Matthew 22: 37 – 38
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. ”
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Piccarreta:
June 14. “The Saints, the Queen of Heaven and God Himself anxiously await the “I love You” of one who lives in His Will, because it is a new gain that they make.”
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BOH VOL 22 July 21, 1927
Difference between the love of Heaven and that of the earth.
I continue my living in the Divine Volition, and since my sweet Jesus often deprives me of His lovable presence, I call the Sovereign Mama to my help, the Angels, the Saints, to help me and lend me their love, their adorations, that I may do from the earth what they do in Heaven, so that, drawn by the very love of Heaven, my Jesus may come to His little exiled one, to the one who so much longs for Him.
Ah! maybe if He feels the love of Heaven in me, which He likes so much, He will come and will no longer leave me alone and abandoned for so long.
My sweet Jesus, my dear Life, came out from within me, and clasping me in His arms, told me: “My daughter, I do like the love of Heaven, but that of the earth I like more. That of the earth is always new for Me, it is new gains that I make, new glory.
On the other hand, that of Heaven I already possess, no one can take it away from Me – it is all my own thing. But that of the earth I am in the act of acquiring, and many times I lose the new gains I should make, because souls do not always give Me the love and the glory they should give Me.
Now, you must know that when souls die in my grace they are confirmed in the nature of love, in the nature of glory and in the life of the Divine Will. So, in Heaven everything is nature in all the Blessed, therefore they give Me nothing more; rather, I give to them, constantly, that continued act of joys, of happiness, of beatitudes ever new and without end.
This is why I am all eyes over the earth, as though putting all Heaven aside – because Heaven is mine; and I fix on and become all attention for the soul who lives in the exile, who, even though she does not possess the nature of Heaven, wants to give Me the new gains of love, of glory and of adoration.
If you knew how your love hovers around within my Will, how it rises between Heaven and earth, investing all created things, and breaching even into Heaven, up to wherever my Divine Will extends, it gives Me the new possession of the love of the creature who has let herself be invested by the power of my Supreme Fiat; and while the possession of love reaches Me, a new one she prepares – that of glory.
And as you return to repeat your acts, your acts are always new for Me because, indeed, you did not have them before. Therefore, you are always new in the love, in the glory, in the adoration you give Me, because, echoing in you, my Will communicates to you that new act which It possesses by Its own nature.
So, what I do in Heaven, giving to all the Blessed that new act, never interrupted, of joys and of unspeakable contentments, you are destined to give to Me from the earth, in the light and power of my Will. Therefore, be attentive on following Its rapid flight.”
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PRAYER FOR THE DAY:
“My Mama, may I look for nothing else, and may I give You the contentment of being able to make of me Your true child, and child of the Divine Will. May You take on the commitment of forming the marriage between me and the Fiat; and acting as my true Mother, bind the marriage by giving me the very Life of Your Son as dowry, and Your Maternity and all Your virtues as gift.”
Adapted from MEDITATION 5 THE BVM BOOK