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Colleen Richards Colleen Richards

Divine Will for every day of the year - January 22, 1925 Volume 17

… Then, in looking at Jesus, I could see His intelligence as more than a sun, and all the Thoughts of Jesus like many rays which came out from that sun; and extending, they went through all the thoughts of the creatures, past, present and future. These rays were moving in order to grab all created intelligences, as though in their Power, and to substitute for them as Perennial Glory to the Father, Complete Reparation for everything, and Impetration of all Goods for all created intelligences. Then, drawing me to Himself, Jesus said to me: “My daughter, this Sun you see within the Intelligence of My Humanity, was formed by My Divinity, which endowed Me with Creative Power and All-seeingness of all things, in such a way that I became the New Sun of souls. And just as the sun which I created for the good of nature, covers all the earth with its light, without denying to anyone the effects of its light, even though it does not move from the heavens, but unleashes from its center the rays which bring upon earth the goods that the sun contains – in the same way, without departing from Me, with Its Inaccessible Light, My Divinity formed in Me spokes of Light. And these rays went through everyone and everything; and so, in every instant, I went through each thought, word and act of all creatures, becoming Perennial Glory to My Father for each thought, act, word, etc., of all human generations. While rising to the Celestial Father, this Light descended to grab, as though in Its Power, all human acts, in order to illuminate them, warm them and repair them. Therefore a Light hangs over each human act, wanting to do good to it, continuously.

“Doing this was as though natural for Me. You, My daughter, do not have this power to make one single act out of all acts, as I did. Therefore, in My Will, you will go through each one of My Rays, one by one, and little by little, you will follow the same path as My Humanity.”

So I tried to go through the first ray, then through the second, and so on with the others. But – oh, Power of the Divine Will! - while going through those rays, I was so little that I seemed to have become an atom; and this atom was now in the Divine Intelligence, going through the intelligences of creatures; now in the Word, now in the Divine Motion, going through the words and the movements of the creatures; and so on with all the rest. And the Divinity, in seeing my extreme littleness within Their Intelligence, in Their Word and in Their Motion, taken by Love for my littleness, remained enraptured, and pleased, said: “This littleness enraptures Us, and in seeing it enter Our very Acts to do them together with Us, to diffuse them upon all, We feel such Joy and such Satisfaction, in receiving Our own Glory, that with all Our Love We give it the freedom to enter into Us, to let it operate together with Us.”

In hearing this, I felt all confused, and I said to myself: “I am doing nothing; it is the Divine Will that carries me in Its arms. Therefore, all the Glory is of His Adorable Will.”

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Colleen Richards Colleen Richards

Divine Will for every day of the year - January 21, 1905 Volume 6

After I had exposed certain doubts to the confessor, my mind could appease itself with what he said to me.  Then, when blessed Jesus came, He told me:  “My daughter, if one reasons over obedience, by merely reasoning over it he dishonors it, and one who dishonors obedience, dishonors God.”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 20, 1907 Volume 7

Having read the lives of two female Saints – one who aspired so much to suffering, and the other who aspired so much to be little – I was thinking in my interior about which one of the two it would be better to imitate, and unable to make up my mind, I felt as though hampered. So, in order to be free and to think only about loving Him, I said to myself: “I want to aspire to nothing but to love Him and to fulfill His Holy Will perfectly.”

At that moment, the Lord told me in my interior: “And it is here that I want you – in My Will. Until the grain of wheat is buried in the earth and dies completely, it cannot rise again to new life and multiply itself, giving life to other grains. In the same way, until the soul is buried in My Will, to the point of dying completely by dissolving all of her will within Mine, she cannot rise again to new Divine Life through the rising of all the virtues of Christ, which contain True Sanctity. Therefore, let My Will be the seal which seals your interior and exterior; and once My Will has risen completely within you, you will find True Love – and this is the greatest of all the other sanctities to which one can aspire.”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 19, 1912 Volume 10

As I was in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus made Himself seen with a little rope in His hand, and with it He kept binding hearts, clasping them very tightly to Himself, in such a way as to make them lose their own feeling and make them feel the whole of Jesus. In feeling themselves so clasped, the hearts wriggled about, and as they wriggled about the knot which Jesus had made over them loosened, as they feared that it was a detriment to them no longer to feel themselves. All afflicted because of this behavior of souls, Jesus told me: “My daughter, have you seen how souls render My Tendernesses of Love vain? I keep binding hearts to unite them closely with Me, to make them lose all that is human; but instead of letting Me do it, on seeing their human being broken, they lose air, they struggle, they wriggle about, and they also want to look a little bit themselves at how cold, dry or warm they are. By this looking at themselves, struggling, wriggling about, the knot I had made becomes loose, and they want to be with Me at a distance, but not clasped in such a way as no longer to feel themselves. This afflicts Me very much, and they prevent My Games of Love. And do not think that these are only souls who are far away from you – rather, these are also those who are around you. You will make them comprehend well the sorrow that they give Me, and that if they do not let themselves be clasped by Me to the point of losing the feeling of themselves, I will never be able to expand My Graces and My Charisms with them. Have you understood?”

And I: “Yes, O Jesus, I understood! Poor ones, if they understood the secret contained in your clasping, they would not do this – they would let You do it; even more, they themselves would make themselves smaller so as to let You tighten the knot more.” At that moment, I made myself very small; Jesus clasped me, and instead of wriggling about, I let Him squeeze me more tightly; and as He squeezed me, I felt the life of Jesus — losing my own. Oh! how happy I felt with the Life of Jesus! I was able to love more, and I could reach everything that Jesus wanted.

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 18, 1928 Volume 23

… After this, I was thinking:  “What will be the utility of these writings on the Divine Will?”  

And my highest and only Good, Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:  “My daughter, all of My works hold hands, and this is the sign that they are My Works—that one does not oppose the other; on the contrary, they are so bound among themselves, that they sustain one another.  This is so true that, having to form My chosen people, from which and within which the future Messiah was to be born, from that same people I formed the Priesthood, that instructed the people and prepared them for the great good of Redemption.  I gave them laws, manifestations and inspirations, upon which the Sacred Scriptures were formed, called the Bible; and all were intent on the study of It.  

“Then, with My Coming upon earth, I did not destroy Sacred Scriptures; on the contrary, I supported them; and My Gospel, that I announced, opposed them in nothing; on the contrary, they sustained each other in a admirable way.  And in forming the new nascent Church, I formed the new Priesthood, that does not detach itself either from Sacred Scriptures or from the Gospel.  All are intent upon them in order to instruct the peoples; and it can be said that anyone who did not want to draw from this salutary fount does not belong to Me, because these are the basis of My Church and the very life with which the peoples are formed.

“Now, what I manifest on My Divine Will, and that you write, can be called ‘The Gospel of the Kingdom of the Divine Will.’  In nothing does It oppose either Sacred Scriptures or the Gospel that I announced while being on earth; on the contrary, It can be called the support of one and of the other.  And this is why I allow and I call Priests to come—to read the Gospel, all of Heaven, of the Kingdom of My Divine Fiat, so as to say, as I said to the Apostles:  ‘Preach It throughout the whole world.’  In fact, in My works I make use of the Priesthood; and just as I had the Priesthood before My coming in order to prepare the people, and the Priesthood of My Church in order to confirm My Coming and everything I did and said, so will I have the Priesthood of the Kingdom of My Will.  

“Here is the utility of the many things I have manifested to you, the many surprising Truths, the promises of the so many goods that I must give to the children of the Fiat Voluntas Tua:  they will be the Gospel, the basis, the inexhaustible fount from which all will draw the Celestial Life, the terrestrial happiness and the restoration of their Creation.  Oh! how happy they will feel—those who, with yearning, will drink in large gulps from these founts of My Knowledges; because they contain the virtue of bringing the life of Heaven, and of banishing any unhappiness.”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 17, 1921 Volume 12

[Jesus speaking]

“… Now I want to tell you why I asked for your ‘FIAT’ — your ‘yes’ in My Volition. I want the prayer which I taught – the ‘Fiat Voluntas Tua sicut in Coelo et in terra’ — this prayer of so many centuries, of so many generations — to have its fulfillment and completion. This is why I wanted another ‘yes’ in My Volition — another ‘FIAT’ containing the Creative Power. I want the ‘FIAT’ that rises every instant, and multiplies in everyone. I want, in one soul, My own ‘FIAT’ which ascends to My Throne and, by its Creative Power, brings upon earth the life of the ‘FIAT on earth as It is in Heaven.’” 

Surprised and annihilated in hearing this, I said: “Jesus, what are You saying? Yet, You know how bad and incapable of anything I am.”  And He: “My daughter, it is My usual way to choose the most abject, unable, poor souls for My greatest Works. Even My Mama had nothing extraordinary in her exterior life; no miracles — not a sign that would distinguish Her from other women. Her only distinction was perfect virtue, to which almost no one paid attention. And if to other Saints I gave the distinction of miracles, and I adorned others with My wounds, to My Mama, nothing — nothing. Yet, She was the Portent of portents, the Miracle of miracles, the true and perfect crucified — no one else like Her. …”

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Colleen Richards Colleen Richards

Divine Will for every day of the year - January 16, 1927 Volume 20

… After this, I continued my flight in the Supreme Volition, and my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:  “My daughter, one who lives in the Divine Will takes everything together, as though in one jump.  In fact, since the Divine Will is everywhere, there is nothing that can escape It, Its life is eternal, Its immensity knows no limits, nor circumferences, therefore the soul who lives in It takes the Eternal God, all of heaven, the sun, everything that exists, the Virgin, the Angels, the Saints – in sum, everything.  And as she prays, palpitates, breathes, loves, her acts become common to all; therefore all palpitate from her heartbeat, all breathe with her breath, all love with her love, because wherever my Will extends, It moves all to do the act of one who lives in It.  From this, it happens that, since the Sovereign Queen has the first place in the Divine Fiat, She feels the little daughter who lives in It close to Herself; and associating with her, She repeats what she does together with her, and places Her seas of grace, of light, of love, in common, because one is the Will of the Mama and of the little daughter.  Even more, the height of the Sovereign of Heaven feels honored in her, with acts of a Divine Will; She feels that this little daughter enters into Her seas, and shaking them with her acts, she makes them swell, to redouble them and expand them.  But to do what?  To let her Creator receive redoubled Divine glory, and love from Her very seas of love; and to place the seas of her Celestial Mama as though on a counter, so that She may receive double glory.  

“Therefore, though little, this creature moves everything, she imposes herself on everything; all let her do; all feel the power of the good she wants to give to all.  So, she is little and strong; she is little and she finds herself everywhere; she is little and her prerogative is littleness, therefore she possesses nothing – not even her will, because, voluntarily, she has given it to the One who had right over it.  And the Divine Will gives her everything – there is nothing which It does not entrust to her.  Therefore, the prodigies of the living in My Will are indescribable and innumerable.  Oh! if all knew what it means to live in My Will, and the good they receive – even more, there is no good which they do not take, there is no good which they cannot do – they would all compete and yearn to live in My Will, Holy and Adorable.”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 15, 1920 Volume 12

I was pouring all of myself into the Divine Volition, to be able to substitute for everything that the creature is obliged to do toward the Supreme Majesty; and while I was doing this, I said to myself: “Where can I find enough love to be able to give my sweet Jesus love for all?” And He told me in my interior: “My daughter, in My Will you will find this Love, which can make up for the love of all, because one who enters My Will will find many springing founts; and as much as he may take, they never decrease one drop. There is the fount of Love, which impetuously spouts its waves; but as much as it spouts, it always springs forth. There is the fount of Beauty, and no matter how many beauties it releases, it never fades; on the contrary, it springs with ever new and more rare beauties. There is the fount of Wisdom, the fount of Contentments, the fount of Goodness, of Power, of Mercy, of Justice, and of all the rest of My Qualities. 

"They all spring up, and each one pours into the other, in such a way that Love is beautiful, is wise, is powerful, etc. The fount of Beauty gives beauty of Love, wise and powerful, and with such power as to keep the whole of Heaven enraptured, without ever tiring It. These springing founts form such a harmony, such a contentment and an enchanting show that all the Blessed remain so sweetly enchanted that they never move, even one glance, so as not to miss even one of these contentments. Therefore, My daughter, for one who wants to love, repair and substitute for all, there is the strict necessity to live in My Volition, from where everything springs; where things multiply as many times as needed, and remain all coined with the Divine Imprint. This Divine Imprint forms the other founts, whose waves rise and rise so much, that in pouring out, they flood everything and do good to all. Therefore, always – always in My Will. There I await you — there I want you.”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 14, 1902 Volume 4

As I was in my usual state, my adorable Jesus came and told me: “My daughter, only one who has emptied himself of everything and has filled himself completely with Me can be truly worthy of Me, in such a way as to make of himself an object of Divine Love alone; to the point that My Love must come to form his life, and he must love Me, not with his love, but with My own Love.” Then He added: “What do these words mean: He has cast down the mighty from their thrones and has lifted up the lowly? That the soul, destroying herself completely, fills all of herself with God, and as she loves God with God Himself, God exalts the soul to an Eternal Love. This is the true and greatest exaltation, and also true humility.” Then He continued: “The true sign to know whether one possesses this Love is that the soul cares about nothing but loving God, making Him known, and making everyone love Him.” Then, as He withdrew in my interior, I heard Him pray, saying: “Ever Holy and Indivisible Trinity, I adore You profoundly, I love You intensely, I thank You perpetually, for all and in the hearts of all.” And I went on in this way, hearing Him pray almost continuously inside of me, and I with Him.

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 13, 1927 Volume 20

… I was thinking to myself that what is written above is not necessary; more so since, continuing to be feverish, I write with difficulty, and I write just a little to make Jesus content.  And my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:  “My daughter, in order to live in My Will, the soul must ascend; and in order to ascend in It, she must leave that which does not belong to My Will.  She must leave her miserable rags, her vulgar habits, her vile foods, her miseries.  Everything she must leave, in order to make use of the Royal Garment, of Divine Habits, of Precious and Nourishing Foods, of Infinite Riches – in sum, of everything that belongs to My Will.  What you have written serves you for now — it serves the Kingdom of the Supreme Fiat.  Then it will be the rule for those who must live in It – how they must use all of the Operating Acts of My Will in order to maintain themselves within the boundaries of My Kingdom.  Therefore, that which to you does not seem to be necessary, is necessary for the formation of My Supreme Kingdom.”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 12, 1900 Volume 3

[Jesus speaking]

“… Oh daughter, here is the immense difference between My Humility and the humility of creatures, even that of all of My Saints, which is only a shadow in the face of Mine; because the creature is always a creature and does not know, as I know, how great is the weight of sin.  Even though heroic souls, following My Example, have offered themselves to suffer the pains of others, their pains are not different from those of the other creatures; they are not new things for them, because they are made of the same clay.  Moreover, the mere thought that those pains are the cause of new gains, and that they glorify God, is a great honor for them.  Furthermore, the creature is restricted within the circle in which God placed her, and she cannot go out of those limits within which she has been circumscribed by God.  Oh, if it were in their power to do or undo things, how many other things they would do — everyone would reach the stars!  But My Divinized Humanity had no limits, yet It voluntarily constrained Itself within Itself; and this was the braiding of all my works with heroic Humility.  

“This had been the cause of all evils which inundate the earth – lack of humility; and by exercising this virtue, I was to draw all Goods from Divine Justice.  Ah, yes, no concessions of graces come from My Throne, if not by means of humility, nor can any ticket be received by Me, if it does not carry the signature of humility.  No prayer is listened to by My Ears, and moves My Heart to compassion, if it is not perfumed by the fragrance of humility.  If the creature does not arrive at destroying that seed of honor, of esteem – and this can be destroyed by arriving at loving to be despised, humiliated, confused – she will feel a braiding of thorns around her heart; she will feel a void in her heart which will always bother her, and will render her very dissimilar from My Most Holy Humanity.  If she does not arrive at loving humiliations, at the most she will be able to know herself a little bit, but will not shine before Me, clothed with the garment of humility, beautiful and worthy of sympathy. …”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 11, 1922 Volume 13

… Then, afterwards, I was praying, all abandoned in the Will of Jesus, and almost without thinking, I said: “My Love — everything in Your Will: my little pains, my prayers, my heartbeat, my breathing — all I am and all I can, united to all that You are, so as to give proper growth to the members of the Mystical Body.” In hearing me, Jesus made Himself seen again, and smiling with satisfaction, added: “How beautiful it is to see My Truths in your heart as Fount of Life immediately having the development and the effect for which they have communicated themselves! Therefore, correspond with Me, and as soon as I see one Truth developed, I will make it an honor for Myself to make another Fount of Truth arise.”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 10, 1921 Volume 12

I was concerned about what is written above, and I said to myself: “I don’t know what Jesus wants from me; yet, He knows how bad I am, and how good at nothing.”  And Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, remember that years ago I asked you if you wanted to live in My Will; and since I wanted you in My Will, I wanted you to pronounce your ‘yes’ in My own Volition. This ‘yes’ was bound to an eternal point, and to a Will which will never end. This ‘yes’ is in the center of My Volition, surrounded by infinite Immensity; and if it tries to go out, it almost cannot find the way. Therefore, at your little oppositions, at some discontent of yours, I laugh and I amuse Myself, because I see you like those people who are bound, by their own will, in the depth of the sea, and wanting to go out, they find nothing but water. And since they are bound in the depth of the sea, they feel the bother of wanting to get out, and in order to remain tranquil and happy, they plunge themselves even more into the depth of the sea. In the same way, in seeing you perplexed, as though wanting to go out, and in seeing that, unable to do it, being bound by your own ‘yes’, you plunge yourself even more into the depths of My Will – I laugh, and I amuse Myself. And then, do you think it is something trivial and easy to move from within My Will? You would move an eternal point; and if you knew what it means to move an eternal point, you would tremble with fright.”

Then He added: “I asked the first ‘yes’ in My FIAT, of My dear Mama, and – oh, the power of Her FIAT in My Will! As soon as the Divine FIAT met with the FIAT of My Mama, the two became one. My FIAT raised Her, Divinized Her, overshadowed Her, and with no human intervention, conceived Me, the Son of God. Only in My FIAT could She conceive Me. My FIAT communicated to Her Immensity, Infinity, Fecundity, in a Divine Manner, and therefore the Immense Eternal Infinite One could be conceived in Her. As soon as She said, ‘FIAT MIHI’, not only did She take possession of Me, but She overshadowed all creatures and all created things. She felt within Herself the life of all creatures, and from that moment She began to act as the Mother and Queen of all. How many portents does this ‘yes’ of my Mama not contain – if I wanted to tell them all, you would never stop listening.”

Now, I asked a second ‘yes’ in My Will, of you; and you, though trembling, pronounced it. This ‘yes’ in My Volition will accomplish its portents – it will have its Divine Fulfillment. You – follow Me, plunge yourself more deeply into the Immense Sea of My Will, and I will take care of everything. My Mama did not think about how I would manage to Incarnate Myself in Her; She just said, ‘FIAT MIHI’, and I took care of how to be Incarnated. So you will do.”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 9, 1920 Volume 12

I was praying, and with my thought I was fusing myself in the Eternal Volition; and bringing myself before the Supreme Majesty, I said: “Eternal Majesty, I come to your feet in the name of the whole human family, from the first to the last man of the future generations, to adore You profoundly. At your Most Holy Feet I want to seal the adorations of all; I come to recognize You in the name of all as Creator and Absolute Ruler of all. I come to love You for all and for each one; I come to return love to You for all, because of each created thing, in which You placed so much Love that the creature will never find enough love to repay You in love. But in Your Will I find this Love, and wanting that my love, as well as the other acts, be complete, full and for all, I have come into Your Will where everything is Immense and Eternal, and where I can find Love to be able to love You for all. So, I love You for each star You have created; I love You for all the drops of light and for all the intensity of heat which You have placed in the Sun…" But who can tell all that my poor mind was saying? I would be too long; therefore I stop here.

Now, while I was doing this, a thought told me: “How is it, and in what way did Our Lord place rivers of Love for the creature in each created thing? And a light answered my thought: ‘Indeed, My daughter, My Love poured out in torrents toward the creature in each created thing. I told you elsewhere and I confirm to you now that, as My Uncreated Love created the Sun, It placed oceans of Love in it. In each drop of light which was to inundate the eye, the step, the hand, and everything of the creature, My Love ran toward her; and almost pounding sweetly on her eye, hand, step and mouth, It gives her My Eternal Kiss and It holds out My Love to her.

"Together with light, runs the heat, and pounding on her again, a little more strongly, almost impatient for the love of the creature, to the extent of pelting her, I repeat to her more intensely My Eternal ‘I Love you.’ And if the Sun fecundates the plants with Its light and heat, it is My Love that runs to nourish man; and if I extended the heavens above man’s head, studding it with stars, it is My Love that, wanting to delight the eyes of man, also at night, repeats to him My ‘I love you’ in every sparkling of star... So, each created thing holds out My Love to man; and if it were not so, Creation would have no purpose; and I do nothing without purpose. Everything has been made for man; but man does not recognize it, and he has turned into sorrow for Me.

“Therefore, My daughter, if you want to soothe My Sorrow, come often into My Will and give Me, in the name of all, adoration, love, gratitude and thanksgiving for everything.”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 8, 1908 Volume 8

Having received Communion, at the best moment I was thinking of how I could cling to blessed Jesus more then ever, and He said to me: “In order to cling more tightly to Me, to the point of dissolving your being in Mine, just as I transfuse Mine into yours, you must take what is Mine in everything, and in everything leave what is yours; in such a way that if you always think of things which are holy and regard only what is good, and the honor and glory of God, you leave your mind and take the Divine. If you speak, if you operate good, and only out of love for God, you leave your mouth and your hands, and you take My Mouth and My Hands. If you walk along holy and upright paths, you will walk with My own Feet; if your heart loves Me alone, you will leave your heart and will take Mine, and will love Me with My own Love; and so with all the rest. So, you will be enveloped with all My Things, and I with all of yours. Can there be a tighter union than this? If the soul reaches the point of no longer recognizing herself, but the Divine Being within her, these are the fruits of good Communions, and this is the Divine Purpose in wanting to communicate Himself to souls. But, how frustrated My Love remains, and how few are the fruits that souls gather from this Sacrament, to the point that the majority of them remains indifferent, and even nauseated by this Divine Food.”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 7, 1932 Volume 30

… So my sweet Jesus, surprising me, told me:  “My daughter, My Will has surprising and different Ways of acting, and It acts according to the dispositions of the creatures.  Many times It makes known what It wants, but It leaves the doing and the not doing at the disposition of creatures, and this is called Wanted Will.  Other times, to the Wanting Will, It adds the Commanding, and gives double Graces in order to make the Command followed.  And this is for all Christians, not doing it means to not even be Christians.  Another way is Operative, It descends in the act of the creature and works as if the act of the creature were Its own, and therefore as Its act It places there Its Life, Its Sanctity, Its Operative Virtue.  But in order to arrive at this, the soul must be accustomed to the Wanted and Commanded Will.  This prepares the void in the human act in order to receive the Operating Act of the Divine Fiat.  

“But It does not stop, the Operating Act calls the Completed Act, and the Completed Act is the holiest, most powerful, most beautiful, most refulgent with Light, Act that My Divine Will can do.  And being a Completed Act of It, all that It has done becomes enclosed in this Act in a way that one sees the sky, the sun, the stars, the sea, the Celestial Beatitudes, everything and everyone, flow and enclosed in it.” …

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 6, 1900 Volume 3

This morning I received Communion, and as I found myself together with Jesus, the Queen Mama was also there, and – oh, marvel! – I looked at the Mother and I could see Her Heart transmuted into Baby Jesus; I looked at the Son and I could see the Mother in the Heart of the Baby.  In the meantime, I remembered that today is the Epiphany, and in the example of the Holy Magi, I was to offer something to Baby Jesus, but I saw myself as having nothing to give Him.  So, in seeing my misery, the thought came to me of offering my body as myrrh, with all the sufferings of the twelve years in which I had been in bed, ready to suffer and to remain there as much longer as He pleased; as gold, the pain I feel when He deprives me of His presence, which is the most painful and sorrowful thing for me; as incense, my poor prayers, united to those of the Queen Mama, so that they might be more pleasing to Baby Jesus.  So I made the offering with full confidence that the Baby would accept everything.

Jesus seemed to accept my poor offerings with great pleasure, but that which He enjoyed the most was the confidence with which I had offered them.  Then He said to me:  “Confidence has two arms:  with one it embraces My Humanity, and it uses My Humanity as a staircase in order to ascend to My Divinity; with the other it embraces the Divinity and draws Celestial Graces in torrents, in such a way that the soul remains all inundated within the Divine Being.  When the soul is confident, she is certain to obtain what she asks.  I let My Arms be bound, I let her do whatever she wants, I let her penetrate even into My Heart, and I let her take, by herself, that which she has asked from Me.  If I did not do so, I would feel Myself in a state of violence.”  While He was saying this, many rivulets of a liqueur (I call it ‘liqueur’, but I can’t really tell what it was) came out from the breast of the Baby and of the Mother, which inundated my soul completely.  Then the Queen Mother disappeared.

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Colleen Richards Colleen Richards

Divine Will for every day of the year - January 5, 1903 Volume 4

This morning I felt almost free of sufferings. I myself did not know what to do, when I felt I was outside of myself and I saw people from our country who, in addition to the words and the calumnies they had spoken, were plotting to come to deeds. In the meantime I saw blessed Jesus and I said: “Lord, You give too much liberty to these infernal men. Up until now it has been about infernal words, but now they want to reach the point of laying hands on your ministers. Bind them, and have compassion on them, and, at the same time, defend those who belong to You.” And He: “Daughter, this freedom is necessary in order to recognize the good and the evil. Know, however, that I am tired of man – so tired that I share it with you. In fact, when you feel that tiredness of this state of victim, and almost the will to go out of it, this comes to you from Me; and I warn you to be attentive not to put your will in, for I am looking for the will of the creature to lean on it and chastise the rebels. But, let us try – again I will make you suffer, and they will be left without strength and will not be able to do anything of what they want.” Who can say what I suffered and how many times He renewed my crucifixion! And while doing this, raising His hand toward Heaven, He told me: “My daughter, I did not make man for the earth, but for Heaven; his mind, his heart, and everything that his interior contains were to exist in Heaven. Had he done this, he would have received the influence of the Most Holy Trinity within his three powers, and It would have been copied within himself; but since he occupies himself with earth, he receives mud, rot and the whole bilge of vices that the earth contains.”

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Colleen Richards Colleen Richards

Divine Will for every day of the year - January 4, 1919 Volume 12

Continuing in my usual state, I was all afflicted because of the privation of my sweet Jesus. However, I tried to remain united with Him doing the Hours of the Passion. I was just at the hour of Jesus on the Cross when, at the summit, I felt Him in my interior, joining His hands and saying with articulate voice: “My Father, accept the sacrifice of this daughter of Mine — the pain that she feels because of My privation. Do You not see how she suffers? Pain makes her almost lifeless, deprived of Me, to the extent that, although hidden, I am forced to suffer together with her in order to give her strength; otherwise she would succumb. O please, Father, accept it, united to the pain which I suffered on the Cross, when I was abandoned even by You; and concede that the privation she feels of Me, be Light, Knowledge, Divine Life in other souls, and all that I Myself pleaded with my abandonment.”

After He said this, He hid again. I felt as if petrified for the pain, and although crying I said: “My life, Jesus – ah!, yes, give me souls. May the strongest bond that forces You to give them to me be the tormenting pain of Your privation. May this pain run within Your Will, so that all may feel the touch of my pain, my incessant cry, and may surrender.”

Then, around evening, blessed Jesus came for just a little, and added: “Daughter and refuge of Mine, what sweet harmony did your pain form today in My Will! My Will is in Heaven, and since your pain was in My Will, it harmonized in Heaven, and with its cry it asked the Sacrosanct Trinity for ‘Souls!’ And as My Will was flowing in all the Angels and Saints, your pain asked them for ‘Souls!’ — to the extent that all remained struck by your harmony, and together with your pain they all cried out before My Majesty: ‘Souls, souls!’ My Will flew in all creatures, and your pain touched all hearts, and cried out to all of them, ‘Be saved, be saved!’ My Will centralized Itself in you, and like a refulgent sun, It placed Itself on guard for all, in order to convert them. See what great good — yet, who takes the care to know the value, the incalculable price of My Volition?”

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Colleen Richards Colleen Richards

Divine Will for every day of the year - January 3, 1907 Volume 7

Continuing in my usual state, I saw blessed Jesus for just a little, and He told me: “My daughter, if one fears much, it is a sign that she relies much on herself, because in noticing nothing but weaknesses and miseries within herself, she naturally and justly fears. On the other hand, if one fears nothing, it is a sign that she relies on God, because by relying on God, her miseries and weaknesses are dissolved in God, and as she feels invested by the Divine Being, it is no longer she who operates, but God within her. So, what can she fear? Therefore, true trust reproduces Divine Life in the soul.”

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