MATTHEW 22:37
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
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PICCARRETA:
Sept. 23. “Here is the means to sin no more: to be united with Jesus, love Him, and always do His Will.”
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Book of Heaven
Vol. 36 May 19, 1938
“My daughter, the one who wants to possess me must love me. Loving and possessing are the same thing. As you love me, so I remain formed in your soul, and as you love me more, I grow. Only love makes me grow, and through more love I reveal myself so as to be loved even more.
So, to the degree that you love me, I let you feel how much I love you. As soon as you love me, I love and possess you, and as we mutually love each other I form you and grow you within me. I feed you with my love and with the life of my Will. I inundate you with my seas of love to make you feel how much I love you; with how much tenderness I grow you within my heart. How jealously I keep you, so that you may love me more and with my own tenderness.
This is the jealousy of love. The soul is all attentive in giving me her life in every instant, to love me, to make me joyful and happy in herself, the way I make her joyful and happy inside my heart. Love wants reciprocity, and if it loves, not being loved, it feels unhappy and embittered because of what it should receive but does not.
Therefore, love me always and if you really want to love me do it in my Will, in which you will find endless love to tie me with love chains, chains so long that I won’t be able to free myself.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My Jesus, may You hear Your echo in mine, Your divine fibers; and as They raise my love into Your own, may it run and run so sweetly within Your Love, by saying to You: “I want to love
You as much and in the same way as You have loved me. For as many times as You have told me that You have loved me, so I too want to say it.‟
Adapted from
Book of Heaven
Vol. 28, Aug. 12, 1930