ROMANS 14:17
“For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”
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PICCARRETA:
Aug 27. “Oh, how I’d love to find you always in the sea of the Divine Will! Every tiniest act of yours would cover you with Its sanctity, with Its love, with Its peace, and you would feel as though repatriated into the Celestial Fatherland.”
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BOH VOL 30 Jan. 17, 1932
My little soul continues to cross the interminable sea of the Divine Fiat, and – oh! how I remain surprised, that while I seem to have gone a long way, I go about looking and I find but a few steps compared to those that are left for me to take. The interminability is so great, that even if I should walk for centuries, I would always find myself at the beginning; and there is so much to know about the Divine Volition, that finding myself in Its sea, I always feel like the little ignorant one who has only learned the vowels of the Divine Will, and who maybe will go to learn the consonants in the Celestial Fatherland – which I hope to reach soon. Oh! how I would like to have ways to move all Heaven to pity, so that my long exile may end. But, after all, Fiat! Fiat! Fiat!
And my always lovable Jesus, having compassion for me, clasped me in His arms, telling me:
“Blessed daughter, courage, do not afflict yourself too much – for now, I want your Heaven to be my Divine Will. It will be for you Celestial Fatherland on earth, and will not fail to make you happy and to give you the pure joys from up there. Wherever It reigns It has many manifold ways to give always new surprises of joys, of contentments, so that the soul who possesses It may enjoy her paradise on earth; and therefore, now It takes on the dominating mode, and Its dominion extends in the mind, in the word, in the heart, in the whole being of the creature, even in the tiniest motion, and – oh! how sweet is Its dominion.
It is dominion and life, it is dominion and strength, it is dominion and light that makes its way, and Its light dispels the darkness, removes the bars that may prevent good, and Its dominion puts the enemies to flight.
In sum, the creature feels carried by the dominion of the Divine Will; and while she is dominated, she becomes dominator of herself, of her acts, and of the very Divine Will, which is such that, while It dominates and rules, Its gentleness, strength and sweetness are so great, that It identifies Itself with the creature and wants her to dominate along, because Its dominion is peaceful, and to each of the acts that the creature does It gives Its kiss of dominating peace.
This kiss, gentleness and sweetness, enraptures the human will in the Divine, and they extend the dominion together to form the Divine Kingdom in the depth of the soul. There is nothing more beautiful, more dear, greater and holier, than to feel the dominion of my Will flow in all of one’s acts, and in the whole entirety of the creature. I could say that Heaven remains behind in the face of the dominion of my Will in the heart of the pilgrim creature.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“Oh empire of the Divine Will. Your power raises me in its center; Your love, embalming me, brings me Your celestial air; Its light purifies, embellishes, transforms me, enclosing me in the range of the Divine Will, so that all is forgotten; so great and so many are the joys, so enchanting the scenes of the Supreme Being that one remains enraptured.
Oh, Divine Will, how I’d love for all to know you, to enjoy joys so pure, gladness so ineffable, which can be found only in you!”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 36 June 20, 1938