1 CORINTHIANS 16:13:
“Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong”.
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PICCARRETA:
Sept. 20. “Three things I recommend to you: firmness in good, perennial peace, filial trust.”
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BOH VOL 21 March 5, 1927
How firmness in good is only of God, for once He has done an act, it never ceases. Effects of firmness.
“My daughter, do not fear, I am here with you. What I want is that you never go out of my Will, and that you continue your acts – always, without ever moving from the boundaries of the Kingdom of the Supreme Fiat. And this will give you the firmness which will make you be like your Creator, for once He has done an act, that act has continuous life, without ever ceasing.
An act ever continuous is only of God, who suffers no interruption in His acts. This is why Our firmness is unshakeable, and extending everywhere with Our immensity, it renders Our acts uninterrupted; and whatever place We lean on, We find Our firmness, which gives Us the greatest honor – it makes Us known as the Supreme Being, Creator of everything, and it renders Our Being and Our acts unshakeable. In fact, whatever place We want to lean on, We find Our firmness that sustains everything.
My daughter, firmness is of divine nature and a divine quality, and it is right that We give this participation and quality of divine nature to one who must be daughter of Our Divine Fiat and must live in Our Kingdom. So, your continuing your acts in It, without ever interrupting them, reveals that you are already in possession of the quality of Our firmness. How many things firmness says: it says that the soul moves only for God; it says that she moves with reason and out of pure love – not with passion and out of self-interest; it says that she knows the good she does, and therefore she remains firm in it, without ever interrupting it. Firmness says, with indelible characters: “Here there is the finger of God‟.
Therefore, be firm in your acts, and you will have Our divine firmness in your operating.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My Jesus, as I follow the acts of Your Divine Fiat in Creation, l unite myself to lts acts, so as to do now an act of light, now an act of immensity, now an act of power, in order to follow lts acts and become narrator of all Your works.
As I go around in the sun to repeat together, with Your Will, what You did in creating the sun, may I act for You as the narrator of the story of its light, so that You may feel all the glory of its light being given back to You.
And as the light shines over all things, invests everything, fills the air, may You hear my echo near and far, down below and in the height of the heavens; and whispering to Your ear, may I act for You the narrator of the light, and glorify You so much as as to give You a sun of glory.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 26 May 12, 1929