PROVERBS 3: 5-6
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”
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PICCARRETA:
May 5. “There is nothing more beautiful than the sanctity that, in everything, looks at the Divine Will.”
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Book of Heaven
Vol. 7 Jan. 5, 1907
True sanctity consists of receiving anything that may happen to us as a specialty of divine love.
Having read about a soul who had scruples about everything, and who feared that everything might be sin, I was thinking to myself: “And I? How lax I am! I too would like to think that everything may be sin so as to be more attentive not to offend the Lord. ‟
Then, when blessed Jesus came, He told me:
“My daughter, this is nonsense, and the soul remains stuck on the path of sanctity, while true and solid sanctity consists of receiving anything which may happen to her or which she may be doing, be it even the most indifferent thing, as a specialty of divine love, just as it would be if she found a food enjoyable or disgusting.
A specialty of love in the enjoyment, thinking that it is Jesus that produces that enjoyment in the food, and that He loves her to the point of giving her pleasure even in material things.
A specialty of love in the disgust, thinking that He loves her so much as to produce that disgust for her in order to make her similar to Himself in mortification, giving her, Himself, a little coin that she can offer to Him.
A specialty of divine love if she is humiliated, if she is exalted, if she is healthy, if she is infirm, if she is poor or rich. A specialty of love her breathing, her sight, her speech – everything, everything; and just as she must receive everything – everything as a specialty of divine love, she must give everything back to God as a special love of hers.
So, she must receive the wave of the love of God, and must give to God the wave of her love.
Oh, what a sanctifying bath is this wave of love! It purifies her, it sanctifies her, it makes her advance without her realizing it; it is a life more of Heaven than of earth.
This is what I want from you. Sin, and the thought of sin, must not exist in you.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“Triumphant Sovereign, into your hands of Mother do I place my will, so that You Yourself, as Mama, may purify it and embellish it for me, and bind it together with your own to the foot of the Divine Throne, that I may live not with my will, but always – always with that of God.
In each act I do, I deliver my will into Your maternal hands, and I pray You to let the Divine Will flow in place of my own.
Triumphant Queen, steal my will from me, and grant me the Divine Will.”
Day 5 – The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will