EPHESIANS 2: 19 – 22

“Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.”

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PICCARRETA:

Mar. 23. “Let us learn from this exile how one must live in Heaven!”

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BOH VOL 32 Nov.10, 1933

It seems that my poor mind can do nothing but think of the Divine Will. I feel a powerful force upon me, which gives me no time to think or want anything else, other than that Fiat which is everything
for me.

So, I was thinking to myself: “Oh! how I wish to operate and live of Divine Will just as they operate and live in Heaven.‟ And my sweet Jesus, surprising me with His short little visit, told me:

“My blessed daughter, in my Celestial Fatherland reigns the one and universal act. One is the Will of all – whatever one wills, the other wills as well. No one changes action or Will; each Blessed feels my Will as his own life, and because they all have one single Will, It forms the substance of the happiness of the whole of Heaven.

More so, since my Will knows not how to do, nor can It do, broken acts, but continuous and universal; and since in Heaven It reigns with Its full triumph and with the totality of Its dominion, all feel, as their own nature, Its universal life, and are full, up to the brim, of all the goods It possesses.

At the most, It might be in them according to the capacity of each one and to the good they have done in life, but no one will be able to change, either will, or action, or love. The power of my Divine Will keeps all the Blessed absorbed, identified, fused within Itself, as if all were one.

But do you think that Its universal act, and Its life palpitating and communicative to each creature, extends only in Heaven? No, no, what It does in Heaven It does on earth – It changes neither action nor
manner. Its universal act extends to each pilgrim soul, and one who lives in It feels Its divine life, Its sanctity, Its uncreated heartbeat which, while constituting itself life of the creature, keeps pouring into
her with Its incessant motion, without ever ceasing.

And the happy creature who lets It reign feels It everywhere, inside and out; Its universal act keeps her surrounded from all sides, in such a way that she cannot go out of my Will, and Its continuous giving keeps her always occupied with receiving; so, even if she wanted to, she has no time to do or think about anything else.

Therefore the creature can say, and be convinced, that just as they live in Heaven, so does she live on earth; there is only a difference of place, but one is the love, one is the Will, one the action.”

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PRAYER OF THE DAY:

“My Jesus, in the midst of so many misfortunes of Yours, instead of consoling me, I want to comfort You. I want to love You, to be around You, that I may keep You faithful company, and give all my pains to You, as a relief for Your misfortunes and to impetrate grace for the poor unfortunate ones.”

Adapted from
BOH VOL 11 July 25, 1915