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July 29, 1904. Volume 6. Faith makes one know God, but trust makes one find him. Continuing in my usual state, as soon as I saw my adorable Jesus, I said to him, "My Lord and my God!" And he continued, "God, God, God alone, daughter. Faith makes one know God, but trust makes one find him. So without trust, faith is sterile. And even though faith possesses immense riches with which the soul can enrich herself, if there is no trust, she remains always poor and lacking in everything."
While he was saying this, I felt myself being drawn into God, and I remained absorbed in him like a little drop of water in the immense sea. As much as I looked, I could find no boundaries either of height or of breadth. Heaven and earth, blessed and pilgrim souls, all were immersed in God. I could also see wars like that between Russia and Japan, the thousands of soldiers who were dying and will die, and that by justice also natural, the victory will be of Japan. And I saw that other European nations are plotting, matching nations of war, even against nations of Europe. But who can say all that I could see of God and in God? So to end it, I stopped here.
July 29, 1909. Volume 9. Peace is divine virtue. Continuing in my usual state, I said to myself, "Why does the Lord absolutely want that no breath of disturbance enter into me, and that in all things I remain at peace? It seems that nothing pleases him, be they even great works, heroic virtues, atrocious sufferings. It seems that he sniffs in the soul, and with all those things, if she has no peace, he remains nauseated and displeased with the soul."
At that moment, he made himself heard, and with dignified and imposing voice, answering my "why," he told me, "Because peace is divine virtue, while the other virtues are human. So any virtue, if it is not crowned with peace, cannot be called virtue, but vice. This is why I cherish peace so much, because peace is the surest sign that one suffers and works for me, and it is the heritage I give to my children of the eternal peace they will enjoy with me in heaven."
July 29th, 1910. Volume 9. The two pillars on which the soul must lean. Continuing in my usual state, I thought I was so very bad, and even more, I felt troubled because even the Confessor says that I have very much fallen out of my early state. Otherwise, Jesus would come. So, having received communion, I lamented the blessedness of Jesus about his probations, asking him to have the goodness of telling me what is the evil I do, for I would gladly give my life rather than displease him. "How many times I have told you, if you see that I am about to offend you, even slightly, make me die."
And Jesus told me, "My daughter, do not trouble yourself. Have I not said years ago that in order to chastise the world, I would not come so often to relieve myself with you? And as a consequence, I would not come too often, though I would never leave you. And in order to make up for my frequent coming and going, I would permit Mass and communion every day, so that you might draw the strength which you used to draw from my continuous visits." So much so that I reached the point of threatening the confessor if he would not offer to do it.
Yet, who does not know the chastisements that have happened in the meantime? Entire cities destroyed, rebellions, the withdrawal of grace from the evil, and also from the very religious who are evil, so that those poisons, those wounds which they had inside might come out. Now I can take no more. The sacrileges are enormous. Yet, this is still nothing compared to the chastisement that will come. Yet, I have not said this before, you would have some reason to become alarmed. You, however, must lean on two pillars to be able to live with full confidence.
One is my will. And my will, there cannot be sins. My will smashes all passions and sins to pieces, even more, it pulverizes them to the point of destroying their roots. If you lean on the pillar of my will, darkness will convert into light, doubts into certainty, hopes into possession. The second pillar on which you must lean is the firm will and continuous attention not to offend me, even slightly, disposing one's own will to suffer everything, to face everything, to be submitted to everyone rather than displease me. When the soul sees that she is leaning continuously on these pillars, which form more than her very life, she can live with greater confidence than if she lived with my continuous favors. More so, since I permit this state also to dispose you to departing from this earth.
July 29th, 1924. Volume 17. How one who does the divine will forms a support of breasts for herself and for Jesus. This morning, after much hardship, my always adorable Jesus made himself seen in my interior, tired, as if he wanted to rest. And since there was a certain kind of support in me, he extended his arm to cling to that support, and placing his head upon it, he rested. And not only did he rest, but he invited me to rest with him. How comfortable I was, leaning on that support together with Jesus to take a little rest after so many bitterness. Afterwards, he said to me, "My daughter, do you want to know what this support is which so much relieves us and gives us rest? It was all your acts done in my will that formed the support for me and for you, which is so strong as to be able to sustain the weight of heaven and earth which I contain within me and to give me rest. My will alone contains this strength and this virtue so great. The acts done in my will bind heaven and earth and enclose in them the divine power such as to be able to sustain a God."
On hearing this, I said to him, "My love, yet with all the support you're talking about, like fear, you may leave me. What shall I do without you? And you know how miserable and good at nothing I am. So I figure that if you leave me, your will too may depart from me." And he, "My daughter, why do you fear? This fear is your human will which would want to enter the field to take a little walk. My will excludes every fear because it has nothing to fear. On the contrary, it is sure of itself and unshakable. Even more, you must know that as the soul decides to let herself be possessed by my will and to live in it, since my will is linked to all created things and there is nothing over which it does not have its dominion, in the same way, the soul remains linked to all created things. And as she does her acts, her daughter-ship of my will, her dwelling, her possession remain inscribed on all created things with indelible characters. Take a look at the whole universe, at the heavens, at the stars, at the sun, at everything, and you will see your name written with indelible characters, together with your daughter-ship of my will. So how can it ever be possible that this eternal and divine mother may leave her dear daughter who was born from her and raised with so much love? Therefore, banish every fear if you do not want to displace me."
And while he was saying this, I looked at the heavens, into the sun, and in all the rest, and I could see my name written with a title of "little daughter of his will." May everything be for the glory of God and the confusion of the poor creature that I am.
July 29, 1926. Volume 19. Everything that our Lord did invested the whole creation by virtue of the divine will. Who will put all creation in feast once again? I was doing my usual rounds in the kingdom of the Supreme Volition, and as I arrived at the point of what the Divine Will had done in the humanity of our Lord, I looked at his tears, his sighs, his moans, and everything he did, invested with the light of his will. Its rays were beaded with the tears of Jesus, filled with his sighs, invested with his sorrowful and loving moans. And since the creation is filled and invested with the Divine Will, has its rays of light invested everything, they beaded all created things with his tears, how things were invested with his sighs, with his love, and all moans together with Jesus.
Now, sweet Jesus came out from within my interior, and leaning his head on my forehead, told me, "My daughter, by sinning, the first man lost a divine will. And therefore, my humanity was needed, united with the Eternal Word, which was to sacrifice the human will of my humanity entirely and completely in order to reacquire this divine will, so as to give it back to the creature. So my humanity gave not even a breath of life to its human will, but kept it only to sacrifice it. And to pay for the freedom that man had taken of rejecting this supreme Will, was so much ingratitude. And as he lost all of its goods, its happiness, its dominion, its sanctity, failed him, everything failed him. If man had lost something human given to him by God, a saint could have rendered it back to him. But since he lost a divine will, another man and God was needed who would be able to give it back to him.
Now, had I come upon earth to redeem him, one drop of my blood, one little pain of mine would have been enough to put him in safety. But since I came not only to save him, but to give him back my will which he had lost, this divine will wanted to descend into all my pains, into my tears, come to my sighs and moans, into everything I did and suffered in order to reacquire this dominion in all and over all human acts, and therefore be able to form once again its kingdom in the midst of creatures. So, as a little child, when I cried, wailed, moaned, my divine will, more than solar ray, invested all creation with my tears, with my moans and sighs. The stars, the sun, the starry sky, the sea, the little flower, all cried, moaned, wailed, and sighed because the divine will present in me was the same as that which reigned in all creation. And therefore, as though naturally, the stars cried, the sky moaned, the sun wailed, the sea sighed. The light of my will brought my echo into all created things, and repeating my acts, they kept company with their Creator.
Oh, if you knew the assault that the divine Majesty received in hearing my crying, my moans and sighs in all creation! All created things, animated by my will, prostrate at the foot of the divine throne, deafened it with their moans, drew it with their tears, moved it to pity with their sighs and prayers. And my pains reverberating in them, bound it to surrender the keys of heaven and implored that the kingdom of the divine will come upon earth once again. My celestial Father, moved to compassion and tenderness by his own will that cried, moaned, prayed, and suffered in all his works, surrendered the keys and gave his kingdom once again. But in order to be sure, he placed it in my humanity, so that at the appropriate time he might give it back again to the human family. Here is the necessity for me to do the human actions and to descend into the order of the human actions, because my Divine Will was to take its dominion and substitute the order of its Divine Will and all the acts of creatures. See then how much this kingdom cost me, with how many pains I ransomed it, and this is why I love it so much and I want to establish it in the midst of creatures at any cost."
And I, "But tell me, my love, if everything you did was invested with the unity of the light of the supreme volition, since this will is one and cannot be detached nor separated from its acts, the creation is no longer alone, but has the company of your acts, of your love, of your moans. Therefore, there isn't that separable silence you told me about the other time."
And Jesus, all goodness, added, "My daughter, you must know that as long as my humanity remained on earth, and as long as the sovereign Queen also was there, there was no solitude nor sepulchral silence in the creation, because by virtue of the light of the Divine Will, wherever this will was, it spread as light and diffusing in everything, it multiplied in all created things, and everywhere my act was repeated because one was the will. This is so true that the creation gave sensible signs both of my birth and even more so at my death, to the point that the sun became dark, the stone split, the earth trembled, as if all were crying for their Creator, for their King. They cried for the one who had kept them in feast, who had broken their solitude and sepulchral silence. And all feeling the bitterness of such a hard provision, they gave signs of sorrow and crying, and returned once again to the morning of their solitude and silence.
In fact, as I departed from the earth, the one who in the light of my will emitted the voice, which forming the echo, rendered the creation speaking and operating, wasn't no longer there. It happened as to those metal instruments which with artfulness enclose the voice of one who speaks or sings. The instrument speaks, sings, cries, laughs, but this happens by virtue of the echo of the voice that has spoken. However, if the intelligence that produces that singing is taken away, the instrument remains mute. More so, since I did not come upon earth for the creation, but I came for man. And therefore, everything I did, pains, prayers, moans, sighs, I left for the good of souls as more than a new creation. In fact, since everything I did was done by virtue of my creative power, everything is in the act of saving man. In addition to this, creation was made for man. In it, he was to be the king of all created things. But by withdrawing from my divine will and lost the regime, the dominion, nor could he form laws in the kingdom of creation, as is usual with a king when he possesses a kingdom. In fact, having lost the unity of this light of my will, he was no longer able to rule, he had no more strength of dominion, his laws had no value. Creation was for him like a people that rebels against the king and makes of him its laughingstock. And this is why my humanity was immediately recognized by the whole creation as its king, because it felt in me the strength of the union of one single will. But as I departed, it remained without King again, and closed in its silence, waiting again for someone who in the kingdom of my will would emit his voice to let it resound in it.
But do you know who she is who will put all creation in feast once again? The one who will form its echo and will render it speaking again? It is you, my daughter, who will take back the dominion, the regime in the kingdom of my will. Therefore, be attentive and let your flight in my volition be continuous."
July 29th, 1928. Volume 24. Meaning of the blessing and of the sign of the Cross. My days become more bitter and long because of the privation of my sweet Jesus. Powers, our centuries, days never end. And while I do my usual rounds in the creation, I want and invite everyone to cry for he who flying away from me leaves me alone and abandoned. And hard martyrdom of living as if I had no life, because he who formed my true life is no longer with me. And so, in my bitterness, I call the sun to cry tears of light to move Jesus to compassion, so that he would come back to his little exiled one. I call the wind to make tears of moans, of screams, and to death in the hearing of Jesus with its mighty empire, so as to bend him to come back. I called the sea to my help, that it would convert all of its waters into tears and murmuring tears, and to moulting with its waves, it may make a tumult deep into his divine heart, so that he may quickly resolve to give me back his life, my all.
But who can say all my nonsense? I sought help from all, so that they would make Jesus come back to me, but he would not come. And I would continue my round in his adorable will, and following all the acts he did when he was on this earth, I paused when Jesus was blessing the children, blessing his celestial Mama, blessing the crowds, and other things. And I prayed Jesus to bless this little daughter of his who so much needed it. And he, moving in my interior and raising his arm in the act of blessing me, told me, "My daughter, I bless you from the heart, in your soul and body. May my blessing be the confirmation of our likeness in you. My blessing confirms in you what the divinity did in the creation of man, that is, our likeness. You must know that during the course of my mortal life, in everything I did, I always blessed. It was the first act of creation that I called back upon creatures. And in order to confirm it in blessing, I invoked the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit. The very sacraments are animated by these blessings and invocations. So, while calling the likeness to the Creator within souls, my blessing calls also the life of my Divine Will, that it may return as in the beginning of creation to reign in souls, because my will alone has the virtue of painting in them vividly the likeness of He who created them, of making it grow, and of preserving it with the vivid divine colors. See then what blessing means: confirmation of our creative work, because the work we do once is so filled with wisdom and with sublimity and beauty that we love to repeat it always. And if our blessing is nothing other than the longing of our heart to see our image restored in creatures, as well as the repetition of our confirmation of what we want to do, the sign of the Cross that the Church teaches to the faithful is nothing other than infiltrating our likeness on the part of creatures. And so, echoing our blessing, they repeat in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, without knowing it, the Church and all the faithful harmonized with the eternal Creator, and all want the same thing. God, by blessing and pronouncing the words Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, wants to give his likeness to creatures, to portrait it by making the sign of the Cross, pronouncing the same words."
End of July 29th. Fiat.