1 JOHN 4:19:
“We love because he first loved us.”
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PICCARRETA:
July 14. “The mind toward Heaven, the gaze to the Cross, the heart loving Him, the arms always in the act of hugging Him, the steps calling Him, the words saying always “Fiat”. In each thing never escape from acquiring a degree of sanctity. Make yourself a saint; Jesus wants it, make Him content.”
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BOH VOL 32 May 14, 1933
Little place of love that the soul holds within her Creator, and little place that God holds in the soul. How sanctity is formed by degrees of love.
But while I felt I was under these waves, my sweet Jesus, visiting my little soul, all goodness told me: “My blessed daughter, going around in Our acts, which We did both in Creation and in Redemption for love of creatures, makes new love arise from within Our Divine Being, and invests the one who unites with Our divine acts.
By uniting herself with Our works, she prepares the little place in which to receive Our waves of love; and as she receives them, she too loves Us with new love and forms her waves of love for her Creator, in such a way that she holds her little place of love in Our Divine Being, and We hold Our place in the creature.
You must know that true sanctity is formed by the degrees of love with which you are loved by God; and it is then that this love takes possession – when the creature loves. When she receives His divine love and she loves, God disposes Himself to love her more with new love.
To be loved by God with new love is the greatest act that God does toward the creature, and all the sanctity, the glory, is constituted for as many times as she has been loved by God, and for as many times as she has loved Him.
In fact, you must know that Our Supreme Being loves all and always in a universal and general way; to this He adds a special and direct love toward the one who, as We love her, gives Us her love.
So, if the creature has been loved by God with special love once, three times, ten or a hundred times, according to that number so many degrees of sanctity, and therefore of glory, does she acquire.
See, then, going around in Our Will, uniting yourself to Its acts, calls Us to love you with special and new love, and God calls you in order to be loved with your new and special love.
And God Himself will be your witness who will say to all – to Heaven and to the earth:
“It is true – I have loved her, but she has loved Me. I can say that my love called hers and hers called mine to love each other.‟
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“I immerse myself in the Supreme Fiat, and repeating my round in It, I unite myself to Its acts, and I feel Its waves of love coming to me, which, pouring upon me, brings me the love of my Creator. Oh! how happy I feel in feeling loved by God. I believe that there is no greater happiness, either in Heaven or on earth, than for me to occupy a place in the bosom of my Celestial Father, who makes His waves of love arise, to love me.”
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BOH VOL 32 May 14, 1933