JOHN 20: 21 – 23
“Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit”.
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PICCARRETA:
Sept. 24. “The breath which the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat produces in the soul, is peace.”
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BOH VOL 30 Feb.10, 1932
Co-breathing between God and the creature.
“… Our Will is Our life and Our food, and since We have no need of material foods, It gives Us, then, the food of Its holy works; and since the creature is one of Our works, We want to find in her Our Will as life, so that, not only herself, but all of her works may serve Us as food; and We, in exchange, give her the food of Our works.
This feeding ourselves with the same foods forms the co-breathing between God and the creature. This co-breathing produces peace, communication of goods, inseparability; it seems that the divine breath breathes in the creature, and that of the creature in God, uniting them so much as to feel as if the breath of one were one with the other.
Here then, come the co-breathings of Will, co-breathing of love, of works; We feel that breath which We issued in the creation of man, and which he broke by doing his will, reborn again in the creature. Our Will has the virtue and office of regenerating in him what he lost with sin, and of reordering him as he came out of Our creative hands.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My sweet Jesus, I do my round in the acts of Your Divine Will, and – oh! How I would like to embrace everything, also what all the Blessed have done, so as to give, in each act, an honor and glory to God and to the Saints, and make use of the very acts done by them to honor them.
May I remember, honor, glorify what was done by my Creator for love of me, and by You, my Redeemer, to place myself in safety, and by all the Saints, so that I may become the protector of all these acts.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 3O Feb. 24, 1932