MATTHEW 18:3
And he said: “Amen I say to you, unless you change and become like little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
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PICCARRETA:
Mar. 31. “Abandon yourself in the Divine Volition like a little baby, and you will feel a new strength, a new light arise.”
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BOH VOL 29 Oct. 4, 1931
Then, I continued my abandonment in the Fiat, though accompanied by a sadness, because of so many afflicting things that crowd my poor mind, which it is not necessary to say on paper. Certain
intimate secrets – it is right only for Jesus and Him alone to know.
And my beloved Jesus repeated, with
a most tender tone: “My daughter, you must know that just as nature has the night and the day, so the soul has her night, the dawn, the daybreak, the full midday and her sunset. The night calls for the day, and the day for the night; it can be said that they call for each other.
Now, the night of the soul is my privation, but for one who lives in my Will these are precious nights – not of slothful rest, of restless sleep – no, no, but night of operative rest, of peaceful sleep. In fact, as she sees the night coming, she abandons herself in my arms, to lean her tired head upon my Divine Heart, and to hear my heartbeats so as to draw new love during her sleep, and say to Me while sleeping: “I love You, I love You, oh! my Jesus.‟
The sleep of one who loves Me and lives in my Will is like the sleep of a little girl who, as she feels her eyes closing for sleep, half-asleep calls: “Mama, mama‟, for she wants her arms and her maternal breast in order to sleep; so much so, that as soon as the tiny little one wakes up, the first word is “mama‟, the first smile, the first gaze is for her mama.
Such is the soul who lives in my Will; she is the tiny little girl who, as the night comes, looks for the One whom she loves, to draw new strength and new love in order to love
Me more.
And – oh! how beautiful it is to see her seeking, desiring, longing for Jesus in her sleep. This seeking, desiring and longing call for the dawn, form the daybreak, and make the full day arise, which calls for the Sun – and I rise and form the course of the day and its full midday.”
But you know, my daughter, that here on earth things alternate; only in Heaven it is always full daylight, because my presence is perennial amid the Blessed. So, as you see that I am about to leave you – but do you know where I stay? Inside of you.
After having instructed your soul, giving you my lessons before the light of my presence, so that you might comprehend them well and they might serve you as food and as work during the day, I withdraw and form the sunset; and, hidden within you during the short night, I make Myself actor and spectator of all your acts.
And while for you it seems nighttime, for Me it is the most beautiful rest, since, after I have spoken to you, I take rest in my own word, and the acts that you do serve Me as lullabies, as refreshment, as defense and as sweet cooling for my ardors of love.
Therefore, let Me do; I know when the night or the day are necessary for you and for Me, in your soul. What I want is perennial peace in you, that I may carry out what I want. If you are not at peace, I feel molested in my work, and with difficulty, not with ease, I go along carrying out my designs.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“Oh! how I would like to convert everything – thoughts, words, works, steps of all creatures – into Will of God, so that sin may exist no more. I would like to eclipse them with the light of the Divine Will, so that, invested with light and enchanted by it, under the eclipse caused by divine light, creatures may lose the strength, the passions, the will to offend my sweet Jesus.‟
BOH VOL 24 Sept. 5, 1928