1PETER 2: 1-3
“Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, insincerity, envy, and all slander; like newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk so that through it you may grow into salvation,for you have tasted that the Lord is good.”
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*PICCARRETA:*
Mar. 20. “My daughter, until you strip yourself of everything, even of holy tastes, Jesus, the kidnapper of hearts, will not give you His divine tastes.”
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*BOH VOL 7 Jan. 10, 1907*
_*The evil of one’s own taste.*_
“My daughter, the attachment of creatures to their own tastes is such that I am forced to contain my gifts within Myself. In fact, instead of becoming attached to the Donor, they become attached to my gifts, idolatrizing my gifts to the offense of the Donor.
So, if they find their own taste, they act – or rather, they do not, they just satisfy their taste; if there is no taste, they do nothing. So, one’s own taste forms a second life in the creatures.
But, miserable ones, they do not know that where one’s own taste is present, the divine taste can hardly be, even in the very holy things.
So, in receiving my gifts, graces and favors, she must not appropriate them as her own things, making of them a taste for herself, but must keep them as divine tastes, using them in order to love the Lord more, and being ready to sacrifice them to that very love.”
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*PRAYER OF THE DAY:*
“My Jesus, may I always do Your Will and reorder all things in You. Just as You keep everything in order for us, so should we creatures order all things for You and in You, because Your Will keeps all things in order.”
Adapted from
*BOH VOL 11 Apr. 23, 1912*