Mark 4:39
He rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still! And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm”.
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Piccarreta:
May 4. “There is nothing left for us in life but to close our ears to everything, if we want to be at peace even in the midst of the greatest storms.”
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BOH VOL 12 January 2, 1919
Just as in Jesus, everything must be silent in souls.
This morning my always lovable Jesus made Himself seen under a storm of blows; and with His sweet gaze He looked at me, asking me for help and refuge. I flung myself toward Jesus to rescue Him from those blows and enclose Him in my heart; and Jesus told me:
“My daughter, my Humanity, under the blows of the scourges, was silent.
And not only was my mouth silent, but everything was silent in Me: esteem, glory, power, honor, were silent. But in a mute language, and eloquently, spoke my patience, the humiliation, my wounds, my Blood, the annihilation of my Being, almost to dust. And my ardent love for the salvation of souls placed an echo on all my pains.
Here, my daughter, is the true portrait of loving souls – everything must be silent in them, and around them: esteem, glory, pleasures, honors, greatness, will, creatures. And if she had these, she must be as though deaf, and as if she did not see anything.
On the other hand, my patience, my glory, my esteem, my pains, must take over within her; and everything she does, thinks, loves, will be nothing other than love, which will have one single echo with mine, and will ask Me for souls.
My love for souls is great, as I want all to be saved; therefore I go in search for souls who love Me and who, taken by the same follies of my love, would suffer and ask Me for souls.
But alas! how scarce is the number of those who listen to Me!”
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PRAYER FOR THE DAY:
“My Jesus, I leave each act of mine prey to the eternal waves of Your Will, so that, as these waves reach the foot of Your Throne in Heaven, You may confirm me more and more as a true daughter of Your Will, and You may grant me charters of grace for my brothers and Your children.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 17 Feb. 15, 1925