Divine Will for every day of the year - June 10, 1904 Volume 6

Continuing in my usual state, my adorable Jesus came for just a little, all sad and sorrowful, and He told me:  “Ah, My daughter, if man knew himself, oh! how careful he would be not to become stained.  In fact, his beauty, his nobility, his strikingness are such and so great that he encompasses all the beauties and varieties of created things within himself.  And this, because all other things of nature had been created to serve man, and man was to be superior to all of them; so, in order to be superior, he had to encompass all the qualities of the other created things within himself.  Not only this, but since the other things had been created for man, and man for God alone and for His Delight, as a consequence he was not only to encompass all creation within himself, but he was to surpass it to the point of receiving the image of the Supreme Majesty within himself.  But in spite of all this, heedless of all these goods, man does nothing but dirty himself with the ugliest filth.”  And He disappeared.

I understood that it happens to us as to a poor woman, who received a garment woven with gold and enriched with gems and precious pearls.  But since she knows little about these things and does not know their value, she keeps the garment exposed to dust; she easily lets it get dirty with mud, and she holds it as she would a rough and inexpensive dress; so much so, that if it is taken away from her, she suffers little or no displeasure.  Such is our blindness with regard to ourselves.

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 9, 1929 Volume 26

… Now, while I was in this state, my sweet Jesus told me:  “My daughter, each breath is the life of the next one that follows; so much so, that as one is about to release one breath, before it is emitted completely, it calls for another breath.  So, it can be said that the breath has its life and gives life to the creature because it is continuous; they are so united and close among themselves as to be inseparable.  And so also for the beating of the heart:  one heartbeat calls for the life of the next heartbeat, and the continuous beating forms the life; so much so, that if the breathing and the beating cease, life no longer exists.  

“Such is the soul who does and lives in My Divine Will; her identification, her closeness with It, is such and so great—more than are breaths and heartbeats close among themselves.  Therefore, the acts done in My Divine Fiat are like many breaths or heartbeats that the creature does in God, in such a way that she becomes the Divine breathing, and My Fiat forms her breathing; so, it is life that they mutually exchange, to form one single life.  Therefore, the acts done in Our Divine Will are inseparable from Us, and We feel the contentment of breathing Our work, and of feeling, as Our own, the work that has come out of Us, and of letting her live in Our house—and so close to Us as to breathe her very breath.” …

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 8, 1927 Volume 22

I was following the Divine Will in Its acts, in everything It had done in the order of the whole Creation, from the beginning of the world up to the present.  But while I was doing this, I thought to myself:  “What is past is not in my power, therefore it seems a waste of time to me to go on tracing what has passed.”  

At that moment, my sweet Jesus moved in my interior, telling me:  “My daughter, for one who does My Will and lives in It, all times and all places are hers.  My Supreme Will loses nothing of what It does, and with Its own Unique Power, It does the act and It preserves it within Itself, intact and beautiful, just as It did it.  So, one who lives in My Supreme Will finds in It the order of all Its Acts, as if It were doing them at that very instant; and the soul, uniting herself with It, does what My Volition is doing.

“This is all the Delight, the Satisfaction, the Glory of My Will—that while Its Acts are Eternal, the littleness of the creature who lives in It takes Eternity in her power, and finding the Acts of her Creator as though in Act, she repeats with Him, she loves, she glorifies the endlessness of the Acts of He who created her, and so a contest of works, a contest of love and of glory is formed between them. Therefore, the times of Creation are at her disposal, as well as the place of the terrestrial Eden; she has the times of My Incarnation, of My Passion, and Bethlehem, Nazareth and Calvary are not far from her.  Past, distance, do not exist for her, but everything is present and near. …

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 7, 1917 Volume 12

Finding myself in my usual state, I was lamenting to my sweet Jesus because of His privations, and I said to Him: “What a bitter separation! Separated from You — everything is over. I have remained as the most unhappy creature that can exist.” And Jesus, interrupting me, told me: “My daughter, what separation are you talking about? Only then is the soul separated from Me, when she lets enter into herself something that does not belong to Me. Therefore, I enter into the soul, and if I find her will, her desires, her affections, her thoughts, her heart – everything as My own, I absorb her in Me, and I keep melting her will with Mine, with the Fire of My Love, making them one. I melt her desires with Mine, her affections and thoughts with Mine; and once I have formed one single liquid, I pour it over My whole Humanity like a Celestial Dew, which is made of as many drops of Dew for as many offenses as I receive – and they kiss Me, love Me, repair Me, and balm My Embittered Wounds. And since I am in the act of doing good to all, this dew descends for the good of all creatures. 

“But if I find something extraneous in the soul, which does not belong to Me, I cannot melt what is hers into mine, because Love alone has the virtue of melting and becoming one. Only similar things can mix together and have the same value. Therefore, if there is iron, thorns or stones in the soul - how can they melt? And then there are separations, unhappinesses. 

“So, if nothing has entered into your heart, how can I separate from you?”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 6, 1904 Volume 6

Continuing in my usual state, He made Himself seen for a little from within my interior - first Himself alone, and then all Three Divine Persons, but They were all in profound silence.  I continued my usual interior work in Their Presence, and it seemed that the Son would unite with me and I would do nothing but follow Him.  But everything was silence, and in this silence I would do nothing but identify myself with God, and my whole interior, my affections, heartbeats, desires, breaths, would become profound adorations to the Supreme Majesty.  Then, after spending some time in this state, it seemed that all Three of Them were speaking, though one single voice was formed, and They said to me:  “Our beloved daughter, courage, fidelity and greatest attention in following what the Divinity Operates in you, because everything you do, it is not you who does it, for you do nothing other than give the Divinity your soul as residence.  It happens to you as to a poor woman who had a little hovel, and the king asks for it as his residence, and she gives it to him and does everything the king wants.  So, since the king resides in that little hovel, it contains riches, nobility, glory and all goods.  But to whom do they belong?  To the king; and if the king wants to leave, what remains to the poor one?  She is left always with her poverty.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 5, 1931 Volume 29

“… Therefore, it is useless to hope for friends when the poor creature finds herself under the nightmare of humiliations, scorns and calumnies.  So, one must make friends when Heaven smiles at us and fortune would want to put us on a throne, if we want that the good, the works that are wanted, may have life and continuation in other creatures.  By My making friends when I was sowing miracles and triumphs—such that they reached the point of believing that I was to be their King on earth, and therefore, having been My disciples, they were to occupy the first places before Me—even though they abandoned Me in My Passion, when My Resurrection sounded My full Triumph, the Apostles changed their mind, they reunited among themselves and, as triumphers, they followed My Doctrine, My Life, and formed the nascent Church.  Had I paid attention to the fact that they would run away from Me, not making them My disciples in the time of My Triumphs, I would not have had anyone who would speak of Me after My death, who would make Me known.  Therefore, the good times, the glory, are necessary, and it is also necessary to receive piercing nails and to have patience in suffering them, in order to have the materials in My greatest Works, so that they may have life in the midst of creatures. …”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 4, 1918 Volume 12

Continuing in my usual state, I was saying to my beloved Jesus: “Do not disdain my prayers. It is Your own Words that I am repeating, Your own Intentions — souls that I want, just as You want them, and with Your own Will.” And blessed Jesus told me: “My daughter, when I hear you repeat My Words, My Prayers, wanting as I want, I feel drawn toward you, as though from many magnets. And as I hear you repeat My Words, My Heart feels many distinct joys, and I can say that it is a feast for Me. And while I enjoy it, I feel debilitated by the love of your soul, and I have no strength to strike the creatures. I feel in you the same chains which I put on the Father in order to reconcile mankind. Ah! yes, repeat what I did — repeat it always, if you want that your Jesus, in the midst of so many bitternesses, may find one joy from the creatures.” …

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 3, 1925 Volume 17

“…Ah, My daughter, with all Redemption and the work of Sanctification, Sanctity in man is incomplete, and for others it is almost useless. Now, I say this: if man does not turn back in order to take My Will as life, as rule and as food, to be purified, ennobled, divinized, to place himself in the Prime Act of Creation, and take My Will as his inheritance, assigned to him by God – the very Works of Redemption and of Sanctification will not have their abundant effects. So, everything is in My Will – if man takes It, he takes everything. It is one single point, which embraces and encloses the goods of Redemption and of Sanctification; even more, for one who lives in My Will, after he has taken the prime point of creation, all these goods serve not as remedy, as for those who do not do My Will, but as glory and as special inheritance, carried upon earth by the Will of the Celestial Father, in the Person of the Word. …”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 2, 1910 Volume 9

As I was feeling very bad and as if everything was over, I was lamenting to Jesus about this total abandonment by Him, and Jesus told me: “My daughter, these are divine ways – to die and to rise again continuously. See, nature itself is subject to these deaths and to these risings: the flower is born and dies - but to rise again more beautiful; while if it never died, it would grow old, it would lose the liveliness of its complexion, the fragrance of its scent… And here is also the simile with my Being, which is ever old and ever new. The seed is sowed under the earth, as though buried so as to make it die; and in fact it dies, to the point of being pulverized, but then it rises again, more beautiful – even more, multiplied; and so with all the rest. If this happens in the natural order, much more in the spiritual order must the soul be subject to these deaths and to these risings, such that while it seems that she has triumphed over everything and abounds in fervor, in graces, in union with Me, in virtues, and that she has acquired as many new lives in everything, I hide Myself and it seems that everything dies around her. I give strokes of a true master, helping to make everything die for her; and when it appears to Me that everything has died for her, like sun, I come out – I unveil Myself, and with Me everything rises again, more beautiful, more vigorous, more faithful, more grateful, more humble, in such a way that, if there was anything human, death has destroyed it, making everything rise again to new life.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 1, 1924 Volume 16

This morning I found myself outside of myself, and I saw my last late Confessor, surrounded by many people who were all attentive and as though enraptured in listening to him; and he talked and talked, and was so inflamed as to inflame others. I drew near to listen to what he was saying, and to my surprise, I heard that he was saying all that blessed Jesus had told me – His finesses of Love, the many condescensions of Jesus toward me. And when he spoke about the stratagems of Love of Jesus toward me, he radiated Light, to the extent of remaining transfused within that Light; and not only himself, but also those who were listening to him. I remained surprised, and I said to myself: “The Confessor did not do it only in life – telling the things of my soul to others – but he is doing it also after his death, in the other life…” And I waited for him to finish speaking, in order to approach him and tell him about some of my difficulties; but he would not finish, and I found myself inside myself.

Then, according to my usual way, I followed my beloved Jesus in His Passion, satisfying Him, repairing Him, and making His pains my own. And Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, how much great good the memory of Me and of all that I did, suffered and said in My Life, procures for the soul! By compassionating Me and making My Intentions her own, and by remembering, one by one, My Pains, My Works, My Words, she calls them into herself and places them in nice order within her soul, in such a way as to come to take the Fruits of all I did, suffered and said. This produces a sort of Divine Humidity within the soul, in which the Sun of My Grace delights in rising and in forming a Celestial Dew, by virtue of that Humidity. And this dew does not only embellish the soul in a marvelous way, but It has the virtue of mitigating the rays of the burning Sun of My Divine Justice, when, finding souls burned up by the fire of sin, It is about to strike them, burn them and wither them more and more. By mitigating Its rays, this Divine Dew uses them to form a beneficial Dew, in order to prevent them from striking the creatures, and it becomes vital Humidity so as not to let them wither. Oh, how this symbolizes nature when, after a day of burning sun, the plants are about to wither; and a humid night is enough, because, rising again upon that humidity, the sun forms its dew, and instead of making them die, its heat serves to fecundate them and to complete the maturation of their fruits. 

“This happens more surprisingly in the supernatural order. The memory is the beginning of every good. The memory forms many sips for the soul in order to give her life. When good, when things are forgotten, they lose the vital virtue for the soul; they lose their attractiveness, gratitude, correspondence, esteem, love, value. And this memory does not only produce the origin of every good in life, but also after death, it produces the origin of Glory. Have you not heard your late Confessor – how he delighted in speaking about the graces I have given you? This is because during his life he cared about hearing them, he remembered them, and his interior remained filled with them as to overflow outside. And now, how much good did this not procure for him in the other life? It is for him like a fount of Good which overflows for the good of others. Therefore, the more the soul remembers all that belongs to Me, My Graces, the Lessons I have given her, the more the fount of My Goods grows within her, to the point that, unable to contain them, they overflow for the good of others.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - May 31, 1936 Volume 34

“… O! how My Public Life symbolizes the Triumph of the Kingdom of My Fiat in the midst of creatures that, with surprising Truths, I will make known. And in order to have the intent, I will make Miracles and Prodigies. With the Power of My Volition I will Recall to Life those dead to grace. I will repeat the Miracle of the Resurrection of Lazarus, that, even though they have putrefied in evil, rendering stinking cadavers like Lazarus, My Fiat will Recall them to Life, It will stop the stench of sin, It will make them Rise Again in Good.  In sum, I will use all My Divine Industries in order to let My Volition Dominate in the midst of the people. See, therefore, in My every Word that I said and in every Miracle that I did, I Called My Will to Reign in their midst, and I Called the people to Live in It.  

“From the Public Life I passed to the Passion, symbol of the Passion of My Will that, for so many centuries, had Suffered so many rebellious wills of the creature, that by not wanting to submit themselves to It, they had closed Heaven, broken the communications with their Creator, and they were rendered unhappy slaves of the infernal enemy. My lacerated Humanity sought death.  Crucified, It represented before the Divine Justice the unhappy humanity without My Volition.  And in every suffering I Called My Fiat to give the Kiss of Peace with creatures in order to render them Happy.  And I Called them into It in order to make the Sorrowful Passion of My Will cease.

“Finally, Death, that matured My Resurrection, that called everyone to Rise Again in My Divine Fiat. And O! how My Resurrection vividly symbolized the Kingdom of My Will. My Humanity wounded, deformed, unrecognizable, Rose Again Healthy, with an Enchanting Beauty, Glorious and Triumphant.  It prepared the Triumph, the Glory to My Will, Calling everyone into It, and impetrating that everyone would Rise Again in My Volition, from the dead to the Living, from ugly to Beautiful, from unhappy to Happy. My Arisen Humanity assures the Kingdom of My Will on earth. It was My Unique Act full of Triumph and Victory, and this was befitting to Me because I did not want to depart for Heaven if first I had not given all the Helps to the creatures, in order to let them reenter into the Kingdom of My Volition, and all the Glory, the Honor, the Triumph, to My Supreme Fiat, in order to let It Dominate and Reign. Therefore unite yourself with Me and let it be that there is no act that you do, and suffering that you suffer, that you do not call My Will to take Its Royal and Dominating Place, and as Victor, Conquer everything in order to make It known, loved and wanted by everyone.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - May 30, 1905 Volume 6

Continuing in my usual state, I was saying:  ‘Lord, what do You want from me?  Manifest your Holy Will to me.’  And He:  “My daughter, I want you all in Me, so that I may find everything in you.  Just as all creatures had life in My Humanity and I satisfied for all, in the same way, by being all in Me, you will make Me find all creatures in you; that is to say, united with Me, you will make Me find reparation for all, satisfaction, thanksgiving, praise and everything that the creatures are obliged to give Me, within yourself.  In addition to Divine Life and human life, Love administered a third life to Me, which made all the lives of creatures germinate within My Humanity.  This is the Life of Love which, while giving Me life, gave Me continuous death; it beat Me and fortified Me, it humiliated Me and raised Me, it embittered Me and sweetened Me, it tormented Me and gave Me delights.  What does this Life of Love not contain – untiring and ever ready for everything?  Everything, everything can be found in it; its Life is ever New and Eternal.  Oh, how I wish to find this Life of Love in you, so as to have you always in Me, and to find everything in you.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - May 29, 1923 Volume 15

I was accompanying my sweet Jesus in His pains, especially in what He suffered in the Garden of Gethsemani; and while I compassionated Him, moving in my interior, He told me:  “My daughter, the first one to form the crafting of My Pains in my Humanity was My Celestial Father, because He alone had the Strength and the Power to create pain and to place in it as many degrees of pain as were needed in order to be satisfied for the debt of creatures.  Creatures were secondary, because they had no power over Me, nor the ability to create pain as intense as they wanted.

“The same happens in all creatures:  in creating man, the first crafting, both in the soul and in the body, was done by My Divine Father.  How much harmony, how much happiness did He not form with His own hands in the human nature?  Everything is harmony and happiness in man.  The mere external part — how many harmonies and happinesses does it not contain?  The eyes can see, the mouth can express, the feet can walk, the hands can operate and take things where the feet have reached.  But if the eyes could see, but man did not have the mouth to express himself; or if he had feet to walk but no hands to operate – would there not be unhappiness and disharmony in the human nature?  And then, the harmonies and happinesses of the human soul — the will, the intellect, the memory – how many harmonies and happinesses do they not contain?  It is enough to say that they are part of the Happiness and Harmony of the Eternal One.  God created His true personal Eden in the soul and in the body of man – an Eden all Celestial; and then He gave him the terrestrial Eden as residence.  Everything was harmony and happiness in the human nature, and even though sin upset this harmony and happiness, it did not completely destroy all the good which God had created in man.

“So, just as God created with His own hands all the happiness and harmony in the creature, He created all possible pains in Me, to be repaid for the human ingratitude, and to make the lost happiness come out from the sea of My Pains, as well as the accord for the upset harmony.  And this happens to all creatures:  when I must choose them for a distinct sanctity or for My special designs, it is My own hands that work in the soul, and I create in it now suffering, now love, now the knowledge of Celestial Truths.  My Jealousy is such that I want no one to touch her; and if I allow creatures to do something to her, it is always in the secondary order; but I Myself have Primacy, and I keep forming her according to My Design.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - May 28, 1929 Volume 26

… So, while I was in this state, my beloved Jesus told me:  “Daughter of My Will, if you knew what Love I feel when I decide to speak to you about My Divine Fiat…. Every time I have spoken to you about It, the Heavens have lowered themselves, so great was the esteem and the veneration they felt; and paying homage to what I would be about to say, and lowering themselves, they would overflow from the Celestial Fatherland and would all come to attention to listen to Me; and while I would speak, they would feel within themselves New Creations of Divine Lives, New Joys, New Beauties.  

“In fact, when it comes to speaking to you about more knowledges on My Divine Fiat, the whole of Heaven feels the Power of It, and they compete among themselves to listen, and to receive the New Effects of those Knowledges.  So, it has been the Feast of all Heaven, every time I have spoken to you about My Most Holy Will, because It has felt Its Happiness being doubled, and only Heaven could contain all the Admirable Effects, the Pure Joys, of even just one Knowledge of My Fiat.  Only in this way could I speak to you about It—with the Heavens lowered, so as to receive their reverent acts and the homages due to My Divine Will. …”

Divine Will for every day of the year - May 27, 1922 Volume 14

I was thinking to myself: “If one act done in His Will is so great, how many of them, alas, do I let escape!” And my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, there is the prevenient act and the actual act. The prevenient act is when the soul, at the first rising of the day, fixes her will in Mine, and decides and confirms that she wants to live and operate only in My Volition. She anticipates all of her acts and makes them all flow in My Will. With the prevenient will, My Sun rises, My Life remains duplicated in all of her acts, as though in one single act; and this makes up for the actual act. However, the prevenient act can be shaded — obscured by the human ways, by one’s own will, by self-esteem, by negligence and other things, which are like clouds before the Sun, that render its light less vivid on the face of the earth.

“On the other hand, the actual act is not subject to clouds; on the contrary, it has the virtue of dispelling the clouds, if there are any, and it makes many more suns rise, in which My Life is duplicated, with such vividness of light and heat as to form as many New Suns, one more beautiful than the other. However, both of them are necessary: the prevenient act gives the hand, disposes and forms the plane for the actual act; the actual act preserves and expands the plane of the prevenient.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - May 26, 1927 Volume 21

… After this, I was thinking to myself:  “Jesus loves His Will so much, and it seems that He so much yearns for It to be known, so that It may dominate and reign.  But it seems difficult to me that the Divine Will may be known, because there is no one who occupies himself with It, nor is anyone interested.  All the interest is of Jesus, but in creatures it does not exist.  So, if these creatures neglect to give this great glory to God as well as to hold out the Fullness of All Goods to creatures, how can the Kingdom of the Eternal Fiat ever become known?”

Now, while I was thinking of this, my sweet Jesus moved in my interior and told me:  “My daughter, what seems difficult to you is not difficult for God, just as in Redemption there were no difficulties for God, nor could all the human perfidy hinder the course of Our Love, and even less the fulfillment of Our Decision to come to redeem mankind.  When the Divinity decides to do an act, to accomplish a work, whatever the causes, the circumstances, the impediments might be, It Triumphs of everything, It Conquers everything, and It does what It has established.  

“So, the culminating and important point for God is in establishing what He wants to do; once He has done this, He has done everything.  Therefore, if in Us it is established that Our Will must be known and that Its Kingdom will come upon earth, it is as though already done.  …”

Divine Will for every day of the year - May 25, 1923 Volume 15

I felt as though immersed in the Eternal Volition, and my always lovable Jesus, drawing me to Himself, transported me outside of myself, showing me Heaven and earth.  And as He was showing me this, He told me:  “Beloved daughter of Our Supreme Will, see, this whole machine of the universe – heavens, sun, seas, and all the rest – was created by Us to give it as a gift - but do you know to whom?  To the ones who would do Our Will.  Everything was given to them as to Our legitimate children.  We did this for the decorum of Our Works, depositing them and giving them as Gift, not to foreign people or to illegitimate children, who would not understand the great Goods contained in them, nor appreciate the Greatness and the Sanctity of Our works – on the contrary, they would waste them and despise them; but by giving them to Our legitimate children.  And since each created thing contains a distinct Love and a special Good for the one to whom the gift is directed, Our Will, dwelling in them and forming Its very Life in them, would make them comprehend all these Loves, distinct among themselves, which are present in the whole creation, as well as all the specialties of Goods.  So, they would requite Us for each distinct Love, and would give Us glory and honor for all the Goods given to them.  Our Will, which had created them with one Fiat, and which knew all the Secrets — dwelling in Our legitimate children, with another Fiat would reveal Our Secrets contained in all created things, and would make them give Us love for Love.  Harmonies and communications would be mutual between them and Us.  And even though it seems that those who do not do Our Will enjoy and take part in them, the gifts are not theirs – they do so as an indirect cause, as usurpers and illegitimate children.  More so, since My Will does not dwell in them, and therefore they understand nothing or very little of My Love which all creation brings to them, and of the great goods present in it.  Even more, many don’t even know Who created so many things — true foreign people who, while living of the things that belong to Me, don’t even want to recognize Me.

“So, this great Gift of the whole universe was delivered by My Celestial Father to My Humanity, as to a true legitimate Son, and there was nothing for which I did not requite Him — Gift for Gift, Love for Love.  Then came My Celestial Mother, who was able to requite Her Creator so well.  And then, the children of My Will have come, whom My Will was to legitimize as Its true children.  This is why all Creation exults with Joy, makes Feast and Smiles when, as I draw you outside of yourself, together with Me it recognizes the legitimate daughter of the Supreme Will – its true owner.  All created things would want to run up onto your lap and around you, not only to make feast for you, but to be appreciated, defended, and considered as Gifts of their Creator; and they all compete to give you, each one of them, distinct Love and the gift which each created thing contains.  Some want to give you the Gift of the Beauty of your Creator and the Love that Beauty contains; some, the Gift of Power and the Love that Power contains; some, the Gift of Wisdom, some of Goodness, some of Sanctity, some of Light, some of Purity, as well as the distinct loves contained in Wisdom, Goodness, Sanctity, Light, Purity, etc.  

“So, My Will knocks down all the barriers that exist between the soul and God; It places her in Harmony between Heaven and earth; It reveals all Secrets contained in the whole Creation, and It renders her the depository of all the Gifts of God.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - May 24, 1919 Volume 12

I was feeling very oppressed and afflicted because of the privation of my sweet Jesus, and I was telling Him with all my heart: ‘Come, my Life; without You I feel I am dying - but not to die once, rather, die continuously! Come, I cannot take any more, I cannot take any more!’ My sweet Jesus moved in my interior, and I felt Him kissing my heart intensely. Then, unveiling Himself, He told me: “My daughter, I felt an irresistible need to pour Myself out with you in love.” And I, immediately: “Jesus, how much You make me suffer! The privation of You kills me. All other pains would be nothing, or rather, smiles and kisses of Yours; but your privation is death without pity. Ah, Jesus! Jesus, how You have changed!” And He, interrupting me, told me: “Daughter of My Love, you do not want to convince yourself that I look at the world through you; and since I dwell in you, you are forced to feel what the world sends Me — hardness, darkness, sins, fury of My Justice, etc. Therefore, instead of thinking of My privation, you must think of defending Me from the evils that creatures send Me, and of breaking the fury of My Justice. So I will remain sheltered within you, and creatures will be struck less.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - May 23, 1899 Volume 2

This time my adorable Jesus wanted to play a little bit. He would come, He would show He wanted to listen to me, but as I would begin to speak, He would disappear from me like a flash. Oh, God, what pain! While my heart was swimming in this most bitter pain of Jesus’s distance, and it was also almost a little restless, Jesus came back again, telling me: “What is it? What is it? More peaceful, more calm. Speak, speak, what do you want?” But the moment I spoke, He disappeared.

I did as much as I could to calm myself, but – no, after a while my heart returned to being unable to give itself peace, without its only and sole comfort; and maybe more than before. Coming back again, Jesus told me: “My daughter, sweetness has the virtue of making things change their nature; it knows well how to convert bitter into sweet. Therefore, more sweet, more sweet!” But He gave me no time to say a word. This is how I spent the morning.

After this, I felt I was outside of myself, together with Jesus. There were many people; some aspired to riches, some to honor, some to glory, and some even to sanctity, and many other things – but not for God, but rather, to be considered someone by creatures. Turning to them, shaking His head, Jesus said: “Foolish you are – you are working your own net to entangle yourselves.”

Then, turning to me, He told me: “My daughter, this is why the first thing I recommend is detachment from all things, and also from oneself. When the soul has detached herself from everything, she has no need to struggle in order to stay away from all the things of the earth which, by themselves, come around her. But rather, in seeing themselves ignored, and even more, despised, saying good-bye to her, they take leave of her to bother her no more.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - May 22, 1912 Volume 11

Finding myself in my usual state, blessed Jesus came for a little while, and since I was feeling a certain discontent in me, He told me: “My daughter, true Love is not subject to discontent; rather, it takes the opportunity to turn these same discontents into the most beautiful contentments by virtue of Love. Further, since I am the Contentment of contentments, I cannot tolerate any discontent, any more than if it were My own rather than hers. So I am forced to give her that thing which makes her happy in order to have her all conformed with Me; otherwise there would be some clashing and dissimilar fibers, heartbeats or thoughts which would make us lose the best of our harmony. I cannot tolerate all this in the one who really loves Me.

“Moreover, true Love operates for love, and for love it does not operate; it asks for love, and it gives for love. Therefore, true Love ends all in love; for love it dies and for love it rises again.”

And I: “Jesus, it seems that You want to escape me with this talking, but know that I am not giving up. For now, surrender to me for love; do for me an act of love and surrender to all that is so necessary to me, and to which I am so constrained by love. After all, I give everything to You. Otherwise I will be discontent.”

And Jesus: “You want to win through discontents.” He smiled and disappeared.