Divine Will for every day of the year - October 2, 1906 Volume 7

Having received Communion, I felt I was outside of myself and I saw a person who was very oppressed by various crosses, and blessed Jesus was saying: “Tell her that in the act in which she feels as though dogged by persecutions, by punctures, by sufferings, she should think that I am present with her, and that whatever she suffers she can use to heal and medicate My Wounds. So, her sufferings will serve to medicate now My Side, now My Head, now My Hands and Feet, which are too much in pain and embittered by the grave offenses that creatures give Me. This is a great honor that I give her, by giving her, Myself, the medicine to medicate My Wounds, and by also giving her the merit of charity for having medicated Me.”

While He was saying this, I saw many purging souls who, on hearing this, all amazed, said: “Fortunate are all of you to receive so many sublime teachings – that you acquire the merits to medicate a God, which surpass all other merits in merit — and your glory will be distinct from the others, as is Heaven from the earth. Oh, if only we had received these teachings — that our sufferings could serve to medicate a God — how many riches we would acquire, which now we do not have!”

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 1, 1925 Volume 18

“…Do you see, then, My daughter?  The soul who lives in My Will is in the center of My Humanity, and everything I did and suffered is all around her, and for her help.  If she is weak, it administers to her My Strength; if shaded, My Blood washes her and embellishes her; My Prayers sustain her; My Arms hold her tightly and cover her with My Works.  In sum, everything is for her defense and help.  This is why the thought of My Pains is as though natural in you – because, since you live in My Will, they surround you like many clouds of light and of grace.  Within the sphere of My Humanity, My Will placed My Works, My Steps, My Words, My Blood, My Wounds, My Pains, and everything I did, as though on the way, in order to call man and give him sufficient aids and means to save him and to make him come back again into the womb of My Will.  If My Will had wanted to enter the field on Its own in order to call man, he would have been frightened.  Instead, I wanted to call him with everything I did and suffered, like many enticements, pushes, encouragements and means, to make him return into My Arms.  So, everything I did and suffered is the carrier of man to God.  Now, one who lives in My Will, by living in the center of My Humanity, takes all the fruits of everything I did and suffered, and enters the order of Creation; and My Will fulfills in him the Full Purpose for which he was created.  Others, then, who do not live in My Will, find the means to be saved, but do not enjoy all the fruits of Creation and of Redemption.”…

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

[Jesus speaking]

“…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. ….”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 28, 1921 Volume 13

…After this, since I had heard someone speak about humility and I am convinced that this virtue does not exist in me, nor do I ever think about it, when my sweet Jesus came I told Him of my concern, and He said to me: “My daughter, do not fear. I raised you in the sea; and one who lives in the sea doesn’t know much about earth. If one wanted to ask the fish what the earth is like, what its fruits, plants and flowers are like; if they had reason they would answer: ‘We were born in the sea - we live in the sea. The water feeds us; and while others would be drowned in it, we dart and receive life from it. While water would freeze the blood in the veins of other beings, to us it gives warmth. The sea is everything for us; it serves us as room, as bed — we stroll in it; we are the only fortunate beings which don’t need to tire themselves in order to find food. Whatever we want is at our disposal. Therefore, we can tell you about the sea, but not about the earth. Water is all we need — in it we find everything.’ But if, instead, one asked the same to the birds, these would answer: ‘We know plants, the heights of the trees, flowers and fruits...’ They would tell of how much they toil in order to find a seed to be nourished, or a hiding place to be sheltered from cold or rain.

“The simile of the sea is for one who lives in My Will; the simile of the earth is for one who walks along the path of virtues. Therefore, since you live in the sea of My Will, it is no wonder that My Will alone is enough for you in everything. If water serves and does different offices for the fish — food, warmth, bed, room, and everything — much more so can my Will do it, in a more admirable way. Even more, in My Will virtues are at the most heroic and Divine degree. My Will absorbs everything and melts everything within Itself; and the soul remains absorbed in My Will — she feeds herself with It, in It she walks, she knows My Will alone, and My Will is enough for her in everything. One can say that, among all, she is the only fortunate one who does not need to beg for bread — no; but the water of My Will inundates her above and below, to the right and to the left. If she wants food, she eats; if she wants strength, she finds it; if she wants to sleep, she finds the softest bed to rest. Everything is ready, at her disposal.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 27, 1938 Volume 36

“…I can say that everything I said regarding My Will is like a New Creation—more Beautiful, more various, more Majestic than the Creation that everybody sees.  O! how this visible Creation remains behind It.  As it is impossible for men to destroy or suffocate the light of the sun, to stop the impetuosity of the wind or the air that everybody breathes, or to make of everything a pile of ruins—in the same way, they cannot suffocate, much less, destroy what I have said.  This is a New, Speaking Creation, and each Truth carries the Seal of Our Divine Life.  So, in the Truth I have Manifested to you there are Speaking Suns, Speaking and Overwhelming winds in My Will—to the extent of besieging the creature with the Empire of Its Power.  In these Truths there exist My various Beauties that will enrapture the creatures; the Seas of Love by which they will be continuously inundated and that will win all hearts to Love Me with their sweet murmuring.  In these Truths I placed all the possible imaginable Goods:  Love that Conquers, enraptures, sweetens and shakes.  Nothing is missing to Dominate the creature and to make My Will descend with decorum and Majesty, together with the army of My Truths—to make It Reign among them.  And the creature won’t be given the chance to shut out this New Creation of Mine.  I will know how to guard It and defend It.  

“Moreover, My daughter, this New Creation costs Me the Work, not of six days, but of fifty years and more.  How could I ever permit It to be repressed—not to have Its Life, or to come to Light?  This would be as if I had not enough Power, which cannot be.  I will know how to protect them.  Not single a Word will be touched or destroyed—it costs Me too much; and when things cost a lot, all the means, all the arts are used—even one’s own life—in order to obtain the purpose.  Therefore let Me accomplish the job of this New Creation and do not worry about what they say or do.  These are the usual human volubilities:  at one wind’s blow they see black, at another blow they take off the bandage and see white.  I will know how to take over everyone and unleash the aggressive army of My Truths to Dominate the creature.  It takes Patience from My side and from your side; so, without moving, let’s go forward.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 26, 1926 Volume 29

…And Jesus, resuming His speaking, added:  “My daughter, wherever My Will is present, everything is sanctity, everything is love, everything is prayer.  So, since Its fount is in you, your thoughts, your gazes, your words, your heartbeat and also your movements—everything is love and prayers.  It is not the form of the words that forms prayer—no; it is My operating Will that, dominating all of your being, makes of your thoughts, words, gazes, heartbeats and movements as many little fountains, that spring from the Supreme Will; and rising up to Heaven, in their mute language, some pray, some love, some adore, some bless.  

“In sum, My Will makes the soul do what is holy—what belongs to the Divine Being.  Therefore, the soul who possesses the Supreme Will as life is the true heaven that, be it even mute, narrates the Glory of God and announces itself as the work of His Creative Hands.  How beautiful it is to see the soul in whom My Will Reigns!  As she thinks, looks, speaks, palpitates, breathes, moves, she forms the stars to adorn her heaven, to narrate more the Glory of He who created her.  My Will embraces everything as though in one breath, and lets nothing of all that is good and holy escape the soul.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 25, 1914 Volume 11

I was offering my poor prayers to blessed Jesus, and I was thinking to myself to whom it would be better for blessed Jesus to apply them. Kindly, He told me: “My daughter, the prayers done with Me and with my Will can be given to all, without excluding anybody. All receive their part and their effects, as if those prayers had been offered for one single person. However, they operate according to the dispositions of the creatures. I give Communion or My Passion to all and to each one, but the effects are produced according to their dispositions; and if ten people receive It, the fruit is not inferior to the case in which only five had received It. Such is the prayer done together with Me and with My Will.”

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, 1906 Volume 7

As I was in my usual state, blessed Jesus came for a little while, and embracing me wholly, He told me: “My beloved daughter, operating for Christ and in Christ makes the human work disappear completely, because by operating in Christ, since Christ is fire, He consumes the human work, and after He has consumed the human work, His fire makes it rise again into a Divine Work. Therefore, operate always together with Me, as if we were both doing the same thing together; if you suffer, suffer as if you were suffering together with Me; if you pray, if you work, do everything in Me and with Me. In this way you will lose the human works completely and will find them again as divine. Oh, how many Immense Riches creatures could acquire, but they do not avail themselves of them.” …

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

I continue: while I was writing what is written above, I saw my sweet Jesus placing His mouth at the point of my heart, and feeding me the words I was writing. At the same time, I heard a horrible din from afar, as if people were beating each other, and roaring with such clamor as to strike fear. And I, turning to my Jesus, said to Him: “My Jesus, my Love, who is making all this din? They sound like furious demons. What is the matter, that they rage so much?”

And Jesus: “My daughter, it really is them. They would want you not to write about My Will, and when they see you write more important truths on living in My Will, they suffer a double hell and they torment the damned even more. They fear so much that these writings on My Will be manifested because they see that they lose their kingdom upon earth, which they acquired when man, withdrawing from the Divine Will, gave free step to his own human will… Ah, yes, it was exactly then that the enemy acquired his kingdom on earth; and if My Will Reigns upon earth, My enemy, by himself, will shut himself up into the deepest abysses. This is why they wrestle with so much fury: they feel the power of My Will in these writings, and at the mere thought that they may be manifested, they fly into a rage and try anything they can in order to hamper a good so great. You, however, do not pay attention to them, and learn from this to appreciate my teachings.” …

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, 1926 Volume 20

…Then, after this, I was doing my usual acts in the Supreme Will, and since the day was almost dawning, I was saying:  “My Jesus, my Love, the day is now beginning, and in Your Will I want to go around through all creatures, so that, in rising from their sleep, they may all rise in Your Will, to give You the adoration of all intelligences, the love of all hearts, the rising of all their works and of all their beings into the light that this day will make shine over all generations.”  

While I was saying this and other things, my sweet Jesus moved in my interior, and told me:  “My daughter, in My Will there are neither days nor nights, nor dawns nor sunsets, but one is Its day—always in the fullness of Its light.  And one who lives in It can say:  ‘There are no nights for me, but it is always daylight; therefore, one is my day.’  And as she operates in order to do My Will and to carry out her life in It, she forms as many more lights, most refulgent, within the day of her life, that render more glorious and more beautiful the day of My Will in which they live.  

“Do you know for whom day and night, dawn and sunset, are formed?  For one who now does My Will, now her own.  If she does Mine, she forms the day; if she does her own, she forms the night.  One who lives fully in It forms the fullness of the day.  One who does not live fully in It, but does My Will only with strain, forms the dawn.  One who laments about what It disposes and wants to withdraw, forms the sunset.  And for one who does not do My Will at all, it is always perennial nighttime—the beginning of that eternal night of hell that will never end.”

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

[Luisa writing]

…Oh, holy Hope, how admirable you are! I imagine seeing the soul who is possessed by this beautiful Hope, like a noble wayfarer, who walks in order to go and take possession of a land that will make his whole fortune. But since he is unknown and he journeys through lands which are not his, some deride him, some insult him, some strip him of his clothes, and some reach the point of beating him and even of threatening to kill him. And the noble wayfarer – what does he do in all these trials? Will he be disturbed? Ah, no – never! On the contrary, he will deride those who do all this to him, and knowing with certainty that the more he suffers, the more he will be honored and glorified when he comes to take possession of his land, he himself teases the people into tormenting him more. But he is always tranquil, he enjoys the most perfect peace; and what is more, while in the midst of these insults, he remains so calm, that while the others are all alert around him, he keeps sleeping in the bosom of his longed-for God. Who administers so much peace and so much firmness to this wayfarer in continuing the journey he has undertaken? Certainly Hope in the eternal goods that will be his; and since they are his, he will surpass everything in order to take possession of them. Now, by thinking that they are his own, he comes to love them – and here is how Hope gives rise to Charity. …

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 18, 1924 Volume 17

“…My daughter, the living in My Will is the living that is closest to the blessed of Heaven. It is so distant from one who is simply conformed to My Will and does It, faithfully executing Its orders — as much as Heaven is distant from the earth, as much as the distance between a son and a servant, and between a king and a subject. Moreover, this is a Gift which I want to give in these times, so sad — that they may not only do My Will, but possess It. Am I perhaps not free to give whatever I want, when I want, and to whom I want? Isn’t a master free to say to his servant: ‘Live in my house, eat, take, command as another myself”? And so that nobody may prevent him from possessing his goods, he legitimizes this servant as his own son, and gives him the right to possess. If a rich man can do so, much more can I do it.

“This living in my Will is the Greatest Gift I want to give to the creatures. My Goodness wants to show off more and more love toward creatures, and since I gave them everything, I want to give them the Gift of My Will, so that in possessing It, they may appreciate and love the Great Good they possess.

“And don’t be surprised if you see that they do not understand. In order to understand, they would have to dispose themselves to the greatest of sacrifices – that of not giving life, even in holy things, to their own will. Then would they feel the possession of Mine, and would touch with their own hands what it means to live in My Will. You, however, be attentive, and do not be bothered by the difficulties they raise; little by little I will make My way, to make them understand the living in My Will.”

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

…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.” …

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 15, 1901 Volume 4

This morning my adorable Jesus came all glorious, with His Wounds more refulgent than suns, and with a Cross in His hand. In the meantime I also saw a wheel with four sections of it leaning out, while it seemed that another section shunned the light and remained in the dark. In this darkening the people remained as though abandoned by God, and bloody wars would happen against the Church and against themselves. Ah, it seemed that the things said by blessed Jesus in the past are approaching at a fast pace! Now, on seeing all this, moved to compassion, Our Lord drew near the dark part, and He cast the Cross He had in His hand upon it, saying with sonorous voice: “Glory to the Cross!” And it seemed that that Cross would call back the light, and the peoples, stirring themselves, would implore help and aid. Jesus repeated: “All the glory and triumph will be of the Cross, otherwise the remedies will make the very evils worse. Therefore, the Cross, the Cross!” Who can say how afflicted I was left, and concerned for what might happen?

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

“My beloved, the Cross allows one to distinguish the reprobates from the predestined. Just as on the day of judgment, the good will rejoice upon seeing the Cross, so even now it can be seen whether one will be saved or lost. If, as the Cross presents itself to the soul, she embraces it, carries it with resignation and patience, kissing and thanking that hand which is sending it – here is the sign that she is saved. If, on the contrary, as the Cross is presented to her, she gets irritated, despises it, and even reaches the point of offending Me – you can say that that’s a sign that the soul is heading on the way to hell. So will the reprobates do on the day of judgment: upon seeing the Cross, they will grieve and curse. The Cross tells everything; the Cross is a book that, without deception and in clear notes, tells you and allows you to distinguish the saint from the sinner, the perfect from the imperfect, the fervent from the lukewarm. The Cross communicates such light to the soul that, even now, it allows one to distinguish not only the good from the evil, but also those who are to be more or less glorious in Heaven – those who are to occupy a higher or a lower place. All other virtues remain humble and reverent before the virtue of the cross, and grafting themselves to it, they receive greater glory and splendor.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - September 13, 1919 Volume 12

My bitternesses grow, and I do nothing but lament to my always lovable Jesus, telling Him: “Pity, my Love, pity! Don’t you see how I have reduced myself? I feel that I no longer have life, nor desires, affections or love; all of my interior is as though dead. Ah, Jesus, where in me is the fruit of Your many Teachings?” While I was saying this, I felt my sweet Jesus near me, binding me over and over with strong chains. And He told me: “My daughter, the surest sign and the seal of My Teachings within you is that you feel nothing of your own. And then, isn’t the living in My Will exactly this — to dissolve oneself in Me? How can you go searching for your desires, affections and other things, if you have dissolved them in My Will? My Will is Immense, and it takes too much to find them. And in order to live in Me, it is better to live no longer from your own life; otherwise you show that you are not happy to live from My Life, and to be completely dissolved in Me.”