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December 22nd, 1899. Vol. 3. How God draws us to love Him in three ways and how He manifests Himself to the soul in three ways.
This morning my adorable Jesus was not coming. After much waiting and waiting, He made Himself just barely seen several times, like a lightning that flashes by. But I seemed to see a light rather than Jesus, and in this light a voice, which the first time it came, said: "I draw you to love Me in three ways: by dint of benefits, by dint of sympathies, and by dint of persuasions."
Who can say how many things I comprehended in these three words? It seemed to me that in order to attract my love, and also that of the other creatures, blessed Jesus makes benefits rain down for our good. And in seeing that this rain of benefits does not reach the point of gaining our love, He reaches the point of rendering Himself sympathetic. And what is this sympathy? It is His pain suffered for love of us, to the point of dying, deluging blood upon a cross, where He rendered Himself so sympathetic as to enamor of Himself His very executioners and His fiercest enemies.
Even more, in order to attract us more and render our love stronger and more stable, He left us the light of His most holy examples, united to His celestial doctrine, which, like light, dispels for us the darkness of this life and leads us to eternal salvation.
The second time it came, it said to me: "I manifest Myself to the soul in three different ways: by power, by news, and by love. The power is the Father; the news is the Word; the love is the Holy Spirit." Oh, how many more things I comprehended, but too little is that which I am able to manifest! It seemed to me that God manifests Himself to the soul by power in the whole of creation. From the first to the last being is the omnipotence of God manifested. The heavens, the stars, and all the other beings speak to us, though in a mute language, of a Supreme Being, of an uncreated being, of His omnipotence. In fact, the most learned man, with all of his science, cannot arrive at creating the most wretched mosquito, and this says that there must be a most powerful uncreated being who created everything and gives life and preservation to all beings. Oh, how the whole universe, in clear notes and with indelible characters, speaks to us of God and of His omnipotence! Therefore, one who does not see Him is voluntarily blind.
By news, it seemed to me that blessed Jesus, in descending from heaven, came upon earth in person to give us news of what is invisible to us. And in how many ways did He not manifest Himself? I believe that everyone can comprehend the rest by himself, therefore I will not go on speaking.
December 22nd, 1903. Volume 6. The cross forms the incarnation of Jesus in the womb of souls and the incarnation of the soul in God.
As I was in my usual state, my adorable Jesus came as crucified, and after He shared His pains with me while I was suffering, He told me: "My daughter, in the creation, I gave My image to the soul; in the Incarnation, I gave My divinity, divinizing humanity. And since, in the very act, in the very instant in which the divinity incarnated itself in humanity, it incarnated itself in the cross, in such a way that from the moment I was conceived, I was conceived united with the cross. It can be said that just as My cross was united with Me in the Incarnation which I did in the womb of My mother, so does My cross form as many other incarnations of Mine in the wombs of souls. And just as the cross forms My incarnation in souls, the cross is the incarnation of the soul and God, destroying in her everything that gives of nature and filling her with the divinity, so much so as to form a sort of incarnation, God in the soul and the soul in God."
I remained as though enchanted on hearing that the cross is the incarnation of the soul in God. And He repeated: "I am not saying union, but incarnation, because the cross penetrates so much into her nature as to make her nature itself become suffering, and where there is suffering, there is God. As God and suffering cannot be apart, and the cross forming this incarnation renders this union more stable and the separation of God from the soul almost as difficult as separating suffering from nature. On the other hand, through union, the separation can easily occur. It is understood, always, that this is not the Incarnation, but a simile of the Incarnation."
Having said this, He disappeared. But after a little while, He came back in the act of His passion, when He was covered with the opprobriums, with the ignominies, with the spittle. And I said to Him: "Lord, teach me what I could do to move these opprobriums away from You and give You back honors, praises, and adorations." And He said to me: "My daughter, around My throne there is a void, and this void must be filled with the glory that creation owes Me. So, one who sees Me despised by the other creatures and honors Me, not only for herself but for others, makes honors for Me arise again in this void. When she sees Me unloved and loves Me, she makes love for Me rise again. When she sees that I fill creatures with benefits while they are not grateful to Me and do not even thank Me, and she is grateful to Me as if those benefits were given to her and she thanks Me, she makes the flower of gratitude and of thanksgiving arise again for Me in this void. And so with all the rest that creation owes Me but denies to Me with awful ingratitude. Now, since all this is an overflow of the charity of the soul who gives Me not only what she herself owes Me and what overflows from herself, but she does it for others, since this glory and these flowers that she sends to Me into this void around My throne are the fruit of charity, they receive a more beautiful shade which is pleasing to Me."
December 22nd, 1904. Volume 6. The more the soul is empty and humble, the more the divine light fills her and communicates its graces and perfections to her.
As I was in my usual state, I saw little baby Jesus with a fistful of light in His hand, and raised, flowing out through His fingers. I remained enchanted, and He told me: "My daughter, perfection is light, and one who says he wants to reach it acts just like one who would want to clasp a body of light in his hand. As he tries to clasp it, the light itself flows out through his fingers, except his hand remains immersed in that light. Now, the light is God, and God alone is perfect. And the soul who wants to be perfect does nothing but sees shadows, the little drops of God. And sometimes she does nothing but live in the light alone, that is, in the truth. And just as the light penetrates deeper and occupies more space the greater the void it finds and the deeper the place is, in the same way, the more the soul is empty and humble, the more the divine light fills her and communicates its graces and perfections to her."
December 22nd, 1909. Volume 9. The reason for the states of abandonment of holy souls before their death.
Having received Communion, I was lamenting to blessed Jesus because of His probations. For if He comes, it is almost like a flash, or He remains all silent. And Jesus told me: "My daughter, in almost all souls to whom I have communicated Myself in an extraordinary way, I have allowed these states of abandonment at the end of their lives. This not only because of certain other purposes of Mine, but also in order to be honored and glorified in all of My conduct. In fact, many say: 'Of course, these souls were to reach such a high point of sanctity and they loved Him so much with so many favors, with so many graces and charisms, they would have to be really ungrateful not to reach that level. If we had received them, we too would have reached it more than them.' So, in order to justify My conduct, I will manifest to them the abandonments, the privations in which I put these souls, which is a living purgatory for them, and also their faithfulness, the rare wisdom of their virtues, and how it is easier to suffer poverty when one does not know riches than to be born rich, getting used to living as a rich person, and then lose the riches and live like a poor one. More so, since the supernatural riches are not like the material ones which serve the body and at most diffuse on the outside; the supernatural riches penetrate deep into one's marrow, into the most intimate fibers, into the noblest part of the intelligence. It is enough to say that it is more than martyrdom. I myself am moved to pity so much that My heart almost breaks with tenderness, and I am forced to feel at break so very often that I cannot resist. Also, to give them the strength to fulfill their consummation, all angels and saints keep their gazes fixed on them, and they watch over them for Me so that they may not succumb, knowing the crude martyrdom they suffer. My daughter, courage! You are right, but know that everything is love." And as He was saying this, He seemed to be moving farther away. I thought 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, 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 half?" And I said to Him: "Listen, Jesus, if you'd continue in this way, you will lose taste for keeping me on earth." And I repeated this various times. And Jesus, not wanting to listen to my words, answered: "Listen, my daughter, I will never lose taste for you. If I keep you on earth, I will have My taste on earth; if I take you to heaven, I will have My taste in heaven. Do you know rather who will lose taste? Your confessor."
December 22nd, 1910. Volume 10. In order to be able to operate great things for God, it is necessary to destroy self-esteem, human respect, and one's own nature.
Continuing in my usual state, I saw various priests before my mind, and blessed Jesus was saying: "In order to be able to operate great things for God, it is necessary to destroy self-esteem, human respect, and one's own nature, so as to live again of divine life and take into consideration only the esteem of Our Lord and that which regards His honor and His glory. It is necessary to crush, to pulverize that which is human in order to be able to live of God. And here is how: not you, but God Himself will speak and operate in you, and the souls and the works entrusted to you will produce splendid effects, and you will receive the fruits which you and I longed for. Like the works of the reunions of priests which I spoke to you about before, one of these might be able to promote and also carry out this work. But a little bit of self-esteem, of useless fear, of human respect renders him incapable. And when grace finds the soul surrounded by this baseness, it flies and does not stop, and the priest remains a man, operates as a man, and his works have the effects which those of a man can have, not the effects which a priest animated by the spirit of Jesus Christ can have."
December 22nd, 1916. Volume 11. Everything that the soul does in the will of God, Jesus does together with her.
Having received Communion, I was uniting all of myself with Jesus, pouring all of myself into His will, and I said to Him: "I am unable to do anything or say anything, therefore I feel the great need to do what You do and to repeat Your own words. In Your will I find present and as though enacted the acts You did in receiving Yourself in the sacrament. I make them my own and I repeat them for You." So I tried to penetrate into everything which Jesus had done in receiving Himself in the sacrament, and while I was doing this, He told me: "My daughter, the soul who does My will, and whatever she does, she does in My volition, forces Me to do whatever she does together with her. So, if she receives Communion in My will, I repeat the acts I did in communicating Myself and I renew the complete fruit of My sacramental life. If she prays in My will, I pray with her and renew the fruit of My prayers. If she suffers, if she works, if she speaks in My will, I suffer with her, renewing the fruit of My pains, My work, and I speak with her and I renew the fruit of My works and words, and so with all the rest."
December 22nd, 1920. Vol. 12. The creative power is found in the divine will; deaths which give life to others.
I was thinking about the most holy will of God, saying to myself: "What a magic force this divine will has! What power! What enchantment!" Now, while I was thinking of this, my lovable Jesus told me: "My daughter, the mere word 'will' of God contains the creative power; therefore, it has the power to create, to transform, to consume, and to make new torrents of light, of love, of sanctity flow in the soul. Only in the Fiat is there creative power. And if the priest consecrates Me in the Host, it is because My will gave that power to those words which he pronounces over the holy Host. Therefore, everything comes from the Fiat and is found in it. And if at the mere thought of doing My will, the soul feels soothed, strengthened, changed, because by thinking of doing My will, it is as if she placed herself on the way to find all goods, what will it be to do it!"
After this, I recalled that years before, my sweet Jesus had said to me: "We will present ourselves before the Supreme Majesty with, written on our foreheads and indelible characters, 'We want death in order to give life to our brothers; we want pains in order to free them from eternal pains.'" Now I said to myself: "How can I do this if He does not come? I could do it with Him, but I am unable to go by myself. And then, how can I suffer so many deaths?" And blessed Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: "My daughter, you can do it always and in every instant, because I am always with you and I never leave you. And then I want to tell you how these deaths are and how they are formed. I suffered death when My will wants to operate some good in the creature, and departing from Me, it brings with itself the grace and the help which are needed in order to do that good. If the creature is disposed to do that good, it is as if My will multiplied another life. If the creature is reluctant, it is as if My will suffered to death. Oh, how many deaths does My will suffer! Death and the creatures, when I want her to do some good and by not doing it, her will dies to that good. Therefore, if the creature is not in continuous act of doing My will, she receives as many deaths for as many times as she does not do it. She dies to that light which she should have by doing that good; she dies to that grace; she dies to those charisms. Now I will tell you what your deaths are with which you could give life to our brothers. When you feel deprived of Me and your heart is lacerated, and you feel an iron hand that squeezes it, you feel a death, or rather more than death, because death would be life for you. This death could give life to our brothers because this pain and this death contain a divine life, an immense light, a creative power. They contain everything. They are a death and a pain which contain an eternal and infinite value. So how many lives could you give to our brothers! I will suffer these deaths together with you, giving them the value of My death so as to release life from death. Therefore, look at how many deaths you suffer! Each time you want Me and you do not find Me, is a real death for you because you really do not see Me and do not feel Me. This is death for you; it is a martyrdom. And that which is death for you can be life for others."
December 22nd, 1921. Volume 13. Only the purpose of loving God keeps the soul open to receive the current of all His graces. The Divine Will is the greatest of all virtues.
Continuing in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus made Himself seen within a dazzling light, and this light, melting into rain of light, rained down upon souls. However, many did not receive this current of light, being as though closed, and the current flew wherever it found souls open to receive it. And my sweet Jesus told me: "My daughter, the current of My grace enters into the souls who operate out of pure love. Only the purpose of loving Me keeps the souls open to receive the current of all My graces. Love am I; love are they; so they are in continuous currents for Me, and I for them. On the other hand, those who operate with a human purpose are closed to Me. Their current is open to all that is human, so they receive the current of what is human. One who operates with the purpose of sinning receives the current of guilt, and one who operates with a diabolical purpose receives the current of..." How the purpose and operating gives man many different shades! It transforms him into someone beautiful or into someone ugly, into light or into darkness, into sanctity or into sin. Whatever the purpose and operating is, such is man. Therefore, My current does not enter into everyone. And since it is rejected by the souls who are closed with Me, it unloads itself more impetuously and abundantly upon the souls who are open."
Having said this, He disappeared. But later, He came back and added: "Would you be able to tell me why the Sun illuminates the whole earth? Because it is much bigger than the earth, and since it is bigger, it has the capacity of covering with its light the whole circumference of the earth. If it were smaller, it would illuminate only part of it, but not all of it. Therefore, smaller things are enveloped and absorbed by bigger things. Now, My will is the greatest of all virtues. Therefore, all virtues remain as reduced and dissolved within My will. Even more, before the virtue of the sanctity of My will, the other virtues tremble out of reverence toward My will. And if, without My will, virtues think of doing something great, at the contact with the sanctity and power of the virtue of My will, they realize they have done nothing. And in order to give them the mark of My virtues, I am forced to plunge them into the immense sea of My will. Not only has My will primacy over all, but it gives the different shades of beauty to the virtues; it places on them the divine colors, the celestial glaze, and dazzling light. Therefore, if the virtues are not covered by My will, they may be good, but not beautiful with that beauty that enraptures and enchants and enamors heaven and earth."
Then afterwards, my sweet Jesus transported me outside of myself and showed me how channels of waters were opening under the sea, which, opening their way underground, inundated the foundations of cities, and some where buildings collapsed, somewhere they made them disappear. Has these chasms of water open and swallowed them to the earth? And Jesus, all afflicted: "Man does not want to stop it, and My justice is forced to strike him. Many are the cities which will be struck by water, by fire, and by earthquakes." And I: "My love, what are you saying? You won't do that!" And as I wanted to pray Him, He disappeared.
December 22nd, 1926. Volume 20. Signs that one belongs to the celestial family. How it is God's usual way to do His works first one-on-one with one creature. So He did with His Mama. The greater is the work that Jesus does, the more it carries within itself the image of the divine unity.
I was thinking about the supreme Fiat and was praying my sweet Jesus to give me the grace so great of making me fulfill His most holy will entirely and completely, and of making it known to the whole world, so that He might be reintegrated in the glory that creatures deny Him. Now, while I was thinking of this and other things, sweet Jesus moved in my interior and told me: "My daughter, what is the purpose for which you want My will to be fulfilled in you and to be known by all?" And I: "I want it because You want it. I want it so that the divine order and Your kingdom may be established on earth. I want it so that the human family may no longer live as estranged from You, but it may be bound once again to the divine family from which it had its origin." And Jesus, sighing, added: "My daughter, your purpose and Mine are one. When a son has the same purpose as his father, he wants what his father wants. He never dwells in somebody else's home; he works in the fields of his father. And if he finds himself with people, he speaks of the goodness, of the ingenuity, of the great purposes of his father. It is said of this son that he loves his father, that he is the perfect copy of him, that it shows clearly from all sides that he belongs to that family, that he is a worthy son who carries within himself with honor the generation of his father. Such are the signs that one belongs to the celestial family: to have the same purpose as Mine, to want My same will, to dwell in it as in one's own home, to work in order to make it known. And if one speaks, one can say nothing but what is done and wanted in our celestial family. This creature is recognized in clear notes and from all sides, and with reason and with justice and by right, as a daughter who belongs to us, as one from our family who has not decayed from her origin, who preserves within herself the image, the manner, the bearings, the life of her father, of He who created her. So you are one from My family, and the more you make My will known, the more you are distinguished before heaven and earth as a daughter who belongs to us. On the other hand, when one does not have our same purpose, little he dwells, or not at all, in the Royal Palace of our will. He keeps going around now to some house, now to some vile hovel. He keeps wandering about the outdoors of passions, doing acts unworthy of his family. If he works, it is in foreign fields. If he speaks, the love, the goodness, the ingenuity, the great purposes of his father never resound on his lips. So, in all his bearing, he cannot be recognized at all as one who belongs to his family. Can this one be called a son of his family? And if he came from it, he is a degenerate son who has broken all the bonds and relations that bound him to his family. Therefore, only one who does My will and lives in it can be called My child, a member of My divine and celestial family. How others are degenerate children and as though foreign to our family. And so, when you occupy yourself with My divine Fiat, if you speak, if you go around in it, you put Us in feast, because We feel that it is one who belongs to Us; We feel that it is our daughter that speaks, that goes around, that works in the field of our will. And as for one's own children, doors are left open, no apartment is closed for them, because what belongs to the father belongs to the children, and in the children is placed the hope of the long generation of the father. In the same way, in you I have placed the hope of the long generation of the children of My eternal Fiat."
My mind continued to think about the supreme will, and I said to myself: "But how can it possibly be that by myself alone, this little being so insignificant as I am, good at nothing, I have neither dignity nor authority nor superiority with which maybe I could impose myself, I diffuse myself and speak in order to make this son of the divine will known and so be able to form the children of its generation?" And so while I was thinking of this, my sweet Jesus interrupted my thought and, coming out from within my interior, told me: "My daughter, it is My usual way to do My greatest works first one-on-one with one creature alone. In fact, My Mama was one, and with her alone I carried out all the work and the great portent of My Incarnation. No one entered Our secrets or penetrated into the siq where iam of Our apartments to see what was passing between Me and the celestial Sovereign, nor did she occupy any position of dignity and of authority in the world. In fact, when I choose, I never look at dignities and superiorities, but I look at the little individual within whom I can look at My will in its face, which is the greatest dignity and authority. Even though she had neither position nor dignity nor superiority in the low world, heaven and earth hung upon the height of the little young girl of Nazareth, because she possessed My will in her hands was the destiny of mankind and the destiny of all My glory that I was to receive from the whole creation. So it was enough that the mystery of the Incarnation be formed in My chosen one, the only one, in order for others to be able to receive the good of it. One was My humanity, and from it came the generation of the redeemed ones. Therefore, it is enough to form all the good that one wants within one creature to be able to have the generation of that good come out, just as one seed is enough in order to multiply by thousands upon thousands the generation of that seed. So all the power, the virtue, the ability that is needed for a creative virtue is in forming the first seed. Once the first is formed, it is like yeast in order to form the generation of it. In the same way, one soul alone is enough for Me who would give Me absolute freedom to enclose in her the good I want and to form in her the son of the supreme Fiat, in order for this son to beat down its rays on the surface of the earth and form the generation of the children of My will. Now you must know that all Our greatest works carry within themselves the image of the divine unity, and the more good they are destined to do, the more good they enclose of this supreme unity. See also in the creation, there are similes of the divine unity: works that, while being single works, do as much good that the multiplicity of our other works all together do not do as much. Look under the vault of the heavens; one is the Sun, but how many goods does it not contain? How many does it not do to the earth? It can be said that the life of the earth depends on the Sun. While the Sun is one, with its light it embraces everyone and everything; it carries everything on its lap of light, and it gives a distinct act to each one according to the variety of things it invests. It communicates fecundity, development, color, sweetness, beauty, yet the Sun is one. While the stars are many, but do not do the great good that the Sun does to the earth. Though being one, the power of one single act animated by the creative power is incomprehensible, and there is no good that cannot come from it. It can change the face of the earth from arid and deserted into a flowery springtime. The sky is one, and therefore it extends everywhere. Water is one, and even though it seems to be divided in many points of the earth, forming seas, lakes, and rivers, yet in this sending from heaven, it comes down in one form, and there is not one point of the earth in which water does not reside. So the things created by Us that carry within themselves the image of the divine unity are those that do more good; they are the most necessary, and the earth could not have life without them. Therefore, My daughter, do not think that you are alone. It is the unity of a great work that I must carry out within you, or that you have no external dignity and authority. This says nothing. My will is more than anything. Its light seems to be mute, but in its muteness, it invests the intelligences and makes one speak with such eloquence as to stun the most learned, reducing them to silence. The light does not speak, but allows one to see; it makes one know the most hidden things. The light does not speak, but with its meek and sweet warmth, it warms, it softens the hardest things, the most obstinate hearts. The light contains no seed, no matter; everything is pure in it. One can see nothing but a wave of refuge and silvery light, but it can penetrate so much as to make the most sterile things generate, develop, fecundate. Who can resist the power of the light? No one, even the blind. If they do not see it, they feel its warmth. The mute, the deaf feel and receive the good of the light. Now, who will be able to resist the light of My eternal Fiat? All of its knowledge will be more than rays of light of My volition that will beat down on the surface of the earth and, penetrating into the hearts, will bring the good that the light of My will contains and can do. However, these rays must have their sphere from which to start; they must be centered in one single point from which to arise in order to form the dawn, the day, the afternoon, and the sunset within hearts, to then rise again. The sphere, the single point, is you. The rays centered in it are My knowledge that will give fecundity to the generation of the children of the kingdom of My will. This is why I always repeated to you: 'Be attentive so that not one of My knowledge may be lost.' You would cause a ray to be lost from within your sphere, and you cannot even comprehend all the good it contains, because each ray contains its own specialty of good that it must do to the children of My will, and you would deprive Me of the glory of that good for My children and would deprive yourself also of the glory of spreading one more ray of light from your sphere."
December 22nd, 1927. Vol. 23. Sacrifices of writing. How one who operates only for God and closes a divine life in his act. How one who is chosen for a mission and closes all the goods that others must receive. All redeemed ones turn around the celestial Mama. The creation mirror of man.
After having spent almost an entire night writing, I was feeling exhausted of strength and I thought to myself: "How many sacrifices! How this blessed writing costs me! But what will be the utility, the good, the glory I give to my Creator if with these sacrifices I will be able to make known the kingdom of the divine Fiat? So much the better. But if I do obtain this, my sacrifices of writing will be useless and empty and without effects." Now, while I was thinking about this, my lovable Jesus came out from within my interior and, clasping me to Himself to give me strength, told me: "Beloved daughter of My divine volition, courage! And going forward, nothing is useless of what is done for Me. In fact, when the soul does even just one act for Me, she comes to enclose the whole of Me within her act, and by enclosing Me, her act acquires the value of a divine life, which is more than Sun. And the Sun, by its own nature, excels over all other things, and giving light, heat, and effects of innumerable goods to all the earth. So everything that is done for Me, by its own nature, must bring the effects of the great good that the divine life contains. Moreover, you must know that all the knowledge and manifestations that I give you about My will and that you write on paper do not depart from you, but remain centralized in you like rays inside their sphere. And this sphere is My very divine will reigning in you, which delights with great love and adding ever new rays that it makes with its knowledge in this sphere, so that creatures may find enough light to know it and enrapturing attractions to love it. All the rays to form the kingdom of the Divine will will be enclosed in this sphere, and all the rays starting from within one single sphere will have one single purpose: to form My kingdom. However, each ray will have a distinct office. One ray will enclose the sanctity of My divine Fiat and will bring sanctity; another, happiness and joy, and will invest those who want to live in it with happiness and joy; another ray, peace, and will consolidate all in the peace; another, strength; another, light and heat, and the children of My kingdom will be strong, will have the light to do good and to flee from evil, and ardent love to love what they possess, and so with all the other rays that will start from within the sphere. Now, all the children of My will will be invested by these rays; they will move around them. Even more, each ray will feed their souls, and they will suckle from them the life of My Fiat. So what will be your happiness in seeing all the good, the happiness, the sanctity, the peace, and everything else descend into the midst of the children of My kingdom from inside your sphere by virtue of these rays? And then the complete glory that these creatures will give to their Creator for having known the kingdom of My will ascend again within those very rays. There is no good that will not descend through you by virtue of the sphere of My will placed in you, nor glory that will not ascend again along the same way. When I choose a creature for a mission that must bring universal good into the midst of the human family, first I fix and enclose all the goods in the chosen one who must contain all the superabundant good that others must receive, who perhaps will not even take everything that the chosen creature encloses. This happened in the immaculate Queen, who was chosen to be the Mother of the Eternal Word, and therefore the Mother of all redeemed ones. Everything that they were to do and all the good they were to receive was enclosed and fixed inside the Sovereign Queen of Heaven, as though inside a Sun's sphere, in such a way that all the redeemed ones move around the center of the celestial Mama, in such a way that she, more than most tender mother, does nothing but feed her children to nourish them with her light, with her sanctity, with her maternal love. But how many of the rays that she spreads have not been taken by creatures because, ungrateful, they do not all draw around this celestial Mother? So one who is chosen must possess more than what all others together should possess. Just as all find light in the Sun, in such a way that all creatures do not take the whole expanse of its light and the intensity of its heat, so it happened with My Mama. The goods that she contains are such and so many that more than Sun she spreads the beneficial effects of her vital and vivifying rays. And so it will be for the one who has been chosen for the kingdom of My will. See then how the sacrifice of writing will be repaid to you: first, the good of the ray of that knowledge is fixed in you, and then you will see that good descend through you into the midst of creatures, and in return, the glory of the good that they will do ascend again within that same light. How happy you will be in heaven and will thank Me for the sacrifices I had you make, my daughter! When a work is great, universal, and encloses many goods that all can enjoy, greater sacrifices are needed, and the one who has chosen to be the first must be disposed to give and sacrifice her life as many times for as many goods as she encloses, in order to give, together with those goods, her very life for the good of her other brothers. Did I not do the same in Redemption? Don't you perhaps want to imitate Me?"
After this, I continued my round in the creation in order to follow the acts of the divine will present in it, and my beloved Jesus added: "My daughter, before man was created, first I wanted to create the whole creation, which was to serve as mirror for man, and as he would reflect himself in it, it was to serve him so that he might copy within himself the works of his Creator. The copy of all creation that he was to make within himself was to be such and so great that all the reflections of it were to be seen in man like a mirror, and all the reflections of him in the creation, so they were to reflect themselves in each other. God loved man more than the whole creation, and this is why first He wanted to form for him the mirror of His works, so that, reflecting himself in it, he was to copy the order, the harmony, the light, the firmness of the works of He who had created him. But ungrateful man does not look at this mirror in order to copy it, and this is why he is disordered; his works are without harmony, clashing like one who wants to play without learning music. Instead of giving pleasure to those who listen to him, he causes bother and discontentment. The good he does is without light and heat, and therefore without life and in constant flux at each blowing of the wind. This is why I call one who must live in My divine will to reflect herself in the creation, so that, moving around within it, she may find the stairs in order to ascend in the order of My will."
December 22nd, 1929. Volume 27. How the greatest works cannot be done on one's own, for they would die at birth. The three prisons of Jesus. The two Mamas.
My abandonment in the divine Fiat continues, and my tender Jesus, making Himself seen as a tiny little baby, either in my heart or in the womb of the celestial Mama, but so very tiny with an enrapturing beauty. How love this face, wet with tears, and He cries, 'cause He wants to be loved! Sighing, tells me: "Ah, why am I not loved? I want to renew in souls all the love I had when I incarnated Myself, but I find no one to whom to give it. And incarnated Myself, I found My Queen Mama, who gave Me the field to pour out My love and to receive in her maternal heart all the love that creatures rejected for Me. Ah, she was the depository of My rejected love, the sweet company of My pains, her ardent love that dried My tears."
"The greatest works cannot be done on one's own, but two or three at least are needed as depositories and nourishment of the work itself. Without nourishment, works cannot have life; there's danger that they might die at birth. This is so true that in creation, there were the three of Us divine Persons in creating it, and then We made man as the depository of Our work. Not contempt, because works alone do not bring happiness; We gave him the company of the woman. In the Incarnation, the three divine Persons were concurring, and in My company, or rather, they were inseparable from Me, with the addition of the celestial Queen, and she herself was the divine depository of all the goods of the Incarnation. See then how the company of the creature is necessary to Me in order to form My works: a creature who would place herself at My disposal in order to receive the great good I want to give her. So, do you want to be My second Mama? Do you want to receive the great good of the renewing of My Incarnation as the endowment of the kingdom of My divine Fiat? In this way, I will have two Mamas: the first who let Me form the kingdom of redemption, the second who will let Me form the kingdom of My divine will."
And placing His tiny little hands on my face, caressing me, He told me: "My Mama, My Mama, maternal love surpasses all loves, so you will love Me with insuperable love of mother." After this, He kept silent, wanting to be rocked in my arms, and then He added: "My daughter, now you must know the excess of My love, where it led Me. Descending from heaven to earth, that led Me into a most narrow and dark prison, that was the womb of My Mama. But My love was not content within this very prison; it formed for Me another jail, that was My humanity, that jailed My divinity. The first prison lasted nine months for Me; the second prison of My humanity lasted for Me as many as 33 years. But My love did not stop. Toward the end of the prison of My humanity, it formed for Me the prison of the Eucharist, the littlest of prisons, a little Host in which it imprisoned Me, humanity and divinity. And I would have contented Myself with being there as though dead, letting not one breath, not a movement, nor a heartbeat be heard, and not for a few years, but until the consummation of centuries. So I went from prison to prison. They are inseparable from Me. Therefore, I can be called the divine inmate, the celestial prisoner. In the first two prisons, in the intensity of My love, I matured the kingdom of redemption. In the third prison of the Eucharist, I am maturing the kingdom of My divine Fiat. And this is why I called you to the prison of your bed, so that together, both of us prisoners in our solitude, bonding together, we may make the good of the kingdom of My will mature. If a Mama was necessary to Me for redemption, so also do I need a Mama for the kingdom of My Fiat. And My demanding love wanted this mother as imprisoned so as to keep her at My disposal. Therefore, I will be your prisoner, not only in the little Host, but also in your heart, and you will be My dear prisoner, all intent on listening to Me and on breaking the loneliness of My long imprisonment. And even though we are prisoners, we will be happy, because we will mature the kingdom of the divine will to give it to creatures."
End of December 22nd. Fiat.