I JOHN 2:17
“And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.”
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PICCARRETA:
Jan 30. “If the will is good, the heart is good; if the will is holy, the heart is holy. If our will gives place to the Divine, letting it raise Its throne in our will, the heart acquires the divine qualities by grace.”
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BOH VOL 13 Oct. 9, 1921
“The will of man is that which most resembles his Creator. In the human will I placed part of my immensity and of my power, and giving it the place of honor, I constituted it queen of the whole of man and depository of all of his operating.
Just as creatures have chests in which to keep their things in order to hold them secure, so does the soul have her will in order to keep and secure everything she thinks, says and does – not even one thought will be lost.
What she cannot do with her eyes, with her mouth, with her works, she can do with her will – in one instant she can will a thousand goods and a thousand evils. The will makes her thought fly up to Heaven, to the farthest places and even into the abysses. She might be prevented from operating, from seeing, from speaking, but all this she can do in her will. But everything she does and wants, forms an act, which is left deposited in her own will.
Oh! how the will can extend – how many goods and how many evils can it not contain? This is why, among all things, I want the will of man: because if I have this, I have everything – the fortress is conquered.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“I do my round in the Divine Fiat, to follow Its acts in Creation; and as I reach Eden, I pause in the act in which It created man, and breathing over him, It infused life in him;
My Jesus, I pray You to breathe over my poor soul, to infuse in me the first Divine breath of Creation, so that, with Your regenerative breath, I might begin my life again, all in the Fiat, according to the purpose for which You have created me.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 26 April 28, 1929