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April 14, 1904. Volume 6. If the soul gives to God the food of patient love, God will give her the sweet bread of grace. I continue in my usual state, but always with immense bitterness in my soul because of the privation of blessed Jesus. At the most, he comes when I can take no more, and after I have almost persuaded myself that he will come no more, I saw him for just a little, carrying a chalice in his hand. And he told me, "My daughter, if in addition to the food of love, you give me the bread of your patience, because patient and suffering love is a more solid, more nourishing, and fortifying food." For it, love is not patient, it can be said that it is empty, light love, hand with no substance, and therefore can be said that the necessary materials in order to form the bread of patience are lacking. So if you give me this, I will give you the sweet bread of grace." And while saying this, he gave me to drink what was inside the chalice he carried in his hand, which seemed sweet like a sort of liquor, which I am unable to distinguish. And he disappeared.
After this, I saw many foreign people around my bed, priests, gentlemen, women, and it seemed that they were going to come to visit me. Several of them were saying to the Confessor, "Give us an account of the soul, of everything that the Lord has manifested to her, and the graces he has given her, because the Lord manifested to us since 1882 that he would choose a victim, and the sign to recognize this victim would be that the Lord would keep her always in this state, like a young woman, just as she was when he chose her, without aging or changing in her very nature." Now, while they were saying this, I don't know how I saw myself, just as I was when I became bedridden, without having changed a bit, for having been the state of suffering for so many years.
April 14, 1923. Volume 15. How God, in doing works which must serve the good of all, centralizes all the good he wants to give in one creature from the human family. I was thinking about all that my always lovable Jesus keeps manifesting to me about his most holy will, and many doubts and difficulties arose within my mind, which I do not believe it is necessary to say here. And then, moving in my interior and clasping me tightly to his heart, he told me, "Beloved daughter of my will, you must know that when I want to do great works, works in which the whole human family is to take part, always, if it wants, my usual ways are to centralize all the goods and all the graces which this work contains in one single creature, so that all others may draw as much as they want of that good, as though from a font. When I do individual works, I give limited things, but when I do works which must serve the good of all, I give things without limit. I did this in the work of redemption, in order to be able to elevate a creature to conceiving a man and God. I had to centralize all possible imaginable goods in her. I had to elevate her so high as to place in her the seed of the very paternal fecundity. So, just as my celestial Father virgin generated me within his womb with the virginal seed of his eternal fecundity, without the work of a woman, and from the same seed the Holy Spirit proceeded, in the same way, with this eternal seed of the paternal fecundity, holy virginal, my celestial Mama conceived me in her virginal womb without the work of a man. The sacrosanct Trinity had to give of its own to this divine virgin so that she might conceive me, the Son of God. My holy Mama could never have conceived me without having a seed. Now, since she belonged to the human race, this seed of eternal fecundity gave her the virtue of conceiving me as man, and because the seed was divine at the same time, she conceived me as God. And just as the Holy Spirit proceeded at the same time as the Father generated me, in the same way as I was generated in the womb of my Mama, the generation of souls proceeded at the same time. So everything that matters, meaning from eternity, occurred to the Most Holy Trinity in heaven, what's repeated in the womb of my dear Mama. The work was immense and incalculable to created mind. I had to centralize all goods and even myself, so that all might find whatever they wanted. This is why, since the work of redemption was to be so great as to overwhelm all generations, I wanted for many centuries the prayers, the sighs, the tears, the penances of so many patriarchs and prophets and of the whole people of the Old Testament. And I did this in order to dispose them to receive a good so great and to move me to centralize in this celestial creature all the goods which everyone was to enjoy. Now, what moved this people to pray, to sigh, and so forth? The promise of the future Messiah. This promise was like the seed of so many supplications and tears. Had there not been this promise, no one would have given it a thought, no one would have hoped for salvation.
Now, my daughter, let's come to my will. Do you think it is a sanctity like the other sanctities, a good, a grace almost like the others which I have given for many centuries to the other Saints and to the whole Church? No, no. This is about a new era, about a good which must serve all generations, but it is necessary that I first centralize all this good in one creature alone. And just as I did in Redemption by centralizing everything in my Mama, take a look at how things proceed in a parallel way. In order to make redemption come and to dispose for it, I made the promise of the future Messiah, so that by hoping for him to come, they would not only dispose themselves but find, too, their own salvation in their future Redeemer.
Now, in order to dispose souls to live in my will, to let them partake in the goods it contains, and to make man return to the path of his origin, just as he was created by me, I myself wanted to pray as the first, making my voice resound from one end of the earth to another, and even up high in heaven, saying, "Our Father who art in heaven." I did not say "my Father," but I called him Father of the whole human family, so as to engage him in that which I was going to add: "May all hallow your name, so that your kingdom may come, and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." This was the purpose of creation, and I asked the Father that it be fulfilled. As I prayed, the Father surrendered to my supplications, and I formed the seed of a good so great. And so that this seed might be known, I taught my prayer to the Apostles, and they transmitted it to the whole Church, so that just as the people of the future Redeemer found salvation in him and disposed itself to receive the promised Messiah, in the same way, with this seed formed by me, the Church might pray and repeat my very prayer many times, and might dispose herself to receive the good of recognizing and loving my celestial Father as their Father, in such a way as to deserve to be loved as children and received that great good that my will be done on earth as it is in heaven. In the seed and in this hope that my will be done on earth as it is in heaven, the very Saints have formed their sanctity, and the martyrs have shed their blood. There is no good which does not derive from this seed. So the whole Church prays. And just as the tears, the penances, the prayers to obtain the Messiah were directed toward that excelling virgin whom I was to dispose in order to centralize such a great good in her, so that they might receive their Savior, even though they did not know whom she would be, in the same way now, when the Church recites the Our Father, it is precisely for you that she prays, so that I may centralize in you all the good that my will contains, the way the how the divine will may have life on earth as it does in heaven. And even though you are not known, by echoing my prayer, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," the Church prays me, presses me to centralize all this good in a second virgin, so that like a second Savior, she may save unsafe humanity, and making use of my inseparable love and mercy, I may answer my own prayer, united to that of the whole Church, making man come back to his origin, to the purpose for which I created him, that my will be done on earth as it is in heaven. This is precisely the living in my will, and everything I keep manifesting to you pushes you to this, confirms you in this. This is the great foundation I keep forming in your soul, and in order to do this, I keep centralizing in you all the graces past, present, and future which I've given to all generations. Even more, I double them, I multiply them, because since my will is the greatest, the holiest, the noblest thing which has no beginning and no end, in order to place it in one creature, it is right and decorous that I centralized in her all possible goods, innumerable graces, divine purity and nobility, so that this will of mine may have the same cortege it has in heaven. It is the same will that operated in redemption and wanted to make use of a virgin. What portents and prodigies of graces did it not work in her! My will is great, it contains all goods, and in operating, it acts with magnanimity. And if it is about doing works and doing good for all humanity, then it puts all of its goods at stake. Now it wants to make use of another virgin in order to centralize its will in her and to begin to make known that its will must be done on earth as it is in heaven. And if in Redemption it wanted to come to save lost man, to satisfy for his sins which man had no power to do, and to give him refuge and many other goods which Redemption contains, now, wanting to display even more love than in Redemption itself, by making my will be done on earth as it is in heaven, my will comes to give man his state of origin, his nobility, the purpose for which he was created. It comes to open the current between itself and the human will, in such a way that, absorbed by this divine will, being dominated by it, the human will will give it life within itself, and my will will reign on earth as it does in heaven.
April 14, 1927. Volume 21. How the Lord came upon earth to suffer all the evils that the human will had done. How the word of Jesus is life. I was thinking about the Divine Will and the evil of the human will, and my beloved Jesus, all afflicted, told me, "My daughter, everything I suffered in my humanity was nothing other than all the evil that the human will had produced for the poor creature. It formed her prison, it took away from her the freedom of being able to move around within her God in the heavens wherever she wanted. It rendered her incapable of doing good, it took light away from her and surrounded her with thick darkness. And I came upon earth and enclosed myself in the prison of the womb of my dear Mama. And even though that prison was holy, it cannot be denied that it was the most narrow and dark prison that could exist in the world, so much so that I could not even stretch out a hand or a foot. It was not given to me to take one step, nor was there any room even to open my eyes. The human will had done all this to the creatures, and I, from the very beginning of my conception, came to suffer this pain in order to knock down the prison of the human will and give back to man what he had lost. I wanted to be born in a stable and suffer the most extreme poverty. The human will had formed something worse than a stable for the poor creatures, while passions had formed manure in their souls and blowing more than wind, it had rendered them numb with intense cold to the point of affecting their nature, not only taking to rest, real happiness away from them, but making them experience hunger and poverty, not only of the soul but also of the body. And I wanted to suffer intense cold, extreme poverty, and the stench of the manure that was in the stable. And in seeing two animals near me, I had the sorrow that the human will had converted our most beautiful work, hard, dear, our dear image, the poor man, almost into a beast. There was not one pain that I suffered that did not have its origin in the human will, and I subjected myself to everything in order to rehabilitate it once again in the kingdom of the supreme Fiat. Even in my passion, I wanted to suffer being stripped, in the scourging, denuded on the cross, and stretched in such a horrible way that my bones could be counted, amid confusion, abandonment, and unspeakable bitterness. All of this was nothing other than the outpouring of the human will that had stripped man of all goods and with its poisonous breath had covered him with confusion and opprobrium to the point of transforming him in a horrible way and of rendering him an object of mockery for his many enemies. Daughter, if you want to know all the evils that the human will has done, study my life well, number my pains one by one, and you will read the black characters of the noxious story of the human will. He feels such horror in reading it that you will be content with dying rather than letting one single syllable of it enter into you."
After this, Jesus kept silent and remained all taciturn, pensive, and afflicted. He looked around and far away, as if he wanted to investigate the dispositions of creatures, and not seeing them disposed, he remained in his profound silence. So I had to go through several days of privation, as if he were no longer living in me. Then I began to feel him move in my interior like a rising sun, and he said to me, "My daughter, whenever I speak, a life comes out of me, the greatest gift, and I must see whether there is disposition on the part of creatures so as to place this life of mine in them. And not seeing it, I am forced to remain silent, because there is no place in which to put this great gift. This is the reason why many times I do not speak. In fact, what regards my divine Fiat is not only for you but will serve other creatures. At most, it forms its capital in you in order to transmit it for the good of others. So, while I keep silent, you pray that the kingdom of my will be known, and you suffer because you see yourself without me. Your life to live without life is the greatest martyrdom. These pains and these prayers mature the gift, and while they make me open my mouth to issue the new life that regards my divine will, they dispose creatures to receive it. These pains are more than sun's rays that much or the fields, the fruits, the flowers. Therefore, everything is necessary: silence, pains, prayers for the decorum of the manifestations of my will."
End of April 14th. Fiat.