*1 PETER 3:14*
“But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed’. Do not fear their threats ; do not be frightened.”
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*PICCARRETA:*
Dec. 21. “Think that your pains serve Jesus, and that He keeps them in His hands as precious coins with which to save souls.”
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*BOH VOL 2 Sept. 16, 1899*
“The life of the heart is love. I am like an infirm person who is burning with fever, and keeps looking for refreshment, for a relief, from the fire that devours him. My fever is love; but from where do I extract the refreshments and the reliefs which are most suitable for the fire that consumes Me? From the pains and toils suffered by souls beloved to Me, only for love of Me.
Many times I wait and wait for that moment in which the soul turns to Me to tell Me: “Lord, only for love of You do I want to suffer this pain.” Ah, yes, these are the reliefs and refreshments most suitable for Me, which cheer Me and dampen the fire that consumes Me.”
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Oh, coin of inestimable value! If all of us knew it, we would compete with one another to suffer more. But I believe we are all shortsighted in knowing this coin so precious, and this is why one does not reach the knowledge of it.”
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*PRAYER OF THE DAY:*
“O Jesus, I thank You for everything, and in the name of all, I raise to You a hymn of eternal and infinite thanksgiving. O my Jesus, I intend to offer You everything You have suffered in your Most Holy Person, to give You all the glory that the creatures would have given You, had they conformed their lives to Yours.”
*Hours of the Passion, 20th Hour*