PSALM 119: 165
“Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them”.
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PICCARRETA:
Feb. 18. If you do the Divine Will…oh, how it will change your bitterness! You will feel a true divine strength that will ease your painful state.
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BOH VOL 11 Feb. 19, 1913
_The Divine Will is opium that puts to sleep all that is human in the soul._
“My daughter, my Will is like opium to the body. The poor patients who have to undergo an operation – the severing of one leg or one arm – are put to sleep with the opium. With it, they will not feel the sharpness of the pain, and after they wake up, they will find themselves with the results of the accomplished operation. If they have not suffered too much, it is all by virtue of the opium.
Such is my Will: the opium of the soul, which puts to sleep the intelligence, the love of self, the self-esteem – all that is human. The opium of my Will does not allow displeasure, slander, suffering, or a state of interior pains of the soul to penetrate deeply into her, because it keeps her as though asleep.
But with this, the soul still finds herself with the same effects and the same merits; even more – oh, how much she surpasses them, just as if she had thoroughly felt that suffering.
But with this difference: the opium for the body has to be purchased and cannot be used often, or every day, and if a person wanted to overuse it, he would become dazed, especially if he is of weak constitution.
On the other hand, the opium of my Will, I give out for free; it can be taken at any moment, and the more often the soul takes it, the more light of reason she acquires; and if she is weak, she acquires divine strength.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My Jesus, may my mind rise in the Supreme Will, in order to cover all the intelligences of creatures with Your Will, so that all may rise in It; and in the name of all I give You the adoration, the love, the submission of all created intelligences.”
BOH VOL 18 Nov. 22, 1925