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Colleen Richards Colleen Richards

Divine Will for every day of the year - January 29, 1919 Volume 12

… Now, it seemed that He was saying to me: “My beloved daughter, I want to let you know the order of my Providence. Every two thousand years I have renewed the world. In the first two thousand years I renewed it with the Deluge; in the second two thousand I renewed it with My coming upon earth when I manifested My Humanity, from which, as if from many fissures, My Divinity shone forth. The good ones and the very Saints of the following two thousand years have lived from the fruits of My Humanity and, in drops, they have enjoyed My Divinity. Now we are around the third two thousand years, and there will be a third renewal. This is the reason for the general confusion: it is nothing other than the preparation of the third renewal. If in the second renewal I manifested what My Humanity did and suffered, and very little of what My Divinity was Operating, now, in this third renewal, after the earth will be purged and a great part of the current generation destroyed, I will be even more generous with creatures, and I will accomplish the renewal by manifesting what My Divinity did within My Humanity; how My Divine Will acted with My human will; how everything remained linked within Me; how I did and redid everything, and how even each thought of each creature was redone by Me, and sealed with my Divine Volition.

“My Love wants to pour Itself out; It wants to make known the excesses which My Divinity operated in My Humanity for the creatures — excesses which greatly surpass the excesses that My Humanity operated externally. This is also why I often speak to you about living in My Will, which I have not manifested to anyone until now. At the most, they have known the shadow of My Will, the grace and the sweetness of doing It. But to penetrate inside of It, to embrace immensity, to be multiplied with Me and — even while being on earth — penetrate everywhere, both into Heaven and into the hearts, laying down the human ways and acting in Divine Ways — this is not yet known; so much so that not to a few will this appear strange, and those who do not keep their minds opened to the light of the Truth will not understand a thing. But little by little I will make My way, manifesting now one truth, now another, about this living in My Will, so that they will end up understanding. …”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 28, 1934 Volume 33

… After this, I continued my acts in the Divine Volition, and my Sovereign Jesus added:  “My daughter, everything that one does in My Will remains identified with It, acquires the Unitive, Communicative, and Diffusive Strength.  And since Our Divine Acts extend to everyone—there is no creature who is set aside—so one who works in Our Volition together with Our Act extends herself to everyone, wants to do good to everyone, and remains honored and glorified to have been the Universal Bearer of Good to everyone and everything.”

And I:  “My Love, and yet one does not see in creatures the fruit of such a Universal Good, O! if everyone would receive It, how many Transformations there would be in the low world.”

And Jesus repeated:  “This means that they do not receive It with love, and their hearts are as sterile earth because they do not have the Generative Seed, therefore Our Light cannot bring fecundity.  It happens as to the sun, that even though it illuminates and warms all lands, yet if it does not find the seed in order to fecundate it, it cannot communicate its generative and productive virtue, and even though with its light and heat it has molded those lands, they have not received one good, they remained what they were in their sterility.  But with this the sun has remained honored and glorified because it has given its light to all, no one has been able to escape it, and it remains triumphant only because it has given its light in a Universal way to everyone and over everything.  

“Such are Our Works, Our Acts, only because they possess the Extendable Virtue so as to be able to give Themselves in a Universal Way to everyone and to do Good to everyone, it is the Greatest Honor and the Greatest Glory for Us.  There is no greater honor, no greater glory, than being able to say:  ‘I am the Bearer of Good to everyone; in my act I take everyone in the palm of my hand, I embrace everyone, and I have the virtue of generating Good over everyone.’  And since My Ideal is the creature, so I call her into My Will so that together with It she renders herself extendable to everyone, and knows with how much Love and how My Will Operates.”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 27, 1919 Volume 12

As I was in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus, in coming, showed me His adorable Heart, all full of wounds, from which rivers of blood gushed. All sorrowful, He told me: “My daughter, among the many wounds that My Heart contains, there are three wounds which give Me mortal pains and such bitterness of sorrow as to surpass all the other wounds together. These are the pains of My loving souls. When I see a soul, all Mine, suffering because of Me, tortured, crushed, ready to suffer for Me even the most painful death, I feel her pains as if they were Mine — and maybe even more. Ah! love can open the deepest gashes, to the extent of making one feel no other pains. 

"My dear Mama enters first into this first wound. Oh, how her Heart, pierced because of my pains, overflowed into Mine, and felt vividly all of Its piercings! In seeing her dying, without dying, because of my death, I felt the torment, the cruelness of her martyrdom in my Heart, and I felt the pains of my death which the Heart of my dear Mama felt, and my Heart died together with Hers. Therefore, all my pains, united with the pains of my Mama, surpassed everything. It was right that my Celestial Mama had the first place in my Heart, both in sorrow and in love, because each pain suffered for love of Me opened seas of graces and of love, which poured into her pierced Heart. All the souls who suffer because of Me, and only out of love, enter into this wound. You yourself enter into it; and even if all offended Me and nobody loved Me, I would find in you the love which can compensate Me for all. Therefore, when creatures drive Me away and force Me to run away from them, I very quickly come to take refuge in you as though in my hiding place; and finding my own Love, not their own, and a Love suffering only for Me, I say: ‘I do not regret having created Heaven and earth, and having suffered so much. A soul who loves Me and who suffers for Me is all my contentment, my happiness, my reward for everything I have done’. And as though putting all the rest aside, I delight and play with her.

“However, while this wound of My Heart is the most painful, such as to surpass everything, it contains two effects at the same time: it gives Me intense pain and highest joy; unspeakable bitterness and indescribable sweetness; painful death and glorious life. These are the excesses of My Love — inconceivable to created mind. In fact, how many contentments did My Heart not find in the sorrows of My pierced Mama?

“The second mortal wound of My Heart is ingratitude. With ingratitude, the creature closes My Heart; even more, she herself turns the key with double locks. My Heart swells, wanting to pour out graces and love, but It cannot, because the creature has closed It, and has sealed It with her ingratitude. And I become delirious — I agonize, without hope that this wound of Mine may be healed, because ingratitude keeps embittering it more and more, giving Me mortal pain. 

“The third one is obstinacy. What a mortal wound for My Heart! Obstinacy is the destruction of all the goods I have done for the creature; it is the signature that the creature puts on her declaration that she no longer recognizes Me – that she no longer belongs to Me. It is the key of hell into which the creature hurls herself. My Heart feels this tearing; It is torn to pieces — and I feel one of these pieces being taken away from Me. What a mortal wound obstinacy is! 

“My daughter, enter My Heart and take part in these wounds of Mine. Compassionate My tormented Heart. Let us suffer together, and let us pray.” I entered into His Heart. How painful but beautiful it was to suffer and pray with Jesus.

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 26, 1902 Volume 4

This morning, while I was in my usual state, I saw an endless light before me, and I comprehended that in that light dwelled the Most Holy Trinity. I also saw the Queen Mama before that light; She was all absorbed in the Most Holy Trinity, and She absorbed all Three Divine Persons within Herself, in such a way as to be enriched with the three prerogatives of the Sacrosanct Trinity — which are Power, Wisdom and Charity. And just as God loves mankind as part of Himself, and as a particle that came out of Him, and He ardently desires that this part of Himself return into Himself, so does the Queen Mama, by participating in this, love mankind with passionate love.

Now, while comprehending this, I saw the Confessor, and I prayed the Most Holy Virgin to intercede with the Most Holy Trinity for him. She bowed, taking my prayer to the Throne of God, and I saw that from the Divine Throne a flow of light came out, which covered the Confessor completely, and I found myself inside myself.

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 25, 1922 Volume 13

As I was in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus, on coming, told me: “My daughter, the more Truths I manifest to you, the greater variety of Beatitudes I give to you as gift. Each Truth contains within itself a distinct Beatitude, Happiness, Joy and Beauty; therefore, every additional Truth you know brings Beatitude, Happiness, Joy and Beauty into yourself, with which you are enriched. These are Divine Seeds that the soul receives; and by manifesting them to others, she communicates these Seeds and enriches whomever receives them. Now, since the Truths that one has known on earth are Divine Seeds which sprout with Beatitudes, Joy, etc., when the soul is in her Fatherland in Heaven they will be like electric wires of communication through which the Divinity will unleash from Its Womb so many Acts of Beatitude for as many Truths as one has known. Oh, how inundated the soul will be, as though by many different immense seas! She already has the Seed, and by having the Seed, she has space in which to receive these Immense Seas of Happiness, of Joy and of Beauty. One who does not have the seed — who has not known a truth while on earth — lacks the space to be able to receive these beatitudes. …”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 24, 1920 Volume 12

Continuing in my usual state, I was uniting myself with Jesus, praying Him not to leave me alone, but to come and keep me company. And He, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, if you knew how I desire, yearn for, and love the company of the creature! So much that, if in creating man I said, ‘It is not good for man to be alone, let Us make another creature similar to him, who may keep him company, so that one may form the delight of the other,’ I said these same words to My Love before creating man: ‘I do not want to be alone, but I want the creature for My company. I want to create him in order to amuse Myself with him, to share all My Contentments with him. With his company I will pour Myself out in Love.’ This is why I made him in My Likeness; and as his intelligence thinks of Me and is interested in Me, he keeps company with My Wisdom, and as My Thoughts keep company with his, we amuse ourselves together. If his gaze looks at Me and at created things in order to love Me, I feel the company of his gaze. If his tongue prays or teaches what is good, I feel the company of his voice. If his heart loves Me, I feel the company of his love; and so with all the rest. But if he does the opposite I feel lonely, and like a destitute king. But, alas!, how many leave Me alone and neglect Me!”

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Divine Will for every day of the year - January 23, 1924 Volume 16

[Luisa speaking]

“… Now, my adored Jesus has told me many times that the third Fiat is needed so that the works of Creation and Redemption may be completed.  So, how will this be done?  Who will form so many Fiats as to braid the Creating Fiat and the Redeeming Fiat?” While I was thinking of this, my lovable Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:  “My daughter, if the Supreme Majesty released so much Love toward mankind in all the things created by His Omnipotent Fiat, it was right that I, His Son, in His same Fiat, would do as many acts to requite Him for His Love, braiding His Fiat with Mine, so that another Fiat, human and Divine, might rise from the earth to exchange the kiss with His Fiat, be braided with It, and substitute for the return of love of all creatures.  Until I came upon earth, the Fiat which was spread throughout all Creation was alone; but as I came, It was no longer alone.  Indeed, My first task was that of forming as many Acts in the Eternal Fiat for as many as My Father had done in Creation.   So, with My Fiat, the Creating Fiat had Its sweet and harmonious company.

"Now, this Fiat does not want to remain in two – It wants the third Fiat, It wants to be in three, and this third Fiat it is you who will do.  This is why many times I have drawn you outside of yourself, and I have placed you within that very Creating and Redeeming Fiat – so that you might do your flight, and as you would braid your Fiat with Ours, the Creating and Redeeming Fiat might be braided by the third Fiat, your own.  The more you operate in Our Fiat, the sooner you will reach the way of Our Fiat; and just as in the Fiat of Creation many prodigious and beautiful things — the whole universe — came out of Us, and the Fiat of Redemption substituted for all the acts of creatures, taking Its lost child by the hand to lead him back into the bosom of His Celestial Father, so will the third Fiat, once It has done Its course, let Its effects be seen:  that My Will be known and loved, and take Its Dominion in order to have Its Kingdom upon earth.  Each additional act of yours which you will braid with Our Fiat, will be a human kiss that you will have Our Fiat be given, a greater bond that you will form between the Divine Will and the human will, in such a way that, placed in accord, It may have no reluctance to making Itself known and taking Its Royal Dominion.  Everything is in making Itself known – the rest will come by itself.  This is why many times I have recommended to you that you omit to write nothing of what regards My Will – because knowledge is the way, and its light serves as trumpet to call those who are listening, to make itself heard; and the more the trumpet sounds – and it sounds more for as many more knowledges as it has, to be manifested – the more people will rush up.  Knowledge takes the attitude now of pulpit, now of teacher, now of compassionate father and excessive lover; in sum, it has all the ways in its power in order to enter the hearts, to conquer them and to triumph in everything.  And the more knowledges it contains, the more ways it has in its power.”

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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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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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