From the Calendar--December 14, 1928 Volume 25

After this, I was following the Divine Fiat in the Creation; I felt I wanted to make everything my own—the sun, to give Him the glory of the light and of the heat; the sea, to give Him the glory of that murmuring that never ceases….  I would like to have everything in my power, to be able to say:  “You have given me everything, and I give You everything.”  But while I was thinking of this and other things, my beloved Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:  “My daughter, how beautiful is the living in My Will—your echo reaches everywhere.  Wherever My Divine Will is present, and It is everywhere, there does your echo reach.  So, your echo resounds in the sun, in the sea, in the wind, in the air; and penetrating even into Heaven, it brings to your Creator His very glory, love and adoration.  And My Divine Will does not feel alone in all created things; It has the company of the echo of one who lives in My Divine Volition, and It feels all the love and the glory which It spread in the whole Creation being returned to It.”

From the Calendar--December 13, 1928 Volume 25

I was fusing myself in the Holy Divine Volition, and as I accompanied Its acts done in the Creation, my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:  “My daughter, all created things were created by Us with a dose of happiness, one distinct from the other; so, each created thing brings to man the kiss, the air that delights, the life of Our happiness.  But do you know who feels all the effects of Our many happinesses which are spread in the Creation descend into her interior, to the point of remaining soaked with them like a sponge?  One who lives in Our Divine Will.  Our happinesses are not foreign to her, because, since she has her taste purified by Our Fiat and not corrupted by the human will, her taste and all of her senses have the virtue of enjoying all the happinesses which are present in the created things, and We feel so much happiness and joy in seeing one who does Our Will as though sitting at the table of Our happinesses and feeding herself with as many different bites for as many as are the happinesses present in the created things.  Oh! how beautiful it is to see the creature happy.”

At that moment, Jesus kept silent, and I heard the sound of the harmonium playing in the chapel; and Jesus pricked up His ears to listen, and then He added:  “Oh! how happy I feel because this sound delights the little daughter of My Will.  And I, in hearing it, delight together with her.  Oh! how beautiful it is to be delighted together.  To make one who loves Me happy is the greatest of my happinesses.”  And I:  “Jesus, my Love, my happiness for me is You alone, all other things hold no attraction over me.” And Jesus:  “Certainly the greatest happiness for you is I, because I contain the source of all joys and happinesses; but I enjoy in giving you the small happinesses, and just as I Myself feel them and enjoy them, I want you to feel them and enjoy them together with Me.”

From the Calendar--December 12, 1917 Volume 12

Continuing in my usual state, I was fusing all of myself in the Holy Will of my sweet Jesus, and I prayed, loved and repaired.  And He said to me:  “My daughter, do you want a simile of the acts done in My Will?  Look up and you will see the sun—a circle of light, containing its limits, its shape.  But the light that comes out of this sun, from within the limits of its roundness, fills the earth and extends everywhere—not in a round shape, but wherever it finds earth, mountains, seas to illuminate and to invest with its heat; so much so, that with the majesty of its light, with the beneficial influence of its heat, and by investing everyone, the sun becomes the king of all planets, and holds supremacy over all created things.  

“Now, such are the acts done in My Will, and still more.  As the creature does her act, it is small, limited; but as it enters into My Will, it becomes immense, it invests all, it gives light and heat to all, it reigns over all, it acquires supremacy over all the other acts of creatures—it has right over all.  So, it rules, commands, conquers; yet, her act is small, but by doing it in My Will, it has undergone an incredible transformation, which not even to the Angel is it given to comprehend.  I alone can measure the just value of these acts done in My Will.  They are the triumph of My glory, the outpouring of My love, the fulfillment of My Redemption; and I feel as though repaid for the very Creation.  Therefore, always forward in My Will.”

From the Calendar--December 8, 1924 Volume 17

Luisa wrote no entries in her spiritual diary that are dated December 11. Enjoy this extra passage from December 8.

[Jesus speaking] “It is always the will that I am used to testing.  All sacrifices, even death, without the will, would nauseate Me, and would attract not even a glance of mine.  But do you want to know what the greatest prodigy was which We operated in this creature, so holy, as well as the greatest heroism of this creature, so beautiful, which no one—no one will ever be able to equal?  She began Her life with Our Will, and so did She continue it and complete it.  So, it can be said that She completed from the point at which She started, and that She started from the point at which She completed; and Our greatest prodigy was that in each one of Her thoughts, words, breaths, heartbeats, movements and steps, Our Will poured upon Her, and She offered Us the heroism of a thought, of a word, of a breath, of a heartbeat, divine and eternal, operating within Her.  This raised Her so high that what We were by nature, She was by grace.  All of Her other prerogatives, Her privileges, Her very Immaculate Conception, would have been an absolute nothing compared to this great prodigy.  Even more, this is what confirmed Her and rendered Her stable and strong during all of Her life.  My continuous Will, pouring upon Her, made Her share in the Divine Nature; and Her continuous receiving It rendered Her strong in love, strong in sorrow—distinct from everyone.  It was this Will of Ours operating in Her that drew the Word upon earth, formed the seed of the divine fecundity to be able to conceive a Man and God without human intervention, and made Her worthy to be the Mother of Her very Creator.

From the Calendar--December 10, 1933 Volume 33

I am always the tiny little ignorant one of the Supreme Being, and when the Divine Will plunges me into Its seas, I see that I just barely know the vowels, if at all, of Its Adorable Majesty.  My littleness is such that I can just barely swallow a few drops of the much that the Creator possesses.

 Then, while going around in the works of the Divine Fiat, I paused at Eden, in which I made present to myself the creation of man; and I thought to myself:  “What could be the first word that Adam spoke when he was created by God?”  And my Highest Good, Jesus, visiting me with His short little visit, all goodness, as if He Himself wanted to tell me, said to me:  “My daughter, I too feel the need to tell you what the first word was, pronounced by the lips of the first creature created by Us.  You must know that as soon as Adam felt life, motion and reason within himself, he saw His God before him and comprehended that He had formed him.  He felt within himself, in his whole being, still fresh, the impressions, the touch of His creative hands, and, grateful, in a surge of love, he pronounced his first word:  ‘I love You, my God, my Father, the Author of this, my life.’  But it was not only the word, but the breath, the heartbeat, the drops of his blood that flowed inside his veins, the motion, the whole of his being united together, repeated as though in chorus:  ‘I love You, I love You, I love You’.

“So, the first lesson that he learned from his Creator, the first word that he learned to speak, the first thought that had life within his mind, the first heartbeat that was formed in his heart, was ‘I love You, I love You…’.  He felt himself loved, and he loved.  …”

From the Calendar--December 9, 1916 Volume 11

Then, as I was worried about my hard and sad lot of having to be so very often without Him, my sweet Jesus came, and throwing one arm around my neck, told me:  “My daughter, do not increase my pains by worrying—they are already too many.  I do not expect this from you; on the contrary, I want you to make My pains, My prayers and all of Myself your own, in such a way that I may find in you another Me.  In these times I want great satisfactions, and only one who makes Me his own can give them to Me.  That which the Father found in Me—glory, delight, love, satisfactions whole and perfect, and for the good of all—I want to find in these souls, like as many other Jesuses that match Me.  These intentions you must repeat in each Hour of the Passion that you do, in each action—in everything.  If I do not find My satisfactions—ah, it is over for the world!  The scourges will pour down in torrents.  Ah, My daughter! Ah, My daughter!”  And He disappeared.

From the Calendar--December 8, 1922 Volume 15

[Jesus speaking] “But do you know what was the first act that this noble Queen did when, coming out of the maternal womb, She opened Her eyes to the light of this low world?  As She was born, the Angels sang lullabies to the Celestial Baby, and She remained enraptured; Her beautiful soul went out of Her little body, accompanied by angelic cohorts, and went around Heaven and earth, gathering all the love that God had spread throughout the whole Creation; and penetrating into the Empyreum, She came to the foot of Our throne, offered Us the requital of the love of all Creation, and pronounced Her first ‘thank You’ in the name of all.  Oh! how happy We felt in hearing the ‘thank You’ of this Little Baby Queen.  And We confirmed in Her all the graces, all the gifts, such as to make Her surpass all other creatures together.  Then, throwing Herself into Our arms, She delighted with Us, swimming in the sea of all contentments, remaining embellished with new beauty, with new light and with new love.  She pleaded once again for mankind, praying Us, with tears, to let the Eternal Word descend in order to save Her brothers.  But as She was doing this, Our Will let Her know that She should descend to the earth, and immediately She left Our contentments and joys, and departed, in order to do… what?  Our Will.  What powerful magnet Our Will was, dwelling on earth in this newborn Queen!  No longer did the earth appear alien to Us; We no longer felt like striking it, making use of Our justice.  We had the power of Our Will which, in this innocent child, restrained Our arms, smiled at Us from the earth, and turned justice into graces and sweet smile; so much so, that unable to resist this sweet enchantment, the Eternal Word hastened His course.  Oh! prodigy of My Divine Will—to You everything is due, through You everything is accomplished, and there is no greater prodigy than My Will dwelling in the creature.”

From the Calendar--December 7, 1902 Volume 4

As I was outside of myself, I found myself amid most thick darkness.  In it there were thousands of people whom that darkness rendered blind, to the point that they themselves could not understand what they were doing.  It seemed it was part of Italy and part of France.  Oh! how many errors could be seen in France—worse than those of Italy!  It seemed that they had lost their human reason, the primary endowment of man, which distinguishes him from the beasts.  But he has become worse than the beasts themselves.  Near this darkness one could see a lamp; I approached it and I found my loving Jesus, but so afflicted and indignant with those people that I trembled like a leaf, and I only said:  “Lord, placate Yourself and let me suffer by pouring your indignation upon me.” And He told me:  “How can I placate Myself if they want to exclude Me from them, as if they were not a work created by Me?  Don’t you see how France has cast Me away from herself, considering herself honored in no longer recognizing Me?  And how Italy wants to follow France, as there are some who would give their souls to the devil in order to win that point of forming the law of divorce—after they tried so many times and were left crushed and confounded?  Instead of placating Myself and pouring my indignation upon you, I suspend you from the state of victim, because after My Justice has tried several times, using all of Its power so as not to give that chastisement wanted by man himself—and in spite of this, he still wants it —t is necessary for Justice to suspend the one who holds It back, and to let the chastisement fall.”  And I:  “Lord, if You wanted to suspend me for other chastisements, I would easily have accepted, because it is right that the creature would conform to your Holy Will in everything; but to accept it for this evil most grave… my soul cannot digest this suspension.  Rather, invest me with your power and allow me to go into the midst of those people who want this.”  While saying this, I found myself with them; they seemed to be invested with diabolical forces, especially one of them, who seemed enraged.  As though wanting to turn everything upside down, I spoke and spoke, but I could barely manage to cast a few glimmers of reason into him, making known to him the error they were committing.  After this, I found myself inside myself, with sufferings extremely scarce.

From the Calendar--December 6, 1927 Volume 23

After this, I continued thinking about the Divine Will, bearer of so much good; and my sweet Jesus added:  “My daughter, my love for one who lets My Divine Fiat reign and dominate is so great, that for each act she does in It, the Divinity surrenders a divine right to the soul—that is, a right of sanctity, of light, of grace, of happiness; and with these rights It binds the soul and renders her the possessor of divine goods.  So, each additional act done in My Divine Volition is a signature that is executed by your Creator, as if He were writing for you the deed to render you the owner of his happiness, of His light, His sanctity and grace.  It happens as when a rich man loves a poor lady, who never goes out of his house; and if she goes out, it is only to visit the properties of her lord, to bring to her lord the fruits of his farms, so as to render him happy with his very goods.  The rich man looks at the poor lady, he becomes fond of her; he sees her happy in his house, but in order to be sure of her happiness, he writes a public deed of donation of his goods to the poor one who has wounded his heart, who remains always in his house, and uses his very goods to make her beloved lord happy.  So it is for one who lives in Our Divine Will.  She lives in Our house, she uses Our goods to glorify Us and make Us happy; the disparity between her and Us would cause Us pain, it would weigh upon Our paternal Heart; but since no pains or unhappinesses can enter Our Divine Volition, We act with magnanimity:  at each act of hers We place Our signature, writing the deed of donation of Our goods to make her happy and rich of Our very happiness.  This is why I repeat to you often:  ‘Be attentive, my daughter, let nothing escape you’—because each of your acts in Our Will is signatures that circulate—and divine signatures, with which it is assured that the Divine Will is yours, and that you belong to It.  Divine bonds never fail—they are eternal bonds.”

From the Calendar--December 5, 1929 Volume 25

But while my mind was wandering within the light of the Supreme Fiat, my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:  “My daughter, with the soul who lives in My Divine Will, it is more than if I made the sun descend upon earth.  What would happen then?  The night would be banished from the earth, it would always be full daylight.  And by always having contact with the sun, the earth would no longer be a dark body, but a luminous one, and it would not beg for the effects of the sun, but would receive into itself the very substance of the effects of the light, because sun and earth would live communal life and would form one single life.  What a difference is there not between the sun in the height of its sphere and the earth in its lowness?  The poor earth is subject to the night, to seasons, and to asking the sun to form the beautiful flowerings, the colors, the sweetness, the maturity of its fruits.  And the sun is not free to display all of its effects over the earth, if the earth does not lend itself to receive them; so much so, that certain points of the earth the sun does not always reach, and other points are dry and without plants.

“This is nothing other than a simile of one who does My Divine Will and lives in It and one who lives in the earth of her human volition.  The first makes descend, not only the Sun of My Divine Will into her soul, but the whole of Heaven.  Therefore, with this Sun, she possesses the perennial day, a day that never sets, because the light has the virtue of putting darkness to flight.  So, the night of passions, the night of weaknesses, of miseries, of coldnesses, of temptations, cannot be there with this Sun; and if they wanted to draw near to form the seasons in the soul, this Sun beats down Its rays and puts all nights to rushed flight, saying:  ‘I am here, and that’s enough—my seasons are seasons of light, of peace, of happiness and of perennial flowering.’  This soul is the bearer of Heaven upon earth.  On the other hand, for one who does not do My Divine Will and does not live in It, it is more nighttime than daytime in her soul; she is subject to seasons and to long rainy times, which render her always disturbed and labored; or to long droughts, in which she reaches the point of lacking the vital humors in order to love her Creator; and the very Sun of My Divine Will, because It does not live in her, is not free to give her all the good It possesses.  Do you see what it means to possess My Divine Volition?  It is to possess the source of life, of light and of all goods.  On the other hand, one who does not possess It is like the earth, which enjoys the effects of the light, and like certain lands, which are just barely illuminated, but without effects.”

From the Calendar--December 4, 1902 Volume 4

I was thinking in my mind about this obedience, saying:  “They are right in commanding me this way; besides, it is not such a great thing that the Lord would allow me to obey in the way wanted by them.  So they say:  either He should let you obey, or He should tell the reason why He wants the confessor to come to make you come round from that state.” While I was thinking of this, my adorable Jesus moved in my interior, telling me:  “My daughter, I wanted them to find the reason of My operating by themselves, because in My life, from the moment I was born up to My death, everything can be found, since the life of the whole Church is enclosed in it.  When compared to some step that can be conformed to My life, the most difficult matters are solved, the most tangled situations are unraveled, and in the most obscure and abstruse ones, such that the human mind almost becomes lost in that obscurity, one finds the clearest and brightest light.  This means that they do not have My life as the rule of their operating, otherwise they would have found the reason.  But since they have not found the reason themselves, it is necessary that I speak and manifest it.”

After this, He stood up and with empire—but so much that I became fearful—He said:  “What is the meaning of that ‘ostende te sacerdoti’ [‘show yourself to the priest’]?”  Then, becoming sweeter, He added:  “My power extended everywhere, and from any place I was I could operate the most sensational miracles; yet, in almost all My miracles I wanted to be personally present.  As for example, when I resurrected Lazarus, I went there, I had them remove the sepulchral stone, then I had him released, and then, with the empire of My voice I called him back to life.  In resurrecting the young girl, I took her by the hand with My right hand, and I called her back to life; and in many other things which are recorded in the Gospel, and which are known to all, I wanted to be there with My presence.  This teaches the way in which the priest must behave in his operating, since the future life of the Church was enclosed in mine.  And these are things that pertain to you, though in general; but your specific circumstance they will find on Calvary.  I, Priest and Victim, lifted up on the wood of the cross, wanted a priest to be present, to assist Me in that state of victim—and he was Saint John, who represented the nascent Church.  In him I saw everyone—Popes, bishops, priests and all the faithful together; and while assisting Me, He offered Me as victim for the glory of the Father and for the good outgrowth of the nascent Church.  The fact that a priest assisted Me in that state of victim did not happen by chance, but everything was a profound mystery predisposed ab æterno [from eternity] in the divine mind, intending that when I choose a soul as victim for the grave needs present in the Church, a priest must offer her to Me, assist her for Me, help her and encourage her to suffer.  If these things are understood—fine, they themselves will receive the fruit of the work they offer; just like Saint John:  how many goods did he not receive for having assisted Me on Mount Calvary?  If then they are not understood, they do nothing but put My work amid continuous contrasts, diverting My most beautiful designs.  

“In addition to this, My Wisdom is infinite, and when It sends some cross to a soul for her sanctification, It does not take that soul alone, but five, ten… as many as I please, so that not one alone, but all others together may be sanctified.  In fact, on Calvary I was not alone; in addition to having a priest, I had a Mother, I had friends and also enemies, and on seeing the prodigy of My patience, many of them believed in Me as the God I was, and were converted.  Had I been alone, would they have received these great goods?  Certainly not.”

From the Calendar--December 3, 1921 Volume 13

[Jesus speaking] “Now, you must know that the greater is the work I want to do, the more preparations are needed.  How many prophecies, how many preparations, how many centuries did not precede My Redemption?  How many symbols and figures did not anticipate the conception of My Celestial Mama?  Then, after Redemption was accomplished, I had to strengthen man in the goods of Redemption; and for this I chose the Apostles as the strengtheners of the fruits of Redemption, in which, with the Sacraments, they were to seek after the lost man and lead him to safety.  So, Redemption is salvation—it is to save man from any precipice.  This is why I told you another time that making the soul live in My Will is greater than Redemption Itself—because being saved by living a life in the middle, now falling and now standing up, is not so difficult after all.  And this was impetrated by My Redemption, because I wanted to save man at any cost; and this I entrusted to My Apostles, as depositories of the fruits of Redemption.  So, having yet to do the lesser, I left out the greater then, reserving other times for the fulfillment of My high designs.

“Now, the living in My Will is not only salvation, but is sanctity which must rise over all other sanctities, and which must carry the mark of the Sanctity of its Creator.  Therefore, minor sanctities were to come first, as cortege, bearers, messengers, preparations for this Sanctity, fully divine. …”

From the Calendar--December 2, 1899 Volume 3

And Jesus:  “Let Me hear your voice that cheers My hearing.  Let us converse together a little; I have spoken to you many times about the Cross; today, let Me hear you speak of the Cross.”

I felt all confused; I did not know what to say.  But as He sent me a ray of intellectual light, to make Him content I began to say:  “My Beloved, who can say to You what the Cross is?  Your mouth alone can speak worthily of the sublimeness of the Cross; but since You want me to speak, I will do it. 

“The Cross, suffered by You, freed me from the slavery of the devil, and espoused me to the Divinity with an indissoluble bond.  The Cross is fecund, and It gives birth to grace in me.  The Cross is Light; It disillusions me of what is temporal, and reveals to me what is eternal.  The Cross is fire, and It reduces to ashes all that is not of God, to the point of emptying my heart of the tiniest blade of grass that might be in it.  The Cross is coin of inestimable value, and if I have, O Holy Spouse, the fortune of possessing It, I will be enriched with eternal coins, to the extent of becoming the richest in Paradise, because the currency that circulates in Heaven is the Cross suffered on earth.  The Cross makes me know myself more; not only this, but It gives me the knowledge of God.  The Cross grafts all virtues in me.  The Cross is the noble pulpit of the uncreated Wisdom, that teaches me the highest, the finest and most sublime doctrines.  So, only the Cross will reveal to me the most hidden mysteries, the most secret things, the most perfect perfection, hidden to the most erudite and learned of the world.  The Cross is like beneficent water that purifies me; not only this, but It administers the nourishment to the virtues in me, It makes them grow for me, and only then does It leave me, when It brings me back to eternal life.  The Cross is like celestial dew, which preserves and embellishes for me the beautiful lily of purity.  The Cross is the nourishment of Hope.  The Cross is the beacon of the operating Faith.  The Cross is like solid wood that preserves the fire of Charity, and keeps it always ignited.  The Cross is like dry wood that dispels and puts to flight all the fumes of pride and of vainglory, and produces in the soul the humble violet of humility.  The Cross is the most powerful weapon that offends the demons, and defends me from all their claws.  So, the soul who possesses the Cross is the envy and admiration of the very Angels and Saints, and the rage and indignation of the demons.  The Cross is my Paradise on earth, in such a way that if the Paradise of the Blessed up there is of delights, the Paradise down here is of sufferings.  The Cross is the chain of most pure gold that connects me with You, my Highest Good, and forms the most intimate union that can possibly be given, to the point of making my being disappear.  And It transmutes me into You, my Beloved, to the point that I feel lost within You, and I live of your very Life.”

After I said this (I don’t know whether it is nonsense), my lovable Jesus was all delighted in listening to me, and taken by enthusiasm of love, He kissed me all over, and said to me:  “Brava, brava, my beloved—you spoke well. …”

From the Calendar--December 1, 1927 Volume 23

After this, I continued my acts in the Divine Fiat, and feeling that I was not doing them well, I prayed my Celestial Mama to come to my help, that I might be able to follow that Supreme Volition which She had loved so much, and from which She recognized having received all Her glory and the height at which She finds Herself.  But while I was thinking of this, my lovable Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:  “My daughter, all the acts of My Queen Mother, done in My Will, are all in waiting, for they want the retinue of the acts of the creature done in It.  So, in everything you do in My Volition, it is these acts that come to your help; even more, they line up around you to administer to you—some the light, some the grace, some the sanctity, and some the very act that you do, so as to have the retinue of these noble, holy and divine acts.  These acts are the outpouring of God; and as He feeds them to the creature, she is filled so much that, unable to contain them, she pours them out again and gives her divine acts to her Creator.  Therefore, they form the greatest glory which the creature can give to the One who created her. …”

From the Calendar--November 30, 1929 Volume 27

I was beginning my round in the Divine Will according to my usual way, and wanting to reorder all created intelligences in order with God, from the first to the last man that will come to earth, I was saying:  “I place my ‘I love You’ upon each thought of creature, so that, in each thought, I may ask for the dominion of the Divine Fiat over each intelligence.”  But while I was doing this, I thought to myself:  “How can I arrive at pearling each thought of creature with my ‘I love You’?’”  And my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:  “My daughter, with My Will you can do anything, and can reach anything.  Now, you must know that, before sinning, in each thought he made, in each gaze, word, work, step, heartbeat, man gave his act to God, and God gave His continued act to man.  So, his condition was of always giving to His Creator, and of always receiving.  There was such harmony between Creator and creature that, on both sides, they could not be without one giving and the other receiving, to then give his act again, be it even a thought, a gaze.  Therefore, each thought of man looked for God, and God ran to fill his thought with grace, with sanctity, with light, with life, with Divine Will.  It can be said that the smallest act of man loved and recognized the One who had given him life, and God loved him back by requiting him with His Love, and by making His Divine Will grow in each act of man, small and great.  He was incapable of receiving the Divine Life all at once—he was too narrow, and God gave It to him sip by sip, in each act he did for love of Him, taking delight in giving him always, to form His Divine Life in him.  Therefore, each thought and act of man poured into God, and God poured into him.  This was the true order of Creation:  to find His Creator in man, in each act of his, so that He might be able to give him His light and what He had established to give him.  Our Divine Will, present in Us and in him, made Itself the bearer of one and of the other, and forming the full day in him, It placed in common the goods of both.  How happy was the condition of man when Our Divine Fiat reigned in him.  It can be said that he was growing on Our paternal knees, attached to Our breast, from which he drew growth and his formation.” 

From the Calendar--November 29, 1904 Volume 6

This morning I was offering all the actions of the Humanity of Our Lord to repair for so many of our human actions, either carelessly done, without a supernatural purpose, or sinful, in order to impetrate that all creatures might do their actions with the intention of the actions of blessed Jesus and in union with them, and to fill the void of glory that the creature would give God if she did so.  While I was doing this, my adorable Jesus told me:  “My daughter, My Divinity in My Humanity descended into the deepest abyss of all human humiliations; so much so, that there was no human act, as lowly and little as it might be, which I did not divinize and sanctify.  And this, in order to give back to man doubled sovereignty—the one he lost in Creation, and the one I acquired for him in Redemption.  But man, always ungrateful and the enemy of himself, loves to be a slave rather than a sovereign.  With a means so easy—that is, with the intentions of his actions [united] to mine—he could render his actions deserving of divine merit, while he wastes them and loses the insignia of king and sovereignty over himself.”  Having said this, He disappeared, and I found myself inside myself.

From the Calendar--November 28, 1922 Volume 15

I was praying, fusing all of myself in the Most Holy Will of God, and with some doubts in my mind concerning all that my sweet Jesus keeps telling me about this Most Holy Volition.  And He, clasping me to Himself, with a light which He cast into my mind, told me:  “My daughter, My Will is beginning, means and end of every virtue; without the seed of My Will, it cannot be given the name of true virtue.  It is like the seed for the plant:  after it has sunk its roots into the ground, the deeper they are, the higher the tree becomes, which the seed contains.  So, first there is the seed; this forms the roots; the roots have the strength to make the plant sprout from under the earth; and as the roots sink into it, the branches are formed, which keep growing so high as to form a beautiful crown.  And this will form the glory of the tree which, unloading abundant fruits, will form the profit and the glory of the one who sowed the seed.

“This is the image of My Church.  The seed is My Will, in which She was born and raised.  But in order for the tree to grow, it takes time; and in order for some trees to give fruit, it takes the length of centuries—the more precious the plant is, the longer it takes.  The same for the tree of My Will which, being the most precious, the most noble and divine, the highest, needed time in order to grow and make its fruits known.  So, the Church has known the seed, and there is no sanctity without it; then She has known the branches, but it is always around this tree that She has been turning.  Now She must know the fruits in order to nourish Herself and to enjoy them; and this will be all My glory and My crown, as well as of all virtues and of the entire Church.”

From the Calendar--November 27, 1917 Volume 12

[Jesus speaking] “My daughter, all other sanctities are not exempt from waste of time and from personal interest. As for example, a soul who lives attentive to obedience in everything: there is much waste of time; that continued saying and re-saying distracts her from Me, and she mistakes the virtue for Me; and if she does not have the opportunity to take all the orders, she lives restless. Another one suffers temptations—oh! how much waste of time. She never tires of telling all her trials, and she mistakes the virtue of suffering for Me; and many times these sanctities end up in ruin. But the sanctity of living in My Will is exempt from personal interest, from waste of time; there is no danger that they might mistake the virtue for Me, because I Myself am the living in My Will.”

From the Calendar--November 26, 1929 Volume 27

[Jesus speaking} “So, you must know that this is the great difference between one who lives in Our Divine Volition and one who is resigned and, in the circumstances, does Our Divine Will: the first one, it is Divine Lives that she offers to Us by means of her acts; the other one, in operating, encloses the effects of Our Will, and We do not feel within Ourselves Our very enrapturing strength that enraptures Us in her acts, but only the effects; not the whole of Our Love, but a small particle of It; not the source of Our happiness, but its mere shadow. And from Life to effects there is such difference—just as between life and works. Who can say that a work has all the value that a life of creature can possess? Much less can the Divine Life formed by the creature in My Divine Will be compared with her works done outside of It.”

From the Calendar--November 25, 1934 Volume 33

But while my mind was wandering amid the crowd of so many thoughts about the Divine Fiat, the Celestial Sovereign, Jesus, my dear Life, surprising me, with a love more than Paternal, in act of taking me into His arms, told me: “Daughter of Mine, My daughter, if you knew My yearnings, My longing, and how I wait and wait again to see you return into My Will, you would be more attentive to come back to It more often. My love reaches the point of rendering Me restless when I don’t see you leap into My arms, that I may give you My love, My Paternal tendernesses, and receive yours. But do you know when it is that you leap into My arms? When, seeing yourself as so very little, you want to love Me and don’t know how to love Me; you tell Me an ‘I love You’, and your ‘I love You’ forms the leap in order for you to fling yourself into My arms. And since you see that your ‘I love You’ is small, brave, you take My love and you tell Me an ‘I love You’ so very big; and I enjoy that My daughter loves Me with My love, and I greatly delight in exchanging My acts with those of the creature. After all, in My Will it is not to strangers that I give, such that I would have to use one weight and one measure; but I give to My own children, therefore I let them take whatever they want. So, each time you remember to let your acts flow in My Will, be it your prayer, your pains, your ‘I love You’, your work, those are little visits that you make to your Father—for you to ask for something, and for Him to say to you: ‘Tell Me, what would you like?’ And be sure that you will always obtain more gifts and favors.”