ROMANS 8:38-39
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
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PICCARRETA:
March 5. “Put everything with filial abandonment into the hands of God and of the Queen — They who love us so much and want to be loved.”
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BOH VOL 32 April 23, 1933
I continue to think about the pains of my passionate Jesus, and as I reached the last breath of His life, I heard, resounding in the depth of my heart: *“_Into your hands, Oh Father, I commend my spirit.”_* It was the most sublime lesson for me, the calling of my whole being into the hands of God, the full abandonment into His paternal arms.
And while my mind wandered amid many reflections, my suffering Jesus, visiting my little soul, told me:
“My blessed daughter, my life down here, as it began, so it ended. From the first instant of my conception, it was a continued act of mine; I can say that in each instant, I placed Myself in the hands of my Celestial Father. This was the most beautiful homage that His Son gave Him, the adoration most profound, the sacrifice most heroic and complete, the love of sonship most intense that I gave Him.
My full abandonment in His hands rendered my Humanity speaking, and with authoritative voice, asking for everything and obtaining everything wanted. To a Son of His, abandoned in His arms, nothing could my Celestial Father deny; my abandonment of each instant was the act most pleasing, so much so, that I wanted to crown the last breath of my life with the words: *”Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.‟*
The virtue of abandonment is the greatest virtue, it is to commit God to taking care of the one who is abandoned in His arms. Abandonment says to God: _”I *don’t want to know anything of myself – this life of mine is yours, not mine; and⁷ yours is mine.‟*_
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My Jesus, in order for me to obtain everything, and to really love You, may I live abandoned in Your arms, may You hear the echo of each instant of my life:
“_Into Your hands I abandon the whole of myself‟_
so that you may carry me in Your arms as the dearest of Your daughters.”
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BOH VOL 32 Apr. 23, 1933