PETER 4:19

“As a result, those who suffer in accord with God’s will hand their souls over to a faithful Creator as they do good.”

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PICCARRETA:

Jan. 26. “Each additional pain is a faster ride which takes us soon and straight to Heaven.”

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BOH VOL 14 June 6, 1922

“Before, your cross was small and incomplete; now my Will, raising you into my Will, makes your cross become large, and each act you do in my Volition is a nail that your will receives.

And as you live in my Will, yours extends so much as to diffuse you in each creature, and for each one of them it gives Me that life which I gave them, so as to render Me the honor, the glory and the purpose for which I created her.

See, your cross extends not only for you, but for each creature; therefore I see your cross everywhere. Before, I saw it only in you, now I see it everywhere. Your fusing yourself in my Will, with no personal interest, but only to give Me that which all should give Me, and to give all the good that my Will contains to everyone, is only of the Divine Life, not of the human. So, my Will alone is that which forms this Divine Sanctity in the soul.

On the other hand, your previous crosses were human sanctity, and that which is human, as holy as it may be, cannot do great things, but small ones; and even less can it elevate the soul to the sanctity and to the fusion with the working of her Creator; she remains always within the limitedness of creature.

But my Will, destroying all human barriers, flings the creature into the divine immensity, and everything becomes immense in her: cross, nails, sanctity, love, reparation – everything. My goal in you was not human sanctity, although it was necessary to first do the small things in you, and this is why I delighted so much.

Now, as I made you go beyond, and having to make you live in my Volition, in seeing your littleness, your atom, embrace immensity in order to give Me love and glory for all and for each one, to render Me all the rights of the whole Creation, I am so delighted that all other things give Me no taste any more.”

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PRAYER OF THE DAY:

“My Jesus, Your Cross was nourished by the Eternal Will alone, and therefore You were crucified for all and for each one. Your Cross marked everyone with Its emblem. Like You, may my cross, my nails, be Your Will which, keeping mine crucified, complete the true crucifixion in me – not at intervals, but perpetually, fully similar to Yours, as You were conceived crucified and died crucified.”

Adapted from
BOH VOL 14 June 6, 1922