Feast of Pentecost
In
the Divine Will
From the Writings of
The
Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta
The
Little Daughter of the Divine Will
Day Thirty
The Queen of Heaven in the Kingdom of the Divine
Will. The Teacher of the Apostles,
Dwelling and Center of the Nascent Church, and the Boat of Refuge.
The Descent of the Holy Spirit.
The soul to her Celestial Mother:
Here I come to You again, Sovereign of Heaven. I feel
so drawn to You that I count the minutes, waiting for your Supreme Height to
call me in order to give me the beautiful surprises of your maternal lessons.
Your love of Mother enraptures me, and my heart rejoices in knowing that You
love me. I feel great confidence that my Mama will give me so much love and so
much grace as to form a sweet enchantment for my human will; in such a way that
the Divine Will may extend Its seas of light within my soul, and place the seal
of Its Fiat in all my acts. O please! O holy Mama, never leave me alone again, and
let the Holy Spirit descend into me, that He may burn away all that does not
belong to the Divine Will.
Lesson of the Queen of Heaven:
My blessed child, your words echo in my Heart, and
feeling wounded, I pour Myself into you with my seas of graces. Oh, how they
run toward my child, to give you the life of the Divine Will! If you are
faithful to Me, I will leave you no more. I will always be with you, to give
you the food of the Divine Will in each one of your acts, words and heartbeats.
Now listen to Me, my child. Our Highest Good, Jesus,
has departed for Heaven and is now before His Celestial Father, pleading for
His children and brothers, whom He has left upon earth. From the Celestial
Fatherland, He looks at everyone - no one escapes Him; and His love is so great
that He leaves His Mama on earth as comfort, help, lesson and company for His
children and Mine.
Now, you must know that as my Son departed for Heaven,
I remained together with the apostles in the cenacle, waiting for the Holy
Spirit. They were all around Me,
clinging to Me, and we prayed together; they did nothing without my advice. And
when I began to speak to instruct them and to narrate some anecdotes about my
Son which they did not know – as for example, the details of His birth, His
baby tears, His loving traits, the incidents that happened in Egypt, the so
many wonders of the hidden life in Nazareth… – oh, how attentive they were in
listening to Me! They were enraptured in hearing of the so many surprises, the
so many teachings that He had given Me, which were to serve for them. In fact,
my Son had said little or nothing about Himself to the apostles, reserving for
Me the task of making known to them how much He had loved them, and the details
which only His Mother knew. So, my child, I was in the midst of my apostles
more than the Sun of the day. I was the anchor, the wheel, the boat in which
they found refuge, to be safe and sheltered from every danger. Therefore, I can
say that I delivered the nascent Church upon my maternal knees, and that my
arms were the boat in which I led Her to a safe harbor, and I still do.
Then the time came for the descent of the Holy Spirit,
promised by my Son, in the cenacle.
What a transformation, my child! As they were invested, they acquired new
science, invincible strength, ardent love. A new life flowed within them, which
rendered them intrepid and courageous, in such a way that they scattered
throughout the whole world to make Redemption known, and to lay down their
lives for their Master. I remained with beloved John, and was forced to leave Jerusalem
My dearest child, you must know that I still continue
my Magisterium in the Church - there is nothing which does not descend from Me.
I can say that I pour all Myself out for love of my children, and I nourish
them with my maternal milk. Now, during these times, I want to display an even
more special love by making known how my whole life was formed in the Kingdom
of the Divine Will. Therefore I call you onto my knees, into my maternal arms,
so that, forming a boat for you, you may be sure to live in the sea of the
Divine Will. Greater grace I could not give you. O please! I beg you, make your
Mama content! Come to live in this Kingdom so holy! And when you see that your
will would want to have some act of life, come and take refuge in the safe boat
of my arms, saying to Me: "My Mama, my will wants to betray me, and I
deliver it to You, that you may put the Divine Will in its place."
Oh, how happy I will be if I am able to say: "My
child is all Mine, because she lives of Divine Will." And I will make the Holy Spirit
descend into your soul, that He may burn away from you all that is human; and
by His refreshing breath, He may rule over you and confirm you in the Divine
Will.
The soul:
Divine Teacher, today your little child feels her
heart swollen, to the point of pouring myself out in crying, and wetting your
maternal hands with my tears. A veil of sadness invades me, and I fear that I
will not profit from your many teachings and from your many more than maternal
cares. My Mama, help me, fortify my weakness; put to flight my fears; and I,
abandoning myself in your arms, will be certain to live fully of the Divine
Will.
Little Sacrifice:
Today, to honor Me, you will recite seven Glory Be’s
in honor of the Holy Spirit, praying to Me that His prodigies may be renewed
over the whole holy Church.
Ejaculatory Prayer:
Celestial Mama, pour fire and flames into my heart,
that they may consume me, and burn away all that is not Will of God.
Volume 2 -
February 28, 1899
How she (Luisa) sees the Divinity of Jesus.
After the confessor told me to explain to him how I
sometimes see the Divinity of Our Lord, I answered that it was impossible for
me to be able to tell him anything. But,
at night, blessed Jesus appeared to me and almost reproached me because of this
refusal of mine, and then He flashed through me with two most luminous
rays. With the first one I understood in
my intellect, that Faith is God and God is Faith. I tried to say a few things about Faith; now
I will try to say how I see God - and this was the second ray.
While I am outside of myself, and I find myself in the
height of the heavens, I seem to see God within a light. He Himself seems to be light, and within this
light there is beauty, strength, wisdom, immensity, height, depth - endless and
boundless. Even in the air we breathe is
God present, and we breathe Him; so, each one can make Him his own life, as
indeed He is. Nothing escapes Him, and
nothing can escape Him. This light seems
to be all voice, though it does not speak; and all operating, though it always
rests. It is present everywhere, though
it occupies no space; and while it is present everywhere, it also has its own
center. Oh, God, how incomprehensible
You are! I see You, I feel You, You are
my life, You restrict Yourself within me, but You remain always immense and
lose nothing of Yourself. Yet, I feel I
am stammering, and it seems I can say nothing.
In order to explain myself better, according to our
human language, I will say that I see a shadow of God in the whole creation,
because in the whole creation – someplace He has cast the shadow of His beauty,
someplace His fragrances, someplace His light, as in Sun, in which I see a
special shadow of God. I see Him as
though concealed within this sphere, as the king of all other spheres. What is the Sun? It nothing but a globe of fire. One is the globe, but its rays are many; from
this we can easily understand how the globe is God, and the rays are the
immense attributes of God.
Second. The Sun
is fire, but It is also light and heat. Here
is the Most Holy Trinity veiled in the Sun:
the fire is the Father, the light is the Son, the heat is the Holy
Spirit. However, the Sun is one, and
just as one cannot separate fire from light and heat, so one is the power of
the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who in reality cannot be separated from one
another. And just as fire produces light
and heat at the same time, in such a way that fire cannot be conceived without
light and heat; in the same way, the Father cannot be conceived before the Son
and the Holy Spirit, and vice versa, but all Three of the Them have the same
eternal beginning.
I add that the light of the Sun diffuses everywhere;
in the same way, God penetrates everywhere with His immensity. However, let us remember that this is but a
shadow, because the Sun cannot reach where It cannot penetrate with Its light,
while God penetrates everywhere. God is
most pure Spirit, and we can represent Him with the Sun, which makes Its rays
penetrate everywhere, and no one can grab them with their hands. Moreover, God looks at everything – the
iniquities and the evils of men – but He remains always as He is, pure, holy
and immaculate. A shadow of God is the
Sun, which sends Its light over rubbish, but remains immaculate; It spreads Its
light in the fire, but is not burned; in the sea and in the rivers, but is not
drowned. It gives light to all, It fecundates
everything, It gives life to all with Its heat, but does not become poor in
light, nor does It lose any of Its heat.
Even more, while It does so much good to all, It needs no one, and
remains always as It is – majestic, shining, ever immutable. Oh, how well one can see the divine qualities
in the Sun! With His immensity, God is
present in the fire, but is not burned; in the sea, but is not drowned; under
our steps, but is not trampled. He gives
to all, but does not become poor, and needs no one; He looks at everything –
even more, He is all eyes, and there is nothing He does not hear. He is aware of each fiber of our hearts, of
each thought of our minds, but, being most pure Spirit, He has neither ears nor
eyes, and no matter what happens, He never changes. The Sun invests the world with Its light, and
It does not tire; in the same way, God gives life to all, helps and rules the
world, and He does not tire.
A man can hide or place shelters so as not to enjoy
the light of the Sun and Its beneficial effects, but he does nothing to the Sun
– the Sun remains as It is, while all the evil will fall upon man. In the same way, by sin, the sinner can move
away from God and no longer enjoy His beneficial effects, but he does nothing
to God – the evil is all his own.
The roundness of the Sun also symbolizes the eternity
of God, which has no beginning and no end.
The penetrating light of the Sun itself is such that no one can restrict
it in his eye; and if one wanted to stare at It in Its midday fullness, he
would remain dazzled; and if the Sun wanted to draw near man, man would be
reduced to ashes. The same for the
Divine Sun: no created mind can restrict
It in its little mind so as to comprehend It in all that It is; and if it
wanted to try, it would remain dazzled and confused; and if this Divine Sun
wanted to display all Its love, allowing man to feel It while he is in his
mortal flesh, he would be reduced to ashes.
So, God has cast a shadow of Himself and of His
perfections over the whole creation; it seems that we see Him and touch Him,
and we are touched by Him continuously.
Volume 3 - December 22, 1899
How God draws us to love Him in three ways, and how He manifests
Himself to the soul in three ways.
This morning my adorable Jesus was not coming. After much waiting and waiting He made
Himself just barely seen several times, like a lightning that flashes by. But I seemed to see a light rather than
Jesus, and in this light, a voice which, the first time it came, said: “I draw you to love Me in three ways: by dint of benefits, by dint of sympathies,
and by dint of persuasions.”
Who can say how many things I comprehended in these
three words? It seemed to me that in
order to attract my love and also that of the other creatures, blessed Jesus
makes benefits rain down for our good, and in seeing that this rain of benefits
does not reach the point of gaining our love, He reaches the point of rendering
Himself sympathetic. And what is this
sympathy? It is His pains suffered for
love of us, to the point of dying, deluging blood upon a cross, where He
rendered Himself so sympathetic as to enamor of Himself His very executioners
and His fiercest enemies. Even more, in
order to attract us more and render our love stronger and more stable, He left
us the light of His most holy examples, united to His celestial doctrine,
which, like light, dispel for us the darkness of this life and lead us to
eternal salvation.
The second time it came, it said to me: “I manifest Myself to the soul in three
different ways: by power, by news and by
love. The power is the Father, the news
is the Word, the love is the Holy Spirit.” Oh, how many more things I comprehended! But too little is that which I am able to
manifest. It seemed to me that God
manifests Himself to the soul, by power, in the whole of creation; from the
first to the last being is the omnipotence of God manifested. The heavens, the stars and all the other
beings speak to us, though in a mute language, of a Supreme Being, of an
Uncreated Being, of His omnipotence. In
fact, the most learned man, with all of his science, cannot arrive at creating
the most wretched mosquito, and this says that there must be a most powerful
uncreated Being who created everything, and gives life and preservation to all
beings. Oh, how the whole universe, in
clear notes and with indelible characters, speaks to us of God and of His
omnipotence! Therefore, one who does not
see Him is voluntarily blind! By news: it seemed to me that blessed Jesus, in
descending from Heaven, came upon earth in person to give us news of what is
invisible to us; and in how many ways did He not manifest Himself? I believe that everyone can comprehend the
rest by himself, therefore I will not go on speaking.
Volume 17 - May 17, 1925 Volume 17
(Continuation of the previous chapter). Other ways to fuse oneself in
the Divine Will; first, in return for Creation, and then for Redemption.
After I had the Confessor hear what is written above -
with the date of May 10th - on fusing myself in the Divine Volition,
he was not satisfied, and ordered me to continue to write about the way to fuse
myself in the Holy Divine Volition. So, out of obedience, and for fear that my
Jesus might be even slightly disappointed, I continue.
Now, I add that as that immense void comes before my
mind, in fusing myself in the Supreme Volition, the little child begins her
round again, and rising up high, she wants to repay her God for all the love He
had for all creatures in Creation. She wants to honor Him as Creator of all
things, and so she goes around the stars, and in each flickering of light I
impress my "I love You" and "Glory to my Creator".
In every atom of the light of the sun that comes down, my "I love
you" and "Glory". In the whole expanse of the
heavens, between the distance from one step to another, my "I LOVE
YOU" and "GLORY". In the warbling of the bird, in the
beating of its wings: "Love" and "Glory" to
my Creator. In the blade of grass which sprouts from the earth, in the flower
that blooms, in the fragrance that ascends: "Love" and "Glory".
On the peak of the mountains and in the depths of the valleys: "Love"
and "Glory". I wander through every heart of creature as
though wanting to enclose myself and shout from within, to every heart, my "I
love you" and "Glory to my Creator". And then, as if
I had gathered everything together in such a way that everything gives return
of love and recognition of glory for all that God has done in Creation, I go to
His Throne, and I say to Him: ‘Supreme Majesty and Creator of all things, this
little child comes into your arms to tell You that all of Creation, in the name
of all creatures, gives You not only return of love, but also the just glory
for the so many things You created for love of us. In your Will, in this
immense empty space, I wandered everywhere, so that all things may glorify You,
love You and bless You. And now that I have put in relation the love between
Creator and creature, which the human will had broken - as well as the glory
that everyone owed You, let your Will descend upon earth, that It may bind and
strengthen all the relations between Creator and creature, and so that all
things may return to the original order established by You. Therefore, hurry,
do not delay any longer – don’t You see how the earth is full of evils? Your
Will alone can stop this current and save it – your Will, known and ruling.’
After this, I feel that my office is still not
complete. So I descend to the bottom of that empty space, in order to repay
Jesus for the Work of Redemption. And as though finding all that He did in act,
I want to give Him my return for all the acts that all creatures should have
done in waiting for Him and receiving Him upon earth. Then, as though wanting
to transform all of myself into love for Jesus, I go back to my refrain, and I
say: ‘"I LOVE YOU" in the act of descending from Heaven to be
incarnated, and I impress my "I LOVE YOU" in the act of being
conceived in the most pure womb of the Virgin Mary. "I LOVE YOU"
in the first drop of blood which was formed in your Humanity. "I LOVE
YOU" in the first beat of your Heart, to mark all your heartbeats with
my "I LOVE YOU". "I LOVE YOU" in your first
breath; "I LOVE YOU" in your first pains; "I LOVE
YOU" in the first tears You shed in the maternal womb. I want to
return your prayers, your reparations, your offerings, with my "I LOVE
YOU". "I LOVE YOU" in your birth. "I LOVE YOU"
in the cold you suffered. "I LOVE YOU" in each drop of the
milk you suckled from your Most Holy Mama. I want to fill with my "I
LOVE YOUs" the clothes with which your Mama swaddled You. I lay my "I
LOVE YOU" upon that ground on which your Mama placed You in the
manger, as your most tender limbs felt the hardness of the hay – but more than
of hay, the hardness of hearts. My "I LOVE YOU" in each of
your wailings, in all the tears and sufferings of your childhood. I make my "I
LOVE YOU" flow in all the relations and communications and love You
had with your Immaculate Mama. "I LOVE YOU" in Her dearest
kisses, in each word You said, in the food You took, in the steps You took, in
the water You drank. "I LOVE YOU" in the work You did with
your hands. "I LOVE YOU" in all the acts You did during your
hidden Life. I seal my "I LOVE YOU" in each one of your
interior acts and in the pains You suffered. I lay my "I LOVE YOU"
upon the paths You covered, in the air You breathed, in all the sermons You
made during your public Life. My "I LOVE YOU" flows in the
power of the miracles You made, in the Sacraments You instituted. In
everything, O my Jesus, even in the most intimate fibers of your Heart, I impress
my "I LOVE YOU", for me and for all. Your Will makes
everything present to me, and nothing do I want to leave, in which my "I
LOVE YOU" is not impressed.
Your little Daughter of your Will feels this duty - as
there’s nothing else she can do - that You may have at least my little "I
LOVE YOU" for everything You did for me and for all. Therefore my
"I LOVE YOU" follows You in all the pains of your Passion, in all
the spit, scorn and insults they gave You. My "I LOVE YOU"
seals every drop of the Blood You shed, every blow You received, every wound
that formed in your body, each thorn that transfixed your head, the bitter
pains of the Crucifixion, the words You pronounced on the Cross. Up to your
last breath, I intend to impress my "I LOVE YOU". I want to
enclose all your Life, all your acts, with my "I LOVE YOU". I
want You to touch, see and feel my continuous "I LOVE YOU". My
"I LOVE YOU" will never leave You – your very Will is the life
of my "I LOVE YOU".
But do You know what this little child wants? That the
Divine Will of your Father, which You loved so much, and which You did during
all your Life upon earth, make Itself known to all creatures, so that all may
love It and fulfill your Will, on earth as It is in Heaven. This little child
would want to surpass You in love, so that You may give your Will to all
creatures. Please, make this poor little one happy, who wants nothing but what
You want: that your Will be known and reign upon all the earth.’
Now I believe that obedience will be happy in some way.
Though it is true that in many things I had to make a few jumps, otherwise I
would never end. Fusing myself in the Divine Volition is like a springing fount
for me; and every tiny thing I hear and see, even one offense given to my
Jesus, is occasion for me for new ways and new fusions in His Most Holy Will.
Now, I continue by saying that my sweet Jesus told me:
"My
daughter, to all you have said on fusing yourself in my Will, another
application must be added – that of fusing yourself in the order of grace, in
all that the Sanctifier – the Holy Spirit – has done and will do to those who
are to be sanctified. Furthermore, while We - the Three Divine Persons
- remain always united in working, if Creation is related to the Father, and
Redemption to the Son – the "Fiat
Voluntas Tua" was attributed to the Holy Spirit. And it is
exactly in the "Fiat Voluntas Tua" that the Divine Spirit will
display His Work. You do it when, in coming before the Supreme Majesty, you
say: ‘I come to give love in return for everything which the Sanctifier does to
those who are to be sanctified. I come to enter into the order of grace, to
give You glory and return of love, as if all had become Saints, and to repair
You for all the oppositions and lack of correspondence to grace…"; and as
much as you can, in Our Will you search for the acts of grace of the Spirit
Sanctifier, in order to make your own - His sorrow, His secret moans, His
anguishing sighs in the depth of the hearts, on seeing Himself unwelcome. And
since the first act He does is to bring our Will as the complete act of their
sanctification, on seeing Himself rejected, He moans with inexpressible moans.
And in your childlike simplicity, you say to Him: ‘Spirit Sanctifier, hurry, I
implore You, I beg You, let everyone know your Will, so that, in knowing It,
they may love It and welcome your prime act of their complete sanctification –
which is your Holy Will!’ My daughter, We - the Three Divine Persons - are
inseparable and distinct, and in this way do We want to manifest to the human
generations Our Works for them: while remaining united within Ourselves, each
One of Us wants to manifest individually His Love and His Work for the
creatures."
Volume 18 - November 1925
The moans of the Holy Spirit in the Sacraments. The return of love of
the soul.
I was fusing myself in the Holy Divine Will according
to my usual way; and while I was trying, as much as I could, to return my Jesus
with my little love for all that He has done in Redemption, my adorable and
sweet Love, Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: "My daughter, with your
flight in my Will, reach all the Sacraments instituted by Me; descend into
their depths, to give Me your little return of love. Oh, how many of my secret tears
you will find, how many bitter sighs, how many suffocated moans of the Holy
Spirit! His moaning is continuous, before the many disillusions of Our Love.
The Sacraments were instituted in order to continue my
Life on earth in the midst of my children. But, alas, how many sorrows! This is
why I feel the necessity of your little love. It may be small, but my Will will
make it great. My Love does not tolerate for one who must live in my Will not
to be associated to my sorrows, and not to give Me her little return of love
for all that I have done and that I suffer. So, my daughter, see how my Love
moans in the Sacraments.
If I see the newborn being baptized, I cry with
sorrow, because while with baptism I restore his innocence - I find again my
child, I give back to him the rights over Creation which he had lost, I smile
at him with love and satisfaction, I make the enemy flee from him, that he may
no longer have any right over him, I entrust him to the Angels and all Heaven
makes feast for him – soon my smile turns into sorrow, the feast into mourning…
I see that the one who is being baptized will be an enemy of mine, a new Adam,
and maybe even a lost soul. Oh, how my Love moans in each Baptism! Especially,
then, if one adds that the Minister who is baptizing him does not do it with
the respect, the dignity and the decorum which befit a Sacrament containing a
new regeneration… Ah, many times they pay more attention to a bagatelle, to
just any show, than to administering a Sacrament. So my Love feels pricked by
the baptizer as well as the baptized, and It moans with inexpressible moans.
Would you not want, then, to give Me a return of love,
a loving moan, for each baptism, to keep company to my sorrowful moans?
Move on to the Sacrament of Confirmation. Ah, how many
bitter sighs! While with Confirmation I restore his courage, I give him back the lost
strengths, rendering him invincible to all his enemies and to his passions, he
is admitted in the ranks of the militia of his Creator, so that he may fight in
order to acquire the Celestial Fatherland, and the Holy Spirit gives him His
loving kiss once again, lavishing a thousand caresses on him, and offering
Himself as the companion of his career – many times, however, He feels
He is being returned with the kiss of the traitor, His caresses being despised,
His company shunned. How many moans, how many sighs for his return, how many
secret voices to the heart, to the one who shuns Him - to the point of getting
tired of speaking… But – no! It is all in vain!
Therefore, do you not want to give your return of
love, your loving kiss, your company to the Holy Spirit, who moans for so much
neglect?
But, do not stop, continue your flight and you will
hear the anguishing moans of the Holy Spirit in the Sacrament of Penance. How much ingratitude! How many abuses and profanations,
on the part of those who administer it and on the part of those who receive it!
In this Sacrament, my Blood becomes active upon the contrite sinner, in order
to descend into his soul, to wash him, to embellish him, to heal him and
strengthen him, to restore in him the lost Grace, to place in his hands the
keys of Heaven, which sin had snatched away from him, to seal on his forehead
the peaceful kiss of forgiveness… But, alas, how many harrowing moans, in
seeing souls approaching this Sacrament of Penance without sorrow, out of
habit, almost as a vent of the human heart! Others – horrible to be said –
instead of coming to find the life of their soul – grace, come to find death,
to pour out their passions… Therefore, the Sacrament is reduced to a mockery, to
a nice chat, and my Blood, instead of descending into them as cleansing,
descends as fire, which withers them even more. And so, in every Confession,
Our Love cries inconsolably and, sobbing, repeats: ‘Human ingratitude, how
great you are! Everywhere you try to offend Me; and while I offer you Life, you
turn the very Life I offer you into death!’
See, then, how Our moans await your return of love in
the Sacrament of Penance.
Don’t let your love stop here; go through all the
Tabernacles, through each Sacramental Host, and in each Host you will hear the
Holy Spirit moan with inexpressible moans. The Sacrament of the Eucharist is not only the life
of the souls who receive it, but is my own Life, which gives Itself to them.
So, the fruit of this Sacrament is to form my Life in them; each Communion
serves to make my Life grow, to develop It, in such a way as to be able to say,
‘I am another Christ’. But, alas, how few take advantage of it! Even
more, how many times I descend into hearts and they make Me find the weapons to
wound Me - they repeat to Me the tragedy of the Passion! And as the Sacramental
species are consumed, instead of pressing Me to stay with them, they force Me
to leave, bathed with tears, crying over my sacramental destiny; and I find no
one to soothe my crying and my sorrowful moans… If you could break those veils
of the Host, which cover Me, you would find Me bathed with crying, knowing the
destiny that awaits Me in descending into hearts.
Therefore, let your return of love be continuous for each
Host, in order to soothe my crying. You will render the moans of the Holy
Spirit less sorrowful.
Do not stop, otherwise We will not find you always
together with Us in Our moans and in Our secret tears; We will feel the void of
your return of love…
Descend into the Sacrament of Ordination. Here, yes,
you will find Our most intimate and hidden sorrows, the most bitter tears, the
most harrowing moans... The Ordination constitutes man to a supreme height, to
a divine character – the repeater of my Life, the administrator of the
Sacraments, the one who reveals my secrets, my Gospel, the most sacred science;
the peacemaker between Heaven and earth, the bearer of Jesus to souls. But,
alas, how many times We see that the ordained will be a Judas for Us, a usurper
of the character which is impressed on him! Oh, how the Holy Spirit moans in
seeing the ordained snatching from Him the most sacred things, the greatest
character which exists between Heaven and earth! How many profanations!
Each act of this ordained, not done according to the character which has been
impressed on him, will be a cry of sorrow, a bitter crying, a harrowing moan…
The Ordination is the Sacrament which encloses all other Sacraments together.
Therefore, if the ordained is able to preserve whole within himself the
character he has received, he will almost rescue the other Sacraments; he will
be the defender and the savior of Jesus Himself. But, not seeing this in the
ordained, Our sorrows increase even more, Our moans become more continuous and
sorrowful.
Therefore, let your return of love flow in each
priestly act, to keep company to the moaning Love of the Holy Spirit.
Lend Us the ear of your heart and listen to Our
profound moans in the Sacrament of Marriage. How many disorders in it! Marriage
was raised by Me as a Sacrament, in order to place in it a sacred bond, the
symbol of the Sacrosanct Trinity, the Divine Love which It encloses. Therefore,
the love which was to reign in the father, in the mother and in the children,
the concord and peace among them, was to symbolize the Celestial Family. I was
to have as many other families upon earth, similar to the Family of the
Creator, destined to populate the earth like as many terrestrial angels, who
would then populate the Celestial regions. But, alas, how many moans in seeing
many families of sin being formed in Marriage, which symbolize hell, with
discord, with lack of love, with hatred, and which populate the earth like many
rebellious angels, who will serve to populate hell… The Holy Spirit moans with
harrowing moans in each Marriage, in seeing so many infernal dens being formed
upon earth.
Therefore, place your return of love in each Marriage,
in each creature which comes to the light; in this way, your loving moan will
render Our continuous moans less sorrowful.
Our moans are not yet finished; so let your return of
love reach the bed of the dying when he receives the Sacrament of the Extreme
Unction. But, alas, how many moans, how many secret tears! This Sacrament has
the virtue of placing the dying sinner in safety, at any cost, and it is the
confirmation of sanctity for the good and the saints. It is the last bond which it
establishes, through its Unction, between the creature and God; it is the seal
from Heaven which it impresses in the redeemed soul, in order to purify her and
embellish her; it is the final touch which the Holy Spirit gives her in order
to dispose her to leave the earth, so as to make her appear before her Creator.
In sum, the Extreme Unction is the last display of Our Love; it is the
last clothing of the soul; it is the settlement of all the good works, and
therefore it acts in a surprising way in those who are alive to Grace. With the
Extreme Unction, the soul is as though covered by a celestial dew, which
deadens, as in one breath, her passions, her attachment to the earth and to all
that does not belong to Heaven… But, alas, how many moans, how many bitter
tears, how many indispositions, how much negligence; how great the loss of
souls, how few the sanctities it finds to be confirmed, how scarce the good
works to be reordered and rearranged!
Oh, if all could hear Our moans, Our crying upon the
bed of the dying, in the act of administering the Sacrament of the Extreme
Unction - all would cry with sorrow!
Do you not want, then, to give Us your return of love
for each time this Sacrament is administered, which is the last display of Our
Love toward the creature? Our Will awaits it everywhere, in order to have your
return of love and your company to Our moans and sighs."
Volume 22 - June 12, 1927
Relations that exist between Creator and creature,
between Redeemer and redeemed ones, between Sanctifier and sanctified
ones. Who it is that will be able to
read the divine characters.
…And one who wants to know
and receive all the relations and bonds of sanctity, must love the
Sanctifier. The Holy Spirit puts His flames
on the way toward one who truly loves, and binds her with the relations of His
sanctity. Without love there is no
sanctity, because the bonds of true sanctity are already broken.”
From Volume 1
After this, on that morning, in order to dispose my
heart more, Jesus spoke about the annihilation of myself. He also spoke of the immense desire which I
was to excite within me in order to dispose myself to receive that grace. He told me that desire makes up for the lacks
and imperfections that may be in the soul; it is like a mantle that covers
everything. But this was not a simple
speaking – it was an infusion in me of that which He was saying.
While my soul was exciting itself with ardent
yearnings for receiving the grace that Jesus Himself wanted to give me, Jesus
came back and transported me outside of myself, up to Paradise . And there, in the presence of the Most Holy
Trinity and of all the Celestial
Court
Who can tell my confusion when I found myself before
the Most Holy Trinity? I will just say
that as soon as I found myself in their presence, I fell flat to the ground,
and I would have remained there if it wasn’t for Jesus, who encouraged me to go
into their presence, so much was the light, the sanctity of God. I am only saying this; the other things I
will leave out, because I remember them confusedly.
