From the Calendar--March 1, 1925 Volume 17

[Jesus speaking] “But do you know what true light is?  True light is the truth.  The truth, known, embraced, loved and put into practice by the soul, is the true light, which transforms her into light itself, and causes new and continuous births of light to be placed inside and outside of her.  This truth forms the true Life of God within the soul, because God is truth, and the soul is bound to the truth—even more, she possesses it.  God is light, and she is bound to the light, and is nourished with light and with truth.  However, while I nourish the soul with truth and with light, she must keep the current of her will opened, in order to receive the current of the divine communication.  Otherwise, it can happen as with the electric current, to which its own electrical characteristics are not enough—the light is lacking, the preparations are needed in order to receive it.  And, still, the light does not reach everyone equally, but according to the light bulbs they have:  those who have one, receive one light; those who have ten, receive light for ten.  And if the light bulbs contain more electric filaments, the lamps appear as more full of light; if they have less filaments, even though there is room inside the glass, the light is small.  And even if the place where the current comes from can give more light, one does not receive it, because the strength of the electricity in order to receive it is lacking in the light bulbs. Therefore, it takes the celestial current which wants to give, as well as the human current in order to receive it; and according to your operating, you will add more filaments to render more complete the light which I want to enclose within you.” 

From the Calendar--February 28, 1899 Volume 2

Volume 2 was actually Luisa’s first written volume. She was later directed to write her earlier spiritual memories, which have now become known as Volume 1.

This passage is from Luisa’s very first writing, on the very first day.

Purity of intention.

While He [Jesus] was saying this, I don’t know how, I saw the confessor near Jesus; and the Lord told him:  “See, everything you do passes into Heaven.  Therefore, see with what purity you must operate, thinking that all your steps, words and works come before My presence, and if they are pure—that is, if they are done for Me—I take greatest delight in them and I feel them around Me like many messengers that remind Me continuously of you.  But if they are done for low and earthly purposes, I feel bothered by them.”  And as He was saying this, He seemed to take his hands, and lifting them up to Heaven, He said to him:  “Your eye always on high; you belong to Heaven—operate for Heaven.”

While I was seeing the confessor, and Jesus saying this to him, in my mind it seemed to me that if one operated in that way, it would happen as when a person has to move out of one house to go to another.  What does he do?  First he sends all his things and everything he possesses, and then he goes himself.  In the same way, we first send our works to take a place for us in Heaven, and then, when our time comes, we go ourselves.  Oh! what a beautiful cortege they will make for us!

From the Calendar--February 27, 1919 Volume 12

[Jesus speaking] “Oh! what a free outpouring My love will have.  I will have free field in everything—no more hindrance; as many tabernacles as I want, so many will I have.  The hosts will be innumerable; at each instant we will communicate each other, together; and I too will cry out:  ‘Freedom! Freedom!  Come all into My Will, and you will enjoy true freedom!’  Outside of My Will, how many hindrances does the soul not find; but in My Will she is free.  I leave her free to love Me as she wants; even more, I tell her:  ‘Lay down your human guises—take the divine.  I am not stingy and jealous of My goods; I want you to take everything.  Love Me immensely; take—take all My love, make it your own; My power, My beauty—make it your own.  The more you take, the happier your Jesus will be.’  The earth forms few tabernacles for Me; the hosts are almost numbered.  And then, the sacrileges, the irreverences that they do to Me—oh! how offended and hindered is My love.  In My Will, instead, no hindrance—there is not a shadow of offense; and the creature gives Me love, divine reparations and complete correspondence; and she substitutes together with Me for all the evils of the human family.  Be attentive, and do not move from the point at which I call you and want you.”

From the Calendar--February 26, 1900 Volume 3

After going through several days of privation—at most, He came a few times like a shadow, and He ran away—I felt such pain that I consumed myself with tears.  Having compassion for my sorrow, blessed Jesus came, and He looked and looked at me again; and then He said to me:  “My daughter, do not fear for I do not leave you.  However, when you are without My presence I do not want you to lose heart, but rather, from today on, when you are without Me, I want you to take My Will and to delight in It, loving Me and glorifying Me in My Will, and holding My Will as if It were My very Person.  By doing so, you will hold Me in your own hands.  What forms the beatitude of Paradise?  Certainly My Divinity.  Now, what would form the beatitude of My dear ones on earth?  With certainty, My Will.  My Will can never escape you; you will always have It in your possession, and if you remain in the circle of My Will, there you will experience the joys most ineffable and the pleasures most pure.  By never going out of the circle of My Will, the soul becomes noble, divinized, and all of her operations reverberate in the center of the Divine Sun, just as the sun’s rays reverberate on the surface of the earth—not one of them goes out of their center, which is God.  The soul who does My Will is alone the noble queen who nourishes herself from My breath, because she takes her food and her drink from no place but My Will, and by nourishing herself of My Will all Holy, a most pure blood will flow in her veins, and her breath will spread a fragrant perfume, which will cheer the whole of Me, because it is produced by My very breath.  Therefore, I want nothing else from you but that you form your beatitude in the circle of My Will, without ever going out of It, not even for a brief instant.”

From the Calendar--February 25, 1928 Volume 23

[Jesus speaking] “… It wants to form Its Kingdom on earth, It wants to have Its chosen and faithful people; and therefore, even though It is present in the midst of creatures and lives unknown and suffocated, It does not stop, It does not depart for Its celestial regions, but persists in remaining in their midst to make Itself known.  It would want to make everyone know the good It wants to do, Its celestial laws, Its insuperable love, Its heartbeat that palpitates light, sanctity, love, gifts, peace, happiness; and such does It want the children of Its Kingdom.  And this is the reason for Its life in you, for Its knowledges—to make known what Divine Will means.  And I enjoy and remain hidden in My very Will, to give It all the field and the carrying out of Its life in you.”

From the Calendar--February 24, 1912 Volume 11

After I saw various souls around Jesus, especially one who was more sensitive, Jesus told me:  “My daughter, if the souls with sensitive temperament start doing good, they make more progress than the others, because their sensitivity leads them to arduous and great enterprises.”  I prayed that He would take what was left of her human sensitivity away from that soul, and that He would clasp her more closely to Himself and tell her that He loved her, for He would conquer her completely, as she would hear that He loved her.  “You will see that You will succeed.  Have You not conquered me in this way, telling me that You loved me very, very much?”  And Jesus:  “Yes, yes, I will do it, but I want her cooperation—that she escape as much as she can from the people who excite her sensitivity.”   

So I added:  “My Love, tell me, what about my temperament—what is it?”  And Jesus:  “One who lives in My Will loses her temperament and acquires Mine.  So, in the soul who lives in My Will one finds a pleasant, attractive, penetrating, dignified temperament, and simple at the same time—of a child-like simplicity; in sum, she looks like Me in everything.  Even more, she keeps her temperament within her power as she wants and as is needed.  Since she lives in My Will, she takes part in My power, so she has all things, and herself, at her disposal, and according to the circumstances and the people she deals with, she takes My temperament and applies it.”

From the Calendar--February 23, 1903 Volume 4

As I was outside of myself, I found myself near a garden which seemed to be the Church.  Near it there seemed to be people plotting an attack against the Church and the Pope, and in their midst there was Our Lord, crucified, but without a head.  Who can say the pity, the horror—to see His Most Holy Body in that state!  I comprehended how men do not want Jesus Christ as their head, and since the Church represents Him on this earth, they try to destroy what stands in His place.

Then I found myself in another place in which I found other people who were asking me:  “What do you say about the Church?”  And I, feeling a light within my mind, said:  “The Church will always be Church.  At the most, She might be washed in Her own blood, but this bath will render Her more beautiful and glorious.”  On hearing this, they said:  “This is false—let us call on our god and see what he says.”  So a man came out who surpassed everyone in height, with a crown on his head, and he said:  “The Church will be destroyed, there will be no more public services—at the most, some hidden ones; and the Madonna will no longer be recognized.”  On hearing this, I said:  “And who are you to dare to say this?  Aren’t you perhaps that serpent condemned by God to crawl on the earth?  And now you are so daring as to make yourself believed a king, deceiving the people?  I command you to let yourself be known for what you are.”  While I was saying this, from tall he became very, very short; he assumed the shape of a serpent, and making a flash, he plunged himself down deep.  Then I found myself inside myself.

From the Calendar--February 22, 1921 Volume 12

[Jesus speaking] “At the Creating Fiat, the intellect of man remains as though enraptured—and how many things he comprehends of Me and of how I love him, as I am hidden in all created things to make Myself known and to give him love in order to make Myself loved.  In the Fiat of Redemption, his memory remains as though enchained by the excesses of my love in suffering so much in order to help and save man in the state of sin.  In the third Fiat, My love wants to display even more; I want to assail the human will, I want to place My very Will as support of his will, in such a way that the human will will remain not only enraptured, enchained, but sustained by an Eternal Will, such that, making Itself prop for the whole of man, he will almost be unable to escape It.  

“The generations will not end until My Will reigns upon earth.  My Redeeming Fiat will place Itself in the middle, between the Creating Fiat and the Sanctifying Fiat.  They will intertwine, all three together, and will accomplish the sanctification of man.  The third Fiat will give such grace to the creature as to make her return almost to the state of origin; and then, once I have seen man just as he came out of Me, My work will be complete, and I will take My perpetual rest in the last Fiat.  Only the life in My Volition will give back to man the state of origin.  Therefore, be attentive, and together with Me, help Me to complete the sanctification of the creature.”

From the Calendar--February 21, 1927 Volume 20

[Jesus speaking] “Now, My daughter, the reason for which We issued the Creation and created man was to give Our riches, so that the external glory of Our works may unite to the internal glory and the immense happiness which We possess.  So, since the creature is not in Our Will, We feel her far away from Us; there is no one who surrounds Us with her ‘thank You,’ nor anyone who smiles at Us with delight for Our works.  Everything is isolation; We are surrounded by immense riches, but because Our creatures are far away from Us, We have no one to whom to give them; We have no one who admires Our works in order to enjoy them.  We are happy, but because of Ourselves, nor is there anyone who could slightly disturb Our happiness; but We are forced to see the unhappiness of creatures, because, being disunited from Us, they cannot take and We cannot give.  The human will has formed the fences, and has locked the doors of communication.  To give is liberality, heroism, love—to receive is grace; and the creature, by doing her own will, hinders Our liberality, Our heroism, Our Love.  And if something is given, it is always restricted, and given by dint of strains, of intrigues, because since the order between them and Us is missing, things do not run freely.  We are not capable of sorrow—Our Being is untouchable by all evils; but if We were capable of sorrow, the creature would poison Our existence.  This is, then, the reason for all Our interest in wanting to make Our Will known, and that It reign in the midst of creatures:  We want to give, We want to see them happy of Our own happiness; and Our Will alone can do all this—realizing the purpose of Creation and allowing Us to place Our goods in common.”

Oh Will of God, how admirable, powerful and desirable You are.  O please! with Your empire, conquer all, make Yourself known, and make us all surrender to You.

From the Calendar--February 20, 1919 Volume 12

Continuing in my usual state, I spent it together with my sweet Jesus; and He made Himself seen, now as a child, now crucified; and transforming me into Himself, He told me:  “My daughter, enter into Me—into My Divinity, and run in My Eternal Will.  In It you will find the creative power as though in act of issuing the machine of the entire universe.  In each thing I created, I placed a relation, a channel of graces, a special love between the Supreme Majesty and the creature.  But the creature would not consider these relations, these graces, this love; so, God would have suspended the Creation, not recognized and appreciated.  But in seeing My Humanity, which would appreciate such a great good, and which, for each created thing, would have Its relations with the Eternal One, recognizing Him, loving Him, not only for Itself, but for the whole human family, He did not look at the wrong of the other children, and with highest contentment, He extended the heavens, dotting them with stars, knowing that those stars would be many and varied relations, innumerable graces, rivers of love, which would flow between My Humanity and the Supreme Being.  

“The Eternal One looked at the heavens and remained content in seeing the immense harmonies, the communications of love which He opened between Heaven and earth.  Therefore, He moved forward, and with one single creative word He created the sun, as the continuous relater of His Supreme Being, endowing it with light, with heat, placing it suspended between Heaven and earth, in act of holding everything, of fecundating, warming, illuminating everything.  With its searching eye of light, it seems to say to all:  ‘I am the most perfect preacher of the Divine Being.  Reflect yourselves in me, and you will recognize Him.  He is immense light, He is endless love, He gives life to everything, He has need of nothing; no one can touch Him.  Look well at me, and you will recognize Him; I am His shadow, the reflection of His majesty, His continuous relater.’     

“Oh! what oceans of love, of relations, opened between My Humanity and the Supreme Majesty.  So, each thing you see, even the tiniest little flower of the field, was one more relation between the creature and the Creator.  Therefore, it was right for Him to want a recognition for it, one more love on the part of creatures.  I undertook everything; I recognized Him, and I adored the creative power for all.  But My love toward such great goodness is not content; I would want other creatures to recognize, love and adore this creative power, and—as much as it is possible for creature —o take part in these relations which the Eternal One has spread through the whole world, and, in the name of all, to pay homage to this act of creation of the Eternal One.  

“But do you know who can pay this homage?  The souls who live in My Will.  In fact, as they enter into It, they find, as though in act, all the acts of the Supreme Majesty; and since this Will is present in everything and in everyone, they remain multiplied in everything, and can pay honor, glory, adoration and love for all.  Therefore, come into My Will, come together with Me before the Divine Height, as the first one to pay Him homage as the Creator of everything.”

I am unable to say how, I entered into this Divine Volition, but always together with my sweet Jesus, and I could see this Supreme Majesty in act of issuing the entire Creation.  Oh! God, what love.  Each created thing received the imprint of love, the key of communication, the mute language to eloquently speak of God.  But to whom?  To the ungrateful creature.  But I don’t know how to go on in saying this; my little intelligence was lost in seeing the many openings of communication, the immense love that came out of them; and the creature, who rendered all these goods as though extraneous.  Then, together with Jesus, as though multiplying ourselves in everyone, we adored, thanked and recognized the creative power in the name of all; and the Eternal One received the glory of Creation.  Jesus disappeared, and I returned into myself.

From the Calendar--February 19, 1902 Volume 4

As I was in my usual state, my adorable Jesus made Himself seen in my interior, sleeping, spreading many rays of golden light from Himself.  I was content to see Him, but also discontent for not being able to hear the sweetness and gentleness of His creative voice.  Then, after much waiting, He returned to let Himself be seen, and seeing my discontent, He told me:  “My daughter, in My public ministry the use of My voice is necessary so as to make Myself understood, but in My private ministry My Presence alone is enough for everything.  In fact, seeing Me and understanding the harmony of My virtues in order to copy them within oneself is all the same.  So, the attention of the soul must be on seeing Me and on conforming, in everything, to the interior operations of the Word; because when I draw the soul to Myself, it can be said that at least for the time in which I keep her in My Presence, she lives Divine Life.  My light is like the brush with which to paint; My virtues provide the different colors, and the soul is like a canvas, receiving the portrait of the Divine Image within herself.  It happens as to those high bridges:  the higher they are, the deeper below them drops a pouring rain.  In the same way, before My Presence, the soul puts herself in the place that befits her—that is, at the bottom, in her nothingness, so much so, as to feel herself being destroyed; and the Divinity pours grace in torrents upon her, and reaches the point of submerging her within Itself.  Therefore, she must be content with everything—content if I speak, content if I do not speak.”  While He was saying this, I felt myself as though being submerged in God, and then I found myself inside myself.

From the Calendar--February 18, 1924 Volume 16

I was fusing myself in the Divine Will according to my usual way, in order to find all created things and to be able to give my return of love, for myself and for all.  Now, as I was doing this, I thought to myself:  “My Jesus says that He has created everything for love of me and for love of each one.  But how can this be if many created things I don’t even know?  So many fishes that dart in the sea, so many birds that fly in the air, so many plants, so many flowers, such great variety of beauty contained in the whole universe—who knows them?  Just a small number of them.  Therefore, if I don’t even know them—especially I, then, who have been confined in a bed for years and years—how can He say that all created things have the mark, the seal of His ‘I love you’ for me?” Now, while I was thinking of this, my sweet Jesus moved in my interior, in the act of pricking up His ears in order to listen to me, and told me:  “My daughter, yet, it is true that each created thing has a distinct love for you.  It is also true that you do not know them all, but this says nothing; on the contrary, it reveals to you My love even more, and tells you in clear notes that My ‘I love you’ for you is both near and far from you, both hidden and unveiled.  I do not act like creatures, who, when they are close, are all love, but as soon as they move away, they become cold and are no longer able to love.  My love is stable and fixed; it is near as much as it is far, hidden and secret; it has one single sound, never interrupted:  ‘I love you...’.

“See, you know the light of the sun, it is true.  Indeed you receive its light and its heat as much as you want; but more light surpasses you—so much as to fill the whole earth.  If you wanted more light, the sun would give it to you—even all of it.  Now, all the light of the sun tells you My ‘I love you,’ both that which is near and that which is far.  Even more, as it covers the earth, it carries the little sonata of My ‘I love you’ for you.  And yet, you know neither the paths which the light covers, nor the lands it illuminates, nor the people who enjoy the beneficial influence of the solar ray.  But even though you do not know everything that the light does, you are in that same light, and if you do not take it all, it is because you lack the capacity to be able to absorb it into yourself; but in spite of this, you cannot say that all the light of the sun does not say to you:  ‘I love you.’ On the contrary, it makes a greater display of love, because, as it invades the earth, it keeps narrating My ‘I love you’ to all.  The same for all the drops of water:  you cannot drink them all and enclose them within yourself; but in spite of this you cannot say that they do not tell you My ‘I love you.’  So, all created things—whether known or unknown—all have the mark of My ‘I love you,’ because all of them serve the harmony of the universe, the decorum of Creation, the mastery of Our creative hand.  I acted like a rich and tender father, who loves his son.  Since the son has to leave the paternal house to take his position, the father prepares a sumptuous palace with innumerable rooms, each of which contains a certain something that can be of use to his son.  Now, since those rooms are many, the son does not always see them; even more, some of them he does not know, because no necessity to use them has arisen for him.  But in spite of this, can anyone perhaps deny that in each room there is a special paternal love for the son, as the paternal goodness has provided also for that which might or might not be necessary to the son?  So I did.  This son came out of My womb, and I wanted him to lack nothing; even more, I created many different things, and some enjoy one thing, some another; but everything has one single sound:  ‘I love you.’”

From the Calendar--February 17, 2021 Volume 14

[Jesus speaking} “My Love is always in act of wanting to give new pledges of love to the creature; and as soon as It sees that My Will takes the operating and directing role of giving Itself to the creature, My Love makes feast, It runs, It flies toward her, and makes Itself cradle of man.  And if It sees that she does not rest in Its cradle, It rocks her, It sings for her, to make her rest and sleep on Its lap.  And while she sleeps, It breathes into her mouth to give her new life of love.  If It sees from her interrupted breath that her heart is not happy, with the breath that It sends to her, My Love forms for her the cradle in her heart, to take away from her the bitternesses, the hindrances, the bothers, and make her happy with love.  And when she wakes up—oh! how My Love rejoices in seeing her reborn, happy and full of life.  And It says to her:  ‘See, I rocked you on My lap to give you rest; I kept vigil at your side during your sleep, so that you might wake up strong, happy, and completely different from the one you were.  Now I want to be cradle for your steps, for your works, for your words—for everything.  Think that you are being rocked by Me, and place your love in the cradle of My Love, so that, identifying ourselves with each other, we may make each other happy.  Be careful not to put anything else; otherwise, you will sadden Me, and will make Me cry bitterly.”

From the Calendar--February 16, 1908 Volume 8

As I was in my usual state, I was thinking about why it is the cross alone that makes us know whether we really love the Lord, while there are many other things, like the virtues, prayer, the Sacraments, which could make us know whether we love the Lord.  While I was thinking of this, blessed Jesus came and told me:  “My daughter, it is really so, the cross alone is that which makes one know whether he really loves the Lord—but a cross carried with patience and resignation, because where there is patience and resignation in crosses, there is divine life.  Since nature is so reluctant to suffering, if there is patience, it cannot be something natural, but divine, and the soul no longer loves the Lord with her love alone, but united with the love of the divine life.  So, what doubt can she have whether she loves or not, if she arrives at loving Him with His own love?  

“On the other hand, in the other things, and even in the very Sacraments, there also may be someone who loves, who contains this divine life within himself, but these things cannot give the certainty of the cross.  It may be there, or it may not, because of lack of dispositions.  One can very well go to Confession, but if he lacks the dispositions, it certainly cannot be said that he loves and that he has received this divine life within himself.  Another may receive Communion; indeed he receives the divine life, but he can only say that this divine life remains within him if he had the true dispositions.  In fact, it can be seen how some receive Communion or go to Confession, but as occasions arise, the patience of divine life cannot be seen in them; and if patience is missing, love is missing because love is recognized only through sacrifice.  And so here are the doubts; while the cross, patience, resignation, are fruits produced only by Grace and by love.”

From the Calendar--February 15, 1931 Volume 29

Then, I continued my abandonment in the Divine Fiat, and unable to do anything else, I kept saying my little I love You in the divine acts.  Not only this, but I was saying to myself:  “My Jesus, my Love, may my I love You flow in Your heartbeat, in Your breath, on Your tongue, in Your voice, and even in the smallest particles of Your adorable Person.”  But while I was doing this, my dear Life, making Himself seen, made me place my I love You in His Heart, inside and outside of His whole Divine Person.  And He enjoyed it so much, that He incited me to repeat as many I love You’s as I could, so as to be able to find the well-liked I love You in His whole Being.  And then, clasping me to Himself, He told me:  “My daughter, love is life, and when this love comes out of the soul who lives in My Will, it has the virtue of forming in God Himself the life of love.  And since the substance of the Divine Life is love, the creature, with her love, forms in God another Divine Life, and We feel inside of Our very Selves Our Life formed by the creature.  This Life which, with her love, united to Our Will—because it is Our Will that administers to her the power, such that the creature can reach the point of forming the very Divine Life, all of love, within God—this Life is the triumph of God and the triumph of the creature.  And in act of triumph We take this Divine Life which the creature has formed within Our very Selves, and We give It for the good of all creatures as the precious gift that the little daughter of Our Will gives to all; and We anxiously await her to come with her love to form more Divine Lives within Our Supreme Being.  My daughter, Our Love is not sterile; on the contrary, It has the seed of generating continuous life; so, as you were saying I love You in My heartbeat, in My breath, so I generated another heartbeat, another breath—and so with all the rest, in such a way that I felt within Myself the new generation of your I love You that formed the new Life of My Love; and—oh! how happy I felt, thinking that My daughter was forming for Me, inside of Me, My very Life within Me, all of love.  If you knew how moving is this act of the creature, which with her love gives God to God….  Oh! how it enraptures Us; and feeling enraptured, We give more love, to have the contentment of making her repeat Our new Lives of Love.  Therefore, love, love very much, and you will make your sweet Jesus happier.”

From the Calendar--February 14, 1912 Volume 11

Continuing in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus came, and I was saying to Him:  “Tell me, O Jesus, how is it that after You have disposed the soul to suffering, and knowing the goodness contained in it, she loves suffering, she suffers almost with passion, and while she believes that suffering is her inheritance, all of a sudden You take this treasure away from her?” And Jesus:  “My daughter, My love is great, My rule is insuperable, My teachings are sublime, My instructions divine, creative and inimitable.  Therefore, so that all things—be they great or small, painful or enjoyable, natural or spiritual—may acquire one single color and have one single value, once the soul has practiced suffering and reaches the point of loving it, I let this suffering pass into her will as her own property.  So, every time I send her suffering, having the property and the dispositions within her will, she will always be disposed to suffer it and to love it.  I look at things in the will, and it is as if the soul were always suffering, even if she does not suffer.  And so that pleasure may have the same value as suffering, as well as praying, working, eating, sleeping…—in sum, everything, because everything is in whether things are from My Will—so that all things may have one same value, I allow the soul to practice all things in My Will with holy indifference.  So, it seems to the soul that I give her something, and then I take it away from her; but it is not true.  Rather, it happens that at the beginning, when the soul is not yet well trained, she feels sensitivity in suffering, in praying, in loving; but when, through practice, these things pass into her will as her own property, her sensitivity ceases.  And when the need arises for her to use these divine properties which I made her acquire, with firm step and imperturbable heart she begins to exercise them, as the opportunity comes.  For example:  does suffering come?  She finds within herself the strength and the life of suffering.  Must she pray?  She finds within herself the life of prayer; and so with all the rest.”

From the Calendar--February 13, 1927 Volume 20

[Jesus speaking] “Imagine a king who had his kingdom; all lands, villas and cities are his exclusive property.  There is nothing which does not belong to him—not only by the right that the kingdom is his, but also by the right of property that they belong to him.  Now, because of his goodness of heart, this king wants to see his people happy, and so he distributes his farms, his villas, his lands to his people for free, giving them even housing in his cities, in such a way that all can be rich, with abundance, each one in his own condition.  And he does all this great good to his people for the sole purpose that they would recognize him as their king, giving him absolute dominion, and recognizing that the lands occupied by them have been given to them for free by the king, that he might be glorified, recognized and loved for the good he has done to them.  Now, this people, ungrateful, does not recognize him as its king, and it claims the right of property over the lands which it possesses, denying that they were gifts given by the king.  Would this king, then, not be defrauded in the glory of the good he has done to his people?  And if you add that they use his lands without benefit for themselves—some do not work them, some remove from them the most beautiful plantations, some render the most pleasant gardens squalid, in such a way as to procure for themselves their own unhappiness and misery – all this would add dishonor and a sorrow that no one could soothe, to the detriment of the glory of the king.

“This is nothing but the mere shadow of what My Supreme Will has done, and still does.  No one has given Us a cent for receiving the good of the sun, of the sea, of the earth; rather, We gave them everything for free, and only to make them happy, and so that they would recognize My Supreme Fiat, which loved them so much and wants nothing but love and dominion.  Now, who could repay that king for the detriment of the glory which his people have not given him, and soothe his intense sorrow?  Suppose, again, that someone from that same people, investing himself with the just sorrow of his king and wanting to repay him of his glory, begins, at first, to renovate the land he occupies, in such a way as to make of it the most beautiful and pleasant garden of the kingdom.  Then he says to everyone that his garden is a gift that the king has given him because he loves him; and then he calls the king into his garden and says to him:  ‘These are your dominions—it is right that they be all at your disposal.’  The king is pleased with this loyalty, and says:  ‘I want that you be king together with me, and that we reign together.’  Oh! how he feels his glory being restored, and his sorrow soothed by this one member of his people.  But this man does not stop; he covers all the paths of the kingdom, and stirring everyone with his speaking, he calls a good handful of people to imitate him, and forms the loyal people which give the right of dominion to their king.  And the king feels restored in his glory and, as reward, he gives them the title of children of his, and says to them:  ‘My kingdom is yours—reign, children of mine.’  

“This is My purpose—that in My Kingdom there be no servants, but My children, and kings like Me.  This will happen with My Divine Will.  Oh! how It awaits to be given back Its complete glory in the Creation; and that it be recognized that everything belongs to It, so as to be able to say:  ‘Everything is yours—let us reign together.’  How It awaits for Its knowledges on the Supreme Fiat to cover the paths in order to stir, to call—to press creatures to come into My Kingdom, so as to form My true children, to whom I can give the title of kings.  This is why I have so much interest that these manifestations on My Divine Will be known—because this is about My greatest act, which is the fulfillment of My glory and the complete good of creatures.”

From the Calendar--February 12, 1908 Volume 8

As I was in my usual state, blessed Jesus came for just a little and told me:  “My daughter, timidity represses Grace and hampers the soul.  A timid soul will never be good at operating great things, either for God, or for her neighbor, or for herself.  When a soul is timid, it is as if she had her legs tied:  unable to walk freely, she always has her eyes fixed on herself, and on the effort she makes in order to walk.  Timidity makes her keep her eyes low, never high.  In operating, she draws her strength not from God, but from herself, and therefore, instead of becoming stronger, she becomes weaker.  If Grace sows, it happens to It as to a poor farmer who, having sown and worked his little field, harvests little or nothing.  On the other hand, in one day a courageous soul does more than a timid one does in one year.”

From the Calendar--February 11, 1926 Volume 18

I remained surprised, and I comprehended with such clarity what an act of human will means, compared to an act of Divine Will, and how the soul, by doing her own will, loses the physiognomy of her Creator; and stripping herself of the beauty with which she was created, she clothes herself with miserable rags, she barely drags herself in good, she acquires the diabolical likeness, she feeds herself with dirty foods. My Jesus, give us all the grace never to do our own will, which is like calling all passions back to life. So, almost trembling, I tried to plunge more deeply into the Supreme Will, and I called my Celestial Mama to my help, so that, together, in the name of all, we might adore the Supreme Will on behalf of all the human wills opposed to It. Now, while I was doing this, the Heavens opened, and my Jesus came out from within my interior, all in feast, and told me: “Daughter of My Volition, you must know that when My Will reigns in the soul, It integrates everything she does and the development of the Life of My Eternal Will in her. So, it was not you who called My Divine Mama, but it was My Will that called Her. And She, feeling called by a Divine Will which has always been whole and triumphant within Her, immediately perceived that one from the Celestial Family was calling Her upon earth; and She said to all Heaven: ‘Let us go, let us go. It is one from our Family that is calling us to fulfill the duties of the Family to which we belong.’ And here they are—look at them, all around us: the Virgin, the Saints, the Angels, to do the act of adoration which you want to do; and the Divinity, to receive it. …”

From the Calendar--February 10, 1901 Volume 4

As my adorable Jesus continued to come, He made Himself seen with eyes refulgent with most vivid and most pure light. I remained enchanted and surprised before that dazzling light, and Jesus, on seeing me so enchanted, unable to tell Him anything, said to me: “My beloved, obedience has an extremely long sight and surpasses the very light of the sun in beauty and in sharpness. In the same way, love of self is very much shortsighted, so much so, that it cannot take one step without tripping. And do not believe that this extremely long sight is possessed by those souls who go on always disturbed and in scrupulousness. Rather, this is a net that love of self weaves around them, which, being very shortsighted, makes them fall first, and then provokes in them a thousand disturbances and scruples, and what they have detested today with so many scruples and fears, they fall into again tomorrow, to the point that their living is reduced to being always immersed in this artificious net which love of self knows well how to weave around them. This, unlike the extremely long sight of obedience, which is killer of the love of self. Her sight is so very long and clear, that immediately she foresees where she might slip, and with generous heart she abstains from it and enjoys the holy freedom of the children of God. And just as darkness draws more darkness, so does light draw more light, and this light arrives at drawing to itself the light of the Word, and uniting together, they weave the light of all virtues.”