*1 CORINTHIANS 15:58:*
“Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain”.
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*PICCARRETA*:
Nov.14. “It takes nothing but a firm decision of wanting to live in the Holy Will.”
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*BOH VOL 36 Sept. 5, 1938*
“…I could understand the sanctity, the beauty and the greatness of living in the Divine Will, and I was thinking to myself: it seems difficult to live in It; how can the creature reach this point?
The human weaknesses, the circumstances of life, many times, are too painful; the unexpected encounters, the so many difficulties that one doesn’t even know what to do – wouldn’t all these things lead the creature astray from a life so holy that it would take a perfect attention not to?
And my sweet Jesus, continuing to say with such tenderness that I felt my heart exploding, added: “My little daughter of my Will, my interest and my continuous yearning for the creature to live in my Will is such that, once we’ve made the agreement, Myself and her, with a firm decision that she must live in my Fiat – this being My Will – I am the first one who makes the sacrifice to obtain the intent, so that she may live in It.
I place Myself at her disposal. I give her all the graces, light, love and the very knowledge of my Will, so that she herself has to feel the need to live in It. When I want something, and she promptly accepts doing what I want, I take care of everything; and when she fails for weakness, for inconstancy or for negligence, not for will, I come to compensate, and I do what she was supposed to do, transferring to her what I did as if she had done it.
My daughter, living in my Will is life – not virtue – that I must form. And life needs me, and continuous acts – otherwise it would not be life. At the most it could be a work, which doesn’t need either continuous acts or life.
Therefore, I do not break the life because of involuntary indisposition or weakness, but I continue it; and it may be that in those same indispositions there is even my Will, allowing those weaknesses; in which case the will of the creature would be running into mine anyway.
And then, among everything, I look at the agreement done together – the firm decision taken – against which there has been no other decision. Looking at this, I keep compensating her in anything that is missing. Even more, I redouble the graces. I surround her with new love – with new stratagems of love to make her more attentive, and I provoke in her heart an extreme need to live in my Will, and I pray her to hold It so tight as to always be able to live together with It.”
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*PRAYER OF THE DAY:*
‘My beloved Jesus, however more I want to live in your Will, and I would rather die than not do your Most Holy Will.”
*BOH VOL 29 July 23, 1931*