PSALM 143: 8-10

“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. Rescue me from my enemies, Lord, for I hide myself in you. Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground.”

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PICCARRETA:

February 25: “Courage, trust and abandonment in the arms of our adorable Jesus.”
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BOH VOL 16 Feb. 2, 1924

_Abandonment in God is the wings in order to fly together with the Divine Will._

“My daughter, my Will is life and motion of everything. But do you know who follows Its motion and takes flight in my Eternal Volition, in such a way as to go around as It does in the sphere of Eternity, be wherever It is, and do whatever It does? The soul who is completely abandoned in my Holy Will.

Abandonment is the wings in order to fly together with my Will. As abandonment ceases, she loses the flight and the wings are destroyed. So, everyone feels the motion, the life of my Will, because there is no motion which does not come from Me, but they remain at the point in which they are.

Only one who has the wings of the abandonment in Me and follows the same course as my Will, hovers over everything, both in Heaven and on earth, enters into the sphere of Eternity, goes around in the midst of the Three Divine Persons, penetrates into Their most intimate hiding places, and is aware of Their secrets and of Their beatitudes.

It happens as to an engine which has the primary wheel in the center and many other small wheels around it, which are fixed. As the primary wheel moves, all receive motion, but they never arrive at touching the primary wheel, nor do they know anything of what it does and of the goods it contains.

But there is another small wheel, which is not fixed, and by means of a mechanism, it goes around continuously across all the small wheels, to then find itself in each motion of the primary wheel, and begin its round again. Now, this itinerant little wheel knows what is there in the primary wheel and takes part in the goods it contains.

Now, the primary wheel is my Will, the small wheels which are fixed are the souls who are abandoned to themselves, which renders them immobilized in good; the itinerant little wheel is the soul who lives in my Will, and the mechanism is the complete abandonment in Me.

So, each lack of abandonment in Me is a round that you lose in the sphere of Eternity. If you knew what it means to lose an eternal round!”

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PRAYER OF THE DAY:

“My sweet Jesus, on the Cross You fulfilled the Will of the Father in everything, and You breathed Your last with a perfect act of abandonment in His Most Holy Will.

May I too, fulfill the Will of God in everything. May I abandon myself perfectly in His Volition without looking at whether it is advantageous for me or not – just being content to find myself abandoned in His most holy arms. ”

Adapted from
Hours of the Passion
22nd Hour
Reflections and Practices