MATTHEW 5:12
“Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
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PICCARRETA:
Sept. 13. “Everything you do in the Divine Will will fly to Heaven, to anticipate your possession of It. Therefore, be attentive.”
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BOH VOL 2 Feb. 28, 1899
I saw the confessor near Jesus; and the Lord told him:
“See, everything you do passes into Heaven. Therefore, see with what purity you must operate, thinking that all your steps, words and works come before my presence, and if they are pure – that is, if they are done for Me – I take greatest delight in them and I feel them around Me like many messengers that remind Me continuously of you. But if they are done for low and earthly purposes, I feel bothered by them.”
And as He was saying this, He seemed to take his hands, and raising them up to Heaven, He said to him:
“Your eye always on high; you belong to Heaven – operate for Heaven.”
While I was seeing the confessor, and Jesus saying this to him, in my mind it seemed to me that if one operated in that way, it would happen as when a person has to move out of one house to go to another. What does he do? First, he sends all of his things and everything he possesses, and then he goes himself.
In the same way, we first send our works to take a place for us in Heaven, and then, when our time comes, we go ourselves.
Oh! what a beautiful cortege they will make for us!”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My Jesus, who can say the flights that I take in Your Will, the space that I cover, the air that I swallow? No one, no one – not even I would be able to say it. You alone – You alone can say it; You, who measure the fibers; You, who number the flights of my thoughts, of my heartbeats.
And as I fly, You see the hearts that I touch. But, I do not stop – I fly to more hearts, and knock, again and again; and fly over again, and on my wings I bring Your “I love you‟ to more hearts, to make You loved; and then, in one single flight, I come to Your Heart to take refreshment, to then start again more rapid flights.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 12 May 23, 1918