ROMANS 10: 14 – 15
“But how are they to call on one in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in one of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone to proclaim him? And how are they to proclaim him unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
_______________
PICCARRETA:
*Mar. 11.* “Try as much as you can to make the Divine Will known to everyone; in this way you will obtain the grace to know It more yourselves.”
_______________
BOH VOL 27 Oct. 2, 1929
“My daughter, if you knew how much I suffer when I want to form my works and make them known to creatures in order to give them the good they contain, and I find no one who has true enthusiasm, genuine desire and the will to make my work his life in order to make it known, so as to give to others the life of the good of my work, which he feels within himself.
And when I see these dispositions in one who must occupy himself with it, whom I call and choose, with so much love, for the works that belong to Me, I feel so drawn to him, that so that he may do well what I want, I lower Myself, I descend into him and I give him my mind, my mouth, my hands and even my feet, that he may feel the life of my work in everything, and, as life that is felt, not as something extraneous to him, he may feel the need to give it to others.
My daughter, when a good is not felt within oneself as life, everything ends up in words, not in works, and I remain outside of them, not inside; and therefore they remain like poor cripples, without intelligence, blind, mute, without hands and without feet. And I, in my works, do not want to make use of poor cripples – I put them aside and, heedless of time, I continue to go around in order to find those who are disposed, who must serve my work.
And just as I did not get tired of going around the centuries and the entire earth in order to find the littlest one, so as to place in her littleness the great deposit of the knowledges about my Divine Will, so will I not get tired of going around the earth, over and over again, to find the true disposed ones, who will appreciate, as life, what I have manifested about the Divine Fiat; and these will make any sacrifice in order to make It known.
Therefore, I am not the impotent God, but rather, that patient God who wants His works to be done with decorum and by people who are willing, not forced; because the thing I abhor the most in my works is the unwillingness of the creature, as if I did not deserve their little sacrifices.
And for the decorum of a work so great, which is that of making my Divine Will known, I do not want to use poor cripples – in fact, when one who does not have the genuine will to do a good, it is always a mutilation that he does to his soul – but I want to use people who, as I provide them with my divine members, would do it with decorum, as a work which must bring so much good to creatures, and great glory that my Majesty deserves.”
_______________
PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My Jesus, bless my heart, and seal Your Divine Will in it, so that my heart, united with Your Divine Will, may palpitate in all hearts, so that I may call all hearts to love It.
Bless my thoughts, and seal Your Divine Will in them, that I may call all intelligences to know It.
Bless my mouth, so that Your Divine Will may flow in my voice, and I may call all human voices to speak about Your Fiat.
Bless all of me, my Jesus, so that everything may call Your Divine Volition in me, and I may run to all in order to make It known.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 25 Nov.10, 1928