ROMANS 8:29
“For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.”
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PICCARRETA:
Aug. 25. “If you want to make yourself a saint, if you want peace and to give peace to all, if you want a divine power to invest you and transform you into Jesus Himself – I beg you to think of nothing else but to live in the Divine Will.”
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BOH VOL 32 Oct. 15, 1933
“See, then, the great difference that exists between the Divine Will as life and that as effect: as life, all goods, the virtues, the prayer, the love, the sanctity, convert into nature in the creature; they are founts that form in her, which constantly spring, in such a way that she feels within herself the nature of love, of patience, of sanctity, just as she naturally feels the mind thinking, the eye seeing, the mouth speaking. There is no effort in this, because God gave them to her as her nature, and she feels free to make of them the use that she wants.
In the same way, by possessing the Divine Will as life, everything is holy, everything is sacred, the difficulties end, the inclination to evil no longer exists; and even if she changes her action, and now she does one thing, now another, the unitive virtue of my Will unites them together, and they form one single act, with the distinction of many various beauties for as many acts as she has done. And she reaches the point of feeling that her God is fully her own, to the point of feeling that, in the excess of His love, He gave Himself prey to the creature.
By virtue of the Divine Will that she possesses as life, she feels Him as a birth from her own womb, and she raises Him with such finesse of love and of profound adoration as to remain as though naturally absorbed in her Creator, who is already completely her own. And the fullness of love, the happiness that she feels, is so great that, unable to contain it, she would want to give to all the Divine Will as life, to render all happy and holy.
Not so for one who does not possess It as life, but only as virtue or effect: everything is hardship, and she feels the good in time and circumstances; the circumstance ceases and she feels the void of the good, and this void produces inconstancy, mutation of character, tiredness. She feels the unhappiness of the human will; neither does she enjoy peace, nor can she give peace to anyone; she feels the good within her as if she felt her members dislocated, or partly detached, such that she is not free to make use of them, and has to remain subjected to others in order to be served. Not to live of my Will is to make oneself a slave and to feel all the weight of slavery.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My Mama, may I resemble You and possess Your inheritance. I know that You, oh Great Lady, are all eye in order to watch, all heart in order to love, in order to help who You see, in some way, are disposed and want to live of Divine Will. In my difficulties, I know that You are around me, to support me and strengthen me. May You take my volition in Your maternal hands in order to make it receive the life of the Supreme Fiat.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 34 April 21, 1936