HEBREWS 12:2
“Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
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PICCARRETA:
Oct. 9. “Mortifications, adversities, crosses, come to us veiled and do not let us see the good which they contain.”
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BOH VOL 12 April 16, 1918
Jesus comes as hidden in the pains.
Continuing in my usual state, I felt my poor heart oppressed and amid bitter pains – which it is not necessary here to say. And my always lovable Jesus, on coming, told me:
“My daughter, I send pains to creatures, so that in the pains they may find Me. I am as though wrapped within the pains, and if the soul suffers with patience, with love, she tears the wrapping that covers Me and finds Me.
Otherwise, I remain hidden in the pain, and she will not have the good of finding Me, and I will not have the good of revealing Myself.”
Then He added: “I feel an irresistible force to spread Myself toward the creatures. I would like to spread my beauty to make them all beautiful; but the creature, dirtying herself with sin, rejects the divine beauty and covers herself with ugliness. I would like to spread my love, but, loving what is not mine, they live numb with cold, and my love is rejected.
I would like to communicate all of Myself to man, overshadow him completely within my own qualities, but I am rejected; and in rejecting Me, he forms a wall of division between Me and him, to the point of breaking any communication between creature and Creator.
But in spite of this, I continue to spread Myself – I do not withdraw, in order to find at least someone who would receive my qualities. And if I find him, I double my graces for him – I increase them a hundredfold; I pour all of Myself into him, to the point of making of him a portent of grace.
Therefore, remove this oppression from your heart; pour yourself into Me, and I will pour Myself into you. Jesus told you this, and that’s enough; have no concern about anything, and I will do and take care of everything.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“Jesus, love me. I have more right than others to be loved, because neither do I love anyone but You, nor does anyone love me. And if someone seems to love me, it is for the good that comes to them – not for me. Therefore, between my love and yours, no other love enters in the middle.‟
BOH VOL 12 May 28, 1918