*JOHN 14: 27*
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”
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*PICCARRETA*:
Mar. 28. “Peace is the smile of the soul, and the spring which makes the little ground of our soul bloom; it removes from us the veil of disturbance and reveals to us the One Who loves us so much.”
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*BOH VOL 13 Dec. 18, 1921*
_Peace is the springtime of the soul._
I was feeling very oppressed and distressed because of the privation of my sweet Jesus. Then, after one entire day of pain, at dead of night He came, and holding me tightly with His arms around my neck, He told me:
“My daughter, what’s wrong? I see in you a mood, a shadow, which render you dissimilar from Me, and break the current of the beatitude between Me and you which has almost always existed. Everything is peace in Me, therefore I do not tolerate in you even a shadow that might shadow your soul.
Peace is the springtime of the soul. All virtues bloom, grow and smile, like plants and flowers at the rays of the sun in spring, and dispose all nature to produce each one its own fruit. If it wasn’t for the spring which, with its enchanting smile, stirs the plants from the torpor of the cold, and clothes the earth with a flowery mantle which, with its sweet enchantment, calls everyone to admire it, the earth would be horrid and the plants would end up withering.
So, peace is the divine smile which stirs the soul from every torpor. Like celestial spring, it stirs the soul from the cold of passions, of weaknesses, of thoughtlessness, etc., and with its smile it makes all flowers bloom, more than in a flowery field, and it makes all plants grow, amid which the Celestial Farmer is pleased to stroll and pick the fruits, to make of them His food.
So, the peaceful soul is my garden, in which I enjoy and amuse Myself. Peace is light, and everything that the soul thinks, says and does, is light that she sends out; and the enemy cannot get close to her, because he feels struck by this light, wounded and dazzled, and is forced to flee so as not to be blinded.
Peace is dominion, not only of oneself, but of others. So, before a peaceful soul, they remain either conquered or confounded and humiliated; therefore, they either let themselves be dominated, remaining friends, or they leave confounded, unable to sustain the dignity, the imperturbability, the sweetness of a soul who possesses peace. Even the most perverted ones feel the power that she contains.
This is why I glory so much in having Myself called God of peace – Prince of peace. There is no peace without Me; I alone possess it and give it to my children, as to legitimate children of mine, who remain bound as heirs of all my goods.”
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*PRAYER FOR THE DAY:*
“My Jesus, You who are true peace, may You overshadow me in Your peace, so that I may never be disturbed, and the shadow of Your peace, like dazzling light, may keep far away from me anything or anyone that might shadow my peace.”
*Adapted from
BOH VOL 13 Dec. 18, 1921*