Romans 7:19-22
“For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do… For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self.”
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PICCARRETA:
July 31. “To feel pleasures, imperfections, weaknesses, is not evil. Wanting them is ugly, because the Lord does not care about what we feel, but about what we want.”
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BOH VOL 35 Dec. 25, 1937
“My daughter, if I had taken into account the human ingratitude to my great Love, I would have taken the way to go back to Heaven; but I would have saddened and embittered my Love, and turned the feast into mourning. So, would you like to know what I do in my greatest works in order to make them more beautiful? With pomp and with the greatest show of my Love, I put everything aside – human ingratitude, sins, miseries, weaknesses and I give course to my greatest works, as if those things did not exist. If I had wanted to care about the evils of man, I couldn’t have done great works, or put all my Love on the field. I would have remain hampered – suffocated in my own Love. Instead, in order to be free in my works, and to make them as beautiful as I can, I place everything aside and, if necessary, I cover everything with my Love, so that I see nothing but my Love and my Will. I move forward with my greatest works, and I perform them as if nobody had offended Me.
For Our Glory, nothing can be lacking to Our decorum -to the beauty and the greatness of Our works.
This is why I would want that you too did not occupy yourselves with your weaknesses, your evils and your troubles. In fact, the more the creature thinks about those, the weaker she feels, and the more the poor one feels drowned by evils, while her miseries press round her more strongly. By thinking about it, weakness feeds more weakness, and the poor creature falls even more; evils become stronger, miseries reduce her to starvation. But if she doesn’t think about them, they disappear by themselves.
Good is completely the opposite. One good feeds another good -one act of love calls for more love. One abandonment in my Will makes her feel the new Divine Life within herself. Therefore, thinking of good, forms the food and the strength to do more good.
This is why I want your thinking to be occupied by nothing other than loving me and living in my Will. My Love will burn all your miseries and all your evils, and my Divine Volition will become your Life, using your miseries as the base on which to raise Its Throne.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My beloved Jesus, I see the many human miseries, the degradation and stripping of the Church, and the very degrading of priests who, instead of being light for the peoples, are darkness.
Embittered by this sight, I ask You, Most Holy God, give peace to the Church, let Her be given back what they have taken away from Her; do not allow the evil to laugh behind the back of the good.”
Adapted from BOH VOL 4 Nov. 13, 1900