1 PETER 1 : 24
“To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.”
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PICCARRETA:
Jan. 21. “Jesus too was mocked in His pains, but it was then that He triumphed; and by means of pains, He conquered our souls. Do you not want to be like Him? You must know that your pains are written in the pains of Jesus, as triumph of His love toward you.”
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BOH VOL 23 Feb. 9, 1928
“Upon the wings of the centuries I went to human creatures, to give my complete work to each one of them. In the same way, I also gathered all evils in order to consume them, and by dint of sorrows and pains which I wanted to suffer, I ignited the stake within my own Humanity, on which to burn all evils, wanting to feel each pain, so as to make all goods opposite the evils arise again, to make the human generations be born again to new life.
And just as I did everything, suffered everything and consumed everything in order to form all possible and imaginable remedies for all the redeemed ones, so as to then dispose them to receive the great good of my Will reigning in their midst – so you, in order to prepare my Kingdom for creatures, must enclose all that is holy and good, and by dint of pains, you must consume all evils, to make the life of my Divine Will be born again in the midst of creatures. You must be my echo, in whom I must form the deposit from which the Kingdom of my Fiat must arise.
Follow Me step by step, and you will feel the life, the heartbeat, the happiness of this Kingdom which I contain within Me, and which wants to come out in order to reign in the midst of creatures.”
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PRAYER FOR THE DAY:
“My Love and my Life, do You see how much your dear brothers and mine suffer – don’t You want to have pity? How willingly would I suffer everything so that they might be spared. See, this is a duty that the state of victim imposes on me – the imitation of You. Did You not suffer everything for us? May You let me suffer in order to spare them, and to imitate You, who suffered so much.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 14 May 19, 1922