EFFECTS
OF PRAYER IN THE DIVINE WILL
Volume
12, January 31, 1918
I was abandoning all of myself in Jesus, when He told me: "My daughter,
dissolve yourself in Me. Dissolve your prayer in Mine, so that your prayer and
Mine may be one single prayer, and one would not recognize which one is yours
and which Mine. Your pains, your works, your will, your love - dissolve them
all in my pains, in my works, etc., so that they may mix one with the other,
and form one single thing; to the extent that you may be able to say, ‘What
belongs to Jesus is mine’, and I may say, ‘What is yours is Mine.’
Imagine a
glass of water, which is poured into a big container of water. Would you be
able to distinguish, afterwards, the water of the glass from the water of the
container? Certainly not. Therefore, for your greatest gain and my highest
contentment, repeat often in whatever you do: ‘Jesus, I pour this into You, so
that I may do not my will, but Yours’, and immediately I will pour my acting
into you."
Volume
14, April 21, 1922 - So I spent the
morning praying together with Jesus in His Will; but - oh, surprise! As we
prayed, one was the word, but the Divine Volition diffused it over all created
things, and its mark remained on all of them. It brought it into Heaven, and
not only did all the Blessed receive its mark, but it was for them cause of new
beatitude. It descended to the bottom of the earth, and even into Purgatory,
and all received its effects. But who can say how it was to pray with Jesus,
and all the effects that it produced?
Then,
after we prayed together, He told me: "My daughter, have you seen what it
means to pray in my Will? Just as there is no point at which my Volition does
not exist – It circulates in everything and in everyone; It is life, actor and
spectator of everything - in the same way, the acts done in my Volition become
life, actors and spectators of all, even of the very joy, beatitude and
happiness of the Saints. Everywhere they bring light, the balsamic and
celestial air which unleashes joys and happiness. Therefore, never depart from
my Will; Heaven and earth await you to receive new joy and new splendor."
Volume
14, August 29, 1922 - Continuing in my usual state, I was thinking about how much my sweet
Jesus did and suffered to save souls; and He, on coming, told me: "My
daughter, all that my Humanity did - prayers, words, works, steps and pains -
is in act of giving itself to man. But who takes it? Who receives the grafting
of my works? One who draws near Me, and prays uniting herself with Me, receives
the grafting of my prayer and the goods it contains. One who speaks, who
teaches, united with Me, receives the grafting and the fruits of my words; and
in the same way, one who works, who suffers, united with Me, receives the
grafting and the goods which are contained in my pains and works. Otherwise,
all the goods which I acquired for the creature remain suspended; and not being
grafted with Me, she cannot enjoy the use of the goods that my Humanity wants
to give with so much love. If there is no union, the goods of one remain as
though dead for the other.
Imagine a
wheel: the center of the wheel is my Humanity; the rays, all that It did and
suffered; the circumference on which the rays are fixed is the whole human
family which rotates around the wheel. Now, if this circumference, this second
circle of the wheel, does not draw near to receive the connection with the
rays, the rays remain suspended and cannot communicate the goods which the
center of the wheel contains. Oh, how much I suffer in seeing so many goods of
mine suspended, which human ingratitude not only does not receive, but despises
and tramples! This is why with great eagerness I go in search for souls who
want to live in my Will: to be able to fix in them the rays of my wheel. My
Will will give them grace, so as to be able to form the circumference of the
second circle of the wheel, and they will receive all my goods which others
reject and despise."
Volume
16, July 30, 1923 - I
was fusing myself in the Holy Divine Will, and my sweet Jesus came and told me:
"My daughter, every time the soul enters my Will to pray, to work and to
do other things, she receives as many Divine colors, one more beautiful than
the other. Don’t you see how much variety of colors and of beauty nature
contains? These are the shadows of the variety of colors and beauty which my
Divinity contains. But how do plants and flowers acquire such variety of
colors? To whom did I give the office to color so many different plants with so
many different colors? To the Sun. Its light and its heat contain fecundity and
variety of colors, such as to embellish the whole earth. And if only the plants
exposes itself to the kisses of its Light, to its embraces and to its heat, the
flower blooms, and as though returning to It the kiss and the embrace, it
receives the shades of the colors and forms its beautiful complexion.
Now, the
soul who enters into my Will symbolizes the flower which exposes itself to
receive the kiss and the embrace of the sun, to receive the different colors
which the sun contains. And by returning them, she receives the different
colors of Divine Nature. She is really the celestial flower which the Eternal
Sun, by the breath of Its Light, has colored so well as to perfume Heaven and
earth, and delight with its beauty the very Divinity and the whole Celestial
Court. The rays of my Will empty her of what is human and fill her with what is
Divine. And so one can see in her the beautiful rainbow of my attributes.
Therefore,
my daughter, enter often into my Will, in order to receive the tones and the
different colors of the likeness to your Creator."
Volume
19, March 9, 1926 - “My
daughter, I have won the little flame of your will, and you have won
Mine. Had you not lost yours, you could not have won Mine. Now we
are both happy – we are both victorious. But, look at the great
difference which exists in my Will: it is enough to do an act, a prayer,
an ‘I love You’ once, that, taking its place in the Supreme Volition,
that same act, prayer or ‘I love You’, remains always in the act of
being done, without ever ceasing. In fact, when an act is done in my
Will, that act is no longer subject to interruption: after it is done
once, it is done forever, as if it were continuously being done. The
operating of the soul in my Will comes to partake in the ways of the divine
operating: when it operates, it does always the same act, with no need of
repeating it. What will your many ‘I love You’s’ in my Will be,
always repeating their refrain: ‘I love You, I love You…’?
They will be many wounds for Me, and will prepare Me to concede the greatest
grace: that my Will be known, loved and fulfilled. Therefore, in my
Will, prayers, works, love, enter into the divine order, and one can say that
it is I Myself who prays, works, loves. And what could I deny to
Myself? In what would I not delight?”
Volume
35, March 12, 1938 - “My blessed daughter, the Living of the
creature in Our Will is Our amusement, Our enjoyment, Our Perennial
occupation. You must know that, as the
creature Unites to Our Volition and enters into It, Our Will kisses the human
will, and the human will kisses Our Will.
We Ourselves Love, Pray and ask of Ourselves that Our Will may come to
Reign in the human generations. The
creature disappears inside Our Divine Sea like a little drop of water, and what
remains is Our Prayer, that wants to invest everything with Its Power, to
obtain what We have asked of Ourselves.
We cannot do without answering Our own Prayer.
“Therefore,
once We have Prayed, We set Ourselves on the way, wandering across all nations
and through every heart, to see if We find even a small disposition to Live in
Our Will. So We take that little
disposition in Our Creative Hands; We Purify it, Sanctify it and embellish it,
placing inside of it the First Act of Our Will.
And We wait... to be able to place the Second Act, the Third Act of the
Life of Our Fiat, and so forth.
Therefore, all that the creature does in Our Will is actually done by
Ourselves: We Love, We Pray.... One can
say that We commit all of Ourselves in order to give what We want, and it is
impossible not to grant to Ourselves. Do
you see then, what it means to Live in Our Will? It is the imposition of the creature over
Ourselves, making Us do what she wants—making Us give what she wants Us to
give.”
Volume
36, July 6, 1938 - “My
daughter, as the creature calls My Will in her acts—in her prayer—My Will
repeats that act together with her, praying together with the creature; and
since Its Immensity is everywhere, the Creation, the sun, all Heaven, the
Angels and the Saints feel within themselves the Strength of that Creative
Prayer, and all of them pray. The
Prodigy of this Prayer is Omnipotent and It involves all, giving Itself to
all. Only those who, ungrateful, don't
want to receive it, remain without Its effects.
Therefore, My Will possesses the virtue of Prayer. O! how Beautiful it is to see It Praying in
Its Divine way, and with Its Creative Virtue that imposes Itself on all, making
everything pray. This Prayer imposes
itself on Our Divine Attributes, making Us pour rains of Mercy, Graces,
Forgiveness and Love. It is sufficient
to know that it is Our Prayer, to say: ‘It can give everything.’ Now, you must
know that, whether the creature does or does not do Our Will, whether she Lives
in It or not, she is already in Its Immensity; or better still, My Will is Life
of her life and Act of her acts, and It continuously assists her with Its
Creative and Preserving Act. Therefore,
one who Lives in It, can feel Its Life, Its Power, Its Sanctity and how much I
Love her.
“It happens
to her as to the fish who lives in the sea and who knows it. She feels this Divine Sea that is her bed
carrying her in the arms of its Celestial Waters. It feeds her, it makes her consume herself
within It. It amuses and embellishes
her, and if she wants to sleep, It forms her bed in Its depths; permits nobody
to awaken her. It even sleeps together
with her. Such is the Love of My Will
for the one who Lives inside Its Sea—and who knows It—that It does in her all
the Arts It wants to do. If It wants to
think It thinks in her; if It wants to look It looks through her eyes; if It
wants to speak It speaks, keeping her in continuous communication, telling her
many of the Wonders of Our Eternal Love. If It wants to Work It Works; if It
wants to walk It walks; if It wants to Love, It Loves. My Fiat is always busy with her, and she not
only recognizes It, but she never leaves It alone. She sinks more and more in Its Sea, because
she knows that if she gets out of the Sea she'll lose her life. The creatures that Live in Our Will are Our
Celestial Residents, and with their Love, they delight in forming the waves of
Our Sea, to amuse Us and make Us Happy.
“On the
other hand, those who live in the Immensity of Our Love, but do not know Us,
don't feel anything of this. They don't
feel Our Paternal Attentions, that press them to Our Womb. They live inside Our Sea as if they did not
live at all—so unhappy—as if they were not Our children. They are like strangers, and since We are not
known, We are forced by their ingratitude not to tell them even a Word, and to
keep repressed inside Our Womb the Goods that We had to give them. And seeing Our poor children dissimilar from
Us, only because they don't know Us, is a suffering for Us. Even if We gave to them, it would happen as
the Gospel says: don't give pearls to the pigs, because they don't know what
they are, and they would cover them with mud and trample on Them. Therefore, it is Knowledge that allows
creatures to understand where We are, with whom they live, what they can
receive and what they have to do. So,
those who do not know are the true blind because they can't see anything, no
matter how many Goods are placed around them: they are the vagabonds of
Creation.”
Vol. 12,
May 1, 1920 - My
misery makes itself felt more and more. I was saying in my interior: ‘My Jesus,
what a life mine is!’ And He, without giving me time to say anything else,
quickly answered: "My daughter, for one who lives in my Will, Sanctity has
only one point - a continuous ‘Glory be’, followed by ‘As it was in
beginning, it is now and ever shall be, world without end.’ There is
nothing in which she does not give glory to God - complete in everything,
always stable, always equal, always queen, without ever changing. This Sanctity
is not subject to setbacks or losses - but to always reigning. Therefore, Its
foundation is the ‘Glory be’, and Its prerogative is the ‘As it was
in the beginning, etc.’"
Saint
Annibale di Francia – Letter to Luisa, Oct. 13, 1926:
“Every word of Our Lord is more than a pearl, it is more than a precious
diamond! We don’t know for which future
souls these words are in the Divine mind.
Our Lord says some words and He wants them written for the good of those
souls!”
LB
