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May 30th, 1904. Volume 6. The passion serves as garment for man. Pride transforms the images of gods and demons. Finding myself in my usual state, I was thinking about and offering the passion of our Lord, especially the crown of thorns. And I was praying that He would give light to so many blinded minds and that He would make Himself known, because it is impossible to know You and not to love You.
While I was saying this, my adorable Jesus came out from within my interior and told me, "My daughter, how much ruin pride causes in souls! It is enough to tell you that it forms a wall of division between the creature and God. And from images of Me, it transforms them into demons. And then, if the fact that creatures are so blinded and that they themselves do not understand or see the abyss they are in, grieved You and saddens You so much, and you take so much to heart that I help them. My passion serves as garment for man, which covers his greatest miseries, embellishes him, and gives back to him all the good of which he had deprived himself and had lost because of sin. So I give it to you as a gift, that you may use it for yourself and for whomever you want."
On hearing this, a great fear came to me. And seeing the greatness of the gift, fearing that I might not be capable of using this gift and therefore I might displease the Giver, so I said, "Lord, I do not feel the strength to accept such a gift. I am too unworthy of such a favor. It is better if You keep it for You are everything and know everything, and You know to whom it is necessary and appropriate to apply this garment so precious and of immense value."
But the high poor one, "What can I do? And if it is necessary to apply it to someone and I do not do it, what strict account would you not ask of me?"
And Jesus, "Do not fear, for the Giver Himself will give you the grace not to keep the gift He has given you as useless. Can you believe that I would give you a gift to do you harm? Never!"
I did not know what to answer, but I remained frightened and suspended, intending to hear what Lady Obedience thought about it. It is understood, however, that this garment wants to signify nothing other than all that our Lord operated, earned, and suffered, in which the creature finds the garment to cover her nakedness, stripped of virtues and riches with which to enrich herself, beauties to render herself beautiful and to embellish her, and the remedy for all her evils. Then, as I told this to Obedience, he, my confessor, told me that I should accept.
May 3rd, 1905. Vol. 6. The life of love of Jesus. Continuing in my usual state, I was saying, "Lord, what do You want from me? Manifest Your holy will to me." And He, "My daughter, I want you all in Me, so that I may find everything in you. Just as all creatures had life in My humanity and I satisfied for all, in the same way, by being all in Me, you will make Me find all creatures in you; that is to say, united with Me. He will make Me find reparation for all, satisfaction, thanksgiving, praise, and everything that the creatures are obliged to give Me within yourself, in addition to divine life and human life."
Love administered a third life to Me, which made all the lives of creatures germinate within My humanity. And this is the life of love, which, while giving Me life, gave Me continuous death. It beat Me and fortified Me; it humiliated Me and raised Me; it embittered Me and sweetened Me; it tormented Me and gave Me delights. What does this life of love not contain? Untiring and ever ready for everything, everything, everything can be found in it. Its life is ever new and eternal. Oh, how I wish to find this life of love in you, so as to have you always in Me and to find everything in you.
May 3rd, 1907. Volume 7. Effectiveness of prayer. As I was in my usual state, I saw Bless of Jesus for a short time, and I prayed to Him for myself and for other people, but with some difficulty, outside of my usual way, as if I would not be able to obtain as much if I prayed for myself alone. And good Jesus told me, "My daughter, prayer is one single point, and while it is one point, it can grasp all other points together. So whether the soul prays for herself alone or for others, she can infiltrate just as much. Its effectiveness is one."
May 30th, 1912. Volume 11. The love of the souls gives life to Jesus. It forms Him and it feeds Him. Love forms their mutual rest. Continuing in my usual state, I felt oppressed for the privation of my always adorable Jesus. He came and told me, "My daughter, when you are without Me, use this very privation to double, triple, increase a hundredfold your acts of love toward Me, so as to form an environment, a love inside and out, and find Me within this environment, more beautiful and as if reborn to a new life. Wherever love is, there I am. Therefore, there cannot be separation for the soul who really loves Me. Rather, we form the same thing, because love seems to create Me, to give Me life, to feed Me, to make Me grow. I find My center in love, and I feel recreated and reborn, while I am eternal with no beginning and with no end. But thanks to the soul who loves Me, I enjoy love so much that I feel as if remade. Furthermore, in this love, I find my true love, I find my true rest. My intelligence rests in the intelligence of the one who loves Me; my heart, my desire, my hands, and my feet rest in the heart that loves Me, in the desires that love Me, desiring only Me, in the hands that work for Me, and in the feet that walk only for Me. And therefore, bit by bit, I go resting within the soul who loves Me, while the soul, with her love, finds Me everywhere and in every place, resting completely in Me and My love. She remains reborn, embellished, and grows in an admirable way in My own love."
May 30th, 1925. Volume 17. How one who does the Divine Will is placed in the same conditions as the very blessed. The knowledge of it are like many doors of light, of grace, of divine communications, which are opened. I was feeling oppressed because of the loss of my adorable Jesus. Oh, how I longed for His return! I called Him with my heart, with my voice, with my thoughts, which His privation rendered awake and active. Oh God, how long the nights without Jesus! Well, with them, they pass as one single breath. And I was saying, "My love, come, do not leave me. I am too little. They need You, and You know that my littleness cannot be without You. Yet, You leave me. I'll come back, come back, oh Jesus!"
At that moment, He extended one arm around my neck and made Himself seen as a child, pressing His head very strongly against the interior of my breast and knocking with His head against my breast to the extent that I felt it break down, so much so that I trembled and feared. And Jesus, with strong and sonorous voice, told me, "My daughter, do not fear, it is I. I do not leave you. And how could I leave you? Living in My will renders the soul inseparable from Me. My life is for her more than the soul to the body. And just as the body without the soul turns into dust because it lacks the life to sustain it, in the same way, without My life within you, you would remain emptied of all the acts of My will in you. You would no longer hear My voice in the depth of your soul which repeats and suggests to you how to fulfill the office of My will. If there is My voice, there is also My life that emits it. How easily you think that I may leave you! I cannot do it. First, you would have to leave My will, and then you could think that I have left you. But also, for you, it will be difficult to leave My will, not to say almost impossible. You are in a condition which is almost similar to the conditions of the Blessed in Heaven. They have not lost their free will. This is a gift which I gave man, and whatever I give once, I never take back. Slavery has never entered Heaven. I am the God of sons, not of slaves. I am the King who makes everyone reign. There is no separation between Me and them. But in Heaven, the knowledge of My goods, of My will, and of My happiness is so great and so vast that they are filled to the brim, to the point of overflowing. And so there finds no place to act. And while they are free, the knowledge of an infinite will and of the infinite goods in which they are immersed leads them with an irresistible force to use their will as if they did not have it, considering this as their highest fortune and happiness, but still in spontaneous freedom and of their own will.
The same for you, my daughter. Making My will known to you has been the greatest grace I have given you. And while you are free to do your will or not before Mine, your will feels incapable of working it. It feels violated. Knowing the great good of My will, you abhor yours and without anyone forcing you, you love to do My will in view of the great good which comes to you and the many knowledge is of My will which I have manifested to you. Hard divine bonds, eternal chains that surround you, possessions of celestial goods. And if you wanted to escape these eternal chains, to break these divine bonds, to lose these celestial possessions, also in this life your will, though free, would not find its way out. It becomes confused. It sees its littleness, messing, fearing itself or a trick of its own. It dives and plunges itself into My will with more spontaneous love. Knowledge opens the doors to the good which is known. And the more knowledge, as I manifest it to you about My will, the more different doors of goods, of light, of grace, and of divine participation I opened for you. These doors are opened for you. And as these knowledge is reach the midst of creatures, the doors will be opened for them, because knowledge makes love arise for the good which is known. The great door which I will open will be My will, so that they may close the little door of their will. My will will make them abhor their own, because in the face of My will, the human is incapable of acting. With the light of My will, the creature can see how insignificant and good at nothing her own is. Therefore, as a consequence, the creatures who will penetrate into these divine knowledge --is, according to the efforts they will make in order to reach them, will keep their own will aside. Moreover, you must know that when I manifest to you one knowledge about My will, only then do I decide to open another door of My knowledge when you have let all the good of what I have manifested to you enter into your soul. If I did not do so, yours would only be the news of the good, but not the possession of it. And I cannot do this. Whenever I speak, I want the good which I manifest to be possessed. Therefore, be attentive in the practice of My will, that I may open to you more doors of My knowledge --is and that you may enter more into the divine possessions."
May 30th, 1928. Volume 24. The creation divine army. The Fiat celestial flag. Example of the child and of the rich father. How Jesus wants entire peoples to pray. Who these people are. I was doing my round in the Divine Fiat, gathering the whole creation all together in order to bring it before the Supreme Majesty as the most beautiful homage, the most profound adoration, and the most intense and extensive love for He who had created it. It seemed to me that there was nothing more beautiful I could bring to my Creator than the magnificence and the continuous prodigy of His own works. Then, while I was doing this, my beloved Jesus, moving in my interior, told me, "My daughter, there is no homage more beautiful and worthy of Our adorable Majesty than offering to Us Our own works. As you go around in the creation, you gather Our divine army to send it to Us as Our glory and as the fierce army that asks with insistence and violence for the kingdom of the Divine Will. Therefore, as you go around, you place the Divine Fiat as noble and divine flag in front of each created thing, and with their tacit speaking, they ask with divine strength for the kingdom of My will upon earth. Oh, how beautiful it is to see the whole creation bannered all over with Divine Fiat! From the smallest to the greatest thing, they all possess the flag of the Fiat placed by my little daughter. They really look like a formidable army and, waving their noble flag with authority, they ask with repeated petitions for what they possess, that is, the kingdom of My will upon earth."
Then I continued on with my round and I kept placing my Divine Fiat not only in all creation but also in all the acts done by Adam in his state of innocence, in those done by the Virgin Queen, as well as those done by our Lord, sending them like an ordered army around the Divinity to ask for its kingdom. And Jesus added, "My daughter, Heaven and earth are praying. All of My acts, those of the Sovereign Queen, as well as those of innocent Adam, that were all invested by My Divine Fiat, they all have one voice that resounding among them as a most sweet and strong echo asks, 'Your kingdom come.'"
"My daughter, in creating man, I acted like a most rich father who, having had his child born to the light, would want to amuse himself with his little one by giving him all his riches. And He says to him continuously, 'Son, take whatever you want and as much as you can.' This little one fills his pockets and his little hands, but so much that as he is unable to contain them, they flow down to the ground. And the Father, inciting him, says, 'Is this all you have taken? Come, take some more. Take everything!' The child sees himself hampered. Bravely he returns to take, but his capacity can take nothing else. And the Father smiles and amuses himself with his little one. So I did with man. I gave him all My riches as gift, and he, like a little child, was incapable of taking them all. And playing with him, I would say to him, 'Take, take, My son, take much, take everything, if you can. The more you take, the more I will enjoy and make feast.' Am I not doing this with you to the point of wanting to give you the kingdom of My Divine Will? This is why I make you go around in the whole creation, in the works of My redemption, nor do I deprive you of the dominions of the Sovereign Queen of Heaven. And while you go around through Our works and dominions, I keep whispering to your ear, 'Take whatever you want, My little daughter.' And to give you the right to it, I have you mark all of Our works and Our dominions with your 'I love you.' And in this 'I love you' of yours that repeats its refrain, 'Give me Your Divine Fiat,' it seems that Fiat and 'I love you' are braided together. And I, knowing that what you want and ask for is the greatest thing, a divine kingdom in which not only you but all those who will be in this kingdom may all be kings and queens. If you knew what you are asking Me for, Heaven and earth are astonished, and all are watching the braveness of your request and My goodness, all paternal, that longs for you and smiles at you with totally excessive love to give you more confidence in asking for it with more braveness. In fact, my daughter, since it is so great a kingdom that I must give, I want an entire people to ask Me for it. And the first people is the whole creation, and by going around in the midst of it, you move all to ask for the coming of the kingdom of My Divine Will upon earth. The second people are all My works and those of My Celestial Mama that were done on earth. These peoples are divine and interminable peoples. Then there's the people of the low Earth, that is formed of those who recite the Our Father and of the few who in some way know My Divine Will and ask that it come to reign upon earth. And when entire peoples pray Me, having at the head of them her to whom a mission so great has been entrusted, what we want to give and that we are asked for with insistence has conceded more easily. Does the same not happen in the low world? If a king or the leader of a country must be elected, there are those who incite the people to cry out, 'We want such and such as king' or 'such and such as the leader of our country.' If some want a war, they make the people cry out, 'We want the war.' There is not one important thing that is done in a kingdom for which some do not resort to the people to make it cry out and even tumult, so as to give themselves a reason and say, 'It is the people that wants it.' Many times, while the people says it wants something, it does not know what it wants, nor the good or sad consequences that will come if they do this. In the low world, much more do I, when I must give important things, universal goods, want entire peoples to ask Me for them. And you must form these peoples: first, by making all the knowledge about My Divine Fiat known; second, by going around everywhere, moving Heaven and earth to ask for the kingdom of My Divine Will."
May 30th, 1932. Volume 30. How the Divine Will seeks the act of the creature in order to form its life in her. Difference between the sacraments and the Divine Will. How the Divine Will is life and the sacraments are the effects of it. My little mind continues to cross the immense sea of the Divine Fiat. It seems to me that in all things and even over the Supreme Being, it has the first place of dominion and of command. And it says, "In vain do you flee from Me, and in all things I can say, 'I am here. I am here for you, in order to give you life. I am the insuperable. No one can surpass Me, neither in love, nor light, nor in My immensity, in which I form as many lives of Mine for however many lives I want to give to creatures.' No power of the divine volition, which in your immensity seeks the act of the creature in order to form as many lives of You in each of their acts. And how many of these acts do not receive You and reject You, and Your life remains suffocated in You, in Your immensity. Ha! Without ever tiring Yourself with a love that conquers all, You continue Your searches for the human acts in order to give Your life and by located in every instant."
But while my mind was lost in the sea of the Fiat, my celestial teacher Jesus, visiting his little daughter, told me, "Blessed daughter of My volition, every act of the creature done in My will is a step that she makes in order to come closer to God, and God, in His turn, takes a step to come closer to her. One can say that the Creator and creature are always on a walk, and they never stop going toward one another. And My will descends into the act of the creature in order to form its step of divine life, and she climbs in the Fiat into the divine regions in order to make herself conqueror of light, of love, of sanctity, and of celestial knowledge. 'As in fact, every act, word, breath, and heartbeat in My will are many steps of divine life that the creature makes.' And it yearns for these acts in order to have its field of action, so as to be able to form many divine lives in the creature. This was the purpose of creation: to form Our life in the creature, to have Our divine field of action in her. And therefore, We love so much that she does Our divine will in order to place Our life in safety. Not in Us, We had no need of anyone; We are more than sufficient for Ourselves. But in the creature, this was the great portent that We wanted and that We want to do in virtue of Our will, to form Our life in the life of the creature, because if We did not do this, creation would remain without Our prime purpose, a hindrance to Our love, a continuous bitterness to look at and see a work so great and of such magnificence and it is not realized, and Our purpose failed. And if there was not in Us the certainty that Our will would reign in the creature in order to form Our life in her, how love would burn creation completely and would reduce it to nothing. And if it supports and tolerates so much, it is because We see the times to come, Our purpose realized.
Now, as the creature does her will, so she withdraws and takes a step back from her Creator, and God withdraws, and an infinite distance forms between the one and the other. See, therefore, the necessity to persevere in a continuous way of operating in My divine will in order to diminish the great distance between God and the creature, product of the human will. And do not believe that this is a personal distance; I am as for all, in all, in Heaven and on earth. The distance that the human volition forms without Mine is a distance of sanctity, of beauty, of goodness, of power, of love. They are infinite distances that only My volition operating in the creature can reunite and connect together and render inseparable the one from the other. This happened in the redemption. Every manifestation that was made by Us about the descent of the Word on earth was one step that We made toward mankind. And as they yearned and prayed for it, and Our manifestations, prophecies, and revelations were manifested to the people, so they made so many steps toward the Supreme Being, such that they remained on a walk toward Us, and We toward them. And as the time of having to descend from Heaven to earth drew near, so We increased the prophets in order to be able to make more revelations, in order to hasten the walk on both parts. This is so true that in the first times of the world, there was no prophet, and Our manifestations were so few that one can say that one step a century was made. This slowness of walk cast coldness on the part of creatures, and a way of saying was held by almost everyone that My descent on earth wasn't an absurd thing, not a reality, like one thinks today about the kingdom of My will, a way of saying and almost a thing that cannot be. For the prophets came after Moses, almost in the last times, near to My descent on earth, such that after Our manifestations, the walk of both parties was hastened. And then came the Sovereign of Heaven, who not only walked but ran in order to hasten the meeting with her Creator, so as to make Him descend and complete the redemption. See, therefore, how My manifestations on My Divine Will are certain proofs that it walks in order to come to reign on earth, and that the creature to whom they have been made with an iron constancy walks and runs in order to receive the first meeting, so as to give it to her soul, in order to let it reign, and so give it the step to let it reign in the midst of creatures. Therefore, let your act be continuous, because only continuous acts are what hasten the walk, overcome every obstacle, and are the only conquerors who conquer God and the creature."
After this, the crowd of my thoughts about the Divine Will continued, and having received Holy Communion, I thought to myself, "What difference is there between the sacraments and the Divine Will?" And my Sovereign Jesus, tearing His Eucharistic veils, let Himself be seen and, giving a sorrowful sigh, told me, "My Blessed daughter, the difference is great between Me, one, and the other. The sacraments are the effects of My will; on the other hand, it is life. And as life, with its creative power, it forms and gives life to the sacraments. The sacraments do not have the virtue of giving life to My will, because it is eternal, it has neither beginning nor end. Instead, My adorable will always occupies the first place in all things, and possessing the creative virtue by its nature, it creates things and its own life where it wants, when and how it wants. One can tell the difference, an image of which is between the Sun and the effects that the Sun produces. These do not give life to the Sun, but they receive the life of the Sun and must remain at its disposition, because the Sun produces the life of the effects. And then, the sacraments, they receive according to time, to places, and to circumstances. Baptism is given one time and no more. The Sacrament of Penance is given when one falls into sin. My very sacramental life is given only one time a day, and the poor creature, during this length of time, does not feel over herself the strength, the help of the baptismal waters that regenerate her continuously, nor the sacramental words of the priest that fortify her in a continuous way by saying to her, 'I absolve you from your sins,' nor does she find in her weaknesses and trials of life, not even her sacramental Jesus, whom she can take at all hours of the day.
On the other hand, My divine will, possessing the primary act of life and of being able to give life with its empire, holds the continuous act over the creature. In every instant, it gives itself as life: life of light, of sanctity, of love, life of strength. In sum, as it is life, time, circumstances, places, powers do not exist. There are no restrictions or laws, especially because it must give life, and life is formed with acts that are continuous, not intermittent. And therefore, in the ardor of its love, with its continuous empire, one can say that it is continuous baptism, absolution never interrupted, and communion at every instant. Even more, because this hour, will was given to man at the beginning of his creation as perennial life, living in him. This was the substance, the fruit of creation: par will, that must form Our life in the creature. With this life, We gave everything. There was nothing that he could have been able to have need of, which he would not find in this will of Ours. One can say that he would have found at his disposition all that he could have wanted: help, strength, sanctity, light, everything was placed in his power. And My will took the commitment of giving him everything he wanted, provided he would give it the dominion and would let it live in his soul. Therefore, it was not necessary to institute the sacraments when man was created, because in My will, he possessed the beginning and the life of all goods. The sacraments, as means of helps, of medicine, had forgiveness, had no reason to exist. But when man rejected this will of Ours, that he would through, he remained without divine life, and therefore without the nourishing virtue, without the continuous act of receiving new and growing life. If he did not die entirely, they were the effects that My divine will gave to him according to his dispositions, circumstances, and times.
Now, Our paternal goodness, seeing that man always goes falling more, in order to give him a support, a help, it gave him the law as the norm for his life, because in the creation, it gave him neither laws nor other things except that of My divine will, that by continuously giving him life, gave him Our divine law naturally, in a way that he would feel it in himself as his own life, without having the need that We would tell him and command them. Even more, because where My will reigns, there are neither laws nor commands. Laws are for the servants, for the rebels, not for the children. Between Us and those who live in Our volition, everything is resolved in love. But with all the law, man did not remake himself. And since Our ideal for creation had been man, and only for him was everything done, therefore I wanted to come on earth, into their midst, and in order to bend, give him more valid supports, more wholesome medicines, more secure means, more powerful helps, I instituted the holy sacraments. And these act in times and circumstances according to the dispositions of creatures, as effects and works of My divine will. But if with all this great good, the soul does not let the Divine Will enter into her as life, she will always have her miseries, a life halfway. She will feel her passions alive, sanctity, her very salvation will always be in danger, because only My will that gives itself as continuous life forms the sweet chant 'men to the passions, to the miseries, and forms their opposite acts of sanctity, of strength, of light, of love.' The evils of the creatures, in a way that the human volition, feeling the sweet enchantment, feels flowing in its evils the beautiful, the good, the holy of the continuous act of life that My will gives to her under its gentle and sweet empire, and she lets it do what it wants, because a continuous act that gives perennial life can never be reached through other acts, helps, and means, for however strong and wholly to do the good that a continuous act can do. Therefore, there is no greater evil that the creature can do to herself, nor greater wrong that she can do to Our paternal goodness, than not letting Our will reign in her. If she would remain in her power, she would induce Us to destroy the whole creation, because the creature was made that she must be Our dwelling, and not only her, but all created things, Heaven, Sun, Earth, everything being works that came forth from Our supreme height. We hold the right of inhabiting them, and by inhabiting them, We can serve them with decorum, beautiful and always new, as in the act in which We brought them forth to the light. Now, the creature, by not doing Our will, places Us outside of Our dwelling, and it happens to Us as it would happen to a rich Lord who, wanting to build a great and beautiful palace, when he has finished, he goes in order to dwell in it, and they close the doors in his face, they throw stones at him, in a way that he is constrained to not put a foot inside and to not be able to inhabit his own dwelling formed by him. Would it not merit that he who had formed it would destroy it? But he does not do it because he loves his work, but he waits and waits again for one who he knows he can conquer and love, and by herself, by giving him the freedom of letting him live there, she opens the doors in order to let him enter. By not letting Our will reign in his soul, the creature places Us in the same conditions. He closes the doors in Our face, and he throws the stones of his sins against Us. And with invincible and divine patience, We wait. And because he does not want Our will in himself as life, with paternal goodness, We give him its effects, that is, the laws, the sacraments, the Gospel, the helps of My examples and prayers. But for all this great good, not one can equal the great good that My will can do as perennial life of the creature, because all together it is laws, sacraments, Gospel, life. It signifies everything, can give everything, possesses everything. And this is enough in order to be able to comprehend the great difference that there is between My will as continuous life in the creature and its effects, and the sacraments that can produce not in a perennial way, but according to circumstance, to time. And although the effects can do great good, still they can never arrive at producing all the good that the life of My Divine Will reigning and dominating in the creature can produce. And therefore, be attentive, my daughter, and give the Holy freedom of doing what it wants in your soul."
End of May 30th. Fiat.