John 14:27:
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”.
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Piccarreta:
May 8. “In whatever state you feel, be always tranquil – do not think of cold or warm. The Divine Will is more than everything: more than prayer, more than recollection, more than fervor, more than miracles – more than everything.”
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BOH VOL 11 June 28, 1912
The soul who lives in the Divine Will is a heaven in which Jesus is the Sun and His virtues are the stars.
“My daughter, How beautiful this heaven, such as to enamor whomever can know it; and much more am I enamored, as I place Myself like Sun in the center of this heaven, and I keep darting through it, continuously, with new light, with new love, with new graces.
How beautiful it is to see this heaven, if the Sun shines – that is, when I manifest Myself and caress the soul, filling her with my charisms. I embrace her, and touched by her love, I faint and I rest in her.
All the Saints gather around Me while I rest; they are amazed in watching this heaven in which I am the Sun, and remain ecstatic at this prodigious portent, because neither on earth nor in Heaven can one find anything more beautiful and more delightful for Me and for all.
How beautiful this heaven, if the Sun hides – that is, when I deprive her of Me. Oh! how the harmony of the stars can be admired. In fact, the air of this heaven is not subject to clouds, to showers, to storms, because the hidden Sun is hidden in the center of the soul, and Its heat is so burning as to destroy clouds, showers and storms.
The air of this heaven is always calm, serene and sweet-smelling, and the stars which shine most brightly in it are perennial peace and endless love.
Whether the soul is hidden in the Sun and the stars disappear, or the Sun is hidden in her and the harmony of the stars appears – this heaven is beautiful in every way. This heaven is my contentment, my rest, my love – my Paradise.”
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PRAYER FOR THE DAY:
“My Jesus, I take the heavens as model, which are always stretched out above my head. May I be always firm in good, just as You are, always stretched out from here in order to protect me, so that I too may be like a second heaven, populated with stars – which to my eyes seem so bound to the heavens, that it can be said that the stars are daughters of the heavens – so that I too will be firm in good, and the heaven of my soul will be populated with stars, like many births from me and daughters of mine.
Adapted from
BOH VOL 20 Nov. 1, 1926