1 JOHN 3:16
“By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.”
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PICCARRETA:
Aug. 19. “This is exactly what the Divine Will can do: give Itself completely, in order to vaunt forming Its Life in the creature.”
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BOH VOL 31 Jan. 6, 1933
Gratitude He feels toward those who let Him produce His life.
I was doing my round in the Creation, to follow the acts that the Divine Will had done in It, and it seemed to me that each created thing was letting me in, to receive my act and place it as cortege and requital to the Divine Will which they possessed as actor and preserver of created things.
Now, while I was doing this, the Celestial Little Baby made me His short little visit, and told me: “My daughter, one who does the Divine Will, in doing her acts, pours herself into It; there is not one particle of her being which does not take its place in the Supreme Volition.
And then, everything that God created, everything He has done and will do, being all enclosed in my Volition, pours itself completely as one single act over the act of the creature, in such a way that her act remains filled, embellished, surrounded with everything that my Will has done and will do; so much so, that all the divine acts appear, impressed, fused, circumfused, in the act of the creature.
When my Will operates, be it in Our Divinity or in the human act, It cannot, nor does It want to detach any of Its acts from another, but unites them all together and forms the new act that It wants to do. It can be said that the whole of Our Divine Being with all Our acts pours over the creature, We hide within her, We wall Ourselves up, while We remain as We are, in Our interminable immensity and power.
However, Our happiness is doubled on the part of the creature, because she has given Us the occasion to bilocate Our life together with Our acts, and We receive the glory, the honor, the love of Our own life and of all Our acts on the part of the one who lets herself be possessed by Our Will.
It happens to Us as to the sun which, when it gives itself to the earth from the height of its sphere, seems to only give light. But it is not true – together with its light it gives everything it possesses; and this is so true, that one can see the earth blooming with many varieties of colors, varieties of sweetnesses, of flavors. Who gave so much beauty, so many substances, so many colors? The light only? Ah, no! It is because the light gave the substances, the properties, which the light possesses. It can be said that the earth is rich, embellished by the properties that the sun possesses; but while the sun gives, it loses nothing of what it possesses. Oh! if the sun had reason, how much happier, more glorified, it would feel because of the great good it does to the earth.
To reproduce Our life, Our acts, in Our beloved creature, is happiness for Us; and We feel as though grateful toward her, because she has given Us the field to make use of Our communicative power, of reproducing Ourselves in her.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“Oh Adorable Will, You gave to me Divine Will, and Divine Will I give back to You, to render back to You the appreciation, thanksgiving, glory, joy and love that You gave to me; I am incapable of containing them.
This act runs to all, sanctifying, embellishing, giving happiness and honor to all. This is the most beautiful act I can give to You. Nobody can equal this act: to give You Your Will ln order to have It returned, and to give It back, yet again.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 36 June 26, 1938