Saturday, September 9, 2017

The Echo of Love


The Echo of Love



“Mary was created only for God, and it is unthinkable that she should reserve even one soul for herself.  On the contrary, she leads every soul straight to God and to union with Him.  Mary is the wonderful echo of God.  The more a person joins himself to her, the more effectively she unites him to God.  When we say ‘Mary’, she re-echoes ‘God’.”  (God Alone, Secret of Mary, St. Louis Marie de Montfort, p/268)



“…you never think of Mary without Mary thinking of God for you.  You never praise or honor Mary without Mary joining you in praising and honoring God.  Mary is entirely relative to God.  Indeed I would say that she was relative only to God, because she exists uniquely in reference to Him.  She is an echo of God, speaking and repeating only God.  If you say “Mary” she says “God.”  When St. Elizabeth praised Mary calling her blessed because she had believed, Mary, the faithful echo of God, responded with her Canticle, ‘My soul glorifies the Lord.’” (God Alone, True Devotion to Mary,   St. Louis Marie de Montfort, p/362)



Book of Heaven, Vol. 2, October 25, 1899: 

“My daughter, my love toward creatures is so great that it resounds like an echo in the celestial regions, it fills the atmosphere and diffuses over the whole earth.  But what is the correspondence that creatures give to this loving echo?  Ah, they requite Me with an echo of ingratitude, poisonous, filled with every kind of bitterness and sins; with an echo almost deadly, fit only for wounding Me.  But I will depopulate the face of the earth, so that this echo resounding with poison may not deafen my ears.”

“Tell me, my only Good, how could I sweeten this poisonous echo for You which afflicts You so much?”  And He: “The only means is that you always do all your actions with the sole purpose of pleasing Me, and that you employ all your senses and power for the purpose of loving Me and of glorifying Me.  Let your every thought, word, and everything else, want nothing but the love you have for Me: in this way your echo will rise pleasant to my throne and will sweeten my hearing.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 3, January 22, 1900:

“What I recommend to you is correspondence to my grace, and in order to be faithful, you must be like the echo that resounds in an empty space: as soon as a voice is emitted, immediately, without the slightest hesitation, one can hear the echo booming after it.  In the same way, as soon as you begin to receive my grace, without even waiting for Me to finish giving it, begin immediately the echo of your correspondence.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 6, December 28, 1903:

“My daughter, all human lives are in my Humanity in Heaven as though inside a cloister; and since they are inside my cloister, the regime of their lives comes from Me.  Not only this, but my Humanity, being the cloister, conducts the lives of each soul.  What joy is mine when souls remain in this cloister, and the echo that comes from my Humanity blends with the echo of each human life of the earth?”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 11, April 1, 1916:

My daughter, for one who really loves Me and does my Will in everything, her heartbeat and mine become one.  So I call them my heartbeats and, as such, I want them around and even inside the heartbeat of my Heart – all intent on consoling Me and sweetening all my sorrowful heartbeats.  Her heartbeat in mine will form a sweet harmony, which will repeat my whole life for Me, and will speak to Me of souls, forcing Me to save them.  But, my daughter, what stripping is required to be the echo of my heartbeat!  It must be a life more of Heaven than of earth – more divine than human!  Even one shadow, one little thing, is enough to prevent the soul from feeling the strength, the harmonies, the sanctity of my heartbeat; and so she does not echo my heartbeat, she does not harmonize together with Me, and I am forced to remain alone in my sorrow or in my joys.



Book of Heaven, Vol. 12, May 10, 1917:

“And when I find a soul who loves Me, how sweet her breath is, how she amuses Me – I feel cheered.  An echo of harmonies is formed between Me and her; so she remains distinct from the other creatures, and she will be distinct also in Heaven.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 12, June 4, 1918:

“If you want to be safe, repair always, and repair together with Me.  Identify yourself with Me so much, as to form one single echo of reparations between Me and you.  Wherever there is reparation, the soul is as though in shelter, where she is protected from cold, from hail and from everything.”  “Times are most sad, and if the circle of reparations is not enlarged, there is the danger that those who remain uncovered may be struck by the thunderbolts of Divine Justice.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 12, Jan. 2, 1919:

“Here is, my daughter, the true portrait of loving souls.  Everything must remain silent in them and around them: esteem, glory, pleasures, honors, greatness, will, creatures.  And if the soul had these things, she must remain 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 and loves will be nothing other than love, which will have one single echo with Mine, and will ask Me for souls.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 12, Feb. 13, 1919:

“they (the souls that will live in the Divine Will) are exactly the ones, who, without the shadow of interest and of personal sanctity – but rather, fully divine – will live for the good of their brothers, forming one single echo with Heaven.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 12, Dec. 6, 1919:

“My daughter, echo of my Life, while you were praying, my Mercy was softening, and my Justice was losing sharpness – and not only in the present time, but also in the future, because your prayer will remain in act in my Will. By virtue of it, my softened Mercy will flow more abundantly, and my Justice will be less rigorous.”



 Book of Heaven, Vol. 12, May 24, 1920:

“What will the happiness of the soul be when she finds herself up there in Heaven and sees her acts done in my Will, as defenders of my Throne, and which, having a continuous echo of reparation, will reject the echo of the offenses that come from the earth?



Book of Heaven, Vol. 12, Nov. 28, 1920:

“Oh!  If all could see this blessing of Mine, they would feel it in the water they drink, in the fire that warms them, in the food they take, in the sorrow that afflicts them, in the moans of their prayer, in the remorses of guilt, in the abandonment of creatures.  In everything they would hear my creative word saying to them – but, alas, it is not heard:

‘I bless you in the name of the Father, of Myself, the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  I bless you to help you, I bless you to defend you, to forgive you, to console you – I bless you to make you a saint.’  And the creature would echo my blessings, by blessing Me too, in everything.  These are the effects of my blessing; and my Church, instructed by Me, echoes Me, and in almost all circumstances – the administration of the Sacraments and others – She gives Her blessing.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 13, May 1, 1921:

“In the soul who lives in my Will, I feel the echo of my power, of my love, of my sanctity; in all of my acts I feel the echo of her own.



Book of Heaven, Vol. 13, Nov. 12, 1921:

“This is why I love and will love the world: because I am waiting for my sanctity to have Its echo over the earth, and for my rays to come out to the light and to give Me complete glory, returning to Me the love and the honor which the others have not given to Me.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 14, March 28, 1922:

“Therefore, one who lives in my Will is the echo of my voice, the repeater of my Life, the perfect glory of my Creation.  How could I not love her?  How could I not give to her all that I should give to all the other creatures together, giving her primacy over everything?  Ah, my love would feel constrained if I did not do so!”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 14, April 17, 1922:

“The echo of Our Volition will be the echo of Our own Volition possessed by you; the exchanges will be mutual, love will be reciprocal; we will be in full harmony, and the creature will disappear within her Creator.  Then, nothing else will be lacking to Our joy, to Our happiness, for which We delivered Creation.  The ‘Let Us make man in Our Image and likeness’ will have its effect.  Our Will alone, as actor within the creature, will give completion to everything, and the Creation will bring Us the divine purpose, and We will receive It in Our womb as Our work, just as We delivered It.  And then, if you cannot be without Me, it is the echo of my love that resounds in your heart, and unable to be without you, it reverberates in you; and you, shaken, look for the One who loves you so much.  And I, seeing that you are searching for Me, feel the echo of your love within mine, and I feel drawn to send you a new current of love, so that you may look for Me more.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 14, June 9, 1922:

“In you I hear the echo of my creative word: ‘Let Us make man in Our image and likeness,’ and I see the fulfillment of it.  Ah!  Our Will alone will make man return to this first origin.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 14, July 28, 1922:

“Expand your will in Mine – nothing must escape you which is not caught in the net of my Will and of yours.  My Will in Me and my Will in you must fuse together and have the same endless boundaries; but I need that your will be disposed to extend within Mine, and that nothing escape it of the things created by Me, so that in all things I may hear the echo of the Divine Will in the human will, and generate my likeness in it.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 14, Oct. 19, 1922:

“I am not the isolated God – no.  I want the creature together with Me; my echo must resound in hers, and hers in mine, so as to make them one.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 15, May 2, 1923:

“My daughter, oh, how well your acts done in my Will harmonize!  They harmonize with Mine, with those of my beloved Mama, and the ones disappear into the others, forming one single act.  It seems that Heaven is on earth and that the earth is in Heaven.  And the echo of one act in three and of three in one, of the Most Holy Trinity – oh, how sweetly it sounds to Our ears, how it enraptures Us; so much as to capture Our Will from Heaven to earth!”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 16, Dec. 6, 1923:

(Luisa) “I will not depart from our throne if You do not bind the human will with the Divine, so that, as I take It to earth, the Kingdom of your Will may come upon earth.  Nothing is denied to the little ones, because what they ask is nothing other than the echo of your own Will and of what You Yourself want.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 16, May 24, 1924:

“So, everything I have told you about my Will had this as my purpose: that my Will

Be known and come to reign upon earth – and what I have said will be.  I will overwhelm everything in order to obtain this, but everything must return to Me within that word – ‘Fiat’.  ‘Fiat’ did God say, and ‘Fiat’ must man say.  In all his things, he will have nothing but the echo of my Fiat, the mark of my Fiat, the works of my Fiat, so that I may give the goods which my Will contains.  In this way, I will fulfill the complete purpose of all Creation.”



 Book of Heaven, Vol. 17, Oct. 2, 1924:

“Daughter of Our Eternal Will, prostrate yourself before Our Supreme Majesty and offer your adorations, your homages, your praises, in the name of all, with the Power of Our Will, with the Wisdom and with the Will of Our Supreme Love.  In this way We will feel in you the Power of Our Will adoring Us, the Wisdom of Our Will glorifying Us, the Love of Our Will loving Us and praising Us.  And since the Power, the Wisdom and the Love of the three Divine Persons are in communication with the intellect, the memory and the will of all creatures, We will feel your adorations, homages and praises flow within all the intelligences of creatures, which, rising between Heaven and earth, will make us hear the echo of Our own Power Wisdom and Love, adoring Us, praising Us and loving Us.  Greater adorations, more noble homages, love and praises more divine, she cannot give Us.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 17, Oct. 30, 1924:

“Not only did the creature not want to maintain this alternation of love or to respond to the echo of the love of her Creator, but she rejected this Love, she denied It and offended It.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 17, Feb. 22, 1925:

“My daughter, how my Heart is wounded by the prayer of one who seeks only my Will!  I hear the echo of my prayer, which I did when I was upon earth.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 17, April 23, 1925:

“Therefore, you must know that in creating man, God infused Life in him with His breath; and in this Life He infused in him an intelligence, a memory and a will, to place them in relation with His Divine Will.  This Divine Will was to be like a king; It was to dominate all of the interior of the creature and to give Life to all in such a way as to form the intelligence and the memory wanted by the Supreme Will in her.  Once this was formed, it was as though natural for the eye of the creature to look at created things and to know their order and the Will of God over the whole universe.  The hearing was to hear the prodigies of this Eternal Will.  The mouth, which was to feel the continuous breath of its Creator, communicating to it the Life and the goods contained in His Will, was to echo that Eternal Fiat with its word, to narrate what ‘Will of God’ means.  The hands were to be the expression of the works of this Supreme Will.  The feet were to do nothing but follow, step by step, the steps of their Creator.  So, once the Divine Will is established in the will of the creature, she has the eyes, the hearing, the mouth, the hands, the feet of my Will.  She never departs from the origin from which she came…”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 17, April 26, 1925:

“…no, it is not true that I have left you.  How is it, don’t you feel Me within yourself?  Don’t you hear the echo of my prayer in your interior as I embrace everything and everyone in such a way that no one can escape Me, since all things and all generations are like one single point for Me, and so I pray, I love, I adore my Father, I repair for all?  And you, echoing my prayer, feel as if you were holding everyone and everything in your power and you repeat what I do.”  Is it perhaps you or your capacity to do this?  Ah, no, no!  It is I, who am within you.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 17, Aug. 2, 1925:

“I was praying and fusing myself in the Holy Divine Will.  I wanted to wander everywhere, up to the Heavens, in order to find that Supreme ‘I love you’ which is not subject to any interruption.  I wanted to make it my own so that I too might have an ‘I love you’ which is never interrupted and which might echo the Eternal ‘I love you’ and by possessing the source of the true ‘I love you’ within me, I might have an ‘I love you’ for each one and for all – for each motion, for each act, for each breath, for each heartbeat, and for each ‘I love you’ of my Jesus Himself.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 17, Oct. 21, 1925:

“All of Heaven is in my Will; and being in this Supreme Volition, they feel everything I do and the echo of my acts, and corresponding to my echo, they repeat whatever I do.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 18, Feb. 6, 1926:

“…my aim upon you is exactly this: to make you return to the origin as when We created man.  Therefore I do not want division between Me and you, nor that what is Mine may not be yours; rather, in order to give you your rights, I want you to recognize what is Mine, so that loving everything and letting your ‘I love You’ flow upon all things, all of Creation may recognize you.  They will feel in you the echo of the beginning of the creation of man, and delighting in it will yearn to be possessed by you.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 19, March 14, 1926:

“Now, one who has won the Divine Will has won the whole Creation and even God

Himself; therefore, by right of justice, she must possess all that my Will possesses.  More so, since the Creation is mute for Its Creator; and I made It mute because the one to whom I was to give It and who was to live in my Will, would, herself, have speech in all created things so that all things made by Me might be speaking, not mute.  So, you will be the voice of the heavens; and echoing from one point to another, it will make your word heard, which resounding through the whole celestial atmosphere, will say: ‘I love, I glorify, I adore my Creator…”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 19, April 9, 1926:

“But do you want to know in whom all created things find the echo of their joy and happiness?  In one in whom they find my Will reigning and dominating, because that Will which reigns in them as whole, that which God Himself possesses, and that which reigns in the soul, become one and make seas of joys, of happiness, and of contentments overflow into one another.  Indeed, it is a true feast.”



 Book of Heaven, Vol. 19, April 16, 1926:

“You must be Our echo, that echo of Our Celestial Mama, because She alone lived perfectly and fully in the Supreme Volition, therefore, She can be your guide and act as your teacher.”



 Book of Heaven, Vol. 19, July 2, 1926:

“My daughter, come with Me in the midst of Creation.  Heaven and earth await you – they want the one who, animated by that same Will that animates them and gives them life, would make the whole Creation resound with that most sweet echo of the eternal love of their Maker.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 19, July 20, 1926:

“…do you know what is the enchantment that enraptures Me?  Your little ‘I love You’ on each created thing.  With this little ‘I love You’ of yours impressed on each of them, they all speak to Me of your love, they speak to Me of my newborn of my Will; I hear the harmonious echo of the whole Creation that speaks to Me about you.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 19, July 29, 1926:

“Now, had I come upon earth to redeem him, one drop of my Blood, one little pain of mine would have been enough to put him in safety; but since I came not only to save him, but to give him back my Will, which he had lost, this Divine Will wanted to descend into all my pains, into my tears, into my sighs and moans – into everything I did and suffered, in order to reacquire the dominion in all and over all human acts, and therefore be able to form, once again, Its Kingdom in the midst of creatures.  So, as a little child, when I cried, wailed, moaned, my Divine Will more than solar ray, invested all Creation with my tears, with my moans and sighs.  The stars, the sun, the starry sky, the sea, the little flower – all cried, moaned, wailed and sighed because the Divine Will present in Me was the same as that which reigned in all Creation and, therefore, as though naturally, the stars cried, the sky moaned, the sun wailed, the sea sighed.  The light of my Will brought my echo into all created things, and repeating my acts, they kept company with their Creator.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 19, August 29, 1926:

Luisa:  “My Love, I have many things to tell You – many things to establish between You and me; I must ask of You that your Will be known and that Its Kingdom have Its full triumph…Jesus interrupting my speaking, with unspeakable tenderness pressed me so very tightly to Himself, and kissing me told me: “My daughter, how beautiful on your lips is the prayer for the triumph of the Kingdom of the Supreme Will. It is the echo of my own prayer, of my sighs and of all my works.” *



 Book of Heaven, Vol. 19, Sept. 7, 1926:

Luisa:  I was about to resume my flight in the Supreme Volition, to make my usual visit in the Kingdom of the Divine Will and to extend myself within Its boundaries in order to let my ‘I love You,’ my adoration, my ‘thank You’ echo for each created thing.



Book of Heaven, Vol. 19, Sept. 15, 1926:

Luisa:  Then, while I was in the arms of Jesus, the immense light of the Divine Will that filled Heaven and earth called me to go around in It, to have me do my usual acts, to have my “I love You” my adoration echo in the whole Creation that It might have the company of Its little daughter in each created thing in which It reigns and dominates.  Then, after I did this, my sweet Jesus told me: “My daughter, what light, what power, what glory the act of the creature acquires done in My Will!  These acts are more than sun.



Book of Heaven, Vol. 20, Sept. 20, 1926:

Luisa:  Having finished writing a book and having to start another one, I felt the weight of writing and almost embittered, I sighed.  And my sweet Jesus…told me:  “My daughter, you have not understood well what it means to live in my Will.  While you were sighing, the Creation and everyone, and even Myself, have sighed together with you, because for those who live in It, one is the life, one the act, one the motion, one the echo.  They cannot help doing the same thing together because God is the prime motion, and since all created things have come out of a motion full of life, there is nothing which does not possess His motion – they all go around the prime motion of their Creator…My daughter, your sigh of regret has formed its echo in everyone.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 20, Nov. 1, 1926:

“…continuing your round in the space of Creation, you will arrive at the sun, a sphere which is closer to the earth than the heavens, in order to bring to the creatures the fount of terrestrial happiness, the similes of the beatitudes, and the flavors of the happiness of the Celestial Fatherland.  Do you want to know then what my Will does in the sun?  It glorifies Our interminable light, Our innumerable flavors.  It loves and glorifies Our infinite sweetnesses, the indescribable shades of Our beauties; and with its heat, It echoes Our immense Love.  Oh!  How the sun sings Our praises; how it loves and glorifies Our Divine Being.  Just as Our Divinity, unveiled, beatifies the whole Celestial Fatherland with every new acts, in the same way, the sun, faithful echo of its Creator, celestial bearer of the Supreme Majesty, veiled by its light in which my Will dominates and reigns, brings terrestrial happiness to the earth.



Book of Heaven, Vol. 20, Dec. 8, 1926:

“My daughter, you are Our echo.  As you enter into Our Will in order to love, to praise, to ask for the coming of Our Kingdom, We hear in you the echo of Our Love, the echo of Our Glory, the echo of Our Fiat that wants to come upon earth in order to reign, that wants to be prayed, and prayed again, and be pressed to come to reign on earth as It does in Heaven.  And as you go around through the whole Creation to follow the acts of the Supreme Will in It, We hear your echo in the sea, in the valleys, on the mountains, in the sun, in the heaven, in the stars – in everything.  How beautiful is this echo – it is Our echo which resounds in all of Our things.  In this echo, We hear the echo of Our voice, the motion of Our works, the treading of Our steps, the motions – the pulsation of Our heartbeat, and We greatly delight in seeing your littleness, as you, while echoing try to imitate Our voice, to copy the motions of our works, to make the same sound as Our steps, and to love with Our own heartbeat.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 21, March 16, 1927:

“…in order to give back to him (man) this Kingdom – these universal goods; first He wants, by right, a creature who by living in this Fiat would communicate this universal act to Him.  So, as she loves, adores, glorifies and prays, together with His Will, she constitutes herself as universal love for all – adoration and glory for each creature; and diffusing her prayer as if everyone were praying, she prays in a universal manner that the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat may come into the midst of creatures.  When a good is universal, universal acts are needed in order to obtain it; and these acts are only in my Will.  As you love in It, your love extends wherever my Will is; and my Will feels your love in every place – It feels Itself followed everywhere.  Therefore, It feels in you the original love, with which It had established to be loved by the creature in the beginning of Creation; It feels Its own echo in your love, which does not know how to love with a little and finite love, but with infinite and universal love.  It feels the first love of Adam before he sinned, when he did nothing but repeat the echo of the Will of His Creator…”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 22, June 8, 1927:

“…you must know that my Will forms the echo of Its works, of Its love, of Its word in the soul in whom It reigns, in such a way that on hearing Its echo, the soul repeats the work, the love and the word of the Divine Fiat.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 22, July 30, 1927:

“Now, Our Will, life and perfect echo of Our Divine Being, is incessant motion, and therefore, It is perfect good and a good which can give itself to all.  When a good is incessant, all can take it, its continuous motion makes it possess the spring of inexhaustibility.  Therefore, one who must live in my Divine Will must possess the echo of my Will and, with incessant motion, follow Its acts and the good that comes to you, which places you in the order of the divine motion, moves you with enchanting rapidity, and goes around together with all created things.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 23, Sept. 25, 1927:

“Therefore, I call you to work together with Me in this, my Kingdom.  I work by preparing the earth; it is necessary to purify it, it is too sullied, there are certain points which do not deserve to exist any more so many are their evils, therefore it is necessary that both its inhabitants and the sullied earth itself disappear.  The Kingdom of my Divine Will is the holiest, the purest, the most beautiful and orderly Kingdom that must come upon earth, therefore, it is necessary that the earth be prepared and purified; and so, while I work on purifying it and, if needed, on destroying places and people unworthy of a Kingdom so holy, you will work by moving Heaven and earth with your acts done in my Volition.  Your echo will be incessant, which you will make resound in all Creation asking for the Kingdom of my Fiat with your continuous acts, if needed, your pains, and even your life.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 23, Sept. 28, 1927:

“How beautiful these divine lives in the creatures would have been.  In looking at them, We were to find in them Our reflection, Our image, the echo of Our happiness.  What joy, what feast Creation would have been for Us and for the creatures!”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 24, April 16, 1928:

“My daughter, as the Divine Will pronounced Its Fiat in Creation, it formed the echo.  As it resounded in the empty space of the whole universe, this divine echo drew and carried all of Our qualities with it and it filled Heaven and earth with Our Love.  As it came out from Our Fiat, this echo created the most beautiful things – heavens, suns, winds, seas, and many other things.  This echo remained in each created thing and it maintains the life of the blue heavens with all the stars; the life of the sun, and continuing with its echo of light and heat, it preserves it full of light, whole and beautiful just as it created it.  So, each created thing has the echo of Our Fiat as its beginning and preservation; this is why they preserve the order, the power, the harmony, the magnificence of Our works.  Whenever the Divinity wants to operate and reproduce, even Our very Life, Our Fiat forms the echo and the echo creates and forms whatever We want.  See also in instituting the Sacrament of the Eucharist, Our Fiat formed the echo; the echo invested the bread and wine and formed in them my Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.  That echo still resounds in each Host and so my Sacramental Life is perpetuated continuously.  Now, this echo resounded in the creation of man, but by withdrawing from Our Will, man lost this echo – he no longer felt, inside and outside of himself its sweet, powerful, harmonizing sound which had the virtue of preserving him just as he came out of Our creative hands; so he became weak and disharmonized.  Poor man, without the echo of Our Fiat which had given him life – he was no longer able to reorder himself – he no longer felt within himself the echo of the Light of his Creator, the echo of Love, the echo of order, of power, of wisdom, of divine sweetness and goodness.  Without the echo of Our Fiat, man became like a child who grows without mama, who has no one to feed him the words, to teach him works and steps; or like a student who has no teacher to teach him how to read and write; and if he does anything at all by himself, he will do it disordered.  Such is man without the echo of Our Fiat…”  “Now, as the soul keeps calling my Will as the beginning of all of her being, she will feel Its divine echo.  This echo will call her back to her beginning and resounding in her, it will reorder her anew; and just as Our echo retreated from man because he withdrew from Our Divine Will, in the same way, as creatures recognize It, love It and want nothing but Our Divine Fiat, the echo of Our Will will return to the midst of creatures.  The Kingdom of Our Fiat is exactly this: the return of Our divine echo  not the far away echo which has often resounded to the hearing of man from the time he withdrew from Our Will; but the continuous echo which will resound in the depth of souls and transforming them, it will form Divine Life in them giving back to them the order of man as he was created.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 24, April 26, 1928:

“My daughter, indeed nothing escaped my Mama because everything I did and suffered resounded like a deep echo in the depth of Her soul.  And She was so attentive in waiting for the echo of my acts that the echo, together with everything I did and suffered, would remain imprinted in Her.  And the Sovereign Queen emitted Her echo within Mine and made it resound in the depth of my interior, in such a way that torrents would run between Me and Her – seas of light and of love which unloaded themselves into each other; and I made the deposit of all my acts in Her maternal Heart.  I would not have been content had I not had Her always with Me – had I not felt Her continuous echo which, resounding in Mine, drew even my heartbeats and breaths to be deposited in Her. Likewise, I would not be content if, from that time, I did not have you, who were to follow all of my acts in my Divine Will.  In fact, from that time I made their deposit in you, moving the echo of my Mama into the depth of your soul.  And through the length of the centuries I looked at the echo of my Mama in you in order to realize the Kingdom of my Divine Will.  This is why you feel as though drawn to follow all of my acts – it is Her maternal echo that resounds in you…”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 24, April 29, 1928:

“…you must know that when all things, small and big, were created, I never tired of beading them with my repeated and incessant ‘I love you’s’ for you; and just as I did not tire of placing them, so I do not tire of hearing them being repeated by you.  On the contrary, I enjoy that my ‘I love you’ does not remain isolated, but has the company of yours; and as yours echoes in Mine, they fuse together and live a common life.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 25, Oct. 7, 1928:

“My daughter, this group of people whom you see all in motion for the opening of the House of My Divine Will is symbolic of that group of people when I wanted to be born in Bethlehem and the shepherds were coming and going to visit Me, a little Baby.  This pointed out to all the certainty of My birth.  In the same way, this group of people, all in motion, points out the rebirth of the Kingdom of My Divine Will.  Look at how all of Heaven echoes My birth, when the Angels, celebrating it, announced Me to the shepherds and putting them in motion made them keep coming to Me, and I recognized in them the first fruits of the Kingdom of My Redemption.  So now, in this group of people, of little girls and nuns, I recognize the beginning of the Kingdom of My Divine Will.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 25, Oct. 10, 1928:

“How beautiful is the company of one who does My Divine Will.  My Will brings into the depth of the soul the echo of everything I do in this Holy Host, and I do not feel alone in My Acts – I feel that she is praying together with Me; and as our supplications, our sighs, unite together, we ask for one same thing – that the Divine Will be known and that Its Kingdom come soon.”



 Book of Heaven, Vol. 25, Oct. 17, 1928:

“You too pray, and as you echo My prayer, I hear your continuous speaking by putting all My Acts. And all created things in motion; and you ask Me, in the name of everyone and everything, that My Will be known and form in them Its Kingdom.

Your echo and Mine are one, and we ask for one same thing – that everything may return into the Eternal Fiat and Its just rights be given back to It.



Book of Heaven, Vol. 25, Oct. 28, 1928:

“Oh!  If the leaders of the Church knew what I have manifested to you about My Divine Will, what I want to do, Its great prodigies, My yearnings, My sorrowful heartbeats, My anguishing sighs, for I want My Will to reign, to make everyone happy, to restore the human family – they would feel that in this Feast of Christ the King is nothing other than the secret echo of My Heart that, echoing in them, without their knowing it, has them institute for Me the Feast of Christ the King in order to call their attention and reflection: Christ the King…And His true people – where are they?  And they would say:  ‘Let us hasten to make His Divine Will known; let us let It reign, that we may give a people to Christ the King whom we have called so.  Otherwise, we have honored Him with words, but not with facts.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 26, April 21, 1929:

“Daughter, I entrust It to you that you may never go out of It and may make your continuous echo resound from one point to another in such a way that all of Heaven may hear that Our endless inheritance of Our Fiat on earth is not isolated, but is inhabited by Our little daughter.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 27, Jan. 26, 1930:

“So, each word I have spoken to you on My Divine Volition has been a Fiat pronounced by Us, that has come out like a child from the womb of Our Will.  This Fiat is the same Fiat as that of Creation, that, forming Its echo, makes Its vital strength felt there where Our Will resides.”  “My daughter, when My Divine will wants to pronounce Itself, It extends everywhere and makes Its echo and Its creative strength felt in all the things in which It reigns.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 28, April 23, 1930:
“…
Our Supreme Being found itself, and still is, in the condition of necessity to love him, because man is still the one created by Us – his breath We feel within Our own, his word is the echo of Our Fiat.  All of Our gifts We have not withdrawn – We are the Immutable Being, nor are We subject to changing.  We loved him and love him, and this Love of Ours is so great that We Ourselves placed Ourselves in the condition of necessity to love him.  And this is the reason for Our many stratagems of Love, and the final assault, as We want to give him the great Gift of Our Fiat, that he may let It reign in his soul.”



 Book of Heaven, Vol. 30, Nov. 16, 1931:

“…true Love constitutes a Right in the creature – Right of Relationship, Right of Participation in the Goods, Right to be Loved.  Each of his acts of Love is a vibrating  note that palpitates in the Divine Heart; and with its sound it says: ‘I Love You – Love me.’  And the sound does not cease if he does not hear the note of his Creator that, echoing the sound of the soul, answers to him: ‘I Love you, O son.’”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 30, Jan. 12, 1932:
…when My Divine Will operates in the soul, one knows it immediately: as It operates, It lays in the human being gentleness, sweetness, peace, fortitude, firmness; before It operates, It blows into it and impresses in it Its omnipotent fiat that extends Its Heaven around the work It wants to do.  It seems that without Its Heaven, My Will is unable to operate; and while It operates, It makes Its sweet harmonious echo resound in the three Divine Persons keeping Them aware of what It is doing in the soul.  In fact, since the Will that is operating in her is one with that of the Divine Persons, it happens that whatever It does in the Divine Persons It makes Its powerful echo resound in the creature; and in this echo It brings to her the admirable secrets, the ineffable sweetness’s, the inseparable Love as the Divine Persons love one another and the sweet accord among them.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 32, April 23, 1933:

“Therefore, if you want to obtain everything, if you want to truly love Me, live abandoned in My arms, let Me hear the echo of My Life in every instant: ‘Into Your hands I abandon myself completely’, and I will carry you in My arms as the dearest of My children.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 33, Nov. 26, 1933:

In fact, one sees the littleness of the creature acting as queen in Our Divine Being, re-uniting Our immensity and power together and making Us ask ourselves what she wants and We want.  She understands well that there is no other good than Our Will alone, and in order to obtain the intent she makes it asked by the Infinity of Our Divine Qualities, and one sees the little tiny one littler and powerful enriched with the prerogatives of Our Divine Qualities as if they were hers which gives her such charm of beauty as to enrapture Us, debilitate Us in order to make Us do what she wants and We want.   She becomes Our echo, and she does not know how to say anything else to Us nor ask for anything other than that Our Will would invade everything and would form one single Will with all creatures.”



Book of Heaven, Vol. 33, Dec. 18, 1933:

And in Our emphasis of Love We told him: ‘how very beautiful you are; you are Our work, you will be Our glory, the outlet of Our love, the reflection of Our wisdom, the echo of Our power, the bearer of Our eternal love.’”



  

“Yes, a Psalm is a blessing on the lips of the people, a hymn in praise of God, the assembly’s homage, a general acclamation, a word that speaks for all, the voice of the Church, a confession of faith in song.  It is the voice of complete assent, the joy of freedom, a cry of happiness, the echo of gladness…” “Day begins to the music of a Psalm.  Day closes to the echo of a Psalm.”  “The psalmist of old used it, with the aid of the Holy Spirit, to make earth reecho the music of Heaven.”  ( St. Ambrose)



  

“Let us look now with the eyes of faith, to Christ’s Kingdom, and repeat,

“May Your reign come.”  Pope John Paul II



Lynne B.

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Our Nothingness and Knowledge of Self


Our Nothingness and Knowledge of Self



“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Prov. 1:7



Our Lord to St. Catherine of Siena:  “Do you know, my daughter, who you are and who I am?  If you have this two-fold knowledge you will be happy.  You are she who is not, I am He who is.  If you keep this truth in your heart, never will the enemy be able to deceive you.  You will escape his snares.  Never will you consent to commit an act which is against My Commandments, and you will readily acquire all grace, all truth, all clarity.”



Ven. Conchita de Armida (Diary, August 8, 1896):  “…I can but lower myself into the bottomless abyss of my nothingness.  I close my eyes, I believe, and I adore...!  I believe there is no better lesson of humility than this.  How can anyone believe, before God and in the presence of such grandeur, that he is something of grandeur, miserable atom that he is?  How can he think he is something good in comparison with this goodness without limits?  How can he declare himself perfect in the presence of such a light on these infinite perfections.  How can he esteem himself pure, in the face of this eternal Truth?  Oh what fools we are, we others, poor beings of this world, when we believe we are something or consider ourselves capable of the least thing!  In truth, after I touched God and had an imperfect notion of His Being, I wanted to prostrate myself, my forehead and my heart in the dust and never get up again!”



Excerpts from the Book of Heaven:



Volume 1

        I begin, oh Jesus, in You, with You, and for You.  I have no trust in myself, but I have faith in You.  Without You I can do nothing.  May this writing, from beginning to end, be done for your greater glory, for the growth and increase of my love toward You, and for my great confusion.



Volume 1

        You must be like an infant in swaddling bands who, unable to move by himself, even to walk or move a hand, must rely on its mother for everything.  In that way, I want you to remain near Me—like an infant—to always ask for my help and assistance, acknowledging your nothingness and expecting everything from Me.”

        With this type of talk I became little, and I annihilated myself to the point that I sometimes felt my whole being dissolved and dismembered—incapable of taking a step or a breath without the sustenance and assistance of Jesus.  I therefore tried my utmost to satisfy Him in everything by becoming humble and obedient.



Volume 1

        He gave me other new insights regarding self—annihilation saying, "You are not, and should not consider yourself more than a shadow that quickly passes by and eludes you as you try to catch it.  If, therefore, you want to see something in yourself that is worthy of Me, consider yourself nothing; and I, pleased with your true debasement, will pour my All into you." Saying this, my good Jesus impressed on my mind and heart a self—annihilation of such magnitude, that I wanted to hide myself in the deepest abyss.  Knowing how impossible it was for me to hide my shame from Him as I continued the destruction of my self-esteem, He would say, "Get closer to Me, lean on my arm.  I will support you and give you strength to always work for Me and do all for Me."



Volume 1

        Luisa: Have You forgotten that I am wicked and that without You I can do no good?

        And Jesus sweetly and calmly answered; “I do this so you will understand what you are without Me.  Do not despair.  I am doing this to you for your greater good, to prepare your heart to receive the new graces I shall bestow upon you.  Until this time I have helped you visibly; but now, invisibly, I will make you feel your nothingness with your own hand.  I will cause you to sink into the most profound humility; and I will endow you with my graces—the best ones—to prepare you for the high levels to which I want to raise you.  So instead of despairing, be joyful with Me and thank Me, because the quicker you traverse this stormy sea, the quicker you will reach the harbor of salvation.  The severer the tests I will subject you to, the greater the graces I will bestow upon you.  Have courage, therefore, for soon I shall come to console you in your sorrow.”



Volume 2, May 26, 1899

“Contempt of yourself is praiseworthy when it is well invested by the spirit of Faith; but when it is not invested by the spirit of Faith, instead of doing you good, it can harm you. In fact, in seeing yourself as you are, unable to do anything good, you will be discouraged, disheartened, without daring to take one step on the path of good. But by leaning on Me – that is, by investing yourself with the spirit of Faith – you will come to know and despise yourself, and at the same time, to know Me, confident of being able to do anything with my help. And here is how, by acting in this way, you will walk according to the truth.”

Luisa: “How much good these words of Jesus did to my soul! I comprehended that I must enter into my nothingness and know who I am, but I must not stop there. Rather, immediately after I have known myself, I must fly into the immense sea of God, and stay there, to draw all the graces that my soul needs; otherwise, my nature remains weakened and the devil will look for means in order to cast it into discouragement.”



Volume 2, June 2, 1899

        This morning my sweetest Jesus wanted to make me touch my nothingness with my own hands.  In the act of showing Himself, the first words that He directed to me were, "Who am I and who are you?"  In these words I saw two immense lights.  One contained God, and in the other I saw my misery, my nothingness.  I saw myself to be nothing but a shadow as that shadow projected by whatever object illuminated by the sun, shadow that ceases to exist when the sun passes to other points.

        Thus my shadow, thus my being, depends upon the mystical sun, God, Who in a mere instant can dissolve this shadow that the Lord has given me, it not even being mine.  It causes horror to think of it.  Smelly, putrid and all wormy, yet in this so horrid state I was constrained to be together with a God so Holy.  Oh, how I would have been content if it were given to me to hide myself in the darkest abysses!

        After this, Jesus said to me, "The greatest favor that I can do for a soul is to make it know itself.  The knowledge of self and the knowledge of God go hand in hand.  For as much as you shall know yourself, this much shall you know God.  The soul that has known itself, seeing that by itself it can work nothing of good, transforms the shadow of its being into God and it happens that in God it does all its operations.  Then it happens that the soul is in God and walks with Him, without looking, without investigation, without speaking.  In a word, it is as if it were dead, for, knowing in depth its nothingness, it does not dare to do anything by itself but it blindly follows the influences of the operations of the Word.  It seems to me that to the soul that knows itself, it happens as to those persons who go by train.  Who, while they pass from one point to another, without taking one step by themselves, make long trips, but all in virtue of the train that transports them.  Thus the soul, placing itself in God, as the persons on the train, makes sublime flights in the way of perfection, knowing fully that it is not of itself but in virtue of that blessed God Who carries it in Himself.  Oh, how the Lord favors, enriches and concedes the greatest graces to that soul that attributes all, not to itself, but to God!"



Volume 2, June 12, 1899

…Jesus seemed to clothe my soul with the garment of Faith, of Hope and of Charity, and in the very act of clothing me, Jesus whispered to me the way I was to exercise myself in these three virtues. Now, while I was doing this, unleashing another ray of light, Jesus made me understand my nothingness. Ah! I seemed to be like a grain of sand in the middle of a most extensive sea, which is God; and this little grain went to disperse itself inside that immense sea – but it was lost in God. Then He transported me outside of myself, carrying me in His arms, and kept whispering to me various acts of contrition for my sins. I only remember that I have been an abyss of iniquities. Lord, oh, how many awful ingratitudes I have had toward You!



Volume 3, January 31, 1900

    Jesus:  “What is the passport to enter into the kingdom of grace? It is humility. Through humility, by always looking at her nothingness and seeing that she is nothing but dust or wind, the soul will place all her trust in grace, so much so, as to make of it her master. And grace, taking dominion over all of the soul, leads her along the path of all virtues, and makes her reach the summit of perfection.”   

Luisa:  What would a soul without grace be like? It seemed to me that she would be like the body without the soul, which becomes stinking and spews worms and rot from all parts, so much so, as to become an object of horror to the human sight itself. In the same way, without grace, the soul becomes so abominable as to be horrifying to the sight – not of men, but of God Trice Holy. Ah, Lord, free me from such misfortune, and from the abominable monster of sin!

      

Volume 3, February 5, 1900

      “My daughter, sometimes the soul feels an encounter in some virtue, and plucking up her strength, the soul overcomes that encounter; and then, that virtue becomes more resplendent and rooted in the soul. However, the soul must be very attentive in order to avoid that she herself might provide the little rope to let herself be bound by lack of confidence; and she will do this by always restricting herself within the circle of truth, without ever leaving it, which is the knowledge of her nothingness.”



Volume 3, May 20, 1900

     “My daughter, all things have their origin from nothing. If this very machine of the universe which you are admiring with its great order had been full of other things before I created it, I could not have put my creative hand to make it with such great mastery and to render it so splendid and adorned. At the most, I could have undone everything that might have been there, to then redo it according to my liking. But we always come to this: all of my works have their origin from nothing, and when there is a mixing with other things, it is not decorous for my majesty to descend and operate in the soul. But when the soul reduces herself to nothing and rises to Me, and takes her being within Mine, then I operate as the God that I am, and the soul finds true rest. And here is how all virtues, from humility to the annihilation of oneself, begin.”



Volume 3, June 20, 1900

      “As for the rest, I do not want you to think about it, because the most perfect, the most sublime humility is that of losing every reason and of not discoursing on ‘why’ and ‘how’, but of undoing oneself in one’s own nothingness. And while the soul does this, without realizing it, she finds herself dissolved in God, and this produces in the soul the union most intimate, the love most perfect toward her highest Good. This, however, to the greatest advantage of the soul, because in losing her own reason, she acquires divine reason, and in losing every discoursing about herself – whether she is cold or warm, whether the things that happen to her are favorable or adverse – she will be interested in and will acquire a language fully celestial and divine. In addition to this, humility produces a garment of safety in the soul, in such a way that, wrapped in this garment of safety, the soul remains in the most profound calm, embellishing all of herself in order to be pleasing to her dearest and beloved Jesus.”



Volume 3, June 27, 1900

      “My daughter, what I want from you is that you no longer recognize yourself in yourself, but that you recognize yourself only in Me. So you will no longer remember yourself, nor will you ever again have recognition of yourself, but you will remember Me, and un-recognizing yourself, you will acquire the recognition of Me alone. According to how much you will forget and destroy yourself, so will you advance in the knowledge of Me and will recognize yourself only in Me. Once you have done all this, you will no longer think with your mind, but with mine; you will not look with your eyes, you will no longer speak with your mouth, nor will you palpitate with your heart, work with your hands, or walk with your feet, but will do everything with mine. In fact, in order to recognize herself only in God, the soul needs to go to her origin and to return to her beginning – God, from whom she came - and to conform all of herself to her Creator. And anything which she keeps of herself and which is not conformed to her beginning, she must undo and reduce to nothing. Only in this way, naked, undone, can she return to her origin, recognize herself only in God, and operate according to the purpose for which she was created. This is why in order to conform to Me completely, the soul must render herself indivisible with Me.”



Volume 3, August 3, 1900

      “My daughter, why do you look for Me outside of yourself, while you could find Me more easily within yourself? When you want to find Me, enter into yourself, go deep into your ‘nothing’, and there, without yourself, in the most tiny circle of your ‘nothing’, you will see the foundations that the Divine Being laid within you, as well as the factories It raised in you. Look and see.”

      I looked again and I saw solid foundations and very high walls that reached up to the heavens; but that which stupefied me was to see that the Lord had done this beautiful work upon my nothing, and the walls were all walled up, with no openings. One could see only one opening in the vault, which corresponded only to Heaven, and in this opening dwelled Our Lord, upon a stable column that rose out of the foundations, formed over nothing. Now, while I was looking, all stupefied, blessed Jesus added: “The foundations formed over nothing mean that the Divine Hand operates there where there is nothing, and It never mixes Its works with material works. The walls without openings around mean that the soul must have no correspondence with earthly things, in such a way that there may be no danger that even a little bit of dust may enter, because everything is walled up well. The only correspondence that these walls allow is with Heaven – that is, from nothing to Heaven, from Heaven to nothing; and this is the meaning of the opening made in the vault. The stability of the column means that the soul is so stable in good that there is no contrary wind that can move her. And my dwelling upon it is the sure sign that the work done is fully divine.”


Volume 4, November 11, 1900

       “Ah, my daughter, do not go out of my Will, because by going out of my Will, you come to lose the knowledge of Me, and not knowing Me, you come to lose the knowledge of yourself. In fact, only in the reflections of the light can one distinguish with clarity whether there is gold or mud; if everything is darkness objects can easily be confused. Now, the light is my Will, which gives you the knowledge of Me, and in the reflections of this light you come to know who you are; and in seeing your weakness, your pure nothingness, you cling to my arms and, united with my Will, you live with Me in Heaven. But if you want to go out of my Will, first you would come to lose true humility, and then you would come to live on the earth and would be forced to feel the earthly weight, to moan and sigh like all the other unfortunate who live outside of my Will.”



Volume 4, December 24, 1902

        “My daughter, one who believes himself to be something before Me and before men, is worth nothing.  One who believes himself to be nothing is worth everything – first, before Me, because if he does something, he does not think he does it because he can do it, having the strength and the capacity, but rather, because he receives from God the grace, the helps and the lights; therefore it can be said that he does it by virtue of divine power, and one who has divine power with him is already worth everything. Second, before men, because this acting by virtue of divine power makes him operate in a completely different way, and he does nothing but send forth the light of the divine power he contains within himself, in such a way that the most perverted ones, without wanting it, feel the strength of this light and submit to his volition; and here is how he is worth everything also before men. On the contrary, one who believes himself to be something, in addition to being worth nothing, is abominable to my presence, and because of his ostentatious and particular manners - for he believes he is something and makes fun of others - men keep him pointed out as an object of derision and of persecution.”



Volume 8, November 18, 1907

       Luisa:  ‘My sweet life, how bad I have become – I feel I am reduced to nothing. I no longer feel anything in me, everything is empty; I just feel an enchantment in my interior, and in this enchantment I wait for You, so that You may fill me. But in vain do I wait for this filling; on the contrary, I feel I always return to nothing.’ And Jesus: “Ah, my daughter! And you afflict yourself for you feel reduced to nothing? Rather, I say to you: the more the creature is reduced to nothing, the more she is filled with the All. And if she left even one shadow of herself, that shadow would prevent Me from giving all of Myself, completely, to the soul. Your constant returning to nothing means that you are dissolving your human being to reacquire the Divine.”





Volume 9, December 22, 1909

I felt my very nature being consumed and melted into nothingness. Those seeds of strength, of light, of knowledge which I seemed to feel – everything turned into nothing. I felt I was dying; yet, I live. In the meantime He came back, and taking me in his arms, He seemed to sustain this nothingness of mine, telling me: “Do you see, my daughter, how, as the little seed of your strength, the little lamp of your light, the little knowledge of Me that you have, and all of your other little qualities dissolve, my strength, my light, my wisdom, my beauty and all of my other qualities take over and fill this nothingness of yours? Aren’t you happy?”



Volume 11, Good morning to Jesus

       Jesus, Jesus, may our will be one; one our love, one our contentment. Never leave me alone, for I am a nothing, and the nothing cannot be without the All.



Volume 11, 4th July, 1912

       “My daughter, what is the matter? Do you want to waste time? Do you want to go out of your nothingness? Stay in your place - in your nothingness - so that the All may keep Its place in you. Know, however, that you must die completely in my Will: to suffering, to virtues - to everything. My Will must be the tomb of the soul; and just as in the tomb one’s nature is consumed to the point of disappearing completely, and through that very consummation it will rise again to new and more beautiful life - in the same way, the soul, buried in my Will as though inside a tomb, will die to suffering, to her virtues, to her spiritual goods, and will rise again in everything to Divine Life.”



Volume 12, June 14, 1917

“My daughter, the more the soul strips herself of herself, the more I clothe her with Myself. The more she believes she can do nothing, the more I act in her, and I do everything. I feel all my love, my prayers, my reparations, etc. being placed in act by the creature; and to give honor to Myself, I listen to what she wants to do. Love? I go to her and love together with her. Does she want to pray? I pray together with her. In sum, her stripping and her love, which is mine, bind Me and force Me to do with her whatever she wants to do. And I give to the soul the merit of my love, of my prayers and reparations; and to my highest contentment, I feel my Life being repeated, and I make the effects of my operating descend for the good of all, because it is not of the creature, who is hidden in Me - but it is mine.”



Volume 12, December 6, 1917

“So, how could other things, outside of my Will, ever please Me, as beautiful as they might be? They are always low, human and finite acts. Instead, the acts in my Will are noble, divine, without end, infinite - as it is my Volition. They are similar to mine, and I give them the same value, love and power of my own acts; I multiply them in everyone; I extend them to all generations, to all times. What do I care if they are small? They are always my acts being repeated, and that’s enough. And then, the soul places herself in her true nothingness - not in humility, in which she always feels something of herself. And, as a nothing, she enters into the All, and she operates with Me, in Me and like Me - completely stripped of herself, not caring about merit or self-interest, but all intent only on making Me content, giving Me absolute lordship over her acts, without even wanting to know what I do with them. Only one thought occupies her: to live in my Will, praying Me to give her the honor. This is why I love her so much, and all my predilections, my love, are for this soul who lives in my Will. And if I love others, it is by virtue of the love which I have for this soul, and which descends from her - just as the Father loves the creatures by virtue of the love He has for Me.”



Volume 12, December 10, 1918

I was saying to my sweet Jesus: ‘See, I don’t know how to do anything, nor do I have anything to give You, but I want to give You also my trifles. I unite these trifles of mine to the All, as You are, and I ask You for souls. Therefore, as I breathe, my breaths ask You for souls; the beating of my heart, with an incessant cry, asks You for souls; the motion of my arms, the blood that circulates in me, the batting of my eyelids, the moving of my lips - are souls that I ask of You. And this I ask united with You, with your love and in your Will, so that all may hear my incessant cry that, in You, always asks for souls.’



Volume 12, December 26, 1919

“…And besides, what do the Sacraments do if not unite the soul with God? What is to do my Will? Isn’t it perhaps to unite the will of the creature with her Creator? To dissolve oneself in the Eternal Volition - the ‘nothing’ ascending to the ‘All’, and the ‘All’ descending into the ‘nothing’. It is the noblest, the most divine, the purest, the most beautiful, the most heroic act that the creature can do.



Volume 14, March 3, 1922

“My daughter, now it is appropriate that I set to work again, to work the soil of your soul, so as to be able to sow the seed of my word in order to nourish you. I act like a farmer when he wants to sow in his field: he forms little trenches, makes some furrows, and then sows in them the seeds, and again he covers with earth the little trenches and the furrows in which he has sown the seeds, so as to keep them sheltered and give them the time to germinate, to then harvest them increased a hundredfold, to make of them his food. But he is careful not to put too much earth over them, otherwise he would suffocate his seeds and would make them die under the earth, and he would run the risk of remaining on an empty stomach. Now, so I do: I prepare the little trenches, I form the furrows, I enlarge the capacity of her intelligence to be able to sow my divine word, and therefore form the food for Me and for her; then I cover the little trenches and the furrows with earth - which is humility, nothingness, the annihilation of the soul, some little weakness or misery of hers. This is earth, and it is necessary that I take it from her because I lack this earth; and so I cover everything and I wait with joy for my harvest. Now, do you want to know when too much earth is placed over my seed? When the soul feels her miseries, her weaknesses, her nothingness, and she afflicts herself. She thinks about it so much as to waste time; and the enemy uses this in order to cast her into disturbance, discouragement and despondency. This is all earth in excess over my seed. Oh! how my seed feels itself dying – how it struggles to germinate under this earth. Many times these souls tire the Celestial Farmer, and He withdraws. Oh! how many are the souls such as these.”



Volume 16, November 10, 1923

“My dear little one, I have chosen you little, because the little ones let one do with them whatever he wants. They do not walk by themselves, but let themselves be guided; even more, they are afraid to place one foot on their own. If they receive gifts, feeling incapable of keeping them, they place them on the lap of their mama. The little ones are stripped of everything, nor do they care about whether they are rich or poor; they are concerned with nothing. Oh! how beautiful the tender age is - full of grace, of beauty and of freshness. Therefore, the greater is the work I want to do in a soul, the littler I choose her. I like childlike freshness and beauty very much; I like it so much that I preserve these souls in the littleness of the nothingness from which they came. I let nothing of their own enter into them, so as not to let them lose their littleness, and therefore preserve the divine freshness and beauty from which they came.”



Volume 19, April 16, 1926

        "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.

        And I: my Love, console Yourself.  I promise it; I swear it; and You must promise me of keeping me always in your arms and engulfed in your Will.  Nor, must you leave me if you want that I be always and forever the little daughter of your Will who trembles and fears herself; much more, that for how much more You speak of this Supreme Will so much more do I feel that I am no good; and the insignificance of my nothingness is more strongly felt.  And Jesus, sighing, added: "My daughter, this feeling more of your nothingness is not opposed to living in my Will, rather it is your duty.

        All my works are formed upon nothingness; and, therefore, the All can do that which He wishes.  If the sun had reason and was asked, 'What good do you do?  What are your effects? How much light and heat do you contain?' It would respond: 'I do not do anything; I only know that the light given me by God is invested by the Supreme Will; and I do what It wants; I extend myself where It wants, and I produce the effects that It wants; and while I do so much I remain always in nothingness, and the Divine Will does everything in me.'

        And so, with all my other works, all their glory is to remain in nothingness, to give the entire field to my Will, of letting It operate.  Only man wants to do without the Will of his Creator.  He wants to let his nothingness operate, believing himself good for something; and the All, feeling Himself placed behind the nothing, went out from man who reduced himself from being superior to all to being beneath all.  Therefore, see to it that your nothingness be always at the mercy of my Will, if you want that the unity of Its light operate in you and recall the purpose of Creation to new life."



Volume 20, May 8, 1932

        After this He added:  "My daughter, only then does the soul feel the true Life within herself, when she enters into the Divine Will, because only in It can she see with clarity her nothingness; and how this nothingness feels the need of the All, that is of He Who drew her out of nothing.  Only then will the All fill her with Himself, and the soul, having the possession of true Life, see herself in immediate contact with the holiness, goodness, power, Love and wisdom of God.  She will recognize in herself the power of the creative action, Its palpitating Life and the extreme need of this Divine Life."





VOL 19 May 27, 1926

        And I: my Love, console Yourself.  I promise it; I swear it; and You must promise me of keeping me always in your arms and engulfed in your Will.  Nor, must you leave me if you want that I be always and forever the little daughter of your Will who trembles and fears herself; much more, that for how much more You speak of this Supreme Will so much more do I feel that I am no good; and the insignificance of my nothingness is more strongly felt.  And Jesus, sighing, added: "My daughter, this feeling more of your nothingness is not opposed to living in my Will, rather it is your duty.

        All my works are formed upon nothingness; and, therefore, the All can do that which He wishes.  If the sun had reason and was asked, 'What good do you do?  What are your effects? How much light and heat do you contain?' It would respond: 'I do not do anything; I only know that the light given me by God is invested by the Supreme Will; and I do what It wants; I extend myself where It wants, and I produce the effects that It wants; and while I do so much I remain always in nothingness, and the Divine Will does everything in me.'

        And so, with all my other works, all their glory is to remain in nothingness, to give the entire field to my Will, of letting It operate.  Only man wants to do without the Will of his Creator.  He wants to let his nothingness operate, believing himself good for something; and the All, feeling Himself placed behind the nothing, went out from man who reduced himself from being superior to all to being beneath all.  Therefore, see to it that your nothingness be always at the mercy of my Will, if you want that the unity of Its light operate in you and recall the purpose of Creation to new life."



Vol 19 June 15, 1926

        How full of defects I am and how much wickedness there is in me."  And Jesus, all goodness and tenderness, said to me:  "My daughter, do not be afraid, I am there who watches over you; and I am in custody of your soul so that not even the least sin might enter into your soul.  Where you or others see defects and wickedness in you, I do not find any; much more, I see that your nothingness feels the weight of everything, because the more you raise yourself intimately to Me, and I make you know what the All wants to do with your nothingness, so much more do you feel your nothingness.  And, almost frightened, crushed under the All, you would want to flee from manifesting and, much less, write on paper what the All wants to do with this nothing; much more that for how much reluctance you feel I always win and make you do what I want. That happened to my Celestial Mamma as well, when it was said to Her: "I salute you Mary full of grace; You will conceive the Son of God."

        She, in hearing that, was afraid; She trembled, and said:  "How can that happen?"  But She ended by saying: "Fiat Mihi secundum verbum tuum."  She felt all the weight of everything upon her nothingness; and, naturally, She was afraid.  So, when I manifest to you what I want to do with you, and your nothingness is afraid; I see repeated the fright of the Sovereign Queen; and I, compassionating you, comfort your nothingness, reinforce it, so that it can  withstand to support the All.  Therefore, do not give thought to that, but think rather of letting the All operate in you."



VOL 20 25 January 1927

        "How beautiful is the Kingdom of my Will!  By Its means It has the nothing dispersed in the All, the All fused with the nothing.  The lowliness of the creature is raised to the Divine Summit; the Divine Highness descends into the depth of the creature.  God and the creature become two beings so charmed with one another, so inseparable, so transfused and identified, as to scarcely distinguish that in them are two lives which palpitate together.

L.Bauer - Fiat!

Monday, September 4, 2017

Human Will into the Divine



Pope Pius XII - Encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi
["On the Mystical Body of Christ"] June 29, 1943

The Indwelling of the Holy Spirit
Therefore, Our most learned predecessor Leo XIII of happy memory, speaking of our union with Christ and with the Divine Paraclete who dwells within us, and fixing his gaze on that blessed vision through which this mystical union will attain its confirmation and perfection in heaven says: "This wonderful union, or indwelling properly so-called, differs from that by which God embraces and gives joy to the elect only by reason of our earthly state."[160] In that celestial vision it will be granted to the eyes of the human mind strengthened by the light of glory, to contemplate the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in an utterly ineffable manner, to assist throughout eternity at the processions of the Divine Persons, and to rejoice with a happiness like to that with which the holy and undivided Trinity is happy."



Pope Benedict XVI speaks of placing the human will within the Divine Will

"We must learn to entrust ourselves more and more to divine Providence , to ask God to conform our wills to his," the Pontiff stated. "It is a prayer that we must make daily, because it is not always easy to entrust ourselves to God's will, to repeat the 'yes' of Jesus, the 'yes' of Mary."

The Holy Father reflected on Jesus' own struggle, as he -- unlike Adam and Eve -- "draws the human will back to its full 'yes' to God. [...] His human will is drawn into the 'I' of the Son, who abandons himself totally to the Father."

"Thus," the Pope said, "Jesus tells us that it is only in conforming one's own will to the divine will that the human being attains his true greatness, that he becomes 'divine'; it is only by going out of himself -- only in his 'yes' to God -- that the desire of Adam and of us all is fulfilled -- that of being completely free. This is what Jesus accomplishes in Gethsemane : by placing the human will within the divine will the true man is born, and we are redeemed."

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