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June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three. The present chastisements are nothing but the predisposition for future chastisements. This morning, as I was highly afflicted because of the privation of my loving Jesus, I saw Him for just a little, and He said to me, "My daughter, how many masks will be unmasked in these times of chastisements? In fact, these present chastisements are nothing but the predisposition for all the chastisements which I manifested to you during the course of last year."
As He was saying this in my interior, I said, "If the Lord continues to behave the way He is behaving, that since He wants to send chastisement, He does not come, He does not share His pains with me, and treats me with unusual manners, who would be able to endure? Who will give me the strength to remain in this state?"
And Jesus, answering my thought, added, "In act of compassion, and so do you want me to suspend your state of victim for a little while and to resume it later?" As He said this, I felt such confusion and bitterness, for it seemed to me as if with that proposal the Lord was driving me away from Himself, that I was unable to say either yes or no, also in order to hear what obedience decides. So, without waiting for my word, He disappeared from me, leaving me as though a nail was stuck into in my heart. Thinking that Jesus was rejecting me, the pain was so great that I did nothing but shed bitter tears.
June 28, 1912. Vol. 11. The soul who lives in the Divine Will is a heaven in which Jesus is the Sun and His virtues are the stars. Continuing in my usual state, the Blessed Jesus came for a little while and told me, "My daughter, the soul who does My will is heaven, but heaven without the Sun and without stars, because I am the Sun and the stars which embellish this heaven are My own virtues. How beautiful the seven, such as to enamor whomever can know it!"
I remain enamored even more, placing myself like a Sun in the center of this heaven, flashing on it continuously new light, new love, and new graces. How beautiful this heaven if the Sun shines! That is, when I manifest Myself, I caressed the soul, I fill her with My charisms, I hug her, and touched by her love, I faint and rest in her. All the saints gather around Me while I rest. They remain surprised in watching this heaven in which I am the Sun, and are ecstatic because of this prodigious portent. Neither on earth nor in heaven could one ever find a thing more beautiful and more delightful for Me and for all.
How beautiful this heaven if the Sun hides! That is, when I deprived her of Me. Oh, how the harmony of the stars can be admired! The air of this heaven is not subject to clouds, showers, or storms, because the Sun is hidden in the center of the soul, and its heat is so burning that it destroys clouds, showers, and storms. The air of this heaven is always calm, serene, and sweet-smelling. The most shining stars are perennial peace and never-ending love. Whether the soul is hidden in the Sun and the stars disappear, or the Sun is hidden within her when the harmony of the stars is revealed, she is beautiful in every way. This heaven is My happiness, My rest, My love, My paradise.
June 28th, 1921. Volume 13. The souls who live in the Divine Will do whatever God does. True reigning is not to be excluded from anything created by God. I was pouring all of myself into the Divine Will, and my sweet Jesus told me, "My daughter, the souls who live in My will are the reflection of everyone and of everything. Since they are reflected in everything, as a consequence they receive the reflection of all. And since My will is life of everything, in My will they run to give life to everything. So even inanimate things and plants receive their reflections. While they receive the reflection of all creation, they harmonize with all things created by Me and My will. They give to all, they are friends and sisters with all, and receive love and glory from all. My will renders them inseparable from Me, and therefore whatever I do, they do as well. My will does not know how to do things dissimilar for me. The kingdom of My will means to reign, and therefore all of them are Queens. But true reigning is not to be excluded from anything created by Me."
June 28, 1923. Volume 15. How in creating man, God cast into him the seed of His eternal love. I was thinking of the immense love of my most sweet Jesus, and He let me see all creatures as though bound inside a net of love, and He said to me, "My daughter, in creating man, I cast into him many seeds of love. In his intelligence, in his eyes, in his word, in his heart, in his hands, in his feet, in everything I placed the seed of love, and I was to work it from outside. And together with Me, I placed all created things in order to make this seed sprout and grow according to My will. Having been placed by an eternal God, this seed was also eternal. So man contains an eternal love within himself, and an eternal love goes toward him constantly to receive the return of the seeds of its eternal love cast into man and to give him new and eternal love. In fact, I wanted to be inside of man as seed and outside of him as worker to form in him the tree of My eternal love. What would be the good for man to have eyes filled with light if he did not have an external light to illuminate them? He would remain always in the dark. So, in order to enjoy the effect of the light, it takes the internal light of the eye as well as the external light of the Sun which illuminates it. The same for the mind; if he had no speech to express his thought, the life of his intelligence would die and would be without fruit. And so with all the rest. I loved man so much that I had not only cast into him the seed of My eternal love, but I put him under the waves of My eternal love which is spread throughout the whole creation in order to make it germinate in him and to overwhelm him completely with My eternal love. So, if the light of the Sun shines in his eyes, it brings him the wave of My love. If he takes water to quench his thirst, her food to nourish himself, they bring him the wave of My eternal love. If the earth lays itself under his feet and remains firm to allow this step, it brings him the wave of My love. If the flower gives off its fragrance, if the fire unleashes its heat, everything brings him My eternal love. But this is not enough. I Myself am with them, working inside and outside to arrange to confirm and to seal all My similes in the soul of man, so that as I give him eternal love, eternal love he may give to Me. So the creature also can love Me with eternal love because he contains the seed of it. But to My highest sorrow, man suffocates this seed, and then it happens that even though My love keeps him under its waves, he does not feel the light which My love brings him, because having suffocated the seed, he has become blind. Even though he burns, he does not get warm, and as much as he may eat and drink, his thirst is not quenched nor is he nourished. Where there is no seed, there is no fecundity."
June 28th, 1937. Volume 34. What God does for the creature when she decides to live in His will. Has one decides to live in the Divine Volition, her name is written in heaven and remains confirmed in good and love and divine sanctity, and she is added to the celestial militia. Example: My flight and the Divine Volition continues. I feel myself carried in its arms, but with such love and tenderness as to feel myself confused, and seeing myself loved so much and surrounded everywhere by its maternal goodness, and my sweet Jesus repeating His brief little visit to me with a love as to feel my heart, first all goodness, told me, "My daughter, of My volition, if you knew how much is Our contentment in seeing the soul enter into Our will! One can say that she runs towards Us, and We toward her, and as We meet each other, Our will invests her with light, Our love kisses her, Our power takes her in its arms, Our wisdom directs her, Our sanctity invests her and places itself there as steel, Our beauty embellishes her. Then, all Our divine being places itself in attitude around her in order to give her of Ours. But do you know why? Because entering into Our volition, not to live of hers but of Ours, we receive what went forth from Us. We feel restored to Us the purpose for which We created her, and therefore We make feast. There is no act more beautiful, zyne more enchanting, then of the creature entering into Our will, and every time she enters, so many times We renew her in Our Divine Being, giving her new Christmas of love. Therefore, one who lives in Our volition keeps Us in feast. She feels the need of living in Ours in order to be coddled by her Creator, and We feel the need of being coddled by her and giving her new Christmas of grace and of sanctity."
Jesus became silent, and I felt sunk in the eternal volition and marveled at hearing how much we are loved by God if we live in His volition. A thousand thoughts crowded in my mind, and my beloved Jesus, resuming His speaking, told me, "My daughter, do not marvel because of what I have told you; rather, I will tell you more surprising things yet. But how much I would want that everyone would listen in order to make everyone decide to live in My volition! Listen how consoling and beautiful is what My love pushes Me to tell you. So much is My love that I feel the need of telling you where we reach for one who lives in Our volition. Now you must know that as the soul decides repeatedly and firmly to live no more of her will but of Ours, her name becomes written in heaven with indelible characters of light, and she becomes enrolled in the celestial militia as eros and daughter of the kingdom of the Divine Will. But this is not enough for Our love. We confirm her in good in a way that she will feel such horror for every least sin that she will not be capable anymore of falling. Not only this, but she will remain confirmed in the goods, in the love, in the sanctity, and so forth of her Creator. She will be invested by the prerogative of reclaimed part. She will no longer be looked at as exiled, and if she will remain on earth, she will be as officiating of the celestial militia, not as exiled. She will have all the goods at her disposition. She will be able to say, 'His will being Mine, what is of God is Mine.' Rather, she will feel herself possessor of her Creator. And since she no longer operates with her will but with Mine, all the barriers are broken that impeded her from hearing her Creator. The distances have disappeared. The dissimilarity between her and God does not exist any more. She will feel herself so loved by He who has created her, has to feel her heart burst with love in order to love He who loves her. And feeling herself loved by God is the greatest joy, honor, and glory for the creature. My daughter, do not marvel; they are Our goals, the purpose for which the creature was created: to find in her Our life, Our reigning will, Our love, in order to be loved and to love her. If this were not so, all creation would be a work unworthy of Us."
I felt my heart burst with joy in hearing what my dear Jesus had told me, and I said to myself, "Is it possible? Is all this great good possible?" And sweet Jesus added, "Daughter, am I not Master to do and to give what I want? It is enough that I want it, and everything is done. And then, also in the low world, things happen that in some way resemble this. If a man gives his name in writing to the army of the government, this, in order to be secure of him, makes him swear fidelity to the government. This oath makes him remain bound to the army. He dresses with the uniform of the militia, in a way that is recognized by everyone that he belongs to the army. And when he has shown ability and fidelity, he receives the salary for life. With this salary that no one can take away from him, he lacks nothing. He can have servants who serve Him. He can live with all the comforts of life, and although with time he would retire and rest. And what thing has this man given to the government? Only the external part of his life that gave him the right to receive the pay during his life. On the other hand, one who with firm decision has given her will to Me has given Me the most noble, most precious part, that is her will, and that she has given Me all the interior and exterior, even the breath. And with this, she has merited to be written in the Divine Army, in a way that everyone will know that she belongs to Our militia. How could I let her lack anything? How not to love her? If this could be, it would have been the greatest sorrow for Jesus. It would have taken away the peace that I possessed by nature to not love she who has given Me everything, and who with indescribable love I possess. I keep her in My heart and I let her have My life itself. And of June 28th. Fiat.