Divine Will for every day of the year - September 30, 1930 Volume 28

I was continuing my usual acts in the Divine Volition, and my poor mind paused in Eden, where God created man to give origin to the life of the creature.  

And my beloved Good, Jesus, making Himself seen all tenderness and goodness, told me:  “My daughter, Eden is field of Light in which Our Supreme Being created man.  It can be said that he was created in the Light of Our Fiat; his first act of life was Light, such that, as an interminable field of Light would extend behind and before him, to the right and to the left, he was to follow his way in order to form his life, drawing into his acts as much Light for as many acts as he would do, so as to form a Light all his own, as his property by virtue of his acts, though drawn from My Divine Will.  

“Now, here is the difference of one who operates in It as his origin and end, in which all of his acts are bound to the origin of the Light where his life was formed and had its first act of life.  The Light keeps this life in custody, defends it, and lets nothing extraneous enter into its Light, so as to form one of the portents that only the Light knows how to form.  On the other hand, one who goes down from this Light enters into the dark prison of his will, and in doing his act, he draws darkness; and he draws as much darkness for as many acts as he forms, to form for himself a property all of darkness, all his own.  

“Darkness does not know how to keep or defend one who lives in it; and if one does any good act in it, it is always tenebrous, because they are bound by darkness; and since darkness does not have the virtue of being able to defend, things enter that are extraneous to darkness itself; the bothers of weaknesses enter, the enemies of passions, the fierce thieves that hurl the creature into sin and reach the point of hurling her into eternal darkness, where there is no hope of light.  What difference between one who lives in the Light of My Divine Will and one who lives as though imprisoned in his human will.” …

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

… Then, I continued to think about the Divine Will, and my beloved Jesus added:  “My daughter, the living in My Will is a Gift that We give to the creature—Great Gift that surpasses in Value, in Sanctity, in Beauty and in Happiness all other gifts, in an infinite and unreachable way.  When We give this Gift so Great, We do nothing other than open the doors to make her the possessor of Our Divine Possessions—the place in which passions, dangers, have no more life; nor can any enemy harm her or do her evil.  This Gift confirms the creature in Good, in Love, in the very Life of her Creator; and the Creator remains confirmed in the creature; therefore, the inseparability takes place between one and the other.  With this Gift the creature will feel her lot changed:  from poor to rich, from ill to perfectly healed, from unhappy, she will feel that all things change for her into happiness.  

“To live in Our Will as Gift greatly differs from doing It; the first is prize, and Our Decision to win the creature, with an invincible and irresistible force; to fill the human will with Our own in a sensible way, in a way that she will touch with her own hand, and with clarity, the great good that comes to her, such that only someone who is insane would flee from such a great good.  In fact, for as long as the soul is a pilgrim one, the doors do not close behind the Gift, but remain open, so that, freely, not being forced, she may live in Our Gift; more so, since Our Will will not give this Gift by necessity, but because It loves her, and It is fully her own.  

“On the other hand, to do Our Will is not prize, but duty and necessity, to which, willingly or unwillingly, she must submit; and the things that are done out of duty and out of necessity, if they can be shunned, are shunned, because in them does not enter the spontaneous love that makes one love and recognize Our Will as Worthy of being be loved and known.  The necessity hides Its Good that It contains, and makes one feel the weight of the sacrifice and of the duty.  On the other hand, the living in Our Will is not sacrifice, but Conquest; it is not duty, but Love.  She feels, in Our Gift, her own self dissolved within It, and she loves It not only as Our Will, but also because It is exclusively hers; and by not giving It the first place, the regime, the dominion, she would not love herself.

“Now, My daughter, this is what We want to give to creatures—Our Will as Gift, because by looking at It and possessing It as one’s own thing, it will turn out easy to let It form Its Kingdom.  This Gift was given to man in Eden, and, ungrateful, he rejected It back to Us.  But We did not change Our Will—We keep It reserved, and what one rejects, with more surprising graces We keep prepared to give It to others.  Nor do We care about the time, because centuries for Us are like one single point.  However, great preparations are needed on the part of creatures—to know the Great Good of the Gift in order to long for It.  But the time will come when Our Will will be possessed as Gift by the creature.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 28, 1928 Volume 24

… After this, I was continuing my acts in the Divine Volition, and my sweet Jesus added:  “My daughter, great graces have I given to you and, through you, to the whole world by manifesting to you so many Truths about My Divine Will.  In fact, not only are My Truths Divine Lives that My Highest Goodness puts out, bilocating this Life of Its own for as many Truths as It manifests, but each of these Lives contains a Happiness, one distinct from the other, to be communicated to creatures; and a Glory, one different from the other, that creatures can give to He who has manifested it.  

“However, these Happinesses will be communicated to creatures when they come to know these Truths.  They are like as many queens, each of whom possesses properties, vast and distinct from one another, and they are waiting for the peoples to know that these queens exist, and that they contain their properties, and yearn and want to enrich and make happy the ones because of whom they were issued from Our Divine womb.  

“And if you knew how suffocated Our Love remains, after having released so many Happinesses from Our Paternal Womb for as many Truths as We have manifested, in seeing that creatures do not enjoy these feasts, nor give Us the glory that they should give Us, because they ignore such a Great Good, and only because they do not want to occupy themselves with making known a Good and Graces so great.  This is a Sorrow for Us that you cannot comprehend; therefore, pray—pray incessantly that My Divine Will be known and Reign in the midst of creatures, so that, as Father, I may break the Bread of Happiness for My children.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 27, 1904 Volume 6

Continuing in my usual state, I saw my blessed Jesus for just a little, almost in the act of chastising the people; and as I prayed Him to placate Himself, He told me:  “My daughter, human ingratitude is horrendous.  Not only the Sacraments, Grace, the Enlightenments, the aids which I give to man, but the very natural qualities I have given him, are all lights that serve man to set him on the path of good, so that he may find his happiness.  But man, converting all this into darkness, seeks his own ruin, and while seeking his ruin he says he seeks ‘my own good.’  This is the condition of man.  Can there be blindness and ingratitude greater than these?  Daughter, the only relief and pleasure that the creature can give Me in these times is to sacrifice herself voluntarily for Me.  In fact, since My Sacrifice for them was all voluntary, wherever I find the will to sacrifice for Me, I feel as though repaid for what I did for them.  Therefore, if you want to relieve Me and give Me pleasure, sacrifice yourself voluntarily for Me.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 26, 1904 Volume 6

Then, after this, I saw blessed Jesus for just a little, and He told me:  “My daughter…” (and this, because I was thinking of how Our Lord let Himself be crowned with thorns, not once, but as many as three times; and since those thorns, broken, remained inside His head, as the crown of thorns would be driven in again the thorns which were already there would penetrate deeper.  And I said:  ‘My sweet love, why did You want to suffer this painful martyrdom as many as three times?  Was one time not enough to pay for our evil thoughts?’)  …So, making Himself seen, He said: “My daughter, not only was the crowning with thorns triple, but almost all the pains I suffered in My Passion were triple.  Triple were the three hours of agony in the garden; triple was the scourging, as they scourged Me with three different types of lashes; three times did they strip Me, and as many as three times was I condemned to death: at nighttime, early in the morning, and in broad daylight.  Triple were My falls under the Cross; triple the nails; three times did My Heart pour out blood: in the garden by Itself; in the act of the crucifixion from Its very center, when I was stretched well on the Cross — so much so that My Body was all dislocated and My Heart was smashed inside and poured out blood; and after My Death, when My Side was opened with a lance.  Triple were the three hours of Agony on the Cross.  If one wanted to ruminate on everything – oh, how many ‘triples’ he would find!  And this was not by chance, but everything was so because of Divine Disposition, to render the Glory due to the Father Complete, as well as the reparation owed to Him by creatures and the good to be earned for creatures themselves.  In fact, the greatest good that the creature has received from God was being created in His Image and Likeness, and endowed with three powers – intellect, memory and will – and there is no sin that the creature commits in which these three powers do not concur.  So, she stains and disfigures the beautiful Divine Image that she contains within herself, using the gift to offend the Giver.  And I, in order to restore this Divine Image in the creature and to give God all the Glory that the creature owed Him, concurred with all My Intellect, Memory and Will, in a special way with these ‘triples’ suffered by Me, in order to render both the Glory due to the Father and the good which was necessary for creatures complete.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 25, 1913 Volume 11

I had told my Confessor that Jesus had said to me that the Will of God is the center of the soul; that this center is in the depth of the soul, and that, spreading Its Rays like the Sun, It gives Light to the mind, Sanctity to the actions, Strength to the steps, Life to the heart, Power to the word and to everything; and not only this, but also that while this center — the Will of God — is inside of us, so that we may never escape from It, and so as to remain at our continuous disposal, never leaving us alone or separated even for a minute - at the same time, it is also in front of us, on our right, on our left, behind and everywhere, and it will be our center also in Heaven. The Confessor was saying, instead, that the Most Holy Eucharist is our center. 

Now, blessed Jesus came and told me: “My daughter, I had to do in such a way that sanctity might be easy and accessible to all - unless they did not want it - in all conditions, in all circumstances and in every place. It is true that the Most Holy Eucharist is center; but who instituted It? Who constrained My Humanity so that It might be enclosed within the little circle of a Host? Wasn’t that My Will? My Will will always have Primacy over everything. Further, if everything is in the Eucharist, the Priests who call Me from Heaven into their hands, and who are in contact with My Sacramental Flesh more than anyone should be the most saintly and the most good; instead, many are the worst. Poor Me, how they treat Me in the Holy Eucharist! And the many souls who receive Me, perhaps every day, should be many saints if the center of the Eucharist were sufficient. Instead — and it makes one want to cry — they remain always at the same point: vain, irascible, punctilious, etc. Poor center of the Most Holy Eucharist, how dishonored It remains!

“On the other hand, there might be a mother who does My Will and cannot receive Me every day because of her conditions, not because she doesn’t want to. She is patient, charitable, and carries the fragrance of My Eucharistic virtues within herself. Ah, is it perhaps the Sacrament or, rather, My Will to which she is submitted, that keeps her subdued and compensates for the Most Holy Sacrament? Even more, I tell you that the Sacraments themselves produce fruits depending on how the souls are submitted to My Will. They produce effects according to the connection that the souls have with My Volition. And if there’s no link with My Will, they may receive Communion, but they will remain on an empty stomach; they may go to Confession, but remain still dirty; they may come before My Sacramental Presence, but if our wills do not meet, I will be as if dead for them, because My Will produces all the goods and gives life even to the Sacraments only in the soul who submits herself to It. Those who do not understand this are babies in religion.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 24, 1928 Volume 24

… After this, I continued thinking:  “And why has the Lord so much interest, and He loves so much that His Holy Will be known and Reign in the midst of creatures?”  

And my sweet Jesus added:  “My daughter, because the first purpose, act and end of Creation was that Our Divine Will alone Reign; and in order for It to Reign, it is necessary to know It.  It was Our Will that entered the field of action in Creation, that imposed Itself on the ‘nothing’ with Its Creating Fiat, and created heavens, suns and many beautiful works—and also man.  And in all the works It created It placed the Seal of Its Omnipotent Fiat as the indelible sign that It would remain inside each of Its Works as ruling King inside his Kingdom.  

“So, the Purpose of Creation was not Our Power, Our Goodness, Our Justice, Our Immensity, and the like; and if all of these, Our Attributes, concurred in It, it was as consequence, not as Purpose.  And if We do not obtain the Purpose, it is for Us as if We had done nothing; and since all created things were made for man, and man for Us, here is why, by necessity of Love, by right of Justice, for the Honor and Decorum of Ourselves and of all Our Works, and as the fulfillment of Our Purpose, We want Our Divine Will to Reign in man as origin, life and end of his whole being.  

“If you knew how much My Fiat suffers in looking at man; It looks at him, and says in Its sorrow:  ‘I made him, truly, with My creative hands; he is My work, he is truly the one whom I so much delighted in creating.  Yet, I am not inside of him as in My Kingdom; he broke My Seal, and putting Me out, he destroys for Me the purpose for which I gave him life.’  

“See then, how it is of absolute necessity that My Divine Will be known and Reign; and until It does, Our most beautiful works cannot produce for man the goods that they contain; the very work of Redemption is without fulfillment.” …

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 23, 1926 Volume 20

… I was frightened, and I wanted to relieve Jesus from His affliction, so I said to Him:  “Jesus, my Life, for now let us occupy ourselves with the Kingdom of Your Will, so that You may be relieved.  I know that giving You field to let You speak about It is Your Joy, Your Feast.  Therefore, Your Acts flow with me, within mine, so that, with the Light of Your Will, more than sun, they may invest all creatures, and I may constitute myself act for each act, thought for each thought.  I will enclose everything, I will take all of their acts as though in my power, in order to do everything that they do not do for You; and in this way, You will find everything in me and Your affliction will depart from Your Heart.”  

And Jesus, condescending to my yearnings, went around together with me, and then told me:  “My daughter, what power My Will contains.  It penetrates everywhere as light, It expands, It gives Itself to each act, It multiplies Itself to Infinity.  But while It does so many things and multiplies in each thing, It remains always One, as It is, keeping all of Its Acts, without dispersing even one of them.  …”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 22, 1924 Volume 17

… And Jesus: “My daughter, living in My Will brings with itself the loss of any right of one’s own will. All the rights belong to the Divine Will, and if the soul does not lose all of her rights, it cannot be called true living in My Will; at the most, she lives resigned, conformed. In fact, living in My Will is not only that she does her action according to My Will, but that in all of the interior of the creature, she gives no place to one affection, one thought or one desire, or even one breath, in which My Will does not have Its place. Nor would My Will tolerate even one human affection of which It is not the Life; It would feel disgusted in letting the soul live in My Will with her own affections, thoughts, and other things which a human will could have without the Divine.

“And do you think it is easy that a soul would willingly lose her rights? Oh, how difficult it is! There are souls who, when they reach the point of losing all the rights over their own will, draw back and content themselves with conducting a life in the middle, because to lose her rights is the greatest sacrifice that a creature could do; but it is the one which disposes My Goodness to open the doors of My Will, giving her My Divine Rights in exchange, by letting her live in It. Therefore, be attentive, and never go out of the boundaries of My Will.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 21, 1913 Volume 11

This morning my always adorable Jesus made Himself seen with unspeakable sweetness and affability, as if He wanted to tell me something very dear to Him and very surprising for me. So, hugging me and pressing me to His Heart, He told me: “My beloved daughter, all the things that the soul does in My Will and together with Me — prayers, actions, steps, etc. — acquire My same Qualities, the same Life and the same Value. See, all the things that I did upon earth — prayers, sufferings, works — are all in action, and will remain in Eternity for the good of whoever wants them. My Work differs from the work of the creatures. Containing within Myself the Creative Power, I Speak and I Create, just as one day I spoke and created the Sun. It is as if this Sun, which is always full of light and heat that never decreases, remained in the act of receiving Continuous Creation from Me. Such was My Work on earth. Since I contain the Creative Power within Me, the Prayers, the Steps, the Works which I did, and the blood which I shed remain in Continuous Act of praying, working, walking, etc., just as the Sun is in continuous act of giving light. Therefore, My Prayers continue, My Steps are always in the Act of running after souls; and so on with the rest. Otherwise, what would be the great difference between My Work and the work of My Saints? 

“Now, My daughter, listen to a beautiful — beautiful thing, not yet understood by creatures: all the things that the soul does together with Me and in My Will are like My own things; and they remain as her own. The connection of My Will and the work done together with Me participate in My same Creative Power.” I remained ecstatic, with a joy that I could not contain, and I said: “Is all this possible, O Jesus?” And He: “Whoever does not understand this can say that he does not know Me.” And He disappeared. But I cannot say it well, and I don’t know how to explain myself better. Who can tell all that He made me understand? Rather, it seems to me that I’ve just said nonsense.

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 20, 1913 Volume 11

I was thinking about my current state - how little or nothing I suffer. And Jesus, immediately: “My daughter, everything which happens around and inside the soul - bitterness, pleasures, contrasts, deaths, privations, contentments, and other things - is nothing other than My continuous crafting in order to have My Will fulfilled and accomplished in her. When I obtain this, all is done and, consequently, all is peace. It seems that even suffering wants to stay away from that soul, in seeing that the Divine Volition is more than suffering itself, and that It replaces everything within the soul, surpassing everything. It seems that all things revere My Will. And when the soul reaches this point - of using everything in order to let Me accomplish the crafting of My Volition - once this is done, I Myself prepare her for Heaven.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 19, 1899 Volume 2

Most loving Jesus continued: “If Faith is the king, Charity is queen, and Hope is like the peacemaking mother who pacifies everything. In fact, with Faith and Charity there may be disturbance, but Hope, being bond of peace, converts everything into peace. Hope is support, Hope is refreshment; and when the soul, rising by means of Faith, sees the beauty, the sanctity and the love with which she is loved by God, and feels drawn to love Him, but in seeing her insufficiency, how little she does for God, and how she should love Him but does not, she feels discomforted, disturbed and almost does not dare to draw near God – immediately this peacemaking mother comes out, and placing herself between Faith and Charity, she begins to perform her office of peacemaker. She makes the soul peaceful again, she pushes her, raises her, gives her new strengths; and carrying her before king Faith and queen Charity, she excuses the soul, she places a new effusion of her merits before the soul, and she prays them to receive her. And Faith and Charity, with their gazes fixed only on this peacemaking mother, so tender and compassionate, receive the soul, and God forms the delight of the soul, and the soul the delight of God.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 18, 1906 Volume 7

After struggling very much, I was feeling all oppressed and almost a little disturbed, thinking about why my adorable Jesus was not coming. Then, He came in passing and told me: “My daughter, peace is light for the soul, light for her neighbor, and light for God. Therefore, a soul who is at peace is always light, and being light, she is always united to the Eternal Light from which she draws ever new light so as to be able to give light to others also. So, if you want ever new light, be at peace.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 17, 1905 Volume 6

… Then He [Jesus] added:  “Everyone can share in the merits and in the goods produced by the Sorrows of My Mother.  One who, in advance, places herself in the hands of Providence, offering herself to suffer any kind of pains, miseries, illnesses, calumnies, and everything which the Lord will dispose upon her, comes to participate in the first Sorrow of the prophecy of Simeon.  One who actually finds herself amid sufferings, and is resigned, clings more tightly to Me and does not offend Me, it is as if she were saving Me from the hands of Herod, keeping Me safe and sound within the Egypt of her heart - and she participates in the second Sorrow.  One who feels downhearted, dry and deprived of My Presence, and remains yet firm and faithful to her usual practices - even more, she takes the opportunity to love Me and to search for Me more, without tiring - comes to participate in the merits and goods which My Mother acquired when I was lost.  One who, in any circumstance she encounters, especially in seeing Me gravely offended, despised, trampled upon, tries to repair Me, to compassionate Me, and to pray for the very ones who offend Me – it is as if I encountered in that soul My own Mother who, if She could have done it, would have freed Me from My enemies; and she participates in the fourth Sorrow.  One who crucifies her senses for love of My Crucifixion, and tries to copy the virtues of My Crucifixion within herself, participates in the fifth one.  One who is in a continuous attitude of adoring, of kissing My Wounds, of repairing, of thanking etc., in the name of all mankind, it is as if she were holding Me in her arms, just as My Mother held Me when I was deposed from the Cross - and she participates in the sixth Sorrow.  One who remains in My Grace and corresponds to it, giving a place to no one else but Me within her heart, it is as if she buried Me in the center of her heart - and she participates in the seventh one.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 16, 1906 Volume 7

As the confessor told me that Monsignor did not want people to come visit me, so that I might not be distracted, I said to him: “You have given this obedience more than once, but it is never sorted out — it is done for a little while, and then things go back as before; while if you give me the obedience not to speak any more, my silence would drive everyone away.” Now, having received Communion, I said to the Lord: “If it pleases You, I would like to know how things are in Your Sight. You know the state of violence in which I find myself when I am with creatures, because with You alone I feel comfortable. I cannot understand why they want to come. I show myself rustic; I use no means to attract them, but rather, unpleasant manners. Why they want to come – I don’t know. Oh, Heavens grant that I may remain alone!”

At that moment He said to me: “My daughter, the sheer Truth, naked and simple, is the most powerful magnet to draw hearts and to dispose them to face any sacrifice for love of the Truth and of the people who reveal this truth. Who disposed the Martyrs to shed their blood? The Truth. Who gave to many other Saints the strength to conduct a pure and unblemished life in the midst of so many battles? The Truth - and a naked, simple and disinterested truth. This is why creatures want to come to you. Ah, My daughter, in these sad times, how hard it is to find someone who would manifest this naked Truth, even among the clergy, the religious, and devout people! Their speaking and operating always nurses something human, of interest or other things, and the Truth is manifested as though covered or veiled. So, the person who receives is not touched by the naked Truth, but by the interest or the other human purpose in which the Truth has been wrapped, and he does not receive the Grace and the influence which the Truth contains. This is why so many Sacraments, so many Confessions, are wasted, profaned and without fruit, even though I do not abstain from giving them Light. But they do not listen to Me, because they think to themselves that if they did so, they would lose their prestige, their being well liked, their nature would no longer find satisfaction, and they would go against their own interests. But – oh, how they deceive themselves! In fact, one who leaves everything for love of the Truth will superabound in everything more profusely than others. Therefore, as much as you can, do not neglect to manifest this naked and simple Truth – it is understood, always complying to the obedience of the one who directs you; but as the opportunity arises, manifest the Truth.”

All that regards charity I have said in a veiled manner, and since obedience had told me to write everything in detail, I had the impression as if I had not obeyed. As I asked Our Lord, He told me that it was fine as it was, because one who finds himself in those defects, would understand.

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 15, 1929 Volume 26

I was repeating my acts in the Divine Volition, to follow Its acts in all of Its works; and I thought to myself:  “Why repeat always the same acts?  What glory can I give to my Creator?”  

And my sweet Jesus, coming out from within my interior, clasped me in His arms to strengthen me, and told me:  “My daughter, the repetition of your acts in the Divine Fiat breaks Its isolation and generates company for all the acts that My Divine Will does.  So, It no longer feels alone, but has one to whom It can tell Its Pains, Its Joys, and entrust Its Secrets.  And besides, an act continuously repeated is Divine Virtue, and has the virtue of generating goods that do not exist, of reproducing them and communicating them to all.  Only a continuous act is capable of forming life and of giving life.

“Look at the sun, symbol of My Divine Will, that never leaves the creature and never tires of doing its continuous act of light.  Every day it returns to visit the earth, always giving its goods; it returns to trace the goods already given with its eye of light—and many times it does not find them.  It does not find the flower that it colored with the beauty of its tints, and perfumed by just touching it with its hands of light.  It does not find the fruit to which, pouring its own self out, it communicated its sweetness, and that it matured with its heat.  How many things the sun does not find, after it has poured its very self out with many acts, more than maternal, in order to form the most beautiful flowerings, and form so many plants, and raise so many fruits with its breath of light and of heat—because man, snatching them from the earth, has used them to nourish his life.  

“Oh! if the sun had capacity of reason and of sorrow, it would turn into tears of light and of burning fire, to cry over each thing it formed and does not find.  And, in its sorrow, it would not change its will by ceasing to communicate its goods to the earth in order to form again what was taken away from it; because, no matter how much wrong they might do to it, its nature is to always give its act of light in which all goods are present, without ever ceasing.  

“Such is My Divine Will; more than sun, It pours Its own self out over each creature, to give her continuous life.  It can be said that It invests the creatures with Its Omnipotent Breath of Light and of Love, It forms them and raises them.  And while the sun gives place to the night, My Divine Will never leaves on their own the dear births that came from It—molded, vivified, formed, raised with Its Breath and Burning Kiss of Light.  There is not one instant in which My Divine Will leaves the creature, and pouring Itself over her, does not communicate to her Its various tints of Beauty, Its infinite Sweetness, Its inextinguishable Love.  What does My Divine Will not do for her and give to her?  Everything.  Yet, It is not recognized nor loved; nor do they preserve within themselves the Goods It communicates to them.  What sorrow!  While It pours Its own self out over each creature, It does not find the Goods It communicates; and, in Its Sorrow, It continues Its Act of Light over them without ever ceasing.  So, this is why one who must live in My Fiat must have her repeated and continuous acts, so as to keep It company and soothe It in Its intense Sorrow.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 14, 1899 Volume 1

One morning – it was the day of the Exaltation of the Cross – my sweet Jesus transported me to the holy sites; and first, He told me many things about the virtue of the cross. I don’t remember all, but just a few things: “My beloved, do you want to be beautiful? The Cross will give you the most beautiful features that can possibly be found, both in Heaven and on earth; so much so, as to enamor God, who contains all beauties within Himself.” 

Jesus continued: “Do you want to be filled with immense riches — not for a short time, but for all Eternity? Well then, the Cross will administer to you all kinds of riches — from the tiniest cents, which are the little crosses, up to the greatest amounts, which are the heavier crosses. Yet, men are so greedy to earn a temporal penny, which they soon will have to leave, but do not give a thought to earning one eternal cent. And when I, having compassion for them, in seeing their carelessness for all that regards Eternity, kindly offer them the opportunity - instead of cherishing it, they get angry and offend Me. What human madness – it seems that they understand it upside down. My beloved, in the Cross are all the Triumphs, all the Victories, and the greatest Gains. You must have no aim other than the Cross, and it will be enough for you, in everything. …”

[On this date, Luisa received from Jesus the Marriage of the Cross.]

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 13, 1904 Volume 6

As I was in my usual state, after I struggled very much He made Himself seen clasped to me, holding my heart in His hands; and fixing on me, He told me:  “My daughter, when a soul has given Me her will, she is no longer free to do what she pleases, otherwise it would not be a true donation.  On the other hand, true donation is to keep one’s will sacrificed continuously to the One to whom it had already been given; and this is a martyrdom of continuous attention that the soul makes for God.  What would you say of a martyr who today offers himself to suffer any kind of pain, and tomorrow draws back?  You would say that he did not have true disposition for martyrdom, and that one day or another he will end up denying his faith.  So I say to the soul who does not let Me do what I please with her will, but now gives it to Me, and now draws it back:  ‘Daughter, you are not disposed to sacrifice and martyr yourself for Me, because true martyrdom consists in continuity.  You may call yourself resigned, conformed, but not a martyr; and one day or another you may end up withdrawing from Me, reducing everything to a child’s game.’  Therefore, be attentive, and leave Me full freedom to do with you as I best please.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 12, 1926 Volume 19

… Then, after I remained … for some time with Jesus, He told me:  “My daughter, My Humanity possesses the Kingdom of My Will, so much so, that My whole Life was dependent upon It; and by being dependent on It, I had the Intelligence of the Supreme Volition, Its Gaze, Its Breath, Its Operating, Its Steps, Its Motion and Eternal Heartbeat.  In this way I formed the Kingdom of the Supreme Fiat, Its Life and Its Goods, in My Humanity.  Do you see, then, what it means to form Its Kingdom in you?  I must transmit to you what My Humanity possesses, which will administer to you Its Thought, Its Gaze, Its Breath and everything I possess for the formation of It.  See how much I Love this Kingdom – I place My whole Life, My Pains, My Death at Its Disposal, as Its Foundation, Guard, Defense, Support.  I will leave out nothing of Myself which will not serve to maintain the Triumph and the Absolute Dominion of My Will in full vigor.  Therefore do not be surprised if you see the different stages of My age and of My Works being as though repeated in you, and you see Me now as a Child, now Young, now Crucified.  This is the Kingdom of My Will present in you, and My whole Life lines up inside and outside of you as guard and defense of My Kingdom.  Therefore, be attentive, and when some fear assails you, think that you are not alone, but that you have My whole Life as help to form this Kingdom of Mine within you; and continue your flight, constantly, in the Unity of the Supreme Light of the Divine Will.  It is there that I await you, to give you My Surprises in return - to give you My Lessons.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 11, 1922 Volume 14

Continuing in my usual state, I was abandoning all of myself in the Holy Will of my sweet Jesus, and feeling the need to rest, I said to myself: “Also my sleep in Your Will; I want nothing else but take true rest in the arms of Your Volition.” And Jesus: “Daughter, lay your rest as a mantle over all creatures so as to cover them all, because only in My Will is there True Rest. And since It envelopes everything, as you rest in My Will, you will lay yourself over all in order to impetrate True Rest for all. How beautiful it is to see a creatures of Ours resting in the arms of Our Will! But in order to find True Rest, it is necessary that she put all of her acts, her words, her love, her desires, etc., on their way within Our Will, so that, as they take their place in It, they may receive rest and I may rest in them. Only then do all works give rest when they are fulfilled; but if they are not fulfilled, they always give some concern, something to do, which renders True Rest restless.

“Now, the fulfillment of the Work of Creation was that man would do Our Will in everything. Our Will was to be the Life, the food, the crown of the creature; and since it is not yet so, the Work of Creation is not yet fulfilled, and neither can I rest in It, nor can It rest in Me. It gives Me always something to do, and I yearn for this Fulfillment and Rest. This is why I love and want so much that the way of Living in My Will be known; nor will I ever be able to say that the Works of Creation and Redemption are fulfilled if I do not have all the acts of the creature extending in My Will like a bed to give Me rest. And I — what beautiful rest shall I not give to her in seeing her coming back on the wings of Our Will with the seal of the fulfillment of Creation? My womb will be her bed.

“Therefore, there is nothing I did, which did not have as primary purpose that man take possession of My Will and I of his. This was My Primary Purpose in Creation; the same in Redemption. The Sacraments I instituted, the many graces given to My Saints, have been the seeds, the means, to let man reach this possession of My Will. …”