ISAIAH 64:8

“Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.”

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PICCARRETA:

Mar. 27. “So does Our Lord, Divine Architect: He strikes the iron of our soul in order to remove the rust, to soften us and give us the shape of the object He wants to make of us.”

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BOH VOL 23 Sept. 17, 1927

“My daughter, the pains are like iron beaten by the hammer, which makes it sparkle with light and become red-hot, to the point of being transformed into fire; and under the blows it receives, it loses its hardness, it softens, in such way that one can give it the shape one wants.

Such is the soul under the blows of pain: she loses hardness, she sparkles with light, she is transformed into my love and becomes fire; and I, Divine Artificer, finding her soft, give her the shape I want.

Oh! how I delight in making her beautiful; I am a jealous Artificer, and I want the boast that no one can and knows how to make my statues, my vases – both in their form and in their beauty, and even more in their fineness and in the light that, sparkling, converts them all into truth.

So, for each blow I give her, I prepare a truth to be manifested, because each blow is a spark that the soul emits from herself; and I do not lose them as does the smith in beating the iron, but I use them to invest those sparks of light with surprising truth, such as to serve the soul as the most beautiful clothing, and to administer to her the nourishment of divine life.”

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PRAYER OF THE DAY:

“My Jesus, may my soul acquire the true life, a life done in Your Will which is the formation of my life in Yours, giving Your own shape to everything I do.

May I do nothing other than put in flight, in Your Will, all the acts I do, both internal and external. May I put in flight each thought of my mind; and hovering over each thought of creature, as all existed in Your Will, my thought, hovering over all, may make itself as though crown of each human intelligence, and bring to the Majesty of the Father the homage, the adoration, the glory, the love, the reparation of each created thought. The same with my gaze, my word, my motion, my step.”

Adapted from
BOH VOL 12 Jan. 5, 1921