much I would have died at the first pain I suffered – I could not have prolonged my life.
Now, your pains are not only similar to mine but I can say that they are mine. If you knew how much I suffer. I feel their rawness – their torment – embittering me to the depth of my Heart, but in these pains I also see seas of joy flowing, which will make my Will rise again more beautiful and majestic in the middle of the creatures.
You don’t know what an innocent pain suffered on my behalf means. It can form by its power seas of graces, light and love for the benefit of all. If it wasn’t for these innocent pains which sustain my Justice, I would send to ruin the whole world.
Therefore, don’t lose heart my daughter, trust me and I will take care of everything, to defend the rights of my Will and to make It reign.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“Sorrowful Mama, I pray You to enclose my will in the wounds of Jesus, that I may live of His pains and of your bitter sorrows. May your sorrows seal my will in the opening of His sacred side. May the wounds of Jesus and your sorrows give me the grace to make my will rise again in the Will of God.”
Adapted from
BVM Book Day 27