Susanna 1:23
“I choose not to do it and to fall into your hands, rather than to sin in the sight of the Lord.”
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Piccarreta:
June 4. “Let us never move away from His Will, even at the cost of our lives.”
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BOH VOL 12 Nov. 29, 1918
One who goes out of the Divine Will, goes out of the light.
Finding myself in my usual state, I was praying my always lovable Jesus, that today, as He had promised me another time – that when the soul always does His Will, sometimes He consents to do the will of the soul – so I said to Him: “Today You really have to do my will.‟
And Jesus, on coming, told me: “My daughter, don’t you know that as the soul goes out of my Will, it is like a day without sun for her, without heat, without the life of the divine attitude within her?”
And I: “My Love, may Heaven keep me from doing this – I would rather die than go out of your Will. Therefore, place your Will in me, and then say to me: “It is my Will that today I do your will”.‟
And Jesus: “Ah! bad little one! All right, I will make you content; I will keep you with Me as long as I want, and then I Myself will leave you free.”
Oh! how content I was, that without doing my will, Jesus, identifying His Will with mine, while doing His Will, would do mine.
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PRAYER FOR THE DAY:
“My Celestial Mama, may I banish my human will; may I content myself with dying rather than concede to it one act of life. May I imitate You and be content with dying thousands and thousands of times, rather than do one single act of my will;
May I keep it sacrificed in honor of my Creator, so that the Divine Will will take the first step in my soul, and I will feel molded with a celestial aura, purified and warmed, in such a way as to feel the seeds of my passions being annihilated; and I will feel placed in the first steps of the Kingdom of the Divine Will.”
Adapted from THE BVM BOOK DAY 1