Abandonment in the Divine Will

 Abandonment in the Divine Will

VOLUME 8 - June 23, 1907

“My daughter, the most beautiful act, and the one that pleases Me most, is abandonment in My Will.  Abandonment to the extent that one does not remember that his own being exists, but only the Divine Volition.  Although sorrow for one’s sins is good and commendable, it doesn’t destroy one’s own being.  On the other hand, abandoning oneself completely in My Will destroys one’s being, and makes one repossess the Divine Being.

“Then the soul, by abandoning herself in My Will, gives Me more honor.  This is because she gives Me all that I could require from the creature.  The soul lets Me repossess in Myself what had gone forth from Me, and the soul repossesses the only thing she should repossess:  God.  Moreover, in repossessing God, she repossesses all the good that God Himself possesses.  It is only when the soul is completely in the Will of God that she repossesses God.  Additionally, if she leaves My Will she reacquires her own being, together with all the evils of her corrupt nature.”

VOLUME 9 - December 22, 1909

"My daughter, in almost all souls to whom I have communicated myself in an extraordinary way, I have permitted these states of abandonment at the end of their lives, though not solely for [the many] various ends of mine, but that I might also remain honored and justified in all of my conduct.  Why do so many say:  'Certainly these souls must have arrived at a very high level of sanctity and loved Him so much!  With so many favors, with so many graces and gifts, they would have felt well ungrateful for not having arrived at such great heights.  Where they bestowed upon us, we would have arrived at even greater heights than they'...  And I, to justify my conduct, manifest to them the abandonments, the privations in which I have placed these souls which for them is a living purgatory, as well as their fidelity, the heroism of their virtues and how it is easier and more tolerable to suffer poverty without knowing riches than to be born rich, accustom one's self to live rich and then lose such riches, being left poor.  I moreover show that supernatural riches are not like material riches, which serve [merely] for the body and at the most externally attract attention; Supernatural riches, [on the other hand] penetrate into the very marrow, into the most intimate fibers, to the most noble part of one's intelligence:  it suffices to say that it is more than a martyrdom.

VOLUME 10 - January 27, 1912

This morning Jesus showed me a soul who was crying, but it seemed mostly a cry of love.  Jesus held her close, and it seemed there was a cross inside her heart.  When it was squeezed, the soul felt abandonments, coldnesses, agonies, distractions, oppressions; and as the soul struggled, she sometimes slipped away from Jesus’ arms to place herself at His feet.  Jesus wanted her to resist this by remaining in his arms while in this state, telling her, “If you can endure in this state, remaining in my arms without wavering, this cross shall be your sanctification; otherwise, you will always remain in one place.”...

VOLUME 12 - July 4, 1918

“Ah, My daughter, there is needed great abandonment in Me.  Moreover, as the soul abandons herself in Me, so I abandon Myself in her.  Then, filling her with Me, I Myself do that which (she) ought to do for Me.  If later she does not abandon herself [in Me], then what she does remains fixed in her, not in Me, and I feel the work of the creature full of imperfections and miseries—which will not be able to please Me.”

VOLUME 12 - August 6, 1919

“Abandonment in Me is the image of two streams, where one flows into the other with such force that the waters mingle and they form waves of very high water which even reach at touching Heaven; thus the bottom of those streams is left dry.  Moreover, the sound of those waters, their murmur, is so sweet and harmonious that Heaven, in seeing itself touched by those waters, feels itself honored and feels sparkling with new beauty.  And in chorus the Saints say:  ‘This sweet sound and harmony that enraptures is a soul who has abandoned herself in God.  How beautiful she is!  How beautiful she is!

Another day He said to me:  “What are you afraid of?  Abandon yourself in Me and you will be surrounded by Me, as inside of a circle, in such a way that if enemies, occasions, [or] dangers come, they will have to deal with Me, not with you, and I will answer for you.  True abandonment in Me is rest for the soul, and work for Me.  Moreover, if [the soul is] restless it means that she is not abandoned in Me.  Restlessness is apt pain for who wants to live in herself, doing Me a great wrong—and herself great harm.”

VOLUME 13 - October 18, 1921

I spent a day distracted because of a few things that I felt (it isn't necessary to say what) and even upset.  No matter how hard I tried, I was unable to free myself.  For the entire day, therefore, I did not see my sweet Jesus, the Life of my soul.  It was as though the disquiet were a veil that, putting itself between the two of us, prevented me from being able to see Him.  Finally, late at night, my tired mind calmed down.  And my amiable Jesus, as though He had been waiting, appeared and said to me with sorrow:

"My daughter, today, with your disquiet, you have prevented the sun of my Person from rising within you.  Your disquiet is a cloud between you and Me, and it prevents the rays from descending into you.  If the rays do not descend, how can you see the sun?  If you knew what it means to prevent my Sun from rising, and what a great evil it is for you and the entire world, you would be very careful to never again become upset!  It is always night for those souls that are upset; the sun never rises.  For tranquil souls, instead, it is always day: my Sun wants to rise at any hour whatsoever; the soul is always ready to receive the good of my coming.

"And then, disquiet is nothing else than a lack of abandonment in Me.  I want you to be so abandoned in my arms that you need not be concerned about anything; I will take care of everything.  Do not fear; your Jesus can do no less than take care of you and protect you from everything.  You cost Me a lot; I have put much in you.  I alone have rights over you.  So, if the rights are my own, your care will be all my own.  So be at peace and do not fear."

VOLUME 15 - July 5, 1923

“Wanting to examine Me, Pilate asked Me, ‘Are You a king?  Where is your kingdom?’  I wanted to teach another sublime lesson by saying, ‘I am a king’.  By this response, I wanted to say.  ‘Do you know what my kingdom is?’  My sufferings, my Blood and my virtues are my Kingdom.  They are the true Kingdom, which I possess, not outside of Me, but within Me.  Whatever one possess on the outside is neither a true kingdom nor a true dominion, because whatever is not inside of man can be taken away or usurped, and he will be forced to leave it behind.  Instead, whatever is on the inside cannot be taken away; its ownership will be eternal within him.  The characteristics of my Kingdom are my wounds, my crown of thorns and my cross.  I do not, therefore, behave like other kings, who make the people live apart from them with little security or even food.  Not I:  I call my people to dwell within the rooms of my wounds, fortified and defended by my sufferings, quenched by my Blood and nourished by my Flesh, and only this is what it means to truly rule.  All other kingdoms are ones of slavery, of danger and of death.  In my Kingdom, instead, there is true Life.

“How many sublime teachings, how many profound mysteries there are in my words!  Every soul should say to itself in its sufferings and humiliations, in its abandonment by everyone, in its practice of true virtue:  ‘This is my kingdom which will not perish.  No one can take it from me nor touch it; indeed, my kingdom is eternal and divine, similar to that of my sweet Jesus.  My sufferings certify me and fortify my kingdom.  No one will wage battle with me in view of my great fortress. . . .’  This is a kingdom of peace towards which all my sons should aspire.”

VOLUME 16 - February 2, 1924

"My daughter, my Will is life and motion of everything; but do you know who follows this motion and takes flight in my Eternal Volition in a manner that it goes around in the ambience of Eternity, and finds himself where It is found and goes and does what It does?  The soul, by abandoning itself fully in my Holy Will.  Abandonment forms the wings to fly together with my Volition; as it ceases to abandon itself, so it loses the flight and the wings become destroyed.  Thus everyone feels the motion of life of my Will, because there is no motion that does not depart from Me but remains there at the point where they are; only who has the wings of abandonment in Me that goes the same way of my Will, flies above everything, be it in Heaven or on earth, it enters into the ambience of Eternity and goes 'round in the midst of the Three Divine Persons, it penetrates into the most intimate hiding place of Them and is up-to-date with their secrets and of their beatitudes.

"Thus it happens as to a machine where in the midst there is prime wheel and around it so many other little wheels that are fixed.  As the prime wheel moves, all receive its motion but they never reach to touch the prime wheel nor are they able to do anything of what it does and have any of the goods that it contains.  On the other hand, another little wheel which is not fixed, and by means of a mechanism goes 'round always for all the wheels, in order to find itself in each motion of the first wheel and prime wheel and do again its round, now this little wheel going around knows what there is in the prime wheel, and takes part in the goods that it contains.  Well, the first wheel is my Will; the fixed wheels are the souls abandoned to themselves which renders them immobilized in doing good; the wheel going around is the soul that lives in my Will, and the mechanism is total abandonment in Me.  Thus, each lack of abandonment is a round that one loses in the ambience of Eternity...  If you knew what it means to lose an Eternal Round!"

I, in hearing that, said:  "But tell me, my Love, what does Eternity mean and what is this Eternal Round?"

And Jesus added:  "My daughter, Eternity is an immense circle where it cannot be known either where it begins or where it ends.  In this circle is found God without beginning, without end, where He possesses infinite felicity, beatitude, joys, riches, beauty, etc., in each Divine motion that never ceases He puts forth from this circle of Eternity new felicity, new beauty, new beatitudes, etc., but this new is an act that is never interrupted; distinct among themselves our are always new, one is not equal to the other, they are such and so many of our beatitudes that while We enjoy one another is always surprising Us and they never end, they are Eternal, immense, on par with Us and what is Eternal has the virtue of making rise always new things; the old, the repeated things, do not even exist in what is Eternal.

VOLUME 16 - February 10, 1924

"As for example about abandonment to living in my Volition.  If the Soul would not live all abandoned in my Will, it would be as a person who lived in a sumptuous palace and one time he goes out the window and another time he goes out onto the balcony and then he descends to the main entrance, thus the poor thing passes little or nothing from whatever room and so he does not understand either the rules nor the work that is necessary nor the goods that there are, nor what he can take, nor what he can give.  Who can say how many goods there are and she does not understand them, therefore she does not love as she ought to love, nor does she give the esteem that that palace merits.  Now to the soul that lives in my Will and is not all abandoned in It, its own reflections, its care of itself, its fears, its disturbances are none other than windows and balconies and entrances that are formed in the will and going out quite often, she is constrained to see and to hear the miseries of the human life and since the miseries are her own property and the richnesses of my Will are mine, she is more attached to the miseries than to the riches and so (                             ) nor will she appreciate what it means to live in my Volition; and having formed for herself the main door, one day or another she will go out of it in order to live in the miserable hut of her will.  You see, therefore, how necessary it is full abandonment in Me in order to live in my Will.  It has no need of the miseries of the human will; It wants the creature to live together with her, beautiful as she was put forth from her bosom, without the miserable apparatus that has been formed in the exile of life; otherwise, there would be disparity which would bring sorrow to mine and unhappiness to the human will.

VOLUME 19 - April 16, 1926

I felt so little and incapable of doing anything; and I called my Queen Mamma to help me, so that, together with me, we could love, adore, glorify my greatest and only good for everyone and in the name of everyone.  At that moment I found myself in an immensity of light and all abandoned in the arms of the Heavenly Father; indeed, I was so unified with Him as if I had formed one single thing with Him, in a way that I no longer felt my life but that of God.  But who can say what I experienced and what I did?

And so, after that, my sweet Jesus went out from within my interior and said to me:  "My daughter, all that you experienced, your full abandonment into the arms of your Heavenly Father, your no longer feeling your own life is the image of living in my Will, because, to live in it, one must live more of God than of himself; rather, the nothing must cede its life to the All in order to do all and to have his act at the head of the acts of every creature.  

VOLUME 20 - November 16, 1926

I continue in my usual state of abandonment in the Supreme Fiat, but I cannot do less than call Him, who forms all my happiness, my life, my all.  And Jesus with his usual goodness said to me:  "My daughter, for how much more you abandon yourself in my Supreme Will, so much more you advance in Its ways, so much more knowledge you acquire and so much more do you take possession of the goods that are in It.  For who lives in the Divine Will there is always knowing and taking because It, being the primary inheritance given by God to the creature and possessing eternal goods, It has the task of always giving to whomever lives in this heritage.  Thus, the soul who lives in the Divine Will forms Its festivity; as on the contrary, who lives outside It forms Its sorrow, because she makes It incapable of being able to give, of exercising Its office and of carrying out Its task.

VOLUME 20 - May 12, 1934

"My beloved daughter, for how much more is understood of my Will, so much the more is enjoyed of Its beauty and sanctity, so much more does one participate in Its goods; and abandonment in It destroys all the obstacles and grips the soul tightly in Its arms, which, without effort, can regenerate Its Divine Life in the creature.  True and complete abandonment says with deeds:  'Do with me what you want; my life is yours, and of my own I do not want to know anything of it.'  Thus, abandonment has the virtue of putting the creature into the power of my Divine Will.  

VOLUME 35 - December 25, 1937

This is why I would want that you too did not occupy yourselves with your weaknesses, your evils and your troubles. In fact, the more the creature thinks about those, the weaker she feels, and the more the poor one feels drowned by evils, while her miseries press round her more strongly.  By thinking about it, weakness feeds more weakness, and the poor creature falls even more; evils become stronger, miseries reduce her to starvation.  But if she doesn’t think about them, they disappear by themselves.  

Good is completely the opposite.  One good feeds another good - one act of love calls for more love.  One abandonment in my Will makes her feel the new Divine Life within herself.  Therefore, thinking of good, forms the food and the strength to do more good.  This is why I want your thinking to be occupied by nothing other than loving me and living in my Will.  My Love will burn all your miseries and all your evils, and my Divine Volition will become your Life, using your miseries as the base on which to raise Its Throne.”

VOLUME 35 - March 6, 1938

How bad it sounds to Us when We notice that a creature in our Will is afflicted or oppressed!  And since she lives in our Volition, from the one Will which animates Us, We are forced to hear her afflictions and oppressions.  Setting Ourselves aside when the creature feels afflicted is not of our Divine Being - not of our Love.  Rather, We make use of our Power, and We inundate her more with our Love, so that We may see her again with a smile on her lips, and with joy inside her heart.  And then, the thought of the past is really absurd - it is like wanting to claim divine rights.  You must know that all the beautiful and good things which the creature has done are deposited inside Ourselves,  attesting to her love and the glory she gives Us, and forming her crown for her first entrance into our Celestial Fatherland.  Therefore, the most beautiful act of the creature is to throw herself into our arms - abandon herself - letting Us make whatever We want to make of her, in time as well as in eternity.  Only then, do We get all the savor of making her one of the most beautiful statues to adorn our Celestial Jerusalem.”

Then He added:  “My daughter, when the creature abandons herself in our Will, our satisfaction is so great that she pours into Us, and We pour into her, giving her our new Life, new love, new sanctity and new knowledge of our Supreme Being.  When the creature abandons herself in our Divine Volition, We can make the greatest prodigies and the most surprising graces in her, since our own Will will receive and deposit what We want to give to the creature.  By abandoning herself in our Will, she storms Heaven, and her empire is such that she imposes herself over our Divine Being, enclosing It within her littleness; while she, triumphant, encloses herself within our Divine Womb. 

The Heavens are amazed, and the Angels and the Saints remain ecstatic; all feel a new life flowing within themselves, by virtue of the act of abandonment of the creature, while still a pilgrim.  And finding her abandoned in our FIAT, We find that We can do whatever We want - she lends herself completely to our Power.  So We begin the work, and form in the soul many little fountains of Love, Goodness, Sanctity, Mercy, and so on.  In this way, when our Love wants to love, We set those little fountains of Love in motion with our omnipotent breath, and she loves Us, letting so much love overflow from the fount, as to float the entire Celestial Court.  When We want to use Goodness, Mercy or Grace, We set these founts in motion, and the earth remains floated by our Goodness and Mercy - and some are converted, some receive graces....

We could do all this directly by Ourselves, but We feel more delighted and pleased in using the founts which We Ourselves have formed inside the creature.  Through her, We feel more moved to use our mercy toward all.  We have our intermediary between Heaven and earth, who, in her abandon, makes Us pour graces and makes Us love all the creatures with new love.  Therefore, the more you are abandoned in our Will, the more magnanimous We will be toward you and toward others.  And all - at least the more disposed - will find new strength and new guidance.”

Lynne Bauer JMJ