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May 15th, 1905, Volume 6.
The path of virtue is easy.
Continuing in my usual state, blessed Jesus came for a little and told me: "My daughter, they say that the path of virtue is difficult. False! It is difficult for one who does not move, because knowing neither the graces nor the consolation she would receive from God, nor the help for her to move, it seems difficult to her; and without moving, she feels all the weight of the journey. But for one who moves, it is extremely easy, because the grace that inundates her fortifies her, the beauty of the virtues attracts her, the Divine Spouse of souls carries her, cleaving to His arm, accompanying her along the journey; and the soul, instead of feeling the weight, the difficulty of moving, wants to hasten her way in order to reach more quickly the end of the path and of her very center."
May 15, 1906, Volume 7.
The soul is like a sponge: if she squeezes herself, she becomes soaked with God.
Continuing in my usual state, I felt an extreme affliction because of the pervasion of blessed Jesus, and I was almost tired and my strengths exhausted. Now He made Himself seen for just a little in my interior and told me: "My daughter, it is a continuous squeezing of herself that the soul must do. In fact, the soul is like a sponge: if she squeezes herself, she becomes soaked with God; and by becoming soaked with God, she feels the life of God within herself, and therefore, love for virtue and holy inclinations. She feels conquered and transformed in God. While if she does not squeeze herself, she remains soaked with herself, and therefore, she feels all the effects which a corrupted nature contains, and all vices peep out: pride, envy, disobedience, impurity, and so forth."
May 15, 1908, Volume 8.
She sees wars and revolutions.
As I was in my usual state, I found myself outside of myself in the midst of revolutions. It seems that they are ever more obstinate in wanting to shed blood. I prayed to the Lord, and He told me: "My daughter, too are the storms which men are preparing, one against the government and the other against the Church. In the meantime, I seem to see fleeing leaders, the king at risk of being made a prisoner and trying to flee. I cannot say it well; it seemed that he was falling into the hands of the enemies. All the rich were undergoing grave dangers, and some were dying. That which was most sorrowful is that among the leaders of revolutions, also against the Church, priests were not lacking. Then, when things were reaching the extreme excess, a foreign power seemed to intervene. I will not continue further, because these are things said other times."
May 15, 1920, Volume 12.
The Divine Will forms the complete crucifixion in the soul.
I was lamenting to my sweet Jesus, telling Him: "Where are Your promises? No more cross, no more likeness to You! Everything is vanished! There's nothing left for me but to cry over my painful end."
And Jesus, moving, told me in my interior: "My daughter, My crucifixion was complete. And do you know why? Because it was done in the Eternal Will of My Father. In this Will, the cross became so long and so wide as to embrace all centuries and penetrate into every heart: past, present, and future, in such a way that I remained crucified in the heart of each creature. This Divine Will put nails through all of My interior, into My desires, into My affections, and into My heartbeats. I can say that I did not have a life of My own, but the life of the Eternal Will, which enclosed all the creatures within Me and which wanted Me to answer for all. My crucifixion could never have been complete and so extensive as to embrace all, if the Eternal Volition had not been the actor.
I want that in you also the crucifixion be complete and extended to all. This is the reason for the continuous call into My Will, for pushing you to bring the whole human family before the Supreme Majesty and to omit, in the name of all, the acts which they do not do. Oblivion of yourself and lack of self-reflections are nothing other than the nails put by My Will. My Will does not know how to do small or incomplete things. Placing itself around the soul like a crown, it wants her within itself, and spreading her within the whole sphere of its Eternal Volition, it puts the seal of its completion upon her. My Will empties the interior of the creature of all that is human and places in her all that is Divine; and in order to be more sure, it keeps on sealing all of her interior with as many nails for as many human acts as can have life in the creature, substituting them with as many Divine acts. In this way, it forms the true crucifixion in her, not for a time, but for her entire life."
May 15, 1922, Volume 14.
Laments and Fears of Luisa. Jesus shows her how much He loves her.
Continuing in my usual state, I felt all oppressed because of the pervasion of my sweet Jesus. Now, while I was praying, I felt there was someone behind my shoulders, and not knowing that it was Jesus, I trembled with fright. He stretched His arm and, taking my hand in His hand, told me: "Luisa, do not fear."
It, as I, oppressed as I was and tired of waiting Him, I said: "It shows, oh Jesus, that You no longer love me as before! You took everything away from me, even suffering. You alone were left to me, but so very often You fly away, and I don't know what to do nor where to find You. How it is really true that You do not love me anymore!"
And Jesus, assuming a dignified appearance such as to strike fear, added: "You offend Me by telling Me that I no longer love you as before. Mind this, for the mere suspicion that I may not love you is the greatest offense for Me. How is this? I don't love you? So you hold all the graces I am giving you as trifles?"
I remained confused, and I really trembled at seeing the severe look of Jesus, and in the depth of my heart I implored forgiveness and pity. And He, softening: "Promise Me that you will not say it anymore. And to show you that I love you, I want to make you suffer, letting you share in My pains."
Then, after I suffered a little, He repeated: "Now I want to show you how I love you." So He showed His heart opened, and a menses of power, of wisdom, of goodness, of love, of beauty, of sanctity came out from within it. In the center of each one of these seas, it was written: "Luisa, daughter of My Immensity, daughter of My Power, daughter of My Wisdom, daughter of My Goodness, daughter of My Love, daughter of My Beauty, daughter of My Sanctity."
The more I looked, the more I remained confused. And Jesus: "Have you seen how much I love you? And how not only in My heart, but in all of My attributes, I carry your name written? And your name written in Me makes ever new currents of grace, of light, of love, and so forth, hoping for you. Yet you tell Me that I do not love you? How can you even suspect this?"
Only Jesus knows how crushed I remained, thinking that I had offended my Jesus, and even in His presence. Oh God, what pain! How awful guilt is!
May 15, 1926, Volume 19.
Diversity of Sanctity and Beauty in the Souls who live in the Divine Will. How the whole order and variety of Creation will be veiled in the human nature.
I was thinking: if the creature had not withdrawn from the Supreme Will, one would be the sanctity, one the beauty, one the science, one the light, and there would be the same knowledge of our Creator for all.
Now, while I was thinking of this, my beloved Jesus—and it seems to me that He Himself makes these thoughts, some doubts and difficulties arise within my mind in order to have the opportunity to speak to me and act as my Teacher—told me: "My daughter, you are wrong. My Wisdom would not adapt itself to forming only one sanctity, only one beauty, or to communicating only one science and the same knowledge of Me to everyone. More so, since through highest accord between My Will and those of creatures, the Kingdom of My Will would have had free field of action. Therefore, all would have been saints, but one distinct from the other; all beautiful, but varied, one more beautiful than the other. And according to the sanctity of each one, I was to communicate a distinct science, and with this science, some would know one attribute of their Creator more, some another.
You must know that as much as We can give to the creature, she only takes the little drops of her Creator; so great is the distance between Creator and creatures, and We have always new and different things to give. And besides, since Creation was created by Us so that We might delight in it, where would Our delight be had We formed in the creature only one sanctity, or given only one beauty and only one knowledge of Our incomprehensible, immense, and infinite Being? Our Wisdom would have grown bored with doing only one thing.
What would be said of Our Wisdom, Love, and Power if, in creating this terrestrial globe, We had made it all sky, or all earth, or all sea? What would Our glory have been? Instead, the multiplicity of so many things created by Us, while singing the praises of Wisdom, Love, and Power, speaks also of the variety of sanctity and beauty in which creatures were to arise for love of whom they were created.
See, the sky studded with stars is beautiful, but the sun also is beautiful, though they are distinct from each other, and the sky does one office, the sun another. The sea is beautiful, but the flowery earth, the height of the mountains, the expanse of the plains are also beautiful, though the beauties and the offices are distinct among them. A garden is beautiful, but how many varieties of plants and beauties are in it? There's the tiny little flower, beautiful in its littleness; there's the violet, the rose, the lily, all beautiful but distinct in color, in fragrance, in size. There is the little plant and the highest tree. What enchantment is a garden guided by an experienced gardener!
Now, My daughter, in the order of human nature also, there will be some who will surpass the sky in sanctity and in beauty, some the sun, some the sea, some the flowery earth, some the height of the mountains, some the tiny little flower, some the little plant, and some the highest tree. And even if man should withdraw from My Will, I will multiply the centuries so as to have in the human nature all the order and the multiplicity of created things and of their beauty, and to have it even surpassed in a more admirable and enchanting way."
May 15, 1932, Volume 30.
How the knowledge about the Divine Will will form the eye and the capacity in order to look at and receive the gift of the Divine Fiat, and will accustom the creature to living as children. Disorder of the human will.
I am always returning into the Supreme Fiat and feeling in myself the sweet enchantment of its light, of its peace, of its happiness. Oh, how I would want that the whole entire world would know such a good, so that everyone would pray that its Kingdom would come on earth! But while I said this, I thought to myself: if living in the Divine Volition is a gift that He must make to the human generations, and Jesus so much loves, wants, and yearns that this Divine Will is known in order to let it reign, then why is He not in a hurry to give this gift?
And my Highest Good, Jesus, visiting my little soul, all goodness, said to me: "My daughter, you must know that although I burn with the desire of seeing My Divine Will reign, yet I cannot give this gift before I have manifested the truths. Knowing them, the creature will have the great good of forming the sight in order to be capable of comprehending it, and therefore, dispose themselves in order to receive a gift so great. One can say that right now they lack the eye in order to see, and the capacity in order to comprehend it. And therefore, first I have manifested so many truths about My Divine Will, and as the creatures will know these truths of Mine, so they will form the sphere for where to place the pupil inside and animate it with sufficient light in order to be able to look at and comprehend the gift that, more than sun, will be given and entrusted to them.
If I would want to give it today, I would act as if I wanted to give a son to a blind person. Poor little one! With the whole son given, he would always be blind, nor would his lot change, nor would he receive any good. Rather, he would have a sorrow to have a son as gift and neither see it nor receive its beneficial effects. On the other hand, one who was not blind, how many goods would he not receive having a son as gift at his disposition! It would be his perennial feast and would place him in the condition of giving light to others, and he would be surrounded and loved by everyone in order to obtain the good of the light that he possesses. So, giving the great gift of My Divine Will, which more than sun will change the lot of the human generations, today would be to give it to the blind; and giving it to the blind would be giving them useless gifts, and I do not know how to give useless things. Therefore, I await with Divine and delirious patience that My truths will make their way, prepare souls, enter into them, and form the eye animated with sufficient light such that they can not only look at the gift of My Fiat, but have the capacity in order to enclose it in themselves so that it forms its Kingdom and extends its dominion in them. Therefore, patience and time will make things done as is appropriate and as Our Sovereignty merits.
In the work, We, Our Supreme Being, act as a father would do when he wants to give a great gift to his little son. The father calls the child and lets him see the gift and says to him: 'This gift is prepared for you; already it will be yours.' But he does not give it to him. The son remains surprised, enraptured in seeing the gift that his father wants to give him, and remaining around the father, he prays him that he give the gift, and not knowing how to separate from him, he prays and prays again because he wants the gift. Meanwhile, the father, seeing him around himself, profits in instructing the son to make him comprehend the nature of the gift, the good, the happiness that he will receive from this gift. The son becomes mature with the manifestations of the father and capable not only of receiving the gift, but of comprehending what the gift that he must receive encloses of the good, of the great. Therefore, he presses himself more around the father, he prays and prays again, he yearns for the gift, he reaches at crying and does not know how to remain any more without the gift. One can say that he has formed in himself, with his prayers and sighs, with acquiring the knowledges about the gift that his father has made for him, the life, the space for where to receive the gift as in sacred deposit. The father's delay to give the gift to his son has been a greater love. He burned, he yearned to give the gift to his son, but he wanted him capable and that he would understand the gift that he received, and as soon as he sees him mature in order to receive such a good, immediately he gives it to him.
So do We do, more than father. We yearn to give the great gift of Our Will to Our children, but We want that they know what they are receiving. The knowledges about it mature Our children and make them capable of receiving such a good. The so many manifestations that I have made will be the true eyes of the soul in order to be able to look at and comprehend what Our Paternal Goodness for so many centuries wants to give to creatures. Even more, because the knowledges that I have manifested about My Divine Will, as they become known by creatures, will cast in them the seed to make germinate the love of children toward their Celestial Father. They will feel Our Paternity, and if He wants that they do His Will, it is because He loves them and wants to love them as children in order to participate in His Divine Goods. Therefore, Our knowledges about the Divine Fiat will make them accustomed to living as children, and then will cease every marvel that Our Supreme Being gives to its children the great gift of Our Will. It is a right of children to receive the properties of the Father, and it is a duty of the Father to give His goods to the children. One who wants to live as a stranger does not merit the possessions of the Father. Even more, because Our Paternity craves, yearns for, and burns with the desire of want to give this gift so that one be the will of His children. Then will Our Paternal Love rest when We see the work that came forth from Our Creative Hands in the womb of Our Volition, in Our house and Our Kingdom populated by Our dear children."
After this, I continued to think about the Divine Will. It seems to me that I do not know how to be if I do not think about this. And my Celestial Teacher added: "Blessed daughter, all the acts that My Divine Will does are so bound among themselves that they are inseparable, in a way that if one wants to find them at first appearance, he finds one act alone. But entering further within, he finds so many acts distinct from one another, but fused and bound together such that they cannot separate. The strength of union and of inseparability forms the nature of the Divine Work. The Creation itself says this: if one single star could detach from its place in which it is connected together with all the other created things, then it would fall and would cast general disorder and all the other created things. Such is the inseparability and union that they all have together. They all have life, although distinct among themselves, and they form the beautiful harmony of the whole of Creation. Separate, one can say that they lose life and cast disorder everywhere, such as the human will separated from the will of his Creator. Not only did he himself fall, but he cast disorder everywhere, and if he could, he would have disordered everything and the very order of his Creator. Nor is there anything to marvel at: the human will was created by Us, and separated from Ours, it would be like a star detached from its place where it possessed the Divine Strength, the union of common accord and of all the goods with its Creator. Detaching from Us, man loses the strength, the union, and the goods in order to live. Therefore, by necessity, he touches the lot of falling and of casting disorder everywhere.
Now, living in My Divine Will, as the soul does her first act, so she feels the strength and the union of all the acts of the Divine Fiat, such that one act includes and encloses all the other acts, and she feels the need of continuing her acts in order to link them together so as to develop the strength of the Divine Will that she feels in herself. Because as life, it does not know how to be without making itself felt; it wants to breathe, to palpitate, to work. One act calls another and so forms the sequel of the acts with the union of the acts of My Will in order to form a life. One act, one breath, one heartbeat is not enough, no, but there is needed continuous breathing, palpitating, and working. And as the soul lives in My Divine Will, so it lets her breathe and palpitate, and My Fiat forms its full life of working for as much as is possible for a creature to contain in herself. Therefore, if you want its life in you, let your acts be continuous in it."
May 15, 1938, Volume 36.
How the Word of God is life, enclosing all the centuries. How it looks to all human generations. How Jesus does not know how to deal with those who do not love Him. How Jesus is always there for the needs of the creatures.
I felt immersed in the Divine Will; its light made me comprehend many of its truths, but I also felt incapable of enclosing them in my little mind and reluctant to manifest them in writing on paper. Then my sweet Jesus, visiting my poor soul, all tenderness and compassion for my incapacity, told me: "Poor daughter, she gets confused before the immensity of My Will and would like to stay there resting in peace to enjoy all the joys and the happiness with which she is filled. No, My daughter, work is necessary too. In Heaven there is always joy, but on earth there is an alternation of joys and work. For you, manifesting and writing is work, while entering My Will is possessing the purest joys and the greatest happiness. However, I never leave you alone in your work; I actually do more than you do, and without Me you could have done nothing.
You must know that Our love is so great that when We decide to give a word to manifest a truth from Our Supreme Majesty, We also provide the act in which to do it, enclosing in Ourselves the good which that truth has to produce. When the good We have to give to creatures through those truths We manifest is all mature and completed, then We give this good to one of them, and she becomes the bearer of that good for the benefit of all human generations. Therefore, Our words enclose all centuries, and being words of life, they possess a creative strength. Wherever they reach out, they will create life and bring the goodness of Our truth. So, stopping Our words by not manifesting them means stopping all the good and lives that Our words can produce. I know, My daughter, that you would never want to give Me such a sorrow by preventing this great good from reaching the human generations, would you? One who loves Me cannot refuse Me anything, not even the sacrifice of her own life. Therefore, be attentive, since you do not want to be responsible for so many of Our Divine Lives which are destined to give life to creatures."
After this, I felt in so much pain; it was as if I was going to breathe my last. Jesus immediately ran to sustain me in His arms and said: "What is it? Tell Me, do you want to come?" And I: "Yes, Heaven willing that You make up Your mind to take me." And Jesus: "My daughter, and what are We going to do with the earth?" And I: "I don't know anything, and I'm good at nothing, and then what do I care about the earth?" He said: "My daughter, but you should care, because your Jesus cares, and My concerns and your concerns must be one.
Now you must know that the Divine Will has not yet been completely manifested, although it will be soon. And the more it is manifested, the more souls get caught in the nets of its light. Not only this, but the more it matures and grows in one creature, the more all the others acquire the right to receive it, and We feel more moved to grace the human generations, letting them possess Our life and Will. Our goodness and Our love is such that in one creature We look at all, and for love of one We also benefit all the others. But who then overflows with this good for all? The one who has been the first to receive that good, the one who listened to Us and cherished Our truths more than her own life, the one who never looking for her own life was ready to sacrifice it in every instant for love of Us, to let Us make of her what We wanted. This has so much power on Our Supreme Being; it moves Us so much that one alone is enough to let everybody receive that good. Furthermore, the human generations are so linked together, more than the limbs to the body, that it is no wonder that one healthy and good member makes its vital and holy humors flow into the others. In the same way, the strength of one single creature living in Our Will is omnipotent to the extent that it can overwhelm Heaven and earth; it conquers all, God as well as creatures. Therefore, let Me finish, and I will take you soon."
Then He added: "My daughter, the more one suffers, the more he feels the need to be loved. I am the one who suffered more than anybody else, and My pains, My spilled blood, and My tears turned into loving voices imploring love from those I love so much and who made Me suffer and cry so much. Those who love Me bring the sweetest relief to My pains; they dry My tears, while My blood turns into a path of love for them. But do you know who turns My suffering and tears into joy and gladness? Those who live in My Will. They always find in it love with which to love Me, sustaining Me in My suffering and giving Me continuous relief. Then I feel like a triumphant King who, although wounded, won the will of the creature by the weapons of His sufferings and love. Oh, how happy I am, and feeling loved and living together with the ones for whom I sustained such a painful and bloody battle! I created everything to be loved, and if love is lacking, I do not really know what to do with the creature. I cannot find what I want. At the most, there might be different varieties of love: love of reparation, of compassion, of imitation, but it is always love that I want, and if I do not find it, it is just not for Me. Given that love is the child of My Will, if I find this child, I have found the Mother, and so I find everything, all that belongs to Me, and I rest and rejoice in her, and she does the same in Me, and We love each other with one single love."
And I: "My beloved Jesus, if You yearn so much for love and for creatures to do Your Will, why don't You inundate them with Your graces so that they feel the strength to operate and love as You want?" And Jesus: "My daughter, I feel like giving to the creature the necessary strength, or rather an over-abundant strength, only in the moment when she sets herself to do what I want, not before. Otherwise, she would feel the strength but still not do what I want, and I do not know how to give useless things. How many, before doing in action, feel so helpless, but then as soon as they put themselves to work, they feel invested by a new strength, a new light! I am the one who charged them, since I never lack the necessary strength to do good. Rather, this need ties Me and forces Me, if necessary, to act together with them. But if what they do is not necessary, then I put Myself aside and let them do by themselves."
After this, I was thinking to myself: how miserable I am! I feel like I haven't done anything for Jesus for all the graces He gave me. Who knows how much I should love Him! Instead, I am so cold. It is true that I cannot love anyone other than Jesus, but I should be all on fire, and I'm not.
As I was thinking that, He came back and, reproaching me sweetly, said: "My daughter, what are you doing? Do you want to waste time? Don't you know that all you should care about is knowing whether or not a state is in My Will and doing it in My Will? Everything is love: breathing, heartbeat, motion. Even the human will wants nothing other than to love Me. My Will, jealous of the creature, surrounds her with an air of love so that I breathe only that love. Your Jesus never looks at what the creature feels, because many times feelings can deceive her. I look at her will and what she really wants; that is all I take. How many things there are that she feels but does not do! But if she wills, all is done. Further, in My Will nothing gets lost for whoever lives in it. Everything is counted: breaths, heartbeats, the little 'I love You.' All things done in it remain written with indelible characters of light and form the very life of My Will. Often the gifts I have given to the creature, as well as her acts, remain hidden as her property in the depth of her will. She feels as if she has not done anything, but that is not true. At the right time, these acts will show their light inside that soul, brighter than the sun, and sanctity is there in its place of honor. Virtues are all there, ready to act heroically in case of need. My Will knows how to maintain harmony and its Divine Order wherever it reigns, and whatever it does acquires the seal of eternity. Therefore, live in it and do not worry about anything. My Will will take care of you better than you would yourself."
End of May 15th Fiat.