EPHESIANS 3: 18 – 19
“And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.”
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PICCARRETA:
Mar. 13. “Only the doubt that Jesus does not love us very much, saddens Jesus and embitters Him.”
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BOH VOL 14 May 15, 1922
_Laments and fears of Luisa._
Oppressed as I was, and tired of waiting for Him, I said: “It shows, O Jesus, that You no longer love me as before. You have taken everything away from me, even suffering. You alone were left to me, but so very often You fly away, and I don’t know what to do, nor where to find You. Ah, it is really true that You don’t love me any more!”
And Jesus, assuming a dignified appearance, such as to strike fear, added: “You offend Me by telling me that I no longer love you as before. Mind this well – for the mere suspicion that I may not love you is the greatest offense for Me. What! I don’t love you? I don’t love you? So, you hold all the graces I am giving you as trifles?”
I was left confused, and I really trembled at seeing the severe look of Jesus, and in the depth of my heart I implored forgiveness and pity.
And He, softening: “Promise Me that you will not say it any more. And to show you that I love you, I want to make you suffer, letting you share in my pains.”
Then, after I suffered a little, He repeated: “Now I want to show you how I love you.” So He showed His Heart opened, and immense seas of power, of wisdom, of goodness, of love, of beauty, of sanctity, came out from within It. In the center of each one of these seas it was written:
“Luisa, daughter of my immensity, daughter of my power, daughter of my wisdom, daughter of my goodness, daughter of my love, daughter of my beauty, daughter of my sanctity.” The more I looked, the more I remained confused.
And Jesus: “Have you seen how much I love you? And how, not only in my Heart, but in all of my attributes I carry your name written, and your name written in Me makes ever new currents of grace, of light, of love, etc., open for you? Yet, you tell Me that I do not love you? How can you even suspect this?”
Only Jesus knows how crushed I was left, thinking that I had offended my Jesus, and even in His presence. Oh God, what pain! How awful guilt is!”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My Jesus, may everything be love in me – may love occupy me interiorly, and love surround me externally; so that one can say that even my breath is love. May this be so that I may never suffer distraction – because love inundates me everywhere, and with this love I may be inundated eternally. May this love be so very great, as to be able to burn the whole world to ashes.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 2 June 20, 1899