1 CORINTHIANS 1:18:
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God”.
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PICCARRETA:
Sept. 26. “You say you have many crosses. Good sign, my child. Crosses are divine jealousies and little coins that our Lord gives us.”
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BOH VOL 7 July 27, 1906
In the Cross, Jesus dowered souls and espoused them to Himself.
This morning, as my adorable Jesus made Himself seen embracing the Cross, I thought in my interior: “What were His thoughts in receiving the Cross?‟
And He said to me:
“My daughter, when I received the Cross, I embraced It as my dearest treasure, because in the Cross I dowered souls and espoused them to Myself.
Now, upon looking at the Cross – at Its length and breadth – I rejoiced, because I saw in It sufficient dowries for all my spouses, and none of them could fear not being able to marry Me, because I held in my own hands – in the Cross – the price of their dowry.
But with this condition alone: that if the soul accepts the little gifts I send to her – which are the crosses – as the pledge of her acceptance of Me as her Spouse, the marriage is formed and I give her the gift of the dowry.
If then she does not accept the gifts – that is, if she is not resigned to my Will – everything is undone, and even if I want to dower her, I cannot, because in order to form a marriage, it always takes the will of both sides; and since the soul does not accept my gifts, it means that she does not want to accept the marriage.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My dear Jesus, I abandon myself in Your Divine Fiat. May I always remain in my dear inheritance, which You, my sweet Jesus, with so much love, gave me and entrusted to me. May I never go out of it, and may I make my continuous echo resound from one point to another, in such a way that all of Heaven may hear that Your endless inheritance of Your Fiat on earth is not isolated, but is inhabited by Your little daughter. May I always go around within It, to keep company with all the acts of Your Will, and with all of Its apartments.
Oh, how dear and sweet it is for me to live in my celestial inheritance; I would feel life missing in me without It.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 26 April 21, 1929