*ROMANS 12:1*
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.”
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*PICCARRETA:*
Dec. 27. “I ask dear Baby Jesus that He Himself bring you my sincere wishes. During these days, you will prepare your heart in order to form it as a host in which the Divine Infant will come to be reborn in you.”
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*BOH VOL 32 Mar. 12, 1933*
“And just as in Creation, so in Redemption – there are no past acts, but all acts in act and present; past and future do not exist for the Supreme Being.
So, your Jesus is always in act of conceiving, of being born, of crying, of suffering, and of dying and rising. All these acts of mine, in continuous act, without ever ceasing, besiege each creature, drown her with love; and for the outpouring of my ardent love, I keep repeating:
“See, only for You am I descending from Heaven, and I am conceived, and I am born. And you – come to be conceived together with Me, to be reborn together with Me to the new life that your Jesus brings you.
Look at Me: I cry for you, I suffer for you – have pity on my tears and on my pains. Let us suffer together, that you may repeat what I did, and model your life with mine, so that I can, in being conceived, say to you:
“_What is mine is yours, you are the repeater of my life.‟_
In the same way, if I die, I call her to die together with Me – not to make her die, but to rise again with the same life of the One who so much loves her.
So, my life is repeated continuously; a past or future love would not satisfy Me, nor would it be the love and Redemption of a God. It is the present act that has the virtue of wounding, of conquering and of disposing her to lay down her life for love of the One who, in act, is laying it down for her.”
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*PRAYER OF THE DAY:*
“My Jesus, may I be all attentive, that in my little acts, in everything I do, if I pray, if I suffer, if I work, in everything – there are the continuous exchange, taking the gift of Your Will and giving You my own.
Oh Jesus! how happy I will make You – You will be all eyes over my act, that it may have all the requisites of an act worthy of Your Divine Will.”
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*BOH VOL 31 Dec. 21, 1932*