From the Calendar--August 1, 1923 Volume 16

… my adorable Jesus came, all goodness, and showing me His opened Heart, told me: “My daughter, place your head upon My Heart and rest, for you are very tired. Then, we will wander around together in order to show you My 'I love you’s,’ spread over the whole of creation for you.”

So I hugged Him, placing my head on His Heart to rest, as I felt extreme need of it. After a while, as I was still outside of myself, but always clinging to His Heart, He added, “My daughter, I want you, who are the firstborn daughter of My supreme Will to know how the whole creation, on the wings of My eternal Volition, brings My ‘I love you’ to the creatures; and the creatures, on the same wings of My Will, making It their own, should give Me their ‘I love You’ in return.

“Look at the blue heaven: there is not one point in it without the seal of My ‘I love you’ for the creature. Every star and the glittering that forms its crown, is studded with My ‘I love you’s.’ Each ray of the sun, stretching toward the earth to bring light, and every drop of light, carry My ‘I love you.’ And since the light invades the earth, and man sees it, and walks over it, My ‘I love you’ reaches him in his eyes, in his mouth, in his hands, and lays itself under his feet. The murmuring of the sea murmurs, ‘I love you, I love you, I love you,’ and the drops of water are as many keys that, murmuring among themselves, form the most beautiful harmonies of My infinite ‘I love you.’ The plants, the leaves, the flowers, the fruits, have My ‘I love you’ impressed in them. The whole of creation brings to man My repeated ‘I love you’s.’

“And man—how many of My ‘I love you’s’ does he not have impressed in his whole being? His thoughts are sealed by My ‘I love you;’ the beating of his heart, that beats in his chest with that mysterious ‘tic, tic, tic…,” is My ‘I love you,’ never interrupted, that says to him: ‘I love you, I love you, I love you…’ His words are followed by My ‘I love you;’ his movements, his steps and all the rest, contain My ‘I love you’… Yet in the midst of so many waves of love, he is unable to rise to return My love. What ingratitude! How grieved does My love remain!

“Therefore, My daughter, I chose you as daughter of My Will, so that, as faithful daughter, you might defend the rights of you Father.

“My love absolutely wants the return of the love of the creature. In My Will you will find all My ‘I love you’s,’ and following them, you will impress your ‘I love You’ in Mine, for you and for all! Oh, how happy I will be in seeing the love of the creature fused with Mine! This is why I give you My Will in your power—so that one creature may return to Me that love which I gave in creation, defending the rights of My Love.”