Divine Will for every day of the year - March 23, 1910 Volume 9

As I was in my usual state, and lamenting because of His privations, He came just in passing and told me: “My daughter, I recommend that you not get out of My Will, because My Will contains such Power as to be a new Baptism for the soul — and even more than Baptism itself. In fact, while in the Sacraments there is part of My Grace, in My Will there is the whole Fullness of It. In the Baptism, the stain of original sin is removed, but passions and weaknesses remain. In My Will, since the soul destroys her own volition, she also destroys passions, weaknesses and all that is human; and she lives of the virtues, of the fortitude and of all the Divine Qualities.”

On hearing this, I said to myself: “In a little while He is going to say that His Will is greater than Communion Itself.” And He added: “Of course, of course, because the Sacramental Communion lasts a few minutes, while My Will is Perennial Communion; even more, Eternal — entering Eternity in Heaven. The Sacramental Communion is subject to some obstacles, either because of illness, or necessity, or because of those who have to administer It; while the Communion of My Will is not subject to any hindrance. If the soul only wants it, all is done. No one can prevent her from having such a Great Good which forms the happiness of the earth and of Heaven — neither demons, nor creatures, and not even My Omnipotence Itself. The soul is free; no one has any right over her at this point of My Will. This is why I push It, and I want so much that creatures take It: It is the most important thing for Me; the thing which I cherish the most. All other things do not interest Me as much, not even the holiest ones. And when I obtain that the soul live in My Will, I feel triumphant — because this is the Greatest Good which can exist in Heaven and on earth.” 

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 22, 1919 Volume 12

… Then He [Jesus] added in a more afflicted tone: “It was not so in creating man. It is true that his origin is My FIAT, but this was not enough for Me. Taken by excess of Love, I breathed on him, wanting to infuse in him My own Life. I endowed him with reason; I made him free, and I constituted him king of the whole Creation. But man, ungrateful — how did he correspond to Me? Amid all Creation, he alone has become the sorrow of My Heart, the clashing note. And then, how much could I tell you about My Crafting in the sanctification of souls? Not only one FIAT, not My Breath, do I place at their disposal, but My very Life, My Love, My Wisdom. Yet, how many rejections, how many defeats My Love receives! Ah, My daughter, compassionate My hard Sorrow, and come into My Will to substitute for the love of the whole human family, so as to soothe My pierced Heart!”

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 21, 1922 Volume 14

Continuing in my usual state, I was thinking over the Holy Divine Volition, and my always adorable Jesus clasped me in His arms, and as He sighed intensely, I felt His breath descend deep into my heart. Then He told me: “Daughter of My Will, My Omnipotent Breath gives you the Life of My Will. In fact, for one who does My Will, My Will administers to her Its Breath as life; and as It breathes upon her, It moves away from her all that does not belong to Me, and she breathes nothing but the air of My Will. And just as the air is inhaled and exhaled, the same for the soul: it is a continuous receiving of Myself and giving of herself to Me at each breath. 

“My Will hovers over all Creation — there is nothing in which My Volition does not have Its Seal. As I pronounced the FIAT in creating things, My Will took dominion over them, and became life and preservation of all things. Now, this Will of Mine wants all things to be enclosed within Itself in order to receive the return for Its own Noble and Divine Acts. It wants to see the air, the wind, the fragrance, the light of Its Volition hover over all human acts, in such a way that, as Its Acts hover together with those of the creatures, they may fuse together and form one single thing. This alone was the purpose of Creation — that the emanations of the wills be continuous. I want it, I demand it, I await it.

“This is why I am in such a haste that My Will, Its Value and Its Effects become known — so that, as the souls who live in My Will do their acts, through their continuous emanations in My Will, they will diffuse them over everything like air, and their acts will multiply in all the human acts, investing and covering everything, as acts of My Will. Then will I obtain the Purpose of Creation; My Will will rest in them and will form the new generation, and all things will have the double seal of My Will: the FIAT of Creation, and the echo of My FIAT in the creatures.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 20, 1903 Volume 5

As I was outside of myself, I saw Father all in difficulty with regard to the grace he wants; and once again, blessed Jesus with Saint Joseph were saying to him: “If you get down to work, all your difficulties will disappear, and will fall off like fish scales.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 19, 1901 Volume 4

This morning, as I was all oppressed and in suffering, much more so, because of the privation of my sweet Jesus, after much waiting, I saw Him for just a little and He told me: “My daughter, the true way of suffering is in not looking at whom the sufferings come from, or at that which one suffers, but at the good that must come from those sufferings. This was My Way of suffering. I looked neither at the executioners, nor at the suffering, but at the Good I intended to do by means of My Suffering, also for the very ones who gave Me suffering. And looking at the good that was to come to men, I disregarded everything else, and with intrepidness I followed the course of My Suffering. My daughter, this is the easiest and most profitable way to suffer — not only with patience, but with unconquered and courageous heart.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 18, 1899 Volume 2

This morning, my beloved Jesus continued to make Himself seen from within my heart, and in seeing Him a little bit more cheered, I plucked up courage, and I began to pray that He would not send so many chastisements. And Jesus told me: “What moves you, O My daughter, to pray Me not to chastise creatures?”

Immediately I answered: “Because they are Your images, and if creatures should suffer, You Yourself would suffer.” And Jesus, heaving a sigh, told me: “Charity is so dear to me, that you cannot comprehend it. Charity is simple, just like My Being which, though Immense, is yet most Simple; so much so that there is no place which It does not penetrate. So Charity is; being simple, it diffuses everywhere; it has regard for no one – whether a friend or an enemy, whether a citizen or a stranger, it loves all.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 17, 1914 Volume 11

Continuing in my usual state, my adorable Jesus continued to show Himself inside me, in such a way that I possessed all His limbs. He looked so content that, appearing unable to contain this joy, He told me: “My daughter, one who does My Will takes part in the actions ‘ad intra’ of the Divine Persons. This privilege is reserved only to one who does My Volition: to take part not only in all of Our works ‘ad extra’ but to pass from these to the works ‘ad intra’. 

"This is why it is hard for Me not to content one who lives in My Volition: being in My Will, the soul is in the intimate part of Our Heart, of Our Desires, of Our Affections and Thoughts. Her heartbeat, her breath and Ours are one. Therefore, the Joys, the Pleasures, the Glory and the Love that she gives Us are many and great — infinite in their way and nature, and in no way dissimilar to Ours, because they are Our own. Just as in Our Eternal Love, One enraptures the Other, One forms the Joy of the Other, to the extent that, many times, unable to contain this Love and these joys We come out with works ‘ad extra’; in the same way, We remain enraptured and delighted by this soul who does Our Will. Therefore, how could We render unhappy the one who makes Us so happy? How not love just as We love Ourselves — not as We love the other creatures — the one who loves Us with Our same Love?

“There are no curtains of secrets with this soul. Between Us and her there is no Ours and hers – everything is in common. We make of the soul, by grace, that which We are by nature — impeccable, etc. — so that no disparity may exist between us. And as We come out with works ‘ad extra’ — being unable to contain Our Love — in the same way, unable to contain the love of the soul who does Our Will, We make her come out from Ourselves, pointing her out to the people as our favorite one — Our beloved. Only for her and for souls similar to her, do We let goods descend upon earth, and only for love of these souls do We preserve the earth. Then, We enclose this soul within Ourselves in order to enjoy her, because just as We, the Divine Persons, are inseparable, the soul who does Our Will becomes inseparable from Us.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 16, 1902 Volume 4

Oh, how hard it is to have Him come for a little! It is a continuous heartbreak and fear that He may come no more. Oh, God, what pain! I don’t know how I live, though I live dying. 

Then He made Himself seen for a little, in a pitiful state, with one arm severed, and all afflicted He told me: “My daughter, see what creatures do to Me – how can you want Me not to chastise them?” And while saying this, He seemed to take a tall cross, the arms of which were hanging over six or seven cities; and various chastisements would occur. On seeing this, I suffered very much, and He, wanting to distract me from that pain, added: “My daughter, you suffer very much when I deprive you of My Presence. This must happen to you by necessity, because since you have been close to the Divinity for a long time, identified with It through Its contact, you have enjoyed as you pleased all the pleasure of Divine Light; and the more one has enjoyed the Light, the more he feels the privation of that Light, and the bothers, the annoyances and the pains which darkness brings with itself.” Then He repeated: “However, the most important thing for everyone, is that in each thought, word and work, one should not seek his own comfort, or the esteem and the pleasure of someone else, but the sole and only pleasure of God.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 15, 1912 Volume 11

Continuing in my usual state, I felt a great desire to do the Most Holy Will of Blessed Jesus; and He came and told me: “My daughter, My Will is the Sanctity of Sanctities. The soul who does My Will according to the perfection that I am teaching you — that is, on earth as It is in Heaven — however small, ignorant and ignored, leaves even other Saints behind in spite of their prodigies, the most clamorous conversions and the miracles. Really, in comparison, the souls who do My Will in the way It is in My third “FIAT” are queens, and it is as if all the others were at their service.

“It seems that the souls who live in My Will do nothing, while they actually do everything, because being in My Will these souls act Divinely, in a hidden and surprising way. They are light which illuminates, wind which purifies, fire which burns, miracles which cause miracles. Those who do miracles are channels; but in these souls resides the Power. Therefore, they are the foot of the missionary, the tongue of the preachers, the strength of the weak, the patience of the sick, the regime (of the superiors), the obedience of the subjects, the tolerance of the slandered, the firmness in the dangers, the heroism in the heroes, the courage in the martyrs, the sanctity in the saints, and so on with all the rest. Being in My Will, they concur with all the good that can be both in Heaven and on earth.

“This is why I can surely say that they are My true Hosts — but living Hosts, not dead ones. The accidents that form the host are not full of life, neither do they influence my Life; but the soul who lives in My Divine Will is full of life and, doing My Will, she influences and concurs with all that I do. This is why these consecrated Hosts of My Will are more dear to Me than the very sacramental Hosts, and if I have reason to exist in the sacramental Hosts, it is to form the sacramental Hosts of My Will. 

“My daughter, I take such delight in My Will that, in simply hearing talk about It, I feel overjoyed and I call the whole of Heaven to make feast. Imagine what will become of those souls who will do It: I find in them all the joys, so I give all the joys to them. Their life is the life of the Blessed. They care about, desire and yearn for two things only: My Will and Love. They need to do very little else, while in fact they do everything. The virtues themselves remain absorbed in My Will and in Love. Therefore, they have nothing to do with them, since My Will contains, possesses and absorbs all; but in a Divine manner — immense and endless. This is the life of the Blessed.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 14, 1914 Volume 11

Today I was fusing all of myself in Jesus, to the extent of feeling Jesus alive and real within me. As I was feeling Him, He said to me in such a tender and touching way that I felt my poor heart crack: “My daughter, it is too hard for Me not to content one who does My Will. As you see, I no longer have hands, feet, Heart, eyes, or mouth. I have nothing left of My Will, since you took everything — you took possession of everything. I have nothing left which is not yours. This is why deserved chastisements are not being poured upon the many and great evils which inundate the earth: because it is hard for Me not to content you. Further, how can I do that if I do not have hands? You don’t believe Me, do you? If hands were to be absolutely necessary to Me, I would be forced to steal them from you, or to convince you so that you yourself would give them to Me. How hard this is — how hard it is for Me to displease one who does my Will! I would displease Myself.”

I remained astonished at this speaking of Jesus. Not only this, but I could really see that I had the hands, the feet and the eyes of Jesus; so I said to Him: “Jesus, let me come.” And He: “Give Me a little more of life in you, and then you will come.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 13, 1899 Volume 2

This morning, beloved Jesus did not make Himself seen in the usual way, all affability and sweetness — but severe. I felt my mind in a sea of confusion, and my soul so afflicted and annihilated, especially because of the chastisements I saw in these past days. In seeing Him with that appearance I did not dare to tell Him anything; we looked at each other, but in silence. Oh God, what pain! Then, in one instant, I also saw the confessor, and Jesus, sending forth a ray of intellectual light, spoke these words: “Charity. Charity is nothing but an outpouring of the Divine Being, and this outpouring I have diffused over the whole Creation, in such a way that all Creation speaks of the love I have for man, and all Creation teaches him how He must love Me — from the largest being to the most tiny little flower in the field. 

“See”, it says to man, “with my sweet fragrance and by always facing the sky, I try to send an homage to my Creator. You too, let all your actions be fragrant, holy, pure; do not offend my Creator with the bad odor of your actions. O please, O man”, the little flower repeats to us, “don’t be so senseless as to keep your eyes fixed on the earth; but rather, raise them up to Heaven. See, up there is your destiny, your fatherland – up there is my Creator and yours who awaits you.”

The water that flows continuously before our eyes also says to us: “See, I have come out of darkness, and I must flow and run so much until I go and bury myself in the place from which I came. You too, O man, run — but run into the bosom of God, from which you came. O please! I beg you, do not run along the wrong paths, the paths which lead to the precipice; otherwise — woe to you!”

Even the wildest animals repeat to us: “See, O man, how wild you must be for all that is not God. See, when we see that someone is approaching us, with our roars we strike so much fear that no one dares to come close to us any more, to disturb our solitude. You too, when the stench of earthly things — that is, your violent passions – are about to make you muddy and fall into the abyss of sins, with the roars of your prayers and by withdrawing from the occasions in which you find yourself, you will be safe from any danger.” And so with all the other beings – it would take too long to tell them all. With one voice they resound among themselves, and repeat to us: “See, O man, our Creator made us for love of you, and we are all at your service. And you, don’t be so ungrateful – love, we beg you; love, we repeat to you; love our Creator.”

After this, my lovable Jesus told me: “This is all I want: love God and your neighbor for love of Me. See how much I have loved man – and he is so ungrateful. How could you not want me to chastise them?” At that very moment, I seemed to see a terrible hail, and an earthquake which is to cause considerable damage, to the point of destroying plants and men. Then, with all the bitterness of my soul, I said to Him: “My always lovable Jesus, why so indignant? If man is ungrateful, it is not so much because of malice, but because of weakness. Oh, if they knew You a little bit — oh, how humble and palpitating they would be! Therefore, placate Yourself. I commend to you at least Corato and those who belong to me.” As I was saying this, it seemed to me that something was to happen also in Corato, but it would be nothing compared to what would happen in other towns.

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 12, 1910 Volume 9

As I was in my usual state, blessed Jesus came just in passing and told me: “My daughter, My Will perfects love; It modifies it, It shrinks it, and It expands it into something holier and more perfect. Sometimes love would want to run away and devour everything; but My Will masters love and says: ‘Slow down, don’t run away, because by running away you can hurt yourself, and by wanting to devour everything you can be mistaken.’ Love is pure insofar as it is conformed to My Will; they walk together, and they kiss each other continuously with the kiss of peace. Other times, either because of an interior state or because in its escapes it has not succeeded as it wanted, love would want to constrain Me and almost sit down sluggishly; so My Will spurs it on and says to it: ‘Come on, true lovers are not lazy — they don’t remain idle.’ When it is enclosed in My Will — only then is love safe. So, love makes one appreciate and desire something, and it is taken by follies and by excesses; while My Will tempers and calms love itself, and nourishes the loving soul with a food more solid and Divine. Therefore, in love there can be many imperfections, even in holy things, while in My Will – never; everything is perfect. 

“My daughter, this happens especially in loving souls who have received the grace of My Visits, of My Kisses and Caresses: they remain prey to Love when I deprive them of Myself; Love takes possession of them and renders them panting, fidgety, delirious, mad, restless, impatient. So, if it wasn’t for My Will that nourishes them, calms them, strengthens them, Love would kill them. Though Love is nothing but the firstborn child of My Will, it needs always to be corrected by My Will; and I Love it as much as I love Myself.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 11, 1928 Volume 23

… After this, I was following my Divine Fiat, doing my round in It; and as I arrived at the home of Nazareth in which my lovable Jesus had conducted His Hidden Life, in order to follow His Acts, I was saying to Him:  “My Love, there is no Act You do in which my ‘I love You’ does not follow You, to ask You, by means of Your Acts, for the Kingdom of Your Will.  My ‘I love You’ follows You everywhere—in the steps You take, in the words You speak, in the wood You hammer; and while You hammer the wood, may You hammer the human will, that it may be undone, and Your Divine Will may rise again in the midst of creatures.  

“My ‘I love You’ flows in the water You drink, in the food You take, in the air You breathe, in the rivers of love that pass between You and Your Mama and Saint Joseph, in the prayers You do, in Your ardent heartbeat, in the sleep You take.  Oh! how I wish to be near You, to whisper to Your ear:  ‘I love You, I love You…. O please! let Your Kingdom come.’”

Now, while I would have wanted my “I love You” to form a circle around all the Acts of Jesus, He moved in my interior and told me:  “My daughter, all of My Hidden Life, and such a long one, was nothing other than the recall of the Kingdom of My Divine Will upon earth.  I wanted to redo within Myself all the acts that creatures were to do in It, to then hold them out to them; and I wanted to do this together with My Mama, I wanted Her always together with Me in My Hidden Life, in order to form this Kingdom.  Two people had destroyed this Kingdom of My Divine Fiat, Adam and Eve; and two more, Myself and the height of the Sovereign Queen, were to redo It.  

“So, first I took care of the Kingdom of My Divine Will, because the human will had been the first to offend Mine by withdrawing from It; all other offenses came in the second degree, as the consequence of the first act.  It is the human will that is the life or the death of the creature, her happiness or her tyranny and misfortune into which she hurls herself; her good angel that leads her to Heaven, or the one who, transforming into a demon, hurls her into hell.  All evil is in the will, as well as all good, because the will is like the fount of life placed in the creature, that can spring joys, happiness, sanctity, peace, virtue, or spurts from itself little fountains of troubles, of miseries, of sins, of wars, that destroy all goods.

“Therefore, first I took care of the Kingdom of My Will in this Hidden Life, for as long as thirty years; and then, with My short Public Life, just three years, I took care of Redemption.  And while in forming the Kingdom of My Divine Fiat, I had the Celestial Mama always near Me, in My Public Life I did without Her presence, at least corporally, because for the Kingdom of My Fiat I constituted Myself King, and the Virgin, Queen, in order to be, I first, and then She, the foundation of the Kingdom that had been destroyed by the human will.  

“See, then, how the Kingdom of My Divine Will, by necessity, by reason, and as a result, was formed with My coming upon earth in the first order; nor could I have formed the Redemption had I not satisfied My Celestial Father for the first offensive act that the creature had done against Him.  Therefore, the Kingdom of My Will is formed, there is nothing left but to make It known; and this is why I do nothing but follow with you, and hold out to you, My Acts that I did in order to form It, accompanying your acts so that the foundation of Mine may flow in them.  I am on guard so that your will may have no life, and so that Mine may be free.  In sum, I am acting as with a second mother of Mine, recalling all the acts done together with the Virgin, in order to deposit them in you.  Therefore, be attentive to follow My Will in everything.”

May everything be for the glory of God and for the fulfillment of His Most Holy Will.

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 10, 1909 Volume 9

Continuing in my usual state, I found myself outside of myself with baby Jesus in my arms, and I said to Him: “Tell me, my little pretty one, what does the Father do?” And He: “The Father forms one single thing with Me; therefore, whatever the Father does, I do.”

And I added: “And with the Saints – what do You do?” And He: “I give Myself continuously; so, I am their Life, Joy, Happiness, Immense Good, without end and without boundaries. They are filled with Me; they find everything in Me – I am everything for them, and they are all for Me.”

On hearing this, I wanted to get huffy, and I said to Him: “To the Saints You give Yourself continuously, but to me, then – so meagerly, so stingily, and at intervals, to the point of having me spend part of the day without coming. And sometimes You hold off so much that the fear comes to me that You may not even come until evening; so I live dying, but of the most cruel and ruthless death. Yet, You told me that You loved me very much.” And He: “My daughter, to you also I give Myself continuously – now personally, now by grace, now through light, and in many other ways. And then, who can deny that I love you very, very much?” …

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 9, 1919 Volume 12

As I was in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus drew me more and more into His Will. What an interminable abyss! Then He told me: “My daughter, take a look at how My Humanity swam in the Divine Volition, which you should imitate.” At that moment, a Sun seemed to appear before my mind — not so small as the one which shines on our horizon, but so great as to surpass the entire surface of the earth. Even more, one could not see where its boundaries reached; and the rays It spread, forming an enchanting harmony, went up and down, penetrating everywhere. In the center of this Sun I could see the Humanity of Our Lord, nourishing Itself from the Sun, which formed all His Life. He received everything from the Sun, and He gave everything back to It, which spread Itself like beneficial rain over the whole human family. What an enchanting sight! 

Then, my sweet Jesus added: “Have you seen how I want you? The Sun that you see is My Will, in which My Humanity was as though within Its own center. I received everything from My Will; no other food entered into Me. Not even one thought, one word or one breath entered into Me, which was nourished by a food extraneous to My Will. It was right that I gave everything back to It. So do I want you — in the Center of My Will, from which you will take the nourishment of everything. Beware of taking any other food; you would descend from your nobility, and degrade yourself, like those queens who lower themselves to taking vile and dirty foods, unworthy of them. And as you take, you must immediately return everything back to Me. Therefore, you will do nothing other than take and give to Me. In this way, you too will form an enchanting harmony between Me and you.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 7, 1922 Volume 14

I was thinking about what has been written, and I said to myself: “Is it really Jesus that speaks to me, or is it a trick of the enemy and of my fantasy?” And Jesus, on coming, told me: “My daughter, My Words are full of Truth and of Light, and they carry with them the virtue of transforming the soul into Truth itself, into Light itself, and into the very Good which they contain, in such a way that the soul does not only know the Truth, but she feels within her the substance of operating according to the Truth which she has known. Further, My Truths are full of Beauty and Attraction, in such a way that the soul, taken by their Beauty, lets herself be enraptured by them. 

“In Me everything is Order, Harmony and Beauty. See, I created the heavens; they alone could have been enough — but no, I wanted to adorn them with stars, almost studding them with Beauty, so that the human eye might enjoy more from the Works of its Creator. I created the earth, and I adorned it with many plants and flowers... I created nothing which did not have its own ornament. And if this is in the order of created things, much more so in My Truths, which reside within My Divinity. While it seems that they reach the soul, they are like solar rays, which hit and warm the earth without ever departing from the center of the Sun. And the soul remains so enamored with My Truths, that she finds it almost impossible not to put into practice the Truths she has known, even at the cost of her life.

“On the other hand, when it is the enemy or the speculation of fantasy that want to speak about truths, they bring neither light, nor substance, nor beauty, nor attraction. They are empty truths, without Life, and the soul does not feel the grace to sacrifice herself to put them into practice. Therefore, the Truths that your Jesus tells you are full of Life and of all that My Truths contain. Why do you doubt?”

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 6, 1903 Volume 4

After I had struggled very much, blessed Jesus made Himself seen within my interior, telling me: “Shall we go see whether creatures want Me?” And I: “Surely they must want You, because You are the most lovable Being. Who would have the daring of not wanting You?” And He: “Let us go, and then you will see what they do.” So we went, and as we arrived at a place in which there were many people, His Head came out from within my interior and He said those words which Pilate spoke when he showed Him to the people: “Ecce Homo” [“Here is the Man”]. I understood that the meaning of those words was to ask them whether they wanted the Lord to reign as their King, and to have dominion in their hearts, minds and works. And they answered: “Take Him away, we do not want Him; or rather, crucify Him, so that every memory of Him may be destroyed.” Oh, how many times these scenes are repeated!

So the Lord said to everyone: “Ecce Homo.” As He said it, a murmuring — a confusion arose. Some were saying: “I do not want Him as my King – I want riches”; another, “pleasure”; another, “honor”; some, “dignities”; and some, many other things. I listened to those voices with horror, and the Lord told me: “Have you seen how no one wants Me? Yet, this is nothing; let us turn to the religious class, and let us see whether they want Me.” So I found myself in the midst of Priests, Bishops, religious women and devout ones, and with sonorous voice, Jesus repeated: “Ecce Homo.” And they said: “We want Him, but we also want our comfort.” Others: “We want Him, but together with our own interest.” Others answered: “We want Him, but together with esteem and honor.” …What does a religious do with esteem? Others replied: “We want Him, but together with some satisfaction from creatures – how can one live alone and without anyone that satisfies us?” Some wanted satisfaction at least in the Sacrament of Confession, but almost no one wanted Him alone, nor was someone lacking who did not care about Jesus Christ at all. So, all afflicted, He told me: “My daughter, let us withdraw; have you seen how no one wants Me? Or at the most, they want Me together with something that pleases them. I am not content with this, because true reigning is when one reigns alone.” As He was saying this, I found myself inside myself.

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

As I was in my usual state, I found myself together with blessed Jesus, who was carrying a bundle of crosses and of thorns in His arms, all tired and weary. On seeing Him in that state, I said: “Lord, why weary Yourself so much with this bundle in your arms?” And He: “My daughter, these are the crosses of disillusion, which I keep always ready to disillusion the creatures.” As He was saying this, we found ourselves in the midst of people, and as soon as blessed Jesus would see that someone would become attached to creatures, He would take the cross of persecution from that bundle and would give it to him; and that person, seeing himself persecuted, unpopular, would be disillusioned and would comprehend that those were the creatures, and that God alone deserves to be loved. If someone would become attached to riches, He would take from that bundle the cross of poverty and would give it to him; and that person, seeing that riches had vanished away from him and he was now poor, would comprehend that everything down here is smoke, and that true riches are eternal, and so he would attach his heart to everything that is eternal. If someone else would become bound to his self-esteem, to knowledge, blessed Jesus, with all sweetness, would take the cross of slanders and of confusions and would give it to him; and that person, confused and slandered, would remove as though a mask from himself and comprehend his own nothingness, his being, and would order his whole interior in the order of God, and no longer of himself. And so on with all the other crosses.

After this, my adorable Jesus told me: “Have you seen the reason why I have this bundle of crosses in My Arms? It is My Love for creatures that forces Me to keep it, remaining in continuous attitude for them. In fact, the Cross is the Primary Disillusion and the first thing that judges the works of creatures, in such a way that if the creature surrenders, the Cross will make him avoid the judgment of God, as I am satisfied when one submits to the judgment of the Cross during his life. If then he does not surrender, he will find himself in the sphere of the second judgment at his death, and will be judged with much more severe rigor by God; more so, since he has shunned the judgment of the Cross, which is a judgment all of Love.” After this He disappeared, and I also comprehended that it is true that Jesus loves the Cross, but many times it is man himself that incites and provokes Jesus to give him the Cross. In fact, if man were ordered in the order of God, of himself and of creatures, not seeing any disorder in him, the Lord would remain at peace and would give him peace.

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 4, 1934 Volume 33

My poor intelligence is always going around in the Divine Fiat in order to meet with His Acts, uniting myself with them, to court them, love them, and be able to tell Him:  “I have the Love of Your Acts in my power, therefore I Love You as You Love me, and what You do, I do.”  

O! how beautiful it is to be able to say:  “I have disappeared in the Divine Will, and therefore Its Strength, Its Love, Its Sanctity, Its Operation, is mine; we take one single Step, we have on single Motion, and one single Love.”  

And the Divine Will, all in feast, it seems that It says:  “How content I am, I am not alone anymore, I feel in Myself one Heartbeat, one Motion, one Will that runs in Me and, fused together, never leaves Me alone, and she does what I do.”

So, while my mind was lost in the Divine Volition, I thought to myself:  “But what good are these acts of mine done in the Divine Will?  While I do not do anything, It does everything Itself, and since I am together, within It, It tells me I do what It does, and It says it with Reason, since being in It and not doing what It does is impossible because Its Power is so much, that it invests my nothingness and makes it do what the All does.  Nor can it do, nor does it know how to do, differently.”

So my sweet Jesus, surprising me with His brief little visit, told me:  “My little daughter of My Will, how Beautiful It is; the creature cannot receive greater honor than that of becoming admitted within It.  The instants, the littlest Acts done in It, embrace centuries; and since they are Divine, they are invested with such Power that what one wants to do with them—everything he can do and everything he can obtain.  The Divine Being remains bound in these Acts, because they are His Acts, and He must give them the Value that they merit.  Besides this, you must know that the Acts done in My Will form the ways that must serve souls in order to let them enter into It, and they are so very necessary that if heroic souls do not first come forth to Live in It in order to form the principal ways of Its Kingdom, the generations, not finding the ways, will not know what to do in order to enter into My Will.  …”

Divine Will for every day of the year - March 3, 1919 Volume 12

Continuing in my usual state, I was all immersed in the Divine Volition; and my always lovable Jesus came and pressed me to His Heart, telling me: “You are My firstborn Daughter of My Will. How dear and precious you are in My Eyes! I will keep you so guarded that, if in creating man I prepared a terrestrial Eden, for you I have prepared a Divine Eden. If in the terrestrial Eden the union between the first ancestors was human, and I gave them the most beautiful delights of the earth for their enjoyment, while they enjoyed Me at intervals — in the Divine Eden the union is Divine. I will make you enjoy the most beautiful Celestial Delights, and you will enjoy Me as much as you want; even more, I will be your Life, and we will share the Contentments, the Joys, the Sweetnesses and, if needed, also the Pains. The enemy had access to the terrestrial Eden, and the first sin was committed; in the Divine Eden entrance is precluded to the devil, to passions and to weaknesses. Even more, he does not want to enter, knowing that My Will would burn him more than the very fire of hell; and upon merely feeling the sensation of My Will, the enemy flees. In My Will you will give a start to the first acts in the Divine Manner — acts which are Immense, Eternal, Infinite, and embrace everything and everyone.”

And I, interrupting Jesus, said: “Jesus, my Love, the more You speak about this Divine Will, the more I become confused and fearful, and I feel such annihilation as to feel destroyed, and therefore unable to correspond to your designs.” And He, all goodness, added: “It is My Will that destroys the human in you; and instead of fearing, you should fling yourself into the Immensity of My Will. My designs upon you are high, noble and divine. The very Work of Creation – oh! how It remains behind this Work of calling you to live in the Divine Will, to live not a human, but a Divine Life. This is a greater outpouring of My Love — it is My Love constrained by creatures; and unable to contain It any longer, I pour it out in torrents upon one who loves Me. And in order to be sure that My Love is not rejected and beaten up, I call you in My Will, so that neither you nor what is Mine may remain without their full effect, and fully defended. My daughter, do not sadden the work of your Jesus with your fears, and continue the flight there where I call you.”