*JOHN 15:7*
“If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”
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*PICCARRETA:*
Feb. 1. “It is not the words that form prayer, but our union with the Divine Will.”
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*BOH VOL 4 Oct. 3, 1901*
Having received Communion, I was thinking of how to offer something more special to Jesus –how to prove my love and give Him more pleasure; so I said to Him:
“My most beloved Jesus, I offer You my heart for your satisfaction and in eternal praise of You; and I offer You all of myself, even the tiniest particles of my body like as many walls to be placed before You in order to block any offense which might be given to You, accepting them all upon myself if it were possible, and for your pleasure, until the day of judgment.
And since I want my offering to be complete and to satisfy You for all, I intend for all the pains which I will bear by receiving upon myself the offenses given to You, to repay You with all the glory which the Saints who are in Heaven were supposed to give You when they were on earth; that which the souls in Purgatory were supposed to give You, and that glory which all men, past, present and future, owe You. I offer them to You for all in general, and for each one in particular.‟
As I finished speaking, all moved by this offering, blessed Jesus told me:
“My beloved, you yourself cannot understand the great contentment you have given Me by offering yourself in this way. You have soothed all my wounds, and have given Me a satisfaction for all offenses, past, present and future. And I will take it into account for all eternity like a most precious gem which will glorify Me eternally; and every time I will look at it, I will give you new and greater eternal glory.
My daughter, there is no greater obstacle which prevents the union between creatures and Myself, and which is opposed to my Grace, than one’s own will.
You, by offering me your heart for my satisfaction, have emptied yourself of yourself; and because of your emptying yourself of yourself, I will pour all of Myself into you, and from your heart a praise will come to Me which will carry the same notes as the praise that my Heart gives to my Father continuously, to satisfy for the glory that men do not give Him.”
While He was saying this, I saw that by means of my offering, many rivulets were coming out of every part of me, which poured over blessed Jesus, who then, with impetus and greater abundance, poured them over the whole Celestial Court, over Purgatory and over all peoples.
Oh, goodness of my Jesus, in accepting such a meager offering, and requiting it with so much grace! Oh, prodigy of the holy and pious intentions! If in all our works, even trivial, we made use of them, what traffic would we not produce? How many eternal properties would we not acquire? How much more glory would we not give to the Lord?”
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*PRAYER OF THE DAY:*
” My Jesus, I follow the acts of Your Supreme Volition in the Creation and as I arrive at the point when God issued the creation of man, I unite myself with the first perfect acts which Adam did when he was created, in order to start together with him, and to continue there where he stopped loving Him and adoring Him when he sinned, with that perfection with which he had started, in the unity of the Supreme Fiat.”
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*BOH VOL 21 Mar. 10, 1927*