1 CORINTHIANS 15:57

“But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

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PICCARRETA:

Oct. 4. “In the Kingdom of the Divine Will no one loses, we are all winners, both God and the creature.”

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Book of Heaven
Vol. 30 Nov. 16, 1931

Each human act is a game, a pledge, in order to win the celestial graces.

I feel myself prey to the Divine Will – yet not forced, but voluntary; and I feel the intense need to make a prey for myself too, that would render me happy in time and eternity; and therefore in all my acts I try to make a prey of the light of the Divine Will, of Its sanctity, of Its very life. So I call It, I press It, to capture It in my acts, to enclose It in them and be able to say:

“Each act of mine is a prey and a conquest that I make” – prey and conquest of Divine Will. More so since, It having preyed mine, without a will I cannot live, therefore it is fair, and a right, for me to make a prey of Its own; and in this preying of each other, it seems to me that we maintain the correspondence, the game; and the love of both sides ignites more.”

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“My little daughter of my Will, indeed everything that passes between the Creator and the creature, the acts that she does, and what she receives from God, serve to maintain the correspondence, for them to know each other more so as to love each other more, and to keep up the game between each other – to obtain the intent of what God wants from the creature, and of what she wants from God.

So, each act is a game that is prepared to obtain the most beautiful victories and make a prey of each other. The act serves as material in order to play, and as pledge in order to have something to give to the winner. God, by giving, puts in His pledge; the creature, by doing her act, puts in her own – and they set up the game.

And Our goodness is so great, that We make Ourselves weak so as to let the creature win; other times We make Ourselves strong, and We win; and this We do in order to keep her on her toes, so that, by doing more acts, she may put in more pledges, and so she may be able to win, to make up for the defeat. After all, how could the union be maintained, if We were to give nothing, and the creature were to give Us nothing?

See then, each act is a committing of Ourselves to give greater graces, and a correspondence that you open between Heaven and earth, and a game in which you call your Creator to be with you.”

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PRAYER OF THE DAY:

“My Jesus, I pray, love, repair, kiss and adore You in Your Will, so that You will feel as if all were praying You, loving You. Since Your Will envelops everything and everyone, in Your Volition, I give You the kiss, the love, the adoration of all; so that You, looking at everyone in me, may give to me as many kisses, as much love, as You should give to all. In Your Will, I am not content if I do not see You fulfilled by the love of all, if I do not see You kissed, adored, prayed by all.”

Adapted from
Vol. 12 April 2, 1921