EPHESIANS 3:17-19
“So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
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PICCARRETA:
Sept. 2. “I recommend to you: be good, love Jesus very much, never leave prayer, make yourself a saint. If you do this, you will find the doors opened; you will possess the peace of the children of God.”
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BOH VOL 34 May 6,1937
Passing to the acts of the Redemption, I found myself immersed in his sufferings, and my always amiable Jesus, perhaps in order to convince, me made himself seen in my interior in the act of suffering the sorrowful Crucifixion, I took part in his sufferings, and I died together with Him, his divine blood flowed, his wounds were opened.
And He with a tender and moving accent, as to feel my heart burst, told me: “I am within you, I am yours, I am at your disposition, my wounds, my blood, all my sufferings are yours, you can do with me that which you want, rather do it as magnanimous, as valiant, as lover, as my true imitator. Take my blood in order to give it to whom you want. Take my wounds in order to heal the wounds of sinners. Take my life in order to give the life of grace, of sanctity, of love, of Divine Will, to all souls. Take my death in order to make so many souls dead in sin rise again. I give you all the freedom, do it, know how to be my daughter, I have given myself and that is enough.
You, think of making everything redound to my glory, and of how to make me be loved. My Will will give you the flight in order to make you bring my blood, my wounds, my kisses, my paternal tenderness, to my children, and to your brothers.
Therefore do not marvel, this is truly the Divine Operation, to keep Its works in the act of repeating them continuously in order to give them, so as to make of them a gift to the creatures. Each one can say “Everything is mine, even God himself is mine.” And oh, how we enjoy seeing them gifted by our works, possessors of their Creator.
They are the excesses of our love, that in order to be loved, we want to make them touch how much we love them and the gifts that we want to give them. For who lives then in our Volition, we feel as if we might defraud the creature if we don’t make for them a gift of everything, and this we don’t know how to do.
Therefore, be attentive, let your soul be embalmed by our divine peace, because we don’t know what disturbance is, and all things will bring you the smile, the sweetness, the love of your Creator.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My beloved Jesus, l kiss You with the kiss of your Will. You are not content if I give You only my kis, but You want the kiss of all creatures, and therefore I give You the kiss in your Will, because in It I find all creatures; and on the wings of your Will, I take all their mouths and I give You the kiss of all; and as I kiss You, I kiss You with the kiss of ycur love, so that I may kiss You, not with my love, but with your own love, and You may feel the contentment, the sweetnesses, the gentleness of your own love, on the lips of all creatures,
in such a way that, as you are drawn by your own love, I may force You to give the kiss to all creatures.”
BOH VOL 16 Nov. 24,1923