April 16th Daily Calendar Readings from the Book of Heaven the Book of Heaven

April 16, 1899. Vol. 2. Preparation for Communion. Offenses given to Jesus by His own.

While I was in my usual state, Jesus invited me to go around to see what creatures were doing. I said to Him, "My adorable Jesus, this morning I don't feel like going around and seeing the offenses that they give You. Let us stay here, the two of Us together."

But Jesus insisted that He wanted to go around, and so, to make Him content, I said to Him, "If You want to go out, let us rather go inside some churches, because the offenses they give You are fewer there." And so we went inside a church. But there also, He was offended more than in other places, not because more sins are committed in the churches than in the world, but because those are offenses given by His dearest ones, by the very ones who should lay down their soul and body to defend the honor and the glory of God. This is why they reach His adorable heart more painfully.

I could see devout souls who, because of trifles of no importance, did not prepare well for communion. Instead of thinking of Jesus, their minds were thinking about their little disturbances, about many trifles, and this was their occupation. How Jesus pitied them, and how much pity they themselves aroused! They paid attention to so many straws, just so many specks, but then they didn't so much as glance at Jesus.

Jesus said to me, "My daughter, how these souls prevent My grace from pouring into them! I do not look at trifles, but at the love with which they come to Me. Yet they make an exchange. They pay more attention to straws than to love. But while love destroys the straws, with many straws, love cannot increase even a tiny bit; rather, it is decreased."

But what is worse about these souls is that they get so disturbed, and they waste much time. They would like to spend entire hours with their confessors to talk about all these trifles, but they never get down to work with a good and courageous resolution in order to root those straws out.

What should I tell you them? Oh, my daughter, about certain priests of these times, one can say that they operate almost satanically, reaching the point of making themselves idols of souls. Ah, yes! It is by My sons that My heart is pierced the most, because if the others offend Me more, they offend the members of My body, but My own offend Me in My most sensitive and tender parts, deep into My inmost heart.

Who can say the torment of Jesus! In speaking these words, He was crying bitterly. I did as much as I could to compassionate Him and repair Him, but while I was doing this, Jesus and I together withdrew into my bed.

April 16th, 1903. The three signatures on the passport to enter beatitude on earth. Plot against the Church.

After I went through bitter days of privation and of reproaches of blessed Jesus because of my ingratitude and resistance to His will and to His graces, this morning upon coming, He told me, "My daughter, the passport to enter beatitude which the soul can possess on this earth must be signed with three signatures, and these are: resignation, humility, and obedience. Perfect resignation to My will is wax which melts our wills and forms a single one. It is sugar and honey. However, at a small resistance to My will, the wax separates, the sugar becomes bitter, and the honey turns to poison.

Now, it is not sufficient to be resigned, but the soul must be convinced that the greatest good for herself and the best way to glorify Me is to always do My will. Here is the necessity of the signature of humility, because humility produces this knowledge. But who ennobles these two virtues? Who fortifies them? Who renders them persevering? Who changes them together in such a way that they cannot separate? Who crowns them? Obedience! Yes, completely destroying one's will and everything which is material, obedience spiritualizes everything and, like a crown, places itself around them. So resignation and humility without obedience are subject to instability, but with obedience, they will be fixed and stable. Here is the strict necessity of the signature of obedience, so that this passport may circulate in order to pass into the reign of spiritual beatitude which the soul can enjoy down here.

Without these three signatures, the passport will have no value, and the soul will be rejected by the reign of beatitude and will be forced to remain in the reign of restlessness, of fears, and of dangers, and to her misfortune, she will have her own self as God, and this self will have the cortege of pride and of rebellion."

After this, He carried me outside of myself into a garden which seemed to be the garden of the Church. There I saw five or six people, priests and secular, who were going astray and uniting with the enemies of the Church, and they started a revolution. How pitiful it was to see blessed Jesus crying over the sad state of these people! Then I looked in the air and I saw a cloud of water full of large pieces of ice falling upon the earth. What a disaster they caused upon harvests and upon humanity! But I hope that He will calm down, then more flicker than before. I came back into myself.

April 16th, 1902. Vol. 4. How to deal with passions.

"Everything is in repressing the first motions."

This morning, my adorable Jesus was not coming. So, not seeing Him come, I said, "What am I still doing in this state? If the object that held me captured does not come any more, it is better if I finish it once and for all." As I was saying this, my sweet Jesus came for a little while and told me, "My daughter, everything is in repressing the first motions. If the soul is attentive in this, everything will go well. But if she is not, at the first motions which are not repressed, passions will come out and break the divine fortress which surrounds the soul like a hedge, in order to keep her well guarded and to move away from her the enemies which always try to lay traps for her and to harm the poor soul.

However, if as soon as she perceives it, she enters into herself, humiliates herself, repents, and remedies it with courage, the divine fortress closes again around the soul. If, on the other hand, she does not remedy it, the divine fortress, broken as it is, will let all vices rush in. Therefore, if you want the fortress not to leave you alone even for one instant, be attentive to the first motions, thoughts, and words which are not upright and holy, because once the first ones have escaped you, it is no longer the soul that reigns, but rather passions dominate."

April 16th, 1904. Volume 6. Jesus and God the Father speak about mercy.

Continuing in my usual state, I found myself outside of myself and I saw a multitude of people, and in their midst, one could hear noises of bombs and gunshots. People were dropping dead or wounded, and those who were left would flee up to a palace nearby, but the enemies would go up there and kill them more surely than those who remained outside. So I said to myself, "How I wish I could see whether the Lord is there in the midst of these people." So I just say to Him, "Have mercy, pity on these poor people."

So I went round and round, and I saw Him as a little child, but little by little, He kept growing until He reached the perfect age. I drew near Him and I said, "Amiable Lord, don't You see the tragedy that is happening? You don't want to make use of mercy anymore, do You? Perhaps You want to keep this attribute as useless, which is always glorified. Your incarnate divinity was so much honor, forming a special crown on Your August head and bejeweling You with a second crown, so wanted and loved by You, which is souls."

Now, while I was saying this, He told me, "Enough, enough! Do not go any further. You want to speak of mercy, and what about justice? What are we going to do with it? I have told you and I repeat to you: it is necessary that justice follow its course." So I replied, "There is no remedy. Why then leave me on this earth when I can no longer placate You and suffer in the place of my neighbor? Since it is so, it is better if You let me die."

At that moment, I saw another person behind the shoulders of bless of Jesus, and he told me, almost making a sign with his eyes, "Present yourself to My Father and see what He tells you." I presented myself, all trembling, and as soon as He saw me, He told me, "Why have you come to Me?" And I, "Adorable Goodness, infinite mercy, knowing that You are mercy itself, I have come to ask for Your mercy, mercy on Your very images, mercy on the works created by You, mercy on nothing else but Your creatures themselves."

And He said to me, "So it is mercy you want. But if you want, through mercy, after justice has poured itself out, it will produce abundant fruits of mercy." Not knowing what else to say, I said, "Father infinitely holy, when servants or people in need present themselves before their masters or rich people, if these are good, even if they do not give everything that is necessary for them, they always give something. And to me, who have had the good of presenting myself before You, absolute Master, rich without limit, infinite Goodness, don't You want to give anything of what this poor little one has asked of You? Does a master perhaps not remain more honored and content when he gives than when he denies what is necessary to his servants?"

After a moment of silence, He added, "For love of you, instead of doing ten, I will do five." Having said this, they disappeared, and in several places of the earth, especially of Europe, I saw wars, civil wars, and revolutions multiplied.

April 16th, 1905. Volume 6. Suffering is reigning.

Continuing in my usual state, my lovable Jesus made Himself seen for a little with a nail inside His heart, and drawing near my heart, He would touch it with that nail, and I would feel mortal pains. Then He said to me, "My daughter, it is the world that drives this nail deep inside My heart, giving Me a continuous death. So by justice, just as they give Me continuous death, I will allow that they give death among themselves, killing one another like many dogs." And while saying this, He made me hear the screams of the rebel to the point that I remained deafened for four or five days.

And then, as I was very much in suffering, He came back a little later and told me, "Today is the day of the Palms, in which I was proclaimed King. All must aspire to a kingdom, but in order to acquire the eternal kingdom, it is necessary for the creature to acquire the regime of herself through the dominion of her passions. The only means is suffering, because suffering is reigning. That is, through patience, man puts himself in his place, becoming king of himself and of the eternal Kingdom."

April 16th, 1918. Vol. 12. Jesus comes as hidden in sufferings.

Continuing in my usual state, I felt my poor heart oppressed and amid bitter pains, which is not necessary here to explain. As my always lovable Jesus came, He told me, "My daughter, I send sufferings to the creatures so that they may find Me in the sufferings. I am as though wrapped within these pains, and if the soul suffers with patience, with love, she tears the wrapping that covers Me, and she finds Me. Otherwise, I remain hidden in the pain; she will not have the good of finding Me, and I will not have the good of revealing Myself."

Then He added, "I feel an irresistible force to spread Myself toward creatures. I would like to spread My beauty, to make them all beautiful, but the creature, dirtying herself with sin, rejects the divine beauty and covers herself with ugliness. I would like just forehead My love, but loving what is not Mine, they live numb with cold, and My love is rejected. I would like to communicate all of Myself to man, concealing him completely within My own qualities, but I am rejected, and in rejecting Me, he forms a wall of division between Me and him, to the point of breaking all communications between creature and Creator. But in spite of this, I continue to spread Myself. I do not withdraw, in order to find at least someone who would receive My qualities, and if I find him, I redouble My graces, I increase them a hundredfold for him. I pour all of Myself into him, to the point of making of him a portent of grace. Therefore, remove this oppression from your heart, pour yourself into Me, and I will pour Myself into you." Jesus told Jesus, "And that is enough. Have no care about anything, and I will take care of everything."

April 16th, 1926. Volume 19. How in order to live in the Divine Will it takes full abandonment in the arms of the Celestial Father. How the nothing must surrender its life to the All. How the Celestial Mama is the true image of the living in the Divine Will.

I was feeling so very little and incapable of doing anything, and I called my Queen Mama to my help, so that together we might love, adore, glorify my highest and only Good for all and in the name of all. In the meantime, I found myself with an immensity of light and all abandoned in the arms of my Celestial Father, even more so identified with Him, as the forming one single thing with Him, in such a way that I no longer felt my own life, but that of God. But who can say what I experienced and did?

Then afterwards, my sweet Jesus came out from within my interior and told me, "My daughter, everything you experienced, your full abandonment in the arms of our Celestial Father, no longer feeling your own life, is the image of living in My will. In fact, in order to live in it, the creature must live more of God than of herself. Even more, the nothing must give life to the All to be able to do everything and to have her act at the top of all the other acts of each creature. Such was the life of My divine Mama. She was the true image of the living in My will. Her living in it was so perfect that she did nothing but receive from God continuously all that she was to do in order to live in the supreme volition. So she received the act of supreme adoration to be able to place herself at the top of every adoration which all creatures were obliged to do for their Creator. In fact, true adoration has a life within the three Divine Persons. Our perfect concord, our reciprocal love, our one will form the most profound and perfect adoration within the Sacrosanct Trinity. And therefore, if the creature adores Me, but her will is not in accord with Me, it is vain word, not adoration.

So My Mama took everything from Us to be able to diffuse Herself in everything and to place Herself at the top of every act of creature, at the top of every love, of every step, of every word, of every thought, at the top of every created thing. She placed Her prime act upon all things, and this gave Her the right of Queen of all and of everything, and she surpassed in sanctity, in love, in grace, all the saints who have been and will be, as well as all angels united together. The Creator poured Himself upon her, giving her so much love that she possessed enough love to be able to love Him for all. He communicated to her the highest concord and the one will of the three Divine Persons, in such a way that she was able to adore for all in a divine manner and to make up for all the duties of creatures. Had it not been so, it would not be a truth, but just a manner of speaking, that the Celestial Mama surpassed everyone in sanctity and in love. But whenever We speak, it is facts, not words. Therefore, We found everything in her, and having found everything and everyone, We gave her everything, constituting her Queen and Mother of her very Creator.

Now, daughter of My supreme will, one who wants everything must enclose everything and place herself at the top of the acts of all as Prime Act. So the soul must be at the top of every love, adoration, glory of each creature. My will is everything. This is why the mission of the Sovereign Queen and yours can be called one, and you must follow step by step the way she conducted herself with God to be able to receive the divine attitude, in order to have within yourself a love which says love for all, an adoration which adores for all, a glory which diffuses throughout all created things. You must be Our echo, the 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.

Hark! You knew with how much love I am around you and with how much jealousy I watch over you so that your living in My eternal will may not be interrupted. You must know that I am doing more with you than with My very Celestial Mama, because she did not have your needs, nor tendencies, or passions which might even slightly prevent the course of My will in her. With greatest ease, the Creator would pour into her, and she into Him. My will was always triumphant in her, therefore she had no need of either spurs or admonitions. With you, on the other hand, I must use more attentions when I see that some little passion, some little tendency wants to arise within you, and also when your human will would want to have some act of its own life within you. I must admonish you. The power of My will must remain in the act of knocking down whatever arises within you which does not belong to it, and My grace and My love must flow into that rot which the human will keeps forming, or with anticipated graces, permit the rot from forming in your soul. This because I love so much the soul in whom My will reigns and in whom the supreme Fiat has its field of divine action. The only purpose of all creation and of redemption itself, and she costs Me so much that I love her, and she costs Me more than all creation and of redemption itself. In fact, the creation was the beginning of Our work toward the creatures, the redemption was the means, and the Fiat will be the end. And when works are accomplished, they are loved more and they acquire their complete value. Until a work is accomplished, there is always something to do, to work on, to suffer, nor can one calculate its right value. But when it is accomplished, all that is left is to possess and to enjoy the work done, and its complete value comes to complete the glory of the one who has formed it. Therefore, creation and redemption must be enclosed in the supreme Fiat. Do you see then how much you cost Me and how drawn I am to loving you? The Fiat operating and triumphant in the creature is the greatest thing for Us, because the glory which was established by Us to be received through creation has given back to Us and Our purpose, Our rights acquire their full power. This is the reason for My attentions, all for you, for My manifestations to you, and for My love for all creation and redemption, all centralized in you, because in you I want to see the triumph of My will."

April 16th, 1927. Volume 21. How our Lord made the deposit of His sacramental life in the heart of the Most Holy Virgin. The great good that a life animated by the Divine Will can do. How in her sorrows the Most Holy Virgin found the secret of her strength in the Divine Will.

I was doing the hour in which Jesus instituted the Most Holy Eucharist, and Jesus, moving in my interior, told me, "My daughter, when I do an act, first I look to see whether there is at least one creature in whom to place the deposit of My act, so that she may take the good I do and keep it safe and well defended. Now, when I instituted the Most Holy Sacrament, I looked for this creature, and My Queen Mama offered Herself to receive this act of Mine and the deposit of this great gift, saying to Me, 'My Son, just as I offered You My womb and My whole being in Your conception to keep You safe and defended, I now offer You My maternal heart in order to receive this great deposit, and I line up around Your sacramental life My affections, My heartbeats, My love, My thoughts, all of Myself to keep You defended, surrounded by cortege, loved, protected. I Myself take on the commitment to repay You for the great gift You are giving. Trust Your Mama, and I will take care of the defense of Your sacramental life. And since You Yourself have constituted Me Queen of all creation, I have the right to line up around You all the light of the Sun as homage and adoration, the stars, the heavens, the sea, all the inhabitants of the air, I, everything around You to give You love and glory.' Now, ensuring a place for Myself in which to put this great deposit of My sacramental life, and trusting My Mama, who had given Me all the proofs of her faithfulness, I instituted the Most Holy Sacrament. She was the only worthy creature who could keep, defend, and protect My act. See then, when creatures receive Me, I descend into them together with the acts of My inseparable Mama, and only because of this can I perpetuate My sacramental life. Therefore, whenever I want to do a great work worthy of Me, it is necessary that I first choose one creature, first, to have a place in which to put My gift; second, to be repaid for it. They do the same also in the natural order. If a farmer wants to sow a seed, he does not throw it in the middle of the street, but he goes in search of a little field, first he works it, he forms the furrow, and then he sows the seed in it, and to keep it safe, he covers it with earth, anxiously waiting for the harvest in order to be repaid for his work and for the seed that he entrusted to the earth. Someone else wants to form a beautiful object, first he prepares the raw materials, the place in which to put it, and then he forms it. So I have done for you. I chose you, I prepared you, and then I entrusted to you the great gift of the manifestations of My will. And just as I entrusted the destiny of My sacramental life to My beloved Mother, in the same way I wanted to trust you, entrusting to you the destiny of the kingdom of My will."

Then I continue to think about all that my beloved Good had done and suffered during the course of his life, and he added, "My daughter, my life down here was extremely short, and I spent most of it hidden. But even though it was so very short, since my humanity was animated by a divine will, how many goods did I not do! The whole Church takes from my life, drinking her fill at the font of my doctrine. Each word of mine is a fountain placed at the mouth of each Christian. Each one of my examples is more than sun that illuminates, warms, fecundates, and makes the greatest sanctities mature. If one wanted to compare all the saints, all the good, all their pains and their heroism, placed before my very short life, they would always be tiny little flames before the great Sun. And since the divine will reigned in me, all the pains, the humiliations, confusions, contrasts, accusations that the enemies gave me during the course of my life and of my passion, everything served to their own humiliation and to their own greater confusion. In fact, since a Divine Will was in me, it happened with me as with the Sun and the clouds. Extending through the lower air, they seemed to want to give affront to the Sun by obscuring the surface of the earth, covering momentarily the vividness of the solar light. But the Sun laughs at the clouds, because they cannot have perennial life in the air; their life is fleeting; a small wind is enough to make them dissolve, while the Sun is always triumphant in its fullness of light that dominates and fills the whole earth. The same happened with me. Everything that my enemies did to me, and even my very death, were like many clouds that covered my humanity, but the Sun of my divinity, they could not touch. And soon as the wind of the power of my divine will moved the clouds, they dissolved, and more than Sun, I rose again, glorious and triumphant, leaving the enemies more humiliated than before. My daughter, in the soul in whom my will reigns with all its fullness, minutes of life are centuries and centuries of fullness of all goods, while wherever it does not reign, centuries of life are only minutes of goods that they contain. And if the soul in whom my will reigns should suffer humiliations, contrasts, and pains, these are like clouds that the wind of the divine Fiat unloads over those who, to their own humiliation, have dared to touch the bearer of my eternal volition."

After this, I was thinking about the sorrow of my Mama when, sorrowful and pierced in her heart, she departed from Jesus, leaving Him dead in the sepulchre. And I thought to myself, "How can it be possible that she had so much strength as to be able to leave Him? It is true that He was dead, but it was always the body of Jesus. How could her maternal love not consume her rather than letting her take one step alone away from that extinguished body? Yet she left Him. What heroism! What strength!" But while I was thinking of this, my sweet Jesus moved in my interior and told me, "My daughter, do you want to know how my Mama had the strength to leave me? All the secret of her strength was in my will reigning in her. She lived of a will that was divine, not human, and therefore she contained the immeasurable strength. Even more, you must know that when my pierced Mama left me in the sepulchre, my will kept her immersed within two seas: one of sorrow and another, more extensive, of joys and Beatitudes. And while that of sorrow gave her all the martyrdoms, that of joy gave her all the contentment. Her beautiful soul followed me into limbo and was present at the feast that all the patriarchs, the prophets, her father, her mother, and our dear Saint Joseph made for me with my presence. Limbo became paradise, and I could not do without letting she who had been inseparable from me in my pains be present at this first feast of the creatures. And her joy was so great that she had the strength to depart from my body, withdrawing and waiting for the fulfillment of my resurrection as the fulfillment of redemption. Joy sustained her in sorrow, and sorrow sustained her, and joy. To one who possesses my will, neither strength, nor power, nor joy can be lacking; rather, she has everything at her disposal. Do you not experience this within yourself? When you are without me and you feel consumed, the light of the divine Fiat forms a sea, it makes you happy and it gives you life."

April 16th, 1928. Volume 24. The human will is symbolized by a rotten seed. How the Divine Will has the virtue of restoring the original life of that seed. Divine echo in the midst of creatures.

I was thinking about the holy Divine Volition, and a thousand thoughts wandered through my head. How can its kingdom come? How will creatures be able to receive a good soul, raised why so high as to enter into that Fiat from which creation came out? But while I was thinking of this and other things, my beloved Jesus, moving in my interior, told me, "My daughter, My will has the virtue of purifying, clearing up, embellishing, and changing nature itself. The human will is like a seed that is rotten inside. While on the outside it appears to be good, the clothing that covers the seed seems to be in good conditions, but if the clothing is removed, one finds that the seed is in some half-putrefied and some empty. How there's them! While the seed possesses life, do not expose it to the sun or to the wind, and so it will end up rotting completely. But if it is exposed to the sun and to the wind, through light, heat, and wind, they will rip the rotten part off, they will purify it and give it new life. Such is the human will: a rotten seed, full of smoke, of rot, and half-putrefied. However, not all seeds are completely dead; some have a threat of life. And if these seeds that possess this threat of life are exposed to the sun of My divine will, its light, its heat, and its penetrating and ruling wind will invest the seed of the human will, and the light and heat will clear up the seed, removing what is rotten. They will fill it with life, and the ruling wind of My Fiat will play with it, raising it so high as to enclose it in that Fiat from which it came out, and with its virtue, it will change the nature of the seed, giving it its original life. Everything is in exposing oneself to the sun of My will and to the burning and refulgent rays of its knowledge, letting oneself be invested by them, caressed by its light, warmed by its heat, carried by the empire of its wind, so that the kingdom of My will may come upon earth. See, these prerogatives are present also in the natural order. If one feels a heavy and oppressive air, a wind is enough to empty the air of that weight and to breathe it as pure air. If one feels an excessive heat or a numbing cold, a wind is enough to mitigate that heat, and another wind to mitigate that cold. If thick clouds cover the horizon, the wind and the Sun are enough to dispel the clouds and make the azure sky reappear more beautiful. If a field is about to rot because of continuous waters, a strong wind is enough to dry it, and the light and heat of the Sun are enough to revive it again. If nature can do this, animated by the power of My will, more so can My will do it over souls who let themselves be invested by it. With its heat, My will will mold them anew, it will destroy what is rotten in them, and breathing over them with its light, it will empty them of the weight of the human will, giving them their original nature. When Adam fell, corrupting the seed of his will, if My will had not withdrawn from him, its light and heat could have restored him immediately. But justice demanded that he feel the effects of his corrupted seed, and therefore, as My will withdrew, he felt no more light or heat in his soul so as to be able to be restored, to maintain the seed of his will in corrupt. Isn't this perhaps the kingdom of My will? Its yearning to return once again into the midst of creatures, and more than son, remove the corruption from their seeds to be able to reign and in the midst of the human family."

After this, I continued to think about the supreme Fiat, and my lovable Jesus added, "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 itself, and it filled heaven and earth with Our love. As it came out of 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 azure 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, the might of Our works. Whenever the Divinity wants to operate and even reproduce 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 the 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 that had the virtue of preserving him just as he came out of Our creative hands. So he became weak. This harmonized, poor man, without the echo of Our Fiat that 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 pupil 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, like a child without Mama, like a pupil without a teacher. 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 into the midst of creatures. The kingdom of Our Fiat is precisely this: the return of Our divine echo, not the faraway echo that has often resounded to the hearing of man from the time he withdrew from Our will, but the continuous echo that will resound in the depths of souls and, transforming them, it will form divine life in them, giving back to them the order of the way in which man had been created."

April 16th, 1929. Vol. 26. For one who lives in the Fiat there is an exchange of life between the Fiat and the soul. Doubled love.

The privations of my sweet Jesus become longer, and I do nothing but long and moan for His return. And as much as I live, all abandoned in the Divine Fiat, His privations are wounds so deep and bitter that, more than a wounded deer, I send my cries of sorrow, such that if I could, I would definitely be coz of a pain so excruciating and a privation so great that makes me feel the weight of an infinite pain and of a wound always open, except for those few moments in which He speaks to me about His Divine Volition. Then it seems to me that it closes, but only to reopen with a pain yet more bitter. And so I am forced in my writings to inscribe my sorrowful note of my little soul that, more than a wounded deer, sends my cries of sorrow to wound that Jesus who wounds me, who knows wounded He might come back and give respite to my sorrowful note.

So, while I was feeling immersed in the pain of His privation and all abandoned in His will, He moved in my interior and told me, "Courage, O daughter, do not abandon yourself within your sorrow, but ascend higher. You know that you have a task to fulfill, and this task is so great that not even the pain of My privation must stop you. On the contrary, it must serve you to ascend higher in the light of My divine will. Your encounter with it must be continuous, because it is an exchange of life that you must have. It must give itself continuously to you, and you to it. And you know that the motion, the heartbeat, the breathing must be continuous, otherwise life cannot exist. And you would cause your life to be missing in My Fiat, and it would feel the sorrow that its little daughter, its dear newborn, would cause her motion, her heartbeat, her breathing to be missing in it. It would feel the tearing of its newborn whom it always keeps in the act of being born, without putting her out of its womb even to let her take one step, so as to feel her life as its own life. And you would feel the life of its continuous motion, of its heartbeat, of its breathing missing in you. You would feel the void of a divine will in your soul. No, no, my daughter, I do not want any void of My will in you. Now you must know that all the manifestations about My divine Fiat that I make to you are like many stairs through which My will descends into the soul to take possession of her, to form its kingdom, while the soul ascends toward heaven to transport My will from heaven to earth. Therefore, it is a great task, and it is unbefitting to lose time, whatever the reason be, even holy. And you see how I myself eclipsed Myself within My divine will so as to give the whole place to it. And if I make my little escapes, incoming, it is only in order to deal with, to reorder, and to make you know what belongs to My divine will. Therefore, be attentive, and let your flight in it be continuous."

After this, I continued to feel oppressed because of the provisions of Jesus, and I was thinking to myself, "How His love for me has died down compared to the love He had for me before. It seems to me that only the shadows of the love of Jesus are left to me." But while I was thinking about this, He moved in my interior and told me, "My daughter, each act done in My divine will doubles My love toward you. Therefore, after so many acts that you have done in it, I can say that My love has grown so much that I have to expand your capacity so as to allow you to receive My growing love that arises in Me in each act you do in My divine will. Therefore, My love is more intense and increased a hundredfold compared to that of before. So you can be sure that My love will never be lacking to you, never."

April 16th, 1931. Vol. 29. Courage is of resolute souls. 6 angels with Jesus at the head of them. How the acts done in the Divine Will are pledges of infinite value, eternal bonds, chains not subject to breaking.

My life continues under the empire of the eternal Fiat that envelops me inside and outside of me and makes me feel its infinite weight, and I, like an atom, remain enveloped by this infinity that has no limits. And as much as I loved it and longed for it, I feel vividly the pain of my human will crushed and almost dying under the empire of a divine will immense and eternal. My Jesus, help me and give me strength in the painful state I find myself in. My poor heart bleeds and seeks a refuge in so many pains. You alone, my Jesus, can help me. Please help me. Do not abandon me.

And while my poor soul was pouring itself out in sorrow, my sweet Jesus made Himself seen in my interior, crucified, with six angels, three on the right and three on the left of His adorable person. Each of these angels held a crown in his hands, studded with most refuge and gems, in act of offering them to our Lord. I remained surprised and seeing this, and my beloved Jesus told me, "Courage, my daughter, courage is of souls resolute to do good. They are imperturbable under any storm, and while they hear the roaring of the thunders and lightnings to the point of trembling and remain under the pouring rain that pours over them, they use the water to be washed and come out more beautiful and heedless of the storm. They are more than ever resolute and courageous and not moving from the good they have started. Discouragement is irresolute souls who never arrive at accomplishing a good. Courage sets the way. Courage puts to flight any storm. Courage is the bread of the strong. Courage is the warlike one that knows how to win any battle. Therefore, forked daughter, courage! Do not fear. And besides, what do you fear? I gave you six angels for your custody. Each of them has the task to guide you through the interminable ways of My eternal volition so that you may requite with your acts, with your love, what the Divine Will did by pronouncing six Fiats and creation. So each angel is entrusted one Fiat and what came out of this Fiat to call you to requite each of these Fiats, even with the sacrifice of your life. These angels gather your acts and form with them a crown and, prostrate, they offer it to the Divinity as requital for what our Divine Will did, so that it may be known and form its kingdom upon earth. But this is not all. I myself am at the head of these angels, guiding you and watching over you and everything, and forming in you the very act and that law that is needed so that you may have sufficient love to be able to requite so many great works of our supreme volition. Therefore, do not stop. You have much to do. You have to follow I who never stop. You have to follow the angels because they want to fulfill their task entrusted to them. You have to fulfill your mission of daughter of the Divine Will."

After this, I was feeling concerned and fearing. I thought to myself, "The circumstances of my life are most painful, so much so that often times I feel myself succumbing under so long a storm that gives no sign of ending. On the contrary, it often seems to reach more. And if our Lord does not give me help and super abundant grace, my weakness is so great that I feel as if I wanted to go out of the Divine Will, and if – may it never be – this happens, poor me, everything will be lost."

But while I was thinking of this, my adorable Jesus extended His arms toward me in an act of sustaining me, told me, "My daughter, you must know that the acts done in My Divine Will are everlasting and inseparable from God, and they leave the continuous memory that the soul had the good of operating together with a divine will, and that God had the creature with Himself to let her operate with His own Divine Will. This happy operative and holy memory makes us always keep our eyes over each other, God and the soul, in such a way that we remain unforgettable one to the other. So much so that if the creature had the misfortune of going out of our will, she will go wandering, she will wander far, but will feel the eye of God over her, calling her sweetly, and her own eye toward He who was watching her continuously. And even if she goes wandering, she feels the irresistible need, the strong chains that pull her into the arms of her Creator. This happened to Adam because the beginning of his life was lived in my divine well. Even though he sinned, was cast out of Eden, went wandering for all his life, yet was he perhaps lost? Huh, no, because he felt over himself the power of our will in which he had operated. He felt our eye watching him and drawing his eye to watch us as well, as the dear memory that the first fruits of his acts have had life in our will. You cannot comprehend all the good and what it means to operate in our well. By operating in it, the soul acquires as many pledges of infinite value for as many acts as she does in our Fiat, and these pledges remain in God Himself because the creature does not have the capacity or the place in which to keep them, so great is the value they contain. And can you ever think that while we have these pledges of infinite value of the creature, we would permit that she to whom these pledges so precious belong be lost? Uh, no, no. And therefore, do not fear. The acts done in our will are eternal bonds, chains not subject to breaking. And suppose you went out of our divine will (which will not be), you can go and hunt, but your acts remain, nor can they go out because they were done in our house. And the creature has her rights for as long as she remains in our house, that is, in our will. As soon as she goes out of it, she loses her rights. However, these acts will have such power as to call..."

Back she who was their possessor therefore do not want to trouble the peace of your heart. Abandon yourself in me and do not fear.

April 16, 1933. Volume 32. How in all created things God always has something to say to us. I love you. How in all the acts of his life Jesus enclosed love, conquests, triumphs. I was doing my round and the Divine volition. I feel that I am that little tiny butterfly that always goes around and within its light and its ardent love, hoping that I would go around so much, even to such that I would remain burnt and consumed by its divine light. Has to feel myself one single thing with His most holy will. And since the first point of departure is creation, in which while I go around, I always find new surprises of love, so I remained amazed by it. And my highest good in Jesus, in order to make me comprehend all the more, told me, "My daughter, how welcome to me is your sojourn in the acts that our Supreme Being did in creation." And therefore I feel myself as enraptured and constrained by my love to narrate to you our story of love that we had in the creation and in all the rest that we have done only and for pure love toward creatures. Coming into our acts is the same as coming into our house. And not telling you anything about the so many things that we have to say would be as sending you away fasting, which our love does not know how to do, nor does it want to do. Therefore you must know that our Fiat pronounced itself and it extended the azure vault, and our love embroidered it with stars, placing in each star an act of continuous love toward creatures, such that every star says, "Your Creator loves you, nor can he ever cease loving you." We are here, nor do we move out of place even a little, in order to always have something to tell you. I love you. I love you. But pass on.

Our Fiat created the Sun, filled it with so much light as to be able to give light to the whole earth. And our love, placing itself in competition with the Sun, filled it with so many effects that they are innumerable effects of sweetness, variety of beauty, of colors, of tastes, that the earth, only because it was touched by this light, receives us, life, these admirable effects, and its admirable and incessant singsong. "I love you with my love of sweetness. I love you, and I want to make you beautiful. I want to embellish you with my divine colors." And if I embellish the plants for you, I want to make you even more beautiful. Now in this light I descend even to you in order to tell you with pleasure, "I love you." I take pleasure in loving you, and I'm all ears in order to hear "I love you" said to me by you. I can say that the Sun is filled with my continuous and repeated "I love you." But alas, the creature does not give any thought to it, nor does she pay attention to receiving this love of ours, incessant in so many ways and various forms that it would be enough to drown her and to consume her with love. But we do not stop. We continue on.

Our Fiat created the wind, and our love filled it with effects such that the freshness, the gusts, whistling, moans, and howls of the wind are repeated "I love yous" that we say to the creature. And in the freshness we give her our refreshing love. In the gusts we blow on her with our love, even to moaning and howling with our ruling and incessant love. And so on for the rest. The sea, the earth were created by our Fiat. The fish, the plants that the sea and earth produce are the effects of our love that powerfully and repeatedly say, "I love you." In all created things, "I love you." As through all, "I love you." Within you, "I love you." And so much is my love. Oh, please do not deny me your love. And yet it seems that they have no ears to listen to us, nor heart to love us. And therefore, when we find one who listens to us, we hold her as the outlet of our love and as the little secretary of the story of creation.

Having said this, He was silent, and I continued in the acts of the Divine Will. And arriving at those of the redemption, my beloved Jesus added, "My plus, daughter, listen still to my long story of love. I could say that it is an interminable chain of incessant love, never interrupted. After all, I created the creature in order to love him, in order to keep him united with me, and not loving him would go against my will itself. I would act against my own nature that is all love. And then I created him because I felt the need of revealing my love and of letting him hear the sweet continuous whisper, 'I love you, I love you, I love you.'"

"Now you must know that as soon as I was conceived and in the whole course of my life, in all the acts that I did, I enclosed inside love, conquest, triumph. My work was very different from that of creatures. To do and not to do, to suffer and not to suffer was in my power. My all-seeingness hid nothing from me. And first I placed my will and my acts. I enclosed the fullness of sanctity, fullness of love, fullness of all goods. And then with full knowledge I offered myself to work or to suffer according to what I myself wanted. And with this I rendered myself conqueror and triumpher of my acts. But do you know for whom I made these conquests and these triumphs? For creatures. I loved them so much and I wanted to give, I wanted to be Jesus conqueror, giving them my conquests and my triumphs in order to conquer them. Such that my life down here was nothing other than a continuous act of heroic love that never says enough to conquests and to triumphs in order to render my children happy. And I did this in everything. If I walked, I had the virtue of being able to go from one city to another without making use of my steps, but I wanted to walk in order to place my love in every step, so that in every step it would run, it would run. And I rendered myself conqueror and triumpher of my steps. Oh, if creatures would have paid attention to me, they would have heard in my steps the continuous cry, 'I run, I run in search of the creatures in order to love them and to be loved.'"

"So if I worked with Saint Joseph in order to procure the necessities of life, it was the love that ran. They were conquests and triumphs that I made because one Fiat was enough for me to have everything at my disposal. And making you of my hands for a little profit, the heavens were amazed, the angels remained enraptured and mute, and seeing me abase myself to the humblest actions of life. But my love had its outlet, it filled, overflowed in my acts, and I was always the divine conqueror and triumpher. Taking food was not necessary for me, but I took it in order to make love run more and to make new conquests and triumphs. In fact, I gave course to the most humble and base things of life that were not necessary for me, but I did in order to form as many distinct ways in order to let my love run and to form new conquests and triumph over my humanity in order to make a gift of them to those I loved so much. And therefore, one who does not receive my love and doesn't have to love me forms my hardest martyrdom and places my love on the cross. But I pass on in order to form the redemption. One tear of mine once was enough, but my love would not have remained content being able to give and to do even more. My love would have remained blocked in itself and would not have been able to boast by saying, 'I have done everything, I have suffered everything, I have given you everything. My conquests are superabundant, my triumph is complete.' I can say that I reached even to confounding the human and gratitude with my love, with my excesses, and with unheard-of pains. Therefore, I myself placed in every pain the intense, the of the most intense and bitter suffering, the most humiliating confusions, the cruelest barbarities. And afterwards I furnished myself with all the most sorrowful effects that only a man and God could suffer. I offered myself to suffer it, and all the admirable conquests in my pains and the full triumph that my love made. No one would have been able to touch me if I did not want it. And here is the whole secret: my pains were voluntary, wanted by me, and therefore they contained the miraculous secret, the conquering strength, love that moves one to remorse, and they have the virtue of overwhelming the whole world and changing the face of the earth."

End of April 16th. Fiat.