ISAIAH 12:2
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”
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PICCARRETA:
Aug. 31. “It is well known how easily creatures change – today they smile at us, tomorrow they will turn their back on us. We can trust God and our Queen alone, because they really love us, without the shadow of interest. They love us because they want to see us happy and holy.”
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BOH VOL 29 June 5, 1931
“Now, has this not been a wholeness, a resemblance, of my Life, in your painful state of humiliation, of calumnies and scorns that you have gone through? I felt in you the nail of the abandonment and dispersion of my Apostles being repeated to Me, in seeing those who had been so keen to assist you disperse themselves from you, and with the will of abandoning you.
And in seeing you abandoned, I saw you all alone in my arms, with the nail of the abandonment of those who were to sustain you; and in my sorrow I said: “Bad world, how well you know how to repeat the scenes of my Passion in my children.‟ And I offered your bitterness for the triumph of my Will and for the help of those who should make It known. Therefore, courage in the painful circumstances of life.
However, know that your Jesus will never abandon you – I don’t know how to do these things; my Love is not voluble by nature, but firm and constant, and what I say with my mouth comes out from the life of my Heart. Creatures, instead – they say one thing and feel another in their hearts; they mix many human ends also in making friends, and this is why they change according to the circumstances.
So, the dispersion of those who seemed to want to lay down their lives in the good times, and who cravenly run away in the time of humiliations and scorns – they are all effects of the human will. The human will is the true prison of the creature, and is clever in the art of being able to form many small rooms – but all without windows, because it is not skilled at forming openings in order to receive the good of light.
Therefore, passions, weaknesses, fear, excessive worries, inconstancy, are as many dark rooms of its prison, and she remains now hampered in one, now in another; and fear makes her fear and move away from the one is laying down his life for love of her.
On the other hand, one in whom my Will reigns lives in my royal palace, in which there is so much light, that the pains, the humiliations, the calumnies, are nothing other than stairs of triumphs and of glory, and completion of great and divine works.
So, instead of running away from the poor martyr who has been cast into dust by the human perversity, she draws closer to him, waiting with patience for the hour of the new triumph.
Oh! if my Will had reigned fully in the Apostles, with certainty they would not have run away in an hour in which I felt the need of their presence, of their faithfulness in my so many pains. In the midst of enemies who wanted to devour Me, I wanted my faithful ones close to Me, because there is no greater comfort than having a friend close in time of bitternesses.
I would have seen in my dear Apostles, close to Me, the fruits of my pains, and – oh! how many sweet memories would have arisen in my Heart, which would have been balm for Me in my intense bitternesses. My Divine Will, with Its light, would have prevented their step from running away, and therefore they would have drawn closer around Me.
But since they lived in the dark prison of the human will, their mind was obscured, the heart became cold, fear invaded them – in one moment they forgot about all the good they had received from Me. And not only did they run away from Me, but they dispersed themselves from one another – all effects of the human will, which does not know how to maintain union, and knows only how to disperse in one day the good that one has done in many years, with many sacrifices.
Therefore, may your only fear be that of not doing my Will.” Fiat!!!
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My Mama, together with Jesus, I place all souls into your arms, that You may recognize them all as your children, inscribe them one by one into your Heart, and place them inside the wounds of Jesus. They are the children of your immense sorrow, and this is enough for You to recognize them and love them. And I want to place all generations in the Supreme Will, so that no one may be missing, and in the name of all I give You comforts, compassions and divine reliefs.”‘
BOH VOL 16 Nov. 24,1923