JOHN 15:11
“These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.”
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PICCARRETA:
July 23. “This is the only happiness of Jesus: that the soul live in His Will, because He can give her whatever He wants, and can make of her one of the greatest portents of sanctity.”
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BOH VOL 19, April 4, 1926
“My daughter, everything I do in the soul – oh, how it surpasses all that I did in Creation! See, each knowledge of my perfections which I manifest, each truth which pertains to the Divinity, is a new heaven that I extend within the soul.
And as the soul rises in the truths she has known in order to resemble her Creator, it is new suns that I come to form within the space of these heavens. Each grace I pour and each time I renew her union with Me, are seas that are laid in the soul; and her love and correspondence form the sweet murmuring of these seas, as well as mighty waves which rise up to Heaven and come to unload themselves at the foot of the divine throne.
As the soul practices her virtues, since the body too contributes to the exercise of them, the body can be called the little field of the soul, over which I lay the most beautiful flowery meadows, in which I delight in creating ever new flowers, plants and fruits.
Just as I am one single act which, after it is done once, is done forever, Creation also was to be one single act; and just as in Creation my single act continues by preserving It ever new, whole and fresh, so is my creating in souls continuous – I never stop. I am always – always in the act of forming more beautiful things, surprising and new things, unless I find souls who close the doors to Me and arrest my continuous act of creation.
Then I find another device: I abound, I multiply my continuous act in the souls who keep the doors open, and with them I delight and continue the office of Creator.
But do you know where this continuous act of mine is never interrupted? In the soul who lives in my Will. Ah, yes, only in her can I do, freely, whatever I want, because my Will, which the soul contains, prepares her for Me to receive my Fiat that came out in Creation.
So, my Will, possessed by the soul, and That which I Myself keep, extend hands to each other, kiss each other, and form the greatest portents.
Therefore, be always attentive, and let your flight be always in my Will.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My Jesus, I take Your thoughts and I make them my own, I take Your reparations, prayers, desires, affections, and even Your most intimate fibers and make them my own. And rising between Heaven and earth, I do Your same office, and as co-redemptrix, I say to You
“Ecce ego, mitte me”
– “Here I am, send me”
I want to repair for all, answer to You for all, and impetrate good for all.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 11 Nov. 6, 1914