PHILIPPIANS 3:10
“I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.”
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PICCARRETA:
Oct. 17. “Jesus feels the need to make of the creatures the repeaters of His Life, and He does so on the stake of suffering and love.”
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BOH VOL 14 July 20, 1922
The living in my Will must graft in the soul all that the Divine Will did and made Jesus suffer in His Humanity.
“Dearest daughter of my Will, I want to make of you a repeater of my Life. The living in my Will must graft in the soul all that my Will did and made Me suffer in my Humanity. My Will tolerates no dissimilarities.
See, my Eternal Will imposed on my Humanity to accept as many deaths for as many creatures as would have life in the light of the day; and my Humanity accepted these deaths with love, so much so, that the Eternal Volition made as many marks in my Humanity for as many deaths as I was to suffer.
Now, would you want Me to mark yours with as many marks as Mine received, so that you may suffer as many deaths as I suffered?”
I said: “Fiat.‟
And Jesus, with both mastery and speed, marked mine with many marks of death –as many as He had, telling me: “Be attentive and strong in suffering these deaths; more so, since from these deaths life will come out for as many other creatures.”
Now, while He was saying this, He touched me with His own creative hands; and as He touched me, He created suffering – such as to make me feel mortal pains. He tore my heart, and wounded it in a thousand ways – now with arrows of fire, now with arrows so ice-cold as to make me numb; now He squeezed it so tightly that I remained immobile. But who can say everything? He alone can say what He was doing. I felt crushed, annihilated, and I almost feared I wouldn’t have enough strength; and He, as though wanting to rest from the pains He had given me, continued:
“What do you fear? Perhaps that my Will may not have enough strength to sustain you in the pains I want to give you? Or that you might go out of the bounds of my Will? This will never be. Don’t you see how many immense seas my Will has extended around you, in such a way that you yourself cannot find the way out? All the truths, the effects, the values, the knowledges I have manifested to you have been as many seas by which you have been surrounded; and yet more seas will I continue to extend.
Courage, my daughter; all this is necessary to the Sanctity of living in my Will – to generate likeness between Me and the soul.
So I did with my Mama: I did not tolerate even one little pain, or act or good which I did, in which She would not participate. One was the Will that animated Us, and therefore, when I suffered deaths and pains, or when I operated, She would die, suffer, operate together with Me. In her soul She was to be my faithful copy, in such a way that, in reflecting Myself in Her, I was to find another Me.
Now, that which I did with my Mama, I want to do with you – after Her, I place you. I want the Most Holy Trinity to be reflected on earth: Myself, my Mama, and you. And this is necessary, so that through a creature my Will may have Its operating life upon earth. And how can It have this operating life if I do not give what my Will contains, and what It made my Humanity suffer? My Will had true operating life in Me and in my inseparable Mama; now I want It to have it in you. One creature is absolutely necessary to Me – so my Will has established; the others will be conditioned.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My Jesus, may I be so identified with You and may I let myself be dominated by Your Will so as to be the repeater of Your Divine acts. May my love, my adorations, my prayers and everything I do be the outpouring of God which I receive, so as to be able to say:
“It is Your love that loves You, Your adorations that adore You, Your prayers that pray You; it is Your Will that, investing me, makes me do what You do, to give it back to You as your own things.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 19 Aug. 8, 1926