Christifideles Laici by Pope John Paul II
1988, Apostolic Exhortation
Through charity towards one’s neighbor, the lay faithful exercise and manifest their participation in the kingship of Christ, that is, in the power of the Son of man who “came not to be served but to serve” (Mk 10:45)
——————-
PICCARRETA:
June 24: “If we pray, if we adore, and even if we sigh in this Will so holy, we become life of all, and we give God all that everyone should give Him.”
——————-
BOH Volume 7, November 28, 1906
“My beloved daughter, see in what a close union I am with you; this is how I want you to be – completely united and clasped to Me.
And do not think that you must do this only when you suffer or pray, but rather, always always.
If you move, if you breathe, if you work, if you eat, if you sleep – everything, everything, as if you were doing it in my Humanity, and as if your working came from Me, in such a way that you should be nothing but the cortex, and once the cortex of your work is broken, one should find the fruit of the divine work.
And this you must do for the good of the whole of humanity, in such a way that my Humanity must be present, as though alive in the midst of people.
In fact, as you do everything, even the most indifferent actions, with this intention of receiving life from Me, your action acquires the merit of my Humanity, because since I was Man and God, in my breathing I contained the breathing of all; the movements, the actions, the thoughts… I contained everything within Myself; therefore I sanctified them, I divinized them, I repaired them.
So, by doing everything in the act of receiving all of your working from Me, you too will come to embrace and contain all creatures within you, and your working will diffuse for the good of all.
Therefore, even if the others will give Me nothing, I will take everything from you.”
——————-
PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“Supreme Majesty, your little daughter comes before You, on your paternal knees, to ask You for your Fiat, your Kingdom, that It be known by all. I ask You for the triumph of your Will, that It may dominate and reign over all. I am not the only one who asks this of You, but with me are your works and your very Will. Therefore, in the name of all, I ask – I plead for your Fiat.”
Adapted from BOH Vol. 19, September 13, 1926