*2 Peter 3:18*
“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.”
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*PICCARRETA*:
July 13. “What I want – and this is all my interest – is that you keep growing in the Divine Will. Do not pay attention to your little passions – they themselves feel crushed and agonizing, when they have to deal with a resolute soul.”
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*BOH VOL 29 July 2, 1931*
How the Creation has a determined act, while the creature, a growing act.
“Now, you must know that in creating the whole universe, the variety of many manifold things, We placed a determined act, an “_enough_‟ to each thing, in such a way that they cannot surpass any limit from the way in which they were created.
However, even though it was a determined act and they cannot go any further, it was yet a full act; so much so, that creatures are unable, nor do they have the capacity, to take all the good that each created thing contains.
Of none of Our works can it be said that it is poor; they all make display – some of luxury of light, some make pomp of beauty, some of variety of colors, and more. They seem to be saying, in their mute language: “Our Creator is immensely rich, beautiful, powerful, wise, and therefore all of us, as worthy works of Him, make display of luxury in the office given to us by God.”
Now, my daughter, it was not so in creating man; in him was placed, not a determined act, but an act ever growing. Our Love did not want to say an “enough‟ to man; it would have been like hampering Our Love, arresting Our ardor. No, no – Our “enough‟ did not pronounce itself in the creation of man; it did not put a limit, but an act ever growing, leaving it almost to his liking where he wanted to reach, and Our growing act at his disposal, so that Our display of love would not have a limit, but could make pomp of luxury, of grace, of sanctity, of beauty, of goodness, and more – as much as he pleased. We bound Our growing act to his free will, so that it might have no hindrance to displaying as much luxury as it could.
And so that this growing act of Ours might have in man all possible and imaginable helps, We gave him also Our Will at his disposal, so that It could maintain for him, at Its own expense, all the luxury he wanted, and the superabundance of the goods of his Creator. Our Love did not have the heart to say “enough‟ to man: “Our son, up to here you can reach.‟ No, no – it would have been as if a father wanted to say to his son: “Up to such and such day you will sit at my table; and then – enough.‟ This would not be love of paternity, but of mastership. That a son may put a limit in receiving the alimony of his father – this could be; but that a father would say to him: “You will remain on an empty stomach‟ – this he will never do.
Such is Our goodness; We will never say „enough‟ to the creature; Our growing act will serve her as continuous nourishments to always grow and preserve herself. And if, ungrateful, she does not make use of Our growing act, great gift given by her Creator, We will have the sorrow of seeing Our dear child on an empty stomach, poor, and Our act hampered and without life; and Our ardor of love will change into ardor of sorrow.
So, if you want Our growing act to have life in you, never go out of Our Divine Will, which will be jealous of making you always, always grow.”
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*PRAYER OF THE DAY:*
“I want to empty the heavens of the love they contain, to bring back to Him the love that never ends, that never says “enough‟, so as to take Him from all sides and bring Him the requital of loving Him everywhere and in everyone.‟
Adapted from
BOH VOL 29 July 2, 1931