*JOHN 15:4*
“Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.”
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*PICCARRETA:*
Nov. 6. “How could anyone live without a Will so holy? It would be as though living without breathing, without motion, without the principle for which we have been created.”
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*BOH VOL 13 July 26, 1921*
The Divine Will is like water; It flows within everything, and no one can live without It.
My sweet Jesus continues to speak to me about His Holy Will: “My daughter, if the sun is the king of the universe; if with its light it symbolizes my Majesty, and with its heat my Love and my Justice, such that, when it finds earth that does not want to lend itself to fecundity, with its burning breath it finishes withering it and renders it sterile – water can be called queen of the earth, such that, symbolizing my Will, there is not one point into which it does not enter, nor is there creature who can live without it.
Maybe one could live without the sun, but without water – no one. Water enters into everything, even into the veins, into the human bowels, just as into the deep bowels of the earth. In mute silence, it does its continuous course. It can be said that water is not only queen, but it is like the soul of the earth: without water the earth would be like a dead body.
Such is my Will; It is not only queen, but more than soul of all created things; It is life of each heartbeat, of each fiber of the heart. My Will, like water, flows within everything – now silent and hidden, and now palpitating and visible.
Man can subtract himself from my light, from my love, from my grace, but from my Will – never. He would be like someone who wanted to live without water. It is
true that there might be some lunatic who hates water; but in spite of the fact that he hates it, that he does not love it, he will be forced to drink it – either water or death.
So it is with my Will; since It is life of everything, creatures will keep It with them either with love or with hatred, but, even though unwillingly, they will be forced to let my Will flow in them, like blood in the veins.
And for those who wanted to subtract themselves from my Will, it would be like suiciding their own souls. Yet, my Will would still not leave them; It would follow the course of justice over them, since It could not follow over them the course of the goods that my Volition contains.
If man knew what it means to do or not to do my Will, all would tremble with fright at the mere thought of subtracting themselves, for one single instant, from my Will.”
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*PRAYER OF THE DAY:*
“My Jesus, you have said, as the soul goes out of Your Will, it is like a day without sun for her, without heat, without the life of the divine attitude within her. My Love, may Heaven keep me from doing this – I would rather die than go out of your Will.””
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*BOH VOL 12 Nov. 29, 1918*