PHILIPPIANS 4:13

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

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PICCARRETA:

July 6. “You must know that in everything we do in order to make the Divine Will known, His Love is so great that He Himself does it within us: it is He who speaks, works, and pushes us. His contentment is so great that He Himself does everything.”

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BOH VOL 11 Aug.14, 1912

Now, one day I was working and I thought to myself: “How can it be that, while I am working, it is Jesus who works in me and He Himself wants to do this work?‟

And Jesus: “I Myself – and my fingers, which are in yours, are working. My daughter, when I was on earth, did my hands not lower themselves to work the wood, to hammer the nails, and to help my foster father Joseph? While I was doing that, with those very hands, with those fingers, I created souls and called other souls back to the next life; I divinized all human actions; I sanctified them, giving a divine merit to each one of them. In the movements of my fingers I called in sequence all the movements of your fingers and those of others;  and if I saw that they were doing them for Me, or because I wanted to do them within them, I continued my life of Nazareth in them, and I felt as though cheered by them for the sacrifices and the humiliations of my hidden life, giving them the merit of my very life.”

Daughter, the hidden life that I conducted in Nazareth is not taken into consideration by men, when in fact, after my Passion, I could not have done a greater good for them.

By lowering Myself to all those acts, little and lowly – those acts which men do in their daily lives, such as eating, sleeping, drinking, working, starting the fire, sweeping, etc. – all acts which no one can do without – I made a divine little coin of incalculable value flow in their hands.

So, if my Passion redeemed them, my hidden life provided each human action, even the most insignificant one, with divine merit and with infinite value.

Do you see? While you work – working because I want to work – my fingers flow within yours, and while I work in you, in this very instant, how many am I bringing to the light of this world with my creative hands? How many others am I calling back? How many others do I sanctify, correct, chastise, etc.?

Now, you are with Me, creating, calling, correcting and so forth; therefore, just as you are not alone, neither am I alone in my working. Could I give you a greater honor?”

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PRAYER FOR THE DAY:

“My Jesus, after I have done everything, I will say,

“I have done nothing – Jesus did it.”

And this is all my contentment: that, meager as I am, Jesus has given me the honor to keep me in the Divine Will, to let me do what He Himself has done.”

Adapted from
BOH VOL 12 August 14, 1917